skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Much less difficult if you follow basic software engineering practice when writing your software - split out platform-dependent parts and abstract them away, write remaining 90%+ of your codebase without worrying about the platform.
This comment doesn't address my points at all. First, none of those sites are Patreon competitors. Second, I never claimed alternatives didn't exist. Third, in context it's pretty clear that Sargon is trying to insult racists. I don't know much about him, but from that clip it seems like his shtick is to get attention by making points in controversial ways. Well, mission accomplished (in every sense of the phrase).

My points were 1. the parent's concept of free speech missed the mark and 2. Patreon has a double standard and a political bias, and that's not good for them or for society.

I'm also not saying there should be laws policing Patreon's behavior. I'm saying that while Patreon and other tech companies believe they are doing good by removing content and sanctioning its creators, they are making a mistake. If they branded themselves as a utility (similar to a power company or bank), they could guarantee themselves a larger platform in the long term. At the same time, they'd let everyone read and hear what they wanted to read and hear. They'd reduce political polarization (which seems to be creeping into every aspect of life), eliminate the Streisand effect (I'd never heard of the Daily Stormer or Gab before hosting providers refused to take their money), and make it much harder for extremists to get sympathy.
“It works the same on the desktop as it does in my web browser” is an indictment, not a feature. People use cross-platform toolkits because they don’t want to do the work to fit in with the platform their user chose, not because they confer any advantages to the user.
Not exactly. I am building HTML-NOTEPAD (https://html-notepad.com) from the same sources ( https://github.com/c-smile/sciter-sdk/tree/master/notepad ) for all desktop platforms.

It uses sciter (https://sciter.com) which is sort of micro-electron if you wish. Distribution of the app is 2mb rather than 200mb.
Everything you just listed here seems to have been solved by Bitcoin, including forking politics - which leaves the users in control (albeit with some political influence from lead devs) ultimately this appears to be a fair power distribution as it is economic nodes deciding the current consensus on the rules set - not miners. (For your list - no forgery, no metal debasement, no long term inflation and infinite divisibility, why shouldn't you be able to own real money? Why shouldn't market set exchange rates? No sinking ships, country stockpiling and transferring is all fair game but custody is easy for anybody to take an maintain.
His own book, ‘South’, is truely epic and ranks up there as one of the best books I’ve ever read.
When I first invested in Bitcoin several years back, I tried to imagine ways that it could one day be deterred from becoming increasingly adopted and valuable. Government regulation and hacking were obvious possibilities, but I never considered “death by fragmentation” at the time. I think Bitcoin would be a lot more valuable today if it had not been for the explosion of largely greed-motivated shitcoins (and later ICOs) entering the market.
I think the book is targeted towards a younger audience which might explain the lack of more thorough insights into the topics he selected.
More disappointing for me was the choice of some of these topics - some of them are covered very superficially and sometimes even with a surprising one-sidedness. As I recently finished Factfulness by Hans Rosling - where he explains how the population increase is slowing down and experts having good reason to believe that it will again plateau in the future - I was stunned to hear Hawking exaggerate this danger over and over again. And unfortunately this was not the only topic on which he is not an expert and yet gives his opinion and presents it as fact. He covers religion, AI, social politics with a very broad brush and a very self assured tone: "Time didn't exist before the Big Bang so there is no time for God to make the universe in." Hawking's concept of God as being part of creation is different to the definition most people/religions have, so his argument feels incomplete.
The editing is poor and makes the book feel rushed - which it might have been the case. Maybe they tried to capitalize on a great man's passing by having a new book quickly available. I'm being cynical, but I can't find a better reason why there are so many paragraphs being repeated in different chapters.
The Humanitarian Crisis in Plain Sight on the Streets of L.A. – NBC News
You’re also competing with native mobile tool sets on native.

If you want to write software for a platform, write software for that platform. Don’t write software for some other platform, try to make it fit, and then declare it good.
Those look like two isolated cases at the payment processors. But if that keeps up, it'll be a quick road to legislation
How do you reconcile your world view with the story of someone like Daryl Davis, who verifiably contradicts what you think?
All articles that purport to explain how some aspect of the human mind works (in this case, why exaggeration jokes trigger the emotional response they do) inevitably fail miserably. This is simply due to the fact that science has basically nothing meaningful to say about human experience, other than to draw vague correlations between it and fMRI scans or lesion studies. For god's sake, we don't even know why/how Ibuprofen works...what kind of moronic hubris makes an Atlantic writer think they can illuminate anything worthwhile about something as complex as humor?
Cloudfare is like the Mafia or the military, you pay them protection fees or face the consequences.
HN is probably a drop in the ocean in terms of traffic, but it’s good quality traffic admittedly.
Ho nice, thank you. The option used to be in the creation dialog.
> It's not "fascism" or "trump" that we should be afraid of.

Oh, people should really be concerned about fascism. It's just not coming from the groups outed trying to bring it (what should be obvious, outed groups do not succeed).

But there are people pushing hard for individual-erasing collectivism, explicitly labeling people in ethnics belief and sex, and suppressing every unaligned idea to the point where it's not viable for the people that have them to even speak.

(A late edit: I don't think Pathernon is on this group. They did nothing wrong, they just happen to be in a place where no move was a good one.)
I don't think this is anywhere near true. Even without the largest 100 internet companies, it is still orders of magnitude easier to get a message out to a large audience than it has been at any other time throughout history.

You don't need a fancy Cloudflare proxy to get a message out there. A static site is easy to host and there are thousands of sites/services to choose from.

You can still stand on a soapbox, you can post a link on a wide variety of message boards, write an opinion piece for a newspaper, etc.
> Edit:Boohoo, I offended the snowflakes.

If anyone disagreeing with you is automatically a “snowflake”, you’re the one with a sensitivity problem.

Just something to think about.
Trying to prevent people from arguing for an evil works much better when the primary reason they are arguing for said evil is because your platform makes it insanely profitable for them to do so.

"I disapprove of what you say but will do my level best to ensure it's profitable for you and your copycats to keep saying it in a more and more attention-seekingly extreme manner" sounds suspiciously like the net result is society manipulation of a different sort. Ultimately I think private organizations have a right to have the time, effort and money they invest in growing their platform's reach decoupled from the change in the public profile of evil.
> If Russia and China can get away with that, the US being vastly superior from a military standpoint, what world destabilization, or plain open war would happen if the US just a bit weaker?

Ok, so if I'm following this logic, which is if you're not the strongest then someone is going to invade you, then the USA is going to start invading everyone because it is the strongest.

Or, if not, could there possibly be other factors that come into play when deciding to invade someone and destabilise the world?

> The naivete point stands. We need more computer scientists defending Western democracy values, because today, more than ever, they're under attack.

I agree. Let's fund this with a reduction in our standing army. Oh wait... the people who make the bombs might not like this.
As far as I know Patreon haven't booted Jordan Paterson, the article suggests he's breaking his association with Patreon willingly.
The right term is a 'loopback device' which allows you to use a file on an existing filesystem as a block device.

Here's what the flow looks like:

open(/path/to/myfile) ->

ext4 driver ->

block operations on /dev/loop0 ->

open(/path/to/loop-file) ->

block operations on the data region of the file ->

btrfs driver ->

block operations on /dev/sda
>The biggest reason the EU needed to be stringent with Greece, according to my Greek friends, was that insane levels of corruption in Greek governments meant the government was almost incapable of collecting taxes

Of course when the corruption was done by and was in favor of German companies getting some job, all it was well (Fraport, Siemens, subway bribing, etc).

Germany even refused to cooperate to clean things up, e.g.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siemens_Greek_bribery_scandal
I have a somewhat different perspective to offer: C or C++ for components (effectively 90% of all code), a managed or scripted code (10%) for the glue.

The reason is that the modern C++ is perfectly suitable for high-level programming -- on par with Java, C# or Visual Basic. No "taming" is needed.
While the term "shill" is somewhat inflammatory, I don't think it's entirely inaccurate here; specifically the grandiose rhetoric used to hype up his own personal cryptocurrency projects.
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Something being a poor business decision in retrospect doesn't mean it was made knowing that it would be a poor business decision.

Patreon fucked up the execution. Reddit has been throwing out more and more undesirables and it's been working out well for them.
> Bitcoin is failing and if that’s the best option for free speech, it proves that the mainstream actually doesn’t support it.

Bitcoin is an anarcho-capitalist currency, and the mainstream aren't anarchists. The mainstream doesn't object to it because they object to free speech, they object to it because they like banks with their FDIC insurance and laws.
CRAZY Christmas traffic and how I handled it
I've always thought that the 1 week period between Christmas - New Years is usually when people chill and don't really care about the interweb. I couldn't have been more wrong.

The biggest traffic spike I saw on http://www.tripfate.com was between 1-7 PM Eastern on 12/25... I really couldn't justify the traffic (had no ads or anything) so I started to investigate, and it looks like the majority of the traffic was coming from the other post I published on IH last week: https://www.indiehackers.com/forum/how-i-met-my-wife-and-why-i-built-yet-another-flight-price-tracker-34fb46049e

I'm really glad I used the nginx + php7-fpm stack in a Docker container to deploy on DigitalOcean. It took me literally 3 minutes to spin up another instance behind the load-balancer and I had my environment ready in seconds thanks to everything being Dockerized.

Reverting back to a single instance was equally easy - I'd highly recommend this approach rather than doing everything manually. Oh and you should totally leverage DO's monitoring service - it's awesome! I receive a Slack alert any time the resource consumption approaches 70%.

Although I still don't know what caused the traffic spike (except for maybe a bunch of people decided to read that IH post on Christmas), I'm really glad I had prepared for it.

The next thing(s) I'd probably like to build is automatic deployment through Jenkins with BitBucket, and triggering a script behind the scenes to deploy more instances behind the load-balancer once the cluster consumption reaches ~70%... but that's for another day.

Oh and I'm still looking for beta-testers for http://www.tripfate.com so please feel free to sign up! :)
This has been how storytelling has been done for centuries, it’s a a mark of thoughtful feature writing. The Atlantic is over 100 years old and extremely prestigious, it’s resonable to assume that at least from a technical writing standpoint they know what they are doing and do it on purpose.

It’s not writing intended for a textbook or academic paper. It’s a story. You’re supposed to read it and get introduced to things and discover the themes of the story gradually.

I see a variation of this criticism of a long form feature about every week or so on HN. It’s sort of equivalent to a person walking into a modern art museum and asking why the artists didn’t just paint the pictures so they look exactly like the thing the artist was looking at when he painted the picture.
Probably not. A home server would likely not get a high a
number of simultaneous requests that can be processed in parallel. I suspect that fewer more powerful cores would lead to higher performance in that particular case.
This comment is similar to looking at the Netscape browser in 1994 and asking who has successfully used a browser in industry. Or, like insisting in 2001-2002 that all dot-coms were like WebVan or pets.com and the Internet was just a fad and didn't provide any real value.

If you have any understanding of the way technology is developed and becomes commercialized (hint: google "gartner hype cycle") you'll probably realize that we've passed the peak of inflated expectations and are firmly in the trough of disillusionment when it comes to crypto. Not every technology makes it to the plateau of productivity, but crypto has a pretty damn good chance of doing so, considering how much innovation and research is currently taking place.
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I talked to a guy who tried to cross it once. To get the huge number of required calories in a compact form they drank olive oil. He didn’t like it and it sure sounds nasty.
Do you interact with any significant C++ code base? Because I'm having a hard time seeing what your practical recommendations would be past the idealism.

Yes, you can have major breaking changes every few years. But do you really think every larger C++ code base being stuck with the C++ version it was founded on is the way to go? Should they all be rewritten for each version?`

Don't get me wrong, I'd love if we could deprecate more old stuff. The problem is that it doesn't just disappear from existing code (of which there is a _lot_) by marking it as such. If there are straightforward replacements (e.g. auto_ptr -> unique_ptr) that's one thing, but unless you want each new C++ standard to be unusable with existing code, you can't just do that.
Jordan Peterson is not banned by Patreon.
Is it a problem with all raspis? I have two of them and they all conk off after few days due to voltage issues and I have to physically restart them.
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Scott and Amundsen

"The race to the South Pole, 1911. In 1911, British explorer Robert Falcon Scott and Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen went head to head to be the first to reach the South Pole. In the early 20th century, the race was on to reach the South Pole, with a number of explorers setting out to claim it for their own."

https://www.rmg.co.uk/discover/explore/race-south-pole-1911
Thats sad. Is there a way by wrapping the PWA as a hybrid App? Any experience with this?
Racism is pretty common across the world. Sure, we could just decide to not talk to anyone that posts racist thoughts, but would the world really be better off?
In a way, it is a moral issue.

By choosing to go the Electron way, you're imposing a huge computational penalty on your users, just to make your life easier. Now multiply the overhead by the number of users, and that's how much electricity your decision just cost globally. This also manifests in frustration, like due to decreased battery life on laptops. And with enough popular software written this way, this pushes users to replace their perfectly good computers earlier than necessary.

(The lats point applies to web bloat even more; I'm really annoyed when a non-tech person asks me for help, because their computer "works slow, it must have viruses", only for me to discover that the computer is perfectly fine, it's just their favorite pages went through another rewrite and are now each 5x more bloated than they used to be.)
If you haven’t already, have a read of South, by Shackleton. It can be pretty unpleasant and far from quiet.
I just switched to Hiya from Nomorobo and the premium version allows for this, referred to as the "neighbor scam". It's worked really well, between my number and Gvoice I was getting 50 of these calls a week.
I mean for many games you have rendering engine/network code/audio/hard drive io/game logic be asyn to each other. A lot of game logic can then be further parallelized.
C# is such a rich language due to language research type people, who bring across ideas from Haskell. Look at typescript too with it’s discriminated unions etc. And any language with the async keyword.
The mistake is assuming that there's something special about 'local' filesystems. They have as much feature disparity as networked ones.
I was under the impression that the main thing preventing "another company/service should be able to fill the void." - is the rules and hoops / unchecked power of the visa/mc/amex etc.

I have seen rumors about us gov and other govs pressuring cc authorities to do things in certain ways as well, however my senator says there is no proof rumored pressure changed anything in one case that I write about.

there is demand and market for many things that the CC companies make difficult or impossible, the problem is the CC companies make it difficult or impossible to provide to those markets.

Threats from the CC places make many places move to the side of err caution and further marginalize groups. In some cases simply removing some of the banks and such that will do business with some groups gives the few banks that do leverage to charge exorbitant fees and people live with the constant threat that their fees will go up, or the bank will give up and they will have no provider at all.

This changes published expression even when there is an option.
> "Where's the hellfire?"

I'm not sure, but I can offer two hypothesizes that aren't mutually exclusive.

1) Gun owners have been marginalized on social media and their hellfire is going unnoticed on alternative platforms, or simply isn't promoted by algorithmic timelines.

2) Gun owners are already predisposed to purchasing guns with cash, for privacy reasons, so many don't feel particularly inconvenienced by this development.
Facebook wades in on the parts of the platform which are publication like, or undirected. They don't discriminate at all in private peer to peer messages.
What if a law is passed to make political affiliation a protected class?
Tim Berners-Lee created the first hypertext database called Enquire that was similar to a wiki in 1980. How many years did it take before e-commerce on the web was successful?
I find it's a lot more boilerplate, more visual overhead in finding the important bits in the sea of various brackets... But maybe I'm just blinded by imperative upbringings.
Online package manager can search, download, and install packages.

I have libs/packages for everything I need, dunno about your needs.

Not sure about the community size but it's plenty big and plenty helpful, lots of cool new stuff going on.

Plenty of debuggers available and you can pause things and inspect stuff.

Lazarus has seen loads of updates the last few years, it's worth taking the time to set it up to fit your needs and learn the shortcuts.
Pretty much every conversation I have with anyone in the investment business talks about one thing: QE and zero rates.

Well, the Fed seems to ending that. Certainly it's signaling an end to this. How would this change the conversion?
> the locals that have ran their country into the ground have proven that they do not how to manage their own country

The locals did not yet have much of a chance to actually run their own country, without facing coups, sanctions etc. from former colonial masters the moment they actually try to act sovereign. Having some dictator approved by France/U.S. running things is not my definition of locals running things.

> You have an extremely warped view of foreign countries

Take this advice yourself. The U.S. supports 75% of the world's dictatorships. If you believe that being exploited for centuries and then being forced down various neoliberal/'free market' policies down their throats by their former colonial masters after supposedly gaining independence, while the west props up some absolutely corrupt fu*k just so they can continue exploiting, then sending clothes in to feel better, without actually developing the local economy, if you think these things are not going on you're seriously delusional.

Read up on the history of Haiti. Then come back and we may have a real discussion.
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I do think that the statement 'Men are on average more prone to violence than women' can be sexist, depending on context.

However, I think that it is possible to contextualize fact-based-generalizations to remove sexist/racism from them. If you say 'society conditions men to be less emotionally open, thus men end up being more violent, see these psych studies', that's all well and good. On a similar note, if you say 'Jamaicans on average grow up in higher poverty with worse education, and more end up involved in crime', that contextualizes it to show that you are not speaking about the nature of the people, but rather about specific situations and facts.

A final factor you're ignoring is that there's always a much broader social context through which your generalization is interpreted. "Black fathers are lazy" is a more racist generalization than "white fathers are lazy" because the first has racist context associated with it, and the second has much less of such a context. This context may be global or regional, though with the dominance of american media, that context is basically global at this point.

On a similar note, anything to do with a specific people or race needs more explicit context because there's so much racist ambient context.

> Seems like this argument is more about each side shutting down ideas they are uncomfortable with.

I am not okay with anyone stopping you from providing facts and ideas about crime in different societies, just trying to stop you from generalizing in such a way that implies one race is inferior to another. This isn't a matter of discomfort per-se, but rather a matter of us having already seen the end of the slippery slopes such talk, when weaponized as rhetoric and internalized, leads to.
The page is graphics loaded page with floating paragraphs over a single "sheet of wallpaper" showing interior and exterior diagrams of the aircraft. I can see it not working worth a damn in any kind of Reader View.

FWIW, nothing new here, but it's a good 3rd grade overview for the layperson.

And I am a Boeing guy, through and through, but they screwed the pooch on this one. RIP, Lion Air 610.

/Acey

(me: FAA licensed dispatcher)