skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Maybe you vote for a politician who will terminate federally guaranteed student loans.

Problem is, that joker wants to criminalize abortion and lock up anyone who smells of weed. Now what do I do?
I can't speak on Digital Ocean and I guess it depends how you define "viable" but I've been running my upper six-figure revenue business on Heroku with tremendous success over the past 6 years. Customer support is super responsive and very helpful. The minimal downtime I've faced had has largely been the fault of AWS.
On the other hand, it's crazy to me that we're all talking about how evil Facebook is for selling the fact that I liked "Family Guy" 15 years ago but for some reason we're all OK cheerleading a company that literally enables real-time financial surveillance on unsuspecting users with a purposefully deceitful onboarding flow that hides any mention of what permissions you're actually providing and no simple way to revoke those permission.
Any that suspects fraud and doesn't want to be on the hook for the inevitable chargeback.
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Thanks for taking the time to answer and for such a great response. Impressed by your observation skills and high introspection which made you arrive at this conclusion.
Is it odd that they didn't keep backups elsewhere?

I don't ever back up to the same service that I use for production. Or is that just me being paranoid?
I don't know what "Government" you're talking about, but I have never actually heard that argument.

European governments actually have passed a host of privacy regulations. The US Supreme Court has recognised a right to privacy etc. None of those things would make sense if privacy wasn't valuable.
And even when you use "mature" cloud, use another one for your backups.

(I'm not trying to blame author of that tweet, we all make mistakes and I think DO should give access to backups even when account is locked)
I've used it for multiple cycles and still have acne. I'm going to be 34 in a couple weeks.

It's also been linked to increased suicide rates https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM200102083440616
I don't understand the downvotes.

That's why I went with air-based heat pumps instead of geothermal. Everyone I spoke with told me that it was very risky, cost-wise, to install where I live.

Granted, geothermal might be more affordable in other geologies.
Sorry I misspoke. I should have said only that iOS allows side loading. I thought Netflix was utilizing this.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Yr-mO1o1uHk

A relevant song from the Broadway show
> relitigate the whole story from scratch

that's what most of the articles do, though! The earlier post today is about how journalists consistently distort the facts in the story. And pretty much every MSM article about him dutifully refrains "escaped sweden, holed-up in the embasy, rape charge".

I agree this story is tiresome, but please acknowledge that news stories recite the narrative excessively. (and the article today suggest perhaps there's a reason for that)
> I wasn't even concerned about ecological impact.

I spat out a post in ten minutes that looked further out than you did. I wasn't even trying.

The people that actually do this stuff are trained, credentialed biologists and ecologists that have taken courses on this and spend literal decades reading studies about proposals and going down checklists of things that have caused problems in the past. It is literally their job to make sure nobody can say "You didn't consider X" during review, on the news, or in court.

Back in tenth grade I took an honors biology course. The year's final project was to write an environmental impact statement for, if I recall correctly, chopping down twenty or thirty trees in a nearby park. In retrospect, we worked off what I suspect was a massively stripped-down version of a tiny fraction of the real rules.

It took five of us a month and we wrote a hundred pages single-spaced.

> So do most programmers...

I certainly won't argue that the field of software engineering doesn't need more rigor - there are reasons that I prefer writing cleaner code than my coworkers often do. But this proposal isn't operating in the same regime I usually do.

I mangle data at scale for a fuzzy rules-engine type thing. I bet you do something with comparable correctness requirements. There are times I've looked at a bug, looked at the logs, figured out the underlying conditions, estimated the future occurrence, concluded that I spent more money just looking at the logs than it would cost to remediate the data by hand for the next ten years, and estimated that it'd take me three times as long to actually fix it. I do know what happens when my solutions aren't good enough, and I bet you do too.

Aerospace and defense programmers operate in a regime far more like what we see with these environmental proposals. And guess what? They know what happens when their code isn't good enough... and they have huge checklists that they go down for every single change and have their code audited regularly and tested obscenely thoroughly and spend weeks tracking down tiny bugs, stamping them out, and adding them to the checklist.

(Before you bring up the recent boeing failures: Take a look at the politics and incentives. Where did the economic and political incentives lie there? Where do you think the economic and political incentives lie for a proposal like this? Especially given how much environmental fearmongering we see as a result of movies like Jurassic Park? Do you think that anyone would dare approve a project like this with anything less than every single i dotted and every single t crossed?)

> but because it's new we're not addressing the same issue.

Development of resistance is such a well-known failure mode for pest-control tools that wikipedia's page on DDT has a whole second-level paragraph titled "Mosquito resistance".

Why do you think that evolution and resistance are novel failure modes, and why do you think they'd have been missed in the analysis?
To be clear, there would be directories, each directory being the next incremental number representing the issue number, and the directory containing numbered markdown documents with yml front matter starting at 0 being the root of the issue thread.

I'm kind of surprised it isn't already like this, or similar.
Good gravy. I'd go into hiding if there was anywhere left to go. Wish I was religious so I could try to join a monestary.
I spent some time researching carbon credit providers and what I found was the the only way they have to distribute credits is through online advertising. That means that they have to spend multiples of the actual wholesale credit costs on ads just to sell them.

By my estimate, Cool Effect spends around 3-4x of the actual credit costs on marketing related expenses. This is publicly available through their 990 filing.

https://990s.foundationcenter.org/990_pdf_archive/475/475068...

I inquired from credit wholesalers about large volume pricing and found that the actual cost is less than $3/ton of CO2e. For an average US consumer with a 20 ton carbon footprint, that would come out to $60/year or $5/mo if sold at cost. To me this is a no-brainer for anyone that wants to be carbon neutral immediately.

I'm setting up a carbon credit buying club where we can get them at wholesale prices. My goal is to sell them right at cost in a radically transparent way where members provide all the marketing we need. If anyone here is interested in joining, you can email me at paul@carbonspace.com.
TIL: You can loan and borrow money on Reddit
> Or is that just me being paranoid?

Clearly not.
Sad sad day for DO. Will be moving my infrastructure ASAP that is with them. Poorly POORLY handled.
Exactly, and neither the first not the last at it.
To wax philosophically on this topic:

From a systems perspective, the observed phenomenon is that the system enters a state where agents no longer meaningfully exchange information and further attempts at information exchange paradoxically result in reduced consensus.

This isn't a problem unique to HN, but is one that HN has systematically tried to avoid. I have no answer, but am taking time to frame and pose the question properly, so that we can consciously acknowledge the phenomenon and address it properly.

One might speculate that if people could systematically avoid entering such a state things such as war wouldn't be possible, I imagine PG would agree.
It would depend on what is included in the data and what other data is available for reference. You can have medical data that tracks all of the symptoms reported by a patient without prompt ("What brings you in?"), symptoms reported by a patient with prompt ("Can you describe the pain? Where is it located?"), and the diagnosis by the doctor. It tells you nothing about the patient nor the doctor, but it still provides useful information.
The studies in the article basically say exercise is essential for sustained weight loss. And we should not forget about the health effects of exercise. The problem with diets is that the only thing you think and dream about is food, guess what you are going to do when the diet is over. So you would have to entirely change how you eat. eg. Never stop the "diet".
You're opening their website. JavaScript on their website connects to https://localhost:12345 and uses that connection to interact with battle.net software that runs on your PC. NAT/Firewall is not an issue. But that client software have to present valid certificate for that localhost website. To do so, they generate that self-signed certificate at installation time and mark is as trusted, so browsers will accept it. There's no other way to do that, really (well, there's a way actually, but it requires to sign some very non-standard agreements with certificate authorities, I know that Plex does that). Blizzard does not use that certificate to MitM your connection, because they don't send it back, it's generated, stored and used locally.

I don't like this practice too and I would opt-out of that "feature" having the choice. I just used to develop similar software, so I understand why they did that.
Best Twitter comment (grammar errors and all): "And if your full business relies on one tech partner (no offsite backups) your not doing your tech job right."
What's this supposed worst case incident?

Chernobyl went prompt critical, that's about as bad as it can get. Chernobyl basically disproved the China Syndrome fears--everything that was supposed to cause a China Syndrome accident happened--but it only managed to burn it's way into the basement. The core doesn't stay in one blob, it responds to what it's eating through, changes shape and ceases to be critical.
Really? Big European VPS hosts like OVH just turn off your stuff until the problem goes away.

Hardly fly-by-night.
If you find that amazing, contemplate for a moment how nuclear fission and fusion work and the amounts of energy involved there. Apart from a few comparatively exotic things (black holes, neutron stars, etc.), some of the largest force densities that exist are all around us in atomic nuclei (of course, those forces also decay very quickly with distance, but that's a different matter).
Few things are to the selfish and self-absorbed.
Instagram is a big shell game. Most of the likes and follows these so-called "influencers" get are from other wannabe influencers. If I can like your stuff enough, maybe you'll like and follow me back. Even if a fair number of followers have real people on the other end of them, the engagement is often quite superficial and transactional.
This resonates a lot with me. I've said before that all the success I've achieved has been in spite of the "gifted" label, not because of it.

Unlike the author, I was lucky enough to experience failure before college, so I didn't enter it thinking I was "special." So many of my peers (as well as my older sister), didn't know how to deal with not being "the best" or having competition from others.

But that doesn't mean I overly excelled in college -- in fact, I didn't really care.

I had a pretty typical quarter life crisis timed with the great-recession and didn't go to grad school or law school, and was in kind of a listless "what am I doing with my life" place for a few years.

My relatives DID comment "it's a shame what happened to filmgirl" -- but in my case, it was absolutely said with judgment (and not a small amount of schadenfreude -- because both my sister and I grew up "beautiful," "talented," and "brilliant" (and in her case, she was also very popular) and then wound up not taking over the world, while my relatives kids became doctors, etc.) and family friends would whisper about all my wasted potential.

For a time, I felt that way too -- and then I got over myself, realized (again), I'm not fucking special and that just because I was given a label that created bullshit expectations on my future, didn't mean I was going to freak out because things didn't go according to plan.

Ironically, within a few years of that quarter-life crisis, I was on TV all the time, I was interviewing high profile people, and doing well for myself in my chosen field. And now I'm in a different field and I work at a large company in a high profile role and make a very good living. On paper, it certainly looks like I've lived up to my potential -- even though the story of how I got there is a lot different.

Which, to me, sort of underscores what bullshit so much of all of this really is.

The schools, the test scores, the labels, they don't matter. They can help, sure -- but having them ins't a guarantee for "success" and not having them doesn't mean you'll never go on to do anything.

For what it's worth, my parents never pressured me and didn't care when I was a fuck-up. They loved and supported me anyway. But I still felt like a failure and a fuckup for not living up to my potential because of the external pressures put on me as a child.
Tezos, which is itself written in OCaml (what originally attracted me to the platform), already has a relatively well design language for writing contracts called Michelson (https://tezos.gitlab.io/master/whitedoc/michelson.html). I say "relatively", compared to the dumpster fire that is Solidity...
"It's interesting how many companies simply shut down service rather than say give a warning and wait for a response (or at least start a clock)."

I'm sure many people have started their companies firmly convinced that they'll give plenty of warnings and never automatically shut anything down.

The problem is, you rapidly discover that doesn't scale, not even on a human level. You send your notice. 48 hours later, you've gotten no response. If you act now, it isn't materially different from your point of view as if you simply acted right away.

Also, in a cloud environment, even Digital Ocean, as many people have learned the hard way with leaked credentials, you can rack up charges faster than the relevant humans can even conceivably be notified. As the hosting company, you can't just let abusive or accidental usage go. You can refund their money, but that's still resources of yours that went to something that failed to produce revenue rather than something that did; you can't absorb that indefinitely.

I'm pretty sure you'll inevitably discover that you have no choice but to put automation in.
I suspect your objection may mostly fall into what I consider exceptions, such as things done in public spaces (although I don't think it's sustainable to assert that you give up all privacy rights in public spaces).

> at the root there is no difference between me observing stuff and writing it down and a computer observing stuff and writing it down.

If that computer isn't talking with other computers, I agree. I actually don't have much of a problem with individuals making individual observations of public behavior and writing them down or storing them in a computer.

My concern is more about the parameters around sharing that data (mostly because of the existence of databases and data mining). Further, I'm far more concerned about data collected about me on the internet than in the physical public square.

That said, I do and will continue to go out of my way to avoid as much surveillance as possible even in physical public spaces. For instance, any store using those surveillance devices intended to analyze my shopping behavior, moods, etc., in order to target ads at me is a store I won't be stepping into.
The question is to what extent that content is functionally necessary.

It is possible to have two different programs that do the same thing. And therefore the exact code used is copyrightable.

But it is not possible to compile my code written for Oracle against Google instead unless the method signatures match exactly. Therefore the method signatures are more functionally necessary than the exact code.
This is a situation where the potential risk that comes with the new invention of man is catastrophic. It's on the same level of Hamming having to, while onthe Manhatten Project, calculate the odds of igniting the atmosphere. There is existential risk to our species and possibly all animal life. So, yeah, we can spend a few years trying to learn about the mutability of this bug.
Not just reimplementing. If you for instance have to call an external service and you mock their API for testing then you've violated copyright. The same thing if you create a Facade for that API. Just as a matter of course everyday that you write code you are probably interacting with or creating code that violates this Copyright.

* Implementing a Language Spec? Copyright violation.

* Mocking an external service? Copyright violation.

* Wrapping a library call? Copyright violation.

The ability treat an interface as a distinctly different thing from an implementation is core to what we do in our jobs everyday. And the importance of being able to use, wrap, or mock out an interface without fear of legal jeopardy is essential to being able to do the work that we do.
> The Department's highest priority for investigation and resolution of reported violations are health and safety-related. If evidence exists that a violation of Planning Code may have occurred, the Enforcement Planner sends a notice to the responsible party... High service demands can routinely cause cases to remain open for some time. These cases usually involve violations that do not constitute a significant impact.

https://sfplanning.org/resource/file-a-complaint
> The Dalai Lama, the then-legitimate ruler of Nepal

Tibet
Just because you have fortune 500 clients doesn't mean you are suddenly flush with cash. Fortune 500 companies make a lot of small software purchases.

I think it is reasonable to expect your hosting provider won't randomly shut down your account...twice.
What kind of penalties could they face if they don't comply?
A few years ago I used to run a VPS on DO with a mail server, VPN and some code I was writing. Once I was done with everything, I used their snapshots feature to backup my VPS and shut it down.

Two years later I wanted to restore the VPS but turns out my snapshot become "outdated" and they stopped supporting the format for restoration... Support was completely useless, wouldn't even let me download the snapshot, said at most they could mount it into a new VPS and I could recover the data myself.

Very unprofessional.
Yeah maybe, but not having an offsite backup is asking for trouble. They just failed to consider that "their site" == "digital ocean's cloud", and that since it's someone else's computers, they could easily be locked out at any time for any dumb reason including this one.

An expensive lesson to learn to take and check backups regularly.
You know, there is usually an easy way to mitigate this. When you create an account, be sure to supply business information e.g EIN in the USA and see if you can do invoice billing. Once you get set-up as a business, most providers assume you know what you are doing.

These sorts of things tend to slip through the cracks. If you are running is a business capacity, make sure you treat everything like any other business would.

Even as a two-man company, you can't afford the cost and potential liability of not operating as a registered business. It also shows that this is a serious business and not a hobby.
The use of risk in both circumstances is probably too broad to make an assertion.
It's already against the rules to cover your face in many schools. Besides, if the system can't recognize you, you will be marked as absent - so the punishment for defeating the surveillance system is the same as the punishment for breaking the rule it's intended to enforce. Those teenagers are dependent on the civic involvement of adults, they can't save themselves.
My AWS support tickets usually get answered in two minutes or less and I have a dedicated rep who I can call whenever I want and we have regular check-ins anyway.

You get what you pay for. We're even upgrading from this support plan to an Enterprise account.

Startups can usually get enough in AWS credits that they probably could have their entire first year of service _for free_.
Agreed but having some backups on a different platform and a fallback plan for deploying somewhere else should be doable.
Tech Giants Get You to Click This (and Not That)
Exactly. Prototyping reveals a lot of engineering constraints that you cannot see just by designing at a high-level. I've been bitten too many times by thinking something is simple because I designed things at a high level (without prototyping) only to find out there are hard constraints as soon as I start writing some lines of code.

I don't know if this is a common technique but I actually like to do a "big bang" type of prototyping where I build out the major pieces all at once to see what the general look and feel of the system is. From there I can make a way more informed decision on what I need to do versus something superficially high level.

For me, the most important thing from early designs is answering the question "what are the unknowns and what are the risks of this project?" and figuring out the right path to remove the unknowns and reduce the risks.
So .. did Hacker Noon leave or not? https://hackernoon.com still displays a Medium message.

I've not watched the video, there doesn't appear to be a transcript.
That depends on the child. It's not the case that every child would rather know they are loved than that they are intelligent. Love doesn't create any fewer unwanted obligations than intelligence does.
>I don’t think the key to effective writing is following a bunch of standards.

Well it is if you're being judged on compliance to the standard. Have you never worked in government? But hey if you don't like the standard then just make your own: the great thing about standards is there are so many to choose from!
Actually, there were 8 lines (of out however many million) that all parties agree was copied, but that's been ruled de minimis. All the implementation code they're ruling on now is not orcale's.
There needs to be some law against dark patterns because nothing is enforceable anymore. I'm not sure what can be done but I know that the death of our society is due to people/companies that are using loop holes and all sorts of tricks to game the system and undermine basic trust. It used to be that these "tricks" were used only sparingly but as more and more bad actors engage in this type of behavior it only makes it more normalized, and even causing more people to resort to the same behavior in order to survive.

It's like bad drivers. If you have more and more people cutting cars exiting a freeway exit, people at the end will never make it off the freeway in a timely manner. Thus, people have to start being bad drivers themselves or else they will never get to their destination on time.
They will, but the school will just make policies outlawing clothing that covers facial features (or may have some already).