skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The problem is the US has some of the most incompetent government on a local level in the developed world. Part of it is American individualism, part of it is the Republican party starving the beast, part of it is the government as a giant jobs program.

Blaming individualism and "the Republican Party" is bizarre in connection with a complaint about "incompetent government on a local level." Almost all of the local governments people complain about (San Francisco, New York City, etc.) are completely dominated by Democrats. Of 51 seats on the New York City Council, just 3 are held by Republicans, and only 1 of those isn't on Staten Island. The San Francisco Board of Supervisors is all Democrats.

This is not a matter of my team versus your team, but a real dysfunction in our political system. If people in blue cities in blue states blame Republicans for problems with education, transportation, policing, planning, etc., then there is literally no accountability. We saw this happen this summer. George Floyd was killed by a Minneapolis police officer, Derek Chauvin. Almost everything to do with his training, pay, etc., was decided by the Minneapolis City Council or the Minneapolis Mayor. The last Republican on the city council left office 23 years ago. There hasn't been a Republican mayor of Minneapolis since 1973. That guy served for a day--the last Republican who served a real term left office in 1961.

Somehow, police brutality in Seattle, Minneapolis, New York City, etc., was laid at the feet of Trump has his voters, who have pretty much nothing to do with and no power over municipal services in Seattle, Minneapolis, New York City, etc.
Why Is This Person Not [Shadow] Banned?
OK. I don't want to be the playground snitch, telling tales on other people here. But considering I've had HN accounts shadow-banned into oblivion in the past, just for making a single off-the-cuff remark that was deemed out of order, how come this person seems to be able to abuse the site with impunity, on an ongoing basis?

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=omiossec

Day after day, I see multiple posts fron this person [or bot?], every single one of which is spamming one of the same two websites and every single one of which has been flagged to death. Yet still they're allowed to carry on.

Genuinely curious.
Love the idea, I'm sure I'm not the only person who's thought about this pain point and somehow didn't come up with the elegant solution you did.

Right now I have an O365 account that lets me create unlimited (I think) aliases, the issue is how annoying it is to create them and then manage them. Yahoo has a similar service, but again you need to create the alias first, your solution of accept all, deny later is much smarter.

My only question about price brackets is I don't have a great understanding of how much bandwidth I use monthly, or even how many emails I'd funnel through your service, not to mention we're kinda at the mercy of the senders, if they send a lot/ or send large emails, we end up needing to move up a bracket. On avg do your Premium users get close to the limit?

Which brings me to my next question: what happens if I do indeed use up my entire bandwidth allotment for the month? do emails just get bounced? do I just get upgraded automatically?

I get where your coming from by charging for bandwidth, from your perspective you're aligning your costs with the price.

When I tried to sign up, the username I wanted was taken, but the error message wasn't obvious and I was left wondering what happened until I saw it above the signup button. For the record I had ublock enabled and it was blocking 15 things, so it's possible it caught something... you might wanna look into that.
The comment states it's anti-globalization and then states "it could be a good thing", I didn't see that as "arguing against globalization", felt more like adding points to the discussion.

I don't believe in utopia of full 100% globalization (one nation? one army?), but it definitely seems like a good default, and splitting the internet is kind of a worrysome trend.
Maybe, but I have my doubts. When people do that, they also talk, as we are now.

I will take that over implied trust in this scenario.
>Being an RPG doesn't nullify this criticism if combat is a primary game mechanic.

It does, because a common running theme in RPGs is that you get stronger as the game progresses, and in Cyberpunk, by the middle of the game every character build (melee, stealth, guns) easily dismantles enemies. It is only early-game where the enemies seem difficult because your character hasn't had their skill-trees built up yet.
The new embrace, extend, extinguish. :-)
SolarWinds investors traded $280M in stock days before hack revealed
That is pretty much what we do on our C# code base.

We treat warnings as errors and use #pragmas in cases where obsolete members are used.

When marking members as obsolete we require it be commented with a Jira issue number to make sure removing it is not forgotten.

I also strongly encourage that an XML Document Comment is added with a <see cref=""/> to the replacement member which is navigable to by the IDE.

Finally, reviewers of the PRs just need to make sure these rules are applied, but it’s easy to spot #pragmas.
Why do you think that's true? Many (most?) countries don't have competent civil servants, long term planning, clean cities, etc. Why do we just assume Americans can do it when say Italians cannot?
Yeah, for giant open world games I kinda just expect a year of bugs before it's actually pretty dialed in... Bethesda has done a lot of work to lower expectations in this genre.
How do we judge quantum processing power? An overview of 'quantum volume'
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New York City depends on Tourism - Over 65 Million tourists visited it in 2018 (https://www.baruch.cuny.edu/nycdata/tourism/index.html). It is a must stop destination for all foreign tourists. Much of that income has stopped because of the Pandemic. I'm willing to bet that it will recover within a couple of years. One would be silly not to Go Long on NYC.
I'm going to skip telling about all the bugs I have run into, so I'll just get down to what I think happened here.

Two primary things:

One) They targeted consoles when they shouldn't have. Cyberpunk is a game that should have been pc only first, and then later ported to consoles. They had a hammer (the engine) and saw nails (consoles), but in the game dev world the largest sets of complications come from trying to support different environments. The same can be said often in the normal software world, trying to be cross compatible when sometimes thats the wrong thing to do. When you do the math, targeting consoles, and especially if you go for last gen, the beancounter numbers show the ROI increase over just pc or just pc and latest gen are very high... and then instead of the development resources that should have gone into the AI, customization, bug-squashing, etc, go into console work.

Two) They focused too much on building the individual quests instead of the emergent opportunities which abound. It seems like they spent too much time on hand crafting quest levels, especially the ones that involved Silverhand. Many quests have their own complete loaded levels you can't get to from the main game world. By doing so, they probably wasted tons of tester and dev hours on those individual levels instead of the open game world bugs and features.

I suspect also that quite a few features just got ripped out and replaced with placeholders while the bugs get worked out more. There is no way the AI they touted so long ago is really in this state, for example, so I suspect if you give it half a year, lots of expected features will suddenly start showing up in updates and the game will end up in a much better state.

All in all, I enjoy the game world, and it has moments where it really shines. It also has madness inducing and show stopping bugs that most normal players just won't put up with... (~100+ proc kills/game freezes to finish main story line on linux/proton).

Why do beancounters always ruin everything they touch? What should have been one of the best games ever released was one of the best releases to ever money.

Two years from now it will be primo, I'm sure. The question is will there be enough backlash to change anything? Given the amount of money they made and are still making, I doubt it. Different industry, same bullshit as everywhere else.
I have wondered about this too, for months. More transparency would be nice.
That'd be true if it weren't for cheap leverage that you get with real estate. 3%/yr with 5x leverage is 15%/yr
I tried the shareware version of Solar Winds back in the '90s. I guess I should be glad I didn't buy the full version.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_Winds
Two federal agents in Silk Road case criminally charged
I think if you have a small team and are developing an API for your application's needs probably things can be done as well or better in Rest, but if you have an API that needs to face to third parties or a very large organization with APIs that need to be exposed to multiple frontend teams or a product like a CMS that frontend teams that are not part of your organization then the benefits of GraphQL will often quickly outweigh Rest.

This is a feeling on the problem space, and not based on any studies though, as I'm unaware of any studies trying to determine this.
The Antikythera Mechanism – Evidence of a Lunar Calendar
I pay for a few paid news but I'm not fine with paywalls. It blocks non-subscriber's access, that's the problem. Obviously no one can subscribe all subscriptions, a few is max for most people. Ads is far better in this time. I wish Apple News' approach is getting popular.
Five Ways to Avoid Data Breaches – RedHunt Labs
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25435747 for pruning purposes.
Paper: https://bhi.co.uk/antikytheramechanism/
OData (which is REST) can return the schema and much more: $metadata resource describes all entities, operations, relations, and can also contain documentation, capabilities, etc.
Step into the shoes of almost any past futurist and you'll find that humanity usually took the boring, predictable route, technologically. There is an inherent cynicism in the setting that needs to shine through as a fundamental part of the genre's identity.

Also, it's only 57 years in the future. You're not going to advance that much in that time. Personally I think the aesthetic seems a little too trapped in 80s retrofuturism -- I guess I agree with Gibson there -- but that was always the interpretation of cyberpunk and scifi that I liked the most so it gets a pass.

There is plenty of whimsical, optimistic visions into the future, and while I think a setting that explores "high tech, low life" in that context would be cool to see, it'd feel a lot closer to Star Wars than "cyberpunk".
This is probably the right answer.

Outbound bandwidth fees are essentially a form of "exit tax" that makes it more costly to use resources outside the cloud (like other clouds). It's there to lock you into your current cloud's ecosystem even if the grass is greener elsewhere.

Moving data around is already a lot harder than moving other resources (like compute). The bandwidth fees also add a monetary cost to such moves.
A robot that will one day do the exact same work at far less expense will give you all these analytics and more.

I can tell you that I myself wouldn't enjoy wearing a tracking band. I also would not choose to take a job as a custodian of someone else's property.

I think that the wilderness ought to be open to people that choose not to live under the thumb of others. I'm excited about that wilderness widening soon to include much of our solar system.
Does that include the emissions from having everything driven into the city via trucks?
Thank you for the kind words :)

Most people don't hit the bandwidth limit unless they're really using 33mail a lot. I've been using 33mail heavily for a decade and my monthly usage is 40MB which puts me in the premium tier, but I'm near the top percentile of bandwidth usage.

The premium tier also has a lot of other benefits, like custom domains and anonymous replies - so lots of users upgrade to it without being close to the bandwidth limit.

If you do hit the limit we'll first make sure that it's not just a temporary spike, and then we'll send a few warning emails.

At this point you can entire upgrade or block some aliases you don't need that are using a lot of bandwidth, this is fairly easy to do in our UI.

It is extremely rare that we've had to block a user due to excessive bandwidth usage, in fact I'm not sure we've ever had to do that.
It represents your cost to the company: something they try to keep down and which gets countered by their need to have you, the scarcity of your position and most importantly your willingness to walk away.

If people got paid their actual worth to the company there probably wouldn't be much profit to go around at the end.
Not OP, but that is either a direct phrase or a paraphrase of a very frequently spouted justification for Brexit: so-called sovereignty.
That’s great, thanks. But do I need to slaughter and sacrifice my privacy to Facebook and the public space to trolls and fake news optimized for virality?

Reach out?

Find presence on a specialized platform rather than generic portal containers steered by proprietary algorithms.
Well, we're dev-enriched here. I think the mainstream gamer population would not be nearly as pleased. After all, Factorio and it's ilk eats people like us.
We get that out of the box w boring old django/sqlize

we do happen to do more interesting things elsewhere (GPGPU, columnar streaming analytics, reactive frontend, ...), so like sharp edges when a 10X+ lift, but ended up backing up on this layer as it was adding complexity w immature layers vs what felt like similar perceived benefits from reliable boring stuff. it doesn't scratch all our itches, but the big ones are at a layer above/beyond graphql vs rest (eg, auth)
Use Victoria metrics. One lightweight agent per cluster pushing to a centralised metrics store makes it so much easier.
Managers that use A.I. ‘will replace those that do not,’ IBM executive says
I was curious about this because the release notes don't mention changing the behavior of HTTPS for localhost. I set up a local test and http://mytest.localhost works without having to add an entry to /etc/hosts, but https://mytest.localhost with a self-signed TLS certificate will still raise a SEC_ERROR_UNKNOWN_ISSUER error. You still need to ignore those or install your own root CA with something like https://github.com/FiloSottile/mkcert for that to work seamlessly.
I'm considering moving to Outlook.com.
Attacking Unattended Installs on macOS
Blockchain Adoption in South Korea’s Health Sector on the Rise Amid Covid-19
"A bone to the dog is not charity. ... Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog." -- Jack London
The question is not this but is this feature really needed. Maybe it is for the GCP user base, maybe it isn't for the AWS user base. I personally use AWS for ~9 years and I never needed such feature. I can achieve exactly the same (quite often do exactly that) by provisioning a small free tier instance with an instance profile that uses the same policy as the service or resource (lambda function for example) that I am debugging.

If AWS lacks anything, it is a "why the hell this API call failing exactly" feature. It is horrendous to debug a resource that is using other resources and you do not have any means to get what _exactly_ is missing. Usually you get an error like "s3 throw a 403, bye" message. The closest to a solution is CloudtTrail with giant amount of JSON entries to go through or try to load it to Athena or other database, and because you do not know what exactly you are looking for it is very hard. I usually just ask the support to debug it for me because they have internal tooling that can do that. Most of our support tickets fall into this category.
I feel like a broken record, but we are having great success with Victoria metrics as a drop in replacement.
One thing lobste.rs gets right
That sounds like the Witcher 3 to me.

Great art, great story, great character/music.

I hated the gameplay. I don't know why, but it felt horrendously clunky, even after the rework.
C# standard has 550ish pages https://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ec...

Are you making the numbers up?
Not necessarily; fatalism never solves any problems. The article just highlights that historically the problem has been ignorance. We treat the Amazon as this vast ocean of un-mapped green where all sorts of people can hide; entire tribes of native Americans reside there that have had little or no contact with the modern world. We simply don't know what is going on there in very large detail.

Well, thanks to modern mapping, now we do. Formerly easy to hide and illegal activity like burning a bit of forest to get some farm land now stands out and we can track what happens or happened to bits of land. That's basically what the article is pointing out is actually happening. A few bits of information in there:

- Forest regeneration is slow but significant; up to 40% of forest thought to be lost over the past decades has in fact regrown. It's a slow process that takes up to 4 decades to fully restore bio diversity. But it's possible and happening at pretty significant scale.

- The whole process is basically driven by poor land management, ignorance, and incompetence. Farmers mismanage their soil, thus exhausting it and then burn more forest to solve their problem while abandoning their old land, which then starts regenerating if left alone.

- Mapping provides authorities better insight where this is happening or has happened and allows them to step up attempts to crack down on this to both protect regrowing forest and put a stop to new attempts to burn forests. Simply scaling up that effort could go a long way to fixing the problem. Farming by its very nature is very local. If authorities show up within weeks of you burning a forest to start growing stuff, it gets a lot more risky. Burning forest is the lazy option; it's only convenient if you can get away with it. Mapping can fix that.
And what do you use those photos for?

I’m only going to sound realistic
Alas, can't buy neither a new 3080 nor a new PS5. Imagine the sales numbers if supply wasn't so badly constrained
> It's not magic, you would design it in advance so you know what you're querying by and what you're returning in the payload

Where is the difference to GraphQL then? If you know in advance what will be queried then you can create an optimized query for it.
This was my experience as well.

Also the API provider had a "GraphQL is self-descriptive, go away" attitude when asked for documentation that made things worse.

It could be me (or my team), but we didn't find it easy at all to explore the API and find what we were looking for. We ended using a Python tool that generated some classes from the schema and, thanks to that, we managed to figure out the queries we needed to use in our Scala client. Not a fan.
I think they're talking about the scale of the tooling and integrations into existing systems required to roll out Grafana to hundreds of thousands of people.
In case of GDPR (EU) and securities laws (US), citizenship matters, not location.

For example, almost anywhere in the world if you want to open a bank account they will explicitly ask you now if you’re an american citizen.
Weirdly I make the same observation as you about second languages and detail in grammar, but I came to the opposite conclusion. I thought natural language and computer language were pretty similar.

One issue in the study is what a reasonable comparison is. Our ancestors would have talked about "there is a lion over there" and such mundane things all the time, so we shouldn't be surprised if we're just "nexting" those kinds of things with a specialized circuit.

Obviously that doesn't exist for coding, but the question is whether there is natural language that can't be nexted. I'm thinking of James Joyce's Ulysees or Shakespeare type stuff. It's weird even for the native reader. Does that activate the math network?

Also, isn't that a better analogy for how you program machines? You're telling the computer what to do in a language that isn't assembler, and doesn't have the same machine model as your coding language, with a heavy dependence on shorthands established only in the context you created (by writing functions, classes, etc). I thought the reason why a lot of people find it hard to read code is because you're inherently doing something awkward, translation.

I've been learning a new language as well, with the wrinkle that it's quite closely related to one I already speak. Mandarin is lovely, it makes me wonder why there are languages where the verbs and nouns are changed. It also means you can jump into saying useful things pretty fast, you are just restricted by vocabulary. WRT coding, this is similar. Coding languages tend to have very few things you must know (except C++ lol) to get started, but with a lot of reading libs necessary to do anything in a given domain.
I enjoy the a-series but that’s exactly what I’m moving on from

I think I’ll get a gimbal and some contraption to trigger flash and maybe some adapter lenses as they trickle out for this form factor

Yes, the consistency in such a wide range of lighting situations is what’s attractive. Along with the built in non-destructive editing. Soon, ProRAW for even more of that. Live Photos by default which “captures the moment” more than the composition itself, and a software and syncing pipeline that supports that seamlessly. With the nearest replacement being an entire tool-belt and bags of gear.

I think at this point we will see the market choose, and often times I ahead of the accepted trend on that. A daguerreotype was probably superior processing technology than film and paper but it wasn’t convenient enough to remain an option. Same went for film and dedicated digital cameras. I think this is where we are now with the iphone 12 pro and ProRAW, even for photo enthusiasts.
These are the people who were tapping the lines between Google data centers.

Nothingburger?!

Is this post from a Virginian IP?
Exactly this. One of the rare (blue) hacks fries enemies for a good hit of damage. I've seen it one-hit a lot of trash-level mobs. You can tag em in slow-mo, run around a corner while the hack uploads, then pop back out and finish them off as they react to the pain.
I agree. We usually limit ourselves to a small subset of features we are using from AWS. The newer services tend to be less reliable, reasonable. I think part of it is the APIs being too complicated. Have you tried to use Kinesis low level API? You know what I am talking about. Ok, lets use the high level API. Well it is written in Java (and Java only) so you are going to be running a JVM on your end regardless. If you think I am joking:

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/streams/latest/dev/shared-throug...

I would classify this as a critical issue, and this is part of the reason why we stopped using Kinesis entirely.
No, I think it indicates an envious desire to limit the freedom of others on the presumption of future injury.
Maybe I've misread the article, but I didn't see anything about Facebook transferring user data to the US. What has changed is that FB users in the UK will be agreeing to terms with Facebook Inc in California rather than Facebook Ireland.

I suspect this is because the UK has a data sharing agreement with the US, but when Brexit kicks in there is not a legal mechanism in place for easy transfer of data from the EU to the UK (which makes your life hard if you're a company based in Ireland and you need to send data to the UK.)