skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> One comment is that the slowest page to load was the Gallery [0] as it loads an ungodly amount of PNG files from what appears to be a single IP (a GCP Compute instance?)

Yup. There's no CDN or anything like that right now. We kept things simple to get this out the door. But we definitely intend to make improvements like this as we improve the tool.

The more adoption we see, the more it motivates these types of fixes!

> P.S. Also, the paper linked below [1] seems to have a few conversion problems -- I see "EQUATION (1): Not extracted; please refer to original document", and also some (formula? Greek?) characters that seem out of place after the words "and the next token is generated by sampling"

Thanks for the catch. As you noted there's still a fair number of extraction errors for us to correct!
If someone was hired and trusted with the data then they leaked it or used it for personal gain then it’s not all that virtuous
No. If you increase the speed of 24 fps video 4%, it becomes 25 fps. Frame count does not change, frames are just shorter.
It is time!
I see a few of them per day (e.g. "I bet you can't find a word starting and ending with T"). When a friend comments on them they show up in my feed. I imagine that a small percentage click through to the page to see what other content is there. Considering the low bar to create such trivial content, whatever traffic it generates is worth it.
Thanks for the feedback. There's two hard problems n' all that... :)
> why is a slow deploy cycle ok for non-TLS vulnerabilities?

Okay, this is a fair point. I'd say that TLS is something where fixing it faster than the baseline is possible, if it had configurable knobs. In general we should of course strive to have fast deploy cycles for security vulnerabilities of all kinds.
Discord Valued at $15B After New Funding Round
Over 10 hours of Yegge: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZfuUWMTtMcC1DZF6HxJhqsGr...
In the US, both (most) death threats and "falsely shouting fire in a crowded theater" (actually protesting US involvement in the first world war; seriously look up the origin of that phrase) are both legal. Death threats have to be specific and timely in order to be illegal, IIRC.
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The Endless Pursuit of Scale at LinkedIn
I don't use Signal to message strangers, only contacts who I have phone numbers of. Seems like that's the use case for most messaging apps like Whatsapp and iMessage that Signal was designed to "compete" with. Signal is a private messaging app, not an anonymous messaging app. A worthwhile distinction with very different (though overlapping) target audiences.
Those top-to-bottom stack traces also become a lot less useful in today's highly-meta frameworks, where functions get passed around and eventually scheduled at a point totally divorced from where they live in the code. I'm not saying this is a bad thing, it just makes debuggers somewhat less useful.
> Why not? If the other devs truly don't care, you could take it upon yourself to clean up the code base little by little when you can.

I used to do this simply because it makes the code difficult to read for me to review if for nothing else.

Linters and style check tools only go so far, and bottom line is you have to ship software not write complex and expensive to maintain tooling, so automation beyond a point is not a solution.

The devs ended up relying on me as the their clean up guy for all the code all the time. I also becoming gatekeeper/bottleneck of sorts.

It is used make blame and dissection more difficult as more times than not I had cleaned up the code and the last one or two commits are mine.

Also the time spent in reviews reduce and you tend to miss important things as you have focused on what should be basic hygiene so much.

One of the reasons I contribute a lot less to production code is this. It is a losing battle if most devs don't care about it as much as you .

Even now the occasional pull request I would make would be peppered with such corrections , it is just automatic reflex for me, but it doesn't make that much difference.

Don't do this, people either have to value the cleanliness enough to do it as well, or you have to tolerate what is the common minimum or find another team/organization.
Replay deterministically replays the recording, so if the state of the application when you recorded it caused a network call, then when replaying it we will also "make" a network call _but_, instead of actually going out to the network we will instead return the exact data that was returned when you recorded it.

You can learn more about how Replay works here https://medium.com/replay-io/how-replay-works-5c9c29580c58

Can you expand more on what you mean by a race condition in network calls? If it's a series of network calls that the browser could make in any order than we will make them in the order that they occurred when you recorded it. If it's a race condition that occurs in your backend, then the Replay browser won't really help there (though it will show you the responses you got from your backend when you recorded it).

For help with that, you might want to use Replay on the backend. Right now we have Node support (https://github.com/RecordReplay/node), but other runtimes are on the roadmap.
I feel like this page misses the point. While I agree with the sentiment entirely, the author then goes on to recommend a plethora of static site generators.

Fact is, one of the selling points of Medium is it’s simplicity to use. If a Medium user were to read that page, they’d take one look at the many technical hurdles needed to run an SSG and they would dart back to Medium at the speed of a thousand gazelles.

What they should have done, in my opinion, is provide options that have little to no technical barriers to entry. Like managed Wordpress hosting, for example.
He's not trolling or clickbaiting. The title is referring to a future that we are always teetering on the edge of where Linux fades away. The video is a list of the things that he thinks the Linux community should be looking to fix to avoid that decline.
Well, I spent most of my career as a hedge fund trader so I can also comment on this: of course everyone is looking for the upper hand and people will bend or break rules to achieve this. But this is universal to all games, and fundamentally the game is fair.

In crypto, the game is not fair. The refs are players and there are no rules.
All of these are reasonable arguments. I personally agree with them. I am vaccinated (J&J), and was vaccine hesitant for 6 months prior to making my decision. I still stand far more in unity with the anti-vaccination camp than those asking for restrictions.

Many in the "people asking for restrictions" camp will not see these arguments as reasonable because they don't comply with "the science" (which is actually a crafted narrative).

Part of the problem is that we aren't just dealing just with a morphing dataset being communicated very imperfectly across digital mediums to the entire globe. We have all of that, and then that already fantastically complicated scenario is being ham-fisted into a narrative, and the narrative trumps all the data.
what a false dichotomy. 1. why does the US get to make this choice for others, and 2. the actual outcomes are nothing like this, name the countries the US destabilized that are now bastions of human rights. the track record is horrendous and the only reason we have not been rightfully forbidden from meddling is brute force.
Well, given it's from Nature, I actually gave your link a fair shake to see what it's about. This is not a "details on how it works" article. It's an article that is basically "brainstorming on how it might work". There is no epidemiological study, no controlled trial here, no proposed specific mode of action. A huge shotgunning of potential pathway interactions that might affect some portion of the virus's interaction with host cells.

In fact, the conclusion from TFA itself:

> Considering the urgency of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, simultaneous detection of various new mutant strains and future potential re-emergence of novel coronaviruses, repurposing of approved drugs such as Ivermectin could be worthy of attention.

This is their conclusion. Not a sample of their conclusion. Their entire conclusion. Not "It is effective." Not "It works like this." Not "Here are studies that show it works". This article is "hey, some drugs have crossover effects, we should look at them." I mean, they literally wrote that.

I will repeat, again. Ivermectin is not an approved anti-viral medication. There are all kinds of things that have "anti-viral properties". Like UV light and bleach. These are not treatments for COVID.

Meanwhile there is a fricking vaccine. It's a scientifically designed, as-close-to-perfectly engineered solution to active your own immune response to respond to exactly the spike protein, has been administered to billions of people worldwide and has overwhelming data that it fucking works. They're not even in the same league. People who are taking Ivermectin, and people who are advocating it widely can be dismissed without further evidence. Otherwise, just show up to a pharmacy and pick a random drug off a back shelf. Drugs do weird things, sometimes they interact with viruses! Ship it? No.

Please do Science, not whatever the fuck is behind the Ivermectin craze right now. Should it be studied? I mean, sure. But it is so clearly not even a decent treatment, we should probably move on from it.
> all of the math and code parts were broken.

Yup, this is a known issue that we're working towards fixing.

> But clearly it is a nice idea and I can't wait that such tools work better!

Glad to hear it!
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The opposite question is also important. Should the mobile network my phone is on get a share of all transactions made from my phone? Should my home ISP get a share from purchases made on my home computer? Or the hardware vendor? Or the OS vendor?

The reason Apple gets to ask for a cut of all transactions made on my phone is because they are in a position to control those transactions, not because it's right for them to ask for that cut. They can remove any app that tries to bypass their cut, as was recently ruled in their case against Epic Games.

Like wise Doordash has control, if you want them to pay a driver to carry your food from the restaurant to your home, then they get a cut.

The difference between Doordash and Apple is that Apple forbade anyone with an app in the app store from even telling people that they could pay for a purchase outside the app. For a time the Kindle app would send you to a checkout page in Safari, but Apple forced them to remove that. The comparison would be that any restaurant that worked with Doordash being forced to remove mention that they do pickup orders, if you don't want dine in then you must order with Doordash, even if that technically isnt't true.

To me there is no magic percent where these behaviors should or should not be allowed or regulated. To me it's more about the pattern of 'soft' extortion. "You get value from our platform so we deserve a cut of what you make", sounds a bit too much like "You sure do have a nice app there with some dedicated users, it sure would be bad if something happened to it..."

I don't know that I would pay for and read a tenth as many books as I do if I didn't always have the Kindle app in my pocket. On the other hand if Apple ever removed the Kindle app I'd have a strong reason to switch to Android. Both gain value from the other. Apple insentience to always get the better of that trade seems counter productive.
While I very much agree with the author's critiques on the architecture of signal (centralized service, under US government jurisdiction, phone number requirement and the maintainer's merciless effort to squash interoperability with other services, something antithetical to a supposed free software project) I think it is important to point out that the author is a self avowed Marxist-Leninist and their motivation for writing this is likely largely support for the sovereignty of the Chinese Communist Party.

This is not a character attack, it is pertinent information. The author does not actually value individual liberty or privacy from state apparatus, quite the opposite, and it would not be a stretch to call this article agitation.
About 1M Nigerian children to miss school due to kidnappings ~UNICEF
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Our initial goal in Afghanistan was to get Osama bin Laden, leader of Al-Qaeda. We did succeed at that 10 years later in a different country.

The Taliban did not plan or take part in the 9/11 attacks.

Oh, how quickly people forget.
It's not made up. The US Census data is public to all. Number of households in West Oakland divided by the number of households in the entire Bay Area. If you look at just houses, the number is even worse.

Your example is beyond cherry-picked. The population of that region is only 21k. It is not remotely representative of the reality the vast majority of residents face.
> Since so much is driven by identity, is there a service where you can rent out front people to "lead" the team that check the right boxes?

Yes, it's called stock photography. Buy a couple of pictures of smiling people from a peddler of it, and stick them on your website's 'About Us' section.
The obese tend to have have vitamin D deficiency and higher oxidative stress
And anything is everything. Then we can deduce that everything is nothing.
It’s certainly possible they don’t care, or they don’t know how to write good code.

Another possible reason could be that they know it’s temporary. A lot of startup code gets rewritten at least once in the first 5 years, there is some art to knowing what code might stick around and be worth the effort to do well, and what you should just bang out fast and move on.

It sounds like it’s possible you haven’t been able to have a conversation with your colleagues about their choices, which might be worth having candidly if you can find the opportunity to do so. If it is ignorance or negligence better to know and decide how you want to proceed if that makes sense.
The cost of protecting against this would be very high. The marginal cost of additions to blunt the effects of a tsunami in addition to protecting against climate change might not be that much.
Knuth-Plass is missing from all e-readers, but is built into the most popular software for typesetting books, InDesign.

Adobe even created a streaming version of the algorithm. It's mind-boggling that e-readers don't implement it.

Hell, even Internet Explorer used Knuth-Plass to justify text.
The thing is people consume lots of different things. It's hard to imagine emojis could cover a substantial part of them. So, why choose this and not that? To give an example, frutti di mare are underrepresented although they are very popular in many countries. OTOH there is a pregnant black man emoji, which likely represents something that has not materialized yet.
Exactly, this was all about leverage, not about the user.
don't buy the story, this is the death star, and when it's finished they will begin faking data from it to keep the charade going.

meanwhile as they release all sorts of faked boring data about the cmbr observatory plans and how the 'dish' is producing revolutionary new discoveries, they are in fact perfecting the death star lazer.

they will then finally turn the moon around! how? who knows. why? so they can then hold the earth hostage. the great reveal accomplished, they pick target cities, one lazer attack at a time. WAIT NO. !They never turn the moon around. Too implausible. Also too risky , they will be found out!

What they really do is use the moon lazer to shoot the sun, in order to guide a solar X class flare directly at earth, to destroy earth civilization so they can rebuild it. that's wayyyyy more plausible, and it also means they never have to threaten direct attack upon earth because , earth side and orbital observatory wont' be able to observe a dark-side of the moon lazer-beam being pointed directly at the sun.

never mind the problems with lazer attenuation.

and finally.
something crazy will happen after all that.
yadayadayada

Soho 5, , a 5th generation Sun orbiting Sun-specific telescope that is very far from earth starts to see what is going on with these anomolous observations. Why? because it's watching from a dramatically different angle.

Rogue, iconoclastic nerdy but slightly jacked up on steroid scientist (EThan Hawke) almost gets fired for his persistence, but he knows something fishy is going on and establishes proof. On the way to inform the president, He nearly gets killed under suspicious circumstances, but he succeeds in warning the president of the free world ( In 2058 , this is the president of China of course)

Spectacular reversal: Chinese Jade Yutu X mission to the dark side destroys the death star by stirring up excessive moon dust at just the perfect time (a la independence day, martyr scene ).

Kaboomboom, Michael Bay Style! end of story.

It's called the 'dark side' for a reason. Don't trust the 'science'. Use the force.

Title for the movie: The Carrington Project.
Could you be more specific about what makes crypto less fair than the other markets hedge funds trade in?
I truly don't understands this perspective. It used to be that mass media was a tightly-controlled, walled-off garden. The set number of popular and accessible magazines, tv stations and films suffered from far more centralized control, had far less inclusion in its leadership and staff, and resulted in a hyper-narrow range of acceptable beauty and image standards. It was borderline dystopian.

Young people, by and large, could only view media that was part of this monoculture. They were already seeing it all everywhere they went. Now, with just a little looking, people can find an entire universe of body-positive media and communities that simply did not exist in the 80's and 90's. So while there may be more ways to transmit body negativity thanks to the internet, I'd argue there is not more body negativity because we had already maxed it out. It's just as bad as it had been for decades. The difference now is an alternative exists!
No jail time? I guess when you're a member of IC, regular laws don't apply to you.
> There is a 0% chance China would allow the USA to take NK.

Agreed. This, however, was not the substance of my comment.

The US would not tolerate an attack on Israel/Taiwan/others. That doesn’t mean that if China attacked Taiwan, the average American would feel like they had been attacked.
it free every other day
I'm always slightly confused by the language speed comparisons for I/O heavy applications like networked services. On the one side you are taking in, for example, HTTP requests, on the other you are talking to a database, maybe some other networked APIs. A caching layer picks up plenty of load - how often is the program really cpu-bound here?

For me fastAPI [0] and async Python call the performance statements into question; good to run some benchmarks with real world use cases

[0] https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/async/
You can always change workplaces. Yes they are evils to be mitigated, but workplaces are not countries, you can leave and create them quite easily especially when you're entitled to part of the capital of your workplace.
Meta is a four-letter word.
used to be.

java 6 (previously widely deployed jvm) was 2006
java 8 (current widely deployed jvm) was 2014
now, 7 years later, we are on java 17 and the most significant thing to change is to break most everything that worked in 2014, and promotional material dare not mention java 8...

In fact "widely deployed" doesnt cut it for java 6, pretty much every pc, windows linux and mac had a solid java 6 deployment.

java 17 has a lot to live up to.
Yay, glad to hear it! If you end up viewing one of these on your Kindle, let us know how well (or not) things work.

We're not sure if it's something that we can distribute as OSS just yet. It relies on a few internal libraries that would also need be publicly released, so it's not as simple as adjusting a single repository's visibility.
tried to use bitrix like 6 years ago or so and it was hell, they said absent documentation should be looked for on their forum, and yes it was there, but so much hate even from topic starters, got out 1 month later and it was never too early. im russian myself, i will never work with russian dev products ever.
US company sold iPhone hacking tools to UAE spies
Reminds me of lena.png

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenna
Very neat. I recall in the dusty recesses of my mind various settings that you could pass to a modem at call initialisation to force certain speeds, modes, and other parameters. Did it have to be an actual 2400 baud modem or could you just "step down" the 56k for the same effect?
Except you can never use it. You would be monitored and suddenly having unexplained income would for sure trigger an alert. You would then go to jail for perjury.
From the conclusion to that link:

...we found that they do not pose a large threat to the climate, mainly because the energy consumption of PoW blockchains does not increase substantially when they process more transactions.
Problem is that the software license has become irrelevant for the largest tech companies. In the old days there was a fear among them, and probably rightly so, that their software would be "stolen" if they went open source.

But today every large corporation is running projects as open source without any fear. What happened? For one these projects are so complex it is not feasible for Joe the programmer to read thru all of it, it takes a company of the size of Google or Microsoft to manage it.

The other thing is that the business model changed. Now they give stuff away for "free" to lock you in and spy on your every move and then monetize it.

Third is the close integration of hardware and software, so even if someone forked Fuchsia it would be utterly pointless because of hardware.

What Google has shown is that it is possible to operate one of that largest spying agencies in the world all on open source.
Self-hosted is on the roadmap, but getting this to be a universal technique is definitely going to be hard, no arguments there. Gotta start somewhere though!
I think the parasocial element of engagement on Twitter and Instagram have a big effect as well. A cover model in a magazine has an air of inaccessibility. She’s clearly an aspirational figure and held above “normal” people.

The way the influencer model works, though, they’re all focused on seeming accessible and relatable. It’s not just that this is a supermodel who is above us all, she’s trying to look like your hot friend. All the products she shills are stuff that’s supposed to make you look like her.
We may have to come together as a society and deem these social media apps as being a harm to society, especially the youth.

Perhaps even age restrict them like alcohol, gambling, etc.
It IS overwhelming our health system. The 1,3, and 9th causes of death can all be attributed to in whole or at least in part to obesity. And guess what it has a super simple treatment called exercise and healthy diet. You can add it to reasons for dying from COVID as well.

https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/the-top-10-...

While we're at it since you seem to be really into some weird sort of eugenics mindset why don't you let us all know whether drug addicts should get treated? You might wanna tread carefully on this authoritarian attitude you've got going. You're treading a very fine line deciding who's worthy of treatment and who's not.

I do not want a medical system that gets to pass judgement on who they're going to administer treatment to. That's absolutely horrifying. These nurses can vent all they want but the moment they suggest they're not going to do everything they can to save people they should be relieved of their jobs.
Ok. First step is to incorporate religion into the government, so they will respond to FOIA requests.