skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, there are lots of places warming up to money of rich Chinese immigrants which are still considered "the West."

Different EU countries are now competing who can sell their passport the cheapest to Chinese nouveau riches. Dubai, and the guls if exploding with immigrants. Even Latin America has set sights on them.
See the comment about user panels. Select a random portion of your userbase and ask them. Talk to your account managers. Communicate between them. This is software 101.

I've built and supported software with 80k end users and did that effectively single-handedly.

I'm sure a large corp can do the same if it sacrifices a bit of bottom line...
Potential Landslide Could Trigger Destructive Tsunami in Alaska, Scientists Warn
I've been trying to rationalize using either RabbitMQ or Kafka for something I'm building. High messages per second but with more complex routing topologies.

Rabbit seems to be the right path but I'm worried about scaling out as many sources seem to point as Kafka being more scalable (at least horizontally). I've been looking into Rabbit's Federation but it's still not clear if that will solve the problem down the road.

Can anyone shine some light?
If you have even a little experience with Linux or are looking to learn, we've built https://hostlaunch.io/ to make it very easy to start a managed cloud hosting company.

Just drop in your DigitalOcean, ServerPilot, SendGrid, and Stripe API keys, set your prices, and you've got a hosting company.
Both written March 20th.
Truly anonymous telemetry can be done. What programs are being pulled, speeds, locations, but never revealing user info — it can be done.
Plenty of people complain about overmoderation here on HN as well... I am one of those people
Have an upvote.

We're conditioning a culture to be hypersensitive, and at the same time, for some of them, hyperaggressive. Lack of experience has always clouded the vision of humans, but many find themselves, willingly or not, living within silos and echo chambers, which reinforce their beliefs and behaviors. What they consider trauma does not begin to approach yours.

In other times, their vocal ignorant statements would be squashed immediately upon utterance. In these times, they receive reinforcement, from some.
There were 135 Shuttle missions flown. Two ended in disaster.

There is a huge difference between a 1.4% failure rate and a 40% failure rate.

NASA got a whole lot of science done with those missions.
I downvoted you because motive doesn't matter, the facts stand alone.
There's a fundamental unfixable race there: a connection can be picked from the pool while a FIN is already on its way to the client.

This is "caused" (as in, not mitigated) by the intersection of a naive protocol, as pretty much all SQL protocols are, and the nature of distributed programming.
More interesting to me is the capacity of Idris 2 to complete a function based on type signatures -- because (when it works) you can be sure it got it's correct.
I don’t know of anything that is instant in generating income.

I remember flexjobs.com having a pretty diverse curated catalog of jobs you can do from home.

Not the typical remote engineer postings we see around here.
>This suggestion (and the comparison to phone companies) comes up repeatedly but Youtube can't _be_ a neutral carrier if they are funded by advertising. That's because the businesses' choice to pay for advertising is not a neutral choice.

It should be as well.

Disallow advertising companies from paying for ads on specific content only.

They should have a blanket agreement to show N ads, to user demographics, interests, etc. But not the ability to not have their ads shown on particular channels/videos. That just gives the ad companies censorship power.

>How are you going to fund it? Advertising?!? That's just recreating the Youtube "ad friendly" dilemma

Ban by law "a la cart content/ad choice" across all platforms. Customers/Ad companies either sign to show their ads the platform or they don't. No selection of channels/videos they'll be shown on (except if they have a deal with a specific channel as sponsors). If that's the case for all platforms by law, they can't go to another platform to have it cater to their demands...

That way a platform doesn't have to cater for specific "ad friendly" content. Just to have popular content, that draws ads in general.
fatalities per mile can go up while having a much lower absolute number of fatalities.
Far-right leader waks free after refusing to give PIN to police
See also Piet: https://esolangs.org/wiki/Piet
Security Awareness Quiz Questions
Depending on his state, he could apply for a job as a Contact Tracer. These are essentially WFH contact center roles.
Both can be true – roads can be more lethal on a per-mile-traveled (or per-minute traveled) basis, but with many fewer miles/minutes traveled overall, total cumulative fatalities are down. That seems to be the case in these articles.
Civilization 6 available free now on Epic Games Store
You don't know if that's what he's referring to.

In fact, I expected that the best examples got modded out.
Purely psychological. The most I've gotten out of it is that I've been active in a community for people with 100k+ karma for over 6 years, now, so I have some digital social ties that I'm grateful for.
Ask HN: How to code complex web design trends?
As a frontend developer, I always like to visit ui design websites and checkout what are the latest web design trends. I've never had any problems with turning them into code but in the past few months I've come to realize that more and more there are some stuff that I just don't have any idea on how to translate to CSS and I just can't seem to find articles or blog posts talking about this subject. Do you have any tips / links that you would recommend?
Maybe you should have used paid engineer support. MSDN comes with a few support tickets.
One alternative option: there are businesses devoted to gathering feedback from everyday users who represent wide demographics.

Those users participate after providing consent, and are paid for the feedback they offer.

Your comment could be seen to imply that software developers are entitled to behaviour data from users and organizations without their consent (or even awareness).

The best way to understand and improve a product if you lack the ability to gather telemetry or user feedback is to use it yourself and identify areas for improvement.
Everyone you know uses Zoom. That wasn't the plan
A user giving feedback has already paid for the service in one way or another. You might counter with future services, but that's a function of market share, which is not served by customer satisfaction but by customer convenience.

Data mining is about using the customer as product, not improving yours.
You can just run it on your local machine and dedicate some of the cores to it with a tool like "cset shield".

If you _really_ want to avoid any contention, then build the benchmark as a Linux kernel module and call stop_machine(), which will prevent anything else including interrupt handlers from running.
The Search Engine for Food
Biggest U.S. Mall Is Two Months Delinquent on $1.4B Loan
Sure, I run https://basicbands.com/. It's a website about watch strap fashion. Most of my income comes from Amazon. I don't make money off the sale of watchbands very much, they're very cheap, so I write posts about watches. This is an example of a money post: https://basicbands.com/the-complete-guide-to-the-seiko-presa...

I either write the content myself, or ask watch strap companies to send me pictures. I then link back to their website and mention what watch is featured and use an affiliate link. Most companies are happy to send me pictures. I also interview custom leather watch strap makers. Most sell on Etsy and they're happy to be featured. I send them a form to fill out and they provide the content and pictures. This is an example: https://basicbands.com/small-brand-spotlight-choice-cuts-ind...

I make almost zero money off featuring the watch strap makers, but they fill out the blog with interesting and fun content that bring it a step above the usual affiliate blog (I hope). Its also the most fun part and it keeps me going, because the artists are fun to talk with. Otherwise I think I would have stopped by now from boredom.
Most of my traffic is search engine, Pinterest & Reddit.

I got my start by reading the case studies on this subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/juststart/
They're getting less useful now, but the early ones were a big help. Basically, just start something and see how it does.

Affiliate marketing gets a bad rap, which I totally understand, but its also very easy to get into, basically a WordPress theme and some cheap hosting, so its very accessible for people at home.
You can also create courses on https://udemy.com and on https://youtube.com. A great way to identify good targets is explaining newly launched platforms and how they worked for you and what you learned. There's no guarantee that they'll make you a living wage immediately but they have a decent residual value.
Future Welcome Architecture
for sure! i feel a lot more capable of applying the self reflective tools of CBT at this point in time. but it really felt like CBT was consistently suggested to me at a point in time when i just wasn't ready. and it took some (difficult) time to understand that there's nothing wrong with me for not being receptive to it.
Ability to work remotely in Embedded is a sign of software engineering maturity
People of color and economically challenged individuals are at extreme risk for the covid per multiple studies.

Asking what these individuals are doing out of their homes during this dire time for them in the U.S. is a prudent action.

Don't confuse The desire to protect them with allegations of subtle racism.
Wind Waker Speedrunners Conquer Minigame by Reverse Engineering Its RNG
We were a gold partner with more MSDN subs than I've got fingers and toes.
Ask HN: Would you openly discuss your company's challenges?
We are a bunch of people surrounded by our corporate/business borders. I would argue that the world would be a better place if companies were more open about their problems/challenges so others could build solutions/products for them.

What would it take for you to share your company's challenges with the outside world? Anonymity? Small trusted groups?

I'd like to set up a forum/medium for this type of information sharing.
It's just a game to try and get a higher score. Like HN points, karma doesn't actually get you any special benefits.
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> By default, windows 10 lets Microsoft engineers remotely log into your box and browse your filesystem.

I'd like to see a reputable source for that claim.
> can be a huge barrier to entry for the student

I did a category theory class a few months back. Huge barrier at times - so many moving pieces. "Err, which properties do 𝒞 and mumble(𝒟) have here, in this paragraph???"

I wanted to create an interactive version of some topics. Just mouseover elaboration and graphics, to reduce the amount of state one has to keep track of mentally, and its associated cognitive load. But the state of in-browser rendering of category diagrams wasn't quite there yet.

Best part of the class was the "after-math" (that's a 3-interpretation pun). An iterative improvement on past versions of the class, formalizing an observed custom - after the 1 hr math lecture, the room was reserved for a second hour, so people could hang out, with the instructors, in front of blackboards. In part, clarifying and explaining things in different ways.

One instructor observed something very vaguely like "I'd never approach things the way I do in lecture, if I was tutoring someone one-on-one."

One can imagine technical fixes. Mouse-over equations. FAQs. Presenting the material from multiple perspectives.

Many of them could implemented on clay tablets. And that newfangled wood pulp. My best understanding is, that as a society, incentives are poorly aligned with creating non-wretched education content in the sciences, and I assume in math.

So my hope for XR in education, is not just the power of tools like eye tracking, but that incentives are disrupted enough to get us unstuck.

Consider eye tracking. When I show people this video[1](IBM's STM stopmotion) in person, it was very common for them to ask me "what are the ripples?". Apparently it was enough of a thing for IBM to do supplementary content on it. But if I'm not there, what UI would youtube need to have a similar dynamic?

Someone did an art project. You sit by yourself and watch a drama. An interesting drama. But why is it interesting? The video is a graph, like one of those old "choose your own adventure" games. And there's an eye tracker. So if your gaze shows you're interested in character A...

Why not ripples? Imagine the richly interwoven tapestry of science and engineering as that graph, adaptively explored, driven by interest, misconceptions, and learning objectives.

And imagine being able to watch someone's gaze patterns as they try to understand a paragraph of math. Backed by a database of everyone's patterns. And being able to respond. Not as well as an excellent human tutor in some ways, but in some ways even better.

Or we could just copy the usual wretched content into 3D and call it a day.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSCX78-8-q0
Agricultural landholdings in India are pretty small. The average size of a landholding is 1.08 acres. Large landholders, defined as those holding 10+ hectares, hold about 8% of the total agricultural land. (Among them, the average holding size is 15 acres.)

http://agcensus.nic.in/document/agcen1516/T1_ac_2015_16.pdf
The stolen key system (legit keys bought with stolen CCs) has been how G2A keeps their prices low.

I don't think this has been a mystery to G2A and they've been at it for years / not been responsive to developers who have contacted them about it ...
This article doesn't actually address any of the questions (eg how does he have all this time?). Note that it's on the public record that Gallowboob has worked for social media marketing companies, eg https://www.forbes.com/sites/fernandoalfonso/2016/06/01/cash...

> The Upvoted story never materialized; Reddit administrators were still digging out from under a deluge of drama including revelations about online harassment from its former CEO Yishan Wong and the sudden departure of current CEO Ellen Pao. With no job, Allam spent the next six months crafting the following cover letter and applying to jobs. In February, Ohanian’s advice paid off. Allam, better known on Reddit as gallowboob, had landed a full-time executive gig with the United Kingdom-based media company UNILAD. He got the job thanks to his Reddit prowess.
>
> ...Allam is a social media executive at UNILAD, an online media organization that “amassed a Facebook following of over 12 million fans, 30 million monthly unique visitors to the website and over 1 billion video views a month,” states the company on its site.
> Why does it matter if a few volunteer mods manage a ton of subs?

I asked this in the last two HN threads on this topic, and was downvoted but not answered. It seems like a lot of people intuitively feel like 'power mods' are bad, but not in a way they are willing to explicitly state.

I hate to say it, but I think this might be political. There are a lot of people who feel that Reddit is too left-wing and that conservative voices are drowned out there. This (and the same complaint about Twitter, FB, etc) comes up on HN from time to time.

It seems like they (meaning, people who already thought Reddit was biased against them) saw this list and took it as evidence of their position, without really thinking through the details that detract from the idea (like the fact that these subs are mostly non-political subs full of pictures, and the users in question are mostly pretty far down the modlist and not very active).
I wish I could exercise first thing in the morning. Is it about getting cardio/increased heart rate, is that where the benefit is derived?
I feel like this is covered already. Before I start coding I will always draw out diagrams of the components visually, where as the code is the details to make it actually work.

Using box and arrow diagrams for documentation can give you a lot of these benefits without needing to adopt a radically new paradigm.
Perhaps make a comic on the many events when the mod saved the day here at HN.
I've been interested in this question as well. There's a lot of sources online comparing the two but none really definitive.
You're welcome.

> Both of these things can be true at once!

I've been on both sides of this. Last year, /r/portland began using the word 'criddler' to describe people in various states of meth-addiction and bicycle thievery.

The word was beginning to be used very often to disparage many different types of people. The moderators made a decision to ban it, and the community backlash was supreme. I let the mods have it as well.

After a few months, I came to terms with the label of 'criddler' and realized how it would come up in my mind as a form of negative judgement on a person that was not healthy for me. I realized their decision was a good one, and I described this turn around in my nomination thread running for moderator.

Your description of the situation with the police is apt and I have thought similarly many times. Most people have no idea what day-to-day police work is.

If it was possible to see the challenge of dealing with keeping the peace there would likely be more compassion for people when mistakes are made or there's anger about moderator decisions that affect the community.
Fatality rates are up, but overall fatality count is down as less people are on the road.
A lot of volunteer groups meet in for-profit places like cafes, and use for-profit ISPs and for-profit email providers or IM operators to talk to each other. An online forum is basically the same thing: a way to communicate.
Please don't cross-spam the thread.

In any case, I think I already addressed it. Humans are not just mindless meme carriers, they have a mind on their own.

And if you're considering it statistically, then that argument seems even more like an excuse. If everybody expects that someone else will do a job (save the planet), but nobody actually makes a step towards that job (educating somebody to save it, or doing whatever else towards it), then the work simply doesn't get done.

Remember, at the end of the day, concerns do not matter, only actions. We already have enough humans who are concerned.
Hello, bad actor here.

I only use Hacker News and Reddit. And I always manage to get banned every few months, so I guess I'm a "bad actor".

Usually I start off OK. I can rank up 1000 points on HN or 20k karma on Reddit quickly because some of the discussions are interesting and non-inflammatory and I have interesting things to say.

But then some topics veer into domains that make me angry (hello politics), or I find a comment inappropriate or unfair, or mod behavior hypocritical. And I share that in a post that gets flagged or downvoted, and I get banned.

It is hard to detect because I think anyone has potential to become a bad actor in the eyes of a mod. There is no such thing as an unbiased mod. They will rub some people the wrong way with their comments or actions.

Some personality type's are just not compatible with what mods want to see in their well-tended gardens. I've never stalked or hounded anyone, and I've disagreed with dang's assessment of my posts once or twice, (FYI DanG is a paid mod, not a volunteer, which is probably why he's so calm about it, even though he get's riled too: read the New Yorker article about him) but this appears to be a problem techies cannot solve. Why do I say this? Because it's been going on since the 80's with Usenet. Almost 40 years of trolls, and tech hasn't solved it, but it has created some systems that have worked to keep the weeds out of the gardens. But gardens still need weeding.
Using this opportunity to shout out to Rascal (https://github.com/guidesmiths/rascal) which makes using RabbitMQ on Node an absolute joy.
you either look at pulsar with rabbit
Why do you keep the post?
Yep. Rates (per mile driven) up, total drivers (and therefore fatalities) down.
Chainsaw-juggling is as safe as knitting if you ignore human error. Safer, in fact, as so few chainsaw jugglers die of old age while engaging in their hobby.

I'm not sure anyone would say chainsaw juggling was safe, though.
Yes you are. Social organizers, advertisers, trend setters, ect frequently get free product, kickbacks or some money for their 'work'. That's the work you have done.

It's not your intent to do work and it's probably not the pub owners desire to pay for meetup organizers, but regardless of your and the pub owner's intent, work has happened.
> professor of medicine

According to this guy's Wikipedia page, he has claimed many times to be a professor of oncology at Imperial College: but he is not, and Imperial College has sought legal options to stop him from making this claim.

The page is full of other fairly astonishing stuff, not the least of which is apparent fraud connected with the Lockerbie Bombing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karol_Sikora

I get the feeling that there's more to this story than this article suggests.
> My argument is negative emotional stress is one of the crummier types of motivation

i agree. i am jealous of people who find empowerment in struggle this way but insistence on CBT just made me feel more alone. now that I do not feel so hopeless about being able to affect change, i am more able to reach for self-help tools, but i'd argue that it could be dangerous to have it be suggested as the first line of help for someone that's already holed up in self-destructive tools, especially if they lack self awareness.
> motor vehicle fatalities per miles driven increased by 14% compared to the March 2019 rate

> "When we see the combination of both a dramatic decrease in number of total deaths coupled with a dramatic increase in the fatality rate on our roads that was very surprising," Kolosh said.

It sounds like both articles agree that the number of total deaths over a period of time is lower, despite the increase in deaths per miles driven.
Given this is largely talking about sniffing development platforms, it could also require a nonce registered in the app and the frontend and only respond if that's sent via a header.

This would prevent having to worry about people who use other hostnames for host even in localdev.
Twitter Is Still Clueless
Steve Yegge Quits Grab
If people really thought about the number of people killed and maimed in car crashes, I wonder if we'd see greater support for alternative transportation. https://jakeseliger.com/2019/12/16/maybe-cars-are-just-reall...
Cable Extension Transducer Applications
Livr: Language Independent Validation Rules (v2.0)
Wait, what are you talking about? RabbitMQ does have persistent messages, you just need to set the queue as "durable", and the messages persist even during failures.
I am not at all fond of the go aesthetic personally, but given that aesthetic they really do make the most of the trade-offs they've chosen, and all things considered, yeah, within go's style the way error handling works is actually damn good.
The Coronavirus and a World Without Meat
And this is why you are supposed to check the origin and host headers before sending sensitive data to a web socket
Microsoft famously fired their QA team, and outsourced the work to paying customers.