skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also a response to the sibling comment: at a certain point you need to actually look into it yourself/read linked articles before commenting. If you look at the truly mass sightings throughout history (that I know of), most of them have occurred decades or centuries apart. It's the sheer volume of less prominent activity that compels me. I certainly hope we will eventually get one with a hundred different angles with the newest 2025 smartphone cameras. Although keep in mind even the newest iPhones can't take a great photo of a jumbo jet at cruising altitude.

And if, hypothetically, there was an intelligence, and it was intentionally being discreet, it doesn't take a lot of creativity to imagine they might be smart enough to go about their business while doing a decent job of avoiding the situation that would provide incontrovertible proof. While that seems like a cop out, so is claiming the Nimitz incident could be explained by some mysterious natural phenomena, without actually offering an explanation. If you actually put in the effort to consume all the information available on just that specific incident, it leaves little room for alternatives between the two options.
Also, kudos to this author for not logging personal information:

> there is panic among the ex-Parler community that all their data, even private/deleted posts, have been scraped and archived — it has, just not by me. Furthermore, Parler did not follow industry standards in obfuscating EXIF metadata from uploaded images, so millions of users had their exact location logged.

However, I am stunned that Twitter still has not taken down the tweets from @donk_enby, the person whom this post mentions with the location logging (example: https://twitter.com/donk_enby/status/1348294151712944128). This account has been sharing datasets with the private information of all those Parley users widely and archiving it all over the place. Isn't this textbook irresponsible disclosure of personal information? Doesn't this violate all the rules of Twitter for doxxing? I've submitted several reports at https://help.twitter.com/forms/private_information but it seems no one at Twitter cares about preventing privacy leaks and doxxing when it concerns their political enemies.
And we could call this triumph of outsourcing "Big Brother". All very fraternal, and we know how much BigTech loves fraternities.
I don't think nix solves this. You are still left with having to deal with security issues, updates and tracking on pr package basis instead of once for the entire ecosystem.

Admittedly, this is a hard problem. And the languages that does use vendoring makes it hard to programatically inspect all of this. But what do you do if say the python library requests has a severe HTTP parsing issue which allows ACE?

How many packages would you need to patch on nix?

How many packages would you need to patch on Debian, Arch, Fedora, OpenSuse?
Streamline oil transport monitoring in Africa
> been consistently banning anyone and everyone they could for everything ranging from simply slightly disagreeable speech all the way to flat out illegal speech

This is lie. Social networks were not banning for "simply slightly disagreeable speech".
At which point you ask for a substantial sum of money to prioritise their feature (and hopefully they go away).
The inequality doesn't just exist between nation states. It also exists within the US. It's making Californians rich.

That's what people forget. The US is a large country with states that have a land mass as big as entire nation states. It's entirely possible that one or two states are doing well while the rest are doing very poorly.
There is an obvious economic split between those who went to college to move to the growing places and those who didn't and had to stay behind in a stagnating community.
The fact is pretty much hidden. I tried to link my Toshl (a budget app) account to my bank, to import automatically my movements. I saw that they were using Plaid, and I found that weird. I went to search the page you linked, and I still didn't know how was it connecting to my bank. I used an "application password" with limited permissions from my bank to use with Plaid, and funnily enough it didn't work. In fact, my bank locked my account because Plaid tried to login through the regular user interface with a wrong password several times. It was only then when I saw in forums and such that what Plaid does is to scrape HTML.

When you use Plaid, you don't get the impression that's what they're doing. We're used to dialogs to "give permissions to an app" that don't share our user/password with anybody. Plaid purposefully emulates those dialogs and gives you the impression that you're just logging in with your bank, instead of explicitly telling you "we will store your user and password and use that to log-i with your bank".
> As always, you're welcome to 100% of your money back on your purchase of Signal and it's services if you don't like the product.

When it becomes possible to change this to “100% of your time back”, I’ll be able to agree with such sentiments. Users invest time that they cannot get back.
Toshiba is first to use X-rays for write heads to increase HDD capacity
TypeScript 4.2 Beta
Just launched SNS data archiving and analytics via Kinesis Firehose subscription
Now, you can natively store SNS messages in S3, Redshift, Elasticsearch, Datadog, Splunk, New Relic, MongoDB, and more. No custom code needed. Let me know your feedback. Thanks a lot =)
Is there a practical purpose for these paints?
We all need some thick skin to get on in life and need to cope with bad behaviour but hopefully the post gave some people pause for thought about how they act next, and how they have acted before.
I'm sorry if it came out as prejudicial. It was not intended in this way. It was more of an observation after having lived there for some years and witnessed it first hand.

I did a quick search for more objective observations and what I found was:

Homes labelled A, B and C account for less than 10% of the housing stock. […] Most of households in the sample (52%) are E rated. F and G rated residences account for almost 25% of the sample. [1][2]

In Spain, buildings are currently responsible for 31% of energy consumption. […] the classification A - the highest - involves spending up to 10 times less than the G - the lowest -. Currently, in Spain most buildings have an E, F or G rating.[3]

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030142151... (4. Results and discussion)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_energy_label

[3] https://www.interregeurope.eu/enerselves/news/news-article/2...
It's not rocket science - encrypt with a one time symmetric key, encrypt the key with a public key, store blob and key marked as deleted. Store the corresponding private asymmetric key on a hardware token to be used when you decide you need the deleted data. That way no db hack exposes any usable data.
Facebook wants to get businesses to use whatsapp and that's where they will get value. Payments + services for businesses will subsidize the E2EE personal chat.
Svelte’s most annoying feature is if you want something reactive, put a $: before it. That’s the job of the damn framework! If I need to manage reactivity, I might as well write jQuery. React just works and has become mature. I tried Svelte and got pretty turned off by a few things. I urge people to the out their excellent tutorial, until atleast half way through to form an opinion. Don’t just jump on the new JS framework bandwagon.
Is your point that Facebook and Twitter are just as culpable as Parler but held to a different standard?
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Comparison Between AWS Aurora and AWS RDS
Wolverine is both.
Looking forward to dreams come true. You never know when you need a good debugging toolset until you find yourself in the middle of a fire, my eyes on you Slack ;)
Reminds me of the lightbulb cartel

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoebus_cartel
And related to that, somehow UFOs sightings tend to be mostly happening in the US and not so much outside of it, leading further evidence to it being a culture-bound syndrome rather than real-life events.
I became interested in economics just because I was searching for some boring stuff to post in my Facebook feed to lower my insurance quote on a Camaro SS.
I wouldn't do it.

- there are ways to expand your communication and presentation skills without moving back to entry-level or taking a huge pay cut

- there is no way to know if your current plan will actually help you develop the skills that you want

- having an entry-level job with low pay is a much more diffiuclt position to work on your startup from (compared to being a software engineer with some additional soft/business skills)

- you'll be taking on a job that you admit you currently aren't comfortable doing

- it's possible that you're using this career move as an excuse to not work on your own starup right now because you're telling yourself that you don't have the skills. (this is high-level procrastination)

I understand that the slight level of absurdity and the risk involved in your plan can actually look appealling to a certain type of personality (especially if you're bored right now) but overall this looks like you're driving your career into the ground with very little potential upside.
"Parler is unable or unwilling to promptly identify and remove this content, which is a violation of our terms of service. We made our concerns known to Parler over a number of weeks and during that time we saw a significant increase in this type of dangerous content, not a decrease, which led to our suspension of their services Sunday evening"
- AWS

Sounds like it was "A number of weeks" so probs 30 days notice.
>most of the YouTubers I follow aren't even American. They're mostly in Europe or Australia.

Ok, if that is the case then why would those content creators want a country locked market place to publish their content on? If I were in the shoes of a European content creator I would publish on the platform with the most reach. I don't have to care about which nation the platform is hosted from.
The enterprise guy is at the other end also writing software professionally so he understands if you can't build to his use-case.
Some big Python shops will move to faster languages with static types, stable package management, stable configuration management and well-defined change management.
> I think you should pursue trade school.

Ah, the advice that anyone who wants to work on their startup should hear.
The NSA has plenty of reasons it might want to infiltrate the DHS or other agencies.
Anonymity is an illusion, and it encourages bad behavior, much like road rage. Arbitrary censorship is the larger issue.

If I do something illegal, it shouldn't take down everyone I ever happened to chat with, or who read or liked something I wrote once... even the Godwin's law protagonist had a few good ideas mixed in with his assured evil.

Free exchange of legal speech shouldn't arbitrarily be squelched because some corporation decides their advertisers wouldn't like it.

For example, a few years ago there was a great machining set of videos in which an M-16 lower receiver was machined out of a billet of Aluminum. Youtube decided that anything like that had to go, not for legal reasons, just because of... you know... whim.

There was nothing wrong with the video series, it didn't promote violence, it was just a well done documentation of all the tips and setups required to do a tricky bit of work.

The replacement that seems to be safe (for now) is to machine model steam engines and lathes from casting kits. Cool, but far less useful in learning the real thing.

[update] The idea of learning by watching is a lot less powerful when whole areas of study are excluded randomly, for "reasons" that are never fully explained.

If someone decided that hashtables and binary trees should be hidden from view, could you really teach computer science without them?

It's a filter bubble of the worst sort. It keeps you from even learning what you don't know, because it can't be safely mentioned.
They will download an alternative. The interesting part is that they will very quickly converge on a single option.
Apparently as soon as we mass produced portable camera devices, the aliens ran away...
A few years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams_in_Sarajevo#/media/File:...
> Why do they have to package it again?

Many of those package managers -- like npm and pip -- will require a compiler toolchain to build/install packages with native code components, like packages that bind against C libraries. That isn't an acceptable requirement.
Windows' print subsystem was one of the ways it became so dominant, by having a standard hardware abstraction layer desktop software like word processors and spreadsheets could advertise "compatible with Windows printing" and buyers wouldn't have to shop around for software and printer models which were compatible with each other, and developers wouldn't have to . Jeffrey Snover talked about this as part of his design for PowerShell, to have a standardised management interface that admins could learn for scripting and automation, and third parties could present an interface to for managing their products and services.

The print subsystem is one of the backwards compatibility limits on redesigning parts of the classic control panel - I'm fairly sure Raymond Chen has written about it - because so many print drivers depend on the way it works to hack in pages and popup dialogs for specialist configurations for their printers.

It also integrates decently with Windows' granular permissions, file and printer sharing on networks, logging, has tons of specialist printers like label printers, receipt printers, etc and is used by a ton of 3rd party management and configuration tools. I would be hugely surprised if it's unsupported in 2031.

> "*"I bought windows (server) because of the print subsystem"?"

When was the last you heard somebody say: "I would buy Windows server, if it had CUPS printing support in it"?
I seem to recall them throwing molotovs and firebombs at police and police stations
Thanks, that is mind expanding. I'm young in my career and I don't think I've looked at the role guidelines for any role other than my own.
Depends on the project. If it is governed by bureaucrats and you do that too often, you'll be accused of "not being inclusive".

The modern version of "Boxer the work horse should work harder".
Maybe so that the charitable deduction could be split up among multiple years (forgive $X amount annually) instead of one enormous deduction taken all at once which would be ineffective?

(I don't actually know if this would work, just a guess.)
I hope that we'll see a raise of crystal (https://crystal-lang.org/) and a serious progress in mypyc (https://github.com/python/mypy/tree/master/mypyc) which provide a nice middle ground.
In what way are the Indians different?
300m Covid-19 vaccine doses secured by the African Union
>. So anyone can do a Switch

can anyone do iphone? what kind of logic is this? Samsung is good at what they do and Nintendo is very good at what they do. Sega failed with their console and they are in the gaming industry for a long time. Sony almost fail with their cell cpu console.

anyone can do a Switch? lets start with you...
impose tariffs on imports derived from violations of these rights, or restrict sales of products sourced from companies that use forced work, for example.
“The basic premise of a free society is that you shouldn’t be subject to tracking by the government without suspicion of wrongdoing. You are presumed innocent until proven guilty,” Shankar Narayan, technology and liberty project director at the American Civil Liberties Union, said. “The widespread use of face surveillance flips the premise of freedom on its head and you start becoming a society where everyone is tracked no matter what they do all the time.”

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/all/why-did-microsoft-fund-isra...
Because in this hypothetical scenario the bacteria we brought into the planet outcompeted them. It happened often enough on earth with invasive species, so it isn't unthinkable (even if improbable)
Some of this claim is by a US (trump appointed) Judge:

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/09/judge-rules-fox-...
Even if they use regulation to limit how many and who is a practitioner, this doesn't give a satisfying answer to why they organize themselves that way and we do not.

Just because anyone can be an engineer, it doesn't follow that we can't form partnerships. I could be wrong, but those doctors and lawyers who are in partnerships don't seem to be using that structure due to lack of employment opportunities under other structures.

Another argument I heard was that partnerships are required in certain fields due to liability concerns so that risk can be contained to individual partners. But this only explains why they must, not why we can't.
The first amendment is a fantastic piece of work.

Trump can publish any content he wants to. The government can't punish him for it unless it harms someone.

Any platform can distribute their users' content, or at their discretion they can remove content they find objectionable.

People publish demands for platforms to remove content they find objectionable. Other people can criticize that demand.
I found Merkel's comment interesting, because it really shows the cultural difference between the US and Europe:

-EU: Only governments should be allowed to censor speech, not private companies!

vs.

- US: Only private companies should be allowed to censor speech, not governments!
Well, it's sometimes valid criticism. Have you ever checked out the gtk file picker ticket from 2004?
> The report comes months after the world failed to meet a single UN Aichi biodiversity target, created to stem the destruction of the natural world, the second consecutive time governments have failed to meet their 10-year biodiversity goals. This week a coalition of more than 50 countries pledged to protect almost a third of the planet by 2030.

Hm. How serious should we take this pledge now?
>I'm pretty sure what GP is saying is that they think it should work differently (to note, I disagree, although my position is that moderation for platforms like Facebook/Twitter, where visibility is off-by-default, should ideally be limited to targeted removal of explicitly illegal content, and there should be some regulation to that effect for platforms above a certain market share by some definition).

That's as may be. However, none of that is the law.

I strongly agree that Facebook, Twitter, et al have disproportionate influence due to the strong network effects of their user bases.

And I believe that we should take steps to limit that power and influence. However, modifying/repealing Section 230 is not the way to do so.

In fact, reducing or eliminating the protections of Section 230 would have the opposite effect, because only those with deep, deep pockets could continue to operate in a world without Section 230.

I made other suggestions[0] which I think could help by providing other places for people to go.

Any success would depend on folks voting with their feet. Let's make that easy to do and give people a better, more positive experience, with more privacy and choice and less ads and tracking, and people will run away from these monsters.

I'll say it again. Repealing/weakening Section 230 would hurt everyone else much more than it would hurt Facebook and Twitter. In fact, it would significantly harm free speech on the Internet -- which is what Section 230 was designed to (and has done for 25 years) protect.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25688032
If you're relying on the SSD firmware wear leveling logic then yes, but the setups I'm talking about are more advanced than that. LSM trees only write in long contiguous regions and this enables things like zonedstorage.io which helps with fragmentation enormously.
The linked study has a video: https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(20)...

I definitely haven't seen snakes do that before... Funky.
Prudent caution about snakes is good. I just today moved two small (<1m) but quite venomous snakes from my pool shed out into the bush, very carefully. But a reaction as extreme as yours may not serve you well in an encounter, it's best and safest to stay calm.
Personally I was quite arachnophobic growing up, but have found that 20+ years living in Australia and the normalisation of removing the odd big huntsman from the house has made it so they don't bother me now. I believe this also helps me be more confident in other areas too. Like they say, beyond fear is freedom. Maybe have a look around for groups, hypno etc? All the best.
Ok just 2 points, primarily my own opinion.

First, I suspect a lot of new Signal users are the Reddit/Twitter terror assholes from thedonald.lose and other similar suddenly exposed rock bottoms that have been forced to relocate over the last week or so. Ignore them, ban them, etc. Don’t let ANY of that bit of animated shit pukes that mumble like they’re semi conscious bags of bird shit bother you.

2nd point. It’s ok to say no. Proof in point, I’ve been running jsonip.com for 11 years. Service supports many many millions of requests a month. Completely free.

I’m lucky, I don’t frequently get any hate mail or “add this new thing asshole” for the service. But any time I have over the last 11 years, I’ve directly told those people to shove it if they’ve been rude or demanding.

They’re using my service for free. I’m paying for this out of pocket. Fuck you if you think you can abuse me.

Just to round out, since I’m obviously very suave about language and what not, stop being nice. Stop letting a lot of free loaders ruin your day and kill your mood and passion by treating you badly.

There is an equivalent to the no shoes, no shirt, no mask policy and retail store has for online stores and OSS projects. If the user/customer can’t adhere to extremely basic human decency norms, they don’t get to play. You tell them to fuck off and go away, then move on with helping people that actually give a shit and are nice.
Debian already provides multiple versions for Rust crates, I don't see why such an approach wouldn't be viable for Node.js packages. For example, Debian for nom crate provides versions 3, 4 and 5:

https://packages.debian.org/sid/librust-nom-3-dev

https://packages.debian.org/sid/librust-nom-4-dev

https://packages.debian.org/sid/librust-nom-dev
I agree with what you're saying. It probably took me about 2 weeks to build my first NixOS desktop about a year ago. Now I manage everything in a single repo, including all my dotfiles, all via nix. It works great. But there was a very steep learning curve.

After that experience, I'd actually hesitate to use NixOS in a production environment. The main problem is Nix and the library functions themselves are incredibly obtuse. It also doesn't help that it's a dynamic functional language, so everything just looks like magic when you're first using it. I think most engineers would really struggle with it. I'd be more comfortable introducing Haskell - I think it's easier to learn and understand!
Do you mean as a package maintainer or as an end user? I expect automation and reproducible builds to make this near trivial as a maintainer. As an end user binary diffs will be helpful (not sure if Nix supports them yet), but modern hardware and network connections can easily upgrade a thousand small packages in less than a minute.