skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok - so now you have a very strict protocol, that never gains traction because the strictness you value hampers utility.

And yes - I'm aware of the "Bug for bug compatibility" problems that draft tries to highlight, but it's fairly clear that utility is paramount:

> As [SUCCESS] demonstrates, success or failure of a protocol depends far more on factors like usefulness than on on technical excellence. Timely publication of protocol specifications, even with the potential for flaws, likely contributed significantly to the eventual success of the Internet.
What I find interesting is even looking back he still has no awareness of the situation going on. I find this to be a huge issue with developers in general, they don't seem to ever pick up on social skills even when it is right in their face.

He got in because no one cared about anything other than someone willing to push through boring contract design work for low AF pay. He seems to still believe his lying(skill?) is what got him the job. It sort of was in the sense they wanted someone young dumb delusional and enthusiastic to work for next to nothing on what was essentially boring boilerplate work. In a system that even at the time he could see was a disaster to work in. Then used him as a negotiating tool to lay off other decently paid workers after he "proved" that what they did to him could be done. He calls them "expert manipulators" but there is nothing expert here, this is ham-fisted pointed haired boss 101.

TL;DR the company wanted a useful idiot with enthusiasm to push through a broken system to do a mind numbing job for next to no pay. The author still doesn't seem to get this.
This section destroyed the authors credibility altogether in my mind. Seems the entire article was a set up to make a political attack.
From designing interfaces to designing systems
Please see the EU website itself - All normal websites are using cookies. The EU itself is doing a banner - they have (thankfully) made it a lot less obtrusive where you can still use the site now without giving explicit consent.

But this is I think the "big lie" of the GDPR folks - no banners needed, when even the EU itself and its agencies etc all use it.

So you expect random joe blow website to overthink this even further, go against what they see the EU itself doing? It's total garbage.
It looks like you'll have to find a browser that is based on WebKit or Blink and has a JavaScript engine comparable to V8 or Nitro.

Plugging this into something like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_web_browsers#WebKit-ba... yields a number of options depending on your OS like SRWare Iron or Otter Browser.
I would hardly call those edge cases, particularly if you use a non-ubuntu distro.
I'd estimate more than a dozen, less than two dozen.
For example, the Quran explicitly calls out the behavior of a tribe of Jews who, to tried to avoid the prohibition of fishing on the Sabbath: https://quran.com/7/163

We also have explicit texts in Hadith that call out and reprimand attempts to bypass usury by buying an item in installments, then selling it back to the original seller for a lower cash price. The effective transaction being a money for money contract with a disposable item in the middle. All this is prohibited.

You will not find a single Muslim scholar say that it is ok for a woman to wear a wig instead of a headscarf, even though technically she is still covering her hair.
What? It’s just a text string in the header. How in the world would that possibly make it more difficult to scrape?

All Chrome is doing is stop appending the current semver in the UA it sends.
When buying a property, is your agent's incentive contrary to yours?
https://www.weather.gov/safety/cold-polar-vortex ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar_vortex ?
Dublin? Beautiful?? Whaat??
The war began when they were faced with a threat of being less well-fed (not disregarding the immorality of it all).
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sometimes powerful people in positions of authority are evil. it is heartbreaking.
any recommendation to scrape behind google social login?
Most of the contributions to these hashtags on tiktok are teachers saying they're not the ones to mess with.
I've not followed this space. When I did, there were a lot of questions concerning the legality of automated scraping. Have those legal issues been resolved?
I have a specific use case where I'm communicating with a person from across the world weekly.

Tried Zoom but eventually moved to Google Meet because it worked better. It could be WAY better but meh. And the difference between Meet on Firefox & Google Chrome is significant.

All this considering I'm running on a gigabit network. Not 100% sure about the partner.
> "because the whole tech industry is (somewhat correctly) perceived as progressive"

Proceeds to describe various Republicans as "guttersnipes" and "goons" while envisioning an utterly ridiculous scenario in which they forcibly shutdown us-east-1 for political gain.

People are welcome to their political opinions, but comments like these do not lend authors an air of credibility. In fact, they do the opposite.
"Wastefull public sector interests."

Is buying a luxury house in central london and letting it rot, empty for 20 years while it's value climbs 'efficient free market'?

https://theconversation.com/londons-extraordinary-surplus-of...
Although I never experienced loading time of more than, say, 10 seconds, I always intuitively blamed it on the storage. Imagine you have an immensely large set of data, most of which is never being accessed. So probably most of your hard drives sit idle at any given time and the one with your stuff on it has to spin up before it can serve you.

I may be wrong but I can't imagine a sensible alternative for serving such an extreme use case as the Wayback Machine does. I'm rather impressed that such a service exists in a usable state at all.
Come Work at YC – October 2021
For steel as thick as this, stick welding is very forgiving though. Big heatsinks, hard to melt through. Most people can probably learn to make (ugly but) strong enough welds in an afternoon.
What's the best way to get around AWS/Azure/... ip range ban and VPN ban when scrapping?
It took one trip for Spirit to go onto my personal No Fly list.

While Southwest remains my favorite airline.
This “whistleblower” was propped up by the establishment, I would be worried too. There’s a shift in agenda here against FB.
According to your own statistics...

Odds of dying shortly after vaccine (for all agree groups?): 1 in 11,250

Odds of healthy 35 year old dying from covid: 1 in 2,700

So a healthy 35 year old is 4x more likely to die from covid than vaccine.
I would expect it's roughly the same answers, just varying in the specifics:

* those which don't offer a _reasonable_ API, or (I would guess a larger subset) those which don't expose all the same information over their API

* those things which one wishes to preserve (yes, I'm aware that submitting them to the Internet Archive might achieve that goal)

* and then the subset of projects where it's just a fun challenge or the ubiquitous $other

As an example answer to your question, some sites are even offering bounties for scraped data, so one could scratch a technical itch and help data science at the same time:

https://www.dolthub.com/repositories/pdap/datasets/bounties
Rocks and branches are a once-in-a-while problem. Dust is an everyday use problem, and in an era where everything is doused in pesticides and herbicides I don't think it's optional.
This is a GREAT website, I can understand what it does with zero clicks, zero scrolls.

Really great, congratulations, I hope that I can find a way to apply this lesson to my SaaS.
I had problems like this with websites I must use. Like various state services websites, school, etc.

It's not the only problem, but I have to use the sites :)
I genuinely wonder how it can compete against any existing tractors. You can order a brand new tractor for 5 grand [1].

Is this going to cost less or come with more capabilities?

[1] https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/4wd-wheel-farm-agricu...
That's great. Let me know if you end doing so!

Why Multiple coffee cans? A few reasons

1) As new money comes in, I build new coffee cans based on current circumstances and prices offered by the market.

2) Provides Time Diversification. Not all times are created equal. At certain times, opportunities are better. But since marketing timing is difficult, especially since this is somewhat of a passive strategy, I'd rather simply invest periodically.

I wrote about coffee cans here:
https://playingfordoubles.substack.com/p/the-coffee-can-port...
To my knowledge the crypto rewards feature on Brave is opt-in. How is that an argument against Brave?
How to Start a LGBTQ+ ERG
The original comment from the union only mentioned IT issues from June.

"Our operation and our frontline employees have endured continuous and unending disruptions since the first time our airline made headlines in early June due to widespread IT failures."

That's what makes it misdirection, mentioning an issue from June, and very specifically not talking about a current IT issue. If there were a current issue, they would have called it out. The union has also been pretty clear in other statements that operational issues over the past few months were due to staffing shortages, not IT.
As an outsider, as it was clear that the author wasn’t that interested in reviewing safety patches, wouldn’t a “safe-actix” fork maintained by someone else have made everyone happy?
How is this a better experience? Threadreader puts ads in the middle of the tweet stream – on Twitter you can just read the thread, by scrolling. What is the point?
They take cards, not credit cards.

Those are debit cards; the transaction is a cashback (that's why they give change in cash).
And what is the future of humanity? Living in ant hill and never going outside of the urban 10x10 mile box?
Jesus Christ we need a new government.
Rust and GCC, two different ways
I’d read that book. Can a sign up for news on its release somewhere?
I have never been at FB, but I think the bestiality which became apparent there where people were left free to unleash it is the same bestiality behind collapsing bridges (you know that it happens, right?) and it is worse than the plague (almost literally, but surely, after the past couple of years).

When you read «super shitty social media», maybe the poster could have found a better expression, but it is a distraction to find there an issue with "improvable" algorithms, when the issue may be more with the participants. There is inadequacy.

That inadequacy becomes very clear when the renovator damages your house, the mechanic your car, the medic your health.
Fair enough, I will fix this one way or another. Thank you for your patience. (Just out of curiosity, why do you care about this enough to put so much effort into persuading me? Surely this is not the most destructive bit of misinformation floating around on the internet?)

P.S. I decided to actually look into the actual fact of the matter, and it appears Gibbs's claim may actually have some merit:

https://www.loc.gov/collections/railroad-maps-1828-to-1900/a...

"[The] chief promoter of a transcontinental railroad was Asa Whitney, a New York merchant active in the China trade who was obsessed with the idea of a railroad to the Pacific. In January 1845 he petitioned Congress for a charter and grant of a sixty-mile strip through the public domain to help finance construction." [Emphasis added]

The article doesn't specifically say that China was the principal motivation, but in 1845, before the discovery of gold in California, there weren't many other reasons to build a transcontinental railway. And since the railroad didn't actually get built until long after the gold rush was well underway, the actual motivation is probably a mix of different factors. But given Whitney's role, the idea that China was a factor seems like it could turn out to be defensible after all.
They have every interest to see Facebook...

[citation needed]. No, I don't want to hear an indirect rant about the financial interests of the NYT, nor do I care about some over-used quote from Upton Sinclair. It doesn't have to be a full-blown peer-reviewed citation, but just something, anything other than some unsupported, bordering-on-conspiracy theory.

Because my response otherwise is: "no, they don't. They have every interest in being the "paper of record", and maintaining a reputation that will quickly be lost should the NYT be found telling whoppers to hurt what might be viewed as a competitor." There's a reason I subscribe to the NYT and not the NY Post.
The moment they’re legally allowed to they will be all over legal weed. It’s not like the finance industry has any issues profiting from other recreational substances, such as alcohol or tobacco.
Not practical. The Linux driver ABI is unstable. At best, your hypothetical microkernel will work on a subset of obsolete hardware.
> Too much food makes you fat

Yes, and plenty of wealthy countries have the same problem, including Australia. As animals it's hard to control yourself because scarcity used to be the inhibitor. You need will power to ignore the initial hunger pains which no one teaches.

> American food is generally unhealthy

Yes, companies like Coke market addictive products like sugar mixed with caffeine and are allowed to hook people. Where is the FDA on that? It's the same FDA that allowed the opioid crisis so I assume they are complicit.

> Food waste - excessive portion sizes lead to partial consumption which leads to food waste

Not really a problem, we ship tons of grain and non spoilables overseas due to our massive agriculture industry. Certain foods can't really be distributed like that. Eating a large portion isn't really a bad thing as it's becoming clear that fasting in between a large meal is better than multiple small ones.

> Excessive portion sizes lead to the need for horrible US agriculture practices because its the only way you can make large portion sizes remotely viable

We actually pioneered agriculture and saved many people from starvation. We've learned from the dust bowl proper techniques to not deplete the top soil and to use circular fields and cycle crops. We've provided these techniques to Japan and other countries and the excess food from our crops goes to Africa.
Yes because then it means you associated with the wrong people and you are destined to be miserable
The best case scenario for an operational failure is the loss of a single AZ, but many of the scenarios you described are things that could impact an entire cloud vendor simultaneously. As others have pointed out (in discussing the Carrington event and the recent Facebook outage), it's not a matter of if it will happen, but a matter of when. And then it's just a question of duration and scope of the impact.

At this point around half of the world's leasable compute is concentrated in fewer than 100 facilities, the locations of which can easily be found with a google search. Using public satellite imagery you can identify network connection points as well as follow power transmission lines. In a wartime scenario, these are industrial targets with astounding strategic value, a tiny geographic footprint, and limited collateral damage in terms of human life. The Nagasaki and Hiroshima of the future could simply be kinetic attacks against a couple of datacenters. I'm alarmed that nobody is prepared for this and the industry zeitgeist seems to be to continue the consolidation of our economies into the cloud.
I thought this was ubiquitous in Europe already: both countries I call home (Denmark and Portugal) have each had their own for a long time now.
>I've never used their services and my company needs some MLOps, but the contents of this thread made me fear it. So, mission accomplished, dear eyes.

I'd say I wouldn't discourage you from looking at several solutions. There's an MLOps community and they have a Slack: https://mlops.community/

Also, a plug: I recently submitted a "Show HN: Use your own clusters to train, track, deploy, and monitor ML models (iko.ai)"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28777589

https://iko.ai

Nothing fancy, way too small. We built it initially because we do a lot of consulting projects for enterprise clients and it took a toll on us. We either needed to hire people who knew it all (data, models, deployment, infra), or had people tapping on others' shoulders for support.

Incidentally, we use MLflow for automatic experiment tracking: this means you don't need to pollute notebooks with tracking code or to learn MLflow API. We detect params, metrics, and the models itself automatically and save to S3. It's all done for multi-user, behind authentication.

Anyway, my contact information is in my profile. I'd be interested in what your problems are.

As I said, not a competitor of something huge like Databricks. My competitor is my colleague's laptop or a "powerful workstation with GPU" in some office.
There are other providers. I think big time scrapers use residential IPs
Material protects against both biological and chemical threats
Is anyone else reading this and going "Yes, ha ha ha! Yes!", or am I just a sicko?
I didn’t know this was common! I see this many mornings in a parking lot in the middle of Denver.
And the really nice thing about this is that there are no fees.

If I just need $80 or so (I think the limit is $100), it's faster to go to the local Walmart and buy a candy bar or something and get back $80 cash than to go the closest ATM owned by my bank to avoid the double dipping fees.
According to the IRS, the annual income of the top 1% starts at $516,714 and averages $1,625,221: https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p5398.pdf

I think certainly most of the bottom 90% would consider an annual income well in excess of $1M/year to be "ultra rich".
> even though they had backups and snapshots and multi-AZ replication the attacker could destroy the primary and the backups at the same time, because they were all in the same AWS account.

This was back in 2014, but AWS now has ways to fix this (if you do insist on keeping stuff in AWS) with Object Lock[0]. The expense is that, with object lock in a compliance state, the only way to delete it is to close the AWS account (which is why MFA delete[1] is recommended).

0: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/object...

1: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/MultiF...
By that logic housing shortage or runaway climate change should lead to war?
So use Firefox where it works, and Chrome where Firefox doesn't work for you. There's a little Firefox extension called "Open with..." which makes it really quick and easy to open a tab or link with another browser.

If the problem is that you don't have enough memory to comfortably use two browsers at once, then... well, then that's your real problem. Get more more RAM.

As for Firefox, although I haven't always been happy with the changes Mozilla has forced on their users, overall it's still the best browser out there, and when it comes to giving you the tools to preserve your privacy specifically it's worlds ahead of the alternatives... although it does take some awareness and effort on part of the user but that's unavoidable nowadays.
Why are "economists" taken seriously when they add absolutely nothing of value and are consistently wrong?

A notable example: Krugman.
I switched from Firefox to Vivaldi. Yes, Vivaldi. There are some folks here complaining it has a lot of bloat and while that's true, I don't care. I like it. Why?

* Based on Chrome. Unfortunately there's a lot of truth to the statement that "Chrome is the new IE", from the standpoint that modern sites are optimized (and tested) to run on Chrome.

* The sidebar. Downloads, bookmarks, etc. are quickly available in a simple pull-out.

* Speed Dial. Sounded corny when I first installed Vivaldi, now I love it. YMMV.

* Tab Stacking. If you're like me and have lots of tabs open, this is a great feature.

* Notes. Tracking notes on a page is an awesome feature!

People say Vivaldi is slow, but I haven't noticed it being slow to render sites - it's slow to launch. How often do you launch your browser though? At least for me the browser is one of the few always-running programs I run. There is a performance issue I've noticed in making YT videos run full-screen - there's a very noticeable lag especially if you have several tabs open. So far that hasn't been enough to outweigh the positives.
>The company's purpose is to generate a return for their shareholders

Absolutely correct, but who are the shareholders? If the investor owns less than half of the company, then the majority of the shareholders comprise the founder and employees, who would come out way ahead selling their company at initial valuation. As you said, the goal of a company is to maximize all shareholders’ returns, not just the investor’s return.

> The investor's initial valuation was inflated because the company failed to develop anything that would be worth an exit appropriate to that valuation.

Why is the investor faultless here? Valuation could just as easily have been inflated because the investor failed to do proper due diligence in accurately estimating how much the company is truly worth.
BTW this would be great for spaced repetition foreign character learning (Chinese, Arabic, Japanese, Korean, etc.): if the drawn figure is similar enough to the character the student is learning mark it as studied.

Congrats again
> it's hard to define at what scale a company should be subject to public scrutiny/control

FB is one of the largest companies on the planet with worldwide effects. There isn't another 10x for it to grow. If it's not subject to scrutiny/control at this scale, then it will never be subject to it.

> would like to see more testimony from users who believe that they have been personally harmed

Victims of genocide are notoriously unable to testify.
A reply to myself since I can't edit: Survivorship bias may not completely describe what I'm talking about here but another commenter posted about Lindy Effect, which is 100% on the nose:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect

These systems are in place and will continue to be maintained simply because they've stood the test of time.
Very valid point however that the US is perhaps a little too focused on the past (also driven by revenue preservation for defense contractors) - while China more future focused.

The US needing to debate the ethics of AI however is exactly the kind of value difference w China that illustrates the West's adversarial stance towards them.

China is and will be a real challenge because ultimately you can't beat them by selling out your principles and becoming like them.
Perhaps all that is needed to pick up the momentum is a spark of interest.
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"Cancer breakthrough" / "Cure for cancer" stories must have very high click-thru rates due to the frequency we see them.
If the police have _everybody’s_ DNA on record, then tracing DNA evidence back to its source becomes orders of magnitude simpler
Android phones are sending significant amount of user data with no opt-out [pdf]
I don't think you realize how much it costs to raise a child. The property taxes are nothing compared to what parents are spending, and amount of work every kid takes is enormous. You have no idea how much it is

Notice: I am not saying you have to support other people's children. I'm just saying that when you grow old, you should make your own arrangements on how you fund your late years, because you probably count on "society" to support you, and this "society" would translate to "children of other people who I didn't raise"