skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for engaging. I still don't see Google Analytics referenced. Second paragraph reproduced below.

> Since Go 1.13, the go command by default downloads and authenticates modules using the Go module mirror and Go checksum database. See proxy.golang.org/privacy for privacy information about these services and the go command documentation for configuration details including how to disable the use of these servers or use different ones. If you depend on non-public modules, see the documentation for configuring your environment.

Nothing about GA. Of course, or naturally as you wrote, they will have server logs. I can't imagine anyone in good faith arguing they should not have server logs and those that do can host their own proxy.
Inmos, not NMOS… Transputers were actually built with CMOS technology.
You might want to link to the account. The way you post this here is just a few lines of text from an HN account created half an hour ago. For all we know, it could just be a hoax.

You say "my personal Facebook page was hacked". How? If you don't know how, then all you know that content appeared on the page that you did not post. This does not mean it has to involve a "hack" of "the page" which makes it sound like one of Meta's servers was hacked.
Once upon a time we had Lotus Sametime in office for IM communication and we liked it. It was good. It worked and didn't have dealbeaking quirks or fails. I miss Sametime, always have.

Lync was not perfect, and Skype for Business even less so, but they at least had a UI that wasn't a chainsaw massacre to use or to stare at. Every time I have to use Teams because it's the de-facto standard I always come away from the conference call feeling dirty - like I just used a nasty shopping cart at a disgusting filthy walmart to get groceries - and makes me pine for SfB or Sametime.

Better days.
Although Saturnian cults are a thing even to this day, I don’t think it would be one of those running the world.

I’d rather expect it to be some Mercurial (and mercantile) cult instead, given how markets come to shape policies.
Please take my word: come back in 5 years and look the videos again. Or in 10 years. I would really like to see what you have to say then.
You can use presigned urls for that.
It feels like a bit of hyperfixation going on. Teams is terrible but so are Slack, Zoom, Google Meet, Discord, etc. They're all also amazing, including Teams. Turns out different people have different experiences and different usage patterns (and hardware) that work differently well with different applications.

Personally I prefer Teams over Slack but I haven't used Teams in a large company. Formatting is nicer in Slack but I can't imagine why anyone would claim Slack is good for sharing code beyond basic one-liners. Teams allows me to carry over a video call from one device to another while Slack doesn't even allow me to queue a message when I'm on spotty WiFi. Threading on Teams is a bit unusual but Slack's multiple ways of viewing threads (only one of which shows new replies in real time) can also be annoying.

But I'm not representative of most of the people commenting here. I run stock Windows 11 with an Azure AD domain account on a Surface Studio Laptop, I do my development in WSL and my browsing in Edge. And for the most part, everything just works.
Hi Karin,
Here's the form to ask for help if account was disabled by mistake
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They will ask for your ids and contact informations
You should add “Ask HN:” to the the beginning of your post title.
Theory of Self Reproducing Automata (1966) [pdf]
Hardware acceleration in robotics news. ROS2 HAWG #11 meeting, Acceleration Robotics collaborating with AMD to design next-generation robotic compute architectures with ROS, GM's Cruise develops its own chips for self-driving cars, What will be the impact of ROS 2 on commercialized robotics?
Origin was doing 2 hour refunds around 2 years before Steam

The oldest articles I can find:

Origin [2013]: https://www.pcgamer.com/ea-origin-refunds/

Steam [2015]: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2015/06/02/valve...

And as another person (and if my own memory serves) mentioned, Steam's move was nearly entirely driven by pending lawsuits.

Don't get me wrong, I primarily use Steam and support them because they're the only company really caring about Linux, but I don't think they can be given the credit for pioneering the current refund landscape.
I don't care if they offer or not, if a company refuses me a refund as per consumer law in Germany, I will file a complaint against them on the Consumer Protection Agency and let their legal team handle it.

Guess what, I usually get my refunds back from companies that tell me to f** off.
Three non-fiction books that really changed my life, at different moments of my life:

1. Difficult Conversations by Douglas Stone

2. The Teenage Liberation Handbook

3. The Win Without Pitching Manifesto

I read a lot of fiction across many genres, but my long-time favourite is Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon.
I like how they went from the name of a small edible object (the 'nut') for the previous architecture to a large inedible planet for this generation.
You can do without a database backend but of course then the task logs are not kept in case of restart. Currently you can use any SQL database that SQLAlchemy supports, MongoDB or CSV files, or any other if you wish to extend Red Bird. It uses Red Bird (another project of mine) to abstract the data store: https://red-bird.readthedocs.io/en/latest/. And it just extends the logging library for reading task logs.

It seems I did not yet implement the set_repo method even though the docs talk about this but here's one way to set a CSV repo, for example: https://github.com/Miksus/rocketry/issues/108#issuecomment-1...
I think it was just a bit.
Chicago’s Tap Water Contaminated with Lead, Analysis Finds
According to this website, there are dozens of "moons" that orbit 10 to 20 million of kilometers away from Jupiter and have diameters between just 1 and 10 km. It's time for a change of nomenclature!

https://theplanets.org/moons/
Having done audio transcription in college as a side gig, it takes a lot longer than it sounds. Even at a decent 100wpm you'll take about 5 minutes to type out 1 minute of audio.

Not having to pause + rewind will save a ton of time for that 3%.
FB, Instagram, WhatsApp blocking Iranian accounts, even outside the country
I came to the comments expecting them to be hopeful and supportive but most seem to be critical and barely engaging with the paper at all. These people are trying to produce a network to study the world in a different way to make life better through avoiding existential risks. How do people see this in a bad light? The paper uses some language that may seem pessimistic, but to me seems on the whole fairly realistic and balanced.
Chogyal Namkhai Norbu's The Crystal and the Way of Light. It was a discovery on so many levels.
It's been 23 years and I haven't needed these thumbnails, so... no issue for me.
Look what happened in Ukraine- if that happened I might stay and fight. Send family away. Depends on a lot of factors. I don’t see the point in stockpiling. A scenario where a basement full of tuna is going to save me but otherwise I die is going to be an edge case I think.

Another poster talks about nukes so nothing you can do there. Just get out of cities I guess?
I'm sorry you're in this situation, and sorry I don't have any suggestions, I hope you can get it sorted soon.

> I am willing to pay for professional help.

This stood out to me though, what sort of help is it that you're willing to pay for? You may have some luck using a lawyer to contact Meta, but other than that this sounds like an offer to bribe? That has been known to work with Facebook in the past, but openly suggesting it is taking it to a new level. I hope this is a misunderstanding!
I didn't even prepare during the lockdown. Nor stock any reasonable amount of food. I found that I couldn't buy mussels, pasta, and toilet paper any more, but so what.

I'm very certain that the world's course will just continue. People will be stressed, but they will get over it. Some places still have an economic boom and if you're in programming, you will never be obsoleted.
The decision likely got made before performance was a major constraint.

As I understand it, Instagram is a python codebase and (guessing) may be the primary motivator here.

Probably the first, say, 100 person-years of effort poured into the Instagram codebase were done at a time when product development velocity, not performance, was the main priority.
Stadia had (has?) free games each month that remain on your account as long as you're subscribed. So in that way, it is. It just doesn't provide the huge library that XBGP does.

The monthly fee was for 4k and other features that weren't necessary. You could stream anything you bought on Stadia for free at 1080p, no subscription.

It was like buying a game and getting a console for free, but with an optional upcharge for an even better console.

The marketing for all this was horrible. People still don't understand what Stadia was and wasn't. And the launch was limited to people willing to spend $130 for the custom hardware.

That hardware wasn't necessary. They just decided to do that at launch as a way to milk some gamers of their money in return for early access.

But again, the marketing was horrible. And the free access came many months later. For a system that it's best feature was the free streaming access, they completely destroyed it at launch.

And of course, as everyone pointed out back then, Google doesn't support the things they create unless they're related to advertising somehow. And they've already shut down all the studios they created to make games for Stadia.

And the big "wow" feature that they kept advertising, "negative latency", never got released. Many thought it was already in it, so the latency that Stadia has was very disappointing compared to the hype that Google gave it.

It's just a disaster from start to finish, marketing-wise.
I would be with you most of the time but Spirited Away has a fairly clear narrative structure. It’s a somewhat classic formative story.

A young girl is thrown out of her daily life when she wanders into a supernatural world and facing hardships, grows with the help of benevolent older figures and finds that she actually possesses the strength to overcome them.

As you rightfully pointed however what distinguishes Spirited Away is how original and evocative its setting is. Miyazaki is a master at reframing common experience in enchanting way. The train is a good example. Anyone can relate to the fear of taking public transport alone for the first time, being surrounded by stranger, having to use a ticket but in the act is both stripped to its bare essential and yet shot beautifully.
I'm reading The Once and Future World by J.B. MacKinnon, and I'm reading extra slowly because I'm enjoying it so much.

It's about nature, how we're wired to think the wild landscapes we grew up with were pristine, how it's truly evolved through history in response to humans' presence and it's hard to really pinpoint a baseline, and how much wildlife and plant life has vanished so far in the last two hundred years (from whatever fuzzy baseline we can arrive at).

Earlier this year, I read Thinking in Systems by Donella Meadows and on almost every page I was taking notes! A huge eye-opener and felt like a missing link across sciences and social sciences. Also extremely readable and engaging.
Um.. no? I don't know what you might mean here.

Higher CO2 levels will result in vastly more arable land, mostly from the reduction of deserts and the warming of permafrost. Higher CO2 levels make agricultural crops grow faster and bigger. Higher CO2 levels (within the range I was talking about) has no effect on human respiration. Ideal for plants is good for us too.
I suggest you look over the Facebook Help Center (https://www.facebook.com/help), and navigate to (https://www.facebook.com/hacked), or just email them directly (appeals@fb.com)
Yes. When people write `time.time()` they almost always actually want `time.monotonic()`.
> So when I say that machine transcription is as good as human realtime transcription now...

Would you go as far as to assert machine transcription can be used as an objective benchmark of a speaker’s verbal legibility?

It is fraught with political and interpersonal dynamics to approach someone even privately one on one today and gently suggest their career would get a huge boost if they hired a voice coach to help improve their verbal communication delivery. So even when I don’t directly mention their accent, it becomes a very sensitive subject with many.

However, if audio professionals like you can point to a system and say the raw biomechanics and acoustic physics of the world dictate that this is as physically and psychometrically good as audio parsing of human speech gets regardless whether the system was biologically evolved or ML evolved, the conversation can be couched even more objectively.

I enable recording and voice transcription in every meeting I can (ostensibly for DE&I but really for my own selfish purposes), and already observe in myself I have to work hard to overcome a tendency to gloss over speakers who don’t transcribe well when I review meeting transcripts to jot down any key information I might have missed taking notes upon during the meeting.

Note that I’m perfectly aware that my foreign language verbal skills are nowhere near the English skills of those I have tried to help. If the lingua franca of the coding world switched to Urdu tomorrow, then I’d hire help to learn and polish my spoken Urdu, like I went to a speech coach when learning public speaking because I can always use help in the many skills I lack.
If you're interested in the historical process, personally I like the videos of PBS Eons a lot:

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=pbs+eons+coal
Wait, what's wrong with JIRA?
> Thought experiment: if you could take your dream vacation at no expense but would have no memories or photos/videos of the trip would you do it?

No. The photos and videos are not interesting, but .. no memories? Further, I am unlikely to take it if I also have to be alone. Experiences are, for me, to be shared because shared experiences are the coin that connect us to others.
How do these FB / Instagram accounts get hacked?

Poor passwords?

No 2FA?

?

P.S. Hope it will get sorted out for you... stressful if income is tied to an account.
Considering Microsoft got hit by the DOJ for this kind of bundling, yes. They've had to be very careful about including things in Windows.
Can't agree more on the DOTA2 part. Valve doesn't invest much on the community, tournaments and even the game itself. Now the game is already dead in NA, CN coming next. Let alone the derivatives, like Artifact and AutoChess (DOTA Underloads)
Clap 4.0, a Rust CLI argument parser
> Poisoning the air you breathe seems like an obviously terrible idea.

Must not have been very obvious, otherwise we wouldn’t have any climate emergencies. /s
I’m definitely no expert, but if you’re in a customer support circular reference, perhaps you could take a screen capture (video) on the off chance it’s some sort of bug.

Maybe also try reporting from your other fb account or that of a colleague.

The people reviewing at fb will be real people with a tiring and tough job and if you can give them links to help build credibility and authenticity I think it helps.

Side story: I had a small accomodation emergency in a foreign country recently and it was the “legitimacy” of my Airbnb account (~30 reviews) that was the only thing that made me appear like I wasn’t a scam and indeed was real.

Do everything you can to separate yourself from newer or less trusted accounts, and communicate via another account if you have to (i.e. if the UI has soft locked you from requesting a review).
Amazing that software rendering can be this smooth on a phone.
> It's just a combination of plant oils

Sounds plenty plant-based to me. Why conflate plant-based with healthy? Plenty of people, myself included, have turned to meat-alternatives to reduce our environmental impact. I am under no illusions that it is healthy for me!

You can fry potatoes in a vat of vegetable oil, or you can cook skinless chicken breast in boiling water. Using plant content as a proxy for health makes no sense.
Pleased to see subjunctive mood winning out for a change!
Late to the party here but if you scroll through the source of these messages, there are a few domains they use to host the "image" inside the message. Additionally some of the spammers try and use the "coord" HTML element to put links on their images.

If you create a filter to immediately delete the messages with "coord" in the source and these image domains you should be decently covered: iili.io, caringbridge.org, mailingghost.store

If anyone is interested in working towards root cause on this please let me know.
There are firms you can pay to navigate Amazon’s appeals process. I wouldn’t be shocked if similar exist for Facebook.
Also when they were young there was just roughly half the people on this planet comparing to today and even fewer enjoying a western standard of living.

I remember when the Chinese were known for cycling to work en masse. Now they're the largest automobile market in the world.

Old people can't imagine what it's like to grow up in such a world.
Actually solar panels are very cheap now because the technology used to produce them (the same tech used to produce CPUs and chips and such) has become incredibly cheap due to the widespread high-tech adoption.

Same amazing price reductions with li-ion batteries which are used in every mobile device. EVs? Who knows - but since the government is subsidizing gas prices, that market is already corrupted beyond salvation.

Governmental subsidies managed to skew demand and create market aberrations like the rainy Germany covered in solar panels while their nuclear sector was being closed.
Invasion of Ukraine who could knew (a lot of people).
I would say most of people living in eastern Europe and folks having some interested in this part of world predict some sort of military invasion of Ukraine after 2004-2005 revolution, and after 2014 revolution it was pretty obv that Russia would do everything it can to stop Ukraine from pivoting to more western standards and closer integration with EU and Poland.

Also US who knew about invasion few months before.

Global pandemic is kinda once every few 100 years think so unlucky for us that happen right now.

History lessons show that to global or even continental conflict you need to have blocks of equal powers (from Ancient Greece (Peloponnesian War as local but "big" conflict) till modern times and Napoleonic Wars/WW1/WW2) and there is no block that can rival US right now (maybe in 10 years if China go back on tracks and push more funds into army)
For anyone looking for a practical use for this type of technology with a large commercial base, global appeal, and the ability to have subjects corralled into an area for easier detection -- have a read up on the Small Hive Beetle aka SHB, which afflicts bee hives around the world.

They are about 4-5mm long, black, and do not piggy back on bees, instead flying in to hives, landing on the same pad the bees do, which could reasonably be extended or shaped into multiple corridors, etc.

Implementation would be a fixed, straight-down affair - covering an area of perhaps 30-50 square centimetres, inherently human-safe, etc.

Perhaps counter-intuitively, the hobbyist market for something that could detect & fry these would probably be much greater than the commercial installations, but that obviously depends ultimately on cost per unit.
"Stumbling on Happiness" by Daniel Gilbert is an excellent complement to "Thinking Fast and Slow". It explores how the mind works in regards to happiness, and the biases in that.
It's a fact though, the only emotional people here are the ones who feel threatened by such remarks
The original Elite launched on this day in 1984
Quite right. The failed hero is a very deep part of Japanese culture spanning centuries. To continue to the bitter end even in the face of insurmountable odds, even beyond the point where it's become obvious you'll lose and nothing will be gained from it, is considered a very honorable act.

An American published a study of this aspect of Japanese literature in the 70s. "The nobility of failure" I think it was called.
Isn't the very first example error prone? The one under Wait-freedom

https://www.1024cores.net/home/lock-free-algorithms/introduc...

A thread can easily decrease the reference count to zero and delete the object while another thread is trying to add reference
I don’t recommend the OP do that. A Facebook employee can do DD
anyway to see if this is for real. Anyone else can post ideas.
I was scratching my head, looking at the docs and asking myself "Ok do I need a database? Is the scheduler separated from workers? Does it have a UI?"

Being just a lib is actually quite refreshing compared to complex behemoths like Airflow. I guess you could just use your favorite service runner (systemd, k8s, nomad, none at all...).
Perhaps we need a set of well-defined community engagement policies just as we have well-defined licenses or copyright policies, e.g.:

- patches/pull requests welcome or not

- paid consulting available or not (obviously with a right of refusal on architectural changes)

This would go a long way towards managing expectations and avoiding mismatch.

Tooling matters. Github doesn't have a way for a project to specify they won't accept pull requests for instance (e.g. thet's SQLite's policy, one I fully support, but then SQLite doesn't use GitHub or even git for that matter).
The clinics around here aren't quite so highbrow, but they commonly offer groups for walking and visiting shopping malls. This is considered therapeutic as it helps the clients socialize, integrate into the community, and also get out and have some fresh air and exercise.

I think museums and cultural outings are excellent ideas and there should be partnerships among them to welcome the mentally ill with open arms. I would imagine that these programs are already in place for school children and various disadvantaged populations. I wholeheartedly support their expansion, because good mental health is about much more than medication and medical treatments, it's about having good social experiences which are guided by professionals and benefit the whole community.
And why Friendster didn't and how FB kneecapped and murdered MySpace in a back alley and got away with it.