skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://libgen-crypto.ipns.dweb.link/source.tar.gz

It makes use of the sql.js-httpvfs library, previously discussed on HN here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27016630
Thank you for your effort, unfortunately it turns out I am too sick currently to actually engage in it an demonstrate my point correctly.

It is a bad combination of being more inclined to actually respond because of boredom and being less capable in doing so properly.
Same here. It's incredible how much efforts developers are willing to put on popular "devops" tools when the job could be done faster with 200 lines of Python.
The term is "brokered deposits" -- Starbucks has a bank backing the app (not sure they publicize which one). But the bank doesn't declare those deposits under their control, can't loan it out, etc.
I always thought the 3.5" were distinctly referred to as a diskette as opposed to the earlier larger floppy disk , but, apparently, the term "diskette" was introduced by IBM in 1973, and then ultimately became a synonym for any floppy disk, perhaps similarly to Kleenex, Laundromat, Xerox, Taser, Google, et al.
When (or if) herd immunity is reached (measured by rate of community spread), they can drop the need for vaccine passports. The passports are just there in the meantime while infection rates are high.
That's an online message board thing, not an actual flesh and blood human being thing.

If Amazon was so terrible as a brand, then there wouldn't be so many Prime users and Bezos wouldn't be making a billion every few days.
> If you have an allergic reaction to one vaccine, they require a second dose using a difference vaccine.

Can the second dose be one of the non-mRNA vaccines? If so, and she’s never had an allergic reaction to any other vaccination, that doesn’t strike me as entirely unreasonable. Especially if the alternative is just that she can’t go to a restaurant or the gym (e.g., she won’t loose her job).
IMO this is the real story. Tech companies know so much about you from your browsing history and your purchase history. But they also know this about your friends and family, which I think increases the creepiness factor, as they may serve you ads based on _your friends & family's_ activity.
Maybe a proxy service a la Firefox Relay
One of the core arguments seems to be that ”you don’t need to go finding people to hire if you never let them go”.

The only people my company lost are the people who were making more on unemployment than at their job. Most were making $18/hr working, and $24/hr with the extended benefits. We allowed them to leave if it made more sense for them, as a favor to them, hoping they would return, some have.

All the other positions that we’re struggling to fill, are new positions. We need a sysadmin in Detroit and I can get one, not even close.

So… no, I don’t subscribe to this argument. We didn’t let a single person go, and are in the same boat as everyone else.

Covid was a great thing for the megacorps and I think we should consider if that was all coincidence or not.

Local resturants let people go, fast food places didn’t, neither can get enough people. My local Thai place can’t pay the $20/hr and signing bonus to match the McDonalads two blocks down. This is a particular blight on small business. Maybe if we could pay a level1 IT tech $95k/yr we might get one, but big Nope on that.
Is one person out of five that you meet causing trouble?
Everybody's interest is different, some care about job security, others are greedy want much more. It depends on personal needs, conditions, life stage and capability. You cannot attribute to a single reason universally when explaining this.

However in a tough time like this, it's disadvantageous to a society where everybody just look after themselves. I bet you in Japan this type of problem and question are less wondered, as people are treated by and treat the employer as home/family, took a personal interest instead of merely a means to make living, although at least in the past not sure it's still the case nowadays.

True, what's feasible in Japan may not be suitable to a multi-culture society like US, or many other countries. But human motivation and value system are more or less the same across the globe.

For example, some companies make employee their partners, gives stock options no matter how small percentage it is, a real bounding exercise must be financial based.

Relying on enchanting employee to work relentlessly while in truth they're just pawn ready to be dispensed at any moment, how many cycles does any employer seriously think such trick will last before any employee with even below average IO would figure it out? It's not sustainable.
The website looks down :(

I love libgen will switch to your version for sure :)
I just can't take this article seriously, so reactionary, so rebellious. All the criticism it applies can be applied to itself. At the end of the day, there's a lot of data that is hard to correlate and harder to find causation for.

This person claims to know better, yet provides no suggestions, just complaints, pointing fingers at imaginary figures like "The Media", "The Science", "The Expert".

People that just like to complain and point the finger aren't helpful. Being helpful takes a whole other kind of person, and this article isn't helpful.
This is not new, is it? There have been lots of claims over the last few decades that during the 1960s, the sugar industry pushed the idea that eating fat was what made people fat, rather than eating sugar-like carbohydrates.

Disclaimer: I don't know that the claim that sugar (and similar carbohydrates) are what causes weight gain is true, I'm just saying that this argument has been around for a long time.
What I would like to know is why vibrating devices like razors or dildos are regularly being considered as indicating a bomb. Why would a bomb vibrate prior to exploding?
Does anyone actually believe that the testing, qualification and reporting processes and methods are equivalent across all of these different countries? It makes no sense. The for-profit hospitals in the USA have an incentive to maximize Covid numbers because they get reimbursed, while most national health systems are incented to keep the reported numbers low. Some countries have frequent, convenient, fast testing centers all over the place, other countries don't. Some countries have few repercussions for a worker with a positive test, for others it's a major inconvenience, so people avoid getting tested. The types of tests differ, as do the sensitivities. So many differences.
Maybe it is lower then I thought. I can't seem to find Swiss data, 28% could be in line with Switzerland.

Not sure where my number come from, honestly the last time I was interest in this was when I was in school.

The OECD, I don't know how it is calculated.
This argument would make a lot more sense if the vaccinated weren’t spreading the virus.
When I hosted (2008), we were very active hosts that summer and we basically required people to write personalised messages telling us who they are and why they like the sound of staying with us specifically. We got a lot of generic copy and paste messages and we ignored them, since we got so many messages. For about 3 months, we were hosting people almost every single day, often multiple people (and the most at once was 12, for a weekend while there was an event on).

This worked very well and the only "bad" experience we ever had was one of those 12 people that stayed the weekend of that event was.. harmless, but a bit unpleasant and odd, and that was because we relaxed our vetting a small bit for that event.

And honestly, I don't know if I would have paid for an account at that time, as an active host. I got into it because my housemates were into it and when we were planning on moving in together, we discussed it. If it had cost money to join, I can't imagine we would have bothered, certainly not all of 5 of us.

With that said, nowadays, I think some barrier to entry would make me feel more comfortable with it. Back then, in my early twenties, I was a bit more relaxed about sharing my personal space, I guess.
I agree. IPFS is more centralized in that 99% of the people that attempt to view data on the IPFS network go through the actual web proxies not IPFS. And when that happens they're easy to take down with legal or traffic attacks.

Additionally, IPFS's devs have already stated on their community forums that content like sci-hub is not welcome there.
Google Voice was not required for SMS from gmail. You used to just be able to "chat" with any phone number from within the gmail web frontend. It cost a dime, but your dime was refunded if the other party responded, as an anti-spam measure.

It was also formerly possible to make a voice call to any phone from the gmail web frontend, no Google Voice account required. Now you need Google Voice to do this (not Google Fi!).
When a third of the population is refusing to get the vaccine because they "self-educated" on Youtube and there's no mandate at all for kids to get it, then you can't ever have herd immunity.
What a bizarre, off-topic comment. Why would you think that a discussion about the risks of GoF research constitutes medical advice?

We are fortunate that most children are at minimal risk from COVID-19 death. The CDC estimated the infection fatality rate for the 0-17 age group at about 0.001%. Most of those who died had a serious underlying condition such as obesity, diabetes, asthma, cancer, or congenital heart disease.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burd...

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02423-8
Carbs, not because they're inherently wrong, but rather it is super easy to eat an extra 200+ calories when eating them. All it takes to gain weight is 200+ calories than your maintenance. That can be an extra handful of chips or another slice or two of bread.

I think where mainstream nutritional science is going is understanding that people's 'maintenance calories' is insanely hard to calculate for people outside the average. For instance hormones playing a much bigger role, where your calorie range is off from what models will say, so unless you know how to safely find that maintenance and treat your diet like science to find it you're going to constantly be over/under weight.

This science is showing more the combination of extremely fatty and carby food at once has a distinct reaction in our body. Where yes it is 'calories in calories out' but that doesn't mean that our bodies don't have their own agenda in terms of using the calories in for fat stores vs energy for activities. Almost like moving your maintenance calories to a lower number when you're eating mostly heavy fats and heavy carbs while being extremely stressed out has a ton of hormones that screams to your body save as much of this as possible.

If your diet is 30-40% protein and not having refined sugars, you'll feel fuller and won't feel the need for more carbs besides indulgence/treat. You don't need to do this to lose or maintain weight, but look at 300 calories of beef or chicken breast vs 300 calories of bread.

The only problem is cost, if you're not careful you go from a daily cost of 3-5$ in groceries to 10-15$ to eat enough protein. However, means doing bare minimum exercise daily with this diet going over in calories will build muscle, and going under (not going past 400-500 deficit) you can lose fat and gain muscle.
> The surprise was the ruining of the surprise instead of the surprise itself.

Not confused, surprised. A hallmark of a butler is discretion. I hope you didn’t read that I was contradicting you or disagreeing? “Don’t spoil the suprise by divulging the nature of the package to the intended recipient” is beyond Alexa’s programming. For a butler, it wouldn’t even be a checkbox option, it would go without saying.
I'd find it much easier to read this if the author - who accuses media outlets of hyperbole - wasn't hyperbolic themselves, e.g. "Israel has been a media darling for doing exactly what they’re told by the groupthink mafia." Perhaps they have a point in there somewhere, but it reads like being cornered by the drunk "alternative thinker" at a university party.
Users flagged it and other users vouched for it. Is that "censorship"? I wouldn't say so, but everyone uses that word to taste, Humpty style (https://www.google.com/search?q=%22it+means+just+what+I+choo...).

In case anyone's wondering, moderators didn't do anything. Edit: sorry, that's not right - a moderator eventually turned off the flags.
I was living in Sweden at the beginning of the pandemic. I suspected that I had COVID multiple times and tried to get a test. The response I got from the Swedish healthcare system was: “it doesn't matter what you are infected with, just stay home”.

Even though the author does have a point, they overlook the fact that it's been much harder to get COVID tests in Sweden than the countries it is compared to in the blog post. Are these numbers normalised with respect to the number of tests performed? What about the number of tests on symptomatic vs. asymptomatic people?

Sweden's lack of action against the pandemic was not limited to just the lack of closure and mask mandates and so on. As far as I know, they never set up a proper test and trace system (please correct me if I'm wrong, I'm not sure about this) as they did in Israel or the UK. Of course their case numbers will be smaller.
At some point it's nice to stop tracking which browser addon has not yet sold out to sketchy third party and just let the browser do it.

Only one "purchasing" decision to make at that point.
I think I might be in the minority.I never use Gmail (GSuite, at work) via the browser, but I still use Gmail, it's just via IMAP or "native" Gmail integration.

I was never blown away by the user interface, but many rely on the gmail interface to manage their emails effectively.
Why are Terraform modules convenient while stored procs are horrible though? They're doing the same job? E.g.

call s3_bucket('bucket-name', true);

Is not really all that different from a Terraform module.

And the rest of your objections boil down to 'use in-code database migrations', which app developers have been doing as a best practice for a long time now.
Bye YouTube, Hello PeerTube [video]
I think you are vastly over-estimating how many people have this issue with Amazon. I can count on zero hands the number of counterfeit products I've gotten from Amazon.

I hear people complain about being a customer of other online retailers, but I can't recall any conversations where someone complained about their experience with Amazon.

You order it, it ships, it's the thing you ordered. Otherwise they refund you, or they ship you a new one and you keep the item they sent you be mistake.
3D Pipes Screensaver
https://www.nme.com/news/gaming-news/igda-group-chair-steps-... is a better source, also with a better title: "IGDA group chair steps down over allegations of abuse".
Big Tech is replacing human artists with AI?
Censorship is not always an abuse of power. Forum moderation is a form of censorship. The moderators on HN will delete your comment if it violates the community guidelines. But I'm certainly not against that, in fact, that's why I'm here in the first place.
I'd love to hear so much more about how it was to work in this kind of environment back then. (Apart from those bomb threats.)
You can disable the categories if you care.

See it is another symptom of the bottom-up product strategy. Categorization was a key feature of Inbox (by Gmail (by Apps (by Google (by Alphabet)))). After they killed Inbox they wrecked the categorization bundling, too.
Domain Generating Algorithm.

https://blog.malwarebytes.com/security-world/2016/12/explain...

Although in this case, the generated domains are all under global.ssl.fastly.net and similar CDNs, not traditional TLDs.
The Problem with Popular Programming Languages
Maybe I missed something written here but very few of the elites I've known meet the description of them offered here. This does tend to describe what I have observed of the U.S. elite left. I would be very surprised to learn that Bezos or Gates were socialists, for example.
That would require you to pretend that Google listens to devs more than the MBAs they work for. Nothing says "market expertise" like having a sheet of paper that proves you once completed a class project to write a business plan.
Effect of electrons with negative mass in novel semiconductor nanostructures
If many managers are onboard with an idea, one engineer saying "no" doesn't have much weight. Also, if you keep saying "no" to things, you might be perceived as "negative" and it might come up in performance reviews. And it's often difficult to predict if an idea will work or not - a lot of it comes down to execution and future politics.

So, as an engineer, it's probably better to jump on the bandwagon with everyone else, and try to get a promotion from it. It's stupid, but it's how it works. You will not progress within a company by saying "no", even if you are right and it stops a bad project.

(I've never worked for google, but did work in a large software corporation)
At the time, the first Thor had quite the cultural impact though, at least here in England. "Superheroes do Shakespeare", Sir Anthony Hopkins strutting around, Idris Elba's "Black Heimdall", and a certain female view in Natalie Portman's character, were the talk of the town for quite a while around these isles. The problem it has now is just that is not as funny as the rest of MCU - back then the formula was still being developed and they were trying different things, likely leaving more freedom to directors (see also the difference in experience for Favreau between the first and second IronMan - when clearly the suits stepped in to freeze the setup). I agree the second Thor is basically a footnote (I think I watched it but tbh I don't really remember it), but then Ragnarok comes and it's so fun... Also Thor becomes pretty central to the Avengers storyline, tying up the Earth side and the cosmic side. I think "C-level" is way too harsh.
Database migrations are equivalent to the desired content of the database, and if I'm not mistaken, Terraform state files which are the _actual_ database, are not version controlled.
Whenever I hear about seismic activity in the Canaries, this giant transatlantic tsunami freakout pops into mind...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumbre_Vieja_tsunami_hazard
For anyone new to git, or puzzled by its fundamental structure, I recommend starting with this:

https://medium.com/girl-writes-code/git-is-a-directed-acycli...

While reading the Medium post, it may be helpful to bear in mind that arcs shown in the drawings — called “pointers” in the text — are exactly hashes to git.
Sounds like the protest wasn't very effective!
Where is the source code or release?
Tallying the wedge issues is terrible methodology that focuses on battles and misses the war. Would you rather win at 100 wedge issues or would you rather win at 0 wedge issues but the policies you wanted were already in place and not under attack?

To avoid this mistake, focus on the status quo of policies that facilitate comparison. Taxes are an excellent candidate. Everyone would rather have someone else pay the taxes. True power will arrange for it to be so. Look for tax privilege (types of income, industries, etc) and you will find true power.
I'm personally interested in reducing RAM consumption. Right now Spring Boot application with very little functionality (like few REST endpoints, talking to database) easily eats few hundreds of megabytes RAM. Similar node.js application eats few dozens of megabytes RAM. Cost of using Java is high, when there are plenty of those services, especially when we're talking about resilient services and launching 2-3 instances of every service.

Fast startup time is just a good bonus.

That's for my use-case. Lambdas, obviously, demand fast start-up.
Very fair point. More and more it seems very dangerous to do work like this, even with all the safety measures. At the same time, I suspect it's a race to the bottom with bioweapons research - no other explanation makes sense to me on why these labs exist.
Part of the reason Aristotle liked democratic systems is that he believed in the wisdom of crowds. (A remarkably modern idea.) “If the people are not utterly degraded, although individually they may be worse judges than those who have special knowledge, as a body they are as good or better.”

Aristotle also cautioned against something he called extreme democracy – as it can lead to demagogues. "…in which, not the law, but the multitude, have the supreme power, and supersede the law by their decrees. … The demagogues make the decrees of the people override the laws, and refer all things to the popular assembly. And therefore they grow great, because the people have all things in their hands, and they hold in their hands the votes of the people, who are too ready to listen to them."

Direct democracies only "work" in a homogeneous society, as noted by Plato. We see evidence time and time again - from slavery to the internment of Japanese Americans - that the majority can and will vote against the interests of a minority. A functioning republic is necessary to prevent the majority from railroading a minority. In a republic, some things are off limits from direct voting.
Side note to say that the previous example is actually F#, a static typed language contrary to Elixir (to be fair Elixir was heavily inspired by F# and they look similar when only looking at snippets).
It's particularly confusing because "OpenJDK" used to be an independent group who's purpose was to build a fully open-source Java - and it was Apache licensed. Now, it seems that "OpenJDK" refers to a specification and/or working group which NO LONGER provides a build, instead relying on vendors to do so, and indeed the vendors have wide latitude about how they license it.

This is genuinely complicated, I'm not a lawyer or a software license expert, and I don't understand it. And honestly, based on some of the haughty and arrogant, but factually wrong, comments I've been seeing, I suspect that a lot of people think they understand it, but don't.
Can you even post about your doubts anywhere on the internet without hordes of "The Media", "The Science", "The Experts" coming for you trying to scold you, cancel you, report you to your employer?

Obviously, I'm don't consider myself an expert in the medical field but the mere draconian groupthink has left a bitter taste in me and has clouded my judgement.
Sure, but the point is that there is no mechanism for building ‘organizations’. Nobody is explaining how to build anything other than financial derivatives.

This is useful, but really just an optimization on finance as usual.
There’s probably very small intersection between those who favor copying Sweden’s response to the pandemic with those who favor copying Sweden’s overall social/health care system.

I mean Florida and Texas went to extreme ‘do nothing at all’ positions, and the results were not good.
Exactly. Even though I thought the author was bringing up an important point, I couldn't take them seriously due to the repeated finger-pointing and the conspiracy-theorist attitude.
It isn't a bad idea per se, but it was contrary to everything many vocal coachsurfers stood for. It was a movement as much as a community, I knew lot of hosts that were mad about it because they felt they were monetizing not the service, but the trust network people built therein.
I took a look at your submission history, and you are posting too much! Write an email to the mods to get advice (the address is at the bottom).

As a general recommendation, if you are posting your stuff, try not to post more than once per day. (I'd recommend much less, like once per week.)

Post that can be read, seen and tried without registering usually get more traction here. Try to add some screenshots and if possible a free demo.

Read your post and try to reply to the questions in the threads. People if more friendly if the owner in answering questions. You don't have to reply to all the comments, If you reply to most of them is fine.