skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They still needed a solid business plan how to earn money from Flickr...

SmugMug, by their own admission, bought Flickr to help keep it alive. Currently, they're not even looking to make money but reduce the operating costs. I'm sure they didn't take the decision to move to AWS lightly, at all.

> ...this kind of looks like they've thought of asking for money AFTER the move.

May be you're right that it might have been a mistake, but the fact that SmugMug are a heavy AWS user means it might have made a lot of sense to leverage not only the engineering and operational expertise but also the heavily discounted rates they must have negotiated with AWS?
The future of high technology at this time does seem to be in the hands of China with the rest of the world contributing a bit.

I highly doubt this. So far, what China has done is producing lower cost equivalent to products already developed by other nations. I don't see how China is leading the pack in terms of innovation, here.

Beside, I don't think we can consider smart phones to be "high technology" anymore. The market is saturated with them and the innovation has slowed down massively since a couple of years ago.
For anyone just looking for ‘plug and play’ web socket pub/sub functionality, I have been developing something that provides the functionality for PostgreSQL: https://github.com/supabase/realtime

It's an Elixir server (Phoenix) that allows you to listen to changes in your database via websockets.
Basically the Phoenix server listens to PostgreSQL's replication functionality, converts the byte stream into JSON, and then broadcasts over websockets. The beauty of listening to the replication functionality is that you can make changes to your database from anywhere - your api, directly in the DB, via a console etc - and you will still receive the changes via websockets.

The article suggests Postgres’ native LISTEN/NOTIFY functionality. I tried that originally and found that NOTIFY payloads have a limit of 8000 bytes, as well a few other inconveniences.

It's still in very early stages, although I am using it in production at my company and will work on it full time starting Jan.
A Whirlwind Tutorial on Creating Really Teensy ELF Executables for Linux (1999)
The meaning of a term depends on its usage. That is not a matter of opinion, it's how language, including technical language, works.

Currently "OOP" roughly means [Alan Kay's vision] or [Java-like]. That is an imprecise and mostly useless definition but it's the one it has, whether we like it or not. A stable terminology is desirable and that's why we shouldn't redefine "OOP".

Think of it like an API. What's more backwards-compatible: changing the behavior of oop() or deprecating it in favor of javaLikeProgramming() and kayProgramming() ?
I wonder how many millions of productivity hours have been lost in the past 3 years as people direct all of their emotional energy at the president
> why would you ever give your time to such a toxic platform

Did you ask this back in 2008?

As someone who was ridiculed, outcasted and made fun at uni for not using social media because I didn’t want to submit my data online, it’s finally nice to find people are actually starting to realise this; just twelve years too late.
SpaceX is basically the Google of aerospace at this time, Boeing is like IBM. Their interview process is incredibly rigorous while Boeing's is a joke. I've worked with people from both places (former aerospace engineer), their respective workers are not in the same league.
Tell HN: Universities Are Evil
Low energy students walking like zombies from one class to another looking so desperately for the definition of the world.

So helpless, so clueless, they rid themselves from curiosity and keep drinking the poison of knowledge. Convinced that the books are the source of truth, they keep reading and descending to the land of certainty.

Soon, they become zombies, repeating what they read, they become the words and the books they read.

In a few years, the process will complete and suck the last drop of blood from their curious childhood's blood. Meanwhile, Zeus is roaring from anger, seeing his children so easily submit to the evil without a fight.

We are no longer in a world where you have to pay for knowledge. We are no longer in a world where only a few posses "it". The evil no longer has a reason to lure you into the hell of knowledge.

Fight back and never stay silent. Universities are killing curiosity, they are killing freedom to do things in new interesting ways. They fill brains with useless information and enslave them. As if that is not bad enough they humiliate students by making them pay for this evil process.

Don't ever submit to any organization that fills your brain with ideas of how something should be done. All those organizations are evil, Including Y Combinator.

Fight back, children of Zeus. Fight back with your freedom of being anything you want to be. Break the chains of knowledge and rid yourself from the known, then once the moment is free of any meaning... re-define it with your heart.

Submit to no king and accept no one as a leader. Freely and bravely find your own way.
Q: "What's wrong with creating fake accounts?"

A: signal:noise ratio gets worse when there are tons of noisy bots spamming everywhere.

Q: "that's a ridiculous way to form beliefs"

A: Yeah, but that IS how the (vast?) majority of society changes their beliefs so it does matter.

Q: all your other implied questions

A: it's against the ToS. People who don't like that fact are SoL.
if it's "your own personal forward proxy" then why would you want or enable the "capability to sell dataset"?
> Apparently their immediate response was just to reroute everything through the cables on the other side of the country that were still top, ...

I'd be pretty surprised to learn that was a "manual" decision made by humans.

I would expect -- especially in Google's case -- that the re-routing happened automatically (and nearly instantaneously, ~50ms) and the NOC engineers were simply "notified" about it.
I'm looking at things in aggregate. The main idea is that men earn more, taxes are progressive, thus men pay more in federal and state income taxes than women, and women receive more benefits than men.

The tax revenue point can be proven by the same 'wage gap' arguments which are true in the sense that men work more and are paid higher, in aggregate, so pay more income taxes.

Second idea is that most federal and state benefits that are direct subsidies go to women: TANF, WIC, SNAP, Section 8, etc. Most people (i.e. women) who receive these benefits have children.

The biggest difference, can't remember where I saw it, is as our population shifts towards a higher median age, health care (and social security and other things like government pensions) become a larger share of net pay outs. Women live longer and spend more on health care.d.

But responding to your own question, no I don't think there are any special exemptions for working women, though it is creeping into US law in many states and soon Federally. Expenses like parental leave will be paid for by all taxpayers but be distributed mostly to women.

Obviously, some of these discrepancies are due to child care being a non-paid job, but it isn't the only difference.
I haven't done the research at all but would it be fair to say people in at least a few European countries have a better sense of community and human interaction than US (maybe the Scandinavian countries) but a far higher tax rate? Haven't looked into it all though.
Why Jonas Salk was ethically opposed to a randomized trial of the polio vaccine
Going to leave this here:

https://manybooks.net/titles/forstereother07machine_stops.ht...

"The Machine Stops is a short science fiction story. It describes a world in which almost all humans have lost the ability to live on the surface of the Earth. Each individual lives in isolation in a 'cell', with all bodily and spiritual needs met by the omnipotent, global Machine. Most humans welcome this development, as they are skeptical and fearful of first-hand experience. "

E.M. Forster wrote this in 1909
LineageOS supports 5 different Huawei devices: https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/#huawei

The last time I bought a phone, I consulted that list first and compared all recent entries without fixating on a specific manufacturer. I ended up with a Xiaomi Mi A1 that's been holding up well so far and already went through one major Android update without problem.
The Solid Project [0] (AFAIK which is led by Tim Berners-Lee) is made to tackle this exact problem.

It is about defining a standard/protocol to store personal data in a 'pod' and give minimal/granual access of my pod to web apps. Apps are separated to pods, and it allows the decoupling of data & functionality. You can switch(upgrade) from text message to instant messengers without losing any chat history for example.

It also has an advantage that it prevents lock-in, since one can move their data around trivially.

Looks like the OP would greatly benefit from this.

[0] https://solidproject.org
I agree if you mean the difference between the MET error and the vibration failure. I tend to disagree if you mean the vibration failure mode in a test stand vs. a potential vibration failure mode on a mission.
On Mathematicians' Standards When Evaluating Elementary Proofs
Unenclosable Carriers and the Future of Communication
..on Jupiter
Here's the discussion summary and video link. https://fusionauth.io/blog/2019/12/19/open-office-hours-19-1...
Also being actively discussed on /r/math: https://reddit.com/r/math/comments/ed96j6/on_mathematicians_...
I tried to set up an SDR for my journalist girlfriend, and like the rest of you hackers, reading the manual, figuring stuff out and getting something working is usually pretty easy for me -- but there is a whole lot to software-defined radio.
Sign me up. I want to be paid in stock so I can avoid income tax thereby paying less than my share in taxes like many overly wealth families in the United States
Seconded. I was playing with mine last week and had it set up to read pager messages. Turns out that hospitals still use pagers heavily, and pager data is completely unencrypted.
Student on Winter Break: Book Recommendations?
Greetings!

I remember way back HN had a post for book recommendations - that's where I found "Why We Sleep" by Matthew Walker and it profoundly changed how I view the importance of sleep.

And I was curious if you had any more recommendations - I'm on winter break - a first semester MS CS student and looking for fun or educational reads.
He was making $10k / month cash for one botnet client alone. Factoring in CA taxes that's $16k+ he'd have to be paid at a regular job. He was making a lot more money than that from renting it to others and other undisclosed hacks. Besides, it's not just the money.
I don’t know anything about the article, but he has an EE degree from Johns Hopkins, so he doesn’t need to seem technical.
I find it so weird that in English philosophy is used quite a lot to not mean philosophy, like Doctor of Philosophy, which can mean a lot of things.
TiddlyWiki is the closest digital version of that philosophy.
Which is why they use pilots too
Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act is also extremely relevant, but it specifically exempts intellectual property law.
Over 1,500 Ring passwords have been found on the dark web
An R package `rayshader` that can emulate bokeh. It's nice read. https://www.tylermw.com/portrait-mode-data/
The shape of the bokeh is given by the shape of the aperture, so it is also a property of the lenses.

The specific word is related to the aesthetic quality of the effect in context, but that doesn’t mean it is truly independent of the lens.
You get what you pay for. It's definitely part of their competitive edge.
Prosperity is generally defined as the amount of work hours you have to do to make ends meet. That number has skyrocketed. In that era you could put yourself through college delivering pizzas. In 1950 you had to work 2 days per month at minimum wage to rent a house.
I investigated tesseract.js for turning images of spreadsheets into data. I didn't mind the initial startup time or run time but unfortunately wasn't able to get good enough accuracy for my case. It seemed to work really well with plain english text though.
Russian bots are just today’s slacktivists
Long but worthy article (1st of 3) about carriers of communication, how blockchains are not a silver bullet that will save humanity and a glimpse on the agent-centric approach that is the core o Holochain (which is not a blockchain),
Long-term investing in stocks is a well-known way to get rich.

If median income people will keep all their money in stocks, then things may change quite drastically. I am wondering if this would have any power to affect the inequality gap.

As the author mentions, there is some similarity to crypto. For instance, one could use crypto to pay for things but it is infeasible in practice because in the US you would have to pay taxes on every buy trade.
Right. I’m currently listening to Mariana Mazzucato’s ‘The value of everything’ which begins with a really excellent history of economics, placing Smith in exactly the context you describe.
Watch user recordings from Intercom dashboard to end guesswork
I mean, you are using an iPhone 7, iirc that’s the first iPhone to implement portrait mode. The processing time on my iPhone 11 that I just got is minimal. I upgraded from an iPhone 6S so I’m not sure what the processing time was like on iPhones with portrait mode prior to the 11 models though.

As well, who’s to say what Apple could do when given an image from a high end camera sensor instead of the tiny one in an iPhone?

And lastly, why not just enable power users to turn it off? Sure you can say manpower would be better directed at other problems, but who cares if post processing capabilities are on the camera if you can turn it off? Those who want it use it. Those who don’t don’t.
What were you having issues with? Usually the RTL-SDR + SDR# (sdr sharp) works without any config. Once you start to look at more expensive devices like the Lime mini things get weird though.
This is an excellent point, and should solve the issue I put below about builds taking forever when pulling in a slow-building action.

If I'm using a marketplace action in my workflow, I want "foo/action@v1.0.0" to be treated like a binary package dependency, not a build from sourcecode.
Does the RAW format save the kind of information that the software uses to guess at bokeh (depth sensors, multiple lenses, multiple shots, defocused pixels)? Or is there some other format that could save all that info, so you could really use the phone but do the processing later?
Ask HN: Technical Challenge: How would you split a payment right at the counter
So, the usual arrangement in commission payments is you wait for 30 days for the big-corporation to send you payment. But i'm working on an idea that relies on the fact that a payment is split right at the counter, at the instant a consumer pays for a pizza, air ticket, subscription, etc. Without crypto, How would you achieve this?
cpanel can only handle PHP apps. I think Cloudron is an alternative for modern web apps which are written in various languages as it uses Docker internally.
I would amend this to “not enough [stable] research jobs”

At the moment, a faculty job is pretty much the only stable job in academic research, so if you want one....that’s what you’re doing.

The problem is that training students (and post docs) is part of a faculty job, and some of those will also want faculty jobs, and so on. Increasing the number of professorships just kicks the exponential-growth can a bit down the road.

However, it doesn’t have to be like this. We could make more staff scientist positions that have a bit more responsibility for doing and managing research (and the job security to match), but aren’t expected to train students. I think this would be a win for everyone: it would reduce churn in the lab, enable harder research projects (since these people would have experience), and there’s even data suggesting trainees fare better in labs with more senior-but-not-PI staff. The NCI is now funding a few of these, as is the Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative, so hopefully it’ll catch on in other fields too.
This is a lovely example, thank you for the link!
But it isn't a game.

A made up example to illustrate:

Say 100,000 people from your locale +1 the tweet "she probably deserved to get raped [euphemism for gang-raped and murdered brutally while guys are laughing, recording it on their phones and sharing it with their mates], women need to be reminded of their place, those guys should be let off", and 1,000 people reply with about half of them approving, that's a serious, non-game signal about the real world in your locale.

A signal that tells you something life-threateningly important about the people around you, how they think when they see you, what you should be looking to protect yourself from, and how.

If it was just a game, you could safely ignore the words.

But it isn't just personal safety: Those balance of opinions end up determining how the local police think. Do they investigate, or do they brush it under the carpet? How the local government officials think. What they prioritise, what they even care about. Whether anyone even gets prosecuted, what the law ends up being. Even who ends up in government.

Now, although that's a strong example with details made up (but not unrealistic, sadly), there are countless examples on social media where it is clear that the tweets, likes, comments and other things have a large, profound, physical effect on many people's lives if you trace the effect of the influence of words.
It's really not a big deal. A few years of playing every scale and chord progressions in every key back when I was 10 years old, and solfege training with "movable do" and now I can play anything in any key.
Most books written more than 100 years ago were poor by today's standards. Editors didn't really do a good job (did the job even exist?), and it shows. It would be like publishing someone on hackernews - there might be good insight, but the grammar, prose, and spelling leave a lot to be desired.
Aren't stocks worth more than their instantaneous value? I.E. I expect the value of stock A to grow at a better rate over time than stock B. If this type of thing ever comes about, I'd be very interested in how to control what is sold to cover a transaction.
> If median income people will keep all their money in stocks, then things may change quite drastically

For one, we'd expect average returns to go down. The flip side of that is corporate financing gets cheaper, which could spur new capital formation.
Also https://www.yugabyte.com/ which uses Postgresql code and apache2 license.
The transition from 100% product marketing (how does it work, how is it better than competitive technology), to a blend of Customer storytelling (what are customers doing with the technology, how is it transforming their businesses and helping them delight their customers), Corporate branding (who we are, our vision for the future of our industry), and straight product marketing, with coherent messaging across PR, social, industry analysts, financial analysts, etc.

It was a brutal transition, because as a company run by engineers, there was a belief that anything beyond data sheet speeds-and-feeds was harmful bullshit. But as we figured this out, revenue growth exploded and we started to be recognized as a new “leader” in the industry, so the skeptics calmed down.

From what I see, all engineer-led startups without marketing people seem to start with product marketing, then evolve into more balanced strategies as they mature. In retrospect, we call this period of our company “marketing puberty”.
If you're using stocks to back your debit card purchases then you would be realizing gains incredibly frequently and therefore likely subjected to short term capital gains, which are taxed at normal income tax rates. You would not see a benefit in taxes in this scenario.
This already happens. Interactive Brokers, for instance, will issue you a debit card that charges against your margin account. You can choose to cover the margin later by closing positions, or use it like a credit card and pay interest on the margin balance.
Gresham's Law
The whole point of the rise aid is that is makes it easier for the dishwasher to rinse soap off the dishes.
Isn't, overwhelmingly, the problem the economic model all software is made under? Any attempt to come up with a solution to this that ignores this fact will never treat the root course of the issue.
> I'd love for that processing time to be cut down.

yeah its called an iPhone 11 PRO
As someone stuck on a side project outside their area of expertise the diagram of local maximums is beautiful.
The field is not sold on this. Some previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21616084
Notebooks are not for interactively developing large codebases, instead see them as extremely powerful scientific calculators and you'll understand their appeal.
In theory, the price of the stock should account for the future free cash flows of the underlying company, so the growth should be priced in.
Any future growth at the end of the day is speculation.
Interesting. I could imagine something like "hey, we rich people cannot make just 8% per year as the average Joe!".
I'm pretty sure if you get compensated in stock, you still have to get taxed at the time of compensation (as income equal to the stock's initial value)
> I want to be paid in stock so I can avoid income tax

I'm paid partially in stock, still pay normal income tax of the value of the stock the day it's granted
Are we talking about the same Rat Park? The rats in the utopian cities gave up using drugs.
> How do you deal with the inevitable question about intellectual property here?

IP is pretty easy to deal with. You just need to bring it up with your clients before you start the project.

Here's an article I wrote on that subject: https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/protecting-your-code-and-ip-w...
> Aren't stocks worth more than their instantaneous value? I expect the value of stock A to grow at a better rate over time than stock B.

Well, in theory stocks are valued based on their projected future performance. See also the efficient market hypothesis. Even if not true, there's no reason to think someone selling shares to cover purchases would have any insights on how to outperform.
We're not worthy of the great knowledge we have here, likely from a non-economist that read the book and doesn't understand the historical significance or lineage of economic thought that it kicked off.

A book a really enjoy on this topic is "The Mind and the Market" by Jerry Z. Muller. There are other history of economic thought books, but that one is my favorite.
Can't those only receive and not send?
Poorly written, and mostly free of actual data.

The article basically says:

1) New social media platforms have trouble attracting users

2) It's hard to make them cryptographically secure

3) In a decentralized platform implementing a relevance or ranking system is hard

4) If you can't buy resources in bulk, it's more expensive to acquire them, therefore distributed social media will be more expensive than centralized (lots of assumptions here)

They did say "We asked a whole bunch of people about this", but there's no quotes and no actual data.

The article feels like it was written on command by an intern who was told to say something negative about distributed social media.
You have definitely have a point, but at the very least the original could not install on Firefox, and I thought the project was cool so I forked it.

Its more like this project is cool, but it was last updated 5 years ago, let me fix and share it.
http://archive.md/Gfn6t
Not only that; it has to fuel its distribution fleet.
Facebook is exploring building its own operating system
> Investing in stocks is a well-known way to get rich.

Really? Buying high and selling low is a time-honored way of losing money.