skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It'll be in operations for years if not decades to come still. They're working on an upgrade to increase the 'luminosity' (dunno what that means yet) by a factor 10 as we speak, slated to be finished in 2027 (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Luminosity_Large_Hadron_C...)
> The Git URL unfortunately does not provide access.

Sorry to say but not having a git web UI doesn't mean you can't access it. The very next command you push to it via `git push heroku main`, meaning you have full access to it, including the ability to force push to it.
Then why not just do all your work in a fraction of the time at home and use the time saved doing other stuff?
Or just another state that you have no legal recourse in doing whatever they want.

How is your foreign social credit score anyway?
His "Ran" is one of my favorite movies (top ten)
> The vaccine, developed with Oxford University, was 79% effective in preventing symptomatic illness in the large trial that also took place in Chile and Peru, according to the data. It was also 100% effective against severe or critical forms of the disease and hospitalisation, and posed no increased risk of blood clots.

Am no super smart virologist but my brain immediately pinged when I started hearing the news from AZ quoting ... 100% effective against Xxxxx...

Only thing that came to me was the good ol' adverts from bug sprays and disinfectants claiming to be 99.9% effective against bugs/bacteria
Cool, I have subscribed.

You should probably also add it to Apple podcasts. (edit: I added it as an issue on github)

About using the Github wiki for articles, I think you would be better off having the actual content on your own domain. It will give you more flexibility down the line for monetization or just moving things around.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/... is an interesting read on ILP with FSM's.

Regex is used all over the place, so it's certainly worthwhile to speed things up. And huge FST's are also used in language tech, e.g. to analyze all frillions of the forms of Finnish verbs into all their ambiguous readings with tags and dictionary forms: https://beta.apertium.org/index.eng.html?choice=fin&qA=Taite...
The language supported by that FST is basically infinite due to derivations and compounding, but the zipped binary fits on a handful of floppies.
The story says "outdated" data but it's not clear what that could be in this context and why including older data would be bad? Something to do with not accurately capturing the current mix of variants, maybe?

So the issue is that they've included too much data leading to (in the DSMB view) inaccurate efficacy rather than incomplete data.

Nonetheless this is a management failure on their part because any disagreement with the DSMB over which data to include should have taken place privately before publication of the results. For all I know they have good reason for including this older data but it's not a good look to have your DSMB disagree with you in public now.
Production testing on SQL made easy
Maybe this could be an explanation for the most unexpected dip in COVID-19 infection around January. Does data for rhinovirus infections get collected to such an extent that it would be possible to compare curves?
It can be. Single master password, if leaked or otherwise getting into the wrong hands, gives access to all your auth details. This is part of why I keep to a desktop based password manager rather than an online one.

But it depends on your threat model and attack surface area/shape. A strong password on a post-it on your monitor is stupidly insecure locally, but far more than just having a weak password if you consider only non-local (to the user) attacks (neither that site hacker in far-off Hackyoustan nor his pet bots can see the post-it, but could try brute force a short easy to remember password).
The deeper problem here is that credit card numbers are obsolete. Websites should be using Apple Pay and similar stored payment info APIs that don't go through an unnecessary error-prone user-facing interface. (Yes, Apple etc. are oligopolists, but so are Visa/MasterCard)
Yeah, a lot of times they don't seem to understand that their core product is "you can run this command, and the virtual machine will work on any system that runs Docker, limited only by resource availability".

Heck within the first few weeks of dockerizing our system at a startup (c. 2015), they introduced a backward-incompatible change to docker-compose that we only found when onboarding new employees -- the exact thing it's supposed to be for!
This was a confusing read. I guess GitLab has a hosting service, or does it? Or was this a demo of terraform?
Reddit nuking accounts of anyone who mentions a new employee or their history
In the French army soldiers were served, before such assault, a fair amount of alcohol.
Source: my maternal grandfather, who was a French soldier during WW1.
I missed the edit window. Thanks for the corrections (orf, tebbers, pm215).

I meant to say that we're effectively in a localised monopoly to whatever provider has decided to invest in covering our area. Are there really buildings with cables from multiple competing providers which would allow a genuine choice? And as an individual consumer, it isn't possible to commission your own infrastructure.
You just spam java facts, you're hardly an epistemological wonder of conversation. I fact checked a couple of your comments and only one was right.

Take a look at yourself and reflect. If there's dozens or hundreds of interactions that go poorly, notice that YOU are the common denominator.

What you've written here is clearly delusional and makes me worry for your health.
I didn't close unread tabs for a couple of years, so they kept accumulating.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=scott+manley+sp...

Scott Manley does great, approachable space videos and has done a few on spy satellites.
I give bike tours of my city for tourists (pre-covid although we are slowly getting back to it).

I make beer money at most, nothing ground breaking but its fun to ride a bike, tell people about the history in my city and meet fun people.
Side question: if quantum computers fulfill their promise, won't they break encryption as we know it? Are we ready for that kind of upheaval?
TurboVision, yay!
Puzzling from someone working for a git platform. Or maybe fitting?
Sure - Don't have a good example of a work specifically focused on this - some excellent texts with significant portions dealing with this topic interspersed:

(very dense theologically, and intended for actual practicing monks, fitting the topic, beware )

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

"18–26: Avoidance of the traps of asceticism (laziness, pride, mental stagnation"

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

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

"On the Signs of Grace and Delusion, Written for the Confessor Longinos: Ten Texts"

less familiar with western christian works,
though i'm sure there are some.
> Doesn't Chrome do this with it's constant nag popops on Search if you're using any other browser,

No, that isn't tricking it piggybacking.

> or how it's bundled with other software?

Does it install without user consent?
>Broadband is the single wire that delivers free speech, a free press, free assembly, education, family life, employment, health, opportunity, civic and political engagement, and every other necessity for a decent and dignified life in the 21st century

Okay I know this is HN and there is heavy slant towards technology and tech-driven solutions but this is just a ridiculous statement. What if I get a 4G/5G router? Is my life any less decent or dignified?

There's a lot more to life than ridiculous torrent/YouTube/netflix speeds
I really like the concept, thanks for sharing!
I said it in what I wrote, but I will say it again: there is precisely one characteristic to care about ... helium.

If you have some hydrogen atoms, and then you do something to them, and suddenly you have some helium atoms, that's fusion.
Mycroft Project: Search Engine Plugins – Firefox IE Chrome
> He was arguing that society "has to pay people welfare" because Amazon doesn't pay enough. In other words he's arguing that paying welfare is bad, which is not true and goes against the rest of his platform.

This is not quite the argument. What you're leaving out here is that Amazon can afford to pay enough, their CEO is the richest man in the world worth over a hundred billion dollars, and Amazon pays $0 in income tax. Bernie is not saying welfare is bad, he's saying that corporations using the welfare system to subsidize their profit margins while their CEO enriches himself is bad.
Yeah, I think it would have been better to differentiate in the article based on setting up state.

It takes a while to configure a persistent database, redis, and storage on Heroku. That is what we’re trying to make easier, as well as hosting it on a hyper cloud.

See https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/5-minute-production-app/deploy...
I have a Pixel 5 running Android 11 and cannot delete those apps.
I have yet to see any evidence of malicious actors. There are anti-vaxxers, but they have a genuine belief as far as I can tell. They're not just here to watch the world burn for fun.

I also don't see a prevailing reason why one of the vaccine companies would want to sabotage AZ. They're all at maximum production afaict, and AZ had worse efficacy than Moderna already. If it were corporate sabotage, I would expect them to target one of the superior mRNA vaccines.

AZ is also the one that screwed up here. If they can't submit correct efficacy data, people should be concerned. That raises serious doubts about their internal organization, and looks like we may be relying on government safety regulations to ensure the vaccine is safe. Which were relaxed for this vaccine.

I didn't see a lot of people saying we should keep letting Boeing's MAX keep flying until we could be totally sure that it wasn't just an unlucky streak of drunk pilots. I also don't see a lot of people saying that we should give Boeing lead time to get a PR spin on their latest disaster.

> Media headlines are a really sucky way to do data science.

I agree. They're also the only way that most people are going to encounter this information, which I would argue they have a right to know. I hope that they'll make rational decisions based on the evidence available, but I'd rather they made poor choices with the evidence than good choices without it.
Only regular expressions[0] can compile to FST's; Perl-style regexes aren't regular.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_language
80/20. Everyone, parents, agents, closing lawyers all told me I was making the best decision of my life. All were saying they wished they could go back in time and buy a house when they were 24. Ended up taking a 30k bath on it 5 years later.
Seems like anything made by this company should contain warnings like

"This manufacturer has never released an approved vaccine"

and

"This manufacturer is not allowed to make a profit on this product, so there is no monetary incentive to ensure quality after the product is authorized for emergency use"

I fully expect the same quality as soviet era cars.
You never made a mistake that made it through your test suite to production?
“profile will be deleted” at startup after chromium 89 update
Nice, I have the xaoimi mi vaccum Mop, not sure it's supported by that site just yet, but glad someone has taken up the challenge. It's a great little device.
In this case I think it is more an ecosystem of build and deploy scripts that use the tools GitLab already provides (gitlab pipelines, terraform, etc.). GitLab is not providing the server space, instead you provide credentials to any supported cloud space and GitLab pipelines deploy the application.
I completely agree! Ikiru had a huge effect on me, and I've never been able to forget Takashi Shimura's facial expressions from it.
> A typical web app requires a database, storage or caching backend, which can get complicated to run with Heroku.

Plainly wrong. Easiest thing ever to spin a pg instance for free and have it immediately available for your app to use.

Better Heroku? Does it let you use a pipeline of dev, staging and prod? Does it auto create new copies of your app (db and other services included!) every time you issue a pull request? Does it destroy those apps/services when you merge to master? Does it let you push to prod with one button? Integrated logs viewable on the web ui? Hell, integrated bash to a copy of your app in the web ui?
Oh I forgot testing... webhooks... access control for other devs...

Better Heroku. Pathetic
Using AI this way seems like the equivalent of inventing spam for music to me. It's interesting, but basically we've figured enough out about the entropy and shape of an honest signal that we can automatically produce noise against it that cancels meaning, or subverts it.

The difference between simulating music and using formalisms to make discoveries about it seems like a matter of intent. As in, what's the difference between a horizon, a window viewing one, and a picture of one? The existence of an observer makes them related, and the position of the observer makes them different. That difference is probably analogous to what simulated music is to intentional music.
The existence of a listener makes it music, and the relationship of the listener makes it different.

These AI generated images are like cancelling-noise to images we already associate meaning with. Which is seems analogous to 1/f fractal or Perlin noise at a certain level of abstraction. Not to dismiss or attempt to trivialize the accomplishment at all, but when people create tech that is overwhelming to the senses like that, sometimes a new frame of reference can help.
I am not sure that it makes a big difference to me that a private vs state sponsored hacker breaches me but it only takes looking at the logs of any of my personal servers to see that multiple breach attempts a day is an understatement. My smtp server has logon attempts from 5 to 20 distinct IPs a day, and I blacklist those IPs automatically, so it’s different IPs every day. This is just a random server on the internet, no particular reason to be targetted.
I'd point out that ES5 spec contains the core of the JS language in 258 pages.

Following the JS spec alone, it would probably be hard to find any code on the entire internet before 2015 that wouldn't run on your implementation (even though it would undoubtedly run slower).

In contrast, if you followed only the go spec, ZERO go code out there would actually run because it doesn't include the rest of the language and core features.
All I can think of is the Simpsons gif of Mr Burns being alive because he has so many ailments they all cancel each other out.

[0] https://twitter.com/ddiamond/status/951930408261881856
The 5 minute production app is a fancy GitLab CI script that uses Terraform to provision managed services.

The goal is to “quickly make a stateful app that is deployed on a hypercloud”
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/5-minute-production-app/deploy...
Plan 9 Historical Releases
People do not use Heroku because it takes 5 minutes to spin up a box. They use it because it's super easy.

Click a button, bam deployed.
Want to add a database, click what database you want, bam you got a database, environment variables set and a GUI (depending on what you pick).
Want to scale up? Click a button, you're now scaled up.
Want a entire review system with staging links and everything? Setup the review process line and you're done.

Everything is beyond easy and requires very little actual knowledge. You don't need a bunch of silly yml configs or knowledge of how containers work. You just pick a button and setup your git repo and it deploys your app. Want to SSH in? Install the CLI tools and type heroku ps:exec, want to see the logs? Go to the logs error to type heroku logs.

They have a perfect dev environment, fairly decent CLI tooling, bulletproof battle tested deployment setup (minus they fact they go down basically every 2 days if you aren't on the paid plans), and very little you need to understand.
If this was an attack it would be similar to being locked in a crowded elevator, getting into a fight with another passenger, and deciding to throw a hand grenade at your enemy instead of taking any other approach.
More a demo of how GitLab pipelines and terraform work together. In this case the app was deployed to AWS.
This was a great comment until the mean-spirited last word.
Lockdown laws in England: One year on
People don't realize that if you want to be the most inclusive, sometimes your focus needs to be brutally narrow. Stick to yarn and patterns and be scrupulous about telling political discussions to go elsewhere.
> you're still sending your full password to the server for verification each time, so if the server is compromised for any length of time your password will be as well.

The key difference between storing plaintext passwords and hashed passwords is that with hashed passwords, you can only compromise users who log in during the interval when the system is compromised, and even then, only for worse compromises (eg if all the attacker gets is arbitrary disk read, compromising hashed passwords would be impossible in most scenarios.)
Translation: Crystal had a value proposition but now it's gone, before the product launch.
Yes and kinda yes.

There's a standardization process going on for post quantum cryptography at the US NIST. Results expected before the almighty RSA-breaking quantum computer arrives.

There's still a concern about store-and-encrypt-later (i.e. someone can store encrypted communication today and decrypt it once a QC is available), and how relevant that is depends on some unknowns (how many years to you expect your comms to be secret? how many years till a usable QC is available?).
The Plan9 abstractions give me the impression you can network as One the top 5 superduper computers and get beyond the benchmark metrics that haven't given us machines as intelligent and sensible as 3 to 7yo.
Two things stand out to me, and they have nothing to do with micro:

The AI consistently did a 'deathball push' strategy, where small early advantages snowball and they pushed hard to exploit that early advantage. One of the things that enabled that was that resources were more evenly spread across the team, allowing the heroes that were strong earlier to do something with that advantage. Competitive and casual ranked play hasn't switch to always do deathball, but there is a marked increase in the amount of resources that early-timing 'support' heroes take, they are a lot greedier than before OpenAI. (as pointed out by a sibling post) It's unclear if that is either because of lessons from OpenAI-five, or because of the balance changes (there is more resources to be had around the map these days).

The second thing that stands out is that the 1v1 OpenAI and the 5v5 OpenAI did buy a lot more of 'consumable' items, mana and HP potions basically. These were considered too inefficient before, people tended to prefer items that gave a more over-time regeneration and long-term efficiency. What the bots did was /constantly/ ship consumables over, which was kind of surprising at the time. It used that consumable resource to either force an opponent away from xp/gold resources (lane, jungle) or allow it to stay after aggression. Once pros started buying a lot more consumables, casual players quickly followed suit.
I'm keeping my $200, thanks.

The current members of the board of directors of The Economist Group are: Rupert Pennant-Rea (Chairman), Zanny Minton Beddoes (editor-in-chief of The Economist), Lady Suzanne Heywood, Brent Hoberman, David Bell, John Elkann, Alex Karp, Sir Simon Robertson, Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild, Chris Stibbs and Baroness Jowell.
This is cool but its not using hotwire (turbo frames / turbo streams)
Working at Interchain GmbH – Build the Internet of Blockchains
Here is the real clue in the article:

> Cassidy has noticed a growing dynamic. “The knitting community has a big issue with people being very concerned that, if they don’t support a callout, they’ll be called out themselves,” she told me. “Not joining it seems scary to people.”

I really have to say, I think this is a bad article. Not because it is badly written, or because it is factually wrong. But because an unfamiliar reader would get the wrong impression about what is really going on.

Ravelry and the knitting community do have a big problem. But it is not primarily with political polarization per se. It's the community-oriented mindset that does not work at scale.

The knitting community is experiencing what we all will experience wherever this mindset becomes dominant: homogenization and the enforcement of conformity. We need distance and live-and-let-live in society. It's not a family.
See also https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/rx
> If you could get rid of those most people probably wouldn't mind and might even prefer the office.

But that's what "the office" means. It means shitty unoptimal work conditions, it means hours a day stuck in traffic and it means visibility is as important as productivity. You can't get rid of those things, they are effectively part of the definition of working in an office as far as I'm concerned.

I love working from home. I'll never go back to any kind of morning commute to a noisy workspace full of managers breathing down my neck for as long as I can help it.
My wife and I used our first stimulus checks to buy Herman Miller chairs for our home offices, and it's probably the single biggest QoL increase I can remember from a purchase.
Reddit is such an authoritarian shithole

The entire frontpage looks like it is curated by some propaganda department & megacorps acting like their posts with 1000k upvotes aren't advertisements
Yes, one of the things that stood out to me is that the physical men responsible on a human level are also named in the suit.

Very often I find that it is cloaked behind a corporation.

Even worse is when it be cloaked behind governments. — there was a scandal in the Netherlands when it was found that “the government” had systemically suppressed a whistle-blower, down to bribing psychiatrists to give him false diagnoses of mental disorders to keep him silent: — the end result was that he was offered several millions of euros in compensation from the government, but none of the actual flesh and blood men responsible for these decisions were ever personally sanctioned criminally, so, the tax payer was the one who ended up paying the price for it all and the political careers of those personally responsible went on.

Organizational accountability is not quite as effective as a deterrent as human accountability, one would assume.
That sounds like a good idea to me. For my personal projects I'd rather have everything in one place, especially if that one place is so well integrated like Gitlab.

AWS, on the other hand, is 500 different massive bloatwares that are scary to touch, to the point where there are literal courses available so you can learn how to use them. I've never had a good experience doing even basic stuff there.
I find Heroku rather easy. About a year ago I wrote a vanilla blog engine in NodeJS. It only required a small amount of debugging to get up and running on Heroku.

(Although I don't know if I ended up modifying my code to adhere to Heroku quirks, or if the changes I needed for Heroku are normal.)

One weird thing happened a few days ago. I noticed that my blog was offline, and I ended up needing to modify my Postgres connection code to explicitly enable encrypted connections. This struck me as very strange. I mostly work with Microsoft SQL, and those kinds of things are set via the connection string. Shouldn't Heroku have just updated my database connection string without breaking my site? Admittedly, I have a lot less experience with Postgres than Microsoft SQL.