skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm afraid I'm not as optimistic as you. What Russia correctly worked out is that, if you can create the requisite content, you WILL get people to watch it, just statistically. And because you're (indirectly) feeding it with a coherent, directed intention, including specific elements like 'the Russian Bots people are talking about don't exist and anybody saying so is a loony', you can get your bubble of alternate information to grow and serve useful purposes (useful to you: NOT necessarily useful to the people you're using to fill your bubble)

You absolutely can make people watch it, even side with it passionately to where they'll burn through their friends requiring loyalty to the information bubble. It's a matter of statistics, and directing the contents of the information bubble with reasonable effectiveness. It's a bit like nuclear fusion: sort of 'wait, these lumps of metal do THAT?!?'

Yes, in fact they do. And, yes, you can direct HUMANITY to whatever ends you like, including 'The USA should be torn to bits by civil war please, so it is no longer a rival superpower'. Plenty of people out there would find that useful, wouldn't even have to be exceptionally short-sighted. Mind you, it's still damn reckless even if it is not absolutely short-sighted.
One-off scripts: DevOps last mile
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The cost of less nefarious data collection is... 1000 USD.

I'm glad there is competition in this space, but for average person 1000 USD is too much for a toy. I bought an oculus CV1 used on ebay a few years ago when there was a lull in demand. It's fun, but the second they demand a facebook login it permanently goes on the shelf. Rather unfortunate, but hey maybe one day VR toys will be accessible to non-elites without having to buy into a cyberpunk dystopia (ie if a more benevolent competitor releases cheaper hardware).
The beauty of Deno is that it's agnostic about where you import your code; At the moment deno.land/x only allows tags to be published - no semver range resolution, and doesn't allow versions to be removed/update. nest.land is another popular one, and is build on top of the arweave blockchain, bringing that chain of trust you mention.

The ecosystem is still in evolution but I expect that it stabilize around a few generic registries for smaller libs, and larger libs hosting their code themselves in the long run. The point is; while URLs _can_ be very loosy goosy ways to address code, they can also be made very strict - it will depend on the actual server behind it.

As a side note, npm is already pretty poor at providing those guarantees anyway, I find it interesting that it's usually assumed to be a safe way to install dependencies.
It is exactly tax avoidance. It is a method of structuring employment such that single-person contractors who are employees in all-but-name get to pay less tax.

Single-person companies are still free to exist, like other companies. What's no longer permitted is employees pretending to be single-person companies.
>Yes, next time choose a license that doesn't allow it.

The license has nothing todo with it.
Even if she did qualify it, it's reasonable to expect that hundreds of millions didn't see it either, and they might quite reasonably default to cynicism on the matter.

As a pragmatic matter, running any party on Not As Bad As The Other Guys™ rules will not earn you respect, at least not outside those who were already voting for you; it's impossible to send virtue signals if they don't meaningfully cost you.
Similarly - it looks, nice - the shadow + soft effect could be a bit more subtle.
More broadly, I think the trouble is that "lies" are often more appealing than truths by design, while truth is what it is. For example, some Americans may have been swayed to support the Gulf War by the Nayirah testimony, or in 2003 by Saddam Hussein's alleged people shredder. I don't think this justifies censorship, but the ability to sharpen people's BS filter and the amount of bunk they may receive is somewhat asymmetrical, echoing Goering's quote from the Nuremburg trials.

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http://www.mit.edu/people/fuller/peace/war_goering.html
most people don't project the consequences of their decisions out that far. "I want to spend time with friends" does not lead to "this may cause me difficulty in finding a job later on" because the causal relationship is systemic and related to the independent decisions of many actors, not their own singular decision.

Or in other words, it's a tragedy of the commons.
Georgia House of Representatives Hearing on Election Irregularities 12/10/20
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There is an ongoing lawsuit of the State of Texas against the swing-states where massive fraud occurred. Almost 20 states have joined the lawsuit initiated by Texas.

This is being censored by Google, Twitter and the usual Global Reset pawns.
EU nations can't even fulfill their NATO obligations...there will never be an EU Army
Ask HN: Why is Oblivious DoH needed at all? Wouldn't any proxy do the job?
With DoH, query integrity and confidentiality are already guaranteed. The only additional ask for something like ODoH is to hide the client IP address from the DNS. For which, any proxy will do. Why bother to go through all the complexities to create ODoH?

If you want to see some details, I compared ODoH with a plain HTTP proxy here: https://www.pcwrt.com/2020/12/oblivious-dns-over-https-vs-doh-through-http-proxy/
It helps because some of those people you are warning have jobs with actual consequences if infection, or live with people that do. Like your sons teachers.

You go get tested so you can tell them “false alarm it’s all good”.
I think you need exposure and motivators. In the case of things like islamic extremism and think there will be far more people willing to do the debunking legwork than on the topic of catching a cold from the cold.
I'm not sure about all Oculus products, but I had an Oculus Go and I was able to reset it, so I was able to sell it.
The state has never given us an end in sight. It is a perpetual lockdown and they decide when it’s over. That’s arbitrary and capricious, and it should be overturned. At what point do you lose so much liberty that you say enough is enough?
I mean, I was a junior engineer. I didn't know when I was gonna miss the estimate, when you're heads-down like that you don't know if you're 25% in or 80% in until you've gotten a lot more experience. Hence the error bars in the first place. ;)
Office365 already has an IMAP server. I forget the connection info, but I’ve used it successfully before
Feynman's story on how he lost the spark for physics and got it back might be instructive:

https://www.mymoneyblog.com/richard-feynman-fighting-burnout...

If I were translating that, pick small interesting projects. If you start to worry that you're not going to complete it, break it down into a set of smaller interesting subproblems and only commit yourself to 1-2 of them and then re-evaluate when you finish.

There is also the possibility that you're at the point where pursuing something other than programming might be more meaningful to you.
I always found the "C" in CentOS, the "Community Enterprise OS"... awkward. I admit I haven't been following the project very closely over the years, but true community projects look different. Look at Debian, for example - internal drama and a at times gory, public decision making process. People with very different perspectives on a unfiying vision coming together to find solutions to the problems they have, and sometimes even create. It's slow, it's not as efficient as it could be - but it's a mix of democratic and meritocratic principles that is without equal, and that, I think, will stand the test of time for as long as there is such a thing as a Free Software/Open Source community to speak of.

Now CentOS's practical goal - repackaging RHEL gratis - isn't really compatible with what a true community project like Debian is about, in my view. There's no real way for the project to steer away from whatever RHEL chooses to deliver, in neither a positive or negative direction. In that sense, "CentOS Streams", as a new upstream-of-sorts for RHEL, is much more "C"-enabling that what CentOS has been before - because a community (if one will emerge, or maybe it already has) can actually take action to change their own fate, and not totally depend on whatever their Enterprise Linux Overlords decide to make happen.

A pity we're not really looking for this kind of thing where I work now, and most current users of CentOS probably weren't really in it for the "C", but more for the "entOS" part. They were looking for being able to rapidly roll out RHEL clone installations, without having to pay or care about any stupid and impeding commercial licensing restrictions at all. Well, the free lunch at that particular place is over, it seems.

That said, I'm curious to see what will take CentOS's place in that regard.
Were all of these.....tweets originally? Or does the author write in this crazy "few sentences per paragraph then break" style? So hard to read.
They certainly could. I'd love to see a guide to navigating social media/social networks that gets delivered to school teachers for addition to their curriculum. These things are a part of our world and who better to suggest how to navigate them than the people making them?

Far more constructive than censorship.
WebAssembly as Meta-Language
Is solar affordable now? We had it quoted for our home, and to cover 60-75% of our annual usage, the system cost ~ 20x-28x our annual usage depending on which system we chose, with a life-span of, wait for it, 15 years and warranty of 10.

If it wasn't for heavy, heavy government subsidies in this space (some states match 50-75% of the up-front cost over the course of a year or two), I am not convinced it would be popular, at all, for regular Joe Schmoe.
But we do. There are publicly advertised open Clojure positions and I have been cold called or contacted on LinkedIn because I let on that I know Clojure. To which I must politely say I am already working for this company.
God bless you. When a senior engineer is willing to help us early career folks it really helps.
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Senator sold his home to official whose organization was lobbying the senate
I wonder what it means in reality, too.

For some reason, this came to mind: https://i.imgur.com/bfehIU3h.jpg.

:^)
It feels like the more aggressive the estimate is for the upper bound the less accurate it sounds, whether that's true or not. Somehow it just feels more believable that it's 2x instead of 10x without considering evidence either way. I think epidemiology is a tough field because you never actually have any verifiable ground truth.
Meh. I see this all the time with developers who want to abstract everything away and not worry about the impact their poorly performing code is having on the infrastructure or on the $$bottom line. Time out? No problem, we will just spin up more instances. I have heard that so many times. Maybe your code is just bad.
I've been hearing it called the Un-united Kingdom.
Thanks for the explanation. That puts a different spin on things. Geopolitical harmony as a defence against other external powers. I've focussed on the economy, but what I should have said is national interests.
Of course, most of us are. This isn't crab mentality though, I just dislike the man's politics and personality. I have no problem with him being a good person, making billions, and creating cool cars/rockets; it's the workers rights stuff I'm upset about.
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This is actually a really important part of the issue.

One of the things that stops GDPR from being a total clusterfuck is the so-called "one-stop shop mechanism." Each country has its own regulator, so GDPR is enforced by 27 different government agencies. BUT, anyone only ever has to deal with one. For EU residents, the regulator of the country where they reside. For businesses, the regulator of the country of their primary establishment. Regulators are supposed to cooperate in such a way that a company has a single, local point of contact.

(Related: If US companies push for federal privacy regulation, it's because they would rather have 1 law to follow rather than 50 different ones.)

Almost all US companies establish their EU subsidiaries in Ireland for tax reasons. As a result, the Irish regulator is basically in charge of GDPR enforcement against US companies. This is... not ideal. Ireland a conflict of interest, because of the tax stuff.

(I'm not an expert on this. My understanding is that the Irish regulator seems to be operating in good faith, but is under-funded, and is going up against the legal defense teams of Google, Facebook, Amazon, etc., simultaneously, all on its lonesome.)

Several of the larger and more privacy-focused countries, like Germany and France, have been openly critical of Ireland's slow enforcement of US tech giants. In the past, CNIL (France) has said that Google's establishment in Ireland is a legal fiction rather than a legitimate business establishment. But if this gets appealed to an EU court, this is going to be a huge point of contention.

(Possibly the only point of contention, because I don't see any way that Google's actions are in compliance with GDPR/ePrivacy Directive.)
It's a benefit from the point of view of the user and for the openness of the web. We shouldn't rely on features exclusive to a single browser anyway.
This is philosophically giberish. The world is not delivering water to your exact location at all times on demand. Logistics, infrastructure and regulations are.
Hey, cheer up. I went through this a couple of times and I’m in the industry for 20+ years. The last time it happened, it lasted for weeks. Weeks of not knowing how to put focus on simpliest programming tasks which would normally take 5 minutes. Sleeping all day, mood totally down.

The best thing to do is to accept it. Don’t fight it. Ignore the feeling that things „have to be done”. This only creates additional stress and spirals out the problems. Go out (if you can), watch tv, play video games, talk to a therapist. Do something different. When the stress regarding software comes, tell yourself that it does not matter, it’s normal and you are ignoring it is for the better. Don’t force yourself because that leads to a burnout. The process of getting to a better state of mind can take weeks. Or months. It’s okay. You will come out stronger.

Don’t cross off talking to a therapist. A talk to someone who doesn’t know you and is qualified can be a miracle.
I don't know why you're getting downvoted. Making a crappy, slow app is nothing compared to conciously deciding to switch off the built-in autonomous breaking system in lieu of your own(which then doesn't work and kills a person). That's an engineering disaster, not a taxi going to the wrong city block a few times.
It does, don't pick non-copyleft licenses and dual license instead.
nailed it: https://twitter.com/StanTwinB/status/1336890442768547845
Programming/software engineering is just work. In the grand scheme of things, I feel that it is some kind of privilege that few occupations give you, to ask such a question. “I have been a construction worker for twenty-five years, and I am bored. What now?” “I work as a nurse in a hospital, but I lost interest in this line of work. What now?”
What precisely is the structural, legal, moral, or other practical difference?
I’m in a similar boat myself. I told myself I didn’t have any energy for things outside of work because of my job, though I never found the workload that overwhelming. I could get lost in the puzzle of the technical work and I’m good at it, but I ultimately found the work to be meaningless. At some point enterprise SaaS feels so abstract that even if in some sense it’s improving the world (helping companies work more effectively or what have you) I just can’t connect with it. Finally I quit and I’ve been fortunate enough financially to be able to take a long break. I found that even without a job I had no energy to do much and spent the better part of 2019 doing squat. Did a little freelancing at the beginning of the pandemic but was feeling the same old frustrations sink in (I can only learn so much from working on Node-backed web applications over and over).

Still figuring it out. I’m dipping my toes back in to programming a little learning Rust and embedded programming and it’s nice to feel the thrill (and frustration) of being clueless. I’m trying to get in touch with my creative side more with music. But mostly just taking it a day at a time, hiking a lot, cooking, and trying to find peace in the day-to-day rather than trying to push myself to be “productive” (whatever that means).
CentOS Stream, or Debian?
It's Just a Monitoring Change
"Zoning is a mechanism of economic suppression to appease the haves and separate them from the have-nots. T"

This is a ridiculously false statement.

Everyone wants zoning laws, you can't put up a gas station or an industrial facility right in the middle of xyz residential neighbourhood, nobody wants that.

"Yes my point is that they didn’t, and now they’re paying the ridiculous cost"

So you're saying that people are making a choice, but because you're not happy with the choice, they should change?

Are you arguing for rights or not? Which is it?

SF residents wanting to keep zoning laws intact are making their own choices, and that's fine.

"Calling high density planning short sighted in favour of single family dwellings is absurd."

Just the opposite when in fact the citizens are adamant that their city not turn into Hong Kong.

"This mindset is what causes suburbia, which has an absolutely disastrous impact on the environment and local economies"

Total rubbish. Suburbs are some of the most peaceful, plentiful, conscientious, and safe places in civilization ... which is exactly why those types of people move there. They are downright boring in their concientiousness.

That they lack trendy cafes, and hipster fentanyl needle clinics is not a problem for some.
Sometimes people respect things when they cost more.

Corporates and other businesses won't blink at paying bigger amounts than this, if you can tell them how much support they are going to get for their money.
Congrats on launching the app! You have mentioned the earnings from a tip-jar system. I also noticed that Typefully links to Mailbrew. It will be interesting to see the traffic numbers to Mailbrew and how many of them ended up signing up/paying for Mailbrew.
from part 2:

"After going through our lengthy doc on this incident sharing our side of the story, various consults, talks, and internal discussions Google let go of our bill as a one time gesture!"
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This is particularly funny when you consider that Windows Update will automatically update your graphics drivers once they go through WHQL. Manually installing drivers from Nvidia's website is actually a user experience downgrade, since Windows Update won't touch graphics drivers you pull in yourself.

For the record: I ended up biting the bullet with Geforce Experience regardless, because of the other features they had on offer that were tied to the app. It left a bad taste in my mouth and I ultimately dropped Nvidia cards entirely for AMD. Switching to AMD in turn made dropping Windows easier! (arch user btw)
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This has not been my experience for either of my last two Android phones, Google would not create an account without verifying a phone number. Their support forum recommended using a land line or borrowing a friend's phone.
You could accomplish this with client certs too, sure. A random secret is a simpler solution in many ways and accomplishes the same goal, though.
> Later, it optimizes the process to reward you earlier for just planning to do the thing - sketching, architecting, dreaming, writing task lists. Eventually, it gives you the same "I'm really proud of that accomplishment" reward for just watching someone on Youtube do it (you don't even have to look at all the off-camera drudge work).

I'm deep in the depths like OP and I can relate to this, like, a lot. Do you know of any literature or 'what to google for' regarding this sentiment/behavior?
Michigan is not lacking in water, and 1.1 million of gallons a day is pretty much a drop in a bucket. Like Michigan loses 10 000 times as much every day due to evaporation, for example.
Do whatever you feel like doing, or not doing.

I completely understand the background anxiety about not being in gear and moving towards something, but you don't control life. None of us do, and you're gonna be just fine.

Accept that there's nothing interesting right now, and just do whatever and go with the flow.
State media isn't the only source of information about China. Many mllions of people converse across the border every day. There are many people on HN who regularly talk to people in China. The government does not have the level of control over the flow of information that many people outside think (or which the government itself would probably like). Even when the outbreak was detected in December, news got out online within hours. There was a panic about a few cases in Shanghai's international airport a few weeks ago, and videos of it were on Western social media within hours.

Yes, China has effectively eradicated the virus. They're not the only country to have done so. New Zealand has, and Australia is close.
Since he's there to wage war on the United States, stands to reason that he's not quick to expand US hegemony elsewhere :)
Thanks, how did your acquisition end up happening? what MRR did you sell it at?
We can't just assign new definitions to encryption. It's encrypted in such a way that a person watching the wire can't see the contents of the message. If you don't want the message on the server, use a secret e2e chat. They are very up front and clear on this matter.

For the vast majority of my messages, I'm fine with them living on their servers. If I need to send credentials to my family, I can use an e2e channel. For me, it's a step up from hangouts and definitely better than whatsapp or facebook messenger.
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> you pulled that out of thin air

As opposed to your opinion that is empirically flawless and unquestionable?
Amazon uses its cloud revenue to significantly undercut competitor prices, then raise prices again after they go out of business.

Splitting these two will cause Amazon Products to be actually profitable.

The platform also uses its position to push their products, products they made after gathering data of items sold on their platform.

At the very least, Amazon shouldn't compete with their own customers (i.e. Sellers)
Thanks for the suggestion!

I agree with you re: the copy and being more benefit oriented. As is probably obvious I am a developer-first and a marketer a distant second.

Also appreciate the pointer to outseta
Excellent. I'm hoping they have to spin off Instagram and WhatsApp.

Hoping Google experiences the same fate. Need to decouple my phone from Google assistant and many other things... for instance, you can't subscribe to a podcast in their app unless you turn on Physical Location Tracking and Web History. Android Auto no longer reads back messages to you (it used to) unless you do the same thing.
This is a brilliant perspective. Thanks for sharing your thoughts on this.
Nice, thank you.

I tried it just now (with 16:9) and unfortunately mouse doesn't work in game and I see a window bar at the top (half of it actually, I can double click on it and then I see full bar + game inside this window).

I'll need to experiment with it more, I'll try to make it work in Firefox as it has better codes under linux.
Customer Cohorts vs. Customer Segments
But we don’t know what was stolen, so it infers nothing should be secret (with the exception of personal data from the clinical trial).