skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been very happy with Terraform. I also have a huge investment in Cloudformation and it doesn't take long to discover that Cloudformation isn't implemented consistently across services, it's full of bugs, and unless your bug happens to impact Amazon internally you can wait years for a fix. New functionality for existing resources can also take years to materialize. Back when I had an eight figure AWS budget they would offer to let me fund a Cloudformation fix (seriously! They wanted me to pay them to fix their errors) but since moving to a smaller shop they don't even offer that.

With Terraform (and its AWS provider) I've found things are generally implemented consistently, I've not encountered any crashing bugs yet, and all of the manual steps I've had to do with the AWS CLI have Terraform equivalents.
There was a flight sim for the Mac (F/A 18, I think) that I played in the mid-90's that came with a thick paperback book. It included all the different flight envelopes and even a primer on the concept of "lift" and how it keeps planes in the air.
Salesforce Email Service Used for Phishing Campaign
Singapore is a small island, and the mighty Singapore River, located on that island, is all of 3 km long.
> Zero impedance mismatch between database and application representation

Does this include informacion hiding/encapsulation? (to prevent saved objects' internal representation from being exposed).

Traditional databases don't have an encapsulation mechanism AFAIK, which is one of the reasons for impedance mismatch.

This is important because it is a good practice for client code to make no assumptions about the internal representation, accessing data only via the a public interface.

If it happens to be exposed by the database, the clients can use it in their queries. If the internal representation changed later on, such clients would be broken.

Of course, this can be solved by only allowing data access via, say, well designed restful apis (that don't expose internal details), but this would still provide no guarantees.

How about another reason for impedance mismatch, that of storing objects that belong to a class hierarchy?
Hold it. Those aren’t just regular people being happy. They’re leaders in what is equivalent to a wartime situation. When they’re wrong, people die.
Think of the speeding ticket Elon will get.
They are far-left extremists who use climate change as an excuse to vandalize small businesses. This dude was arrested for occupying and vandalizing a restaurant.
I've never heard of anyone having their ability to get steam refunds curtailed. I've personally refunded dozens of games without an issue.
Old article from February. Windows 10x has been canceled since then
I feel like computer versions of board games are done terribly. I don't want a realistic 3d scene with 30 second animations of each move. I want a 2d (maybe basic 3d for some games, but a view of the board, not a first person view) board, with pretty graphics matching the offline version and excellent multiplayer capability for playing my friends online.
Doctor Who is similar, with plot twists often spanning seasons.

"And you, daughter of London, there is something on your back." -- Lucius, the chief auger of Pompeii

That quote raises goosebumps on my arm every time I hear it...
>now I can't catch my breath for the first 10 minutes

For some reason, a few years ago, I would be on a phone interview, and I couldn't breathe. But when/if I got an in person interview, I would be completely relaxed. Sometimes too relaxed and careless about what I said. I never did a video interview, so I don't know how that would go.
One of the biggest failures still happening is the lack of communication on this.

Many people think we're going to eradicate covid-19. Even before the delta variant that seemed like an impractical longshot, and that it was inevitable that it would be endemic. I'm already starting to see polarizing politics on the fringes start to turn endemic into a dirty word instead of the likely reality.

People should be prepared and understand that over a 2+ year time frame they have a 99% chance of catching covid-19. And getting the vaccine so they don't start from zero immunity is likely the best we can do.
Facebook Apologizes for Racist AI That Labeled Black Men as “Primates”
Despite this, vaccination against COVID coupled with acquired immunity through infection (partial or complete for a certain period of time) will almost certainly do what it has always done throughout history for most diseases, which is reduce the general deadliness across subsequent reinfections. Yes there are some exceptions caused by mutations but those may or may not happen at who knows which time. Global policy absolutely should not repress a vast amount of normal social activity based on such unlikely what-ifs. Even if the current vaccines remain much like the flu vaccine (only partly effective) COVID itself will almost certainly settle into a pattern that's similar to that of the flu, with a certain low-level death toll that becomes part of the annual mortality landscape. Even to begin with, this was never close to a truly lethal disease like smallpox or the plague.

More fundamentally, these questions and the policy around them should not be the domain of abstract science to decide for social rules and laws. Other considerations that affect all of us, economic, freedom-related, emotional and social have to be considered. Scientists can easily get carried along by narrow policy advocacy based on their science, without considering external factors. As another comment here mentioned, that's a dangerous mentality for legal decision making.
In Australia, NSW and Victoria are locked down. Other states, including my own, at the sign of sometimes a single case, lock down. And the status quo comes with minimal international movement (need approval and expensive quarantine) and restricted movement between states. Not sure how practical or palatable that would be in Europe, the Americas, etc.
That outcome was not likely for anyone other than the top 2-3 companies per batch pre about 2011, and in 2009, due to the financial crisis, we were basically told “you probably won’t raise money at all”.

We went to YC because it seemed like the best place to learn how to build successful companies and to be around others doing it.
Works a treat: https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28415582
Feels like there might be more to the story than is being let on.

Curious why the PF has to specifically ask before landing for the spoilers to be called, to tell if he's touched down. AFAIK it's actually common Airbus procedure to called Spoilers and Reversers and deceleration after landing. Also telling whether or not you touched down isn't really a problem... even for the smoothest/softest of landings. Then there's the PM calling out "center line" at 130 feet...
I thought about it, and in my case I think it’s because the pronunciation is unintuitive. You often hear people saying “Gandhi” like “Band”, which is wrong I think.

To write how you pronounce Gandhi you normally have words like “Khan” or “Ghana” etc. at least with the words I’m familiar with.

So it makes a switch I have to constantly manually remember. Possible I have the pronunciation wrong of course.
Yeah, but GP meant "would anyone who isn't an idiot?".
>what alternative would you prefer? Perpetual rolling lockdowns and endless streams of prohibitions...

Only about half of US adults are vaccinated. Parents are literally fighting with and attempting to "arrest" school officials who are trying to keep kids safe with commonsense measures. Then, there's the whole family of theories on the "gov't is trying to kill us with 5G and take away our freedom" continuum, some of which motivates the former behavior and has them preferring anything but science-backed treatments (bleach, animal de-wormer, etc).

I could go on, but I think you get the point. Many of the same people who resist efforts to get the virus under control are the ones decrying lockdowns and prohibitions.

So, perhaps one answer to your question of preferable alternatives is in there somewhere. That is, I don't see how we can ignore this outlandish disinformation pipeline that motivates counterproductive behavior and mistrust of the most basic things required for a functioning society, then just throw our hands up and say, "well, some people are just going to die. What choice do we have?"
Maybe the problem is that it’s much easier to make a game now than it was back then. But as a result people who maybe don’t really know what they are doing can make games using huge tech stack.
I think for most people the interpretation of "by default" means "we will not log your IP unless you enable it", i.e. the power is in the hands of the user. The complaint people are making here is that this statement should really have a clarifying clause saying "or unless requested to do so by law enforcement".
I provided precisely the commands you need to run to get the output I got. Not only did you not run 'cargo vendor', but you're using 'cloc' instead of 'tokei', which has a less precise line counting algorithm.
Also ProtonMail's only reason for being is that they are supposed to provide some higher level of privacy. If they don't, how are they any different than a commodity grade SMTP/IMAP provider? I will withhold judgement until I know more about the case but the early context does not look good for ProtonMail's value proposition, which is the least of things.
> CEOs can be jailed; when's the last time we heard of one actually going to jail over user privacy?

Ladar Levison from Lavabit came close. But even he admits that was because the FBI wanted to subvert every single Lavabit user's account (attempting vast overreach on the brazen assumption that "we are after Snowden" was going to pull the wool over everybody's eyes). Levison admits though, to having "responded to" at least two dozen subpoenas and complied with at least one warrant before.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavabit#Suspension_and_gag_ord...
'gh' is somewhat common in American English. ghost, ghetto, aghast. 'dh' is unheard of.
The Tao of Paradox
All the Protonmail customers out there, what did you do about this?

For starters, I emailed Protonmail support.

Here's mine:
Hi,
Your homepage reads "By default, we do not keep any IP logs..."

This language is soft and misleading. Maybe in 2018 when I first began using ProtonMail it was good enough. But in 2021 it's not. I expect better from ProtonMail.

Replace immediately with something clearer. "By default we don't log IP, but may be required to by law enforcement. We recommend all customers connect through Protonmail through Tor. This month, 60% of our users connected through Tor".

If you can't come up with anything better for users, just fall back on your privacy statement verbatim and avoid any marketing language.

Think about a journalist in Afghanistan, a whistleblower in the USA, or a human rights activist in China. They're all engaging in potentially dangerous activities.

I advocate on behalf such people by supporting services like Protonmail with my money. If Protonmail isn't supporting these users, why should I bother supporting Protonmail?

I expect Protonmail to educate users like this about how Protonmail itself can be turned into an adversary. Educate users about how to use Tor. Do better. Improve the internet.

I look forward to your reply.

Also, registering a new account through Tor requires a phone number for verification, even though Proton says no unique identification is required to register. If this requirement isn't removed by the time I renew my account I will no longer renew.
Wow, is it even possible to form a science fiction setting without clichés?
Agree with the other comments. I do totally let our cat know that I am sorry and will use high-pitched voice (distinct from when I push them (gentle but firm) away from food and use low-pitch, for example) and do caring things like invite them to come to me, stroke them, etc. Not scientific but I do believe they get it.

This might have the side effect that they care less to avoid the situation next time (sometimes it's totally their fault, behind an opaque door how am I supposed to know they're sitting there? Of course it can move at some point), though the toilet door they seem to have been burned by often enough that they start running when the toilet flushes regardless of whether the door was cracked and we could each see each other's eyes so they know I know they're there ^^'
P4 programmability is available in Cisco Silicon One so wouldn’t call P4 dead in the water. Cisco Silicon One is meant to go head to head against Broadcom.

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/solutions/collateral/silicon-o...

In other merchant silicon, while not P4, Broadcom has offered their own proprietary programmability in Trident 3/4.

I think adoption has been slower more due to lack of relevant domain expertise in software as well as relative inability of pretty much anyone to properly model the impact of routing features on a production network than anything else.

P4 is being widely adopted at the NIC level.
> MSM decided this was a non-event until it got to NYC, and even then a relatively minor one

The only story the New York Times was covering all week was Ida. Well before it got to the Northeast.
Sure, but it's a very manual process. I want to be able to write an artbitrary SQL query (or subset of SQL query), and have the subscription aspect "just work".
I am counting the number of lines that are being compiled when you run 'cargo build' on Linux. This includes things like huge Unicode tables and ffi bindings (for the entirety of libc, for example).
The scanning of email contents that Gmail does is, from a privacy standpoint, indistinguishable from them simply sending you the email. Their server has to know the contents of that email either way.
McSweeney's had a great piece on the absurdity of outdoor dining enclosures: https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-am-the-designer-of-thi...
Most people don't care about plumbing until it breaks and spews sewage water all across the apartment, after which they'll start having some pretty strong opinions about types of pipes. I didn't care about systemd until its default configuration deliberately broke emacs daemon and tmux, after which I had some pretty strong opinions about systemd.

At this point, every distribution disables that setting, but it shows that systemd's developers cannot be trusted to make reasonable defaults, and must be double-checked to avoid blatant foolishness.
This is ignorant.

We have a social contact with our government who we elect to provide for our common security. In my state (SA) this is public health data only that is protected from the police by legislation.

There is lots of weird data interception legislation our federal government has introduced to satisfy big corporate interests and our allies which I strongly distrust. But this is not that.

We have maintained a covid free existence where I live since this outbreak. Single figure deaths in my state for this entire pandemic. Only 10 days of lockdown so we could get ahead of two potential quarantine breaches. The bargain we paid to keep everyone at work, kids in schools and people out of hospital was to check in with QR codes to enable swift and effective tracing. Totally worth it and most of the population here agrees except for a few manipulated by foreign stupidity. We like our kids being in school, having jobs and being healthy.

Only just getting my second vax in a couple of weeks due to poor supply here and a lot of people are in the same situation. We will need good testing, tracing, isolation and quarantine for awhile yet to protect our hospital system and their staff but things are going to get better. Not at all upset to be living in a competent liberal democracy. There don't seem to be many left.
Do tell, how do you plan your clandestine operations?
That reminds me, absolutely everything had loads of wax when those Soap grinding shoes were popular too lol
I mean lots of people lost their jobs and businesses, and saw their lives and standard of living derailed as a result of the lockdowns, but we've been told that this was worth the sacrifice.

EDIT: And I'll add I mention this out to point out the absurdity and double standards that have been applied here.
No Absolute Meaning
I don't know what return to normalcy anyone is expecting given pollution and climate change. If normal for Americans means polluting and emitting greenhouse gases, we'll accelerate tremendous suffering, including ourselves. If we want to avoid that suffering, we can change our lifestyles (which could increase health, longevity, stability, and more since we waste so much, despite our culture telling us it would cause deprivation and sacrifice).

Either way, no return to normalcy, though if we choose to reduce polluting we would improve our lives.
I'm not sure I agree with these, honestly. Take the first one (opening Apollo 11's doors "prematurely"). No matter what decision was made, no ill could come of it, since there weren't any microbes to be unleashed.

Deciding not to launch a "counterattack" with nuclear weapons based on a hunch that the alert you're getting is false; THAT'S a world-changing decision.
First, the rule is never to use them for cultural reasons and that just replaces the cultural hegemony of one group with another.

Second, there's an advantage to everyone using the same names again and again. When I see the names, I know it's going to be a protocol discussion. If someone inserts, say, a Chinese name in the proper unicode with a slavic name in cyrilic, I've got to think and try to figure out what is going on. Eventually I'll catch on, but it slows down comprehension.
> I don't think this is a matter of science. Our dogs and cats are living, emotional creatures.

If by that you mean that nobody should be experimenting by doing intentional harm to any animal which we can reasonably suspect to be able to experience pain then I agree. If you mean that emotions are beyond science to comprehend, then I'm curious why you think that is?
He didn't think we had those truths yet but I do think it's clear he thought it was the job of scientists (not only philosophers) to discover them. That's his major motivation behind the EPR paradox, general relativity, and the search for a greater theory.

If you look at what he did, he wanted to figure out what is true. General relativity answered Newton's "metaphysical" question about how gravity could act on bodies at a distance.
The only countries that have consistently managed to keep COVID at bay are China, Taiwan and New Zealand. All the rest of the former COVID Zeros, including Australia, Vietnam and Singapore, have succumbed to Delta, and it's a matter of time until the three holdouts do so too.
At the mention of a shaggy dog story I am perpetually reminded of a literary great's famous one.

If you've not read it, don't read the plot summary, the [spoiler] is enormous.

Get the text, enjoy the story, love the wit.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shah_Guido_G.
> This isn't the Hotmail age where everyone expects free email.

It totally is.

I was running my own mail server for a while. The thing that finally pushed me into not bothering any more was when I looked at my logs and realised 82% of my non-spam non-marketing email was captured by google (where at least one recipient was either @gmail.com or a gsuite custom domain).
What immediately following paragraph? This is what I see:

https://i.imgur.com/6sZFn78.png
Scooter hate also isn’t new, they were popular in the very early 00s
I haven’t lost any, technically I exited at 10,000% gains (ETH $10 -> $1000) (not that much money all in all.) Since then I’ve seen the damage it’s doing to markets, environments, brains, etc. and realized it’s really just a net negative. Not everything that earns you money is good or worth it.
I pasted an email I sent to Protonmail above. If they can't come up with language that's clear, use text from their privacy policy verbatim. Start educating users not to trust anything but what's in the policy, and even treat that as adversarial.
Nope. FWIW, I conpile on a MacBook. So I only have 2 cores, and laptop ones at that. Perhaps that's affecting our difference in perspective?

I also had a project a couple of years ago where I had to compile it in release mode to get reasonable performance for testing (Iw as processing GB's of data), which meant 2-3min incremental compile times. Not fun!
If the tech. companies involved have monetized surveillance, and no I am not talking about the kind they do for advertising, but instead the $ for data on users/portal, all that jazz, fees for LE levels of access, cost for responses, etc the LE are also the customers too then?
The buildings aren't getting any taller, in case of an intrusion.
Mars would be interesting, along with powering space mining operations. Perhaps focused mirrors on the moon or in earth orbit to illuminate earth based solar panel arrays at night. I'd guess aluminum mirrors in space would stay reflective for many decades.
Oh, absolutely. You treat it as if there is no margin.

And you don't put wooden buildings full of schoolchildren immediately past the end of runways.
For me, I NEVER expect protection from any governmemnt authorities. They have unlimited resources (compared to a regular person), and you can't fight city hall, as the saying goes.

The reason I use tutamota (similar to protonmail) is to stop the Googles and Yahoos and hotmails from scanning all of my emails, using them to advertise to me, selling the information to advertisers. Could you imagine if the US post office opened up all your mail, read it, and sold this information to anyone who asked? Preposterous. And keep track and sell who you send stuff to and who you receive info from? Of course, if the government decided to monitor you regular mail, they could. Fine. Nothing anyone can do about that. But at least the USPS doesn't read everything you send and sell that info to commercial entities.

So, that is why I use those types of services. I don't want to be anywhere near Googlemail, or Yahoomail, or Hotmail, etc.
heh. i've been considering a switch from ansible to terraform because i've been frustrated by ansible's limited support for some of the edge cases around ALBs. good to hear that terraform also sucks.

i'm gradually coming to the conclusion that all the tools that are supposed to make provisioning cloud infrastructure easier aren't as good as a bunch of crappy custom scripts using boto or aws-cli.
While schools might be a major vector for many diseases, the evidence suggest children do not spread COVID very well to teachers. Opening schools is not a joke, it following the evidence.

Here's the US CDC: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/science/science-br...

"Findings from several studies suggest that SARS-CoV-2 transmission among students is relatively rare, particularly when prevention strategies are in place. An Australian study of 39 COVID-19 cases among 32 students and seven staff traced contacts across 28 schools and six early childhood centers and found only 33 secondary positive cases (28 students and five staff members) out of 3,439 close child contacts and 385 close staff contacts.58, 59 Several contact tracing studies have found limited student-to-student transmission in schools."
It's not hyperbole, I've refined it down to a category of investment I'm saying should be prioritized. Now within that category I acknowledged that we should look at the opportunity cost and try to predict what would be a good investment, but that's not a science, you can only do so much analysis, eventually you need to decide and there's always a risk involved.