skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Beside the fact that they lied to Congress about.. I guess there is an expectation.

If you put your products on Amazon marketplace, you are expected to join a marketplace. You don't necessarily expect for Amazon to also join the marketplace by using your data to compete against you.

Also you can use Amazon services and warehouses even for products that you do not wish to sell on Amazon website. Essentially using Amazon as a 3PL service. Again, you might not expect Amazon to use your data for their own products.

If you sell your products to Target, this isn't exactly a marketplace. This is a retail outlet. You know they can measure your sales, measure your competitor sales, etc. And you know they won't lie to you about doing it.
Nowhere did I say that clarity ought to be compromised. You seem to believe there's a tradeoff where I see none. If a paper is clear and also easy to read, entertaining or otherwise not boring, it stands to reason that it will be more readily comprehended, remembered and shared by the reader.
Apple has never sold a hardware product at a loss. Never.
> Perhaps without Internet young people will be bored and when young men are idle they tend to turn to the kind of violent uprising Russia probably needs.

That seems way too improbable.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peg_solitaire
Paying a huge fine will likely disrupt a retirement plan.
For ‘catch it early’ you are talking screening. That’s why there’s cervical cancer screening (pap smear/the new cytology test), mammograms, faecal occult blood tests, in australia skin cancer screening, etc.

And that’s why people should have a regular doctor and that’s why as you get older you see your doctor more frequently. But for young(ish) otherwise healthy people, the whole concept of something ther occurs annually doesnt make sense.

In the other hand, since most screening and medical engagement is with females, you are left with lots of men who get into their 40s without ever having seen a doctor.
So - if thats you - go and see one, build a relationship, and if everything is good ask when you need to come back for prostate screening, FOBT, cholesterol or anything else. All across the board is unnecessary.

With regards to your last point, I’m all for devolving autonomy and power to the patient, but frankly across the board wide ranging blood testing (especially regularly) just doesn’t make sense for a significant percentage of people, unless there is a high pre test probability or a significant family history. All blood results are managed at the 95% CI so if you go in and have 20+ blood tests then more than likely at least one is going to be out of order. All you need to do is visit the askdocs subreddit to see the immense anxiety and flow down effects that has on a population who have absolutely no way of understanding a slightly out of bounds result. Those private clinics trying to spin up and do ‘wellness checks’ are frankly in my opinion, and until the evidence proves otherwise, a parasite on the worried well
Seems like it would be conflict of interest to increase robustness of single AZ (so it never goes down or has its own redundancy) vs. increased revenues from multi AZ deployment.

What's the point of cloud if we have to manage robustness of their own infrastructure. I can understand if that's due to natural disasters and earthquakes, but the idea should be that a single AZ should never go down barring extraordinary circumstances. AWS should be auto-balancing, handling downtimes of a single AZ without the customer ever noticing it.

It might not be a good analogy, but if a single Cloudflare edge datacenter goes down, it will automatically route traffic through others. Transparent and painless to the customer. I understand AWS is huge, and different services have different redundancy mechanisms, but just conceptually it feels like they're in a conflict of interest to increase robustness of their data centers - "We told you to have multi-AZ deployment, not our fault".

Another way to put this is make sure as an AWS customer, to 3x multiply all costs + management of multi-AZ deployment into your total costs.
I don't get the spectral warping part: is it similar to nonlinear distortion (e.g. Casio CZ-series)? Or is it a different concept? How does it work under the hood?
If they get out of hand, just bring in another species that preys on the spiders, problem solved :)
Agreed, it seems odd to have a strong emotional reaction to the discovery that your father is Donor #3855 instead of Donor #2291.

On the other hand, inheriting celiac is pretty awful.
I still think the reason are custom duties (which I think is something immoral), and anything else is just a consequence. Buying an Apple product from elsewhere is more expensive than buying one here. If that wasn't the case, people would just import the products, and the local businesses would have to adjust or risk bankruptcy.
Unclear who is behind these accounts and it's your first comment or submission on HN. Sorry, with these few sentences it's indistinguishable from a potential scam.
> I wouldn't be surprised if that weird, seemingly-intentionally-hard-to-read style is also present in at least some parts of NASA, especially up at the administration level.

Unfortunately I direct experience and it's definitely present in some parts of NASA. We have increasingly been doing away with presentations when reporting updates up the chain. Just shoehorn your work into a single poorly designed slide and lob it over the fence. Your project manager rolls up your slide with everyone else's and lobs that deck over the fence to the program management. Hey, at least it's one fewer meeting.
"That which can be destroyed by the truth should be" and all that.

Any time there's discussions of this kind, though, it feels like a slippery slope to Gattaca. If you think about it, in many ways the urge for your genes to be the ones that make it are one of the only things holding us back from a genetically engineered society and genetic discrimination.
Adult spiders become too heavy to be able to fly again.

Those who fly using silk strings are very young and small.
Might be true for running stuff in different regions/AZs but if the provisioning region is down (e.g. deploying lambda@edge) one does not really have an alternative
The Apple-TSMC Partnership
Blender is amazing. It can do so many things. If you want to try it out, I highly recommend "Blender Guru" on youtube. The "donut tutorial" is a great overview that orients you to where all of the most important functions are.

Took me a ~3 evenings of 3 hours each (included some playful fiddling outside the scope of just completing the tutorial) and now I feel like I can generally google for answers to questions and get by in blender.

Also 3.0 featured a roughly 8x speed increase in rendering! It's insanely cool.
It has a reputation of staining everything and notoriously difficult to clean out of some pens.

Baystate Blue also seems to be a cursed ink. It's not a matter of if you drop that bottle, but a matter of when.
What if we just eliminated the I get a W-2, I enter the info that the IRS already knows into a 3rd party system, the IRS accepts it.

We'll never make taxes easier for everyone, and this "tax gap" argument is great and all but I don't know why I have to do anything for my exceedingly simple taxes.
The Dude drank White Russians. Is that problematic now? Lebowski II: The Search for an Alternative Beverage.
FYI in my country, at the top of this thread, that is how it works. Drivers need a "P" licence and the taxi companies need to register and follow some rules. But apart from that there are no limits or artificial restrictions.

But uber ignored all that anyway.
This is a bad argument that is factually incorrect in some ways.

Slack already has three different clients - a web one (which includes the Electron desktop wrappers), one for Android, and one for iOS.

They've already demonstrated that they have the engineering resources and coordination to develop and maintain three completely separate clients (albeit poorly) - so adding a fourth one (native C++ codebase using Qt that would work well on Windows, Mac, and Linux) would not be the Herculean engineering effort required to go from one to five, and your implicit assertions that (1) they currently only have a single client and (2) that a different client would be required for each of Windows, macOS, and Linux are simply false.

> But a webview wrapped in i.e. Electron handles most of it for you! Why would you do it any other way except to appease people who complain about bloat?

Because (1) performance (2) accessibility and (3) stability - the things that users actually need. Slack's performance is extremely bad and you get people constantly complaining about it; their accessibility is janky and suboptimal because they're reinventing desktop UI controls on the web; and their applications have repeatedly broken (such as the disastrous input box rewrite[1]) because they're trying to do things with the web platform that it wasn't meant to do. (in case you're wondering how using a desktop client would help - you expose a "lite" version of your functionality in the web application and put the full functionality in the desktop tool)

You're using "appease" as marketing-speak for "fix the very real problems with their web application that people constantly complain about". Slack should fix their application because it isn't serving the users well. Performance problems are functionality problems.

As it stands, Slack is showing us that they aren't even pretending to care about their users - they're just trying to make a buck selling to large organizations.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21589647
Ok but I assume the user-hostile dark patterns are still present? So I can't scroll past more than a few tweets without a full page popover driving me to sign up?

I have no interest in ever "tweeting". I do not need an account to read tweets from a link sent to me. At this point I refuse to log in or comply with the wishes of Twitter PMs just on principle.

If the onion site does not feature these dark patterns then this will actually drive me to use Twitter more, and will actually take some of my usage off the web and onto tor.
Nuland Ukraine Has Biological Research Facilities, Worried Russia May Seize Them
agree with this
For better or for worse, features of TypeScript that generate code (like enums) are generally considered a mistake. I assume part of the idea here is that people would aim to target this particular subset so they can avoid compiling while in development and as such people would move away from those features. I like enums but you can get most of the same benefits with

type RGB = 'red' | 'green' | 'blue'
The Case for a No-Fly Zone in Ukraine
It seems nobody here actually read the OP, jumping straight to the flamewar in comments.

Lumen and Cogent already stopped peering with Russian ISPs. It's not Russian government, and they are doing the dirty work for the Russian government.

This is not about punishment or providing services, this is about peering and basic connectivity at the backbone level. It can break the Internet as the common medium, and not just for Russia. This sets the precedent that undermines decades of development and can make the biggest contribution to peace in the history of humanity fall apart into different bubbles.
The pig i don't care about. But I would really really like to know if David Bennett lived his life being healthy and fit.
If you think Russia invaded Ukraine primarily because of "demographic issues" i.e. territorial expansion for resources, I have a bridge to sell you.
I think it is a very important point.

I perfectly well understand (and share) the anger against Russia, and desire to use sanctions and withdrawal of companies/services as a tool to reduce the quality of life in Russia and through that (hopefully) affect the policies of the Russian state/change the government. One can argue whether they will be effective, but it is a tool that is used as an alternative to pure war, and so I'd argue it is better.

But in the same time, I certainly recommend for every company to think a little bit whether their withdrawal is going to make the regime life easier or harder. I would think that withdrawal of Cogent was counterproductive. Similarly I think the stopping of Mastercard/Visa (effective immediately) mostly hurt people who just recently left russia under the threat to their lives (like independent journalists).

All that said, it's hard to ask companies to make a careful analysis about the consequences of their actions on Russian regime as that's not their job. So for sure there will be unintended consequences like hurting some people who were fighting the regime, and consequences helping Russia. I just hope the companies will try to minimise those and think a little before following the current pressure to disassociate from Russia.
Seriously! Reminds me of the famous story of an undergrad who used a text by Richard Feynman as a source for a college paper, and was graded down by her professor. She then contacted Feynman to obtain justification, but Feynman replied:

"Your instructor was right not to give you any points, for your answer was wrong, as he demonstrated using Gauss’ law. You should, in science, believe logic and arguments, carefully drawn, and not authorities."

https://www.wm.edu/news/stories/2020/feynmans-advice-to-wm-s...
There are examples in the article.
We want to help stray animals. Can you answer few questions for us?
Hi everyone,

I am building a service where people can easily help stray animals without financial donations. I am looking for respondents to answer a couple of questions (10 min) for our app.
We would love talking to you if:

1. You have ever had to conduct user interviews and struggled to find respondents
2. You care about stray animals and environment
Sorry, cannot reveal the whole idea before we ask our questions since it may interfere your reasoning and make you biased. But shortly, our app will have 3 parties: people who need to conduct user interviews, respondents for those interviews, stray animals (our main player).
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Absolutely no way to prove this but maybe Q1 deadlines coming up and people trying to launch things and make changes?
He refused vaccination. Also, not the greatest human; but, he served his time, so I don't think that had an impact.
"Okay. I'm gonna get your money for ya. But if you don't get the President of the United States on that phone, you know what's gonna happen to you?"

"What?"

"You're gonna have to answer to the Coca-Cola company."

Couldn't resist posting the quote since its from Dr. Strangelove and that has been topical lately. Clearly Russia doesn't know who they're dealing with now...
Based on our telemetry, this started as NXDOMAINs for sqs.us-east-1.amazonaws.com beginning in modest volumes at 20:43 UTC and becoming a total outage at 20:48 UTC. Naturally, it was completely resolved by 20:57, 5 minutes before anything was posted in the "Personal Health Dashboard" in the AWS console.

It takes a while to find a Vice President, I guess.
I can't help but wonder, with the increases in attrition across the industry, are we hitting some kind of tipping point where the institutional knowledge in these massive tech corporations is disappearing?

Mistakes happen all the time but when all the people who intimately know how these systems work leave for other opportunities, disasters are bound to happen more and more.
Startup salaries have gone up a lot in the last few years from the boom in funding. Experienced engineers with several years of experience are clearing $200K+ in base, and getting a solid equity cut too: https://topstartups.io/startup-salary-equity-database/
Just saw your edit re: model compression. One thing that Tensil can do is help you avoid the need to quantize or compress your model entirely! For example, we've found that using a 16-bit fixed point numeric data type preserves almost all the model accuracy while not sacrificing performance thanks to the huge amount of parallelism available on FPGA.

The broader point is that Tensil is extremely flexible, so you can try out lots of different accelerator configurations to find the one that works best for your ML model. Think of it as optimizing the hardware first, then the software if needed.

We're actually working on a tool to manage and automate this hardware architecture search - watch this space!
Unless there are other giant yellow spiders with black legs and big webs native to Georgia, I'm almost certain I spotted these when jogging by my neighbor's house in North Georgia around 2007. It was terrifying looking, and it stuck with me.

It had to be around that time, because I moved shortly thereafter.

Anecdotal, but when I saw this headline I immediately thought back upon it.
Yeah, the intention here is clearly to bypass state censorship. Twitter still wants to serve ads.

Sort of unrelated, but you can bypass the login prompt if you click "login" and then click the X in the upper left of the popover.
if `user_id` is in the table you're auditing you could do

```
alter table audit.record_version add column user_id bigint default (coalesce(record, old_record) ->> 'user_id');
```

or if you meant the SQL `current_user` you could extend the trigger to track it.

but if the user_id is only available in application space (not in the db) it will not be possible using straight SQL
EDIT (too late to edit parent):

This screenshot, from an article linked below, shows what I'm talking about. The blacked out parts next to "Portugal", "Germany", and "United States" cover publicly routable IP addresses (afaik):

https://www.jamieweb.net/blog/forwarding-tor-hidden-services...

Also, note that I had it backward in the parent: The traffic first goes through publicly routable IPs, then through Tor relays.
My wife use them for sewing, they disappear pretty well after a rapid ironing ! Much better than chalk or other erasable ink.
What’s the difference between a reproducible binary and one they’ve built themselves? Can’t they just build it from source and check that the digests match?
If you don't follow the perverse incentive du jour in a decentralized system, you'll get rolled.

We're drifting off topic, though. If Amazon heavily incentivizes bad behavior, should they be allowed to reap the rewards and discharge the blame? Absolutely not. They're culpable.
> Exactly what has happened since and the precise cause of Mr Bennett's death is not clear.

Which is the most useful information (next to the actual end of a human life here).

Did he die because the heart was ultimately rejected, or did he die from underlying complications that had made him ineligible for a human heart transplant in the first place?

If the latter, I'd still call this whole story a significant success and a possible step on the road to providing more transplants for people worldwide who won't survive without a new heart.
Porcine biologics have generally underperformed expectations, often with neutral clinical effectiveness.
Aha! What MacOS doesn't support is MST daisy chaining for some reason, only MST to a single display to overcome bandwidth limitations.
We've had them for a couple of years. They keep to themselves, eat bugs you do not want that their local cousins can't while coexisting, and make great photo subjects.

https://twitter.com/givemefoxes/status/1501615636664958976

edit to add: What I did notice is that the insect population seems to be returning after years of decline. I see more bugs around lights every year. These could be the wolves of creepy crawlies.
I'm referring to java the language not the JVM.

> AWS is going to be offering Clojure SDKs?

If enough people are using Clojure and it's nicer than using the aws-java-sdk. yes.

Scala has a pretty big ecosystem. There are lots of new and exciting things being built there. (This is what used to be the experimental frameworks, libraries and creative projects that used to exist in java)
Exit nodes run by Twitter sounds less scary than exit nodes run by random folks.
Good advice, though AWS still has some services that don't work completely independently. Cloudfront, because of certificates. Route53. The control API for IAM (adding/removing roles, etc). And I wish they didn't have global-looking endpoints (like https://sts.amazonaws.com) that aren't really global or resilient.
But the crack pipe thing was completely made up.

And that criticism of the supreme court thing depends on the belief that ability can be narrowed down to a single quantity and he isn't picking out of a bunch of basically equally qualified candidates. I'd disagree with that.
After doing the thing that most people won’t know how to or want to do, it just works.
I'm for opening up the internet there - even as others point out there's not much we can do when RU has their own great firewall.

But two things in response to this:

- While hard to know with certainty, there is strong evidence a plurality of Russians support the war. Caveat given what they are swayed by Putins' gov media lies.

I read 58% in this source and I can't find it but I think Navalny org said 50%. [1]

Furthermore yes while it seems young conscripts were sent into Ukraine at this point it would be very clear to those on the ground what they are doing. I get they are probably making calculations about punishment or even death for desertion. But they aren't ignorant at this point but active participants.

Russian civilians aren't close to wholly innocent.

- I'm afraid that targeted sanctions have not and will not work.

I'm not sure if punishing the population economically will cause regime change. I hope it will. They have to fight if they want it - yes I understand the deadly costs of that but it's a choice millions of people are making in Ukraine and have throughout history. One reason there is more sympathy than say Afghanistan.

Even if lowering life quality in Russia doesn't cause change, this is a response to obscene attacks; i think the sanctions are actually less than proportional/reciprocal. proportional would be 'kinetic' military but that's obviously super dangerous.

Should always remember humanitarian aid through.

Sadly this high road is being bombed in Ukraine right now (maternity ward is just another stressed expletive filled morning for me)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/03/08/russia-publi...
My Aruba Instant ON Ap's are "offline" (orange) even tho they work and I am online. My first tought is that some Cloud went nirvana state
I think that's the presenter's responsibility. I use the presenter notes to organize my thoughts. By the time I give a talk, I already have most things memorized and only need to grab a few phrases here and there from my (rather detailed full-sentence) notes. The notes easily stand on their own.

It's certainly an improvement over the usual ineffective way people make slides and give talks: by reading bullet points off the slides themselves. I keep over 90% of the text for my talks in the presenter notes. It's equally useful for prepration and for future reference.
The stock market goes up and down and sometimes crashes, the housing market goes up indefinitely. Nothing can stop it apparently.
I live in an area with Joros. I don't mind spiders at all. But these joros are a pest. They take over literally everything. They will cover all your porches, trees, etc. with their webs. Their webs are massive, multi-layered, and tough.

I don't usually kill spiders or take down their webs, but I kill these guys and remove their webs whenever they build near my house. It's futile, but I do it anyway.

This article seem to say they're harmless. But I have heard reports of them harming local hummingbird population and driving local spiders out.
Those are the local variety. The new ones are much, much bigger.