skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This approach only works if they don’t care about you. There’s a couple of decades of history by now showing how this approach fails, ranging from mass harassment (want to spend weeks blocking randos and sock puppets?) to attempts to contact your family and coworkers up to in-person harassment, placing Craigslist ads with your address saying you have violent rape fantasies, and SWATing.

This is, of course, unevenly distributed. If you’re a white guy you have to work at it to get the same level of resentment in certain circles that other people start with by being female, brown, gay, etc.

GamerGate is well worth learning about as an extreme example of how far it can get beyond the level where blocking works: it started with one person (Eron Gjoni) trying to clinch the “worst ex ever” title by rallying a hate mob against his ex girlfriend with some fake claims, which produced hate spasms for over a year, multiple police investigations, and fed into the 2016 US Presidential election.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamergate_controversy
Should’ve renamed it Sosumi.
I think there’s some confusion here - these smuggling craft are really more u-boats than submarines. They aren’t really comparable.
I will never have enough money in my entire lifetime to out-politic Google for one year, let alone the oil industry for the remainder of my life.
It's not e.
The fact that you've already changed between two supposedly simple approaches in under an hour might suggest that there's more to it than you initially thought.
the narcotics are FROM there, so doesn't make much sense to reverse paddle...
I genuinely didn’t think a negative opinion about a marketing word would be this controversial but point well taken. Last time I criticize presentation.
I recommend to check out HTTP2. It supports multiplexing. E.g. send JS, CSS files, and assets to the browser while the HTML is still being rendered on the server
Is that square meter or mile? It doesn't seem to make sense either way to me.

I'd like land. The cheapest land is usually not usable, or only usable in some small way. I want quality land.
>The threat of revoking someone's 230 protection would ideally make them think about everything you just said

By someone you mean the site owner? I don't know what you mean by "support free speech". Does it mean every non-illegal post must be allowed? There will probably be a ton of spam. Possibly porn in every subreddit. The entire idea of subreddits will die, because moderators of individual subreddits will no longer be able to moderate. There can no longer be rules about what is on-topic vs off-topic for a subreddit.

>If they don't, then they'll need to figure out how to address the kinds of problems you mentioned.

I don't think they can be addressed.
Besides that, this hypothetical can be tested. Saskatoon is far north, and they do not do DST timechange. Meanwhile, Red Deer Alberta is a similar climate and latitude, but does DST. So if people are concerned, winter morning accident rates in Saskatchewan could be compared.
I want to be as anti-carbon-neutrality as possible until it's illegal for me to cause pollution in any way

That's ... bizarre.

Upshot is I'm doing way more to improve the environment than you are, because I'm an adult who doesn't need be compelled to be perfect before doing anything positive.
In effect we somewhat have this kind of system with Food Stamps and housing vouchers -- "currencies" that are restricted to certain types of expenditures. Also of course there are advocates for education vouchers. Etc.

Unfortunately these targeted systems have been studied and results seem to be better if we just give people unrestricted grants. Slicing and dicing the money ahead of time seems less effective than letting the recipients decide.
It'll take longer than a year or two for something as complex as ETH2 to mature to a point where it can be considered as finished as Bitcoin.
"Netflix Original" anime (and many other foreign media, e.g. K-Dramas) aren't produced by Netflix; Netflix just throws money at them to get exclusive US distribution rights. There's competition here, but it's with other US anime distributors to get rights to Japanese-produced content aimed at a Japanese audience.
The opposing case is stronger: you can't just change the school schedule, because school is part of the fabric of child care; change its schedule, and you change the schedules of parents, which means now you have a coordination problem. That problem ripples, so that by the time you've really addressed it, you've essentially recapitulated daylight savings time.

Accidents aside, there's a lot to be said for not having the first 45 minutes of the school day take place in the dark in places like western Michigan, or for having sunrise occur 3-4 hours before people normally wake up in the summer.

Josh Barro is fond of pointing out that this --- eliminating DST --- was tried in the early 1970s, and the 2-year experiment was so universally reviled in practice that it was repealed almost unanimously in Congress just 9 months later.
You aren't the only one. That being said, the markets they play in will probably end up bigger than you might expect. Plus, the competition is pretty bad. Stripe has a good number of people who have 20 iq points + more ambition when compared to the equivalent person working at a competitor.
> When the team was small and had to grow fast, no one in the tech team took the time to build, or even think of, a data processing platform.

Good! This is much better than building something well before you need it. So when do you know you'll need it? By having each team track trends in metrics for their services/work and predicting when limits will be exceeded. (This used to be mandatory back when we had to buy gear a year or two ahead) This catches persistently increasing data sizes as well as other issues. Each team should track their metrics, write a description for what its effect means for the whole product, and forward them to a product owner (along with estimates of when limits will be exceeded).

> do try to set up some streaming replication on a dedicated reporting database server for quasi-live data (or set up automated regular dump & restore process if you don't need live data)

Both of these are potentially hazardous to performance, security, regulatory requirements, customer contract requirements, etc. Replication can literally halt your production database, as can ETL, and where it goes and how it's managed is just as important as for the production DB. So look at your particular use case and design the solution just as carefully as if you were giving direct access to production.

As for the structure of it all, once you start adding outside data, you'll find it's easier to architect your solution to have multiple tiers of extracted data in different pipelines, and to expose them each to analysis independently. You can make all of them eventually land in a dedicated database, but allowing individual analysis allows you to later build purpose-fit solutions for just a subset of the data without having to constantly mutate one "end state" database (which may become vastly more complex than your production database).

Btw, the name for this kind of work is called Business Intelligence (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_intelligence)
If you need an 18-bit int it would be called int18 under this scheme. And encountering things like int18 in code, at least you would never wonder what kind of int it was.
Thank you for sharing this. I literally got open water certified in Monterey this afternoon, and I will be signing up to volunteer!
A friend of mine, Bramin caste, married a non-Indian. His mother, who really believes in the caste system, refused to attend his marriage and hasn't seen any of his 3 children since.
Article on the many medical downsides of permanent Daylight Savings Time https://washingtonmonthly.com/2020/10/30/marco-rubios-time-m...
This is hilarious, like Calvin and Hobbes meets Zen...
Triangulating Math, Mozart and 'Moby-Dick'
A 'word' on an x86 is 32-bit, but a WORD is 16 bits.

You can _absolutely_ blame Microsoft for using it to mean something that it isn't.
I can understand that perspective, but for many families work and school schedules become synchronized. Introducing a one hour shift for some parts of the year becomes very challenging especially for families where both parents work. For some, the schedule ceases to work.
Al Jaffee turns 100
Do you have a link to an article on the tuning (or could you draft one)?
I'm sure the last few Fed chairs would like to know that they are guaranteed success in raising inflation! Now you just have to explain why they weren't even able to get it up to 2% even with a guarantee.
Italian here. Upvoted you :(
This was a serious question. There doesn’t seem to be a straightforward answer.
The poster mentions using Canvas to fingerprint browsers (which is new to me). Is there any obvious way to block it on Firefox?

I found this addon (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/canvasblocker...) but not sure if this is something that really helps or not.
Twelve under 256 Byte Apple II submissions to the lovebyte sizecoding party
I can confidently say that I personally saw a sea otter about 15 miles north of Santa Barbara about 5 months ago that was snacking on purple sea urchins. It would go down, come up, do something, and repeat, and I came across several very-recently-eaten purple urchins washed up along the beach on my walk that morning.

I also pretty regularly collect urchins in that kelp forest, purple and red in that area, and the ones the otter were taking were smaller than the ones I would have chosen. So, at the least, there's at least one sea otter that particularly cares to each some sea urchins, and one human that cares to each the others.
magnetic wax
Wow, the PGI compiler becoming open-sourced is awesome.
There's some evidence (linguistic and otherwise [1]) that the Ket people [2] of Siberia are a remnant of the peoples that populated the Americas.

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7M0QnAqQUmw
2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ket_people
> it's okay for an "open source project" to abandon their server repo with no explanation

Show me how you can prove what they publish on github is running on Signal servers and I'll agree here. Otherwise this point is moot.

They could publish cute cat pics on the repo instead for all I care, it's the same level of trust involved.
I would vote for any Presidential Candidate and House Representative regardless of party on the promise of leaving the clocks on DST all year around. That's all they would have to do to get my vote....nothing else.
Living in space is not fun, it is not natural, it is physically and mentally demanding which is why so much training goes into creating professionals which do it full time - there is no leisure, it is at best eustress, and I think space gets romanticized by the individual in ways which don't track with the actual work required to get us to be a species with two homes.

And the act of terraforming Mars to be Earth-like is nothing less than a titanic feat. The ways in which our world are fine-tuned to be bountiful would take more than several decades worth of missions - at least! - to even be mostly tractable on small segments of Mars, even with internal habitation. There will be failures. We will occasionally overextend like we do in every large project on Earth. What resources these projects? What's our buffer when they fail, even temporarily?

Meanwhile the physical means exist now to regenerate the Earth's environment and live sustainable yet happy lives. But the move from here to there requires decades long initiatives with little in the way of immediate profit. Things like safe nuclear power, permaculture and forest farms plus directed soil renewal, scalable water filtering, plastic substitutes; or scaling back conspicuous consumption and eliminating planned obsolescence in favor of efficient use of existing products along with the repair and maintenance of older ones.

Yet the reason why these problems are intractable is collective action, not unknown means. Dealing with Mars is both a longer term project than rejuvenating the Earth, and its perceived tractability stems from the way it looks conceptually simpler from a coordination standpoint if you ignore the civilization that makes it possible - just NASA and Elon right?
It's funny to see someone bitching about the modern web, who thinks an SVG graph is the appropriate format to share a discussion in.
Given there are many alternatives to Bitcoin, and considering how many juggernaut technologies I've seen vanish with hardly a trace, I'll stick with the position that Bitcoin isn't inherently & durably valuable precisely because john_alan (posting above) doesn't use it. There's plenty of other products that do the same, perhaps better, and the only reason Bitcoin is in use now is because it isn't not used.
Apparently you can drag it by holding shift (in Chromium's SVG viewer) but it's still not a great experience.
Not just Let's Encrypt, if you want to demonstrate control over a web server to get your certificates in the Web PKI ("SSL Certificates") rather than doing something with DNS or emails or whatever, both your options are in the well-known registry.

Certificate Authorities doing ACME (like Let's Encrypt) use /.well-known/acme-challenge/ while those who've rolled their own solution or maybe just adapted some manual process for this modern era are required to use paths starting /.well-known/pki-validation/

Previously to this the problem was if you hand roll solutions a customer eventually says "Oh, I can't create http://example.com/proof.txt you asked for because of [some stupid corporate reason] how about if I name it http://example.com/proof.doc ? And also it will be a JPEG screenshot of an Excel spreadsheet with your text file in it". And eventually your frustrated employee says "Fine, fine, whatever it takes" and next thing you know your policies are so relaxed that a bad guy is able to get a certificate for example.com by uploading the proof file to http://pastebin.example.com/XQGBLP. Oops.

So the Ten Blessed Methods fix a bunch of stuff in this space, clearly control over pastebin.example.com shouldn't get you an example.com certificate for example, but also requiring the files go in specified places in /.well-known/ means chances are if other people can create those files you likely also have a dozen other directory traversal type vulnerabilities and maybe you need to check yourself before you wreck yourself.

Such level playing field rules prevent a race to the bottom for CAs because they don't need to worry that their competitors get an edge by being more lenient than they are, if a competitor breaks the rules you can just rat them out.
I live near Seattle. It is NOT uncommon in the summer for the sun to still be relatively bright out relatively late at night; though the problem seems to mostly be summer, and DST is useless.

This website has a nice interactive graph that shows how obscene summer days are. https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/usa/seattle
Thanks for explaining what spam was--I think a lot of the people here probably were unaware. It's always good to learn things.

Anyway, more to the point: First, the comments are almost always the most interesting part of a mainstream article, to the point where I will scroll down to see if they are there (if not--don't bother). Are there idiots posting? Yep--just scroll past, no problem. Second, Mainstream media dislikes comments because they don't like people pointing out their errors. (No one does, of course.)
This is one of the few people willing to speak truth to power
> "Why not fix the (hopefully unconscious) hiring biases that surely exist in big tech that ends up hiring overwhelmingly male candidates of European and Asian origin?"

Speaking of biases, please refrain from lumping us Asians in with whites. Asians had nothing to do with the origins or history of America's race problems.
I visited Monterey in 2014 and what really struck me were the skinny, dying, and dead seals on the rocks of the boat harbor. Perhaps it was always that way but it really seemed like the dying gasps of an ecosystem wiped out by human activity. I had to actually stop and cry for a while at the horror of it all. Then I went to the museum at the mission and saw how little space and time they gave to the native people who once lived there. A few quick mentions at the beginning. Loads of stories about Spanish and American conquerors, and then a sad diorama showing their beautiful hand made garments right by the exit when the kids are tired and everyone wants to get to the next place.

It was a very sad day.
I saw a bunch of sea otters in that area today. The population seems to be fairly healthy, although it's difficult for researchers to get a precise count. Kelp forests have been reduced.

https://www.usgs.gov/centers/werc/science/california-sea-ott...
The graphics in the video were text messages and maps. Not really exciting club visuals though.
Goroutines Are Not Significantly Smaller Than Threads
I agree with much of what you said.

However, I'm disinclined to believe there will be a trend away from a centralized data warehouse (or data lake).

There is inherent value in having a single source of truth for analytics. With modern cloud tools abstracting away the complexity distributed analytical databases, data warehousing is getting easier and more powerful.

It's true that there is added complexity in centralizing the data. But as the author of this article suggested, you're in a bad spot if your marketing team and your sales team can't agree on last month's revenue. I'm not sure how you'd solve that problem in an architecture where the data isn't getting centralized.
Covid is so dangerous because you don't know when you're infected. People don't show symptoms for about 10 days after getting covid, and they're infectious long before symptoms appear. By the time you know you're infected with covid, you can easily have given it to someone else - and they could have already given it to another person in turn!

Here in Australia we're dealing with quarantine outbreaks by ring fencing. When we have a confirmed case, we isolate everyone that person has been in contact with, and also isolate everyone they've been in contact with as well. So, one confirmed case -> we lock down hundreds of people. This is the only way we've found to keep outbreaks under control without locking down entire cities.

The policy of only wearing a mask when you feel sick is nowhere near enough to stop you from infecting & potentially killing people.
I thought the article's reminiscing a bygone era now that the plastic bottle have sort of won?

I find them perfectly adequate to be honest, the full on red ones, or the upside down supermarket types...
Operation Cat Drop
Wanna do something for the environment? Don't have kids. One kid absolutely dwarfs all things suggested so far, combined. By far.
Don't have kids.
Ask HN: Medical Roboadvisory
What would be your thoughts on building a digital medical roboadvisory? My thoughts:

1. Rapid advancement in image classification AI models allow potential for potential identification of varying visible symptoms.

2. Access to a large data set would enable correlations with symptoms relative to the demographics of the patient profile.

3. Access to third-party labs (E.g. Quest Diagnostics) allows for blood/urine samples to be tested and analyzed using trained models.

Essentially this would be designed to conclusively limit people from seeing physicians if their condition was considered benign (E.g. common cold), and direct those with potentially serious conditions to the appropriate medical care.
Vasily Arkhipov (vice admiral) – A Hero
TLDR: That test showed no leaks after hitting the flask with a train at 100mph.
Don’t get me wrong; I dig file-based interfaces, but each time they add another file, it’s another request.

And it’s Anglocentric to continue to unnecessarily put multiple English words into the path; those can’t be touched-up with a later RFC to support Japanese in the file content via a Lang attribute.

The whole thing is shit bad, I’m sorry. Just come up with something that makes fucking sense for once.
Oh boy, everytime I have to buy a notebook and it comes with windows... What a drag. I must have at least 3 windows keys (that I save before wiping) laying around somewhere. Imagine if they would to refund me.

The worst part, at least for me, is that is becoming harder and harder to install linux with this new notebooks. Mine didn't come with lan port, and Debian didn't recognize the wifi and gpu, because both are proprietary. So, I would have to spend 4 hours at least working around everything. Sad
Why exactly is it a problem with cats killing birds? All sorts of animals kill all sorts of animals. Why are you specifically bothered by this pairing?
You and I are very much alike in thinking. Sunrise is the logical start of the day.

For appointments and scheduling, using GMT makes sense. For any other reference, hours after local sunrise makes much more sense.
This is an overly complex solution that we were able to resolve using a simple VPS running Clickhouse as backend and Grafana for frontend. Our production db is an Aurora MySQL instance and we keep it lean by performing daily dumps of reporting related data into a CSV with gzip compression -> push it to S3 -> convert it to parquet file format using AWS glue -> bring it into ClickHouse. Data size for these specific reports is approx 100k rows daily and is partitioned by MONTH/YEAR. Overall cost: $20/month VPS and approx. $15/month in AWS billing.
So, does that make the philosophy of art metaphilosophy?
My single biggest frustration with excessive use of outdoor illumination at night is that it means I have to use blackout curtains to have a dark bedroom at night.

Without that, there would be absolutely no reason to even think about a technological solution for waking up with the sun.
There's a huge load of hypocrisy, when you write articles critical of other people. But will not let your self be criticized on what you just wrote.

Given how skewed and inaccurate the articles are becoming. At least the comments can point outright lies and biases.
It somewhat levels the playing field. So I'm of the opposite opinion. I think comments should be possible on all news articles.

If you're given section 230 protection, you must allow all public comments.
However, I would allow moderation in the style slashdot does. Where you slide a bar, to determine how much moderation you want.
That's a lot of overhead if you don't already have docker installed, don't have the the ubuntu image installed, etc.
Yes, and they reuse the rockets more often than they would do with just external customers while proving to them that it's safe to use the same rockets uo to 10 times.

I love how undoectacular their flights have become, and wonder how long it will take until they stop commenting their live streams. I still watch them, but I started to skip forward or just listen to it in the background while programming.
How does HN have such a sanitary comment system?
Which is exactly why they’ve been so successful. Capitalism proves effective yet again.
Philosophers asked metaphysical and epistemological questions in ancient Greece, India and China as well as questions about how to live a good life. Philosophy has always been plenty diverse.
I appreciate the suggestion but I would rather focus on gathering data for Project Baseline Point Lobos which is tracking changes at one specific area near Monterey.

http://db.projectbaseline.org/?c=USA&p=11&s=1M
I like the substack model, in order to comment you must be subscribed to the newsletter (say $5 per month), while others can read the article and comments.
same thing also in the north of Spain with equivalent species of macroalgae.

Temperature raised a few degrees, recruitment stopped, and most laminaria submarine forests vanished.
Also OpenTendo https://github.com/Redherring32/OpenTendo