skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a huge fear of mine. I tend to do month-long "research" stints where I cut myself off from the world. But I'm yet to set up any backups outside of DO. Also a fear with losing domain names because with namecheap you can't set up any "backup" payment method.
I don't think it's that at all. People have always been able to visit different websites. It still happens today. The rise of mega-platforms is concerning, but not for the reason you cite. It's always been possible for "riff-raff" to notice a community.
The corollary to this that remains unspoken about the OP's thesis is: because of the mass reach of the major platforms, the "toxic" effects now have escaped being an internet-only phenomenon and now are manifesting in meatspace.

It's overly reductionist to attribute Trump and Brexit just to online trolls, but it's folly to ignore their effect at the margins (because both Trump and Brexit were relatively close calls, influencing a 5% middle ground definitely mattered).
Interesting. Just curious, are you able to have a conversation with yourself in a mirror without speaking out loud (something that the article says at least some non-internal-monologue-having people say they can't do)?
Ageism is wrong in both directions. The notion that older people are less technical is ageist an just as unacceptable as thinking young people are too idealistic.
He's not actually proposing any change. He just gives a different construction of the usual quaternions.
Absolutely. I'm afraid to admit how long it took me to figure out that you shouldn't argue with people that aren't willing to change their mind.
In which case you're likely an extreme outlier and not a good model for generalization given the history of humanity
Michael is the one Vito was trying to keep clean in hopes that he'd eventually be able to rise into a position of legitimate power, outside the criminal underworld.
The scale and range of history DNA analysis usually covers is usually massive. Nations would rise and fall within those time frames...
Isn't the data structure that supports quaternions just one dimension up from matrices? Why not continue using matrices and retain that last dimension seperately somehow? Then it doesn't require having to retool the GPU/matrix side of it.
IE you will have multiple matrices where you would have had one otherwise.
There was a bit more to the founders' opposition to direct democracy than merely "wanting to ensure their own positions"...
Seems to be the exception to the rule, it's not a few bad apples. The vast majority looking to move are not looking for an extended vacation
I'm not defending Prius drivers here, though I used to be one. I will say, by way of mitigation, that when you have real-time information on the energy required to overcome inertia, coming to a stop is painful. If every car had the dashboard indicators a Prius does, we would have a lot of public pressure to replace stop signs and stoplights with traffic circles/roundabouts.

That said, come to a freaking stop.
Good point, this is a perspective I had not considered.
>‘USB’ is a marketing term, anyways. Current USB looks nothing like the first version

How so? You can plug a first gen, USB 1.0 mouse into an Android phone's USB-C port with no more than a passive adapter, and it'll work. That's way more commonality than "just a marketing term" - it's functionally backwards compatible at the electrical, protocol, and driver level.
The iPad Pro uses a usb c charger, as does the MacBook line; stifles innovation my ass.
Tell HN: Failed two times on Kickstarted – successful on third attempt
I failed miserably two times on Kickstarter. On the third attempt, I am at 186% funded, with 21 days to go. The project is a designer deck of playing cards.

Happy to answer any questions and share my learnings. AMA.
Many countries do. Yeah, it usually requires a TON of liquid cash or assets, though there are even a couple of EU countries that are hard up for investment money and provide easy investment visas for very little. Some (like Estonia) require that you get your business plan validated by a committee or board, but others (like Spain and Portugal and Hungary) really don’t seem to care as long as you claim you can make money and/or employ people (or buy or rent a property for a certain amount and spend 180+ days a year there).

There are VERY few people in the world who can take two years off and not worry about needing any income, so it’s incredibly understandable that that’s not a common visa scenario. Americans also forget that the rest of the world doesn’t have to pay income tax on earnings no matter where they live, so the visa ties into tax residency as well.
This looks like some typical TERM env var/termcap mismatch with reality.
Isn’t cities and places are to connect different people? I will embrace the culture of a nation, if I move. That’s just the fact that you need to adopt. But I don’t see a reason for it being a hinder to choosing where people want to live.
One fun thing people don't know about Haskell is it lets you get as low-level as C (modulo still having an RTS.) Manually memory management, pointer arithmetic.. it's all there in the standard library!
A customer for 4 years and they delete everything after 5 weeks? Can you really defend that? It's pretty clearly a bad policy. You're being facetious about other contact methods, but I think that's a great idea. Allow users to add a phone number. Some people have faulty spam email blockers.
>AGPL is not an Open Source license, but a Free Software license.

No, this is wrong. The OSI has the AGPL in its list of approved licenses. https://opensource.org/licenses/AGPL-3.0
I'd argue the opposite. By having no term limits, lobbyists are able to build up connections over years and take advantage of them. It also means any dirt, corruption, or bribery has an unbounded time for leverage.

Term limits work really well for the Whitehouse. I don't see why they wouldn't work well for Congress. And forcing lobbyists to reestablish rapport, dig up dirt, etc... with new congresspeople every few years would do wonders.

There's a reason financial institutions force people to take holidays. It's good for rooting out theft.
$1 Mio to buy Malta citizenship, then you can get a 120 months UK business visa.
This. The cost of going on Internet used to be quite high, and requires some skills and knowledge. Nowadays anyone can troll, and they get repeated by other trolls, the percentage of it "may" be the same ( although I doubt it ), but the "absolute" number of those are much much higher.

Remember before the iPhone, the internet was a much smaller place, and accessed mostly in front of a computer. With Smartphone you now have 4.5 Billion Internet user all using it at any time of the day. The Internet is also much faster. Creating content is easier. We are may be 10 - 100x more in online content consumption then in the 2000s.

And I agree this is not US only.

So yes it is definitely a social AND psychological problem. Not a technical one, no blockchain, Distributed Social Media, Machine Learning, new AI, Cloud, Servless, (WhatEver)aaS etc will solve it.
A thought that's been sitting in my Evernotes for a while:

"I wish I could code because I have an idea for something I think would be valuable. Basically I think debate is a good thing, and especially online debate, where you can meet & talk with so many different people and learn so much you might have otherwise missed (and teach, too).

But the problem with the platforms people debate and converse on (Facebook, reddit, YouTube) is that they're essentially popularity contests. They reward being visible and playing to people who already agree with you, which means many good ideas get steamrolled by enthusiastic trolls.

So I was thinking that maybe instead of relying on the "wisdom" of the mob, I mean crowd, to determine what's noteworthy and important and productive - which inevitably leads to a constant churn of middle school student council-like dynamics - I thought maybe you could flip it.

Don't ask people who are like you if you're making a good point. Ask the people who AREN'T like you. If a bunch of gun owners look at what a gun control advocate has to say and think, "You know, they're onto something," maybe that's more valuable than getting support from other advocates.

So I imagine a debate space where people can talk with each other in a structured fashion. Other people can watch. Somehow we have an idea of the "way" people lean politically, identity-wise, etc., or at least how they compare to others. Isn't this something that NN-driven text analysis would be good at? And at the end, you can rate someone's ideas and performance, and how much your opinion counts is weighted by how you compare to them, and then the system's understanding of who you are is adjusted accordingly. It need not even assign human-readable tags to a given personal value; all we'd know is that this person is very or not very similar to a given other. Maybe this helps to disarm trolls and to push thoughtful, respectful voices to the top. Maybe it allows voices that would usually get drowned out on any given issue to have a say. Maybe it helps us get to the heart of what debate truly gives us, which is understanding and compromise and solidarity."

tl;dr Keep upvotes/downvotes but weight them based on how similar the person voting is to the person being voted on.
Pretty cool. And I totally can respect/understand how demanding the RFP process can be. Good part is once you get all the elements together once, the boiler plate stuff is easy and so you can focus on key areas more clearly and it goes faster.

Since it is a municipal event center, no matter what happens make sure you use this process to get on their approved/cleared vendors list. Even if you lose this bid the fact you are on the list will help you for the next one (with them or others). Plus you can say when you bid for other projects that you are on the approved vendors list for XYZ municipality. It adds validation to you and helps again check some boxes.

As for some more specifics for you, I'd have to spend some time digging around a little. But having won bids at many levels of the US government/agencies they do a lot more box checking than general businesses do, e.g. the businesses do more diligence usually the govt does more lip service to diligence (general rule not always true). So here, your DR plan will need to cover the key elements but probably not be super exhaustive, for example, contact/escalation lists are super important to government types. You are in luck in one way, most of the time, Govt types are a little more forgiving that things fail, as long as they have the list of who to blame, I mean call. :) . Seriously they will put more weight on process than on actual recovery most of the time, not that you should ignore recovery, but make sure you have answered the roles and responsibilities clearly as that will be focused on with government RFPs more. In enterprises they'll more likely challenge your backup, security etc before they attack your process or escalation sheet. These are just patterns I have seen of course, it could vary depending on the level of technicality and who is on the RFP review board. That brings up a point, always make sure you understand your audience, find out what the makeup of the review board is so you can cater to them a little. Good RFP review boards are a cross section of departments, including IT. But many times you'll find (especially in government projects) they'll be heavily focused from one area, so if you write an RFP that is super technical but the reviewers are all suits, you'll lose before you even submit. I know that is pretty obvious, but I have seen people screw this up a lot.

I wish you the best, everyone needs some luck paired with skill during an RFP.
Thanks for the suggestions!

I think that's sound advice. The strategy I had in mind was courting industries that were physically close to me. I wasn't just calling the businesses, I was showing up at their offices to ask for meetings. My hypothesis was that there are probably plenty of profitable businesses nearby that are disconnected from the tech world, so other software companies aren't approaching them.

To clarify with the sheet metal companies, I didn't go in pitching a replacement to their existing tools. I always opened the conversation by asking them if they had processes that frustrated them, cost them money, or if their existing software failed to meet their needs. But I definitely found it hard sometimes when they asked me what I wanted to build for them and my answer was basically, "I don't know..."

Maybe it's just a matter of picking the right spot on the spectrum. It seems like you want businesses that are niche and disconnected enough from mainstream tech that big players aren't courting them as well. But they can't be so disconnected that they won't talk to you, either.
Or school teachers.
>backpressure

Both syslog-ng and rsyslog apply backpressure just fine over a network or socket...

>controlled retention

logrotate? It's only been around for over a decade..

>compliant log redundancy

So like, a backup strategy?

All of this stuff has been around for approximately forever, ES just had their marketing team name it something else and people like you are falling for it...
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What do you think made the difference on the third try?
I guess disagreeable is one way to say "entitled".
Her 99 Bottles is also great.
Lots of things change the shape of our brains and learning that a mechanism exists doesn't make the effects more significant than before. But despite the headline, this looks like a solid article about attention mechanisms.
Plus most of the tech bros I met in Asia were socially awkward and super horny which doesn't exactly fit nicely with conservative cultures that highly value marriage and family.
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So did I: https://github.com/radiac/python-perl/
I can assure you the YouTube rabbit hole is still there. I am constantly recommended right wing, feminist b& type vids
> I'm assuming you're older than me (25) since you mention the pre-web internet

This is an excellent point. You're younger than my eldest child, and I was active on the internet from way back when it wasn't available to the general public. That has to color our experiences -- even if only in that what you consider the "old days" and what I consider the "old days" are entirely different eras.
That's exactly what I went to solve 6 years ago, didn't work, but the space is probably more mature now
They're not necessarily wrong. For example, one of the big anti-Brexit talking points beloved of both Corbyn and social media users before the election was that a trade deal with the US would mean maggots in orange juice. This also, as I recall, became part of the narrative about Brexit supporters being mislead, with the line being that they were sold all those false dreams and would get maggots instead. It was a complete and utter lie: https://fullfact.org/health/maggot-orange-juice-USA/

And I really do mean a complete lie. This wasn't a dispute over creative redefinitions of terms like Boris' NHS funding claims, or some nitpick about a minor detail. Corbyn and a worryingly large chunk of the press took an example of US food safety regulations being unambiguously stricter than EU ones - of them placing all the same restrictions on food manufacturers that the EU does, plus more - and falsely claimed their regulations were weaker instead, using graphic, emotive, memorable language, and everyone believed and repeated this total inversion of the truth.

The thing that gets me is that on some level, people must've known that US food isn't really unsafe. There's not some big movement of people who refuse to eat US food - by and large, everyone trusts food there as much as they would food here. The other thing is that despite this pretty much the entire press dropped the ball on this lie. (It is not even close to the only prominent anti-Brexit or anti-Tory lie they left unchallenged or outright made themselves.) Even Full Fact did initially - they actually helped spread the false claim themselves, and only came back to it a month or so later after it had spread across the internet multiple times and been used by Corbyn repeatedly in his campaigning.
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not that I'm not attacking you, I was curious about the roots of pay

now maybe "pay attention" emerged recently, that is based on the material/financial connotation, or maybe the idiom came before
A fair point! I guess I was trying to use F-15 and other aircraft that were decried as bad by critics early on but later turned out to be successes.
Online ads still vulnerable to manipulation in US election
You should read what Snowden has to say about a fair trial in his case. I think the same thing might apply here.
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Or, you know, we could have just not murdered lots of innocent people...
it almost doesn't matter whether the content is polarizing or toxic - people form mobs whether their opinions are reasonable or not. Even reasonable criticism gets converted into harassment campaigns, thanks to the dynamics on twitter. (I mean, like 75% of it is awful content too so idk)
Or get used to the money and comfort and camaraderie of a salaried job
Good news, and I hope it passes the commission.

With USB-C there's no real reason to have other standards for charging a cell phone.

And with that out of the way, manufacturers can focus on developing a universal wireless charging protocol.
I explicitly made a detour when I was in Dublin to take a picture of it the plaque on that bridge. Worth it.
I'm not sure how I feel about the requirements to unify the cables, but does the Lightening port offer advantages does over USB-C?
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> I don't understand why I should not be allowed to take a 2 year vacation in another country without having to leave every 6 months and pray the border agent doesn't find it suspicious that I keep coming back.

If you live in a country for 50%+1 days of a solar year you're considered resident in that country and this has a number of implications (first of all taxes). I guess that's why you can't get more that 6 months of visa.

You can ask for a resident permit though, but if you come from a rich country and you can show that you have enough money to live you may get it. (I had an American friend that did exactly that).
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I saw a recent study that said frequent posters on twitter are likely to be on the extreme left or the extreme right.

I don't have any data on how this has changed over time, but my guess is that social media polarization has increased over time.

People who are in the middle, or have some beliefs on each side, or are willing to seriously consider points from both the left and the right just don't post much anymore. On the rare occasion that they do, they get downvoted to the point that they are invisible.

So yes, when you look at social media you see the extreme left and the extreme right lobbing insults at each other. Or you might catch a glimpse of the extremists working to silence the moderates, if you dig deep enough.

I don't think it used to be as bad as it is now.

The polarization is continuing to get worse and worse.

How do we stop it?
I wish I knew.
It's not your problem to solve. It's likely not a problem at all.

I think it's just a reflection of our nature -- we all claim to seek boring stability, yet actually thrive on drama. People who don't want drama have no trouble avoiding it online.
The opposite is true; understanding how something works usually interferes with your ability to draw it accurately. People want to draw the truth they know rather than the image they see.

And contrast idiot savants who are able to draw images perfectly, while no one believes they need to understand how whatever they're drawing works.
This seems inevitable at this point.

Africa is headed for a population crisis. Places like Somalia and Niger have around 6 or 7 children per woman. These are countries that already import a lot of food to feed rapidly growing populations. If we have another energy shock, it's unclear to me who is going to feed all of these babies.
love it! If my two cents matter to you... I did a similar thing for a few years, and it wasnt until I went all in on one product/problem did I finally start to see some great returns.

With that said, I have a friends dad who owns like 10 different businesses and he has people manage all of them, while he sits back and collects. These are not software businesses they are more brick and mortar like long term storage, etc, but maybe you can build the same model with online businesses! :)

Good luck, and thanks for posting, really enjoy reading the content!
What you are talking about is the question of the interrogation.

But it is a matter of public record that Assange has stood in several court cases where he's questioned various aspects of the legality of the EAW, and I'm simply asking if those also are to be counted as unfair trials?
You have a lot of trust in strangers.
"meatspace" : what an apropos description
You can't levy taxes on new residents from other states. Freedom of movement within the US is recognized as a constitutional right.
Can someone explain how Assange's trial is unfair when it hasn't taken place yet?
AG Barr basically said as much in a speech at the White House Human Trafficking Summit this morning. Decried "military-grade encryption (lol) being marketed on consumer devices" and made all the same old for-the-children excuses.

Naturally no mention of how his own DoJ botching and slow-walking the Epstein case may be helping some of the worst and most prolific traffickers in the country escape justice. It takes real gall for him to complain about how difficult encryption is making it for investigators to gather evidence of human trafficking, when the FBI still hasn't raided Epstein's New Mexico ranch.

https://twitter.com/mooncult/status/1223320056257376256
I'm not sure that's true. I remember when "netiquette" used to be a bigger thing than it is now. People would lurk for a while before posting to get a feel for the community. Flamewars would happen if someone top-posted instead of bottom-posting. Debate still happened, and some of them would spiral out of control, but I wasn't nearly as afraid to mention my opinion about such a wide range of topics both on the web and in real life as I am now.
I'm on one forum where the only rules are "leave family other than spouses out of it" and "no n-word". It is a hobby interest forum with a gender homogeneous user base. It's one of the most civil places on the internet if you can get past the fact that any mistake will be remembered and you will be made fun of for it. There are definitely some people who hate each other over ideological differences but they seem to tire of arguing and just ignore each other. I think small enough group size for people to remember each other and no reason for people without the shared interest to stick around matter more than anything else.
I found Designing Data-Intensive Applications[0] by Martin Kleppman to be the most eye-opening system design book that I've read. He really describes well how awful things get once you have to coordinate more than one physical machine - the number of things that can go wrong is staggering. I would say this book is as scary as Java Concurrency in Practice was - and that book was scary enough to get our company to change languages.

I think one of the best ways to learn software architecture is to have a clear view of what the challenges are, and the Kleppman book does a really good job of providing that clear view.

[0]https://dataintensive.net/