skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How about legacy systems? Thats where RPA was used when I worked for a client some years back. If there was an API there’d be no question what to use but in a lot of cases that is not possible and RPA fits the bill
So they ended up adopting MongoDB? :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs
The Flywheel of Testing
> Please keep nationalistic attacks off this forum.

There is nothing wrong with criticizing the Communist Party of China.
There is a lot of science out there that shows how Covid-19 appears to have specific qualities that make the lab leak theory very plausible.

I don't want to get into the weeds with all of this, but here's just one scientific paper among many investigating the actual structure:

The genetic structure of SARS-CoV-2 does not rule out a laboratory origin [PDF]

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/bies.2020002...

This is the exact sort of stuff you would see with "gain of function" research.
Have you considered that my statement was about the person that I saw?
Interestingly, when I follow that link I first get "Images blocked by safe search", but when I turn off safe search, I then get "no results".
I really want to try elixir, but I need an IDE based debugger!

I tried the IntelliJ plugin, but it did not work (would work once the disconnect when the first BP was hit)

JetBrains if you're listening, please make an official app / plug-in! Pretty please

-

My other gripe is the state of abandoned packages
Hidden in the supplementary material (which you have to import an MS Word doc to read): the "ultra-processed diet" they fed the rats has multiple severe micronutrient deficiencies, probably because rather than being a mixed diet of many different ultraprocessed foods, it's: a hamburger and fries and soda, and nothing else ever, in a blender. Which is not remotely representative of any human diet.
That's very flawed and naive method for measuring value of one's time.
Awesome movie, tysm, really eye opener.
Yes, that is totally true. That's kinda what I was going for putting 'leaked' in quotes. It's not really leaked because the data is technically public. You can of course scrape it from say: https://registry.npmjs.org/react

However, it's been made significantly more accessible in a tool like this. NPM doesn't list it prominently in their UI anywhere (I believe).

So the 'leak' is up-publicizing data outside of the control of the owner, and when other, intentional (and likely better) alternatives exist.
> SO many times people have said to me

I'm sure that's happened.

> to some legal agreement almost no one has the time to read or expertise to understand in its full implications... New Declaration of Human Rights

In the same breath: complain about long documents that no one reads, propose authoring an unenforceable, even longer document that no one will read.
If you had a clear list of "these sort of news items/OC from friends makes me more susceptible to being convinced by questionable ideas/donate money/stay up at night." then you could perhaps take steps to preserve your ability to stay more rational, more the way you want yourself to be and less easy to manipulate by ads/partisans/etc.
The regular DDG results for 'tank man' are baffling bad too; it amounts to little more than entries on Wikipedia that have 'tank' in them.
It's not an "implementation detail". It's a problem with the fact that the Internet has only two functioning crawlers remaining.
I don't speak chinese, but "50 cent party" refers to paid online chinese trolls. I think it is written as 50美分派对 [1]

50美分派对 also finds no results on Bing, but plenty of results on Google.

So it's not just tank man. The word filter is active for all search terms that are blocked in china.

50美分的军队 I think is another way of writing it: it shows only 3 images on bing, which all look like ads for Coca Cola.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Cent_Party
Sssh! "Old = bad" means job security for millions of engineers. We need yet another security attack surface, I mean "improved interrupt handling."

I don't understand why people, engineers of all people, fall for the Dunning-Kruger/NIH/ageism-in-all-teh-things consumerism fallacy that everything else that came before is dumb, unusable, or can always be done better.

Code magically rusts after being exposed to air for 9 months, donja know? If it's not trivially-edited every 2 months, it's a "dead" project.
The code writes itself!
> Maybe not much more. But definitely more. And not with 100% confidence, we can't conclude anything. But there is information there, and we would be daft to ignore it completely because it isn't conclusive. We should adjust our predictions.

From pure statistical inference, you know precisely 1 more thing than nothing: an individual of the species can run 100m in 9.58s.

Now, adding other kinds of information and reasonable assumption from physics and biology, we can conclude more than that 1 thing, as you say. It's unclear exactly how much those would apply to alien biology, but they might.
I'm confused. I thougt iphone where made of aluminium, that is not attracted by a magnet ...
I never said anything about a load balancer.

"Availability" means being able to access the blockchain/system/network and get the data you want, when you want it.

The way most blockchain systems find out which nodes are on the network is usually through a gossip protocol, so typically your app will start off with some "seed nodes", which it contacts, then gets information about other nodes on the network.

Once you have the IPs of say 100 nodes scattered around the world, on different networks, running different OSes, etc. the chances of losing access to all those nodes is virtually zero.

Edit: You seem to be thinking about blockchains in terms of how traditional cloud/web based systems work. That's the wrong way to think about it. Blockchains have fundamentally different architecture. They do not use load balancers.
and santa claus exists
Facebook's deletion request callback with Rails
I think you are either confusing virtual machines with containers, or using containers where any OS differences are transparently hidden by starting a VPS with a container in it.

Containers have no overhead, you use the system kernel to do I/O for you, just like any other process.
A Brainfuck Web App
The only great thing I get from the story, at least a multi Billion dollar company thought your tools were so amazing it deserve paying their own VIP going on World Tour.

And no wonder why Sun failed to compete. A Cultural and management failure.
Newer iPhone models have magnets in them to attach to various chargers and accessories.
https://lite.qwant.com/?q=tank+man
Come now: there is energy, and probably dark matter too. And space-time. And black holes. And neutron stars.
Unless you are talking about something like "A Retargetable C Compiler: Design and Implementation", it is definitly not easy.

https://www.amazon.com/Retargetable-Compiler-Design-Implemen...

During the early 80's, the best home computers could get was Small-C.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small-C
See, the truth is just as impressive to me, but knowing it's not a lie and a more than fair line length makes me appreciate it.
DoorDash Rebuilding and Migrating a Session Management System with Zero Downtime
And even if you could, you should be billing them at a substantially higher rate than your normal salary already consuming your full-time bandwidth. These extra hours are precious and increasingly scarce bandwidth for self, and fast overlap into exceedingly inconvenient territory.
My experience with phx_gen_auth was like this:

1. Install Phoenix, expect the command to be available because everyone is raving about it.

2. Missing command.

3. Dig through docs.

4. Pull the development branch of Phoenix because phx_gen_auth is only available there.

5. Run the generator within the Phoenix git repo because it won't allow me to run it elsewhere using a development version.

6. Use the generator.

7. Never figure things out because the phx_gen_auth command is barely documented and now I've got files everywhere that I don't understand.

I tried implementing API authentication as well and while I got it working, it was less pleasant than my usual Django stack.

Another example. The colossal amount of docs referring to a missing Phoenix plugin for Guardian that got removed in a random update made me scratch my head and spend an hour digging through their changelog and commits to figure out why my code wasn't working. The change was not documented at all.

All in all, there were roadblocks every step of the way with poor docs and big undocumented breaking changes in libraries like Guardian. I want to love this thing but it made me so unproductive in the first couple weeks of using it for basic web/api development that I simply noped out.
This video is easily debunked and it's weird that it is in the mix because its the Nimitz report that is interesting.
> There is nothing wrong with criticizing the Communist Party of China.

There is, OTOH, something very wrong with equating Chinese national HN users with the Communist Party of China, and your comment that dang responded to about nationalistic attacks was explictly directed at the former, not the latter, and defending it as the latter draws an inappropriate equivalence.
The funny thing is that the rise of cloud computing coincides with the rise of really powerful cheap personal computation, you'd think it would be the opposite.
Also for submissions

(Maybe the karma threshold is different, but i do see it)
Just look across the straits at Taiwan.
Time to roll back this innovation and release the new iphone with 2x volume so that it'd float.
“DuckDuckGo gets its results from over four hundred sources. [..] we also source from multiple partners, most commonly from Bing”

[1]: https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/so...
Racism is, I guess, technically orthogonal to one's belief on the lab leak issue, but correlates pretty strongly. I bring it up because it is having an effect, especially in the US - attacks against Asian Americans are way up - and we might be able to do something about it.

By contrast, knowing the origins of Covid doesn't, in fact, have a lot of relevance to preparedness against the next pandemic. Both spillover and biosecurity incidents happen regularly enough that we really need to protect against both. If the CCP is lying about lab leak and covering it up, that has political implications but not really public health.

It's also, I think, digging deeper into this to explore trustworthiness of news sources. Mainstream sources haven't done a good job, mostly parroting conventional wisdom (as they will do). Social media has been worse, often a source of plain misinformation (in either direction). Real science journalists have done a good job, but people don't pay much attention to them, and in many cases what they write has been distorted and misrepresented (see [1] for a recent and relevant example).

[1]: https://twitter.com/amymaxmen/status/1400648773169156097
Yes, it does, because it makes it much more difficult for victims to confidently interact with the criminal financial system.
Every one that did should be ashamed of itself. And using that as an excuse for other outlets doesn't fly.

Yesterday, CNN was flogging the UFO tabloid crap. What do you think that says about CNN's credibility about other topics? Don't you want to laugh when they unctuously say "follow the science"?

Note that personally I believe we should follow the science. But I laugh when CNN says it. Their pundits have no idea what science actually is.
I get the Wikipedia link to Tiananmen Square Tank Man.

But the image search is concerning.
Any of them is... terrifing. damn. i hope it's just nothing.
A friend that does inspection work at factories, told me over beers once, that many executives are former military. West Point graduates and the sort. I took it as some sort government control of industry collusion. But who knows.
Control: 1000mg calcium/100g
Intervention: 62mg calcium/100g

OMG PROCESSED FOOD CAUSES BONE PROBLEMS 


They even avoided including cheese, to increase the size of the calcium deficiency.
It's the 6th result for "tank guy" for me. "china protest man tank" also gets it. "Tiananmen square" doesn't autocomplete on bing either, for "some reason"...

It's surprising and shameful to me that Microsoft would be censoring so brazenly even in US search results. Also embarrassing on a technical level that their censorship is this bad. It's also pretty bad at image search compared to Google (compare Google Images "tank guy" to Bing's).

Companies that sell their soul for money are one thing, but Bing has ~2% market share in China, and for this they are crudely censoring search results worldwide? Madness.
Last time I looked, about 40% of Americans were of German ancestry.

I don't think Angela Merkel is controlling Hacker News.
It's one of my favorite things about programming. For example I made a Neo Geo tile viewer and decoding the format and figuring out just what needs to be done to get it working then suddenly BAM! tiles tiles everywhere! It's so satisfying.
All of your data is stored in an encrypted wallet/ID via decentralized storage solutions. Only you have access to your data and control over your data via a private key like a crypto wallet.
You honestly have the consider the esoteric intraoperative activity that deflate and conflate profitability along the journey to the end.
"we" doesn't include the users. The users don't operate hacker news. They have an effect on it but it's not top-down censorship which is what's being implied here.
OVH is the largest European cloud company. Amazon, Google and Microsoft don't count as European.

As a user of both, the price different may not be 75x, but I wouldn't be surprised if it were in the 10x-20x range. The polish is also quite different, and is consistent with the price difference.
This story is full of people to hate and tons of laughs at the same time.

Seems, at a cursory glance, that Nigeria is being ran by some nutbag authoritarians, which seems par the course around the globe over the past decade.

But it's sort of nice to see Twitter get a taste of their own medicine all the same, regardless of source.
True. However, they should bear consequences for such behavior. Being treated as guilty for covering things up seems like a reasonably appropriate consequence.
Indeed. And history shows that often the problem isn’t quite the first revolution, inspired by democratic values, but a subsequent revolution that takes advantage of the temporary power vacuum and institutes a dictatorship. One example is the October (Bolshevik) Revolution in Russia, which overthrew the nascent democracy that had been instituted earlier that year in the February Revolution. Another example is the Islamic Revolution in Iran after Khomeini returned from exile, which quickly wiped out the varied mix of Communists and other secular political forces that had overthrown the Shah.

Even the first, democratic-inspired revolution can look pretty dangerous in retrospect. I am sympathetic to many ideals of May ’68, yet at the same time I feel like Western Europe dodged a bullet, because the subsequent regime could have turned out very badly.
I feel like this is one of the first times I've seen @dang fucking go in. Love it, love you and keep up the great work.
"We should stop producing software" is a take, and I support it! But I also recognize that the societal cost of ceasing all software development would be huge, and the cost of stopping all cryptocurrency is small and would be felt mostly by speculators. As the saying goes: first you couldn't use Bitcoin to buy a pizza, then you could use Bitcoin to buy a pizza, and now you can't use Bitcoin to buy a pizza.

Coal power plants aren't profitable if they have to pay for their externalities, and should be shut down.
The world of easy travel may be doomed either way.

If it's a lab leak? The rhetoric may shift to blaming China and trying to punish them (especially in more conservative circles). New Cold War, more Iron Curtains, less freedom of travel.

If it's just globalization making things risky? Then maybe we can't let people fly from Wuhan to Bergamo for public health reasons. Less freedom of travel, for an entirely different reason.
If something is “arguably” illegal, then that is what the law is for. We in fact have a very complex and refined branch of government designed specifically to decide whether something is illegal or not, and it works far better than a bunch of underpaid Facebook employees answering to shareholders and in the case of speech that is actually dangerous, it has the authority to go and arrest people.
Vouching works for [dead] comments and submissions, not those that are only [flagged] (but not [dead]). I believe this is what 'crazygringo is referring to.
This ruling is really confusing for me. So I feel pretty strongly that what van Buren did is a massive abuse of authority and it warrants punishment. Yet so many people I usually agree with (SCOTUS judges, EFF, privacy lawyers) are all calling this a win.

Am I missing something? To me, this ruling means that if a person is granted technical access to a computer system, then that person cannot be held criminally liable for anything they do with access to that system, even if the owner explicitly prohibits it.

In other words, lets say I work at a gay hookup website and they grant me access to their production database as part of my job. If I start selling off information about user to third parties (say journalists), how can that be legal?

Aside, I do understand and agree with the argument allowing for spidering and screen scrapping. Like, if I buy a subscription to an online parts catalog, I should be able to use a bot to access that data in the same ways a human could.
Agreed on the community! They have been nothing but supportive on forums and chats. The brightest point of Elixir is their warm and friendly folks.
Can you "rule out" I'm an alien?
I’ll start with: no I don’t think you or “HN” are in on some conspiracy.

My question is: does HN actively attempt to counteract government actors from influencing the site? I think it’s been proven that China among other countries employs folks to try to influence social media sites. Not necessarily by influencing staff, but by creating user accounts who do things like downvote unfavorable comments or flag stories they don’t like.

This seems like it would be a prime target for that behavior.
I mean anybody who wasn't fully on board with the party line was labeled as a right-wing nut job. Asking even basic questions about what we are doing, why we are doing it and what the end game was has been met with extreme vitriol.

It's one of the biggest tip-offs I had that my gut was onto something. Thank god we got vaccines as soon as we did because honestly the route society was taking was complete madness.
I, for one, welcome our new Chinese overlords
That is why you put it in writing and mail it to court.
China is the common factor in tank man and fauci's emails
That might make some sense if you get paid by the hour and can get overtime. But if you are salaried that is crazy talk.
I suggest you not just blindly believing whatever they say unless they provide real solid evidence. Take it into consideration as a hypothesis but don't just assume it's the truth. They have agreed on many points in the past and have been completely wrong.
Ask HN: Best way to learn networking fundamentals quickly
I have been tasked with getting traffic from AWS, to a colo, and out through a private link to a third party. I am a bit out of my depth here. How can I quickly learn to design and configure networks? I learned the basics of networking in university, and can work my way around all of the cloud provider networking primitives.

However, this seems like a different beast. I need to learn about cross-connects, DHCP, ARP, BGP/ASNs, firewalls, etc. The reason I have found this difficult so far is that educational content I am discovering falls roughly into two categories:
1) Network programming, i.e how to use Unix sockets and system calls
2) Virtual networking, i.e AWS/GCP networking primitives which are useful and important but I believe I need to go further.

I am not exactly sure where to start and am hoping for some direction. A Cisco certification course? An MIT OCW networking 101 course? I have limited time and am looking to become simply proficient and provisioning and configuring to get my team unblocked.

Thank you so much in advance.
You cellular company has first party signal data, that even the big tech companies don't have.
DreamCoder: Wake and Sleep Program Learning
It's hard to consider them a moral competitor when they are an authoritarian regime in the midst of committing genocide...
None of those services actually let you send money over the internet. All of them are custodial. You give them your money, they hold onto it, and when they feel like it, they might let you interact with other users within their closed ecosystems.
That feels like a stretch to me, and if I do try to read something into it, I'd read what you just said into it, not what you said originally: it's a jab at the people who felt the need to read the book, not the author being uncomfortable with the topic. It's a book aimed by title at those who are uncomfortable with the topic, after all.

But my reading is still that it's probably a much more non-malicious wordplay connection to the the "but were afraid to ask" part of the book's title.
I'm sorry, I think we definitely have a "pot meet kettle" situation here. You're (pretty patronizingly) describing noting selection bias, then basing things on your own situation.

The median income for mechanical engineers in the US is around $88k, with many (especially early-career) people making meaningfully less than that. I'm glad your income is high enough that thousands of dollars in equipment, and far more importantly, extra space in your living quarters, is a blip. I really am. But statistically, your situation is not representational of the hundreds of thousands of other workers.
> I never heard any convincing argument about why privacy has value.

You have either _never_ had to keep a secret (which I highly doubt, unless you happen to be a literal child) or you simply aren't arguing in good faith.

Assuming that you are arguing in good faith, let's consider a potential reason why someone might value their privacy:

Some people are born attracted to the same-sex (gay, lesbian, bi, pan, etc.).

There are some countries where being gay is a criminal offense; there are even some countries where you can face the death penalty for this. [1]

If a gay person lives in one of those countries, don't they have a right to keep this fact about themselves private simply in order to protect themselves? Or does their life have less value than the profit that can be generated by the "Data Economy"?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_for_homosex...
Dang, why is this flagged off the front page when articles favoring lab leaks are always kept on it?
https://search.asynchronousexchange.com/search?q=tank%20man&...
Why is DDG going this to traffic coming outside of China?
And I woke from a terrible dream

So I caught up my pal Jack Daniel's

And his partner Jimmy Beam

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/woke-meaning...

AC/DC - You Shook Me All Night Long (Official Video)

https://youtu.be/Lo2qQmj0_h4

(Rock n' roll stole the best vernacular.)
> MIT and JSTOR lobbied the feds to pursue Swartz

No, they didn't. Once Swartz turned over all the data he had collected and promised not to do it again, both MIT and JSTOR said they were satisfied and told the feds they did not want any further action taken. The feds chose to pursue Swartz anyway.
If you mean flagged on HN, there's great transparency about the reasons: users can flag whatever they want.
This is almost universally true in hockey. Promising prospect makes the NHL, disappoints in his first season, hits the gym and packs on 20lbs, comes back and lights it up.