skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for you comment. It's too rare that we hear from people with your perspective.

Is HN not blocked/censored in China?
> If "CPU utilization crosses threshold" is the real reason, then let that be the real reason—and let the safeguards you have in place for handling those problems do their jobs.

To me, this feels a bit like passing the buck.

If you want to test your backend with 50-billion-character passwords as a safeguard in case things get screwy, that makes sense to me! But, has that test been done? Are you sure?

I see this as analogous to the concept of "defense in depth". Safeguarding against very weird edge-cases which do not provide utility to anyone is a good idea. If you assume the other part of the chain can deal with it, and you're wrong, things blow up. If you assume the worst, all will be well regardless.
It's a challenge to weigh up the risk of not using an adblocker versus the risk of the extension getting compromised.

I guess that solutions like DNS-level blocking or custom hosts files are a fair balance, but I still like the DOM-based per-element control found within adblock extensions.

And then I see people with like 20 extensions installed...
The end of plastic? New plant-based bottles will degrade in a year
On malicious extensions and stealing login credentials specifically, what's bad about Chrome?
American media calls both disease and virus "corona". They seem to care little about such details.
My salary calcs are based on A.) Primarily west-coast based American SE wages, B.) The presumption that the group already has a "team" (aka more than 1 person) assembled and a product already launched (as per the requirements of the 75k program).

Two people living on 38k a year sounds like a great way to not have legitimate talent apply.
My Big Fat Alpine Crash
Carrier crew tests positive after being initially cleared
It wasn't just him suing, as I pointed out. He was relentlessly sued by others.
Pin to the star menu?
Probably a 707. First flight of the 747 was in 1969.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_747
Well, this is why I don’t have a blog. I have a lot of strong opinions that might be interesting to some people, but I don’t want to miss opportunities because some HR person googled my name and found a post they disagreed with. Or, in the future, not a real person but an algorithm.
Ultimately it's a trust tradeoff. Extensions should only be installed from incredibly trusted "I'd give this entity my passwords and my bank info for safekeeping" level trust. Because that's essentially the access a lot of browser extensions have.

The easiest way to protect your browser from exploits is to disable or whitelist extensions. At the office we block all but a small handful of extensions we've vetted, and we're very hesitant to add more without very good cause. Do this at home too.
Mostly it's been Perl with IPC::Run3 which handles forking the Fortran executable and all the plumbing of stdout, stdin, stderr.
Agreed. I've finished the whole thing and although it is a bit rambly it is worth it for anyone who uses systemd on the daily. I realized I have deployed units that misunderstood these core dependency primitives
I've been blogging on and off for the past few years now (not going to publish the link here in case it is seen as self promotion). Mainly as a way of leaving my life story and thoughts for my family to have something to remember my life when I am no longer around (My dad had some incredible life stories, and I wish we had recorded them in some form before he passed).

I think what is missing now is the rich set of tools around the ecosystem. Posterous was a great service to let you email your thoughts directly to a blog post. I am amazed there was no other competitor that sprung up when they got bought out and shut down by Twitter nearly a decade ago.

I really miss Google Reader, which was where I used to keep a curated list of the top blogs I used to read regularly. Even now, some mornings I wish I could just open my Google Reader home page and check out the latest updates from some of my favourite bloggers.
other restaurants refuse to stop using the platform

But there is a useful feedback loop here.

1. Courageous Restaurant bans GrubHub, Doordash et al. Delivery-insistent demand shifts to Competitors 1-4, meaning they get substantially more of these revenue-neutral (or worse) delivery orders.

2. Competitor 1 gets sick of this is and likewise bans GrubHub, Doordash et al. Delivery-insistent demand shifts to Competitors 2-4, meaning they get an even higher percentage of their orders being these revenue-neutral (or worse) delivery orders.

By now, both benefit by word of mouth regarding ordering and traffic becoming more streamlined by the absence of the delivery service-specific retail point of sale system foibles, less traffic at entry and pick-up, and consistent quality. Also, some drivers abandon the services to do direct delivery as restaurant employees, at least during peak hours, and the saved 35% can be split between restaurant and employee.

3. Competitor 2 gets sick of this is and likewise bans GrubHub, Doordash et al. Delivery-insistent demand shifts to Competitors 3-4, meaning they get an even higher yet percentage of their orders being these revenue-neutral (or worse) delivery orders.

4. Competitors 3-4 are now drowning in low-profit delivery orders and the traffic impact (foot and vehicle) alienates what's left of first-hand customers. Every negative delivery experience costs both the delivery service and the restaurant another customer. One abandons delivery services, the other folds altogether.
...How?

3 people / 75k = 25k per person. At a reasonable 100k/year earning potential, that means that 75k a year is 3 months of time?
Not that I don't believe you, but that just hasn't been my experience with Google at all, and I use it extensively for research tracking down fairly obscure sources with presumably close-to-zero traffic by putting in quoted sentence fragments.

Do you have an example of a website that is linked to from other sites (so Google can find it) where a quoted search for a unique sentence fragment from it doesn't list it as a result?

I've just never heard authoritatively of Google removing old content from results, especially since it seems antithetical to the company's mission of organizing all the world's information. And seeing how so much of the value of search (and purchasing and content and so much else) is in the "long tail", it seems like it would be an extremely counterproductive strategy.
>Sun tried with Swing.. and they were not a second tier company at the time.

Swing was ill thought from the beginning. Over-engineered, too complex, slow (as if there were 2-3 layers between the code and the drawing engine), and looking bad in every platform...

>So is even hard for a big company too. I guess the problem is that the framework will be always behind the OS, and you need to recreate all the styles or to create a thin layer with the common denominator between platforms.

I'm not so sure that's a problem. You can always look different than the OS, and do a good job at it. Millions use the Adobe Creative Suite, Cubase, Pro Tools, StudioPro, etc, and their non-native UI is the last thing they complain about...

Heck, even Electron apps do that. Why wouldn't users like apps that look different from the OS, the way Electron apps do, but with far less memory usage, much speedier drawing, and better integration options with native widgets when needed?
While I would prefer brackets, that would not be enought to solve all the problems since, there would be conflict with array syntax too.
Fascinating.

I know it is a very serious crime to threaten the president in public - the secret service will and must take action.

So here we have computer criminals casually mentioning trump and now the law firm must NOT pay the ransom and the full might of the us government is brought to bear on the threat.

We should all get some popcorn and pull up a chair.
This could be a naive question, but everything I've heard is that coronaviruses don't disappear, they just sorta integrate and mutate into our normal "known set" that we deal with year-to-year.

If that is true, doesn't the strategy taken by SK and NZ put them at continued risk for a another outbreak if the virus sneaks back in? Without a vaccine, and then significant uptake by the population yearly, doesn't the risk of covid-19, and its mutations, come back every year?
Haha. Knowing little about the state of the BPF developments, the line that BPF will probably supercede everything literally broke my brain
Yep. I ran a great little community cycling forum from 2005 - met so many friends (real and virtual) over those years - then about 2011 or 2012 Google just dropped it. Our traffic fell off a cliff - now - the regulars stayed on for quite a while, but without an influx of new members and questions and discussions, things just died out - regular members need the stimulus of new members, even if it can be taxing moderating etc... Was actually a really disappointing decline in many ways. It really opened my eyes up to how much control we gave away, and how much content is now in these big walled garden silos. I can't help but get nostalgic.
Many sites have had unreasonable max length limits on passwords, such as 4, 6, 8, or 12 characters. These unreasonably short limits are bad. However, some seem to take this logic to an extreme, suggesting that even much larger limits are detrimental. Once you get up to say 14-16 random characters or 4-5 random words, with proper hashing, there's just no realistic risk of your password being brute forced. Beyond that you're just wasting effort. And someday it's conceivable you'll need to type that password in on a device where you can't install your password manager; what then? So, giving it plenty of margin; say someone wants to type in 10 10-character words, and round up to 127, or even 255 if you like. I'm going to go on record saying there's no reasonable reason to allow password inputs longer than that in 2020. (And there's no real reason to make passwords nearly that long, but also not much gained by restricting them further.)

I welcome responses explaining why passwords of hundreds of characters would ever be necessary or useful.
Yes, exactly. All that needs to be built still. I can't just copy and paste a video into my messenger app for instance, which I have been able to do with gifs for ages.
Oh yeah, no disrespect to Napoleon or France. I have Andrew Roberts' Napoleon in my reading queue for later during this quarantine. I just meant that it represents a very foreign era relative to now, though maybe I should think of it as the start of the current era based on your comment.
Jira tickets beureucracy
American mutilation of Japanese war dead
I'm on day 11 of this shit. You really do not want this.
I'm pretty sure I was able to right-click save gifs all the way back to Netscape...
The way to immortality is to write.
"Do what you oughta, alway add acid to water" instead of water to acid is a safety mantra taught in high school and undergrad chemistry labs. You are correct but if you add the water to acid in the situation they'd shown the acid would be too concentrated as well.
Essentially the author is longing for a day before social media existed, but the world has changed fast - and that's ok.

The medium has diversified away from just blogs, but the amount mediums and creators has exploded.

Many of those people who used to blog on Blogspot have moved on to YouTube, TikTok Twitter, Instagram, Medium, WordPress, Shopify, Webflow, and more.

So the whole premise is bunk. "Blogs" in their 2005 term may have changed. But the amount of people publishing 280+ character content on Twitter, Instagram (as video or image descriptions), and all others is more than ever.

Instagram and YouTube are where many of the eyeballs are.

The author longs for self-expression in blog format, the self-expression is there more than ever, just not in the one strict format that existed that way for a brief moment.
From 2018.

I'm trying to do a bit more Python notebook stuff and it seems worthwhile, easy to do. I can understand why scientists like it.

But as a programmer no longer in science or academia, I don't quite understand the context of nteract versus Jupyter. Pandas data frames, sure.

Is this a precursor to Jupyter?
I can see where you're coming from on the privacy bit, but from a security point of view, Chrome/Chromium is generally a well-secured browser.

Yes it's not written in a memory-safe language, but drive-by exploits and attacks that escape the sandbox are exceedingly rare in Chrome, even if you're running an older version.

Of course if you add extensions and Flash to the mix, the security is degraded, but with a normal Chrome install it's fairly hard to do something bad in one tab that will negatively impact another.
I was working on building an IOS app to improve productivity.

Finally today, "Smart Sloth" is out on Product Hunt

Check it out and let me know your thoughts - https://www.producthunt.com/posts/smart-sloth

Smart Sloth is a task manager that helps you be more efficient with YOUR TIME. Smart Sloth uses the concept of timeboxing, which is to allocate a set amount of time to each task, therefore, creating a deadline which can increase the productivity of the user.
A couple I'd recommend:

1. Mr. Robot: It's a show about a psychotic hacker, and many of the tools and
programs used on the show are real.

2. Halt and Catch Fire: A show that follows a group of men and women during the
early computer boom in Texas during the 1980s.
I just want to say that Firefox Preview is fantastic, and I don't understand why people seemed to decide there was some sort of weird conspiracy to remove extension support. You guys are clearly doing a great job.
Not to mention after a certain number of 'followed' subreddits, Reddit will actually only show you a subset each day on your front page. It allows for smaller subreddits to bubble up occasionally, but you're never guaranteed to see the latest from everything you've subscribed to.
No One Goes There Anymore
> It looks like this is the author's fourth post and s/he hit a home run with the top post on HN.

Think this is NOT his fourth post. It may be a new front end: Check out the other blogs: http://tttthis.coolstuffinterestingstuffnews.com
Is that why we have all that "government" research money going to fund supposedly unbiased researchers at Universities?
Link:
https://reclaimthenet.org/internet-archive-wayback-machine-w...
The ffmpeg command will default produce one that can only be decoded on Chrome. You should specify a codec supported by most browsers (`-c:v libx264`).
Reminds me of this piece by Charles Bukowski: https://poets.org/poem/so-you-want-be-writer
Here’s a website full of “curiosities of biological nomenclature”:

https://www.curioustaxonomy.net/index.html
Entangling 15 trillion atoms
The main aspect for me after 5 years of running several Kafka cluster to run production critical system at Microsoft is that it’s very fragile because of the bad design.

distributed system are hard to design correctly.
When using HDFS you can create a single 1TB file if the cluster have enough capacity.
And with (hdfs hbase cassandra ..) if 5 server permanently fail in the span of 24 hours you don’t need manual intervention and your data is not lost.

In Kafka your partition data need to fit entirely on a single server and you might still run into issue if that server also hosting other partition.

And with Kafka if one by one the 3 server manually assigned as replica to one partition fail before an engineer is wake up in middle of the night and have time to fix it manually you just lost all your data.
To be clear, I'm not saying contact tracing is useless. I'm saying its effectiveness scales inversely with the case rate.

At very low case rates, the overhead and required adoption rates for an app-based tracing system are major disadvantages against human contact tracers. As case rates go up, that overhead starts to pay off and apps make sense. But as case rates continue to go up further, you get less and less information from contact tracing. At some point, when case rates are high enough, it basically becomes a single bit of information: did you go out? Yes? Then you were probably exposed. At that point, the app isn't adding much value!

I believe that in many places around the world dealing with COVID-19, we are closer to the latter scenario than a lot of people think. No, we're not literally in the scenario above (it was an exemplar), but the general point that case rates may be too high for contact tracing to "save us" is still worth making.
What's worrisome is that some people are testing positive again, after being diagnosed as positive. Crew on the CVN-71 Roosevelt have tested positive, been quarantined for 14 days, then tested negative twice (two days apart), but then still testing positive a few days later.[1]

The possible scenarios for this I can come up with are:

1. No immunity after initial infection

2. Bad test methodology (contamination etc)

3. Bad tests. The article doesn't mention the test type, so perhaps they were initially misdiagnosed (false positive), then infected upon return to the ship. The implication from this would be that the virus is still prevalent in the crew on board the Roosevelt...
If having an empire is the definition of being Western than you need to include the Ottomans too. At which point the word means nothing.
The interesting one is solutions >91% - they kill cells immediately- but this coagulates the cell proteins forming a protective layer - dropping time to disinfect from ten seconds to over two hours.

It's fascinating how deep one can dive in any subject and still produce useful actionable insights :-)
Coronavirus Will End the Golden Age for College Towns
The thing about WordPress is that the majority of WordPress sites are presentational websites, landing pages or e-commerce sites, not actual blogs.
Why the Federal Government Funded the Arts During the Great Depression
Blixhavn.dev

I run a Ghost installation on a Debian VM, reverse proxied through Nginx and set up with Let's Encrypt.
Rust solve memory issues of C/C++ at the cost of simplicity and with convoluted, complicated syntax. It will bring in new class of bugs when it becomes popular enough and when large parts of Firefox are rewritten in it.

I am not sure why some programmers think, complex and convoluted the syntax, the better the language, especially taking rust as an example. Go has been successful in it’s niche as systems programming language because it’s syntax is easy and can fit the brain easily. A similar simple good programming language I see is zig language which makes memory safety as a choice for the programmer to implement rather than forcing on them with complex borrow checker syntax. On top rely of unsafe C library and code to do anything useful. Zig eschews complexity and embraces C with simple syntax and semantics and provide easy tools to build memory safe code and not shoot the foot. But anyways like democracy in programming complicated languages can win due to majority by marketing or in fashion.
Better: what do you think of "the product of nonempty sets is nonempty".
Interesting how all the groups who had genocide perpetrated against them somehow ended up with a double population than when they were conquered with, meanwhile Ireland still has a smaller population than they had in 1800.
Phone & Face2Face

Everybody wants to sell them something, and they have very, very slim margins. So they ignore most of it. Have a good pitch ready. Don't expect that they have low-level access or even content access to their sites. Prove your value to them For free. Deliver. Upsell to paid.
I already said that before and I'll do it again: it won't work until we make videos act like gifs, which act like images.

The video per se won't loop if I save it in my computer or phone. I can't drag and drop, right click, long tap.

To have anything replacing gif you need THE EXACT SAME BEHAVIOUR, EVERYWHERE.

It doesn't matter for the consumer whose fault it is: encoding, the app, how the file is created. The user uses it, they don't care how it works. They will use whatever have the same behaviour.
I've noticed that a lot of Japanese blogs here something akin to a blog webring[0] on their blogs. It'a called Blog Mura (Blog Village) and is basically a blog aggregator. It a provides rankings, let's you search by categories and even a way for you to contact an author that does not have contact information on their own page.

Maybe we need to bring back a webrings but with a modern spin.

0: https://blogmura.com
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned this, but the effectiveness of the app is equal to the square of the penetration. Both parties need the app.

At 38% penetration only about 15% of contacts with a carrier will be warned. That is indeed not going to do much.
but the thing is, i want to copy the video itself

not copy the url, paste in a terminal for curl or wget to download it, then copy the video..
The title aludes to the movie titled "Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines", a comedy I found entertaining both as a child and adult: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Those_Magnificent_Men_in_the...
Not sure if you follow Chamath Palihapitiya but his company's annual letter had a really interesting take on this:
https://www.socialcapital.com/annual-letters/2019

A new space race

A common theme amongst optimists is how much technological advance we have seen and how these advances seem to be accelerating. I am of the opposite camp and believe, roughly, that the rate of progress has been steadily declining since we landed on the moon in 1969. While I can’t explain the 1970s and 1980s, the modern Gilded Age’s lack of technological progress is easier to understand. The intellectual lobotomization of smart, young STEM talent has been an explicit strategy by Big Tech fueled by unseemly profitability and hi flying stock prices. If you can’t innovate but are wildly profitable, wouldn’t you also just pay the incremental talented engineer to work for you on anything versus working for a competitor or, worse still, work for themselves and invent something disruptive that could impact your monopoly? Of course you would...and they have.

If you were a bright, ambitious engineer graduating in STEM in the early 1960s this wasn’t the case. You went to work on something meaningful. The momentum towards spaceflight was a call to arms for the smartest and hardest working amongst us. These bright men and women worked to invent new capabilities and entire ecosystems in fuel cells, gas storage systems, thermodynamic materials, engines, mechanical timers and clocks and control systems to name a few. The cost of the entire Apollo program was $25 Billion or $150 Billion in today’s dollars.

Big Tech spent $75B on R&D in 2018 alone. Put another way, this means that in two 2018 equivalents of R&D spending, Big Tech could have sent people to the moon and back. It's fair to say, however, that what we have witnessed instead can graciously be described as something less ambitious and impactful than that.

This misallocation of capital won’t end until we demand it - every government, regulator and individual now has a role to play whether you know it or not.
One downside is that they dont take as much precautions in my experience.... Almost none had masks for example.
Definitely!
It was fun discovering bloggers' content before the era of social media. Social media platforms created silos, and limited discovery options. Now people share their content behind paywall (e.g. medium) or force you to register to the platform (e.g. facebook) to see the content.
> I've never seen Facebook/Twitter used for ...

Sports journalists (including the mathy ones) use Twitter this way. And, boy howdy, do I hate it. But they do.
I tested the following on Mac:

1. Block "(star)" from accessing "(star)://mail.google.com"

2. Install the config

3. Go to chrome://policy/ and click "Reload policies"

4. Open Gmail. Dark Reader doesn't work anymore.