skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pinterest seems to have nailed this. I keep cursing myself for not investing in PINS every time they blow out earnings. The platform seems devoid of toxicity found on other socials and advertisers seem to love it.
As far as I know, this is also an image commonly used in machine learning tutorials for image classification of species of flowers. I don't know if the tutorials use the mediawiki source directly though. I do recognize this image though. I think it's in the SciKit Learn O'Reilly book.
What do you look for in an ideal reddit alternative?
Do you know if that company licenses the E-Ink patents? Or is it a copy?

I generally don't trust the Chinese companies b/c IME they don't have any sort of return policy or useable warranty.
ArtDecoJS
Novice question: to lose that much money do you need to sell options? My understanding was that buying options was relatively safe.
Donald Trump Is an Idiot
Yeah, the benchmark is no longer useful due to all the micro-optimizations in the code that never happen in the real world.

Most of them check the Nth letter of the HTTP method to do routing, hard code the content-length, etc. This benchmark shows which language is the fastest to throw the hardcoded data into the socket.

Meantime, Django[1] is the simplest and a real-world application.

1: https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/blob/mast...
Exactly! Rummo is where we start talking.
> what I find awesome about reddit is its ability to connect people and really have group conversations

I am a redditor for 7 years and that was true early on. Today it is not. You can connect and have group conversations only if you subscribe to a certain dominant political and cultural narrative, walk on egg shells, and toe a line. If you don't, you are swiftly downvoted and banned. There is no escape from this even in generic, non-political subs.

Niche small subs are often ok, but Reddit is not unique to have those.
This response is the kind of western politically correct arrogance that I left the states for.

People don't get violently attacked here by virtue of being Asian, so yes, I feel safer. Happiness wise, there is a multitude of reasons New York City is an inferior megacity in terms of convenience and quality of life. I've been to 80% of the restaurants in Manhattan and a hundred michelin star restaurants, I personally don't think the food in New York City is that great, especially with ethnic food being gentrified out.

As for diversity, I attended a public school with 25% blacks, 20% latinx, 25% Asians, and whites were less than 30%, so thanks for the snarkiness. There is not fundamentally any problem with this diversity.

The diversity in NYC however is a matter of tolerance, not in the good sense of the word. During normal times this masked because everyone is so busy, but Asian communities still experience segregation.

I lived in 8 different neighborhoods in NYC including Queens, Brooklyn, and Manhattan. Have you lived in NYC or a megacity in Asia or are you armchair philosophizing what it's like to actually live in a place?
Security Researchers Push for 'Bug Bounty Program of Last Resort'
An international program that pays out hefty sums for the discovery of software vulnerabilities could spur greater scrutiny of applications and lead to better security.
Creating national programs to buy vulnerability information from security researchers could significantly reduce the risk of software flaws, according to two European security researchers.

In a paper published on Thursday — "Bug Bounty Program of Last Resort" — Stefan Frei and Oliver Rochford argue that the funds necessary to pay a bounty of $50K, $150K, and $250K for medium-, high-, and critical-severity vulnerabilities from the top 500 vendors would amount to $1.7 billion, less than 0.01% of the US gross domestic product. To create a net positive impact on cybercriminals, the effort would only have to create minimal savings of less than 0.5% of the $1 trillion annual impact of cybercrime, the researchers state.
Falco with Falcosidekick and NATS Server
Nice. What's the different between Camo and InstaRoom?
I worked on two Rust projects over 500k LOC, one 800k LOC and one that's now at 1.5 million LOC.

Number one feature versus Kotlin, C++, C#, C, Haskell, Python, Ruby, etc. is how easy it is to refactor large-scale Rust code bases safely.

Refactoring a large C++ code-base is almost impossible to do correctly without introducing lots of bugs, undefined behavior, security vulnerabilities, etc.

We did a major refactor (completely parallelized an ~700k LOC application) in a relatively short span of time (6 months) in Rust without issues.

We are also not the only ones that did this. Mozilla tried to parallelize Firefox using C++, and this failed so hard, that they actually chose to develop Rust far enough first, to be able to do that in Rust instead, and all that work actually landed on Firefox a couple of years ago already. I wouldn't consider Firefox a "toy" project.
Barilla is like Nutella. It's just the most popular, not the best
I can't give a concrete reason, but I suspect they might want to be able to transmit over channels with comparatively little bandwidth/much noise. Shannon taught us that more reliable communication in the face of low bandwidth and/or high noise is only possible with a smaller symbol set.
Janet Yellen to end strong dollar policy
A very accurate and well stated response. Saying it’s being used for “nothing” is, in my opinion, like saying building a spaceship is for nothing. I know people who say that. Not only is it a step on the road to something much grander, but purely by its existence it produces artifacts that add value in other areas. Decentralized exchanges, flash loans, all the ideas and technologies that have arisen from this space and will eventually evolve into amazing tools for finance and civilization. I get what you mean - it sure looks wasteful. But to me it’s not so cut and dry.
> in a bid to align to progressive left political views

Is there really this huge conspiracy by the left, or are most just tired of hate speech from the right when they want to look at funny memes?

> it is far from a place to have conversations on almost anything

Well, except for this alt-right stuff and things that are illegal, are so much else censored? I'd wager most people could find a discussion about any of their interests.
Slide rules seem very anachronistic but this is only because of the their form but not their purpose.

They are low-tech, continuous (vs. discrete, as in "tables with values in a booklet") lookup "tables" for functions that would have been too time-consuming (or error-prone?) to compute at "runtime". And they even allow parameters to be taken into account.

These things are absolutely ingenious inventions.
Several reasons. Etiquette. Less reason mangle the words of others (arbitrarily cutting something out of larger context can also easily mangle). Let's your reader see how you understood the communication, not just that you found it somewhere and copy-pasted it in.
The problem is that "sic" has two uses. The standard use is, as you say, to indicate that the text is as it appeared originally, and you didn't add a typo. The common Internet use is to indicate "This is wrong. Har har you're stupid." Many people don't realize the first usage exists.
I find it a bit opposite - "on the job" code is often the ugliest, 80%-done code I've dealt with, with minimal docs, unless a very rare environment not just allowed but pushed for completion.

Things written for public consumption from the outset are cleaner.
> I think the most important thing about files is being able to take a unit of work - a picture or a document - and interact with it as a single object, doing things like copying it or sharing it with others.

Yes, we want this, but the filesystem is actually quite bad at this! We have just gotten used to how bad files and filesystems are, and ignore the fact that they are not good matches for our metaphors about how they work.

Just to be clear—I completely disagree with your claims about how files work. You can’t really interact much with a file as a single object. When you open a document, a copy of the file is loaded into memory. This separate, invisible copy does not show up on the filesystem and will be out of synch with the filesystem copy.

For example,

1. Open a text file in Vim, Nano, or Emacs.

2. In another terminal window, rename the file.

3. Make changes to the text file and save it.

What happens? You end up with two different files! This is not some weird hackery, this is just renaming a file, one of the most boring things you can do. Something I do all the time. It shows that files are not single objects, and you do not interact with them that way. This is one of the failings of the Unix filesystem model—files are not single objects. There is a ton of room for improvement.

Just as a point of comparison, Windows is a bit worse (usually won’t even let you rename the file) and the Mac is a bit better (when you rename a file, the open document will follow the rename).
They go one step beyond lookup tables, though: they are lookup tables where also the input is (well, depending on scale) transformed with a mathematical function.
> an unofficial fork of libpq client that supports batching

I thought they were just hand optimizing their code to the point they submissions were totally unidiomatic. But now I learn even dependencies get this kind of attention.

Years ago I submitted a ticket asking for inclusion of memory usage stats (interesting in small environments) and start-up time stats (interesting in serverless environments). But nothing ever happened on that front; I guess it's because TechEmpower is a Java shop and that are not typical metrics where the JVM shines.
The Apollo app is better than the official one.
You don't understand hyperbole or the increase in metabolic rate after physical activity.
Laptop has seven times the average number of screens
I disagree with the core tenet of the article. Does everything really have to live forever? Most blogs are probably not worth preserving, just like most speeches in history are not worth preserving. Most books are never reprinted.

Time is a great filter. Yes important stuff gets lost but not each thought or word is worth preserving and not every moment in life needs to be captured and kept for posterity.

I would prefer if more SO answers, more old tweets, more outdated tech blogs, more old unflattering photographs, ... disappear in the void. The death of geocities meant some valuable stuff was lost, but it also meant that much much more crap was lost.

The world does not gain from keeping every scrap, rather the filter of 'did someone care enough to preserve this' adds value as the signal to noise ratio improves over time.
> How is including Huawei as a founding member of the Rust Foundation in any way justifiable from a moral perspective?

Probably in the same way that it is justifiable to support the DoD of the USA to use Rust on their drones that kill civilians all over the world. (the micro-controller of one of the turbines used in these drones runs 100% Rust).

US military technology that uses Rust is also deployed in Israel to genocide palestinians, and at this point Rust is involved somewhere in every civilian life the US directly or indirectly contributes to taking away.

So if this is where you want to put the bar, then none of the tech companies that are now major Rust foundation members would pass it.

I mean, Microsoft hosts the NSA cloud that's used to spy on citizens all around the world, and rattle them out to get them killed when it suits the CIA. Facebook was used by Cambridge Analytica to rig Brexit in the UK, and the list goes on and on and on.
Options are considered binary plays: they either expire in the money, or they expire worthless.

It would be trivially simple to empty out your entire account by buying foolishly deep out-of-the-money options. (E.g. betting that GameStop shares will be worth $800 by the end of the week).
Ideally, we should align our incentives such that having na internet-connected automation system is far more expensive than having one disconnected from the network. You should be forced by law to have a certain number of security experts on-call for any such system, periodic audits and pen-tests on your own expense etc.

It's OK for a huge city operating many water treatment plants to decide that it is more efficient to automate and centralize and secure the network. It is horrendous that this is seen as the cheap solution for a small town.
“ Thank you everyone for the comments and suggestions. I just wanted to share that we have identified the app and will update this task tomorrow. (And yes, it is a mobile app.)”
Good ‘ole CS 373, had Erickson back in 2002 and it’s def. a defining course in CS at UIUC.

The answers to a lot of these are now google-able; you’ll learn more by researching than being spoon fed the solution!

Imagine those of us students back then when google wasn’t a verb yet trying to solve these problems!
Here's what I know:
They made the game Oquonie together and I believe they earned a lot of money from doing that.
Also they got the idea of living on a sailboat from talking to someone in a bar. Living on a sailboat is not more expensive than living in a city with these real estate prices we have. I think you need to calculate about 10% of the original price of the boat for upkeep each year.
A related issue is flood scour in waterways around the support pillars of bridges. Climate change is invalidating the hydrological assumptions that the bridge supports were designed around.
what's the point of quoting if you are paraphrasing?
I remember that MediaWiki installation allowed the configuration that essentially permits the use of Commons files, albeit in that case, the file will be downloaded and cached in the Wiki's own server [1].

That being said, though the image wasn't hotlinked directly, they expressed concerns of DDOS and the possible costs the Foundation has to incur from each load (they even pointed out that it's "fair and reasonable" to point donation link to them).

I would be interested to see how the licensing issue will be handled, though. The photographer licensed this photo as GFDL/CC BY-SA 3.0 [2], and hotlinking may break the term of these licenses.

1: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/InstantCommons

2: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:AsterNovi-belgii-flo...
I wish they had included various submarine attack disks that incorporated both slide rules and angle calculators.
Same for me. Also, I like to see a race once in a while :)

Seeing Rust climb, PHP/Ruby/Python/etc fail. Also what Node.js is capable of. It's fun!
Bought and played. It’s ok. Monument Valley still remains my most favorite.
Wow, I’ve taken the exact same path. Started in 2006, learned everything I could, and lost joy gradually over the past few years.
I’ve left my last front end job behind a couple years ago and launched my startup. Now front-end is just a tiny part of what I do.

Good luck OP!
I like the approach but prefer it more consequent: every tooling breaks over time, if not statically linked.

Even better: no tooling at all. Just files. Means HTML then. And self-contained e.g. per year.

So you don't need to touch old stuff when changing style or production tool.
app stores are false security, always have been
I watched a documentary about MySpace a while back and at some point the majority of their code was ColdFusion.

The initial proof-of-concept was coded in around 10 days and then they got stuck with it for a while until they moved to .NET ~2005
Yeah... chimpanzees can be very violent.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gombe_Chimpanzee_War
The only way to 'nudge' the chances of a girl baby is to select the sperm based on which sex genes they carry. Any hormonal or such changes induced in the fetus down the line is too late to have any effect on genetic gender.
I browsed that just now. It was very... Reddit. I don't know why I was hoping for some nice, small subs on topics I'm interested in.
That's true, especially if you are literally sitting on a hard chair and restricting your blood flow.
Forget 5G, the U.S. and China Are Already Fighting for 6G Dominance
Seems more likely that the causality is in the opposite direction
Fully redundant LXD cluster for low cost hyperconverged infrastructure
Mines: https://viewer.legacysurvey.org/?ra=167.2301&dec=26.6135&lay...
I may be completely wrong, but it looks like these two galaxies are on the verge of merging together.
Yes, that's why I put "tables" into quotes.
Also, jwz is responsible for xscreensaver.
It isn't _at_ the airport, that's just the closest airport. The WMF names its clusters with the initials of the data center vendor and the closest airport's code.
I actually have my @gmail.com address redirect to Fastmail, I have a filter on the Fastmail inbox that shows me mail sent to the gmail address.

I go through the filter every now and then to see which services are still using my old address and change them to use the newer one.

It's also a nice way to find out how horribly some services have f-d up the change process. One had a non-working change email button and the CS rep just deleted my old account and told me to create a new one.

One just plain doesn't let people change their email. At all.
> There doesn’t seem to be a whole lot of thought around “is it even necessary for this three-ton industrial robot to be dynamically reprogrammed from a service center in Stockholm,”

That's because the value proposition is only obvious when you substitute for "Stockholm" a city from one of the countries with cheaper labor.

In my limited experience with Industry 4.0, it smells like a combination of forcing a goldrush to sell shovels (so many players that want to be the platform which connects everything) on one side, and ongoing search to turn capex into opex on the other (that latter thing is a trend in pretty much all industries, though). I think there's enough companies that would happily replace their control systems (and control engineers) with prepackaged control-as-a-service which they don't have to know anything about, supplied by the lowest bidder, to which they can shift any liability if anything happens. This kind of setup does require remote access.
I wish there was an archive of r/askhistorians. It looks like they nuke discussion after they get one decent sized answer. I cant seem to find older threads too.
Reddit (and discord) seem to me ripe to be unbundled. They are benefiting enormously from the free labour of moderators, and their network advantage depends highly on google's asinine decisions to block out anything but the top 10 sites on their search results. Due to aging moderators, overcrowded communities and meme fatigue, we re more likely to watch their communities break off independently.
It's a massive company with a multi-decade history. There's probably some historical truth to it, but yea, it is not the current reality.
May be our first look at Android 12, Google’s next Android OS
Might be relevant for you: There also appears to be a way of reusing broken e-ink displays as DIY segment displays.

Summary on Hackaday: https://hackaday.com/2017/04/12/can-you-build-an-e-ink-displ...

and the russian-language article it refers to:
http://we.easyelectronics.ru/HomeTech/izgotovlenie-segmentno...
How to Make Software Developers Feel Comfortable During Interviews
This comment hits the nail right on the head.

What is wrong with web dev? Why is it perceived not ok to be "stuck in 2015"? I've never seen so much churn and turnover in any other single layer of a tech stack.
Linux 4.9.256
Bought it yesterday when reading this and read it halfway now; I like it. And thanks for taking the effort writing it!

As for remarks;

I second the reliance on the additional libraries; I think most readers are in fact, as you say in the book, purist... And won't like his reliance. No matter if it makes things better or not.

To that point; I personally like your opinionatedness in the book; on HN (etc) you would be shot down for many remarks you make in the book, but I like them here from people and do like that about the writing.

I wouldn't put smileys :) in a book like this, but that's a matter of taste.

And maybe a proofread by a native English speaker could have been good, but nothing was bad per se, it's just, having worked for 5 years in Ukraine (Lviv/Kyiv), that I recognize the way sentences are constructed and that is sometimes not the most readable in English. But I am not native English, and, again, for this kind of book, it's definitely fine, it would just be a bit of icing on the cake.
The HN post of the announcement of AWS S3 – 6 points and 2 comments
The flip side: the doomsday prediction that everybody will know how to code one day will likely not happen.
Yay! My skill set is gonna remain valuable for a while :)
> I’m from a Muslim country that does not accept western notions of individualism or sexual permissiveness.

There is no such Western notion of individualism or sexual permissiveness. The sexual mores of Roman Catholics in South America are very different than the sexual mores of Roman Catholics in Italy and very different from some polygamous Mormon enclaves in the US. The "West" once uniformly banned homosexuality and has been very inconsistent in slowly coming to tolerate it, and such tolerance has certainly also grown in the "East" in a similar slow and inconsistent fashion.

What there is, in many countries, is a notion of the necessity of secularism in law and government. Brought about precisely because religions cannot agree about basic fundamental points of morality and they have been all too willing to fight each other over it throughout history. In order for the various religious sects to stop fighting one another, it was agreed in many nations that the law shouldn't play favorites with a given religions view of morality.

This separation of church and state is indeed found far and wide and certainly goes beyond the "West". The underlying principle, that you cannot get people even in a single nation to agree upon what otherwise harmless things are taboo, ultimately leads to other protections for self expression and in this case homosexuality.
As for r/Popular alternatives, I usually stick to less-noisy sites like https://upstract.com / Metafilter.com or even Pinboard's popular section.
I was able to trade options with TradeKing in 2010 by just checking a box, claiming that I knew that I was doing.

(I was still in college and did not know what I was doing, but fortunately only ended up losing a few hundred bucks.)

This isn't new - it's how it's worked for a good long while.
Nice read.

Something I find really funny is how I was thought oxford's English and the teachers made us pronounce "correctly" the words. I thought that's how everyone spoke. Oh boy, my surprise when I started traveling, everyone pronounces however they want, from the irish, americans, indians, to the australians, even in London no one spoke the way I knew!

This made me feel more comfortable with my English, if I miss pronounce a word, I think it's actually subjective, probably someone pronounces the same way I do haha

And when I really have doubts, I started making notes of these words and I check them in this app that someone built https://youglish.com/ thanks random human!
NoRouter: Instant multi-cluster and multi-cloud container networking
Wikimedia also has less incentive/drive to meticulously track every interaction on their pages. The level of tracking present on Facebook and Google has to be extremely computationally intensive.
This reminds me of a video I watched, just 6 days ago[0].

The video goes into detail about how deadly each of our energy gathering methods are. It also goes into detail about how many are killed per kWh.

I had no idea hydro was as deadly as it is before this video, I highly recommend anyone with 10 minutes to spare give it a watch. The channel is incredibly great in general.

[0]: https://youtu.be/Jzfpyo-q-RM
Productivity Hack for Social Media