skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Files should be used over environment variables. The file system at least as some form of RBAC through file permissions.
Don't forget Epstein! "US media and political elites are engaging in a child sex trafficking ring" was (still is?) a conspiracy theory for years, if not decades.
Gartner Hype Cycle (1995 to 2019 including data)
I don't think your mental model of the behavior of "social justice warriors" is accurate. Do you really think the people you demonize for expressing sympathy for people outside their own tribe are silent in these cases and the people you implicitly praise for keeping silent about injustices they do not suffer themselves are the heroes complaining on the internet about the treatment of the Uighurs?
Yes, we use it for transactional email and it's a breeze to integrate, just works, and has great support.
I watched the movie recently too and was shocked at how they were able to make such a boring film out of such incredible footage. It would have been better watched on mute while music played. He did seem like a nice guy though.
I personally think that the trend against desktop was partly driven by big-tech's ambitious plans to lay their hands on our data in a central way.
The resolution does not permit the invasion of Afghanistan, and was passed two months after the war had started. Invading a country with out UN approved casus belli is a valid reason for sanctions.
Very cool. Is this distributed or at least multi region?
We aren't hiring as aggressively there. It is all open source so I would recommend getting involved with the open source project enough to get some better understanding and then if it does seem like something you are excited to keep working on you can ask maintainers about applying.
The Ad industry has itself to blame. I tried FB Ad when they were new, and it was so terrible in every direction I stopped using the platform, entirely. If the advertisers would simply say "no", FB would be forced to improve.
Facebook Limited the Reach of an Unconfirmed Story About Joe Biden’s Son Hunter
If you violate rules, you will be banned. They were found to be violating rules, but were treated leniently compared to lower profile users who distribute illegal materials.

This is not new. You will be censored or banned on Hacker News for not following rules. You will not see the distribution of the NY Post's material on this site.

I applaud them for enforcing rules, but not for being lenient with these actors. Free Speech has limits especially in someone elses' house, you should all know this.

Furthermore Reform Section 230 is political crap going nowhere. Any invokation of that here is political nonsense.
How is your comment substantively different from someone saying
"I love freedom but..." and then proceeding to sing the virtues of how ignoring the 4th amendment will save us from terrorists?

We've already gone down a very similar road once we we don't like where it leads. Turns out ignoring the 4th amendment didn't help us stop terrorists and now 20yr later the government is still ignoring the 4th amendment to our detriment despite the whole terrorism thing having mostly run its course and reached a steady state. Why will it be different if we take a similar approach to a different right?
If social media is poising the country, why give social media (YouTube) more powers?

If it is the case then you have two options,
ban YouTube or add more government regulation.

Let them, with the poison, regulate themselves doesn’t make sense if you agree with that premise except if you think some poison is ok.
> Censorship and other forms of regulating free speech is simply never a good solution.

The almost free speech on the other side of the ocean seems to be working pretty well. You get to say anything that isn’t actively harmful to others, but you won’t be able to advertise bleach as a way to get Corona out of your system.
https://www.eff.org/pages/list-printers-which-do-or-do-not-d...

cough I'll just leave this here. Want some coffee, two sugars, right?

Point being, there are quite a few alternative use cases that commodity printers have going on under the covers that no one tends to talk about all that much. There's forensic watermarking for one but also supposedly certain features hard-coded in where if it detects it in an input, it intentionally leaves it out as an anti-counterfeiting measure. The article for that one was floating around on HN a while ago. I'll see if I can dredge it up.

Making copies is one of those things where there are several opportunities for power consolidation to be had if you look hard enough.

It's like the whole issue with 3d printing of guns. No one in an authoritative position necessarily wants everyone to have the capability to generate at will perfect duplication of information due to the consequences that spells for several entrenched, high relative value use cases.
What does Dex mode brings you? Mobile apps arranged like a desktop that's it. Where is Android studio ... on Android?
Without Engineering Mentor, your Scrum is messed up
Please actually just state the country.
Where did you derive that number from?
As a very staunch advocate for free speech, I understand where you are coming from, but I have some major issues with this kind of position.

For one, while the scale of information is at a new level than in the pre-internet era, I don't think the fundamental lessons from the Renaissance or the Enlightenment change because of that. This "I hate it but it's justified because of dire circumstances" position is not new, and has, as we learned from the above, been the primary tool of abuse by totalitarians and tyrants. Forgetting those lessons and falling for the same trap again is naive at best.

Second, any discussion on this topic inevitably brings out everyone shitting on the most obvious surface issues as brought to the mass conciousness by the mass media, but almost never do I see discussion about nation states, corporations, military, and other non-individual actors and their actions in this realm, which means to me either people are ignorant of this, or they are purposfully omitting them. Sockpuppetry and other fine tuned military psyop techniques are at play and if they get ignored what will happen if the pro-censorship people get their way is they will silence individual voices but end up doing almost nothing to stop the more sophisticated and much more dangerous things going on. I'll know I've shown up for a good conversation when it isn't me who is bringing up Ivy Lee and Edward Bernays, operation mockingbird, the church commitee, sockpuppetry, OCA (online covert action), media conglomerate ownership, etc.

Third, I think the claims that "this is a fight for democracy" are misguided, and likely to be abused in the search for justification of the censorship push. To me it's just another "we have to stop the terrorists!", a lie which I experienced the real consequences of in the form of war, one the country has never recovered from in the realm of freedoms and rights. Lies we now know were about control and not about protection.

I'm telling you now, so please listen, on this topic, this is a patriot act moment (decade). Please, please don't fall for it, and have the courage to allow people not just to speak their minds, but as RMS talks about, read what they wilt, as it's just as much about the freedom to read as the freedom to speak.

As for the particular topic dejour, if you want some credible reporting that slightly bucks the mainstream narrative, I suggest Whitney Webb[1][2] as a good journalist doing this work. I've been consistently impressed at not just her scoops and insights, but her willingness to say "I'm not going to speculate, lets stick to the facts." when being interviewed.

1. https://unlimitedhangout.com/author/whitney-webb/

2. https://twitter.com/_whitneywebb
> the money is in professional printing, ads, designers, etc.

And ink cartridges
I wonder if you can run sftp over Https.
It's mostly automated. They'll use tools to dump out data based on search metrics into an Airtable or Google spreadsheet, then templates for the mail stages and tools to send and track opens.
A distributed trust network is feasible given sufficient critical mass. I’m looking into the best way to bootstrap it.
My setup is quite simpler.
I have created different environments based on terragrunt, i.e. to separate prod and no-prod environments.
Then I have some "macro modules" with separated state files.

I try to avoid too much state files, so for a medium sized setup on AWS I got:

- Network Module
- IAM Security module (which is region-free)
- Application modules (for instance one for specific topic: my docker cluster, my S3 buckets and so on)

One macro module can load other one state outputs, so for instance network module define default vpc you will likely use in the other one.

Secrets are variables you must put in TF_VAR during manual apply, so no password is stored in terraform files.
Anyone got proof that this is technically possible at a hardware level on a phone?

I'd expect one good implementation as proof, not hand waving it should work.

I can think of one place it would be useful - museums/indoors at large monuments and people would pay extra money to use the device so it would be funded. But I've yet to see it.
the new media moves are building up for a possible civil war
What kind of an argument is that? Rhetorical question. We're talking about China here. Have all the people commenting here lived in China? Also a rhetorical question.
The Fallacy of Product Management
I have experience with contributing to both Terraform core, and a provider.

The core community maintenance is one of the most responsive and efficient that I've every worked with. Therefore, if they love to shout about day 0 support, I think they have the rights.

The provider project I've contributed to, or better, tried to, has been a complete trainwreck. Many devs discussing on an issue, maintainers ignoring the issue for a long time, then maintainer stepped in with a fundamentally incompetent comment, then disappearing again. This is odd, because the provider is maintained by Hashicorp employees.

There are polite and communicative ways of explaining why it's not possible to work on a fix/feature; that maintenance was far from this.

I suppose that they Hashicorp has a specific plan of maintaining the core very actively, at the cost of doing very poor maintenance on the/some providers. I wouldn't be suprised if they put their less important employees working on the providers.
As someone who may or may not monitor very elastic competitor pricing (allegedly) I would add that if you are not respectful with your scraping you will get IP banned. You might also get shut down by a provider (e.g. aws).

Services like Crawlera act as a proxy that also forces you to be nice. If anyone is getting into this, I would recommend they use a service like that to scrape at scale.
Somewhat silly question: To what extent does analysis of music/sound by looking at spectrogram images provide "enough" information for usage in deep learning systems (like ResNet) compared to something like MusicNet?
Migration? You mean what other services I can use? If I have a 4 gb file, few services allow me to transfer such a heavy file. And when they do, it’s possible my client has that service blocked from their corporate system. Plus very few services allow me to send my clients a link where they can upload to. Again, if they do, it is blocked.

Ftp is never blocked.
What are the advantages of MPS (Memory Pool System) to ORC to your understanding?
Steal and repeat: why art gets stolen time and again
Any time Facebook's UI is insulted, it's common to see the defence that it's a feature, not a bug, because clearly it works or a competitor would replace them. That time spent improving it is time wasted, because it doesn't make money. I see this as proof that a highly-scalable market doesn't optimise for good, it optimises for good-enough, and there's a lot of potential revenue lost between good and good-enough.
I guess the more interesting questions is whether it happens at compile time or run-time - ARC definitely injects derefs at compile time and therefore there are no gc-"pauses" at runtime.

(Right?)
It is a coronavirus though, it's not an entirely new type of virus that we have never seen before. It has limitations.
> Facebook is more worried about making [the platform] look good, like a Fisher Price toy, than how the [ad] platform actually performs.

They make it sound like a bad thing but pretty sure it's not true anyway. If Facebook saw that their ads performed the best with Comic Sans they would go with it and any design changes they make are surely done to increase ad revenue.
Charting the Impact of Covid-19 on Air Travel Using ADS-B Data
Well, I’m really sorry to hear Facebook advertisers aren’t having a good time.
if you want to collect cycles, you have to find them, and may cause pauses.
Selling on eBay Tools and Tips from Official eBay Sources – Getting Started
It’s also why interviewing is so tough.
The first phrase in Nim's home page answers that question... "Nim is a statically typed compiled systems programming language."

also:
"Support for various backends: it compiles to C, C++ or JavaScript so that Nim can be used for all backend and frontend needs."
What is this "indestructible" paper? (Or was it rather that a phone is anything but in comparison?)
You seem to have a copy-paste error.
As every business, becomes a software business - the underlying features of building a software will be outsourced to specialists.

I am just calling Unbundling of Building

Wrote some thoughts here:

https://twitter.com/ankitpansari_/status/1314915795433000960...
I agree. I've been tempted by the Remarkable tablet though.
Storing Passwords in .NET Core
Interestingly, they claim yes – the homepage says this:

> Nim is a statically typed compiled systems programming language.

> Nim's memory management is deterministic and customizable with destructors and move semantics, inspired by C++ and Rust. It is well-suited for embedded, hard-realtime systems.

However, this article says that ORC, a non-deterministic and non-hard-realtime GC system, is likely to become the new default GC in the future.

Perhaps they found that the "systems language for hard-realtime" wasn't as compelling a value proposition as they originally thought?

Or perhaps the tradeoffs of ORC and availability of manual memory management give them confidence that it won't materially harm hard-realtime systems use-cases in practice?
In an immediate sense you could have targets point to services handled by Connect, so you'd have client -> Boundary worker -> local Connect entrypoint -> end service.

We'll be looking more closely at other integration possibilities going forward!
Yep, older printers are the best bet. I have an old laser that simply just works (it's connected with a parallell cable, though). Consumables are readily available, and many, many older printers support ESC/P and works with any operating system newer than Amiga OS 2.0.
TBH i found for some use cases JS is much better than C for MCU. Simply due the nature of javascript and it's eventloop MCU could automatically sleep without writing any additional code. While on C you have to use some kind of scheduler that switches power mode of MCU by yourself.
This will surely come in handy. Thanks a lot!
Nope - good point!

I suppouse I want to see more UN involvement with the Organ Harvesting. It's insanely barbaric and shouldn't be happerning. But I think people like Alex Jones have given it more credit. I don't have enough data to make valid conclusion about it. But the Falun Gong practitioners I have met scared the crap out of me. It felt a lot like Scientology vibes. Does that mean we should harvest their organs? No, clearly. That's insane to like the nth-degree.

e: also, as the wiki states, Ethan Gutmann's investigations are pretty striking. Same as the China Tribunal in London. This has moved on a lot since I last read up on it. Christ.
Most micro-controllers are more powerful than the PCs I used with MS-DOS on, plenty of juice on those 80x86 with 640 KB memory for high level languages.

Naturally anything performance critical back then was written in pure Assembly, but plenty of stuff was achievable with Basic, Pascal, C, Lisp, Clipper, Prolog and plenty of other stuff.

First profit from productivity in a high level language, then optimize within its capabilities, and if that still isn't enough than dive into Assembly.
I've heard POWER engineers kvetch for the same reason about lm/lmw (Load Multiple Word, which is an equivalent instruction). I recall discussion about whether to deprecate it, but, as far as I'm aware, it's still a legal instruction as of 2020.
This needs a "Men Who Stare At Goats" style film, but with the cast of "Cats". It would be interesting.
Why is it a problem if they're the ones paying for it?
Sometimes when there's a discussion on alternative operating systems, people bring up Urbit.
Urbit advertises itself as an OS with simple foundation: Nock VM.
Here's the entire specification for Nock: https://github.com/urbit/urbit/blob/master/doc/spec/nock/5.t...

You may notice that there's barely any English in this specification, or even examples.
But that's not the main problem. The main problem for me is that this VM lacks support for arithmetic operations.
Well that's not quite true. It has all the necessary components to support arithmetic operations: it has comparison and increment.
Congratulations, now go build your own Peano from scratch.

The author claims that this is not a problem! The VM will optimize your increments in the loop to subtraction, and it will optimize those nested loops to multiplication and division.
But now you have an even worse problem! How the hell are you going to detect that a loop is a subtraction?! It's a halting problem hard task.
So instead what you end up having is a VM with an informal specification, and if you stray away too much from it, your program is going to run hundreds of loops just to subtract two values, which means the program may boil up the oceans until it finishes.

And if you're being so smarty-pants about increment and equality being sufficient for arithmetics, why not use Church numerals?
That's an even simpler foundation that the Nock VM!

https://tromp.github.io/cl/Binary_lambda_calculus.html
And in what paradigm do your programs consist of only pure functions? Certainly not on FP, where IO is explicitly added to a lot of code.

Anyway, there isn't much difference between mocking a unity and passing some static data into your functions and comparing the results with the expected ones.
On m68k my favorite instruction was MOVEM, which was similar except that we had to provide a register range.

MOVEM was the key to fast buffer->screen copies.
You might find that the ReMarkable (2) tablet provides a feel that is similar enough to paper that it works for you.

On the other hand, the second version costs $500, a luxury purchase for many people.
data: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1y_fzgknqRdPa0KfXiGq44blGqDN...
Using the FB Ads platform is a continuing fucking disgrace. I hate it. I cannot believe it’s their core money maker and still such a shit show to use.
> Anyone whose livelihood depends on their services

.. is part of the problem, IMO. That's how the bullshit gets propagated and amplified. Monetized videos, controversies generating comment wars etc.
"Facebook is more concerned about making the platform look good than how it actually performs"

This has been a universal problem that I've observed in most tech companies i've worked with. Hyper-focus on the optics and less on the content / results.

I dont know if its a by product of giving front end design equal / greater weight than back end design / analytics or something more systematic like the apple design influence. Maybe both. Eitherway seems like websites are getting easier to look at, more clever, and less useful all across the board.
Poll about Working with Slack
Are there people who use slack to communicate in your companies?
The traffic quality is amazing. Your results may vary. We all put up with FB's BS because their traffic is gold. Yes the lead gen feature isnt great but if you can't profit from FB traffic you are doing something wrong.
> a competitor would replace them

Sadly, competition is difficult to flourish in the current environment because of Facebook's market share and tactics.

It's not as bad in the US compared to other countries especially developing countries where Facebook is pretty much the only online channel. Sometimes, people only have access to Facebook and not the rest of the internet.
Might still not be as effective as having multiple pages of notes in front of you at once.

Though I did order one.
Nim has always seemed like an incredible do-it-all language to me.

What sorts of most programs are most frequently built with it these days?
Password Validators Suck – How to Validate Based on Entropy
Show HN: Conducto: Next-Gen CI/CD in Python, Not YAML
Yea the cultural revolution where the Red Guard roved the country murdering millions of innocent people was 52 years ago so you are technically right. Get this: they even engaged in cannibalism as an ideological purity test!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guangxi_Massacre
Particularly, claiming Russian collusion the last time did not turn out to be true, but the Media jumped on this narrative. Let's not do it again.
Show HN: Grid.js – Advanced Table Plugin
https://www.usb.org/sites/default/files/usbprint11a021811.pd...
I hear people say free speech is "a threat to our democracy" often these days. I've never understood, can you clarify what you mean?

Is it an actual threat to your right to vote? Or is it just a threat to people voting the way you like? In which case isn't the answer just to put out equally salacious information in the opposite direction? That seems like the democratic option to me.
Jolly West is an interesting fellow - and by interesting I mean, depraved. The chapters about him in CHAOS by Tom O'Neil are fascinatingly grim
There is a setting within iOS settings > Accessibility > Keyboards > Key Repeat

I’ve never actually used an external keyboard on iOS so I can’t vouch for how well it works, but judging from the settings pane it should do what you want
Yes it is real but he/we were profiting handsomely off the restricted account's spend so we weren't complaining. Not that there is anyone to complain to.
These are not that old. I was on Usenet in '79. By the 90s is was out of fashion already.
Quoting:

> "Some people just don't get the responsibility side of being libertarians"
I don't know about other PACs, but the one that my firm organizes is funded entirely from employee donations; no corporate money at all.

It has stated policy goals that are basically about creating an environment that's good for the firm's business and then gives a 50:50 split between the two major parties for federal campaigns.

I just can't get too excited about this being a bad thing.
The printers are cheap (if you also need a scanner price is going up a little). The ink isn't cheap though, its artificially high, and all the major printer manufacturers actively hamper your ability to go for a non-branded ink version. Cause that is where their profit margins lie.
The media bandwidth of video is higher though?
my #1 feature request to @apple and @microsoft and @linux -- start making SPEED a priority again. I hate all this slow software.
Thanks, i'll look into it.

I currently have a Samsung laser toner (M2026W). I bought it because its farily compact and blends in to my little home office corner in the living room. The duplex machines tend to be a bit larger, a pitty.

Printing - when it works - is pretty good, just the WiFi is extremly unreliable and i end up having to re-configure the WiFi from scratch by connecting via USB and using some proprietary Samsung bloatware. Horrible.
I qualify this with customer service on Google's free products.

I have no problem getting good customer support from Google's paid products (YouTube Premium, YouTube TV, Google One, etc).