skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think something like this: $gcloud alpha cloud-shell ssh

I love to be able to use my terminal client than browser. This is neat because I don't want to maintain another ec2 myself even if its in the free tier.
ctrl+f ... Nope, no mention of Netflix’s Chaos Monkey.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_engineering#Chaos_Monkey
The Aquarium: A child’s isolating illness (2011)
Good for them. American work culture is...well, retarded (I couldn't think of a less offensive term that also describes it well).
This was always my biggest fear. But in fairness, in my community, gang violence rarely if ever seems to escalate to this point.

That said, they did bomb our local police station back in '96 (before my time): https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sudbury/biker-bombing-anniver...
MSDN has been around for much longer than Markdown has even existed, so I highly doubt that. Maybe the more recent stuff, which by the way is much much worse from a technical pov than their older technical documentations sadly. Compare the mess that is .NET Core / ASP.NET MVC documentation to the mostly excellent WINAPI documentation...
SolarWinds hackers have a clever way to bypass Duo multi-factor authentication
Good Teams Are Noisy
What is the relationship between this study and the website? This reads like organic marketing/“thought leadership” to me. Could be just me being pessimistic though.
I agree with the paranoia thing. I've learned to curb that with developing a mentality of "rolling with the punches, but trying to be prepared for them."
I need this now.
original link https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.04761
Show HN: Realtime Geostationary Earth Imagery
How Lumen5 Uses AI to Solve Problems
I have a naive question: In this regulated market, where is the line drawn in relation to which companies one entity can acquire? It seems that IG wanted to sell to FaceBook and the government blessed it, same with Google's acquisitions but I do not know much about the process of purchasing a company.

Also what does the HN community think will happen to the "Get big fast then exit" strategy if these conglomerates get busted up? Will that SV investor scene die or change? I'm already seeing the rise of bootstrappers and the term lifestyle business no longer being a "lesser-than" moniker.

Just what's on my mind this morning, would love good discussion.
In general I'm not a fan of advertising, but one of the most important things it does is level the playing field across income levels and countries. $5/month would be outrageously expensive for a very large number of people, most of whom are not on Hacker News, and any discussion of replacing advertising with a subscription model has to start from that basic fact.
That seems like a pretty good rule of thumb. I tend to eat a bit less than that. If I'm planning for a group doing some activity like strenuous hiking, I'll plan for a bit more. But 4-5 people to a box/pound sounds about right.
50 houseplants later...
Yes, that's definitely the balance to maintain. Ease of entry, vs tooling to manage the project as it grows. The main reason I see it being an inhibition is due to the size of the HTML spec, and the number of pages that it will need.

I think this is why a lot of sites take markdown, then add their own extensions, like how there is "Github Markdown" among many other flavors. That's definitely one route, but I see something like ReStructuredText or Asciidoc as more mature and interoperable, while still being relatively easy to master in the same way as Markdown. Since they can both produce docbook output, vastly easing any migrations in the future by adhering to an industry standard.
This is not true, any ad network benefits from IDFA, bigger the better.

Removing of IDFA should close the gap between big players like Google, Facebook etc vs others.
Thanks, yes: Tolkein was quite a catholic (a bit oddly, given his upbringing -- perhaps due to his deep conservatism?). I had not known he had converted Lewis! That might explain Lewis' desire to write his explicitly catholic books.

That being said, apart from one letter in which he talked about christian influence, Tolkein was enamored, and his philological work concentrated on, Northern European pre-christian languages and cultures. Remember the Inklings recited the Sagas in old Icelandic at his encouragement. There are no popes, even by metaphor, in Middle Earth; no transubstantiation nor rebirth. In fact the destruction of the ring restores nothing.

It was in the intent and structure of their work that there was a gulf. I certainly didn't intend to imply that they were in any way personally estranged (though Carpenter wrote that T was a miffed at Lewis' success with his much less complex books).

Lewis's fiction (the Narnia books, Hideous strength etc) may not have risen to the level of "propaganda" in its modern sense, but they were explicitly intended to be at least "persuasive writing". I don't see Tolkein's as that at all.
I'm already arguing with our CSO about this on Slack!
GitHub has incredibly high friction to get started. I don't see the antipathy toward WYSIWYG editors. It's one of the best human interface inventions we've come up with. Having to do a level of indirection about Markdown syntax is a pain, on top of remembering git commands.
As software goes, years later there is going to be a shitlist_v_1 (bad classes) and a shitlist_v_2 (very bad classes) and on and on
I’m impressed it actually has a name that describes what it does, instead of something like Walrus or Chalkboard.
Your numbers need to be adjusted: I reckon you are not observing the 365 cars during the whole time-span you are commuting.
Earth from space, as of ~30 minutes ago.

This visualization uses imagery provided by GOES-R, a geostationary earth-observing satellite, to generate near-realtime true-color images of the earth at (fairly) high resolution. (There's also animated video, top-left.)

NOAA provides raw data from the GOES satellites available in AWS and Google Cloud, if you want to play with/remix it. The source data is incredibly high resolution - 100 or 400 megapixels, depending on layer. Significantally better than the imagery weather.gov exposes. Everything's provided as netCDF, but it takes some time to find the layer you're looking for.

- https://www.noaa.gov/organization/information-technology/lis...

- https://storage.cloud.google.com/gcp-public-data-goes-16/
(ABI-L2-CMIPF is the product I use)

The source code is on GitHub. It's built with a Python backend and some pretty simple javascript to handle auto-refreshing.Should be fairly simple to hack around with.

- https://github.com/bnitkin/goesr-video

Hope y'all think space imaging is as cool as I do!
How does this compare to using AWS Systems Manager Session Manager (except a more straight forward naming convention)?
Thank you for this inspiration, I've created my monthly payment now. I cannot imagine being forced to use anything else than Firefox... (Even though the Android version is barely usable after the rework...)
I had the same thought and found he actually kind of did at the very end of the thread in point 12)
> when you provide Facebook an email address, they will explicitly pay a lot of databases to cross-reference your email address and tell Facebook your identity, your salary, and so on.

Can you elaborate on this?
Thanks for the citations! I'm familiar with some of these, but not others.
Honestly, I can't take responsibility for how other people choose to run their business and which corners they choose to cut. To be more blunt, it is not my responsibility to prop up a business model that I disapprove of.

I prefer to eat at restaurants where I know they will not compromise on quality, so I accept that I have to pay extra for that, hence I eat out less often than I otherwise would have. On the flip side, every time I do eat out, I get amazing food.

On the occasions where I do eat fast food, my preferred places also fit the quality criteria outlined above. If a place doesn't do things in a way that agrees with me, I refuse to support them.
Interesting, I didn't know that. I'll check it out, since I'd like to see if they add any of their own extensions, in the same way that Github does
Xiami Unboxing: Mi band 5 (and comparison with Mi 4) – 2021
There are few journalists left. Plenty of political activists that write articles instead.
The latter. You can always set your /etc/hosts or equivalent to map "localhost" to some random IP that is not loopback. Or a proxy could proxy that hostname, etc.

In the new setup proxies can't proxy localhost unless you set a pref to explicitly let them do that, and for "localhost" and hostnames ending in ".localhost" Firefox won't even ask the DNS stack for the IP, assuming loopback instead.
Wow this is super cool. Looking forward to participating in this competition :)
Yes, I would have liked to see data on the subject's marital/relationship status, for example. Completely anecdotally, but all of the people I know in real life who I consider to be lonely based on social cues and interactions are either widows, widowers, maids or bachelors, and I could tell all of them longed for regular meaningful interaction with a partner...

There might be a few cases where loneliness is "caused" by a problem in the brain, but I would wager the vast majority of cases are caused by what I described above - lack of regular meaningful interaction with a partner over an extended period.
It's funny that you mention that. I, too, often have this reaction to really interesting, cool projects and accomplishments. But over the years, I've learned to realize that the stuff that seems magical is not beyond my reach.

Look no further than this article itself:

> The idea originated when I was trying to think of an interesting idea for a project to help me learn Verilog and FPGA design, and the notion of building a simple raytracer came to mind (partly inspired by a scarily smart friend of mine who is building his own GPU).

The way this author describes his friend who is working on a challenging design is 'scarily smart.' IMO "that other skill domain" seems intimidating from here but if you start small and are willing to put in the time, you can do it.

The people who work on biochemistry, mechanical engineering, auto repair, digital hardware -- they're all just people, after all.
You can easily SSH to a Cloud9 instance, so it would satisfy the criteria given.

Alternatively, one can launch a custom AMI in EC2 to do whatever they want.

Multiple solutions already exist for the given problem, therefore yet another AWS service seems unnecessary.
Building and Testing 50 UI States with Decision Tables
> presumably you should be addressing these issues in your tests, not in production code

What you may be missing is that this code will be guaranteed by MyPy to never actually run in production. In fact what it's effectively saying is "if this code can run, there's a type error", and therefore MyPy forces you to ensure that the code can never run.
> I actually think zombie corporations like Oracle, companies that haven’t innovated in decades and instead rely on an army of sales people to sell legacy software.

Those army of sales people are probably now selling you the latest and greatest in vendor lock-in on behalf of AWS [0] and GCP [1]. There is no escaping the sales army :)

[0] https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/aws-takes-aim-at-oracle-by-hi...

[1] https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2019/04/09/google-c...
You do realize there's no reason a rest endpoint can't support doing this.

My endpoints take a 'fields' parameter... and those fields can themselves be serialized objects.
Well, that would be my problem, as it is when I'm running (the real) Chrome on macOS, Android, Windows or Linux.

And if I'm not happy with that, maybe I'll switch to Firefox, which doesn't support them while not holding the Web back on many other features and with many unfixed bugs for years, like Apple does with Safari.

That's the advantage of competition, if you're not happy with a product, you can use another one instead.
Wow that was fast! Awesome, works great. Thanks.
WFH when everyone is forced to do it is different than WFH when you decide freely to do it and your competitor doesn't. These companies are fighting market share battles and are willing to pay millions or billions if the scale is large enough for an edge on competition.

I continue to believe when this is over, not much changes in terms of remote work v. in person. Supplemental/support orgs might go WFH but the innovation engines will be in person and close to the c-suite.
I would say "corporate" journalism. Independent, bloggers, and people that can work for themselves tend to be view as more trustworthy. You can immediately see what their vested interest are and gauge what's an honest opinion much simpler.
I think the issue is that web based terminals aren't very usable, as they mess with keybindings and line wrapping, for example. At least that is the case with GCP Cloud Shell. It makes it pretty difficult to use for even basic things like running vi or emacs.
Precursor – The Last Day of Our Campaign
you must construct additional ~pylons~ abstraction layers
I really want them to add Qwant.
My favorite are the "fact check websites" like rebranding is going to restore faith. Trust is built slowly and carefully and with your track record.
* on an expansion card.

This is not real-time raytracing on standard SNES hardware, as the title implies.

Still a very impressive project, of course.
Ideas Are Just a Multiplier of Execution
Are there any performance benchmarks comparing REST and GraphQL?
Record Breaking Number of Journalists Arrested in the U.S. This Year
I'm not particularly familiar with arbitration and the resulting paperwork, nor with financial claims against another party.

However, I do know that minutes of mutual settlement can be filled with a court, and the court will, based on the affidavit of filing, enforce it as if that court had ruled.

And for instance, this is in a Arbitration submission agreement I found: "The parties agree to abide by and perform any award(s) rendered pursuant to this Submission Agreement. The parties further agree that a judgment and any interest due thereon, may be entered upon such award(s) and, for these purposes, the parties hereby voluntarily consent to submit to the jurisdiction of any court of competent jurisdiction which may properly enter such judgment."

i.e. "act as if a court ordered it, 'cause they have in effect"

So you are right that a binding arbitration agreement probably isn't enough, but filed with a court, and filed with either bank or employer, it should be enough.
Not the OP. For the occasional user, like me, it is more obvious what it is doing.
PINE64 December Update
I always wondered what's stopping a rival to Facebook that offers users a share of the money they are generating. Besides the scale barrier to entry of course. Generally speaking, people like money and will switch products and services that puts money in their pocket.
Admittedly I skimmed -- observed that the paper dove really deep into time to perform queries and implement desired behavior, but didn't spend much time on implementation of GraphQL vs a REST API.

One statement made that stood out to me:

> it is clear that
the availability of a type system—expressed as a schema—
is one of the key benefits provided by GraphQL

So I wonder what the results would look like if you had an OAS spec file for the API you were hitting (with autocomplete in VSCode), seems to me that's the best of both worlds: ease of implementation on the server side, ease of use on the client side.

This to me feels like an argument of better tooling and (self) documentation rather than one technique over another.
I'd never seen Tree Language designer before, this is a really cool tool! Thanks for the link
> So MDN is now controlled by... Microsoft?

No. MDN is using a Microsoft platform as a front-end to attract contributors to their git repo, as most open-source projects do. If a company uses Gmail, does Google control the company? Github is a contractor for ICE, does Microsoft control US immigration enforcement?

I don’t like Microsoft owning Github but there is a broad, easily-seen line between reasonable objection and this absurd overstatement.
Another poster pointed this out and they were quite correct, despite downvotes - "normality" isn't a goal. Normal is a section of the bellcurve and fitting into that curve isn't supposed to be a goal, it's just descriptive of a larger group.

The question should really be "does X behavior cause any problems in my life?" If it doesn't cause you problems then you're good, and if it does, then you should look to alleviate those problems (whether that's modifying the behavior or the situation). If playing out social situations does alleviate the anxiety and your only downside is sometimes the people in your house give you funny looks - well that's probably a worthwhile tradeoff. On the other hand, if the behavior is aggravating social anxiety, then it's worth talking to someone about.

Social anxiety falls under the generalized anxiety tree, and most people do feel some anxiety in social situations - but if it's disruptive to your life then it may be worth chatting with a therapist with. Most therapists are going to try and identify the specific causes and then give you tools to alleviate those feelings.
However the very first sentence is "AWS Fault Injection Simulator is a fully managed chaos engineering service".
The reason it's disturbing is exactly why it's good that it went away. It was a proprietary plugin supported by a single vendor, so when that vendor chooses to stop supporting it, it's gone. We've been lucky that it's been supported for so long, in that regard.

Although in practice it is still hard for independent parties to implement support for all relevant open web standards, at least they are open and already have existing independent implementations.
I do the same thing. I listen to No Such Thing as a Fish podcasts.
Somehow my hometown suburbs, and where the rest of my family still lives, still found plenty of motivation for NIMBYism and desiring property value appreciation.

You're confusing "you can grow outward with single-family-homes near indefinitely" with "we want more apartment buildings near our precious houses!" You still get a lot of the same problems, you've just changed the complexion of the traffic problems...
> Mac a little better in window management

I need to echo the sibling comment. I was overwhelmed with how bad Mac window management is in a multi-monitor setup. This is compounded by Apple's apparent hatred of keyboard shortcuts and power users. Speaking to my longtime Mac-loving coworkers, they displayed Sapir-Whorf-like inability to understand why the missing features/behaviors are even a problem.

In a the Covid/WFH world, I'm happy to let the 16" MBP collect dust while I use computers that adapt to me, rather than forcefully adapting myself to one particular computer's eccentricities.
Is there a balance between gov funded and privately funded journalism?

Gov funded = Authoritarianism

Privately funded = Capitalism and maximization of revenue

The latter has shown its ugly aspects - engagement is inversely proportional to delivering hard truths to the user.
Everything is obvious in the hindsight. 20% projects carry a risk, failing one or more 20% is fine. Failing many is seen as lack of judgment and does dampen your career eventually. My point was that, with reasonable judgment, an engineer can get good stuff done with a 20% project. Also, not every 20% project needs to become a fantastic new core product to be considered a success.
That’s the end goal, adopting a system similar to Estonia’s national ID infrastructure.
Must have saw that 5% cash back on AWS purchases using the Amazon Prime Business credit card while they were doing last minute holiday shopping.
Write them out as dialogs like Aristotle.

I’ve been doing that for years and eventually the conversation with someone else vanished and it became simply my own inner monologue.

My gut points to the limbic-cortex feedback loop. Emotional vibe in the limbic system retrieves motor agency to recite a fact and relay it.

Our society pushes constant contact. Our cortex responds in that habit.

Over time the dialog with a friend seemed superfluous. As if my cortex finally learned to ignore that as part of fact retrieval.

Just a weird vibe from a one time shroom head. YMMV
I think he meant that Canada is a diverse country with low crime. In contrast to how Japan and Iceland have no crime while having homogenous populations.
Found this to be extremely helpful for PR-reviews; I have sometimes difficulties when writing sentences in order to not come across too harsh/snarky/negative etc., but with GIFs/pictures, it's easy to involve some humor while still bringing the point across.
After spending a lot of time alone (mostly during quarantine - ironically in NYC, a place I moved to in March given it's lower barrier of entry to all things social), as someone who pulls more to the side of introvert but can be socially functional in group settings, I'm pretty sure that being alone with less social contact causes me far less stress and anxiety. So in other words, I'm finding that although there are benefits to being social, the fact that I've saved boat loads of money and have less stress from worthless small talk seems like an ideal way to live. Which sucks, because I've also realized that networking is the only true "hack" in essence to get past the drudgery of coding interviews / otherwise opaque career ladders.

I delineate my introvert / extrovert brain by classifying people I deem "interesting enough to talk to" and "people I'd rather not talk to". For this reason, work interactions always seem to go better than off hand social interactions. If someone is condescending or rude then I'd just rather not waste time talking to them. At this point in my life I don't really feel it's worth the effort to force social interaction in either direction, some people like you others won't - dating also gets easier if you take this approach.

Something I'm curious of is if "lonely" brains are less healthy? Also, for reference - the best point of comparison for social anxiety in my case is analogous to why I don't see the point in fancy cars. I drive a 2001 nissan, but I never worry about where I park it, if it gets dented or worry about someone keying it. If I drove a lambo, I'd constantly be worried (even subconsciously) about this kind of thing.
Microtransactions are difficult legally, due to taxes.

If someone in state/country X buys something from a site in state/country Y, both X and Y may levy taxes on that transaction.

Many have thresholds for small businesses, where you don't have to collect taxes if your total business volume is below some threshold. For US states, the threshold is often of the form "more than $T total sales OR more than N sales".

With microtransactions, it is easy to exceed N sales even though you are not actually collecting much money, and then the costs of preparing and filing your quarterly sales tax reports can exceed your revenue.

Advertiser supported sites don't suffer from this problem. If someone in X visits a site in Y and Y gets payed by an advertiser for showing an ad to that person, the site does not have to worry about taxes in X, and in Y the ad revenue will just be income that gets dealt with on their income taxes.

Until we can get microtransaction-friendly cross jurisdiction sales tax reform microtransactions are going to have limited viability, at least for sites that want to operate legally.
1. You can have both. Parts of our site (Our World in Data) the researchers edit via a GUI, but under the hood it is making a commit and pushing to GitHub. My guess is MDN just hasn't gotten around to that yet?

2. GitHub and GitLab are a lot better nowadays at allowing you to edit markdown docs via the web and preview the results in a few clicks. Not quite as frictionless as 1 click, however if you are an editor and are constantly bombarded by spam, probably saves a lot of time as you know the person who is making the change and they are forced to add an explanation via commit message.