skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Note that this separation is more due to the fact that you’re rich, than any formal currency arrangement. Foreigners in the 1990s got the same treatment, before any formal dollarization or dual currency system existed.

Cubans who make their money only from official sources are desperately poor. Those with connections abroad, connections to tourism or to the black market are richer.

The money difference merely makes it tangible. And the government goes a long way to try to separate tourists from the real society, though you can still get to it if you care to.

Source: worked there for an ngo for a year

>basically everyone wants to be near tourists

This is actually just the surface veneer. Anyone who approaches you speaking english is a hustler and does it professionally.

Cubans in wider society are interested, but also wary. The police arrest those who spend too much time with foreigners.

The typical cuban keeps to themselves, but the typical tourist will meet endless, non-typical hustlers.
Most of central america and the caribbean is like this, from my experience. I'm not convinced that it has to do with the two separate currencies.
The only people for me are the mad ones...
She wasn't just predicting conventional oil declines. In her 2007 posts she explicitly considers and rejects the adequacy of unconventional oil sources (Canadian oil sands, American shale) to prevent oil from peaking imminently [1].

Most people would like a flying car or a trip to the moon.

That's possible. But the technology to offer those to the mass market hasn't been invented! If the only problem with flying cars was that they burned a lot of fuel, millions of high-income people would be flying around in them today. I'm not saying that we can never invent more energy-intensive devices that reach the mass market. But I have observed that nothing like this has reached the mass market in 50 years. I'm not going to hold my breath waiting for routine Moon vacations or flying cars.

I find that the Jevons paradox is cited more often in online discussions than it is understood. The Jevons paradox can be considered a special case of the energy rebound effect. Energy rebound is the tendency of people to use more of an energy service when that energy service can be supplied more efficiently. For example, replacing incandescent light bulbs with LED light bulbs saves energy, but some of that energy savings is negated if people also install brighter bulbs when they switch from incandescent to LED. The Jevons paradox is the unusual case where the rebound effect is greater than 100% -- like somebody installing 20 new LED lights for every incandescent they replace. It's remarkable enough to get its own named paradox because it is a surprising, rare situation. The far more common case is that energy saving technology really does save net energy, without inducing enough new demand for a 100%+ rebound.

[1] Is This a False Alarm? https://ourfiniteworld.com/2007/07/16/is-this-a-false-alarm/
So how do you structure a compiler project?
Cool. But I wonder about this stat: 63 manned stations, "would need about 500 tons of materials to create all of these stations"

500 tons seems WAY low.
> you wouldn’t want to work for anyway.

Sure, but you still have a mortgage to pay and would like to switch companies on your terms rather than on your employer's terms, right? Have enough time to find the right job you want, instead of the least-worst because you're really not comfortable with being out of work in what's looking to be a long economic crisis?
You could get a sense of it from wyborcza.pl, which is both the largest/most-prestigious newspaper in the country and quite strongly opposed to the current Government.

Or polityka.pl, which is kinda like the New Yorker magazine of Poland, insofar as it is a weekly upper-middlebrow witty news magazine with giant circulation, unabashedly opposing the country's executive.

If you want a TV show or videos on the internet you could have a look at fakty.tvn24.pl. But really there are tons, these are just off the top of my head and the list goes on for miles.
Ask HN: Make Money on My Own
Goal:
Leave my day job to work on my own. Make $3000 pm after taxes.

Why?
1. I have saved up some money.
2. My spouse is employed; so money isn’t an issue right now.

Skills:
I have expert level knowledge in full stack development - javascript - backend and frontend (React), mongodb/MySQL.

Problem:
How do I acheive this?

I have never tried anything other than my job. Is there a game plan for people like me?

Should I try consulting ? Or TopTal? Or Upwork?

How do I even get started?

Are there mentors available for this scenario?

Are there other HNers who have done this?
I was bit by this issue once. I was still using the original charger. The issue wasn't anything wrong with the pin, but the power port had been slightly pushed inward. Had to crack it open and solder it to the frame.

I don't buy dell laptops for this exact hardware flaw.
FWIW, we do have CoW on XFS, but yeah no data-checksumming other than BTRFS. Hopefully bcachefs will be the go-to option someday.
And as a tourist, you’d always get change back in the wrong currency (worth 1/25 the original). And to make matters worse, the change will also be wrong in their favour. Hated being assumed that I’m a dumb foreigner.
I totally agree with this. When I see corporate apologies I look for two things:

1. Actions speak louder than words. In this case, they are reversing what originally caused the outcry.

2. Did they look introspectively to try to really understand what made people mad in the first place. In this case I believe the CEO did.

If we don't ever accept sincere apologies, then we're left with a world where there is never an incentive to apologize and improve. Frankly, seeing a taste of this in US politics with politicians doubling down on their past mistakes even when confronted with all evidence to the contrary - this is not a path I'd prefer to go down further.
Task manager (in my win2K8R2) is bloody great. It does what it's supposed to do, does it well in little space, is highly reliable, has plenty of good options usefully exposed, is sensitive to the user (if you right-click on a process in the process view, the updates that rearrange the view freeze so things don't change underneath you) and it runs permanently for me. The author should get a medal.
A lot if you are using a managed Kubernetes solution. It is surprisingly easy and affordable to setup nowadays. We're currently running on DO and it is a pure joy.

- IaC, no servers to manage (Terraform + kubectl/helm)

- reasonable HA with minimal effort

- easily configurable metrics (prometheus)

- automated/minimal effort horizontal scaling

- easy SSL certificate installation and automated renewal

- operate multiple low traffic sites from a single cluster

- quickly access your environment through a single ide (https://k8slens.dev/)
It's not an open standard so this isn't really meaningful. The data has to be formatted a specific way, the Dell way that is, but it's not signed or anything.
I'm sure one of them will catch on just like GNU/Linux has.
That's true. So, I would say there is an unspoken emphasis in my comment that you also need to do it "right".

Personally my X setup looks a lot like the 90s, and when people say X performs so terribly, I really don't see it. The hardware runs circles around what I used to run X on 20 years ago, and the software setup isn't really very different. But most people when they use X or think of X are thinking of a really heavy desktop environment.
Historically, far left governments have killed as many people as far right ones, despite their proclaimed love of human rights. Pretty much any closed, ironclad ideology seems to be capable of ending in mass murder.
Interesting hypothesis, but it doesn't explain the pattern.

That's also true of a million other categories of dangerous equipment, and yet almost none of them lock out competitors by using proprietary interfaces. A shoddy saw blade could kill me, too, but I still can go buy any blade from any manufacturer and put it in any table saw, and it'll work.

OTOH, there are gratuitous incompatibilities galore as soon as you get into software. Network protocols, file formats, executable formats, and so on.

What could explain the situations where we see compatibility versus incompatibility? If it's obvious and visible, and Average Joe can make it fit (like with a hammer), they go ahead and make it compatible. If it's secret and internal and they can hide the differences in ways that Average Joe can't work around (like software), they feel free to make it as incompatible as possible.
> The obscure brand TLDs are funnier. Not brands you've heard of like google, brands who are their own tiny corner of the non-IT world and figured they ought to have a TLD, so now they do to the tune of maybe six figures a year.

While everyone here has certainly heard of Softbank, I find it amusing that they have their own TLD too (with sites like https://group.softbank/).
> INSTALLHIGH is just putting a LOADHIGH in CONFIG.SYS instead of in AUTOEXEC.BAT

Yeah, and if anybody wonders what the point of this was: starting with DOS 6 you could have different boot profiles (menu items) in CONFIG.SYS. For example, depending on the program to run you'd want to have either extended memory (XMS via HIMEM.SYS), or expanded memory (EMS via EMM386.EXE) available.

INSTALL[HIGH]= allowed running different TSRs (roughly, background programs) for each profile from the same place (although in practice it was still common to have GOTO %CONFIG% in AUTOEXEC.BAT). Typical TSRs would include something like MSCDEX.EXE for CD-ROM support, SMARTDRV.EXE (disk cache), and a hardware-specific mouse driver (typically *MOUSE.COM).

If you had too many TSRs running at once there would be not enough base memory (the first 640 KiB) left, and some programs would refuse to start.

Writing this makes me realize we've really gone a long way.
An interesting critique of the Lancet paper on HCQ is there[1]: whether you agree or not with it, it is worth a read, IMO. Also here[2] which tells that it was given pretty late in treatment in most cases (again), hence where it was basically ineffective.

Personally, since the Minnesota trial results are out soon, I think the WHO dropped the ball too early. Again, I have no interest in seeing HCQ succeed or fail, but I fail to see an answer to the actual question that the original Raoult paper asked.

[1] https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1264251404232855552.html

[2] https://twitter.com/stevephillipsmd/status/12638995656542658...
I wonder if there is any SEO magic to having those domains. Might be worthwhile to test it out?
I agree with you, although I think the opposite is true about the size. I imagine Triplebyte is a small subset of HN's userbase.
There's no other data available, but based on what's publicly available every country looks better than US. There are 300,000 people dead, 100,000 is from US.
Show HN: "News” a minimal Dockerized single-page news aggregator
> We are only obligated to contracts we have voluntarily entered into.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_contract
Anarcho communism is not a vanguardist ideology... Marxist analysis is useful without any notion of a vanguard party, which I feel was a failed idea. Of course there have always been anarchists and marxists who disagreed with the vanguard party idea, but they were suppressed by the authoritarians and famously executed in many cases.

I don't think Cory Doctorow is a vanguardist and neither am I.

We often view those on the right as beliving they should rule over us through acquisition of wealth and subsequent control of the means of production. I don't think it makes sense for billionaires to control our world, which I view as a form of "rule".

When I say I am an anarcho communist, I mean things like: we should make more of the world like wikipedia, and roll back draconian intellectual property restrictions. I do not think I should run an army full of people with guns to control your town. Nor does Doctrow from what I know. I have seen people on leftist subreddits who do think that, but then that's internet comments for you.
>We can't take it as given, without proof that the British did manufacture a demand for it.

We know that the British increased poppy cultivation and manufactured a monopoly on opium for the purpose of export to China. Without it, I don't see how the Chinese demand would grow at the level it did. I have no idea what "proof" would be, an alternate world without British interference?

>How could the British have manufactured demand, if they could not even enter China outside of Hong Kong?

Guessing you meant Canton here, by smuggling/buying off locals.
Wow, this reads as incredibly disingenuous considering the glaring dark patterns they were using to try and sell your private data and make more money. I cannot reconcile this apology with the underhanded tactics the CEO was using to promote this now cancelled feature.
This is a great one: https://www.filfre.net

He did an incredibly thorough nine-part series on the history of Windows from DOS through 3.1 and the antitrust cases. It was fascinating. There's tons of other stuff here too.
Great post! I've been thinking about it myself for some time. My main concern is that once you let the user to hold the data, you might introduce a security issue as it is very unlikely the end user will protect its data as well as you would as a service provider, especially as you would be subject to prosecution if you did something "wrong" with the data (read "leaking" or "selling" it).

I guess you are right about APIs, they eventually won't provide what you need. I'd love to see Solid starting to be used for the apps I use, but honestly I don't feel like it will happen. I don't understand much about Urbit, but from what I read that sounds like another world.

That said, I think there's some startups doing some work with regards to data privacy and security (and it seems like it caught a lot of attention!). As for getting access to the data itself, I think a sort of "open-source" and "reverse engineering" approach would help here, meaning that if you have a proxy between you and the app's server, and supposing you can add plugins to this proxy, you could hijack the data, make sense of it and store somewhere else for your own usage.

Obviously, any external processing of the data would have to be granted by the app itself, but I have a feeling this is what their APIs would contribute with.

I'd be more than happy to talk more about this and even spend some time implementing a PoC, let me know if there's anyone else interested here and we can exchange ideas and/or code/docs/etc.
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VR is approaching a threshold that I hope will make work-from-anywhere more practical for me. I've tried working on the road but never get near my home productivity. But if I could isolate by plopping on a headset that reproduces my home environment with umpteen floating screens it might work. I know just one dev that works inside of VR. With a bit more resolution and portability I'll probably join him.
Can't speak for OP, but maybe they mean things like Intel Management Engine, or cryptographicly locked bootloaders (not a backdoor, obviously, but a nuisance) with keys we can't control. So the backdoor is "feature", not a conspiracy.
This is one of the core points of the "Linux Sucks" series of presentations [1]. If you haven't seen any of them, I think a TLDR might be "technology is not holding the linux desktop back; lack of cooperation and other social issues are". And though slightly different and about about a separate domain, I think "The Lisp Curse" [2] has a similar thesis as to why lisp is not mainstream.

The linux kernel is a huge success because there is exactly one kernel and its monolithic architecture ensures that the only way to accomplish anything is to cooperate with everyone else so you can get your thing added in. If you want to do your own thing, that's fine, but it will never be a part of linux.

If the linux kernel had a micro kernel design, with different competing projects for the different layers of the kernel, the linux kernel would not be the success it is today. It would be a niche tool, like the linux desktop. In linux userland, the plethora of distributions, GUI toolkits, desktop environments, init systems, applications and so on ensures that none of the projects can ever succeed.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKwWPQ1Orzs

2. http://winestockwebdesign.com/Essays/Lisp_Curse.html
Yes & No Design Studio:

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For example, a form for ordering app design and development service:

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Why do you think it got rewritten? Obviously the UI has changed, but the reddit post indicating that it can run without shell32.dll makes me think it was rewritten with a nicely decoupled UI and that is what got updated in later iterations.

If you work at MS, it would be cool to find the last person to push a change to that code base and ask them. Or maybe we can reply to the reddit post.
This talk may be helpful[1]. It's given by Jeremy Evans, the maintainer of Sequel, and it's about how he's made Roda (a Rack-based web framework) more secure than your average web framework does by using database security and some of the features of databases that all too often are overlooked by app developers. You could possibly use Roda for the authentication phase of a Rails app (among other things) but the insights will be helpful regardless.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3HZZHXXo3I
He's not arguing whether or not we should have property rights. The question is which is more important, property rights or human rights. There are times when these rights clash and we as a society have to pick one or the other.

For example, if a huge natural disaster (like hurricane Katrina) wipes out the livelihood of millions of people and the government hasn't provided aid yet. Should a person who is hungry and lost everything be able to go inside a store and take food? He has a human right to live but that store also has property rights over their products. Some (not all) conservatives would argue that the hungry person should be prosecuted for stealing, while most people on the left would argue the opposite.
A couple decades ago when virtual instruments started to become realistic on home computers, I did extensive testing and to my ear, anything over 8ms is too much delay. Obviously one would like no delay at all, but there is a point beyond which you can hear the delay and some folks will find that unacceptable.

Your ISP and their ISP have a certain amount of delay or lag which can't be avoided, but it's possible to improve your delay on your own side of the cable / dsl / fiber modem by using Ethernet instead of Wifi. My Wifi router (a slightly older, last-model Apple unit) introduces about 10-12ms all by itself.
Any plans for a quick start guide for DigitalOcean?
We Judge Others by Their Clothes (Research Summary)
BTW, did anyone hear anything more about those Israeli cellphone-spying devices that were discovered all around the White House? :)

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/12/israel-white-house...
It is sad that you felt you had to use a throwaway account to post this totally reasonable opinion.
I wholeheartedly agree. I can not reconcile this apology with the blatant use of dark patterns they employed when trying to roll out this product.
oko.press (has some english-language articles; investigative journalism), onet.pl (tabloid) , tvn24.pl (TV station), krytykapolityczna.pl (openly leftist so unpopular in Poland)
Orchestras are playing (primarily) composed and prewritten music where deviating from the script would imply a poor musician. They look to a single source (the conductor) for tempo and dynamic cues.

“Jamming” is much more dynamic, and uses a combination of audio and visual cues to work.

The problem with even fantastic network latency in the 10ms range is this gets multiplied by the number of participants, and quickly turns into a shitshow.

The only approach I’ve seen that even sorta works is the approach ninjam took with a hard coded and pre determined latency. It’s not the same as a real improv session with real humans in the room, and has obvious limitations, but can at least give a little of the same experience without the uncanny valley.
> by linking to .xlsx and .docx files but I reorganize my folder structures too often to make such file links stable.

Linking implies too many manual operations to keep things tidy when moving headings around. Try Org attachments[1].

- Basically, a heading has an attachment directory, whose name is by default generated by Org, and optionally inherited from some level in the outline hierarchy.

- Any attachment is represented by a heading with the :ATTACH: tag and an ID in the :ID: property of its drawer. Actual files can be e.g. copied, moved, or symlinked.

- Attachment directories, the :ATTACH: tag and :ID: property are conveniently added by one of the attach commands, but can also be customized (`org-attach' is the dispatcher, bound by default to <C-c C-a>).

- For a given heading, run a command (conveniently, from the dispatcher) to visit the attachment directory for the heading from the configured file browser or Dired: <C-c C-a f> and <C-c C-a F>, respectively.

If it makes sense to move attachments when moving headings around, or when otherwise adding files externally to the attachment directory, there is `org-attach-sync' (<C-c C-a z>):

Synchronize the current task with its attachment directory, in case you added attachments yourself.

[1]: https://orgmode.org/manual/Attachments.html
The used to have an A record on some of the other TLDs they own.

I maintain a list at captnemo.in/tld-a-record
Better talking points would be the RIAA and CCA.
Steam is down with all multiplayer games depending on it
CS:GO, Dota 2, TF 2 and others...
> The police arrest those who spend too much time with foreigners.

This is news to me. Do you have a source for this claim?
Germany has that, too. And probably every other country in the EU.
I’ve seen this done for performance. At one point, it was more common than you might think. These days, most data stores have a way to indicate how to store the data on disk, or one is using SSDs so random access/seeks are less expensive than they were with spinning disks.

As one example, New Relic had a table per (hour, customer) pair for a long time. From http://highscalability.com/blog/2011/7/18/new-relic-architec... (2011):

> Within each server we have individual tables per customer to keep the customer data close together on disk and to keep the total number of rows per table down.

In a situation like that, all queries and table operations are customer- and time-specific anyway. At the time, dropping an entire table took less I/O than deleting specific rows in a multi-customer table (for MyISAM tables, this may still be true: https://mariadb.com/kb/en/big-deletes/). Also, there was no risk from locking the table.

https://www.slideshare.net/newrelic/how-to-build-a-saas-app-... has a bit more. I think Lew Cirne gave that presentation in 2011 but I can’t find a video of it.

In the example you gave, if the goal is to support customer-defined fields, I don't think most people would map the customer-defined fields directly to SQL columns. Consider something like Postgres hstore (with indices as needed) or the many similar implementations in other data stores.
Article is worth it just to watch the video of the land-train on the interstate in the 50s / early 60s, with all the classic cars maneuvering around it.
Thats small, but most small business are not SaaS companies, nor do they have 4-5 developers.
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