skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Recently I spent an hour trying to get a bunch of "self hosted ngrok alternatives" to work and couldn't figure out any of them. Either I couldn't get them to compile or their documentation had me seriously fooled.

Then I found out how easy it was to set up ssh reverse tunneling. Sshd + systemd turned out to be all I needed for a pretty stable and persistent connection from anywhere. I was so satisfied to find that the most common tools out there could already handle this. Yay!
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I dunno why people make such a big deal about Detroit. On paper, the statistics might look bad, but if you've ever visited Detroit or spent an amount of time there, it's very much like NYC.
Most engineers in tech will have the majority of their net worth growth come from returns to capital and imputed rent as they approach retirement age.

Does that mean they shift from "worker" to "capitalist" over the course of their life? I'd say there's some value in having a term distinguishing those who will predictably be in that state from those who will not be, no?
People who pay the Apple tax don't accept "couldn't you just" as a reasonably solution.
I predict that Shopify will eventually create an Amazon-like system where products from its merchants can be listed in a unified e-commerce frontend site all together.

Not sure if I will be correct about this but I might as well try for a third correct prediction about Shopify:

* Fulfilled by Shopify (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18524131)

* Shopify POS (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6289827).
I think you'd also look at Preferred vs Common shares, may be restricted from selling?

These classes of shares can affect what you're allowed to do and can affect price.
The problem in these types of discussions is the general conflation between income and wealth.

In the US, most people are taught from a young age that they should strive for high-income, high-status jobs (engineer, doctor, lawyer). Yet that was the path to success 50 years ago, not today. As the article mentions, you can have a huge income while still having lots of debt, being unable to afford a home, etc. - especially if you live somewhere with a huge cost of living, like the Bay Area.

When you are reliant on income, your money scales linearly with the effort and/or time that you put into your labor. (Actually, sub-linearly - the company you work for captures the majority of the value.)

Conversely, to become wealthy, you must build ownership in something. Then, your money accumulates exponentially as a function of your labor input.

One of the most successful people I know worked manual labor jobs, bought a small HVAC business, scaled it up, and now has contracts with most office buildings in one of the largest cities in the US. He is richer than 99% of FAANG engineers.

https://twitter.com/naval/status/1002103360646823936
The shift in thinking about submarine hulls occurred at about the same time as changes in propulsion, but they were separate developments. USS Albacore was the first to prototype the hull shape. A short-run class of diesel-electrics were designed to that shape before being completely overtaken by nuclear propulsion in the US.

All modern submarines, including AIP, diesel-electric, and nuclear, use hull forms optimized for underwater operations.
> There are also things like tardigrades [1] which are pretty much the epoch of survival evolution

“the epoch”? Apex, maybe?
In the Marx era “owning capital” was a means to create products that you could sell to make money.

In 2019, where if you have a credit card to create an account on AWS, you can create a product that has a near zero marginal cost.
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To me it means you liked My Neighbor Totoro, you probably also like most of the Hayao Miyazaki work, and probably you like other anime movies.

Other people they might see you as a weeb.

When in reality maybe someone you like stickered it there, and you just know that the name of the thing is Totoro. Only you know, yet it's still a signal to people who interpret that symbol.

Now depending on your laptop brand you could be a major asshole or a normal human being! (This one is a joke, kind of)
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The Pagliacci joke has become a nice example of remixing on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/spacetwinks/status/965428890830344193

https://twitter.com/daveexmachina/status/1106964873299329026

Including my favourite, crossovers with other memes:

https://twitter.com/mdkii/status/1067126458534019074
You bet.

Taboola and Outbrain damage the legitimacy of our institutions. If the Washington Post is filled up with crap like that, it seems a little less strange to believe that vaccines cause autism, that every Trump scandal is politically motivated "fake news", the moon landings were faked, etc.

One page view at a time these ads are undermining our democracy.
I've actually helped run a woodshop for a school as part of volunteer work back before I had a kid. It's a huge amount of work. Even if we pretend the machines are cheap (they aren't), then we're still talking about setting up a space that's safe to work in, cleaning it, maintaining the machines, properly powering them (if you get more than a few industrial machines your power provider will want to charge you differently because they consume power differently).

Even just a few desktop fabrication things are a lot of work to own and maintain. It's really, really nice to have a space you can go, do work, and then enjoy that without the cleanup and maintenance.
Indeed. But I also think that Zuckerberg, Bezos, Page & Brin all value their own privacy. They just don't value your privacy that much.
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I wouldn't call it a bug. Zoom deliberately engineered their app so it opened a security threat, accessible from any website on your browser, on your local machine without the user's knowledge. Then they reinstalled their software after the user had uninstalled it. Again, deliberately engineered that way.

That is not a bug
Modern human skull that's 210k years old found in Greek cave
Los Angeles is cooling and Europe is on fire in 2050, why is L.A. so cool?
I don't know, these options look just as much as "swipe credit card, get started" as Shopify's options: https://www.siteground.com/woocommerce-hosting.htm?afcode=d5...

* Until then, Shopify earns their keep (and margin)*

That's fair. For business stuff I've swiped the credit card and paid for support as well. If the Shopify experience is easier than WooCommerce, etc. then I get it.
Maybe if you have a dev at hand who’s willing to help. You really can't expect a non technical user to follow all of that. Shopify really simplifies all of that into an hour and a credit card. Without Shopify you'll be saving at best 10-15$ per month which is not worth it when you take into account maintenance, basic security, programmers charges etc. Not to mention if something borks you'll have to wait for your developer to have time to tend to it.
Adguard (paid) or Blokada (free) if you don't want to root.
But "classification" is the terminology. "Categorization" would be ok if we go back X many years in CS/Stats literature and rename it as "categorization". I think "categorized" would be more confusing here. In this case, I would compromise to something like "Dataset of labeled screenshots from [...]".
It's a bit like winning a game of chess by angering your opponent to the point where they have a heart attack and die.
The effects of climate change are scientifically demonstrated in a similar way to evolution. We don't have a planet B for controlled experiments.
Not an expert, but the field as a whole is driven by discoveries. The only way we can know for sure what humans were where that long ago is to find actual human remains. The whole story doesn't get rewritten, but parts of it are revised all the time.
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Class is about wealth, not income. Some people have extremely high expenses, for whatever reason: senior care, dependents, disability costs, locked into a shitty mortgage, absurd regional housing prices.

I encourage everyone to stop looking at income as a class-definer :)
You can hide individual posts, which I find useful for a lot of non-technical content that's less interesting to me. It's manual, but it gets them off the home page and you can see content from the 2nd/3rd pages of material that may be of more interest to you.
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Never been there but how much coastline with beaches do these countries have compared to Mexico?

I've been to Costa Rica and there is tourism in a large portion of its beaches. See this map for example on the Pacific Northern coast: https://news.co.cr/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/a-detailed-loo...
Is that meaningfully different than being a "pensioner"?
Is this the movie that you were thinking of? https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081207/
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Do you think voters really care about that? To a huge number of them, $100K+ per year is a fantastic sum of money, and dammit, you need to pay your fair share. You're "rich", after all! Or at least, rich _from where they're standing_.

Trying to make arguments about cost of living aren't going to help one bit when it comes time for a politician's promises to be paid for.
The country was officially called Germany (original "Deutsches Reich/Großdeutsches Reich") at that point. In English it was called "Nazi Germany" to represent Germany over the '33-'45 period but that sounds as accurate as calling US now "Republican USA" (insert ideology here). Nazism is an ideology and it was never an official part of the country's name. People use it to easily distinguish periods but it doesn't make the naming any more accurate.

So I'd guess "German Army", "German Navy", "German Air Force" if you want to use translated names. Otherwise "Heer", "Kriegsmarine", "Luftwaffe" if you want the originals. Or generically "Wehrmacht".

Nitpicking, I know, but there is some substance to the point.
There was https://www.makershed.com, which is currently out of business.

It mostly only sold kits, drones, 3D printers, stuff like that. Very little in the way of individual parts and tools. Which always struck me as a bit of a problem -- it more-or-less sold a strict subset of the actual DIY stuff that you could get at competing retailers. So maybe they'd sell someone their very first Arduino starter kit, but it must have been really hard to retain repeat customers. Having bought that Arudino kit and completed all the introductory projects, when the time comes to start getting more creative, you're going to have to go somewhere else to buy, say, an LCD display or a fistful of capacitors. And you'd presumably stay there, since there were so few things you could get at Makershed that you couldn't also get somewhere that sells the other stuff you need.

In short, it was kind of a lot like what Radio Shack had become in the end, only even more so.
> There needs to be a block this user right on the accept/cancel screen

Personally I hope I don't end up blocking a family member or someone else important because my phone is slipping around in my pocket when they happen to call.
> ... if you can pay a group of people a salary and still accumulate wealth yourself.

Are you referring to business owners? Or paying for full time help around the house?
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I think a big difference is Shopify's core product has a bunch of really useful things to help sell things. You don't need plugins or third party apps written by other developers to get a superb selling experience (note: I don't work at Shopify but I used the platform a few years ago and even wrote some custom apps / templates for it).

The benefit is the core product is insanely battle hardened and you can depend on it having a high degree of reliability (both from an up-time and code quality level).

Where as with WP, are you really going to cobble together a bunch of plugins written by anyone and then hope everything works? Maybe, but you'll also have to host it yourself too and now suddenly you're on the hook for site reliability -- unless you use a closed source WP hosting platform and now you're in the same boat as Shopify except it's worse because you have no idea what you're getting when it comes to reliability.

I think Shopify is a good example of how a niched down product can be successful. If you want to sell things, you want a platform designed to sell things. Not a generic CMS where you need to assemble a custom solution. This is especially true if you're not technical.
Now imagine that you're buying software from a third party that's still doing all that, but you can't fix any of it because you don't own any of it, and you can't switch to another vendor because all your processes for the past half decade have been tied to this product.
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sounds a lot like smee.io to me?
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> you must build ownership in something

You can do this by buying index funds, too. That's sorta the whole idea.

> He is richer than 99% of FAANG engineers

Would he be richer than 99% of FAANG engineers who lived the same lifestyle he did during those years and invested the savings in a standard diversified portfolio?
There's a lot of reasons we don't do that. To start there's limited value to be had just throwing them out in all directions. The Voyager probes were able to do a lot because they were on very specific paths that visited a lot of planets and was able to use them to get a boost at the same time to reach the incredible speeds they got to.

Next technology has advanced really quickly so by the time one is designed, built, and tested there's way better technology we could include in terms of cameras, computers and sensors so there's little incentive to use the same instrumentation over and over again because we can always pretty much always get better science out of newer equipment. On top of that there's limited returns on returning the same equipment to the same body because we've already gotten most of that data before.

Next if we're talking about surface probes they're very specific to the location they're going to and the science we want to perform there. For example until we made Curiosity most of our rovers were solar powered which doesn't really work much further out in the solar system like on Jupiter's moons. The lack of atmosphere on many potential destinations is also a big problem because it massively limits the size of potential probes because they also have to carry their own landing fuel all the way out there.

Finally because of all of that there's not really the money for launching missions that won't probably yield that much new science. They'll return a lot of data to be sure but there's limited new insights because the existing data already gets analyzed and examined to within an inch of it's life to wring as much information as possible. I do agree we should be spending a lot more on planetary exploration but there's a lot of reasons each probe/rover we send out is largely designed and built from scratch.
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Yes, that's exactly the point. You _can_ create a product at near-zero marginal cost.

If you do, and it sells, you're an owner / producer.
If you don't, you're a worker / consumer.
That's true, but it doesn't really have much to do with my points:

* Common (current) culture around rationalism fantasizes about the human using it being able to choose the best course of action in every situation (and examples to the contrary are typically full of woo-woo about human emotions and souls). This is computationally impossible for the brain.

* Hacker-news-audience-types will often discard important nuance on a topic in order to reduce it to something that can easily be rationalized about.

If historical cultures may have "suffered" from the same delusions, it would be more interesting to see how my points did or didn't apply than saying that they existed.
My wife had an Etsy store before moving to Shopify. I'm a developer, and we still moved to Shopify. We went with Shopify because out of the box, it had everything you needed, even things you don't think you need. ecommerce is more than just accepting payments and a shopping cart. Shopify is, in effect, a curated experience. Other options required a lot of effort to setup to run at least as easily as Shopify was out of the box.

And here is the thing you forget: no one with a store is interested in dealing with setting up and managing a web store. They are busy with their business. The web store is the side effect of that. SEO, taxes, shipping management, etc? All that needs to come out of the box, or a no brainer.

54,000 plugins doesn't help with that. With Shopify, we only installed a few, and they did exactly what we wanted them to.

So, if you are going to compare open-source options with Shopify, you need to actually compare it with a turn-key solution.

i.e. Where do I create a woocommerce store that is setup correctly from the beginning, which includes updates, SEO, shipping, taxes, payouts, billing, and everything else Shopify provides out the gate.

Because I'm busy running a business, and that business isn't running a web site.
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>"Are people who make $200k middle-class?'

We have to distinguish what exactly we're asking.

Do economists and social pundits classify $200k income as "middle class"? Clearly some don't. Some sort of meta survey would have to answer who considers them "upper class".

However, do workers in America earning $200k as a salary from a job self identify themselves as "middle class"? Yes, they absolutely do.

This is how many people (in America) self-identify their class:

- lower class: living on welfare, food stamps, and federal subsidized housing; or including those struggling without any government assistance but working 2+ jobs to make ends meet

- middle class: workers with jobs in between lower class and upper class

- upper class: able to live off interest income of investments
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we literally control modern infrastructure. What do you think would happen if AWS, Azure, and GCP SREs walked out for a week?
Note Strava's response frames things differently: https://support.strava.com/hc/en-us/articles/360030429332-An...
>> Even movie stars have a union.

There are limits. Most all celebs and sports stars are not really employees. They setup personal services companies that contract with the "boss" and then pay themselves a salary from the services company. Even thought they have a clear "job" and theoretically are paid a wage, such persons care more about taxation of dividends and the costs of offshoring money. If they choose to pay taxes, they determine for themselves where and when that money is paid. So while a working union actor may have much in common with the factory worker, the celebrity stars who earn millions do not.

The breaking point between the two groups, imho, is the personal services contract. Those who work for the agreed standard or union wage are workers and arguably lower/middle class. Those who negotiate their own pay structures are not.
I already had a $5 DigitalOcean droplet running for experimentation and stuff but really wasn't doing much with. When my wife wanted a e-commerce store for her craft/jewelry business, I figured why pay $20+ per month for Shopify or Weebly when I can just install WordPress and WooCommerce and be good to go. So I spent an hour or two getting it set up and had the basics going.

But she hated the web-based admin interface and it was way too cumbersome to get anything customized, products added, etc. In the end it just wasn't worth it and she's now on Weebly. Shopify and Weebly have their own faults and can definitely be a pain if you want to do anything off the beaten path, but for the non-technical user who just wants to sell things I see the value over a self-hosted Wordpress install.
Museum of Fruit Stickers:

https://www.instagram.com/fruit_stickers/

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/surprising-artistry-of...

https://www.bookofjoe.com/2019/06/museum-of-fruit-stickers.h...
While "The Network Is The Computer" turned out to be ultimately true, I would have thought that the association with Sun Microsystems and its unfortunate demise would have put anyone off from re-using that slogan.
Ouch.

Though this begs the question:
Would you rather: 4.5 Petabytes or 9 Petanibbles?
I like the meme but my experience in their stores is the meandering aisles with no long clear line of sight makes me think they are a fire trap. Honestly the IKEA stores in Asia i have been in are scary, and that is even at the non-crowded times of the week. I refuse to go in now except one store in which I feel safe at off-peak times. The rest feel like fire traps, designed to 'engage' the buyer with as many products for as long as possible in hope you buy a shit load of stuff you have no intention of using.
> The reason these behaviors are frustrating to drivers is that bicycles are hard to overtake.

It's a lot easier to see around a bicycle compared to other slower vehicles with bigger profiles. Also, since you're driving at a lower speed before and during the overtake, you're going to require less distance overall to complete the maneuver.

> They’re unpredictable

If they're following the rules of the road, then they're not unpredictable.

> and fragile compared to a car,

So are motorcyclists, for example.

> so the driver has to give them a wide berth

Four (or more) wheeled vehicles, by their nature, make it difficult to judge their precise extent from the driver's seat (the passenger side going more difficult compared to the driver's side). Roads typically have lines that help drivers laterally position their vehicles such that they have sufficient distance between the edge of the road and other vehicles traveling in the same direction.

Commonly, when overtaking another vehicle, one will completely change lanes before doing so (regardless of the vehicle type). The same rule should also apply to overtaking a cyclist.

> Bicycles, however, are the only ones that will re-overtake while the car is standing in a queue

I've seen people on motorcycles and other motor driven two wheel vehicles do the same.

> The obvious solution here is separate infrastructure for cars and bicycles as they have such different acceleration profiles that there will inevitably be problems putting them in the same space.

The same could argued for HGVs, but we do drive on the same roads they do without any issues despite the fact that their acceleration is much less compared to a typical car.

Unless the separate infrastructure is truly separate (i.e. grade separated), then these types of facilities cause more problems at intersections where they put cyclists on the wrong side of turning vehicles or even on the wrong side of the road relative to the direction of traffic).
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Also discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20410982
This sounds really interesting to me, I have a bunch of items I can think of where this might be useful to automate (for example, my wife and I have different bank accounts, but share a credit card for points reasons... givng my wife a statement is really hard since they "upgraded" their site, and removed the transactions export feature).

But I'm not sure where to start automating this. It would be great to have some examples.