skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's what I do with my website[0] as well (just on nginx and with vim via SSH).

However, something that requires more functionality - syntax highlighting, tags, version control, easier deployments - I recently switched to Markdown + Hugo. [1]

I find it all to be very subjective. The above author clearly favors TypeScript and React, and for a personal blog, I see nothing wrong with slightly over-engineering it. His blog loads quickly, doesn't require an absurd number of network requests, and doesn't include any trackers. Fairly minimalist as far as the endproduct is concerned.

[0] https://chollinger.com/
[1] https://chollinger.com/blog/
A Weekend Website Project I Built with $14 and No Coding Experience
"Did Not Connect: Potential Security Issue

"Firefox detected a potential security threat and did not continue to bearblog.dev because this website requires a secure connection."

???
I guess I specifically mean the default browser serif font. There are sites that consciously choose a serif typeface to convey some sense of "we are serious content," but you may notice that none of them use the default browser serif font (except as a last-step fallback).

If I see default browser serif, my immediate thought is "either this is an amateur or something is broken."
FYI: the nvAlt developer is working on a new version: https://brettterpstra.com/2019/04/10/codename-nvultra/
You're right. I meant corporation. Fixed.
This definitely takes me back to the early AngularJS days where the ONLY thing one could do was read the source. Any questions on forums would result in, "did you read the source???". I personally HATED reading the source for that project. It was like reading source code from someone who left your company in anger 5 years before you arrived.
A lot of the comments here are reminding me a lot of Tom MacWright's critique of modern web development:

https://macwright.org/2020/05/10/spa-fatigue.html

Around the same time, Vladimir Agafonkin (perhaps in response to the above??) released tinyjam, https://github.com/mourner/tinyjam, which bills itself as "an elegant, zero-config static site generator in 100 lines of code, an experiment in radical simplicity."

Maybe the above two links will resonate here :)
the built in image processing is kind of a big deal for Zola that's handy. a cut above all node based pipelines that have horrible native modules for that. I kinda just want to write Vue components for posts rather than markdown so turn between trying Zola it nuxts new content cms
Even with JS enabled it doesn't render in Firefox 76 for me.
Same here. I remember once I was watching the news and they claimed a hack was done by Russians because they found Russian comments in the code. That didn't sound very convincing :). The ledger evidence sounds better.

At the same time in this case I would be more surprised if the PRC , since their need for control, and since the stakes are extremely high, wasn't doing such things.
LadderLeak: Breaking ECDSA with Less Than One Bit of Nonce Leakage
The Cost of Sales Engineer Training for Employees
Yes, styling is a must for me. If I ever were to blog, I'd also require images and latex rendering. But that's about it.
Arm Unveils Cortex-A78, Cortex-X1: Efficiency and Big Performance Gains
You're never going to please everyone, but I think that might be confused with a VPN.

Amazon simply describes it as a "virtual network"
Goodbye, WordPress: Less is more
I mean, the browser paradigm is already in its 2nd generation, from initially on the mainframe to being reimplemented in functions as a service. And browsers are getting a little bit smarter about deploying atomic units and caching their dependencies. Remember using jquery from a CDN? Oof.

The only saving grace is that Javascript is willing to throw itself away every couple of years.
>Even just 5 years ago, the idea of getting a roomy, nicely configured sedan that gets 55MPG city was a silly notion

VW diesels from the 90s were doing 5 or 6 l/100km
Or just say what it is, compounding growth.

You guys always gotta make stuff more complicated than it is.
>But if we look at other companies interesting problems exists every where

I spent close to 15 years solving interesting problems at startups. I learned a ton, but also had to deal with the stress of the companies' financial security as well as the downturns of 2008 and the early 2000's.

After my last startup was acquired, I spent a few years at large companies and learned that while I felt pretty "been there, done that" WRT to writing code, I really enjoyed mentoring people and working cross-functionally with other leads, architects, etc. across the company to define initiatives.

That let me to FAANG, where I'm still solving interesting problems, mentoring junior folks, working cross-functionally across the company, etc, but I'm literally making 3x what I made at my highest paid startup gig. Once the house and kid's college are paid for, I can see myself going back to early stage startups to get back to my roots, so to speak.
Show HN: I accidentally started a movement – Policing the Police
About a week ago, a blog post I wrote about my experience scraping and analyzing public court records data to find dirty cops got very popular on Reddit and HackerNews.

https://lawsuit.org/keeping-cops-accountable/

As a result, I started a slack channel for others who were interested in scraping public court records, in an effort to create the first public repository of full county level court records for as many counties as possible.

Now, less than a week later, 71 journalists, data scientists, developers, and activists have joined.

We are now organizing this grassroots project, and I couldn't be more proud or excited.
The big tech companies all deal with this issue as well. One of the big problems when I started at Google in 2009 was that an experiment would show a mild negative effect on click-throughs when what was actually happening is that it was a mild positive effect for users but broke logging on IE6, hence resulting in a 0 CTR for that population. They solved this by building a system that automatically sliced results by population, alerted immediately if any one population was a serious outlier, and displayed sliced results on the experiment dashboard.

The big old-line brick & mortar chains just didn't think it worthwhile to build this sort of granularity into their systems, and are paying the price for it. I suspect that many executives who grew up in the 50s-70s think in terms of "Is this change good or bad?" vs. "Why is this change good or bad?" (Note that brick & mortar retailers who have embraced extensive data operations - notably Walmart, Target, and Safeway - are doing great. It's the Sears & JC Penneys of this world that are failing.)
There are three issues I can think he might be talking about:

1) if you get a solution, can you be sure that it's right? in this case, the neural network might spit out a wrong solution to the integral. However, this solution is easy to verify by just differentiating (which they do in the paper), so I don't think there's a problem here.

2) will the method always return a good answer? I don't think this is a requirement; Mathematica sometimes fails to integrate but people accept that.

3) Does the method work for larger, more interesting families of functions than the limited families tried in the paper? I think this is what Gibou is talking about, and seems like the strongest objection. This technique might just fail in some circumstances for reasons that are hard to anticipate.
We invoke the metaphor of religion to describe fanatical adherence to technology preferences all the time. It doesn't mean we think the metaphor involves every aspect of actual religion.
Zuckerberg’s original aspiration with Libra before he had to walk it back was enough for any reasonable person to nope out: a world currency controlled by a cartel of multinational corporations accountable not to the citizens of their constituent countries, but to shareholders and capital owners.

If anyone seriously thinks this sounds like a good idea I’m truly curious to hear your reasoning.

In my view this was always a cynical ploy by Zuckerberg. He would love to control a huge piece of the world economy, but I believe he knows that the outcry from real governments would never allow that - so he could hedge by trying to have his project regulated out of existence and taking decentralized tech with it. Decentralized tech is the greatest long term competitive threat to Facebook. Zuckerberg knows it and would love to see it incidentally banned as a casualty of taking down Libra, but his mistake was overplaying his hand too early.
Is Silicon Valley Still the Best Place to Start a Company? • Tomasz Tunguz
Also, DNS caches are just locally used small subsets. Global lookups are again hierarchical, thats why it is called _domain_ name system. Thats why there are dots in the adresses. Also, DNS lookups are rare compared to IP route lookups, you look at DNS for every connection at most, limited by the TTL for caches. Route lookups happen for every packet.
I have to say I like the character based logo. Inventive use of Unicode I'm guessing.
Of course! China is very good at stealing things which the US does not possess. Last time it was the 5G technology, remember?
So is the argument that fewer men now have mentoring opportunities because Guido is choosing to exclusively mentor women?

I think that interpretation grossly over-values Guido's mentorship contributions.
Indeed Spain is the most interesting outlier. One of the world's best health systems, but still an pretty high IFR, much higher than all its neighbors. Will need a few more weeks to explain that. Haven't even heard some ideas why. I'm more watching genetics, maybe their strand was very different.
The Untold History of Arkane Studios
I think I’m in the middle. Play through quickly then if I enjoyed it, replay a little slower, enjoying the lore. Makes a little more sense that way too.
Sustained Performance Through Arm Cortex-A78 CPU
> Still no one can answer the question of where do you charge one if you rent an apartment with no parking or a terraced house with no driveway.

The first customers are people who can install a charging port where they normally park their car. That's probably more than half of car owners, and gets you to at least a double digit percentage of cars as electric.

At that point there are enough electric cars that a charger starts getting installed anywhere there's a lot of parking. Then more people can buy EVs, and do, so more chargers get installed. By the time most cars are electric they'll be everywhere.
I can't recall the last time I saw a public statement by the FBI that wasn't a lie used for some nefarious purpose.
Sometimes verification is much easier than calculation.
When did you start web development? Serious question.

We went through all the ‘here to stay’ a few times over already.

Cordova, Bootstrap, Backbone, Coffeescript, Angular, Grunt, Gulp, Require.js/AMD, I think we already moved into and out of React Native lol, that whole Mongo thing, everyone had to be a D3 expert almost at one point, isomorphic apps almost became the thing - Meteor, they were all here to stay.
> Still doesn't matter. Folks like the OP won't support writers.

For what it's worth, Tim O'Reilly notes, in "Piracy is progressive taxation"[0], that:

>> Obscurity is a far greater threat to authors and creative artists than piracy.

[0]: https://www.oreilly.com/content/piracy-is-progressive-taxati...
This is essentially what wechat and alipay and the entire social ID-based auth in almost all China domestic apps (they link mobile phone number, which requires a national ID to get in the first place).
I was also thinking about Apple Pay in my original comment. But that's iOS-only, and I'm going to hazard a guess that Google Pay doesn't work in China, so we're back to GP's point.
How Snobbery Helped Take The Spice Out Of European Cooking
Exactly my friend, seems like it'd be trivial to leave misleading clues.
> for free

it's not free. You've funded the library (who has to volume license the book) with your taxes.

There's a wide gap between "free" and "you've already paid for it, may as well consume it". I have to mention this because people in non-USA countries always talk about "free" healthcare, which isn't.
One man's division is another man's engagement
it should be less than that, if the servers are controlled by competent admins - everything after STARTTLS should be garbage to beholder.
> Proponents of this dating

It is mentioned as a possibility, not a fact(as you originally stated it)
that is a thought experiment not an estimate:

> If we assume that case fatality rate among individuals infected by SARS-CoV-2 is 0.3% in the general population — a mid-range guess from my Diamond Princess analysis — and that 1% of the U.S. population gets infected (about 3.3 million people), this would translate to about 10,000 deaths.

his own estimate is

> reasonable estimates for the case fatality ratio in the general U.S. population vary from 0.05% to 1%.

The Gamgelt study for example estimates IFR at 0.28%. he has recently published a meta review of those studies https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.13.20101253v...
Very nice, its amazing how many banks still utilize this aging language.
I'm confused as to exactly who "This man" refers to in this instance - is it whoever is Shirtaloon at patreon? Or is it the person who made the parent comment? Are they the same person? Sorry, I just wanted a little more context for the this man part, everything else seems reasonable.
It's flexible enough that you could write a variety of interesting services in it. The primary limitation would be the amount of information you can feed in with URLs capped at 1024 bytes. Mostly-read-only APIs like fetching maps are still quite practical.

With INPUT, REDIRECT, and the mechanism for creating sessions via transient certificates, field-at-a-time forms are possible. You could even build a pretty friendly experience around it, since the server can validate and re-prompt each field as you go.

I've been thinking that a text/gemini browser could recognize link lines that end in .png/.gif/.jpeg and offer a button next to them to manually expand the imaages inline. It would be a nice balance between being able to see figures along with the rest of a document without bloating page fetches. Perhaps other data types would have sensible inline interpretations, too- CSV files become inline tables if you expand them, etc.

Just a few ideas I'm knocking about.
Comment history

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=ezVoodoo
money laundering route perhaps?
The tech stack for my personal blog is a <100 line Python script that reads a directory of plaintext files and drops them into Jinja2 templates. It's longer than it needs to be because I wasn't feeling like being clever when I wrote it, so to produce the RSS feed it just starts the whole thing over again with some copypasta from the first time around. I know that with some smarter use of Jinja I could eliminate that whole step and be <50 lines.

It's really just a (bad) static site generator, it's just that every static site generator I've run into so far was way more complicated than I need and so it was faster to write my own with only the three features I want than to learn a big complicated tool.

I guess I have mixed feelings here. It makes sense to invest time in a complicated setup for a personal website as a hobby project, and I am quite clear that I am not a software person so that's just not something that really interests me as a way to spend my time. Spending a ton of time "developing a blog" feels to me like it's just a big roadblock in the way of actually, you know, blogging. I acknowledge that a good part of that is personal preference.

On the other hand... much of the post really concerns me. The author talks about React and TS like they're the only alternative to writing bare JS. Well, for one, there are other, simpler options even within the TS ecosystem. For another, the website doesn't really seem to have any behavior that requires JS, so I'm not sure why JS needs to be involved in the first place.

The rejection of using MD along with React seems like... a damning condemnation of React? Is it really that hard? People tolerate that?

The assertion that most CMSs require two round-trips to deliver the content speaks of someone who has not really seen the world outside of modern JS front-end... It would be very uncommon for a CMS in another language to require more than one round-trip, as the content is prepared server-side before delivery of any kind of front-end.

I guess, if I am to be opinionated (which I certainly will be), my feeling is that the author should have spent their hobby time exploring the world outside of React rather than hammering what seems like a rather round peg into a rather square hole, and then presenting it as "ideal."
I think sometimes they just blame whoever suits the political narrative. The Chinese replaced the Russians as the boogeyman de jour a short while back, so of course they will now be blamed by default.
Oh agreed on all fronts :). Being able to add plugins is amazing, and there have been times I've almost added ttypescript for its plugin support. But then I remember the road that leads you down, and avoid it.
While the admin is currently pushing a very negative image against China, I do not believe the FBI would do that so lightly.
Operation Scherhorn
It's pretty hard to set a bar lower than that.
> All i/o libraries eventually hit OS barrier

Indeed.

> I can't really see how it could be optimised to gain 6x speed up.

Performance claims appear to not even be based on I/O but only on two formatting microbenchmarks and are severely misleading https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23311726
The noise of US roads and aircraft on a map
British colonialism ruined a perfect cup of tea
Correct...in parts. Afaik, this is primarily a platform for zero-cost transactions (and if you live in an emerging market, a way to stop your govt stealing from you).

But you wouldn't need to charge rates on the Libra system...you still implement monetary policy as before because Libra is just a currency backed by other currencies.

Given the currency shares announced though, it would potentially make monetary policy harder for non-US nations (i.e. EUR/GBP/JPY). My sense is that wouldn't be catastrophic but it would reinforce the position of the dollar/US monetary policy (as an example: if I am the ECB, I try to cut rates to zero then everyone just buys Libra until banks run out of money and force me to hike...this can work in reverse too where a big shock to the US economy can transmit through Libra globally...so functionally I think it would be very like a gold-exchange standard i.e. 1920-1970 but with USD as the exchange currency).

Btw, this is why you saw European nations come out so strongly against this. SDRs are basically the same thing but the IMF overvalued the EUR in the basket...this is why central banks don't really use SDRs. Libra is kind of the opposite where you have a realistic weighting of EUR which is obviously less good for the EUR (although, again, no-one uses SDRs and they haven't helped the EUR become less of a bad currency).

...but yeah...it definitely is complex because the needs of consumers/corporates for low-cost transactions runs counter to the needs of monetary policy. I can see why govts oppose this and the likely end point is some better solution to reduce transaction costs (which Libra essentially is...but trying to create a reserve currency was...not a good idea...ppl have been trying this for centuries).
Daimn. We are being super careful with the tokens.

In our case, we were making phone calls to verify phone numbers. That was a crucial mistake.

Did they get access via tokens or email/password?
It's more like panning. If you step left right, the parallax effect persists, like walking around an object in a box on table. But if you try to go up/down it appears to rotate with you as the display doesn't have any fields vertically.

It reminded me a lot of those "3d" pictures you can get that have a bunch of vertical sections at slightly different angles. They go back to maybe the 70s. There's a funny name for them that I can't quite remember.

My understanding is that the "box" that sits on top of the display is purely cosmetic and helps sell the effect, and that the backboard of the display provides everything.
So nowhere near the point of stability or ubiquity.
They got it wrong. The Cult of Kek is the religion, and Qanon is its prophet.
What are the limits on number of posts, post size, images...? What is it going to be priced at? Will there continue to be a free tier if/when it becomes paid? Sorry, I can’t try any platform that doesn’t answer questions about its future. I hope you’d provide more details on the homepage.
I’m Dan Pasette, Executive Vice President of Core Engineering at MongoDB. I'd like to thank aphyr for posting the detailed report on MongoDB 4.2.6. We were able to use these findings to identify a bug that can lead to a previously committed transaction being incorrectly retried in the presence of a primary failover and a subsequent transaction commit retry. From our testing, this bug is the cause of the anomalies described in sections 3.4 - 3.7 of the report.

A detailed description of the bug can be found here: https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-48307

This bug has been fixed and backported, and will be available to users in MongoDB 4.2.8 onwards. The MongoDB test suite has been updated to ensure that this specific phenomenon is detected in future releases. We are also planning to update the version of Jepsen we are currently running in our CI loop to include the newest test case used in the report.

Last, we’ve made some changes to how we share information discussed in the Jepsen reports on our website. You can find the updated page here (https://www.mongodb.com/jepsen).
Strava's leaderboards and data ownership
Frustrated and struggling, New Yorkers contemplate abandoning the city they love
Was googling to see if I could find a news article to back up my memory.

Instead I found an article on Wikileaks claiming CIA executed false flag hacking operations: https://theintercept.com/2017/03/08/wikileaks-files-show-the...
That is a very usable quality. Thank you for sharing the details of your setup :) I've been researching hardware-synchronized cameras for quite a while now, but with limited success. And now you show me a pre-assembled affordable solution :)
Is there anything on the market that will work with this out of the box?
Coronavirus Vaccine Update, May 26 – Derek Lowe
One of the article's comments:

"Janelle Schorg says:

"This is why students are confused and have misconceptions about ratios in middle school. When we teach fractions it is part(s) of a whole (Water bottles and pencils context) and when we teach ratios they are sets (boys and girls). It is actually okay to add ratios (as fractions) by combining the numerators and denominators, no common denominators needed. In my opinion, ratios should not be written like fractions until later after students have conceptual understanding and fractions should never be taught with sets in the 3-5 work. Many teachers are not even aware of this difference and misconception we are creating in student understanding."
Until the fairly recent proliferation of trade agreements that are negotiated out of the view of the public, the investor relations and patent/copyright clauses that prevented the sharing of medical information were not common and were routinely broken by most developing nations. The business community's wishes had no power there, and quite arguably when it comes to medicine, it is a crime against the people to withhold lifesaving information.

In fact, until the US became top dog in the post-war era, we pirated everything we could from England, especially industrial know-how so that we could promote our own development. It is only after we reached hegemonic status that we started enforcing these ludicrous agreements in order to preserve our own businesses' position.