skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Any recommendations for local social media marketing?
I have started a local site in my city and I would like to get a social media marketer expert to help me get traction to the site.

It is quite possible that the site is just a waste of my time (and won't attract users), but I'd like to do my best to prove that before putting my efforts elsewhere.

Thanks!
If we assume most people do not act rationally should we rescind their rights to vote? And their legal autonomy in general? After all how can they give informed consent to contracts if they're not thinking for themselves?
Targeting unoccupied fossil fuel infrastructure on an announced schedule is indiscriminate? War crimes for killing an oil derrick?

That is fascinating to me. We know the Paris accord cannot work without enforcement. It is economically disadvantageous to go first. As I said, it will never happen. We don't take the threat seriously, we don't believe it is an existential threat.
Thanks! That's in-line with what I thought was going on. It sounds like TURN is very close to being an open proxy.

Rather than falling back from p2p to STUN to TURN, why not replace TURN with something more application/protocol-specific?

Perhaps a webrtc-only proxy that performs authentication and can perform authorization along the lines of: user A is (only) allowed to connect to user B using protocol WebRTC.
They say it has a JIT, a just-in-time translator. Not an interpreter. Wine also has a translator that translates Windows application's calls to Win32 into calls to Linux API.

The comparison with Wine is not totally incorrect.
Huh, I happen to be knee-deep in this stuff right now. This article noted that Slack seemed to be running an old TURN server (pre-coturn):

https://webrtchacks.com/slack-webrtc-slacking/

Given that the latest coturn has this vulnerability mitigated by default, perhaps all this boils down to is "Slack runs outdated software, we exploited it."?
Good to hear from you again Simon! Any weird little virtual museums you could recommend?

- Doug Turnbull
Now it is recommended to use width and height attributes on img elements. It will help to prevent viewport jumping and will support responsive aspect ratio resizing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-d_SoCHeWE
No its not. No company should prepare for its business model to be made illegal. The best outcome for shareholders there is to return money to them before the business model becomes impossible and declare bankruptcy.
Sounds good to me. I'll bet there's some Chinese airlines that would like to expand their operations and have the cash to do some buyouts.
Solder will wick up the wire and create a 'hard spot' where it breaks upon the wire flexing. Try using a blob of hot melt/sugru(sp?) around the wire in this area, to create strain relief.

Another tip is to use plumbers flux and an old soldering bit to 'tin' the battery first, the solder will fairly leap onto it with such flux. :) Don't forget to clean the flux residue off as it's quite corrosive.
I don't know why this matters so much. Most, maybe 95%, of my emails don't need something in-line or require quotes from other emails. And the handful of times they do then chances are it's going to be a long, complicated email anyway, so I'm cool doing it by hand.
We've been conducting this experiment for many years, and it should be painfully obvious by now that the public at large is incapable of rationality and reasonableness.

Twitter, YouTube, Facebook has brought the long tail of politics and stupidity to the mass audience.
Pilot Takes Amazing Aerial Images of Area 51 and Tonopah Air Base
All social media are strangely censoring anything that even remotely questions the official coronavirus story. I had shared this article on twitter some days ago and it's not even some weird conspiracy theory but twitter flagged it https://off-guardian.org/2020/03/24/12-experts-questioning-t...
They haven't issued shares yet so we can't know
كيف تتجاوز الشركات الناشئة أزمة الكورونا، مع علاء عفيفي وسامي الأحمد
It's also a pretty good solution if you just want to display a static image or loop a 5 minute clip giving the appearence of having video enabled and making your screen more identifiable.
YouTube needs to fail. This is ridiculous. You don't suppress information because it's a conspiracy theory. The progressive left is a cancer on society. Their message is piss poor so the only thing they can do is suppress speech.

This guy is a nut job but ... there's just nothing else to say. The people running YouTube are idiots.
How do I change search engine from search bar? Before update there were icons with my saved search engines, but now they are nowhere to be seen.
Assemble and adjust your Face Shield
It’s important to separate individual experts from the general belief of experts as a group on some topic. However, this is a different problem where understanding context of experts is the issue.

Back when 5 known cases of COVID-19 where in the US, the risk on that specific day was lower from the virus than the flu for the average American. “immediate health risk” However, understanding that risks change over time is critical to understanding what was being poorly communicated by that piece.
> who the hell could have predicted the world was going to shut down like this in 2015-2019

Market downturns tend to happen at semi-regular intervals. It's been 12 years since the last one.

> People make it sound like they were buying back their stock as they were cutting flights and laying off employees.

No but airlines were absolutely cutting the quality of their services. They bought back stocks at the expense of passenger comfort. Anecdotally, from 2015-2019 each flight I took was less pleasant than the last. When I travelled in the summer of 2019 our flight did not have vomit bags. Guess what? Two passengers vomited on the approach. All over the seats. Speaking of the seats, they were so uncomfortable that I actually injured my back as a result of sitting in them.

> No business is going to hoard 50 billion dollars in an emergency fund for a pandemic that cuts 90% of revenue, that's just absurd.

It is absurd under the incentives that business operate under. It's also absurd that businesses can operate until the point of bankruptcy, stranding passengers like what happened when Thomas Cook went under last year. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/23/travel/thomas-cook-airlin...

> I really hate that this argument keeps popping up.

I think the reason this keeps coming up is because regular people are feeling extremely frustrated at the moment. Average people are told they should save for a rainy day. I did and now I have the privilege of spending down my rainy day fund while the airline industry expects a handout for not doing so.

> The reality of the situation is that these airlines employ a lot of people and enable even more commerce and economic activity through their operation. You can disagree with a bailout all you want, but if they go under, the economy most likely suffers by a lot more than $50B.

Perhaps some of the impact can be mitigated by taking a portion of $50B and putting it in the pockets of the employees who will lose wages instead?
> The right most is known as the least significant bit, the right most the most significant bit.

I can only assume this is meant to say the left is the most significant bit?
(Rust does not prove the absence of memory leaks)
Searching for that string explicitly [on Google] only yielded HN results, but relaxing the search terms yielded:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enclosed_Alphanumerics
Oh i have no doubt the government will make money from this. I was saying what i thought the right way to finance this is. You say the gov will make money -- certainly true. It would be much better for the airlines to issue to the public though so the public can make money
They own minority of voting shares and control minority of the board. Since Adam’s shares are still his he has the control.
All you have to do is look at the antivax movement for a possible counterexample. Social media has allowed that movement to strengthen to the point where they are a global public health threat. Groups like this need the equivalent of email spam filters. Flagged and hidden by default, at best. They should be marginalized and stigmatized.
Show HN: Learn Android's latest UI Toolkit(Jetpack Compose) by Examples
Jetpack Compose aims to re-imagine what Android UI development would look like using declarative programming principles. It is heavily influenced by existing web and mobile frameworks such as React, Litho, Vue & Flutter and would be a paradigm shift in Android UI development as we know it.

I’ve been playing with Jetpack Compose the past few months so decided to release a project that shows examples of how you would do common Android things the Jetpack Compose way. Each example is fairly self contained and the hope is that you can learn Compose by just going through the examples and reading the comments.

I should add that this is pre-alpha and not ready for production. However, I feel confident in saying that this is going to be super relevant for Android developers and it doesn't hurt to be early in getting yourself familiar with it.

Github - https://github.com/vinaygaba/Learn-Jetpack-Compose-By-Example
Then you have an Amazon scenario, where people complain that companies pay low or no taxes because they are reinvesting their revenue.
It doesn't help us much now, but I think there is a strong case for expecting them to build up a warchest. American, Delta, and United have all had bankruptcies before, so we know they're not invincible. 9/11 hit them hard in 2001, the Icelandic eruption hit them hard in 2010 .. Airlines are fragile, and I think it's time they started building their own safety nets.

That doesn't mean that this time we should let them sink, but perhaps there do need to be some strings attached. Airlines do just lurch from one crisis to the next, and we can't afford to lurch from one bailout to the next with them - else we may as well nationalise them.
> The Midori Browser we care about the privacy and anonymity of our users, so browsing is 100% private

> A VPN that will give a total and complete anonymity to users when browsing

They seem to be suggesting that masking an IP address provided complete anonymity. This is a very naive understanding of how privacy works on the internet today.

The "read more" button just scrolls to the top of the page where the download like is.

I'm also not seeing a privacy policy on their page, which suggests that the marketing copy is just marketing.
I've written over the years about various things; Faith, Technology, various interests, and solutions to gotcha problems. A number of posts are curated links from interesting articles. Maybe if I post about it here I'll be encouraged to post more regularly and more thoughtfully :)

Tech Tips: https://johnweldon.com/tags/tip/
Faith: https://johnweldon.com/tags/faith/
Go: https://johnweldon.com/tags/go/
Business: https://johnweldon.com/tags/business/

The website has gone through a few incarnations; currently using Hugo, S3, and Cloudflare to host.
In each case I pick out an algorithm beforehand that will inflate my zero bits to whatever artifact I desire.
If you have a centralized server, you have a SFU. SFUs typically expose a range of UDP (and/or TCP) ports for communication. Peer connections are allocated on a port basis. So if a user is connected to your SFU, they take up a port, and need to be able to egress over a large UDP/TCP port range to connect, since the port is assigned randomly.

However, many firewalls block port ranges, or even UDP entirely. What you really want is a way to let people speak WebRTC over a common port (443 TCP is almost never blocked.) TURN facilitates this. Sometimes it's built into SFUs, sometimes not, and requires coturn in front of it. In Slack's case (and the project I work on as well) they are running Janus, which does not have TURN built in, and hence, run coturn to facilitate TURN.

Slacks's approach is particularly interesting because they always push people through TURN, instead of allowing direct connectivity to their SFU. Hard to say why exactly, but probably it's a mix of locking down SFU onto the private network for some reasons, being able to push TURN to edge but keep SFU on private LAN, etc. Typically you don't do this I don't think, you run TURN and SFU both with public IPs, and the client connects to one or the other depending on what ICE candidates win (which is a function of their firewall rules: your browser tries to pick the 'best' candidate it can get to, ideally one over UDP without a TURN hop.)
Wasn't that a different company? 'The outline' vs 'outline.com' ?
How scalable could this possibly be to widespread depression? Critical depression already can lead to intensive hospitalization with frequent daily intervention, so something seems off.

Either that preexisting intervention also would have a big success rate, in which case this isn’t news and just isn’t applicable widely due to scale, or else this effect is not due to frequent attention / intervention.
Clearly all of them were prepared for some contingency given that they are still in business several months after a drastic decline in demand for flights.
> I.e. if Facebook was completely open source it still wouldn't prevent governments from demanding access to all data stored there.

I disagree. If Facebook was completely open source, people would create alternative servers compatible with the original implementation and steal the users who disagree with the surveillance. Only the proprietary walled garden keeps Facebook alive now.

> Afaik the only thing that really helps if you want to keep communicating over the internet and can't trust anyone is E2EE (End To End Encryption)[0] (and more opsec than almost anyone is prepared to deliver[1].

But how can you trust that a proprietary software actually implements E2EE? You need the source code to verify that.
There are worse things than 1.5C that we could still prevent because 1.5C isn't the "end of the world".
I'm surprised NSA/CIA/China weren't looking to purchase. Would be a list of free backdoors at a very cheap price.
Could you please elaborate on what you mean by the YouTube information going away?
You are missing the point that you can use the same algorithm to compress N → infinity images. So the algorithm size amortizes.
As the saying goes, "democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time".

Should we? Probably.

Can we do it in a way that isn't worse? Probably not.
ClojureD 2020 Videos
I'm thinking new laws would be manufactured to make that equivalence. You know, to help poor old corporations.
> Suppressing David Icke only makes this conspiracy stronger.

I think this is begging the question. Why does Youtube, in particular, have an obligation to not "suppress" this person, especially when there's no element of Youtube's terms of service that would force them to carry his content?

He's not being hauled to jail by the authorities, he's just being denied (the greatest use of) the Youtube platform. If Youtube wants to enforce a degree of content control over what it hosts, that would ordinarily be its right -- in the same way that if I run a print shop I don't have to print flyers from any crank who walks in the front door.

Moreover, you're making a testable point here, that suppression "only makes this conspiracy stronger." Is there social science evidence to back this claim up, or is this just an intuitive opinion? An alternative framework is that by denying a pernicious idea its greatest platforms, it makes the topic seem more rare and thus less credible. (The converse of "everyone's saying it, there must be some truth to it.")
Totally agree. I tested out both Kubernetes and Swarm for a recent project. Swarm was so vastly easier to not only understand at an architectural level, but to actually use, that I was delighted by using it. Kubernetes, on the other hand, was a real pain, and overly-complicated for 90% of projects I would say.

It was even very difficult to setup a test cluster on my MacBook Pro to try out multi-node support (you have to find a good distribution, something that supports Mac for multi-node, etc.). Whereas for Swarm, it was super easy.
Nope, it's actually written in your own post, XR is using Mattermost for the chat. Not Matrix :)
I remember being so proud of my OK Soda hat that I won in a can at school.

Good memories.
I don't think so.

But both Firefox and Chrome have implemented this: when your img tag contains both height and width attributes, the browsers use those to calculate the aspect ratio, and use those to reserve the correct amount of space when rendering the page.
Whenever conspiracy theory talk pops up, I notice 2 groups of people: 1) the conspiracy theorists 2.) the people calling the conspiracy theorists crazy lunatics....rarely anything in-between. Is there anyone out there that can scientifically debunk this guy's claims?
Because many of our users access our systems using embedded browsers in EnterpriseTM Software, we have to support IE8.

B2B can mean you're locked in to supporting things you otherwise wouldn't.

IE8 support adds significant cost and effort, but because of our customer profiles, we must maintain it. Our leadership understands the issues and is working to change the situation, but the inertia in this field can be astoundingly hard to overcome.
In case you weren’t yet aware, .NET Core runtime can be containerized on Linux. .NET Framework is the (mostly) Windows dependent runtime. Mono is the open / Microsoft supported translation of .NET Framework to Linux.
Option 4 is clearly a good one, more companies should pay dividends to employees in addition to (or instead of) shareholders. Employees have a stake in the company and the usual way of doing this (by giving employees stock so that they get the same benefits as shareholders do) doesn't align risks well. These are called bonuses, and yeah, big companies should pay more bonuses when they are performing well. I'm all for any company that does that and any policy that incentivizes it.

But I'm a lot less convinced by your other two points.

I'm sure the airlines did keep enough cash for an emergency fund, but every emergency fund comes with a model of what an emergency looks like, and for airlines what makes sense to cover is things like oil price increases or a recession that impacts demand for travel by a few percent, not an event like this that results in a 95% decline in demand due to government mandates; we don't want every large corporation hoarding a hundred billion dollars in cash, we want that cash available to invest elsewhere.

And I don't really want corporations to be major leaders of philanthropic activities. Why them? Who are they accountable to? Why should I expect them to support good causes? I would rather see that money in the pockets of individuals who can decide what philanthropy to support, or in the pockets of a government whose philanthropy is accountable to voters.

The (flawed, but not entirely) idea of buybacks and dividends is that they also achieve the function of getting cash out of the hands of big corporation managers. When that cash ends up just sitting in another bank account of a rich person (or in a yacht) that is a shame, but it is its own problem for which there should be different solutions, but when that cash ends up flowing into other investments, that is much better than it sitting in the bank account of an already-huge corporation or being funneled into doomed business lines outside that company's area of expertise.
>With SAINT, study participants underwent 10 sessions per day of 10-minute treatments, with 50-minute breaks in between. After a day of therapy, Lehman’s mood score indicated she was no longer depressed;

Maybe she was lonely and all that time with technician was enough to help her perk up :)
The website only shows 'travel photographer' as a role
I think you generally have the right sentiment, but some of these solutions are born out of necessity. Using containers at scale is really hard when you're trying to solve for optimal resource usage and resilience. These abstractions may seem crazy but other solutions are probably much crazier.

The other part of this problem that isn't applicable generally to other things, is this is a fairly unique problem to cgroups. By design cgroups don't have a singular implementation or solution, so there are a lot of "competing" solutions. I think some amount of unix philosphy is at play here, to do one thing (or really, fewer) and that's why it seems insane how many systems you have to hook up together to make the thing work the way it should.

I'm fairly devops centric, but I'd still take this with a grain of salt b/c containers aren't my area of expertise.
Once they have results from the study, then is the right time for a press release.
The ocean captures twice as much carbon dioxide as previously thought
TMS is really loud, and causes a tapping sensation, so the are likely using a fake machine.
> Transactions compose.

But they compose in OO too, right?

> Yes, you can add deadlock detection and rollback and retry/abandon on deadlock, but it's a complication you have to handle because OOPs generally don't provide all of that.

But FP doesn't provide all of that either, does it?
>I'm not a devops person at all

You should try it before you knock it. There are a lot of flavors but the abstractions of any single flavor isn't that deep.

Containers themselves aren't even an abstraction, they're just namespaced apps.
Torque Sensor Applications
How many meetings are daily at 9am though?
That was only like #3 in bad/dumb things the WHO has done lately.

I struggle to figure why anyone trusts an organization that is so in China’s pocket they’re happy to report it’s not human to human spreadable then fake a disconnect on a video interview just to try and avoid answering a question about Taiwan and then to double down by answering the question pretending Taiwan doesn’t exist and just substitute China in place (no, Taiwan is not an “area of China”).

I don’t care about the opinion here. The WHO has lost almost all credibility to me.

[Taiwan isn’t a country] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HjpOqVgP36o

[No human to human transmission, China says so] https://mobile.twitter.com/WHO/status/1217043229427761152?re...
And there are some minimal improvements to "Install Website as App": now app is not grouped with Firefox icon on Windows, displays correct icon. Little steps towards full PWA support.
More than 65% of people put on ventilators will die, NHS data shows
I read that Wework had $4B in the bank at the beginning of the year. Also they are actively trying to reduce their own rent up to 30% from their landlords. And at the same time Wework gives up to 50% discount to its own large tenants, so they can stay during this hard time.
No idea how long it can operate like that. If Wework had to crash, I am concerned for the whole US commercial real-estate. Wework is renting so many square feet, that it could be a tsunami of empty offices. Hopefully, current final tenants could work something with the landlords to stay.
Either Softbank is trying to get a better deal... or they already know that it is not salvageable anymore.
I've seen a of lot enigeers that don't understand fundamentals and it causes a lot of problems in real-world software. These are my goto recommendations:

Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction, Second Edition

Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship
I see what you're getting at now, thanks