skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also find comfort in the idea of becoming food after we die. I remember reading somewhere how a beached whale in the arctic can be a life-saving windfall for the scavengers there. Helped me see the positive in something I’d always seen as purely tragic.
>> As long as you familiarize yourself with the mechanisms (dkim, dmarc, spf, etc.) and have a mail-tester.com 10/10 score and sometimes look at mxtoolbox, it is absolutely doable.

This sentence should be read closely if you're considering running your own mail server. Each point listed is a sophisticated technical topic.
I used to listen to the whole of Today on BBC Radio 4, every day. Plus Any Questions and watch Question Time, News Night etc on the TV.

I quit, and now other than a 5 minute scan of the BBC News Website occasionally, I am news free. I know the important stuff, such as the ending of Covid restrictions in the UK and the invasion of provinces in Ukraine, but I don't dive deeply into the articles, or do any wider reading.

The reason for my switching off from the news, is that there is bugger all I can do about it, other than voting once every five years, or becoming an activist.

I don't have the time or energy to campaign as an activist on issues I care about. I have a family to look after and a job to maintain. My priorities are selfish.

Voting for me, is a waste of time (although I always do vote). I live in a Tory county, and my vote counts for nothing without proportional representation (which I voted for, but did not happen).

What's the point of digesting news. I learn stuff that mostly has little impact on my life, and when it does have an impact, there's nothing I can do about it.

My quality of life is certainly better since I cut back on digesting the news, in any form, other than this site.
And rather controversially require face recognition for login. Good idea in that having another secret only really you should own is good, poor execution in allowing a third party of collect and probably sell something so very personal. I'm glad they backed off.
Yeah people overestimate the costs of a lawyer to help navigate beaurocracy. $1000 bucks can get you really far.

They also underestimate the cost of trials, which is $100k+ for anything serious due to discovery.
Ask HN: Guidance on Web Scraping and Data Analysis
Hi HN,

I have two projects in mind, both require web scraping (to build a dataset) and data analysis (random forest).

Down the line I would like to automate everything, but for now my goal is to create a process (scripts and programs) that I can perform to get my analysis as needed.

I'm asking for guidance on getting started with web scraping and data analysis. I have a beginner level understanding of R-Programming, which seems to be a great choice for analysis.

I have zero experience with web scraping. I'm trying to decide between Python, VBS and Bash scripting. I have a little experience with all three.

I'm also thinking about getting some books and taking some online classes, any recommendations?

Thank you all in advance.

P.S. The projects have to do with stock market swing trading and weather patterns.
I've taken to having a Fedora 35 install on a bootable USB SSD. I don't prefer it for daily use (Ubuntu/Pop for me) but if I'm ever in doubt when debugging a suspected Framework issue I boot into Fedora 35 as that's the semi-official/supported distro and version.

Generally speaking I haven't found it to be any better than my Framework optimized PopOS 20.04 NVMe boot setup:

- Rock solid Intel wifi (mostly thanks to Pop providing kernel 5.15.15)

- Fingerprint reader works (custom fprintd/libfprint debs, kind of hacky but works)

- PipeWire PPA for better bluetooth audio support

- Suspend-then-hibernate for battery drain issues

- Probably some other stuff I'm forgetting ATM

- Quickemu

- Still basically Ubuntu LTS for the occasionally goofy/proprietary stuff I need to run requiring it
Here's a constitutional lawyer confirming this story:

https://twitter.com/ikwilson/status/1495841230315560962

Sorry but you are the one in the echo chamber.
No one needs more than 64 cores?
I learned that's not the case the hard way from the Ultimate Guitar app. Upsells at every corner, and a giant full-screen ad you have to reach up to the top of the screen and X out every time you open the app
>and this feels like something they would write

I was thinking it, just not brave enough to say it outright when I typed my response ;)
Housing prices doubled for many places on the US.
update: better link with a map, Lithium are those light green circles https://i.imgur.com/6JU7YS5.jpeg
I've been very anti-cryptocurrency/anti-blockchain for years now. I'm still skeptical of them (possibly more due to their current implementations and the fanboy-ism that surrounds them), but this absolutely convinced me that we need non-custodial financial instruments. (Maybe that isn't crypto/blockchain stuff, who knows. Physical cash is annoying to deal with, though.)

However, the problem is that you still need to convert this "uncontrollable" currency into fiat currency. At the very least, you need to pay your taxes. But if the governments decide that non-custodial currency is illegal, then everything from grocery stores to web hosts won't risk accepting anything but government-approved currency. Sure, we'll have black markets where people can convert things to fiat, but those will be expensive and risky.

So I still don't see blockchain as a savior here. If the government can give themselves the power to freeze people's custodial assets on a whim, they can also make it illegal to deal in bitcoin or whatever. And I'm skeptical that this is the kind of issue that can be boiled down into easy-to-understand bits in order to generate a lot of public support. Blockchain already has an image problem, being full of "bros" and undeserved millionaires/billionaires. Most people are not going to put their political support behind this without a huge shift.
Sometimes the slope actually is slippery, it's not always a fallacy.

Remember the PATRIOT Act? It recently prevented me from buying a package of decongestants at Walgreens. I guess keeping my nose clogged helped America fight Al Qaeda or something.

I think government overreach is basically the status quo. Or as the old saying goes, "The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy".
>The Iron Curtain of the 1940s and ‘50s - here is more as a metaphor.

>The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989.
I finished Planescape Torment one week ago. I was not frustrated by reading a lot of text because it was not stupid and casual. I had to read carefully to know how to solve quests and also I was really curious about main character background. So I guess the trick is to have primarly good story. And then nice UI. For me it was also enrichment to have multiple chices in answers that was not about beeng good or bad.
Not too likely. Did you ever experience a moment subjectivity stretched a thousand years? If no, why do you think there is a special mechanics for the event of system shutdown?

If anything, any sensation or thought requires energy. Experiencing 1000x or 100000x more sensations in the same space of time takes 1000x/100000x amount of energy, and it's not like your dying organism has hidden last reservoir of energy to power your brain activity.

Did I comfort you?
Exactly.

If Joyce could do whatever he wanted, what exactly did he want?
My browser based bookmarks are a far denser and more accessible collection of links than any of those links can manage, in presentation mode.

I maintain bookmarks across 3 browsers and account profiles and groom them regularly and archive them myself and wish browsers took bookmarks/favorites more seriously.
The main problem is the unwinding lock. Memory allocation is a bit unfortunate, too, but much less so.

Note that I am trying to fix the unwinding problem, I have submitted a patch to libunwind to eliminate the contention during unwinding:

https://reviews.llvm.org/D120243

It require application support, unfortunately, as there is currently no way that libunwind can figure out if a shared library has been added or removed. But if you are willing to indicate that from within the application the performance problem is mostly fixed. The memory allocation issue remains, but I can live with that. I cannot live with single threaded unwinding.
> If we stop fishing, we don’t need to use more land to grow more food

> we just need to shift consumption towards plants

Both terms are contradictory. Why are we still discussing basic reality facts?

Plants need land to grow. Lots of it.
There's nothing slippery slope-y about a political party freezing the bank accounts of the opponents that are protesting against its policies in the streets. Had this been happening in the countries we (meaning the West) don't like the press would have been up in arms about it, for obvious reasons.
> There's so many interrelated systems and potential things that can go wrong and the outcome is lost email

This is a common misconception. There really aren't that many moving pieces, and smtp is one of the more forgiving protocols in use on the internet (it's default failure mode is to retry again later)

Sure, a person can pay Amazon to host their email (and harvest their data) but that's the opposite of the spirit of this article.
The sleep then hibernate sounds promising. But is it something you need to configure yourself?
For non-tech news I only read from Reuters and AP, both are relatively neutral and objective.
I think he's missing one big endgame – becoming a [Co-]Founder.

The most risky of the bunch, and with the most variables outside of your control, but it IS there as an option, esp if you have relevant or prestigious experience as a senior IC or PM.

Come to think of it, it's something of a mix of all 3, Independent, Senior IC, Management.
I'm also concerned about the long term implications of using the Emergencies Act, particularly in the future when we have a majority parliament where attaching confidence wouldn't be as much of a mitigation. I'm okay with the use of it in this scenario since it's possible to connect the sources of money from foreign actors and some of the activities connected with the protests, particularly when the government committed to follow on with legislation that would serve the same function as what they're using in the act.

One comment about the article tho: Quoting Ezra Lavant immediately destroys the credibility of the author due to his obvious and direct connection to misinformation and over all general grift by attaching himself to right wing causes. There are lots of strong credible sources that could back up the argument of government overreach with the EA, but Ezra is not one of them.
The irony is that you're nitpicking on the mistakes, while being literally the person who ended one career and started a new one.

Do you know if your new career is a career to your retirement, post retirement or only for a few years?
Probably only a concern on low angle stuff, but yeah, one weekend I was repeating this traverse in the trees, trying to only lose like 20 feet over a longer distance, and it became very like, low speed technical. Take two nice powder turns, then head between those two trees, stay in existing tracks, duck branches and just try and make it so you don't have to unstrap and hike to the next incline. Skiers can definitely manage that better.
To replicate, please see the Time Series Benchmark Suite, which is open-source and has many vendor-contributed configurations:

- https://github.com/timescale/tsbs

- https://github.com/timescale/tsbs/blob/master/docs/timestrea...
Brah you can’t claim it’s “shameless propaganda” while also claiming there was no violence in ottawa
Show HN: Semantic question-answering for popular ML frameworks
The first time I remember adware was a winamp reverb plugin (Realreverb convolution) in the 90's. From then on it became increasingly more common. Fortunately it was also around that time I migrated most (all?) my tasks and needs to FLOSS. I fell very sorry for the people who just can't do the same.

Since it was so long ago, I even forget how problematic this is nowadays. The next barrier are ads in websites, which if the content is good, I really only care about the most intrusive ones. Nevertheless, I've been using ad-blockers for such a long time that when I see people browsing with ads it looks like another world to me.
> nicest moments

Some people are optimists.
I think it's fine to post personal opinions here, even speculation. I felt like this one was cynical, but not without precedent. Posting links to actions other governments have taken in the past would be nice, but it wouldn't prove the same thing would happen this time. So unless the counter-argument is "what you are saying might happen has never happened before, and could not conceivably happen now" then I don't think lack of support is damning either. Readers should take these rants with a healthy dose of salt, and those who won't probably don't care how they are presented anyway.
Feeding on anger so that readers engage with you seems to be one the principle ways modern media operates. They cover Trump because their viewers get mad which translates into clicks which translates into ad revenue. I think making people hate Trump and at the same time keep talking about Trump is the business strategy here.
Could you get color? The original Quickdraw APIs (from 128->Plus ROMs) all had library that supported a handful of primary colors, but I was never certain if there was any hardware (pre-Mac II) that could actually do anything with color.
Yes, however we are unanimously siked for framework.
If you want to go down that rabbit hole, you may want to (re)read Ken Thompson's Reflections on Trusting Trust at https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_Ref...
hold my beer:

nationwide all-day cell outage at German Telekom https://heise.de/-6518123
>If these cryptojackers were to mine Bitcoin or Ethereum, their transaction details would be open to the public, making it possible for law enforcement to track them down

That doesn't actually matter at all. Monero is used for these purposes probably just because it's mineable only on CPU, thus viable to mine on ordinary hardware. (Bitcoin requires ASIC and Ethereum high-end GPU)
Or Pinboard - https://pinboard.in/ - which can monitor your Twitter account, even locked accounts, and automatically bookmark and archive links there, and you can search the full text for archived links.

Using browser-based bookmarks would definitely be a step backwards for me. My phone, my tablet, my laptop and the multiple browsers I use there - it's much easier to know where I filed something this way, and find it again. Also, I prefer tags to folders.
My experience has been that people update old answers or add new answers so that old questions have current info.
Waiting for a 'Framework Surface'.

Modularity could be a big advantage for smaller companies - getting a decent system (cpu/ram etc), and a great screen in one package is enough of a challenge.

Add in touchpad, keyboard, hinges, etc, and it's no wonder only the premium large manufacturers seem able to pull off an all-round great machine.

Plus the tablet form-factor is just more versatile than a clamshell laptop.
This all madness started when Canadian government couldn't admit that with omicron vaccine mandates no longer make much sense. Even if they played some role previously, previous infection is functionally equivalent to vaccination. Most provinces had already implemented the plan to revoke them and many other countries are dropping them as well.

This proves again and again that when the government implements a policy that is not based on science, the outcomes are very very bad.
> the brain continues to work for a period after the heart stops

I had a sudden cardiac arrest (Ventricular Fibrillation). I felt dizzy and oriented for a few seconds (5?) after my heart stopped pumping blood and then I passed out. There was no life-flashing-before-my-eyes, no tunnels of light, just sudden dizziness and disorientation and then nothing. The next thing I remember was coming round in hospital.
In everyday parlance would you say "look at those ships" or "look at that fleet"?

That's all I'm trying to say. I didn't say the term was incorrect. I'm just stating that I have a hard time using the term as it just sounds pompous.
I've hesitated to ever attempt this because every residential ISP I've had refuses to offer static IP addresses.

As well, deploying a server in a Google/Amazon/Microsoft datacenter which could be surreptitiously monitored defeats the theoretical privacy aspects of on-premises mail server hosting inside one's personal residence.

However, today, I looked into the newish movement of 'confidential computing' in the cloud (where data in motion - e.g., in memory - is encrypted and cannot be observed from the OS or hypervisor).

I openly wonder if one solution, then, is to build a secure VM that acts as a simple forwarding proxy to one's home server, gets assigned a static IP from a datacenter, and is deployed on one of these confidential computing instances, ensuring full E2E data privacy and data control?

Any guesses?
> "If you allow bike lanes in our city, in a few years these bike commies will be trying to spend tax dollars on buying everyone bikes, and then make it illegal to drive your car in the road!"

strawman fallacy (or "whataboutism" if you prefer (I don't))
China wasn't really in a position to challenge Spain/USA/Japan on the ocean at the time so you can't really count that.
Cosmic Top Secret
Same here. I hate ID.me and their piece of crap system. Never managed to get it working after wasting so much time. Luckily, I don't _need it_, so at the end I just gave up and used different methods. Would hate it if I'm actually unemployed and had to use that terrible firm.
There are very few things, I've found, that I need to be informed of by an authority. I read whatever the CDC's latest guidelines are, I read some papers that have been replicated and thoroughly vetted, and blog posts. The people that I know that stay tapped into news either nationally or globally are almost always "concerned" with something. It's their topic of the day and leaks into their speech, attitudes, and values. I've previously phrased it as, "Sometimes I feel like I'm speaking to an RSS feed more than a friend. Maybe there's more to our friendship than my opinion on the latest social issue and whether it aligns with yours?" As a consequence, I rarely talk about news or current events with anyone. While my views may not be heard or represented much I'm at least not arguing over hegemony.
I'm surprised that they're not migrating customer games to the Xbox store considering Bethesda is a subsidiary of Microsoft.
As I understand it, Russia astroturfed an independence movement in Ukraine as a pretext to break off a chunk of it for themselves. The "Ukrainians" in these regions "declare independence" then Russia "recognizes their independence" and moves troops in to support that recognition. Eventually a "referendum" or something is held to accept Russia's generous offer to become a state/protectorate/whatever.
>Completely and utterly wrong assumption about me on your part.

Is it?

>There is a lesser evil, and that's the evil I unfortunately subscribe to. Wish there was a better way, but there isn't, so I'm stuck with what I got.

So, in a sense, by subscribing to a lesser of two evils idea, you're doing the same thing as "the other team is worse" (the thing I said).

It is what it is, negative partisanship does drive everything, and the first step to better politics is admitting we have a problem.
That's still a negative reason though. Profit is a positive reason.
> 2. Shiori: Save bookmarks, archive them or use it like pocket.

Thanks for the rec. I've been looking for a pocket alternative. Just a simple bookmark manager that can archive articles. Ideally a desktop app and work offline too. None of that self-hosting stuffs.

I will give Shiori a try.

edit: Never mind. This is not what I'm looking for.
> If your idea of political news is opinionated partisan coverage during elections, then you're doing it wrong.

But that’s the news. That’s what “following the news” means. The American media covers each federal election for, what, two years? Who except people who follow politics as a hobby will remember whatever “the news” was before that? (Sure, in more local elections things are bound to be better than that.)

And you already have to be savvy in order to distinguish the partisan coverage from things that are more substantial—you don’t know what you don’t know.

Whatever you are talking about is not on the topic of The News.
Adding to that once exceptions start being thrown, that ratio changes because the cost is so high. It's not hard for a service to reach a failure rate just high enough that it overwhelms the system.
I do the exact same thing for all of my new applications. Magic Link Auth is 10x easier then trying to store passwords. The added benefit for the user is they don't have to remember any more passwords besides their email password. Which is already used as a source of truth.
Ukraine aligned with the West may be a security issue for Russia only if Russia itself is not aligned with the West which it absolutely does not have to be.

If Russia did not get an ex-KGB absolute monarch traumatized by the fall of the Berlin wall, the country could've joined NATO by now. Pretending that this particular made up "national defense strategy" is the only one possible, is just caving in to the Putin's propaganda.

Even if Russia for some dumb reason chooses to be perpetually against the West even after the fall of communism, it does not mean that the West automatically becomes interested in invading Russia either. Even in this case the "national defense strategy" is just a cover-up for the unprovoked aggression.
that would be https://www.patreon.com/savelife_in_ua

(Ukrainian IT community already raised around $100k in a last few days)
That is not at all an example of slippery slope. That’s an example of bills being attached to other bills to increase their odds of getting passed. Different problem with different solutions. Has nothing to do and was never claimed to have anything to do with al Qaeda/terrorism/etc.
There are two different things here - the first is people not needing an elaborate solution because computers are fast and the second is that if someone does need a solution with less overhead, why is that difficult?

Values over time like audio is a one dimensional signal. Seeking is basic data structure stuff, filtering is basic signal stuff. There aren't going to be other dimensions like time, which makes the other values just other channels. If you need to combine dense values they can be not only filtered, but filtered into individual distributions.

People give abstract descriptions like you have here, but I'm just not seeing a difficult problem in all of this.
It seems pretty weird to try to equate an absurd scenario around bikes, to a situation where governments with track records of accumulating and abusing power might... accumulate and abuse more power. Asserting that "this time will be different" feels a bit naive, no?
> When it works, you go from awake to awake again in an instant

That's my thought as well. Last time I was put under anesthesia I tried hard to think about how I was feeling. I went from awake with my eyes open to opening my eyes. I thought my eyes were already open? There is just literally nothing between that span of time.

It's like that except you don't wake? But it lasted an instant. How can something that passes in an instant last for infinity? It makes my brain hurt.
"Java's checked exceptions are generally regarded as a mistake."

By people who do not want to believe that errors are part of a system's API and prefer to just write the happy path and let any exception kill the process. And who don't mind getting called at 2:00 am because a dependency buried deep in a subsystem threw an exception that you'd never heard of before.