skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm very interested in this project, but looking at the language support it needs to implement better Java support before it becomes relevant for me.

I'm also curious about how plugin support will be if it arrives.
>All of this is easier face to face.

Yet somehow the world of open source keeps putting out high quality software with teams distributed across the planet in different time zones with different native tongues.
Gold is inert, but miners used mercury to extract it.
Microsoft have a better solution, or at least one of their departments does. You pay for support questions and if it turns out it’s actually Microsoft’s fault they refund you the fee. It’s great and most of the time I never had to pay. When I did it was still money well spent as I got good support.

There have been a few occasions where I would gladly have paid Google/Twitter/Apple to answer my questions.
We putted the LinkedIn link on each profile, but yes, you are right, we should put people faces
I have observed that work is kind of a social event for senior managers. Some don't even plan much, so they like/need to have their teams at arm's length so that they can request a report or dispatch a task as soon as it is required.
> $50/month? On AWS that buys you 4 cores, 8GB memory and 0 storage

Self-hosting on AWS is kind of counterproductive. Look into "cloud" metal servers and the money will go much further.
Ability to move operations outside the galaxy is probably available at Kardashev II.

Just moving out of the solar system would be pointless, except to obtain a ready supply of cold. We may expect cold to remain essential to anybody still bound by laws of thermodynamics.

The whole "Kardashev" business, anyway, comes from an extremely primitive outlook. Once a culture gets a handle on mass/energy conversion, relying on stars to provide process energy gets left behind, and other resource limits become important instead. Safety from nearby magnetar quakes and merging black holes, for example.
Why are you comparing banking regulations to tech support? The former is crucial to trust in money, governance, and societal functioning. Tech support is easily overrun and exploited by bad actors, and the upside for the company is very minimal.
It's unfortunate this comment was grayed out so quickly and I hope that changes.

The sentiment is basically correct. Enforcing a ban on stores being able to control who they do business with is a radical break with all precedent and violates freedom of association. All stores have always had the ability to kick out any buyer or seller for any reason whatsoever short of systematic discrimination against specific protected minorities. Whether or not any particular seller thinks this is a morally optimal situation or bad for their personal business isn't going to change the centuries of history behind this.

The actual problem here isn't the arbitrariness with which Google bans sellers or the false positive rate of their decision-making process. The problem is the device vendor, OS vendor, and app store vendor are all the same company, and there are, practically speaking, only two options for the entire mobile market. Solving this is basic antitrust enforcement. Force competition for app distribution platforms. At least Android allows you to sideload and has F-Droid, but the situation is still anticompetitive and bad for both consumers and sellers.

And yes, with all respect to mobile app developers, access to a selling platform is not a utility. You don't need to be an Android developer to meet the basic necessities of life. It doesn't mean we can't or shouldn't do anything to make the situation better, but this drive to call everything a utility is not helping.
The employee in question was the head of their cloud, so he would have been the one to implement, or drive the implementation of the proper access controls. Based on other employees accounts of the guy, it sounds like people were trying to advocate for better access controls/separation but he didn't let it happen (presumably because he was planning on doing something like this).
If you ever return to this comment, I've just noticed your account was fresh and your username is a nice fit with mine!
Truth! Telling people like me to "face their demons" when they pushed me into homelessness but the demons still live with me in my van.

I am not saying this to be mean, but people who have encourage these approaches do not have a mood disorder. They are sad people with sad lives.
Maybe it's a combination of sedentary jobs and also sedentary leisure. In the 1970s or 1980s people didn't have the plethora of activities we have today that involve staring at a screen.
I don't have an "office", but in my experience, and when I do visit various offices around the world, offices tend to be surrounded by buildings and traffic and shops, and tend not to be surrounded by fields, mountains and lakes
What's the latency between sending a metric and being able to query it when using object storage (s3) instead of block storage?

How do the transfer/retrieval (GET/PUT) costs factor in as well?
It looks like this is a fork of Cortex driven by the maintainers employed by Grafana Labs, done so they can change the license to one that will prevent cloud providers like Amazon from offering it without contributing changes back.

This is interesting, since Amazon offers both hosted Grafana and Cortex today. I was under the impression Amazon and Grafana Labs were successfully collaborating (unlike e.g. AWS and Elastic), but seems like that's not the case.
The Crypto-Currency (2011)
I had a recording of Paul Galbraith playing Bach on the guitar, and it was stunning. I went to a festival to hear him play live, and he really could barely struggle through the same works. He seemed on the verge of rage-quitting the performance, so maybe it wasn't going as he expected either? Hard to say, because I never went out of my way to hear him again.
Would you mind speaking more to this or providing a link?
Ever since I started using R and Pandas/NumPy, I always wondered who wrote and maintained all those linear algebra libraries. Embarrassingly I didn't know until now.

Very well deserved!
Yea, but this complexity is not inherent to code.
Suppose you engineer a prompt to make GPT3 do arithmetic. You design the prompt to work for a particular set of training examples like 1+1 and 2+3. If all the computation is in the prompt engineering, and GPT3 is just Clever Hans, then this engineered prompt should do no better than chance if you then hand it new instances like 4+5 with the same prompt.
In the entire US there is also the (sometimes misunderstood) "legal tender" doctrine. By law US currency is "legal tender" for settling any debt.

This means cash cannot be refused for a service/product that has already been provided. Businesses are still free to be picky (eg, no cash, or no coins, or no $100 bills, etc) if they haven't actually provided the service yet.

So for example at a cashless counter serve restaurant that requires me to pay before getting my food, they can indeed refuse to take cash.

But at a place that gives you your food first and then the bill, they have to accept cash. They have no legal recourse if you give them cash and they don't want it.
To be pedantic, Kabukichou is quite a bit larger than a single street - it has something like 3000 bars in it. Golden Gai is part of Kabukichou, and is made up of a handful of small alleys that have the shantytown style bars and eateries that are cribbed from quite heavily in cyberpunk/neon noir media.
The discussion of "ethics" in ML tend to revolve around race and sex in order for large organizations to pretend they have some moral high ground when their models are being used to ruin peoples lives and enable billion dollar companies to not hire and manage non technical employees to make human decisions involving human problems. These people _are_ evil and their code and models are being used for destructive purposes, and so we are forced to read about their "ethics" applied to some obscure race, sex or "toxicity" problems as a way to cope with themselves. Banning someone on youtube for being racist is objectively less good than banning a team of people from pursuing their livelihoods, but focusing on the prior is a great way to distract from the fact that with a revenue over $50,000,000,000 they can't hire a small fleet of people to handle customer and partner relations. If it makes you feel better though, you don't have to see opinions on the internet that google data scientists deem toxic as often.
> "the only commercial entity to achieve fusion so far," making it "the global frontrunner in the race to commercialize the holy grail of clean energy."

This statement does not inspire confidence. Many, many commercial companies have achieved fusion. None of course have achieved net-positive-EROEI fusion, which is what is needed for power generation.
> are dirty tactics like this (and worse) par for the course

The details make all the difference.

Apple goes on stage and posts misleading graphs about their competition multiple times per year. The latest event showed the M1 Ultra matching an RTX 3090 in performance, yet that’s nowhere close to true in anyone’s testing and the graph was deliberately misleading in dishonest ways (3090 curve was truncated before it reached peak performance).

The difference is that most people here really like Apple hardware, so they get a free pass. Most people here really dislike Facebook, so this seems like a mortal sin for a company to promote negative misleading ideas about their competitor.

Everyone markets against their competitors to some degree, even if it’s just a comparison chart on a marketing page somewhere. I’d need to see more evidence that Facebook was deliberately lying to really be concerned about this. It seems the authors are relying heavily on anti-Facebook anger to fuel this story.
In my experience, the algorithms are much more forgiving than humans. At least, when I worked with the risk team at my FinTech company, algorithms flagged people for review and then humans decided to unflag or terminate their accounts. The only time we’d do a freeze is if it looked like an account take over (since that could super badly affect the account owner).
Borax or Baking Soda Rectifier and the glow. (2003)
Sure. I omitted a thousand other factors for brevity.

What else has changed in human behaviour since, say 1900?

Cars? Americans drive everywhere. Europeans, not so much.

The rise of offices and people working less laborious jobs?

It's both sides, energy in (more sugar than in 1900 by a massive margin), and energy out (a more sedentary life style).

And here we are in 2022.

Sugar is easily stored by the body as fat, so when in > out, it's fat++
It has fewer, but unfortunately the mentality of developers believing they should be able to tell the user what to do is so pervasive that even FOSS developers do it. From what I can tell, GNOME is the most prevalent Linux Desktop environment and it is notorious for this. Ubuntu is, if not the most common distro, the most commonly recommended one and Canonical is also notorious for forcing things on the user they don't want like Snaps and auto updating.
Shameless plug: I built Cactus Comments (https://cactus.chat/).

It's an open-source comment system federated on the Matrix (https://matrix.org/) network. This means you can use your Matrix identity to comment on any site that uses Cactus, without the tracking of something like disqus. Works well with static site generators too.
Imagine an America with Steep Billionaire Taxes. No Amazon, Pixar, SpaceX, Tesla
And this is why industrial farmers have pursued, and sometimes succeeded, legislation making it a crime to secretly film this sort of thing :(
Very short term maybe. Medium term you're just putting off work and building up technical debt.
Saving a seed on disk is fine (and good), but orthogonal to the Fortuna entropy pool design.

FreeBSD does the same, but not every bootloader can put it in kernel memory. And/or not every configuration has a writeable /boot. Writing some entropy from the previous boot (or installer) would be helpful for a similar set of Linux systems, but would not solve the problem in the hardest cases. And Linux userspace is developed by a different group than kernel, so it is somewhat harder to make these kind of systemic changes than in BSD land.
Other consideration : deciding between pay-per-use versus fixed pricing. May not be relevant to your SaaS; it depends. If it is, then pay-per-use requires metering on the backend to count the number of operations / resources used.
I really dislike FB, but I can’t say I have your experience. Both mobile and desktop versions of FB worked flawlessly for me for the time that I used it, starting back in 2005 when our University was granted access.
Wow! Reminds me of https://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=6116

A hydrocephalic demo!
Yeah, it is clear based on the script that it sets up an UUID just to show how many instances are used (see the landing page). But you are right, I add a state why it is used.

About the registration, I do not understand it. Ofc, you need to register to your own instance, otherwise how you could use it, especially as a team? Each team member needs to register.
That’s because you probably have a moral compass, but that still isn’t enough. If you were a decision maker at Google, those morals would probably get you fired at some point.

The people running a company have a legal responsibility to act in the interests of their shareholders. Even if making a morals>economics decision doesn’t get them into legal trouble, it can get them into trouble with shareholders, and they may be fired and replaced with someone who doesn’t have a moral compass.

So if the infrastructure doesn’t have room for morally correct decisions, no amount of martyrdom from executives is going to eliminate bad behavior in the long run.
My blog has comments and I have noticed the rate of comments per page view actually increasing over the last few years.

I have spam blockers though.
Show HN: EnvKey 2.0 – End-To-End Encrypted Environments (now open source)
Hey HN,

I'm so happy to finally show you all this release after years of hard work. I posted the first version of EnvKey to HN back in 2017 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15330757), then went through YC in W18 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16569534).

EnvKey is an end-to-end encrypted configuration and secrets manager. It protects your organization's API keys, encryption keys, credentials, and other secrets, and makes it easy to run servers, scripts, tests, and everything else with the latest config. It also helps you avoid duplication in your configuration, react to environment updates in real-time, resolve conflicts smoothly, and a lot more.

You get an intuitive, spreadsheet-like UI for managing environments, along with a developer-friendly CLI that does almost anything the UI can. Running any program in any language with the latest environment variables is as simple as:

envkey-source -- any-shell-command

You can use the `es` alias to type less:

es -- any-shell-command

You can automatically reload a process whenever there's a change using the -w flag:

es -w -- ./start-server

To avoid downtime on reloads, add the --rolling flag to reload gradually across all connected processes:

es -w --rolling -- ./start-server

You can run custom logic when there's a change instead of restarting:

es -r ./reload-env.sh -- ./start-server

Or run something only when there's a change:

es -r ./env-change-hook.sh

You can pass command line arguments from EnvKey variables (just wrap your command in single quotes):

es 'curl https://$HOST_URL'

You can export your environment to the current shell:

eval "$(es)"

Or auto-load the latest environment in any EnvKey-enabled directory (like direnv):

echo $'\n\neval "$(es --hook bash)"\n' >> ~/.bash_profile

EnvKey is now open source under the MIT license and can be self-hosted. Our Cloud and Enterprise Self-Hosted products also include commercially licensed server-side extensions for auto-scaling, highly available infrastructure and advanced user management. Cloud is free for up to 20 user devices and 40 server keys.

EnvKey's client-side end-to-end encryption is built with the NaCl crypto library. Whether you use EnvKey Cloud or host EnvKey yourself, no configuration or secrets are ever sent to the host running EnvKey in plaintext. Public keys are verified by a web of trust. Invitations are verified out-of-band. Secrets are never accessed through a web browser. More details on security and encryption can be found here: https://docs-v2.envkey.com/docs/security

Let me know what you think! Thanks!
I guess, but that's not massively relevant to the story, is it? It looks like they've tried to shoe-horn in a political angle.
> Update, Dec. 5, 2021: The Justice Department has indicted a former Ubiquiti developer for allegedly causing the 2020 “breach” and trying to extort the company.

Seems pretty updated to me.
How what would affect them, massive consumption of excess calories or consumption of HFCS? And affect them how? I'm guessing it makes them fat, but as I said I know it's a problem. I've no idea what point you're trying to make.
Many commenters here have pointed out this is the norm. I'll also point out that most companies fail, and many of the ones that don't fail are despised by their customers/users. What can we say of the companies that succeed and aren't despised? They typically don't do shit like this.

The other problem with thinking "this is what everybody does" is there's the unstated "so keep your mouth shut and just go along with it" that's really unhealthy for us all. If you work for Facebook and you think this is the norm then you're not going to be inclined to question this behavior and if you really think it's universal then you may not even be inclined to leave. Thus the problem perpetuates itself.

If you ever find yourself working for one of this hell hole companies then leave. Don't buy into the false narrative that this is normal, it's the same everywhere, keep your mouth shut and don't rock the boat. You'll come to realize the money doesn't make up for what's been done to your mental health and the quality of your life.
> Did those leaks come from Los Alamos? The project occurred at many sites. That SAPs are hidden in small towns seems hard to dispute, heh :)

Since you don't care to 1) present your sources, nor 2) verify my sources ... which answer your question .. , nor 3) address the speed-of-light problem I mentioned earlier, I give up.
>You're looking at it wrong. Plenty of jobs simply can't be done remotely.

This data is now in. It's roughly 2/3s of jobs cant be done remotely.

> If it gets to the point that people can't afford to move around much, they'll either permanently move closer to their workplace or find a job closer to their home.

That transition happened during the financial crisis in 2009.

>Also, arguably the current discussion around WFH to me is evidence that even most office jobs can't be performed remotely (productively). Even if one person can WFH by themselves, they still need to interact with coworkers who may not be able to do it.

That's a debate I'm sure many management are about to have and flipside going to make lots of recruiters pretty busy.

Frankly for me it's 1 thing that really puts me off going back to the office. When I need to hit the shitter. I walk 2 seconds from my office to my toilet. I have nice soft toilet paper.

At work, I have to go through like 2 security zones and then hope that nobody is using the stalls already. If they are, and that's common. I have to walk to the other side of the building and then hope those shitters arent in use.

Then there's a good chance the one that's empty is going to be atrocious. Then I have to wipe with 1 ply sandpaper. It's just better to be at home.
Honest question, why on earth would you ever have a question for twitter so important that you'd consider paying them to answer it?
figure 2 is repeated for some reason?
Data-harvesting code in mobile apps sends user data to “Russia’s Google”
Beyond a certain limit (~50 employees), the left hand loses track of the right hand. This is and will be the status quo, unless we legislate limits on corporations from growing too big. In other words, this is unlikely to change, because such limits should also be applied to government.
That video makes it sound like we're far away, because we need tokamak output to be about a hundred times better than we've achieved.

What it ignores is that tokamak output is highly nonlinear. It scales with the square of plasma volume, and the fourth power of magnetic field strength. Double the field, 16X the output. These scaling laws are very well established at this point.

The plasma volume scaling is why ITER is so big. But after ITER was designed, people invented REBCO superconducting tape, which can support much stronger magnetic fields and is commercially available.

Using those fields, CFS is building their SPARC reactor, which will get ITER-level output (Qplasma=10) from a reactor half the size of JET, which was built in four years. (Three years for the building, one year for the reactor inside.) If that goes well, the next step would be build their ARC reactor, which will be the same size as JET and get commercial-level output.

(Some of the alternate designs also have great scaling in theory, but we don't understand their plasma physics as well so it's harder to predict how they'll turn out.)
Well, thanks for the confidence; you did hit the nail on the head. I haven't taken a real vacation in 20 years, although I did live in vans and hostels for 10 of those years. For peace of mind, I maintain a set of PGP files signed and keyed to each of my clients which I flippantly tell them to open "if I get hit by a bus", that contain all the SSH keys and details needed to get to their source files / DBs / webservers, extra code hints and lots of juicy advice for whatever unfortunate developer takes over after my demise. (Including shit like, this software is way too old, rewrite it).

If you saw what I write you'd say I was a 20x coder, but that's just from a youngin's perspective. I've been writing code since 1988. The basic value proposition for my clients is that they know I'll die at some point, but it's way cheaper and more efficient to pay one guy they know will get it done, and take the risk they'll have to scramble for someone else in less than 10 years (at which point they'll likely have to rewrite anyway). Also, the shit I write mostly maintains itself. I'm proud to say that my software in 24/7 production has had no actual crashes in years other than the occasional forced server upgrade. If I died, it would take awhile to notice if they didn't keep asking me for new features.
Exactly. You think that developers are paid to stop and think about the outcomes of what they do? They're all too busy running sprints and meeting OKRs and performance metrics and hustling design and code reviews and playing internal politics to worry about the effect of what they are doing on their users and ordinary people. Besides, even if they did have an end user in mind, it's not the "users". They're motivated by the customers - advertisers.

I really found this video to be enlightening on our current techno-dystopian state: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=GWvFZ99s558
I've come to understand abstraction as a reduction of something complex into something symbolic that captures the bare minimum / absolute essence of the reduced thing, and not necessarily in an obvious way.

In programming, it could be the boundaries of a concept independent of implementation. In visual art, it could be a few lines on canvas that evoke the spirit of the thing referenced. In jazz, it could be strange notes on the peripheries and askew of rhythm that by being what is not, circumscribe what is.
Yeah, and oddly enough, suburbia seems to be getting more and more fun. My town keeps having new restaurants and breweries open, plus we have great local parks for hiking and stuff. I don’t miss living in a city at all, and I thought it would suck.