skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: How to provide a hands on service to local businesses
I just handed in my notice and I'm wondering how to supplement my income as I grow my sideline. I like the idea of providing a hands on service to local businesses which is meaningful to the business but does not require a lot of my time (possibly on a monthly subscription). Is anyone doing such a thing? I am in Ireland so it's unlikely I will be muscling in on your work :-) Send me a message if you prefer.

My background is in infrastructure but I have also been paid to create websites and apps.
Honest question: What's the purpose of the throwaway account for this? Is there some blow-back that you expect from this? Is there some NDA that precludes you from even talking about it years later? Do you think it reflects negatively on your years later?
He knows what the words are and their spelling, but has no idea about their meaning.
Fake Adobe account ftw! You get nothing but an email used for spam.
'You've never paid for journalism' was an article here two days ago. The design of payments in newspapers acknowledges the importance of advertising on their business. Anonymous subscription is completely antithetical to that.
Nicholas Papernot [1] et al. has shown how this can be an attack on an unknown network provided you have access to inference results produced by the target network [2].

[1] https://www.papernot.fr/

[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.02697
Agreed - also IMHO it's mostly used for speculation, and hopefully shouldn't be the case. Speculation can't last forever, but a few good use cases might.
Around 2005 or so, Google floated (and let sink) the creepy idea that you should let them listen to your mic, so that they could supply useful info, for instance about the football game you were watching.

This is now the new normal. Pretty sure whatever is now weird will soon be normal too, given a spreadsheet or two to push it through.

(Heinlein was not nearly imaginative enough about the Crazy Years, no one could be. Might as well blame him for not thinking of the "Walk on Your Hands" thing.)
Writing in English as a non-native English speaker
Yeah and you could make an XML or a TOML that requires just as much guidance for computers to parse. That was my point.
Could you clarify what this means on a monitor? It looks great in photos, but if I have light text on a dark background, I don't want to replace that with dark background, dark text, and a halo between the two.

More broadly, my experience is just that I can accept higher contrasts in dark-on-light than the reverse. TextEdit light is 0 on 255, and I find it slightly harsh in some lighting. TextEdit dark is only 255 on 30, and even that's enough to be consistently annoying. Sublime's ~248 on ~40 is way more usable for me.
Leaving aside the question of whether or not the FEC should regulate social media ads (and personally I think they should), as a practical matter, they can't for the time being. As of a few weeks ago with the resignation of a commissioner, the FEC lacks quorum, and the administration apparently isn't planning to appoint any replacements for the time being, which means they can't issue rules governing Facebook or anyone else, nor can they initiate enforcement actions or investigations, or issue advisory opinions about what campaigns or companies should and shouldn't do to comply with existing rules.
I emailed some travel related API providers for a side project a while ago and they happily offered me a cheaper price than the listed one once I explained what it's for.

Never hurts to give it a try.
Simple stuff so far.

* I have my browser automatically launch on boot-up [linux]. Saves me a click each time, xkcd's "is it worth the time" be darned in this specific instance for me.

* I have scripts that webscrape stock//etf//mutual_fund stock prices for personal financial tracking reasons. I just want the numbers, not all the hassle of getting the information for each stock//etf//mutial_fund for each financial house every single time.

* I have a mutable script to download a large swath of a podcast's episode archive so I don't have to "click and save" hundreds of individual episodes. Modify, execute, go take a shower or make lunch, come back and modify the metadata so it works on my .mp3 player.

... stuff like this. Nothing major, but "automating the pain away" type of thing.

Note: this is ignoring the "fun programming" I do for myself as per question.
The “accounts” are called wallets. There are all kinds of wallets, from minimalist “command line” ones to full featured mobile apps.

To buy crypto, you will need an account in an exchange, so you can exchange your fiat currency (dollars?) by crypto. Binance and Kraken are popular choices.

For keeping up with developments and meeting other hackers, Reddit is the best forum so far. The Hacker News crowd usually don’t dig crypto currencies for whatever reason, so it’s a little harder to discuss them here (but count me in!).
> As long the the fiat gateways exist to exit the system with gains intact

Basically the entire article points out that this is in fact impossible, only the first ones to run will be able to do this. Much like a bank run, there is not enough cash to back a tether exodus.
You're being downvoted because you're grossly mischaracterizing the concerns of Russian interference. It was far more than "some Russian troll spending $300,000 in ads".

> fuck the politicians (and whoever else) who thinks people are too stupid to make up their own minds regardless of a couple of advertisements.

Well...many people are too stupid to make up their own minds. How many people believed in pizzagate?
> And such abuses of power, which have happened without a doubt, are in time recognized and documented as the wrong and shameful excesses they are.

I'd like to agree, but this only happens if you are able to dissolve the administration you disagree with.
Well fuck school accounts, damn
What a nice and opaque technology. Bribe (or blackmail if you are from NSA) a developer or sysadmin and ask them to make so that every second vote for candidate A goes to candidate B and candidate B wins. It doesn't matter how people will vote, it only matters whom sysadmin chooses.
I don't think Google has a shot at acquiring Garmin though. Garmin has no reason to sell.

Garmin has their own growth. In fact, Garmin is the only wearable market that I've noticed growing in the last 3-4 years (Apple is gaining traction obviously, but the Apple Watch is only a small bit of their market). Fitbit is failing, they're in desperate need of an acquisition.

If you own a Garmin watch (Forerunner line for example), you'll understand. It has all the fitness tracking of a Fitbit, an always-on color display, best in class GPS, and several days/a week of battery life. And, their luxury watches are really uncontested for the mountain/marine/extreme market. Frankly, the build quality is better than much of the market as well. The software is less than Apple, but better than Fitbit.

The wearable market is becoming narrower and narrower, and I really think it will come down to Apple, Google and Garmin.

In the wearable space, Apple and Google make flashy gadgets, essentially. This is great for the business people/casuals. But Garmin is capturing a whole different market. I don't see many competitors in the athletic (marathon, triathlete, ironman) market, and even less so in the extreme (mountain, marine exploration) market.

Take what I'm saying with a grain of salt though, I got my whole family hooked on Garmin devices, myself coming from their line of bike GPS. I've also invested in Garmin for several years now.
Paper and pencil should be good enough for every election.
As someone who's taken the internal trainings a few times by now: NOPE. Health data is scary-scary and no team wants to taint itself with it, unless it's the core of the product.
>>>> ...vs. trying to expand your impact without taking on formal leadership responsibility on an IC track.

This might come down to cultural differences between companies. At Amazon leadership responsibility is formally baked into the upper SDE roles (Sr and above), literally in the role descriptions. There's definitely still value in being a technical manager, but that's not the only way to get formal leadership responsibility.
sometimes i wonder if the oversized paychecks at some of these companies are for the people with the best skills, or the people with the least morals.
Opinion: Leaving San Francisco? Think Detroit
"The Facebook workers called for specific changes including holding political ads to the same standards as other advertising, stronger design measures to better distinguish political ads from other content, and restricting targeting for political ads. The employees also recommended imposing a silence period ahead of elections and imposing spend caps for politicians."

In the U.S., political speech is often afforded the highest amount of protection from govt. censorship (c.f. the FB is private platform/publisher). One of the reasons articulated by some First Amendment commentators is that political speech is important to self-government in a democratic society. To quote Brandeis, "Political discussion is a political duty." Further, "Implied here is the notion of civic virtue - the duty to participate in politics, the importance of deliberation, and the notion that the end of the state is not neutrality by active assistance in provided conditions of freedom . . . ." [1]

Public political speech should not be censored based on perceived truth or falsehood. In fact, political speech that promulgates false or misleading messages should be exposed to criticism. Again quoting Brandeis, "Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants . . . ."

However, political speech is regulated to an extent by the F.E.C., e.g. requiring disclosure notices, etc. However, the political speech issues presented on FB can be more complex than that of traditional 20th century print and broadcast media. For example, micro-targeting political speech to certain demographics may cross the line from public political speech to private speech, and perhaps should be affored less protections. See Alexander Meiklejohn [2].

Also, content based prohibitions of speech tend to be more troubling than content neutral restrictions, such as time, place or manner restrictions on political ads or spending caps as mentioned in the employee statement above.

[1] Lahav, Holmes and Brandeis: Libertarian and Republican Justifications for Free Speech, 4 J.L. & Pol. 451 (1987).

[2] Meiklejohn, Free Speech and Its Relation to Self-Governemnt (1948).
I don't like and recommend using black because it causes purple ghosting on most OLEDs, gray doesn't.
Great to hear, thanks. Keep up the good work!
Yes, they call it 'Deliveroo Editions'. They sometimes waive the delivery fee, has its own logo/category and you can mix the delivery from various restaurants
Common practice is asking these questions yourself under second account, make sure to word it right for the bots aka seo, since it will rank high on Google. Shilling is everywhere, just look at the reddit front page and accounts that have posted these viral things. The vast majority of them are just marketeers mixing their customers with other "stolen" material or reposting.
> (2) Something to do with future A.I. systems and processes requiring a historical snapshot of everything that happened...

This is what we're doing here -> https://www.grassland.network
Do you have experience with performance optimization of Erlang code running in Docker? Is there a way to make the BEAM schedulers sticky? Does it make sense for latency reasons? I know that some products rely on core stickiness for maximum performance. Maybe Erlang/BEAM is not in that category.

https://www.scylladb.com/2018/08/09/cost-containerization-sc...
I guess moral only exists for things which were a problem for a long time. Mass data collection is a relatively new thing. So morals around data collection don't really exist; ask the average person on the street how much they care about this. Result is those non-existent morals weren't able to be codified in law hence no wonder somebody is out there 'exploiting' this.
Facebook has no business saying which ads are wrong/lies. If they do this it opens up such a can of worms. Their stance is the only logical stance. I imagine if AOC's ads were blocked on Facebook she would suddenly want answers and claim she was censored.
Many of my scientific works were plagiarized by Chinese researchers. However, I still don't buy the hate on China that is dominant in media and here on Hacker News. Basically,

i) the US wants to forbid other countries to have a chance to win in pure capitalistic games. Thus, it will block strong investors from certain countries but let itself to invest in the same countries.

ii) the US (e.g., agencies and private firms) currently controls the entire world via political and electronic backdoors installed everywhere. So it sounds like a bad joke when people claim that China is inventing some surveillance mechanisms like if it is a new one.

I believe that we first hand observe how propaganda (here, against China) works. While China does some shitty things, the most precise short description I can come up with is that "the West" wants China to be its slave. I have no doubt this will happen to some extent in the same way it happened to Japan in the 80ies (no slavery, but drastic decay). In 2040 we will be told to hate India. In 2060 it will be replaced by some growing African country.
They also have around 120k contractors.
You're right, the point gets lost, I hear what you're saying. I guess it reflects that I'm tired of trying to have normal conversations about it, I feel like the people who blame everything on Facebook are completely unhinged.
Five months after returning rental car, man still has remote control
They have already taken out API support which for some smart home users was equivalent to bricking. I wonder if there will be a class action lawsuit.
Not just a paper record. A hand marked paper record. If it doesn't go through a computer first it can't be altered. There are several states that do it this way. It's a "Scantron" style ballot. Fill in the vote, run it through a tally machine and save the ballot. The tally machines could be messed with, but if there is evidence of tampering with the tally there is always the authentic original ballot.
I'm listening mostly to ambient and instrumental music. MusicForPrograming has a great selection of them: http ://musicforprogramming.net
> 3. Because you cannot actually just park billions of dollars in the national reserve bank and collect interest on it.

Actually you can, it's called Interest On Excess Reserves (IOER) in the US, which has been the only short term rate enforcement mechanism of the FED since the crisis days. Till that whole repo thing happened, just recently.

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

The rest is true though.
http://www.geni.org/globalenergy/library/newsletters/1995/bu...

> "This now feasible, intercontinental network would integrate America, Asia and Europe, and integrate the night-and-day, spherically shadow-and-light zones of Planet Earth. And this would occasion the 24-hour use of the now only fifty per cent of the time used world-around standby generator capacity, whose fifty per cent unused capacities heretofore were mandatorily required only for peakload servicing of local non-interconnected energy users. Such intercontinental network integration would overnight double the already-installed and in-use, electric power generating capacity of our Planet."

> Telegram to Senator Edmund Muskie, Earth, Inc., 1973, Fuller.
I absolutely love SourceHut UI. I don’t have a word for it but it approaches the epitome of functional design.

I’ve always been a critic of Stripe design - although it’s silky smooth and nice, those animations and what not are not as important as densely packed, well organized and information rich UI. People rave about Stripe’s design as if it’s something everyone needs to follow - I couldn’t disagree more. Stripe’s design is overrated and overblown on HN.

Drew has nailed this aspect and I think he wrote about it in his blog.

Today’s design fads are: Gradients (Apple), Magenta colors (Firefox, basically any SaaS) and Brutalist design (Dropbox rebrand), probably a few more that I can’t think of right now.

This shit needs to stop guys. I don’t have anything against a designers but when a designer is designing for the sake of making something without drilling down why it needs to be that way - stop right there and reevaluate. This also applies to non-designers that design things as well. Design is about how things work, not animations and slick effects that wow the users.
Sounds like a genuinely nice guy and I hope he gets the financial support he seems to need right now however something in the article caught my eye - "Then they [FBI Agents] began requesting lists of IP addresses that had uploaded files to ID Ransomware, which could help identify victims, as well as ransom notes and other material."

From the ID Ransomware site - "Any email addresses or BitCoin addresses found in files uploaded to ID Ransomware may be stored and shared with trusted third parties or law enforcement. No personally identifiable data is stored." If he is supplying IP addresses and copies of ransom notes without consent well, yeah maybe the web site should make it a bit clearer that it's not just email and bitcoin info he shares. A further quote a bit further down reads "He tips them (the FBI) off, for instance, when a ransom note or extension on a file uploaded to the site identifies the targeted business."
Still, seems like his heart is in the right place so I'll close with a more positive snippet - "Gillespie hopes that someday his services will no longer be needed, because businesses and people will have learned proper cybersecurity. “If the world had backups, then we wouldn’t have ransomware,” he said."
Stop and think about what specific techniques a program might be using to prevent the trial version to continue to run after 30 days. If it needs to phone home to the vendor's servers each time you launch the program, then there's not much the OS can or should be able to do to get in the way of that. You can redirect traffic to your own server that's impersonating the vendor's authentication server, but they can use cryptography to defend against that kind of attack.

But if it's trying to place an undeletable file on your system or something like that (eg. in your boot sector, TurboTax style) to keep track of how many times you've launched the program, then your OS absolutely should protect you from such misbehaviors.
There was an ad that had Paul Ryan pushing a grand mother off of a cliff that ran on TV. So Facebook is free to run that, right? Swiftboating, GWB draft dodge charges (later rebuffed after CBS reported it,) the famous "Daisy" ad that was run against Goldwater, etc. I'd love to see where people draw the line.
It's surreal seeing an article that actually differentiates between the Internet and the World Wide Web.
There are still Chinese people today who remember the pain of the Cultural Revolution. This is a history that isn't denied & only lightly censored if at all. Yet, they don't begrudge Mao for it. Probably because they realize that without having united as a country, and without having built that industrial base (as painful as that was), the good years they're seeing today would never have happened.
> is because it's not a name

What, pray tell, are you using as the definition of what is or is not a name? You appear to be saying something has to be a common name to be a name, which opens the question of how new common names ever come about.

I'm sure you're not saying that everyone that chose unconventional names that became conventional for your lifetime and peer group chose "names" and everyone else that chose unconventional names chose the "stupid(est) names" due to "brain damage"...but I struggle to make sense of what you said in any other way.

So what am I missing?
I posted this in the other thread on the topic,

"The Facebook workers called for specific changes including holding political ads to the same standards as other advertising, stronger design measures to better distinguish political ads from other content, and restricting targeting for political ads. The employees also recommended imposing a silence period ahead of elections and imposing spend caps for politicians."

In the U.S., political speech is often afforded the highest amount of protection from govt. censorship (c.f. the FB is private platform/publisher). One of the reasons articulated by some First Amendment commentators is that political speech is important to self-government in a democratic society. To quote Brandeis, "Political discussion is a political duty." Further, "Implied here is the notion of civic virtue - the duty to participate in politics, the importance of deliberation, and the notion that the end of the state is not neutrality by active assistance in provided conditions of freedom . . . ." [1]

Public political speech should not be censored based on perceived truth or falsehood. In fact, political speech that promulgates false or misleading messages should be exposed to criticism. Again quoting Brandeis, "Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants . . . ."

However, political speech is regulated to an extent by the F.E.C., e.g. requiring disclosure notices, etc. However, the political speech issues presented on FB can be more complex than that of traditional 20th century print and broadcast media. For example, micro-targeting political speech to certain demographics may cross the line from public political speech to private speech, and perhaps should be affored less protections. See Alexander Meiklejohn [2].

Also, content based prohibitions of speech tend to be more troubling than content neutral restrictions, such as time, place or manner restrictions on political ads or spending caps as mentioned in the employee statement above.

[1] Lahav, Holmes and Brandeis: Libertarian and Republican Justifications for Free Speech, 4 J.L. & Pol. 451 (1987).

[2] Meiklejohn, Free Speech and Its Relation to Self-Governemnt (1948).
It’s TypeScript. You can strip the annotations and type definitions and it’s pure JS. TS is typically ran on JS runtimes, hence why people consider TS programs to also just be JS program.

*not exactly, there’s a couple of features that map differently. But there's a 1:1 TS to JS conversion.
What I find interesting is the breakdown of monthly vs yearly subscriptions.

223 $2 (paid monthly)

104 $5 (paid monthly)

26 $10 (paid monthly)

582 $2 (paid yearly)

174 $5 (paid yearly)

62 $10 (paid yearly)

I would have never guessed that more people pay yearly than monthly for a 20% discount. Has anyone else seen something similar for their own SAAS?
This is yet another example of 'damned if you do and damned if you don't. If Facebook did literally no moderation whatsoever, then there would be (and indeed was, in the past) a furor of complaint over their callous indifference to society. The second Facebook censors anything, they are immediately hit with a furor of complaint that, under those standards, they are obligated to censor some slightly less objectionable thing. They resist for a while, then cave in, and the cycle repeats. For the past 10 years this has been a reliable mine of outrage porn, but not a cause of real progress.
I don't understand why you need sophisticated technology like a worm when you can bribe or blackmail a developer and get whatever results you want. The weakest link here is the human that loads the firmware. Just offer him a promotion if candidate X wins and that could be enough.