skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been using DDG as my default search engine for more or less a year now, and tbh I find myself using the !g bang way more often than I'd like. Basically anytime I'm searching for something dev related or anything that's broad enough that without my personal user info it would be hard to return the results I'm looking for. Which is kind of the crux of the issue I believe. For everything that's wrong with Google as a company in terms of privacy-related issues, the truth , at least for me, is that many times (not all) it ends up being... quite convenient I guess.

YMMV though, maybe I need to step up my searching game to obtain better results using DDG. That's definitely something I should work on.
Steinbeck wrote that only the rich can afford to dress badly, the poor are forced to dress well

There are are deep sociological undercurrents to all this behaviour but people who ought to know better are too busy denying the evidence
>Having said that, there are sometimes good reasons for dismissing something new. But only after taking the time to understand it and why everything else thinks this is cool.

Yes, there's a fine line between applying experience to understand and explain why something has been tried 10 times before in the industry and the 11th time is not going to be a charm--and, as you say, routinely dismissing anything that even peripherally echoes something that didn't work last time even though a lot of things are different now.
I did a first look run-through of Obsidian on YouTube if anyone would find it helpful. It's a top-of-the-list recommendation for personal knowledge management software in my book. Kind, helpful community around the software too.

Video: https://youtu.be/cFYaWC_86W0
It's direction is no-longer owned by Google, but by the OpenJS Foundation, right?
Is this approach different from what sites like Newgrounds did for their Flash libraries?
The text is so hard to read! Even after zooming in. I think I am used to modern sites so much that I completely forgot how it used to be before 10 years
Why do you say: "I use iPhones for the same privacy concerns as many of you"?
In the past I have heard rumors that is not true, with a quick search I found out a recent article on the rumors that I heard once:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2020/05/21/apple-ip...

PS: Either way, I agree with most of your comment. :)
I'm thinking the same thing.

SpaceX isn't to the point in this endeavor where they should be worrying about making things look "sexy". If there isn't an objective improvement in doing something in a non-flight-tested way then I'd be highly suspicious.
At one point they had CSRs that would manage you and it was similarly unresponsive.

Having dealt with automotive service centers for 30+ years, it's just something I've come to expect. Some people are proactive, some people are reactive, and some people just don't give a flip.
I wrote a master thesis where I compared several realtime database products. I promise you amplify is no where "getting there". It is a crippled version of firebase and there is no fix in sight. For example you cannot even do sort-queries with datastore or Amplify is not working with angular because they have broken typings since 9 months with no fix. And the list goes on..
Thanks for your comment. I don't seem to appreciate the philosophical aspects as much as others.
As Netflix has moved away from carrying lots of other people's movies to largely producing their own in-house TV shows, it feels like they barely have enough content to need an algorithm to curate it. They just show the same new Netflix originals over and over in ever category.

I'm sure Netflix has piles of data that shows this is the best strategy. It just seems like a differentiated curation strategy doesn't matter that much in this battle. It will come down to who is producing the most popular original content most consistently.
They have real buttons for all the important things, including a large "abort" lever.
Specificity. It's an existing exception in advertising law (or so I've been told). Anyone can claim "we have the best burgers" -- and many restaurants do -- because it's non-specific. Ironically, if you were to attempt humility by claiming "we have the second-best burgers", that becomes a specific claim, and you'd need research to support it.

"The Governor of California is sending Ballots to millions of people, anyone living in the state" is a specific claim, and would need to be supported. It's a different category of claim than merely boasting "I am the best president".
For me the biggest benefit of Obsidian over several other PKM tools is that it uses local Markdown files rather than outlines/blocks. It still has bi-directional linking, and bubbles up unlinked resources like Roam. The pace and responsiveness of the developers is remarkable, and the community has been so friendly and helpful. No egos!

[editing to add that I'm using iCloud for my vaults which allows for very fast syncing and the ability to edit on iOS]
It looks like this isn't open source. If this is supposed to be one's second brain, please at least consider using a time-bomb FOSS license. Something like: you're permitted to use Obsidian under Apache/MIT/GPL license either 7 years after a given release, or effective immediately in the event that Obsidian shuts down.
The risk of treating patients with pain-reducing levels of ASA (aspirin) is actually a significant issue, and it's not hard to find papers covering this issue, and reporting data on it. It's usually in older populations who are more likely to be in pain and also more likely to die from a stomach bleed.
> or define exemptions that don't allow the type of draconian actions places like Twitter, Google, and Facebook are taking

The government being selective about which expressive choices by a platform operator are get favorable treatment under law rapidly gets into violations of actual Constitutional free speech protections, unlike the private actions that people are making fake “free speech” claims about.
The demand for nazis far outstrips the supply.
Nutshell does this! We have 5,000+ MySQL databases for customers and trials. Each is fully isolated into their own database, as well as their own Solr "core."

We've done this from day one, so I can't really speak to the downsides of not doing it. The piece of mind that comes from some very hard walls preventing customer data from leaking is worth a few headaches.

A few takeaways:

- Older MySQL versions struggled to quickly create 100+ tables when a new trial was provisioned (on the order of a minute to create the DB + tables). We wanted this to happen in seconds, so we took to preprovisioning empty databases. This hasn't been necessary in newer versions of MySQL.

- Thousands of DBs x 100s of tables x `innodb_file_per_table` does cause a bit of FS overhead and takes some tuning, especially around `table_open_cache`. It's not insurmountable, but does require attention.

- We use discrete MySQL credentials per-customer to reduce the blast radius of a potential SQL injection. Others in this thread mentioned problems with connection pooling. We've never experienced trouble here. We do 10-20k requests / minute.

- This setup doesn't seem to play well with AWS RDS. We did some real-world testing on Aurora, and saw lousy performance when we got into the hundreds / thousands of DBs. We'd observe slow memory leaks and eventual restarts. We run our own MySQL servers on EC2.

- We don't split ALBs / ASGs / application servers per customer. It's only the MySQL / Solr layer which is multi-tenant. Memcache and worker queues are shared.

- We do a DB migration every few weeks. Like a single-tenant app would, we execute the migration under application code that can handle either version of the schema. Each database has a table like ActiveRecord's migrations, to track all deltas. We have tooling to roll out a delta across all customer instances, monitor results.

- A fun bug to periodically track down is when one customer has an odd collection of data which changes cardinality in such a way that different indexes are used in a difficult query. In this case, we're comparing `EXPLAIN` output from a known-good database against a poorly-performing database.

- This is managed by a pretty lightweight homegrown coordination application ("Drops"), which tracks customers / usernames, and maps them to resources like database & Solr.

- All of this makes it really easy to backup, archive, or snapshot a single customer's data for local development.
Yeah, but Google doesn't want you to do that. You're here to watch ads, peon.
I have been working on a Clojurescript wrapper for the Firebase (Firestore) database. Here is an interactive example of the principle features of that work. Comments and criticism (and PR's) welcome!

https://firemore.org/
There's nothing wrong with throttling in itself. Pretty much anyone will prefer a performance hit to a spontaneous shutdown.

Where Apple got in trouble was that they were doing it secretly. Now days they still do the throttling, but you can go into battery status and it tells you if the battery is delivering peak performance or not.
You'll also find a Sneak Peak on my Twitter profile:

https://twitter.com/joelrandyblake/status/126535990873350144...

I hope to earn your subscription soon.
* What about the Russian troll farms running fake pro-Trump social media accounts?

Until there is no hard evidence, those troll farms are conspiracy theories. Besides, these days the left press is so ridiculously biased that NYT, Guardian, etc could easily qualify as troll farms.

* What about the hacking of Clinton's email server and strategic release of those emails right before the election (even though the e-mails ended up containing nothing incriminating)?

You mean the "e-mail server" (lol) which was "hosted" at her bedroom? You do realise that here of all places there is probably the highest number of people to see how ridiculous this is.

* What about the many people lying/obstructing justice that were investigated? Why were so many people caught lying if there was nothing to hide?

There is always something to hide, the question is were they guilty of what they were accused or not. Also after this appeared:

'What is our goal?' one of the notes dated January 24 2017 - the day of the interview - read. 'Truth/Admission or to get him to lie, so we can prosecute him or get him fired?'

I would not give too much credibility to those investigators.

1. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8271953/Unsealed-me...
Such investors tend to hold, they don't sell just because the stock hits a certain price. This reduces the actual float, making shares harder to buy. This could be an issue if Tesla were to be added to the S&P 50O in Q2 or Q3, forcing big players to get hold of the stock at market price. Let's see.
I will fully admit that Musk knows how to make a car. He’s a car person and had a history of owning and enjoying sporty luxury cars before Tesla. But he’s not a truck person.
Is it very hard to have a policy that once a video has been taken down, and then successfully appealed, that it becomes harder to take down?
> There is no amount of money that can be paid to someone where there is non-zero risk of dying or having long-lasting damages to your brain, heart or lungs

This is trivially false, as people accept money for health risk every day (see: working in medicine, transportation, mining, leaving your house, etc.)
SI prefixes are fine for mass/block storage and network speeds, because there's no particular reason they would fall precisely into buckets of powers of 2. But for CPU cache and system/GPU memory in particular, and maybe even some flash memory, it does continue to make sense to use MiB and GiB, because of the particular way that memory itself is addressed and packaged. Memory very much does fall precisely along power of 2 boundaries.

For example, I recently bought two 32 GiB DIMMs for my computer. I guess you could call them 34.3597 GB DIMMs, but that's strictly worse! Knowing that they're exactly 32 GiB makes it makes it obvious that it takes 2^35 bit pointers to address every location by byte in one of those DIMMs (so they obviously require a 64-bit architecture to take advantage of!), or 2^36 bit pointers to address memory locations across both of them.
CS grads should be required to take a year of liberal arts at least.
Why is this question never raised whenever the latest web company raises X million dollars that could’ve funded green tech?
I can't directly answer the question. However, I think what complicates this issue is the political actors involved. Twitter may be a private platform, but when the President posts a Tweet, that is very much a public, political, government message.

For example, a federal judge barred Trump from blocking followers, despite Twitter being a private platform.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/23/trump-cant-block-twitter-fol...
I think it also depends on what you listen to. I've seen plenty of people complain about Spotify's Discover Weekly playlist and how it doesn't get it right, but I love it. If you listen to a wide range of genres, it will give you a weird mix, but otherwise its been my go-to for many years now.
I found this detailed explanation: https://physics.stackexchange.com/a/12071/246093

See also: https://home.cern/news/news/accelerators/lhc-report-100-inve...
> Are you arguing for being ruled by non-experts?

No, he is making the valid point that in many areas that are highly relevant to public policy, there are no experts. Those who call themselves "experts" actually aren't. Nobody has enough understanding of the problem domain to make accurate predictions.

In such a case, the only viable solution is for nobody to "rule".
Looking at average sales values from the low point in ~2010 and today's high, there's about a $700k difference (looking at SanFran city).

So, yeah, if you timed perfectly on an average house or higher, you'd have $200k+ of income to report. But, anybody who bought an average home within 5 years is going to be below the $500k threshold.

Either way, you still walk away with $500k tax-free. Which is still a massive pile of cash by any measure, contrary to the post to which I responded.
This gets trotted out a lot, but who is "everyone"? At worst it's a bunch of random people in the cafe whose WiFi you're using - but these people don't have the resources to track your activity once you leave the cafe. Otherwise it's just the same rogue's gallery of large corporations interested in adtech/surveillance money: ISPs, device makers, other online service providers. The thing is, none of them have the reach, data collection, and analytics capability of Google. And Google almost certainly gets all this information too, whether you use HTTPS or not (see reCaptcha, Google Analytics).

To me, this rationale looks an awful lot like a moat to stifle Google's competition. If collecting "the urls you're browsing" is wrong, why is it ok for Google to do it? And if it's not wrong, why is it somehow better that only Google gets to do it?
That's a very expensive way to get free publicity.
If the objective is to not get locked in public cloud isn't the best thing to do
I had been using 10.5" iPad Pro for minor PHP dev work. Blink shell with mosh is just perfect. Lack of escape key was not a big issue, as you can remap CAPS lock key.

Also Working Copy is great if you have setup CI/CD pipeline. I used that only for Hugo sites on Netflify. I would edit content in ia Writer, commit in Working Copying. And a few minutes later it was deployed.

Lately, I am playing with Flutter. I am still setting Flutter dev environment on Linux VPS. I can compile webapp and then test in in the browser. Once this is setup complete, then I might just buy desktops in future, and keep iPad for on the go minor dev work.
That assumes independent events. But "failing" early (weak social network, poverty, lost a lot on the first big gamble) have a large effect on the size and risk of the next gamble.
> You can define counting as defining an injective function from your set to the natural numbers, and then you need to have some element going to 0 - as per the definition of a countable set[0].

You can define counting as an injection into other (equivalent) sets just as rigorously.

And it's not even universally agreed on that the natural numbers should include 0. Wikipedia mentions the different conventions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_number

(I like my natural numbers to start with 0. But that's just because 0 is my second most favourite number. Starting with 1 is legitimate.)
Pixel and Samsung were intended to compete with iPhone, so the cost is going to be somewhat similar. Also, these go on huge sales every year, whereas iPhone never does. If you buy these at cost, you're doing it wrong. If you're really concerned about cost, you get a new Motorola for about $200, and there's even cheaper options out there.
Can supabase be used with the offline-first approach like horizon, RxDB etc. or does it require an ongoing connection to the server?
"Antifa" is highly decentralized, with as many autonomous groups as you can count affiliating themselves with the movement. This sort of sentiment sounds a bit like when out-of-touch news anchor refer to "the hacker known as 4chan". Many pacifists identify with "antifa".

In general, provocative and non-defensive violence seems to be a strategy employed by a small minority of people involved in the anti-fascist movement. As is usually the case, the loudest voices are amplified, so the small amount of provocative violence is highlighted by the news media, as well as by the critics of the anti-fascist movement.
I don't have experience with AWS to compare, but I can say that my experience with Google Cloud support has been exceptional, and even for a P4 case I opened I got an initial response in 4 hours and a person who dedicated some time for the next week setting up a cluster and application in the exact way to reproduce and diagnose my issue.
I agree but I really think Trump saved Twitter. The company was for sale and couldn't find a buyer remotely interested. They couldnt find anyone willing to take the CEO seat so they asked Jack Dorsey to come back. They were in the dumps as a company until Trump started to tweet like a madman. I really do believe that Trump saved Twitter. I dont remember people thinking Reddit would fail if they lost the_donald subreddit?
That statement has nothing to do with SARS-CoV-2 or COVID-19. That's long been general advice for anyone who spends significant portions of daylight hours indoors. I have been taking a Vitamin D supplement for years for that reason.
Agree this isn't an RCT, but why would this be an "over-reaction"? It's not like the default reaction is to administrate millions of doses of a medicine that has yet to be proven effective. (and could potentially do more harm than good)

The studies supposedly proving HCQ's effectiveness have much bigger caveats (tiny sample size and/or manipulation of the groups in a dishonest way, like Raoult removing severe cases from the treatment group whereas the control group had none)
> Tax fraud rendering you guilty of all the bad things you were ever accused of is not really sound logic.

The contention above was that there was "literally nothing to" Russian interference in the 2016 election. Manafort's convictions for activities related to his attempts to hide his Russian influence is clear evidence to the contrary.

I don't see anyone saying this makes Manafort guilty of "all the bad things he was ever accused of". But it makes him guilty of hiding Russian influence in the 2016 election, which was the point to be demonstrated.
It HCQ doesn't work, why is it the common first line of defense used internationally? Why does scholar.google.com list so many papers showing that it's effective?
while we're wishing for things that just won't ever happen, can I have a pony?
Speak for yourself. Some of us still had to go in to work through this whole thing.
This is flat-out wrong. Most times when I see a lower-case b in software or documentation it really does mean bit, not byte. The standards exist for a reason and you should follow them. Anything else is inviting error and sorrow.

And no one says "mbit".
Are you running LineageOS on it? How are you getting security patches? I wouldn't be comfortable having the device with my most sensitive information on it running an out-of-date operating system, but maybe that's just me.
Not before symptoms, but after exposure, or early on during the course of the disease, like other antivirals.

I reinstate, before people think I'm some sort of HCQ defender: I am not. The effect size is probably very small. It may be as well that it doesn't work, and I would be happy even if it doesn't.

I just want to see a proper RCT done and sealed.
It's a bunch of nonsense. Oregon has been using vote by mail since like 1981. The kind of fraud the president is fear mongering about doesn't happen there.

If other states see higher problem rates in their vote by mail, it's likely a selection effect due to vote by mail being not the main method.
> some players get to play because they’re trade bait

I mean, insofar as we’re measuring teams by winning games, rather than measuring teams by how profitable they are, we’re probably not measuring their inclusive fitness. Winning doesn’t help you if nobody pays attention; and, vice versa, making money helps you (in the long term) even if you don’t win.
Interview clothing is a bit controversial. Not that I've had a lot of interviews over the years, but I've always tended to overdress a bit. Maybe I didn't need to, but it seems respectful. On the other hand, I've heard people who feel strongly that it someone shows up in a tie for a dev job that's a hard "nope."
> Finally, the dragon capsule does have manual (non-touchscreen) joystick controls for the critical flight controls.

Joysticks are better, though some convenient indication is also required (the "screen" part, not the "touch" part). I'm sure the designers saw questions like that; I'm just curious about details.
MOOCs are back, long live the MOOCs
That's an interesting idea and we'll look into it!

We plan to stay in business in the long run, but if things do go wrong and we shut down, we do intend to open source the app.
If anyone would like a book on this subject, I recommend Powerful Command-Line Applications in Go: https://pragprog.com/book/rggo/powerful-command-line-applica...

It's currently in Beta but the first 6 chapters are finished and available. As someone learning Go I found it a nice complement to reading The Go Programming Language.
This is significantly harder on android which is probably what OP was referring to.
https://judithcurry.com/2020/04/01/imperial-college-uk-covid...
I was going to ask about possibility to extend the editor with a VIM emulator, but I see you guys already included that, neat!

I'm definitely going to give Obsidian a try.
It would be interesting to see a demographic survey of HN commenters/contributors. Wonder if one has ever been done?
This is different though, because of the potential exclusivity of the corpus. It would be like if Yahoo could hand pick websites and stop competing websites from retrieving them.
I agree and would add that we’ve gotten very used to touchscreens on our very multi-purposed phones and tablets.

Navigation is a fairly fixed function. I doubt these astronauts are going to installing new apps on their way to orbit...

Interestingly offshore sailboat racers (IMOCA 60 class for instance) prefer keyboards and thumb ball mice. They’re not pulling g’s, but they experience some pretty extreme motion from waves.
The "additional overhead" argument against SSL hasn't held water for well over ten years, now.
Google Signs on as Network Validator for Blockchain Video Network Theta
I've had a lot of success with even less organization -- writing one giant append-only markdown file per project. Search for the thing you want and it usually comes up. Notes have a timestamp and they're in order, so it's not hard to determine whether they're still relevant.
There's edit for comments.
Nikki Minaj is great.