skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Look at this guy over here "making mistakes" and "missing things in code review." What a fraud.

Btw, pointing to documentation and saying "see, it's documented!" Every time something has lame or broken or unexpected default behavior doesn't make it any less lame or broken or unexpected. Once you feel like you know how to use something, you aren't always checking the docs to get a refresher on the caveats. So tone it down with the accusations and the "helpful" links, everyone else has access to the same Google you do.
> but it's "hard" because the languages themselves do not have the capability to express the required metadata in any standard way.

Of course the languages don't. It's not a part of the language. If I build libfoo with -Dexclude_feature_bar which just drops 2 source modules from the library build, how can the language express that?

On Debian, you get the Ardour dependencies like this: apt-get build-dep ardour6
If your distro makes it hard than that, that's a distro problem.

Of course, the libraries Debian or any other distro will install when you do that are not the ones we use to build Ardour, because we have patches for several libraries that will never be accepted upstream but are necessary/useful/important for Ardour. You can't express that with the language either.
"Rotation", in the US. I've never heard "rota" as shorthand before. That's interesting!
Not remotely true. I learned this lesson the hard way a couple years ago while working on a program that did exactly that.
I wonder what time and cost a rebuild would have. Maybe half the original development costs?
It has been awhile since I used the GCP admin, but I am intimately familiar with how awful the Azure UI is... is it really better than GCP? I have never liked how Azure seems to be designed as if you're in a virtual machine or something. The horizontal scrolling is a mess.
The Syrian conflict, though deliberately obfuscated, was probably primarily a conflict between Russia-backed Iran and US-backed Saudi Arabia. Wahabism is an arm of the latter.
Appendix I: Indo-European Roots
For some reason I thought this would be an archive of things like the parsing html answer on stack overflow and similar. Guess I should probably log off for awhile.
I'm not here to be a Google apologist, but in the 10 or more years that I've used gmail, I don't think I've ever had an important email go to spam.
So not AWS, but internet outage in general in India?
Until last year, US and Europe was desperately trying to raise inflation. I do not remember any time in Turkish history when this was the case.

Anyways, current Turkish PPI is >50% (and it will only increase in coming months.). The real interest rate in Turkey is in far negative territory compared to US and EU, where they are desperate for inflation.
Which provider if you're willing to share?
And the most unverifiable scare tactic comment of this post award goes to...

Newborns with serious post-covid issues, eh? Do you have any proof whatsoever of this or your other claims or are we just taking your word on it.
uBlock is better, free, available in more regions, and you don’t have to login to your Google account to use it.
This is completely unrealistic. Effective continuous monitoring for animal to human transmission would never be cheap. In much of the developing world it's not even remotely feasible. Have you ever been to places like rural Mexico?

The virus is here to stay. Eradication is a total fantasy, just a distraction and waste of time.
The amount of people holding two remote jobs for more than a few months without burning out approaches zero pretty quickly.

In person positions are a magnet for people abusing the system by not being productive. People will feel justified to chit-chat as long as everyone can see them, they will organize meetings or volunteer work hours put on bakeathons. They will meet people in higher positions in these social settings and leverage their relationship for better position often with more success than someone productive.

Productive workers are seen as resources. Non productive social climbers will always leap over the productive.

Non-productive socializers remote or in person will always be holding you back.

The remote double job close to being burned out with no time for socializing is the least of your concerns if they even exist.
I think they're trying to mix HN with a Bloomberg Terminal style feel. Then do some aggregation of topics into the right bar? I can see this making sense if you have this pulled up and see a topic soar to the top of the pile on the right hand side?
Northeastern Syria (major agriculture/oil region) has been actively occupied by USA for the better part of a decade. Turkey occupies Northwestern Syria (Idlib) along with US-backed HTS.

Arguably the only reason Syria didn't collapse like Libya/Iraq is because Russia was there to balance against US interests.
WSJ's cheapest subscription appears to go up to nearly $500/yr after the intro offer.
I looked at it, and I'm uncomfortable with the fact I have to be logged in, so you know all my search results, know my exact identity (through the credit card) and can analyze them and store forever (you can say you don't do that, but you cannot prove it). At least with Google I can delete cookies, disable fingerprinting and use a VPN, and hope they don't have my search history. Furthermore, you are in US jurisdiction, so the government can request access to your data and you can never tell anybody about that.

What about a version of that where I pay a few cents for each search, using Lightning Network, for example?
happy holidays all, may you live long and prosperous
Another feed-curating algorithm!
Great question. I've thought hard about this. I originally built it to be online-first, thinking "you can add offline support later". This is the version that's demoed in the video on the Github - and is over a year old at this point. I abandoned this for multiple reasons:

1. Adding offline support is very nontrivial. It (may) influence your choice of DB and your data schema. This is a type of master-master replication, since the user is the master of their data, and this is quite painful in RDBMS-land. I'm avoiding having to migrate my schema to support offline sync.

2. There already exist solutions that are online-first. E.g. Quizlet, mochi.cards, remnote. I find all their tools for collaboration lacking, despite being online-first... which is surprising. They don't even support something as basic as commenting on a card. This blows my mind. Imagine Github without issues/discussions/pull requests.

3. Users have repeatedly told me that they prefer offline-first. This is probably due to them coming from Anki - a popular open source offline-first program. Anki is my real "competition" - not billion-dollar Quizlet.
For the cheap ones among us: https://archive.fo/PqVfZ
That's actual voters of course, a subset of how many people support a candidate or President in the US. The parent has no idea how many people support Erdogan (the claimed 50%), nobody does. It's just a guess in the wind (if it's 42% that's a massive difference from 54%, as to whether Erdogan remains standing). Like trying to guess how many Russians really support Putin's dictatorship. Getting honest answers on such questions is quite difficult, as is accurately polling in nations the size and complexity of eg the US, Russia or Turkey.
> lives destroyed

Hyperbole to sell austerity
> If I call write on a Writer, I expect it to write immediately.

But you can't know what "to write" actually means.

When you call write(2) on a POSIX system, what is it that you think happens immediately? Patterns of NVRAM storage are changed? Fluctuating voltage on a cat-5 cable wobbles a bit in response?

OK, maybe you can get away with saying "If I call write on a Writer I expect it to hand over the data to the kernel immediately", and that's somewhat reasonable. The problem is that such a design encourages beginner programmers to use unbuffered IO, which is generally the wrong thing to do.
I've always heard about technical debt at AWS, with thousand line functions everyone is terrified to touch, demotivated employees doing whatever it takes to close tickets without dealing with the root causes, and so on.

I presume that this rash of downtime is just the rickety structure inevitably creaking and breaking. It's probably too late now to fix things — dealing with legacy code requires patience, discipline, and understanding which the management of Amazon doesn't have. They'll just yell at people louder, and hold people "accountable" by punishing anyone where anything breaks.
I never ever want to hear people disparage DigitalOcean or Linode ever again. The "cloud" has now been objectively proven to be just as flakey.
Can you clarify more?
But hey, grandma gets to live another year now.

Who cares if the poor family never recovers after financial crisis.
I'm not saying we're doing well, but the bar for "greatest blunder in the history of public health policy" is pretty low, unfortunately:

https://www.ibtimes.com/scarred-life-canadas-uprooted-indige...
I think #1 is a super solid idea. I'd love to go beyond that— I'm familiar with the tech and love the satisfaction of a more DIY approach— but other end users preclude my doing so.

The author mentions quality in big email service but only passingly mentions what that encompasses. Smooth, responsive, well-worn, ceaselessly preened, and smoothed-over end-user UIs are important. Unfortunately, the open-source alternatives are comparatively rough.

(As a long-time developer and more recent designer, I write a lot of open-source code myself. I understand that these are complex and tedious problems to solve. However, without frank critique, "Open-Source Alternatives" will always be "Alternatives.")

Every interface I saw needed fundamental design work. My recent research showed 2+ decade old interface layouts w/new features just bolted on, visually complex toolbars, menus, and lists, little editing for views and controls, and comparatively unattractive designs(, which even if it doesn't matter to you, that doesn't invalidate its importance to others.) Even this crowd— people accustomed to configuring complex applications— lament the clunky interfaces.

To me, most open-source interfaces are like eating on a diet. Your sense of accomplishment offsets the discomfort... at least for a while. End-users, however, don't have or need, that holistic view of the service. To them, the interface IS the service. DIY/tech accomplishments are abstract and indirect factors, at most. For most, it's like eating on-diet, but someone else loses weight. Attractive alternatives make that unsustainable.

So the real hard part isn't technical— it's assembling an email stack where users don't feel deprived for having chosen it.

The solution is more collaboration between design and development expertise within the FOSS. If you have a position of authority in any FOSS projects, I implore you to be open-minded when presented with interface design ideas.

Happy to talk about productive ways to engage with designers and design feedback.
Not all but a select number of Joe Rogan podcasts with Sanjay Gupta and Jewel for example were very good.

Always Sunny in Philadelphia podcast (if you love the show)
Borrowing cost for both companies and individuals increased substantially this week. Yes, it is true.
Bunch of tabs idling should consume no CPU. Why would you expect it to be warm?
I'm honestly sick of seeing these posts. Every single post I've seen on HN, I have had no down time in EC2, S3, Workspaces, FSx for Windows, Directory Service, Console, etc.

Over 200 services, 86 availability zones and 26 regions. We might as well post every 5 minutes if we post every time something on AWS goes down. And yes AWS is more dependent on us-east-1 but one of the outrages posts was for a minor outage in us-west-1.
Freedom is seldom given. It usually has to be taken.
very cool! I once wrote a proposal (for a proposal) for a NASA/FAA SBIR phase I grant. we didnt end up submitting/competing based on mine. but it was a great experience.
I wonder how many are hosted on AWS and if that has any influence on whether they'd be willing to investigate.
If there is sufficiently competent investigative journalism going on, you wouldn't know it either way until a report was released.
If you're into business stories and analysis https://www.acquired.fm/ is amazing.
Some things are products. Some things are bits of infrastructure and agreed standards that products can run on top of, that can't necessarily be directly monetized and may be relatively open. The world is better for having both.

Something like a gossip protocol is definitely more like one of those infrastructure pieces in today's world.
It's not offensive, it's just not the appropriate tone for HN.
Happy holidays, with warm wishes for a good spin around the sun for all next year!

I like watching The Snowman this time of year, and the 1982 version with the original introduction is my favorite:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZE9KpobX9J8
Check out YouTube Vanced for Android or YouTube++ for iOS.

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That's only true if lessons are learned. If an outage happens and you do nothing to fix it (or worse, do something entirely too specific without fixing the real problem and thinking you've done it) the exact same problem will happen again and you'll get another opportunity to not learn the lesson.
I wrote and globally patented Automated Actor Replacement in Filmed Media, a fully automated visual effects based actor replacement and automated digital double creation pipeline. I started working on the idea in 2002, had it globally patented by 2008, with a startup team of Academy Award Oscar winners for VFX, the VFX Supervisor and VFX Producer from the talking animal film "Babe", with a custom built server cluster capable of 125K new, unique 3D digital doubles of real people per hour, and a rendering pipeline capable of 12x real time for video clips less than 1 minute in length.

However, I launched during the 2008 financial meltdown. The only serious investors I could gather would eventually realize the tech could be used to create Deep Fake Porn, which I refused to pursue. VCs thought the tech was science fiction and suspected fraud. (Remember, this was '08 - the term deepfake has 7 years before going mainstream.) Every film studio and music label I contacted, all already familiar with VFX technology, wanted to use the tech for promoting media products, but none wanted to invest to create a production scale studio (because they were familiar with the lack of VFX studio success stories). I got letters of intent from every studio & label to use the production system once a public scaled system was in place, but anyone willing to finance the studio insisted in also producing porn. Once again, I refused.

By 2015 I was personally bankrupt; I tried to pivot to making game characters of real people, so gamers could realistically be themselves or look like celebrities if they wanted. Previously, I'd been on the OS team of the first PlayStation. I know a lot of people in senior places in the game biz. Every game studio and publisher I met, except one, simply wanted the tech for free and refused negotiation. Managed a few clients, continually adding features, but never breaking even. My income was primarily from doing other startups financials, business plans, and software contracts. Towards the end of 2015 I sold the patents to escape bankruptcy, and took a job writing facial recognition software. I'd been principal engineer for that company through three generations of their enterprise FR system until last spring when I quit to return to school and deep dive on machine learning.

The twitter feed is all that is left for the public: https://twitter.com/3DAvatarStore/media
I still have all the tech, and I'm working with a new startup to bring all this back to life.
Agreed. Kinda makes you wonder why other communities haven’t been able to reproduce the level of quality and civility (I know HN is still far from perfect, but night and day vs. other platforms).

A great community to be a part of, and much appreciation to those that oversee and contribute to the high quality and respectful discussions.
That site just rubs me the wrong way.

“Nearsightedness Is Not An Illness” - of course it’s an illness, an illness is anything that impairs the normal function of your body. A heart stent is just a little tube, and I don’t see anybody arguing that’s not real medicine.

“…classify bits of clear curved plastic as 'prescriptions'” - just about anything can be prescribed. I’m not sure why lenses aren’t eligible.

“An unorthodox approach” - not really, most optometrists will happily talk to you about vision therapy if they think you’re overminused. The only thing unorthodox here is how large his claims are. Vision therapists would love to make claims this huge - but they don’t, because almost nobody will see deltas as big as what he’s describing.

He’s also being pretty misleading about how he’s citing those studies on the main page - while the quotes are there, the studies in general don’t support this idea that myopia is entirely lens induced and/or mental in origin.

Actually, the more I read the more crank-like this gets. Myopia being primarily down to the eyeball growing too long is extremely, extremely well supported by research. This guy rejects that on the basis of anecdote.
Really quickly went from 0 to 100 at the end there
As a counterpoint, HN is one of the first places I check if a big service seems to be down, because it usually shows up here before their status pages.
Merry Christmas and keep safe. Hopefully you will be able to travel a fun and rewarding path in the New Year.
Hopefully... the history of diseases before vaccines (polio, measles, smallpox, black plague, etc) doesn't exactly fill me with a lot of hope for it just becoming less deadly naturally, even if there are examples (Spanish flu) where they have.
Isolating yourself from the world's largest economy isn't a winning economic policy.
Invidious lets you watch youtube videos without using Youtube. It even lets you subscribe to channels, and import your subscriptions from Youtube.

Theres an app for Android and Win/Mac/Linux called Freetube that uses Invidious.

There are a lot of free Invidious instances out there. You can also self host one if you want.

Use it! And if you can, donate to one of the public Invidious instances.
Trisquel is based on Ubuntu like other operating systems (Linux Mint, Pop!_OS, Zorin OS, etc.) but they do something unique - they rebuild the Ubuntu packages from source, instead of just including the Ubuntu repos in their software sources.

Trisquel is quite a usable distro for laptops that are 3-4 years old if you have an appropriate wireless card - Atheros 9xxx series cards tend to work well as the ath9k driver is FOSS. That's really the only blocker most people encounter. Why run this over Debian Stable (without adding "non-free" sources) I couldn't tell you. Debian tends to be more up to date than Trisquel since it's usually based on the previous Ubuntu LTS.
You can now compile Swift code on VS Code
There is no AWS outage, just routing issues with shit asian ISPs affecting connectivity to many providers. Amazon has nothing whatsoever to do with this.

Imagine Comcast or Verizon fucking up their configs, you might not be able to access AWS stuff but that doesn’t mean that AWS is down.

But hey, the real story wouldn’t make the front page, so lets just stick to the fabricated narrative.
It's in podcast form, as well. I just searched for the name of the book in Pocket Casts and the author is listed as Loyal Books. Going to give it a try on my walk today. Thank you!
the same thing applies to vegetarians. Smart and effective vegetarians who want to promote vegetarianism don't fill a balloon with red paint and throw it at someone while screaming 'meat is murder!', they convince people to cut down their consumption, promote alternatives that ordinary people can deal with, and as a result get 50% of what they want to a hundred times as many people, which is more than 100% of nothing.

That's the difference between ideologues and people who actually care about the values they promote rather than people who aggrandize themselves.
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You are correct. What many here don't realize is that the current financial system is directly tied to the wimps and wants of the USA.

Speculation abounds at Wall Street, London stock exchange and other western financial institutions. They are the ones dictating the price of money, the exchange rates and asset bubbles. They have the power to financialy attack any country in the world that does trade in US dollars and euros (almost all countries in the world). As we can see, even their "allies" are not spared.
Anyone deploying to production Christmas eve, or even the week of Christmas, should have to get direct approval from the CTO of the company to do so. Just a terrible, terrible idea.
Personally my main celebration is Perihelion but I will allow myself a quiet drink on Xmas day. Happy Astro event / Xmas everyone!
I fail to see how the US is funding the Saudis. Arming, maybe. Funding? Not so much.
It's really not - just by having more hardware available (at higher total expenses) doesn't make the pool of money available (public research funding) to book time on these things more. These things are one-off, you build a new one if you expect 10x improvement over the old one.

We don't need a fleet of X1 to break the sound barrier for the first time. We do need many Airbus/Boeings to fly people and stuff from A to B.

Note that that is the case with the unique research hardware you cite as well - we're not sending another Spirit/Opportunity, but have graduated to something else.

Soyuz is a different use case, as there is an economic demand to be filled - that's why a private company like SpaceX is in that sector with its Dragon. On the other hand, you don't see SpaceX cranking out Spirits or JWSTs or Washington Monuments.