skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Spain we don't have so many surnames prefixed with particles, but we do have some (e.g. "Del Río") and the capitalization also works as you describe for Dutch.

It makes sense: when you say Juan del Río it's obvious that it's a surname, but if you just said "del Río" without context, the "del" could be confused with the common word.
From technology view, there is no an absolute way to prevent non-interactive experiences from being stolen. Reading book is non-interactive experience. Game binary files may be stolen, but game play experiences are hardly.
The US actually is a successful democracy. Compared to that Germany performs abysmally and state regulated speech doesn't work. It is just isn't enough to cause issues. That is the reality of things.

If our ministry of foreign affairs actually would look at the big picture, maybe they wouldn't have inspired autocratic governments worldwide to extend content controls.
Where do you you see these mythical quick strides? Do you have data to back up this claim ?
No. Don't even. Which of them is credentialed by the Trump administration?

Credibility counts.

The Washington Post is filled with award winning journalism, awards given out by organizations with members from all political stripes and persuasions, awards given for thorough investigations, painstaking research, thoughtful analysis, nuance, insight, and good judgment.

The same can be said for The Economsist, the Wall Street Journal, Fox News, and hundreds of other organizations worldwide.

Comparing institutional media that thrives on establishing credibility and legitimacy to "random wackos" is the height of false equivalency.
yes, but if you had difficulty typing your outbursts of thought then your output would be constrained by your typing speed i suppose
Serverless is already here, it's just unevenly distributed. Instead it's called (managed) Kubernetes and yeah, you need a devops team and there's still a bunch of overhead but like you say - the writing's on the wall.
> I find the question really odd. It is like asking why people create new recipes

This analogy missed the point. It's about recipes written in a new language barely spoken by anyone, like elvish or klingon. Writing Romulan ale recipes in klingon is totally fine if you are targeting people on a star-trek convention, and want to start a romulan-klingon fight. But writing the only one documentation of a critical system in klingon at a public company sounds crazy, even if you can reduce the LOC (lines written) by 10% due to the nice and unique grammar of klingon (I mad this one up, I have no clue about klingon). Guess what, no sane person would want to work with that documentation, unique klingon grammar or not.

You just have to take a look at Esperanto, the "an easy and flexible language - created by Zamenhof - that would serve as a universal second language to foster world peace and international understanding, and to build a 'community of speakers', as he believed that one could not have a language without such a community." After 130 years still no one speaks it, and English is the common language in the western world. Which - considering its shortcomings - is like if everyone of us would mainly code in COBOL, just because everyone can code in COBOL.

tl,dr: normal human beings don't want to learn 2 new languages every year, just because [put a random argument here]. Why should we?

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A Tale of Two Species
I think if you work at Facebook, I wonder how you can live with yourself, helping to make the world a worse place.

Having worked at Facebook should make you a paria, nobody should hire you. Facebook should be a stain on your resume.
Why you should opt for a purpose-driven brand strategy
I got this problem with several payment processors as the allowed name and name on my credit/debit cards never match. After a few years, I changed(modified) my name.
Astronomers determine distances to 18 dwarf galaxies
Why do you need a library. Name is an open input field. As long as the inputs are sanitized, you should just accept whatever is typed there.
Why scientists made Venus flytraps that glow
are you speaking equally about academic researchers and those in industry?
Do you really need a library for that? Why can't you leave the name as it was entered by the user, without making further assumptions?
Which speaks to the subsidy and scale effects of surveillance capitalism.
And since the Amiga 500 was produced by Commodore, making it a “Commodore Amiga 500”, the title is accurate
I agree, the company license is more of a "if your company has enough money to support userTrack, please do" than "get this to get better features". The main reason it is like that, is because if I limit anything on the personal license I would have to take care of existing customers and provide them with new business licenses, provide a way to distribute different userTrack versions and make sure the auto-updater always updates to the correct version. It is something that I have considered, but I preferred to focus on improving the product as I am a techincal personal and I am still struggling to improve my sales/business skills without feeling that I over-charge people or force them to pay more than they can afford.

> Also, monthly pricing for self-hosted is sort of strange. Really consider switching to annual license pricing ONLY

This is a really good suggestion and I will do it really soon. Initially I wanted to also provide an annual option, but there were too many options to choose from (Monthly, Annual, Lifetime).

> Really consider switching to annual license pricing ONLY

Are you also suggesting to drop the lifetime plan? The main reason why the lifetime plan exists is that previously userTrack was sold on CodeCanyon, where the lifetime plan is the only option. After that I kept it as, personally, I hate paying recurrent fees for a product (eg. I preferred Photoshop CS6 a lot more than CC with its subscription, just let me "buy" the product). I understand that by having only a lifetime plan it is a lot harder to keep maintaining it and have consistent revenue: what if sales suddenly stop, do I stop working on the product?

I am still experiment with pricing, and I will try the annual pricing only. Thanks a lot for the suggestion!
People already started having emojis in their name, having hyphen is just a minor annoyance, and I'm willing to bet it being dropped does not change anything for you
Can you elaborate on your approach to "abstract away the serverless interface and create a test harness that can test the business logic"?
we've done serverless in the dark ages of web programming back when perl was the fashionable hacker language and a buzzword. it was called 'cgi scripts'. it's amazing how a simple rebranding can do to a technology.
I am interested to read the details behind this.
Did you not RTFA? Read the section on Britain First again.

Its entire premise is Facebook has created an enormous amount of carveouts and tolerances for hate speech and divisive content to protect revenue and growth.
We are already using techniques fro AI (CI/ML) in several problems. I am not sure why you assume that no value was created.
You probably know this but from what I read above it might be worth mentioning.

Your hosts are still packed with a bunch libraries and services (sshd for example) that should probably be updated with regularity.

I echo a lot of what you say here regarding run anywhere and not marrying some giant vendor.
Roughly speaking: if you can see your marble through a purple filter, the one in Australia will turn out to be perfectly green.
Then have a look at what C++23 might bring,

http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2020/p137...
This. There's little substitute for seeing the program write down the wrong text and saying "correct that", then saying the correct number or saying "spell that" and spelling out a word instead.

The good news is, dragon appears to to learn which of the two word variations you use more often and begins to weight its word recognition towards those cases instead.
The EU knows this, but they will continue to comply with US trade sanctions until they can live without the US in all areas. A giant hurdle (but not the only one) is NATO and being able to counter Russia. While NATO and the EU are separate, many countries are members of both. If the EU took a hard stance and said that they value trade with China more than the US's security complaints, the US could very well use that as an excuse to pull troops out of Europe. And if anyone thinks that doesn't matter, just know that a Russian invasion (or more likely erosion of borders) is something that terrifies EU leaders far more than missing out on sales to China.
Here's a point that I don't see raised anywhere in the comments: short-term rented items are stateless. Wear, tear and failure is undone by the rental company, but so are any customisation, decoration, or adjustments to make them better

If you need a car adjusted for the needs of disabled persons (whether it's yourself or a member of your family), or if you want to put up a picture frame or a poster in a short-term rented room/office, then those adjustments will be treated as deviations from the norm, and "corrected" at the end of your rental term if you leave them in place.

Part of human condition is the need to self-express, and you cannot really do that with short-term rented items (and to some extent, even long-term rented items). This can discourage personalisation and customising your environment altogether, which may feel like being in a prison.
> Not sure though we can categorize blockchain as hardware or not.

I think in this sense, blockchains would be VMs, not hardware. Though, like the JVM, it would be possible to make a hardware (and presumably firmware) implementation of the VM.
It's likely that all the characters are being transferred and stored in the same charset (probably a Unicode one) regardless of what character is entered. The replacement glyph (the question mark) might be caused by their use of a font with incomplete Unicode coverage, or (more likely) by a buggy "take the first character of each word in their name" algorithm, for example using the first byte and then special-casing Chinese under the mistaken impression that nothing else needs more than one byte.
And where do you work?

I can probably (almost certainly) find serious ethical lapses in your company, if it's large and/or has been around for a long time.

Shaming people based on their perceived associations is just wrong, no matter what those associations.
The only real problem with the AmigaOS architecture is the lack of memory protection.
Funny you should bring up "Daemon", I just tried to read it. If anything, I found the writing focussed too much on accurate details at the expense of good storytelling. As the plot was no secret, and the concept fairly trivial, I gave up pretty quickly.
The Brazilian city of Manaus is an example of where restrictions were ignored by ~50% of the population (based on mobile phone data), resulting in approximately 66% of people becoming infected before herd immunity started to have an impact [0]. With an estimated infection:fatality rate for the US at ~0.5% (all ages) this would mean nearly 1.2 million deaths in the US.

[0] COVID-19 herd immunity in the Brazilian Amazon:
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.09.16.20194787v...
You could have something similar to quantum entanglement if these were some strange kind of marbles which cannot have a well defined color and size at the same time and are magically linked.

If you look at the marble you got and it's red (or blue) the size becomes indeterminate. Focusing now on the size you will find it's large or small, but the color becomes indeterminate. It could be red the next time you look at it.

When you take your entangled marble, look at the color and see it's red you know the other marble is in the "blue" state (and the entanglement is broken). If someone looks at the color of that marble you know they will find it's blue. But if they look at the size before looking at the color it could be large or small (and looking now at the size of your marble will tell you nothing about it) and if they look at the color later it could be red or blue.

In the classical case, if there is a large red marble in one envelope and a small blue marble in the other it doesn't matter in what order you look at the color and the size. You will always know what the other person found.

In the quantum case, if both look at color first they will find complementary colors. If they both look at size first they will find complementary sizes. But the second measurement will be uncorrelated. And if they make the measurements in a different order, everything will be uncorrelated.
I generally don't think of researchers as psychopaths though I'm sure a small number are. On the whole, I would think that they are more motivated by a thirst for knowledge and wanting to make something cool and gain social approval from other smart people.

I'm more referring to the people at the top who make the decisions about the direction of AI innovation and use AI as an excuse for receiving tons of funding from the government (or from industry) that they don't deserve and could be better allocated to more productive things which will actually help people instead of trying to control people.

Controlling people does not help them. AI tech related to productive industries like farming, construction, etc... That's great. But clearly that's not the kind of AI which Facebook is working on (there may be general overlap, but the goal is wrong).
you don't even have https on the site, Google is right to lower your rank
That or DPaint
> It’d also cut down on support issues related to billing for a one-dev shop.

Thanks for pointing this out! Currently I use Gumroad, so they handle the payment and invoices and only send me the money with a weekly invoice, regardless of the number of sales. BUT, I always wanted to use Stripe instead of Gumroad for various reasons (lower fees, multiple currencies, per-country pricing, better withdrawl methods), only that by doing so I would have to deal with a lot more invoices. Having only the annual (and lifetime) options would really make me reconsider Stripe.
It reminds me of https://www.frankmcsherry.org/graph/scalability/cost/2015/01... - you pay an extremely high cost upfront without even noticing - for the promise that at some point, you'll be able to scale out to any scale, with no extra human effort and for costs proportional to the scale.

I have not observed enough uses of serverless I can draw conclusions from, but if it's anywhere like hadoop style scaling, 95% of the users will pay 10x-100x on every metric without ever actually deriving any benefit compared to a non-distributed reasonably defined system, and 5% will actually benefit -- but everyone would want to put it on their resume and buzzword-bingo cards.
I'm using a PVM so it's high end kit, however perhaps because it also supports 60Hz they are unable to use the longer-glowing phosphors?
Instead of Launching Social Media Apps, Why Not Take a Deep Breath First?
But why does it need to be done at a single moment? Why not take a day or week to make sure you’ve got in touch with people? There’s no rush except what they create for themselves.
The Advant Guarde died in the 1960s with Warhol.

If you want to be truly free thinking then suffer your whole life for your art/creation and die in obscurity only to be celebrated decades after your death.

Contrarian is used as if it means; I can do what I want against a percieved opponent and get paid handsomely for it.

The real contrarians are pushing data collection, adtech, outrage machines and using knowledge to control people. The power in being contrary is found in collective outrage movements, tech and religion instead.

Thinkingly freely is part of the order now, as reliable and necessary as bread and butter. It is not contrary.
of course i'd rather the police sit and watch and maybe throw some tear gas around. why do think violence or even lethal force would work?
When I used it, I didnt notice, but when I used it again years later (after having typed on pc keyboards), ... boy you really need to press the keys, almost hammer them, no more fluent typing. Give it a try (maybe your experience is differen)
Ask HN: What are some evergreen HN threads worth revisiting?
Due to the nature of HN, once a post is out of the homepage it more or less falls into oblivion.

There had been a lot of good threads over the years, but It's hard for someone late to the party to unearth such gems.

Do you have any such threads bookmarked?
> because of the rich inheritance available to the researchers

And where did that come from? From some open-source foundation?
One example I remember from high school is a person whose first name is Admin. Granted, it's an uncommon name, but he's unable to use his real name in many, many online services (Facebook being one of them of course).
I'll add that modern heat pumps can work effectively in heat pump mode (around 4kW of heat out for every 1kW of electricity in) down to around -25c. Below that they will automatically switch to resistive heating (same as baseboard heaters).

I'm building a new house in Northern Europe (it regularly gets to -25c/-5F in winter) and will we be using a Daikin Altherma 3R air source heat pump to provide hot water, underfloor heating, and air conditioning - all from a single heat pump.
Have seen a dozen of these ads this last week on YouTube, with new illustrations. I wonder what it's going to be like when they actually make the game they're selling.
Same that happened to Google. That netted mixed results.
We should extend lockdowns and close all businesses.
> Uh, no, entrepreneurs would be stomped flat, having their ideas stolen and marketed by whomever the fastest mover was.

That is how it works in theory. In reality, large entrenched interests with a large budget for attorneys, and a war chest of their own patents that can be used offensively, can easily stomp over small entrepreneurs. At best, the small entrepreneur gets an invitation to settle.
Possible. But I know how they operate and they loose a lot of effort on nothing really.
My experience is with .NET Core and the development experience is awesome... Dropped a $250/m cost down to ~$9/m moving it from ec2 to lambda's. Environment variables are loaded no differently between development and prod. Nothing is all over the place as it's almost 0 difference between building a service to run in Linux/Windows vs a Lambda.
After reading your comment I felt like I was reading mine! I've been working on infrastructure automation too, and recently purchased a microcontroller kit to hack it and mess around with it.

Just connecting the microcontroller and turning on a LED light is satisfying sometimes.
Right now I'm in that cycle where I hesitate to look at screens after work.
What you do might be nice, but it does not scale. People do not include stuff for accessibility's sake. Web is the ultimate proof of that. That's why I prefer if accessibility is included in the workflow itself.
There is no need for a libaray, there is just need for a consistent standard.

Meaning, if all programms would use UTF-8, fine. But they don't.
But character -encoding is somewhat complicated, because there are a lot of languages out there. Some who even need more than 2 bytes per character, so you get special cases, which break on another system etc.
Hah, it gave me pretty much the opposite of my type.
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IMHO: A private company, under a nation, shouldn’t be allowed to require PII, let alone forcing to publish it, unless it is absolutely necessary(not in the way Facebook works) or required by law(webshops, banks) to do so.

Facebook as it is isn’t compatible with society. It’s at least a decade past the point it had to be corrected.
Yeah that's fine. I'll take Dropbox and Spotify over "curl + ftpfs + git" and Winamp any day. If that makes me less intelligent than you, that's fine.

I'm not going to bother explaining why I think either of those services is superior to these handrolled solutions. But fortunately, both have 100 million+ paying users. You can ask one of them why they're foolishly paying for something when a superior alternative exists.
I haven't, but my roommate from university had to outrun a Toyota Corolla with four guys trying to pull him over on a mountain pass in his Subaru Outback. Since then, things in ZA have gotten worse.
The argumentation here is poor.

- there is no explanation of what the "AI philosophy" or "AI way of thinking" is according to the authors

- according to the authors this undefined philosophy has caused economical and social damage

- the authors propose "focusing on the human" as an alternative but the two aren't mutually exclusive at all

It's just a cheap formula - keep the target vague, blame the vague target for real problems without proving causation, propose an alternative that's good on its own but doesn't contradict any real form of the vaguely defined target.

I haven't read a lot of Wired but this just comes accross as poorly thought out at best. Or worse, it's just manipulative.
This paper made me realize just how much info I have been bombarded with since february. This feels like a distilled set of Cliffs Notes from the past 8 months.
Nowhere is this more clear than on platforms like YouTube where the tendrils of corporate control extend outside of the entity itself to ensnare another class of gig worker. Entertainers are now vapidly defined "Creators" who are working to provide entertainment such that it appeases "the algorithm" and grants them wealth.
I really like Edge Not Found !

Really neat concept.
userTrack does not have any bot-detection system yet. Many bots are filtered automatically as the tracking is done in JavaScript, so HTML-only crawlers do not show up in the dashboard. Bots that run JavaScript might appear in the total stats and the visitors list, but usually in the list you can visually see if the user was a bot (usually has a low screen resolution and a session length of 0).

I do plan to add better bot-detection, but currently I didn't see any noticeable problem with it nor any existing customer reported this problem. I think one reason why bot percentage overall is lower than in Google Analytics is because GA is a very popular and old platform and there are many spam bots created specificially for it whereas userTrack is still new and has a lower market-share, so it is not even blocked in any way by ad-blockers yet. I have focused more on the features/issues reported by existing clients than the bot-detection, but I did add it to the roadmap and plan to work on it soon.
Can't help you there. However, an advice: post your stuff according to the US time zone. Most people here are based there and if posted around midnight their time, you loose big part of the visibility.
I agree with the suggestion when to use a server, but I think making it out to be an obvious physical law is a bit too far.
Serveless runtimes can be massively multi-tenant, and in cases like Cloudflare have very little overhead per tenant, so they can share excess capacity for spikes, which you have to factor into your server. This gives them the ability to beat the server in thermodynamics. Maybe they will, maybe they won't but I don't think that's the argument that matters.
Names are too complicated and too personal.

The issue is that many developers have an urge to do some 'clever' processing on them when, really, my conclusion is that they should be left alone. Just sanitise them for security purpose and that's it. This is a typical 'less is more' scenario.

The best person to write a specific name as it should be is the person the name belongs to, so just let them do it.