skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Algo [1] is a great option for a personal VPN, and it supports WireGuard + ad blocking. I really don't understand why you would want to use k8s for something like this unless it is just a pet project.

[1] https://github.com/trailofbits/algo
...assuming they get reused. If you're the forgetful person who buys bags every time, using reusable bags is probably worse than the environment. That's why banning bags aren't the right approach. Impose a surcharge/tax/minimum price on the bags. If you're not going to remember to bring reusable bags when single use bags cost 50 cents each, you're probably not going to remember to bring reusable bags when single use bags are banned and all you can buy are 50 cent reusable bags.
“ For years, Shipt has used a clear commissioned-based pay model that ($5 plus a 7.5 percent commission on all orders),...”

Outside the context of algorithmic pay models, I’ve always had a lingering doubt in the context of the restaurant industry. I typically tip 20% across the board, more for great service. If I order a $120 bottle of wine versus a $20 bottle of wine, the wait staff is getting an extra $20, but what did they do to get this extra $20? Everything else is the same. (Putting aside the situations where you order a very nice multi-thousand dollar bottle and a special person with wine knowledge comes out and handles everything, etc.)

Analogizing now to Shipts situation, should one person get paid more because I got the fancy cheese rather than the store brand? They’re next to one another and everything else remains the same. I’m not surprised pay drops substantially when algorithmic pay only considers effort.
Yes, it's pretty much useless, and Linus's reasoning will guarantee that things stay that way.
I was going to correct you on pricing because I did a one-time payment of about $11 back in 2010. It used to be that there was a one-time price that incremented as people signed up. So really early people could have paid a dollar or so, I guess.

But it's now a yearly fee. Which is good for us grandfathered people, since it means the service will stay around.
> Plastic pollution in the ocean is a problem, but it’s not the western countries causing it. There are 10 rivers that cause 90% of plastic pollution, and they are in Africa and Asia.

> Plastic in a landfill harms nobody.

This demonstrably false. Plastics in landfills can leach into groundwater, for one. Two, a huge proportion of the plastic we use and dispose in much of the west end up in Asian countries because we can't be bothered to make sure it's recycled. Three, micro- and nano-plastic pollution is nearly ubiquitous now: we breathe it in and ingest it daily, with almost no understanding of the effects. It is very literally everywhere, from ambient air to the seafloor.

Expecting large public or private institutions to make a meaningful difference without anybody sacrificing anything is exactly the mindset that got us where we are today. Institutions have independent incentive structures and must be forced to work in our interest, otherwise they will not.
If youtube is considered a failure vs tiktok then I don't know what success would be.

Same with Hangouts and video calling.

Tiktok and zoom are both flash in the pan fads.
Product Hunt: It makes no difference who hunts you
That was part of the Hunt process. You would look for the hunter that usually had a good traction when hunting products similar to yours. But nowadays, it makes no difference who hunts you. I agree it used to distort success but it was also part of the game if you could manage to convince a hunter who had many requests for hunts and had a conviction in YOUR product. So long!
ELF Statifier, self-contained dynamically linked executables
SARS2, right now, is both known to cause various manor of acute illness and long term damage, as well as being significantly deadly.

Fear of the unknown is a problem in itself, but that has vanishingly little to do with concerns about SARS2.
Oops! I made an account and logged out from within Settings so I could read over more of the about page, but I got stuck with Internal Server Error on the whole site. I deleted the "identity" cookie from site storage, which was an empty string after logging out. I logged back in and it seems to be working as normal. Other than that, I really like the vibe of Subreply, nice work.
The simple fact of the matter is there is currently no rational reason to believe covid will have long-term effects comparable to polio. That the possibility can't be ruled out is meaningless because you can't rule out that same possibility for any other virus either.
There were a grand total of 250 Million PC sold last year and that includes around 20 million Macs. That also includes PCs with AMD processors.

https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2020-01-1...

Apple alone sold more ARM based iPhones and iPads than that last year at higher profit margins. Not to mention all of the ARM based chips used for the Watch, Airpods, Apple TV’s, and HomePods.
Is this "hemp plastic" like polyethylene made from hemp feedstock, or is it something like reformed cellulose? And what makes hemp different from corn or soybeans in this application?

There's active development and use of biomanufacturing of common chemicals because it has the potential to be much cheaper and less complicated than existing processes.

For example, fermenting sugar directly into ethylene at room temperature/atmospheric pressure using engineered yeast is simpler and safer than converting ethanol into ethylene in a multi step process involving high temperature and pressure, hydrogen feedstock, platinum catalyst, etc. Assuming you actually have bugs that can do the one step conversion.

But if this ethylene is polymerized into polyethylene and made into 6-pack rings, those are going to kick around for a thousand years in the ocean shedding microplastics and choking birds regardless of whether they were manufactured in a biological or "traditional" process.

Likewise, if the input to a biomanufacturing process is roundup-ready soy ("worst of the best"), that could be worse for the environment than a "traditional" catalytic cracking process fed by recycled plastic ("best of the worst")
In all fairness, people do choose smaller city apartments so that they (normally) have nearby amenities that they wouldn't have from a house in the suburbs/exurbs. And dedicated space is less affordable even at software engineer salaries if you have an apartment in an expensive city. But quite a few people I know have decided or are considering that more space may be a worthwhile tradeoff--especially if they were getting to a point in life where urban living didn't have as many attractions any longer.
I fear Login with Apple is another poison pill. Sure it's better than some of the current alternatives, but if it's suddenly in Apple's best interest to abuse their position for data gathering, they will.
Untold? I'm pretty sure we know how much money Uber and Lyft have taken (and Sidecar and Flywheel, etc.)
I agree. Given randomized passwords I don't see any risk with individual sign-ups rather than login partners. I will not sign up for a site/service if it only uses login partners for authentication.
Thanks for the reply. Just a few questions:

It is necessary to connect to the VPN before Tor, correct?

Also, is your script essentially the same thing as multihop that some of the better providers offer?
When Intel calls, Skype listens (2006)
Theyre just a monopoly.
> and changed the job description to be accurate

Accurate? No, I don't think that's the correct word. The value was changed, but it was gibberish before and remains gibberish afterwards.
Which one improves reading comprehension? Because I had read this headline about three times before I realized it didn’t say ‘Regular medication more beneficial than vaccination’!

More on topic: I did some mindful meditation a few years ago when I had some issues to work through. It really seemed to help. I should probably get in the habit of doing it again.

That said, I won’t be giving up vacations anytime soon. I don’t even go anywhere. I just take a week off from work and get my mind off of that stress.
that's only half of my sentence, the other being that they discuss the matter with precision concern in mind. Not politics or social pressure.

And we are debating this, because the fact that they decide to accept to comply with the "inclusive-terminology" movement is going to create a huge precedent, and will actually put an immense pressure on all the other developer community.
nicely done, maybe searching for hashtags should only return hashtags used and not a generic search for the keyword
Assuming a car is required, the cost of replacing the car needs to be included in wear and tear.
Corporations are literally the something-extra over a "group of actors working together".
What wasn’t commodified to begin with about the PC industry? Or later, with the smartphone industry? There’s Apple and then there’s the commodity alternative with more market share globally etc.

To me this is Apple trying to stay ahead of ARM Chromebooks and the desktop-ification of Android/Chrome. If left alone another half decade, it’s possible that Chromium via either Google or Microsoft could have made more of a dent in the wider market than just education uses. Adobe is already facilitating creatives to cheaper Windows workstations.

Frankly, Apple investing in unique silicon for their software simply means it will be more unique, just as the iPad has defended its place through an unbeatable software ecosystem and “cheap enough” hardware. If the Mac can go “cheap enough” to iPad pricing, this is Apple carving out its niche and market for the decade to come...
I believe Afrikan tähti/Star of Africa is ubiquitous in Finland, but AFAICT it's almost unknown outside of the Nordic coutnries.
Ask HN: Why is SSH So Seldom Used to Login to Websites?
Many of us who maintain servers will be logging into them via SSH. It takes a bit of setting up on the command line to create the key pairs to start with. But, once it's done, it's pretty seamless; we can login without having to bother with a password.

I've often wondered why the same system is never[0] used more generally for accessing websites where we need to login?

It seems to me that wrapping in a user-friendly GUI; the various terminal commands for creating an SSH key pair and making the public key available 'somewhere' for upload would be a fairly simple task. Likewise with providing a GUI to allow the user to then send that public key to any website that the user wanted to create a login for.

From a security point of view, it would also seem to be a no-brainer. The key uploaded to the website is the public key, so any security breach on that website would only net the hackers a load of public keys which are openly available anyway.

This kind of login would do away with the need to remember any passwords at all [not even a master password for a password manager] and would also seem to mitigate the danger of people using the same password on various sites. It wouldn't matter if someone used the same public key on various sites, as it's not meant to be a secret anyway.

I'm not a security expert. So no doubt I'm missing some really obvious downside here --the only one I can think of is that we'd need a different 'login' for each device you use, which would somehow need to be linked together into the same user account on any website-- but, apart from that I can't see why SSH logins are not more widely used.

So, come on you smart HN-ers. What glaringly obvious gotcha have I overlooked?

[0] The only site I can think of that allows me to login with my SSH public key is Github. And, even then, the setup involves creating the key via terminal and then pasting it into a form. Definitely not something granny could do.
We tended to do this anyway; Etherpad was used by a lot of teams for agendas. But we mostly use GSuite these days and the even more widespread switch to video calls--we were already pretty distributed--has led to a shared agenda doc being a standard practice for all but small meetings. Shared docs are an under-rated "secret weapon" for remote collaboration.
You can listen to Sam Harris' podcast with Markovits for an introduction to the book [1], or Ezra Klein's [2]. I found his argument novel, thoughtful, and quite convincing and have put the book on my reading list.

The claim is that elites have instituted a caste system, more or less, with enormous inequality and very little social mobility, all under the guise of meritocracy which serves to legitimise it.

[1] https://samharris.org/podcasts/205-failure-meritocracy/

[2] link at the end here: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/10/24/20919030/...

https://www.themeritocracytrap.com
Then it'll be ironic if an antitrust lawsuit turns into court ordered or legislative wins for user privacy and data-property.
I had to get creative with our small space. We live in a walk up that has a big vaulted ceiling over the foyer entry and stairs so we built sort of an enclosed loft area over the entry to use as an office. It has been amazing to get my desk out of the living area.

The only thing we had to trade for it was a 20 foot tall ceiling and empty space with a chandelier for a 9 foot tall entry area with recessed lights.

It's a small office, 5x10ft but just having anything out of the way with a door that closes is just miles better.

My point in sharing this is that lots of space, especially in our American homes and condos is poorly allocated. There might be a creative way to add on or convert some existing space in the place you live now.
> Humans are built for constant labor. We're the endurance-running champions of the animal kingdom

That is a contentious assertion. Yes, perhaps we can go for longer distances than other primates, but it doesn't mean that this has anything to do with our ideal exhaustion, nor that it was something we did regularly, nor that it is free of negative side effects, nor that other primates couldn't do it if we could design some (very unethical) experiments.

Experiments on the health effects of high intensity short duration exercise are very compelling.

I agree with you that we are not generally adapted to modern lifestyles, but there are a whole host of other factors to insomnia in that grab bag (terrible diets eaten year round, artificial light, social isolation).
Yes, but I read this:

> think faster, svelter laptops actually lasting 10 hours on a battery charge.

...and I instantly think of HP's Envy x360 w/Ryzen 4500U pulling almost 14 hours of battery life in productivity tests.

I Apple wants to stand out, it will have to push closer to 20hs on a charge. Not saying they can't, saying it'll be a stretch. And great if they pull it.
A lesson I learned too late.

You have to be willing to do the work, yes, but also figure out what you really, really like doing, and then do it -- a lot. Over, and over, and over, for years or even decades.
For the wine situation, I think your standards for service would be higher at places you pay $120 for a bottle than $20.
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https://www.webtoolkit.eu/widgets
> I am trying to point out that suicide is not a reasonable response to the situation Aaron was in

Suicide is almost never a "reasonable" response to the situation a person is in, yet it's a very common cause of death.

People who work in suicide prevention talk about "rapid onset despair". They also talk about help seeking behaviour, especially of people who are men; young; autistic; and a few other characteristics.

Rapid onset despair is very important when talking about the criminal justice system. People feel overwhelmed by CJS, and death by suicide is very common in people who've been arrested for serious crime or who have been imprisoned.

Deaths by suicide of people who've been accused of, or convicted of, offences is not hidden information. It's a well known phenomena.
Not to take away from your broader point, but since these services insist on trying to treat the workers as contractors, the workers should be able to get a full 58 cent per mile deduction in their taxes. With an inexpensive, reliable, well-maintained, fuel-efficient vehicle, you can end up money ahead just on the tax deduction.
> Removing the possibility for anonymity could solve the problem of online toxicity.

Except that it's not possible. And worse, it's just hard enough to evade that only those with malicious goals will manage it.

> Large internet corporations like Google and Facebook allow all to create an account on condition that some personally identifiable information is revealed, usually a phone number.

Also Signal, sadly enough :(

> The benefit is that it deters most from repeatably creating new accounts when older accounts have been flagged or banned due to improper behavior. These companies gain the function of "identity provider": they manage your online identity that can be used to login in different locations of the internet. We all know many websites that offer a "Google login" or "Facebook login".

Yes, it "deters most". And mainly it deters vulnerable people, who need ~anonymity to protect themselves from adversaries. It doesn't deter spammers, trolls, scammers, bot operators, and such. There are just so many ways to use multiple phone numbers. Ranging from free websites to SIM banks. And actually, it's easier just to buy accounts, either fresh or old (which probably means stolen).

So even without getting into concerns about corporate gatekeepers, it's clear that this is a misguided approach.
>Drivers generally lack the sophistication to do financial modelling for depreciation of their vehicles.

Those poor dim-witted drivers. Seriously though, it only take a couple of seconds of Googling to calculate the depreciation of a vehicle. "Financial modelling" is a pretty grandiose word for "subtract $0.50 for every mile you drive".

Don't assume everyone who takes a lower-paying job is stupid.
Is Albania considered a western country at all? I never thought of it as such.
There are different kinds of developers. Some like solving problems and wouldn’t be bothered by COBOL. Others are more aesthetically motivated.

https://blog.carlmjohnson.net/post/2017/what-kind-of-program...
Thanks for the additional info!

That seems a bit odd, though. While there were undoubtedly some good deals on electronics, the ones I saw were all on sale—which, according to their return policy, apparently also means “all sales final.” Given that a number of those items were high-risk, the price tags were concerning.

For example, they seem to be selling modern, high-end iPhones in the $6XX range. That’s a bit cheaper than buying a stolen iPhone on Let Go, Craigslist, or Facebook Marketplace where I live.

That’s incredibly high risk. At any point, the former owner of the phone may report it lost to their carrier, and the IMEI will be blacklisted. From that point forward, the phone is effectively a brick. It may be useful for parts, but that’s it.

Does the former owner have the right to report it missing, especially if they’ve been compensated? It doesn’t really matter—the point is that they can, and they may even do so inadvertently when they go to buy a new one.

This sounds like a store I’d love to visit in person—so many obscure items that are probably too difficult to price correctly. You’re bound to find a gem eventually. Even if it isn’t worth the time you spend, it’s probably a lot of fun!

But I don’t really think that business model lends itself to eBay. Yes, you can have much wider reach and sell to more people, but your margins are going to be lower. Is it worth it? Maybe if you’re running out of space, but the prices they’re charging for some of the items on their website would have to be significantly reduced if they were to sell those items on eBay.
The comparison between covid and polio fatality rates was made upthread by another user. I responded by pointing out a deficiency in that comparison, namely that polio had serious lasting adverse health effects on 1/4th to 8/10ths of survivors.

In response to that, I received a comment suggesting that covid may yet prove to have similar lasting effects. That fear mongering is what I am now responding to. There is no evidence to suggest that scenario is more likely to unfold with covid than any other illness.
It's a massive difference. Consider linkedin vs national UK login.

The later one guarantees the identity: full name, date of birth, address, verified phone number, last taxable income, etc...

It allows to request government benefits or open a bank account online, because the identity is guaranteed. There is a real verified person behind the account. (corollary: you will be in troubles if somebody gets credit cards under your UK identity).

On the other hand, it's not great if that identity is required to apply to a job. The company can see your passport after they hire you. There is no need for every job board and recruiter and company to systematically get all your personal information in advance.
Not the author, but I had a similar problem.

If you specify many replacement rules in sed, it will run in O(num_replacements * num_lines). You should be able to use a state machine to do it in O(num_lines), so I google a bit and found this amazing gem: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/137932

tl;dr: it uses lex to create a custom C program that does "just what you need", compiles it, and runs it on your input. The whole thing wrapped in a bash function. Bonus: it's POSIX compliant.
> PC market is minuscule compared to mobile, stagnating , slowly declining and has a long refresh cycle.

Modern phones have 2+ GB RAM and an SoC that could easily be used in a tablet or laptop (think low end Chromebook). The PinePhone literally runs mainline Linux. Mobile is PC, it's only the physical form factor (and associated power usage constraints) that differ.
Yes it is definitely harder to organize a distributed workforce, but your mathematical modelling is extremely simplistic.

> And after all, doing otherwise would be irrational.

...Please...

- Psycological harm results from trying to recruit strikers when you are a secret scab. Unless you're a psycopath

- You could organize a protest on the day you are striking to confirm each others loyalty

- You might already know other people who work for the app even if you don't work with them (e.g. if you learned of the gig work through word-of-month). Those people you already have social connections with.

Saying it's hard is valid. Saying it's impossible without real evidence reeks of the stereotype of the freshman straight out of econ 101 who thinks they now understand all human behavior.