skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like the idea and the website. I also like how you were able to stick to this project for the past 7 years.

Who is your provider for SMS?

Can we add our own APIs to M3O?
If Google or Facebook offered Cloudflare $100B they’d probably have to take it. Add a quick TOS change and we are s-o-l. Hello gigantic super revenue earning centralized ad network (!$!$!).

In all seriousness, I don’t see Cloudflare centralizing the web. I see them decentralizing it by empowering smaller folks with easier tools for scale.

It’s a stretch of argument / not perfect —- but I am glad the competition exists. It makes sense for Cloudflare to be big and privacy focused when competing in the big net real estate space of the modern web.
> How do taxes cause money to exit the economy?

Less money is printed to cover the current budget.
I understand the anger (and I would feel the same) but think of how hard it is to have someone put their child’s life in your hands.

Ignoring liability, that’s a very heavy responsibility.
Real meat, with a philosophical hole right at the base of it that cannot be waived away. At some point somewhere something has to be taken by faith. Ones own mind being a coherent arbiter of logical reasoning is one that most modern people take. The existence of God is a different option.

Brains in vats and all that.
If you want to reduce memory consumption by your node.js server, minify it (e.g. via esbuild in node.js mode) and don't use inline source maps (if you want to keep source maps, use .map files).

node.js keeps all source code as string in memory. So unminified code can bloat your runtime by a lot if you require a couple of external libraries. If you bundle the libraries as well, you don't even need to copy node_modules anymore, which can also save time in deploying a change.

This small change can cut your memory requirement in half.

Of course I wish node.js just had an option to free the memory of the source code garbage, but as of version 18.9.1 there is none.
If you want recurring monthly costs for capital devices there are companies setup to do that for you.

They lease you the equipment. Yay.
> As for the pair-bonding thing, it reads like it came out of a bible pamphlet.

I just want you to know your reply with the bible pamphlet thing was really stupid.

To address you directly: It's scientifically proven, check out Oxytocin and see about the pair-bonding facilitation it does.

I'm not a dummy, but today you spoke to me like one. You won't always get someone to re-engage you, and that won't always be because you're right, sometimes we're just too disgusted to risk further entertaining your disrespect.
The feature was added over two weeks ago, but the update hasn't been pushed to Mozilla's repository yet, apparently.

https://github.com/bitwarden/clients/releases/tag/browser-v2...
GuixSD and Emacs as shell or EXWM for window manager achieve a similar result.
Creative Commons always felt broken to me. Is anyone able to explain why following is not flawed and not possible, that is:

Content thief steals contents anonymously, posts it as Creative Commons content anonymously using free hosting, archives the content on Way Back, and then uses content claiming it is Creative Commons if anyone asks?

Basically it is content laundering - and something that impossible for Creative Commons to address as is.

(If reasoning is not flawed, also interested in possible solution to the issue.)
I am of the opinion that the solution is Free Market Socialism: a market economy where the businesses are governed by their workers. Capital is allowed a reasonable, regulated return on its investment (which takes the form of loans, not equity) and further financing can happen through crowd funding (since this system would naturally result in a much more even distribution of capital, an order of magnitude more people will have spare money to contribute to projects that interest them).

Workers have a much weaker incentive to consolidate than investors do, since the consolidation results in them losing voice and power and there are no big cash payments in return (no equity financing means no big equity sales). So this system would tend to work against monopolization.

In addition, workers have much deeper connections to the communities impacted by their business's operations than investors do - they usually live in them. So the tendency to externalize costs on to communities will be much lower (not gone, just reduced), since the workers will experience those costs along with the rest of their communities.

Unions become completely unnecessary in this system. The people doing the work are governing the business, they get to set their own working conditions.

And you still get all of the benefits of the free market - no government control, competition, the freedom to start new enterprises - with many of the rough edges sanded off.
Cant' you just change the email you used for registration later on?
So, I wouldn't consider this late stage capitalism. I would consider it late stage republic. The government eventually attacks large commercial interests, as a result those large commercial interests purchase politicians. Any large commercial interest who refuses to bribe politicians will get attacked, so all of the large players do so. They then get entrenched, get bigger, get more powerful. Eventually, the line between government and corporation disappears. I do not believe that there is a way around this situation in any majoritarian government. In the USA, by the time McKinley was running for office, there'd already been two campaign finance reforms. It would seem that purchasing power is what always does and always will happen in majoritarianism. If you do not have regulatory capture, a monopoly should be impossible because any large amount of money being made is a signal that more resources are needed in a given market segment. If, otoh, you have a large interest purchasing politicians they can now erect barriers to entry preventing effective competition. Once those barriers are in place, people begin to accept them as necessary, right, proper, and true. Only once things begin to fall apart do people even begin to recognize how absurd it is that a license is required for a child's lemonade stand.

Unfortunately, Utopia is impossible. All systems suck because all people are flawed. Socialism, capitalism, communism, fascism, monarchism; they're all bad. Additionally, they all really boil down to being either monarchy or oligarchy and every other term is just window dressing. You either vest power into a single person or a small elite group, and then people try to use magical words on pieces of paper to control those individuals. It works for a short time, and then it all starts to fall apart. Eventually, the ruling class realizes that the words on paper are just words and not magic, mos maiorum is lost and society starts to unravel. Modern governments have been better in the sense that it has taken a few hundred years for them all to become dangerous to their constituencies, but it is happening none the less.
Bandwith is obviously extremely expensive on AWS. But even EC2 is easily 5x as expensive as renting a dedicated server. Of course this is a deeply unfair comparison as dedicated servers don't have the flexibility of an EC2 instance and the integration into other services. So if those matter to you then the cloud is certainly worth it. But you are paying a lot more for CPU, RAM and storage compared to other options. You are also getting a lot more with AWS, but you're only saving money if you can fully exploit the flexibility of the cloud and scale the resources very well. And even then if you need a lot of egress you're screwed on the costs in any case.
Nothing against the author, but damn is this a good example of why you can't just trust every piece of technical writing you see.
There may a saturation of job offers but the offers aren’t not good. I’m not getting staff offers for $500k+/yr from random enterprise IT consultancy. I’d be lucky if I even got granted stock at many of these companies - let alone a $200k+ salary.
They did 20 years ago. Going strong: CCBill.com
> doesn't know that his core infra team just wrote something in Rust

Sorry but that is something he should know. That directly affects technology radar and roadmap, HR and a bunch of other stuff.
I'm an ex-Python developer. (I didn't survive 2 to 3.)

What I see happening is Python getting "improved to death". As people keep adding "features", aka complexity, to Python it's moving away from its niche and coming into more direct competition with other languages and ecosystems (e.g. Rust, Go, Nim, Haskell, OCaml, even Ada and Java!)

From my POV this tool, though technically very neat, does unnecessary work to make things harder to understand.

Try to see it this way: all this Red Queen's Race, this running hard to stay in the same place, the endless "improving" of languages like Python and JS, are an attack on your knowledge and skills: just sitting there you are becoming obsolete not because your knowledge is degrading but because the youngsters keep changing the tune forcing you to learn new dances just to stay relevant.

There is very little new under the sun in IT: things like type checking and inference are decades old.
What you see on Twitter also can’t be taken as representative of (say) physicists in general, because only a small minority of physicists is active on Twitter. “Being active on Twitter” likely correlates with a set of personality traits that aren’t representative of the population at large.
No. Maggie MacDonald among others have been talking about this for years.
You could decide to work an office job?
I just don't see a lot of users of porn sites submitting ACH transfers. Every ACH transfer I have ever been a part of takes 5 days for the balances to settle. What porn user subbing to a site is going to wait 5 days? Maybe brothels or similar adult businesses allow you to setup an account with them as part of their onboarding steps to allow these types of transfers?

I totally see crypto becoming more popular with the misconception of privacy.
I'm also a bit blown away that anyone is surprised that AWS is expensive. Sure you can express a lot of the costs in small numbers per hour or $0.08 per gigabyte of bandwidth, but those things all add up quickly at scale.

I assumed phase 3 was where AWS started giving you massive discounts because you represent so much business for them, but I've never been at a place big enough to swing that stick at them.
That's a pretty narrow conception of philosophy. Also a narrow conception of what "reality" entails. From ethics to politics, and pretty much every social phenomena, doesn't require a petri dish to be studied.
I thought that Samsung fab'ed their own chips.
> Why is the standard library not an HTTP call?

You mean like string concatenation? Come on man. As far as evolution goes, that’s what semantic versioning is for.
I think nano services follow the "Unix Philosophy". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy

It would be cool if it were possible to pipe the output of one these services into the input of another. Like how pipes work in Unix.
There are solutions like CheckerFramework or Nullaway or other compile time annotation processors.
Twitter says Elon Musk’s own data scientists did not back up bots claims
I have doubts that a fly posseses sufficient neuronal capacity to parse human language. Furthermore I'm also unsure if the hearing system of a fly would be sophisticated enough to capture the nuances of spoken language.
You say "almost as good", but isn't it actually better?

What advantage, if any, would the ts-100 have?
> Today, you’d probably have to schedule an electrician to fix what some children back then knew how to make: electric bells, buttons, and buzzers.

Where I live you are technically not allowed to install equipment on 120 or 240 if you are not a certified electrician. Insurance won't cover water damage if installation hasn't been done by a professional plumber. People still do it, but this is not going in the right direction.
Oh ok I thought it was staggered because the typewriter rods had to go side by side.

I don't think Ortholinear is bad as such.. It's just that I don't want to learn a new layout.

But on a tiny device it is less relevant, true. Because muscle memory and touch typing doesn't really play a role there.
Ostracizing sex work has become fully normalized, so unfortunately people read this and immediately think, "Why not pretend to be someone else?", "Why not just do other illegal things (like tax evasion)?"
How to run a Minecraft Server on a Kubernetes cluster
This seems to be saying that these 62 people own so much, but the other view is that half the world owns so little. Both are true but to what degrees? What's missing here is how much does the other half that includes these 62 own? It's hard to get a picture of it when were only shown two numbers representing pie pieces--how big is the pie?
I found learning the history of philosophy tied to the history of science was wonderful in helping understand more complex thought. In much the same way as Hume's missing blue or the ontologies of other great minds. I couldn't imagine learning another way but then maybe that is the point.
Typically around $40-50K USD per month.
Also Louisvillian, Danny Macs imho.
Yeah, especially the first time when one of those near-invisible bitey things sneaked up and started gnawing on you, you were in for a pretty good scare...
Yes, it’s complicated, for sure. But if we amortize over 3 years, and triple costs for the power: it’s ~500k/yr for hardware and ~100k/yr for power.

In terms of TPUs or other custom accelerators, sure, they exist. However most definitely aren’t building their own hardware.

ETA: I’m not saying power is irrelevant, it clearly matters. But saying it’s the dominant financial constraint is clearly wrong, at least below Google/Amazon/Apple scale. Never mind the cost of the people running these trainings!
What you describe sounds familiar, I believe it was Akka's actor model (https://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/current/typed/guide/actors-int...) that allows actors to run on either the same machine or a different (cluster of) machines, but doing so completely transparently to the developer. Is that something that interests you? It means that the developer doesn't have to think about RPCs or consuming HTTP APIs in the first place.
> In the latest StackOverflow global developer survey, TensorFlow had 50% more users than PyTorch.

It also doesn't help that PyTorch has its own discussion forum [1] where most pytorch questions end up.

[1]: https://discuss.pytorch.org/
You are analyzing this too much in the short term. These pipelines were meant to last for decades.

The pain of seeing a quarter of your industry close for lack of energy might have easily bent the will of Germans and others after this winter. All political announcements about replacing Russian gas before 2027 at the earliest were a pipe dream (pun intended)for anybody with any actual knowledge of the industry.

Even now, a large portion of what was supposedly bought elsewhere was just repackaged and re-originated at the port of loading, but actually Russian gas - hence part of the price hike going to a chain of middlemen.
The originals had a lot of horror vibe. It might not seem like it nowadays because players are used to it and there's many mods like Brutal Doom trivializing the content, but original Doom was scary. There was no other game like it at the time, and the growls of the monsters, the flickering lights, rooms getting dark when you grab a key and monster closets opening, body horror elements on walls and decorations. Doom 3 felt actually milder, it just was more annoying with the darkness everywhere.
Death Stranding is, in my opinion, another such leap.
Official Pine64 store ships worldwide.
Apple added support just in 2019!

man mount_9p
Air Force maintainers achieve rare perfect inspection on a 49-year-old aircraft
This is just absurdly simplistic. The enlightenment did not appear in a vaccuum either. It is predicated on specific philosophical arguments. This becomes immediately apparent when you consider non-Western industrialized nations. The scientific method is one thing, but it is not something that can be used to prescribe a way to live. Plenty of aspects of our society aren't predicated on post-enlightenment thinking.
I don't think conservatives are attempting to endanger sex workers - they believe sex work is fundamentally risky and leads to abuse. There is no safe way to do sex work that doesn't result in problems. Therefore they believe it should be discouraged and made illegal, the same way many progressives believe firearms should be illegal since they are dangerous.

Tribal groups are alive and well, and even if you dislike your opposing one you should try to at least understand their motives if only for selfish reasons.
> just in a different environment

This is more than you think. Humans not only evolve through evolution, but also culture. We're able to change culture quickly and it has a huge impact on our being. Culture responses very sensible to the environment. So even though there was not much time for evolution, we 'evolved' quite a bit and might be more different that one might think.

As I said, culture can change quickly. This applies for all directions, so maybe we actually are very similar. Who knows.

[I used 'evolution' as how we use the word in day to day usage. The term 'culture' might be involved in 'evolution']
PID controller and a bunch of menus.

The "OS" part is a bit of a joke. It's just an embedded application, AIUI they didn't write their own RTOS.
by servers i think they meant microservice apps/binaries/vms/containers, etc not physical machines. I also want to know what physical hardware they purchased, where they racked them, how much colocation costs, etc, etc and they go into none of that.
I used Tineye.com's reverse image search extensively before google added the feature and baked it into chrome. Google's results have consistently worsened to the point that I've switched back to tineye and installed the chrome extension.
Switching from W2 Employee to Contractor – what do I need to know?
I am a software engineer residing in the US. After two decades as a W2 employee, I want to become a contract worker. Please tell me what I need to know so that I cover all the necessary bases. Also I'm hoping you can give me advice on how not to get ripped off. I've never done any contract work before, so please assume I'm starting from a position of knowing nothing.

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Some of the questions I have :

-Should I incorporate as a Sole Proprietorship, LLC, or S-Corp?

-Should I consider using an Employer of Record service instead of incorporating? A friend recommends a company called IProfessional — Does anybody know anything about them? Do you know of any competitors? Most of the ones I've found are geared towards companies wanting to hire a remote international workforce.

-A bunch of online companies promise to set up your LLC or S-corp for you. Are any of them worth it?

-What kinds of insurance should I buy to protect myself from possible lawsuits?

-What should I know about taxes?

-What should I know about contracts? Should I hire a lawyer to look over any contract that I might want to take?

-What do contracts usually look like for contract workers in the software industry? Do they usually pay an hourly rate?

-I've heard sometimes clients try to get away without paying. What can I do to protect myself here? And if someone does try to make off without paying, what recourse do I have (realistically speaking)?

-What's the best way to find gigs? Are there any good websites for this? What about the recruiters that reach out to me over linkedin — are they good for finding contract work?

-What are the best online communities for software contractors? Basically, places where I can get advice, ask questions, learn what to watch out for, etc.

-If you've worked as a contractor, what are some other things you wish you knew before becoming a contractor?

-Any other knowledge or advice you wish to impart?

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More about my background, in case it helps:

-Software engineer with ~20 years of industry experience

-Computer science degree

-Data engineering specialty. Experience w/ Spark, Snowflake, Hadoop

-Fully conversant in python, SQL, and bash. Can get around in Javascript. Haven't touched Java in a few years, but could pick it up again

-Solid AWS/Cloud experience. Not a full-on devops, but I can get around and DIY various things

-Not limited to any particular industry or vertical — I've worked in a lot of them

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I appreciate any advice or wisdom you have to offer. Also, if you have any websites or articles that could help me, please do feel free to post links to them. Thank you!
> Have a read of this from an actual day-to-day UK prostitute:

So all factory work should be denigrated and is an abuse of another human being because Amazon workers have to shit in buckets and piss in bottles to meet their quotas?

Or, crazy thought here, maybe some regulation can make working conditions humane no matter the kind of labour you're doing. But first you have to give up this crazy notion that sex is
intrinsically different from any other physical act you can voluntarily do with your body.
This is the only correct answer I'm seeing so far here. Article clearly states BoE is avoiding rolling margin calls that could get triggered this week. Right now it is all about bailing out pension funds.

One other note: They could also be holding these bonds themselves on leverage. They could be asked to post cash as collateral for these bonds(which are now essentially risky assets).
Is there a console command to go straight into the action instead of having to wait through the long intro cutscene? I want to try shooting some things.
You know there is a field of philosophy that study languages and meta-languages. It is now tightly tied to linguistic (maybe because of Noam Chomsky) but you have still logicians who publish in philosophical papers on this subject.

Not my cup of tea, but worth taking a look at.
This statement is fundamentally flawed on two different core aspects.

First, the phenomenon you're referring to is "natural monopolies" which is a well understood situation which appears in every freshman-level Economics 101 class, but that only applies to certain industries. For instance, utilities are natural monopolies because it's far more efficient to run one set of wires to every house rather than try to have 10 competing companies all run their own power lines. But most products & services don't fall into this category.

Second, "free market" is a specific economic term which means markets which are free from governmental intervention in terms of price controls or subsidies, but are also free from monopolies, cartels or other anti-competitive behavior by any participant. Using the government to break up a monopoly or cartel moves the system towards a "free market". Having zero regulation which allows one or two participants to distort the market moves the system away from a "free market".
E2E isn't a requirement for something to be called a backdoor, even though governments are constantly demanding E2E backdoors.

An attacker having shell access or a government getting plaintext dumps of whatever email conversations they want (when users don't expect it) are perfect examples of backdoors. AT&T giving the NSA a secret room for them to suck up all comms, encrypted are not, is also a classic example.
Network tab showed that game data was loading for almost 10 minutes, maybe that's the case.
I think this is not that there are only three dog pictures because Google broke CC. I think this is more of a Google/ML/etc. "over-helping".

If I click on all the other dog pictures bar ("german shepherd, puppy, baby, rottweiler, police", etc. right below the option to select size, color type, time, licenses) additional CC images show up of the selected sub-type. The selection is additive (and) filters.

It is more that Google deciding what I really want.