skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm the PMT for this project in the EFS team. The "flip the switch" part was indeed one of the harder parts to get right. Happy to share some limited details. The performance improvement builds on a distributed consistent cache. You can enable such a cache in multiple steps. First you deploy the software across the entire stack that supports the caching protocol but it's disabled by configuration. Then you turn it for the multiple components that are involved in the right order. Another thing that was hard to get right was to ensure that there are no performance regressions due to the consistency protocol.

Shameless plug, only one I promise. If you think this is cool, we are hiring for multiple PMT and SDE positions, which can be fully remote at the Sr. level and above. DM me for details, see [1], or see amazon.jobs and search for EFS.

[1] https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/1935130/senior-software-deve...

EDIT: public link
No matter? Uhm. Well. What about thinking of the media as the public-relations branch/chearleaders of "them/Deep-State/Whatever-Complex", drumming for support of the feeble sheeples, which can only say *Baa, baa, baa!" to anything that comes down the line, because they have been indoctrinated with shocks that there is no alternative to learned helplessness?
Back in the 1990s, on old Macs, when Netscape crashed, it crashed with a "type 11" error which brought down the whole system. (I remember Word had autosave... I don't know when it first appeared, though.)
Slashdot's mod points award system had pretty good noise rejection, but it too eventually succumbed to the dumbening.
If you don’t have the legal expertise or the time to read a contract you hire a lawyer to have him see if the contract is reasonable, or you don’t sign it.
Agreed with the sentiment that there are different kinds of clients/opportunities and sales cycles. However the idea specifically in ABC is the 'close'. 'Closing' is the act of securing payment from an entity. I've seen a lot of 'sales guys' who talk about how hard they're selling. But ultimately getting the money into your bank account is the real goal. Everything else is derivative.
Hired a business consultant. Built systems for sales, marketing, etc. Had real goals. Everything about growing a business is hard. The easier part was the actual consulting work. Still hard. We sold after building for 9 years with a good exit.
Drawing talent ?
But, didn't it (the actions of BLM/antifa) have a negative effect on public opinion?
SpaceX is spending plenty of taxpayer money. They have significant contracts from NASA.
Well, the phenomenon is real enough, but I'd go as far as to say that's just lousy managers, rather than extrovert ones.
> Deleted Facebook in 2013 and lost access to my Quora account, with no possible way to recover it.

Did the same but lost my Spotify account. Needless to say, but I haven’t used Spotify since then..
As a general statement I agree, but there can be exceptions.

I absolutely don’t believe any of the exception I would list actually apply in this case — and even if I did I would still apply the “arrest people who break the law” part because of how fundamentally important I regard rule of law — but there are some occasions (most civil rights battles, wars for independence) where facing a conviction is worth it because the system won’t even take you seriously otherwise.
My domain registrar provides free, simple mail hosting with a domain - maybe yours does too?
yeah, we really need a decentralized identity service.
You missed that part
>Texas sued Facebook parent company Meta for exploiting the biometric data of millions of people in the state - including those who used the platform and those who did not.

No contract, no TOS, no consent.
I have had Fastmail pull from Gmail for about 10 years just in case I need to log into a website I haven't logged into for ages. It just works. My gmail is abandoned save for the occasional password reset which flows through Gmail to Fastmail.
A couple of years ago I set up a mail server with my domain to forward everything to gmail. I now give everyone these addresses instead of my underlying gmail one. Yes, Google can still suspend my account for any number of reasons with little to no recourse. But this way I retain the ownership of the front door. If Google does do that, I can reconfigure my server to store incoming mail or to forward it somewhere else.

Social login is more complicated. I usually set up multiple different social logins for every account to make it more redundant against this sort of thing.
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> Is it controversial to state that defensive programming boils down to "more validation is better"?

It is a straw man to take this as being intended to justify incorrect and useless validation.

If this is something to be decided by personal anecdote, I will just add mine: I haven't seen this, while I have seen many cases where validation has picked up subtle and edge-case errors.
I think for me it has been a couple things:

1. Focus: Adopting management by objectives and concentration exclusively on them

2. Hiring: Spending more time finding top talent through referrals and being more prepared for interviews
This sounds a lot more interesting than I was expecting. I assumed you just swapped to better network hardware. Will there be more info at some point?
This reminds me of a 10x-developer coworker at my previous company. Whenever more performance was needed from the system he would just say "sure, just give me a week to remove the sleep() calls from the code".
Which recent hack?

A news article shared in this thread suggested 51% came from Canada.

The foreign donations are small amounts spread across many donors.

It doesn't exactly appear like Uncle Vlad is sending them billions of rubles or something.
So you are ok with a system that is created to legally bind you to something you don't know and can be used against you later unless you take tremendous efforts to not be?

In that case, ok.

Most people are not, and it's reasonable.

In fact, it's terrible that we have to rely on lawyers because the law is so complicated you can't know or understand it all, just to live you regular life.

But TOS are even worst. Because they are asymmetrical. You don't get some right and some duty. Only duty for you, and rights for the other party, which is already economically and socially in a position of strength compared to you.

And no, it's not acceptable to tell people to accept that or live in a cave.

I don't have a google account attached to my android phone. This makes my life more difficult in all sort of ways, because society assumes more and more than I do.

So I'm just being punished because I don't want to give my life to a big corporation.

I understand people think it's BS. You should not have to do that.
Another thing Paul Graham wrote:

> Our startup spent its entire marketing budget on PR: at a time when we were assembling our own computers to save money, we were paying a PR firm $16,000 a month. And they were worth it.

http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
Doesn't matter for Meta.
That collect data even if you don't use FB and without having an account.
Are any of these generators open source?
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I’m learning Django for a personal project and I’ve followed the CBV because that’s what the resources I’m using pushed. Now I’m reading this thinking “ah crap” lol
Try to have fun, and it's not always about studying. Try to develop social camaraderie and connections. Find the thing that interests you and try to improve on it.
> I'm curious, what problem does it create for you, clicking a link you momentarily thought was to an external site before realising it's actually a discussion on this site? Honest question, you might have a good answer, I'm not trying to be rhetorical.

Good question. And my answer is probably that, as things stand, I'm not greatly inconvenienced by it.

My original post was motivated mainly by "that's not how it's done here". By internet standards, I think that HN does pretty well as a self-organising community. And part of that is a general, loose adherence to norms. To maintain that community, I think that sometimes it is necessary for its members to point-out those norms in a friendly way - without trying to police anyone's behaviour. Thats really all I was trying to do.

To me, an important part of HN's value is to direct me to external things. If the norms change so that a significant number of submissions are hosted directly on the site itself, then HN becomes a very different beast. Probably more inward looking, and maybe more like that other site that the guidelines tell us not to compare it to. I think that would be regrettable.

More practically, "Tell HN" and "Ask HN" are hints that the post is addressing the HN community rather than the entire net. That could be useful in deciding whether to read it. And, as a sibling comment mentions, those prefixes result in posts being added to certain lists.
Discrimination itself is not something that needs to be “solved.” Unjust discrimination, yes, for example instances where that discrimination actively harms, as first or second order effect, without sufficient remedy. But there are quite a few instances where discrimination is warranted, and just. For example, when recruiting for medical studies where the disease being studied is common in one race but not another; in acting, where the character being portrayed is of a particular race and that characteristic is essential to encoding that character’s motivations; in certain public interaction roles like therapy, community organizing, policing or public health outreach, where the target demographic is a traditionally underserved minority. The there are situations where the selection of an individual puts no others at any disadvantage, such as the selection of a Supreme Court judge. In those situations, there is neither justice nor injustice in racial discrimination: it is simply a matter of what set of experiences the President wishes to see on the bench.

All races of people are equal in there inherent value as individuals, but they are not equal in their experiences, situations, or needs. To deny the common experience of racial groups in order to optimize for “discrimination” is naive. Discrimination is not inherently unjust, it is a consequence of a universe which has finite resources in time, money, attention, and power.
> I'd like to ask you for advice on how to make the most out of the time during my studies

Go to professor's office hours. I was always so shocked when I showed up to office hours and I was the only one there almost every time. You can literally have 1-on-1 time with an expert and nobody takes advantage of it.

Another advantage of office hours is that you don't want to look like you're unprepared, so preparing some questions to ask is actually really good practice to hone in on what your gaps in knowledge are.
I am looking for an iPad app to read the articles offline as I’m traveling again now. Do you mind sharing what app you use for this?
Wouldn't this have been known already that you can't just endlessly patch the immune system? Why was it sold that way?
It seems like BLM is the new Godwin's Law of protesting. This is like inappropriately invoking the Holocaust.

BLM arose from several extrajudicial murders by police after a history of racism and mistreatment by the state. The trucker protest is essentially about commerce policy in an already very heavily regulated industry. It's hard to imagine other similar jobs where mandating your hours of sleep is discussed by a federal legislature (possibly international treaty too?).

The perspective is important because these are obviously not the same thing.
It seems that with these types of changes, I mean with more and more of the workforce working on schedules that don’t overlap, it is going to become more and more important for business software to run autonomously without anyone there to babysit it, but it seems to me we have been moving in precisely the opposite direction for some time now.

Specifically “doing agile” seems to encourage this, I always see lots of supporting infrastructure being skimped on so a new feature can be delivered faster, with some hand wavy plans to fix it in some future sprint.
> As they say: "Good programmer chooses the most powerful tool for the job, best programmer chooses the least powerful tool for the job". Also see [1].

I don't agree with this. For a network protocol, sure. But not for what Awk does.

Tim Berners Lee's argument (in the Wikipedia page) does not apply to Awk.

> Been universally available (as part of POSIX) and very compliant (language standard is almost unchanged for over 30 years now).

There's tons of incompatible dialects. I think that shows the problem with what you're saying.
... both Coinbase and Kraken are colluding to trade USDT at a rate other than fair market value

They may not be a party to any collusion. They may simply be powerless to prevent or affect it in any material way.

As the crypto market stands, the largest exchange in the world has access to unlimited crypto funds simply by minting more Tethers. At the same time, their trading volume alone gives them significant price influence over these same Tethers.

If they collude with enough other exchanges to control a substantial majority of the Tether market volume, any outlier exchanges (like Coinbase and Kraken) would just be along for the ride.
This is insanely cute, and posting WAV audio files on a website in 2000 strikes me as pretty sophisticated! Did you or someone else convert some older audio-playing mechanism to <audio> tags? I don't remember those existing back in 2000.

My two boys both have colds today, so the little-kid congestion in the recordings is extra adorable for me at the moment. Thanks for sharing.
I believe the general consensus of the informed is that Starship is going to take years longer than originally predicted. There's a history of this. Case in point: Falcon Heavy. It ended up being delayed so long that improvements in the Merlin engine greatly reduced the payloads that Falcon Heavy was originally built for to the point there are a couple of launches a year at best.

Musk does deserve a lot of credit for SpaceX. The Falcon 9 vehicle is arguably the most reliable launch system we've ever made [1]. It's cheap to produce and launch. It's even cheaper once you factor in reuse. Starlink will probably be a game changer for many (but it isn't yet). But that doesn't matter because Starlink is driving down launch costs (with reuse) and improving the Falcon 9 track record.

All of this for <$20B in investment, which is about the development cost of SLS. SLS hasn't even launched yet and will probably cost ~$1B/launch anyway. And it's not just an issue of throwing money at the problem. Blue Origin has had just as much money thrown at it and was founded years before SpaceX yet it still hasn't reached orbit and its BE-4 engines have been delayed years.

Starship is incredibly ambitious but if it doesn't reach orbit before 2025 I won't be surprised.

[1]: https://www.thespacetechie.com/falcon-9-the-most-loved-rocke...
It could be that the kids artwork is cuter than her dads artwork.
This is really great, your product website is excellent too.
I love it all. Cortex-M0, M3, M4, M7, and A7 all together span several full orders of magnitude in performance. Every one of them has their niche. Unfortunately for ARM, all of those designs are many years old and they are still nearly optimal in their niches. ARMv8-M parts are starting to show up, but they aren't exactly revolutionary compared to their predecessors.
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> I'm not going to start hosting my email server,

You don’t have to. I use Fastmail on my own domain. Purchasing domain is a one time hassle.
> Do we own our phone numbers, emails, handles, PO boxes, addresses?

I'd argue no, and that it should stay that way, and that it needs to become more apparent that we don't own those things.

Just because I am using a certain phone number today does not mean that I'll be using it tomorrow, or still have access to it. It should therefore not be used for identification, even less authorization. Hell, it shouldn't even be a requirement to have a phone number.
> Two days later, my google account was suspended. Apparently, my account was being used to send unwanted e-mails. Ha! I just became a spammer.

The issue is... if you see a mob/protest, Usually the police ask you to leave the place - allow them to take care of the issue. Even if your 'attempts' to resolve/negotiate/help people are very kind, the LE always says that is not your job.

Spam filtering is Google's job. Not yours.

It is possible quite a few people, marked your email as SPAM and therefore you got flagged.

This may sound like victim blaming but please do not take up these tasks unless you know what you are venturing into.

Even https://www.419eater.com/ advice is to stay away from these people (for safety).
The post you are responding too never used the term "uncomfortable" which is a pretty watered-down term to describe someone unable to get medical service because ambulances can't get through. Would you describe murder as "uncomfortable"?
I thought Ethanol has a very high octane rating (~110-120 RON) and therefore would reduce knocking compared to regular 85-95 RON fuels. I'm sure it has plenty of other problems though.
Namebase, a Handshake exchange and registry, has been acquired by Namecheap
I don't know about the details other than from your comment, but if true, that sounds like a scene from a satirical TV show. "We hid this flag in a place most people won't find it. Oh, you didn't find it and use it anyway? Fine, we're taking it away instead of making it more visible. There, that'll teach ya!"
I would like a search that show products that lasted 5 years, 7 years, 10 years
or something like that.

For most things that is a good endossement if it lasts that long.
Migrating to Zoho is super easy. Did it for 2 domains.
Mozilla is currently funded by Google but why are you assuming that a non-profit oriented Mozilla could not find other funding sources? All their past attemts seem to be about monetizing the browser but just like Google has been throwing cash at them there will be others whose motives are more alligned with Mozilla doing the same. As far as I am aware there is no way to donate to the development of Firefox and even if there was I and many others would not do so while Mozilla while the Google funding steers Mozilla's interests.

Would Mozilla be able to get as much without Google as they get from Google? Probably not, but if they do follow the suggestions of the OP then hopefully they would not need as much.
I vaguely remember a state trying that, and getting smacked by the federal government in retaliation.
Well I disagree but I understand your golden rule so I'll downvote you since this is the behavior you are requesting.
Please note that I don't want you to reciprocate. To me downvotes mean I posted something irrelevant or forgot to be polite.
I don't disagree with you, let's play devils advocate: To be fair to the companies, the amount of work to fight off bots and bad accounts is quite complicated, costly (both financially, quality of site, reputation wise) and similar to all kinds of frauds gets increasingly more challenging as the fraudsters improve their game. Add in managing the people who are purposely incendiary and not bots.

The amount of people getting caught up in the filter is likely quite small. Should they have a better system to get accounts re-activated? Probably - would make sense that they cast a wide net and then have a relatively easy way out for real individuals who can prove identify. Is that perfect? Heck no.
>> Social logins only carry your information and a token, and you can enter to your profile and add a password too (99% of the time).

I think the whole point is not having to create yet another password.

One solution to all of this is to have some kind of durable identity verification that the user controls and can use everywhere. There are serious challenges with that of course, which is why we don't have it yet.
This is the announcement of the news from Namebase side. The Namecheap announcement [1] was also on Twitter earlier.

[1] https://twitter.com/NamecheapCEO/status/1493273136376295424
A lot of different trends in technological stagnation can be traced back to Nixon. The book Where is my Flying Car? goes into this in depth
Apple cannot prevent competition from arising outright, just as RIM could not, just as Microsoft could not. That's my whole point. Antitrust itself is a violation of fundamental liberty. There doesn't need to be an authority that tells free people how to interact peacefully. This authority diminishes the liberty of the people subjected to it, regardless of whether it came to power democratically or otherwise.

Do you really think that failing some public intervention Apple will be around in a century, undiminished? If it is, wouldn't that mean it is continuing to provide valuable goods and services people want?

"Apple" does indeed refer to the actions of a group of individuals, simply because there are no other agents in the system. It's individuals making decisions all the way down. "Publicly traded" doesn't mean "public service".
Benefits of Virtualization: Guide to Advance Your Business
"Mod points award" is interesting. It basically incents the awardee to put quite a bit of thought behind their moderation decisions, but the flip side is that you get far fewer datapoints per comment. Perhaps there might be a way to use both systems concurrently.
Very long (close to unreadable) story about how I have lost few hundred bux on QuadrigaCX
Do you eat with chopsticks? Have you participated in a blood ritual? Do you even live north of the equator or do you represent the interests of another hemisphere entirely?

Are we just asking each other preposterous questions?!
Is there anything you find interesting? You mentioned game dev but there are different roles. Which part of game dev do you enjoy the most?

Anyway Carmack gave some advice about getting into AAA game studios in a 2009 interview. Solid advice I'd say.
Right, but the specs don't come from NASA before the thing is built.

The thing is built and then shopped to NASA as a possible launch platform.
> Why should these policies apply towards Apple and not other video game platforms

Agreed. Those platforms should be forced to open up as well.
Love it! Better looking than most corporate templated websites these days.
Does anyone have suggestions for a small scale (dozens of users) user management system that supports the LDAP protocol?

Currently I am self-hosting several web applications for the same userbase and just want them to have the same username and password for each app (SSO not required).

After much pain and confusion, I have an OpenLDAP instance functioning basically how I want, but it just feels like there must be a better way!
It's not owned by Okta (yet).
First line of the article:

>Texas sued Facebook parent company Meta for exploiting the biometric data of millions of people in the state - including those who used the platform and those who did not.

Some of us never accepted their TOS, but they still maintain profiles for us.
I got banned from /r/CanadaCoronavirus for saying "we are currently experimenting to learn how many boosters are needed. My rabies shots required 5 injections at specific intervals.".

They banned me for saying that vaccines are experimental.

I contacted the head mod and explained that I did not say and do not think the vaccines are "experimental".

They ignored my message for a week then upheld the ban, saying "the vaccines are not experimental". I guess it was my time to be shown the door and nothing I said after that mattered.

They are also the mod of /r/AskReddit and /r/Covid19
Rephrasing makes it clearer:

An open market where anyone is allowed to compete is better at organizing capital and labor to deliver a product/service than a single monopolist organization.