skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why isn't there a successful distributed alternative to YouTube and the like?
Hopefully Elon will come to our rescue with Starlink.
> Finally, the pricing changes are starting to look like a pattern, every time Google deems the usage of a product is good enough, they will increase the price.

To be fair this is hardly new and by no means limited to Google. Any number of SaaS startups that have survived to at least moderate success have done similar things.

Look at UserVoice as an example: started out with a free tier plus some reasonable paid tiers with transparent pricing, then a year or two back killed the free tier and moved to a non-transparent "enterprise" pricing model with absolutely exhorbitant fees.

Plenty of other companies offer free to build their userbase and reach, then either water down the free tier, or remove it entirely. It's practically the SV modus operandi for the last decade.
Nice site! I really liked the tournament-style visualization with divs.
Just a heads up, your /about page is throwing a 404
I searched the article for the two works, "Hard Work"

These two words are not included in the article.

I grew up on a ranch-style property with homestead type parents. It was a great experience that involved an endless amount of physical labor.

Some examples;
1. Every morning before school, feeding the horses and in the winter checking their water for ice.
2. Every day after school. Feeding the horses again.
3. Weekly shoveling of horse shit, into a manure spreader. The spreading it in the fields.
4. Lots of work on small engines that break in the winter the Colorado winter in a cold barn.
5. In the fall if we were lucky we would kill an Ekl. This required lots of walking around the mountains off-trail looking for an animal. Once found and killed the grueling work of and caring the meat to a vehicle on a road system. Then hours of butchering. Then more hours of hyde tanning.
6. Winter storms can be powerful enough to rip the tin right off the roof of a hay barn. After the storm, the tins got to be put back on. More hard work. Plowing snow is less physical but still works.
7. Spring is calving season, a calf may be born in the middle of the night. So you may be up all night supporting the birth. Then haft to go to school the next day and try learning while sleep-deprived.
8. Summer is hay season, you might get two crops if you're lucky. There is always stress around the harvest time. It rains in the afternoons in the summer. And wet hay can not be bailed. If it rains after the hay is bailed and before it is bucked into a barn the bails must be dried. I remember being about 8 years old. So small I could not lift a bale. Me and my two brothers were sent into a 300-acre field to rotate hundreds of wet hay bails. So that they would be dry before we loaded them into the truck. It was exhausting. A few years later, when I was strong enough to lift a bail of hay. We would spend a few days lifting bails onto a flatbed trailer and then lift and stacking bails into a hay barn. It is amazing how nice cold glass of water taste after moving hay bails all day.
9. I need to get back to work. So I will end with one last note on the work of homesteading; filling a pantry with canned goods for the winter is another major project which takes hours and hours of work
10. Damn my tech job is so fucking easy compared to the work I did on my parents homestead growing up.
11. Ok, one more: cutting and chopping wood for heating it the winter. We would need between 5 and 7 cords for the house depending on the winter. My Dad found a way to make sure this process was always grueling as I grew up and learned to take on more and more of it. That said, coming home from high school and splinting wood for 20min to keep the house heated for the night was relaxing after a day in class. I guess by the time I was ~15 my body had adjusted to the physical demands of my parent's homestead.

My 2 cents ~ 01
Currently Lyft (haven't used uber in ages but I assume they do the same) gives an exact price as you're selecting a destination before you're assigned a driver, to allow driver price negotiation you can't give an accurate price before a driver accepts. At best you could give the driver more of the company cut but Uber is already lighting mountains of cash on fire as it is to increase driver income.
Upvoted you because I got turned off his channel by a similar but different issue last year: firearms.

He was doing a lot of episodes involving rifles, such as viewing the bullet's turbulence with polarization (iirc) and slo-mo. It was still scientific, but just a lot about guns. Then in the intro to one episode (sorry, I can't be bothered to go reference all of these), he said something like: people have criticized me because I talk a lot guns, but they're just so cool. In other words, "sorry not sorry." I closed the tab and never went back to his channel.

I'm in the US and I know guns are mainstream in the US, and he was actually good at studying them (not even really glorifying them). But there had been a lot of high profile shootings (Sandy Hook, Las Vegas, Florida, etc.), so it just seemed off. And frankly, I'm not into guns myself (just like I'm not into the foodie trend), so since he stated clearly he was going to focus on firearms, I just stopped following.

It's a youtube channel, and we all have limited time, so I see nothing wrong with stating a reason for giving up on it--even if it's a politically or culturally charged issue. It's not like the parent comment or I are criticizing the channel or even arguing he shouldn't do what he does.
Empirical evidence suggests otherwise.

For productivity the US trails behind most EU countries and the EU as a whole [1]

Same again for social mobility, US trailing badly [2]

So if the cost of the EU model is higher productivity and social mobility, then I’m all in.

As for innovation, that’s harder to comment on. But the success of US tech companies is certainly notable.

[1] https://data.oecd.org/lprdty/gdp-per-hour-worked.htm

[2] https://www.visualcapitalist.com/ranked-the-social-mobility-...
tl;dr: Twitter doesn't give a flying f..k about their users.

Users: Twitter, ban the Nazis please, and let us edit tweets.

Twitter: Here, we take the stars and replace them with hearts.

Users: Twitter, please ban the Nazis, and let us edit tweets.

Twitter: Here's a totally messed up "redesign" filled with bugs that is mandatory except if you pretend to be an older browser (hint: extension GoodTwitter does that).

Users: Seriously, just please ban the Nazis and give us an edit option

Twitter: Hey, we're introducing AI to penalize sex workers, and giving the Nazis a tool to report tweets that has no real recourse for you, and if you appeal a ban you can't do anything, not even DM, for weeks until we may or may not look at the "offending" tweet because we are understaffed and our moderation slaves only speak your language roughly and don't get cultural context!

Usrrs: ... WTF man

Twitter: Hey, we're rolling out a feature we saw on Snapchat first and then was copied by Facebook, Whatsapp, and Instagram and it mostly utterly sucks there!

Seriously, how utterly detached is their product development team from the user base? And when are they finally going to offer a real API again?
Evergreen article: https://boingboing.net/2012/01/10/lockdown.html

I don't agree with Cory Doctorow on everything, but he was absolutely right back in 2012 that platform owners would converge on the idea that the general public is not to have access to general purpose computers. These pushes for locked-down phones, key escrow, neutered browser extensions, mandatory code signing, remote attestation, and so on are all steps toward this convergence.

Yes, yes, there's an argument to be made about protecting devices against owner tampering keeps users safe. But throughout history, haven't most measures against the public been justified by safety concerns? And haven't we been better off, overall, discarding these measures in favor of personal freedom and responsibility?
Construction starts in Netherlands on longest cycling bridge in Europe
I know some people have busy lives and back-to-back meetings. I'm not one of them. I'm having trouble understanding why they need someone to do their scheduling for them.

Shared electronic calendar software has been around for a while now, and there's only so many hours in the day...

What am I missing that means you can't personally schedule your own time with a customer or supplier ?

Isn't it just a case of opening your calendar app and finding a mutually agreeable half hour in there somewhere ?
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They upload the sound clips, YouTube finds the matching videos and sends them a list, then a human reviews the list(haha just kidding) and activates the revenue stealing. I'm sure some of those videos are earning a lot more than $1/year.
More likely they will enforce the hours that the employee can work. If you are idling around at 4 AM in the burbs, they aren't going to pay you full rate, they will just kick you out and set working hours. If you don't like the hours, you get fired.

Less flexibility for drivers is probably a guaranteed outcome
I think that CRDs are partially to blame for this. CRDs can tax the API Server and backing data store, without directly mapping to a revenue-generating activity.

I’ve noticed a trend where teams spin up new clusters for each application. Since CRDs are installed on the cluster level, it is not possible to namespace resource versions. It is easier for teams to take the cluster-per-application approach as opposed to mandating a specific version of cluster tooling.

More small clusters means more control planes, and more subsidizing if a cloud provider is giving away the control plane.

I just finished a blog post on this opinion that goes into more detail- https://caleblloyd.com/software/crds-killed-free-kubernetes-...
Yes, all of it. The title is actually "The Case for Limiting Your Browser Extensions" and it suggest the user should limit them, not that the browser vendor should restrict what is allowed. The current HN title made me jump to that conclusion as well.
Yes and No solves design problems for startups
Until someone breaks into your backyard and sets up a kiddy pool, and your toddler goes and falls into it!
I'm a ML researcher: if you have video data/footage for this "spot the drowning child", I'd be interested in helping build a ML system for detecting this.
They’re both right. We are in a phase of exponential growth. If we don’t check it it will absolutely overwhelm the medical system. But eventually we will have crossed the peak and reach a level more like a base rate. I don’t get the “base raters” position here, it seems they’re living two years in the future rather than concerning themselves about what happens on the way to that point.
I get the feeling that its a double edged sword.
Do you close schools(and more) to prevent the disease from spreading, or just overload hospitals with more patients?
Either way, its going to hurt the economy. Which is better choice - is still being decided.

The problem is quarantine is not enough. We cant test fast enough - or at all. So is the only choice to keep people from gathering?
thockingoog's responses below articulates my feeling very well.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22487726
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22487110

What I can do is to lower the bar for aggregating clusters with the investments we've done so far. Hope that makes sense.
https://archive.md/nZQgN
Target pays workers hourly wages. It would be quite something if they allowed you to work at Walmart during the hours you're being paid an hourly wage by Target.
> However, cases outside of China are still growing exponentially.

Arguably because we're still catching up with the initial wave of outbreaks that could develop unhindered. (as was the initial wave in China).

It would be very surprising, based on total population and density alone, if any other country sees more cases than China with maybe the exception of Iran which appears to be in disastrous shape.
Just a few days ago I had some drunk customers screaming at me in my cab and shaking my seat under the impression I was legally required to drive them. They earned a very long walk home to think about it.

I had a nearly identical situation when I Ubered. In spite of multiple warnings, their behavior didn't improve. When I dropped them off in the middle of nowhere they insisted that I was required by law to carry them. Nope. I'm not a public bus.
Humans are able to imagine such things. It may be the very thing that separates humans from other animals. We have the ability to imagine, understand, and reason about things we cannot physically see.
Just to put numbers on this, on an Intel Skylake CPU, brunsli compressed a 1MB image in .16s, lepton needed .5s, more than triple the CPU time. Brunsli peaked at 100MB while lepton peaked at 44MB of RAM.

Decoding with lepton wants .23s and 8MB of RAM while brunsli used .13s and 42MB of RAM.
Investors in Palestinian Tech Prosperity
No, but at any given moment he is signed in and available on both platforms. Who should front the bill for the waiting time?
Author here: Some weeks ago launched https://art42.net , a website to explore an infinite stream of AI Generated art.
I wonder if a live streaming of AI generated art and music would be something that you would love to see in your living room tv?
There is a White Backgorund Version (https://youtu.be/3bVGunLp2dU) and Black Background Version (https://youtu.be/ArXCHitvKu0)

Is this something that you would put on your tv in the background? As always, feedback is apreciated.
How (and where) is the journalistic sense of "title" defined?

To me, a non-journalist, a title is a title.
It's not a direct negotiation, it's a negotiation by proxy.
This https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-cases/... graph shows the number of active cases declining.
OT, but your usernames have a neat synchronicity.
increase Losartan dosage? beneficial? Highly unlikely.
I've seen these precluding secondary employment with competitive entities, but it seems there'd be little competition between Fred's and Alice's businesses (based on name alone).
Yeah I’m in Beijing now and there’s no way most of the world could implement this kind of quarantine. I can’t leave or come back home without presenting a special card at the gate of my apartment complex.

But it’s working, and at this point I’d rather be here than in many other countries.
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As this project is pre-1.0, we do not currently offer strong guarantees around our API stability.

Notably, we may choose to make breaking changes to our API specification (i.e. the Issuer, ClusterIssuer and Certificate resources) in new minor releases.
Why do the drivers usually have two different phones?
Coronavirus Disease 2019 (Covid-19) Info from King County and Seattle
If you have read the article it actually mentions explicitly that the 'base line' mindset turns out to be more often correct than expert opinion.

Also I think the term 'growth rate' people is charitable. 'singularity people' might be more accurate because many people in that camp don't really seem to understand that most exponential curves are actually s-curves.
> finding creative new ways to charge our customers more money.

This is what I'm worried about, because it's the second time this year that GCP started charging for something that was previously included. Back in January they started charging $2.92 per month for in-use IP addresses.

The IP charge might be justifiable because of IPv4 scarcity (although their major competitors still include IPs), but with today's announcement coming just a couple months later, I'm worried they're going to start nickel-and-diming us. I'll be skeptical of any new GCP services that are advertised as having no extra cost.
That will not produce anywhere close to the claimed power. 50-100W output is more likely, as under load the turbine would slow down reducing output voltage. Measuring no load voltage and claiming some output power based on that is bogus.
DEA Will Return $82K Life Savings It Seized from an Elderly Pittsburgh Man
Getting data from https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.h...

My gut feeling is that far more people have this virus than the Johns Hopkins app says.

The biggest outbreak outside of China seems to be Iran, with 2,922 confirmed cases, 92 deaths and 552 recovered. This does sound bad since that is technically a 3% death rate, but my gut feeling is far more Iranians actually have it, but are not checking themselves into hospital because they don't want to be put in quarantine and would rather just stay home.

I'm not trying to downplay the seriousness, Corona virus still is something you don't want to get, but it probably won't kill you if you're a reasonably healthy person.

Unfortunately it will probably sweep the world before a cure is found, so we'll all be exposed to it eventually.
React Query Devtools
That seems like it is fair. They are preferring to handout rides to drivers using Uber as their primary income.
Etsy Is Removing Coronavirus-Themed Merchandise
I still feel like that would only work in very niche cases.

I mean, if people aren't smart enough to run a large shared infrastructure, how can I trust them to run a large number of shared clusters, even if each cluster is small. The final scale is still the same.
It was (almost? I never played with PS1.0) always a "almost full-fledged programming language".

It's been a CLR front-end for forever. All the way back to PS2.0 you could (if you wish) define and execute an entire WPF GUI in Powershell (see https://poshgui.com/).
> you loose all the self healing stuff and loadbalancing capability.

I mean, yes? You can either build your own for “free”, or pay for the value-add features DO provides that you have described. I don’t see where the problem is.
Absolutely incorrect. It's not a rule at all.
Well, those are the terms of the sometimes-lousy arrangement they have with the market-maker, which arrangement certain jurisdictions will construe as employment, due in large part to the builder/employee's lack of true contractor-like agency to consider and set a price for assignments.

That some people are willing to participate in this zany scheme doesn't mean the court necessarily ought to view them as non-employees.

Were there a bidding process with a reasonable and sufficient amount of transparency to the worker--what and where exactly is the job, what does it pay?--then the scales could tilt towards contractor-dom.
For any real production system you have to use terraform and their ilk to manage clusters, as you need to be spinning up and down dev/qa/prod clusters.

I don't know GCP though. In the past I've seen kube cluster archs which are very very fragile as they spin up. If that's the case with GCP I can see why you wouldn't do the above and rather hand hold their creation.
Ask HN: Why is code documentation such a painful process?
And somehow the user is the one that might get banned in this scenario?
As long as they don't support kvm Anthos is going to be tough sell, considering the VMware premium.
What are you talking about? Maybe you are referencing how Uber works in the some American state? This is France and that's not how the regulation works there. US-centrisism at it's finest.
If it takes more than a month to migrate a 20-node K8s cluster, then that's a red flag. Too much tech debt or a strong vendor lock-in? Either deserves attention.
Please stop abusing code formatting for just about anything

-Mobile users
How unfortunate. The vast majority of drivers don't want this. If they wanted full-time driving jobs, they would get one, yet they choose Uber for the flexibility.

This is going to hurt most drivers than help. We can already see the results of this here in California because of AB5 and I doubt most proponents of this law have ever driven for Uber in the first place.
Insight into companies soft and hard elements
I think we are talking about different things.

Now that subordination has been established, using the criteria you list, what's stopping Uber from forcing the drivers to work regular shifts? The drivers are legally subordinate to Uber now, after all.
There is a monetized YouTube video with thousands of views made entirely of my hi-res photos and the captions I wrote on those photos.

I've tried to file a takedown request, and the process is so onerous, and they require all kinds of proof they're my photos I've never been able to actually complete it.

<sigh>
Well one can't simultaneously drive a passenger obtained via Uber, and a passenger obtained via Lyft either.
Right... Only an idiot would bet against the fact that weeks ago, when China had tens of thousands of cases and exponential case growth, that they would now have many millions right? But yet the idiot would have been right.

This wasn't a natural flatlining, of course, but it shows that it can be done with this virus (at least temporarily).
Mut Uber drivers are VTC drivers which are governed by different rules.
When you're talking about type systems, "dynamic" really doesn't make much sense to talk about. It's not like the runtime constructs a typing model out of its observations of the properties of objects' runtime interactions. The notion of there being a "type" to a duck-typed object is purely a theoretical one; in practice, the object just does whatever it wants moment-to-moment, and the runtime has no idea.

Consider a generic "proxy" object that can be arbitrarily disconnected and reconnected to objects of different types. These can exist in any duck-typed runtime system. What is such an object's "type", even in the sense of its "runtime type"? There isn't one. There might be a sense in which it has an instantaneous type—a type it has as of a given program world-state—but that information is inaccessible to the runtime, since any probing it might do to ascertain this might also cause the object's instantaneous typing to change in the middle of the probing procedure.

(See also: the Universal Server in Erlang [ https://joearms.github.io/published/2013-11-21-My-favorite-e... ]. What is this server's "type"?)

A type system is something that can make guarantees about the behavior of a program in advance. In that sense, duck-typing isn't really a type system. It's just asking objects questions and then blindly trusting the responses you get. There's nothing but convention guaranteeing that an object that e.g. in Ruby implements `respond_to?` a certain way, will _actually_ respond to those methods when they're called. The object can lie. Which means you don't have a guarantee, and so you don't have a type system.
You have no idea how much I hope that is true. In fact, one of my fears is I give in and take a lesser property just because it has high-speed internet only for Starlink or similar to come a few months later. Starlink would completely change my situation and expand my options 10 fold at least.
Actually a performance piece of a public domain work counts as its own copyrighted work. So the least true option would be claiming that the song is your work.
It's not like that can be enforced in general, there will always be ways to duplicate it without notifying.
Likely this model is precisely why they are introducing this fee.

I guess they realized they couldn't make cluster management MT.
https://devops.stackexchange.com/questions/653/what-is-the-d...

This is a pretty good in depth explanation, but at a high level if a your server dies and you are extremely upset about it (similar to if your pet died) you are putting too many eggs in that single basket, with no secondary plan. Conversely if you build your infra in such a way that your server dying is something you see no worse than how a farmer sees one of his cattle dying (which are raised to be killed) - you are much better prepared for the inevitable downtime from your server and can very easily recover