skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Google only develop Android and Chrome to fuel their ad business, those two product can’t turn a profit on their own, as proven by Mozilla.

Microsoft and Apple have shown that licensing an OS and selling cell phones can both be lucrative. Google's Android business does both of these things; if it were spun out on its own, why would it be doomed to fail?
DDoS alert by Cloudflare - Know When You’ve Been DDoS’d
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/07/new-earn-it-bill-still...

> Sen. Leahy’s amendment prohibits holding companies liable because they use “end-to-end encryption, device encryption, or other encryption services.” But the bill still encourages state lawmakers to look for loopholes to undermine end-to-end encryption, such as demanding that messages be scanned on a local device, before they get encrypted and sent along to their recipient.
Plows and tractors
Don't forget the terrible bbq and crowded traffic and Ferris Buehler's crashing all the parades!
Show HN: I made a dead-simple knowledge management webapp
What good are alerts when I sleep? I usually don't even check my personal mail until I'm done at work. There's a lot that can happen in 16h
Can you tell us anything about the architecture?
With your help it is possible :)
Not the same thing. Retailers are the customers of the product manufacturers. They pay for all of the products that show up on their shelves, even the store brands.

(Note: only trial products operate on a consignment arrangement where the manufacturer only gets paid for units actually sold on.)
> This is the TikTok crap all over again. They want to help national security and user privacy...

Am I the only one who thinks that TikTok was more about geopolitics concerning US/China and much less about user privacy?
Alan Perlis epigram #32: http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/perlis-alan/quotes.html

"Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis."

Well-engineered programs cover all the cases: they handle what they must handle, and have an answer for the rest which is better than "oh shoot, didn't think of that".

The main programmer skill is remembering to ask yourself, "under what conditions won't this work?" or "what inputs or situations break this?" and being able to come up with excellent answers.

Also, asking this question: "though this appears to work, where are all the requirements (language, library, platform, ...) coming from which make it work, and are any missing?"
I think only the bookID is necessary
> You can't break up tech companies; we've been through this before with Microsoft.

All of your arguments appear to be reasons for continued anti-trust enforcement and all of the problems you identify seem to be caused by stringent, followed by lax, anti-trust enforcement.
I worked with two developers in Boston who were DINK (Double Income No Kids) and they sold their Boston condo, moved to the Midwest (Minneapolis) and bought a six bedroom house on a lake and two jet-skis for the same price as their condo. Their cost of living went down tremendously. By their own standards they lost nothing compared to Boston (food/services/entertainment actually got better) except that they had to deal with people on the Coast saying how boring it must be - scratch that - they weren't listening because they were having to much fun on their jet-skis...
"Oversight" is its own antonym! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto-antonym
On that note, Bing doesn’t serve AMP links on its mobile search results, which was a driver for me to switch over.
Why would you expect better performance at a lower price?
The official release announcement can be found here: https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2020/10/06/elixir-v1-11-0-relea...

It provides more context, links, and other improvements over the CHANGELOG. I am not sure if it is possible to update the link in the post though.
My (about to be a teen) son has ADHD and strong routines have helped him greatly. Any tips on how to build and stick to strong routines?
For programmers in Indianapolis, there's numerous opportunities. Salesforce has helped advance the salary curve.

Job interviews are pretty straightforward. Nothing like the FAANG grind. Salaries are $80K fresh out of college. Surpassing $200k is doable at places like Salesforce, Eli Lilly, etc..

Lots of "routine" programming jobs are in the $100-$140k range going from Senior to Staff. Higher levels of IC and management of course go up from there.

A nice house costs $200k.
Copper does not distinguish between function and object. An object-function has two parts: the member part and the executable body. In C++, it's analogous to:

class FunctionObject {

FunctionObject* members[];

void* operator() { /* executable body */ }

};
Partisan Divisions Hinder House Big Tech Report
Define restrictions. There is a large area between lockdown and doing nothing. Anytime I see people arguing about 'restrictions', it's usually a straw man of going back to a total lockdown. No one is talking about doing that nationally, and even locally it would only be in extreme cases of uncontrolled community spread.

If we hadn't politicized the virus every step of the way, we could have adopted some simple mitigation measures that would have already gotten us back to some level of normal. A national strategy of masks and distance could have kept things mostly open/got things re-opened. If people were generally trying to limit the spread, testing and contact tracing would work to control outbreaks.

Instead the US has a patchwork of rules with uncertain national leadership hoping the virus just disappears. All we have done is extend the time we have to deal with this mess, and possibly cause more deaths than necessary.

And, I just saw that the POTUS once again tweets it's just like the flu (which doesn't kill 100k Americans/year), further downplaying and extending how long any COVID recovery will take.

Ultimately, the 'economic devastation' you mention is not from the lockdowns, but our complete ineptitude around dealing with pandemic.
Please cite some sources for your claims - because to the best of my knowledge facebooks is basically no different than any other media company.

I mean the new york times actively advocated for the Iraq -- should they exist, maybe be shut down?
I dislike the way "traditional masculinity" increasingly seems to used as euphemism for "being asshole".
I’m not a fan of this style of language. It reminds me of learning Chinese characters again. I like alphabets.

Here is an example of K from Wikipedia:
2_&{&/x!/:2_!x}'!R

I know some people prefer operator heavy languages but it’s just not my cup of tea. I feel like they have unnecessarily steep learning curves.

Ps. It lists all the prime numbers between 1 and R. Did you guess that?
Same. I'm learning Russian in University and I could see this type of program being useful.
Average Joes routinely use PGP on the darknets. So we even have a good current example of how encryption used in crime can come in a form that this legislation is powerless against.
Ask HN: How do you store your lifelong learnings for your future self?
Often as I'm learning, exploring, researching or chatting to people I come across information which I believe will be useful to me at some point in the future, but is not relevant right now. (Simple example: good job-hunting advice when you aren't job-hunting).

How do I effectively store and catalogue this information so that when, in the future, it suddenly becomes relevant, I can pick up on this wealth of information that past-me has stored.

I'm interested in hearing both about broad approaches, as well as specific tools and methods which you use.
>Then I just got tired of having to Google obscure Linux issues, edit config files, and reboot all the time.

So is this the normal state of Linux then? Every few years I'll take some time to try and "learn Linux" by installing a distro and try to use it as part of my regular workflow. It's always been a never ending train of very specific and obscure, time consuming issues. My personal motto for Linux is "It Just Doesn't Work" (at least for desktop). Even basic stuff like Wi-Fi and the login screen often doesn't work correctly and requires more tweaking. Using MacOS, it's different and you have to get used to things. But it's not an bottomless pit of time sunk into fixing configurations. Windows isn't perfect, but at least I don't feel like I'm wasting my time.

To be fair I don't think Linux is bad (obviously or it wouldn't be widely used), just that those who like it, either enjoy solving these issues or started with it during a time when they could spare the effort, and so they built up enough experience for it to no longer be a chore.

>I did get one of those telemetry killer apps

Which one do you use?
There's even less of a guarantee when a nation's unsupervised services have a century of experience replacing uncooperative foreign leadership with "more friendly" puppets. Unfortunately such regime change doesn't seem to ever benefit the people of either the interfered or interfering nations...
MacKenzie Scott, the Mysterious 60B-Dollar Woman
Sounds like a brilliant move by Tesla’s PR department - our cars are so good we don’t need PR!

Jokes aside, this is a good thing for our industry - if I wanted to argue to right-size a PR department I now have a clear example to point to.
In all cases monopolies are bad. If you see it from a socialist POV, a monopoly should only be public and democratically controlled; if you look at it from the capitalist/libertarian side, any actor who can manipulates a market by itself prevents this market from working, stifles competition and should be broken up.

If there was a public, open standard such as Android (without google apps), many makers from around the globe could compete by shipping their hardware and a variety of software options. It happens only partially because of Google heavy hand, but it would work perfectly well without google (as it does in India and China).
Off-topic - for any other non-Americans wondering why this eastern area is considered western: "The term West was applied to the region in the early years of the country. In the early 19th century, anything west of Appalachia was considered the West"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midwestern_United_States#Backg...
As it says in the article, there are problems with hunting: pigs are smart and become nocturnal to avoid hunters, making them more difficult to track; also because they are smart, pigs start traveling when they find they are being hunted and sounders can scatter, spreading feral pigs to a new, larger territory.
Kriya Yoga in the Bhagavad Gita
Thanks, that is valuable feedback. We definitely recognize that there are other options out there that offer unlimited static sites. We feel that the additional features and capabilities offered by the platform including running scaled our dynamic workloads, workers, jobs, and databases - at a price point that is very competitive will provide you with value to make up for it - having these features just results in a different economic model for us.
Is that the mean or median?
And actually, the latest xkcd says it better than me:

https://xkcd.com/2368/
Large tech companies/the oligopoly we have now erodes standards because there are vendors with significant enough market power that they can make break-away standards, hurting the overall effort.
>There are a lot of angry young people in this generation who felt lied to about their job prospects, or careers. They were told the mark of an adult was someone who can move out of the parent’s basement abd support yourself. Yet unless you can get an entry level job at least $60k a year in the US, you are already swimming against the current. A college degree is no guarantee of success.

I understand this anger, and I have 3 young people as my own kids who feel this to varying degrees.

But ...

Until about a year ago, the median household income in the USA was about $56k/yr. That means that a substantial chunk of the country has "moved out the parent's basement and supports themselves" on less than $60k/yr.

The problem as I see it is that the basics of "moving out of the basement" got confused with "being able to live in the most expensive real estate markets in the world", presumably because they also just happen to be really cool places to live and have lots of economic opportunity. The conflation of these two is therefore understandable, and is a reflection of our failure as a nation and as a society to ensure the economic opportunity and high quality of living are widely distributed (in terms of both demographics and geography). Our culture has also lied to our young people about what life for most people looks like. Movies, shows, social media filled with impressions not just edited but only representative (!) of the lives of the most priviledged people in society. A massively expanded set of components of the concept of what "middle class" means.

The basics remain however: if you're just starting out in your working career, then the most expensive real estate in the US is off-limits to you unless you've gone into a line of work with outsize income. That still leaves most of the country available and very-to-somewhat affordable, albeit with reduced opportunities for satisfying or very renumerative work. But also much better chances of a much larger garden in which to try out permaculture !
This sounds good. I like DO.

This sentence is a bit worrying though:

"We automatically analyze your code, create containers, and run them on Kubernetes clusters."

I still want to be able to make _some_ decisions as a developer.
Moving from Ops to DevOps
And yet, we already have this story in WSJ today - "Partisan Divisions Hinder House Big Tech Report"[1]. Submitted as a separate article at [2].

I believe Big Tech and their lobbyists are already one step ahead of the game and current polarization plays very well to their advantage by averting a unified action by the US government.

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/partisan-divisions-hinder-house...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24699039
Agreed with this. Excel does have data import feature that will allows us to fine-tune the import process to prevent this kind of mistake.

People just double click the CSV and complained that it didn't do it correctly. It is the same situation with scientific research data that researchers don't bother to use escape marker or blindly open the file without going through the proper import process. Then they blamed Excel for the that without understanding how Excel works.

Yes, Excel does have their quirks. But there are ways around those quirks, they have thousands of thousands guides out there about Excel. There is no excuses for people to complain about Excel didn't do the way that users want it to do without looking up for information.
I think it runs the gambit, but for sure medical, biotech, and ag companies are huge. One of the biggest and fastest growths we've seen in Madison (even if we weren't cool enough to make the list) is Exact Sciences -- a company that provides and tests mail-in poop kits to test for early signs of colon cancer.
Also, looking at the numbers in the UK on Linkedin: 132 Elixir jobs for the entire UK (ruby has 1941, php has 4832, java 10973). I'm not saying it's impossible but 132 mentions is not a lot. And it's not as if no one is fighting you for these Elixir jobs, quite a few people still want these jobs.
Is Elixir still being chosen for new projects by startups or is it all python / go / rust ? The numbers for Elixir are very low.
Every morning of the day of the date, but surely in general too, I feel like upgraded in every field possible with a long terme cure.
Looks nice. Good documentation too.

One thing I'd add though, is an example for HTTPS (eg: with certbot) in your Reverse Proxy section.
Open season without limits should be an easy way to deal with many of them.
This is usually true for most "nuance animals"

Why track them and remove?
I wonder how it would look if the noise was randomized each frame and the points from the previous frame were considered in future frames to cheaply fill in missing data. I believe a similar technique is used to optimize real time ray tracing due to the low number of pixels that can be traced each frame.
Animation of the Stellar Orbits around the Sagittarius A* black hole (based on real data) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZhUQl-wmq0
Is the Culture War Lost?
They've already been broken up once - it's shocking that some of the recent mergers have been allowed to go forward. So, unironically, yes we should do the telcos next.
What about newspapers and book publishers - they pick sides and hell even endorse candidates -- how can we allow them to exist?
The article touches on this:

> The latter method [encouraging recreational hunting] has sometimes backfired dramatically when surviving animals spread across the state. In some places, for-profit hunting outfits have worsened the problem by importing feral pigs

Basically, it doesn’t seem to work for pigs (thus why Montana banned hunting them).
What are you talking about? They sponsor Hacktoberfest, which gives people free T-shirts for spamming meaningless pull requests on open source projects on Github. How much more developer focus do you want?!?
I've not tried it, but there is a build script for it in AUR: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/plausible-git/
Most autoscaling platforms let you define min and max types of restrictions. I assume DO would have the same functionality in their autoscaling.
The fact that you can overwrite built-in functions is not a point in favor of the language. Imagine you do this in a library and everyone using print() in their project would use a modified print instead. You could've just modified sys.stdout instead.
It is easy. For example you could hire 10000 people to perform calculations for your complex mathematical model (like it was done century ago) or you can buy Raspberry PI to perform the same task in no time. Which will be cheaper?
> Amazon has to compete with Google and every other e-commerce store.

Amazon has majority market share in e-commerce. Google isn't even close.

It's interesting - the comments section appears to be a litany of excuses for big tech just to see what sticks. I think focusing on a single, higher-quality argument against anti-trust might be better.
They analyse your code for things like composer.json or package.json to determine what base buildpack to use.

You do have complete control over the configuration, see https://www.digitalocean.com/docs/app-platform/references/ap...
The article is about discrete logarithms in binary finite fields, though, not in elliptic curves; so are the references you give (other than Wikipedia). Perhaps elaborate how you draw conclusions about ECC from this? (I am not saying I disagree, but I feel your comment is oddly disconnected from TFA)
Same here, I am a a big procrastinator, ang with microdosing I am constantly doing something and if I can't find some task to do then I became very angry, I am very rarely angry without microdosing.
The fish represents the lost dreams of our ancestry, if not the fishy ancestors themselves. The man is us, all of us. The hungry family is our hungry family. Or perhaps our hunger for connection to our past. The story as a whole is meaningless, and in being so, represents the randomness and chaos in which we find ourselves. Is the universe beneficent, malevolent, indifferent? We cannot know for sure. We can only stare into the dying eyes that stare at us in turn, from the mirror, and guess.
replace "industrialization" with "industrialization as it is now" and you can agree! :)
Superhero: How to Send and Receive Superhero Tips
Animated graphs were created with https://flourish.studio/
Is this based on knative? It seems very similar :)
Can you link to a nice house as a reference?
Are janitors doing their job?

That's a hugely broad question. Many are.
Unlimited data and computation on-chain... mind blowing!

It'll take Ethereum a few days to upload 1GB and $3.5-7M in fees... but took a few minutes and less than $10 on the Internet Computer.

See demo (FF to 08:14): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylL4cZG2TiE&t=8s
New interpretation of QM implies reality not dependent on person measuring it
While morally reprehensible, endless "safe" wars are pretty profitable for industry owners if they are run in countries that do not target their valuable industries. Since the tax payer is footing the bill for it all, they're the ones who have to concent to it. Or perhaps not.

Using the invasion of Iraq as an example, there has been many years where public opinion was negative, or at least lukewarm, towards the invasion, though not violently so. Casually reviewing the polling history, this can be observed as early as in 2004. [1] But I think one can safely say that the war hasn't been at the forefront of most people's minds during the last few decades, except for the very beginning. But then, there has been very little mention of the financial cost of the war in the media, if any. And why would there be, as the media also earns a lot of money on these "safe" wars.

The video “Troops Versus Building --- an Iraq War tale” by soldier grunt Blacktail should give you a pretty hands-on idea of the financial cost of the war, however. [2]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_opinion_in_the_United_S...

[2]: Troops Versus Building --- an Iraq War tale, 24 Nov 2009, Blacktail, https://youtu.be/2N-1E2F9pmc
Doom is playable under an Amiga with a 68060 or a 68040 with an accelerator board.
Lawmakers should have been more careful about which mergers and purchases they approved.

The Lawmakers in question are not involved in the actual approval process. They create the rules, but sadly don't do the full rule making[1] nor do they administer the rules. So, this is their check on what the executive branch has done.

1) its amazing how many laws are passed with the actual rules determined by departments in the executive branch. That's why it is so important to look at the announcements in the federal register.
My main problem with Celery is their cowboy handling of distributed computing combined with poor documentation. I'm not aware of any documentation making it clear what's their choices for not-exactly-once result, for one. Failure modes aren't obvious either. Do we need to make sure that tasks are idempotent? Is there any chance they'll be retried if a worker dies suddenly? What exactly happens when a worker receives SIGKILL? How all of the above works with their Fabric (task orchestration) stuff?

I just can't trust a product that doesn't even discuss those issues prominently in the documentation. Distributed computing is inherent for a background task queue, and it's one of the hardest problems out there, so their best effort patchwork of retries and checks doesn't cut it for me. They seem to code and document for a happy case, which is a huge red flag.
In the retail world, the retailers buy the physical goods from the manufacturers (i.e., the store is the customer), so it's not an issue to have store brands. The big name product manufacturers are usually making the store brands as well.

(Consignment is brought up a lot in this discussion as a counterpoint but it's a very small minority of product sales; generally used only for trial products.)
I’ve been WFH for 10 of the past 15 years.

It is much harder to create a new billion dollar company if everyone is WFH, especially if there is a physical product as opposed to something that only manifests on screens.

It is much harder to on board and mentor new co-workers.

It is much harder to make a transition to the next position in your career, like a promotion or move within the company.

It is much harder to develop and maintain relationships that result in respect and trust for coworkers.

All of the above especially if most people are in the office.

I’ve become a bit like a contractor grinding through a series of similar projects, my career growth has stalled, and my only interactions with my coworkers who used to be friends now always boil down to ‘when will X be done?’

I would avoid WFH for anyone not in the sunset years of their career.