skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Using alpine with Python in production is usually a mistake. Python is considerably slower with musl libc than with glibc and on top of that no one is providing built wheels for musl-based platforms so you need to drag in the entire buildchain to package most projects. Who wants to build numpy from scratch as part of their build pipeline? And having a C compiler present is not great as it allows exploits to escalate their seriousness considerably.

Anyway most of these security scanners are bunkum:

https://pythonspeed.com/articles/docker-security-scanner/

There are not, in fact, a huge number of known and unpatched vulnerabilities in debian stable. If your tool is finding numerous problems, it is time to look more closely at your tool.
Well, clearly sites with no images or ads or javascript will score highly!
I think it’s because the Raptors are just too advanced. They would beat out F-35’s pretty easily with their superior speed, climb, and stealth.

However it’s pointless to keep making them since adversaries aren’t close to competing with it yet and the next best thing is the F-35 which is far cheaper to produce.

I’ve heard F-22 can do things even many of the pilots of them aren’t necessarily aware of as their training is reduced to omit certain highly classified aspects.
Microsoft has done a lot of things that they didn't "need" to for the sake of accessibility and I think that's worth celebrating. Particularly when it comes to something as simple as this I think there's no reason why it can't exist on every other console. As mentioned in other comments, their adaptive controller is also great.

This co-pilot mode sort of reminds me of Starcraft: Brood War where there is a cooperative mode where two people can control the same set of buildings and units. The amount that each player contributes to the game can be as variable as you need it to be, as far as one player not doing anything at all. Or if you were both skilled, it could simply augment what you could do. One person could be making sure you're spending resources and building the base while the other focused on controlling the units fighting the enemy, for example.

Overall I think the video games industry is very very behind in accessibility, though. Even some relatively simple accessibility options are absent from some of the biggest games. I believe Ubisoft has made great strides to make their video games more accessible to everyone and there are some notable ones such as The Last of Us 2 [1] and Celeste [2] that go above and beyond to ensure that anyone that wants to play the game can.

Accessibility can be expensive to implement and gaming isn't really considered an essential, even in terms of entertainment, but I think it's worthwhile to try and encourage even smaller developers to try to make their games more accessible.

[1] https://www.playstation.com/en-us/games/the-last-of-us-part-...
[2] https://celeste.ink/wiki/Assist_Mode
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> Debt is a reality of modern life, not something you can opt-out of

It's quite easy to live debt-free. All it takes is to rent a house instead of getting a mortgage, and keeping a positive balance on 'credit' cards.
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It would make it much easier for users to visually parse the JSON section if you added `font-family: monospace` to the textarea element
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Absolute correct, be honest with downtime include worst and best cases, extend those to non IT-Matters and let your Manager take over the responsibility if nothing changes.

And this:
https://www.usenix.org/system-administrators-code-ethics
I'm all for smaller images but his final distroless Python image to run Flask is going to fall apart as soon as his Flask app needs to connect to a database.

That's because the official Python PostgreSQL DB package requires C dependencies which get built and referenced when you install the pg package. You also need certain system libraries to exist on your system in order to build them, such as libpq-dev on a Debian based system.
Ignoring the hype, there are plenty of artists having fun selling work on platforms like hicetnunc for not very much and spending most of their proceeds buying other art. I joined and it's great fun trading pieces, coming up with ideas and seeing if anyone likes them, getting inspired by what other artists are doing etc etc etc.
I feel like these small art playgrounds where artists can sell limited editions of their work will stick around whatever happens to the big $$$ hype train side of things.
That doesn't work here, though, because then you don't get "FizzBuzz" for 15 -- you get "Fizz" and "Buzz" on separate lines.
I think pyramid scheme would be a better description if people had different incentives depending on when they got in. With a pyramid scheme people who invite many others personally benefit, and those who join but don't invite others don't gain anything. Think multi-level marketing.
Honest question: I fail to see to difference between this (the pyramid scheme part) and let's say buying stock in early Apple or Google?
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What stands out to me:

- "Mercurial cores are extremely rare" but "we observe on the order of a few mercurial cores per several thousand machines". On average one core per 1000 machines is faulty? That's quite a high rate.

- Vendors surely must know about this? If not by testing then through experiencing the failures in their company servers.

- I've read the whole paper and I see no mention of them even reaching out to vendors about this issue. Their are strong incentives on both sides to solve or mitigate this issue so why aren't they working together?
I agree, I've worked remote for a little over a year now, and I definitely prefer working in on office. The main benefit for me is the hallway conversations, real-life meetings, sketching things out on whiteboard, and work/life separation. I do not see myself ever working in a fully remote environment.
It's fine for general search queries but really poor for long tail queries.

Generally its low quality content designed to rank top over high quality articles written by unknown publication.
Why? HN is one of the most bare bones and barely usable sites.
> collect items in one game and transfer it to another

This has been touted for years now.

It's not something studios are going to want to support, nor code for - how does this item behave in an entirely different game by an entirely different publishing house? Do I have to write my game to support every single possible one of these? Why would I let you bring your level 9000 sword of whacking into a new game?

And steam can already easily make something unique - they are the authority there, there's no need for trustlessness.

(edit - you know what? Proof of ownership is not the hard part of transferring assets between games, it's likely to be pretty darned easy to do that just with a database. Textures, models, in-game attributes, all that stuff. That's the hard problem there, if anyone even wants to bother.)
Checklists make aviation and surgery safer.

No one expects the check lists to result in a perfect outcome but not having them quite likely results in a worse outcome.
Public consciousness seems to lack the ability to prioritize issues.

Disposable plastics are a problem first and foremost because they cause proliferation of microplastics in the biosphere. This is an issue, but it's not an important issue right now. It's likely harmful to biosphere and to us in the long run - but as of today, there's no noticeable harm being done that can be tied to microplastics, which suggests any negative effects are weak.

Climate change, on the other hand, is a civilization-ending threat. We keep burning more fossil fuels, and it's quite likely our grandchildren will get to starve to death. Preventing this should be our absolute top priority. Microplastics can wait.

It's like trying to administer first aid to an accident victim who has a nasty skin cut on their arm, and a leg that got cut off below the knee. Yes, that skin cut is painful and it needs treating to prevent infection, but it can wait - the first priority is to deal with the leg, before the victim bleeds out.
It has gotten worse in the recent years, i've been using DDG as a default for years now and occasionally resort to the !G bang.

What's more concerning is the blatant rise of SEO-spam even on page one - for technical queries at least (on Google).

Most of the time they're in the format of

threeletterrandomsubdomain.domain.tld/3to5chars/morerandomchars.html

Example:

xfvh.companydomain.it/yrrz/vhhv3asdf.html

To be honest, i didn't bother to take the chance and look what's behind such an URL - but i guess it's some sort of malware or - best case scenario - just ads...

Once you've seen them, it's kinda easy to notice their patterns and avoid them - but it just takes a second where you have your guard down and then... who knows...

I shudder to think what attacks happen to less technically minded people, like my parents. I bet they don't give clicking a result on a Google SERP a second thought...

Aside: I've seen those being mostly from Italy (.it TLD) - not sure if it's because i'm from .de and those are ranked higher because of geolocation...
>And "owning" the first tweet ever sent? What does that even mean??

No, no, no. It's worse than you think. An NFT is more like a plastic cup with Pikachu printed on it. You don't own the rights to Pikachu. You just bought a cup with his face on it. With NFTs, there is no contract to own the actual "thing". Just simply the piece of "merch" (the NFT) with the likeness associated with it. Except, a plastic cup still has value to drink from or hold your toothbrushes.
Exactly. The media is all about the money aspect of NFTs. There is much more to it. At least in the art world.
I think your weeks have 1 day extra than my weeks
Your gaming scenario still requires EPIC to issue trophies and be the sole arbiter of who gets trophies. People have to trust them to prevent cheating, and not to hand them out in an unsporting way. EPICs game servers will be minting your trophy-tokens.

It doesn't make a difference whether EPIC provide a public API for querying a users profile for what trophies they have, or whether EPIC put that information on a blockchain.

NFTs also don't help digital artists in that NFTs don't prevent copyright infringement. A certificate of ownership can be placed in a blockchain, with a hash, but unless you have a copy of the art to hash then you can't verify it. Once you have a copy of the artwork, you can just ignore the blockchain or claim ownership on a less reputable blockchain. So again, reputation of the organisations minting tokens on the blockchain is key.
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Also, whatever information you're looking for you tend to mostly get products as a response.
> A large % of people now believe that the finance industry only exists to work against them and make an elite minority rich.

Yes, because that is the very definition of capitalism: people own, others work. That's the reason modern forms of slavery, colonization and patriarchal control were developed, historically.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_capitalism or Silvia Federici for some great perspectives on the control of births/sexuality, patriarchy of the wage and oppression of women under capitalism.

> people are thinking "I will never own a home"

A lot of people i meet from the younger generation don't care at all about owning a home. They feel concerned that the privileged elites are ruining the show for everyone and by the next decade we'll be more and more struggling for drinkable water and basic survival.

Punks were derided for their "No future" stance, but it looks like the entire world has gone "No future" and just keeps fucking up as much as they can. Spending billions of KWh on blockchains so rich people can speculate on buying their own number (correct me if i'm wrong but to me a NFT is just a number) is just part of this.

We have to stop this madness, abolish private property and the capitalist industry entirely and go back to communal living and producing stuff based on actual needs, not dumb single-use Internet of Shit products and other planned-obsolete non-flashable-single-purpose computers.

> After many hours I couldn't find anything even remotely interesting.

The only interesting "dApp" i've seen so far is radicle.xyz, a decentralized forge built on top of git. Still i'm skeptical of tying money and financial incentives into my software development practices, but at least those folks (free software people) had the decency to make crypto-payments optional by adding opt-in Ethereum integration. Clever move.
Its pretty horrible now. I append 'reddit ' to almost every search query.
> We just had a coup attempt back in January

No, Trump was already President. Repeating false leftist talking points doesn't make them true.
Are there any benchmarks for search?
Zenodo downloads are frequently unreliable for me and others I have spoken to.
My total expenses for groceries and vegetables is less than $60 for a full month in India.
If you consider the market a casino there is no difference. Buy low sell high. But if you approach the market like an investor you try to estimate the intrinsic value of the assets and liabilities of a company, their cash flows, their growth prospects, and their management. Then you find those companies where the market price doesn't match what you think the business is worth and you go long/short those businesses where you think the mismatch is the greatest.
According to the Plan 9 Desktop Guide[1], when you plug your USB stick and the OS supports the filesystem, it will be mounted in the /shr directory. From there you can bind-mount stuff you need to wherever. Alternatively, you can mount the disk using the fileserver (dossrv for DOS, etc.) wherever you need.

Your user will have access to devices when it's included in the required system groups, 'sys' IIRC. It might get added to that group when it is created by the "hostowner" user, usually "glenda".

If you don't know Plan 9, you should check out the linked user guide, it's an excellent introduction to the concepts.

[1]: https://pspodcasting.net/dan/blog/2019/plan9_desktop.html
ha, yes, absolutely. That shift of content is beyond frustrating.
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/691547-wherever-i-m-going-i...
The audience is the way!

Loved Arvid’s first book and this book is on my list too! :)
Agree. I can't remember the name but there's a huge media company which basically shares backlinks among its media properties so they almost always show up on the top spot. Even articles better suited to the search query are ranked lower than these popular publications.
Agreed. Same general thing: I wind up putting search strings in to find specific things that I know exist and Google happily spams me with all sorts of irrelevant garbage. I often have to go crazy with quotes and with lots of extra keywords to finally make all the spam-results go away and find what I was looking for.
Kudos for doing the work! :bow:

I see an appropriate beauty in your username representing an information propagation model – of modern waves in modern habitats.

I do hope that my comment about a “rut” and “little formats” doesn’t disparage the work. I try to speak for enlightenment but sometimes I fall into lamenting the darkness.
Good point. That was not my intention. But my communication skills before caffeine digests are not where I would want them to be :/
TLDR: re3data and FAIRsharing appear to be registries of "where can you find this repository", in case they change URI, I guess. Not so much for finding specific datasets, just hosters?

I noticed many of these repos are javascript-walled. Is there any kind of standard API through which you can search for repos and fetch datasets?
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> The question that should be asked is why are good staff worth more to the other organisation?

Because management is betting that total dollars saved from not raising everyone’s wages is more than total dollars spent on hiring and training and other costs of people going to work elsewhere.

It is not too complicated for the average PHB (what is that?) to grasp. It is known that many people will not leave or shop around for higher wages, so the bet is that letting a few people go is worth it. This especially works out for employers in environments where coworkers can and are expected to take on the duties of the person that left. In that case, hiring someone new does not cost the employer much.
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Well, it's not like the governments have allowed crypto to work. Telegram's plans were forcibly halted, technically superior coins like Monero are banned from exchanges, and the elites (who ultimately benefit from the hegemony of the current fictional currencies) are continuously propagandizing against proof of work. Give it space first, then complain why it doesn't work.
Natural gas is great. It doesn't generate as much pollution as one might think. Other than fully clean energy like hydro and solar, it is one of the best.
Hi OP. Out of curiosity, does any other search engine come up with the Battlefield 1 sales numbers?
Is it lack of understanding of the financial industry or the opposite? I observe that through Bitcoin much more people have become interested in (austrian) economics. I think especially in times when everyone says that the problems e.g. central banks are “solving” are too complex to understand for 99.99% of the people, an uptrend in a much more simple theory (that is hence also more compatible with Occam’s razor) is a good thing.
I'm curious how many of that class read it purely as a result of his request. Though I suspect they might have read it in a different light.
That applies to any publishing company. I used to work at a major UK publisher. We launched a site in the entertainment space (very competitive)in 2007, and it was immediately high-ranked, because all the older properties linked to it systematically (i.e. in footers, etc.). I don't think much has changed in this regard, since then.
Collecting usage statistics is harvesting data. This is a classic example of why you should never run random NPM modules. Or even install them as all of this is possible in a post install script too.

Putting analytics in a deployed app is your prerogative. Putting it in what touts itself as a reusable component is at best frowned upon.
To me it seems they are way better than before. Very often I get my answers immediately without even needing to click on a link.
No one has said that Amazon itself has made Hire to fire a system. It doesn't make sense for a business to implement such a loss making strategy.

> Hiring managers are DESPERATE For people

You already admit to this. Now add to this the pressure on hiring managers to fire a certain number from his team. The only course of action he can take is to convince the bar raiser to accept the new hire even if the candidate is subpar.

It's strange that even after 500 interviews you have not this. I've been involved in less than a fifth of that interview number, and already seen this.

Even if you have not seen such cases you don't have any basis to claim that it doesn't happen. Logic and majority of evidence indicates that this takes place.
Maybe if we would question why we (don't) need money in the first place, and why people turn to terrorism, we wouldn't have problems in the first place.

Let everyone have a home, eat and drink as much as they need, receive proper education and healthcare, and thrive working for something they see interest in not a paycheck/boss and you'll see terrorism will be entirely rid of.

In the meantime, i agree it's a reasonable expectation that people can exchange money freely with the caveat that there should be taxes. As much as i hate taxes because they will fund police terrorizing my neighborhood, big corporations for their next nature-destroying megaproject, and cameras everywhere in the big cities, they are important as long as we live in a capitalist system to ensure we have basic public services.

A system like GNU/Taler is really interesting because it promises buyer's secrecy while retaining public accounting for receivers so that they can be subject to taxes. Cash is better of course as anonymity is guaranteed on both sides, and that's precisely why the chief scammers are pushing for the abolition of cash... so much of informal economy/solidarity would disappear overnight i'm having nightmares over it.
I’ve yet to find a scenario in which a smart contract truly improves upon a traditional, centralized database solution, NFTs included.

As long as the system relies on externally originated information for proper functioning, we’re back to the issues of trust the technology was intended to resolve.

That is why digital currency actually still seems like the only appropriate application of the blockchain, although it may never see widespread adoption.
> You will learn 99% by yourself from online resources: Twitter, Reddit and Stack Overflow, but we will give pointers to save you time.

Learning from Twitter... I mean, what could go wrong?
> Companies are still beholden to the law regardless of how corrupt or powerful you think they are, a nation state is the law.

I don't think that applies to a company as big as Google, they can bend the laws as much as they want if necessary and do whatever they want (as they demonstrated it multiple times). The only real difference is that Google will never send the police to your door like a powerful corrupt state would.
The problem is that, in general, when a company doesn't respect intellectual property laws or obviously makes use of industrial espionage (and I'm not suggesting either is true for Huawei) they are sending a clear signal that laws do not apply to them.

So as a customer why would I trust any company with my most personal health, banking or own intellectual property if that company sees no reasonable limitations to its behaviour in any other sphere?

The original purpose for branding was to allow customers to identify food products they could trust. The same is true for technology.
It's a self-inflicted problem. They shouldn't have promoted those 10x ninja superstars out of development and into management roles (and apparently, "principal engineer" and even "senior engineer" is frequently just faux-management - all the responsibilities, none of the authority of a real manager).

I find it ironic that our industry trains up developers until the point they finally become competent at their jobs, and immediately force them to manage new breed of trainees instead of doing the work they're good at.
And probably intelligence somehow. Overlapping substructures and recombinations.. also music.
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