skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Goes to show how a relatively small set of scientists with perhaps some crowd sourcing can achieve. We have the capability of going much further if all humanity works together on understanding our place in the universe - imagine a million people working on this (annotation, survey, search) to build a catalog even more detailed. Makes one wonder if there will ever be a shared human vision - can capitalism deliver it to us or some other political ideology like socialism has it in itself to best tackle humanities problems and explore opportunities. Will we ever reach that point where the futileness of our daily existence is overridden by greater concerns. How do we ever reach such an "ideal" ideology? Is it only through the painful process of blind discovery? Has enough been done to atleast theorize on the best option? Or will it never be possible to even theorize and come up with a solution, forget about implementation. Space provides direct evidence of the wonders of our universe, while human existence provides one about a host of lost opportunities. Perhaps we must just wait for an advanced benign alien existence to rescue us and preserve our own unique wonder of existence. Perhaps enough of us realize this fast enough not to destroy ourselves before we do that.

Sorry for the rant.
> Supplements have been really fun. For example, 2:1 L-Theanine to Caffeine, especially after a nap, is like productivity medicine for me.

Add some N-acetyl-L-tyrosine for even more focus: https://www.vitacost.com/jarrow-formulas-n-acetyl-tyrosine
As someone who has some experience with hydroxide and water-treatment systems (as well as other potentially-dangerous industrial controls): always design your system such that even if your feed pump runs full-bore continuously, the system cannot harm anyone.

The dilution of the solution stored in the hydroxide tank generally allows you to make this so.

Sleeping well at night is a great side-effect.
If it was my site I'd replace the image with goatse and see who complains, but I guess that's a bit drastic for Wikimedia.
OP here. This article generated some attention and traffic. The claims contained in it are incorrect. After another contact with CF support, it turned out that the Bot Fight Mode behaves differently for Free and PRO plans. That's what caused the instant improvement after upgrading. Another way to resolve the issues I was experiencing would have been to disable the bot fight mode altogether or add a custom page rule disabling it. My website never experienced any traffic throttling. I've decided to remove the article, to stop spreading the misinformation about CF services.
Usually gorillas are considered peaceful compared with chimpanzees and humans.
Google Play Pass app with over 10M installs has been outed as malware
> given that mainstream society is predominantly heterosexual, that would inevitably morph into whether homosexuality is an intrinsically valuable thing

Society presently allows extreme leeway on providing value in every other way imaginable. We allow people to work in ad-tech for crying out loud. Ok, that was a bit of a joke, but the point is that society not only allows people to not contribute to the social good, it perniciously promotes people perpetuating palpable public harm for personal profit. Singling out sexuality on this particular front is patently perfidious.

> since I suspect most people who identify as heterosexual value their own heterosexuality

You may be correct about the percentage of people with this particular value, but I think it would be because of something other than mainstream predominance. I think it's more likely that "value" is an inapt word and that most people just don't ever imagine any alternative as being realistic given their...uhh...predicament.
The last several decades have seen a huge decline in people's actual material well being, wealth, and personal security, full stop. If you have not noticed this, congratulations, you are lucky.

It's not just "the media" and "the culture" and "the discourse..." it is material fact.

So, yes, you read the room right. The reason none of these discussions are productive is because the material strife is consistently and purposefully sublimated into cultural/personal strife, so that it any change which would arise -- which happens when people actually understand material reality -- is prevented.

The rage is cultural because if it were not cultural, things would materially change.
Clearly there are multiple societies, with varying cultural norms (as we can see from the range of opinions here). While you can't have societies without individuals obviously, you can only barely have individual humans without societies (and they're usually not doing too well, a few hermits and mystics notwithstanding).
Gen-X is the modern silent generation, except on a downward trend.
> on the Rust side, both actix and ntex are too immature as neither’s hit 1.0 yet

Maybe so, but we've been running https://pernos.co on Actix for a couple of years now with no issues. We didn't have to use "unsafe" either, and I understand that Actix's use of "unsafe" internally has also been significantly reduced.

Tokio's "warp" is much less mature than Actix AFAICT. Version numbers can be misleading.
A different take on your last paragraph:

Ignorance can be fixed relatively easily compared to poor personality traits.

I think somewhere here is a conflation between "ignorance" and "intelligence".

First priority is to get someone who doesn't stir up unnecessary shit.

Second priority, get someone smart.

Third priority, get someone who already knows the tech.
Show HN: That $100 you didn't invest in Bitcoin because they said so
Around the time of Randall Monroe's "shibboleet" comic, I had an ISP connection that would flake out. If nobody kicked the cord on my end, the same series of events played out every time:

Check the cables.

Turn it off for 30 seconds.

Check the connection to the router.

Check the lights.

Try random other shit.

ISP reboots their modem instead of mine.

Networking restored.

Now, in theory, when a commercial modem loses carrier it should reset the connection completely. This they kept telling me, every four or five months for two years. And every time I got to sit patiently while their support person learned that this is not always the case, over the course of the next 20 minutes. If I tried to tell them about last time, then they would verbally pat me on the head and keep wasting my time. Whatever cooperative game or The Killer Is About to Reveal Himself was now a distant memory.
I've been following this story but this was new to me:

> The suit says that Kearns made three attempts to contact Robinhood customer service regarding the massive underwater balance. However, his messages were met with automated replies, according to the complaint.

I wonder how the people who set up a brokrage dealing with people's hard earned money in such a way you couldn't get in contact with a human easily must feel after hearing this?

I get calls from Morgan Stanley just because a of a form error while initiating a transfer asking if I'd like them to do it for me, and RH is over here (wrongfully) telling people they're down almost a million dollars and then sending them to voicemail.

Even though it was a bug, you'd think there'd be some provision for this, like if an account suddenly went that far in the negative they'd freeze the account and contact you immediately (and yes, people will point out that means they can't sell if it bounces back, but if you actually owe RH 750k I'm pretty sure all your positions will be liquidated before you can cough...)
> you need specific forms of ID to open an account

To start using Bitcoin, you don't need any ID. You can download, install, and use the normal Bitcoin client.

You only need ID to open an account on an exchange, and that's because exchanges have to follow Know Your Customer laws just like banks. But if you sell something for Bitcoin, you can accept it without an account anywhere.

You only need an account somewhere to convert between fiat and Bitcoin, and even that can be avoided if you find someone willing to sell you coins for cash.
Japanese submarine crashes into commercial ship from Hong Kong
> it isn't necessarily in your company's best interest to try to keep you happy

This is true -- but your manager won't always act in your company's exact best interest either! I do think "management are human beings, too" is pretty important to remember.

> The loss of some fraction of X is always going to hurt the company more than your gain in Y will benefit them

I don't think you can assume this is always true. What if X is jQuery and Y is Typescript? Or X is oldLegacyCodebase and Y is newProjectInBurgeoningField?
> The topic of discussion was you claimed passwordless security had no security issues and I pointed out possible security issues.

But you claimed that the email can be hacked, I used an email forwarding service provided by google or apple.

So are you saying I can be hacked through this way, please provide evidence of this happening in a real world passwordless scenario.

> An individual can mitigate them, but they still exist

Again, I would be more convinced of real world evidence and statistics rather than theorising.
It's baffling to me that TeamViewer is still used in a corporate setting, after all the vulnerabilities it's had over the years.

This was nothing but gross negligence from whoever is in charge of their IT infrastructure.
At a certain point though, it becomes cheaper to just pay the wealth tax than to move your hundred-billion-dollar company headquarters from state to state to state as more states adopt this policy.
What is gold good for? Would you buy a cofee with it? Do you use it for chemical experiments at home? Majority of people don't need gold, either. Why do we trust fiat money? Why do we think that car or laptop is worth what it is?
I think most rational people categorize 'somewhere else in the Milky Way' as 'extremely far away' :)
If you know you don't like managing, then no amount of money (okay, unless it's comically large) will make you like it. You even said it yourself - money isn't your driving factor.
> Again, who cares, as long as both parties consent and nobody gets hurts?

The problem is that there are some people who honestly believe that homosexuality is self-harm and/or harms society. If everyone believed nobody was getting hurt, then it would be a much easier conflict to resolve.

Certainly there's a lot of plain bigotry in these arguments, but, for instance, I have a friend who was really torn up about attending her brother's gay wedding. She's respectful of her brother's husband and loves her brother deeply, but is honestly concerned about non-provable harm to her brother's eternal soul. She's probably in the minority of those who oppose gay marriage, but as far as I can tell, it comes from a place of pure compassion.

Also, getting back to polygamy, what's your specific objection? That true informed consent is difficult to ascertain? In 50 years, will we be looking back on this as duo-sexual bigotry?

I agree that we shouldn't be discriminating against homosexuals, but it's surprisingly difficult to translate that gut feeling into robust reasoning from widely agreed first principles.
Ah, good point, that cooling only works when you're in the shadow of the Earth. I guess we'll have to keep sticking our datacenters in the ocean and at the poles.
Is there a place where one can browse known objects? I've picked mine and wanted to see if by any small chance it has been catalogued before: ra=200.6660 dec=76.8674

Anyway, yours is a beautiful comment
Already on the front page here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26070262
I'd give them a pass.
Is there a cryptocurrency exchange that accepts clean car credits in exchange for bitcoin?
Wow, their website was a delightful rabbit hole. Lots of creativity (invented language, invented date system, etc) and technical goals that resonate with me. Long term tech, minimalism, home made software.
Are Texas and Florida the New California and New York?
> it's just 7 billion individuals

Maximum deconstruction here, and a failure to recognize patterns. I wonder where this thinking will take us?
Wikimedia is unique in running some of the most popular websites with open access to almost all systems. As someone who has never been on the inside of FAANG, I found it rather interesting to browse around the backend infrastructure.

See, for example, their statistics at https://grafana.wikimedia.org/d/000000102/production-logging...
Yep looks like there are but are in the higher range of the distribution (>300). Updated the post with some interesting plots.

I would really like to use a z-score metric to remove the outliers and fit a gamma distribution, but unfortunately its a busy Monday!
They are not only still supporting it, it is a current product under a new name (IBM i). We just bought at S924 last year running IBM i.
Even just serving a giant blinking red X gif to 10^-6 of the requests might be sufficient.

Only 10^-6 of the "legitimate" requests would be affected, but a whole lot of the "undesireable" requests would see it...
Is roboflow a good way to do this kind of task? What is roboflow?
>What do you think is the biggest reason for the current condition?

Constant, non-stop, emotionally driven news and media available 24/7.

The news used to be a thing people did at 6pm or maybe in the morning with a newspaper. It didn't invade every day life and wasn't generally most people's focus.

These days' you've got news on the top results of google searches, news on facebook, news on twitter, forums devoted to posting about discussing news as fast as it comes up.

The thing about news is, a large part of it has always been politics, it just used to be kind of dry and boring to most people.

Now politicians are exaggerated and almost caricaturistic in their actions and words, the news plays up every tiny thing in an emotional way, so politics became big bucks as far as news goes, so it became a larger part of the news.

These things combined means a larger part of people's conversational topics becomes politics.
Watch some nature documentaries, wild researchers can often go and sit in close proximity with the gorillas, if humans are calm so are them. You wouldn't dare to do this with chimpanzees.
20% of Wikipedia Commons requests to their Singapore servers (EQSIN), not globally. That's still a lot, of course.
And of course, now that the image is linked in the report, I've just added an additional request for it by clicking.
You said:

> Sure, because “do passwordless emails” is just a snap of the finger away, right?

And I showed it literally is.

The choice is yours to reimplement this authentication system, but in terms of "a snap of the finger away", You can do that, That is all.

I've done these type of systems before at scale and it took minutes to do (works just like a password reset mechanism) and it is very trivial.

In your original comment above, I think you are projecting this a bit too much.
Well, I disagree that some form of prison is necessary. Like I said earlier somewhere I'm here, my opinion is probably a very unpopular one. I believe that if we can create a set of laws with no victimless crimes (which are also barbaric) then the world would be better with 2 sets of punishments: fines and corporal punishment, so long as no maiming is allowed in corporal punishment. I believe such a system would be much less barbaric than any system based around incarceration, and I believe incarceration is ineffective as a deterrent, and as rehabilitation. As far as protecting society from the criminally inclined, you're basically saying some people must be removed from society, and I would agree on that, though I think not nearly as many as we think go into prison like that, but many more come out like that, and I can think of a more humane way to remove that element from society than locking them away for the rest of their days, if they're truly beyond rehabilitation.
Deviant Ollam, well known presenter at various hacker conferences and professional penetration tester, has alluded to this a number of times in his presentations featuring photos of him in such water facilities:

Featured in a few of these videos, hotlink to the slide:
https://youtu.be/Rctzi66kCX4?t=2438
The Newton did have a storage called Soups. It was extremely fun to program and I miss it dearly.
1369€/mo from patreon apparently, but from what I learned from other sailors, boat maintenance alone can eat all that up already (and more).
Changed my commute to a fashion app
Python Steering Council Accepts Pattern Matching PEPs for Python 3.10
Off topic, but only 2 weeks until perseverance reaches mars https://www.nasa.gov/perseverance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tITni_HY1Bk&list=PLTiv_XWHnO...
That is not what is being discussed though.
I don't think any of these companies use Rust much. You may find teams here and there using it but the vast majority of the Rust type stuff is written in C++ or Java.
If they tapped me with their propaganda about rising sea levels, I would ask 'scientists' this question:

Seeing that tides vary from 5 to 25 feet all over the world and waves in similar ranges routinely pound shorelines, how is it that you claim to be able to measure ocean levels to within a fraction of an inch?
If that is true then the far right are correct to say this was a lie and a hoax.

We reconstructed laws and systems worldwide to make an accommodation that as per you had no genetic basis or reason.

In other words, this has been the greatest fraud to humanity and all those who went down this path in belief that it was a gene they could not change.
Aren't there lower hanging fruits to go after? Like are there not competitor or predicate devices to run the same DNA against and see what it says as far as a match goes?
Shenzhen I/O Solutions – MathBlog
Introduction to Arrays Using JavaScript – Examples and Problems
I would think a state actor would be stealthier. But I suppose it could be a test of defenses against such an attack.
If you can electrolyze water at home, the compression step is not a hard problem anymore. This is more trolling than a serious counterargument. Alternatively, you can have hydrogen piped to the house instead of home electrolysis.

You should understand that fuel cells will continue to improve in efficiency. 40% today will mean 50% tomorrow, and likely 60% at some point in the future. Losses for transport and compression of hydrogen is a surprisingly small amount. In fact, its more efficient to pipe hydrogen over long distances than to transmit electricity. In additional, you can always reuse the heat in either CHP or thermal energy recapture.

It's also important to realize that the electric grid is not perfectly efficient, nor is charging a battery. You're likely to lose around 30% to these types of losses. This figure is going to get worse once grid energy storage and long-distance power transfer become necessary. Combined with your 15% loss pushing the extra battery weight and it really does start to add up. Worse if you look at cold weather performance. The notion that fuel cells can never match batteries on efficiency is a very short-term worldview.
LMAO, the simulation never disappoints.
> I worry that they'd just find somebody who wouldn't have those scruples, though.

If I may speak slightly out of turn to a stranger, using a possible & currently imagined future person less scrupulous does not modify in any way your obligation, however you perceive it, to act ethically.
Hey Diggsey, yes we have. We've deployed this way for one of our customers. We still need a better story on how to migrate from hosted -> on-prem/private clud, but we're working on it. Feel free to contact me: braden@clerk.dev
> I don't want to learn nor use a million different tools.

As much rhetoric as there is about this being the frontend, the backend is worse. "Backend" is just defined as "anything that isn't the frontend" so the word casts a wide net. There's everything from logging and metrics to databases to pipelines and task managers to physical hardware and networking tools.

That said, it's always good to have a variety of knowledge and experience. The backend is nice because it doesn't rely on visual output as much and so you can code more without context switching between the editor and the browser. And it's incredibly easy to get pigeonholed into writing frontend code only. So many companies seem to be unable to let go of the fact that you have some specialization.
Union dues == guaranteed contributions to democrat machine
The ACM/IEEE JIC found evidence of peer-review fraud at ISCA'19
There was a court case against Toyota, where one of their cars would randomly accelerate and cause crashes. The software audit said the code was unreadable and nothing could be proven. They settled.

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/26/business/toyota-agrees-to....
Could it be the "Good Morning" like greetings on WhatsApp gone viral ?

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-internet-is-filling-up-beca...
Jonathan Swift approves.
No, the fake news is Google having any plans to make anything out of Stadia. They don't just decide the night before to shut a project down. Google has a long history of leaving projects to fallow for months to years before finally admitting to everyone that they hadn't been putting resources in and are finally shutting the project down. It's insidious because, if you don't know the playbook, you might think you can count on the service to stick around. Look at everything VR they did: some great products that sat around for a full year before Google finally admitted they weren't doing anything more with it. I fully expect Google has plans already to shut down Stadia, but haven't told anyone yet because... I don't know why. Why do they ever just let this shit go on forever? Sims kind of face-saving or senior-engineer-retention program.
As an author of the idea I'm happy to see it implemented :) Now I only wait to read the instructions how I can donate money to this foundation.
For a full rundown of the history of this incident see: https://pbzcnepu.net/isca/timeline.html
Serving a giant blinking red gif to unsuspecting internet users is a bad idea. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photosensitive_epilepsy

There was a better idea posted in comments - serve a picture with a very short explanation and an email to contact.
Jeff Bezos is a cutout.
A lot of experience with 20Hz computers, yes :P
The CFPB Investigates Venmo
To be fair, public works projects (especially replacing pipes and water treatment facilities) takes a long time.
Given the pretty strong birth order effects in play when it comes to gay men[0], you could probably stop about a quarter of the gay male population from being born just by banning consecutive male births, assuming you were willing to enforce a comically evil level of control over the population.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraternal_birth_order_and_male...
Stasi-like citizen-surveillance.

And there's nothing ironic about it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26070324

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26069728

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26070040
In a perfect world, maybe there would be unlimited budgets for small rural water districts to have 24/7 onsite staff and run highly secured networks.

I regularly work with these sorts of water districts (larger, better funded ones as well). In reality, some of these small districts may only have 2 or 3 SCADA operators on staff. Sending them home with a pager, a tablet, a VPN password, and some overtime pay is a lot easier to get past the city council then taking on another two employees to cover the night shift for those rare events that need to be handled ASAP.

I could share some real horror stories, but it wouldnt be professionally appropriate. Suffice to say, this story did not surprise me at all.
The "traditional" way of fixing this would be a goatse.cx redirect of the image.

I'm sure there is a more enlightened fix.
The insistence of Libre Software on the 4 freedoms is more user-friendly?