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Launch HN: Chest.store – Open-source cloud object/file explorer and Git server
Hi HN,

I'm Lance, a developer out of Atlanta, GA, USA and am the creator of chest.store[0][1]. I decided to utilize any spare time I had during both the quarantine and paternity leave (I had a baby boy the day after Memorial Day) building it in hopes to solve some of my (and hopefully your) cloud storage whoa's.

After constantly struggling with FTP clients and various CLIs for managing files in different cloud storage products I (or my teams at work) had files hosted in, I figured there could be a better way to browse & manage files hosted in these locations in a single interface. I also realized that versioning in each product was relatively foreign to me, and I figured git was the perfect tool to use for versioning not just software repos, but any type of file. Using commands like `git log` and `git checkout $COMMIT_HASH` makes it super easy to review changes to different files, so why not build versioning of files within chest.store on top of a built in git server and client and store the version "repos" in the user's cloud bucket(s)?

Since chest.store uses git for version history of files uploaded and managed through this server, you can also use the git server like any old remote you're used to (Github, Gitlab, etc.) As it stands today chest.store is pretty early and I have plans of building many more collaboration and team-focused features, but primarily wanted to get any feedback I could via hacker news. I thought there would be no shortage of people who could provide feedback, particularly critical feedback for me to digest and make changes as needed :)

Thanks for checking it out and again, would love your feedback and anything you think would be nice to have for you to use it :)

[0]: https://chest.store

[1]: https://github.com/cheststore/chest.store
I am an author, I'm published by one of the publishers involved, and I'm very happy that they're doing it.
> I think you are conflating introversion and shyness or a broader uncomfortableness / inexperience with social interactions.

Respectfully, no. It's not about knowing appropriate behavior, it's about the fact that "getting to know you" type exercises in a large group format often serve, de facto, as a power-grabbing / power-flexing exercise for extroverts who need affirmation and attention for their mind to be at ease.

The world has a natural extrovert-bias as humans gather in groups, e.g., if 10 people who don't know each other show up for a seminar or something, and 2 of them are extroverts and 8 are introverts, the two extroverts will have a loud and spirited conversation that they then try, often successfully, to pull the others into. Some of the introverts will play this game, others will not, but all of them will hate it.

Another example of this would be company offsites where the senior leadership team wants to discuss company culture -- like clockwork, they usually turn into a gabfest where the office manager and senior recruiter suck up all the air time with yap-yap-yap while the dev team zones out and waits for this bullshit to wrap up.

Productive introverts' coping techniques for toxic, needy extroverts seems to me to be a largely ignored topic in business literature -- probably because introverts generally don't like talking about stuff.
It's kind of hard to search for an exploits for the Android kernel per se, since a lot of things in the Linux kernel also apply to Android.
... the Testing Center!? Hey I went there too.

But I don't see how this is more nuanced that being honest or dishonest. I really pride myself on being able to see where a lot of opposing viewpoints are coming from, but I can't see how any of the people you describe are doing much more than lying to themselves about what they're doing.
With what logic is it “safe to assume that”?

Police presence ergo more rape?
As long as we don't keep seeing the tank seems burst then it's all just an integration phase now I think? Engine: Check, Fuel tanks: check?
I'm also interested as I just started looking into it for my kids. Right now, they only have access to 1h/day max of screen time. I take the ipad and put it in kiosk mode with one app only (ABCs/Reading/Math) and I pick it up after 30mins and redo the same setup with youtube for kids (they watch 15mins) and again another time where they pick a moderately educational game and that's my routine. I think there must be an app where I can select which apps are allowed and how much time so I don't have to use a timer and give them a sense of "freedom" haha.
I don’t see how this would work. The US can use sanctions or other legal means of preventing such companies from doing business in the US. China did this for years to ensure US companies didn’t dominate their market (among other reasons).
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What IS our subjective experience if not our conscious estimation of how we experienced the thing?

regardless of the sample population, the difference is asking about perception vs. designing an experiment that provides consistent measures and accounts for bias. That's the definition of science. What you're arguing is "I know what I know", i.e. faith.
> Maybe because there might exist propaganda against the Chinese government? If Twitter has evidence for Chinese propaganda on a US-based site that's inaccessible to the Chinese population, wouldn't it be reasonable to suspect that US propaganda that targets the Chinese government exists too?

This is making the false assumption that "propaganda" is symmetrical and equivalent. From the CCP perspective, "propaganda against the Chinese government" would be to dispute its false and self-serving account of history or to suggest the Chinese people should enjoy Western-style human rights -- basically anything that questions the ultimate authority and dominance of the party.

See: https://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/20/world/asia/chinas-new-lea... and https://www.chinafile.com/document-9-chinafile-translation.
It’s interesting to see the slowly growing disconnect between what public officials are saying and how individual citizens are feeling.

I live in Los Angeles. Officially, we are open for business. Personally our response was “haha, fuck off”. My office is still closed with no timetable to re-open, and a significant number of my colleagues and personal friends are utterly bewildered at the idea of returning to normal operations.

The general consensus among my group was “I’m not quite sure what it’ll take to make me comfortable returning to bars, but it’s not this”
> the occasional opportunity to debate such issues in an intelligent forum is something I have trouble finding elsewhere on the internet.

That's maybe the good place to ask:

What are other places (maybe places more open to political discussions) the HN crowd would recommend for "intelligent discussions"? Twitter and Reddit are an awful mess at the moment.
Thank you. If I ever want another Master’s I’m going to keep this in mind.
That can happen outside of attention-seeking exercises organized by extroverts, FYI.
> Sure enough, on the trade show floor we had a union member watching us to make sure we didn’t get up on a ladder or use tools when installing certain pieces of equipment. Presumably they were getting paid to monitor us and ensure we didn’t actually do any of the forbidden work ourselves.

I'm trying to think of how this is different than how the mob operates but I'm at a loss.
> Seattle police chief said on TV

And the media didn't post a non-biased account of what's going on?

It's become incredibly difficult to take what the PD says at face value anymore.
Standard Pareto 80/20 thing, disproportionate impact and all that.

I recall some statistic about how like 4% of fighter pilots accounted for ~40% of the confirmed kills.
Yeah, rape is a particularly lousy excuse considering the poor record many police departments have in addressing rape cases.
the expression predates the film by many years, fwiw.
What you’re arguing is “monopolies are OK because China does it”.

If we’re arguing about power grabs then what happens if China gets more powerful because they have an authoritarian government?

Does that mean the US needs needs to be authoritarian now too? No thanks.
Are you sure you're not confusing "monopoly" with monopsony? The former is about a seller vs buyers, where a single source has huge power over pricing and thus is able to raise prices for buyers far beyond market justification. The latter is when a single buyer controls a high enough share of purchases that they can exert significant power of sellers. While they both impact markets, they're not the same thing and they have different effects. The impact of monopsonys and to what extent their bad is a lot more controversial, because the fundamental idea of grouping together in order to gain enough purchasing power to negotiate lower prices from sellers is used in a lot of areas. I think monopsony does have implications for things like wages and working conditions, with outright depressing of wages as well as potential for more wage discrimination.

Those are all different issues though with different potential regulatory tools to apply against them vs a monopolist simply outright raising prices for buyers. I'm definitely concerned that way, way too many people have started to just reach for the big BREAK 'EM UP hammer for any problem they see, despite the potential for nasty battles delaying effectiveness and enormous and unpredictable side effects. I'd really like to see much more focused efforts tried first, particularly since a big central target can actually be easier to regulate and check for certain things. There is plenty of low hanging fruit at Amazon like their commingling practices, but such things tend to be more technocratic.

I'm concerned that focused efforts like that are seen as "boring" and in turn not getting the attention they should. This is similar to how I feel about other areas like secure hardware stacks. Rather then "break up Apple/Google!!!" I'd much, much rather see things like "devices owners must have the option to load their own crypto roots with equal power as any manufacturer roots" or "devices must be warranted for 1 month/$20 retail price up to 60 months" or the like done. They're not as catchy politics but they'd be really directly useful without risking a lot of the value scale can bring.
On the other hand, rather "diminished police action", the NYPD went on strike for a couple months in 2014-2015 and crime actually went down. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-017-0211-5
Nim's compiler was full of bugs and would crash on trivial programs for a long time. It also has garbage collection so ends up in a different niche.

Just like Zig not parsing tabs or carriage returns or V being broken on windows and never fixed, I don't think it is corporate sponsorship that is the problem, but more basic utility.

Plenty of people are trying these new languages, the demand is there, but there is usually some huge blind spot that they don't deal with until it is too late and they have already burned a lot of people that gave them their attention.
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thanks for the explanation!
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Can't you just point to a concrete, specific problem with the Gimp (apart from its name, or the fact that it has a couple of easter eggs)? This is getting too abstract to be useful.
> I don't have that much faith in scientists.

About that, it's surprising that there's so much papercuts in the scientific field these days. p-hacking, lack of peer reviews, journal gatekeeping, also some ex-engineer turned pseudo cosmologist [0] said that there's too much technological 'papers' and not enough fundamentals, which dillute the quality of thinking and the seal of quality attached to the scientific method

(the man is a controversial figure, most people would consider him a nutsack, but I can agree with the fact that research has shifted in meaning compared to early 20th century)
It's not about okay or not okay, it's just pointing out that if the US government breaks up Amazon, it may just be replaced by a Chinese monopoly, ultimately achieving no big benefit, but hurting America's geopolitical interests.

Outcomes matter, not intentions.
It taking like 1gb of ram in chrome.

Your point? I literally just clicked on a link, downloaded a few assets and was into an online FPS. Virtually any modern computer in the world no matter what OS/browser should be able to do the same.

But I guess for someone like you it has to be written in assembly so it's 100% efficient, even though you take 100x more to attempt to get it working than your counterpart.. and you never actually finish.
I figured you would take that tack. In my defense, the term often does refer to whites specifically. In either case, however, I'm of the impression that a law may not disproportionately target one race or another (it's insufficient to show that a law doesn't explicitly target one race; it must also be shown that it doesn't cause disproportionate harm to one race), but again, IANAL and would be very interested in hearing from an expert (even suggestions on search criteria would be helpful).
BTW, the 5000 restriction is more a "guide" for structuring your data - you can turn it off.

Also, Altair plots can certainly be used outside of notebooks! Happy to share some examples..
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I was using it to read RSS, show some network info such as external IP and have a text field which could be used as a notepad. It was superseded by the arguably better designed, but more resource intensive, gadget system.
Why? And FWIW there are alternate implementations (mrustc) and alternate backends (cranelift)
> the people addressing institutional racism in policing right now aren't asking for police or anyone else to think nice thoughts

The ones I see are. They aren't talking about respecting the rule of law and protecting the civil rights of citizens. They're talking about how people need to be "educated" about the trials and tribulations of minorities (actually of one particular minority).

> defunding and redistributing some of the functions of, and/or dismantling and redistributing all of the functions of police departments.

This makes no sense to me. You don't support the rule of law and protect the civil rights of citizens by getting rid of police. You do that by having local governments that hold police accountable, and are themselves held accountable by citizens.
>impartial shelf space

Why? Did grocery stores sign some kind of contract to be neutral platforms?

Ikea, Costco, Target all push their own brand. Oftentime, at Walmart, Mainstay will be your only option for some items.
Situation is extremely different.

It was fully ready design, where they caught last issues in the integration stage.

Starship is right now at the state of someone doodling in their notebook.
It's federal case law that the profession of policing doesn't require what you're asking.
This is a pretty short sighted observation. It's obvious to most tech folk here that yes, moving up to higher abstractions, higher level languages and paradigms comes at a performance cost.

But we could have just stopped at assembler with that insight. I mean all the rest is just slower, and less efficient.
I see this elitist attitude all over the internet. First it was people saying “Guys why are you over reacting to corona the flu is worse.”

Then it was people saying “Guys, stop buying surgical masks, The science says they don’t work it’s like putting a rag over your mouth.”

All of these so called expert know it alls were wrong and now we have another expert on asynchronous python telling us he knows better and he’s not surprised. No dude your just another guy on the internet pretending he’s a know it all.

If you are any good, you’ll realize that nodejs will beat the flask implementation any day of the week and the nodejs model is exactly identical to the python async model. Nodejs blew everything out of the water, and it showed that asynchronous single threaded code was better for exactly the test this benchmark is running.

It’s not obvious at all. Why is the node framework faster then python async? Why can’t python async beat python sync when node can do it easily? What is the specific flaw within python itself that is causing this? Don’t answer that question because you don’t actually know man. Just do what you always do and wait for a well intentioned humble person to run a benchmark then comment on it with your elitist know it all attitude claiming your not surprised.

Is there a word for these types of people? They are all over the internet. If we invent a label maybe they’ll start becoming self aware and start acting more down to earth.
> "We've heard, anecdotally, reports of citizens and businesses being asked to pay a fee to operate within this area."

I dunno. She 'walked back' the statement. Maybe people were making that up to try to get the cops to retake the area? It could have also been absolutely true. Having lived in that area, I wouldn't put it past them.

Honestly, it's impossible to know at this point.
Tell them to only use 2 triangles - they might nail it but most people do even worse!
It's not about okay or not okay, it's just pointing out that breaking up Amazon could actually result in worse outcomes for America.
Thanks! The whole goal of dexplo and dexplot is to provide a much simpler and more consistent alternative to pandas/seaborn. I find pandas especially cumbersome to work with. I haven't had time to develop dexplo much, but am hoping for a first major release this year.
I encountered dark modes in old CGI applications, it was the norm and it was at least a zero cost thing. I never regretted the usual win/mac style. I'd bet a dollar that nobody in the media industry had issues with dark mode.
This was the subject of a really nice NYTimes "Letter of Recommendation" recently
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/05/magazine/letter-of-recomm...
> Co-routines are not necessarily faster than threads, but they yield to a performance improvement if one has to spin thousands of them : they have less creation overhead and consume less RAM.

This hardly matters when spinning up a few thousand threads. Only memory that's actually used is committed, one 4k page at a time. What is 10MB these days? And that is main memory, while it's much more interesting what fits in cache. At that point it doesn't matter if your data is in heap objects or on a stack.

Add to that the fact that Python stacks are mostly on the heap, the real stack growing only due to nested calls in extensions. It's rare for a stack in Python to exceed 4k.
https://www.newyorker.com/business/adam-davidson/teddy-roose... has an interesting discussion of what it means to be monopoly, and that the classic American viewpoint and the European viewpoint differ.
Who would be an acceptable person to call for breaking up Amazon, then? If he were a low-level Amazon employee, they would say, "Bah, he's just jealous he doesn't have a killer salary like the rock-star developers at Amazon." If he were a non-Amazon employee, they would say, "He's just jealous of Amazon's market strength."
Yes there is. Overflow panics by default in debug mode, and you can turn that in in release mode with the overflow-checks compiler option. There's also checked_add.
I think the people making those comments are the same people you see out in the world who are visibly unstable. Disheveled, muttering to themselves angrily, cars plastered in political bumper stickers, getting into confrontations with service workers, etc.

In the world there is context. You're sitting in a cafe surrounded by 20 other average people getting on with their day, and there's some guy talking loudly to no in particular that Bill Gates is trying to steal our blood or whatever.

It's those people sitting on these comment sections all day. That's what I tell myself anyway, otherwise it's too disturbing to think about the other explanations.
If tensions rise to that degree we’ll be even deeper into a Cold War where you’ll see other countries pick sides with who they do business with.
yeah, having operated a largeish nodejs system that had to be realtime: the latencies were all over the place when it got loaded down

MxN (kernel threads to green threads) seems to be the established wisdom for go now, with other langs catching up, but unlike python, go has no GIL so is 'less likely to get stuck' (I say, without a footnote)

Wider focus on observability makes me optimistic that we'll do better as an industry at packing software onto hardware, and understanding which workloads benefit from what.
Is Jepsen for testing - say the microservices for Uber?

Or is it specific to the people who build things like databases, api frameworks,etc.
Unfortunate terminology. Wasn’t there just an article on HN about replacing the master/slave terminology in code. What can be done about terminology from a time when somehow people didn’t think calling things slaves was bad.
Actually that's "little minds"[1] but close enough?

1: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson#Self-Relia...
From 2020/retrospect it seems obvious that people would not want to switch from local files to web-pages in the same window, but it's also kind of a shame that their integrated rich-content vision didn't work out. I would rather have a unified local machine+internet experience where local and network resources are fungible, instead of "the computer is one way to run a web browser". I guess PWAs are the next chance at something better, if they can ever get things like local file access worked out and deployed.
For some reason Python seems to be very popular in academic robotics right now. Not a great choice
I don't think they'd be qualified for the job.
Of them having 40% of the market place?

The comment is referring to the fact that companies trying to sell goods online are given a choice to either forego 40% of potential revenues or work with Amazon. This gives Amazon an enormous amount of leverage over suppliers.
> We need chat. But Slack’s pricing can be prohibitive for an early stage startup.

It's hard to imagine a situation where a few dollars per user per month is genuinely prohibitive.
Their stock buybacks are keeping the share price afloat for now. Interested to see how long they'll keep that up.
I think it’s a matter of personal preference. Though I wish most apps would use light mode by default.