skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there any similar action for those who live in EU?
I don't have a vendetta against India, that's way OTT sensitivity on your part. And if you're going to accuse me of having a simplistic view of India then I'll respond to you by saying your comments on Britain are risible. Tommy Robinson's rise to fame is somehow to be taken as a criticism of Britain.
The man's notorious, and has served prison time for it.
Does it reflect badly on a country that such a man exists?
The rest of your criticisms are similarly simplistic.
We’re doing just that at https://testingbot.com : stream android emulators and even physical devices. You can control these through your own browser.
Depends on your choice of insect. The world would mostly be fine without mosquitoes. Losing ants would be a big problem. This is one of the big problems with using pesticides on crops, you kill the good stuff too.
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1:47 2:40 wow

Reporters arrested while reporting, after having asked about where to position themselves, and while asking for further instructions about how to cooperate with police.
I think the point was that it's not common across the world. Though I might not be detecting some sarcasm.
> Britain is probably lower in the world rankings in terms of wealth per capita than it was before large scale immigration

Citation needed. I seriously doubt your balance of probabilities.

Britain pre-Windrush was on its knees.

Britain pre-EEC was "the sick man of Europe".

Please bring up some actual numbers to back your reactionary talking points, at the very least.
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Thanks, added a comment about noopener.
I wonder how they survived berries. Because berries are not good for your teeth due to high (natural) sugar content.
Taiwan was under Ming and then Qing Dynasty rule during many of those years.

Taiwan also has indigenous people that were colonized.
Tantacrul did one on MuseScore[0] (a music composing program), and ended up getting hired as their head of design[1].

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hZxo96x48A

[1]: Mentioned in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-3wEC6Fj_8, but don't have the exact timestamp
There is a fascinating and funny talk by Bob Beck from OpenBSD on the first 30 days after forking OpenSSL. One of the things he addresses is the scary code and how is prevents community involvement. He also talks a great deal about all that stuff that's not really relevant anymore and how much they removed from the LibreSSL source code.

Apparently the crypto modules are pretty well made according to the OpenBSD developers.

LibreSSL: The first 30 days, and what the Future Holds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oM6S7FEUfkU
You say you can't add RAM or SSDs but that sounds like exactly what you need. If your data doesn't fit in RAM (and, with 25MM records/day, it doesn't), then you're gonna be hitting those slow HDDs when you run queries.

I'd add RAM first and SSDs second but you say you can't do either of those? Well, good luck, I guess -- any "database solution" you choose is going to perform like crap given these resource constraints.
Doesn't solve the problem, but you can at least provide a whitelist of domains and filesystem paths.

For example, if you only whitelisted --allow-net=api.example.com, it would be a lot more annoying for a rogue dependency to exfiltrate data.
It doesn't have the same ring to it as "our prices are sofa king low"
I see this advice a lot, but I never really understood what the alternative is.
If your product has a specific niche, maybe there are some forums or subreddits dedicated to it, sure. But if it's a game? Some are designed for a niche audience, but most really aren't.

Another thing is that most of the forums/subreddits these days have strict rules against self-promotion.

And I'm not saying that you're wrong - I'm just wondering what do you think is the right way to do things.
I've worked/consulted at quite a few places where the code quality ranged from mediocre to abysmal. These companies were launched pretty much by people with an "X for Idiots" book on their lap or who hired their teenage nephew/best mate from college to do the coding.

And yet, these companies did quite well, became quite successful and profitable businesses in their niche - and when they did hit the hard limits of technical debt, they had the money to hire professionals. Unfortunately there are limits to what professionals can do with just-about-working spaghetti code and bizarre database schemas, when you can't just throw away and rewrite software that's powering a growing business that needs more new features than it needs a cleaner codebase, but nonetheless they got much further than many SaaS companies started by developers with well thought out architecture, beautiful code and the latest tech stack.

The reason they were successful is that the founders lived and breathed their niche and understood the problems and their customers. They saw opportunities as well as risks and blind alleys. The tech was just a means to that end, not the end in of itself. That said, before people say "the tech doesn't matter", I think that had they the technical skills to match their domain knowledge and connections, they would have been far more successful and would not have hit those hard limits that slowed them down and perhaps prevented them from expanding further and seizing on new opportunities. It's interesting that some of the real "unicorns" of the last few decades have had founders/leaders with strong technical chops - your Gates and Zuckerbergs. They might not have been the best in their field, but they had that relatively rare combo of technical ability and business sense.
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Thanks for that. I couldn't believe that my experience was the norm, as the site couldn't stay in business.

I'm not kidding, though. Every. Single. Contact. that I had was "dodgy."

I really must have had something in my profile that attracted them. I don't know what it could have been. I use a similar approach in all my endeavors, but that site responded quite differently.

I remember one that was pretty scary. They kept trying to get me to meet them in rather remote places, like commuter parking lots, or hiking parks. They also tried to find out where I lived (which, TBH, isn't difficult. I own a house, and don't use an LLC to obfuscate ownership).

I come across as fairly open and credulous, but I have dealt with serious hardcases almost my entire life. The alarm klaxon was going off like crazy on that one.
And new politicians will replace old ones, and bygones will be forgotten - winds will change. I mean, twitter could just decide to completely ban Trump now in retaliation. Nothing he could do about that.
So, in order to solve 1) and 2), we should return to what every other language does? That sounds like a design mistake...

What do you mean by "URLs are compact"? How can a URL be compact compared to the same URL in some sort of dependencies file? Unless you use the dependency once, of course, which is rare.

URLs and explicit versions in the import also encourage you to use several versions of the same dependency in your code, which is a very bad idea.

NPM’s model of referencing packages from central repositories is bad for many reasons proven over the years. But referencing GitHub scripts and arbitrary URLs is even worse.
duplicate, please check before submitting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23347155
Or, they may have actually tested raid rebuild on a system that did not have a single write during the rebuild and only with fresh drives - under this very specific use case, if the RAID controller does things right, all writes are sequential from the first disk sector until the last -- which is a use case that SMR doesn't slow down in; essentially, the only such use case.
What is a realistic solution though? Police == violence, we might want to pretend that's not true, but it is. The threat of greater violence (a.k.a. police attacking you, throwing you into jail or even killing you) is what keeps lesser violence (individuals looting, murdering) at bay in civilized, democratic societies.
If you were a UK citizen you might have better awareness of Hong Kong's history.
I already disagree with the first reason. Poor backwards compatibility is a good thing, it does not let tech debt to accumulate too much.

AppImage and containers are just for hiding that tech debt.
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Ah so its one of those "invented" memes from 4chan the Far/Alt right use.

Ironically exactly the people who would be considered "squares"
This is almost the literal exemplification of the classic "if 1 woman takes 9 months to give birth to a baby, 9 women will do it in a month". The math is interesting and a fun exercise of imagination. But it ignores so much and oversimplifies that it shouldn't really be seen as anything more than "fun". Which is still fine for an article that took no more than 25 minutes of work based on word count and expected typing speed.
Yes, CryptoKitties was so popular that it brought the whole Ethereum network to its knees. It was very short-lived however.
I second the comments over at [0]: it's not terribly clear what they're going for, or why they're offering a client to download. Is this meant to be a web-based solution, or not? That 'what' page you linked is just awful. Endless rambling.

Their web video hosting seems to work well though.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13928774
I think it's even more limited than that. I think you had to have BNO status in 1997 -- ie., even if you're 50 now, if you didnt apply, you can't get it.

Quite easy for the british gov. to change the law on that though.
1960 Britain had the 4th largest economy in the world.
2015 it has the 5th largest economy in the world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_largest_h...

The United Kingdom represented 6.42% of the world's economy in 1960 (highest point), falling to 3.42% in 2012 (lowest point). It accounted for 5.2% of the world's economy in 1820, 9.1% in 1870, and 8.3% in 1913. England, Scotland and Wales generated 1.8% of the world's GDP in 1600
If you use them as JBOD, they should be perfectly stable, just a little slower at writing than at reading. But as said by sibling, not stable in a RAID.
Because it ties the source code to the origin of the dependencies, forces code rewrites that don't scale across all dependencies and aren't enterprise friendly for using internal IT vetoed repositories.

Just because a dependency changed location I should not be obliged to touch a single character of the source code.
There's a ton of D&D apps out there. Why do you need VC funding to make a D&D app anyways? Making $137M on a single app (using your numbers) sounds amazing for an indie dev.
If I could afford to OWN a home for < 500k that has 5 bedrooms and I could earn 240k, maybe it'd be worth it.

But for like 140-200k, I can get 5+ rooms in Utah, decent schools, near family, etc.... politics could be better, but that's just a personal beef. The same home would probably cost > 1 million in SF. I can't even imagine earning 1 mill, as a self-taught dev doing freelance who's aging (40).
I don't know of any universal healthcare system in the world that uses slavery. What you do is have the government pay the salaries of the health workers, just like they do for every other public social service workers like police, fire, military, beat attorney etc. What makes health care so different to any of these?
Actually that's from RPG's I am pretty sure Gygax et al invented the term though it might even come from early Wargaming Campaigns.
Good point. I had that debate with myself. And I concluded that since I'm going to be adding quite a few domains to Unweb in the near future, and since I don't want users to be asked for new permissions every time they install a new version (which is a potential churn point), I preferred to go with the <all_urls> permission for the hiding content script.

This is inline with what similar extensions like Motion (YC W20, http://inmotion.app/) do. But I do really sympathise and I'm sorry that this was a bad experience.

Incidentally there's a cost (aside from user trust) to doing it this way, which is that the Web Store takes far longer to review your extension - which hopefully means they do a good job of checking the permissions aren't being used malevolently.
I'd be worried running Mac/ Windows on that thing, meanwhile he's unhappy with running an OS and an emulated OS, both targeting systems with more power than that...
We have not lived in a mosquito-less world, you cannot say with justifiable certainty that wiping them out would not devastate birds and other wildlife that have intricate relationships to them in the food web
While it isn't quite the Federated Wiki that the author describes, I've been enjoying using are.na to curate my readings and areas of interest.

When I post a link to a channel (as they call it), such as this article, it shows me other public channels that contain the same link, which I can then include or explore for related links, or even contribute to.

As an excellent example I've now found many related readings to this article that aren't directly about the same topic but are close enough to have been curated into the same set by some users.
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> A hierarchy does not scale well. We tried to make the search as powerful as possible. With filters that can be combined to filter the result set, but I mostly use the textsearch as it is good enough.

Does it support dynamic hierachies? A Hierachy where each level is the result of a search/filter on the parent-level?
Why don't you report the poster to the Verfassungs"schutz" if that is an extreme right wing position.

I hear that left-wing reporting to authorities has a good tradition in Germany.
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Dumb question here, isn't a license already a contract in the first place?
They'll work fine (although with the normal expected slower writes of SMR drives) until a drive fails normally and the raid array has to rebuild (which is kind of the reason you use a raid array), then it could take a week+ and there's a very good chance you'll get more failures during and lose all your data.
I just read I Have America Surrounded[1] a biography of Timothy Leary and found it fascinating. His descriptions of levels of consciousness are a bit wacky but I think helped me understand the appeal of psychedelics.

I assume Timothy Leary is a pretty divisive figure for some, I didn't know a lot about him before reading, so went in with a relatively open mind.

[1]: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/123706.I_Have_America_Su...
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We have a short omnivore intestine and many of the plants our primate ancestors ate would give you a very bad stomach ache.

We don't look like other predators because our main weapon is our brain and tools rather than claws and strength. We also cook our meat which means we need less powerful jaws and less sharp teeth. Keep in mind that you still have incisors and canines specifically for eating meat. You could even run your tongue along then right now and feel how sharp they are.
> >but it is a fact that our society has great difficulty dealing with nuclear waste.

> France has no problem.

France is part of the world, and thus has part of the problem. Maybe France isn't contributing to it, but we as humans own it now.
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Connections is a 10-episode documentary television series and 1978 book (Connections, based on the series) created, written, and presented by science historian James Burke.
LSD is very, very interesting if you have a somewhat disciplined mind. When the border of reality becomes diffuse, you're for some reason able to reason about your own consciousness. You see how arbitrary your perception of reality really is. You start thinking about where thoughts come from, and the difference between a state (mind) and a process (the underlying biology from which the consciousness emerges). Fun stuff.

It's extra fun when you realize you're seeing fractals and thinking recursion.

Be safe. Your experiences may differ.
You can still build it with whatever you want to. User's don't care if you used React through a GraphQL API talking to Microservices that sits on an instantly scaleable AWS infrastructure. These are technologies designed to solve problems that Really Big Companies have, and that most of us bootstrapping a SaaS do not.

Don't be worried about "Scale" either, seriously. VC funded unicorns care about scale because they have million dollar budgets going into advertising, the reality for most bootstrapped SaaS and even mid-sized businesses is that a simple dedicated host is going to serve you well. Depends on the type of business I suppose, but if you need quick bursting scale then you'll probably know it.

The bleeding edge is a mess. You want to pick only the things you absolutely need from it, and if you can't figure out what it is you need, you don't need anything but what you've got and life is good. Many of these technologies come at a cost to overall complexity, and for big companies they will have enough developers to specialize in all the different technologies going on.

When I'm working with clients we can often use some new fangled technologies to help in really specific areas. But the vast, vast, vast majority of clients just need you to send their user a gosh darn web page and process some forms. Render your template, cache the thing and send it over. Instant low latency web experience, hoo-ray we're all happy.
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Making pull request or patch would take significantly more time the writing one and half hour long rant.
Very true, and harder to really work around in JS, although I guess you can get a fair bit further along the "runway" before encountering this issue.

With Android, you'll probably need to be using UI and non-UI thread work for anything that makes a network request or does more than a "hello world".
Thanks for those fun facts.
For small scripts there are many languages out there which are better, with a proper standard library and pre-installed runtimes in virtually every machine.

Why would someone want to use a new language and a new runtime in production scripts is beyond my understanding.

Just write Python for those.
Even Perl, awk or sh would be better options, and that is saying something...
> You said yourself that you’re a physicist. Why do you think that qualifies you to talk about the risks of gene editing with CRISPR?

He says, on a site devoted to people talking about things about which 99% of them know nothing.
Quite ironic you are using India's caste system as an example of how primitive and un-just the society and how great Britain is when Britain is the very reason the caste system exists as it does today. Prior to British rule, castes were not widely understood along the Indian subcontinent and was one of many social demographic markers for Indians until Britain made it THE defining characteristic.

From the BBC:

"In fact, it is doubtful that caste had much significance or virulence in society before the British made it India's defining social feature."

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-48619734
> I find that an ability to search the knowledgebase exceeds the value of organizing according to a hierarchy.

Why not both? Searching is good for makro-managment, navigation and dynamic. Hierachy works well for micro-managment, relations and static access.
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It's a yearly skit he does in front of a live audience and because of covid he did it in a video. In written form you might actually think he is serious.
Thank you for this comment. As someone who played a bit with GPT, it was very poignant for me. I still think it's incredible that GPT can put up such convincing facades, that it can generate genuinely novel and interesting text... but it's bittersweet, too, that it can't go any further with them. The ideas are lost in the context window.

I play AI dungeon on occasion, which uses GPT2 to generate freeform adventures. And I find over time that it's not really GPT2 that's writing stories, it's me. GPT2 is putting out plausible strings of words, but I'm the one giving them meaning, culling the parts that go off track, and guiding it in a direction I want to go.

And it is a bit melancholy. You see possibilities, nuances, subtexts, and meanings. The neural net sees words.
The standard is what PMD understands, that is good enough.

Not everything needs getters and setters, it is just cargo cult generating them blindly.

Also Java has records now, but you aren't going to get them on Android anytime soon.

Static analysis like PMD is also a basic need, not using something like Sonar as part of a CI/CD is just being careless.
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The India one is definitely not what a majority of Indians would listen.
In the case of drive failure, the RAID rebuild will probably take days, not hours. If failure isn't something you're concerned with, or you only ever read and never write, it's not an issue.

Otherwise, you will probably be interested in replacing them sooner rather than later.
This is mentioned in the release announcement (https://lunduke.com/posts/2020-05-28/):

> For the first week, Linux Sucks 2020 is only available (for free) via LBRY. (After one week it will become available everywhere else as well.) LBRY is a great fit for Linux Sucks – Open source and DRM-Free.

> You can watch Linux Sucks 2020, right now, the following ways:

> - straight from the LBRY.tv website

> - or (even better) you can install the LBRY application to download and play the DRM-Free video
Removing unused code is a long solved problem. For example, when you compile and link a C program that uses a library, you can make the executable contain only the functions that you used, not the whole library. Similar tools exist for JS.

Exposed data isn't the only way functions interoperate. For example, a database library can give you an opaque connection object which you can pass to other code in the library. Sometimes that object will have parts that are visible to other code in the library, but not to you. Similarly, a UI library can give you UI objects that play nicely with other code in the library, and so on.
Even with math, there is much more "unwritten shared knowledge" than usually assumed. The corpus of current mathematics lives much more in the shared understanding of mathematicians than in the pages of articles. Math fields may indeed be lost if they are not actively practiced. There was a beautiful essay on this by Bill Thurston, that I don't have handy at the moment, but should be easy to find.

[EDIT:] maybe this:
https://mathoverflow.net/questions/43690/whats-a-mathematici...
It seems that instead of fixing it it is an error now [0]. This and the comment from the issue [1] do not inspire confidence in me.

[0] https://github.com/elm/compiler/commit/0e669b8ad076f64e450f2...

[1] https://github.com/elm/compiler/issues/1773#issuecomment-418... the same on master
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Does anyone know what alternatives we should be looking at? Have a single 4tb Red (non SMR) running in a Synology box and I need to add another drive.