skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Outright bans are clumsy, but imposing a cost or bar to entry, like most societies do with alcohol and drugs, might be constructive.

With requiring payment comes the ability to trace where the money came from.

So you're essentially demanding:

- that every social media account is easily connectable to the real citizen ID behind it.

- that governments should assist social networks in their already rampant tracking of users by even enforcing it through legislature.

- by that also that governments build infrastructure which can be used to track the political opinion of every citizen, because that's what they can do if every user account is linked to a real person.

I can understand that the goals behind what you say are noble, but please take notice of this:

When I use FB or whatever, I want to be completely anonymous.

I neither want FB, nor random strangers there, nor the government to track what the real person behind my pseudonym posts on FB.

And that should be the right of everyone. Mundane things such as posting your opinion on the internet should not have huge barriers of entry and possibly individual consequences attached to them.

To not become a fascist country, you cannot regulate social media access.
I dunno. I have a 30 year old 4Runner. Any key from any Japanese car will start it. Or a screw driver.
I think it's a good thing. It indicates:

- Django is big (because it solves a lot of problems)

- there exists a learning curve

Sometimes people miss best practices when the interplay between those two points occur.

Fortunately bots exist to help with that problem
Oh yes they do. And were very happy with it until they understood the nature of social media is not to connect people, but to socialize them into bubbles that become antagonists to each other.

In corrupt places as well as democratic, peaceful places, it creates disruption and discontent through dissemination of (true - or false - doesn't matter) informations that in turn fuels civil unrest.

In corrupt places, this unrest is an opportunity for improvement.
In non-corrupt ones, it is an opportunity for worsening.
No.

GP said idea to product costs 1B just for r&d. That and 1B amortized over failures (and including marketing) cannot be true at the same time unless there are no failed attempts and unless marketing cost is zero.
I would love to be a fly on the wall at Intel.
I haven't touched Django in the last 6-8 years, but I've been able to solve first few problems just with basic common sense and SQL knowledge.

Are those problems really about Django the framework and not about data modeling in relational databases?
It's just like cable tv, millions of channels and nothing's on. Draped head to toe in ads, and this time its easy to block ads.

How long until the streaming services become comglomerated into one or two cable-like packages? Can't be long now and it will break apart again and reform over a hundred years with better tech ... again, maybe?
Ask HN: Can Wiby.org Be Saved?
Wiby.org says it's closing because of server costs. Does anyone know any more about this? It would suck to lose it.

Recently I've seen multiple people mention wiby.org as a search engine replacement for the "slow web". I've been using it as my homepage, and it's really nice: Every time I do a "surprise me" I end up happier than when I started, and I've found so many great rabbit holes to explore!

Now it is showing the message "Unfortunately this proxy service will be ending soon as I cannot afford to run it. I apologize for the inconvenience caused to those who regularly used it."

There's a button to donate, but I'm not sure if it's too late now they've announced the end. Does anyone know more about the site or the owner, and if it can be saved?
Sexism is not a known problem in tech, and I certainly appreciate that HN did not write racist slogans in support of marxist domestic terrorist groups. This site is about startups, and they want to abolish capitalism. It would make no sense.
I appreciate the response!

> By analogy, I don't think putting taxes on cigarettes means the state will try to get more people to smoke.

To be clear: I don't mean that the state would try to encourage companies to collect and monetize more of their users' information. What I'm suggesting is that they would have a weaker incentive to protect the privacy of their citizens if part of their revenue depended on it being infringed.
Really? I license my libraries (tiny as they are) under MIT, specifically so that they can be used by anyone, with no restrictions whatsoever. I am very happy to hear when they are getting used.
The only reason it's still around is because it's been in continuous use for two millennia.
I’m running something similar and have to admit that the ~70$/month for CloudSQL grinds my gears a little. The pricing for Cloud Run on the other hand is pretty sweet.
My thermostat is on an exterior wall, so the reading is affected by the outdoor temperature. I need to adjust it every few weeks as it gets colder so it doesn't turn my house into a sauna in the winter time. Obviously this is not ideal, but count this story as one more anecdotal example that some people change their thermostat frequently.
I guess the frustrating part is that Twitter doesn't specifically disallow automation and bots, the platform also provides a low barrier of entry for casual users to also view the data produced by the bot, but for a company that "loves developers" they don't provide a great developer experience when things go wrong.
Same here, what a nightmare it is to take those long flights. I once waited 9 hours at an airport for a 12 hour flight; seldom been more exhausted than that. It wasn't even the last leg, so even more airports/waiting when we arrived.

Is there a worse place to wait than those airports? The shops sell Rolex watches, Hugo Boss suits, alcohol (let me lug some bottles of vine/booze across the globe to save $12) + perfume. Obviously some overpriced cafe's and restaurants there as well, but not exactly a cool place to "hang out".
Unless Tesla is pulling an Apple and individually assigning serial numbered parts to a specific vehicle for "maintenance tracking" (read: DRM and anti right-to-repair tactics)
This is obviously about control.

Apple's MO with every _smaller_ supplier has been:

1. Set up office down the road
2. Poach top engineers
3. Come up with some excuse to cancel use of supplier and integrate in house.

The media and fanboys are remarkably complicit, coming up with excuses for apple's behaviour and giving very favourable coverage.

In this case, intel are too big for this trick to work and apple already have loads of ARM talent so it makes perfect sense to transition.

I wouldn't rule out apple trying on the whole 'we don't need a license' thing any more with Nvidia but it's probably unlikely given their size.

I worked at imagination technologies who was bankrupted by Apple doing this technique and whose GPUs are still used by them so I saw this and people's remarkable lack of attention on the incredibly consistent pattern of control first hand.

While all of this is obviously true, I actually think it's great that intel and AMD are receiving some serious ISA competition and it will net benefit non-apple consumers too long run.

Congrats to apple for pretty impressive technical work but I do wish more would see apple for the ruthless control freaks they are.

At the end of the day I think rather mundanely it's really more about money than anything else.
Well, design can be postmodern (like postmodern architecture), but this is not that.
While I think the current system helps, let's not pretend that profit is the sole reason people decide to work in medicine or research.

We all have things (and people) in our lives who are probably a net negative in terms of financial outcome, but we enjoy them anyways because our value systems are more complex than just "maximize profit"
To clarify, if I'm reading this correctly, when they say "day 9" they're referring to day 9 of illness, not day 9 after exposure.

Does anybody know what the data says about how long to wait for symptoms after being in contact with somebody who has it?
The mRNA vaccines are better and protect more people. AZ leaves 10% unprotected, mRNA leaves 5%. That's a big difference if trying to get to herd immunity.
There's no reason to assume it is tax free. You can find out.
Au revoir – Docker Blog (2018)
How fast is the ARM used in the Windows computers compared to the M1? I would think that if it had the performance of the M1 that we would have seen Windows RT more widely accepted by now.
Won’t be a problem as long as you bring along an emergency rock [1].

[1]: https://youtu.be/BqGf8pqCZi0
The real value is in lead generation, getting contact info of gullible people with spare money.

Lots of dubious products are marketed to religious people, a segment that are easy to soon part with their money.
Pre-pandemic I would fly from Boston to India via Dubai six to eight times a year. It takes about 22 hours or so including layover. I take an Ambian an hour or two into the Boston-Dubai leg and with that I can sleep for seven hours or so. Before that I might be able to sleep for an hour if I was lucky. It really makes a huge difference.
I use similar stack too :)

- GKE kubernetes
- Managed Postgres (CloudSQL)
- GCS buckets for file storage
- Cloudflare for DNS
- Countour for ingress
- Keel for automating deployment updates
- Mailgun
- Sentry (errors)
- Node-RED various little automations such as healthchecks

Planning to introduce Elasticsearch too, so far I have been testing the operator and it seems to be pretty good quality.

From maintenance perspective GKE is great, as long as the bills are paid, no need to login there pretty much ever. As a one man company this means a lot, I try to never spend any time on ops.
Hey, tell me what is your country and I'll tell you how many times I thoroughly nuked it while playing Civilization)
I was really fascinated by this article, but ultimately a bit disappointed by the conclusion. This isn't about the ethics of gaming at all, but the author's drawn conclusion about the ethics of a specific game (with a brilliant long-form exploration of the historical context behind the game).

Why enjoying a Nazi-general-commander game is less justifiable than, say, Postal (where you play a distraught postal worker going on a senseless killing rampage), or Grand Theft Auto is not explored at all. Also, the Milgram experiment (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment) is highly relevant when vilifying people for taking orders even if they understand that the orders may be immoral.
Checkout Hatchbox.io, just started using it myself. You basically pay a flat monthly rate for their Heroku-esque management service and then pay for the servers on your provider of choice separately (e.g. DO, AWS, etc).
Here's my self-serving advice for every one-man SaaS:

Use Heroku.

It's super easy to get started. And when you reach $2000+ in monthly bills, hire me to move things over onto dedicated or EC2 so that you'll get 10x that performance for the same price.

As for the actual language, I think PostgreSQL + Ruby Backend + JS Frontend is still the easiest way to get started.

All those great architectural ideas don't matter much until you have your first $5k monthly in reliable revenue. And by then, you'll have a completely different perspective than what you think you need now.
Thanks for the feedback. Yeah the Python part is definitely a bit hackish. Do you have any other recommendations on other problems? I'm still learning Golang and would like to improve. Thanks!
This is similar to Vedic math, right?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vedic_Mathematics
As it literally says in that text you linked, not every posture
works for everyone. I did not claim that a laptop leads to the
best situation for ergonomics, I just wanted to debunk the
"there's no way using a laptop could ever be healthy" claim
which both a professional I know as well as my own experience
don't agree with. It can be healthy, though admittedly most
people don't do it right.

I'm glad I listened to his advice because it seemed to fix my
issues for good. If you found a comfortable setup that's
different then that's great as well.
In order for social integrity to be maintained we need to give up some freedoms.
Somfy blinds automated via MQTT and Home Assistant
Yes but that should be an organic thing from within Nintendo.

On the other hand pushing it hard so it becomes a 'thing' would leave a bad taste in my mouth. Although rewarding OSS is something every major company should strive for (In Nintendos case specifically I'd be personally be surprised given what I've heard about Japanese corporate culture, but I'm just speculating here).

But it is indeed a good marketing strategy, at least if the HR and marketing teams were even aware of such things (ie, people who have control of sending out freebies). Which is why having technical leadership throughout the company always helps. Ultimately it will come down to an organizational thing.
> If anything certain muslim regions are far from happy.

"Certain Muslim regions" really means only Xinjiang and the Uighurs living within (and some of the much smaller Kazakh and Kyrgyz population, too). The Muslim minority in central China has long since assimilated to the Han majority in their political opinions.
I feel like you have taken that argument out of context. This appears just before it:

"What sorts of subject matter are appropriate for a game? Before you rush to answer, ask yourself how you would feel about, say, a version of Transport Tycoon where you have to move Jews from the cities where they live to the concentration camps where they will die."

If one feels completely comfortable with that, then the argument afterward can be disregarded. However, the author makes that argument on the assumption that you will feel uncomfortable with the above (as I'm sure a lot of us would) and posits that Panzer General should make you equally uncomfortable.

Further, I think it is unwise to brush aside any argument that the nature of the media we consume does not affect how we interact with the real world without consideration. Just because it turns out that old 90s arguments about DOOM turning us all into violent murderers was wrong doesn't mean that there aren't effects that might be harmful.
> But I assume there's a training stage where you actually have to teach the magpies about the food by leaving some out for them.

Corvids can be trained by "showing" them how it works and they can teach other birds how to use it. So you may not need to "leave out" food for just any bird but wait for crow or other corvid, show them how to use it, and then let them spread the word.
When things are anonymous, there are fewer real-world consequences on the line, so bullying is less impactful. Malicious actors can threaten whatever they like, anonymous or no, but as soon as names are public we've seen that there's a much higher risk (even just perceiving it makes it so) that threats online can turn into threats in the real world.
This is right on the money.

To have a society that will not repeat darker sides of history and behaviour, we need to seriously engage with it.

Not sensor them in a fit of moral panic.

You could argue that this game is not qualified as serious engagement, but that's a sloghtly different discussion
90% of my comments here are bashing Facebook, Zuckerberg and similar, but I will oppose with equal force any attempt of a cleptocratic government to censor to stop people exposing their shitty actions.
"XYZ isn't slow if run on a fast enough processor" is an utterly useless statement.

My personal gripe with the eShop is the horrible startup time (compare to the time it takes the settings application to open - part of this can be assigned to it being a web application indeed), lack of partial/incremental presentation, and possibly lack of prefetching. Asset loading causing bad UX is always a frontend problem.
Obviously if you license your code without any strings attached, you can't exactly demand payment or anything. Rather this should be a cautionary tale that MIT/BSD in the hope of other people using your code is dumb and the industry really needs to double down on GPL if we are to ever expect megacorps to be good faith players in the community.
And now it is flagged ... gotta love hn on anything China ...

Yes. It is the story of the century and a massive achievement. Testament to what good government can do.
Well done. Shows either you're a very intuitive dev, or Django is a very intuitive tool. Maybe both.

These problems I think are more to do with inertia and not having best practices in mind. It's easy to do CharField and not thing about TextField.

Plus over time requirements change, so when a model was created maybe the kwargs were perfectly valid - but over time as refactors occurred tech debt crept in.
I think this would be much better served as a question to the hiring manager and as follow-up questions post-interview, as opposed to "confrontations" during the interview?

That's the kicker: experience has taught me that if I don't ask specific (but tactful) questions about things that have caused excess anxiety and stress in the job, and how the company interviewing me handles them (or fails to handle them) early enough, I find out in the worst ways after taking the job and starting.

This is no attempt at setting myself up for malingering down the road, I am not that kind of a person; but I have also grasped how important it is to interview the company as much as the company is interviewing me. If they get to be stringent about how good we would "fit", then so should job candidates.

And ironically given the thread we're in about 'over optimization', it's just not worth the time to me to wait until getting an offer to find out the engineering culture believes in 'drinking from the firehose'. I want to know that early, so as to self-select out.
Hahaha, watch as colleagues stare blankly when you ask them to look at the reflog after botching a rebase and force pushing... and loads of other tools like bisect and blame heavily under-utilised, custom git hooks... The list of under-utilised git commands is long, and while perhaps a sign of a poor UX, if you use the features it really is rare that you are surprised or that you cannot return a repo to a good state, regardless of what you do.
> Every X copies sold, the price increased: sold 30 at $12, 70 at $19

It's currently at $29. I haven't seen this way of selling content before. It's funny because it's kind of backwards of everything else I've seen (as in, pay a premium to be among the first to see it). I can kind of see it work by triggering the sense of urgency and make people click it before having a second thought.
> Meanwhile getting to say your code is used by Nintendo Switch on your resume

Yeah, that's immediately what my mind went to. If my code was used by someone as major as Nintendo, then I wouldn't be making a fuss. But you can bet that I would have 50 different ways to move that into a discussion during a job interview.

Yeah, sure it would be nice if people sent me free things because they're using my code. However, putting restrictions on my code or making a huge stink about it on social media sounds like a good way for people to not use my code.

If I wanted something back for sure in exchange for my code, then I would license it such that I'm going to get something back or setup some other contract. I thought that's how adulthood worked. If you want something in exchange for your work then you need to set it up ahead of time. If you want to give somebody something then you shouldn't expect anything back. You gave it.
Tyler Cowen made this point a few months ago (https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2020/07/wh...): the public health response has been "generally poor" but the UK was first on the mark with dexamethasone and has been among the first with the vaccines. He went as far as saying the UK has had the best response to COVID despite the public health response.
Is this at all surprising to you? Censorship everywhere is on the rise, even in the US. We just elected a President and Vice President who have spoken about how more Republicans need to be censored online. During the primaries, Kamala Harris challenged her rivals to join her in calling for Twitter to ban Trump's account. Both Twitter and Facebook spent the last month purging all negative news about Biden's Ukraine scandal from their platforms, which they never did when the roles were reversed.
cool, so are you going to come work for my company for free? you can put it on your resume.
Google’s Task Mate pays you to complete simple tasks on your phone
Marketing on Facebook; Global launch platform for businesses
What's the problem with the air that is specific to the A340?

Air from the outside is dry, and there are strategies to mitigate this. One of them is recirculation, and in some cases, humidifiers. But my understanding is that recirculation is controlled by the crew, and humidifiers are an option the airline may or may not take.

Unless an airplane has a condenser of some sort, and I don't know any plane that does that, there is no magic. Moisture has to come from inside the plane, either though passengers breathing (that's the idea with recirculation) and/or heavy onboard water tanks (humidifier).
In cell cultures.
Nullable TextFields are not anti-pattern necessary. I also don't see anything wrong with explicit default arguments.
Let's say I have loads of cash to spend. How do I spend it to get control of facebook? Presumably there are limits to that control -- what are they? Is "buying ads on facebook" the same as "controlling facebook"?
Politics isn’t binary. “Whether or not black people are actual people” isn’t really what’s on the table: How many black people rolled their eyes when companies released statements in support of Black Lives Matter but did nothing inside their companies to change the actual lives of black people.
Rules for Evidence Communication
My guess is nobody from the crew was planning to use the crew rest for the 5 hour flight?
No, it’s better to see this as what it literally is, and to recognize that it causes the same kinds of problems as what you’re trying to fix, as well as new ones.
Why is that worse than being hot wired? Probably more people can hot wire a car than can steal it with Bluetooth.
A reasonable choice. It is a praying app after all ;)
lower "early-bird" prices are not that uncommon though?
Since you're using Python on the back end, which WSGI or ASGI server do you use?
I don't think it's possible for a sub-$1B consumer operation to be secure, unless they operate inside a very tight sandbox where all the data and processing live inside a Google/Apple/similar sandbox. If the data is managed by the vendor system (which includes most data-monetization plays), it's leaked. Security is too complicated and expensive to get right.
If you're already using Mailgun, try out their email marketing tool.
How to Nail Your Pitch Deck’s Narrative
> This seems hard to imagine

It is, but real experience tells me it can work well.

As I mentioned, having a proper setup with an external screen(or
your equivalent suggestion of propping up the laptop and using
external input devices) is better in comparison, but knowing how
to properly use a laptop if that's not possible is important as
well.