skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let me get this right: a Swiss company, offering email FOR LIFE, hosted on a Montenegro domain? What's the backup plan if that domain becomes unavailable for whatever political reason in the future?

I would personally assess the risk of some damned stupid thing happening in the Balkans that loses them the domain higher than the same thing happening to a .ch address, and perhaps a bit too high for a service whose main selling point is for life.
old != not shady.
Exactly we have non trivial trading application and disabled submit button can have a dozen different reasons, some of them temporary (as in lasting for seconds).
Fear and Outrage Are Being Sold for Profit
It's not the whole orange website, just two people who happen to agree in shared ignorance. You shouldn't take that to mean that everyone here thinks the same.
Hehe ;) Trust me, I do want to allow this in the future. However, video editing (the implementation details) is so complex, that I could not start from the get go with a multi-platform solution.

Having said that, in the long term I do want to port it to other platforms, but I can't commit to a timeframe just yet.

About recommending it to your family - I guess your family can try it out and judge for themselves. Here's a getting started tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dv4g7bUU5vk - if that looks easy, I guess it should be for them ;) Thanks!
off topic - without a comma between life and developed, my first thought was that this is about some sort of artificial life developed in Switzerland
Unfortunately it was only my second or third job, but I’d met a number of people in school for whom it seemed obvious they would not be able to cut it in the real world.

But the line you quoted reminds me of a supposedly apocryphal story involving Dustin Hoffman staying up all night to play a scene where his character is exhausted, and Laurence Olivier asked him, “my dear boy, have you simply tried acting?”

Bad coders have a large blast radius on poorly managed teams. No amount of culling people will make up for a complete lack of leadership skills in the organization. If you are leading, some people will not like where you’re headed and find someplace else to be. Others will rise to the challenge.

My dear boy, have you simply tried managing?
It makes me wonder how this sort of knowledge could be acquired in the first place. Many students studying CS haven't seen a command line before entering university, and intro classes usually encourage students to use some IDE. I've known classmates that had no idea they could run `cmake . && make && ./main` on the command line instead of clicking a button.
Exactly. I don't know what are everyone talking about. It's one of the biggest, if not the biggest, hosting provider here in Europe. It's older than Google.
They fired a series of warning shots. Had the put a dent in that hull, there would have been an immense amount of outrage from China.
Predict HN: Something bad is coming to kolkata
Women screaming. Building collapse. Rubble. Bodies in street. Fire/explosion.

Kolkata region. E India, Pak border region. Next 60 days.

Bomb / explosion source in electrical box in a street level workplace, like cafe or restaurant.
GnuPG works with email, was created to do so.
I was additionally confused by the strange capitalization.
No it wasn't, you are thinking of Java.

Docker was snapshots of developer machines you can run in production. They never promised that it would run everywhere.
I think I maybe noticed another typo... The last two axioms don't have matching parentheses? It looks like one more is opened than closed if I counted right.
> there are quite a few Ruby companies who didn't reach Shopify/Stripe scale (is that a problem though? and if so - why?)

I think it makes for an environment that may be comfortable, but one where it's harder for a technical person to grow. It's not just about scaling, it suggests the company doesn't have major technical challenges - in which case the company probably isn't technically innovative (which doesn't make it a bad company or a bad business, but does make it a bad environment to pursue a purely technical career). Of course scaling isn't the only way to get interesting technical problems, but I've not seen people favour Ruby for heavy algorithmic work or anything like that either (though I'd stand to be corrected) - rather the great strength of Ruby is rapidly rolling out UI, so it tends to be chosen for problems where the UI is a large proportion of the thing you're building.
I think a lot of folks get confused between various MxPs (where x = [remarkable, viable, loveable, marketable/sellable]), I know we did, and thought we must be doing something horribly wrong.

This blog post captures some of the differences: https://archive.is/wip/tnm2D (skip to conclusion). This one elaborates what an MLP is: https://medium.com/the-happy-startup-school/beyond-mvp-10-st...
Wow, impressed by that buildroot port. Did you had any particular target hardware when doing this?

I see we share a similar view of what Emacs really is (https://www.eigenbahn.com/2020/01/12/emacs-is-no-editor) and enjoyed your piece. Thanks for posting it.

Having the possibility to have a system that "glues" together different functionalities in a coherent way is really something.

And you being a blind person, I can only conceive how even more critical that is.
Wasn't there also a case of old samples from a sewer system in Italy having sars-cov-2? I read that it could have been an error as well, bit never heard if there was a follow-up.
Stop giving any more of your money directly to Beijing (no more Thinkpads).
> * nVidia ads popping up in the lower-right corner

Sounds like you have Nvidia's "Geforce Experience"(or whatever
it's called) installed. Good thing is you probably don't need
it.

> * Starting a new app takes about 15~30 seconds (I believe it is phoning home the way macOS does, not sure).

Huh, that is weird. Have you tried turning off this phoning home
feature? I think it's called SmartScreen on Windows 10 and you
can disable it somewhere. But Microsoft are really the masters
of UI dark patterns when it comes to this; they let you disable
most of this crap during install but only via near invisible
buttons to access these options.

But I agree Windows 10 is insanely frustrating at times. It's
what ultimately gave me the last push I needed to switch to
Linux.
I am italian, I am slightly lactose intolerant, and I think this video is both terribly wrong and quite offensive.

First, the whole thing is based on a wrong assumption. It is not true that italians do not drink cappuccino after 11 o clock. This should be rephrased as follows: "why italians do not drink cappuccino after breakfast, whenever that is". I'll give you the quickest example I can think of. When I was way younger, on holidays I would go party in the night and wake up way late and I would have breakfast very late, let's say at the time of lunch. I would still order a cappuccino if I felt like it. That's because, is short, time is... relative! The same applies of course to anyone having night shifts and any other scenario you can think of.

To support the first argument I'll also add that italians would never have a cappuccino after they had breakfast, even if it's still early in the morning. Usually an Italian will have a cappuccino early before work, and then a coffee in the coffee break at mid morning. I wouldn't imagine that anyone would get a cappuccino then, even if it's before 11 am, and even if they did not have a cappuccino before.

So why do italians do no drink cappuccino after breakfast? Simply put, for the same reason in any given meal in western culture no one would eat the desert before the main course in any given meal. I would say it's a cultural thing, but we can call it as we want, the only sure thing is that it has nothing to do with lactose.

Before anyone replies that the order of servings in meals is not comparable to the time at which is admissible to drink cappuccino, please consider that we italians are very very very observant/proud/aware of what/when we eat.

In Italy there are hundreds of other non written rules like this for many other types of food, and like this one, most of them are part of the culture. There are literally too many examples to make, so I'll give you just this: go to Bologna and ask for some spaghetti with the bolognese sauce. If you are lucky they'll simply call you a "tourist". The bolognese sauce can be put on any kind of pasta, except spaghetti. This is very little known and the weirdest part is that all around the world the bolognese sauce became famous with the spaghetti, but I can assure you that no one from bologna will ever have the bolognese sauce on spaghetti. Why? In the end is only a cultural thing. Even if I must add that saying that it's only a cultural thing makes me feel dirty, because putting the bolognese sauce on spaghetti is actually a sin.

Having said that, I hope the message got through and please, do enjoy food, especially italian food, whenever you feel like it and however you like it!
My point exactly - the existence of the Predictor proves more than lack of free will. It's lack of free will, so we are automatons that respond to stimuli in a deterministic way, sure.

But there are also some strong restrictions on the set of reactions that are allowed, for example none of them can lead to a functioning counter-predictor robot.
Show HN: I've built speech to text transcriber for my wife's thesis interviews
the font is hard to read
Hey, HN! So my wife is writing her thesis and she needed to do 12 hour-long interviews and then transcribe them to text. I've built this small product for her and it saved her a ton of time. It uses around a dozen AWS services, most importantly AWS Transribe and AWS ECS Fargate, and is built on Ruby on Rails, with Stimulus.js and Bootstrap. I've shared complete stack on StackShare: https://stackshare.io/transcripto/transcripto. I tried to keep it simple and make it as affordable as possible.
What+Are+Health+Benefits+Of+Avocado+-+Health+Lines
How to get your first customers
Show HN: Reduce that feeling of lonely coding (while in quarantine)
From my own experience, I can tell you that programmers can even go negative with their productivity.

I've had one employee on my team who ignored my instructions, ported a critical tool to a new execution environment, added 20 additional dependencies, and then pushed the broken mess onto GitHub. After sinking some days into trying to get anything useful out of the source code, we eventuality just deleted it.
Getting your post removed by a mod.... isn’t really that bad.
Please explain how I can make a webshop like amazon digitally sign a contract?
This is hilariously wrong. When did something like that happen the last time in Montenegro?
True still not really "mom and pop" at least in my mind.
What's unrealistic about the above? Seems pretty accurate to me.
One framing that I found useful (by Covey Jr I think): Capabilities, results, integrity, intent. A bad engineer is so deficient in one or more of those areas that it leads to issues of trust from which a snowball starts to roll downhill. The team will have performance issues or might to start losing people and so on.

A well intended, stand up person who can't code will have a negative impact because their team mates will have to carry their water.

A person with high technical chops who delivers great technical implementations but publicly berates people and has temper issues and throws their team mates under the bus in order to get ahead will also have a negative impact on the performance of the team as a whole.
Interview with Matteo Mortari (RedHat) on process automation
Correct, but there's no need to use autism as an insult or imply (only) they do that.
> GnuPG works with email, was created to do so.

Please explain how I can make amazon sign my purchase receipt with GnuPG?
Given it's in winter, probably an Influenza variant. Because Influenza (unlike some other causes of "flu" symptoms) is most widespread in winter, each hemisphere uses data from the other's winter to plan their seasonal vaccine. But this is like predicting the weather, even when you've had practice and are good at it on average, sometimes you miss badly.

If you either guess wrongly what to vaccinate against based on the data from the other hemisphere, or Influenza mutates significantly after your cut off date to evade your profile, the vaccine is much less effective than normal, and higher than normal rate of hospitalizations and deaths results.

Influenza is endemic, we never even wiped out the variant from the "Spanish Flu" pandemic last century, it's still with us is an attenuated form.
> privacy !== anonymity

Why not?

With the same reasoning you could deny selling people food unless they show you their government ID.

Would you consider such an abomination a country where privacy still exists?

If you strip people from basic anonymity for no sane reason they have no privacy.

If all you want is to prevent people from signing up infinite accounts then have them solve a bazillion captchas or pay a token amount of cryptocurrency, but don't ask them to connect their account to completely unrelated private information.

Email operates independently of cell phone numbers, so it shouldn't be required to connect yours to your mail address.
In college where I was at last year exams were public knowledge and anyone had access to them. No one seen it as cheating to try last year exam before going on this year.

Yes, it means teachers have to vary tests, but then again it gives you repository of exercises to learn from and to train on. It is just win for learning.
I love Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL. But upgrading still is a giant pain. I sincerely wish there was a way to schedule an automatic upgrade to newer major versions.
Mac certificate check stokes fears that Apple logs every app you run
What 'stations' for Elon Musk's The Boring Company look like
We don't really know what the slow-rolling effects of shutting down a double-digit percentage of the world's economy is. War is a distinct possibility; we know from WWI that everything seems fine until everyone mobilises all at once.

I hope the LA times are taking their responsibilities seriously and not reporting things in an incendiary way. I'd rather see an unfair peace in Asia than a big war in my lifetime. The US is an underdog against China here, China is bigger, has more ability to exert power and has much at stake.
Automate Slack Status and DND
I couldn't find an official source in English, so I'm just going off what I found here: https://www.lonelyplanet.com/thorntree/forums/europe-western...

For tourists, it's something that's rarely enforced. And if you stay at a hotel they'll handle it for you (or presumably, maintain records in case the police have questions).
This is a common misconception I see on HN.

To evaluate ad spend, you don't look at just short-term return. There's a reason that "lifetime value" is a critical concept for companies. It's fairly normal in large companies that, in a given year, you may spend more on ads than you gain from those ads - but you expect the customers you gain from them to continue spending over many years.

So you may spend $100 to gain a customer who spends $20 in the first year... then $40 in the second... then $80 in the third... now all of a sudden your return on that was positive, three years later.

These are the kind of ads you want to buy, even if in the short term it looks bad. These large marketing expenses should have compounding benefits over many years. The people who care about the short term like that are not the investors you want and not the people you're trying to please.
Anything to like about Ubuntu Mate is better in Mint Mate.

It's Ubuntu without the attempts at lock-in. But Debian Mint (Mate/Cinnamon/Gnome) is pretty OK too.

Personally, I have never understood why anybody installs Ubuntu. Ubuntu was better for a couple of years, right at the start, and has just gotten worse since. The only thing it does better is that an installer that understands current hardware is easier to find. (Debian has it too, but tries to hide it, because "nonfree".)

So, installing Debian Mint is the best of all worlds. Once you have installed Debian Mint, you have regular Debian.
Show HN: From monolith to microservices – Free eBook (PDF, ePub, MOBI)
As we are coming from the software development industry, we were asked so many times about how microservices work and why they should (or shouldn't) be implemented. That's why we decided to write the ebook covering the answers to the most frequent questions. Rather than a finished project, the purpose of the launch is to gather feedback and add the topics that the readers are missing.

In this book, you can find explanations of microservices architecture as well as a step-by-step guide for the transition from a monolith to microservices.

Book content
1. Microservices or monolithic – which is better?
2. Top advantages of microservices
3. APIs and microservices
4. SOA versus microservices
5. How to convert a monolith to microservices
"The cause: online certificate checks Apple performs each time a user opens an app not downloaded from the App Store. The mass upgrade to Big Sur, it seems, caused the Apple servers responsible for these checks to slow to a crawl."
For life? Whose, mine or theirs?
Docker runs in a Linux VM if you use Windows or Mac,and nothing will change that here.

The "different beast" is just some go wrappers.
they also offer a good alternative to wetransfer:

https://www.swisstransfer.com/fr

i'm hosting a website and cloud server by them and quite pleased so far.
> Click Edit -> "Access denied" -> Ah, I need to ask my admin for additional permissions

Please don't let me click twice just to tell me I can't do something (once to try the action, second to dismiss the error).

Instead make the action control disabled (not hidden), with possibly a tooltip to explain why you can't do it.
I am biased as the original creator, but take a look at OpenFaaS -> https://docs.openfaas.com - there are a few things that people may enjoy who would turn to Dokku otherwise.
That’s one badly formatted list.
IBM are pushing PRs to many open source projects to test ppc64le
Looks like they are opening PRs to a lot of projects.
Most projects do not even care about the arch they are running on.
Feels like a really strange way to test your own arch. Instead of having a test suite, using other projects to test it for you.

https://github.com/search?p=1&q=ppc64le+travis&type=Issues

for example:

https://github.com/watson/ci-info/pull/54
That's exactly what they are saying.
Thank you for your clarity. This discussion chain may have kicked of an existential crisis. I think you might have exposed me to a Lovecraftian horror. The article and your discussion have been, if not mind altering, very much mind expanding.

I can't say I've followed all of the nuance in your (argument?) comments. I do know I'm going to be chewing on this for a while. I've come to grips with horror of saccades, fascinating to learn about new ways my mind, uh, decides what is true.

In any case, I appreciate your long thoughtful responses. May not mean much to you, but for at least one reader, it means a lot to me.
> It also violates the idea of being able to run the exact same image on your laptop (ARM Mac) and in prod (x86 server).

99% of people are running node/python/RoR/PHP on Ubuntu/Debian/Arch. It works the same for most cases. (possible caveat: I'm not sure if numpy and TensorFlow is supported already but it probably is)

But for basic stuff, it's a non-issue
Maybe the drivers are underpaid, maybe the restaurants are underpaid, maybe the food costs too much, but even if they end up charging more money, are they really going to go away like Groupon did?

There is this corrosive process of these gig-economy companies, they end up making life just a little bit more shit for everyone. You'll turn a blind eye to the desperate delivery drivers, to the stress of the restaurant owner as he struggles to make payroll (it's a hard enough business already) as the delivery company pushes him to lower prices with the threat of being dropped. Then you'll notice that the quality of the food starts to drop, or one day that restaurant falls off the app, huh, you'll think, wonder what happened to them, never mind. And the deliveries will start to take a bit longer and make more mistakes as the company squeezes the drivers harder and harder...

Try paying a fair price for fair value and taking pleasure in seeing businesses owned by your neighbours thrive. It really is a better way to live than spending your time on earth with your face buried in an app exploiting the poorest.
> Ever rode a Soviet car that wasn’t copypasted from Fiat?

Isn't the Volga a copy of a Mercedes? ;)
MDF produces finer grained dust than most other wood products. Regular sawdust doesn't tend to create quite as big a mess as MDF sawdust.
Sorry, I am not well educated in this area to precisely define the “resolution”. Perhaps it’s film grain or the smoothness of the edges.
K3s needs 500MB of RAM on a server and 50MB on an agent. That's the lowest we've ever seen for Kubernetes and Darren is planning on getting something working on 256MB SoC devices next.

If you want to go ultra-lean, and only need a single node RPi or VPS (many applications don't need massive scale-out) then take a look at what we've been building with "faasd" and containerd - https://github.com/openfaas/faasd
I feel like universities should have a really basic intro to intro cs class that just gets students familiar with the command line (CS49?).

I remember some university doing something similar as a workshop, but I can't recall which.

Over the course of classes, sometimes they do require you to use the command line but then they will just give you the commands to copy paste, without explaining what any of it does.
SpaceX Starlink users first impressions and unboxing pictures
Since the application attestation service sends application hashes unencrypted, any third party observing the traffic can fingerprint you if you use exotic enough applications.
Hands Illustrations: 56 unique illustrations for websites and apps
Do you have / did you have 2FA enabled? And, if not, why not?
+1 for Migadu or ProtonMail, both offer great service, but Migadu with $19 yearly plan and amount of features is just incomparable to any other service.
>The reason they continue to do this is because they know without doubt other Countries will not treat their fishing vessels in the same way. There is zero consequences for their actions and they have zero reason to change their policy.

This paragraph completely decontextualizes what's going on and makes it sound like the Chinese state is just rolling around blowing up ships for fun. In reality, fishing in international waters has always been messy.

>You might say "the consequence is that they look bad", but they don't, at least not to the people they care about - mainlanders. They own and/or control the news media in mainland China. To produce an anti-CCP news piece in China is suicide for these companies.

This is just orientalism. Unlike us normal westerners, they don't care about what other people think! How scary!

>External "free" media have their own interests and biases, meaning they may or may not publish articles depending on whether they coincide with their goals. If a bad China news piece makes the current President they support look bad, do you really think it makes headline news?

This is delusional, as I discuss here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25121329

>Doing "drive bys" is hardly actual action, like say dismantling a Chinese base made in international waters. THAT would be concrete action, and I bet they would get all upset but ultimately do nothing (unless it's too Australia, in which case they'll find some other product to ban).

This is just bloodthirsty lol.
Git is too hard