skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hello, Russian propagandist. I am from another side of a conflict and deeply disagree with your allegations to look at what has been happening 8 years and not to look at whas happened earlier. But youl first sentence (about stay online w/o intervention) is exactly my message to HN crowd.
> don't allow scrapers and sites that just reuse content from other sites.

I remember there used to be ranking penalties against scraper sites. I have not been following Google's SEO rules in a while, so does anyone know what happened to it?
You shouldn’t have such a build system. Idempotence is a feature, not a bug.
Customize and Enhance Facebook == hide sponsored posts
Western Intelligence Agencies Probing Viasat European Outages
As someone who got massively excited by SmartOS, only to see adoption never reach even the minimal levels I hoped for - yes, I hear you.

What would the hosting story look like now if 8(?) years ago 25% of servers had adopted SmartOS?
This is fun, and can easily be added as a userscript. I might look to do that a little later.
You may well be right about that. I can't imagine that if you have the power to fix it that you would accept it the way it is.
Not everyone has come around to the understanding that we're not going to solve this problem by having Meatless Mondays and recycling more. The fact is that even if we turned off all greenhouse gas production today, we'd still be in a lot of trouble, and at this point only a technological solution is going to avert a catastrophe.

And we're not going to turn off all greenhouse gas production today, so the need to find a technological solution is even greater.

So many of these HN threads turn into people saying "well, this technological solution could go wrong, we should just reduce consumption instead", not realizing the actual level of emergency we're in. It's a bullet everyone is going to have to bite eventually, and (if history is an indication) probably too late.
Tying up the carbon for 25-50 years reduces CO2 levels now and thus immediate greenhouse impacts while allowing for energy production and industrial carbon sequestration methods to catch up. Think of it as a carbon mortgage, if you will, or the various peak-flattening mitigations at the start of the pandemic. We need more creative approaches like this to dampen the impact of climate change, especially while our energy is still dirty.
That's a pretty large generalization. There's a wide range of careers under the umbrella of what gets called Infosec.

Some that really don't fit the definition of "auditor"

- Vulnerability research
- Pentesting
- Incident Reponse
- Threat Hunting

Even the type of Infosec work which can end up being closer to audit should have a different focus, if done well.
Unless Mainland China is doing something drastically different to what we're doing here in Hong Kong, I wouldn't be so sure.
Just a feeling - they barely mentioned it at the last iPhone event, sales numbers are purportedly poor.

Maybe they’ll bring the body back as an SE, but we likely won’t have a high-end small phone again.
Still vague. Again, if you read the anandtech analysis, nothing indicates a decline in Apple's engineering team, which is what the writer of this story had posited.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/16983/the-apple-a15-soc-perfo...
The last time I received such a call, I just told them in Hindi to not to call me again, and that I knew it was an obvious fake. I could hear them muttering something in Hindi on the other end while hanging up.

The tongue-rolled accent & peculiar pronunciations / choice of words is a giveaway. A large number of these IRS & collections call originate from call centers in India.
Wait a minute... we've had virtual machines (in the programming language sense) in like forever. JVM, BEAM, CRL, etc. None of them made containers obsolete. People package Java inside containers even though Java has had non-Linux-container ways to package things in like forever — because people like the tooling surrounding Linux containers.

WASM just replaces JVM/BEAM/CLR/etc with its own virtual machine. It doesn't address all the stuff that container orchestration tools address such as lifecycle management, update management, artifact management, autoscaling, networking, management access control, logging & metrics, etc.

If you want to start faster than containers, you already can — by not using containers.

So given all this above, how is "starts faster than containers" an advantage?

And containers are not exactly slow to start. `time docker run -ti --rm ubuntu:20.04 true` => 0.5s. I suppose that's too slow for serverless cold start, but if you really care about that then the startup time of Ruby, Python, Node.js etc with all the packaged dependencies are also in that order.
Oh man, i have Rabbits. It's a pretty common war between my dog and Rabbits heh.
This has happened to me. I am pretty sure my company set up a 'who is a risk to lose' list that I am on. Had more stock / bonuses and pay rises in the past year then ever before.
> I have a vague memory that AMD has/had something similar

You are correct - AMD CPUs from 2016 onwards make use of a collection of up-to-8-core chiplets linked by what they call "Infinity Fabric"
From that endgadget article: Users wouldn't have ordered food "without our platform," company spokesperson Brendan Lewis said.

Ah yes, if it wasn't for GrubHub, we would all starve!

I've never seen the middle-man parasite's lie exposed this clearly. People have been ordering direct from restaurants for ages, but now that Yelp/Grubhub managed to muscle their way between restaurants and customers, they take credit for this entire business existing, to justify their sleazy practices.
Exactly. The "fix nothing" and "fix everything" are easy positions that you don't need anyone for; the whole point of a CISO is to identify the things that can be fixed when looked at from a cost/benefit analysis (and often the "benefit" is on the side of audits and client requirements, not on "percentage chance we get hacked").
> #2 seems your goal, because you did mention "slow decay", but slow decay is still decay, it doesn't matter whether a tree takes 25 or 50 years to decay, all the CO2 it absorbs will eventually release back to atmosphere, which makes 0 net change. Could you elaborate on that? Thanks.

Not OP, generally skeptical, but will point out that delay is actually not a Bad Thing. It gives us time to consider what to do and look at other technologies that could make a more permanent dent in CO2 production/consumption cycles. Time is apparently a Big Deal for the fate of the planet and human race, and having a little more to see if there are other ways to mitigate damage seems good.
The Dark Side of the Universe: How Black Holes Became Supermassive
If someone and the coworkers on their floor are calling and scamming old people out of their retirement money, then there is no sarcasm needed here. That should be perfectly justifiable.

I'll paint the targeting laser myself.
Maybe more unmotivated than incompetent.
Indiana Almost Made pi = 3.2
"makes the colors appear fairly reasonable"

From what color space to what color space, and what display or print type?

Now you're back to describing a average case perceptual color rather than your initial point of accuracy.
> said on Sunday that it is further narrowing its content moderation policy for Ukraine

When your moderation policies are specific to regions and world events, you may want to reevaluate why your policies are so brittle.
They get a say because those companies were doing everything they can not to let the customer know about that disconnect. Many customers thought the restaurant had agreed to the service, and were holding the restaurant responsible for mistakes the delivery companies made.

I'm not quite willing to call it fraud yet, but it's in that area.
>i don't think Apple is particularly interested in the low end Chromebook market. It has also been largely replaced by tablets and phablets and is pretty niche nowadays.

Kind of my point though; the low end isn't even worth it for PC manufacturers anymore. And by the time you get to a ~$600 laptop, you can have a cheap M1 device with 10x the performance/watt. The new M1 iPad Air starts at $700, and absolutely blows any existing Intel laptop out of the water, short of a desktop replacement gaming rig with discrete GPU.
Mostly it is reused. However shipping is expensive and you can apply too much and cause problems. there is way too much manure in some places, and not enough in others.

It isn't exactly safe either. There is a lot of diseases in that manure. You need to take more care when applying it than some fertilizers. (though not nearly as much as anhydrous ammonia)
nm is purely a marketing term and has been for 10 years or 25 years depending on what you think it measures

future improvement is going to come from the same place it mostly comes from now: better design that unlocks better density and a revolutionary new litho process that as of yet doesn't exist
Great ideology, im not sure why so many fear it?
Indeed, the first three are dependent on the state that issued your SSN, and the next two often are sequence bits roughly correlating to when it was issued. If anything, those are the public bits
So my friend from Ukraine is lying and reciting Russian state propaganda? If there was ever a time for him to be anti-Russia, presumably, it would be whilst his country is being invaded.

I guess you're right. I'm clearly ignorant for trying to wade through the immense amount of propaganda from both sides[1] here by getting some insight from someone born and raised in Kyiv.

Also, I think Russian state-backed media is banned in the US now (where I am), but I could be wrong.

1: https://foreignpolicy.com/2013/07/14/u-s-repeals-propaganda-...
Apple Supplier Foxconn in Talks to Build $9B Factory in Saudi Arabia
You can tell which parts Amazon dogfoods!

Billing is terrible, although it has gotten a bit better. Cognito is probably one of the worst services on AWS, and it's only getting worse (there are now two SDKs with different APIs for no reason at all). While things like EC2 and Lambda work pretty well.
times are changing online -- I definitely recall a two volume, hard bound, >$100USD edition of "Clustering Methods" in the university book store and did not buy it. I was being mocked by my non-native English colleague with a Masters in Computer Science from great (non-English) university, about the ability to even read that work. Now, I look at the Scikit-learn docs mainly. Good work pinecone dot IO.
agree, whether it's Aryan or not, domination by a single race is purely racism.
Because it takes a long time for that to play out and we can likely find ways to pull out the greenhouse gasses and cool the earth by then. Lots of money going in, some countries are on a good trajectory, others are getting worse. So even if the US and EU make good on all the measures, Asian and African countries will lag behind and can argue that they deserve some time to burn fossil fuels to raise their standard of living like the west did.

In short, the idea that climate change is some near term existential risk to humanity is BS
I was going for the upper range, and including taxes - so, company costs per employee, not what the employee gets.

Either way, it's easy to hire an extra mid-to-senior engineer or two for the costs of many cloud services.
It is also super intuitive. The logic makes sense immediately when you see it first time.
I heard about this fascinating idea of using the gravitational lensing of our own sun to image the surface of exoplanets: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQFqDKRAROI

It wouldn't look like any telescope you might have ever seen. Once we have a candidate exoplanet we want to take a picture of we would launch a flock of free-flying solar-sail propelled satellites in such an orbit that they get yeeted away from the sun on a trajectory opposite of the target exoplanet. They would travel to the "focal plane" of the sun's gravitational lens where the exoplanet's light is smeared to a ring around the sun which they collaboratively capture. Probably one such a pass wouldn't be enough, so we would need to send such flocks multiple times, like waves following on each other.

What I love about the plan is that it is both super scifi, yet we already have all the components to make it happen if we want to.
Pentesting involves report writing 'cause you've got to tell people what you did somehow :)

A better model (IMO) is for the pentester to get onboarded into the bug/defect tracking system and put things there. Pretty much every pentester I know would prefer this to writing long reports :P
Thank you for you advice.

"What I think is that most people would donate Bitcoin anyway so supporting many different cryptocurrencies wouldn't necessarily increase the likelihood of a donation that much. With this assumption just setting up BTC is enough and this is very easy to do."

But my reasoning is, that I know quite some people have different niche crypto lying around, hoping they will be worth something at some point, so instead of giving nothing, they might give at least them. And maybe they will be worth something, so I would happily take them all.

And I am only casual following crypto, but it seems, that ethereum is a serious player as well.

"Also, consider that when you use Coinbase you don't have access to your private keys. It means that should Coinbase decide that you are no longer entitled to access for whatever reason, you'll be left with no power over the funds. "

And of this I am aware of, but since I am a EU resident, not aware of any crime or money laundering, I suppose there is no reason to blacklist me. They have a reputation to be aware of (and I suppose I could make some noise, if I would be screwed over) - and I am more scared to be honestly, to make a mistake with the wallet generation. But otherwise I probably would be fine with a bitcoin wallet and etherium. I consider it.
What about Wisconsin? What happened to that one?
I haven't understood what the point is for a "task runner" over having a bin/ directory in the project with some shell scripts. If it's not going to do anything extra for you (like run commands according to a dependency tree like make), I don't see the point.
Demand for fossil fuels is predicted to diminish sooner
The New York Times Launches Telegram Channel
As far as I'm concerned, the killer feature is Result type error handling, which forces the calling code to deal with the error — as in your sample code.

Sum types have lots of other benefits, but what I really care about is having Result types instead of exceptions or returned error codes where the error handling can be omitted. Even if you choose to "unwrap" or similar, having high confidence that you can audit a codebase and at least know that every handleable error known to the APIs has been checked, that's invaluable. (Panics which represent non-handleable errors notwithstanding.)
I'd wager "the people you know" are upper-middle class or higher. I don't understand people who don't get how blessed they are. Like, I too wish I had figured out how to make hundreds of millions with a startup, but that doesn't change I know how much better I have it than the majority of Americans.
I don't comprehend how people can develop on windows (without linux subsystem).

I have to do that every once and then (to ship the occasional C++ or Rust build on Windows) and it's the stuff of nightmare. Stuff breaking randomly from one day to another, env variables to be set in weird ways, GUI installers, 8 different versions of mingw or similar. Recently I've seen that there are a few package managers now (I used chocolatey and at least 2 others just trying to get something to compile) but still, compiling something trivial is always an adventure.

Mac OS X is kind of okay. Brew is barely decent and things mostly work (unless you discover you need to install 12GB of XCode for some dependency or your script is expecting coreutils instead of bsd).

Every linux distro comes with a package manager and compiling is trivial
From what I've seen, used cars haven't been as close to a good value in the US over the last 2 years. It takes a lot of years of depreciation to get a price significantly better than a new car, and if you drop $10k on a ten year old Honda Civic you'll miss out on a decade of fuel efficiency improvements, safety features, etc.
Used cars are an unknown quantity these days: you just have the choice of buying from dealers (who might be trying to pull one on you) or buying from a private individual (who might be a scammer). Also, as cars become more complicated, DIY repairs and maintnence become trickier.

At least if you buy new, you know pretty much about what you are getting. It might be better for most people to buy new but keep the car for 10 years (i.e. never sell it as a used car in the first place).

> Don't blame cars for stupid people making stupid choices.

That is incredibly judgmental (like saying "poor people are poor because they are stupid").
India is just doing its interests, they have every right to do so.
At least they are going to buy oil and goods, not drop bombs.
Ah yeah I remember that trick. If you didn't hang up after talking to a friend, you'd could "haunt the line". Works best if someone is waiting to use the only phone in the house. Which is a phrase you don't hear that often :D
As a child, I enjoyed things meant for adults (with regard to programming). However, this was a different era.

In the 90s, computers needed programs to be useful, and regular computer users needed to be able to make them (not so much as the 80s but it was still around). I saw my elders creating software in the HyperCards and Visual Basics of the day, and thought "Hey, I want to do that" so I did.

They were both tools to get Real Work Done™ AND be approachable to non-programmers. Thus, I didn't feel limited by the stuff that's for children, but they were still friendly enough to be approachable from zero knowledge + maybe a book from the library.

Children's tools tend to only have the approachable part, which is good, but as a kid /knowing/ that anything a "real" program could do was possible with the tool I had if I just tried hard enough was a huge motivating factor in eventually bootstrapping my learning.
Thanks, I know it's absent (it's golfed not minified), which means I manually manipulated it to make as small as possible which sometimes means making "concessions" where things are not ideally preserved - But in retrospect you're probably right, I was being too aggressive and should have either left the padding in or replaced it with some guarantee of formatting length length like "&FFF|0x111"
What I'd like is an automatic waste sorter. Throw everything into one bin, put sort the glass one way, paper another, all X plastics in their places, metals, compostables...

We have made progress in that for recycling, but there are two trucks that come by my house.
At this prison radio station, inmates tell their stories in their own voices
Screw the haters. The same complainers forget most of their fruit/veg/meat has been modified/spliced by humans in some way for better yield. I see no difference between farmers that spend 15 years creating a new apple, and you. Please keep building.
In Canada, fuel prices are way higher than they've ever been. For years, diesel hovered around 110¢/L. then in late 2020 it plummeted to around 85 because of Covid before rising to 140 for the past year or so. But last week it jumped to 225, and it's still at 210. I have never seen it above 150 before last week.
I take the opposite lesson - for the next generation, no one will think about invading a neighbor without remembering how devastating the sanctions were to Russia.
Trees don't absorb any more sunlight than an equivalent area of grassland, so I'd be surprised if mature woods sequestered any more CO₂ than grasslands did.
One thing I appreciate about the javascript ecosystem and "scripts" is the focus on keeping everything contained in the project. The only assumption about the system is that it has node, from there it's npm i, npm start. Scripts are a way to make sure people always run the project-local version of various development tools and not whatever they happen to have installed.

When I see a makefile, I expect they will be making more assumptions about my system and expect a little more work.

I do appreciate the "has worked fine for decades" aspect of makefiles, and I guess docker solves some of this, but I still prefer a fully self contained javascript project.
Check out the numbers in Chicago - neighborhoods like Avondale, Rogers Park, Uptown, etc.

The tradeoff is definitely worth it.
They mention that one reason to remove these modules is storage savings, but then there is no information about how much storage will be freed up by their removal... Anyone have an idea if it is significant?
You're referring to Blaster (worm), right?
> it was not this way in the past

There was an /r/obama before users could make subreddits. It was certainly this way in the past, but more porn.

You admittedly didn't know that, and had to post a source you Googled in a panic, which says:

> There may have been a few more subreddits created by other employees as well but I’m not sure. Basically they would all have been things of personal interest to us.

Which supports that idea.
Bubbles at center of Milky Way caused by supermassive black hole
KTool founder here. Thanks for the mention.

While KTool is still in active development, feel free to give it a try (no account needed). Much appreciated
because compost piles attract rats, mice, and other undesirables.
Doesn't a heap need tending to in some way?

I'm happy to put my food waste in a little box and have the government come round with a truck once per week, at the very least its rotting somewhere miles away from me.

I don't think i have the space or knowledge to do it myself
Ford will launch seven EVs by 2024
How Much Pi Do You Need?
Erm, to be honest, on first look, I have no idea what they are offering and how they work? But I will look into it.
Prevent data corruption by adding locks around database migrations
Woop woop!
>One goes up in value, often greatly, the other is nearly worthless.

The Toyota fanboys would take issue with that statement ;)

Personally owning and maintaining my own metal box on wheels saves me ~2hr per day over the publicly owned metal box on wheels. Even in Europe that would be worth it for just about any white collar professional.

Not everything has to be a good investment.

I drive junk but I understand why some people would rather sit in a really, really nice car for their commute. The way I see it transportation is just the cost of having a job. "Base" transportation has zero residual value. You can't sell a worn out shitbox for anything. You also can't sell a city bus or rail car at all. If you throw more money on top of the "base" A to B car in order to have something nice then you might get some value back but it's fundamentally a luxury expense. For my use case and for many people, the "base" car offers so much utility improvement over anything else that it's a) a no brainier b) basically pays for itself vs attaining equivalent standard of living without it.
Isn't that one of the main concerns here? I wouldn't call it solving the carbon problem, but bandaging it. If we're lucky we don't make it worse long-term, if we're not, we may be in much more trouble later.
It will be easier to isolate the different factors once things get back to something like normal. That would have to include pre-pandemic levels of traffic-law enforcement, especially for speeding (e.g. multiple cars going 90-100mph on I-95 where anything over 75-80mph used to be a reliable way to get a ticket). Then we'll be better able to separate what factors contributed to the temporary "divot" in the accident-rate curve vs. what factors contributed to permanent change. All of the psychological factors, if they have any effect at all, are likely to be in the first bucket. App distractions and higher speed on emptier roads are likely to be in the second.
Social nature of ants provides protection from climate change