skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was thinking the entire thing was ripe for warrants. Usernames! Communities described! Discord!

Head up, Discord lawyers, you've got subpoenas coming in hot.
I don't have a link handy, I'll try to find it again and post it, but there's an article or video about Ernst Gotsch, the founder of what he calls "Syntropic" farming, where it talks about how his farm produces the best cocoa in the world at 3x the crop of conventional farms of the same quality with no inputs.

It's important to remember that the modern mega-farms are only cost-effective due to massive subsidies. A typical modern farm loses something like a dollar an acre per year and would fail immediately without subsidies. They're not profitable.

While they are certainly highly efficient for a narrow range of species, they are physically incapable of producing the vast majority of food species at all.

Comparing an acre of modern farmland growing modern corn in the modern way with modern subsidies to an acre of a Permaculture or Syntropic food forest:

The modern farm will produce far more of that corn than the eco-farm. But it will require inputs: fertilizer, irrigation, and everything concerned with the farm machinery, etc., and only produce that corn. Everything else: water, land, machinery, people, gets used up or polluted by the process.

In contrast the acre of food forest might not produce any corn at all, or it may contain four or five or more species of it, as well as fruit and nut trees, bananas and plantain plants, climbing fruiting vines, berry bushes, root crops, flowers, cucurbits, bamboo, etc. resulting in dozens of different yields. It requires no inputs.

It's more labor intensive and cannot (yet) be automated. But it's fun, easy, profitable, and it produces the material needed to make more of itself, so it's scalable.
That only works when we have food to feed everyone ... which requires a surprising amount of people to stay at work. Besides the obvious people working in the fields/farms, there's a lot of support businesses that need to stay open. The people who repairs the tractors, the people who make parts for the feeders in the barns, etc, which need support for their own manufacturing equipment.

We can't just "shut it all down" worldwide and not run out of food.
I doubt this is physically possible. I think they have distributed edge caches for pages with short TTLs.
DNS over HTTP might bypass your local nameservers.
I read their comment as perhaps meaning that the study showed fodmap + hypnotherapy was no more effective than fodmap + hypnotherapy. A result I found surprising. (Unless it means the problem was effectively solved in both case, so no more improvement was possible)
I'm replying separately to separate this from the explanation.

Quotes from the RFC:

> We conclude that it is reasonable to explicitly define limited-domain protocols, either as standards or as proprietary mechanisms, as long as they [..] clarify how the domain is defined. [...] However, [new] mechanisms are needed to support domain membership operations.

> Note that this conclusion is not a recommendation to abandon the normal goal that a standardized protocol should be global in scope and able to interoperate across the open Internet. It is simply a recognition that this will not always be the case.

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A few example use-cases that spring to my mind: in a given IoT network, every sensor could conceivably send unencrypted data if the threat model allows it.

In a home network, more information could be exchanged between devices, while not being published on the internet: static addresses, device owner, location...

This allows scoping the protocols, to tailor security to a threat model in a given environment, for instance, or to specific bandwidth/topology requirements. (incidentally, I find that "scope" is a way better name than "domain". I think that's a comment I'm going to send, this is an RFC after all).
https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/issues/7519
> Their outcomes are pretty similar, in terms of deaths per capita, to the United States.

Except that they are all now on downward trajectories while being more open (as opposed to the US, which is on an upward trajectory). Travel is allowed in Europe. Schools are open. Bars are open. And they are still on a downward trajectory.
YouTube once stopped working for me while I was logged in, for a month or two (it might have been because I was using AdNauseum, but I think it was just a problem with whitelisting YouTube's cookies and javascript, the problem went away after changing the latter and not the former). It was great for my productivity!
how do you downvote on here?
No, it's not that bad in America.

The corruption we see in DE is similar to that of US and even Canada - and it's of a different kinds.

It's not corruption in the classical sense, it actually is rational for the state to prefer copper, if the state has investments in copper - in a kind of perverse way.

Less rational and borderline corruption if an individual state actor has personal investments in copper.

'Big Business' is often done on the basis of relationship, of the advice of consultants, and it's far more of a systematic thing than an overt thing.

For example, there is quite a lot of oversight for things like insider trading, and such shenanigans. People are not taking bribes.

It's rational for congressional members to 'fight' for the big government contract to be located in their district, even if it's not the ideal outcome.

This kind of network/influence dysfunction is a huge issue, and it deserves it's own name, because it operates in a different way, has different results and is way more nuanced.

That said it can have major impacts and it is a big deal, it should not be ignored, but it should be recognized as another category.

FYI - if contractors, suppliers etc. all did a really good job, it would matter less. There may or may not have been shenanigans in the allocating to CGI for the big Healthcare.gov project, but the worst part is that it was a failure. If CGI had of done a great job ... well that reduces the issue of how contracts are awarded.

The city of Montreal had some serious problems with low-level 'corruption' when handing out city contracts - as it turns out, it was partly bad acting, but partly because there was no concept of transparency, bidding, no proper systems and checks for how procurement is made, leaving the door open to city officials getting to go to expensive dinners etc..

It's an issue, but of a different kind.
While I applaud the feature and hope it gets used by everyone, the idea that it's going to harm FB/Google/Etc. is unlikely.

There's a good argument to be made here that it will actually _entrench_ them.

Facebook's power comes not just from being creepy, but by having built an internet-wide advertising platform that anyone can run ads on. You run ads in one place and billions of people can see them.

While IDFA blocking is nice, it does basically nothing to change FB's incentives. Until using the personal data they've collected to run ads is illegal, they'll continue to collect it (and probably after, let's be honest).

All the while, the complexities of running an effective ad network get higher and higher, making it harder for 3rd parties to compete against FB.

At the end of the day, we have to make ads targeted with previously collected personal data illegal. End of story.
> Provided by Chinese Academy of Sciences

Is it trustworthy?
Although this may be controversial, the composition API feels very derivative of React hooks. I liked having Vue around as an alternative to React, and the declarative and predictable structure of components felt like the main selling point to me.

With this new API, my first impression is “just use React at this point”. I’m having serious trouble understanding why they’d make this change. Of course I may be biased working in React day to day, but... bleh, Vue used to be unique.
I've been pretty happy with 1.1.1.1 (before now). Might be worth using something like 8.8.8.8 as a backup (Google).
https://twitter.com/i/status/1282676454690451457
... and with it hopefully Wahabi Islam with other more peaceful sects raking up more influence.
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We've been telling this for a while now...
You don’t need a CDN if what you’re serving up in this case is mostly all text.

Just need good stable code and server side caching.
No, I wasn't advocating anything or taking any side really - about people with criminal records or any other records that stigmatize them.

I was highlighting that there are existing norms, laws, balancing acts, for people who are stigmatized for past actions, because I feel like these discussions often seem like they are in a vacuum without context.

Rightly or wrongly, it's normal and always has been, that people get punished in many ways beyond the specific penalty that results from being convicted of a crime. If you don't pay your bills or you sue people, there are consequences even if you don't lose a court case. If you have a health problem that is considered to cause risk to others, you can lose rights without any criminal issues. Despite ideas about criminals being rehabilitated, or exonerated, you don't necessarily get back 100% of everything you lost after being arrested or imprisoned, guilty or innocent.

Historically, there is no single answer to whether any particular consequences are ok and just. It evolves over time depending on what people think is right and struggle politically over.

Extremism makes more sense if you have somehow blocked out of your mind or are just ignorant of every moderate opinion, and my goal was just to rub peoples' noses in the conventional attitudes, not because I believe they are correct or the best, but because I think you have to be aware of everyday reality as a reference point for any reasonable debate.

We always have had people pushed out of high paying jobs for "morally reprehensible behavior" and always will, so injustice lies in the details. I can't advocate or be against it in general. If internet mobs make injustice more common, it certainly seems reasonable to have debates and political concerns about it, the conditions that lead to it, etc. But I think it's palpably absurd to say "we have the judicial system for punishing people" in an exclusive sense. It's never been limited to that and never will be.
And such extension is a major PITA to do. The API is atrocious, like most of the DOM API is.
I am actually Celiac as well and follow a strict gluten free diet so I know where you’re coming from. Although the cause of IBS is unknown, it’s a functional condition which means it’s problem with how the gut works but doesn’t lead to any damage. Instead, it’s thought that visceral hypersensitivity could be at play, where the nerves in the gut are overreacting to the gas and expansion caused by the fermentation of FODMAPs. IBD (and Celiac disease) on the other hand leads to gut damage and we would definitely recommend against using Nerva for that - it will not work.
10-20 minute router misconfigurations and subsequent fixes are sometimes a fact of life. big network infrastructure is complicated, and sometimes the best laid route tables of mice and men do go abloop and die.

Outages happen no matter what the infrastructure is. There's no solution, they're just something you need to recognize and handle, which Cloudflare seemingly did relatively quickly here.
The upvotes/downvotes I get are weird to watch because there's so much apparent disagreement and very little dialogue. This is the case on anything I post that takes a more 'conservative' stance.

> the mainstream portions of the parties are debating about - abortion, transgender rights etc.

I sometimes call these the clickbait issues. They get the most public attention but affect people's daily lives the least. Of course, that statement is going to upset some people because they will not immediately consider the net effect of trans rights legislation in comparison to taxes / corporate lawmaking / warfare / international trade.

Worse, some people take statements like the above and think that I don't want all humans to have truly equal rights, which I do.

> they happily bailed out the Wall Street without punishing a single banker for the crash of 2008

Very true. I've seen many people (including on this forum, which is better educated than average) make statements to the effect of 'democrats are better for the economy' without considering the fact that both parties have been complicit in creating and maintaining the systems that have led to massive government debt and economic collapses.
During this outage, my ping to 1.1.1.1 was 70ms. 8.8.8.8 is about 3ms.

After the outage, 1.1.1.1 is also about 3ms.
You can’t possibly know. You have to just assume all VPN companies are logging your activity indefinitely regardless of what they say. Though I suppose you’d rather go with a VPN company that claims it doesn’t do any logging, over one that says it does.
Was it a problem with a provider you use?
Looks nice, but no ability to set default playback speed means I'll stick with (the rarely updated) Vanced. I never watch YT content at <1.25x speed unless it's to hear a music track.

It also looks like it doesn't have the option to login and sync, so I'd be seeing already watched stuff on between desktop and mobile. I understand why some people wouldn't want that, but I use the feature all the time and would like the option.

I might try it as a kind of backup app for things I want to track, but don't want suggestions for (mostly technical videos).
Flat-file DBs and mountable DB file systems are the future.
"Update - This afternoon we saw an outage across some parts of our network. It was not as a result of an attack. It appears a router on our global backbone announced bad routes and caused some portions of the network to not be available. We believe we have addressed the root cause and are monitoring systems for stability now.
Jul 17, 22:09 UTC" - https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/
Right, but the world could have refrained from partying on the beaches [1]

[1] - https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/news/2020/07/16/vacati...
If you aren't a software products or services company (engine of revenue), won't IT always be a cost center? If you are in IT at a bank, in retail, logistics, telecom, O&G, even trading, if what you produce isn't what you sell, then is IT not a cost center?

If you were the CEO at a retail giant, like Target, how would you account for IT's in/out budget and expectations?

I'm frankly amazed that Xerox PARC got away with being unaccountable rogues (with great unmonetized results!) for so long given that they didn't support the revenue side of the house one little bit. (Amazing place and time, though! And the director of the lab appears to have been a hell of a manager of unruly computer scientists!)
It was David Mitchell.
>Holy crap I am thinking either there is some magic or everything we are doing in the modern web are wrong.

Spin up an apache installation and see how many requests you can serve per second if you're just serving static files off of an SSD. It's a lot.

edit: I see that there are already a bunch of other comments to this effect. I think you're comment is really going to bring out the old timers, haha. From my perspective, the "modern web" is absolutely insane.
Cool. I had some annoying friends ask me if when I was referring to a depressed period, I was clinically depressed. (It sounded so dismissive to me, to ask if it was clinically or not.) Never really knew what it would mean (to be open about it, it affected me for years.. and I consider it over nowadays :).
Yup, exactly. It gives confidence in using the library
It depends on the denominator. There is no free lunch. If there is an estimate for death prevention, what is the estimated cost in lives?

Given that death is a certainty for all, how many lost person-days do the 50k deaths represent? Since the lock down means no normal activities such as routine doctor visits, how many person-days would be lost due to undetected illness or delayed treatment?

Staying locked in is a strategy for preventing excess deaths from overwhelming a health system. It isn't a long term strategy for eliminating all virus related death.
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Gluten isn’t a fodmap. Instead, fodmaps are present in almost all gluten containing foods. But sourdough bread has low fodmaps, but does have gluten.

So I think you’re conflating two issues. Celiac is an absolute intolerance of gluten, whereas fodmap ibs is based on being unable to digest large quantities. No one really knows why, and it’s not implausible some mechanism such as stress reduction or hypnotherapy would help.

Whereas for a celiac no such solution would work, there’s a real inability to digest. Perhaps in your case this extends to some fodmaps, but gluten isn’t a fodmap.

Also fodmap diets are generally elimination + reintroduction.
Not sure if you read the article you're linking. I'd say it's demonstrating the inverse if what you're saying, i.e. china is so not 'falsifying numbers' that it went back in time to tally cases that never made it into the hospitals for accuracy.

I don't know if many countries progressed to the stage of being able to look back to revise and reshare adjustments on previous statistics.

If just number jumps are your thing, you'd have more fun with the 100% jump in china cases when they revised the definition of confirmed cases as anyone with glassy spots in their lungs from CT scans but without viral tests yet.
Valve software may be another example. Though with their shadow hierarchy I'm not sure the why is as clear cut.
Haha, yes, I took a few tries to get the tone of the voice quite right. Maybe something for to explore in future releases of your app? A guided, self-created hypnotherapy session. Could take away the fear of and resistance to 'losing control' that many experience when the idea of being subjected to hypnosis comes up.
Disney's new AI is facial recognition for animation
I wouldn't trust any VPN under China's sphere of influence.
Modern web is a completely broken mess.

We were serving around that traffic off a single dual pentium 3 in 2002 quite happily off IIS/SQL Server/ASP. The amount of information presented has not grown either.

That little box had some top tier brand main corporate web sites on it too and was pumping out 30-40 requests a second peak. There was no CDN.
The problem is that expectations and accepted norms in software engineering are out of reality.

A few factors involved here:

1- The 'Full Stack' Developer

You'll often see companies looking for 'full stack' developers, and in their mind they are expecting someone who is a master of both the backend and frontend.

But, that is, in fact, exceedingly rare. Most people will gravitate towards a part of development that they are most comfortable in. That's not to say that a developer can't be good at both, but the number of people who are great at both is a small group indeed.

Node.js is a symptom of this problem IMO: Whatever you say about JS as a backend language, the drive to have web developers to not have to 'learn another language' to do backend work is fairly obvious.

So, rather than looking for a mix of team members that are good at either backend or frontend, they look for this godlike 'full stack' developer. What they often get instead is whomever is best at convincing them they can handle it all.

2 - RDD Driven development

Oftentimes, rather than picking the existing tools/paradigms that are right for the job, the tools marketed as the solution to the problem are instead chosen. And of course, the expectations for those marketed tools wind up being out of whack (i.e. the recent job posting looking for 12 years of Kubernetes experience.)

3 - It's easier/better to get a better job somewhere else than an internal promotion

Many orgs make it difficult to advance, or advancement doesn't have the same gains as taking a similar role elsewhere. As a result, people often leave, and because of corporate/cultural norms (screw offboarding, we need to finish the sprint commitments!) knowledge loss is a result.

4 - The Second order effects of the above

Basically, the points above feed into a vicious cycle: The developers better at bullshitting (that also realize the above) will produce RDD driven projects and hop to the next space. But because they have spent most of their time studying 'persuasion' rather than good development practices, they leave a huge mess, which only makes the hiring manager's expectations that much more unreasonable.
Man, if this is true, this guys have steel balls.
Nvidia Novel Vid2vid Framework Synthesizes Realistic World-Consistent Videos
Free as in beer, or free as in speech? YouTube is a closed platform (server-side), so I personally don't see much moral use of using a libre client.

And I understand wanting a gratis client. To what extent does the cost of YouTube Premium pay for the client versus the creators?

Out of curiosity, if there were a private (but neither libre nor gratis) YouTube Premium client, would you use it?
This is true but in a case where the bulk of the evidence is the victim's testimony, if the victim doesn't cooperate, the state will focus prosecution efforts on cases they have a better chance of winning
While that's likely true, I generally find that it's quite rare that enough attention is paid to how information is moved between disk, RAM, CPU and GPU. And paying close attention to that can be extremely helpful. Taking the RAM up to 11 can eliminate a lot of the art to it, which is a good thing.
Service worker caching and HTTP caching
Yeah I am aware of that. I think for me just a way of putting my money where my mouth is. I won’t put everything there of course
I’m going to try the ibs version, as I have that too. Have tried low fodmap before incidentally, it helped.
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

Too lazy to google, but has anyone done any research on how the recovered are doing, say in Wuhan 6 months after they got infected?
It's amazing to wonder whether any step, any inconvenience is worth saving even lives when the magnitude of that is in the thousands. Countries have literally been bombed over far fewer deaths.
WP Livestream – WordPress plugin to auto-embed live stream video
Back in 2000 a joke project of mine got slashdotted. Ran outta bandwidth before anything else.
I looked at that. What do you think of that vs the QCLN for example. Why global?
Germany's military missing over 60k rounds of ammunition
Neither the OP or the grandparent or my post had anything to do with long article's. The original premise is mediocre articles.
Why not upgrade to the latest version?
2020 Google Scholar Metrics Released
So, I haven't done front-end work since jQuery was the thing back in ~2007-2011, but I have a new web project coming up. I already know I need to learn all the fancy new JS syntax. I also don't have/use npm (https://medium.com/@mattholt/its-2019-and-i-still-make-websi...).

Should I learn Vue?

(Edit: Thanks for the reply -- to clarify, I'll be working on a web app.)
Except the services mentioned in the original post have a ttl of 1h. Unlikely they would all go down at the same time.
New York Public Library Book Train (2016)
I'm basically thinking "the same product as Sodastream, but way cheaper". Like Specsavers did for glasses.

Granted, there may be a little less demand for home fizzy water than there is for good eyesight ;)

It's not like I have a plan to disrupt them, I just hate paying $30NZD for what I know is probably only 30c of gas, if that. I know there are shipping costs, retailer gets a cut etc...

I'm just griping :D
Not sure where your 5.5M number came from, but that's only 64 requests per second.

90 to 99% of those are logged-out users, so fully cacheable.

Only a handful of dynamic requests each second remain.
If it's capable to produce code in React, why wouldn't it be capable to produce the exact same code in Vue?

Should just be a matter of handling another output format.
I'm going on a limb by saying that in a case of accounting fraud, witness/victims testimony is not really key.