skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was expecting it to be a way of taking a URL and converting it to a base64 type of format that is stored on the "url" itself and decoded by a simple web page. I have wanted to try to do this for a while, but never saw down to look for an appropriate encoding that somehow also compresses.

I helped someone design a regular URL shortener in PHP before, they're not complicated to implement with a simple MySQL (or even SQLite) database and any language you're familiar with. I have not taken a stab at writing a client-side shortener yet on the other hand.

Edit: clarifying
If you're worried about too many users in the area using Starlink, then you're in an area you don't need to worry about needing Starlink.
I didnt think I could have much more goodwill toward the EFF, yet here we are.

Donations link: https://supporters.eff.org/donate/30for30--D
Also, make sure the person you're talking to is interested in the explanation. People with lots of specialized knowledge tend to also have the habit of reflexively explaining things that nobody asked about.
> Linux has a higher server market share already, and its virus problem there is still not as bad as Windows'.

Server use cases are vastly different than Desktop use cases. I have administered a lot of Windows servers in my time and not a one of them has ever had a virus. Workstations on the other hand...
Same in Chromium.
This entire HN discussion is insane. Every comment that is even slightly skeptical of mass-injecting the global population with a substance that we do not fully understand is being down-voted.
> Phew! Finally it's safe for Basques to visit Iceland again!

¡Ahí Va La Hostia Pues, Inaki!

Europe has so many of these small disputes and treaties that make absolutely no sense what so ever if solely looked at through a modern lens and with no context. As a person born in the US to a European parent it was so odd to see these little details when visiting, even within Spain itself.

Specifically, and relevant to this topic, the Basque Country which has a long history of secession from the Spanish Kingdom. Catalunya is another as is Valencia, due to the horrible violence of the Spanish Civil War, but I had known of that already.

The notion of Autonomous communities is almost antithetical to a nation state/uniter kingdom model, and yet you have it and it exists within the EU. And then when it tries to to exercise those rights it gets people thrown in jail as seen with the successful 2017 Catalan separation vote, that saw its proponents get thrown in jail, beaten and chased by secret police from Madrid and saw its leader Carles Puigdemont fled to Brussels where he still has standing as a member of Parliament somehow. He recently spoke out about the CCP's brash and belligerent violence in Hong Kong, and sought to enact legislation to curtail it.

And then in the South you have Gibraltar, a part of the UK, which is some how autonomous but still physically in the Iberian peninsula.

I wonder if there will be a time when the whole UK vs Iceland thing over Icesave will come up in some obscure way, as the UK put Iceland as a rouge nation on the terrorist watch-list for their refusal to bailout them out in the 2008 financial crises [0].

0: https://www.icelandreview.com/news/iceland%E2%80%99s-preside...
I just showed you statistics showing a massive increase in the share of GDP being redistributed by government for social welfare outlays, and your response was to completely dismiss the relevancy of that fact and persist in your extremist commitment to your narrative.
The thing is that even if you stick with one framework it changes. ReactJS/Redux is different from what it was 4 years ago.
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Wow, this is the craziest thing I've read in a while.

I've seen people on the right accuse the left of shutting down debate by calling things 'offensive', but I didn't think it'd reached such an extreme as to just lump half the political spectrum into "not willing to admit in public".

I'm curious what you imagine the "pretty well established meaning" is. When I read it, I assumed they meant things like - prefer more individual freedom and less central control, see the risks of government corruption and abuse of power as equally concerning to the problems that government is supposed to be solving, etc. The things that then manifest as policies which are pro-freedom of speech, pro-small business, pro-free association, pro-private property rights etc.
Effects of Wildfires Can Reach the Stratosphere and Linger for Months
Yeah, makes sense!
Say what you will about Github and Microsoft, this was a classy move. A million dollars is a million dollars. "Putting your money where your mouth is".

"Nonetheless, developers who want to push back against unwarranted takedowns may face the risk of taking on personal liability and legal defense costs. To help them, GitHub will establish and donate $1M to a developer defense fund to help protect open source developers on GitHub from unwarranted DMCA Section 1201 takedown claims. We will immediately begin working with other members of the community to set up this fund and take other measures to collectively protect developers and safeguard developer collaboration."

Thanks Microsoft/Github.
You are a death count truther still?
This is an entry from the "Starts With A Bang" blog. I think the author(s) (is it mostly just Siegel?) post regularly about physics/science topics, including newsworthy stuff, but clearly also sometimes just post about general cool ideas.
That's not the issue with HIV. The issue with HIV is that it's a retrovirus. It uses both reverse transcription and inscription enzymes to change your DNA.

A vaccine works to stimulate your immune system's "memory" that's evolved for treating infections. (That can be anti-bodies, but it's more complex .. also involves memory T-cells, the complement system, etc.)

When the same virus comes it, it will infect cells, but your body is much more prepared to handle it. The trouble with HIV is that it's the initial infection that can slowly inactivate an immune system over 2~5 years (not everyone though. Some people have HIV and never develop AIDS; known as Long Term Non-Progressives).

A vaccine wouldn't help at all with HIV. Keep in mind, the HIV rapid test checks for the presence of antibodies.
Why would you need a database for that?
To clarify, this was not a Facebook data breach. The hackers tricked people into entering their usernames and passwords with a fake login form on a different website:

> the first group were tricked into handing over their account log-ins by a fake app promising to reveal who had recently visited their profile.

The claim of 13 million records also seems misleading. The article says they have 150-200K logins. The number of "records" seems to be a measure of rows multiplied by the number of data points (columns).

> Among the 5.5GB haul discovered by vpnMentor on September 21, was 150,000-200,000 Facebook usernames and passwords, and personal info including emails, names and phone numbers for hundreds of thousands who had fallen victim to a Bitcoin scam.
> We could have started the game on an harder difficulty by default, but we did not want to force a non veteran player to check 'mega-beginner-dumbed mode' on startup.

You could make two buttons to start the game, the difficult one first. And call them maybe "Hard" and "Easy", with explanation that Hard is for people who regularly play games of this type, and Easy is for casual players; to make it obvious that a non-casual player is supposed to go with the Hard option even if they play the game for the first time.

And maybe instead of dumbing down some parts of the game, you could remove or replace them. Like, if the end boss is supposed to be a horrible monster, then instead of turning him into a funny punching bag in the Easy mode, you could just replace him with some regular enemy (or a group of them).

I think it should also be obvious when you see someone playing the game, which mode they use. Don't write "Easy mode" on the screen literally, but maybe use an alternative texture for something; or perhaps there is something that makes the mode obvious, for example in Easy mode you get more life. Then everyone who played the game will see which version was used by the reviewer, if there is a video or screenshot.

> it's impossible for a gamedevelopper to estimate difficulty on your own game when you work on it for over 2 years.

Heh, I know that. I knew an open-source game which at one moment had a tutorial so difficult outsiders couldn't make it. It's because when you played the game hundred times, you already know the optimal moves (at least, what is an optimal move in the tutorial), so it is hard to imagine someone who doesn't. And another problem is that if you find a tester, a few months later, the tester has the same problem. So perhaps every new version should be tested by someone who never saw the game before.
The interesting part is that instead of adding a lot (if any really) "matrix multiply add" cores they seem to just dumped a truckload of FP16 cores they claim to have nearly 200 tflops of FP16 in just normal half precision that's kinda bonkers...

But the issue is always software, ROCm is currently a joke.
Never assume good faith on the internet should be the first lesson everyone learns.
I setup YOURLS* for a client several years back, worked quite well. Was always a little concerned about privacy/potential for abuse (being self-hosted) but we never had those issues due to the limited use & exposure.

*https://yourls.org
The slowness is something I particularly notice with python. I'm a linux user, but many of my students work on windows. Every time they show me something on linux and import numpy or scipy it takes like 10s for the import. While on my linux system it's typically instantaneous. Can anyone elaborate on where this is coming from?
Truly surprising and welcome response from GitHub. I did not expect them to go this far for developers at all. As a FOSS developer myself, I wish more companies would treat DMCA requests like this.
The other reason this is stupid is, the person reading your resume is usually either some administrative person doing basic filtering or a knowledgeable technical person. Neither of them are going to be swayed by you claiming you increased user engagement or cut costs by X%. The administrative person is going to ignore it as it's beyond the scope of what they're doing, and the technical guy will laugh at it.

I can't imagine a situation where this would realistically make you look good. Maybe if you're applying to a small/micro company who has no technical staff at present time, and the owner is non-technical and looking at your resume themselves? Basically a company that lacks anyone qualified to evaluate you, and they're looking for their first developer to build something that will help their business. Then you might be able to sell yourself by claiming you improved business metrics.
That would be useful for geometric scales, which I don't believe a logarithmic scale is
where is dang? this seems like a personal attack on a disabled person.
He already beat Viper: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Tkf-BMMq-8

T90 is doing great. Also improved massively his commentator skills. Give him a try! :)
There should be a corollary of Godwin's Law to compare other diseases with the Spanish Flu.

The pain and suffering it caused is hard to imagine and should not be downplayed.

Covid, as bad as it is, is almost three orders of magnitude off in deadliness (thus far, per capita).
I think the real question is, will the distribution of this and the Pfizer vaccine cause the lockdowns to stop? Everyone seems to assume that they will, but we haven't heard any statements from our bureaucratic elite to suggest that vaccines will obviate the need for lockdowns.
> At the time, Algeria was under the rule of the Ottoman Empire

Seems the original Vikings were afraid of being Viking'd themselves and put into Law?
Perfectly said. Said another way - avoid qualifying
lol, so was I. a slide rule enthusiast myself I own several linear and circular slide rules. that said, I have come across an 8foot x 18inches linear slide rule used for teaching but a 45 meter drum shaped slide rule would be awesome.
And the rich and the politically connected, of course.
1. The original write-up can be found here: https://www.vpnmentor.com/blog/report-facebook-scam/

2. Facebook was not breached in the sense that is normally meant by that term.

3. You may assume that the "bitcoin scam" is untraceable and the scammers will get away because it used cryptocurrency. Not the case. They were spamming links to "bitcoin trading" platforms which accept deposits using credit cards and which are a modern reincarnation of "forex trading" scam platforms. The industry is mostly based out of Israel and uses the normal banking system and even accepts credit cards, as I mentioned. The only reason the criminals won't get caught is that no government will prioritize this.
I don't know if I have coronavirus, but my symptomps are similar to yours, without the night sweats and chills.

I feel good for the most part, but in May I developed a difficulty breathing, and It's still there.

Nothing major, but many days I need to artificially force yawning to feel good. It's like I cannot forget breathing as something automatic. Some days I'm ok, tough.
According to the Guardian, AstraZeneca is looking at charging £3 per dose for their vaccine, assuming it gets approval.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/16/moderna-covid-...
I wouldn't even try on a touchbar unit.
This wasn't a Facebook data breach. The attackers used a phishing attack to trick users into entering their Facebook login and password into a different site.
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That educated people believed that the Earth was flat is largely a myth. Not only people knew the Earth was round since antiquity, but they also had a good idea about its diameter.

Heliocentrism was a bit more debated but for good reasons. Early heliocentric models were actually worse than contemporary geocentric models to calculate the motion of planets.

All that to say that "everyone else is wrong" doesn't happen often in practice, at least not among educated people. And when that happens, either the evidence is solid and it is generally well accepted or it is not, and there is no reason for others to accept it. The burden or proof is for the one who makes the claim.

To go back to heliocentrism, the reason it is the prevailing theory right now is because the model has been refined and now, it matches observation better than older models based en epicycles. It is not because of some philosophical reason about our place in the universe.
I assume you mean a "Proxy as a Service" when you say "VPN," right?

Without that focus, web sites would have a lot of trouble identifying IP traffic routed over a personal VPN from any other traffic. I suppose they could just block entire clouds, for those who run VPN servers on AWS, Azure, et al. But that would cause a lot of other problems.

I just route all of my devices through a single node I run at one physical location that appears like a genuine client node. I've never seen anything blocking it.
Huh so "scalability" on that roadmap did not mean chiplets on GPUs?
Show HN: Draw battle – A competitive team drawing game good for work socials
Interesting curated list, it’s hard to know where to promote new projects :)

I added my website https://mysideproject.rocks, and I’m trying to add Show HN (which surprisingly is not already in the list), but it does not seem to work
I wonder how much MS funds the RIAA as a member of it.
We have too many URL shorteners already. These things accelerate link rot.
Hmm having a GitHub action redeploy the site is not instantaneous and it does take up to 1 minute for the site (and consequently the new short link) to be updated. Nevertheless, that is a sweet idea, and there are other replies that suggested using a static site generator to generate one html file per short link, with each html file containing a "redirect" tag in <head>. This idea can definitely be combined with a GitHub action. Personally I feel that is overkill, because if I were doing something so elaborate, I would have opted for a simpler and more scalable option like Google Cloud Firestore or Firebase URLs
Interesting.

So, Snort 3.0 uses Intel’s Hyperscan library, as per the article.

Intel acquired this when they bought Sensory Networks, Inc. Guess what SN did before they moved to software? They made and sold hardware that essentially implemented Hyperscan in FPGAs (and SRAM, on PCI boards), for IDS & virus scanning at speed. They even had a patch to add support to Snort for it. SN eventually moved to a pure software model during the 2008 downturn (which smashed a bunch of their customers plans) and ultimately sold to Intel.

End of the day it is a real bitch to do right, and it was very hard at 10Gbps, and the problems are essentially identical now (only with more stuff over https).

I have no idea if they'd use them, but Intel also acquired a heap of patents on doing exactly this using the techniques that Hyperscan implements, and while they're probably happy with you doing it in software, they're probably more diligent in fighting off hardware adversaries.
I don't know, but the article literally states :

> while China does have data privacy laws, there are broad exceptions when authorities investigate criminal acts, which can include undermining communist values, “picking quarrels” online, or even using a virtual private network to browse the Internet privately.
Take that, RIAA!
We have to disagree about the "necessity" of oppressing those who are not within your circle. Consider George Wallace, after whom streets are named in Alabama. As a young man he ran on a policy of good roads and schools, and when that didn't get him anywhere he changed strategy and had a long, successful career on a program of institutional racism. When you look at Alabama, giving the outgroup the helot treatment is either a way of life or a luxury good.
The forks still seem to be borked, hopefully they will get resolved.

My fork[0] is still showing DMCA notice and shows that it's a fork of some repo I'm sure I never forked, I forked the original ytdl-org.

[0]https://github.com/ozburo/youtube-dl
Why would you imagine it this way? All the work that's been done on longevity has been relatively cheap clinically. I really think you're underestimating how widely accessible age-reversing medicines and technologies could become. Perhaps you are American, and this is the problem. In many places programs of universal health care would be very happy to cover treatment that would make you young and healthy again. I can't imagine a better ROI for reducing health care costs (ie: eliminating the burdens of aging of populations on "the system"). In other words, those without means will also be perfectly fine, because outside of the US, it benefits society to keep them healthy.
So many mysteries in life are self-imposed.
Gnome Work Moving Ahead on Deep Color Support, Triple Buffering
I appreciate the story, but I don’t see how this is relevant to Moderna’s vaccine effectiveness. Get well soon.
great questions.

(1) arrow is great! currently, it does not, but yes it will when we move out of nodejs impl into our own v8 isolates inside an alien thread (seastar concept)

(2) stateful but only for a single partition

(3) will be released in the next week or so. If you look in the github repo you can look into `coproc`
Do you have a pulse oximeter?

They’re relatively inexpensive and it’s worth picking one up to track O2 levels to know when you should go to the hospital.

Breathing difficulties start in week two and can get really bad in week three - from what I’ve read week 3 is when you starting getting better, or when you start getting worse.
Indeed and especially with many shorteners not being maintained and going down. That being said, this one is not meant to be an actual URL shortener, but rather, a cool hack and it is not meant to be used widely or used in production.
That was a very neat video, and I learned some stuff too! Thanks for posting that.
The guide to making remote work work
I share learning and experiences from running simplabs as a full remote company for many years:

* remote work is about culture, not getting everyone on Slack
* transparency among the team is critical if you don't want to alienate team members (burn down your sticky-notes walls!)
* managers must have trust and give up on micro-management – just because they cannot see the work happening doesn't mean it is not happening
* remote work is great but there's no replacement for regularly meeting coworkers in-person (once that's possible again responsibly)
While I agree with you, I'm pretty sure that a lot of people are grateful about food delivery given current events. At the very least, it kept some people employed and businesses in operation.
You are correct. I tested several of the normal ‘whole-system’ VPNs on Big Sur last week when this misleading headline came out and Apple traffic was correctly routed over the VPN in each case. (Both the built-in macOS VPN client and third-party tuns such as Viscosity, etc.)
I am assuming they are also responsible for the clinical trials, but I'm not sure about that. It would make sense, though, because navigating the approval processes of the different agencies requires very specialized experience and domain knowledge.
I agree with you. They double-checked the issue with their legal team.

I use the dl'er to download talks. I am featured in a couple of talks and want to secure these offline.
Good job GitHub.
Another place not on this list is YouTube. You can set up a channel pretty easily and make a short video about your project. The advantage with this is that it is really easy to include screen captures of using it (if it's a graphical app).
Considering the GGP of this comment is on the verge of dead and it includes two citations, with one being https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/ which is a world class medical institution, I think the answer is obvious.
The link provided was https:// so it would be a serious security issue if it downgraded to http.

It is the website that is broken (or at least does not support that link).
Obesity is a triple whammy when it comes to COVID-19. Besides the vaccine impacts, it also directly increases the risk of a bad outcome and it contributes to other chronic diseases that are also risk factors.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.metabol.2020.154373
I use grep and ssh on windows regularly, didn't find any problems yet, have sed too.
The Year of Disguises
I was, but I noticed the source is "archaeology.org" 10 seconds later.
This makes me wonder, what would happen if Google started blocking yt-dl?
Maybe the link should be changed to https://noyb.eu/en/noyb-files-complaints-against-apples-trac...

Thats the official press release of Schrems organization.
not sure how you got here tho, maybe i miss explained something. This is talking about filesystem api not about kafka api. the kernel does something similar, standard filesystem things just purpose built for our use case.
Why do you need to know the difference? Just avoid them both.
For German GEMA (which is working a bit different from RIAA, so can't be fully conapred) there are some numbers on Wikipedia, till 2012: https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gesellschaft_f%C3%BCr_musika...

They made 820 million € in revenue, 128M€ are their "costs", 692M€ of that 15% are their fees, remainingnis split between labels and artists and artists got 316.5M€, thus a quite low fraction ... and in German law the creator is theoretically stronger positioned than in US copyright.

(Now this isn't 100% fair as analysis, as some of the payments to labels go to artits, as well and labels also do some marketing etc benefiting the artist ... and then there is this weird distribution mechanism where a successful artist gets over proportionally more ... but in the end: "small" artists only get a very tiny part of the cake)
Apple is coming for everybody.