skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"please stop writing shell scripts because if you're not very good it'll do something wrong" - like all "languages" - next!

Also python is in the domain so can't take it seriously
I hear about this kind of thing, all the time. I guess they manage to not do it that often, so I guess I hear only the bad reports, but they are universally awful, when I do hear them, and they all have the same theme:

A.I. Broke it, and the [rare] humans in the loop are powerless to mitigate the A.I.'s breakage.

I was considering using Firebase, when I started the project that I'm working on, now, but got cold feet, and wrote my own server. It took a while, but I'm glad that I did.
With regard to:

> in principle you could create a “mirror human” with everything flipped, which is good because it’s insane and they would be immune to infectious disease but also to food so to keep them alive you’d need an entire mirror life ecosystem, although where is my mirror life science fiction

I highly recommend Neal Stephenson's _Anathem_.
so this is Uber eat now. I can't connect before read your comments haha.
This is it. Most of my employment conflict/disillusionment has come from the “do it now” vs “do it right” dilemma. And sadly in my field of DevOps/SRE, “do it right” is really what we are striving for so it can get pretty disheartening to start getting shot down for feature work over and over again.
But also blame Amazon. If you ran a store that repeatedly sold stolen goods do you think local police and prosecutors would ignore you?

Trafficking in stolen property is a felony. That's true whether you definitely know it's stolen property or if you definitely should have known (recklessly trafficking). You, if you repeatedly did it out of your small business and ignored complaints, would face prison. Why does the law apply differently to Amazon?

My guess is, if you told Amazon's CEO that he had one month to substantially reduce trafficking or face felony prosecution and prison time - I bet you'd see severe reductions.
People love simple explanations. BLM obviously wasn't a causal factor, but general mayhem/disorder certainly facilitated things like shoplifting. There were a lot of people doing what sublime did back in '92 [1].

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ttchToDa7Y
Everyone praises their managed kubernetes offering. I have no experience with it, but if you ask people around, everyone prefers GKE to alternatives. That might be one reason.
Meanwhile in Tokyo you have self serve 24/7 convenience stores. And I’m not talking about vending machines. This is where you grab the item, enter on a screen what you got, pay for it, and walk out. No staff needed.
I chose paps over enscript or groff because it handles utf8. With groff you get garbage like âshrinkâ, and enscript generates "Buttons marked â\200\234call for assistanceâ\200\235".

Fun times
Is it illegal to sell deodorant you got from the store after they put a tag on it?
Nope. In most states (CA for example) it is a felony to sell stolen goods when the amount exceeds a pretty modest threshold. If, as alleged in the parent comment, they are committing a crime on a large scale then the blame is very well placed.

*of course this does not exonerate the original thieves, but as a matter of practicality it is going to be easier to hit a single large offender than a myriad of small ones.
I want to know what the ban was for. What if the ban was due to a crypto mining operation? All I am asking for is a little more context before pointing any fingers.
I've been a happy Relay customer since it was introduced. There's nothing worse than getting on an email list and having no way to get off! I'm happy to support Mozilla via Relay, and the service is useful!

For VPN, I'm already paying for Mullvad, not sure this bundling helps me. Curious to see if it takes off.
Frontend developers are very hipster following the latest trends.
Unless you are building Facebook (or something equally complex), there is little reason for most of that stuff.
That part’s fine. I’m sitting being PgBouncer, and neither it nor PostgreSQL are anywhere near their connection limits.

I sincerely wish that were the issue so I could configure my way around it.
And when gold goes up. Ghana will lose out.
I've had some bumpy points with Azure, but if I really can't fix something I can pick up the phone and they'll try to help. The idea of having critical business services with a company that you can't actually talk to is terrifying.
You make the IRS sound like the police or CPS
Those are some super nice error messages!

Worth calling out that clang does an awesome job at this, by doing some of what Evan talks about.
> These are punishments after the fact. Nobody is suggesting to allow people to go around exacting punishment. We are suggesting to allow people to defend self, family, and property.

No, I’m describing crimes in progress. If a waiter confronts their manager while they’re they’re paycheck, that isn’t a “punishment after the fact”. They are defending their property by using violence to prevent wage theft from being carried out, in exactly the same way you’re suggesting shopowners be allowed to.
Russia is still only at about 80%. Will catch up to 100% at the next iteration of the state maybe?
Writing docs well: why should a software engineer care?
> The best evidence for how much housing we need to build lies in the prices that people pay today.

No. The best evidence is the total number of households in the US compared with the total number of residences. How has that been tracking?

Demand for housing has been going up. This demand is not always for a primary residence (or even for properties intended to be rented out as a primary residence).

Ireland learnt the hard way that rising demand (as evidenced by rising prices) does not mean a shortage of residences that people could live in. Their shortage quickly turned to a surplus when the GFC hit (though they've somehow managed to engineer another accommodation crisis in Dublin since).
> "IMO we need a language (or library?) that forces builders of an API to make incorrect behavior hard or impossible." ...

Think that would over complicate the electrical off switch.
Even if its hard, your business should have a strategy for coming back up when a critical vendor cancels your account.

Not being able to survive a cloud vendor cancelling you is the 21st century equivalent of not having any backups.
I think this is to be expected(sooner or later) for small businesses dealing with "big tech".

You are just a small number in an ocean of "users" so suspending you is really no different than suspending your twitter account. Start taking some responsability folks! Let's stop feeding these walled gardens!
Is there a license for the server? Sorry if I'm overlooking it.
I agree. Russia should stop making weapona
Is there somewhere I can bet on these people reactivating their accounts?
Would love to read a book or blog about your experience some day.
Worthwhile point. But we usually have considerable records from civilizations that are cranking along quite well. There is a strong correlation - not perfect but good.
I don’t know anyone buying new development housing as an alternative to marketable securities.
Does it really protect identity? Aren't swapped faces mapped to the same landmarks that would be used for facial recognition and could just as easily be extracted?
Bluesky is very active, we started beta testing 6 days ago https://twitter.com/arcalinea/status/1593439410699501570?s=4...
A relative was remodeling his kitchen recently (an appartement).

I looked at all those super-sized integrated oven, microwave and countertop holes, and I wondered: Why are we still designing small kitchens like this? isn't a Do-it-all multi cooker enough 90% of the time?

The slow cooker may have changed the world, but it did not change our kitchens.
Eternal Terminal: reconnectable secure remote shell with scrollback
I am a serious nerd and enough of a scholar to get a PhD in theoretical physics, but I also found that P.E. was one of the most meaningful things I did in primary school.
Someone posted that link here recently and it was very useful, but unfortunately the blog doesn't link to the next one in the series. Here it is: https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2018/07/how-to-make-friends-an...

It sounds like the series was intended to continue, but I painstakingly clicked through the blog and couldn't find any more.

From my side, the thing I am most interested in is some kind of micro-plugin that could be used to ActivityPub-ify an otherwise static site, maybe a bit like the old guestbook functionality from Geocities days. It would be cool to be able to just upload your site in a static way and have a hook that publishes that update out to your friends, and catches any of their comments in an iframe on the page.
Wikipedia beats megacorp giants like Espn at displaying sports related information in so many metrics and it's not even close. Really a great example of perverted incentives. Espn is trying to show ads, while Wikipedia is trying to show information.
Hrm, didn't happen for me.

. o O ( A/B test, maybe? )
They are just details. Let them echo around in your head as you like.

Maybe she's from a conservative part of the world that doesn't have too many woman turning out as doctors. Maybe supporting her family of immigrants, who might not have a ton of money and are dealing with some of the hard things that being new in a strange country brings. Maybe in the deep background you can sense an unhappy reason they left Turkey in the first place. And all this taking place on a holiday eve when she and your narrator would rather be home with a hot tea and a book. She's a fighter, up against long odds, having overcome some adversity to get here. I don't mind a short wait.

Or maybe something totally different.
> I feel like I'm a man with literally nothing to lose and I can't live with myself anymore.

Dude, I know the pain, but it's only money. Life goes on. If anything, now it should be your mission to stick it to the faceless corporation, not to give in to dark thoughts.
Car culture has done this. The destruction of regular meeting places that get you to know and trust your neighbours. Now everyone you see is an untrusted stranger.
Ah, the old "two wrongs make a right" defense
But for a very long time historians assumed knowledge wasn't advancing during the dark ages, setting that association up. Then historians changed their minds, realizing that in some areas such as mining, technology and understanding was advancing during the period.
A Simple Explanation of Shannon Entropy
Hello, friends and strangers on the internet. Happy Thanksgiving!!

I'm grateful for the wealth of information out on the internet that's enabled people around the world to learn anything their curiosity leads them to.

In 1948, Claude Shannon, the father of information theory formalized a mathematical framework in quantifying the amount of information needed to accurately send/receive messages, determined by the degree of "uncertainty" a message could contain.

In his paper, he introduced what is known as "entropy"; a concept that permeates the field of statistical learning and data science in building and optimizing machine learning models today.

Here is my interpretation and explanation of the concept. Cheers.

https://gradiently.io/a-simple-explanation-of-shannon-entrop...
Kind of a turnoff, it sounds like.

(What you say supports what I've heard, of arguments among the bien-pensant about the "correct" Mastodon server to choose, and automated blocklists of those who choose wrong. I'm pretty sure neither existed when I created my Mastodon account years ago.)
They're definitely confusing ARM9 with ARMv9 (the latest one with aarch64).

SiFive IS competing (and doing quite well) with current ARM cores.
Remember you still need to live in a society with the guy who just lost his house. The guy that now has nothing to lose.
Native Americans wrote in an alphabet of their design, organized societies (sometimes at a large scale e.g. Cahokia), they clearly built structures of their own architected design, and they had science depending on your strictness in evaluating its definition.

I am disheartened by your comment.
Then the mongols invade and take your stuff.
To further underline your point, if the chain is (thief)→(amazon)→(end user) then the fence isn't "anyone with an Amazon" account: the fence is amazon.
The houses were originally bought 30ish years ago for around £40.000. It’s not like the current owners can retrieve any of that value increase. All the other houses around have increased by the same amount, so moving isn’t really realistic.
>Putting on my cynical hat, I could imagine powerful interests using this opportunity to consolidate their power and silence their opposition under the guide of "prevention mis/dis/malinformation"

A powerful monopoly can do the same thing, and you don’t get to vote on their board. Why is that any less dangerous?
Duuuude I had the same problem except someone else had my account but with the email without the dot. There's a "someone else has my address" flow that I followed but which would never accept a response because my email had the dot canonically.

Eventually it justworked. Months later. Sorry man. Nothing useful to add.
Here are some which you'll encounter if you want to rabbit hole this trend

- replicate.com

- banana.dev

- huggingface.co

- lambdalabs.com

- astriaAI

- lexica.art for prompt inspiration
It’s very much specific to particular areas. In Los Angeles, a CVS or RiteAid in a less well-off area will have things behind plexiglass. The same store just outside Pepperdine (a very expensive university in the very wealthy Malibu area) has the same things and more expensive stuff just available on the shelves without restriction.
I think it’s fair to be sceptical. I’m not aware of other services having retro fitted activitypub (are there any?) so it’ll be a good test of the protocol and any claims it will lead to more interoperability beyond Mastodon instances.
The issue is that this discourages popular bets, not just heavily-biased ones.

If you divide by ratio, and add a fixed number (e.g. 2) to the "for" and "against", there aren't really false positives, and true negatives (e.g. a reasonable bet where people just happen to all bet one side, or a biased one that doesn't get much attention) are unlikely - unless there are too many bets or people are gaming the system, that is.
But they aren't segregating them. They didn't release two models, one SFW and one NSFW. They segregated them before, with the filter you could disable, but now it's all SFW-only.
> ...distribution not supply

This is true in more than just the UK. It's also not simply old people living in oversized houses. Think holiday homes, AirBnB, second homes, land-banked properties, etc.

Any government that truly wanted to address it's accommodation crisis should start by conducting a thorough survey of residences and determine how many are actually being used as a primary residence.
>and a hell of a lot less toxicity (so far anyway.

To the most engaged on Twitter, toxicity is a feature, not a bug.
Amazon search results are nigh useless for me; it absolutely refuses to constrain the results based on my terms and just fills the results with vaguely related ads that aren't even what I want.

For example, I've been trying to find what 5k2k/WUHD monitors they have, but it completely ignores that and returns WQHD/etc, so I'm no better off than just scrolling through the entire monitor category myself.
This is such a big nationwide problem that Target actually mentioned it during their earnings report (this is stated in the article.) Some states/cities have made it near impossible to prosecute these people, so the risk/reward is very favorable to stealing and reselling. Some stores have even closed down in certain areas because of it. When we talk about "food deserts" in some cities, it could one day be we have massive deserts of no retailers at all, and it will largely be a government policy failure.

The videos of organized ransacking of stores are honestly insane. The stores are somewhat powerless because of liability, and the new laws that have raised the level in which the law even cares. I don't think the "broken window" policy is the end-all, it has some problems but allowing "small" theft rings does not generally put areas on a good trajectory. These goods are almost always getting 3rd party listed, be it Amazon, eBay, Facebook Marketplace, etc.
Until you see what they are paid. I wouldn’t want to live on £500/month either.
One of the apps by this developer: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/cuff-video-chat-make-friends/i...
I work on an ActivityPub server in Go that supports an sqlite backend. Check my bio for details.
Depends if you cook. A lot of people are going to want a stove. I would never consider renting an apartment without a stove and oven and I am willing to wager that nor would a large percentage of the population. So you are kinda forced to have one if you own an apartment you are renting.

If you own it and live in it sure you can not have a stove or oven if you want. But then if you ever sell it and the next person wants one... its going to hurt the value I imagine.
Hi, I am sorry that this is happening to you. Please send me your info to my corp email - rygar@google.com - I'll do my best to help.
Java apps have failed many times while web apps are everywhere. Why continue to push java?

Browserless wasm sounds like java apps with a different vm.
An ossuary is usually something like a building (e.g. a charnel house), but apparently you are right in saying that it is applied to Jewish bone-boxes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ossuary#Jewish_ossuaries). For the other meaning, they can be vast. I visited the Paris Catacombs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catacombs_of_Paris) and estimated that the remains of about 3M people were down there.
It's now a matter of when we all move to AWS and Azure, not if.

If you really think that the "grass is greener on the other side"...

No, the real solution is to stay away from Big Tech and cloud in general.
That doesn't always work, (following anecdote is not about google cloud): someone I know lives in a street that's egregiously and very obviously broken on google maps (whole network of streets mapped with the same name, private pathways mapped as public streets, whole bunch of repeated door numbers, etc) and since everyone trusts google maps for everything this has caused a bunch of serious issues for the person as they interact with businesses and even government. Any attempts to get this fixed through the normal process get ignored (I have personally tried, several years ago, twice).

Over the years I asked two different friends at Google for help, one of whom was management. They were baffled when the internal message thing yielded no results either. There doesn't seem to be any process for getting certain types of issues resolved at google.

My point is that google can ruin people's lives even if the victims aren't the ones using it. Gmail blocking inbound mail is another example - if gmail decides to block your service, everyone will blame you, and there's nothing you can do about it other than wait.
There is a lot missing from it. Vim is ported as well.
Many modern bio experiments are almost exactly a repl. You build a system and then repeatedly interrogate it inputing some data using a Read (IE, you pass in some DNA), which is then Eval'd by the cell (warning: there will be side effects), "printed" in the form of some signal like a fluoresence, and then you loop back to the beginning. This is often called "closed loop laboratory."

Unfortunately, each step ends up being extremely challenging, and there's tons of noise, and the cost of each Read, Eval and Print is far higher than in a programming language. Further, the "system" is running 38,000 other "threads" all of which have direct read and write access to your data, some of those threads consider your data to be the enemy and cut it up, while others are just randomly spamming your console with uneccessary debug log messages.

We have actually reached the point where some scientists have synthetically created a novel chromosome, and used a preexisting cell to bootstrap the new genome so that the cell eventually contains only protein from the new genome. To me, that represents a step beyond tinkering: it means we can create synthetic lifeforms with exactly and only the details we want, which makes studying them and engineering them far easier.

Interestingly, even though this tech exists, nobody has found any interesting use for it and it's not even really used to probe biology.

A better example would be gene therapy, which has been developing slowly over decades. A single person died in the a trial in the 90s and stopped development (that's the regulation part you're referring to) for decades. In other trials that don't include gene therapy, patients routinely die and they're just a statistic.
Well, the Protos Papers established that FTX/Alameda were Tether's largest customer. And they acquired 36 billion Tethers.

Now Alameda is proven to be a fraud. So, this basically eliminates the possiblity that they paid cash for those Tethers.

Also, Tether admitted to lying in its settlement with the New York Attorney General

https://protos.com/tether-papers-crypto-stablecoin-usdt-inve...
Knowing your suppliers and that their goods are legitimate is a pretty basic function of a business, and calling people progressive to enforce that is a bit strange.

Amazon isn't a pawn shop. They have a lot of choice when it comes to dealing with known businesses.
and you will learn almost nothing from sequencing and studying your own genome

at best you waste your time, at worst you will find all kinds of things that are not there

it is the Silicon Valley hacker mentality that thinks the life is some sort of computer where you can fiddle with parameters

learn some biology first, then you can marvel at it and realize just how absurdly simplistic is to think you can read anything out of some random letter
The gmail dot problem is one of the biggest reasons for account failure and account faking across a wide range of websites and apps. They seem to have no bother fixing it.

On the other hand, it might be useful to start a new tag `Help HN:`, to get support from the bigtechs since this seems to truly be the last resort
It makes the emotional aspect of the public defender more palatable in certain cases if he imagines his clients might depend on shoplifting out of absolute necessity a bit more than may actually be the case.
Is the server ActivityPub Client to Server compliant?
Society has the choice of eradicating it and simply chooses not to do so.
But also tremendous losses of both knowledge and technology; Christianity eventually rejected almost the whole of known medicine seeing it as a competitor to God's mercy, for example.
Ex-professional chef here. I used my slow cooker a lot more before getting an instant pot. I was a holdout on that for the longest time, but the first time I made hummus from dried garbanzos in under an hour, I was sold–and while I pride myself in my stovetop rice cooking abilities, it really is a great rice cooker. I now use the slow cooker primarily for tough meats like goat. It also makes a great stock: fill 2/3 with bones, fill with water and let it go overnight on the high setting, and you have perfect meat jello the next day. I’m sure I’ll eventually dial these tasks in to the instant pot and then the slow cooker will be passed on.
gawk compiled via webassembly to allow for running in browser allows 'modern' gui input / output beyond the command line interface while still retaining the ability to be just a cli program.
Try searching for “battery siding nailer”. You get everything but. All pneumatic.
Yeah I've just got a mess of bookmarks in various different services, including several different lists of bookmark/note organization services.

Tools like Obsidian[1] and Roam[2] seem to be all the rage these days (in a very small circle of nerds, I mean).

[1] https://obsidian.md/

[2] https://roamresearch.com/