skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, not just for HIPAA/PCI compliance, that's just one of the many benefits. Here's some more reasons why I love Convox, Kubernetes/ECS, Docker:

* Effortlessly achieve 100% uptime with rolling deploys

* Running a single command to spin up a new staging environment that is completely identical to production

* Easily spinning up identical infrastructure in a different AWS region (Europe, Asia, etc.)

* Easily spinning up infrastructure inside a customer's own AWS or Google Cloud account for on-premise installations

* Automatic SSL certificates for all services. Just define a domain name in your Convox configuration, and it will automatically creates a new SSL certificate in ACM and attach it to your load balancer.

* Automatic log management for all services

* Very easily being able to set up scheduled tasks with a few lines of configuration

* Being able to run some or all of my service on AWS Fargate instead of EC2 with a single command

* Ease of deploying almost any open source application in a few minutes (GitLab, Sentry, Zulip Chat, etc.)
Supposedly it stands for "Generative Pretrained Transformer", but nobody ever expands the acronym; it's a language model, originally released by OpenAI and announced at https://openai.com/blog/language-unsupervised/ and https://openai.com/blog/better-language-models/ .
e.g., https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2020/05/29/fa...

which is tangentially related here.
Its pretty crazy that you assumed the research was factual just because it was in NPR / marketwatch.
I actually am trending towards the view that once a social network reaches a certain size, all users must register their real identities with the network owner to maintain their accounts.

This information would not need to be stored, it would just be needed to verify an account as belonging to a real person.
Hey there, sorry about the trouble. I've pushed a fix. Special characters should now be working in the reset flow now. If you come across any other bugs feel free to email mail@special.fish. Thanks!
>> Pasteurized milk causes illness too.

Of course. Pasteurised milk is not 100% safe to drink. However, it is much safer than raw milk:

The rate of outbreaks caused by unpasteurized milk (often called raw milk) and products made from it was 150 times greater than outbreaks linked to pasteurized milk, according to a study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The 13-year review also revealed that the states where the sale of raw milk was legal had more than twice the rate of outbreaks as states where it was illegal.

https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2012/p0221_raw_milk_outbr...

Additionally, illnesses caused by pasteurised milk and dairy products tend to be less severe than those caused by raw milk:

Thirteen percent of patients in raw milk outbreaks were hospitalized compared to 1 percent in pasteurized milk outbreaks. This may be because raw milk outbreaks were all caused by bacteria, such as E. coli O157, which tend to produce more severe illnesses, according to the study.

Pasteurized milk and cheese outbreaks were often caused by relatively mild infections like norovirus and Staphylococcus aureus.

(Same source as above).

>> If the cows are unhealthy, or if the dairy processing is done in an unclean space, then there could be problems.

Raw milk from healthy animals, produced and handled under the most strict hygiene standards can still cause illness:

Can I still get a disease from raw milk and raw milk products if the animals are healthy, clean, and grass-fed or if the dairy is especially careful and clean when collecting the milk?

Yes. Even healthy animals may carry germs that can contaminate milk. Small numbers of bacteria can multiply and grow in milk from the time it is collected until the time a person drinks it. If the milk is not pasteurized to kill germs, people who drink it can get sick. Methods for collecting milk have improved over the years but cannot be relied on to be sure milk is safe to drink. Raw milk from “certified,” “organic,” or “local” dairies is not guaranteed to be safe. Only pasteurization can make milk safe to drink. You can find pasteurized organic milk and products made from it at many local, small farms.

https://www.cdc.gov/foodsafety/rawmilk/raw-milk-questions-an...

>> See The Untold Story of Milk for analysis/references

I'm sorry, but the book you recommend is a commercial publication and I don't wish to pay to read it.

Could you please provide alternative references or analysis, that are free to read? For example, references or analysis from public health bodies, or scientific publications, etc would tend to be freely available.
but everything changed when the martians attacked.
> That's how apps "notified" back then.

Polite apps would just bounce their dock icon rather than stealing focus, however.
In my experience, if you always hide the Mail window (cmd-h) instead of closing it (cmd-w), it won't ever pop back up. Takes a while to retrain the muscle memory though!

I haven't tested this in Catalina, but it definitely works consistently in Mojave.
I have a similar issue with Safari. I have not opened it for months, but every so often it is the frontmost app after waking.
createdb, createuser and pg_createcluster are not part of the PostgreSQL, but part of the postgresql-common packaging for Debian compatible distributions: https://salsa.debian.org/postgresql/postgresql-common/-/tree...
That might me the direction FreeBSD follows. It started with integrating Lua into the bootloader, replacing Forth. There’s now also the userspace flua(1) interpreter, used in a few places in the build system, IIRC.
Game I’m making is still under wraps but for example: I got multiple building, door, control terminal, and signature variants all developed in Houdini. Doors have to open whenever a player within guest list comes near the door. Assume there are 100s of combinations you can make with these variants. I can just select the variants I want in Houdini, combine them within Houdini, click to a button I programmed in python that says bake and it will output a nice TOML file that automatically gets read by UE4 and I can just drop a blueprint that already exists within UE4 to world space and I’ll have my combined building show up on the planet literally immediately.

Honestly Houdini is so complicated it will probably take you three months to get to basic proficiency and you will need to learn python if needed. I mostly used YouTube tutorials and documentation itself.
Seriously? Why do you even bother commenting, this is such an obviously ridiculous point of view
"The Valley's ideology" is to drag your feet, do as little as humanly possible, and to make vapid appeals to freedom of speech rather than do anything about rampant, massive-scale abuse of their services causing real and actual harm to people and society in general.
TIL! I always figured there was just some crawler bot on GitHub that people were using, this is even easier.
This is not about racism, but security and intellectual property.

A company should be able to hire whomever it wants, shouldn't it?
> so is France but

France has always been kind of contrarian. For example, they are NATO members but unbelievably they were also selling Russia a couple of Mistral landing platform docks.
The article suggests this is unknown
Seems like an easy way to discredit any idea or person. Just hire bot farms to promote it.

* 50% of positive posts for candidate x are bots!

* Most people who support X online are bots!

Easy and cheap, and the message carries well.
I’d be curious to know what proportion of Amazon shoppers actually grok the fact that Amazon is a marketplace of many sellers.

I was a longtime Prime member until last year, and spent a good amount of time discussing my concerns about the platform with family and friends before ultimately canceling. My impression from those conversations is that many folks just see Amazon as “Amazon” and have no real concept of who they’re actually buying from. A physical market in the real world makes it incredibly obvious who you’re shopping with, and that it’s independent of the marketplace itself. Amazon’s UI is clearly designed not to make this distinction, so marketplace seller behavior reflects more on the Amazon brand than it might otherwise.
What's the standard for metrics gathering, push or pull? I prefer pull, but depending on the app it can mean you need to build in a micro HTTP server so there's something to query. That can be a PITA, but pushing a stat on every event seems wasteful, especially if there's a hot path in the code.
well, I am not really interested in your convox-ads but more in your claim that it somehow makes the typical docker-workflow of running random-software from the net somehow HIPPA and PCI-compliant? That's an interesting claim, especially with your description of it as zero-effort.
Wouldn’t that make the code less readable?

I think the point is that if 98% of your code fit under 110 chars when you weren’t using a linter, then maybe you don’t need a linter checking line length.
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Man I found it hard to maintain that latinate tone when I was writing scientific papers.
I mean, you can do that in Swift too. You can also use closures in Go in exactly the same way, which is what I tend to do for very small functions that don't need a name.

Functions and closures-that-don't-reference-their-environment are exactly equivalent in both languages, from a quick look? It's your choice as a developer which to use.

This particular pattern in the case of Lambda is specifically for providing a closure which is called later and repeatedly - it's not waiting for a request and then calling the closure once and then returning.
0.2.0
Features

Page instance - Each blog now has a page instance that can be access directly.
Basic comment system - Can now leave comments under blog instances.
Basic Kudos system - Users can now give Kudos (points) to blogs.
Basic notification system - Users receive alerts when their blog receives a new comment or Kudos.
User aliases - Users can add their own alias when posting comments
Basic user ranks - Ranks added to track user activity and contribution throughout the community.
Added help page

Bugfixes

Fixed bug with search pagination.
Improved tag search system.
Corrected a few typos.
Spotlight improved.
> The ocean's microscopic, single-celled plant known as phytoplankton produces more oxygen than all forests combined, with marine biologists estimating it contributes between 50 per cent and 85 per cent of the Earth’s oxygen levels.

Holy crap. I didn't know that part.

> When there are not enough whales in the ocean, krill consume phytoplankton at an unsustainable rate and threaten the global oxygen supply.

Unfortunately, "Burn krill, not rainforests!" isn't catchy enough for a bumper sticker.
That’s a good point, I wasn’t thinking about it in terms of the information paradox, but then the recently proposed solutions look like they have a good chance of panning out.

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

But anyway I still don’t think this is really an issue regardless. The same could be said of the cosmic event horizon. Vast swathes of the universe are unobservable and causally disconnected from us due to the expansion of the universe separating us at faster than the speed of light. Again, no Baryons are being destroyed in this process, they’re just becoming unobservable _to_us_.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event_horizon#Cosmic_event_hor...
Why would they scrape it when they can just use the search api and ping it every so often?
but the Israeli army targets and kills far more civilians than Hamas and related groups do (just look at how many civilians were killed during the Friday protests the past few years).
They came back just to help? Oh boy what heroes.
The hot new technology for metrics is Prometheus and it's ilk which is pull-based.
I suspect it's because I don't give a phone number. I have no idea why they allow signups without a number though, if that's the case.
> Do you also agree with the EU letting China slide over Hong Kong?

Given how the EU allowed Russia to steamroll the Ukraine, why would the Chinese regime's attacks on Hong Kong would deserve more attention.
I think the benefit over a navy shower is that you still have some warm water while you're lathering so you don't get cold. I can imagine a hybrid approach where you switch to full flow just for rinsing.
Lots of those studies pick a few criteria to label something "probably bot", with little verification that the mechanism is actually accurate. Which still makes for big headlines, but doesn't tell you if it would be effective and fair treatment if actually used to ban users.

(I'll add the link if I can find it, but a recent example pretty much boiled down to "actually, these accounts giving many repeated identical replies have totally normal timelines otherwise. And it turns out, many identical replies in short time shows someone knows about copy-and-paste, not that they're a bot")
Yes, they don't ask you any thing. However, banks/car dealerships/etc have to file CTRs(Currency Transaction reports). It is good that you withdrew $13K in one shot. Structured withdrawals (4k, one day, 5k three days later, another 4k ten days later) will be flagged by AML software of any financial institution. And folks in the compliance team will file SAR(Suspicious activity report).

Lesson: when you legitimately need $30K cash, just withdraw it in one transaction. Never ever withdraw $5K every week for six weeks. For every SAR, there are 100 CTRs filed.
> Adding an option to verify accounts by linking them to social security

Not sure if you’re joking, but this would be a completely awful privacy situation. Why would you ever give your social security number to a social media site?
Reading the people that put up with it why? What's wrong with thunderbird?
The point of using BSD license is to get rid of restrictions. Using GPL brings restrictions, same way using closed source components would. It’s as simple as that.
Seeing the space before the question mark, it sounds like the person you are replying to is French.

It's not unlikely the "So?" is meant as an "alright then, can we now have the answer to ...". I've made that exact mistake.
That doesn't change anything about the comment I replied to or my comment though. I don't need to withdraw more cash, and I'm not going to do so based on a command from a random person.
Now if only the humans could somehow find a way to help...
I don’t want gamification but having the data is good. It would also be nice if I could set the shower to a certain temperature instead of guessing every time.
No, Convox doesn't automatically make any application compliant. Convox makes it far easier to achieve HIPAA/PCI compliance by easily setting up compliant server infrastructure:

https://docsv2.convox.com/reference/hipaa-compliance

Note that dedicated instances are no longer required for HIPAA compliance [1]. Also note that the private Convox console is completely optional. You can achieve all of this with the free and open source convox/rack project: https://github.com/convox/rack

As I mentioned in my original comment, you still need to do a lot of work to set up company policies and make sure your application complies with all regulations.

You should also be aware that I'm comparing Convox with some other popular options for HIPAA-compliant hosting:

* Aptible: https://www.aptible.com (Starts at $999 per month)

* Datica: https://datica.com (I think it starts around $2,000 per month, but not 100% sure)

These companies do provide some additional security and auditing features, but I think there's no reason to spend thousands of dollars per month when Convox can get you 95% of the way in your own AWS account. PLUS: If you have any free AWS credits from a startup program, you might not need to pay any hosting bills for years.

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/aws-hipaa-program-upda...
Clarified in title, thanks.
Twitter's primary metric is "Monthly Active Users" which is driven by a) tweeting and b) engagement (aka activity) on those tweets.

It's not in their best interest to wipe out the bots at any large scale. Sure, the occasional cleanup or purge as a token effort or to get the most egregious stuff but remove them all? Nope.
I’d argue Shopify is simple and pretty cost effective for small businesses. The most complicated part comes from initial technical setups like pointing to the right domain name and setting up payment gateways which not everyone knows how to do. Can your platform make it easy enough so that someone that’s not tech savvy won’t need any developer help?
I’ve worked at a global-scale platform for user-generated content doing anti-abuse and anti-spam tooling. In my experience those researchers do exist in-house and there was an imperative to remove abusive and spammy accounts.

The difference in my perception is that the presence of the bots and bad actors on Twitter that come to the attention of reporting like this increases engagement and views, and thus top line revenue.

This isn’t saying “bots count as views, so we get more ad dollars”. It’s that bots and bad actors promote topics and conversations that bring more real users to the platform, and increase the session duration for new and existing users.

I would imagine that Twitter sees spam bots and purveyors of illegal content as unwelcome and probably has an engineering team that dispatches those accounts quickly. But whether deliberately or unconsciously, they probably don’t apply the same rigor to accounts that break the TOS but manage to drive the top line up.

I’d love to hear from an engineer from Twitter who works in this space.
You are either sending and explicitly trusting a full chain up to AddTrust, or something of the sort. Or you might still have expired AddTrust in your ca-certificates bundle.

I haven't seen this issue reproducible in any modern browser, but it's been annoying with explicitly-defined trust stores in some old apps.
I wouldn't be surprised if the people that chose to follow you based purely on receiving a like were also bots.
on all platforms of consequence

Those are quite the weasel words. Stay within the narrowly-defined targets for any language or ecosystem and you'll be happy. Once you start trying to do something interesting and supporting multiple versions of Windows Server $oldversions-that-your-customers-insist-on you will run up against the rough edges and will be screaming at Microsoft's handling of: codepages, charsets, filenames, installer standards (anyone actually using MSIX now? Do you enjoy writing your own installers using WiX or one of the proprietary fragmented toolchains?).

Microsoft still sucks, still seeks to restrict your freedoms with licensing and copyrights and is infinitely more fragmented and complex and incompatible than *NIX.
It probably does. But it requires someone to pick the battle (a customer or an enforcement agency on their own) to get it enforced.
Can we make reactionary protests safe?
It seems an almost certainty that people will want to take to the streets in the future in reaction to an injustice.

Can we have a plan on how to organize those safely so they don't degrade into looting and burning down our neighborhoods?
My impression of physics is that space-time is like a field that emanates from energy/matter at the speed of light in a slight curve. When these fields overlap their curves compound - the more energy, the more overlap, the more curvature.

Without energy there is no space-time. Space-time could be thought of simply as information about the energy that it emanates from.

Apologies for the tangent from this amateur. But it seemed similar to your thoughts.
Maybe I am speaking outside my comfort zone a little, but isn't this the same as trying to find physical axioms that build up a whole and it has been disproven by Godel with respect to Whiteheads and Russels Principia Mathematica and completely blows reductionists out of the water if we go as far as equating math == physics in all but name
> Gennie Gebhart, a researcher with the Electronic Frontier Foundation who was on Thursday’s call, said she hoped Zoom would change course and offer protected video more widely.

> But Jon Callas, a technology fellow of the American Civil Liberties Union, said the strategy seemed a reasonable compromise.

> Safety experts and law enforcement have warned that sexual predators and other criminals are increasingly using encrypted communications to avoid detection.

> “Those of us who are doing secure communication believe we need to do things about the real horrible stuff,” said Callas, who previously sold paid encryption services

Why do people still believe that preventing civilians from using encryption is going to stop criminals? Is there a name for this fallacy?

What does Zoom’s premium subscription offer? Jitsi supports unlimited participants and runtime for free, and soon E2E encryption.
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This seems like a really stupid idea to me. Who is to say that gcc isn't a framework? How about the Linux kernel? How about x86 or an Intel CPU? Even a 555 timer chip is a framework
I am well aware of this. Non-combustion energy sources are what is needed if we want to solve climate change and prevent the 3.8 million deaths per year caused by indoor air pollution. Money spent on improving energy systems should not be invested in infrastructure that further locks in killer+high carbon energy sources like biofuels.

Alternatives are different in different places, but are some combo of electrification using wind, hydro, solar, tidal, geothermal, and nuclear.

I get that these things take time. I guess if this article pointed out that wood energy is generally terrible for air pollution and carbon reasons and must be moved away from, I would be less upset by it.
Lol, okay.
you need something under and acceptable licence, so python is out.

Can someone explain the difference here? OpenBSD is BSD licensed [1]. Python is a BSD-style, permissive free software license which is compatible with the GNU General Public License [2][3]. Licenses are always contentious, but how does this rule Python out? (Granted, the dynamic libraries technical point makes this kind of a moot question.)

[1] https://www.openbsd.org/policy.html

[2] https://docs.python.org/3/license.html

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_Software_Foundation_Lic...
if you really got a brand new one, the keyboard may not be as bad as the previous iterations (2016/2017)
"Just a rule for reactions" drives quite a lot of physics. Conservation rules are how to describe all of the things that do not happen: why a hammer doesn't vanish, why all of your electrons do not turn into positrons, and so forth.

That's what is so fascinating ... you have this odd topological boundary and it creates a violation in known rules.
are you for real? look at how people respond to sports teams winning. people have been murdered by police officers and you can't ignore it anymore.
Not always. I can set the breakpoint in jetbrains rider to a function in a multi function line. And Java stacktraces certainly contain character offsets.
Most people have only seen the film, I think (I only read half the book). Gaetan Dugas is much more prominently featured in the film, which pretty strongly implies he was a key factor in the wide spread of HIV.
Here's an example from the official Go documentation on using closures in the same sort of place - https://golang.org/pkg/net/http/#example_ServeMux_Handle
That’s a big strawman, percentages would only be true if every owner’s dog killed someone.
Oh so I guess that At long distance it would behave like a map splatted on a sphere? Still hard to wrap my head around, but it is cool stuff!