skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My wife and I are considered local "influencers" in our city by virtue of a local lifestyle blog we run and our social media presence. We're part of a local bloggers group, we get invited to tons of exclusive social events, we attend branded events, brands reach out to us directly for help with marketing. People and companies we interact with tend to assume we're making great money doing this. Brands tell us the dollar value of the event they're inviting us to as a way of apologizing for not paying us for it, and our followers sometimes seem to expect we're owned by a major brand or at least under contract.

In reality, in the three years we've been doing this we've made a grand total of $38.50 in cash. Just like how people expect artists to work for "exposure", "influencers" (I really dislike the term, we're just local bloggers as a side project) are often expected to work for free or for perks. We've tried to collect cash for obvious advertisements we're asked to make, and nothing shuts a brand up faster than asking for payment. The reason for that, I'm speculating, is that when we ask to be paid, there are a dozen more "influencers" in the area willing to do it for a free sample of the product.

We've since pretty much determined that we're doing this for fun and for the local influence/access and perks we get, and not for cash. We started as a hobby without the intent to make money, so it's not like we're losing anything. As an added benefit to this approach, we can afford to be super picky and only advertise the brands we actually enjoy using and the places we actually enjoy visiting. If a place/brand we hate asks us to promote them, well... we take cash or card. And 99% of the time, that's the end of the conversation.

Too many people are willing to shill for free, which hurts anyone trying to do it for money.
Per my comment above, we actually just experienced the largest 2-year drop in temp in the last 100 years. The danger with a hugely complex system like "global warming" (i.e. world climate) is that it can be attributed to be the cause of anything.
> An agency or proper usability testing should provide you insights and ways to correct the usability issues based on the results. What you describe may work to get feedbacks and new feature requests. But you won't know why a user is not using a feature, where they are struggling, what they don't understand or see.

If you use heatmaps and other analytical tracking tools you can see how users interact with your app.

That's all you really need to see why a user isn't using a feature, struggling with the UI or happen to not see something.

An agency would just have X number of paid employees systematically going through your UI and giving you their opinions on what they think is best, but that might not align with what your real users are doing.
Absolutely. It doesn't mean testing isn't required - it's absolutely the case when something is business critical, or average / inexperienced devs are painting unicorns and rainbows everywhere.

I have a healthy skepticism of my own work, it keeps hubris in check. This combined with a preference to keep things simple (to come back to later and to let others join easily), I find encourages everyone to build a code base they want to work on long term.
> Macedonia region covers way more territory than the territory of the modern country

Should people in Western Turkey get pissed off about Greece calling itself Greece?
Are you worried that adding "non-hip" languages from the start will alienate the kind of Microsoft-avoiding crowd you as a corporation are trying so hard to win?

Is Pulumi some sort of open-ended research project like Midori?

If I want to offer it to an enterprise client shall I say "don't worry one of their guys might add C#/Java in his spare time if he has a chance"?
I have the bad luck of setting a company up in Ireland and thinking I might relocate it to the UK at some point, so I set it up with a .eu domain. It was also easier to get a .eu domain since a .ie requires more paperwork to prove you are actually in Ireland. We did relocate the company to the UK, but now the UK is relocating itself out of .eu so now we have to change the business e-mail addresses.
Knowing the difference between thinking less about yourself vs less of yourself is important when taking your work seriously but not taking yourself too seriously.

I have a healthy doubt of my own work that seems to end up making it work well first by keeping it as simple as possible.

Keeping the mindset of an innocent beginner is critical as a developer with experience. Everything is easy in the beginning, not the long term - I like to see what code bases people have worked on for many years instead of being able to neatly start from scratch.
Nothing new. This review just dares to aggregate and conclude on other reviews which have established that modulated, polarized, low-level microwave transmissions (like f.x. WiFi) causes effects like significant oxidative cell stress which is a known precursor to a whole host of health effects - cancer included. Dr. Pall offers a mechanistic explanation for the repeatedly established effects: the activation of voltage-gated calcium channels that sit in every cell membrane. Signals like WiFi can trigger those, allowing calcium to flood the cell and set off a cascade of effects leading to said oxidative stress. Add in non-stop radiation exposure and your bodies antioxidant reserves will surely deplete. So basically you now have a mechanism allowing low-level, non-ionizing radiation to indirectly cause the same damage to DNA as ionizing radiation does. There you go. Cancer epidemic explained. Is there anything you can do? Yes, first line of defense is to reduce your exposure and neutralize some of the added oxidative stress by upping your intake of antioxidants. See Dr. Yakymenko's blog for more: http://carelessscience.com/blog2017/electrohypersensitivity-...
"If you cancel your membership at a club, you shouldn't expect to maintain some membership benefits of said club, no matter how small they may be."

When you cancel your membership at a club, they should not hold you hostage for arbitrary crazy fees: see 100 Billion fantasy Euros invented out of thin air by European nations on 'Brexit bill'

Also free trade benefits both parties. It's not a club you pay dues to.

NAFTA is the world's largest customs union that requires no 'freedom of movement' and no 'fees' for membership.

If the .eu domain is a 'benefit' of 'membership', well then surely the EU can keep that.

But punishing the UK by forgoing a decent trade deal reveals the EU to be the 'bad deal' that it is. That they would need to 'punish' parties for leaving - to the detriment of everyone is crazy. Remember that everyone will pay more for UK goods and UK purchaser orders from EU countries will fall.
Nobody wins but the elites in Bruxells trying to maintain their barely arbitrary hold on power.

E. Europe is on a tear, Italy just elected an EU hostile government, Germany and the ECB overthrew a previous government in Italy (and Greece), nationalist are in in Austria, Denmark, basically Norway, and on the rise in Sweden, Finland and Germany - and the entire world's press had to rally around a nobody to keep the FN down in France ... while EU's 2cnd strongest economy flees and the Euro oppresses Southern European states ...

And EU leaders are still not listening ...

The EEC was great, and EU has some nice ideals but the elite there are utterly and completely out of touch, and it's not going to work. Deep fiscal integration is not possible (Greece, Sweden, Spain et. al. to agree on pensions, benefits, retirement and healthcare spending? Never ...) meaning that the Euro itself is untenable (creators of the Euro knew it needed fiscal integration in order to work).

Consider EU's fear of offering UK a 'good trade deal' - then others might want that as well, right? Well then why not give everyone that!. If everyone wants a more commercial relationship, probably with some nice friendly border and citizenship stuff ... then why not have that? The 'fear' is having a Europe that Europeans want ... but that is not the EU? And that's a bad thing how?

It's time for the EU to take a look in the mirror, this much is obvious. If they had the ability to bend with the times, there would be no Brexit, there would be no big right-wing uptick.
Are you aware of Cyprus?
> Receiving money without being exposed to the danger of fraud. Receiving money via Credit Card is surprisingly risky for the merchant.

I'm pretty sure cryptocurrencies just move the risks around, rather than eliminating them. Currently, the vendor is on the hook for stolen credit cards. With cryptocurrencies, the currency owner is on the hook. You could accomplish the same shift in the burden of risks with a legislative change if you wanted: it's just that credit card owners don't want that.
Meat production is orders of magnitude more effective at producing antibiotic resistant strains.
Way I could do this in C#. Tried doing something like this myself, but it didn’t work out.
Venture Deals by Brad Feld is a good one. Mind you, I'm an earlyish employee and not a founder, but the startup I'm at is thankfully transparent and gives us enough financial metrics for me to put a lot of that book to use in contextualizing our previous fundraising rounds.
Microsoft Bob Gets the Last Laugh
I think a big chunk of the problem now is that when people want to watch regularly released video content from internet creators they reach to YouTube, there's no integration of subscriptions across sites. You'd basically have to scrape video feeds from youtube to compete in this way.
Not relevant to this post, but I clicked your username out of curiosity (and because I am apparently a super creep). Turns out I worked with you years ago (I was on the j9jit team). Small world.
Every cell phone has a way to bypass the lock to call 911 or local equivalent emergency number. It'll even work if the phone line is disabled for some reason, or if the phone doesn't have a SIM.
i have been doing the same, in particular unofficial music remixes, which likely will disappear at some point and not allowed on spotify etc.
"Les Miserables" by Victor Hugo. That book embodies so much: love, redemption, justice, perceived justice, human growth, rebellion, religion...it can be a hard slog of a read at times but Hugo really gives his characters space to develop and for you to care about. The Bishop, who is given a passing glance in both the musical and movies, is so much more in the book. Highly recommend to everyone.

[edit: "revolution" -> "rebellion"]
...and Torchlight 2.
I noticed they included most all the tiny regional airports in Iceland, but left out ones like Kulusuk in Greenland, which receives international air traffic.
These people would disagree...
https://twitter.com/a50challenge
I personally have 100,000 people following me on YouTube. My daughter at one point had over 100k people following her on Instagram.

It's much more difficult to get subscribers than followers on Instagram. In addition, a lot of followers are typically on Instagram just to creep on young women and provide no monetary value except for just being another creep in their followers.

Basically, 100k followers on Instagram is a joke and is about equivalent to 25k subscribers on YouTube, only it earns less cash.
From what I understand, mainframes and similar systems have now reached a point where they're quite "sticky". That is, if they haven't already been replaced by now then there are excellent reasons why they're perhaps going to stick around indefinitely. For one, every time another big ransomware attack occurs, which has cost several big companies months of work and hundreds of millions of dollars to try and clean up, the Big Iron folks look at that and go "Thank goodness we're [relatively] immune to such attacks!" And I once had to personally step in and temporarily revive a zombie but somewhat critical Wintel server which had been attacked in some fashion (the server folks had just given up on it, although finding and correcting the problem itself was pretty trivial), and while I was doing that I remember thinking that such an attack was basically impossible on the bigger systems which I often work on. And so on.

Plus, the economics of "scale out" vs. "scale up" don't necessarily look so hot, at least once you reach a certain number of servers. These days you can avoid that to a certain extent my moving at least some of your work to the cloud, but the cloud folks themselves aren't immune to this, either, and I believe they're already starting to figure that out.

As far as tech being "an amazing, growing, evolving field", as an old-timer I've grown quite accustomed to looking into some "new" tech only to realize that it's really a rehash of tech from maybe decades ago, just with a new name and a new coat of paint. Given that supposedly at any given moment something like half of the folks in IT have less than five years experience (they're noobs, in order words), I guess that it shouldn't be too surprising that they keep running into problems and reinventing solutions to those problems which were already worked out decades ago.
An influencer is someone with a strong social media presence, who has a large number of real human followers and the ability to "influence" the purchasing decisions of those followers.

If Linus from Linus Tech Tips says not to buy the latest AMD Radeon X921gtstx, a large number of people won't buy it. That's an influencer.
Because what you classify as "taking a risk" most of us classify as "potentially breaking the law."
Cheating and adjustable for compliance in a particular locale are the same thing. Being able to fine tune how the engine runs to comply with the law and to "cheat" the law requires the same functionality. Any keyboard that you use to quote Shakespeare can be employed just as effectively to type dirty words.
> 96.5 percent of YouTubers don’t make enough annual ad revenue to reach the U.S. federal poverty line... $12,140.

I'm surprised it's that low, honestly. May be a question of definition of a "youtuber", which I didn't see in the article. There's a long tail of "influencers" who actually make a living at it—and some a very good living—but I bet it's way less than 3.5%.
> Receiving money via Credit Card is surprisingly risky for the merchant.

> It really isn’t.

Nerdwallet article outlining the fraud risk:

https://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/credit-cards/merchants-victi...
There is a difference between "sensationalist" and using a term that the general public knows. Wi-Fi means something to the average person, whereas "radio waves in the 2.4GHz band" sounds like some obscure thing that doesn't apply to daily life.
"Social media personality"
Recommended storage device and disk drives?
Agreed - this leads to many of these subset areas being displayed as much larger than they should be, while others should be larger. Either eliminate class D, or don't - to be inconsistent seems pretty pointless.
IBM thrived during world war 2 providing Hitler with computer classification mainframes for prisoners. The book title I forgot made even asumption that classification, processing and extermination of “prisoners of war” at such huge scale as Hitler did would not be possible without IBM.

Today, some 70 years later, I doubt you find a person who is not proud of working for IBM, or a tech worker who would not take better paid job at IBM because of their past.

Bottom line: Azure will be just fine.
I was a part of the alpha testing and I liked it so much I added Kubernetes support in my free time.

A thing I notice about the space is that existing tooling tends to be very focused on a specific persona (e.g., ops), and when you want to do anything outside those use cases, it starts to feel like you're jamming a square peg into a round hole. So, e.g., Go templates/sed/awk work great if all you want to do is template a couple YAML files, but if your use cases is even slightly more demanding (sharing, dependencies, transforming), it gets painful quick.

Using a "real language" makes all of this much simpler. You can write tooling that captures the needs you actually have. If you have an ops team that wants a mostly-declarative or mostly-hermitic API, you can write that, and you don't have to map it to CloudFormation, ARM templates, Terraform, etc. Huge win. You can write JS/TS/Python libraries that provide secure defaults for your core infrastructure components. You can use standard dev tools to audit and refactor code you've written.

In Terraform, modules have proven to be very useful. For Pulumi, I'm interested to see what the tooling ecosystem will look like as the product becomes more mature.
I remember trying to play Diablo multiplayer through a 55.6 kbps modem. It was nice for like 5 minutes but then the connection lagged and I couldn't control my character. When the connection quality improved, I saw my character dead with all his (high level and very diffucult to find) gear stolen by other players.

I was so frustrated I removed the cdrom from the drive and threw it on the wall; the cd broke and that was the last time I played Diablo...
haha! I remember borrowing my friend's WarCraft 2 manual before I could play the game (wasn't yet out for Mac), and imagining the epic gameplay. Back in the days when games actually came with a manual and often included tons of awesome artwork you wouldn't see elsewhere. :) Actually reminds me I scanned some of the artwork and printed them out so I could color them -- still have a couple of those!
There are plenty of incentives to punish Britain and British citizens and companies, not only zero incentives to be "flexible".

Withdrawing .eu domains works both as a last-minute threat to prevent Brexit and as revenge and compensation in case Brexit goes through. At the very least, Britain shall be made an example of.
So basically a defective reviewer?

As someone who only reads restaurant reviews in the hope that they'll be bad (I blame over-exposure to AA Gill), I find this whole social media 'influencer' thing deeply boring. Bad reviews are the fun type!
Buy a few thousand followers from a click farm and see if the responses start to change. That’s honestly the best way to establish yourself if you’re serious; everyone is defrauding everyone and nobody cares because they’re all getting rich.
You do realize that the police/fire services that would be dispatched to you are government agencies that you're going to have to tell your location, right?

Why are you calling 911 if you don't want emergency services to know where you are?
> it requires a special kind of person to enjoy it.

I have never been able to get through even a few paragraphs of Joyce without feeling the need to throw the book down and scream WTBF? I guess I'm not a special kind of person.
I don't even get why .EU domains should be restricted to EU residents.
The core 2 duo was crap, the celeries were mediocre, the p4s in combo with rdram were junk and a total failure with shitty performance. Amd really should have held the crown during those years, so I don't know why you think Intel was a consistent winner. Most of the chips they made from 2000-2010 were less than great. Intel outright didn't have a good chip for a very long time. Like I previously stated you can buy an octocore and that's still beats most Intel offerings for far less. If anything Intel is mid tier with a huge mark up on price.

Stock price doesn't determine CPU quality. AMD stock is a whipping boy for shorting..and an easy way to profit on when those professional investors are constantly wrong. (I've invested in AMD over the last 20 years and there is an extremely predictable cycle in stock price. though just a disclaimer, I currently do not hold any AMD stock)
I can say from experience that an Instagrammer with 100k followers is unlikely to get anything near $2700 to post a photo. This was probably true several years ago, but these days the number is closer to $1000.
For me it was the Starcraft game manual. I took that thing everywhere!
Does this make any sense? Years now companies like bit.ly used to get tlds from other countries just to make a nice sounding word. How is .eu any different?
BTW I personally find .eu tld tasteless.
How is that an incentive?
Ad revenues only make up a portion (generally small portion) of influencers’ total revenue.
Grim Dawn is pretty darn close -- definitely check it out. Torchlight and Torchlight 2, while a bit lighter in atmosphere, have music composed by Matt Uelmen (Diablo & Diablo 2 composer)! Very nice stuff indeed.
Quick question: Do you own any Apple or similar big-brand products? If so, why?

Six months ago, I bought a Penny Skateboard because I discovered they were a "thing", thanks to Casey Neistat's videos. I don't even particularly like that YouTuber, but find his "content" fascinating and videos a pleasant way to burn time.

I don't aspire to be like Casey Neistat in most ways - I'm not even interested in making YouTube videos. First class flights don't intrigue me, because I handle economy just fine and like flying in any form. If I saw him in the street, I'd probably say hi but I wouldn't ask for a selfie or shoutout.

So why did I buy a Penny board - something one might associate as only being for children (some people feel this way about bicycles too) - why was I "influenced"? Because I discovered that there exists a third option to skateboards and longboards (both of which don't really enamour me because the former are too noisy and the latter are too large). Penny boards, on the other hand appear inoffensive but are challenging and thus rewarding to learn. Plus, they're not expensive - so I figured, why not give it a go and see if I can learn a new balance-skill especially since it's not something everyone can manage?

Next, I saw a pre-Christmas sale, said "yolo" and just went for it.

I'm glad I did go for it because not only have I learned something that some people will never be able to learn, but I'm still continuing to improve more than 100 hours later while others my age decide to stay on their couches, or almost worse: sign up to boot camp-style ongoing gym memberships so they can hit the meat market on a Saturday night or beach weekend.

Like with any business, it's a numbers game. You might not feel directly influenced and you very well may not be, but most people still will have tried Coca-Cola at least once in their lives.
Yea, it's as silly as a country claiming to be the "United States of America" when lol, Canada and Mexico and all of South America would like a word...
Little has changed? Yeah right, when people marched in the streets burning effigies of George Bush in protest against the Iraq War, literally nothing happened to them. You can go out and protest any war you want, often stomping on other people's civil rights to do it, and the judges will be super lenient of your civil rights violations because they were done in the name of political speech.

And calling modern volunteer soldiers poor is an insult. Underpaid would be fair.