skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right, it's eerily similar. People say this about automated railways too. And as with the elevator on your hundredth trip you are not thinking "Oh no, this is automated, it might kill me", because of course it's automated, you're thinking about whether Jim meant to complement you or it was intended as an insult last night, and did you bolt the back door?
Hi HN,

Thought this would be a fun social experiment to start with this community.

- You can search for words, phrases, urls, etc (anything text-based), each of which has a unique record that's created the first time a user searches for it. (No scraping with this currently.)

- You can make comments freely on topics without an account anonymously.

That being said - I'll require accounts to make comments if the quality of content diverges.

Anyway, let me know what you think / if you wanna see anything from this. Thanks!
Wait until they hear about TikTok!
This is awesome. I think slack and other platforms take too much away from your work. A much smaller an concise tool would be very helpful :)
Disengagement rate.
Today we launch new DDoS attack simulation project
Unfortunately that document mentions the AOP just once, only confirming its existence. It doesn't actually describe what it does.
> Not something you can easily do with the declarative version.

Its something that you can do easily with the imperative API for CloudFormation plus the declarative description of the stacks in CloudFormation.
> Please teach me on how to network? I am really bad at networking!

Ok, I am taking this plea seriously and assuming you are not constrained to your basement and your laptop (yes, you will need to show up in person, sooner or later)!

1- Select five recent applications you made to five companies you would really like to work for (that is, start with affinity instead of trying your indifferent luck).

2- Trace the company’s contact list and the exact role of some of their employees (from the company website, from LinkedIn, from a meetup or what else…), that is the ones that may possibly become your colleagues, in case you are hired.

3- Conjure a professional hook related to the company (a recent meetup, a conference they went to, a technical workshop or paper from them and in your field of interest, a recent press release showing their latest milestone) and send one of the designed contacts a cold email to ask more info, while introducing yourself as a passionate guy doing similar things… this will however kickstart an informal screening without or by-passing your CV.

4- If unsuccessful at first shot, just align your manners and persist… maybe instead of five companies, try ten companies… align more, persist and repeat.

All this converging effort, if done without seeming a stalker, would lead in a few weeks to someone you are starting to know offering you something to progress things further, be it at a conference or at their office, upon the basis that you showed already you can at least interact with them in a way they like, that you seem to know and like what they are doing, and that they think you may help and become part of their team.

Hope it helps. Good luck!
The challenge is what, exactly, to regulate. Here are some ideas:

Ban algorithmic content curation. If a product is going to have a "featured" section or "watch next" or whatever, that should have to come from a human editor who can be held accountable for their choices.
This would force huge changes in a lot of services, but ultimately I think we've learned that engagement algorithms drive toxic feedback loops and echo chambers that their creators are not proud of. This outcome in inherent to any function that maximizes engagement, so we just have to stop.

Ban one-bit reactions; ie. no like buttons that get people addicted to the high of "crowd approval." Just allow comments.

Ban ad-targeting based on any protected class (age, race, gender).

Make those requirements kick in for any app with greater than $10M ARR or 50,000 DAU.
I'm a computer science and computer engineering major, and I've never once heard the term "computing science". Is there a context in which this term is regularly used?
If there is such a capability (a rather technically involved one, I might add, all the way down to the silicon), do you really believe Apple can't turn it on at CIA/NSA's request without popping that dialog? And you wouldn't even know due to gag orders. And before you say this can't happen in the US, I can give you a few publicized examples of illegal spying on US citizens just in the past few years.
Funny you should mention that. I've used ocornut's ImGui library in the past, with a single, hierarchical object that managed the entire GUI state.

This approach caused whole classes of problems that affect regular GUIs to simply disappear, and it was the most performant, least buggy UI I've ever written by a country mile.
A lot from a little is what we're aiming for! Looking forward to your signup!
You know what's not supoprted in GitHub Markdown? Anchors. There are no functional anchors on any GitHub page. They have something in their markdown that looks very much like anchors but instead of being an actual HTML anchor it requires loading and executing javascript first.

If github wants to actually support real markdown then footnotes are good, but maybe work on supporting anchors first. They're very important for readmes.
Is it true they’re only using 1 or 3 cranes? Why? To force investment from the infrastructure bill?
I'm not going to defend DNSSEC here, because this outage and others continue to support tptacek's perspective on its usefulness.

But, some governments are requiring DNSSEC, which regardless of its usefulness, puts companies that want those contracts in a bit of a bind.

Perhaps it would make sense to split domains such that DNSSEC guarded ones would not negatively impact ones that do not have DNSSEC.
So much bigotry and ad hominem in this comment yet you have the gall to accuse me of the same. Environmentalism is nothing like religion - it's science based on empirical evidence and not on blind faith. I struggle to see what is so flimsy about the findings of this article.
Also against the "move fast and crash into things, and people" attitude some of them have.
Not only a proxy. The other random devices use their known location to add to the data to show where the device was found. It’s all encrypted with the key of the lost device owner so apple can not read it.
The ship has long since sailed on this point, powered on or not.

There's research that's talked about in the book, "Data and Goliath" that explains how the behavior of people specifically trying to avoid being tracked is sufficiently different from most other people that, even if you turn off your phone (sometimes ESPECIALLY if you turn off your phone) that act can be a behavioral marker used to correlate your activities with other people who do similarly, and your location can be largely deduced by process of elimination anyway.

It's a fascinating read.
Everyone is quite an absolute word. How are non apple users slurping up Apple's privacy marketing?
> Hard to have time for poetry if you didn't have time in your youth to even learn how to read / write.

The Illiad and Oddyssey were composed and passed down by illiterate bards. Epic poetry has always been a fundamentally oral thing.

For examples of this see Serbian epic poetry

> Many of the epics are about the era of the Ottoman occupation of Serbia and the struggle for the liberation. With the efforts of ethnographer Vuk Karadžić, many of these epics and folk tales were collected and published in books in the first half of the 19th century. Up until that time, these poems and songs had been almost exclusively an oral tradition, transmitted by bards and singers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serbian_epic_poetry
> Castlevania, Contra, MGS.

Those are Konami IPs, though.
Many will misinterpret it. We have seen how much the public can fundamentally misunderstand technical information over the past year.

People will just see that:
1. You can never disconnect your iPhone from the grid and stop it from being tracked. Even if you turn it off.
2. Governments, companies, and other (from the conspiracy theorist's standpoint) will be able find you whenever they want.

I am sure there are some legitimate security concerns here, but Apple seems to have taken reasonable steps to provide a pretty awesome feature which has solved a lot of risky edge cases.
https://www.brianlikespostgres.com/rds-aurora-release-dates....

I gathered release dates a few weeks ago because I was curious. There aren't that many data points, but 150 days might be a good guess
> Its no secret that ivermectin / hydroxychloroquine makers are benefiting from this snake-oil bullcrap. Its no different from essential oils or other such snake oil products.

interesting... if thats true, shouldn't there be legal repercussions?

> We just didn't care about essential oils 3 years ago because its fine for idiots to waste their own money on snake oil.

slightly off-topic, but as someone who's suffered severe allergic reactions to people using "essential oils" it baffles my mind that these (and supplements) aren't more strictly regulated...
You say "one of" your motorcycles, so I take it you aren't riding this bike everyday, putting 12-15,000 miles a year on it and needing it to be reliable every time you go to work or run an errand.

Apples to oranges comparison.
> We'll never be truly free until computer manufacturing is as democratized as software development. Ideally we should be able to make computers at home.

If we had a few NGOs that were committed to freedom, were transparent and produced good hardware it would be a more reasonable option. Sure I can dream about the future where I can 3D print all electronics at home, but that computer wouldn't run very good and we all know this.
They do yearly updates, the 2022 doc will very likely have more information. Regardless, the 2021 doc has some key foundations of the technology that are worth knowing.

The contract tracing docs _should_ be almost the same technology, and knowing how that works _should_ be a good start. At least, from my eyeing the OP's article as a lay person.
There were active changes to cars to reduce pedestrian harm. The most visible is probably the ban of pop up headlamps.

Not taking a position on the study. Just felt like sharing.
China, Digital Currency, and Filecoin’s Big Secret
The price of Filecoin, like other digital currency, is always changing. The entire digital currency sector has taken a hit over the past few days with the news that China is no longer going to allow the use of digital currency starting in 2022.

However, according to Meltem Demirors, chief strategy officer at CoinShares, China banning digital currency is nothing new. “This has to be the 20th time that China has banned bitcoin,” Mr. Denirors says. “There’s always something ‘different’ about the bans, but this happens all the time and it’s never really dramatic in the larger scheme of things.”

“You can only ban something once. Every ban after is an admission that you actually couldn’t ban it at all,” Demirors says.

Earlier in 2021, China said it would shut down digital currency mining equipment within the country and repeated its ban on Chinese financial institutions providing digital-related services. The People’s Bank of China said it also plans to step up monitoring of digital-related transactions.

“It should surprise no one that China doesn’t like bitcoin. It is the pure antithesis of their regime of top-down centralized currency control,” says Chris Bendiksen, head of research at CoinShares.

The motivation for the banning of digital currency is likely motivated by the development of the Chinese government’s own digital yuan and central bank digital currency, Demirors says.

“China’s ban on all digital currency trading activity will have some short-term impact on the currency’s valuation, but long-term implications are likely to be muted,” said Ganesh Viswanath Natraj, an assistant professor of finance at Warwick Business School.

For U.S. investors, the main repercussion from China’s digital currency crackdowns is, “it could impact market volatility for investors,” says John Wu, president of Ava Labs, a team supporting development of the Avalanche blockchain. Most experts say investors in the U.S. won’t be impacted much, if at all.

Experts agree that even though China is walking away from the digital currency sector, digital currency like Bitcoin and Filecoin will continue to be part of a thriving market.

China is home to the largest number of Filecoin miners in the world. Is there a solution for these miners? Is there still an opportunity to make money in the digital currency market?
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Make the simplest thing you possibly can, write lots of software tests and keep in mind that your code is a piece of communication to the next developer, like a story. Everything else is just vanity or preferences.
It's a small world, and painting a target on your back for employers when you need to work to feed your family and see a doctor might not be the best decision for those people at the moment.

I might agree with you if they were better organized and had more leverage. But right now, they aren't and they don't.
Planting seeds of doubt about established science are we? I thought HN was pro-science and environment??
We have created perhaps an easier documentation on how to make it all work on your own domain, with many screenshots and such. Here it is: https://www.orgpad.com/s/cjzpkTRIK_L
Motorola can include a 3.5mm jack in the moto x4 and get an IP68 rating. Why does Fairphone have to eliminate it to get an IP54 rating? Clearly, having a 3.5mm jack is not an impediment to getting an IP54 rating.
You have a disagreement with your significant other, and the resolution you came up with is "ignore what I want and just go with what they want" ?

That doesn't sound great.
Postgres 13 was released 2020-09-24

13.1 was released 2020-11-12

13.2 was released 2021-02-11 https://www.postgresql.org/docs/13/release-13-2.html

AWS supported 13 as of 2021-02-24 https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/02/amazon-rd...
> Having scalpers in the mix raising the price for all components worries me that the chip shortage might not end for many years, as they can self-fund by raising their prices to stock up on new supply.

How do the scalpers get the supply before someone else gets it? What do the scalpers do when IC manufacturers increase supply and electronics manufacturers decrease demand by switching to similar components? What if one of the scalpers panics, dumps its inventory, and causes a price drop?

The whole situation could just as quickly turn into the opposite when production returns to normal.
AOP has been a thing since iPhone 6s, so they're not particularly rushed in documenting it.
How about vanilla going extinct in the wild? Any real vanilla you have ever had was likely hand pollinated (and probably not from Mexico) because the bee that pollinates the vanilla orchid is thought to be extinct and the orchid that depended on it is now on its way out.[0]

[0]https://phys.org/news/2013-12-professor-vanilla.html
And all it takes to defeat it is one of Alex Jones' Faraday baggies (or a microwave), probably
I'm amazed that this bug has impacted seemingly so many big name projects.

I had not heard about this cert expiration happening until today, and I'm part of a fairly small development team. But I feel like I'm in good company when Electron and a ton of other companies [1] had issues:

> Helme told ZDNet that he confirmed issues with Palo Alto, Bluecoat, Cisco Umbrella, Catchpoint, Guardian Firewall, Monday.com, PFsense, Google Cloud Monitoring, Azure Application Gateway, OVH, Auth0, Shopify, Xero, QuickBooks, Fortinet, Heroku, Rocket League, InstaPage, Ledger, Netlify and Cloudflare Pages, but noted that there may be more.

[1] https://www.zdnet.com/article/fortinet-shopify-others-report...
So, I was less aware of RDNSS. That makes one of my complaints moot.

DNS is critical. I'm not talking about registering an endpoint into a local DNS server (mydesktop.local), I'm talking about the endpoint knowing who to ask about google.com.
It looks good! Thank you for creating this. Just one thing - I visit hn.com with js disabled, but your website requires js to function. For that reason alone I will stay with hn. I don't mean to come across as ungrateful, because I do not mean for my comment to appear that way. Thank you for sharing!
By default MS SQL uses pessimistic locking, depending on isolation levels. There's only one version of the data on disk and the isolation level of a transaction determines what happens - for example if a transaction in SERIALIZABLE reads a row SQL Server takes a shared read lock on that row preventing any other transaction from writing to it.

MS SQL also has snapshot (and read committed snapshot) isolation levels. These are much more like the Postgresql isolation levels - in fact Postgres only has two 'real' isolation levels, read committed and serializable, you get upgraded to the next higher level as permitted in the spec.

In snapshot isolation instead of taking a lock SQL Server copies the row to a table TempDB when it would be overwritten, additionally it adds a 14-byte row version to each row written. There's a lot of detail here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/sq...

This is also why MS SQL maintains a clustered index on the main table - the main table only contains the latest globally-visible version, so it can be sorted. Postgres stores all versions (until vacuum removes dead rows), so the main table is a heap, only indexes are sorted.
"who hates HN"

This site, and this community, is great in my opinion. But it's not without valid criticism, especially considering the impact it can and has made in the industry and tech society.

"naively uninformed tantrum"

I'm unable to find the posts you're talking about.
The programs that ran on the Apollo Guidance Computer were written this way. If there was a sufficiently bad error, the AGC would restart execution. The programs took advantage of the memory in use at the time being non-volatile, and not reset to zero when the computer restarted, so the program could figure out what the CSM or LM was doing, and continue it.

This actually happened on Apollo 11. The 1201 and 1202 program alarms were the computer overloading, and running out of space for more processes. When this happened, the computer would reset, and navigation would pick up again.
One interesting observation about IPv6 I've made is that in Europe IPv6 and FTTx seem inversely correlated. For example Spain is one of the leaders in FTTx with 87% of homes covered, but have only 3% IPv6 adoption according to Google. Meanwhile Germany has one of the highest IPv6 adoptions in Europe, 52%, and one of the lowest FTTx coverages (16%). Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus, and Iceland all have 90% FTTx and 10% IPv6. UK, Finland, Belgium, and Netherlands on the other hand seem to be having better IPv6 adoption than FTTx.

My guess is that ISPs must have needed to choose if to invest to core network or to last mile, and that is visible here. But at the same time it seems bit weird that you'd in 2020s deploy fancy new fiber networks without IPv6.
I think that the main usage pattern for a tool like terraform is be able to version control your config, and , on the way, apply the git flow/git ops to infra changes (infra as code).
First one that immediately comes to mind is knowing when a person has leisure time. Since email is also known, this gets added to whatever body of data that's been collected on the person with that email. You can already make some inferences about a person just based on when they have leisure time, before you even add it to the existing body of data.
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The motivating example for this seems to be completely broken:

--- Start a transaction
BEGIN
SAVEPOINT active_record_1
--- Look up the account
SELECT * FROM credit_accounts WHERE customer_id = 1
--- Insert the account; this may fail due to a duplicate constraint
INSERT INTO credit_accounts (customer_id) VALUES (1)
--- Abort this by rolling back
ROLLBACK TO active_record_1
--- Retry here: Start a new subtransaction
SAVEPOINT active_record_2
--- Find the newly-created account
SELECT * FROM credit_accounts WHERE customer_id = 1
--- Save the data
RELEASE SAVEPOINT active_record_2
COMMIT

The second SELECT will never see the newly added row because it's still operating against the same snapshot as the outer transaction, so the use of subtransactions is completely pointless?
Sure, but they still care about cost and utility.
> the vaccines are not great at stopping the spread of delta

that's not an accurate take on how the vaccines work against delta.

the vaccine makes it so you are much less likely to get the virus in the first place. it also shortens the time you are infectious to other people if you do get a breakthrough case since your bodies immune system response goes into effect immediately and not after a while. an extremely simplified view is: antibodies neutralize free floating viral particles(antigens). B cells create antibodies. T cells tell B cells to go make antibodies and also kill infected cells with cytotoxins.

when you are vaccinated your T cells and B cells already know what to do if they see viruses so they can mount a defense immediately and it shortens the infectious period. in addition you will still have antibodies left over(i am unsure if you still make more for a period of time after the vaccine without any antigens) from when you got the vaccine so you will have a lower likelihood of getting sick in the first place since the antibodies can neutralize the antigens before they have a chance to infect too many cells and create more antigens.

by the nature of not getting sick in the first place and by not being infectious for as long the spread of delta is slowed
But they did have a winning record. Every year they declared war on the helots and every year they won!
Busybox for Windows
Zebroid
Mostly because annexation of conquered territory is illegal. Without it at least Eastern Congo, possibly all of it, would be part of Rwanda. There are a lot of failed states in the world. They'd fail at defending themselves from a competent military too.
Haldane's Rule
> Instead it's either apathy and even scorn against the FSF, which is alarming to me.

It's not just FSF, there's also ethical software types trying to destroy OSI from within. We are seeing so many attempts to dismantle important organizations now it leaves me baffled.
Which should be codified into law based on police requirements with an eye as to what is legal.

Police procedures should not be developed by way of an agreement between the state and a private company, who is in a position to error on the side of cooperation because they need a license. It is similar to the state granting a locksmith a license to practice under the condition that law enforcement be provided with copies to every key just in case they need them.

There are some serious Fourth Amendment considerations when traveling in a vehicle for hire without a driver. Is a Waymo closer to a private automobile with implied consent, or is it similar to a bus where you can deny consent to a search? Is the provider (or virtual driver) in a position to consent to a search of your property? Is the virtual assistant that opened the doors and consented to a search now in a position to be charged with transporting narcotics for distrubtion? Who's license gets dinged if the passenger has no seatbelt?
To ban, you first need to accurately define what you're banning. How would you define it?
I didn't rant about Dropbox.