skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This isn't really a single decision, it's an attitude baked into Tesla's philosophy. You don't own the car; you just decide where to drive it. Tesla owns your car in every meaningful way (except liability apparently).
Google and Amazon are enterprise services. If you consider $150 too expensive, you are not part of the target customers.
The parent is correct. While Apple does have its own "Search Ads" program, it's not widely used, and doesn't contribute much towards Apple's profits.
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Every appsec tester looks for these vulnerabilities and routinely finds them. I'm not criticizing them for testing for it; of course they should do that. I'm saying: under no circumstances should they be allowed to brand this vulnerability. It's not "Zip Slip". It's "ZIP file directory traversal".
Sorry to bikeshed, but I feel like the new title is much less clear; I don't know how many readers would know what "Psilocybe Azurescens" means. I sure didn't.

If I may, I suggest: "Michael Pollan on Hallucinogenic Mushrooms"
We're working on this! Right now most people discover through the author's networks, and from people sharing free content.

We made a super basic discovery feature (that's just chronological free posts) here: https://www.substack.com/discover but we need to make that a lot better now that the home page is starting to get appreciable traffic :)
> Today, we're excited to announce that GitLab Ultimate and Gold are now free for educational institutions and open source projects.

Okay that sounds good though I can't figure out what "Gold" is as their pricing page only mentions "Core" / "Starter" / "Premium" / "Ultimate": https://about.gitlab.com/pricing

EDIT: Nevermind ... the metallic plans are for the hosted SaaS offering which doesn't show up by default on the pricing page with JS disabled.

> Open source projects: any project that uses a standard open source licence and is non-commercial.

I get the idea that GitLab wants to offer something to FOSS projects but restricting things to "Non-commerical" is both vague and limiting. Would Spring qualify? It's open source but backed by a commercial entity. How about Redis? Open source with multiple companies offering hosted variants. What about MySQL? It is GPL ... but you know Oracle...

Also unless GitLab is going by the Queen's English "licence" is spelled wrong (should be an "s").

> Free GitLab Ultimate and Gold accounts do not include support. However, you can buy support for 95% off, at $4.95 per user per month. To purchase support, contact sales.

So support is usually $100/user/month? Are there any takers at that price or is that the usual high ball so that you can offer a discount to the procurement department?
Again to clarify, I didn't mention them because they are based in Salt Lake. There are lots of great places in Salt Lake, but the discussion above was focused on Utah County (Provo, Orem, Lehi, etc.)
In addition, as requirements get more complex and users expect more polished products, we end up relying on more and more open source/reusable infrastructure and libraries. Those tools allow us to not reinvent the wheel and accomplish more in the same amount of time, but they also add to the complexity of any software system.

House building has become somewhat more complicated over the years as building codes are made stricter and new techniques are developed, but for the most part it is just a switch to a new way of doing things vs. in the software world where we will continue to pile on more and more levels of abstraction, but can't reasonably expect to have at least some kind of understanding of the underlying layers.
Agitator? Ugh... the 10m one where the 10yo kids were jumping had no waves. The water was perfectly flat. Or at least not deliberately agitated. There do seem to only be 3 of these in the local conurbation [0] (10 million population), giving 3.3 million inhabitants per tower, compared to 5.3 for the whole US. So yes, they might be more prevalent around here, but I don't know how open the facilities in the US are to the public/minors.
They seem to be used for the Olympics and the associated training though.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhine-Ruhr
>So sometimes instead of an echo chamber you get a war chamber, which I'm not sure is better.

I think the "war chamber" basically reinforces the echo chamber. You never see the reasonable people within the camps you hate, you only ever see the most ridiculous, most absurd shit the internet has to offer that inhabits that camp.

I noticed this a lot during the whole GamerGate thing. It's like those people had just been seeing endless streams of tweets and Tumblr posts from verbally abusive (or more often, satirical and sarcastic) feminists and strung them together to create a narrative about being "under siege." Never mind that what they were seeing was not at all a representative sample of the group they're talking about, it's their idea of what the group looks like and there's no way to recalibrate them once they dig in.
Crypto Anarchy wiki
What bit you in the last decade?
To me, being able to play again is vital if you're going to play a high-risk game.

Eg. making 101 100:1 bets makes way more sense than risking everything on a single victory-or-bust gamble.
And who has jurisdiction to enforce that? Can a US citizen (who has never been in the EU) sue in an EU court to compel release of the US citizen's data from the US division/unit/hq/whatever? Does that court have authority to compel the release by the US division? Can the EU court compel a US court to find similarly?

Point: how is the GDPR ever going to be enforced between US citizens and US companies-with-an-EU-presence?
How repositioning a product allows you to 8x its price
Elon Musk is probably the easiest person to point at because he’s worst at it. He has a novel approach of talking down the odds of success of any newsworthy rocket launch and he clearly doesn’t understand that criticising journalists’ reporting of Tesla autopilot issues isn’t going to encourage good reporting.

He looks and sounds so awkward in interviews that he may have as little charisma as I do… at least, if you can ignore the fact he’s a billionaire, which some people find very charismatic in itself.
No, I don’t accept treatment like that when possible — I listed things that Comcast has done to me on the phone. :)
"Kudos to Tesla for not only being OK with this guy having a sidegig, but also not trying to be a jerk in demanding a cut. "

Please don't give them kudos. This has to be normal behavior. Being employed by a company doesn't mean being owned by them.
Counterpoint: No. I feel like you just trade one set of delusions for another with psychedelics. Talking to plants or rocks isn't real, its just another way the ego and the imaginative part of the mind plays with itself.

If you're looking for consciousness expanding activities, I found my meditation practice and buddhist readings were 1000x more powerful than my drug attempts. For an HN'er I'd recommend starting with this:

https://www.amazon.com/Why-Buddhism-True-Philosophy-Enlighte...

as its more sciency/modern than diving into the Pali Canon or popular but dated 1960s attempts to westernize Buddhism.
One thing Woo has over Shopify is the control of the data. Self hosted will always offer more control to the store owner in every aspect of the business.

I agree, not a good idea to choose Woo for cost savings alone though if you can get by on the services provided by Shopify.
I'm guessing substack is a high volume email sender, do you guys use an API or in-house tech for that? Any interesting stories about keeping your mail out of spam filters/your IPs off blacklists/Nigerian princes from starting newsletters?
I don't understand what this has to do with my question. Abbotabad is a large-ish city about as far from Islamabad, the largest city in Pakistan, as West Point is from Manhattan. It's not a "dense jungle with an extensive tunnel network" (there are no dense jungles in Pakistan or Afghanistan).
Back in the day we just called this "starting a small business". It was the normal way of doing things before VCs were willing to piss away millions on mostly dumb ideas.
Hey, thanks for replying!

I'm sympathetic to your point about large organizations having a mix of employees with different ethical standards.

In this particular case, as CEO Nadella is fully responsible for allowing the various nasty practices I enumerated above. (I tried to only list those which happened under his leadership.)

This is why I'm not persuaded about Microsoft's general trustworthiness by either of the following:

(a) Outsiders referring to Nadella's leadership of MS, or

(b) Nadella himself suggesting that people judge MS by its recent behavior.
So self-host or use one of the many public gitlab-ce instances?
Why not? Tesla is seen as a company with ambitious grandiose plans. It's a common Silicon Valley cliché for startups and companies to claim they're changing the world. Tesla is one of the few companies that can legitimately claim an important mission. With all the stories (Tesla or otherwise) about SV companies overworking their employees in the name of holy missions, it's nice to see an example of what looks like an amicable parting.

According to the article, Lee was able to launch and his own startup for a year, while still working full time as a product manager at Tesla. Would most startup or startup-like (trying to reach stable profit) companies be OK with that?
Joomla and Hikashop. Yes, it is more work to set up than simply using shopify, but you are independent, you are flexible, it is cheap and when something like GDPR comes around the corner that prevents a system like shopify (or shopify is bought by Amazon or similar) you still have your shop. It is also Opensource. Also, if you are selling stuff that might be against the terms of shopify, your shop might get deleted, but not if you role your own installation. Definitely don't invent your own shop system, but use your own installation and an opensource solution.
GitHub is popular because it allows developers to connect the tools they want to use to their repository. Some people find having everything in one package convenient, but the truth is there are better tools for most everything GitLab does. I don't see how jamming everything into one application makes it appealing.

I prefer GitHub's approach of allowing applications to deliver more information back into GitHub https://blog.github.com/2018-05-07-introducing-checks-api/ As the tooling we use becomes more complicated that will be the winning strategy.
Gold is here: https://about.gitlab.com/pricing/#gitlab-com

They have pricing for self-hosted, and pricing for gitlab.com (managed)
Yes and the 8g models of chromebook (there are 2 right?) are $750+
Well OP didn't mention any specifics, which is what we're asking for. I mean those were isolated features that I liked, but in general I liked the UI too. I was just mentioning specifics.

I mean the merge request cycle works well (way better than BitBucket or Gerrit). Sure the initial project screens could use a little work (show the files instead of the readme/project info?) but in general I think the UI is decent, especially compared to BitBucket. Needing some improvements is different than being a "complete mess."

It could be improved sure, but I don't think the current UI gets in the way of my development in significant ways.
> If it's any comfort, GitLab's intention is to go IPO rather than to be acquired.

Not particularly reassuring since acquisitions of companies after they IPO happen all the time.
The Google GKE offering can operate with a single g1-small worker.

That's $0.0257/hr or $0.0070/hr preemptible. $5/mo minimum*

This is not even the same ballpark.

*(to be fair, the $5/mo minimum does not include a private network and a load balancer, and you will almost definitely need both in order to actually do anything with a cluster.)
I recommend setting up a static blog, hugo/jekyll. Though wordpress and ghost are pretty decent.

I would advice against medium, it's a terrible experience from mobile and on PC.
As I understand it, ’virtual’ particles are those that are not observed ”on shell” (i.e. going into or coming out of a specific interaction), and hence whose existence cannot be affirmed if not by the effect their evanescente presence had upon what did actually come out, or rather, the statistics of what comes out of many identical inputs interacting.
Except it didn't. And vendors do not contribute drivers, binary blobs get made. :)

(With a minor exception of one game console.)
Pretty Apple-oriented article.

Sure, Apple has created a platform, but at which cost? You are obliged to develop for iOS, OSX only having an Apple computer.
The platform has no escape rooms.

Windows has extended the .Net to run even on Linux and you can build Windows applications from other OSes as well.
The flexibility is in the tooling and MS knows it - see how dramatically improved Visual Studio in latest releases and now compare it with Xcode: what's new in Xcode 10? The Dark mode, what else?

The author still forgets that actually the ultimate gaming platform is still a PC with Windows. Mobile gaming has improved, but the best gaming experience (VR and not) runs on bare metal PCs.

Apple just decided to ditch OpenGL and OpenCL in favour of Metal - this will backfire in the near future, because developers look for easy tooling which allow them to use fewer but high quality APIs and not three thousands (e.g. Vulkan, UWP).
Are you talking about psilocybin mushrooms in general, or the particular species of mushroom discussed in the article? In the article, the mycologist who identified the species and picked mushrooms with Pollan told him not to consume them on their camping trip because paralysis was not unlikely at normal doses.

I'm not asking the general question of whether taking walks while on mushrooms is a good idea. I'm sure it is!
Not all aspects of Shopify can be customized -- especially with the checkout workflow (eg you can only set a logo for the checkout page, but not style it). Also the non-ecommerce pages are woefully lacking in content management functionality (anything more complex than a blog is impossible without using a third-party app to store custom content in meta fields).

And writing apps yourself is not always ideal because they need to run on your own server (thus mitigating the benefit of using a hosted platform to avoid infrastructure maintenance), and any frontend modifications can only be done via JavaScript (you can't modify the outputted HTML itself, so it's a lot more difficult to make robust, performant and accessible customizations to functionality).
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Your phone is listening for key words and then sending that information to advertisers and state actors/criminals.
---OFF TOPIC: WORD USAGE---

Do ad hock networks lead to fetlock-in?

A hock is a joint in the lower end of a quadruped's hind leg, between the knee and fetlock. It's in analogous position to the ankle in humans.

Of course 'hock' can also mean 'to sell, especially to a pawn broker'.

The word you want is 'hoc' which is Latin for 'this'. You may be familiar with the 'post hoc' fallacy: which is that if event A is followed by event B, event B must therefore be caused by event A. The full name of the fallacy is 'post hoc, ergo propter hoc', which means 'after this, therefore because this'.

The latin word 'ad' simply mean 'to' or 'for'. So 'ad astra' means 'to the stars', an 'ad hominem' argument is to literally direct your argument 'to the person' and their faults.

So finally we arrive at the combination 'ad hoc', which means 'to the purpose'. Ad hoc things are done in purely pragmatic manner, for a particular purpose. They are often short lived arrangements which end once their purpose has been meet or is made moot.

Oh, and you didn't make this mistake, but I'm going to blather about it anyway. 'etc.' is short for 'et cetera', it is not spelled 'ect.', nor 'excetera', nor is the usage 'and etc.' valid. 'et cetera' means literally 'and the rest'--meaning anything, not necessarily just the Professor and Maryanne.
GKE is free for HA as well: https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/06/Regional-cluste...
Depends on where you are in life. Do you have a full-time job? Do you have any serious adult responsibilities, like a mortgage, business, spouse, or child? Do you tend to dwell on negative things? Are you worried about anything going on in your life right now?

If you answered yes to any of the above, I would strongly advise against taking psychedelics (especially mushrooms). Mushrooms will completely take you out of your normal reality. It will take you to a place that's "above" your reality. Depending on how much you take, you may even doubt that you exist, or what existence even means. This can be profound in the right mindset or horrifying in the wrong one.

Shrooms can be a very positive experience. It can give you a glimpse into your own consciousness that's impossible to achieve any other way, but the second you start worrying stuff going on in your life in the middle of your trip, you're totally fucked. You'll feel like your brain has been destroyed and it's never coming back. Bad trips are absolutely terrifying, and they're very difficult to get out of.

I had a lot of fun dabbling with various substances in college. Now that I'm married, work full-time, and own real estate, the thought of taking psychedelics has zero appeal to me. In fact, I'm a complete teetotaler at this point.
I would also recommend Camille Fournier's The Managers Path book for folks in tech. You will be able to relate to this book whether you are an individual contributor or seasoned manager.
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It's great to see a new subject from this author.

I've read several of his books, which just seemed like re-writes of the same topic in more concise formats each time.

Omnivore's Dilemma (450 pages) -> In Defense of Food (256 pages) -> Food Rules (140 pages)
Having read through the piece, I'm a little confused about why "leader" and "manager" are being conflated. They're very different roles. The former is a navigational role and the latter is a facilitating role.

Given the differing dominant archetypal personality traits required for those distinct modalities, it's unlikely they'd be strongly expressed in a singular person, and there's some reason to think they may be necessarily orthogonal. As their motivational biases are likely to be largely unrelated to each other.
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> Like door to door summer sales, and the massive bro culture associated with that.

But just sign up, you'll make $50000 in 3 months!

/s
I don't think this project should be gittorrent -- after all, one of the reasons bittorrent got so popular is non-distributed tracker and .torrent files, which provide efficiency and authenticity.

Maybe git-donkey or git-gnutella instead?
'Painfully obvious' can sometimes completely non-obvious when you're in an environment where bad habits, political bs, and other human weirdness dominate the patterns of interaction. This is true for most organizations.
Interesting idea. Is there an authoritative list of educational domains? Checking the last part of the domain name doesn't work in some countries like at my old university https://www.utwente.nl/

Also, my university gave me an alumni email address that I can still use today that has the same domain name.
I didn’t downvote you. You have a point about the international call. Edit: actually, they seem to have a different phone number for many countries. Is the country you live in covered? How is the phone service quality if you make a test call? https://customercenter.wsj.com/contact

I liked my WSJ subscription and it really helped me at my first job out of college. It was the print subscription and I’d supplement by reading their blogs online.
> But it feels to me that the revealed goal of our market-driven world is to abstract everything away with money.

Yes. The most rewarding thing one can do is to figure out a way to change that.

It's sad that our brightest minds don't want to understand this, and that they'd rather think about how to make people click ads.
I fall into this camp. I'm not particularly bothered by Microsoft's acquisition of GitHub, but I've been eyeing GitLab for awhile now.

This just gave me an excuse to pull the trigger.
The net value of Facebook ads would roughly be taking some measure of how much it helps minus some measure of how much it hurts.

You posted some way of roughly approximating how much it helps. But looking at metrics like this in isolation is meaningless and there's no useful interpretation except for people (such as in the ad business) whose utility function for this topic only depends on the upside component.

Society at large also depends on downside components, like how much psychological drag the pervasive ads generate, how many people are deceived or manipulated into mis-wanting something purely because of ad repetition, how many times are ML-based personalized ads miscalculated, leaving a consumer to experience inappropriate or irrelevant ads because of algorithm malfunction. How much extra cognitive effort is required to maintain browsing solutions that mitigate tracking. How much of the ad experience facilitates addiction to mobile phones. And so on.

I am not claiming that I have a great way to roughly quantify these, but you could. For example, you could do eye-tracking and phone usage studies and try to roughly compute the amount of extra app time that is attributable to dealing with unwanted ads or app time attributable to ad-linked addictive behavior, and then estimate up what some average case cost of that time would be at a median salary or something, to roughly value that time. Or you could gather statistics on how accurate data-based ad personalization is and how often someone spends time costs processing misclassified ad categories they self-report as not relevant.

I conjecture that the financial cost of that lost time (which is an under-estimate that doesn't factor in other psychological drag or second order effects) would, when aggregated over hundreds of millions or billions of people, add up to waaay more cost that what the offsetting value from effective ads and product discoveries offered, meaning that from a perspective other than the consumer corporations that profit from the transactions, it would look like a giant net loss for society.
It seems to be inevitable that the "scummy" ones finish first. Deskop Linux could have been more popular than Windows, GIMP more popular than Photoshop and Signal more popular than WhatsApp if only they where first. But the Open Source world always lags behind when it comes to developing new stuff for ordinary consumers.
I think that's an overly negative view of the article.

People are more interested in how he got where he is, not the product itself.

Just because it's not FDA approved yet, doesn't mean its garbage. Not to mention the countless harmful and down right useless products that are pushed and approved by the FDA every year.

Tesla connection is important because people have been on an anti-Tesla tear lately, and this paints them in a pretty good light as far as big companies go.

He is being praised for his cautious and systematic approach to building a start-up, versus the rockstar/reckless founder meme that is prevalent these days.
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi memo instructs employees to say they 'have the D'
Interesting project! I'm wondering: does Substack have a proposal to put editors into this new workflow? Editing seems like an essential part of the process of good journalism or any kind of writing that would be missing in this model.
Exactly. This is an emergent consequence of 1) prioritizing "engagement" and 2) the mechanics of "retweet with comment"

This can happen on social media even if almost everybody would prefer that it didn't. The way to fix it is to change the rules :)