skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's definitely quite ranty. I didn't make it to the end. It really only makes sense if you take as axiomatic the assumption that ad targeting is very bad, but most people really don't agree with that. Ad targeting has been a fact of life since the earliest days of newspapers, radio and TV, it just wasn't particularly well targeted. Now it's much better targeted but where are the people actually hurt by it?

Discussions about adtech and privacy always have this kind of ultra-abstract feel to them, for that reason. Finding concrete, specific people who have suffered concrete, specific harms due to better ad tech is nearly impossible, so the space gets ignored by all except middle class activist types who have to resort to ever more manipulative stunts (like this comic book "remix") to try and get attention, to convince people that this is what matters and not other issues.

Also, opposing advertising is kind of a luxury belief. It's reminiscent of the sort of champagne /r/antiwork socialists who earnestly ask, why do people have to work? These people would certainly blanche if suddenly asked to pay the full ad-free rates for all the services they enjoy, especially because the average person's internet experience is being subsidized to the tune of hundreds of dollars a month by advertisers (I saw stats on this once, how much is being bid in the ad auctions on a per-person basis but you can also just work out crude averages from Google's revenue and guesstimated click traffic).

And finally it's also somehow internally contradictory. What would it take to have a world free of annoying ads? Well, people would still need to find out about services, including those they maybe didn't even realize existed. Basically you'd need to replace broadcast brand-style ads with very specific "pull ads" where they're only seen by the people who need to see them. Which is ... exactly what search advertising is.
Yes and no. No, it is not a convention. A commit must contain an e-mail address. That’s how the data structure is specified. Of course, whether you use an existing e-mail address or whatever is entirely up to you. I’m not sure if it needs to be RFC-compliant.

Still, even a fake address will be visible to everyone.
I think you are really going to enjoy this blog, A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry https://acoup.blog/

It's all about history and it's popular conception from an actual historian.
One reason why companies would not do this is to give a little bit of protection against zero-days. When a zero-day is released all providers notice a huge scan for the vulnerability. Scanning huge blocks of the internet takes time but if a hacker has a list of companies using which tools and where it can be narrowed down a lot.

AWS/Azure/GCP/... for example have published IP-ranges of services. If a zero-day for any of those services is released a hacker can already narrow down the attack-range and gain a lot of time.
> It turned out that writers actually like to write themselves

After reading this line, I literally went thank goodness it flopped.

I don't want to read autogenerated content no matter how good it may be.

Yes, AI can be useful in a lot of domains, but autogenerated content to read? No thank you. I like to experience what the writers themselves come up with.

And what if the writers change their style?

> AI-generated text is going to make the next generation of the internet so much worse.

This kind of thing combined with global warming would make for an interesting future.
Can you share some recommendations of where to begin? I've always wanted to try it, yet when I did it, I was kind of overwhelmed by amount of options you have (clients to choose, servers to join)
You're welcome to try having as much consideration as you can.

This is written for people in a catastrophic/traumatic grief scenario, and pretty accurately accounts for the fact that that takes over EVERYTHING while it's happening.
I'm fairly confident that PDF can not be parsed without interpretation so this probably can't handle it.
I have some first hand experience with fraternal orders. They sowed the seed of their own destruction somewhere around Vietnam.

They experienced a huge boost in popularity following WW2, where soldiers returning home looked to fill the companionship void left by leaving military service. They experienced similar boosts following Korea and Vietnam, but they got spoiled by these: they got so veteran-centric (in no small part because of the negative view Americans at large had of the Vietnam war) that they basically stopped recruiting anyone else.

Then military culture shifted, leading a lot of people to not identify with their service as much as prior generations. The fraternal orders didn't try to recruit, and by now it's too late: very few young people cherish the thought of hanging out with a bunch of septagenarians.
> Keep Email Address Private - Recommended

Why?

> Use Plaintext - Optional

But this one is optional, why?
I actually empathize with the statements in the article about the challenges of managing a staging environment. For a lot of systems I worked on, short of just copying customer data into the staging environment (which, depending on your industry or the contracts with your customers may be a big no-no, and the more-distributed your system, the harder that also was to do) it was extremely hard to populate the staging environment with representative data. Or representative state in third-party systems.

(Not to say that testing on a developer's machine wouldn't have these same problems, of course, which I also find the article glosses over.)
The way I read that is, if you have a staging environment, it is someone else's job to test things before they deploy (Product Manager etc.) which allows them to merge it and forget it. I agree if it is the dev's job then it wouldn't make sense.

The other issue that is fair is the potential lag between dev and production if you have a gate at staging. This way, a developer is likely to move onto something else instead of watching their baby swim into production with all the errors that could cause!
Should banking really be on a cloud platform?

I do believe AWS is likely far more secure than any DIY computing environment but even so, should banking be on cloud infrastructure? I'm not saying I think this is a bad idea but it came to mind when I read this.

Also, is it really a good idea for a bank to be talking openly about its security strategy? Isn't an important part of security not to let on anything that might be used against you? For example if determined hackers know your systems then they can keep an eye out long term for vulnerabilities in those technologies and be ready to strike. Does this sort of thing matter or not?
written in rust won't make me use it

however, features X, Y, Z than other editors doesn't have might make me want to use it

but that's not the case, so what is the point?

who is the target of such projects?

it's endemic with "written in rust" projects

a waste of opportunities, at some point it's being seen as spam, "written in rust" without bringing much new bits
I have zero knowledge of how the Dutch railway scheduling system works, nor of the nature of this failure, but SAP has been blogging recently about using Prolog for combinatorical optimization tasks such as the one that may be in use here or in SAP's Advanced Planning [1]. There are also well-known Prolog proponents from NL.

[1]: https://blogs.sap.com/2022/03/11/what-you-may-not-know-of-pr...
For those of us who have multiple projects to visit, its good to know for billing purposes.

I honestly don't understand why personal location tracking is not a built-in feature of the modern mobile OS. I'd love to not even have to use a third-party app to work out where I was all week ...
As was stated in the earnings call for Q1: "We're on track for R2 to progress to open beta in Q2 and then be generally available in the second half of 2022."

So, very soon now.
No the section a train is on is automatically and mechanically secured by the lights on the section ahead and afterwards. (2 sections if you count the yellow warning lights)
And i assume there are no adult content providers in that list. Who will autocomplete that for me :(
Exactly. containers are not secure sandboxes by default and if one is breached all those K8s networking ACLs are worthless.
> It's very recent, wich is the point of my post, we lost so much time with meaningless things

But again, outside of the US it isn't. Contactless payments have been common in Europe and had widespread usage for a decade. Chinese and European adoption was pretty similar.
Yes, partially.

For example there were many pogroms, some inspired by Russia some by Germany, many were "grassroots".
I don’t see why banking shouldn’t be on a cloud platform, you’re not really giving any reason why we should question it either.

As to your second point, security through obscurity is generally believed to not be worthwhile.
> At least in my neck of the woods Square is everywhere and helps small business owners make a living.

Unless they're sex workers or queer artists, who are banned from the platform.
The Load Balancer Got Terned Off
Even as atheist one can converse with fictive entities. I would even go as far as telling that in any society that have any form of administration, one will have to deal with fictive entities.

Back on the focus to happiness, I just finished to read ACT Made Simple: An Easy-To-Read Primer on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy[1]. I recommend it to anyone who thinks there is too much hindrances between them and happiness, or any life-according-to-own-values aim. What I especially appreciated in the book:

- humor is often used at right level

- it doesn’t sell itself as a stack of miracle turn-key solutions that works 100% of time

- the work itself doesn’t simply expose practical skills and techniques, it is a living example of applying them

[1] https://www.amazon.com/ACT-Made-Simple-Easy-Read/dp/16840330...
Sorry, the correct link is https://sqlframes.com/docs/sql_frames/intro

I didn't find a way to edit my initial comment.
I'd love for it to track offline. Shouldn't be any technical requirement for being connected to Google or anyone.
What I always missed when dealing with i3 is sane defaults. i3 right after installing is ugly and needs small tweaks in config to fit to my needs. Regolith is exactly what I needed: you install it and it's usable right away. Too bad it's specific to Ubuntu, I wish I could use it on other distros as well
The promise is more "we will deep freeze your brain, and in the future we will maybe come up with a technology that allows us to resurrect you in whatever form". Which is what companies like Alcor have been promising for decades already. So for people who sign up it's more like betting a sizeable amount of money on a small chance that they will be resurrected someday, which is still better (in their opinion at least) than dying like everyone else does...
Exactly this.

Actions are more important than words, otherwise it's just political fluff.

Again they should have refunded people, not care about their language, they didn't so that's a big no-no.

Every company is saying 'sorry', every politician is saying 'sorry' but there are no actual follow ups and ways of fixing it.
> stallman.org, fsf.org, gnu.org

Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.

> breitbart.com, stormfront.org

Lulz.
There is an interesting documentary narrated by Chris Rock where he shares that Koreans dominate the wig industry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Hair it's fascinating this is the origin story.
Hmm, you're right, I might be misremembering and was actually using 80 MHz, so I wanted to try 160 MHz but the routers did not support that. Right, so Wifi N had 20/40 MHz. Thanks!

Reading the replies I'm thinking better chipsets could've achieved higher speeds, but that doesn't quite make sense - if the negotiated rate is the same, why would the real speed differ between routers? I used Archer C7s, which I love because I'm poor, very cheap, very reliable with OpenWRT.

I ended up running fiber - it was surprisingly cheap and I didn't even need special tools for the connectors, just have to be veeery careful when cutting and inserting the cable.
These are questions that should be directed at the company promising "forever", not me for challenging that promise. Actually, maybe not these sarcastic and pedantic questions, but ones similar to these.
Well, if you don't like it you can just change the default browser.
In the original it's actually over 8000, which is interesting because numbers usually don't cause translation issues.
At the very end, author finally uses the word 'perceive', which is what I think is the thrust of the article and a better title - am I missing an alternate use of 'conceive'?
I love Cython. I really feel like it's the right balance of usability and allowing you to do what you want/need. Want to make your code a bit faster? Write Python with type annotations. Want to call a C library? Just import the header, and then use it from a function.

Pybind11 is also great, but quite different in aims - I feel like it's more like a project for C++ programmers wanting to expose functionality to Python.
I would not take the waiting list at face value. The onboarding flow is at such a distinctive rate that you can test it yourself by joining it with different accounts and ask yourself if the rate can be this steady over a 24 hour period…
The cynicism runs deep. Did you know that cynicism is linked to depression?

"The study was conducted on a group of 3,399 individuals, all from London and aged between 35 and 55. The personality traits that were observed included cynicism, suspicion, resentment and distrust. After the study period was completed, it was found that the majority of individuals who expressed these particular personality traits that were monitored at the start of the study had developed depression during the 19 year-period."

https://www.bphope.com/blog/how-cynicism-is-linked-to-depres...
Infuriating that they decide I shouldn't be allowed to view the page on my phone, even when I switch to desktop view. My power's out and I'm not going to hunt down and tether a laptop. Guess I don't care about whatever this user-hostile site is.

Web devs: don't do this.
> more than 20,000 containerised workloads across more than 2000 microservices to date.

This is insane. What am I missing here that an organization is bragging about having 2000 moving parts?
and i still have no idea what i could use it for...
>The black pawn is on the h-file and never goes to a3.

Meant h3, sorry, result of mental calculations.

I just checked on an analysis engine, and it confirms: every position is losing for black, as long as white does not mess it up, and has the first move.

You can try it out here: https://www.chess.com/analysis

Load FEN: 8/2K5/8/7p/P7/5k2/8/8 w - - 0 1
I agree! Typing on mobile with only one hand is the worst!
On the first point, I don't see any particular reason why banking shouldn't go with cloud. Obviously banking has regulatory hurdles and things like availability are important so it'll require a specific architecture to help achieve that, but in general shouldn't be a problem.

On the second point, I'd say it depends on the level of granularity and detail. Here they're describing general mechanisms and they're not saying that this is all they do, so I think it's a good thing.

In general relying on obscurity for your security is a bad idea, as attackers will often find a way to get that information. That said I wouldn't give attackers a complete schematic of my env. and every protection, no sense in making things easy for them :)
A lot of what we call best practices, are good practices when collaborating. When I do things just for me - 10000 lines in a file isn’t a problem. I can see the whole thing in a minimap and know every comma
I was thinking recently about how both the Bay of Pigs invasion and the Russian invasion of Ukraine had wildly insufficient hard power put into them by the aggressors, in part because of groupthink causing the leadership to wildly underestimate their opponents and overestimate the local support for the exiles who formed part of the invasion force.

(I also wonder how much of what I think happened in the Cold War is what actually happened, and how much is just the stories my side likes to tell itself. One of the fun things I found when learning German is that it has the same word for both “history” and “story”: “Geschichte”).
I don't represent the original author. But the way I read that is: the staging environment is said to be a production clone, but it turned out it wasn't, so let's not pretend it is (and fool ourselves) and instead embrace a different test strategy altogether. Thinking of how I test things locally and how I write my own unit and integration tests, I guess that it means doing very isolated, functional tests. An investment in which, to some teams, may be more valuable than throwing it into staging and hoping that the state you found your staging environment in is going to surface some insight about your code change that isn't covered by your test suite.
No, KGB was not disrupted at any point. FSB's predecessor name after KGB was FSK. All three run by same people sitting in the same offices.
I'm curious to see how this changes over time, so I threw together a quick repo with a GitHub action to watch the endpoint.

https://github.com/b0o/apple-autofill-domains
> Ugh, I guess that's why the iOS browsers all suck so hard with autocomplete?

No. Contrary to popular belief, browsers on iOS aren’t all Safari skins. They all use WebKit, but there’s a vast amount of functionality in a web browser that isn’t handled by the rendering engine. This is one example.

Non-Safari browsers on iOS are free to use whatever address bar implementation they like. If Firefox on iOS has a crap address bar, that is 100% down to Firefox.
To add to that, he is also not someone with any experience starting from zero. With the exception of his reality tv persona that he parlayed into politics, most every business he has ever tried to build from scratch has failed.
Please do post the numbers that you find, I am interested as well.
This poem reminds me of Carol Dweck and the growth mindset.
Indeed, the xor-with-itself bit is so basic, it barely counts as an optimization (Clang, in fact, does this even at -O0). It should have been trivially possible to do at initial codegen.
Organizations have different rules around when to apply a change. Some prefer to do it pre-merge, that way if something goes wrong they can modify it and apply again, and others prefer to do it post-merge. We are not opinionated own when a customer does it, we just have rules to make sure a change is both merged and applied. Additionally, who can perform an apply is a different, but related, question to when.

The bet behind Terrateam is that a lot of developers and SREs don't want to leave their MR page when applying and planning so we are supporting as much functionality as possible there.
Same reason you don't use a modern computer in the first place!
Biomesight is the best 16S provider right now in my opinion. They use Jason Hawrleak reference ranges and interventions as far as I’m aware. However this sort of testing only gives you an overall picture, is pretty variable and works in percentages.

I’ve been shifting my microbiome for the best part of a year, and boy is it difficult, especially if you have non-trivial issues. I think there’s a huge space here for potential startups that can start capturing research into actionable intervention steps (nobody is doing it well at the moment).
Implement SAP only in a couple of months? Surely an Agile project...
I wrote a blog post advocating for something like this recently, with an additional push to notify the client when it should poll: https://blog.separateconcerns.com/2022-03-05-push-to-poll.ht...

I wasn't aware of this but it fits the use case perfectly, I will update the post.
-- Search: DuckDuckGo
They've become more and more bolitically biased and I'd recommend to move away even from them. There are searx and MetaGer.

-- Messaging: how about Conversations? It's pretty out-of-the-boxy. But I have to admit, no working voice calls.
I'm old enough to have watched the "Kuwaiti incubator hoax" play out. Having observed a few wars at fairly close range, I'm automatically suspicious of elaborate atrocity stories. That particular story you link actually influences me to be suspicious of the Bucha story. The intent of the article is to portray how bad things are, and the stories it relates are truly awful. But if the Bucha story really represents what is going on, the writers should have found much worse things to report.
funny, I checked the different forums I hang around and the only one in the list is the smallest (in terms of user counts). Though maybe it's the most well-known/infamous outside of its direct niche?
Loved my MK-85, did a lot of BASIC programming on it as a kid. Using pixel graphics you could do even games. I think the demo game it came with was horce racing jumping over fences.
There are lots of components of "non-war stuff" that originated from military R&D, and probably would appear much later if it wasn't for the Defense Budget.
An overview of Ka-band communication systems for satellites
I expected to read this article and think "yeah, no wonder I don't use those", but those first 2 in particular are pretty dope. The "Page Style" dropdown in the browser is something I never really thought you could add to. I think I know the next thing I'll play with in my next personal project. :D
We speed up our ML code 40 times using it.
> Discussions about adtech and privacy always have this kind of ultra-abstract feel to them, for that reason. Finding concrete, specific people who have suffered concrete, specific harms due to better ad tech is nearly impossible, so the space gets ignored by all except middle class activist types who have to resort to ever more manipulative stunts (like this comic book "remix") to try and get attention, to convince people that this is what matters and not other issues.

I don't really want to this sounds like a reductio ad absurdum but really, this is like saying that you don't need to have written down privacy or free speech rights in a country which is truly democratic because it has been impossible "Finding concrete, specific people who have suffered concrete specific harms". Under your point of view the GDPR is a completely useless law as well, because it protects the user from a phantom menace.

> And finally it's also somehow internally contradictory. What would it take to have a world free of annoying ads? Well, people would still need to find out about services, including those they maybe didn't even realize existed. Basically you'd need to replace broadcast brand-style ads with very specific "pull ads" where they're only seen by the people who need to see them. Which is ... exactly what search advertising is.

There is GIANT difference between advertising and tracking individuals en masse. I have no problem with billboard advertisement or passive one. I still don't like them and personally try to filter them out as much as possible (by paying for services directly or using adblockers) but I don't see them as a big moral issue. With tracking, it's a whole different story!
Also, most of the good things that tracking can give users, could nowadays be done on the edge, local to the user device, without reporting it back to the central servers.
Nowadays it's more business trips to Prague...
I’m struggling to think of a reason I’d need this to be honest
> Europe's strongest army

The conflict has been horrific and bloody and I do not want to make light of this. But I think what we have seen over the last month or so should dispel any notion that Russia had anything close to the strongest military of the European countries.
Those moving parts are defined by the complexity of the business. Banking software with 20000 classes deployed in J2EE application server on a mainframe would not be much different.