skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why are tech people always "embracing" things?

We embrace a lot of things but we particularly enjoy embracing evolutionary shifts, sea changes and modern workflows.

The call to embrace a new thing often comes from the people who made the thing. Embrace Doppler. It's not a complicated new dependency to think about. It just wants a hug.

Sometimes the request for embracement comes from the community. Embrace Rust. Embrace us. Group hug.

It's difficult to say you don't want to embrace something. It's not like saying you don't want to use it. Not wanting to use it is a dispassionate technical decision. Not wanting to embrace it, though; that's very cold of you. Were you not hugged as a child? Why won't you join the embrace?
Exactly. You get it 100%. We should work together.
Right. Or when you're introducing code to work around a known problem. Add a comment stating that it is a workaround, what problem it works around, when the problem is expected to be fixed, and, critically, how the reader can verify whether the problem exists anymore or not.

Make it easy to find out when it can be removed, in other words.
And this is why I put together a NAS for my home, which then backs up to a cloud provider, encrypted - and if that provider decides to play silly shenanigans I can just as easily colo another box and back up to that as well as any other cloud provider.

ZFS on Linux is stupidly easy to setup, something like URBackup for all your clients to backup onto the NAS and you've got a nice 1-2-3 (with 3 being offsite) backup scheme.
> Uyghurs, Palestine, or any media spectacle du jour.

The Uygurs are completely swept under the rug as well, because speaking up might impact cheap gadget imports.

Or where have you seen a Western company or news outlets publicly mentioning the Uyghur genocide?

I believe Intel made the mistake, and promptly apologized and vowed to never do it again.
Why does Google Drive perform such scans?

Is it because you might share the files with someone that they have to consider anything put on Google drive as being redistributed under copyright law, and thus subject to copyright restrictions?

Or is the very act of putting something in cloud storage considered redistribution under copyright law, even if the file is never shared and you are the only user?

A while ago, I backed up a bunch of my Mom's files from a failing computer of hers onto Google Drive. I didn't think anything of it at the time. If there are some copyrighted materials on there, is Google going to suddenly terminate my account after a retroactive scan?

I think very hard about copyright and ensure that I uphold copyright in all my public works — for example, there are licensing details at the end of all my slide presentations for all images. Having to apply such a level of care to every action I perform on Google services is bonkers.
Having moved to the UK from the US I have watched the Cadbury saga with amusement. As a well-travelled food snob I have known for decades that US chocolate (e.g. Hershey et al) is absolute shit. What I find hilarious is that people in the UK are quick to, rightly, point this out but then turn around and try to tell me that Cadbury is somehow 'good' chocolate. Now I get to see them moan that it has taken some dramatic turn for the worse after the takeover when at most it is a slight step down from an already low bar. Few Americans have access to good European chocolate so I can excuse their ignorance, but you can walk into a corner Tesco and get a bar of mid-grade German or Swiss for not much more than what is being paid for the mediocre Cadbury product...
Tech people should embrace rejection.
They fill the comment sections with spam to improve the ranking of a different site that they are linking to in the spam.
ASUS Zenfone 8 is probably the closest mainstream Android phone you’ll get. It’s 144mm tall.

https://www.asus.com/Mobile/Phones/ZenFone/Zenfone-8/
It doesn't matter how we all started, or how fast we got here, we're here now, in the same place, the adventure only stops, when you don't want to learn new things.
https://archive.md/vjftq
I'm not against idea of private property on Moon. As long as it is some kind of actual possession. That is you are using it for something, living, mining or just improved or fenced it with reasonable distance from such operation.
>I dunno maybe instead of being worried about deep fakes we should be worried that in 2022 people still believe it's possible to judge "trustworthiness" based on nothing more than a headshot. Where was this even published, the New England Journal of Phrenology?

I generally agree with your sentiment, but I don't believe this is an indication of progress for the most part. That is, we shouldn't necessarily trust that because it's the current year we should have been able to progress past the point of relying on intuition. Although I agree with you that relying on intuition is fraught with error, it's very innately human, and I wouldn't expect people to be able to "progress" past it.
You may also still be too close to it to realize some things you will later figure out with introspection/hindsight/some things not being apparent as having been a good or bad idea until a later age. And if it's your first kids you are also likely to overgeneralize what worked for your kids to a generic advice that works for everyone.
Who is the Incident Manager/specialist?
Exactly. You are the real MVP in this thread. We should team up.
The current alternative to me is a form of digital Epicureanism or digital Stoicism in the sense of intentionally not putting any effort into any kind of online digital presence or content creation.

I don't remember anyone being upset if they changed emails and started posting on usenet from a different email address. The discussion at hand was what was important.

People are ultimately causing themselves all this stress and worry over absolutely nothing. All these make believe missed opportunities if you don't put in all this effort to get one of the lottery tickets.
The Singapore government’s attitude is everyone has to contribute to the best of their abilities.

If you’re destitute, HDB will rent you a cheap 2 room apartment for $20/month. But you will have a roommate and you’ll be expected to pay your rent on time.

The universal healthcare is paid for out of employment contributions (heavily subsidized for low income folks) and each visit costs money. If you’re destitute you’ll get an even higher level of subsidy, but you’ll be expected to pay some token amount. Cant afford that? Appeal to the hospital which has a special fund which can help (after a thorough determination of your financial status).
This is a really important point - your own mental state is so crucial. Kids are hard, they can’t communicate well (or at all), and it’s the parent's job to figure out. It’s easy to get overwhelmed and consumed with emotions. Being ok with taking a break given everyone is safe helps rebuild energy and perspective.
Especially true for new parents - after the first you become more intuitive and understand the grind.
Mexican man arrested for sale of surveillance services
A Mexican man arrested for managing a company that facilitated the sale of spyware and advanced surveillance tools to organizations in the United States and Mexico.
Pretty sure the problem is some users have Google Drive's with GBs/TBs of pirated movies, etc, that are shared massively.

>Is it because you might share the files with someone that they have to consider anything put on Google drive as being redistributed under copyright law, and thus subject to copyright restrictions?

Yes
Funded by fake burgers and processed fake food :/
>bodyweight squats don't make you stronger

Complete nonsense.
I think async/await might have a place in Golang
Free as in serfdom, you don't own a thing, you have no right, your content can be deleted for any reason at any time without recourse.
Radical suggestion: People are responsible for the actions they take, and not the actions of others. If I pick up a machete and begin lopping limbs off Canadians, that's my bad, not Facebook's.
It’s an interesting read but I could tell right after the second paragraph that it was not written by a Hindu or an Indian. It is the most shallow understanding of ‘Ancient Indian Texts’.

Sadly, like other wide eyed white wanderers from the west, I’d wager that this author too would turn ‘Ancient Indian Texts’ into a hate cause with badly and deliberately mistranslated Sanskrit verses. Like Audrey Truschke and Wendy Doniger. Like enthusiastic short term rabid vegans who go back to steak and bubba’s bbq after three months of tofu immersion.

[..] Places like Athens and Alexandria, and the Silk Road cities of India and China, were idea-markets peddling possible ways to transform oneself.[..]

This highlighted quote was particularly cringe.
Sounds like a dream workplace similar to mine.
D&D character generators were fun to write. And remember those name generators? And you could make planet name & planet environment generators, and then solar system generators for Traveller. I threw together a really bad dungeon map designer thing when I bought once of the earliest mice you could get, with the roller ball inside the mouse that you had to take out and clean.
Yeah, but there are other languages that support the idea of there being many different ways to do something and also give you a lot of rope to either hang yourself or create "clever" solutions (this isn't a bad thing btw, besides Python I also really like Ruby too).

I think we should respect language creators to keep a clear vision on their language, this way the audience who uses it can either strongly love it or hate it. If you try to do everything and cater to everyone then you'll end up with a worse result IMO.

It's the same way with music. You wouldn't expect a deathcore band to release a country album because a small portion of folks were interested in that, it would alienate their true fans and would likely leave the band internally not liking that decision. If you want to listen to a different style of music then you can pick a different band or genre.
I used the typical GDAL tools -- gdalwarp, gdaldem, with some associated scripts of my own. I recall not using GDAL's image pyramid builder as I ran into some issues with wrapping at the int'l date line and in general wanted more fine-grained control over the process.

This could be rendered dynamically using the elevation tile services now available from mapbox, et al. I wanted to use Jon de Ferranti's dataset specifically though due to his commitment to uniform global quality.

An additional issue is since the color ramp is quite jagged, aliasing would be quite unsightly when zoomed out. You'd need a hefty amount of supersampling to get back the desired smoothness... not sure the tile services can support that easily.
Literally never seen instructions directing me to use an .env file; seems like a pretty weak straw-man to enable shilling yet another "startup serving other startups" unicorn wannabe.
Why is Ukraine such an economic failure?
do a bit of neck mobility drill on a daily basis
https://youtu.be/K4dmZ5_n6uU
This is one of the reasons I would like to learn more anthropology. It's a really powerful skill to observe how humans interact and then speculate creatively about what forgotten (or never fully understood) purposes the interactions fulfill.
I figured "Game-of-Life-like" would describe it best.
Embracing may be a buzzword but it's different from "using". It has the connotation that you don't merely try the thing, you try to fully adhere to its design, follow its ideologies, etc.
No web assembly?
Indeed. “Urban forest” is probably the best descriptor.

To give you a sense - Golden Gate Park in SF is 5km wide (East to West) which is 10% of the width of the entire island of Singapore.
Jester's Privilege
The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chronicles_of_Thomas_Cov...

Some people love it, some hate it.

Also by the same author, The Gap Cycle:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gap_Cycle
Szmch doctors reattach minor girl’s severed hand
Oh, I see: The fact that you can do that doesn't mean that anyone else could, it only means that you're so much better than anyone else. OK, thanks, gotcha, good to know.
>Why was there a NOOP in the table creation byte code?

I don't see the NOOP in the article, but you do see these in sqlite when they, for example, have a struct of opcodes do dual duty for something like open-for-reading and open-for writing, where the struct has this:

/* One of the following two instructions is replaced by an OP_Noop. */
{OP_OpenRead, 0, 0, 0}, /* 3: Open cursor 0 for reading */
{OP_OpenWrite, 0, 0, 0}, /* 4: Open cursor 0 for read/write */
Anecdotes are hardly useful in this one. Your reaction to Nicotine/Caffeine is probably unique.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substance_dependence#Psycholog...

Dependence on substances is really complex. Environment, genetic and your current situation matters a lot (unless you are taking Heroin, I guess).

Personally: I drink 4/6 coffees per day. Hardly any difference if I didn't drink. I usually drink coffee right before going to sleep too. For some people, it seems that coffee messes with their sleep cycle. For me, excess coffee gives me skin rashes.
I should've written more explicitly: bodyweight squats don't make people who harbor a decent level of fitness stronger. Like any novel stimulus, they will make you stronger for a short while and then it will stop once you've adapted.
Linux developers patch security holes faster than anyone else, says Google
Other people are the reason I don't go to the gym (I'll make an exception for colleagues at the work gym because I can expect them to be respectful). The ritual of going is a pain in the arse because that's time I don't have.

>You can't replicate the stimulation of the gym at home

What works for you doesn't work for other people, which seems to be the one thing in this thread that the typical HN denizen forgets.

Any exercise is good exercise. Cardio, which somehow seems to be a dirty word here, is vital to good health and longevity and is the sort of exercise that leaping around with a VR headset is geared towards (and if you doubt the efficacy of computer based training, there's an entire ecosystem of cyclists that would take issue with that).
People will lose their GPG/SSH keys. That would cause great havoc with thousands of projects being re-published under new names every year because their authors did not back up his ssh key.

The only proper way to handle that is to ask for national IDs, full names, document numbers. And in case of uncertainty ask photo with those docs and have human support to check it. Of course it should not be required, but just show some kind of "verified" label for those people, that might be enough to push people.
Lots about the problems with .env files but they forgot to write about how their product is better.
If you’re going to write a blog like this at least give some technical details on how your product solves the problem.
Thank all you parents for the work that you do raising the next generation. It must be soooo difficult.

When I read articles like this, I feel an intense anger and disgust for the children. I rationally know it’s not their fault; they’re helpless and didn’t choose this. When I have had to care for a child in distress, I don’t have the feeling. It’s only when I read about it or hear a neighbor’s child wailing. Maybe it reflects some neglect I experienced. Regardless, it is one of the many reasons I don’t have kids.

But anyway, thanks to those of you who can manage it. Somebody needs to raise the people who will be changing my diapers soon enough.
It’s amazing how much pressure first time parents can put on themselves. The number of expectations is insane and impossible, and makes an already stressful situation worse.

Our first was difficult as well and advice never really applied. As a baby heavy metal actually worked well, which horrified my mother - but it’s all about finding something that works to calm them.
Great closing sentiment, so I’ll paraphrase: it will be hard to love your child sometimes. Love them always, keep them safe, treat them well, and show them the beauty in the world. What seems hard will get easier.
> what makes me strong

How do you know what makes you strong? That is, how do you measure it?
Making a copy of a copyrighted work (duplication) is one of the fundamental actions that usually requires a license. It is difficult to find a way to take another action with the work without first duplicating it.
I've had success with numba speeding up code that worked on apache arrow returned by duckdb, which might just go into a rest api
Why aren’t you using higher-level memory safe languages for that? In C#, the runtime checks for integer overflow can be enabled with a single compiler switch. The switch is not set by default for some reason, but easy enough to enable manually, a single line in *.csproj file.

If you think GC performance is not good enough, see that proof of concept: https://github.com/Const-me/Vrmac/tree/master/VrmacVideo/Con... That C# code implements parser for Mpeg4 format. That format is way more complicated than GIF or even PDF, yet that code runs fine even on very slow computers (Raspberry Pi 4). There’s another similar one in that project for MKV format.
> That seems like a bunch of FUD. Do you think that the sites that do have ipv6 are spending any significant amount of time "dealing with stupid broken client configurations"?

Ask Google, Cloudflare or Akamai engineers (those who actually deal with IPv6 problems) and they'll probably answer somewhere between "it's harder in practice" to "why can't peering issues go away when they f**king interconnect on IPv4"? It's not that IPv6 is inherently problematic, actually it's a lot better theoretically, but in practice unless you are a large network which has the capability to connect to everywhere in world and sidestep peering issues like Google, Akamai, and Cloudflare, you will encounter problems immediately. This is not theoretical, you haven't seen the likes of OpenStreetMaps who are experiencing peering problems (https://github.com/openstreetmap/operations/issues/559), and not everyone can use US services which exposes them to risks like the CLOUD Act, which allows US law enforcement to access data anywhere as long as it is operated by US companies (most European companies for example).

The real problem of deploying IPv6 is that despite record-high prices of IPv4 addresses and the cost of CGNAT (both monentary and performance-wise), it's still cheaper to do IPv4 only rather than dealing with the hassles of running both IPv4 and IPv6. With IPv4, you can just pick a Tier-1 carrier and you're guaranteed to traverse the whole internet, at least those who didn't proactively blocked you. With IPv6, you are exposed to ugly Tier-1 fights like when Hurricane-Electric tried to interconnect to Cogent to no avail (https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/10/22/peer...), even trying to bake a cake à la Microsoft-Mozilla browser cake wars (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CObnXjmDtg), and even today it's still not resolved (https://www.theregister.com/2018/08/28/ipv6_peering_squabble...). Even Google is not spared with this interconnection woes: it's mitigated, sure, but there are still some parts of IPv6 internet that cannot reach Google, it's just those parts don't really use Google's services or have sane IPv4 interconnectivity (and to clarify, this isn't due to state-level blocking, those people just didn't realised that they don't have a path to Google via IPv6).

Also some internet services (some video streaming protocols for example) also use other services than HTTP and will actually need to adapt to IPv6, but this is a very small issue (because you can fix software easier than pettyness) than the peering issue described above.
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Instructions specify intramuscular injection, but how frequently are they aspirating to ensure that they haven't landed in a vein? Make sure they don't shoot it into a vein.

https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-19/info-by-product/modern...
The other problem with them, as opposed to config files that are merely read and loaded into memory, is that the data does get loaded into the process environment. Or at least it does in node. I make a point to revome them from environment where possible after the secret has been used.
> Are there other better things we could be doing instead with the amount of energy spent in these areas?

Yes, including literally nothing. We could stop wasting all that power on reinventing worse versions of what we already have and breathing new life into old scams.
Cadbury is quite bad compared to continental brands. IMHO it only beats American chocolate but that's a very low bar (lying on the ground, even...)
This seems like a fundamental design flaw for any cloud storage service which enables sharing. It would be a problem not only for Google, but for Dropbox, etc.

There needs to be a sharp distinction between files for your own use and files that are shared with the world — as in a global setting for whole volumes to disable global sharing and thus avert the need for copyright scanning.

If by making files easy to share at any moment, the service creates a need to perform continuous copyright scanning of all drive content and then to take punitive action when it is detected, then the service is really nothing like a private hard drive. The potential for catastrophic loss, not only of the drive contents but of everything you access through Google services, is much more terrifying than the possibility of corrupting a local drive and much harder to plan for.
Who involved with the early stages of Google, Apple, or Facebook was a leftist? (I can't name any - no, Jobs's time as a hippy doesn't make him a leftist.)

Who was a libertarian? (I can name several. And they're mostly still around one way or another.)

IMO, any leftist influence in SV was killed (or carefully cordoned for marketing purposes) early in the first dot-com boom.
This is true especially if you want to watch your child develop into adult AND have grandparents alive AND not to have huge generation gap between you.
Those aren’t the only two options. There’s more to life and technology than blockchains and ads.
Yeah, tries are special cases of FSMs, and so are DAWGs.
The Battle of Personas
Unfortunately, past experience at Google is still seen as a good sign in job applications. I think we're at a point where gap years should be a better sign than a stint at that company.
A minor correction: West was bought by Thomson (no "p"), which later merged with Reuters to become Thomson Reuters.
because people are suckers for the new thing, but new does not always mean improved.
The causes have been extremely clear for the past century at least. It's relatively simple to identify them if you don't approach the issue ideologically.
"dramatic turn for the worse"

That's supposed to be the butryic acid content. I don't know if Americans are just so used to it that they don't really notice but Hershey's smells just a little bit like vomit which is, I'd say, "a dramatic turn for the worse" for sure.
>You need volume and volume before everything else.

There's volume and then there's volume. Obviously five minutes of HIIT between picking things up and putting things down isn't going to do a great deal, but especially in the cycling world there's a lot of research around easy volume work and high intensity sessions (Neal Henderson at The Sufferfest/Wahoo, TrainerRoad etc) and the general consensus is that if you're time crunched, then the long Z2 work is not where you want to be focusing your efforts.

The article isn't about a trained athlete, it's about the untrained/hobbyist for whom getting in sufficient volume just isn't possible.

>Plenty of guys who can squat 400lbs who would be totally gassed after running a few miles or cycling up a moderate length hill. I wouldn't call it fit. I am betting on 45mins per day VR guy.

Picking things up and putting things down barely raises HR. Cardio appears to be a dirty word around these parts.