skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FWIW, I had to get Covid tested and cleared before both my colonoscopy and my surgery. My hospital has been very serious and strict about covid, and I felt safe to proceed as a result.

Like others, I encourage you to bring it up with your doc and ask about getting tested.
No, thanks. Github was dead to me after they held "diversity" conferences telling people that "tech is not for white folks to lead" and the MS acquisition just sealed the deal. This just reaffirms it again, I will never drive any business or money towards Github.
Please help me understand.

I'm like, 49% moron.

Despite my moronicity all of my photos are on my hard drive, all of my emails are on my own hard drive, and all of my contacts and documents are on my own hard drive.

Not only are they all on my own hard drive, they are on my hard drive AND on a NAS-- oh AND the NAS copies all of my important stuff and throws it into the cloud (which I pay for).

So if Google (I don't use any Google products other than YouTube and search) deleted my account I would lose a grand total of 0 bytes of data.

If I'm 49% moron and I realized over a decade ago that relying on Google to store your valuable data (I think it was the "for free" part that made me suspicious) was a bad idea how is it happening to all of these people who I presume are <49% moron?
IDnet is really good.
They're like a small ISP that sells mostly to business that dabbles in the consumer space.

Used them for ages and only had one issue, and when I reported it, the person talking to me was an networking expert.
"Quibi made their “episodes” 11 minutes to avoid paying union writers. Everyone should MC Hammer dance on their grave."

"By playing credits between each act, instead of commercials, Quibi claimed a 10 episode season was actually 40 “low budget under 12 minute episodes”, allowing them to skirt SAG (actors union) and WGA (writers union) minimums. They were a scab-based business model."

https://twitter.com/LukeXCunningham/status/13189766621391462...
I see this kind of answer frequently. In many places and situations, people are not so fortunate as to have a choice between healthy and non-healthy workplaces.

"If they reject you for that, you don't want to work there in the first place". Except if the alternatives are no job at all, or a minimum wage workplace with significantly worse conditions. That kind of answer assumes a certain privileged position.
> the Epstein drive might as well be magic

For me, good sci-fi does just that, ie limit the magic to one thing or technology, and use that to explore something interesting.

Same with Altered Carbon. What would happen to society if we could swap bodies but keep our minds? That one piece of technology ("the stack") is magic, but from it follows lots of interesting exploration of the possible impacts on society etc.

What I hate is when they try to explain the magic. Don't do that. It never works. Just assume it's there, someone discovered it, invented it whatever.
I am the founder of a very similar project that supports both AWS Secrets Manager and Google Secrets Manager which actually predates this and GoDaddy's solutions[1].

The proliferation of these type of projects clearly shows the need for secret handling. While I think that more solutions for the same problem is not a bad thing, I also believe that we could benefit from a coordinated effort.

My colleagues are actively working with GoDaddy's maintainers to find a common way forward by standardizing the "ExternalSecret" CRD and eventually merging the projects[2].

[1]https://github.com/ContainerSolutions/externalsecret-operato...

[2]https://github.com/godaddy/kubernetes-external-secrets/issue...
It would certainly help if you explained why you feel the need to snark about something you can't really know about. That way the comment might serve as a vehicle for interesting conversation, instead of whatever this is.
> support for a decent Linux distribution

Last time I checked (admittedly a few months ago) the Librem 5 was the most promising Linux phone but had trouble reliably making calls!

Is there a fluid and reliable (hardware and software) Linux phone?

At work we're deploying some stock Android Samsung Xcover4s and despite having good enough hardware on paper they feel really sluggish when using them (before any apps installed, fully updated, most bloatware removed with ADB).

So if a 250€ Samsung with stock Android doesn't manage to be pleasant to use, I have doubts that a Linux phone will succeed but I would be happy to be wrong.

I'm trying to degoogle my e-life, I'm planning to install GrapheneOS on my Pixel 4 XL but if there's a Linux phone that matches the user experience I may consider switching to that instead.
Thanks! I've been writing these #3Sentence reviews of everything I read and posting to Goodreads for over a year now. It's just fun to go back and skim this little library for a quick taste of where my brain's been traveling.
Please, take a also a look at: https://github.com/ContainerSolutions/externalsecret-operato...
For me this is the opposite, I use Linux on my laptop and FreeBSD on a hobby server. I find it easier to configure although I have much more experience with Linux. Things I don't link on Linux are systemd, pulseaudio, hundreds of packets managers that make it not always straight forward how to patch a package.

What I like with FreeBSD is the slower pace of evolution, so there is less breaking change per unit of time, that makes me spend less time fixing things while being up to date, and when it break there is always a good documentation available. Things I like in FreebSD: pf, zfs, bhyve, rc.d, good separation between user configuration changes and system configuration.
They should donate for the things that matters, like the last attempt to get software patents in Europe:

https://ffii.org/donate-now-to-save-europe-from-software-pat...
I agree with you.

But technically Steve Jobs did work for HP once... he had a summer job at HP at age 12, which he landed after calling Bill Hewlett asking for some spare parts to build a frequency counter.
I think that with WSL2 this is already the case. I have worked extensively with WSL, it is good enough. No need for a Linux VM.
The same restriction applies on Firefox. Sideloaded extensions disappear after every restart. Only Developer Edition allows sideloaded extensions to persist.
But aren't these results saying that "AI" outperforms humans in recognition (converting to text) - even if humans can use comprehension to improve their recognition?

Humans can cope with errors in transcription/recognition by using their comprehension
Cannot speak to how they are now, but I was with IDNET for quite a while back in 2008 or so and they were very good https://www.idnet.net
The overall point Taleb makes is a good one, but he out kicks his coverage here:

> The (Protestant) Puritans who inhabited New England and the Salafis of Saudi Arabia and the Persian Gulf have nearly identical theologies, based on shared communitarianism (refusal of a centralized authority), iconoclasm (absence of representation, of saints, and of any elaborate aesthetics), absence of an organized “church”, and very stern practice of the religion.

None of these things are theology. They can be informed heavily or indirectly by it, but theology is primarily about how we understand God, not the second order effects.
And so do so many container based applications that expect a secrets to be present in a file.

Kubernetes provides an easy-to-use abstraction for the same, which ECS does not.
The physiological effects of slow breathing in the healthy human
> XYZ’s protocol is not just based on JSON, but it’s based on a particular technique known as polymorphic JSON. In this, a single field could have a different data type in different circumstances. For example, the resources field can be an array when requesting a single access token, or it can be an object when requesting multiple named access tokens. The difference in type indicates a difference in processing from the server. Within the resources array, each element can be either an object, representing a rich resource request description, or a string, representing a resource handle (scope).

This is horrible.
I love freedom and it is basically the first thing I think of when coming up with a list of "things I care about the most".

With that said, I'm trying to think about what would reddit/youtube/<insert any public viewable platform> look like in my utopian world of free speech.

Where would I draw the line for which can and can't be posted? Should media related to pornography, terrorism, or pedophilia be allowed or forbidden? How about gore, violence, or any other form of crime / morally wrong concept?

I've personally seen (without intending to) the video of the New Zealand Christchurch shooting. On seeing that video I have never been more disgusted in my entire life. I felt like I wanted to puke, hell I want to puke as I type this. Should that be allowed or forbidden?

In my view everything should be allowed, that is, there should be no form of censorship whatsoever. It is up to the individual, based on the value system that he/she has accumulated throughout his/her life, to decide whether what he/she is seeing/reading is acceptable or deplorable. But no one should be able to decide that for another individual.
I'm not familiar with the mechanics of web crawlers, so hopefully somebody can shed some light.

Would there be value in a search engines for specific topics? For example, movie reviews and blogs. Assuming you had a way to determine if a page is a review or blog, would it make indexing easier to ignore the rest? Could a tailored search engine be tweaked to give better results?

I kind of think it would be useful, because some websites I use have really great search tools (e.g. ones with tags). But those are only for the website itself, so there's no crawling.
Is your state atterney general part of the antitrust suit? Can you contact them and join in somehow?
This reminds me of a section of Slavoj Zizek's book Violence. Here he refers to Nikolai Lossky who was sent into exile by communists, the general idea can easily be attributable to Marie Antoinette as well:

>While Lossky was without doubt a sincere and benevolent person, really caring for the poor and trying to civilise Russian life, such an attitude betrays a breathtaking insensitivity to the systemic violence that had to go on in order for such a comfortable life to be possible. We're talking here of the violence inherent in a system: not only direct physical violence, but also the more subtle forms of coercion that sustain relations of domination and exploitation...
Robin Hood brought commission free options trading. Bitcoin has options trading, but not free and mostly not accessible to retail traders within existing brokerages holding most of their equities.
Thanks for the suggestions. I do plan on watching these videos about how the robot does what it does, but only after I put a little more time between me and my surgery!
P&V end up with a very readable and accessible translation for English speakers. For someone like myself who can read Russian newspapers, but struggles to finish older literature, it's not ideal, because I can look at the original text and see the lost poetry.

If you're interested in Pevear and Volokhonsky's translation methodology, check this out: http://columbiajournal.org/translation-lecture-richard-pevea...

> Pevear explained that they first began translating when they happened to both be reading Crime and Punishment at the same time – Pevear in English, Volokhonsky in Russian – and they compared sentences and saw how radically different they were. Since then, they have developed a system: Volokhonsky makes the first draft, trying to translate as literally as possible [...], explaining any clichés or colloquialisms. Then Pevear looks at the “scribble” (as Volokhonsky calls it), and he “puts it into English” (Pevear said, sighing). Pevear asks Volokhonsky questions, and, in the creating of the third draft, she answers them. Finally, before sending anything off to their editor, Pevear reads the English version out loud while Volokhonsky follows along in the original Russian text.
Openreach are an appalling organisation to deal with.

I have a journalist preparing a story on my situation, similarly Kafkaesque.
How many nations became democracies specifically because of the French Revolution?

I would argue that in many cases, the French Revolution might have had the opposite effect. Everyone was so scared of another reign of terror and the devastating revolutionary and Napoleonic wars that it directly led to the conservatism of Metternich and supported the conservative crackdowns in 1848. Monarchism in much of Europe - except France - was abolished after WWI, not after the French Revolution.

In the places where democracy was later established - say, Latin America - I think the US were much more of an influence than France.
Thanks for reading all the way :)
There is nothing to extinghuish, except for the notion of Linux on the desktop, that was never a thing anyway, except for a few technerds.

Microsoft has indeed embraced Linux, in the context of Azure, they are making a ton of money thanks to Linux.

And if people develop for Linux-based platforms, why not give them the tools?
It is only "controversial" for those whose religious tribe power is threatened, and their sycophants who echo their distress in the hopeful desire to become one of the powerful someday.
Indeed is not supplanted, it is just another solution. Speaking of which, I would like to put our solution on your radar as well: https://github.com/ContainerSolutions/externalsecret-operato...
Hugely reccomend The Phone CoOp[1]. I pay ~£33 a month for 80/20. It's properly unlimited, and I pay an extra £0.60 a month for a static IP.

Been really stable for me for a long time, and I have been using them for years for mobile + broadband. They are a really straight forward what you see is what you get organisation.

+ When you ring them up they just answer the phone which can be a bit of a surprise.

- The router they sent me was junk but I just use it as a modem and have some ubiquiti stuff sat behind it.

- Not sure what their opening hours and stuff are like for support, I think it's not far off 9-5

[1]https://www.thephone.coop/personal/home-broadband/
Today I edited a Docker Compose YAML configuration file. The network configuration has "ports" sections, such as

ports:
- "8080:80"

Which (assuming some other network configurations) means that whatever answers to port 80 in the container can be reached at port 8080 of the host running Docker.

Simple syntax and straightforward semantics, but port numbers are integers: why strings? Because, as the Docker manual warns, YAML is clever.

> When mapping ports in the HOST:CONTAINER format, you may experience erroneous results when using a container port lower than 60, because YAML parses numbers in the format xx:yy as a base-60 value. For this reason, we recommend always explicitly specifying your port mappings as strings.
Mostly a class thing but also a reflection of the fact that the exams are crammable without understanding. MCQs work that way unless you make the question back very large. A computer adaptive test could bypass this but it doesn’t feel like it assesses your knowledge the way even a test composed of short answer questions does. It’s not like anyone in the US who’s passed the bar exam holds it in particularly high esteem and for practical purposes doing that presupposes you have a JD.
I found it an interesting insight in to what 'A day in the life of.. ' is like for Criminal-Data Analyst. The way it put a human face on things made for an interesting read. True, it is just a blurb for the author's book but it made the very good point of -

"Was the video altered?" "Kinda"

aspect of trials and expert evidence in terms of establishing a Guilty or Not Guilty verdict versus being Guilty or Innocent. Sometimes it is the 'who had the better lawyer' that establishes the trial outcome.

Would different questions have affected the outcome of the trial? I don’t think so. But shouldn’t a person who’s presumed innocent have access to someone like me, so those questions could be asked?
The Profitability of Sustainability in Agriculture
What are you talking about? Put CentOS or Ubuntu LTS on your box and forget about it for the next ten years. The only updates you'll get are security and bug fixes, nothing fundamental will change. The next LTS release you'll install in 2030 will have substantial differences, but FreeBSD changes quite a bit too in such a large time span.
An open letter to the employees, investors, and partners who believed in Quibi
> How can you put a standard price on privacy?

Interesting question, with a lot of scope for answers. Different people have different feelings about privacy. The Nobel prize for economics this year was awarded for auction theory.

Google's ad revenue model implements a form of Vickrey-Grove auction.

https://www.adviso.ca/blog/tech/google-adwords-what-kind-of-...

One possibility for "pricing privacy" is for google to compensate users for their metadata using a price that is derived from the commercial gain yielded from harvesting the metadata. Google already has a vast IT infrastructure for managing every individual's metadata history. The price dividend could simply be an output of that IT infrastructure, paid to users in some form.
On Our Abusive Relationship with Mozilla’s Firefox
It’s already happening with forced ssl, and then the constant pushing for AMP.

Google used to share what brought people to your site to give you hints of what was engaging people.

So I end up getting all my analytics from bing and baidu.

Not to mention the ddosing from monsters and you effectively have no choice but cloud flare.
The people that have it are Microsoft consultants, incl. Microsofts internal consulting crews. They like these certs, and take as many as possible and nowadays LinkedIn shows tons of Microsoft employees (outside internal engineering) who brag about the xth number of some random cert.

But Amazon is no different.
Ask HN: Do you write unit/integration tests for both versions of A/B tests?
We're using integration tests to cover 90% of the user flows. Adding integration tests for all a/b test flows and their permutations seems to be an overkill, but we're facing situations in which there are broken things only when the user is in b version of the test X and b version of the test Y. I'm wondering how other smaller companies deal with this?
Decent living for all does not have to cost the Earth
Is it clear that it’s illegal? Is the group clearly defined on a list somewhere or are those sending money supposed to use their judgment? If you’ve been defrauded is that also illegal, making you a criminal as well as a victim? Or is only ransom prohibited? If my local car dealership commits some environmental crime by pouring motor oil down the drain, does this make it illegal for me to pay them to service my car there? What about if your neighbor’s kid is in a gang, but you want to set him straight and give him opportunity, so you pay him to mow the lawn: is that illegal too? What if the whole gang mows your lawn? And if the mafia is shaking down your business for extortion payments, does it make you more or less likely to talk to the cops if that makes you a criminal too?

There are answers to these, but it’s inherently a fuzzy area.
Back in 2013 or so, there was a small GUI I had made, and wanted to host the executable somewhere. (A utility for making character sheets in an out-of-print tabletop RPG, only ever used by the group I ran.) It was about two weeks between uploading it to sourceforge and there being an unexpected mirror on softpedia. I never did check whether it was virus-ridden or not.

When something that was written by a single person, and maybe had half a dozen users at the very most, gets an illegitimate mirror, how can anything larger stand a hope?
Richard Stallman https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman
For a brief stint I worked at an insurance company that had a training program for COBOL. They would hire individuals that had zero programming experience but showed an aptitude for critical / logical thinking. Over a period of 8-10 weeks they would introduce basic programming concepts, move the students into Assembly, then to COBOL.

Their reasoning was it would be easier to train new individuals and work them up, using senior staff as trainers and escalation points than to try and find existing COBOL programmers. They started the pay off quite well and were able to pull in some highly talented people. They approached it almost like an apprenticeship, only with programming as the trade.
I sold them a bit short there:

https://www.thephone.coop/help-resources/contact-us/

Tech Support is 24/7, anything else is 08:30-5pm Mon-Fri.
Cantonese and other East Asian tonal languages are, more specifically, contour tonal languages; the distinctions between the different tones are based on the change in the tone through the syllable (rising vs. falling, etc.), rather than absolute pitch. This may be easy enough for tone-deaf people to deal with. However, there are other tonal languages, e.g. in Africa, which make use of absolute pitch distinctions.
no, but i heard tachyons are great for dealing in futures...
My Hyper-V endeavor is basically a failed one, because on the latest version of Windows, running VMs still causes random bluescreens on my Ryzen-based workstation. I wish I could say it was good software, but it's very much lacking for me.
Are you saying China/Russia got their hands on Military tech by hacking?
For every such workplace there are probably 100 companies that only support a Windows-based computer.

I think you overestimate the prevalence of such environments.
Notably absent, the generic details about the company.

I'm removing Google from my life as we speak, but whenever you prod further about these you find out they did violate TOS and are just unhappy.
It pays to be skeptical of what you read, within reason [1].

[1] https://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-tribune-di...
I agree with this. When you give a company gross profit (price higher than what it took them to get you the product) you are literally paying for them to spend some of that on getting their next customer.

Anyone who is paying a ransom is literally paying a ransomer to do that to someone else. Not in a metaphorical sense. You are literally transferring the ransomer money which the ransomer will literally use to finance the next ransom. They will pay out of pocket for the person doing the next ransom to go and do it. It should be totally illegal to finance this.
Penrose is a superlatively brilliant physicist, but his opinion on AI is the worst sort of woo. It’s little better than reading Chopra. His argument is most salient as an example of attempting to use authority in one field to garner authority in another.
Journalism is also the only main thing that holds lawmakers to account. Lawmakers are what set the rules by which google et al operate.
I think there is a kind of blind spot, if not contradiction, in the essay. It could be a good kind of paradox like the immovable object vs irresistible force thing.. it’s the paradox of lisp, of bel, of Julia, of mit style hacking.. they MIGHT aspire to be good jokes but as far as I can see they are at best, some kind of inside joke.. it’s a special kind of lame.. maybe we shouldn’t ask whether jokes can be ambitious but whether ambitions can be truly hysterically funny
Google is held accountable by money, which I find as good competition to "term limits, forced transparency, and an election system." These "concessions" do not necessarily align the politicians with the people.
As a data point: I met a service technician for colonoscopy equipment (in good spirits) and he said he wouldn't recommend one.

From my past experience, I'd recommend MRI over anything else (especially CT scans), though it's apparently not as useful in diagnosing bowel stuff as colonoscopies.