skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How the pandemic is accelerating the end of fossil power generation
Please keep us posted. From a naive perspective, what happened has a flavor of "protection fees." A detailed explanation would help quickly dispel this perspective.
Big miners would agree to audits of their resource consumption. There’s no other way.
This would be nice, but a developer could still publish a malicious update as an important security fix.

Also it gets very hard for developers to keep track of past versions and apply new fixes to them, when they also have to apply fixes to the new versions.
Heroku actually invented buildpacks
> How are they going to do this without generating more criticism?

From the people who make those crummy apps; criticism surely cannot hurt Google all that much?

> But then you’d have to get an OS update to heaps of phones.

That's not a viable option, this requires tons of work from OEM's that Google would have to pay for. I've rarely ever gotten any OS updates at all on Android - apart from my latest phone. But I think the only reason I get OS updates now is due to the fact that Nokia just ships stock Android under the "android_one" brand.
Cray Inc? Pun of crying.
These companies are maximizing their margins at our expense.

> "the amount of spam and abuse that are likely happening on these platforms has to be mind boggling high"

That is true, but the amount of money these platforms are making is mind bogglingly high, too. It's just that they decided that they will use low-cost automated methods in order to maximize margins. And as long as we all accept this, it's a good decision: more money!

But it is absolutely possible to do these things right, it just costs more.
Thanks! I'll check out Etesync, I have HomeAssistant already.
It is unfair from a consumer standpoint, but at least it would avoid Google's self-dug grave from getting deeper.

From a B2B standpoint, it's just the name of the game. If a partner business is a strategic asset, you fast-track them. Imagine an advertising firm treating a multi-national corporation at the same (crappy) level as a small, family-owned company. Or, imagine Microsoft treating the US government and an ordinary Windows user alike. That's bonkers, and yet it's an apt description of how Google does business right now.
Well yes, that's exactly it.

We should all celebrate a vaccination program being effectively rolled out. It looks like the UK, including government, has handled this well. Credit where its due, etc.

It's not a surprise that many of us were skeptical given the poor handling of so much else. But the UK government completely fucked its pandemic response overall and 100k people are dead. This is a terrible outcome, and I'm honestly kind of concerned that they'll get away with it in part because there will be so much collective loss of memory in the wake of a successful vaccination rollout.
The ability to read QR codes should be added to Android's Compatibility Test Suite (CTS) default camera app, this way vendors would need to ensure their camera app are all equipped with this if they want to ship with Google Play Store.
As far as I know, there’s a Tezla Roadster out there.
For the record, they don't give away these explanations because such explanation would hint the spammer to what they should _not_ do next time, to avoid getting caught. Same as with anticheat software.
> Why would they continue like that. Isn't there one single PR person at Google?

Does bad PR actually cost Google money? I'm not sure it does.

A bunch of advertisers claimed they were going to boycott Facebook, but they didn't stick with it, and it didn't meaningfully impact FB revenue.

I think the only think that will really dent Google at this point is privacy legislation, so the only PR they're worried about it is upsetting legislators -- not upsetting game devs.
Why don't you send an email to the customer if there is an error while serving content by cloudflare? It can be a daily digest of the errors of the day.

If the problem is on cloudflare's side then the cloudflare user doesn't even know about it if it's an intermittent error.
Perhaps the process should cost $100 or $500, so that actual spammers can’t use it

Maybe they really just need to offer a paid account option with real support, since that has much better incentives
A GSuite admin can set domain-wide policy and per-user exceptions on what Google services the GSuite domain users can use.

Of course, there's some stuff you can disable that completely breaks how you'd expect e.g. Android integration to work with that account.
They would have to know you have crypto assets first. Easy to hide that bit of information.
It's going to be hard for me to keep you posted because it would mean discussing a customer's account and I can't do that. That's confidential.
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Thanks for the detailed answer, I was refering more to the analytics and tracking side of things, seeing how often a certain feature was used for instance while maintaining a users privacy and anonyminity. But I was interested to read how you implemented the rest too and the overall approach.
> Where is this negativity coming from?

There will always be at least some from EU promoters, the vaccine saga is the first to contradict some of the "better together" rhetoric against Brexit.

Just look at the vaccine distribution BS; Factory raids, export laws..
> Where is this negativity coming from?

In order to promote compliance with the lockdown, we're on a 24/7 diet of bad news.

> British numbers are on par with other European nations when controlled by population.

According to [1], per capita the UK has 2x as many deaths as Germany, 3x as many as Canada and 33x as many as Japan. We've even got 20% more than America.

Admittedly part of that is differences in reporting standards, population ages, and the chance occurrence of new variants - but I don't think anyone will be taking the British response as a model in the future.

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-51235105
So what happens if you are on an old version, a security issue is discovered, but they only fix it in the new version?
In Python, “Inline caching has been a huge success” [0]. I believe quickening has been proposed as part of a plan for further speed improvements [1].

[0] https://mobile.twitter.com/raymondh/status/13574784866470051...

[1] https://github.com/markshannon/faster-cpython/blob/master/pl...
technically neither;

homographs are two words written the same way but with different meaning.

homophones are two words that sound the same but written differently.

homonyms are somewhat a combination: written and sound the same, but have different meaning.

since synonym means "having the same meaning" you might get away with considering a homograph a synonym of homonym, but it's best to be precise in these cases.
I feel like the main problem is the inability to properly debug your problem without paying while the plan essentially necessitates a degree of self-diagnostic when things go wrong. I also serve an xml feed via CF and also use it as a caching service in front of my Backblaze B2 bucket, and on the free tier by virtue of the files I'm serving far fewer unique users (less than half of the author's last 30 days) but a far greater amount of data (111GB). I'm not certain if the author should jump from what's clearly a vague and uncommitted conjecture from the Cloudflare tech about where the 503 error comes from straight to "they are definitely throttling me", since I've had the opposite experience and have seen 503s in all sorts of situations unrelated to throttling, but with a tiny sample size and no adequate diagnostic tooling it's also impossible for me or anyone to say that he's not being throttled, except CF themselves. I realize that it's their business model but it seems counter-intuitive that the service they sell seems partly "better ability for you to fix your problems yourself", sort of the opposite of say, managed/unmanaged servers. It'd make more sense, from a customer's point of view, that if I'm paying for a service, there should be service in both senses of the word - the product and the servicing of issues if possible, but not making diagnostics more transparent makes little sense because it prevents people who want to use the service from continuing to use the service, presumably part of CF's goal.
Sounds weird. I'm not saying to trust Cloudflare blindly, but I used a social media site (very "reddit-like") my friend made and kept for over a year on free plan with no issues. Around 20-80 people online were actively creating content, private messages, browsing, upvoting, with live notifications with websockets and so on, it was a quite busy little site for a year or so). There never was issues with couldflare and it basically allowed the site to run on two smallest VPS machines mentioned friend could find.

Also why is author giving trust in a free service for his paid service? CF is not that expensive.
The graphs containing 503 errors to two different sites which were both resolved by paying seem to indicate his case is strong.
There were no specifics at all in what I posted. I'm not sure what you're talking about. I welcome actual information, though.
Surprised no one has mentioned https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infantry_%28video_game%29 - spent many hours here when I was younger.

There is a reverse engineered version that is still running here: http://freeinfantry.com/
Is there any connection between this vessel and the shipping company Wallenius Wilhelmsen? I cannot find any obvious connections apart from the name.
I honestly think that a true commitment to diversity has to require rethinking the recruitment process to actively seek out these candidates.

You can tweak the language in job listings, but you can't tweak away the fact that underrepresented groups are going to have way fewer "qualified" applicants when the qualifications include time spent in that industry.

I'd love to see tech make a push towards mentorship and a recruitment model that involves seeking out talented candidates who may be struggling to break into the industry. Maybe it requires reaching out to computer science departments or developing a system for training people in house. I don't really know, but I know that it isn't just a matter of finding more Black or women senior Dev applicants.
> people are scared of pit bulls so the media reports on them more.

How do you know this?
Agree. I find it odd that so many people bring up this argument, like these companies aren't sitting on piles of cash that could be invested in systemic, human-in-the-loop improvements. (Ok, maybe except Twitter)
One of the easiest ways to show people that proportional representation is troublesome is to highlight how in past elections it would have given UKIP 83 MPS and even the BNP a dozen or two MPs in the past.

In other words, whilst PR will help you get a representative of your favourite party in, it will also help get representatives of parties who you really don't want in.
Without knowing anything about the owner and the dog, I would rather meet an unleashed Golden Retriever than unleashed Pitbull. Am I wrong thinking like that?
We used something similar in school assemblys years ago, every student was able to hear it, the whole assembly errupted in chaos and none of the teachers were able to figure out what was happening. Good times.
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I was doing a couple of POSTs a minute on a paid plan, and I saw a random 2-3% of request to be failing they never hit my backend, speaking to support wasn't helpful at all, that's when we moved away from Cloudflare, I wouldn't base my business on it.
> And why stop here? We should open the market for TCP implementations.

_Re-open_. There were, indeed, commercial TCP/IP stacks available for various operating systems until the operating systems started including them.

If we do a comparison with the browser situation, then it would be quite sufficient to allow people to install 3rd party TCP/IP stacks. Does Microsoft prevent that? I honestly don't know myself since I don't really use Windows. :D
You can blame Cloudflare for not meeting their promises on free tier. But you can't blame them for "hiding" the errors. You are responsible to monitor your service, and it's good practice to have that happen externally from your environment. If you have a public API, monitor it publicly. Things like Pingdom and synthetic monitoring exist for this reason.
automating sending out fake emails allowed any idiot to do it.

there is a difference in scale and effect between every idiot in the world can fake as many impersonations of people that they want (and they can coordinate this impersonation with 100s of others who have a goal with this impersonation) and Rich Little calling up somebody's granny and claiming to be Jimmy Stewart.
I've always seen free plans as a way to get started. A great way for a startup to get things up before they get money rolling in. Then as you grow, you outgrow the free plan but by then you have the money to upgrade.
I took what the author wrote to indicate that there was no available test to do what he'd wanted to do. I really wish people would drop the whole "because reasons" thing, especially when writing something meant to be read by many other people.
Hi, it's not really documented all that well, but if you don't mind diving into code, then give it a go: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@lvqconsult/spatium-cli
Show HN: Online Code Diffchecker
ReCAPTCHA v2 with Ruby on Rails
"I used a free service and it wasn't great"

Then use another service or pay for it.

This is highly unlikely to be as simple as the author conjects, we're talking about a service that processes an enormous amount of traffic and if what the author suggests is true, would someone else not have noticed by now? It's certainly possible that different infrastructure is used by free/paid plans, and perhaps this specific site was hosted on an unhealthy instance. But we don't have any external data points here to analyse - only those reported by Cloudflare, along with anecdotal reports.

Edit: I see the title has now been changed, at least we're reducing clickbait.
this was my first question, but it seems like this was a price driven decision.
Didn't Reuters kill off their RSS service? How did you set it up? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23576022
Compliance is a big reason for enterprises to adopt buildpacks. It’s hard for organisations to assure all code is built using only approved or up to date dependencies. Dockerfile makes it very easy to package vulnerable libraries and difficult to verify which containers are vulnerable. Scanning works but better to not push vulnerable code in the first place
Turing test may be a decent first approxiamtion, but not the long term goal. Consider:

1. We can't give a satisfactory definition intellect or consciousnes but
2. We know that humans have it

therefore Turing test becomes the natural choice.
It's just like blind hearing for musicians.
This is a thing even without humblebrag.

I am a descendant of fairly strong guys - one grandfather was a rural blacksmith, the other one started as a lumberjack before going to the (still coal powered) railway to coal the engines. I inherited quite a lot of their physique from them, which means that I can do quite good in a gym without trying much.

Yes, that feels unjust. Not that I am depressed about it, but it is definitely something you ponder upon: why this guy who works so much harder than me does not see as much return on his effort?
> they don't give away these explanations because such explanation would hint the spammer to what they should _not_ do next time

We've heard this excuse countless times, but it's simply not acceptable. The foundation of our legal system is that it's better to let a criminal go than to punish an innocent person. How many innocents have to get caught in the crossfire before we start protecting them?
The point is, when you switch your phone operator, you don't have to pay the previous operator, in perpetuity, for the privilege of using your number without your calls being blocked.
Seems to be hugged to death

Get "http://localhost:36169/": dial tcp 127.0.0.1:36169: connect: connection refused
That's how long it takes to train the machine learning model.
I guess if it's true, and happened once in the era of never-before-so-comprehensive astronomical coverage (say O(10 years)), then it may well happen again. If it's some space rubbish from very, very far away, then so what, but if was aliens flying by, they may fly by again.
Free Services like this are offered for 3 reasons

1. Marketing...

2. Data collection (after all if you are not paying you are the product) There is monetary value in collection, observation, and tracking of a vast amount of internet traffic.

3. Education. If you get people just starting out in their careers using your product or service for they hobby, personal project, etc then when they have a business need for some like your product or service they will just naturally choose you. Adobe and MS has been doing this for decades with low or no cost education licensing
What is the point being made here? Humans are liable for themselves and their actions - animals are not. It ultimately doesn't matter if an animal has a justification for its actions; being unable to take responsibility for them, from a human perspective, is the biggest separator between human and animal behaviour.
After reading more of "Harvard astronomer"'s comments, I think "paid us a visit" is a bit pointed and unfair.

Considering the unknown odds and likelihood of life/ intelligent life in the universe, ranging from nil to high, it isn't unreasonable to propose that exceptionally unusual space junk is just that - flotsam or jetsam from others. We're certainly on track to be discarding large amounts of our own across the universe. Compare to the amount of plastic in the ocean - it has to go somewhere.

Even if it acted under its own power, that doesn't mean that "it came here to spy on us", or that it noticed us at all. Even speculating on the purpose and function goes beyond reasonable, and Loeb doesn't.
I'm using this: https://calebj0seph.github.io/spectro/
It’s not the case with everyone, OP could wait until supports get back to him and investigates everything, and then push a pice on that. Bug -> Contact Support -> Wait for answer & solutions -> Happy or not ending.

What if he accuses them without justification? Which is probably a case here.
Like I wrote, for some integrations it is not possible to gather all the logs. Also how will you know that a client accessing your website in a browser gets 503 instead of your web page?
Watching an HDD do its work through a plexiglas cover
> I am a china hater

What does it even mean? China is a huge country, what exactly do you hate - over one billion people, its various countrysides, what?

The Chinese are normal people, like you and me. They work, they have families, they have joys and sorrows the same as we do. The only difference is that they are more controlled by their government and are less free to express what they feel. They have some extraordinary minds, very old and rich culture, and many people I know are truly wonderful and I have some very good friends there.

The Chinese government, though, it's a different monster. But still, I can't understand how one can introduce oneself as "China hater".
Yup. A book is not a scientific paper. It can be debunked, but it doesn't really matter because it'll sell anyway.
> Why would they continue like that. Isn't there one single PR person at Google?

Because they can afford it, they are a monopoly
Intel responds to Apple’s M1 chips with cherry-picked benchmarks
Well their main argument against it is that if you don't tell scammers which rule exactly they are breaking they can't improve until the app is approved. But of course that hits normal customers too. It's the equivalent of arresting random people on the street and not telling them why - surely, innocent people will just get their lawyer to free them.
Proven is a strong word and rate limiting is not the only possible explanation. Something is happening and we don't know what.
> In countries that aren't undergoing an obesity epidemic it is completely normal for men to have visible abs.

Umm, which countries are you talking about here? I've been to several countries and I really don't think I've been anywhere where it's "completely normal" for men to have visible abs (let's say for definition's sake, I don't think I've been to a country in which >10% of the adult male population has abs). Not that I could necessarily tell most of the time, most people have shirts on during the day.

I do agree with your point though - I don't think visible as are unhealthy.
Sure. Humans have been eating meat for tens of thousands of years. That's a track record. The idea that something that's been consumed by humans since there have been himself having a better track record than something that historically hasn't isn't even controversial.

Your turn. Basically all cardiovascular diseases are caused by meat, right?

I've spent most of my life as a vegetation but dishonest histrionics like this do a disservice to the aim of convincing meat eaters to eat less meat.
If someone gave me a free car and I suddenly discovered that it had stopped working at 8:30am on Monday morning because the free car plan didn't support peak hour, just when I needed it most, I'd be annoyed as hell. This would be the case no matter how much I got paid at my job. Getting a nasty surprise because you didn't realise a product was inferior is upsetting for reasons that should be pretty obvious.

Admittedly the cloudflare free plan does say it's for things "that aren’t business-critical", but what does that actually mean in terms of resource quota and expected uptime?
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It wasn't silly. It was third-party software which provided functionality that the OS simply lacked.
> they just aren't included in the base OS

Both a QR-capable camera and a flashlight in the notification bar are in all my Android phones, and they've been for a very long time. I know the Nexus One didn't include it, but those will have problems with modern TLS anyway.

The problem is likely elsewhere. It wouldn't surprise me if many of these users are tricked into installing these apps. It is quite popular for malware to disguise itself as a legitimate app as to not raise suspicion.
They're planning to extend the A100 on top of Wilde Renate and ://about blank. Not sure if that's going to happen though...
I wish people would stop submitting this same story. Its been chewed over a few times here.

https://www.google.com/search?q=harvard+astronomer+site%3Ane...
For Spotify, at least, there is already MPRIS support which covers most of the advantages here I think.
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Enough advertising this guy's new book already
If it is indeed an issue of rate limiting.
This is a reasonable objection to TFA, but it is an entirely different objection than your original post I responded to.
> in recent days

It's not a recent phenomenon.
That’s different than scientific papers how...?