skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Glad you think it's promising. There is still some distance to go - it needs a second pass over some of the (pretty rough) features.

Regarding tags: I am not sure I completely agree with you how easy it will be to remove all the current limits on tags but I do share your sentiment and I have filed the matter as a github issue: https://github.com/calpaterson/quarchive/issues/67 . I can't promise any priority because as this is a side project I can only work at my own pace but I foresee it happening "soon" - just that my main task right now is showing what I have to people and getting feedback.

On the unread flag: you're probably right. That was implemented before tags were, in order to allow for importing my own bookmarks from pinboard (I personally do not use tags).

Private flags: as a usability matter, yes. But my plan is to allow for more fine-grained sharing/permissions (the MVP of which is the current share feature).

Thanks for your feedback. I really appreciate the time you took to try it out and leave your comments. Do keep in touch over email! cal@calpaterson.com
> Why would Google even consider doing this?

The author's extrapolations seem implausible.

Bookmark synchronization is a non-issue as this is something any bundler of Chromium would have to build & maintain themselves no matter what engine they bundled. So Google excluding it is irrelevant.

But for Safe-Browsing and Search Suggestions, not only are these sources of data/insight/revenue for Google, but more oddly: Google Safe-Browsing is used by Firefox and other browsers, and Search Suggestions is provided by ALL search engines that have such a feature to ANY browser integrating their search. Excluding these from Google's own open-source engine while non-Google engines continue to use them seems unlikely.
>> Of course, there's also logic to generating red herrings to waste your adversaries' resources, and the US has done that to others.

Or at least that's the story we tell when the budget it spent with nothing to show for it.
Can you share any link regarding Copenhagen Effect? Thanks
https://www.nand2tetris.org/

The course is at the above website, in case you want to start working through it before this edition is released in July.
Strategic missile defense almost entirely a complete waste of money. https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/disastrous-us-approach-stra...
How are GitHub macOS runners licensed?
When AWS introduced macOS instances recently, they only included dedicated hardware instance types, because apple's licensing requires that an entire machine is leased and for a minimum of 24 hours.

Exercept from https://www.apple.com/legal/sla/docs/macOSBigSur.pdf:

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3. Leasing for Permitted Developer Services.
A. Leasing.
You may lease or sublease a validly licensed version of the Apple Software in its entirety to an individual or organization (each, a “Lessee”) provided that all of the following conditions are met:

(i) the leased Apple Software must be used for the sole purpose of providing Permitted Developer Services and each Lessee must review and agree to be bound by the terms of this License;

(ii) each lease period must be for a minimum period of twenty-four (24) consecutive hours;

(iii) during the lease period, the End User Lessee must have sole and exclusive use and control of the Apple Software and the Apple-branded hardware on which it is installed, except that you, as the party leasing the Apple Software (“Lessor”), may provide administrative support for the Apple Software; and

(iv) prior to using the Apple Software, the End User Lessee must review and agree to be bound by the terms applicable to any software preinstalled on the Apple Software, including, but not limited to Apple’s Xcode developer software and any other Apple or third-party software.

=====================

How does Github provide macos containers on a very short term basis for CI jobs, while complying with the above license? I can't see them allocating me a physical machine for 24 hours, each time I use a macos runner in a GH action.
I listened to a presentation from a company that did a/b testing and found out that they sold more when they added an artificial wait to a search (their business was searching for flight tickets). So for some cases people don't believe that software can't do its job properly if it is too fast.
Neat! I did something similar, not quite as big, but I was on a version of Python (Jython) that didn't yet have generator expressions, so I made a generator expression evaluator, gg("x for x in it") that returned a running generator. I was about a week away from shipping an ETL tool to the customer and this allowed me to hit that deadline.

I love the AST in XML approach.
I only use it because IT forces Macs down our throats. It's understandable, the hardware is light years ahead of any other manufacturer, along with the OS support. But I just do the bare minimum of setup to get VNC and SSH working and GTFO to a proper remote dev box.
AML: anti-money laundering

KYC: know your customers
I'm a big fan of cheatsheets. Not so much as a reference, but as a learning resource to edit and record the subset of commands that I need. It's worked pretty well for me for regexes, pandas, etc.
In the same way that Objective-C is just C++ on OS X.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25989061
People are probably downvoting it because in a scant few lines you manage to pack in two lies and a half-truth. It is not packed with spyware, it has not fallen by the wayside, and the full clone is due to a request from github to reduce the load caused by homebrew users (as in it is so popular that it caused a noticeable impact on github servers.)
No, it’s a translation of the actual manual here it is in Russian

https://www.4freerussia.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2018/...

Yes you can select the letters but that’s only because of the OCR that is built into your pdf reader.
These "short" companies are the only ones who have any incentive to expose negatives about publicly traded stocks.

Everyone else in the financial and real worlds have massive incentives to prop up the values of stocks and push them higher, including executives and the board who have inside information as well.

It amazes me that people think the shorts are the ones to worry about.
Free and Open source vector illustrations updated daily
Actually the US fielded this hypersonic glide vehicle in the late 1970s

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pershing_II

This was a big upgrade on the original Pershing missile that kept the same launcher but was competitive with the Soviet SS-20 that weighed three times as much because it had an autonomous guidance that could directly impact a target even when the mobile launcher was at an unsurveyed location.

This is not advanced or exotic technology for a missile with the P II's range, you don't need exotic materials (that little dome on the bottom is a radar antenna, not a heat shield) and it can get 25 g acceleration with those little fins that you might not notice if you don't look carefully. Thus it is something third-world countries can field if they want to.

That kind of missile can break unpredictably two or more times on reentry and thus confound anti-missile defenses of all kinds. The Russians had a nuclear-armed ABM system in the Moscow area at that time (and still do) and they found it intimidating.

That kind of nuclear-armed ABM might be able to fire a large number of shots and get lucky, but the kinetic kill systems that we use to protect our naval groups would be helpless against it.

That's why China is developing an anti-ship weapon with similar capabilities; instead of soaking up the inaccuracy of the launch point, the missile can handle the uncertainty of where a ship is going to be when the missile arrives.

With a nuclear warhead that kind of missile could obliterate an aircraft carrier -- but even with conventional warheads it could cause a lot of trouble, this is what a smaller ship looks like when it has been hit by 4 2000 lb conventional bombs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Direct_Attack_Munition#/...

That won't sink a carrier but it could stop flight operations for a while and have them steaming back to San Diego.
Some things about me are probably pretty atypical, but I'll say starlink beats every one of those (for me specifically!) handily. Wikipedia comes closer. Maybe I live long enough to benefit from CRISPR, but I suspect that's for other -- wealthier people. If I end up being able to afford any CRISPR treatments it'll be because of Starlink.

Starlink is going to enable me to own a home without a mortgage. It will allow me to make good money while living in one of the cheapest places in the country. This lets me move the goalposts on success so I have to do significantly less just to feed myself and my family. Suddenly retiring by 35 seems conceivable. I can do work I want instead of what's available. Nothing else on that list comes close for me.
The government's corrupt relationship with the military-industrial complex is about as far away from capitalism as you can get. It is corporatism. It is trillion+ dollar corporate benefit program for defense contractors. Big buying decisions are made by Congress mainly based on what they think is best for their reelection, not actual needs. Government has a monopoly on violence and the products are highly specialized so they are the only customer, which means there is no market in place.

With no market and only one customer that makes terrible decisions none of the mechanisms of capitalism would even have a chance to have an effect.
Astra Vaccine Equally Effective Against New Variant, Study Shows
Considering the damage that can be done by botnets like Mirai, Raspberry Pis might be exactly what we should be worrting about.
I would add that Canvas' performance profile is not the same as the Flash runtime either, you can't just layer on top of layer with Canvas and not give a F like Animate/Flash let you do. Artists/amateurs don't want to have to think about performance tuning across browsers.
I felt the same as you in the tutorials, wound up stopping around the 4th tutorial and dropping it for months, and disliking the biters immensely. I wanted to tinker, not fight.

A friend convinced me to give it another go later on in a multiplayer game and I got hooked.

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The biters are more enjoyable when you already know and understand the game systems.

I agree they're very stressful when you also don't really know what you're doing yet with the game. I would suggest leaving them off for a first game if you're feeling they're stressful.

I still prefer to play with them turned down, or to play a Rail World (where they exist, but don't expand back into cleared areas.), but I don't keep them off now.

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Anyway, in terms of progression, it's somewhat important to explain that you haven't learned all the types of automation in the game, and that also changes their impact.

There is also automated construction (and reconstruction) that eventually becomes possible. I don't have to piece back together some destroyed assembly line by hand because I missed an avenue for getting attacked, robots do it for me so long as I have repair packs or replacement materials in inventory they have access to.

The game at that point also supports things like copy/paste for entire designs and saving/importing blueprints. Have a great production setup and just need more of it? Copy-paste another row of it and hook up the inputs/outputs, not manually laying out 100 assembling machines, 200 inserters, etc.
It took me a second to get this argument, but it’s a good one. If there were thousands of marketplaces on iOS and Android, then Pakistan would have to negotiate the removal on all of this platforms, as opposed to only two.

Spelling it out clearly like that, it makes me wonder if there are many governments that prefer to have monopolies to deal with, rather than many companies. It certainly makes regulation simpler.
Yes, David Wright, the guy who wrote that article, recycles the same opinion piece about how the Patriot Missile wasn't very effective in Gulf War I and never mentions that every part of that system has been upgraded 2 or 3 times since then.
I'm surprised 60 billion DNS queries is only 41% of the daily norm. With a billion people between the US and Europe alone - the vast majority of which use the world wide web directly multiple times a day (nevermind other online services) - and the amount of domains a typical website loads resources from, I figured daily DNS queries would have broken into the trillions by now.

I suppose that's probably thanks to caching, dedicated apps for many websites, and most users sticking to a relatively small selection of websites.
It wouldn't surprise me if they put ground stations in every country. Doing a satellite to satellite hop across 10 countries needlessly wastes the limited bandwidth of your satellites. It makes more sense to just use the satellites for last mile delivery and hard to reach places.
I use IPython that already have this feature. Just type in a prompt:

%load_ext autoreload
%autoreload 2

now every run automatically reload your modules.
Prior discussion about the same subject (229 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25641399
1-year 1-page calendar: https://davidseah.com/node/compact-calendar/ The Compact Calendar by David Seah

Really great to have a bird's eye view of your year
Okay thanks. I will put a permanent redirect to inform GScholar's index of the actual stable URL of the document. Text selection and accessibility is indeed why I took the time to build this proper PDF as I explained here before seeing your comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26035175
> Pakistan is not a secular country, unlike England or the USA

It's a minor quibble, but England does have an established national Church, so it's not entirely secular in the way the US is. 26 CofE Bishops sit in the House of Lords, the Lords Spiritual. The head of state is also the head of the Church.
There are other benefits.

UDS can be permissioned using standard unix USER/GROUP which adds more flexible security structure (more so when you combine UDS with SE Linux).

This is opposed to localhost which is much harder to firewall from-localhost->to-localhost
This is what I was looking for or I was going to post myself.

Why is the risk of being involuntarily committed so much greater than having a cop do the same. Or a cop just throwing you in jail? The anecdotes of peoples loved ones being 'committed and only getting released when the money runs dry', seems far more preferable than their loved ones being thrown in jail and released when they can pay the bond. Or sit in jail and wait for a judge.
It is both possible and extremely likely that people will continue to create new web browsers. Simply not for the HTTP web.

https://gemini.circumlunar.space

Gemini is a web protocol that aims to achieve the original goal of HTPP: to create a document web. It is extremely strict about adding new features to the protocol, unlike HTTP. This means that it is easy and should remain easy to implement new browsers, and I think that is a fantastic thing!
To codify both replies to yours as an outsider who watches macOS coworkers struggle: brew is akin to running Arch, where the concept is latest-tagged-release of any given software.

The newest version of X introduces a feature which has a need of Y library (dependency) >= n+1, where n is your already installed version. It just so happens that Y is shared between 3 applications; so if you upgrade Y to satisfy X, you now have to recompile/upgrade (depending on details) A, B and C as well to use the newly updated version of Y.

Arch (and other rolling releases) do/does this every day, it's just that the work is offloaded to upstream packagers. Brew is more "AUR-like" where it's all down downstream on your own system, so you get to deal with the work and churn through the recompiles yourself.
Yeah there seems to be a huge influx of webdev people. They don't have lot of idea about stack and heap.
This is not even remotely related to your comment but wow your bolognese looks incredible.
If you join the F# Software Foundation (https://foundation.fsharp.org/join), jobs pop up fairly regularly on their Slack.
Thanks for sharing. For tons of people using your calendar to actually schedule work is a new concept (probably not for you and most people here). In my experience it can be very powerful to map out your work and see that you're fully booked and need to start making different decisions.

Looking forward to bring something delightful and with a fresh perspective to guide that process.
Perhaps I only notice it more now, but it seems like it exploded after he died and after all those stories of looking at pixels in loupes and making the back of cabinets look good became public.

I imagined that people think that they just need to copy this characteristic and they'll also be successful.
What a frustrating article! Another case of 'no threat model security analysis'

Hypersonic missiles are the perfect anti-aircraft-carrier weapon. Thats why China and Russia have invested. It's a cheap counter to America's greatest strength.

That means the article is basically correct! It's a waste of money for the USA- we are not an underdog looking to counter a power that outspends us by trillions.

But the article is also completely backwards and wrong! In the USA we've run a near-austerity budget for decades to support an enormous war machine premised on aircraft carriers being important, and now that has been if not neutralized, severely nerfed.
I think this is fine as long a those who decide to risk their life do not put others at risk without their consent, and there are equivalent remote or socially distanced alternatives for all activities.

For example, anyone who decides they want to risk infection should have to register with the government and they will be provided with an arm band that must be on display in public areas so other citizens can avoid them. Private premises will have the legal right to deny access to anyone with the arm band.

It might be a fun experiment in natural selection taking is course. All the "callous" types can go to FOSDEM and and see how bad of an infection of COVID-19 they -- or their relatives -- will get, and if they are part of the 0.3% (if that is accurate).
I believe it was mainly to detect when a user is trying to navigate to an intranet site with a single-word name (for example http://fileserver). To do that, Chrome needs to make a DNS request for the word and check if it's valid.

However, you can have misbehaving ISPs that replaces all NXDOMAIN responses with something (producing false positives for what constitutes "valid" hostnames), or a guest portal that is hijacking DNS responses, so Chrome will make requests for random DNS hostnames that are unlikely to exist to detect if DNS hijacking is occurring and disable the intranet detection if it is.
'Dystopia Prime:' Amazon AI van cameras spark surveillance concerns
I've attended a bunch of Wikimedia/Wikimania conferences. These are held on a shoestring budget, and any drinking and dancing is on participants' own dime.

WMF's per-employee T&E cost is apparently $7k/year. Working in sales at a company you've heard of, I've flown single flights and attended single dinners that cost more than that.
The Battle of Ramadi,Iraq 2006–2007
It also gives them the ability to override any package on your system with one they make. All they'd have to do is increase their version number beyond the one in the "real" repositories and Apt would automatically update to it by default.

So yes, in fact, it's quite true.
Babies are at much higher risk than adults are. High amounts of lead as a child can significantly cripple your brain, while the same exposure as an adult has reduced (but considerable) effects.
You shouldn't take investment advice from strangers on the Internet, but you also should know what you're buying before you buy it.
Jordan Hubbard was involved in the creation of both FreeBSD Ports and MacPorts (DarwinPort), so it makes sense that it shares the BSD ways of doing things. His decision to use Tcl for MacPorts also came from his experience dealing with Makefiles[1]

[1]: https://netbsd.org/gallery/10years.html#hubbard
Ah, that reminds me of the classic film Robocop.

Dick Jones [big exec at Omni Consumer Products talking about the ED 209 enforcement robot after it wastes a middle-ranking exec during a demo/presentation]:

I had a guaranteed military sale with ED209! Renovation program! Spare parts for 25 years! Who cares if it worked or not!
Also, people usually hit their ISPs’, Google’s or Cloudflare’s DNS servers, not the root ones

It’s, I believe, those servers that hit the root DNS servers when they don’t have the data.
Your game of loose association, where just because some individual made some outlandish remarks in the past, or they “liked” something objectionable on social media, then anyone who voted for them or share a political party with them or didn’t disavow them to your satisfaction must therefore also agree with those things and substantively back them as a matter of policy - is facile.

Btw, dismissing things as “whataboutism” isn’t an effective argument, its just an admission of hypocrisy.
These are requests to the root servers, not to the ordinary DNS servers most people use.
> My understanding is that the conspiracy must intend to break the law.

As a general rule, this is not how laws work. There are some laws that require that you know what you're doing is illegal (tax evasion is one of them), but most laws do not work this way.
SPACs are today’s ICOs. For every good company like 23andMe we should expect dozens of bad ones.
You’d be wrong, and you’re making the same error.
I used to live in LA and people really flouted the restrictions. They worked in China because the Chinese actually followed them.
Playing Subnautica at the moment, and I'm finding it kind of slow to get going. I have upgraded my tanks to 135? capacity and most of the personal equipment available to me so far, haven't really started any base building (haven't figured out how to get that off the ground, didn't realize it was a thing until recently though), but the process seems very slow. Also grabbing things seems to require too much precision and proximity (at least on PS4), grabbing fish swimming away from your for food has been a chore so far.

Also I feel like I'm spending too much time on basic survival maintenance right now, grabbing food and water resources over and over again.

It gets better, right? I like some things about the game but I'm not really into it yet.

I heard it compared to Outer Wilds a few times, and that's why I jumped into it, because Outer Wilds is a masterpiece, in my opinion, but I'm not seeing it right now. Of course part of what I liked so much about Outer Wilds was how strange everything was and piecing together the mystery of a story scattered across its solar system, and how you're basically collecting knowledge, not resources.
Isn’t the real issue the Russian’s nuclear propelled version though? If we shoot it down it still leaves a huge fallout problem right?
Homebrew (and CocoaPods, perhaps famously) uses github as a CDN for their package listings, syncing the git repos likely takes the most time here
In the US, the law is not whatever the FBI says it is.
Here's a thread of basic diligence on the company:

https://twitter.com/BluthCapital/status/1357469113422069761?...

Possibly of interest if you're considering investing.
> I can't help but wonder what the purpose of this system even is if they can literally lie to your face saying they'll send someone and just not.

The system is functioning as intended. It's just not functioning as advertised:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/behind-the-police/id15...

This podcast is exceptional. A fair bit of profanity, takes a few minutes to get going, but it's a spinoff of the "Behind the Bastards" podcast.

They make a good case for the modern US police force to be deputized slave patrols. :(