skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have been using this for a year or so and it is awesome. I use with neovim + LanguageClient-neovim. I don't really understand why people are complaining about the dependencies - on macos just brew install node@14 and npm install -g bash-language-server. Check for updates occasionally via npm outdated -g. I really have no idea what the dependencies are other than node and nor do I care - its just another app on my system.
Yeah, I've always found these nihilists to be fairly shallow; they're stuck working from a bad perspective and can't allow for others. If you tell them that your life is mostly good and a net positive, they'll think you're lying or deceived.

I get that their life sucks; but my kids are happy, just like me, and a universe without them is a poorer place. Also, their existence allows for indefinitely more descendants, the overwhelming majority of which will be happy to be alive.

As a capper, I have four kids, so I've MORE than replaced myself.
No it's not. If I walk into SF with 2 million dollars, there are more than a few people who would give up their 1 million dollar house for that amount of money. My desire and means to live there would just have to exceed their own.

If someone is in a rent-controlled situation, they were simply lucky to get there first, and there is no mechanism in place for anybody else to rotate into that position.
Yes, I definitely miss this in Ruby since it also has optional parens for method calls but lacks sigils. Even the most basic-looking expressions can have arbitrarily complicated meanings:

foo.bar = 1

Is that just an attribute set on an object, is it calling a method foo that returns an object containing a bar attribute with a normal getter/setter, or is bar= a method that has arbitrary functionality?

I also like the more explicit operators in Perl that help show context:

$foo + $bar

This is specifically numeric addition and those operands are probably at least somewhat number-like. Yes you can potentially overload it, but by convention, it will still be something like addition, so you don't have to wonder if you are adding, concatenating, appending a list, or something else, because they have different operators.
Thanks for the Sipser recommendation. Picked it up yesterday and already liking it.
OpenAI GPT-3 has this to say:

3.2. Recruitment

The Protocol Police shall be recruited from the IETF community, and shall preferably be selected from the IETF's Standards Area Directors (SAADs), as defined in [RFC5543].

5.3. Disobeying RFCs

A Protocol Police officer, when faced with a violation of a
protocol specification, is required to issue a citation, as laid out in Section 7.1.
Agree on the CF part. I found it interesting that the downdetector page had other cloud-providers like Google and AWS showing error spikes at around the same time.
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My understanding is that people at the time were aware of potential problems but no vulnerability had been identified. I found some discussion here: https://security.stackexchange.com/a/177256
A more extreme example: 1/5 of all housing stock in China are vacant concrete boxes, and people are still complaining about apartment prices reaching to the sky.

Imagine cities both 20 times the size of SF, and being one fifth vacant.
This is the right answer from a proper dev ops and opsec POV
I hate April Fool's Day
Spending pocketed by wealthy middlemen.
We already had GMT which ended up being called UTC - "Universal". If we'd stuck with GMT or defined E(arth)TC or similar, then MTC would make sense.

I do like it though, good to see some innovation in the AFD jokes department.
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I think that's the right comparison for webull or robinhood.
I found out about this because I almost lost a password with bitwarden just now. Their "add new password" prompt is failing silently.
I run a small network automation company. We write custom runbooks and provide a web platform for users to execute them from. I spent about 20 hours a week on this after my normal job.
Well first, how are you gonna get Eth or whatever to use that DEX? Some apps have payment options but hoooo boy are the fees outrageous. Coinbase doesn’t have the best fees in the world but just mosey on over to Coinbase Pro and it’s a whole lot better.

Then there’s the gas fees on Uniswap. Not even worth bothering with unless you plan on making $1000+ trades.

The other thing to consider is that for newbies they offer a safe platform with a list of established coins. That counts for something.
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Speaking of this.
There is always this kind of conclusion every time there is a major outage on a cloud provider.
I am not sure one is better than the others. Though, I would prefer to rely on facts and numbers instead of feelings.
So, is there a website that monitors and keeps track of this kind of major outages for all the 3 big Cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP)? So that we can compare their resilience?
Most people around these parts seem to trust them a lot: AWS is the default choice for many new businesses and startups, and most in startupland seem happy to furnish Amazon with 100% of the new company's data.
Our national housing stock is FULL of places with narrow winding stairs, lead paint, full flow toilets and shower heads, untempered glass, single pane windows, uninsulated walls or ceilings, ungrounded outlets, undersized plumbing, sketchy chimneys, springy floors, etc.

My house from 1890 scored 10 for 10 on your list. I addressed about half of them over the decades, but the other half are just, "It's ok, we'd do it better if we did it over." The additions and any bits "touched" have to meet current code, but the old parts are allowed to be what they are.

I don't feel it detracts from my living experience at all. (I did take care of the "this can kill you" part of the list as well as most of the single pane windows and uninsulated areas.)

A couple of the code mandated changes are definitely negatives, as are a couple of "slightly off" construction problems which required space wasting and slightly dangerous constructs in the house instead of just accepting that the wall at the bottom of the stairs is 2 inches closer than code allows.
Show HN: I built Creodocs, a document creation platform based on LaTeX
RBLX just did a direct listing. They set a reference price at $45. Later in the day (they did not start trading until midday) the reference price was adjusted to $60. I had two limit orders. One from day before at $50, another placed at noon at $62. None of them executed, since it opened at $64+.
Just as there is a difference in perceived time there's also a difference in perceived distance. As it turns out these cancel out in a way that ensures the speed of light is the same for all observers. Together with the axiom that everyone agrees whether something travels in a straight line you can figure out most of special relativity.

It's somewhat hard to explain why this works without handwaving or just pointing to the maths, but the youtube channel minute physics at least has some good visualizations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rh0pYtQG5wI
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Not from what I've seen. Binance (Intl) has a lot more liquidity than any US specific market, mainly because they offer derivatives
As a cognitive scientist with only 1 graduate level fMRI course and no hands-on experience outside of playing around with Neurodebian, I will not be so bold (haha) as to make a claim that there is absolutely nothing to fMRI.

However, I am very skeptical.

I would not be willing to make any strong claims about causality when the alleged neural event and the measurement thereof are 15-30 seconds apart, and the thing being measured (blood flow) is not the event itself (neural activity), and there are so, so many potential sources of error.

Now, structural MRI is super cool.

I have a bunch of friends at my university who work in fMRI brain imaging. I feel bad, but when we talk about their work, I can't help but think they are chasing alchemy. Or maybe a better analogy is that it is almost like they are trying to learn about the world (brain, cognition) based on the shadows at the back of Plato's cave (fMRI BOLD signals).

I sincerely hope they overcome the challenges, but I expect they will be facing the exact or nearly the same challenges 20 years from now.
Code language analysis is only one aspect of attribution.
> It is like saying that the Apollo ascent module could get to orbit and therefore we can clearly make practical SSTO vehicles.

If we didn't have to worry about fuel, we could. "put in enough fuel so it can land" is not a hard problem to solve with earth rockets, it just costs payload.

> completely re-building the three engines after every flight

It's complicated but the level of rebuilding was driven more by very high standards than it actually being necessary to make it launchable.
The key difference I appreciate is no cross site tracking.

If I'm using a service I won't mind that service knows my traffic pattern.
(That's the point of having an account on the service)
Using RIPE Atlas probes to geolocate IP infrastructure [pdf]
Hi all, sole developer here! Creodocs has been over 6 years of work in my spare time and it's great to finally launch it!

The idea for Creodocs came about after I launched https://LaTeXTemplates.com and https://LaTeXTypesetting.com in 2012 and 2013, respectively. I noticed that academic documents and books consist almost entirely of content that changes across multiple instances of the template used to make them, but business documents are much more likely to consist of large proportions of static content. Think of receipts you receive from an online retailer; that company's information, branding and layout of the document doesn't change at all, but your account number, name, address and items purchased change.

I thought, well, what if I use the power of LaTeX to create virtually any design imaginable (combined with the ability to do math, use variables, etc), but abstract away the code (which is hard to master and archaic by modern standards), to allow users to specify just those dynamic parts of a document they need to fill out and keep the rest unchangeable.

Enter Creodocs, a document creation platform with a collection of templates available to all users, and the ability to add your own via a LaTeX template with variables specified. Variables each accept specific content types (int, bool, string, float) with a maximum length. Private templates can be shared with others, and there are billing groups to manage spending centrally. The idea is that a small/medium business would create (or have me create) a set of templates for documents they constantly produce, and then each of their staff (who don't know what LaTeX is) can log in and simply fill out a web form and get a consistent beautiful PDF document immediately. There is also the ability to create hundreds or thousands of documents at once using a spreadsheet, or create documents via an API without touching the website at all.

I'd love some feedback on the idea and implementation! At this stage, if you're interested in using it for your business, send me an email and you're welcome to use it all you want for free if I can get some feedback.

I'm also happy to chat about how the LaTeX world has changed in the last 10 years, or about how I've managed to have a steady stream of commercial clients willing to pay me to create custom LaTeX templates through my typesetting service.
So much for privacy
Cities and states can't privilege natives over migrants.

This is causing huge problems in Utah right now. Great if you have a house (or condo/etc) you don't want, bad if you have a house you like because you might get taxed out of it, terrible if you want a house. Every house and condo has dozens of unconditional cash offers on day one.
For something that they're selling at cost? Your conspiracy detector is a bit off there.
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If you don't know where your potential customer are, do you really know the problem space well enough to build something?
Casio launches first G-Shock Wear OS smartwatch
So, what you're saying is that 2307 is going to be the year of the OpenBSD Desktop? (on Mars at least, the Earthers probably use NetBSD and the Belters FreeBSD).
I hate when google thinks I want to save 1 minute by making lightless right turns straight into a rush hour traffic jam.
Uh-huh, but when you're in a country ruled by a totalitarian government you really, REALLY don't want to be caught with equipment on the banned list.

I drove through 35 African countries a couple of years ago, and I was warned repeatedly not to have a sat phone or drone, lest the governments get VERY upset with me.
I'm pro-vaccine, and I got my first dose nine days ago, but the media drumbeat that those who already had the infection should get vaccinated anyway, and continue to wear masks, is definitely cause for suspicion.

It's a very strange position not predicated on the available science. People who are wary of the vaccine are likely reacting to the obvious anti-scientific message.
Truly bizarre ideology. There's already so much we could be doing that is easier and a better idea than this.
Seconded. Well researched goodie. He spoke with a wide variety of sources to get his data right. From essentially homeless to Eli Broad - the B in KB Homes.
Looks like this took down the national emergency alert system in Canada. I'm registered as an alert LMD (last mile distributor), and Pelmorex (corporation running the system) just emailed me to say "Please note that currently there is an unexpected significant outage on Microsoft Azure that is affecting the availability of the NAADS system and other clients globally. The NAAD System feeds are currently not accessible. We are following up on this and we will update you as soon as the issue is resolved.".

I sure hope there aren't any emergencies in Canada until this is resolved...
Those flags work with gcc too. A deleted commented suggested adding `int exit();`, which also worked.
Window tech could save billions of birds
I have seen nothing to indicate this is the case, but is this what a DDoS attack looks like?
The Memorial Culture of Early Modern English Lawyers
I don't see anything here which convinces me that the engagement figures versus headline word count is not simply more or less a mirror of the word count frequency histogram of those headlines themselves.

The null hypothesis is that people share more ten-word headlines simply because there are more ten-word headlines. If you want to show they like to share them more, you need something else, like data about how many headlines people looked at versus shared.
Happy to provide more info or fix any other issues in this post if the downvoter wants to clarify!
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Memorial, as in relying on memory:

One could construe the common law's frequent invocation of what had gone before-precedent, history, tradition-as an appeal to memory, which in some sense it was. But this Article pursues something more specific. It focuses on discussions of the mental faculty of memory, employment of metaphors of remembrance (including the description of the common law as an oral tradition), and changes in what lawyers remembered and how they did so. An English lawyer of, say, 1620 found lengthy discussions in educational manuals on the cultivation of memory, with digressions on its humorial and physiological foundations. Constructing and challenging lineages of local and constitutional customs extending back beyond memory into "immemorial" antiquity occupied his practice. So did discovering and assessing local remembered law. ... He imagined his lawbooks as extensions of porous memory and strove to improve the movement of knowledge between remembrance and text. ...
I think you misunderstood about his scripts; his primary source of data is from acquiring the domain the malicious scripts were hosted on and he wrote scripts to summarize the server logs of his previously malicious CDN.

He knows the script URL and referrer URL of each attempt to invoke the malicious scripts. The URLs of the scripts seem to include the token to configure them to the attacker.

He visited sites in the referrers and looked them up in search only to do tests to convince himself that the pages are clean and the servers aren't conditionally returning the malicious content, etc.
This has been bugging me for a while. Programmers love to reinvent the wheel. There a millions of make(1) clones, key-value stores, etc but I don't seem to see many projects (even toys) in the "declarative container runners" space. I think it's a shame.

While Kubernetes is hopefully Very Good, it is complicated, and I have often wondered what other approaches would yield (e.g. more imperative ones, because writing admission controllers is not exactly easy). So I'm glad to see people playing around, though I don't know if this amount of bash is healthy or if 17,000 lines is simple.
good old symlinks, always wreaking havoc
Ask HN: How to become organized and interested in things you don't like?
After 11 years in the tech field, I've started to realize I'm not expected to only write good code and deliver creative solutions, but also communicate better, mentor others, set and track deadlines, report progress, document initiatives and help my team deliver, all while keeping leadership happy and informed.

But as someone who never gave much attention to that and instead spent it's entire career fiddling with cool tech and hunting interesting rabbit holes, how could I pick up such skills, and most importantly, how could I get motivated and interested in such things? Is that transition even possible?
What about leap seconds for Mars?
We have few time standards that already take relativity into account:

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

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geocentric_Coordinate_Time
I should re-read the article because I can't see what kind of problem they try to solve with MAP, NDCG and "invented here" Pagerank what couldn't be solved with tf-idf and out-of-the box Elasticsearch functionality. It's a highly underrated peace of software.
Believe it or not, the United States has a higher median income PPP adjusted after taxes and transfers than pretty much every European nation; it's ranked #3 in the world:

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

The US also has a lower percentage of low-income people than almost any European country, despite having greater inequality:

https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/1376074233642557442

Also, the US is ranked #11 in the world for food security, ranked higher than Canada, Germany, Denmark, New Zealand, France, Norway, and Australia (to name a handful): https://foodsecurityindex.eiu.com/Index
kudos to the launch!

do you have a pointer for Xylem?
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Hey, not all of us nihilists are pessimists. Some of us enjoy existence, whether or not it is an illusion or serves any purpose.
The solution may have a serious cost depending on your architecture. You will have to make sure it is worth the investment.
Replicating and keeping a whole infrastructure stand-by is not an easy job for an one-hour outage. Sometimes, it is not the right solution either. It really depends on the business you are in.
The data is still useful in aggregate.
I will never understand the HN crowd's deification of the internet. Out of all the methods of communication out there it doesn't seem particularly special, and definitely not special enough to supercede the sovereignity of nations.
This demonstrates one of my least favorite dark patterns of recent software.
> I'm surprised the number isn't closer to 80-90%, especially with the recent energy efficiency rules.

Sommerville, Ma is a city of 80,000; 22 buildings meet the zoning code[0].

[0] https://cityobservatory.org/the-illegal-city-of-somerville/
They then hired the guy creating those exploit chains.
"Lived experience" is just a fancy word for "anecdote". I can also point to the lived experience of millions of Americans that enjoy dinner every day (myself included), and we'd be no better off in understanding what the truth is.

Per the data, the US is ranked #11 in the world for food security: https://foodsecurityindex.eiu.com/Index
> Assuming appropriate licensing

For such customers the mere fact it is free would make the licensing questionable.

Consider a service like unsplash: what vetting can there be that the people who upload actually hold the copyright? Do unsplash indemnify you if it turns out they never had permission? How does it look in a court, should it come to that?

It’s not about paying money for the image as much as it’s about buying an assurance – even if it is only to be able to say "we acted in good faith and licensed this from a ‘reputable’ supplier.” Some legal teams are incredibly risk averse.

Unsplash almost certainly isn’t considered by these sorts of customers. It’s not some kind of snobbery, it’s to avoid having to deal with the case where the one image that you build a multi-million dollar ad campaign on turns out not to have been improperly licensed.