skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My 2c - my company has been using it for nearly 4 years and while it does some things well, the task management, especially around subtasks and linked tasks is very clunky. Kinda valid criticism for the whole of Phabricator. Everything is markdown which is useful for people proficient with it, but 1. The devs refused to make a monospace font default (a no brainer for markdown!! How else can you sanely create tables?) and 2. Refused to add a WYSIWYG editor which made it very hard to get non technical users to heavily document well (tables again! They’re an amazing way to represent heaps of different types of info on a task, why are they not super easy to use?). This ties in with the rest of the software, in particular wikis which are a huge pain to manage.

I’ve been looking for various software for a while as a potential replacement, and after looking at a variety of open source tools for different parts of our devops process (code hosting, CI, ticketing) I’ve realised that, bigger more well known projects have the best integrations with other tools by far, and also due to their integration between features have the least friction when using day to day.

I’ve lately been looking to GitLab, which looks like it has the middle ground between simplicity of task management, and complexity with a billion features and concepts like Jira. Does anyone who has used it extensively have any experiences to share?
This is hilarious, I want this site to exist.
Previously there was no precendent of an on-device content scanning protocol proposed by the top phone manufacturer themselves and even deemed privacy-preserving and secure by them.

Now please idividually hash every word of every message on the phone. Then give us all illegal messages that contain _exact_ hash match with the dangerous word “Tianamen”. Government abuse is impossible though: our team of Apple employees here at iCloud-China will manually review them before passing the list to firing squads. Thanks!
I agree, and I'm concerned about the divide and conquer-type of impact it's having in societal discourse. This effect seems way too convenient (and beneficial) for the ruling class, and in that respect, I'm afraid academia may be inadvertantly working against the common interest of the working classes by pushing these worldviews.
AIUI the way emergency care in the US works is it's basically strictly a FIFO of those in need of urgent care.

You treat what's in front of you in need of life-saving care you're capable of providing, and start turning away what you can't treat for lack of capacity.

This is exceptionally vulnerable to DoS attack, which is what we're effectively seeing. The FIFO will be overwhelmingly full of ivermectin overdoses in pandemic hot spots coinciding with widespread belief that self-administered ivermectin is effective treatment for said pandemic.

Nobody wants to be in a position of prioritizing one patient's urgent needs over another, which is why this FIFO approach has become the standard; it's the non-judgemental (and lowest liability) option.
Lol they flagged it again. They overpowered the vouch to make sure you can't be seen as legitimate.

You know, when the government ultimately is seen as the thing that must be stopped and the people who are willing to make a stand do. Guess who is second on that stop.
This. It literally happened to me yesterday.
The internet was blocked altogether and one Sim card service was allowed after a long time so I did something interesting.
I asked a friend in another country to log into an old reddit account, I dictated him the text I wanted to post and he pushed it.

I had kept that reddit account dormant for over 7 months for this very purpose because I remember somehwere about reddit 90 days history policy or something.
This is the level of threat I am looking at.
I was willing to dictate PNG base54 character by character so that the other person could reconsititute it but they reopened internet the next day but this is the level of threat facing a casual internet user

https://m.thewire.in/article/media/internet-shutdown-blocks-...
I remember Fredrik Douglass article in which he complained about negro word being used. It offended him.

And that was prior civil war, when he advocated against slavery. Which, quite a few people argued is a good thing.
Comparing the Relative Performance of AWS, GCP, and Azure for RonDB
> no MORE access than any company already has

Yes, Google and Apple are both capable of writing code to scan your device for anything. Only Apple (to our knowledge) has written this code. It's a distinction with meaning.

For the moment, yes, they are only scanning things that will eventually be stored on their servers. It's just another minor policy change to scan things that you are keeping locally.

My hope is that they will delay this until they can announce E2EE for iCloud, which would then at least be give and take on privacy, potentially a net win.

As it stands, this is a net loss.
Apps used for Modern slavery and human trafficking – Documentary
Teaser: AWS has lowest latency networking, GCP highest networking throughput, Azure somewhere in-between.

Key Insight: Network interrupt handling varies between clouds, affecting latency/throughput tradeoff.
That's remarkable. I'm much less likely to write it off now. Thank you for sharing.
> What apple doesn’t understand is that scanning on the device is worse for privacy than scanning on the server, not better.

We don’t have to excuse one of the most valuable corp around. They do understand, but are willing to cash-in some of the “privacy budget”.
Not as hard as some might think. Are manslaughters counted in the murder rate, does it matter if it's voluntary or involuntary? Do we put justifiable homicides in the murder rate? What if we can just charge it as aggravated assault. What about when there's no charge, do we write it out as a murder or a suspicious death until we have a suspect? Accidental shooting? Potentially self inflicted?

I would not be surprised if the murder rate reduction is significantly attributable to changes in statistical reporting. I know a few cities that play games with the numbers even on murders.
Python has SQLite. This means you can lock a db file on all platforms and synchronize processes using SQLite.
LeechBlock NG and uBlock Origin work great on Firefox for Android.
The US government was spying on everything well before 9/11 [1]. This sort of surveillance has been happening since the dawn of civilization. It's imperative for elites that wish to stay in power.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON
People are eating horse paste meant for horse deworming and ending up with overdoses. They're buying them from vet pharmacies. Prescriptions are harder to overdose because they're meant for human consumption. So your calculations are wrong.
Why premature scaling fails: The Traction Treadmill
Yes you obviously can.
I always recommend, a great story about losing your cultural background in favor of fitting in https://gizmodo.com/read-ken-lius-amazing-story-that-swept-t...
UBC Engineering removes online classes, obstacles for international students
> If your interlocutor is an advanced-level mental gymnast

Given the site we’re on, it’s almost certain.
As someone who lives in a formerly fascist country and was born in a socialist country that borrowed many fascist tools, I can tell you all one thing: Taking control of the language is a telltale sign of a fascist movement. Whoever tries to control the language automatically stands on the wrong side of history. It is not an accident that the woke movement attacks liberties so vehemently. It is also not an accident that it seems to pile one more extreme demand on top of the other, look how currently feminism gets cleansed, this is just the internal power struggle (think Röhm purge or Trotzkists). Do not make the mistake to think this movement is out there to improve anything for anyone. It is solely a revolutionary movement trying to survive and radicalize until it can get to power.
If you read the Monash paper showing Ivermectin kills Covid at high doses in-vitro, link below, it does discuss how they surveyed various well known widely available medicines against a variety of viruses in 2012 and found that Ivermectin surprisingly seems to have an effect vs several viruses, including Zika, Dengue, West Nile Virus.

.. so, later, when Covid broke they were interested to see if IVT had an effect vs Covid - under the assumption that its anti-viral mechanism was host-centric rather than virus-specific. It did, wow :

The Monash paper - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.antiviral.2020.104787

Regardless of whether IVT is ultimately found to be an effective treatment vs Covid in humans [ unclear and controversial at the moment ] it is certainly important to understand its mechanism of action, as it could give rise to a whole new class of broad-spectrum antivirals.

Another interesting paper is the Pasteur study of IVT effectiveness vs covid in guinea-pigs - https://doi.org/10.15252/emmm.202114122 [ I feel compelled to give further social proof from a big name institution, given the firestorm of social media opinion ]

I can only speculate that the trials showing both effectiveness and ineffectiveness of IVT in humans vs covid, differ so widely due to some confounding factor - the simplest which I can propose is that IVT is absorbed 2.5x more if taken with fatty food .. which is what you want to get the high doses purported to be effective vs covid .. yet, the medicine is normally taken on an empty stomach to treat intestinal parasites, so it can stay largely in the gut, and not be absorbed into the rest of the body.
We are also thinking about life-long options. thanks.
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The Power of Positive People (2018)
> Completely tangential rant:

I know we're not supposed to entertain this on HN, I think this would make a good 'Ask HN' - let me know if you make one.

> I just saw a tweet of a guy serving 200k connections on a $5 USD instance. I believe it because I've experienced it first hand several times. Serving static pages in 2021 is not a big deal, at all.

You can do that on a $1/month instance if you are clever about it. It's all about static serving.

Heavy load is something that can be detected and handled - if you're maxing out your CPU/network, switch to low-res/quality images, minimal CSS and do away with comments/recommendations. You could get that page down to 20kB and be mostly the same.

> Can't they just solve this problem already? Whoever is in charge of their tech stack is hardly doing its job, this is unexcusable.

A text+images news website should not be having this much trouble, it's embarrassing. That said, I'm sure there is something we do not understand - I would for sure like to speak with somebody from the site to understand it more.
My point is that the people in the hospitals are truly taking livestock dewormer. Regardless if the active compound of what they’re consuming is Ivermectin, they’re taking horse drugs.

I’ve seen a lot of people doing this “gotcha” correction regarding its use for humans, which while true, doesn’t change the fact we have a bunch of people taking horse medicine.
In this model communication has to go up to go across the silo. The "white space" in the organization is filled with poison gas (or strong cultural taboos against "breaking the chain of command"). Before you talk to someone you need to talk to their manager (or your manager must talk to their manager).

It's an interesting thought experiment for organizational design. If you had enough information you could partition the challenges an organization faces into a set of mutually exclusive collectively exhaustive set and assign one team to each challenge. Of course the world does not stand still and your perfect decomposition of teams to problems starts to go obsolete as soon as you announce it.

In "organize for Complexity" (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B010CL1X66/) Niels Pfaegling suggests every organization has three kinds of networks:

1. Formal Reporting Hierarchy: manages formal budget and compliance with laws and regulations.

2. Informal Networks: hold social capital and operate in the “white space.”

3. Expertise Networks: hold intellectual capital and procedural knowledge that enables value creation.

This model remove the second and third category of networks as options. I suspect that an organization with only a formal hierarchy would be neither robust or resilient in the face of changes in the outside world (e.g new competitors, new opportunities, changes in customer needs, etc..). Christopher Alexander wrote about the value of multiple overlapping networks and a messy but lively organization in "A City is not a Tree" (See https://www.patternlanguage.com/archive/cityisnotatree.html ). I think his insights also apply to organizations.

I blogged about Pflaeging's insights in https://www.skmurphy.com/blog/2018/10/24/7-sets-of-insights-...
I just remember what happened when California decriminalized pot back in 1975. Didn't take long for ordinary pot dealers to stop selling hash. Also they stopped selling anything but buds.

So based on that I'm pretty sure if you reduced penalties for high quality morphine and slammed people selling Fentanyl, dealers wouldn't touch Fentanyl.
That is how the law works after it was amended in 2012.[1] From the time of adoption in 1994 until 2012, even relatively minor crimes could result in a life sentence.[2]

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/27/us/california-convicts-ar...

[2] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/60-archives-steven-bell-the-bic...
> You're just asserting it to be true, so yes, it is.

I'm not the one who asserted it. One of the scientists on President Biden's Covid advisory board did.

Unfortunately, many of us on the left are no more willing to accept this truth than those on the right are willing to listen when President Trump tells them they should get vaccinated.
You really don't get to actively participate on profiting from this particular law and cry about freedom or consequences.
I doubt that it would pass US crash tests, but if it could imagine sales would blow up at say $7,500.

I couldn't wait to get my drivers license when I turned 16. But I know a lot of friends children that are ready to graduate from college that never bothered to get a license.

If I had a six figure student loan debt this car would be attractive but I wouldn't take it on the freeway. Down in Detroit the minimum speed is around eighty at times. But around the city this would be fine.
One person’s small is another person’s large. It all comes down to your typical use cases; no surprise there. I have lots of tiny sqlite databases myself, so for me, a few tens of thousands rows is large. But at least I am well aware that multi-gigabyte sqlite databases can and do exist.
https://archive.md/ISmtA
Firefox mobile wont load the xpi file, is there an alternative way to install?
> But, from a medical ethics point of view that's not beneficial to them at all, why should they care if some one night stand they never saw again dies of cancer?

This is a very subtle but misleading rephrasing of what you should have said instead, which is: "But, from a medical ethics point of view that's marginally beneficial to them at the risk of inducing potential harm".

The four pillars of medical ethics are Autonomy, Beneficence, Non-Maleficence, and Justice. Your phrasing effectively subtly side-stepped the third pillar as irrelevant, when presumably it was the one factor whose influence led to the delay you mention.
You call it 'wokeness' in US. Rest of the world calls it 'manners' or 'civilized behavior'. In actual civilized countries, such things have been legislated a long time ago - most of the 'freehdumbs' which many Americans freely enjoyed in denigrating, insulting, harassing other Americans would land you in court in civilized countries. In countries where there arent such laws, it will cause you to get a broken nose because no one will tolerate abuse like how some Americans expect other people to tolerate it for the sake of their own 'freehdum'.

Some Americans are going to extreme in some angles does not change the fact that a lot of you call civilized manners 'wokeness'. Like how many old, racist boomers complain about not being able to talk sht about minorities, immigrants and stuff.

Incredible stuff.

But it tells why US is in the shthole it is in - like how Texas implemented a totalitarian state in which American Taliban can snitch on other people via state-run mechanisms. Something which did not even exist in East Germany - who preferred to spy on people normally, by funding actual spies instead of turning everyone into snitches.
https://saponpower.wordpress.com/2021/09/01/ibm-power10-debu...

Not to mention Oracle, Db2, Epic.
A serious study of North Korea will illuminate how trite many issues are relative to the basic freedoms and services we take for granted.
Wrong. It's entirely correct to say "The CDC and more are already reaching out urging people not to take a horse deworming medication". People are picking up horse deworming medication off the shelf, and taking it. That's exactly what's the driving the overdoses.

Ivermectin prescriptions are harder to overdose on because they're meant for human consumption and the doctor and pharmacist list the safe dosage. So yes, human ivermectin is safer(at normal deworming dosage), even if not proven to be effective for Covid. Horse deworming medication not meant for human consumption is dangerous for humans, there is a way higher chance of overdose.
Lots of Linux distros support IBM mainframes, Debian for example:

https://www.debian.org/ports/s390/
If you brush everything and there's no footprints on the path you've guarded it well, if there are footprints on the path either you forgot to sweep or someone used it without your knowledge.
How do you keep up with yourself? Do you work out?
Posting this here because at least two people in the comments keep posting a twisted narrative of the fact that Ivermectin is approved for human usage and ignore that the horse formula is different and untested in humans; which is what the article was discussing.

From the FDA page linked in the article on the horse formulation:

"Ivermectin Products for Animals Are Different from Ivermectin Products for People

For one thing, animal drugs are often highly concentrated because they are used for large animals like horses and cows, which weigh a lot more than we do—a ton or more. Such high doses can be highly toxic in humans. Moreover, the FDA reviews drugs not just for safety and effectiveness of the active ingredients, but also for the inactive ingredients. Many inactive ingredients found in products for animals aren’t evaluated for use in people. Or they are included in much greater quantity than those used in people. In some cases, we don’t know how those inactive ingredients will affect how ivermectin is absorbed in the human body."

They also claim to be concerned that people may not take the medication when they may need it; yet leave out that it should be taken under supervision, can interfere with common medications, and can overdose.

"When Can Taking Ivermectin Be Unsafe?

...

There’s a lot of misinformation around, and you may have heard that it’s okay to take large doses of ivermectin. It is not okay.

Even the levels of ivermectin for approved human uses can interact with other medications, like blood-thinners. You can also overdose on ivermectin, which can cause nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, hypotension (low blood pressure), allergic reactions (itching and hives), dizziness, ataxia (problems with balance), seizures, coma and even death."

https://www.fda.gov/consumers/consumer-updates/why-you-shoul...

Edit: Grammar and formatting.
C64 and NES are based on the 6502 processor, the Amstrad and ZX spectrum are based on the z80 processor, the Amiga is based on the 68000 processor. All three of those processors have publicly available instruction set architectures [1][2][3].

IANAL, implementing the instruction sets and reverse engineering the firmware on those systems would be protected under fair use under copyright law [4]. You can be sued in civil court for copyright infringement, but you would have a valid legal defense that is supported by precedent in that case. You however could be sued if the hardware was protected by patents, but in the case of older hardware like you mentioned, patents would have been past the 20 year expiration for patent protection. You could be sued under trade secret, but the prosecution would have to show that you violated a non-disclosure agreement with them. If you never signed one, and reverse engineered the system, it would be an invalid case.

The most likely explanation for why you cannot find commercial emulators is because open source ones exist. What incentive does a software developer have to compete with a free product?

[1] https://masswerk.at/6502/6502_instruction_set.html

[2] http://z80.info/z80oplist.txt

[3] http://wpage.unina.it/rcanonic/didattica/ce1/docs/68000.pdf

[4] https://ngminusone.wordpress.com/2018/07/10/are-emulators-le...
It is intriguing as to why no native account/cultural memory of the hedge exists, especially since it spanned various states. On the other hand though, it also reminds me of a recent Twitter thread [1] about India: "Ever wondered why the Harappan Civilization had to be "discovered" in the 1920 and there is no cultural memory of it and no mention in our ancient literature? No pilgrimage circuits involving Dholavira, Lothal or Mohenjo-daro? The Buddha had to be 'discovered' too. And Ashoka."

https://mobile.twitter.com/tjoseph0010/status/14321115623371...
How is it fair to hold a sweeper accountable for footsteps that occur after they're off duty?
Nah, the school can blame the bus company, and the bus company can blame the school. Any queries about abandoned children just get bounced back and forth until the matter is forgotten about. Split liability typically means no liability.
If engineering made more money than lawyering would the outcomes be better?
cron is a lot nicer imo. All your schedules are in one place and everyone knows how to access it.
This is basic supply and demand. Supply side enforcement for drugs is unlikely to be successful. Increasing the enforcement only raises the reward for doing it eventually as the market dictates someone will step in to fill the role as long as supply demands it.

On the other hand the reality is that there is a limited supply of drug users. Demand side enforcement could end the "war" quickly.

Enforcement of sellers is dumb, people selling drugs isn't the problem. It's their usage that's what we want to stop so the enforcement should be on that side.
> Why bother with the whole charade if you're going to go with an internal person anyways?

My understanding is providing a nice song and dance for legal reasons.
Yes, and it's almost expected at this point. But a private corporation doing it voluntarily(apple really doesn't have to implement this, lots of articles on this point) is at least something we can discuss and hopefully vote with our wallets against. Can't do that against a government.
I like how after yesterdays Texas law, it is woke that is a threat to freedom.

How did fundamentalism jumped to real life?
I noticed that when I click the thumbs-up emoji in Slack, I now have to select its skin color. That's fucking dystopian.
No, thanks.

Monorepos might be good for Google or Facebook where you have company-size teams to maintain all the tooling around them and there is no risk of "the guy that did all the tooling left and now we don't know how this works anymore".

You're not facebook, you're not google.

Keep services on their own repositories, with their own pipelines, don't write internal libraries that reinvent the wheel, and if you do, just create them in their own repo and publish them as packages.

Monorepos and all the associated bullshit is for teams which want to do technology for the sake of technology and for their resume. 90% of companies don't need monorepos, don't waste company's time and money because something is just fun to you.
Which they refused to do, ergo inaction.