skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because AIs are relatively narrowly focused, they suffer greatly from limited data sets. More often than not, an AI will simply memorize test data rather than "learning".

This impacts the benchmarking process, so I think it's relevant.
I’m currently working with a number of folks to fork a wiki off of Fandom.

Forking the content itself is easy but good luck beating Fandom on a search page.
>could still prove to the registrar

Sure and if he had a multisig wallet he would still have his coins.

The equivalency is that he did none of these things.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redshift_(software)

Also, zooming the websites (can't comfortably read HN below 150%).
You get downvotes, but I laughed.
Bill Gates worked with xerox and apple and used corporate espionage to steal GUI and the mouse from apple and xerox respectively. Then Gates himself ordered his company to steal netscape navigator's technology. Billy has always been a greedy PoS. Gates was my hero until I watched his taped deposition and saw he was a lying snake.
So Amazon is becoming the CHOAM Company from Dune?
I started seeing this trend about a few years back. Whenever I start to use or make a choice for the team, one of the Questions I always ask are;

- “Can I walk out of this with my content/data and move elsewhere?”

- “Do I really need the data/content when I want to move out?”

And I try to stay as closer to the ones where I can move our fast without heartbreaks. There was a good gesture in the industry for OGs, "grandfathered" and could use the same thing for many many years to come. These days, they don't even care.
There is no measurement for T cell immunity though. So you're pointing to something that can't be quantified and that's not scientific. The vaccine trials were deemed a success due to high levels of neutralizing antibodies. This seems to prove that was a mistake.
I'm not sure the sunglasses approach makes sense, unless you live near the equator. For me, I try to get as much sun light exposure into my eyes during the day (especially in the morning), to help set my circadian clock. I will sometimes use sunglasses at night towards bedtime.
That's a fact. I have a wallet from 2014 where I occasionally ordered sushi or Raspberry Pi stuff (on pi-hut) from, every time the amount left after ordering something grew again and I could buy/order something else. Pretty shocking to see what I paid for the earliest RPi's and Sushi back in the day, with the current rate.
The Chickenshit Club everyone
Not the parent, but my thought is, and their comment seems to suggest, that the sheer density of exciting, new, and groundbreaking CS work is an absolutely energizing thing to read about.
Its not very different from the Flash crash, in 2015 an independent trainer named Navinder Singh Sarao was sued for manipulating the market, he was creating a lot of orders and cancelling them tricking the flash trading computers to push up the prices, he made around 45 million in the process while living in his parent house. In 2020 he was convicted with a year of confinement at home, no jail time, and a trading ban.

So yeah also not the biggest punishment, but more then what these bankers got, they are still allowed to trade and no confinement.

Whether he was the only one to do it and whether he was the main cause of crash is not clear, but at least he had a part.

I personally feel like if you allow flash trading to have such an advantage over investors without those means it shouldn't be illegal to exploit it, but anyway.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_flash_crash
If Amazon was able to compete with Walmart and push them out, then isn't competition working and why do you think we needed the Government to intervene? One day someone else will push Amazon out.
Quite baffling there is no AirTag app for Android. Apart from that the software feature to alert somebody should have been added as a #1 priority as something like this is a stalker's or thief's dream come true.
If you have mining rigs that you use for load balancing your electric network, wouldn't you want to run them 24/7? Especially because of your upfront capital costs for buying the mining rigs.

Would be cool though if a day with little wind would make for a perfect time to do a 50% attack.
Ask HN: Obtaining support for (paid) AWS services that are not working?
What is the best way to resolve issues with AWS services that are not working properly?

I am asking this question in general, though I am motivated by my following (hopefully representative) problem.

I've been trying to obtain a domain authorization code from AWS in order to transfer to a new domain registrar. However, requesting such a code just returns the error

"Sorry, but an unexpected error has occurred while getting your auth code. Please retry again..."

This error has lasted for over a month. I've posted on the AWS forum [1], and there was no resolution though some other commenters expressed having the same issue.

Of course, since I am not paying for an AWS service plan, I don't expect dedicated customer support. However, the service provided is not meeting the basic requirements. In fact, since I cannot obtain the authorization code, I cannot even transfer the domain to another registrar (which is the other response to an unsatisfactory product!)

[1] https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=347652
Then why are people who look at leaked Windows source code not allowed to contribute to Wine or ReactOS?
No it’s fine. You’re just getting and tired of the churn. Most changes are good and welcome imho (30 y/o software dev tho, not a PM [thank god]).
plenty countries have given out warnings and adapted vaccination protocols because of this already, so I'm not sure what you are talking about?
the challenge I've always seen with putting the user hat on on so to speak is the difficulty in behaving as though you don't know how it works. I've seen enough user research where things that were obvious to the tram were not at all to the user.
Eugene Obrezkov made it really cool: 4 languages, 50 solved challenges (at the moment of writing), the detailed Russian explanation on Telegram (https://t.me/wild_wild_web)

I really like that there are resources like that. It improves the TypeScript knowledge and make people dig into details
Ask HN: Why is the gaming industry resistant to automated tests?
I work at bigcorp working on applications built on top of kubernetes/public cloud as the target platform. One thing I’ve been impressed by at work is how writing automated tests is paramount. The “Growing Software guided by Tests,” “Unit Testing: principles and practices,” and other media/books are recommended by engineers to help others get up to speed writing good tests and good software. What is a good test, and what is a waste of time to test? This is a constant discussion and I love it.

As a hobby, I write video games because why not. One thing I’ve noticed is how different attitudes are on automated testing. It’s highly discouraged because ‘games don’t lend themselves to being tested’ apparently. It’s just as amazing to see how resistant this slice of the overall IT industry is to something the rest of the industry has considered very good.

This culminates for me in two anecdotes.

First, trying to find out what a good test looks like for video games is very, very, very challenging. There aren’t content creators noodling on or presenting findings on this subject. Not many articles, not many videos, not much content describing good tests. If there are industry veterans who do testing right, they seem to be keeping that information far, far away from the public. Perhaps even they see this as a market differentiator? My experience leads me to think this is something very few explore, and even fewer share.

Second: Unity put together a thing in Fall of 2020 called “open game project” where the idea was to create an open source game as a community. The game, now called “chop chop,” has a series of YouTube livestreams where the Unity devs discuss the project. The super interesting thing to me is that within 72 hours of project start, someone put together a PR to try and introduce tests. A Unity forum thread was referenced where discussion occurred. When I read through the discussion, I got the sense that the Unity devs did not want tests in the project. “Too early,” “too complex,” and other blockers existed at that time, apparently. Fast forward to the project end— still no tests.

Why is the gaming industry so resistant to automated tests, especially when compared with the overall IT industry?
What about PrivacyBadger and Disconnect? Are they even needed at this point?

I have a PiHole with a fairly huge block list (~1.2M entries) and uBlock Origin and I keep wondering if I stay only with them, will it be enough?
I do not think WhatsApp is very polished. It does not have a desktop client and when you use the web client you get an annoying notification on your phone which you can't dismiss. Additionally it is quite hard to find things in the preferences and there is no way that toI know of to copy a phone number from a group chat without adding that person to your contacts.

On level of polish I would say WhatsApp and Element are the same (i.e. rough) while Discord is more polished. I do not like Discord and their business but they have created one of very few polished chat clients.
In tracing my family tree, I found a branch that went back to a small town in Scotland, and at least 3-4 generations back were shoemakers. When did my forefather leave the family trade? Circa 1850, when the Industrial Revolution apparently hit shoemaking hard.

He ended up keeper of a coffee shop in Glasgow, and his daughter was on a ship to Australia in 1891.
The sticking plaster for this is .. in progress :/

https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-....
It was always fun seeing the traffic spikes during large game updates though
Indeed surprisingly, cannabis can have bad effects on human.
This has been taken I to account in a French case where murder of an old lady was declared not responsible due to its cannabis consumption.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-56929040
Seeing the bitcoin sitting still on his address is a matter of looking up the UTXO.

Confirming the address really belongs to him is probably doable by talking to the few people in the community back then.
Works for EC2 but not RDS.
That's an interesting point of view, and a paranoid person would question the true motives of such a person in that org: were they in for the collective ? For personal gains ? Working as an agent for a third-party ?

> I asked, "Why are we on Facebook? These guys are completely against us!" and everyone looked patronizingly at the old guy and said, "We need to get our message across in every platform!"

This is actually a point I totally agree with: you have to talk to people where they are, especially when they don't already agree with you. But in my opinion it sends a wrong image and such orgs should use Libre Software and decentralized networks first, and only on top of that use FB/Twitter as a copy-paste of the main platforms.

There's a very important step to do that is to categorize who your target is. Basically it's a bunch of concentric rings: those who agree with you, then those who are questioning and need a bit of information, then those who aren't thinking about the subject yet... you have to convince those around you, who will convince those around them, and on and on. In that vein, sticking to decentralized platforms first and gradually growing makes a lot of sense
Keeping lots of photos is easier than whittling them down to some percentage subset.
Before SAAS (all the products you mention?), people could reject changes by refusing to update to the next version - see Windows Vista. Now that feedback mechanism has been lost, so there's less of a handbrake on developers pushing forward too fast.

Maybe the pendulum will swing back towards self hosted/installed apps. Alternatively maybe there's a good business model cloning the "good old version" of popular SAAS apps and keeping them unchanging.
There's an opportunity here. Put the video on both YouTube and a blockchain, make it easy to find on the latter via the YouTube URI, then when one discovers a non-working link you YouTube you can pivot to the blockchain-based backup. Once enough people know about this hack it then, with a browser plug-in, censorship be gone!

This is obviously off-the-cuff, undetailed thinking here, but an approach like this might make sense in the future.
> * I just tried Chrome after jumping on FireFox bandwagon 2 years ago and honestly, I was not impressed. Chrome feels “jittery” while Firefox feels “snappy”. It’s the way a page loads. Hard to describe.*

I am on a pretty powerful Mac and it's exactly the opposite, sadly. Firefox just... stutters. When downloading pages, when interacting with pages, it's there and it's super annoying.

Chrome in the meantime is just absolutely instant no matter what I do.

Doesn't help me wanting to stick with Firefox. :(
They apparently have a huge turnover rate which is why they invest in a “smooth” onboarding.

> According to data analysed by the Times, Amazon was losing “about 3% of its hourly associates each week”, translating to an annual employee turnover of roughly 150% per year.

They already re-employ people who had previously left. Eventually they’ll run out of people willing to take the jobs if they just focus on on-boarding efficiency rather than working conditions people don’t hate.
I prefer Mailcow. Mail-in-a-box requires the machine to be running a specific version of Ubuntu. Mailcow runs under Docker https://mailcow.email/
For the most part, Amazon does what they say they do. Sure, they have their problems with fraud, counterfeits and reviews, but at least they don't start a marketing campaign "we have the most honest reviews of all web shops".

That doesn't necessarily mean everyone loves them, being trustworthy is only one aspect of likability. You can like the results and communication without approving of the means.
Whatsapp is just signal 10 years from now, I'd rather move the world to something not controlled by one company like XMPP.
I have a slightly unrelated question and I'm in need of advice:

I'm about to work on a grant, with another PI at University of Sydney for a project we've worked on for four years. This grant is to advance our mission of building software system for supporting personalized bacteriophage therapy. Essentially, we're building software to make personalized therapy possible in this space, so we're building something critical for the project.

We're building the software to get funding to "phase 2" which is 50x (8 figures) the amount of money the grant's already received. Currently we're employed on the project as contract researchers, but we (and our PI) wants us there in Australia in person. Since we're based in the US/Can, we need to get work visas, which require us to be employed by the grant directly.

My question is: we have to sign employment agreements for the university, and our contracts look very much like the "we'll take everything you own, including your ideas you came up with in your shower at your own home" kind of contracts. We've already pushed back and laid out our position — we want to be able to continue building this project past the length of employment and past Phase 2, whether we get it or not. I don't really care if they get full, perpetual license to whatever I create there; it's most likely going to be OSS anyway. I just don't want them to prevent us from using it or OSS-ing it in the future.

Has anyone else dealt with universities and institutions in this manner? Do they usually operate like companies in this way?
You know I hate this. The fact that they will autoplay videos with the sound off with the hope I'll turn it on is non-consensual data use. I get 0 benefit from watching some talking head with no sound, so why do you need to start loading and playing the video before I've consented to watch it? I live in an area where data is often slow, metered/throttled/capped. Please stop WASTING users data. It's not a free and never-ending resource.
there’s not a lot of evidence that blue light filters do anything in terms of eye health (but i’m glad it’s working for you anyway!)
I've used Wokrave for many years which forces me to take regular breaks. Sometimes it can be annoying when it interrupts your flow, but as far as I'm concerned my eyes are worth a bit of annoyance.

https://workrave.en.softonic.com/
Another big open source DB I'd like to hear about more often is Firebird (https://firebirdsql.org/) which was forked from the Interbase code released by Borland (don't remember how they were called at the time). Four choices of connection model (process-by-connection, thread-by-connection, some weird mix, and in-process), full ANSI SQL, runs on all major platforms, and uses single file databases. Seems to be the best of SQLite (inmem, single file), MySQL (lots of connections fast) and Postgres (standard, robust) to me, in a single package. But for whatever reason it seems to be completely off the radar on HN...
What competition? The whole point is that they are crushing the competition, rendering themselves inescapable. That's not at all good for the consumer. The logical endpoint of this kind of horizontal domination and vertical integration is the classic dystopian trope of "The Corporation" controlling every aspect of life.

(Which is literally a thing that has already happened, by the way - the East India Company being the classic example. It was simply called "The Company", had its own flag and military, and completely ruled India.)
Zig is very much a performance language, so it would make sense to track that metric from the get go (haha).
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29451211
Discussion from yesterday.
Reminds me of my time at google.

There was a lesson in the new employee training on sexual harassment (for sales people, but still a general lesson) - don't bring a client to a strip club.
A higher up sales manager had actually done this in the london office and it was posted on memegen, and mentioned that this was literally in the employee manual. Lesson: be a manager.

Lesson: be a bank. The more corrupt, the better (HSBC). Until another Hitler comes along and does something about it.
Yeah, I think you could do this project for tens of millions and have a 20% chance of finding it intact, and you could argue those numbers are conservative. All assuming everything is as described in the article.

Here's an account [0] of a single diamond mine that processes 60,000 tons of material every day, of which 10,000 tons is ore that needs to be examined closely enough to find diamonds.

The article talks about excavating a 250m x 250m x 15m volume, approximately 1 million tons. Even if all of that is potential "ore" - which I doubt - that's a hundred days for the diamond mine.

The diamond miners have different economies of scale and different environmental concerns, but I think it's a good starting point.

[0] https://www.businessinsider.com/diamond-mine-siberia-russia-...
About other resources, I also write about TypeScript solution here – https://blog.beraliv.dev/2021-04-04-type-challenges

I didn't mean to complete with Eugene, just wanted to spread my knowledge in TypeScript and also explore the possibilities of TypeScript
I'm old enough to remember a time before every TV station had a logo/watermark at the bottom right. In my mind, the logos coincided with the early 80s when VCRs became more commonplace. I suppose stations that licensed shows/movies, didn't enjoy the fact that people could record that content and reuse it. So... logos.
Any suggestions for managing an advanced photo library locally with a concurrent Google Photos library to share with family?
Figures someone would mention laundering money.
> But total deaths will always be the same over x amount is time.

Can you elaborate? That does not make sense to me.
He's talking about the mass deception by crony-capitalists with hands on the controls of the us government. Acknowledgment of only one opinion of truth has been rather blatant here in the states.
I'm sure some lawyer someplace would tell you that by visiting the site you are consenting.
> My biggest annoyance with TiddlyWiki has been the ergonomics of saving.

I've tried to address this with https://tiddlyhost.com/ (and in the past with http://tiddlyspot.com/ ).
Most western countries and especially the press have a "can't say anything negative about the vaccine even if true because it will undermine it" approach.

Of course, they don't realize that it is exactly this attitude which fuels anti-vaxxer propaganda.
And naïve
I think there at least 3 things at play here:

#1) Software used to live on a disk you buy. That software doesn't change, until buy a new disk. Then it lived in apps, where you can update or not. Now often, it lives in the mythical cloud where changes can happen all the time.

Now, even on the disk front, things were always changing. Often for the better, sometimes for the worse. In the OS world Dos->Windows->Windows 95 were big changes, and the OS9->OSX change also huge! But now the changes are always.

#2) The entire software world is built on VC money. VC money is not looking for slow and sustainable growth. Or a happy userbase of 10k people. The VC world doesn't mind if 99 companies crash and burn trying to harvest the wind while building their sails if one takes off.

#3) Out of the VC/startup world, large companies must justify their existence and every team and every programmer on that team must justify theirs. No one ever stuck around by saying "everything is good, we literally don't need to do anything or acquire another customer, let's all cut out hours to 2 days a week, keep patching bugs and making security updates, be happy with our current level of subscriptions, and spend a bit of time in R&D to make sure we have other bait in the water too if for some reason our users stop liking this.
Fascism works! Yeah, Fascism!

And those now unemployed losers? Haha, fuck'em!
I never realized wikia was so closely connected to the wikimedia. I'm a bit shocked.
> The word gambling has a meaning.

I'm aware of that and I'm aware of the meaning. Which is why I used the word.

> People don't procure fiat currency primarily in order to profit from its change in value. They use it to engage in trading of goods and services.

This is exactly the definition of procuring something to use it to increase their own value. When someone receives a good or service they value that good or service higher than the fiat they are holding which is exactly the gamble they're taking by procuring the fiat.

> It's not. It's vastly inferior for the purpose of trading value for goods and services.

I guess I could say "no you're wrong" too, but that's not a fruitful argument

crypto is more fungible than fiat (fiat isn't global and doesn't have global access to exchanging for other fiats, even)

crypto is more durable, fiat is easily destroyed

crypto is more portable, I can take literally billions of USD worth of crypto across borders and spend every single penny of it instantly. You couldn't even begin to hope to have that kind of portability of fiat.

crypto as a category is much more recognizable - there are _many_ different services that will guarantee the authenticity of a bitcoin transfer, while the fiat you're being paid in may very well be counterfeit.

finaly the property of stability - fiat wins here, for now.
or just odysee
Perhaps the ranking may be also influenced by reporting requirements.

According to the article, the shoemakers were organized in guilds, so possibly this would standardize the reporting to the city gov.
All that does is create a "get free $100" button for Google.
One advantage of PosgreSQL's design is that you cannot about a query which shell tools. Which has been helpful to me on occasion, although as measure of last resort.