skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You seem to not be a fan of it, do you have a feature-complete replacement?

For example, Nginx's standpoint on htaccess is basically "find yourself another web server" (https://www.nginx.com/resources/wiki/start/topics/examples/l...). I don't fancy giving users access to /etc/nginx and the power to reload the config just to add aliases on their own subdomains. Much better if they can add password protection to a directory by themselves. It also breaks that each site can live in its own project directory: without htaccess, if I copy over a project I would also have to modify my global nginx config to set per-directory (or at least per vhost) aliases, error pages, etc. Right now, I can say that deploying a project is "download the directory into the desired location and configure your database credentials and a pepper in the config.php". No global configuration changes are ever needed, the global config only does global stuff: tls ciphers, fallback error pages, compression, log files, and more such things.

And that's ignoring the fact that, even if there was some objectively better web server, I'd have the task of rewriting a decade of htaccess files into their fancy new format while Apache2 is still alive and properly supported.
love made up words! this reminds me of "The Meaning of Liff", the "dictionary of things that there aren't any words for yet" by Douglas Adams & John Lloyd. here's an online version (with dubious legality?): http://www.lib.ru/ADAMS/liff.txt_with-big-pictures.html
I don't disagree with anything you said but the article claims they are turning CO2 into fuel which the ISS is NOT doing.
I don't want to take even more of your time, sorry, but you asked a question, so I'll answer and then leave you in peace.

"...who's flagging those articles. How do you know that it's Big Tech employees?"

It doesn't matter whether they are employees or not. I'm talking about the subculture of people who dominate the Big Tech companies. When seen from China or India or Middle America, the subculture dominating Big Tech is just as culturally distinct from the rest of humanity as the equally self-reinforcing, compliance-demanding subcultures that dominate Japanese Big Auto makers or the Southern Megachurch industry.

The difference is that Japanese auto makers can only enforce their cultural preferences on their own employees, not on all car drivers. Imagine if Megachurches made so much money that they ended up owning almost all TV & radio, which they then extended to all entertainment: streaming, Hollywood, the news, and used their cultural agenda for "codes of conduct" and "terms of service". Fundamentalist Christians wouldn't have to actually be employees of a Megachurch to participate in the anti-"hate speech" enforcement.

If there were reports of what the Megachurches did in secret, it wouldn't matter whether the Christians who flagged such reports to get them hidden were church employees or not. They would simply be members of the same subculture using the unprecedented powers uniquely available to their group to silence their critics.

If this were a Japanese-language forum for discussion of the auto industry, I would expect it to include an atypically high percentage of people who were members of the salariman subculture. Likewise, if it were God Talk, we would expect an unusually high percentage of people who would flag and treat as flamebait all criticism of megachurches. But it's Hacker News, so it is heavily weighted with people who are fully on board with the Big Tech companies' enforcement and information hiding policies. They are of the same subculture and will cooperate in whatever ways they can.

HN being a worldwide forum thankfully means it is less dominated by that subculture than Big Tech itself, but there is still so much overlap that Big Tech will have as many allies flagging and flaming here (whether employees or not doesn't matter at all) as Big Church would have on a God Talk forum. But unlike other world subcultures, the one that dominates Big Tech has enormous power to promote their social agenda and silence opponents.

So, I think that here on HN, reports that Big Tech would want to hide ought to be regularly in full view and difficult for their allies to constrain.
The question itself presupposes that there is an investigation, so they are essentially saying that if there were such materials it would be covered by that reason.

FOIA would be abused like crazy to unearth classified information if this method of questioning worked
You're being insultingly disingenuous.

No one argued that statistics over a larger time will not give more signal. We all know what basic stats is. The question is why you get to override the opinion of the people directly involved on what a suitable period of time is.

It's farcical to imply that a period of time defined by the people who are literally on the ground for this is somehow unacceptable, yet the unit of time you literally pulled out of your behind (oh sorry, "arbitrarily guessed") is somehow acceptable.

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"Small timescales" is relative to what is being measured in case you didn't know... for some observations 30 seconds is an eternity...

So what about we leave determining what a suitable timescale to make observations on is to the people who aren't making arbitrary guesses from their armchairs and were literally watching this unfold in their day to day lives.
They tried that. We're all suffering because a large chunk of the user base refused to be responsible on patches. Of course, now Microsoft has made it even worse by having routinely broken patches since they no longer do proper in-house testing. End result? Damned if you do patch, damned if you don't.

Windows 10 has been a nightmare in terms of patch quality.
There might be a few things you need from rural areas like food, energy, water, a place to put your trash, raw materials and warehouse space. The people that live out there, work in those places. One might argue that urban areas are far more dependent on rural areas than the other way around.
It is not insulting, its science fiction[0][1]. Many humans self identify as such[2].

[0] https://www.google.com/search?q=meatbag&tbm=bks

[1] https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Meatbag

[2] https://twitter.com/amyhoy
I’d say section on the history of its creators/Silicon Valley is more important to understanding the problem, but here’s a couple of relevant paragraphs:

> One likely explanation, Glaser reasoned, was that most of these groups depended on funding from the very same corporations that they should be criticizing. Over the past years, EFF has taken millions in funds from Google and Facebook via straight donations and controversial court payouts that many see as under-the-radar contributions. Hell, Google co-founder Sergey Brin’s foundation gave EFF at least $1.2 million.

> But the reason for EFF’s silence on the Facebook surveillance and influence scandal goes deeper—into the business model of the internet itself, which from the outset has framed user privacy as being threatened by ever-imminent government censorship, as opposed to the protection of users and their data from wanton commercial intrusion and exploitation. Put simply, the lords of the internet care very little about user privacy—what they want to preserve, at the end of the day, is their own commercial license against the specter of government regulation of any kind.
How is it superior? Quest 2 is the only wireless headset (arguably the biggest QoL feature unless you like pulley systems on your ceiling), and spec wise it roughly matches the Index (you win some, you lose some). I despise Facebook but I got the Quest 2 cause of wirelessness, as for the account you can create a dummy Oculus Developer account (workaround will work till January 2023).
This is actually a thing outside of the US mostly. For example in many Asian countries routing is utterly fucked if it's not incumbent to incumbent.
Lockdown Insanity: Broken Records, Broken Lives
It's hard to tell whether you are being sarcastic or oblivious with those last few words of your comment.
there hasn't been a "long term" yet. it was made available to the general public less than 6 months ago
Can You Fix Climate Change
And it's not 100% luck neither, as one of the first employee you probably participated to the success of those companies! Kudos to you!
Very exciting work and incredible effort to bring the Linux desktop to bear.
The reason why you need to care is because this isn't a CCP problem; its a global problem.

Sure, maybe the CCP screwed up containment, and that mistake cost millions of lives. Every single major government around the planet has facilities like the one we're discussing. Every single one has made mistakes like the CCP possibly did. The CCP were just unlucky in that their mistake wasn't confined to one person or the welcome lobby.

Knowing it was engineered in a lab would put a bigger spotlight on facilities like these. Unfortunately, its most likely to only result in sanctions against China, but if the people in charge could summon an ounce of sense, it could also mean more of these facilities being shut down, their research suspended, and the live cultures of humanity-destroying plagues in their vaults destroyed.
The fingerprint fails to run with JS disabled.
Here's four reasons:

- Only with accountability can there be some deterrence. Especially if there were actors outside of China that were involved.

- The details of the post-mortem will give us valuable insights that we can't get by simply imagining up a worst case from our armchair. If a plane crashes, we want to figure out why it crashed and make specific improvements, rather than just assuming what happened and acting based on a loose and inaccurate mental model.

- If it did leak, there needs to be a cultural reckoning and introspection as to how this was allowed to be so taboo for so long.

- If it did leak, public knowledge of that may be what causes there to be sufficient political will to get regulatory safeguards implemented
Single parents get more money than two parent families. Only one parent gets to apply but the payout is higher for a single parent. The system absolutely incentivizes single parent households.
> Which is I am responsible for what I say, regardless of where it's published online

I believe if it is published in one of those "letters from our readers" section (where the newspaper makes editorial decisions) then they are responsible, is that not so ?

I know that article btw. It's basically a list of reasons why 230 makes no sense in this age where the internet and algorithms is the dominant medium. Content is overabundant now, it doesnt matter anymore, what matters is how you shape the access to it.

and to your other comment, FB and nytimes should be held to the same standards: either both of them are absolved or responsibility or both are not. Think of it this way: nytimes hires journalists to create content that promotes their favourite soccer team. They affect opinions. Facebook hires programmers who use their abundance of "user generated" content (which covers the entire spectrum of soccer fans) and mold their algorithms to promote their favourites.they affect opinions

The effect is the same on society, why are they treated differently? the mechanisms shouldn't matter. If FB (or HN) is to be held at a differnt standard, they should either be "100% neutral except illegal pics" or be forced to have full transparency on all their algorithms and editing decisions.

(Btw i agree with what you said about the law, i just think it's an absurd legal situation for this day and age)
I really hope that this sets a precedent in the industry. I hate that sideloading is still somewhat of a "taboo" thing for hardware that you own.
> 1. The US has the most incarcerated people per capita in OECD

But Russia (a suspended OECD member) beats it for a total number of people who been through the prison system.

10%+ of men to be exact.
When BI tools fall short: why we built our own apps for marketing analytics
Huawei CFO strikes deal with U.S., allowing her to return to China
I doubt it intentionally started playing a YouTube video, so I don’t see how this is a shameless act. Most likely it just launched whatever you had open after it restarted or something. I seriously doubt Microsoft is making profit off of YouTube ads in Chrome.
>If you sent the content to a newspaper and they posted it in the relevant section the newspaper would be liable. Those things aren't as distinct as they were made to be.

But I didn't send that content to a newspaper, did I?

I posted it here on HN. Is HN responsible for my words here? Should you be able to sue HN for them?

Answer those questions honestly, and you will be enlightened.
It frequently loses track of libraries, claiming large chunks of the codebase won’t compile until caches are cleared and it is restarted.

It gets stuck indexing forever, losing all code completion and navigation abilities until it’s restarted.

Git integration sometimes stops working. It will list the files to be committed but does nothing when you click commit, until it’s restarted.

Exiting presentation mode leaves the font set to a huge size (until it’s restarted).
as a warning, I've heard that the big spreadsheet makers considered this and eventually passed on the idea. I believe the logic is that spreadsheet users don't understand ML, and if you want to do ML, you probably know how to export a spreadsheet.
The whole country is going to stink isn't it?
Visa-Wise, it may be easier for you to transfer from the Indian office to the US office.
> because a large chunk of the user base refused to be responsible on patches

A large number of users were not patching because they believe they didn't need to, and they weren't educated well enough.

Raising the competency of the users is part of the responsibility.
I have been wanting something like this for years, usually ending up with running the configs through some sketchy location block testers/validators and hacking together simplified setups so I can figure out why or how some nginx configurations are supposed to work. This is awesome, thanks a lot Julia!
I would like to see an international body of scientists from all countries regulating, and monitoring, all biologicals research around the world.

Think of it being an requirement to join the United Nations.

Those countries that arn't in the UN, or don't want moderation; well let's say let the CIA do their dirty work, or outright tariff/humanitarian wars.

(I don't have a clue to the origin of this mutating virus, but letting any lab anywhere experiment on biologicals does not seem prudent.)
uh.... yes, exactly?
Infrastructure as Code (IaC) in AWS
May I ask if you had some non-startup years of experience before joining this seed company?
The would say that asynchronous methods are mostly about orchestration and side-effects and non-asynchronous ones about computations.

If your computation code reach out to fetch data or trigger side-effects I’d take that as a sign of it being badly factored. Try to push the async parts up the stack to an orchestration layer, and keep the computation code “pure”
> One of our Sr Staff Engineers ran some numbers and applied queueing theory.

Queueing theory is an excellent way to look at E2E testing for the big-picture view and also for drilling down into each of the relevant services.

For a quick intro, this is a queueing theory primer that I've written and shared with HN previously: https://github.com/joelparkerhenderson/queueing-theory
I'm going to take a wild guess that when you first heard Trump call it the "China virus" you were as utterly horrified and revolted as I was. You had every right to be.

Like me, you probably viewed it as a deliberate attempt to distract from his administration's incompetence. Like me, you probably decided right then and there that it was a natural virus and recognized that a bulk of the people saying otherwise just HAPPENED to be people who wanted Trump re-elected.

There comes a point where you have to recognize that you have made decisions with incomplete information and emotional biases, and that those decisions sometimes need to be completely cast out, with an objective, reasoned look at the latest facts.

At this point, the evidence that you reasonably state needs to be found has long been eradicated by the second most powerful nation state the world has ever seen. An authoritarian one, with the ability to make any critic disappear. There will never be an actual smoking gun, because the CCP had months of knowledge of what they had accidentally released before the rest of the planet knew it existed. All of the evidence was within their borders. The eradication of this evidence is itself an incredibly strong indication of guilt, particularly combined with the mountains of circumstantial evidence that point to this being a lab leak. If a detective walks into a suspected murderers bedroom, and finds that all of the surfaces have been bleached and the carpet has been ripped up, he doesn't have definitive evidence that the suspect is a murderer. But he does have evidence that they are trying to hide something.
You’re not crazy, but we are in the minority.

Most people, self-professed hackers included, are more comfortable in the browser sandbox than the terminal emulator sandbox.

pass has a better UX than any password manager I’ve ever been compelled to use for work. Especially when used in the way you describe, as your index to the browser (rather than as a sidecar to the browser).
I suspect you mean “sensitive” and not “sensible”? In any case, I’m not that sensitive. I went through the mill 15-20 years ago when programming communities were quite a lot more hostile toward newbies (certainly “welcoming” was not something communities concerned themselves with). But I do have the good sense to know that this isn’t constructive. And anyway, if you (or whomever) think OCaml’s level of toxicity is roughly the sweet spot, why do you care if I disagree? Perhaps you think I’m overly sensitive, but it’s not like I’m going to lose sleep over it. :)
App developers largely use new phones that have more, and faster, resources than the phones that most people use. Over time, some apps become slower on older hardware because of the bloat introduced by developers that use fast new phones.

That bloat occurs up and down the stack, and at some point perfectly good older phones just can't run the bloat without being really slow or crashing.
I had to check this to see if there's any truth to it, and unfortunately it seems like a fib.

> Beds, hall furniture and wardrobes are named after town and cities in Norway such as Asker, Ulsberg and Klubbo. The rugs at IKEA are named after places in Denmark, so expect to see names like Hellum, Elverdam and Nysted. Finland rounds out the Scandinavian neighbors with having dining tables and chairs named after places like Pello, Bredskär and Harola.
Larry Tesler, the Inventor of Copy-Paste Dies, Early Xerox PARC leader
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=reaction+engines+sabre+precooler
Yikes, You Call That a Pencil?
2. It has more to do with your country’s government than the source of the virus, hence my comment

Even if you knew would anything change? I’m not advocating for ignorance, rather that it’s impossible to know conclusively without full cooperation and it’s in the interest of all parties to deflect
> information (like titles) can be meaningfully extracted

From a technical perspective it's probably simpler to just grep the page for the user-submitted title.
Perhaps mongol was fishing for

> A noble spirit encromulates the smallest man.
And it is useless. Synonyms have subtle differences in meaning. In this case, it has no different and it's existence adds no new information.
BattlEye to Support Valve's Steam Deck / Proton
Just killing all apps is a very hostile default for a consumer OS. You might be able to force a restart from the terminal if you really don’t care about data integrity though.
It happens, but it isn't "the domain" like he meant. There are hundreds of millions Bitcoin users already, and the vast majority of them are not criminals. According to Chainalysis, only 0.34% of total transaction value was criminal in 2020.[0]

[0] https://blog.chainalysis.com/reports/2021-crypto-crime-repor...
It wasn't just "defund the police" it was "abolish the police". I guess that's been forgotten already, which in a way would be a good thing since it would be a step back towards sanity, but major influential news organizations were publishing pieces that literally advocated abolishing the police.
raises remaining hand

Now if someone asks me if I also still use the same laptop as when Apache had >6 times the market share of Nginx (https://news.netcraft.com/archives/category/web-server-surve...), I will need to find more hands.
AMD’s Lisa Su
Talking about almost all charities, the billionaire element is irrelevant. Google "St Judes Executive Salaries"
Doesn't Macos also do this? I think it's called "Power Nap" Difference is you can just turn it off... whereas in Windows it seems like it's a complete mess.

I've been using Linux for the last 15 years. Had my fair share of issues with suspend. But at least once a laptop was in a state, it tended to stay there. Whether it would resume was another story :P
I used to run apache for general purpose web service / perl CGI and Zeus to serve static images.

I thought I was so cool ...
That log of 10 IP addresses accounting for 100% of DNS requests over a period of 4.5 months (from Krebs) is complete BS. The domain name in question was publicly known — records available in DomainTools per Ankura report. There's way more background DNS scanning of public names going on, all the time, for there to not be maybe an order of magnitude more requests.

It's never even explained where the log comes from in the first place! How convenient!

Tried and true diversion tactic: a story that nobody can disprove and which will be believed even if it's denied. Yes, Prime Minister, S2E2, "Official Secrets", ©1987 BBC.
At the end of the day, if you don't believe me then you can watch the court case and see how it resolves.

Stossel can sue Facebook, and if Facebook gets dismissed for 230 reasons he can also sue the fact checker directly. You don't have to believe me, you can wait and see how that works out. I'm just saying, I wouldn't hold my breath.
if we figure out, what then? Are they to blame for all the death?
OCaml 4.13.0 (and 4.12.1) Released
Forgot the first and most important commandment: always force them to open.

They will always low ball, so you know what they think of your skillset and you can negotiate upward if they really want you. If you open you have nowhere to go but down.
Meanwhile several Canadians are detained in China, on allegedly bogus charges.

Of course, Trudeau bowed down to the CCP and wasn't able to secure their release. Meanwhile Meng lived in one of the several mansions she owns in Canada.

Seems only the previous administration had any kind of strategy on China.
That would be telling.

I always recited the statistics at the outset, so that the interviewee would know how much complexity to expect in the answer. It never seemed to help them.
Next they'll be trying to tell us that "figuratively" means "literally" Oh, wait, they literally did... or is that figuratively.
Uh, both the War on Drugs and War on Terror were started by Republican presidents (Satanic Panic is a little harder to unravel), with broad support (at the time, anyway) on both sides of the aisle. If you're going to spout nonsense, at least pick examples consistent with your nonsense.
yes

They are called “analyzers” in .net though
Sanity check: you train a 48 million parameter image classification model on a single 4000x4000 rgb image. Do you overfit?
in 2020.
You pay opportunity costs no matter what you do.

Including bargaining too hard.
Yup, they could add that it is taxable at higher rates after enough cryptocurrency was earned to pay for the permanent cap
Any chance they could recover some DNA?