skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This might run counter to the super minimal setup, and feel free to ignore if so, but mathjax/katex support would be nice. I often have simple ideas that can be summarised in a couple of lines of math that could really benefit from a light platform like this.
My god, can we get some POSITIVE news for once?

( /s )
Of course. I have some experience(though old and long ago) with communal and governmental ICT operations. But also "the other side" :-) We have a saying here which goes like Government money is stupid money, meaning the government is stupid and pays anything. Then you close shop, and start another. For another round of stupid government money. And it doesn't even blink if it sees your name again, why should it? It's another business entity.

From what I hear it has changed just a little bit, not much, though. It also depends on state and town.

Speaking for .de and North-Rhine-Westfalia from 1994 to 2001 here.
Also, one should subscribe to the mailop mailing list, which serves as a Distant Early Warning line for email deliverability issues (ie. like NANOG for netops issues).

https://www.mailop.org/best-practices/
Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not.

- George Bernard Shaw
I'm not in aeronautics obviously and I overstated the case, but my understanding is that the MAX series have different flight characteristics (behaves differently) due to bigger engines which also were moved forward both of which resulted in altering the aerodynamics and flight characteristics --making it different to non MAX 737s... so far, so good. They fly different and you have to treat them differently. But in order to make the pre MAX 737 pilots pre-crosstrained for the new MAXes they installed MCAS systems that made the controls feel like they would respond in a pre MAX 737. In other words computerized compensation. But due to the new flight characteristics you could not exactly fly it like a ore MAX 737 and so if you did bad things could happen if you were not being attentive.
"Exactly"? I'm pretty sure you just contradicted the comment you replied to by partly explaining why it does matter.

It's a failure of something no matter what, but "it doesn't matter how the gap causes problems" ain't true.
Sure it's useful, but it's not at all a guarantee. You can't assume the byte stream is UTF-8, and UTF-8 has a NUL in it.

Reading about it, filename encoding looks like a mess, GLib apparently assumes UTF-8 unless you set it with an environment variable, which I think is wild. Qt uses the locale, which feels reasonable (ignoring that locales are themselves bananas). But assuming UTF-8 and relying on ASCII compatibility and no NULs feels risky.
I’ve been to a lot of .gov offices in the US.

It’s always surprising to me. The most intense over the top security process I ever ran into was an agency that disbursed grants to artists.
but is it not hubris to think that we really know much about the origin and outcome of the universe?
is it wise to make decisions based on this modicum of knowledge that we currently have regarding thermodynamics and the universe?

I suspect that the scientists of a trillion years from now will know a lot more than we do know...so, I don't really much that much confidence in current pronouncements regarding the beginning and possible end of the universe..

and yes I do have a degree in science and courses in physics & thermodynamics
I like to amass books and grep them later when I want to know something. Embrace the deluge!
>The task is to prevent these people from taking and holding power.

And for that I completely blame the 'right' thinking, honest, hardworking nerd types - even when given the reins to power they will often not take it, because it is uninteresting work, compared the cool gadget/problem they are working on.
Popper: The statement, "There are no purple cows", can never be proven, but it could be disproven by presenting one.

Fuchs: [Need some help with this one]

Deutsch: [This one too]

Yudkowsky: Based on the fact that we've studied cows all over the planet for millennia, and have never seen a verified report of a purple one, we can conclude with great certainty that there are no purple ones.
America is full of terrible jobs now. Just terrible. There has been a degradation of job quality with outsourcing, amazon, you name it. This may be why nurses don't leave.
For Android, it is hard to beat a good Samsung Galaxy. I fix a ton of my friends old Galaxies. I tell them not worth it because the screens are so expensive. But its always for their mom or something who really like the Galaxy and they upgraded them with some other brand of Android, Moto, LG, even low end Samsung and after a few months just can't take it anymore.
Ok, if the amount of data is a problem, another option is to just download your mbox from Google takeout, treat it as an archive, and use something like notmuch to search your old mails. You can then store and backup the mbox anywhere you want.

In addition to the iCloud, I have a free ProtonMail account, which I use sparingly, and anything large or important that comes in there I move to local backup and delete. 99% of the messages I get can just be deleted. If you set up pop3 you can auto delete from the server. That’s the old school solution, but it depends on your use case. The pop3 option doesn’t work well with multiple devices.
Their Soundcore speakers are so good. Charge bricks are great too, albeit gets hot while idling.

Good brick + long braided cables is way to go. Crazy it’s not apple’s default.
Can you automate token generation?

The repo uses a middleware server. I'm wondering what other approaches there are.
How does render compare to Netlify? They seem fairly similar.
That might be the case for federal, but a lot of state employees like teachers can get substantial retirement after 20 years.
I thought Wolfram's version of this resulted in some interesting analysis: https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2012/03/the-personal-ana...
> OH, so you want a way for the server to encrypt data just for a given client, that they can't read.

No, we want a way for the client to encrypt data in such a way that the server can't read. Ideally also with MLS capabilities, so we can encrypt data in a way that other people can read, but not any intermediaries. But let's just ignore that for now, because it threatens to inject only more insane chaotic out of control mayhem.

Please, make this pain stop. Why does this thread never go anywhere clear & always goes to misinformation?

I really don't think Nitrokey made everything crystal clear, but it's far far less confusing than where we are right now after this brand new vast massive tragic & sorrowful retrogression in the discussion, so,

> While FIDO is supported by web browsers, using Nitrokey as a secure key store for email and (arbitrary) data encryption requires native software. Therefore email encryption in webmail has not been possible with the Nitrokey until now. At the same time strong end-to-end encryption in web applications all share the same challenge: To store users' private keys securely and conveniently. Therefore secure end-to-end encryption usually requires native software as well (e.g. instant messenger app) or – less secure – store the user keys password-encrypted on servers. Nitrokey aims to solve these issues by developing a way to use Nitrokey with web applications.

100% of my premise is that we should not need to always trust the server we connect to. We should be able to secure data on the client, in a way the server cannot access. Because we should not have to trust all data we access to the servers we connect to. It cannot be more basic & simple than that. But this voice & this perspective has been run off the site by confusion & bedlam that obfuscates & distracts from this simple point. I am so sorry.
I’ve always wanted immutable reproducible play lists.
What we're seeing play out is essentially the Dead Sea Effect, but in Nursing.

https://medium.com/geekculture/the-dead-sea-effect-d71df1372...
> though I wonder whether facts

Sarcasm? Facts are mere speed bumps to destination nowhere fast.
Nah, Ultraviolet Catastrophe is worse, then there's wavefunction collapse. And there's gotta be something in particle physics that puts these terms to shame. Given that the particle names are drawn from literature and whimsy.

I looked up the dictionary definition of pretentious, and so it doesn't really apply, but the hERG channel is a critical ion channel and various drugs block this and cause Really Bad Things. hERG stands for "the human Ether-a-go-go-Related Gene" - a pretty bloody stupid name but whimsey is not restricted to particle physics.

Canonical ensemble, along with microcanonical and grand canonical ensembles are all over statistical mechanics. And I suspect there's not one bit of whimsey in their naming. There was not any humour in my stat mech course aside from me trying to make sense of it.
Eqivo: Open-source telephony API platform
Hacker News Down Voting Crew is very particular. I think they changed the system, so that the Crew cannot go far back in history to downvote everything, because of one humorous non-PC message.
Inside Apple's Hefty DIY iPhone Repair Kit Rentals
Yes, today if you text someone not using iphone, you will have a green bubble which means you are practically a pariah and get made fun of. In fact my circle almost does the same, but more jokingly because you make fun of each other cars at the older ages lol.
"Narrow brown narrow coin"

Reminds me of those machines that would smash your penny into a longer penny with something else written on it
Isn't Twitter banned and blocked in Russia currently?
>The Bayesians believe you can look at past results to make good guesses about what will happen in the future. I must be missing something, because I don't understand how anyone could disagree, but apparently Karl Popper famously does.

Deutsch and Popper disagree with the notion of recording specific "probabilities" as (usually rational) numbers between 0 and 1 for the occurrence of specific future events. This is because the product law for coincidence and the law of the excluded middle lead to a contradiction when you try to do this. Similar arguments have been made elsewhere, e.g.:

https://faculty.fuqua.duke.edu/~rnau/definettiwasright.pdf

Looking at past results to make predictions about what will happen in the future is something everyone does, but that doesn't mean that the means of doing so produces a list of values in [0,1] updated in a very specific way.
Google will now remove search results that “dox” individuals upon request
Someone got paid the big buck to develop that system. Priorites, you know.
Hrm. Why tee eff shops downtown insisted on that Luca thing with Smudos blessing instead? PR? Federalism? Panic? Incompetence?
One of their workarounds for violating the constitution is to route domestic traffic out of country so that it is classified as "foreign" and fair game for collection.
At this point I am quite invested in the Spotify algorithm and am happy with its recommendations and discovery.

Does anyone have any interesting hacks / improvements to vanilla Spotify experience? Some must-have apps or such?

This one doesn’t seem to do anything in particular a Spotify app couldn’t do
Me: I need a rock solid router that can handle small business.

Yamaha: Here. You don't need any contract to download latest firmware/manual.
Well… if smoking wasn’t prohibited the root cause was the leaky oxygen mask…
- Works on large database (> 10GB) (read Design)

Can anyone explain to me how this works in RepliByte? The design document only talked about Postgres.

For example let's say I have a MySQL database, how does RepliByte copy that database into S3?

Does it use mysqldump or are they coping the database index files? We have a script that automatically backs up our production database at intervals to S3 and then a program to download the latest backup and scrub the data.

It takes a heck of a long time to download and impacts the server when it happens... it's been on my todo list to replace with Percona's Xtrabackup [1] but doesn't look that's what these guys are doing?

- Database Subsetting: Scale down a production database to a more reasonable size

What about this? Does the database need foreign keys to prevent related rows in tables being lost and are they just randomly deleting rows as the config seems to indicate [2]

[1] https://www.percona.com/software/mysql-database/percona-xtra...

[2] https://github.com/qovery/replibyte#configuration
Without some specific way of knowing what encoding you're dealing with, you can have this problem with any number of encodings you're working with (including ASCII suddenly having UTF-8 bytes in it). As soon as you're in a "assume an encoding and maybe be surprised", you're asking to be surprised.

Totally agree these discussions circle around to "you need some kind of OOB way to know what encoding you're dealing with", which puts us back to everything being encoding agnostic, with some way to configure it. Maybe that's locales, maybe that's a type 32-byte integer at the beginning, dunno.
Missing point is that FB isn’t on-balance adding value to people’s lives. This is their downfall.
> the most pretentious sounding name in all of physics

Also, "the free will theorem" and "the god particle".
Ask HN: Why can’t cloud providers show the instantaneous consumption / cost?
Any factory knows exactly its current instantaneous consumption of electricity, gas, water, fuel. If there’s a mishap the factory owner realizes immediately and can take corrective action. Why do cloud providers take 24-48 hours to show or bill consumption? It seems like a potentially huge liability.
The Effect of Folder Structure on Personal File Navigation (2010)
Yeah, and while computational modeling has a good handle on enthalpy in drug design, it's all handwaving and statistics for entropy. And yet it's entropy that breaks predictions and drives medchem.

Solve how to properly model the free energy of interaction between a ligand and a protein (or two proteins) with proper solvent treatment and (a) you'll be famous, not Kardashian famous, but famous and (b) a whole lot of people will buy or download your software.
…in limited areas. Most higher paying nursing jobs are requiring bachelors degrees as of about 5 years ago.
I once went to dinner with some NYRB reviewers and was thoroughly impressed that yes, it’s the New York Review of Each Other’s Books. I haven’t given it any respect since.

LARB is much better in my opinion.
There is a lot more information about the product if you click on ”Read more about the campaign”.

Here is the demo video for example:
https://youtu.be/yw4EubU5lQg
North Korea would nuke south korea if they thought their government would fall. Makes no difference why the government is falling, if they're going they'll take the south with them. Also adds additional incentives for the south to stop wide scale dissent.
Maybe not the exact same, but in 2009 I bought a house in the Bay Area and got an $8,000 tax credit because the “American dream was dead.” Needless to say the house has significantly increased and I would have purchased without the credit (credit couldn’t be used towards the purchase anyway). Long story short, this too shall pass, likely larger than previously imagined.
Great write up. In your case, sounds like risk factors were relatively minor, but your blockage was severe - do you know of any efforts to increase proactive use of cardiac PET or other scans? I understand the typical stress test isn't indicated before other symptoms manifest.
You must be more clear - do you mean we're stuck with trolls and so we don't have nice things, or we don't have nice things because trolls face moderation??
This plagues me almost daily. I would love for this limit to be increased as well ...
I don't blame you for confusing the terms but I am so upset that the average person upvoted you without checking. You have the wrong term, and I'm going to comment here just to give people an extra chance to know that.
This guy has a habit of making fun of those who criticize him after paying him.
Every US citizen with a security clearance is fair game for warrantless monitoring at any time. They get to maintain a domestic surveillance apparatus just for that capability alone. Of course, once you have a hammer...
Security at enterprise scale is pretty damned hard.

Having been the only security guy in a large, and complex, engineering enterprise, it feels darned near impossible. Security is often just regarded as an added expense, until something happens.

It really does take buy-in from everyone, understanding security, being invested in security, and consistently accounting for security, for a program to be super effective. Otherwise security is left playing whack-a-mole, asking teams to fix all the things they constantly are finding out of compliance.
If it's hard enough for to tech companies to hire skilled developers, I can only imagine what the bar is for public work. They might even resort to hire some brain damaged people.
FormData rules!

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/FormData
To me, a "superior" being is something that, in an abstract general way, is "good" at optimizing a function.

Where that might become terrifying is in two cases that occur to me:

(a) no matter how good it is at optimization, it might trap itself/us/society in a local optimum that excludes us from something far better, or;

(b) it might just optimize something that humans, or I in particular, don't think is good (and/or conflicts with what I/we want to optimize).

I have thought that perhaps the "grey goo" scenario has already started - with cryptocurrency and social media. It's later than we think. But at the same time, maybe the prognosis isn't as dire as some fear, because we are and will continue to co-evolve with emerging superhuman entities.
Imagine risking your freedom and your very life to watch Patrick Bateman walking through his office listening to Tomato Town
Surely a radio that switches on for 5 minutes via motion sensor would be better? It's random music. Or just leave the radio on all the time and don't worry about the motion sensor.

I don't believe a recorded waterfall sound coming from small speaker will mask the explosive bass-heavy thunder downunder from the toilet bowl and resonated around the bathroom.

If anything, fix a few sound dampening tiles to the bathroom walls and ceiling.
Almost 10 years ago. Has anyone bought one?
Imagine what their unswiftly looks like.

My hunch is it may have taken part of that time for them just to figure out how to secure the bucket properly, as well as keep their service functioning with the properly secured bucket.

I think many of these startups do just enough to get the service functional.
Quit and what's next? Take another loan to switch carriers?
The way I'm reading it, no, that's not what they're saying. Govt doing the same things but having them done by contractors does not make it "smaller".
https://archive.ph/bG9Lr
I just bought a Telluride on Monday and love it. It is the highest ranked car on Consumer Reports across all vehicle types. I don't think this is an indicator of a company in trouble.

My last 3 cars were Teslas.
Wasn’t this in Demolition Man?
You can manage your playlists with version control.
> I don't think anything implies 'unprompted' rather than 'prompted'
> I am in complete incomprehension of how "Your Echos Are Heard" suggests that the smart speaker is specifically listening to your unprompted speech.

1. Wake word systems are by design, always on, always listening. At one level, the speaker _is_ listening to unprompted speech.

2. Those systems are imperfect. Pretty much everyone I know can describe at least one occasion on which a voice assistant accidentally triggered, and I have personally witnessed Siri transcribe the words said _before_ "Hey Siri."

3. There's an urban legend that FB or Amazon are, without any prompting, listening in on conversations, and using that to improve user profiles. Moreover we've seen several stories on HN lately about Zoom still sending data when the user has clicked mute, so people are more likely to make that connection.

4. Even the abstract uses the phrase "egregious privacy breaches" and doesn't provide sufficient clarity to distinguish between prompted and unprompted listening.

The title is ambiguous in a way that requires you to read the article to know whether this applies to unprompted or not -- both are equally supported conclusions IMO. And that same ambiguity lets anyone project their biases onto the article, retweet / repost / share, and demand. People are jumping to conclusions, certainly, but ambiguity interacts with "fast" social media in the form of people reading only the headlines before commenting.
relative advantage is a wonderful thing
It has user selectable countdown timer. As well as night mode hours when it’s quiet. You set it to what you want.
Yuuup. That is the genius of Heroku. They make almost everything very simple and the tougher stuff relatively easy to understand and configure. All of that took many many years of iteration and refinement, which is why the competitors are going to take awhile to get there.
Maybe the Honda Choir? I dunno.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UO5Was4Wf1k
What’s the con (vs pro) to this approach?

I can see Wall Street analysis saying on premise companies outperform (Msft is back, Tesla, Apple, but not the group missing earnings reports), then the hot new startups follow because their funders wrote the analysis, then a rush for San Francisco office space again, across the board like never before. 10 years goes by fast. The kids who missed in person learning might long for in person working.
Look at it this way: AGI is going to happen eventually (unless civilisation collapses first), but democracy around the world seems to be in decline (for reasons generally unrelated to AI). So humanity is in an interesting window of time where we have to develop AGI while democracy still exists, and use it to preserve and spread democracy, or it will forever remain the preserve of dictators, who will use it to maintain their power indefinitely.

I hope that helps.
I mostly disagree. We already have lots of code that deals with tons of different encodings, UTF-16 is pretty easy and there's lots of libraries already, etc. But if we ignore all that, your argument is against UTF-8, which succeeded UTF-16.
This is definitely some interesting stats.

When I was looking at the stats, I realized I can never make something like this. Just alone the list of flying spots mentioned are huge for me. I don't think I have travelled at much internationally. Having a location graph for myself would be mostly few cities and maybe 1 or 2 countries(connecting flights).

Maybe 1 day I get to travel a lot. :)
"Yet there's cause for alarm"

I find these claims actually dangerous

We risk disrupting what has consistently been a downard trend by acting on some arbitrary definition of "cause of alarm".

Teenage pregnancy after the 1960's is one example of that
Who’s costs?
Totally and completely agree! I spent hours when hospital I worked for 30 years, made our GI lab use the program for documentation and billing from the OR. It was abysmal. I tried and did the best I could with Cerner, but you can’t fit square peg in round hole- no one designing ever asked those that had the 30+ yrs of knowledge that could have developed a unit or specialty specific program. It just wasn’t THAT hard, but management wanted it to work with what they already paid for!
Does it hurt to try?
No, once again there is a distinction. Apple, Google, et al control the software running on users' devices through network effects and apathy, rather than by legal fiat. When trying to change the state of affairs, details do matter. Just equating it all adds to the feeling of helplessness. I agree about the general phenomenon of performative concern, and perhaps that is what discussing North Korea's digital restrictions management ultimately is for most. But still proper criticism of that phenomenon is not to equate it with domestic issues that we can actually effect change on.