skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would be more reassuring for you to explain exactly how you do use the data. Are you training neural networks, even with aggregated/anonymised data? Are you creating synthetic data?

I'd be specifically interested in exactly how you "delete" data after the user requests this, and how you ensure that any data breach could not reveal identifying information. Perhaps HIPAA covers some or all of this, I'm not sure. But personally I'd want extremely detailed reassurance about these items.
> I don't think there is a good solution besides a deep anti-bot expertise whithin the primary website development team

But there is a solution: the website team should get their act together and remove the "first come first served" aspect altogether.

Do you, citizen, want to register? Cool - leave your e-mail and we'll call you. Is the service optional? Then we'll pick at random from the pool of applicants and e-mail them. Is the service mandatory? Then sign up and we'll call you once you reach the top of the queue. Add a quick ID/credit card/whatever check on top (like good concert venues do), regular e-mail updates to let people know they haven't been forgotten, and you're done.

Any second year CS student could write such a system. The difficult part is accepting that the current approach doesn't work and looking for alternatives.
Grammatical gender is not as simple/uniform as you state https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_type_of...
Also, that animation looks 100% like how they portrayed your computer being hacked in movies. You know, when the UI completely disappears and the only thing you see on the screen is the message that the hacker wants you to see.
I highly recommend delighting in each other's company.
How prestige outlets get away with copypasta
> in a deck of daily inspiration that my planner software cycles through

OT: Would you care telling some more about details? How does it work, did you set it up yourself, how it's done? I am very much interested.
https://archive.ph/keJKJ
This kind of piece usually happens because of the following common industry practice:

A company's PR department (usually via an outside publicist) approaches a friendly (or likely friendly) journalist with an idea for the story. They promise special access to company information and lots of quotes for the story. Serious outlets won't let the company "help" with the drafting, but sometimes the company will provide proposed language for all or some of the story.

It's a good arrangement for the company and journalist. The company controls the narrative and plants stories that fit its current PR goals.

The journalist gets an easy piece--more or less pre-packaged and with minimal need to do their own investigation. Journalists have an incentive not to pose difficult questions or push back too hard: Those who do get a "bad" reputation with publicists, leaving them out of the running for future pre-packaged stories.

There are lots of variations on the above. Some aren't nefarious and the result is still good journalism.

And sometimes the result is a transparent puff piece.
> additional paid functionality

Then it probably won’t be fully FOSS, will it?
Are they? I worked with bioinformaticians and now physicists and rust has never come up.

> Köster, now at the University of Duisburg-Essen in Germany, was looking for a language that offered the “expressiveness” of Python but the speed of languages such as C and C++. In other words, “a high-performance language that is still, let’s say, ergonomic to use”, he explains. What he found was Rust.

He must not have looked very far. There are much better options if you're looking for the expressiveness of Python. Personally I'm very fond of Nim.
Can you please cite some of these references?
One of the greats - Kurt Vonnegut - on this topic:

"A few Americans, but very few, still have extended families. The Navahos. The Kennedys."

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/300997-ok-now-let-s-have-so...
I've built market research tools for startups and made it free of charge
https://www.genesis.com/worldwide/en/models/luxury-suv-genes...
For small sites, I would just use a simple firewall:

1. whitelist the finite IP ranges for the regional ISPs/country where you do business

2. blacklist the proxy and tor exit nodes

3. blacklist the list of published compromised servers

4. add spamhaus blacklists

5. add fail2ban rules to trip on common server security scans, and unused common service ports

6. publicly reply to those having access issues, and imply they have bad neighbors.

This will often take care of 99% of the nuisance traffic, but I still recommend live monitoring traffic regularly. ;)
Wikipedia puts the radioactive decay of isotopes at half of the heat flux from the core. So yes, eventually it will cool down, but it is absolutely generating internal heat.
No, refusing to generate stuff in an area where the output is likely to be controversial (in either direction) is refusing to bat. It'll wait for a pitch that it thinks it can hit, just like it refuses to play for many other categories-- you'll have hard time to get Copilot to enumerate races, too.

Ignoring the potential offensiveness and YOLOing through it is swinging the bat wildly at every pitch.
Why 5 scientists are turning to Rust (2020)
My golden rule of sys admin is that anything on a Linux based OS can be fixed. Preferably without a reboot.

Though a friend of mine once discovered that it's a bad idea to force remove glibc (on a non BusyBox distro, of course).
I really don't, I started my coding life on 8 bit computers, went through all MS-DOS versions starting with MS-DOS 3.3, and on the UNIX side with Xenix, all the time wishing stuff like the Amiga, Atari ST and Acorn would be the standard way of computing.

Turbo Vision was the best TUI framework, with a compiled language, in 1990, 32 years ago!

I really don't get this terminal nostalagia.
https://doublecmd.sourceforge.io/site/eng/snapshots.php
snapshots for mac available, latest is 1.1.0
Nim seems to have adopted a lot of the trappings of rust in the last few years. Sort of weird he didn't see Julia first, as it's explicitly aimed at this group.
The average Windows user is far from being tech-savvy (I’m not going to call them stupid).
> how expensive it is actually to have individuals deliver you stuff

That's not actually the expensive part. The expensive part is the greedy investors behind it and their attempt at monopolizing the industry (which thankfully is failing).
The docs have a page on how `pls` compares against other tools (notably `exa`). You can see it at https://dhruvkb.github.io/pls/about/comparison.html
This article describes pretty much exactly why I turned to Rust for my scientific computing - high speed, far easier to use than C or C++, less bug prone.
He eventually ported them into Turbo Pascal as well, that is when I bumped into the series.
Dry. Most of Europe is, except on rare occasions.
Rust seems to get serious corporate support, which future-proofs it and guarantees ecosystem growth. Not sure about Nim.

Edit: others mentioned Julia, and it indeed looks like a valid choice since they don’t seem to program embedded or safety-critical stuff.
As I said the other two places you posted about this, we spent a lot of time testing starting with vanilla CUE and concluded less would be more. You disagree, that's fine.

Again if there's an Acornfile still called .cue somewhere, it's an oversight. You've pointed out an actual example now, so it's been removed.
Good question then: how is the "occasianal's programmer" experience compare between Rust and C++?

I used to write games in C++ as a teenager, and using it daily was fine. Now I find, every time I try to write something in it, it's a massive pain, as I forget the myriad of tiny rules, the very specific ways to write types etc. And that's before I even think about dependency management.

Is Rust substantially better at this? When I read frustrations about Rust, it seems to be mostly about the Borrow Checker... does that affect "pedestrian" code, like "take this 4-dimensional array and munge it with an arcane for-loop"? Or, here's a basic immutable class with some fields and some methods, make it available in Python?

I'm liking the look of Nim because it is concise, safe and fast-ish, so a good companion to Python. I dislike C++ as that companion because, even though once you've written your code, it integrates very well with Python, it's a lot of pain to get there. Where would Rust fit in this picture?
I'm not saying what you can do or not, I just see evidence (a quick google away) that people are given meds to delay puberty, meaning before its start (= onset), meaning they are not yet adolescents by definition.

Edit to everyone pointing out a technicality: yes, puberty blockers != hormone replacement therapy. However, puberty blockers ⊆ hormone replacement therapy.
>>“No other mainstream languages really have these concepts, and they’re really core to understanding a lot of how you have to write code in Rust,” Nichols says.

I tried Rust, but I am using SPARK2014/Ada for my needs. Easier to learn and has the formal methods/software integrity checks and other niceties. I started learning SPARK2014 while reading the book, "Building High Integrity Applications with SPARK". It was used by the CubeSat lab in Vermont [1], which the book ties in nicely. I can see programmers flocking to Rust, but scientists are not typically computer scientists, and mainstream shouldn't be a highly-weighted metric. I find Rust a lot more heavy than SPARK/Ada. I've tried Julia too, but you can write systems level code in SPARK/Ada too. The adacore site has a lot of great projects and articles on embedded software, drone low-level code rewrite in SPARK, etc.

The partnership between AdaCore and Ferrous Systems is very exciting [2]. I hope to be able to stay with SPARK and gradually learn Rust with this partnership when Rust has a bit more under its belt with real world embedded, high-integrity software like Ada's legacy.

[1] http://cubesatlab.org/

[2] https://ferrous-systems.com/blog/ferrous-systems-adacore-joi...
I'm not a fan of using Alpine in containers.

Use it baremetal for your servers and desktops, then use Debian/CentOS containers on top when something is missing.
Just move to vercel while they're still free.

Or Microsoft github pages.

Or Atlassian bitbucket pages.

Or Netlify personal.

There is plenty of choice for free static hosting, within certain limits and that's basically marketing cost for their main business.

If that were to disappear because of recession / lack of VC money, we still have free cloudflare and if that were to fail and we need to start paying, bunnyCDN is fairly cheap.
I'm going to have to say it is ridiculous because there are all sorts of things that cause problems that the copilot generated code is going to have to keep out following this reasoning -

let's not handle ethnicity, if we're going to be sensitive about gender that is an area which is also sensitive for many people.

should it take border disputes etc. into consideration, if you're using it in country X and country X thinks a particular area belongs to them despite most of the world disagreeing will you not be able to use copilot to generate code that supports your remote employers international operations?

it would make better sense if Copilot had warnings it could issue and when you wanted gender put up some sort of warning about that - or allow you to choose binary gender / multi gender solutions.

The idea that it should fail, and that makes sense for it to do so is essentially a critique of the whole code generation idea.

on edit: obviously HN should be able to come up with lots of other things that might cause media related problems if CoPilot handled it, code to detect slurs, etc. etc.
A lot of the problem is gone after realising that productivity has little to do with efficiency and almost everything with prioritisation / focus. As soon as you become aware of your "attention flow" (what your attention span is spent on, like cash flow) it becomes hard to justify reading stuff like that.
But what data? All of it or some subset? Aggregated, differentially privatised, non-identifiable chunks?

Without specific explanations, you could always weasel out of vague promises.

Sorry to sound negative. I'd love a service like this, but there's a very high bar for responsible implementation (in my opinion) and VC seems very unlikely to be compatible with responsibility.

Basically, what is your business model? Are you only making money from subscriptions, or through other means? What are the VC's expectations?
I was only referring to blockbuster movies, as that is what GP referred to and what the article was about.

There are no moden Batgirl movies and I can't think of any superhero movies that took their character in a new direction that didn't flop.
I don’t know, even with good frameworks TUI interfaces are harder to do than simple CLI. From what I’ve seen, interfaces made with these framework aren’t replacing CLI tools, just augmenting them. In fact I think the use cases are usually completely different, when a TUI comes up it’s because you really need interactivity and not just “launch command and see the output”. And viceversa, I don’t see anyone making TUIs for use cases that are just sending commands and seeing output.
"It feels like somebody in a designer hoodie with an ocean view conference room wants to brand Firefox as the fun alternative."

Ah, you've seen the view from their SF offices.[1]

[1] https://earth.google.com/web/search/@37.78972221,-122.388833...
I prefer the Firefox solution. Chrome "solved" this by running the outdated version untill restart. But if you click a link outside of chrome it opens in a new instance of the updated version, without your old tabs. If you at this point close all chrome windows then you've lost all the tabs on the outdated instance.
Yeah no, "scientists", this wonderful general category that means nothing and everything, in general, are not turning to Rust.

Programming is a niche. Rust is a, albeit amazing and gaining traction at a fast pace, niche in this niche.

99% of mathematicians, physicists and biologists I have worked with have not even tried programming yet. And if they do, they will start with the stuff their friends are already using: python, fortran, etc.

Hell, 99% of the dev have not heard of rust yet. I go from companies to companies, every time I talk about rust, I have to explain what it is.

It's not even living in a bubble if you think that, it's living in an bubble from another dimension.

Having generalization from anecdotal evidence in nature.com is kinda ironic if you think about it.
It's when a package manager updates Firefox while it's running.
The Sleeper?
It is your identity and ideas about yourself which are shuttered, not _you_. Take care of yourself. << After writing this I realised you wrote, verbatim, "my identity has been shattered." You are not the idea of life you had. Among all things you want to do now, feel you need to do, etc., make space for taking care of yourself, maybe like never before. Unwind daily, relax, feed yourself properly.
Attestation really, really worries me. I get it if you're working on nuclear secrets or high-end three-letter-agency stuff, but honestly the roll out to consumer services through things like this and Google's SafetyNet really, really makes me fear for the future of open computing. It's fundamentally a way to disconnect those who are different, with no ability to let those who are different either explain themselves or make a case to be let in. If computers were people, that would be very illegal -- at least in my countries -- as it forms the basis of what a "protected characteristic" actually is.

I'm a much bigger fan of systems that act either on information about threats or, again like with humans, perceived intent. Zero-trust architectures and certificate based authentication all of the same benefits, with none of the same costs.
> no one shits on Google or Facebook at every opportunity

They don't? I feel like I see ten times as much shitting on Google and Facebook these days, on HN, compared to Microsoft.
I truly don't get these kind of patterns, because to me, it just looks like they'll miss out on orders from people (like you), who thought they would get a discount, but then end up not getting it and cancelling their order.

Surely it would make more sense to advertise that customers can get a $5 discount, if they order for $30 or more. That way, if your order only adds up to $25, I would be inclined to order a side that gets me to $30 or more.
Yeah. I have one physicist friend, and as I far I know from casual conversion with them, the whole team at his lab don't even know if they are writing C or C++. And explaining python to him, because he's required to teach a bit of it, was a rabbit hole of explaining fractal things.

My impression is that at least a number of scientists don't know and don't care.
On mobile phones, I’ve seen many websites where the font size was adjusted down to still have 70 characters per line, but it’s then difficult to read.

Just turn on reader mode on on this very website, and you’ll see more like 45 characters per line.

I wish this article would have explored the mobile space better instead of saying “it’s less of an issue”.

I’m wondering if there is an underlying rule to all this: perhaps a readable line is one that has a minimum angular height and length in the visual field. From there, we could use relative viewing distance from the device and advise on a target physical font size and line length?
> both of which were far better about personal privacy and, amusingly, less reliable than Google.

Less reliable in what way?
Sometimes I wonder why I constantly hear the Fahrenheit people whine about Celsius, but almost never the other way around. https://i.ibb.co/7zJ640F/d9p762f83xw71-jpg.webp
If this goes through, it'll be the death of GitHub as the biggest open source hub for hobbyists and companies alike. Maybe it'll spawn a lot of self hosted git instances, I know I would consider it.
I don't know, is the familiar "Hi" all that different from, say, the "Happy Mac"?
None of those things are actually needed in a container.

If you're actually doing those things inside one, you're literally doing it wrong

Yes you might have some special cases where some of this is needed but I'd use anything besides systemd
Where I live (Spain), delivery restaurants have also become a total clusterfuck.

There are thousands of options which are barely undistinguishable from one another - like those cheap Chinese brands that flood many product categories on Amazon. You'll occasionally find a name that stands out, like the ones you've posted, along the lines of "Thunderfuck Porn Burgers". But they don't entice me to order, since whatever the brand values being transmitted are, they are not what I'm looking for in a restaurant.

The result is that you end up ordering from the same few oldies but goodies. Occasionally, once upon a moon, a friend will tell you about a new restaurant to expand your horizons. Some of these, while good, might not stand out in this sea of shit and end up closing, so you revert back to the oldies but goodies. And so it goes.

The corollary is that this a shit business.
I was only referring to blockbuster movies, as that is what GP referred to and what the article was about.

There are certainly many genderbent takes on super heroes in comic books. However, I can't think of any movies that took a superhero in a completely different direction that didn't flop.
In my opinion Total Commander is the #1 best app ever and Double Commander is an excellent free clone. It used to be incomplete and buggy but improved substantially during the recent years.
Rust users are very enthusiastic about Rust, because it fixes so much annoying shit you have to deal with in C/C++. It really brings back a lot of joy to programming.

The borrow checker is an issue when you are a beginner and have to unlearn all the bad practices you were doing in C/C++.
I think a big part of it is the fact that it's a full-screen captive display, with an excessively long timeout. If it was a stupid little popup in the corner that said, "Hi, welcome to Windows!" It would have been cute.

If you're going to get all up in someone's face and demand their complete attention, there's a high bar for expected politeness, or at least some entertaining wit. "Hi" is just lazy and conceited. "Welcome. Please wait while we prepare your desktop," would be tolerable. A Maxis style status bar rambling on about "reticulating splines" would be funny.

To relate it to your experience with a housekeeper, if a housekeeper shouted your name from across the room, tapped you on the shoulder repeatedly, and then unplugged the TV you were watching to get your attention, you would expect them to say something like, "my apologies sir, the den is on fire," rather than, "lol, howdy."

A computer isn't a servant, though. It's a tool. A circular saw with a sassy personality means a trip to the hospital...
No, then you hide behind CloudFlare, because only the CSPs and network operators have the infrastructure to deal with volumetric attacks.
Archiving is porting to platforms that are created after you die, which makes it harder to test on them, which in turn can make the porting task harder in some ways.

I did mention the JVM in two out of four of the notes I linked there, and it was certainly an influential step in the direction I'm going, but I'm aiming for deeper levels of reproducibility than the JVM tries to offer.
I second that experience - our local (high-endish) restaurant had both deliveries and take-out at the start of the pandemic, and completely wiped the floor with any crappy delivery services in our area. Then, once the pandemic finished, they stopped the deliveries and take out, and mediocre food delivery services took over again.
Yes I understand the desire for capitalism rather than surveillance capitalism, but that's a derailment. The OP appears to be someone who just wants to build something cool and share it with other human beings. In that case, it's really helpful to be able to have a free practical way to address abuse. Would you really tell someone like the OP to stop expressing themself and shut down their service and put a paid one in its place? How can you charge for search when Google gives it away for free?
You apparently know the origin is from Yiddish Theater. That's clearly what I was referring to.

As far as Rosie goes, take it up with the scholarship. For example

https://mpcaaca.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Burrell-Race-...
They can force you to hire their contractors for construction and delivery, at an exorbitant price to fund kickbacks. They can have you install infrastructure on public land and then seize that land and use it for an aristocrat's private residence. They can restrict the places you can build infrastructure to provinces that recently favored the ruling party to curry political favor. There are plenty of ways for despots to profit off of "development" projects beyond taxation.
This post reminds me that I'm upset at Netlify.

We're spending nearly $1000/mo in bandwidth charges on Netlify for serving totally static text files and a few images, which is absurd. I'm considering switching away from them outright. We can use `make` to run our own build, and CDNs are easy enough.

The fact that they charge per contributor when we already pay a lot is insult to injury.

I guess they're either trying to juice harder for a raise or slow losses to avoid other cuts. Whatever the case, I'm not very satisfied. I don't need the platform that badly, and we're definitely not locked in.

I'm going to file a ticket so I don't forget.