skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Where are you getting “millions of end users” from? A quick google search doesn’t return anything, and that seems a lot for a relatively unknown project
Well, yes, how well this works depends on what sites you tend to use. The vast majority of the sites I frequent either degrade gracefully in the absence of JS, or never used it in the first place.

I think there are three or four that both require Javascript and that I want to use badly enough to allow JS.

When I encounter a web site that doesn't work without JS, I just move on. But I understand that others may not want to do the same.
He's got a point though. Ironically the world's most highly scaled software are often fairly unimportant. Think Facebook - people would get annoyed if it went down for a day, but it'd soon be forgotten. Your banks are built with less scalable software but is much more critical.
A site that renders completely blank without JavaScript is a site that I don't enable JavaScript for. They don't want me to view it, and nine times out of ten I can find the information elsewhere.
Because it's golden goose for contractor, usually it takes forever to build this kind of government software, outcome is pure garbage but nobody cares.

I'm writing from non-US perspective but I suppose that it's as usual and same story to some degree in every country in the world - as an outsider you don't have slightest chance, you just need to know the right people then it might happen that your offer is chosen in public tender/contract.
I'm with you there, and it gets even worse when a company has their own emojis with a completely obscure meaning that is somehow expected to be understood. Like for some reason people in my company reply to messages sent out of the context of the channel with an emoji of the pokemon Charmander breathing fire (:charangry:). My own subtle form of protest is to use random emojis that really don't have any meaning. A personal favorite is :shallow_pan_of_food:.
One issue is that you are always paying for power. Some back of the napkin calculations indicate that Backblaze's prices are low enough that it's not worth it to compete unless you are getting more than 1 terrabyte per 30 watts as otherwise the power costs alone would kill you. That's going to be a pretty hard target to hit with "spare free resources" (not to mention hardware degradation and capital costs).
If I remember correctly, the decoy volume treats all the hidden space as available disk space. TrueCrypt used to have a warning that booting into the decoy volume could scramble the hidden volume when the OS wrote files to disk if it happened to choose some space that overlapped with your data.

If your decoy only lists 5GB of space on a 5TB drive, then it isn't a very good decoy.
It does develop an idea in a vacuum. It finds the bias and uses the best biases to explain the world.
I respect what your saying, but I’ve seen that model tried and failed multiple times
My mentor was a game-changer for me
Honda Fit FTW! So much space for cargo when you put the back seats down. Engine is like a go-kart tho.
"There are {$RANDOM_NUMBER} single girls waiting for men like you near Hellas Planitiae"
note that there is a huge business opportunity lurking in sectors this large yet relatively untapped. the US alone is $1.5T.

this revelation also gives perspective on economics as a discipline, in that it's still in it's infancy, with vast swaths of the economy largely invisible to decision-makers.
Gorbachev saw an totally undemocratic nation that had long flattened out in terms growth and innovation and wanted to make it democratic, he didn't realize that all these rich people in the society had more interest in keeping the system in their control and they had no interest in his vision.

> They are depicted as complete morons by the western propaganda - it's true. But propaganda and reality are two completely different things.

They were not idiots, but their intensives didn't align with the goals of the engineers.
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You could just delete the card right?
this is me. ritual induced learned responses aside, keeping "regular" is the only noticeable outcome from drinking coffee. but I very much enjoy the taste -- the lighter and funkier the better. I'm ADD inattentive, as are some of my kids. Kid's doctor actually suggested we start giving black coffee to one and I kinda got excited to introduce the ritual to them.
I honestly have no idea! Can you link to his analysis, I haven't seen it.

Regardless, I'm no expert on this matter, and it would be nice if people stated this more often than defer to which ever thing they heard as being correct, which I think is what people are doing when they say it's 'just a flu'.

Ideally we should prepare for the worst of possible outcomes, hope for the best of possible outcomes, and expect the actual outcome to be in the middle. Those possible outcomes change as more information gets released.
Right. So all we can do at our end is better document the risks and limitations, and then work on the political advocacy side of things to promote diversity and nonconformity.

Such is the spirit of Linux. Is every Linux user automatically suspicious to various enemies? If so, the work to be done is not in our code repositories.

If we could incorporate some steganography in the future that could also help. Open to ideas.
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It was probably more the "if you have more than 1 service you need Kubernetes".

No. You don't.
I count four pandemics in my list that would have occurred in the lifetime of many of Sequoia’s GPs. That’s a base rate many orders of magnitude higher than significant meteor strikes.
The "trust" here is a complete misnomer. "Trusted computing" should be called "traitorous computing", where your computer has a module which might be controlled by (fundamentally antagonistic) remote third-parties. _They_ can trust your system to _betray_ you in their favor.

Traitorous computing should not exist and a pox be upon the heads of everyone who let such modules make it into our computers.
> The next time someone in a channel asks a question, immediately post another question that is unrelated and see how much people see/respond to the first one. It's as good as dead.

This varies hugely based on the culture of the Slack you're in, the channel you're in, etc.
Purchase prices of vehicles are increasing, driven in no small part by the higher cost of larger vehicles (trucks and SUVs in particular). A truck or SUV simply costs more than a car, especially if you're buying used (where trucks hold their value longer for essentially no reason except desirability).

Partially driven by the higher costs of purchasing trucks and SUVs, the average American owes more money in car loans with longer terms than before.

Cheap pickups aren't a status symbol, but look around and see how many people are actually driving cheap pickups. The number of people out there driving the newest, largest, most expensive truck (and never using the bed for anything 80% of the time) is shocking.
It’s funny how you...
Building a Twitter card/Slack link-style serverless API [video]
Lol, same here
> Also, when you invest in learning Kubernetes your knowledge is both portable and durable.

this may be true, let's check back in 10 years to validate the durability!

e.g. to give a non-tech counterpoint: I'm currently working on some logic to fit statistical models to data. The foundations of much of this knowledge is hundreds or thousands of years old (e.g. algebra, calculus, statistics). Orders of magnitude more durable than any knowledge related to the particular tech stack I am using.
What makes a talk memorable, or inspiring? Technical content aside, what makes some talks better than others?

Giving a talk is easy, giving an _excellent_ talk is difficult.
And cache, local storage, basically anything that changes state.
Think of the poor buggy whip makers!

Not every desirable activity in life is profitable. If your business plan is "make website -> get money" then perhaps you're in the wrong business.
> Is RSS Dead

Have you heard of podcasts? They're booming and they rely on RSS. The way they're subscribed to and the way they're submitted to large platforms is via their RSS feeds.
You're making a mistake if you're thinking of Bezos as an example in the context of small business owners. Actually, you can probably just rule out Bezos and any of the other FAANG companies as crazy exceptions.

Outside of tech, the standard entrepreneurship story is "I want to be my own boss; hmm, maybe I'll franchise a McDonald's".

It's only in tech that we end up equating entrepreneurship with things like innovation, solving brand new problems, etc. That's because the most successful tech entrepreneurs are the ones that did innovation (for the most part).

But that's not at all required - even in tech.
It used to be that the right to freedom of speech, something essential for liberty, was a baseline everyone could agree on.

A growing vocal minority has been "deconstructing" that to say that your freedom of speech should depend not on the fact that you are a human, but instead into which ideological, racial, biological, economic, or social groups you can put yourself.

When presented with the argument that this damages the protection of freedom of speech, and hence endangers basic liberty, the counterargument is either that a) you are identifying yourself as a member of an out-of-fashion group and therefore should be silenced, or b) that the whole concept of freedom of speech came from one of these out-of-fashion groups and is therefore inherently bad.

Neither one of these responses is reasonable. They're both ad hominem arguments, and usually arrive peppered with red herring arguments to bolster the "you are bad" perspective.

Western culture, which, to varying degrees, has protected freedom of speech as a core value, is one of the most tolerant cultures on the planet today. It is that same freedom of speech that has been a key enabler for this tolerance. It most certainly is not perfect, and can most certainly be improved, but not by removing the mechanism most responsible for improving it in these dimensions.

It often feels as though one is confronting a screaming person who is accusing one of stealing his or her glasses, while said screaming person is wearing those very same glasses during the outburst.

I can understand how that would feel like the screaming party is "insane".

Granted, that may not be at all what the other poster meant.
"I wouldn't mind going back to a JavaScript-less experience."

By not using a graphical, JavaScript-enabled browser, I have been experiencing the web this way for the last 15 years. It works just fine for the purposes I use if for, mainly informational retrieval. For me, there is no such thing as "page load time". This shifts all awareness to "server response time". This is more or less the same from one website to another and therefore differences are not noticeable, unless a server is misconfigured or has some problem.
> If etiquette is needed for an app then that's the wrong tool or the tool is that bad.

Strong disagree. Every form of communication requires some etiquette. Email has etiquette, too. So do newsgroups, forums, blog comments, telephone conversations, face to face conversations, etc.
> For the uninformed, a Zettelkasten is a searchable, unordered, labeled database. That's it.

I could spin up ElasticSearch or something similar and have it crawl all the files on my computer and get an 80% solution. Kinda like Apple's "Finder" functionality.
Same here. Found this HN item via RSS.

Recently switched to FreshRSS (from tt-rss), running on my own system. I very much prefer sites that provide an RSS feed, or that can be made to have one with something like RSS-Bridge.
The industry's seeming loss of interest in RSS as a technology does have me wondering, is there a replacement for podcasts? Are podcasts migrating away from RSS as their primary distribution concern? If there is a replacement, is it platform-independent like RSS or does it hinge on a single company like Apple?
I'm guessing you were being facetious, but in case you were not, certainly, it's better to let individual companies fail over time at the expense of localized loss/capital rather than decimate the system just to see who survives. For one, you might be killing companies with actual promise in their infancy. Second, when only one among many fails, it may be slower to identify losers but there are landings for those who suddenly find themselves out of job. And even when things are good, finding yourself without a job is still traumatic.
The article distinguishes it as a better option _when wet_
> but just because they're complete doesn't mean you want them included in the next release.

That's the crux. Continous Delivery means exactly that. You want to release early, small and often. Trunk-based development and having every PR that is merged to master be deployed to production in a very short timeframe fits that very well. That's very possible with a solid CI/CD pipeline, good tests, and something that can be deployed often like a web app.

If you don't do continuous delivery, trunk-based development might be a less natural fit.
From reading about these redesigns in the past it sounds like most of that money goes to surveying and considering all of the places a logo is used; letterheads, physically on the cars, web graphics, sides of buildings, making sure it doesn't conflict in other markets, etc. Sure, Nike paid $35 to the designer of their logo, but that didn't include any of those things above or pay for all of the rejected designs.

Like you're saying, the client very well might be requesting and choose a design that looks like it was made by an amateur.
While I agree with everything you wrote, I think it is fair to add that an eventual demise does not mean it is quite dead yet, especially among the HN audience. I use RSS to follow a number of blogs and I know that a lot of other nerds follow some of my stuff using the RSS feed. It works just fine and until it gets replaced, a new client might receive a warm welcome by this large-in-absolute-numbers audience.
While this is technically true, it's also true for every other political changes.

All human behaviors are affected by knowing that something is going to end soon or not.

Yet, UBI is often held under strict scrutiny. While the status quo is not challenged in the same way.
I don't think you did it right. I also used anki to learn the greek alphabet, I added just one letter a day for less than a month, and now two years later I know it by heart with a review load averaging 2 notes a month..
They are also usually todo lists of a size that... are small. I don't need to manage a todo list of 10 items. That's not the problem. How to manage 100+ items with due dates is a much more interesting question, and productivity porn is not the place to find answers to that.

(I still read it. I love that people obsess so much about it. It's like going into an office supply store, and just lovingly gaze at organizers :)
> The new version looks like a printer reference mark. It's just... there. It doesn't do anything.

To me, it looks like the mark on a crash test dummy.
Some of us like to eat while following our passions. ;-)
> Or you could use topic branches for new features, and fix bugs on master at the same time.

One could but it's often very desirable to integrate branches fast. If merging is delayed by a release there will be stale branches to merge. The experience of merging long branches scares people off of refactoring, because a refactoring creates more conflicts the longer it stays unmerged.

> I don't understand your point here. Usually your CI builds a branch, runs some tests on the compiled product and makes sure the `master` branch is ok before deploying to staging or production.

As long as you have sequential merges there is no problem. But when you merge into the main branch and it is ahead of you (due to another merge) the build may become broken. You can merge the other way first, sure. But if you want to enforce this you need support from your infrastructure.
shellcheck. It's great. Use it.

It has plugins for most IDEs, and just reading the wiki entries for the error messages you encounter will teach you a lot of useful things about bash.
Trying it just now on konsole, it does not. Whether that's because your terminal is following standards or because your terminal is interpreting a terminal command that doesn't actually say anything about scrollback to also clear scrollback, I don't know, and await anyone who does to answer that question.

My gut is that the terminal protocol would know nothing about scrollback and thus not have a "clear scrollback" command in it directly. There are plenty of other indications that scrollback is basically a hack.
No, the French government would not accept not being able to pay pensions. But the French government would still be able to pay pensions, even if everyone were self-employed. The self-employed do already pay into pensions.

Additionally, while there are currently 42 different pension plans in France, depending on your line of work, under Macron there's an evolution towards having just one government pension plan for everyone. The new system will be based on building up points which can be cashed in on retirement. It will probably start for those who retire starting in 2035. So in the future the pension plan will be the same for everyone, self-employed or employee.
It's actually pretty easy to do. Calling it a "private internet" is a bit grandiose -- it's really a WAN that uses TCP/IP and adheres to most RFCs.

For our communications infrastructure, we tunnel through the real internet, have a couple of modems for dialup, and have a microwave link to connect up a remote area that lacks reliable internet service. We pay for that by running a tiny little ISP that sells (real) internet service to the neighbors there.

The network is used by about 15 people (excluding the ISP customers, as they're segregated from our WAN).

Since we started this up about 10 years ago, we've become aware that there are a ton of other groups doing similar things. I wonder if someday all of these "alternate internets" will combine to form a larger one...
My point wasn't about purchasing power in general but about BMWs in particular (European cars actually) being a better deal in Europe than in USA. The same way American cars are a much better deal in USA:
A BMW 230i with M package is about 13200 USD than a mustang fastback with the 2.3 engine according to BMW and Ford websites using a sillicon valley zip code. My BMW 230i was around 2000EUR (2250 USD) cheaper than the mustang in Spain, and I added around 2k€ worth of extras (not including the m package which I was already counting).

Regarding the cost of the goods, cars in particular are still cheaper in USA (even European ones). Most American states will have cheaper taxes than most European countries.

Regarding the rest of the goods, I don't know America nearly enough to have a strong opinion, but checking median salaries by state and median salaries by country in the European union I'm quite skeptical to believe most goods are actually cheaper.

Regarding the purchasing power I don't know either.
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They are a solution looking for a problem and we all know that doesn't work.
As a matter of fact I have given up eating beef (except for certain special occasions involving traditional family foods) and drinking cow's milk for this very reason. I also restrict my intake of pork, which is the next most environmentally-damaging food animal. I'm definitely not a vegetarian, more like a flexitarian.
Blame (at least in part) the chicken tax for distorting the market: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_tax
COVID19 has probably already killed more people than Zika or SARS or MERS and seems very likely to kill more people than the recent Ebola outbreak (unless there is some reason to believe it's going to stop spreading very soon). Its mortality rate is 10x that of swine flu. HIV/AIDS very much was a black swan.
Yeah, we have a process for this. I realize that FB thinks laws don't apply to them, but they do, or maybe will at some point?
> `git checkout -b v1.0`, commit your hotfix and deploy v1.0.1

And the code review happens where? You need to:

git checkout -b v1.0
git push
ask your colleague for a code review of branch v1.0

Parent asked if they can only live with feature branches and master. Branch v1.0 is neither.

> I don't understand your point here. Usually your CI builds a branch, runs some tests on the compiled product and makes sure the `master` branch is ok.

Gasp... You are right, you don't understand my point. You show master to everyone before making sure it isn't broken?
I would argue the exact opposite. Taxes substantially favor two smaller incomes over one bigger one because of tax brackets. Two people earning 30k before taxes will get a lot more money after taxes than one person earning 60k. Because of that, adding a second income of $X adds a lot more money than simply getting a pay increase of $X dollars.

Your example feels more like correlation than causation. The families that were well off could afford for one parent to stay home, while poor families required both parents to work to make ends meet.
No pictures of knives in dead animals this time at least.
Agreed, it's all digital assets i.e. songs, movies, tv shows, books, etc. You can still sell physical assets e.g. vinyl, blu-rays, tickets to shows, hardbacks, etc. like people did prior to the internet, but the driving motivation of most consumers today seems to me to be convenience. Physical is rarely more convenient than digital for anyone these days.

It's not about what I or anyone else "wants" IMO. It's about what is actually possible and then what's desirable for humanity considering the tradeoffs. Like the war on drugs, it can be stated all day how bad drugs are for society, but it's a moot point if you can't enforce a drug free policy. Psuedo-enforcement gives rise to much worse conditions and impacts on society through black markets, misallocation of funds to ineffective counter-measures, and inconsistent punishments.

What are some examples of things you're thinking of that people identify as that are not just brands and how do you see them as distinct?

I believe that freedom of information is more beneficial to society than any single individual's or company's claim to copyright. Will creativity suffer? Perhaps, but I don't think creative people can help but be creative (nor will people stop sharing it online). Creativity is not what's at stake; it's the established model of monetizing that creativity that is in jeopardy.

I don't think it's crazy that the internet has changed things. I think it's crazy to not change along with it.
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I do quite a bit of slope soaring in Wales, using 2m wide gliders. It's a lot of fun as the Kite come to check you out and fly with you sometimes.

it's really a GREAT way to enjoy R/C flying. No motor (some glider have fold out props that can be handy tho) and you can fly for HOURS using just the lift from the slope, it's amazing to try to 'park' the glider alongside you and try to keep it motionless, it's as close to anti-gravity as I'll ever taste!

Also, buy 3M tape, gorilla glue, and have your repair kit handy at the back of the car for the times where the wind is a little bit too fierce for your reflexes :-)

If you want a bit of a taster, download "Picasim" for your phone/tablet, it's really really good for training. No affiliation, just a very nice sim for the "sport".
The really interesting thing about namecheap is they are not a registrar for most TLDs, they are simply a very large enom reseller (last I checked a year or two ago)
And if you want messages access just use mbasic.facebook.com