skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can't just scrape websites and ignore robots.txt, you will get into infinite loops. That doesn't mean people don't do it anyway, but "first pass" scraping it is more efficient to respect robots.txt, and then you can come in with a human to figure out if anything behind robots.txt is surreptitiously possible to scrape. On the other hand, Google etc. do not care enough, they just respect robots.txt because they don't need to index your site if you don't want them to, it hurts you more than it hurts them.

DNT has no mutual benefit, the benefit is only to the end-user asking not to be tracked. The benefit is also not immediate, it's somewhere down the road. Ignoring robots.txt can immediately cause problems for both the client and server.
Wow. I left the CG industry 3 years ago in a sad bout of defeat, involving both an ability to make a decent living and a realization that it would never my standards of creative engagement that were set by my lifetime love of photography and film. But, this project is very cool.
For myself and others in my social circle (mid 30's Americans), we'll often comment on something in each others' Instagram Stories and have a casual chat. Usually these are quick conversations, and longer ones are on some other pure messaging platform.
> Is there really any country in the EU which is not in it for the money and security of its citizens alone?

Those are two quite separate concerns. Much of mainland Europe, France and Germany especially, want to build the institutions and integration that will prevent another war, even if it costs them economically. Simple geography means that's always been less of a concern for the UK.
Paris enjoys Brexit bonus with estimated 4,735 extra finance jobs
This is one area where I’ll take government investment over capital investment every time. I can’t imagine how bad it would be having water production controlled by a bunch of capitalists. What happens when private equity buys out the tech and rights so they can put it into value extraction mode?
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Why full-time? It's possible to outsource IT administration to a local IT company and pay only for set-up and maintenance that is needed. Way less than 72k a year for many use cases.

Also, companies that employ bunch of developers can find a developer that has IT administration expertise and allocate some of his time to this. Still cheaper than 72k a year or employing someone full-time, if IT requirements don't call for full time job.

It's not just cloud vs full-time.
Why is there no incentive to create artificial scarcity in the "water-delivery-and-treatment" market?
Climbing Steep hills, or adopting Ruby 3 types with RBS in a real-world gem
Honestly I think this is probably like 90% of the reason Linux won the naming war to describe open-source Unix-like systems.

You can tell people your startup's web-servers are running on Linux, a new open-source OS written by a guy named Linus, and the conversation stops there, or you can tell them they're running on the guh-nu, or maybe it's just "nu", OS, and depending on which pronunciation you have chosen either start with a bit of the "Who's on first" routine where you try to explain "no, the name of the OS is new" or dive right into explaining that the answer to the question "Well, if guh-new is not Unix, what is it?" is Unix, and in either case your investors have already decided to pass on your company because you made them feel stupid and not in the way that made them think you were smart.
CROs handle that data. Also adverse effects are strictly handled by third parties.

This is likely an attempt at IP theft. Probably a second rate state actor.
> On our hosting platform we use AWS linux, which is based of Centos. The latest version of Ruby on AWS linux is 7 years old. Our app probably wouldn't even run on it.

Are you using Amazon Linux extras? That’s what I use for current Python releases and it seems to have more recent Ruby versions:

https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/ec2-i...
How do you take pricing into your design considerations? Does it come with experience from using an AWS service in production and understanding how it's priced, combined with the usage numbers the new system might get? I'm trying to learn more about how engineers currently do this.
Open sourcing it would be bad, because that would extend its lifetime for general users, along with all the vulns. The only place for Flash is nostalgia inside a VM.
Adequately marked up <a href="..." epub:type="noteref"> footnotes (actually called endnotes) are rendered nicely in epub readers like the Kindle: clicking on one opens it in a scrollable modal. I've seen some desktop ereader software render them as page footnotes.

And since they are basic links, they work in a PDF and of course on a web page without any extra work on your part. Jumping isn't that great (and endnotes should always have a jumpback link) but it's not a bad baseline impl.

I think following the endnote + noteref epub spec is the way to go.

How they actually get rendered, like putting them inline, is then a trivial concern for the reader software.

I personally like the modal overlay approach that some readers do. It handles endnotes of unlimited length and lets them be arbitrarily complicated since the modal is basically just an inset page. For example, a downside of inline footnotes is what should be done when they are too long to fit on the remainder of the page? Do you scroll next-page until you finish reading it, then prev-page back to where you started? etc. Either way, seems ideal to leave that concern to the reader software.
In the example, only the second footnote should even be a footnote - the other two should be endnotes. Citations should be endnotes, while asides, parentheticals, and other bits that someone might actually care to read should go in footnotes.
There are options sure but on my friends case I can see people aren't so eager to leave the most popular applications/networks, the privacy argument is often shunned with classic "I don't have anything to hide" line and often one is "I won't be installing another app on my x/y/z".

But Telegram still seems to be most popular second choice after Messenger and/or WhatsApp - I've seen recently two people joining it out of sudden (perhaps messenger gained traction because of Belarus situation); personally that's my default instant messenger nowadays, while Signal is the backup one. I'd like to move everyone to element/matrix but that's rather impossible to achieve...
ObjectiveSQL 1.4.2 has been released
Yes that’s correct, governments and sovereign states cover specific regions. I’m fairly confident all that information was contained already in the word government.
It's not that there are no excess deaths in the US, the question is nevertheless if the scale is really so outrageous. And as I said, you have to look at the next year as well. It is not simply "Covid is fiction" vs "Covid will kill us all", it is the question of "how dramatic is it really". The narrative that every death in the world can be prevented is simply nonsense.

The change of policies in Sweden seems to be entirely political, not driven by the health authorities who stand by their decisions (I have a German article about it, but perhaps you can find something in English). The curve of deaths the second wave is much smaller than the first wave, nothing that really warrants such a change of course. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/sweden/

As for excess deaths, you really have to look at it over the years, not just at single years. Comparisons with "neighboring" or "similar" countries don't automatically make sense, given that deaths are often driven by local hotspot events (like infections spreading in nursing homes).
I was thinking along those lines in the first half of my twenties. Now in the second half I feel lucky that I found a topic that I am going deep on and I am using that to go wide in some other connected areas.

In hindsight there was some time where I had to actively force myself to stick with one topic longer than usual to go deep. Once that hurdle is taken I have less of a problem now integrating adjacent topics.

I also agree with the advice that focusing on one topic improves professional success. Long-term is TBD though.
I don't understand your logic: you'd rather there be no games on Linux at all instead of some working well, some with hacks, and some not working?

There is a hypothetical reality where all game developers target Linux natively, but in our flawed reality where economics exist, Proton is a godsend

Edit: regarding the "works for me", I see your point but what else would I do? Stay on Windows because some games, not the ones I play, don't work on Linux? Of course I'm switching.
Unfortunately, the CINL here is not protecting users. Nobody wants those annoying Cookie reminders. I believe this is just a form of taxation that they are not able to get in another way.
I see. Would you recommend it? I dislike Google, but I'm eager to play with it a little if you say it's a nice experience.
What you quoted is the shortend version of the goals of the funding program, here is a more complete description: https://www.bmbf.de/foerderungen/bekanntmachung-3035.html

The program is funding clinical trials 1 to 3, having bigger cohorts for trials 2 and 3, and scaling up production while trials are still in progress. In short: Everything that makes vaccine development expensive. Finding the actual vaccine candidates is the cheap part.
YouTube in particular has been demonetizing channels that they think are harmful to their business for a long time, their behaviour in this instance is consistent with that.
So there goes OANN and Newsmax alternative reality business model.

Freedom of speech does NOT mean freedom of misinformation.

These companies (Fox is an example) get sued in court and admit they were lying, and claim freedom of speech as the right to say anything including spreading damaging lies, and get away with it and are not condemned.

I'm all for freedom of speech, but seriously this is getting to Nazi Germany "we lost the war because of the jews" lunacy level.

Freedom of speech does not mean being able to say anything at anytime, independently of the consequences, including lies and be guaranteed to get away with it.

No, some things that people say can get them into legal trouble, and rightfully so. Our freedom ends where another person's freedom begins.

For example, people can get sued and convicted for defamation, for saying something that negatively affected someone else.

The US might not be a democracy in 10 years if this goes on, it has to stop.
A Take on Gitlab and Slack: JetBrains Space
>Flash created and supported a special scene of creativity

No.
I think the os image distribution is a way to reduce support and improve quality. It is much easier to check that the result is working in the lab rather than test packages and setup instructions.

One thing you could eventually do if you wanted to go the low effort route but still share it on a raspberry pi would be to build the rootfs using buildroot in a tar archive and then import that as a container. I don't really know if it would work, perhaps you would need one container per service or something, but it could be an approach.
Wanted to see the probably interesting heatmap in downdetector but... downdetector is down :(
> there's still WhatsApp,

Literally in the headline. (unless it's been edited)
Does your spider face issues with cloudflare mentioned by Gigablast founder here.

https://www.gigablast.com/blog.html
At the time, it was said to be because Flash was using too many cycles to be responsive on the iPhone, but I wonder if it wasn't a sensible security decision too.
Sliders work perfectly for me on latest FF on latest LineageOS, which suggests that it's not a problem with the website, rather with either FF or Windows on your device.
Facebook's market power leaves news organizations at its mercy
https://archive.is/lErdH
If you want to see an example of a more granular policy that the browsers (well, Internet Explorer, but it was the majority browser at the time) implemented also being ignored, see P3P: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P3P
Stadia is the most impressive tech recently released, it's clearly the future.

I was very sceptical at first but when I tried Doom 2016 over the wifi on my tv I was realy impressed.

Just think about it for one second, the game runs over the wifi on 30$ Chromecast on my 10y/o TV and it looks great with almost no lag, I'm an avid FPS player and it's really ok lag wise to play on Stadia.
Wouldn't a JMAP bridge like [1] solve the same problems?

1. https://github.com/jmapio/jmap-perl
I agree, it's pretty basic but for people that don't know any of this it's an excellent explanation.
Once upon a time, yummly was this
I wish they didn't discard the encryption on SMS, at least there's still Silence.
Why would you only look at "policies" instead of everything they do in an official capacity? "Policies" are basically just the stories that politicians tell about themselves. What they actually do matters, not just what they claim to support.
It's very weird and spooky to dive at night like this. Ordinary night diving in relatively shallow water (say 10m) is challenging enough. It is easy to get very disoriented. The reward is seeing an entirely different world. I've seen the strangest inhabitants of coral reefs while diving at night. The article is about photos taken while doing something else, diving in very deep open water at night.
Substantiate? No, you'll have to wait for the next Panama Papers for that.

But the process is similar to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_accounting : there's so many levels of suppliers/customers/expenses that may or may not belong to the same conglomerate, it's very easy to make the numbers of any individual organization reflect what you want it to reflect.
Yes it was a general observation.

The issue should not be phrased as "breaching cookie rules", as murdering someone with an automatic weapon is also not discussed as a "violation of human tissue guidelines".
FDA Briefing Document Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 Vaccine – December 10, 2020
China launches ‘gray-zone’ warfare to subdue Taiwan
Never work as a software engineer in a startup
Look at who the entity Alphabet itself donates political funds to the majority of the time. Look at which party's policies are more favorable to investor returns.

Examine which side of the political spectrum is overwhelmingly running media businesses through YouTube.

It is not Democrats.
Signal needs to up its game. The experience is very far from being as polished as Telegram.
I’ve been an amateur photographer for over 10 years now, and I’ve never seen such an easy-to-understand but still mathematically in-depth explanation of depth of field until now. Bravo. This is excellent.
Whatsapp is extremely dominant in my country, but I keep encouraging friends and acquaintances to install Telegram. As far as I know, there won't be anything preventing FB from geoblocking European users when the company eventually gets in some serious trouble, like it just did in the US.
It works flawlessly on my iPad in Safari.
The regulation applies equally to my handwritten, paper notes I take when interviewing people for a job, to the candidate's CV, and, well, to every source of personal data.
What’s the Point of Gigabit Broadband?
Found this: https://mariuszbartosik.com/opengl-4-x-initialization-in-win...

The tone in the beginning sounds correct so far. Thanks for the directions again.
People who die of COVID-19 do not die next to loved ones. They die without their loved ones nearby.
> Finding the actual vaccine candidates is the cheap part.

Do you have any sources on that?
This is like saying Red Dead Redemption is like running a farm in Texas. Linux is more popular among techies/programmers/hackers. Cyberpunk is a genre focusing on being cool and special, an attempt to steal computers from introverts and hide the boring stuff they find exciting. It's a computer Wild West.

Check out the game 'Duskers'.
Show HN: A new library for better Tree Ensemble explanations
For what it’s worth, the project I contribute to produces CC0 work on Github,[1] but the source material goes through a PD vetting process, and it is (should be?) obvious to contributors given the overall licence that contributions will also be CC0 licensed.

[1] https://github.com/standardebooks/
The use and cost of energy affects each of us every day of our lives. Many issues arise from the use of energy: greenhouse gas emissions, acid rain, climate change, dependency on depleting supplies of fossil fuels — especially from politically unstable regions of the world.
The problem is that Stadia is streaming only, so no downloads or offline play, but you still have to buy each individual games.

So it doesn't fit either side in your analogy since it cherry-picks the bad parts of both alternatives.
> There is no fallacy here, only truth that is uncomfortable to some.

There is, though. And it is an association fallacy.

You wrote:

> Chicago is a great example of labor unions and how well they work out.

The error in your logic:

Premise: Chicago's labor unions are labor unions.

Premise: Chicago's labor unions are bad.

Your conclusion: Therefore, all labor unions are bad.
+1 for Matrix. Just needs some more polished clients
What does Hyundai want with an erectile disfunction clinic?
1 to tell the user to file a super extensive bugzilla ticket backtracking all the history of the light bulb like on/off frequency, usage, etc.

1 who says they should rewire the entire house electrical wiring in Rust.

1 who says that more light bulbs can be found in the usual place: a drawer called /etc, or /usr, or /usr/local/, or /opt, or...
I run https://www.driftingruby.com which has a lot of updated resources.
Is the BE-4 design really that new? The choice of fuel is of course novel. But apart from that, it seems to be an oxygen-rich staged combustion design, which was invented by the soviets... somewhere in the 60's?
It works because the system is faulty in the same way our eyes are faulty, we basically have sensors for three main wavelengths and derive every color we perceive from a mix of those three,
check this out:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_vision#Physiology_of_col...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trichromacy
Well, first of all, I demonstrated how this extreme case is impossible, but let's address war.

In such a world where there are too many people, we get suggestions such as instituting a one child policy, forced sterilization, outward extremists even discuss culling populations. What's the difference between that and war? The difference is, in war you have agency. War happens organically between people. An authoritarian solution takes agency away entirely. People are not free to be people, but you wind up with, best case scenario, the same result with regard to resource management. So yes, even in extreme circumstances where war is a response to resource shortages, it is still a preferable outcome to authoritarianism.
Money plays a big role but things like single market, Schengen area, unified standards/rules are a convenience for me as a EU citizen. I didn't shop often some specialized UK shops but now it is going to be more painful because of customs etc.
That's a very antisocial attitude to take. Societies can't deal with crises like pandemics if enough people take that attitude, and the result will be large numbers of avoidable deaths.
IIRC this is exactly what MS claimed about bundling IE : it was tied into the kernel.
A data ecosystem fosters sustainable innovation
I don't understand, jQuery works fine in node-built environments. Obviously any DOM mutation stuff stuff needs to
happen in the frontend when it runs in the browser, but you can absolutely import jquery and use parts of it during server-side compiling or rendering steps in node.

import $ from "jquery"

> Deno will never ever do that

Why would Deno take such an antagonistic approach to supporting the most common setup that everyone uses with npm? Wouldn't it be trivial to just fall back to checking node_modules for named packages? I want to use Deno! This seems like it's deliberately making transitions difficult for anyone using npm.
Only the details element has the open attribute so you wouldn't hear about using it in CSS without hearing about it. BTW, you can use JavaScript to expand/collapse the element by setting and removing the attribute.

A downside to details/summary for footnotes is you can't find the footnote text in page using Cmd/Ctrl+F.

"Disclosure widgets" are a common pattern on the web so it's good that there's an HTML-native form of them. Two reasons why they're not used more is 1) they're HTML5 so IE didn't support them (neither did Edge before Chromium) and 2) the transition isn't currently animatable.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/de...

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/su...
A former Uber engineer's disaster story
I'm really happy to see him do well.

He was a guest on the Running in Production podcast a few months ago where we talked about his SaaS template project and an app he built on top of it (Place Card Me which is mentioned in his post). He is a very friendly and super knowledgeable guy.

If anyone is curious about his tech stack details we talked for ~50 minutes about it at: https://runninginproduction.com/podcast/39-place-card-me-let...
You want to make deferring to the experise of the people most qualified to provide an informed opinion a logical fallacy?
could you elaborate? I would have guessed that especially in finance hiring in major cities is just a matter of compensation.
So, what, Google should be funding schools? Facebook needs a Critical Thought Corner? Twitter should have enshrined the Steak-umm tweets?

Social media can't solve people being uneducated. It simply adds to the noise.
Should be easy – SMS it's the "default" messaging app from a phone, isn't it?
Mount Everest's changing height says that the highest mountain in the world rose from a tectonic collision that continues to influence its height today.
Phones are small, you gonna need a microscope or at least a magnifier with good lighting. BGA is not too hard but you need these laser-cut reballing stencils, ideally not universal but specific to particular chips. AFAIK lead-free solder is very hard to do at home, to use leaded solder you gonna need a setup with good ventilation.

If the goal is to make just a single phone, and you don’t already own all that stuff, I’m afraid the required equipment is going to be above $1000. Maybe if you live in China will be cheaper, but not for the rest of the world.
Fair enough. If that is the case, both sides win. I took issue with the claim that the UK was just in it for the money, without mentioning that everyone is. How could it be any different? This argument has been a common theme I’ve noticed in Brexit debates from people across the EU.
Alligators can regrow and repair their tails (full article)
As long as bad alternatives keep getting accepted good alternatives won't get enough traction.

If corporates started banning Electron (i.e. Teams#, Slack 'thick' installs) there would be motivation to come up with something better.

# Wormable interactionless RCE via Teams (Electron) a few months ago and they refused to acknowledge it.
Why is it bad to want to profit from the pandemic? What's the alternative? No profit, no vaccine?

Or do you think that people should invest tens of millions out of their own pocket just for a good cause?

Or do you think that the government will magically conjure a vaccine without the support from the industry?