skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also appreciate your good humor and sentiment.

I deleted my comment because while I appreciate the context staying, I felt it was retained in children replies and I also feel that it’s my right as a human being to remove my own stupidity from the Internet as long as I’ve left a clear trail documenting it for others to learn from, so that’s why I deleted it :)

I also added it back because I’m easily swayed by civility online. It’s in short supply.
China's Giant Three Gorges Dam Faces Major Test
I know it wasn't the main point but using false race stereotypes need to get called out regardless.
An Artful Dodge
Also, trim music gave an error for me too.
Do you have a place to drop bug reports?
It's impossible to underestimate the degree to which curation is becoming the differentiator in the digital economy. Those who can be trusted to provide valuable content from the fire hose of all that's available on the internet will become the new information brokers.
This is one of my all time favorite technical books. I wrote a review of sorts a few years back[0]. It doesn’t cover any deep learning topics, which perhaps dates it at this point, but it gives solid fundamentals on a breadth of techniques common in industry. This is always in my recommendation list for folks making the transition from more systems or product engineering to ML.

[0] https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/introduction-statistical-lear...
Depending on the circumstances and state, unarmed robbery could earn you less jail time than Levandowski.

Armed robber on the other hand may carry a minimum 5 year sentence.

This seems just fine to me. The amount of money between the $5k liquor store and Levandowski's theft is almost irrelevant: the armed robbery comes with significant risk of violent loss of life, which rightfully weighs much heavier in the criminal justice system than some other crimes.

Now if you want to talk about ridiculous sentencing minimums for non-violent crimes like possession of small amounts of illegal drugs, I'm all ears.
Which I have to believe is a joke based on the end of "The Aviator"... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_Pbx9mvWPY
Schlage.
> But stealing food from a grocery store isn't perfectly analogous to stealing IP.

IP violations are usually more like trespass than theft, but trespass is a crime you can go to jail for, too.
Push to Open Schools Is Guaranteed to Fail
"You could do it if you really tried" is not the same as "no excuse for you not to able to do that".

It's a sad state of affairs if the exchange needs to be "please share your situation with me so I can know if it's appropriate to offer words of encouragement" before offering words of encouragement.
Probably not in the spirit of a pinball preservationalist but could this be used on an RPi to drive the mechanicals of the real thing?

Or is the electronics so much more reliable/available relative to the moving parts that it makes little difference?
> Some things are worse

Such as?
It was in response to the parent post. Below is a direct quote.

"A courtesy not afforded to the largely not-rich, not-white general prison population. "
شقق للبيع في اسطنبول
ابحث عن شقق في إسطنبول بالتقسيط وبدون تقسيط في الجانب الأوروبي أو الاسيوي بأفضل الأسعار. ابحث بالخريطة او الصور شقق تمليك مفروشة ومجهزة للبيع ...
Another thing that can cause sunstars are your own eyelashes. If you look at a bright light at night while drooping your eyelids, you will see vertical bands that match the shape/direction of your eyelashes.
Which doesn't matter, because Chinese National Intelligence law only applies to subsidiaries that are in-country, not buildings in Beijing and not parent companies in the Caymans. Bytedance has a CCP committee for Toutiao, their in-China subsidiary.

It's same reason why Apple only shares personal user information with the Chinese government about it's Chinese customers, and not Apple's global customers.
Functional Programming with Bananas, Lenses, Envelopes and Barbed Wire
They didn't blow up. Blow up means lose all the money. Afaik, USO weren't trying to roll their whole book that day (the exchange put out a notice a month or so before telling people to roll...as the article says). The Chinese banks were literally attempting to roll the whole fund and investors lost 100% (afaik, they lost more than 100%...the sum I have seen is a loss of 200%+).
> no banner, no logo, no favicon...Also, no share button. No top/recommended articles. No view counter.

All of which I can live without.

Still the best way of sharing content on the web is via a url, which is handily provided, so most of these aren't even needed. As for recommended and view counts, these don't inherently add a lot of value to users. If anything, it's a nice change to have a page that doesn't try and infer my desires for once.
I'd argue that it isn't truly a second factor if it can be used on it own...
An honest and naive question from someone outside industry: where is the line between stealing trade secrets and taking your experience and expertise developed at another company to a new company. Where does a lesson learned during project X become taking the know-how of the company which it developed during project X?

Because obviously the next company pays you so much because they see in your CV that you gained experience at the other company. This also works outside tech and I'm genuinely confused how this works for people bouncing across FAANG, say. How do they not take best practices across companies? What is your personal expertise and what is company IP? Does it depend on the wording of the contract? Is it ambiguous and murky and up to the court and everyone just hopes they won't get in trouble?
Next, you'll hear Levandowski 2024. Got to always be moving up
That’s probably the underpinning of his correct argument that we have zero clue and no leg to stand on to claim that modernity has more mental illness than any other, much less every other, period in history
I found Christopher Alexander's The Timeless Way of Building through a recommended list on HN, and it ended up changing how I think about software architecture and life in general. I can't recommend it enough.
Theft of trade secrets became illegal with the Economic Espionage Act of 1996.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_Espionage_Act_of_1996

18 U.S. Code § 1832. Theft of trade secrets
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1832
No, but there were no fewer than 3 hosted live-streams (one which had 3 different HD live cameras you could switch to) with countdowns and technical commentary. All by non-traditional media. Remarkable what is possible nowadays.

Here they are:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwC6LG_z8zE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJR4gZBLMNw

And the last one is constantly streaming 3 live feeds of the SpaceX Boca Chica facilities 24/7:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QbM7Vsz3kg

EDIT: And by remarkable, I don't just mean technical capability but the really impressive non-traditional media community that has grown up around New Space the last 5-10 years. Here's amazing, close-up 4K video of the hop by yet another non-traditional space media person:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXzPu6MM99Q
I made/use https://hackerer.news (click heading to switch story lists)

It's not at all quiet--no audio but has dense text.
> Not all locks will stop a determined attacker

I feel comfortable in saying that no consumer locks can stop a determined attacker.
You might be interested in setting up your own smart speaker hardware powered by Almond server https://github.com/stanford-oval/almond-server

Nore info https://almond.stanford.edu/
I'm not sure if you mean this comment to be a joke, or....

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure_function
Building the Ultimate Digital Note-Taking System – Idea Storage and Idea Factory
what was the white ball during the explosion? it looks like some liquid spraying up in the shape of a ball, was it sea water? other liquid? or was it just looking to me like a liquid but actually was gas of something?
it wasn’t ambiguous at all. he downloaded related files directly to a personal hard drive when he left.
Someone had to do it.
Support Manager for GitLab here.

I appreciate this feedback, and you're right. We don't want folks to get themselves in a position where they lose access.

Our current language when you enable MFA is here: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/blob/adc7dbeb387adc69...

> Should you ever lose your phone or access to your one time password secret, each of these recovery codes can be used one time each to regain access to your account. Please save them in a safe place, or you will lose access to your account.

We're directly emailing our most at risk users and are still processing resets in the mean time. Additionally, many users will see a CTA banner reminding them to regenerate their recovery codes if they haven't recently.

If there's anything else we can do - I'm happy to hear it! I've had to rely on recovery services in the past because of pure bad luck and a move to a new country, so we didn't take this decision lightly.
Telemetry isn't a euphemism for spyware.
Generate random fake data and populate your application for easier development
As long as you have the money to pay for the legal fees.
While SPAs are somewhat inefficient, I'm convinced that the unnecessary bloat is mostly related to

A) advertising and/or tracking

B) improperly compressed or sized assets

C) unnecessary embedded widgets like tweets or videos

D) insane things like embedding files into CSS using a data URI and therefore blocking rendering

E) nobody using prefetching properly

These are very loose figures for my computer and internet connection, but a small server-side rendered site is in the 10s of KB, and loads within 2 or 3 seconds. A small client-side rendered site is in the 100s of KB, maybe a little more or a little less, and takes 4 or 5 seconds. The sites that I really hate are in the 5 MB+ range and don't load for anywhere up to 10 or even 20 seconds, which goes above and beyond the bloat caused by client-side rendering.
I remember seeing my first HD hockey game in a bar around 2000. Wow! I could actually see the puck.
I'm asking in general, beyond this case.
God what kind of knowledge / training do I need to get that level of bonus?
Naval ships are generally spaced at about "I can see the nearest ship to me in my binoculars"-distances.

To give a sense of scale, the USS Washington firing on the IJN Kirishima in the Second Battle of Guadalcanal is reckoned as one of the shortest-range engagements in WWII... at about 5km.

That said, the remaining ships in the area were the surviving Japanese destroyers, and destroyers closing in closer to ships would not be unusual. Furthermore, the Yamato was in the process of abandoning ship at this point, and the destroyers may have been closing in to help fight fires or rescue survivors. I doubt they'd be closer than about a km from the ship at the time of the explosion, and none of the Japanese ships (so far as I'm aware) reported any effect from the explosion. Some planes (up to 7) were lost in the fireball, though.
This video [1] from The Guardian include the same video in that tweet, but also has a few other angles which gives a better appreciation of how big that thing was.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93tV6-0Ugwk
Can you recommend resources for reading more about the long term plans of Starship?
Musical.ly hit a wall. Only after it was purchased by Bytedance, rebranded as TikTok, and Bytedance poured their magical, cultural-agnostic AI sauce (and ad dollars) did TikTok truly take off. By all indications, this AI magic was wholly created in China and retrofitted onto TikTok.

Music.ly blew up in 2015 and was in the top app charts for a year before Bytedance bought them. They were at 133 million registered users and 40 million MAU in 2016. What was the wall they hit?

https://digital.hbs.edu/platform-digit/wp-content/uploads/si...
Insurers are putting the lives of sick and disabled at risk during COVID-19
> I'll just use a list for everything: the users will eat the slowdown

"Premature optimization is the root of all evil." You often should use a list until you've identified a specific performance issue. The list isn't the problem. Not actually optimizing is.
Because this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lump_of_labour_fallacy
Isn't there proof? I mean there are plenty of alternative programming paradigms -- some that have been around since the 60's and still promoted as alternatives today. Where is that success to compare?

Show me that an alternative to OOP is statically more successful and I'll switch tomorrow.

It seems like you really want it out to be merely popularity rather than being simply successful. That's not a rational position.
It's the wrong order of magnitude. Reforestation can undo the climate impact of deforestation, but that's pretty small.
One of the truly differentiating factors for good software engineers is being able to recognize when your habits are in harmony with the objectives of the project you're working on. And on the meta-level, developing the sense for how to keep them in harmony with the trajectory of a project which will likely prioritize different things at different points over its lifespan.

Propensity to change is one of the most common features I've found in software projects I've worked on in my career and most software engineering "best practices", as conceived by the authors of opinions about these things, are usually strategies for managing rapid change. i.e. structuring code so it's amenable to change, understandable to the maintainer who inherits your code, has guardrails around important invariants and guarantees via assertions and tests, etc.

The details of how (and to what degree) these things should be done are highly contextually sensitive, and that is where the dogma of "best practices" can start to interfere with creating a good user experience. But I find it a little eye-rolling when people talk about hygienic software development practices and user experience as though they are in opposition. Tests, legible code, flexible structure, etc. are enablers of good user experience, because they're what allow us to change products to fit the needs of our users. They're what allow us to ship things that people can use without them exploding.

The tendency toward asset bloat on the web and just the general use of cheap-in-development-costly-for-the-user solutions (scripting languages, inefficient data structures, verbose serialization formats, piles of dependencies) is definitely an industry problem, but I think its naive to attribute these decisions to lazy devs or devs trying to make their jobs more convenient. In my experience there's two common causes for this state of things:

1. In all seriousness, the nature of capitalism. In reality, most businesses don't actually care about the majority of prospective users. They care about a couple narrow segments of users, and if those users happen to be equipped with hardware to handle this kind of inefficiency (i.e. if they're first world clients on desktop or high end mobile devices with 4G access), the business largely doesn't care. Responsiveness, low resources consumption, low energy impact, etc. are fungible engineering goals if they don't negatively affect your sales objectives.

2. The org hasn't figured out how to incentivize responsiveness, low resource utilization, etc. as objectives. Software developers get requests to focus their efforts on all different manner of criteria, and the without designing incentivization schemes and feedback loops that orient toward these objectives, there is no particular reason why they'll be inclined towards them.
You need serendipity.
China Uighurs: A model's video gives a rare glimpse inside internment
PDF Builder for Google Forms
How to Think Like an Epidemiologist
The test today is a prototype for the upper stage.
This is really impressive, and a great example of the modern web put to productive use. I especially liked how you could start messing around with the demo without having a registration prompt (you only need that when exporting, which I think is perfectly reasonable).

I wish you the best of luck with your venture!
Google Cloud Is Releasing Covid-19 Public Forecasts on BigQuery
PassFF gives me a UI affordance (password dialogs on web sites in my Firefox get an icon, and context UI menus to auto-fill from pass)

and I automatically synchronise the git repo to an Android phone that likewise has affordances.

They're nicer in some alternatives like 1password but they aren't absent in the pass ecosystem and of course I can customise these as I prefer (indeed one of my patches is landed in PassFF so I no longer run a fork)
Your last paragraph is so true. I feel that's an issue we are facing a lot in every domain. I see people writing highly inefficient back-ends Because they believe anyways we are going to scale it horizontally, so it doesn't matter. The similar applies to frontends too I guess, people don't care to optimize apps either. They're like anyways the minimum configuration on which our apps run are getting better day by day, so why not build a resource hogger!

I personally believe we should start having "bootcamps" which talk about optimizations, and the cost of stupid designs. I'm also looking forward to compile time and run-time optimizations so that we don't even have to rely on the developers for it.
If you're taking a class with proofs, you're being prepared for research. Doing your own research into, and reverse engineering, proofs is an important skill.

Proofs in math journals are given 'as-is' and you learn the intuition through social means and discussions.
This is the Google version of winning the lottery. Right place, right skills, right time.
What would you consider the “irony of all ironies”?
We, the human civilization, have shown amazing capacity for understanding the world around us, and when necessary building some amazing technologies to observe and study those things we can't observe directly. We have built tools to view and gain understanding of the world at the atomic level. We have built tools to view and gain understanding of the farthest reaches of the universe.

Would it not be the irony of all ironies if human civilization collapsed because we failed to truly understand human nature?
Even on vacations people do connect atleast once a day. Even if to just check on possible family emergencies.
I had to eat cake, like it or not. Nobody gave me the option to show up without school supplies. That would be an "F" grade.

The schools are funded. Some of our best funded schools, the ones in DC for example, are particularly terrible. It's crazy enough to make one wonder if funding makes things worse!

Typical problem: The school buys Chromebooks or iPads for everybody. There is no consequence for property destruction. Kids make a sport of tossing them down stairwells. The school provides replacements at no cost to the student. Maybe the student is "supposed to" reimburse the school, just like the student is "supposed to" not purposely destroy property, but nobody has the will or ability to enforce anything.
The last paragraph of this is heartbreaking.
After hours of testing on many newsletters, I managed to use combination of regex and email parsing to remove them. If I subscribe new sources, I might need to test again, but so far it works on all the newsletters I have subscribed.
I stopped using Instacart years ago. My reasons were:

1) Shoppers would ring your phone for less than a second, ghost you and then show up with random replacements you never approved.

2) They would fail to deliver on time, then unilaterally reschedule a delivery for another time when I was not even going to be home.

3) Amazon Fresh and Prime Now are far superior services. Amazon Fresh has gotten slightly worse in the last couple of years, but it is still far better than Instacart.

Has the service improved lately? Should I use Instacart in 2020?
This is neat. I have been meaning to give PHP another look just to see how they've gotten along over the last half decade.
If you have any reasonably sized app you very quickly run up to 100s of KBs. Hell, just including moment.js to deal with timezones gets you there.
What is a “GPL condom” and Linux kernel's latest Nvidia updates controversy
if you haven’t stolen actual files or documents with you, then it’d be a very tough case
The small hopper in the video is an early general purpose prototype from heavy duty steel, what flew today is a prototype of the second stage (Starship).

But assembly enclosure for the first stage (Super Heavy) is being built already.
If you use a plugin like WP2Static to render actual static pages, you get far better performance. If you have a well-designed theme that, e.g., doesn't have render-blocking JS, you should have seemingly instant load times.
Ask HN: Is GitHub Down Again?
Their status page says everything is ok but i keep having issues with the main website, predominantly from github.githubassets.com failing to load. Now help.github.com is timing out too. Othet pages like DDG and Google look instantly.
This. You see this behavior in gamblers who make it big and then lose it big, or in revenge trading. Make a lot of money then lose a lot of money. If you are even luckier you might even be net positive at the end.

People who know when to quit will usually not have made that much money in the first place because it's a different personality type almost.
How many people do you have on your team?
Isn't this a Federal case?
There is likely very little fuel though for such a small hop.
If you scrolled down a little you'd see an H2-sized "What can you create with Adobe Spark?" and three quick overviews.
It's unfortunate that so many people in the software profession have a negative attitude towards these concepts. Despite its unfortunately alien name, monad is a great abstraction for patterns that come up often in this field.

> So what is the IO monad, the most famous of them all?

IO is the State monad where the state is the entire universe.
Congrats Ish on the launch.

Considering you are building on top of zoom et all, you can try making your bandwidth costs close zero by leveraging the data feed of Zoom or Google Meet itself by being a browser extension

We did they same and are able to enhance learning experience on top of zoom/meet quite a bit by tinkering with the video,audio feed being fed to them without putting a hole in the pocket(due to bandwidth costs), in turn gains being translated to the customers and being able to add enhancements super quickly.

Congratulations once again and Good luck, from India
No, you cannot compare becoming the world's best self-driving engineer to winning the lottery. This is like becoming Lebron James, it's tremendous talent combined with tremendous commitment.
I’m a software developer who has been enthusiastic about technology pretty much my entire life, but lately I’ve started doubting that our current technological advances are even a net positive for humanity. Reading about things like this (and also about online ads, robocalls, tracking, spyware, ransomware, extortionware, massive environment-ravaging crypto-mining ops, state surveillance, “predictive policing”, fake news, state-coordinated FUD campaigns, etc.) makes me want to give it all up and live out what remains of my life in subsistence on a primitive farm.
I don't know. Free service that isn't even paid for with ads or privacy-invasion, like legitimately free. If something happens on your end, you can pay them for service. What's wrong?

Which is worse publicity:

A) if you use this security feature, and something goes wrong on your side, you will lose your account forever

B) if you use this security feature, and something goes wrong on your side, helping you get your account back will require a lot of work and due-diligence which we can't afford to do for free

It's not SO different from:

A) if your device fails outside the warranty, it cannot be repaired

vs B) if your device fails outside the warranty, it will be expensive to repair
Microsoft hopes to leapfrog Google Stadia by taking xCloud to Android
And that's much of the problem.