skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would love to see zero barrier entry to creating a website (like twitter / name your favorite site that is not a static site) that can run on peoples laptops just by visiting a static javascript/html/css webpage. For this, you would need some decentralized backend storage solution akin to a sql or nosql database.

IPFS is not a database, perhaps one could be built on top but then who pins the data and who runs the gateway? IPFS gateways are particularly confounding at this juncture. Until IPFS gets native browser support for pinning and gateways it cannot be the storage layer for a decentralized database.

This kind of technology could help people take back the internet (imo) and webrtc goes a long way toward that goal. Even webrtc doesn't have the full promise of what I am suggesting however, it still requires a server that knows the IP of the other party so that you can directly connect (discovery). This would also need to be decentralized (somehow) perhaps only the discovery of peers would be done over a bootstrapped p2p DHT or something equivalent.
Of course, Gatsby is just a choice. Using markdown gives you more flexibility. Almost every static site generator support markdown content.
Climate experts call for 'dangerous' Michael Moore film to be taken down
>But I will say that while everyone might have different standards of "enjoying life", the key factor is actually _belonging_ to a family. Doesn't mater if that family is blood related, it just needs to be people you fully trust and can do anything with and be completely comfortable with.

1000% agreed. Everything about current life has done a good job siloing and isolating people to be nothing but worker drones. There is no sense of community, no sense of belonging to something, or even being allowed to be human.

How many people work jobs so compartmentalized, so abstract, that they can't even see the bigger picture of what they are working on? Better yet, how about all those people who work in the "gig economy", working odd hours, working for scraps, unable to make rent? In each case, the worker is almost completely divorced from anything and it all ultimately starts to be (and feel) completely pointless.
Honestly, those endowments are part of why some schools like my alma mater are able to offer a no-loan commitment for need-based aid. Now, those calculations are still awfully rough on many middle class families, they tend to overestimate family contributions, but they're still really helpful for a lot of students.
> What's the point of a college degree if we're going to be in debt while working after getting the degree? Might as well skip the whole college part.

A bachelor's degree serves as a barrier of entry for many roles outside of IT. Historically the pay gap between the jobs you can get without, and what you make after clearing this barrier, made up for the initial investment rather quick. Now that there are diminishing returns on that investment, you need to optimize on a case by case basis. Does your chosen profession allow other paths to high paying jobs? Can you get the degree with less investment using less costly credit hours (community college first, then state university)? Is the peer group and the resulting network formed after attending college valuable enough to boost your career 5 years later? There are not that many well paying jobs accessible without a degree, I think cost optimization is worth it in the long run instead of not going to college at all.
Most of us only go out for the bare minimum, but people actually experiencing symptoms are going for a walk. This does not add up. Exposing others knowing fully well you are having symptoms is not right.
SF doesn't need to ban flavored cigarettes because the federal government already has. SF banned flavored vapes because the federal government hasn't (yet.)
All network traffic that leaves a host should be encrypted. You could have an exception for a physically isolated network in a secure cage, if you're adventurous. But most of use are in cloud environments, so encrypted traffic is required. Even with VPCs and Security Groups, you don't want to rely on network ACLs alone to prevent data from being intercepted.

If Redis does not support encryption natively, then you have to run a gateway like stunnel on every redis host. The redis clients mostly all already support connecting to a secure socket, but the server and cli client require manual stunnel configurations. Native support for encryption just removes this extra setup.
I just do a bunch of markdown files in a private github repo. There are a lot of great markdown editors to make the writing experience pleasant (I use typora https://typora.io/), plus text analysis is easy given it is just plain text file.
It’s too bad college has become so transactional. Not judging — there’s a lot of wealth inequality in the world, and the vast majority of people don’t have the luxury.

But there’s another aspect to college — the friendships, the discovery, finding interests, finding yourself.

These aspects have gone to the wayside, because for the majority of people there’s just not enough money to justify this. It feels similar to the cuts to art and music in lower schools - “what good are those programs for getting a job?”
Some retailers were already struggling, I heard as many as 50% of mall retailers could close by 2021, which could cause the malls themselves to close and kick out the remaining tenants if they go bankrupt. Sure there's tons of other retailers, I'm from Dayton, where NCR used to be, so am familiar w/ the company, just because they haven't laid off yet, doesn't mean a year from now things will be as rosy.

I know for a fact in 2008 they laid off a lot, and iirc that's when they closed down the NCR/dayton facility. Didn't all happen at once, but it eventually did.

The crisis then was markets and just normal business. This is a full shut down of society followed by a period of consumer confidence issues (assuming consumers even have cash to consume with), it's not just going to bounce back.
Redis can be a very powerful tool, it can also be a sign that something has gone wrong.

Redis is a high performance key/value store with adjustable consistency. It can be used as a caching layer, and it can also do a solid job of representing a basic message queue. It typically fits in on the data layer to store computed results for fast retrieval, but it can also behave like a read replica (storing data from outside your domain).

That being said, when Redis becomes a critical part of your stack for performance reasons it usually means something has gone wrong in your data layer. I often times see teams use an antipattern of taking data from their database, changing it's shape to what they want, and then storing that new model in redis. If you're the only consumer of your data, then your data model is incorrect and you're using Redis to paper over that fact.
> programmers generally are very expensive and add very little value to the employer's revenue

Then either they are very bad at their job or working at a very bad company. Software companies have some of the highest revenue per employee numbers, compared to other industries.

> The article opens with having kids and so they cannot work more than 8 hours a day in a specified time slot. This is an absence of ambition and nothing else.

Many developers who work 8 hours a day accomplish more than many other developers who work 12 hours a day.
This article is a few years old, but I don't think the situation has changed radically.

http://www.ncaa.org/about/resources/media-center/news/athlet...
I enter about 100 of these types of open challenges a year and yeah, they often have abysmally low entry rates (one of the reasons I enter them), especially the winner take all competitions.

The people are very averse to doing work for no promised reward, so they do something else.

One of the main sites I enter contests on has a tiered system where the top 10% win a lot of money, the next 15% win basically a lunch, and the next 25% win a buck or two. It has really helped to boost participation.
Big sports inside universities are usually structured as a separate corporation for maximum tax effect.
Show HN: Get free development help for your Covid-19 related project
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Yura and Nikita here - we're the co-founders of YouTeam, a marketplace for building offshore dev teams.
Today I want to present to you http://volunteer-developers.com/ - the directory of dev shops providing free coding or testing services to the companies that help fight COVID-19.

A couple of weeks ago we published a listing of deals that various businesses posted in response to the current pandemic crisis. It quickly got viral and went on to becoming #1 page on this topic on the web. One of the websites that post a link to our listing was Sam Altman's "Help with COVID-19" clearinghouse project. Inspired by it, my co-founder Nikita posted a message in our company-wide Slack channel, that started with the words "Let's save the world!". He described his idea to go one step further, and see if we can not just list the deals and discounts, but offer something highly valuable - like the time of software engineers - for FREE.

I thought this is worth trying for a number of reasons. The most obvious one, as a marketplace, you always see part of your job being sort of community builder. So it felt almost as a duty for us to try to organize the 400 dev shops listed on our platform to help the current situation in the way they can add the most value - by writing the code!

After sending across the email, we were surprised by the amount of positive feedback.
It turned out many dev shops now have good engineers "sitting on a bench" due to the customers cutting down development budgets. They don't want to lay these engineers off: the talent is the core asset of those businesses and they invested a lot of money in their recruitment and training. So our call came about very timely for them.

So far we have 10 teams listed but plan to add more.

Would love to hear your thoughts!
One of the oddities in the college process is how public universities followed the price increases of their private counterparts. Why weren't state governments able to dictate effective cost controls to keep costs down for residents?

Note that I'm aware of in-state tuition. The main campus of my state university charges 30k/year instate, and 40k/year out of state. Neither number is appropriate in a state with a median household income of 75k, and a median home price of 450k.
Many systems don’t do TLS in process. TLS proxying is probably more common for systems deployed in the cloud (e.g. running nginx on the same node, or using a cloud load balancer).

AWS and GCP don’t even give you a way to install a cert yourself— you MUST use an ELB or bring your own certificate.
How is that related to what I said? Did he have a margin call because his dining choices are too expensive, or because he's borrowed hundreds of millions of dollars against a volatile stock?

Also, since we're talking about what's "verifiably true", do you have any proof that he even had a margin call?
I use the awesome versions of fonts in terminal for power line and stuff. But that's kind of the thing, it can't be ubiquitous and easily reused. If every system had it's interface font it would make a lot of stuff easier. An example would be glyphs on buttons that are almost always the same.
I thought about SMS messages because they're plaintext. Printed documents are raster graphics; once the ink hits the paper, you don't have text anymore.
We need to bring back RSS which will improve discoverability of self hosted content. London real and many youtubers have had content removed, all political stuff is demonetized as well and we mobile developers go to sleep praying our apps won’t be spontaneously removed when we wake because an under paid intern found a violation of some kind to meet their quota to fit the curve.

consumer web is done, its owned by private companies, which control discoverability (google ads let’s say) then monetization (google ads) the Platform itself (android which gains data), membership and enforcement (google dev account) the government is too scared to break up google or amazon. user acquisition costs will continue to go up and google as an example for most queries shows 50% ads and 50% organic. Not to mention the word ‘ads’ has no background now and is so small that most people don’t notice that it’s an ad. Well played. Pay to play or get out. Monoply doesn’t exist the product is free to use for consumers so consumer isn’t being ripped off. Government is powerless in this sense but the FTC can help with things like you can’t advertise your own properties in results, you need to provide small business a chance (so 80% organic results required), Ads need to be labeled with contrasting colors, for each large company whose organic result shows provide a chance for a small company to show as well 5:1 ratio. Otherwise most small businesses are done. Google is the yellowpages, you live or die by it if you are a small business.
WG is young, it probably didn't exist in a stable form when TLS took hold in most projects.

It's possible it may dethrone TLS in the future
Operational cost for a cessna also includes maintenance, engine overhauls & inspections (and lets face it repairs), oil changes, etc. This adds up to about almost twice the fuel cost.

That's why people talk about the 100$ hamburger. Because if you add it all up that's what you are spending per hour roughly.

With electric, you fly way cheaper than that because the components are cheaper, more durable, and way fewer in number and there is just a lot less that goes wrong with these planes. That and the fact that electricity is dirt cheap. This ultra light sounds like a pretty cheap thing to fly.
https://console.hetzner.cloud/ has had a free VPC for a while ... great alternative to the aws offering ... looking forward to changing my scale up/down devops code currently on aws to work for any private network ... trying to avoid cloud vendor lock in
... for gamers playing single-threaded games.
> Some of the back-burner [marketing] ideas were: Changing the Cliqz name, turning the browser colors to pick for Valentine’s day, advertising on porn websites (okay, that one made it).

This must be a joke, right? Who the heck installs a browser (extension) that advertises on a porn website? Changing the Cliqz name would have been WAY better. Cliqz sounds super shady and I would never have guessed it was a search engine.

To me this product sounds like one of those toolbars in web browsers years ago.
AAA games have all but required quad cores (or at least 2c/4t) for years now. I think a lot of games already scale well to 4c/8t today.
FWIW it will be easier to lower your caloric intake to align with the lower activity that is a result of lockdown lifestyle than it will be to boost activity to try to match pre-lockdown lifestyle.

Weight control is practically entirely diet. Exercise achieves other health and lifestyle goals.

Furthermore optimizing your diet during lockdown will pay dividends once you go back to a standard level of activity post-lockdown.

Not to say you shouldn't continue daily exercise, point is if you are trying to control your weight you are focusing on the wrong "lever."
SSL is a pretty important feature for almost all apps that you run in the datacenter. The idea is not to securely send Redis data to an end user on an untrusted network, the idea is to reduce the blast radius of a compromise inside your datacenter. A good example is that Slack postmortem from a couple weeks ago -- they had a proxy running inside their datacenter, and it could be convinced to make connections to internal addresses. If the service it was trying to connect to required the client to have a valid TLS certificate, the proxy would likely not provide the right credentials (because who uses client certificates on the Internet), and the connection would simply fail. A big security bug would manifest as a higher error ration in the service, instead of letting an attacker poke around in their user data. (Network based policy is also good, but is often too broad a brush. You might want the proxy to be able to talk to a database server in your network to store some results; now you can't simply add a firewall rule that says "no traffic may pass to the internal network".)

Finally, you might remember that internal NSA slideshow with the "SSL added and removed here ;-)" when talking about how they stole user data from Google's internal network. After that leak, rollout of internal mutual authentication/encryption accelerated, because people were actually inside the network observing internal RPC calls. It wasn't theoretical, it was happening.

Ultimately, mTLS is a pretty simple way to get a large increase in security. It has its disadvantages; you now have another "moving part" that can interfere with deployments and debugging (an attacker can't tcpdump, and neither can you, easily), but given how many large companies have exposed user data through unintentional interactions, it is something worth considering. It's a technique where you have to go out of your way to cause surprising behavior, and that is always good for security and reliability.
It's a bit unclear what you're meaning?

Reading over the comment you replied to, I was thinking similar myself. :/
Most of your local small businesses have already closed permanently. We haven't even gotten to the next contractionary wave where state and local governments lay off millions of people.

It's conceivable to imagine a world where government response prevented almost all of this pain but that's not the world we live in.
Depends if the business is still there.
For some age-tested wisdom on this topic, read Seneca's On The Shortness Of Life:

https://www.globalgreyebooks.com/ebooks/seneca/on-the-shortn...

"But one man is possessed by an avarice that is insatiable, another by a toilsome devotion to tasks that are useless; one man is besotted with wine, another is paralyzed by sloth; one man is exhausted by an ambition that always hangs upon the decision of others, another, driven on by the greed of the trader, is led over all lands and all seas by the hope of gain; some are tormented by a passion for war and are always either bent upon inflicting danger upon others or concerned about their own; some there are who are worn out by voluntary servitude in a thankless attendance upon the great; many are kept busy either in the pursuit of other men's fortune or in complaining of their own; many, following no fixed aim, shifting and inconstant and dissatisfied, are plunged by their fickleness into plans that are ever new; some have no fixed principle by which to direct their course, but Fate takes them unawares while they loll and yawn—so surely does it happen that I cannot doubt the truth of that utterance which the greatest of poets delivered with all the seeming of an oracle: 'The part of life we really live is small.'"
it's not a relationship, it's a job - you don't have to fall in love with every candidate.
It's not how homes have normally been constructed in the UK. We have a few ancient wattle and daub houses which are no doubt hell to insure, but anything Victorian and newer was generally brick-built or concrete other than some prefabs from the inter-war period which are definitely hell to mortgage or insure. Modern timber-based construction methods are completely different from all those things.
Law schools are the worst offenders in the education industry. Only a small percentage of law students end up at big law where the salaries can support the debt load, but almost everyone leaves law school with a mountain of debt.
My experience is likely atypical.

None of my coworkers who did a standard job faced these specific issues although a few business partners did.

I refused to pay bribes or strike "deals" with established businesses and that's business 101 in India.

I also dont respond well to threats or attempts at restricting my freedom without good cause.

Most Indians don't take the path I chose to take in life and didnt get exposed to the same things but the random death is still a thing (although the type that hangs out here on HN arn't aware of how many die in freak train/car/electricity/machete accidents because they themselves lead a very posh life isolated from reality.)

I am told things have changed for the better over the last two decades.

I really hesitate to find out and confirm though.
Not closed... it's an app to generate signs from your phone about social distancing and other measures that are the law in some states.
No, especially not football. At my college the football team is essentially a separate corporation. The college gets nothing from the arrangement. In fact they have to rent parking from the football folk.

Fat deal were made to coaches over the years, until its all pork-barrel dealing and nothing left for the school. The students can't even go to games, the ticket prices are a semester's tuition.
Wake up, the data is already there.

Here is one example:
https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/28/europe/sweden-coronavirus-loc...

"The death rate in Sweden has now risen significantly higher than many other countries in Europe, reaching more than 22 per 100,000 people, according to figures from Johns Hopkins University, controlled for population.
By contrast, Denmark has recorded just over seven deaths per 100,000 people, and both Norway and Finland less than four."
Create a custom font with your custom character in the private use area. Use the popularity of your font to demonstrate pressing need.
Typsetting Markdown Part 8 – Classic Novels
Lots of sunlight and empty space in Africa.

We're getting pretty close to the point where it's going to be cheaper to run a car on electricity than it is on gasoline or diesel and once this thing tips over it is game over for Alberta. Elon's Semi is coming. The electric cars are coming. Fracking is going to outcompete the oilsands in Alberta. The sooner Alberta can retool to something else the better. I'm not one of those anti-pipeline Canadians, I think they still have a place and they're better for the environment than railcars, but we need to get serious about the timeline here. Both for global warming and for Alberta's economy.
Demand will be way down after as people recover from lost income. Others will take that whole "have [3/4/6] months of expenses in an emergency fund" thing seriously and reduce spending for as much as a year. Restaurants and such are likely to have reduced capacity.

Lower demand, lower need for workers. I think unemployment will remain high (though probably not as bad as it is now) for a while.

[EDIT] and of course higher unemployment will suppress wages, further reducing demand. Yaaaaay.
"free money" just screams inflated valuation. it's like credit card companies giving "cash back" so they can take larger fees for themselves. the fees more than cover their costs, so they funnel some of the largess back to the consumer to make sure the gravy train keeps going.

i'd be for having every student leave college with some debt, maybe on a scale of $1K for open-to-all colleges and $10K for the most competitive ones. enough to feel the value proposition, but not enough to laden the futures of those recent graduates.
The feeling’s mutual :-)
Why is this technology not also offered as a mobile app?
Seems like they could make it more affordable and available?
Instead of a $1500 upfront cost, it could be a no-contract subscription service.
It might be helpful for adults as well.
The encouraging thing about HN is that much of the community seems aware of the propensity for software engineers to think they have the answer to all the problems of the world. IMO, acknowledging that and not taking ourselves too seriously helps keep this forum from completely degenerating into another Reddit.
> They're cheaper, willing to work longer hours

So now we've hit the real root of the problem. If you expect significantly more money than competitors in your role- than ageism may not be why it's getting harder to find jobs.

It isn't 'ageist' to disagree on the value of prior experience.