skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Paypal is generally considered to be worse than banks. They will "freeze" your funds for months. You have very weak rights there. With real banks, if that happens, you raise hell with the bank regulators and something happens.
I work for a bank. As bad as we can be, there's always a recourse of some sort (not always useful, but sometimes). There's always a regulator (not always activist, but sometimes). There's always an alternative (not always equivalent, but sometimes).

With Google, it's up to Google whether the answer is 'screw you' (unless you're spending tens of millions, it is).
This is fantastic stuff. Some personal anecdotes, moving from Ireland to a heavily industrialized city in Northern China definitely felt like a kick to the head to my output.

I've felt similar effects since moving from Sydney to Kathmandu. Looking forward to my eventual move back to Ireland in the coming years not only for my own health but for that of my children. Unfortunately Kathmandu is going down the path of major Indian cities; there are improvements but the lack of oversight on construction / dust as well as older vehicles with poor fuel makes for a lethal combination causing a dust bowl effect.
Her packages are between $500 to $3500/month so she got to that MRR only with a handful of customers.
I can't speak for Vizio Smartcast, but both the mobile app and desktop website both support Chromecast. I watched the first few episodes of The Mandalorian on my Chromecast last night. I started casting from my Linux desktop no less.
Patreon kicked off some political content because mastercard wouldn't continue to work with Patreon after a certain point.
Yes, done-for-you blog posts.
pretty much the same thing :-)
SoftBank-backed startup Fair burned through nearly $400M in 10 months
I’d call it emotional parsimony.

It’s the kind of behavior (core human nature) that views the pain of thousands from another country (or other social/socioeconomic group) as less than the pain of someone directly familiar to oneself.
The polling data I’ve seen disagrees, but of course it’s going to be up to elections and not polling.

Cost controls and increased revenue will be necessary, but neither will be excessive to accomplish the goal. I carry around Sander’s Medicare For All bill as well as the accounting breakdown when canvassing (practicing for my own federal office run), so I am familiar with the details.
This is one of those things where I don't see the dilemma that smarter people do. Why would there be any hesitation in giving up locality then?
Governments are the biggest, most inefficient and wasteful monopolies in the world. The media has a strange bias where it turns a blind eye to evils of state and only focuses on purported evils of the private sector.
You seem to have read my disclaimer "There is a fair chance that..." as "It is absolutely certain that...".
>One can mentally exist in 1995 with the Internet and the new couch that feels just as comfy.

1. 1995 was just 24 years ago. I'm not a historian, but thinking a cultural period lasting 24 years unusual would be ridiculous for any time before the industrial revolution. And I don't think it even applies today.

2. You might be biased about 1995 culture because it's your culture. My mother-in-law watches reruns from the 70s. People tend to stick with what they like, and there have always been other people willing to provide.
One tells you something relevant to what sort of domain - what to get them. The bartender doesn't tell them about your nasty divorce, trouble at work, etc. Likewise Google doesn't just hand out your embarrassing search history to the highest bidder - because both would be both wrong and absolutely terrible for business.
I never quite understand this though.. because everything that I've seen about scheme/lisps is that it's a simple modular syntax, self hosting, etc. is it the runtime that is gigantic? Or its std lib?
Yeah, I watched the whole thing too. They leave out so much stuff, like that Paul Allen left the company because Bill & Steve Ballmer tried to dilute his shares when he had cancer, or that they actually bought DOS (the doco makes it look like they were working their ass off to build it).

CANDU reactors are Canadian, they use heavy water. They've been around for 50 years, people don't use them because they can't be used to make nuclear weapons. All the reators in Canada are these style.
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Hard to change someone’s nature. I agree with @viraptor put them on something requiring indepth research. :)
As I've been saying, the matter of fresh water is very local. You may or may not be near such a farmer, and such a farmer may or may not be capable of pumping that much fresh water out of the ground in the first place. In some places that's a real problem while in others it isn't.
I visited Washington DC on a band trip in high school about 15 years ago. Right before I left, I bought Five For Fighting's CD: The Battle For Everything. I listened to it the entire time I was there (as I only had a CD player). Anytime we were on the bus, I was basically listening to that CD.

Now, If I ever hear any of the tracks from that album, I have a flood of memories that come back, and I think that is the reason why I remember that trip so well.
Ask HN: Strategies to prevent or reduce bot / fake account creation on website
I have a web app that uses Auth0 to manage sign up and IDM. Growth for my web app has been really good, but I have started to notice a few fake and bot accounts being created.

What strategies have the HN community used to prevent bot accounts?

What has been effective vs what has sucked?

Any tips or approaches for email verification / quality checking?
To me the article is missing the point between training a model and running a model.
Let's do an 1864 argument.

Have empathy for the slave. He is endowed with dignity by the Divine. Jesus Christ paid a price in blood to set him free from the bonds of sin. What God has freed, let no man return into bondage.

Have empathy for the master. Jesus died not only for the upright, not only for the oppressed, but for tax collecting thugs, prostitutes — even the murderer crucified beside him. He raised a saint from Saul of Tarsus. He died for the slave's master. Oh, yes, the master is undeserving, but none of us are deserving. If thou, O Lord, wilt mark iniquities, how should I stand?

But know what shape this empathy for the master takes. You must fear for his soul. If it is consumed by sin, he will be cast into perdition. He must well and truly repent, and his sin is grave.
Many companies had storageless internet clients 15-18 years ago.

Would have all worked had the Linux community had a viable desktop vs Msoft.
In my honest and genuine opinion, I don't really need more email tools, I just need more legitimate people who want to do business mostly through email.

For every 1 million jokers who aren't looking to do a deal that will result in me making a fair profit for my hours, there is one perfect client that I would kiss the ground they walk on.

If email can help me sift through the jokers to find the perfect client, then I would pay x monthly for the tool, where the deal size is 5,000x
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A decade before there was JavaScript, there was NeWS [pdf]
I live in Northern India. On occasions when I visit cleaner countries like NZ, Singapore etc. my productivity goes up. I thought this was because my colleagues were absent. Maybe PM 2.5 is also to blame!!
> Does this really signify empathy? I consider myself empathetic, but I wouldn't agree with the above statement.

You are noticing the difference between "compassion" (a divine emotion) and "pity" (its near enemy). Pity grants you a position above the pitied, while compassion positions you alongside/with the sufferer.

These nuances are hard enough to suss out given unlimited information and attention. I agree it's all but impossible to gather equivalent distinctions from a rigid survey.
They have 50 writers on payroll. 18k$ revenue doesn't sound too good. That is just 360$/person/month.
You know it's a good, firey HN debate when you have to scroll down about 3/4 of the page to find the 1st comment thats not a child, chained off the top comment! :)
Yeah, but for the neobanks, it's even more strict. You simply can't access all your money instantly. As far as I can tell, anyhow.
Here is a link to a few UML diagramming tool, check them out, might find the one you are looking for.

UML Diagramming Software for Windows:
https://www.ilovefreesoftware.com/29/featured/free-uml-desig...

Online UML Digaramming Tools:
https://www.ilovefreesoftware.com/22/webware/free-websites-t...
Ask HN: The Internet continues to be down in Iran. Any solutions for the future?
The Internet continues to be shut down in Iran. It was shut down progressively by service provider on November 16. [0]

This is not the first time that a government has abused their control over the internet to suppress the oppositions/protesters; the exact same things has happened in many places in the world (e.g. Iraq [1], India [2], Republic of Congo [3], China, Ethiopia, Sudan, etc.). In 2018, 196 instances of internet shutdowns were identified around the world. [2]

The increasing frequency of this type of event should be very concerning for everyone, even those who live in “free” societies. What can be done to prevent this kind of restrictions/internet shutdowns? How can this be achieved with a decentralized internet? and and is there any way to let the people get their words out?

Some articles to get a clearer sense of the internet shutdown in Iran

TechCrunch: https://techcrunch.com/2019/11/17/iran-shuts-down-countrys-internet-in-the-wake-of-fuel-protests/

NetBlocks: https://netblocks.org/reports/internet-disrupted-in-iran-amid-fuel-protests-in-multiple-cities-pA25L18b

MIT Tech Review: https://www.technologyreview.com/f/614726/iran-has-shut-off-internet-access-for-its-citizens-amid-fuel-price-protests/?utm_campaign=site_visitor.unpaid.engagement&utm_medium=tr_social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1574077128

p.s. I sincerely apologize if the political nature of this submission destroys the value of the site.

Thank you

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[0] https://twitter.com/jgrahamc/status/1196499414627627010

[1] https://netblocks.org/reports/iraq-shuts-down-internet-again-as-protests-intensify-Q8oOWz8n

[2] https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2019/the-scary-trend-of-internet-shutdowns/

[3] https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/02/africa/congo-internet-shutdown-china-intl/index.html
Ever been bothered by a bright clock in your bedroom? Or the bright red light on the smoke detector or thermostat? In a pitch black room, these lights annoy the shit out of me. Do those don't bother you more or less during the daytime in a sunlit room?
I wear over ear headphones with a 10hr stream of airplane cabin noise playing through it.

I despise almost all noise these days
It's arguable that the litigation delayed SEDs to the point where they were no longer mass marketable, but I could go either way on it.
Hmm... just two cents I have. While this may be true to a large degree, I do think it's possible to overcome this.

I went on a religious mission for 2 years and one of the things I remember most vividly about it is that I came to a point where I didn't have emnity towards other people. It took a lot of work (quashing emnity can be hard), but it did work. I'm not sure most people are in a place where they are ready to try that, but I do think it's possible.

Anyways, yeah just my two cents :). People do have a tendency to be tribal as you said.
I've used it mainly for technical DR or incident response testing. For non-technical DR testing take a look at FEMA's tabletops as a starting point: https://www.fema.gov/emergency-planning-exercises. You can find a ton of free tabletops online
My brother spent two years in London — nearly all of his friends were either other aussies or from other countries, modulo a few friendly brits: and he ran a pub for those two years!
I'm suggesting it's a possibility worth considering.

Since he's also permanently annoyed outside work, non work factors fit the data.
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The year was an arbitrary choice.

People used to have to, except in the political context, move on from such experiences. Being able to recall a few quotes of much different than sitting there importing it all verbatim over and over.

For minute in all-the-minutes:
LiterallyWatch(FavoriteShow)

There was no preservation, books wore out, etc etc

They were forced to emotionally process as part of assimilating the info and seek out new info.

I am describing an abstract process and how it’s changed to where we can reconnect instantly to past emotional selves.

We keep certain pathways lubed and hot without generating new ones through exploration of new truly unique sensory input (how many for loops does a programmer write over and over? Oh sure the JSON content changes. Does the value of a for loop?)

Stand still in information stagnation so the social political system can figure out to adapt to maintain control.

This isn’t novel thinking and it’s not even radical, it’s pretty well trodden philosophy backed by modern biology research. So downvote all ya want HN. Disinterest in one posters rhetoric does not delete facts of reality
"work" is doing a lot of work here, especially when talking about generational wealth.
> To give an example, I can empathize with the problems many Republicans face: fear of a loss of quality of life, fear of loss of stability, fear of change, fear of changing classes, fear of losing your culture, fear of being left behind by society.

I’m a republican-leaning independent, and what you write here strikes me more as stereotype of the right than actual concerns of the right. I don’t really worry about any of the things you mention.
> Is it just an easy escape hatch so that new languages can be easily supported, with no actual guarantees of hermeticity?

Yes, I mean in general some level of compiler hermeticity is assumed. You can verify it by checksumming everything (which bazel does), but you can easily destroy the performance/caching of bazel by modifying clang to have intentionally unpredictable results.

> One weird/hard thing to support would be soft/hard linking. I'm not sure exactly what should be done there, but that might not be needed for early versions.

I think bazels solution here is to just always make fat binaries. Or at least that's how it works if you're using blaze.

> I'm not sure I understand this. One thing I should note is that in my scheme, you still have to specify output files for rules--you only get to skip specifying the inputs.

Ah this helps somewhat, I think there are still potential ambiguities, one thing that bazel can do is statically determine all of the input sources without actually executing the build. You of course can't do this. This has a few nice properties: you get missing input errors before doing any actual building, you have a build graph you can statically analyze (deps queries are magic), and all the sandboxing can be done ahead of time (with symlinks to create a shadow filesystem) instead of ad-hoc, you can parallelize everything, meaning you can saturate all your machines the entire time.

With strace, you have performance issues from the tracing itself, and you can't precompile all the dependencies beforehand you have to discover them as you go (this likely also hurts on memory since you'd need to keep all the partial compiler information in memory).

I also find it easier to reason about stuff with explicit deps, but that's just me.
> No, but photographs can destroy vivid memories

If anything, our brains taint and alter memories over time, which causes them to be misaligned with photographs. The photograph doesn't lie. The brain lies to us and often.
And, like the goto statement, surely there will be scolds warning everyone not to use these anywhere instead of treating them like any other language feature to be used with care and as sparingly as possible.
Ohh! That actually was it. My canvas was a very large size - like 1900x1200 and Safari drastically slowed down - I readjusted for it to only take page height and width and it works nicely again. Thanks!!
I don't consider national forests true public property because of entry fees, scheduling camp grounds, restrictions on activity, and length of time you can be there. Also, remoteness is an issue.

I really like the idea of slab city, and have talked to some people who have been there. I haven't been myself. I also love the idea of the Kowloon walled city and the tower of David as models for a public space without top down control.
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Hey HN, thanks for all the love on this, and for helping me think about other use cases for and how to communicate about this product. I really appreciate this!

Also, I noticed I spent a lot of time maintaining the demo instances (resizing). In a real deployment the number of users per machine is pretty much static, but here I've had to deal with scaling and spikes.

It occurred to me today that I could probably put the free demos behind a load balancer (smaller basic machines, and scale them up or down), so that I don't have to manually resize the instance.

I've taken down the two demo sites (free & hk) for now, while I work on the load balancer setup. Should be back up in a couple hours.
Wow, what a revelation. I did not realize that people were different. /s
Confirmed: the media is still attacking Elon Musk/Tesla/SpaceX for political reasons.
Vox is obviously new on the block. That's been going on for a century, ever since WW1 when Ed Bernays worked for the Committee on Public Information (CPI) and learned how to get people to line up.

http://igpub.com/propaganda/

In 1928 he wrote, "If we understand the mechanism and motives of the group mind, is it not possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will without their knowing about it?" (Propaganda, page 10)

At about the same time he was helping out Lucky Strike by convincing more women to smoke cigarettes.
I agree that "for sale" isn't a fair descriptor, of the March of Dimes or EPIC or the EFF. That was mostly my point.

I think it's reasonable to ask some number of questions about the March of Dimes. It's surprising, at least a little bit, that eradicating polio didn't reduce the amount of charitable work a polio charity had to do.
I just bought one and have been using it for a couple of days. So far so good. I still hate the TouchBar because it's completely useless, but the Esc key and directional keys was enough for me.

I also have a 2018 MBP from work and the keyboard is shit. Within 3 weeks it was doubletyping and putting random .'s everywhere.

I was days away from buying the top end Vaio and then I heard the news about the new MBP and decided to go for the MBP instead.
> Personally, it doesn't diminish the tragedy of what happens

What's more tragic, an unpleasant reality you don't laugh at or an unpleasant reality where you laugh at as a coping mechanism. I would assume the unpleasant reality where you cannot even laugh at it. So I imagine some diminish of the tragedy does exist.
Agreed. These are not the values that make me. Many of the values that I represent will lead towards stability, however, it's not fear that I'm defined by.
Do you mean register size? BUS size?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1-bit_architecture

And check out the box in the upper right area that is titled "Computer architecture bit widths"

There are pages for:
1 2 4 8 12 16 18 24 26 28 31 32 36 48 60 64 128 256 512

Also check out Forth CPUs

And why stick to binary?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ternary_computer
There are other reasons we haven't seen SED/FED hit the market than just the patents.

Contrast 2010: https://www.auo.com/en-global/New_Archive/detail/news_IR_201...

"AU Optronics Corp. announced today that AUO has entered into an agreement with Field Emission Technologies (FET) and FET Japan, Inc. (FETJ), to purchase certain assets and to transfer certain technology from FET, a leader in FED (field emission displays) technology whose 39.8% of shareholding is owned by Sony Corporation. In the transaction, AUO will acquire certain assets that include patents, know-how, inventions, and relevant equipment related to FED technology and materials.
The fast response time, high efficiency, brightness, and contrast of FED technology not only compare favorably with traditional CRT technology but also outperform in terms of image quality and power efficiency. FED technology will be focused on high-end display application for future development. Apart from OLED, FED technology will be a new application option in the flat display industry, which will become a strong support for AUO's unique competence in the future."

and 2012: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/taiwan-based-au-optronics-cor...

"AU Optronics Corporation, a Taiwan-based liquid crystal display (LCD) producer, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in San Francisco to pay a $500 million criminal fine for its participation in a five-year conspiracy to fix the prices of thin-film transistor LCD panels sold worldwide, the Department of Justice announced. Its American subsidiary and two former top executives were also sentenced today. The two executives were sentenced to serve prison time and to pay criminal fines for their roles in the conspiracy. The $500 million fine matches the largest fine imposed against a company for violating the U.S. antitrust laws."
I understand there is some validity with this criticism. Xilinx has always been slow to adopt standard software development practices. But really, Xilinx tools have never cost 'multi-tens of thousand dollar's. The most expensive tools are several thousand dollars. There are also free tools for smaller devices / certain flows. Source control is done with tcl scripting (simple text files) and standard source control tools. It's not as bad as it was in the past. Cheers.
Eh, that's not a great example. It can be hard to appreciate the simplicity of PHP when one's fully bought into the stockholm syndrome of another language/framework :)

Consider this: a hello world in PHP requires no knowledge of programming whatsoever: a file saying "hello world" is enough to get the text to show on a browser. Having two different pages requires no knowledge of if statements, nor of 404 handling.

On top of that, PHP silently manages a lot of plumbing for you: it will also do caching and streaming out of the box and it won't crash the server due to OS ulimit errors when you have a high number of concurrent requests hitting the same file.

Heck, you could stream result sets from a database to a streaming HTML document in like a dozen lines of PHP with no libraries 10 years ago. The equivalent machinery to achieve something similar in e.g. the latest Next.js today is beyond abysmal in comparison.
I love these articles, really insightful into what goes into making a map.
In fact, this is explained in the article which also has an interesting anecdote about btrfs.
Which meter did you buy?
Sun would have lived today if they had not open-sourced java (or at least have tiered pricing).

Not unlike docker (the company) today.

Solaris was probably the best OS ever made.
LOL no way this is going to be hilarious
No, any activity on the property would be done by whoever was there. With no restriction, each person would be responsible for their own actions on the property.
And many of these same people will claim a moral superiority over you and cast you out for any disagreement.
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