skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A semi-interesting story, we used Postmark at my last company. When we signed up they offered something like 50,000 free credits. Then if we setup DKIM they offered another 50,000 or so credits. Then about three months later they sent us a survey and offered us another 75,000 credits if we filled it out.

All in all before we had even launched our application they had thrown nearly 200,000 free email credits at us. We hadn't even provided a credit card yet.

Considering at launch we were sending about 2,000 emails per month on a busy month we joked that we would never have to pay these guys.

Come a year and a half later we're sending a lot more than 2k emails per month and we're just about out of credits. At this point Postmark had become so ingrained in our applications (we made heavy use of their SDKs and templates) there wasn't any easy way to switch if we wanted to.

While we thought they were the fools for giving us such an obscene amount of free credits, they ultimately won in the long game and that company is still using (and now paying) Postmark.

All of that said, Postmark IS fantastic. I use them for every project where I need to send or receive mail, and I wouldn't consider anyone else. Highly recommend them.
I can't offer much advice, but I would suggest looking to provide value to people.

When you produced YT videos, how did you choose the topic?

What informed your decision?
I used to work for Domino's. I also often order pizza.

In both roles, online ordering was worlds better than a phone call.

As a Domino's employee, it was a lot easier and faster to get an order from the online system. It was often more accurate too. We didn't have to ask the drunk customer to repeat their order multiple times, then have them rage at us when we delivered what they ordered, only to find out it was not what they thought they were ordering.

As a customer, it's faster and more efficient to order online. I can save a custom order and have my really weird Frankenstein pizza ordered at the click of a button. Also, payment online is far easier and more reassuring than handing over credit card details on the phone (and don't get me started on cash).
Given the above quote referencing https://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/rule-10b5-1.asp that seems unlikely.
Well, my comment was more eluding to the fact that, until very recently, many Americans learned Latin as part of their primary school education. It was requisite knowledge for university.
I think the firmware on those models can just load the Windows firmware update executable. Save it to your ESP or a USB flash drive and try to select it in the firmware update menu.
> The World's Top 26 Welfare Recipients Now Own as Much as the Poorest 3.8 Billion, Says Oxfam
It's true that the Red Terror was brutal.

What is less obviously true is the newness. It happened in the revolution directly following Russia's collapse in the First World War; a time of food shortages and massive, unnecessary casualties there as a result of incompetent and careless leadership. If they had learned brutality, they had learned it from the Tsar. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okhrana
I suspect that a lot of people here would be surprised at how many people have never even heard of a lot of the tech (or "tech") companies that are so prominent in industry's awareness.

One example. I saw a stat a month or so ago that something like 63% of Americans had never taken an Uber. I'm sure the vast majority have never heard of WeWork.

Yes, some of these companies are now public. But this isn't a matter of a whole industry having a major downturn. It's mostly companies that are well-known in some circles but are pretty inconsequential in the scheme of things.
also, the per capita income is no higher than in Lithuania which one wouldn't guess given the barrage of articles about Estonia's 'innovative' government.

Relatively sound advice is that whenever someone advertises to run the government 'like a business', the outcome is going to be 90% disappointing and hot air.

This is essentially just a huge PR campaign, the electronic voting is a security disaster, and if you see a government official talk about putting things 'on the blockchain' just run.
In the US, it's less active protest and more things like slacking off heavily at work because it's a treadmill we can't win. We have absolutely no incentive to work hard when doing so doesn't materially affect income.

We as a nation have basically told people "no, you can't have a comfortable life or save for retirement because your parents' generation still needs to get 10% annual growth to make their retirement math work". Nevermind that retirement isn't going to be an option for us. That's lead a lot of us to abandon our work ethic, which will have some severe repercussions down the road.
That's a really fascinating article. The "Chicken LIBOR" collusion will be a case that I'll have to follow closely in the future.
Most young people are paradoxically for unfettered immigration

I'm not sure that is true.
> it's not like the average person really has a choice when it comes to paying utility bills.

You can always use a dedicated browser for that and only that. Brave, Opera, Vivaldi, IE, Chrome, whatever. At least there's enough browsers around to have each dedicated for certain purpose.
>I would say the bust had no substantial impact on technology side of thing.

I think that it did, because it focused development efforts of companies that remained in business. Many failed dot-coms should have failed before the bust, but they kept acting like working businesses as long as they had capital available. They diluted markets, absorbed development talent by offering equity and large salaries, and in general distorted the whole industry.

After the bust, the technologies and idea that got attention/effort/built up were the ones with a solid foundation, not the pipe dreams.
Is there another way they could have executed trades legally, without following rule 10b5-1?

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/rule-10b5-1.asp
Jaipur Tourist Attractions: Everything You Need to Know
See this book

https://automatetheboringstuff.com/

it has some examples of automating these types of tasks.
Non-profits can draw large salaries:

https://www.erieri.com/blog/post/top-10-highest-paid-ceos-at...

These are all medical, so that is the right comparison, but charities can also have high salaries:

https://www.charitywatch.org/top-charity-salaries

And, I am not taking a position here, but if you feel strongly that this should not be the case, there is this video for the counter-argument:

https://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pallotta_the_way_we_think_abou...
uMatrix defaults to blocking GA and indeed blocks the request for analytics.js on that page.
"Culture of humanitarianism" is not a good description of Tsarist Russia. No, the problem with Trotsky et al is the extreme brutality in the name of liberation.
>After the 2008 recession, President Obama and the Democrats effectively saved capitalism from itself; a more radical leadership would fight to replace it with a better system. This time around there may be far more pressure from below to do just that, especially with a more organized left and more class conscious young people.

As a former soviet occupied country citizen, I am amazed that westerners would want to overthrow capitalism. Its what makes the west so prosperous.
Ah so you collude with capitalists who ignore laws to save a few quid - not a very strong moral position.
You can still receive a salary, and as far as I know there are no limits on what you can pay yourself. However, you must have a predefined salary and you are audited regularly to ensure there isn't fraud. However, outside of the overhead (salaries, office, servers, etc) any further profits have to be reinvested into the business. This means that if they get 5 million dollars and only spend 4 million, no one gets to take home the extra million. It has to go back into the business.

This is in contrast to for-profit companies where that money can go to the owner (private company), or to shareholders (public company).

The Wikipedia link posted above probably has a better explanation, this is just my understanding due to my SO working at one.
Userland: Creating an integrated dataflow environment for end-user applications
The one thing that prevents me from switching to Firefox is the spell checker. Like many non-native English people, I'm constantly switching between languages when typing. Chrome is smart with that, and detects the right language sentence per sentence. Is there a way to have FF do this? Did I miss something?
Has the JSON file structure changed in v3? I am trying to migrate from WordPress to Ghost and I was going to use v2, but now that v3 is out, I would like to migrate to v3.

(https://ghost.org/docs/api/v2/migration/)
Ah, this answers the question I had about membership models - I was wondering if it has the option to pay per-thing like Patreon does. ($x per Thing posted, with an optional cap of $y, processed at the end of the month.) Works a lot better for what I do than a flat per-month.
Firefox 70.0 Released
Yes, the original SCO was "good". It was Caldera Systems's CEO who started the lawsuits, suing everyone, they even sued Novell for the Unix trademark, and obviously got a notorious reputation and turned SCO into a dirty world. And of course, it almost lost all cases and his company became an utter piece of garbage.

Seriously, what was the CEO thinking about?! I guess Caldera Systems purchased SCO, thought it was a good deal, but they suddenly found the days of commercial proprietary Unix were ending and the purchase was a mistake, and this is how they started its assaults.
One day it was all froth and then all of a sudden there was no work. I was lucky enough to have had enough money in the back to be able to spend the following two years studying, travelling and working on open-source software, and actually had a really good time that I look back on fondly, but I knew many people who had to switch from a very lucrative job at a startup to waiting tables and such.

Lesson: if you're making good money now, save (and if you then find yourself with nothing to do which pays, try to make the best of that time by doing interesting things that you would normally not have the time to do).
Multi occupancy - its actually more cost effective for a group of 4 or 5 to jump in a Cab for a short trip than to use the underground.
It does have change history of each page. However, if you use a lot of embedded tables, it is quite hard to do change comparisons.
... this site is awful. It doesn't address the actual reason why people use VPN's. They don't want all their activities to be recorded/tracked by their ISP's (which depending on jurisdiction log everything for at least 6 months if not more) or other actors. And if somebody wants to deanonymize your traffic, they have to go to extra effort, whether it's by exploiting or establishing a relationship with your VPN host or whatever else. Or there are other use cases, like wanting to torrent in a country that is very liberal with serving fines (Germany).

And frankly, his alternatives are just absurd. Tor? Really? Has he ever tried to use Tor for usual daily browsing? Does he expect people to try to use Facebook, Instagram, Youtube over Tor? Really?
It's a recent trend that public corporations are being punished through securities fraud lawsuits since conventional regulators have been bought out.

Just about any managerial incompetence can be spun as "securities fraud" since the basic presumption of most companies is that management is competent. Maybe they'll give up on that in order to reduce their exposure to lawsuits.
Its funny when I type "Pizza" into Google, the first organic result is Pizzahut.com, not bad for a bunch of lazy developers who don't take Google SEO into account.
+1

When random comments on HN carry more journalistic heft than NYT articles titled like Reddit posts we have a problem!
I did consider it, but I ended up putting a Hugo site on Netlify instead. It's nice to not worry about any database backend or other hosting infrastructure.

With Netlify's continuous deployment system being able to run Hugo builds, I should also be able to hook it up to GitHub so that I can post from an iPad without being able to run hugo locally. Haven't gotten around to that, but I think it'll be a good setup.
EU contracts with Microsoft reveal 'serious concerns', says EDPS
"pre-arranged" != "Rue 10b5-1 trading plan"

I'm not an expert in stock trading, but this logic seems very plausible. A Plan does not preclude other arrangements to sell shares
Well, if you have high rep on a tag, you have more power for questions with that tag.
An unnamed large bank in the US uses "admin"/"changeme" for a customer database. I'd love to say more about it but unfortunately that would probably identify me/them.
There is no Year 0 in the Gregorian calendar, fwiw.

It’s old enough that it skips from 1 BC to 1 AD.
Very golden parachute for such sloppy execution.
> As a former soviet occupied country citizen, I am amazed that westerners would want to overthrow capitalism.

They would probably say that they perceive a difference between "democratic socialism" and "fascist communism".
The woke young programmers of the bay (and elsewhere) consider any form of border control racist. I've seen this queried for exceptions, eg for convicted rapists and the rabid blue hairs torn that suggestion apart as a 'racist straw man'.
I don’t believe people are really against capitalism but they have some legitimate concerns about the current form of capitalism. I don’t think many want to address these by moving to communism. But ideologues will always want to move things away from a nuanced and open discussion to an extreme so it’s easier to draw battle lines. Happened to health care and it’s now happening to things like immigration and social justice.
Why is immigration tied to lower wages?

Searching for it yields rather the opposite.
The badge color debate threads here are textbook bike shedding [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_triviality
The more I protect my personal data (hi, GDPR!), the more websites are adding recaptacha to all their pages.

Blocking trackers makes Google suspicious, so they're adding more and more recaptcha challenges to let me pass their tests, sometimes 5 to 10 in a row. I'm now working for Google's IA for free just to be able to make purchases online, access some services that I already paid for, or filling in support request forms (sometimes it's for websites operated by local communities and funded by tax payers).

I have absolutely no control over what Google does with all my recaptcha inputs, it could be to build a fleet of autonomous cars (that could end up killing the public transportation in my city), or improving an algorithms that helps drones identify targets during a social unrest (could be a future me).

Just because I want my privacy rights to be respected to the minimum (just don't track me for political/advertising purposes), I have to spend several minutes of my day working for Google and help them make money on advertising and sell AI to governments.

How dystopian.
Hackers and Painters (2003)
> We have absolutely no incentive to work hard when doing so doesn't materially affect income.

And you think that would improve under socialism or communism?
https://tfl.gov.uk/info-for/taxis-and-private-hire/emissions...

So it isn't overnight, it's gradual, it will accelerate fleet replacement significantly, but not 20% of the fleet overnight.
I feel like this comment would be totally complete without the first 5 words, which serve to make it condescending.

Part of the goal of this community is for its participants to learn things they don’t know; the tone implied by the intro to your comment makes it seem offensive that somebody wouldn’t realize US non-profit status still allows for salaries and benefits for their staff.

https://xkcd.com/1053/
I can't comment on US, but Germany and some other EU countries have fertility rate below 1.5. Without immigration the system will collapse as pensioners will outnumber working population.

EDIT: this is an observation, I am not advocating 'substitution'
Race and Wrongful Convictions in the United States [pdf]
But more expensive. However engineers estimate that an appropriate rail gun would have 10 times the range of an average drone so would cover a wider area.
I wonder if Pizza Hut still owns those 10k BTC they bought for the price of two pizzas?
"We're a team", "we're in this together", that kind of things. People buy into it.
I'm sure he always wore a condom while welding. UV protection is important.
It would likely improve under democratic socialism (which is not the same model as communism or socialism). Especially if we disconnect healthcare from employment allowing workers more freedom to pick employers or entrepreneurship. People want purpose, but they also need their basic needs met. They have to have hope they won't spend their lives on an economic treadmill where one slip will cause their demise. This is not an unreasonable ask in the wealthiest country in the world.

It is clear the current economic system is dysfunctional and requires refactoring (50% of bankruptices are from medical debt, and this occurs in no other developed country, for example), I'm unsure how that would even be up for debate. So if we can come to the conclusion (from objective data based on income levels, household wealth, debt, well being) that the current system isn't working, why would anyone advocate for it to continue as is?
> Why spend money optimizing for a browser that doesn't generate revenue?

Maybe sites will move to a model that you'll be offered to pay for their services if you block trackers. So you'll have a choice of paying with your data or paying with your money.

Either way someone has to foot the bill at the end. I guess in this case most users will let trackers work instead of paying.
Protest against imagined slackers? What kind of a dystopia is that?
Latin is indeed still taught in elite private schools across the country. But let's be realistic: we'll never, EVER see a widespread push to get Latin into American education.
Thank you for posting the original source.
They don't, this author does not represent the views of the vast silent majority.

Something like medicare for all is what Americans may want, but strong businesses are a backbone of American culture, not even the leftest of leaning elected politicians in Congress are a threat to that.
A very underrated person I'd love to see on there is Roberto Ierusalimschy, from Brazil, who created the Lua programming language, which runs under the hood in more places than one would expect.
Going to plug for the SDF people and the cool http://unix50.org/ project

Ever want to know what Unix v1 was like on the PDP-11?
What are those technical reasons?
In the US, things like fair tax codes, universal access to affordable healthcare, and affordable universities are considered "socialism".

The "not capitalism" of the soviet bloc is not even close to what the article is disucssing
I think that’s a very strong statement that Linux “flourished because of GPL”, there are plenty examples of large successful OSS projects that use more lenient licenses.

It would probably be more accurate to discuss the people involved, the structure of governance of Linux, and the fact that GNU was mature enough to be the basis for a new OS.
I’m not for capital punishment, but I’d like to see half of this company ground-up and fed to the other half.
I'd call them an "intern" or "entry level".
So, for largely the same reason why ATM cells have a 48-byte payload.
“that westerners would want to overthrow capitalism.”

Almost nobody wants to overthrow capitalism. People want to make adjustments to the current form of it to address concerns. That’s very legitimate and necessary in a functioning democracy. The people who scream “socialism “ all the time just want to move the discussion to extremes
One of the more well-known stories about Sun Tzu, taken from Sima Qian, illustrates Sun Tzu's temperament as follows: Before hiring Sun Tzu, the King of Wu tested Sun Tzu's skills by commanding him to train a harem of 360 concubines into soldiers. Sun Tzu divided them into two companies, appointing the two concubines most favored by the king as the company commanders. When Sun Tzu first ordered the concubines to face right, they giggled. In response, Sun Tzu said that the general, in this case himself, was responsible for ensuring that soldiers understood the commands given to them. Then, he reiterated the command, and again the concubines giggled. Sun Tzu then ordered the execution of the king's two favored concubines, to the king's protests. He explained that if the general's soldiers understood their commands but did not obey, it was the fault of the officers. Sun Tzu also said that, once a general was appointed, it was his duty to carry out his mission, even if the king protested. After both concubines were killed, new officers were chosen to replace them. Afterwards, both companies, now well aware of the costs of further frivolity, performed their maneuvers flawlessly.[11]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Tzu

In longer form:

https://titusng.com/2013/03/04/the-test-of-sun-tzus-art-of-w...
> like Saudi Arabia

It gets some hate, whether it's proper measure thereof, I dunno. Good question.

> China deserves all the bashing it gets

For clarity it would be helpful not to conflate the entirety of china with the chinese govt.

> are very biased only and precisely against it

Probably talking about "crushed bodies and broken bones". Rather sets the tone, don't you think?

OK, genuinely: give us some good news stories that are genuine (ie. not chinese government propaganda). It would be nice to hear another side.
In natural language, "or" generally means "xor" - as is the case here.
The vulture-cannibalistic corporate capture of nearly everything leads to many vicious feedback loops including extinctions of species, destruction of the planet, grotesque income&property ownership inequality and deepening political capture (corruption). If the average person from the masses of people had any self-respect, they'd band together and form worker-owned co-ops to ensure livable wages AND fair remuneration from their work. They'll never get anything more than crumbs with this current, extremely unfair wealth transfer (e.g., slavery) arrangement.
What you mean by "west"? Latin America (where I live), all the Africa and some poor european countries are "west" and those are not very good examples of prosperity.

Even in "western" rich countries there is a lot of growing unequality. The capitalism is falling by itself.
Same here! Similar volume and same experience- it all works well. Looking forward to the new "time of day inbox placement" feature they're working on as well!
I was also looking for a Google alternative and recently discoverd them on pons.com and am very happy with the results which are often DE <-> EN.
Well there is no difference. If majority oppresses minority (democracy) - how is this different from Bolsheviks. You kill/take assets from the rich, make private entities illegal and then it is the same. If you allow freedom for people to open a shop to sell meat in your local area - well its capitalism then.
Usually there's theft involved somewhere in the chain. Something goes directly from indisputably unoccupied land through hundreds of years of honest selling and buying and inheritance to the present day has got to be the most rare exception. Can anyone point to an example?
It's not even research, the skeptics community gave her a thrashing for her "work" here is a deep dive on her "research" and why its all bullshit:
https://www.desmogblog.com/susan-crockford
How the Saturday Evening Post Helped Create Gatsby
Star Trek Movie’s 40th Anniversary, Superintelligence and the Singularity
I am admittedly not the most educated person in this area (I wasn't 100% sure that "rule 10b5-1" was the rule that applied here), so I'd like to learn more. Can you give me an example of a reason you'd pre-arrange the sale of stock but not do it in accordance with Rule 10b5-1?