skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Assuming you are a developer with no marketing experience - promote yourself/your project to the point that makes you uncomfortable.

Most people will submit something to HN, it won't get traction, and then they give up thinking their project wasn't any good. Getting the word out is usually more important than how good your thing is when it comes to success - so don't underestimate the amount of investment you should spend on it. But obviously do so in a way that isn't spammy, shady, etc.

I used Google ads to get my very first users[1], and SEO to eventually get most of the traffic for my first product[2].

[1] https://www.coryzue.com/writing/first-test/
[2] https://www.coryzue.com/writing/seo-for-developers/
It's not lack of rigor, it's ethics. We don't want to intentionally expose people to something that might kill them. Instead, we perform a trial on a large group and allow them to naturally avoid or be exposed to the virus as they will. Then, with full mathematical and statistical rigor (the best kind of rigor) we determine whether the vaccine has a demonstrated benefit.
The really big one, if it holds up, would be a vaccine for malaria.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/05/team-behind-ox...
Well, it is a site originally created for people trying to start their business.
You are suggesting people do something that is completely unnecessary. It's a subdomain of visa.com. If your concern was valid, you could put your comment disclaimer on every single link ever posted on hackernews.
But then you are giving VISA a perfect reason to throw out all optouts and start fresh. Stuff like this happened during FTC net neutrality debate
Started as fun, now becoming significant.
... /s ?
It is important to keep in mind that when security is working, you don't see any evidence of it. We don't actually know how many terrorist attacks have been stopped by this surveillance. It may well be a lot. It wouldn't surprise me at all to learn that many have been. Which is why it's so important that we do not ground criticisms of surveillance in arguments about efficacy. Surveillance is effective, or at least, it can be. Surveillance is wrong because it concentrates too much power in the hands of the government.
There are diseases that you can recover from without developing an immunity; tetanus is an example. The vaccine generates a much greater immune response than the actual disease.
Shame there's no macOS version, this looks pretty cool.
This is not realistic or even probable.
I think it boils down to a shitty employee at the end of the day.

If you have someone who decides to cut even 1 corner, it can be devastating to a domain owner.

I have hundreds of clients who have used them, and I've never been on the phone with GoDaddy and had them do any less than tell me to bug off if I don't have a pin or get the 2-factor auth code to verify myself.
Wuhan: Nearly 490k people could have had Covid, study finds
If they acted each time an ex-wife or gf "warns" them...
I think part of it is successful brainwashing from banks to make people believe credit card number theft === identity theft === the individuals responsibility, not the banks.

Otoh, it can be pretty time consuming and annoying to charge back transactions and get a new card. In Switzerland for instance I have to print out a multi page form, fill it in, send it back by physical mail (yup) then my bank follows up after a few weeks a a few more phone calls. And I have to pay a fee to get the card replaced. So yeah the transactions aren’t on me but the hassle and fees are... This was much more straightforward in North America though.
The original Xbox lost money over its entire life. It wasn't until the second generation that Microsoft moved into positive territory on that. Hardware had to get cheaper before a PC in a game console case was profitable.
Why would you want to make an option intended to give some semblance of privacy useless?

The net result of submitting all card numbers will not be "oh, well, I guess all card numbers are private now.." it will instead be "clear that table and start over."
I'm convinced my SaaS starter kit Pegasus[1] still has a ton of potential, so am planning on keeping it the focus of 2021 - and possibly building some adjacent products for the Pegasus audience/customer base (e.g. Django educational content).

I'm also interested in using Pegasus to build a proper subscription product. I have a few ideas brewing but no concrete plans as of yet.

[1] https://www.saaspegasus.com/
I sympathize with the goal of not giving law enforcement more surveillance powers, but I wonder how valid the anecdotal "connecting the dots" stories of law enforcement failures are.

For example, it's conceivable that law enforcement or intelligence agencies regularly get a huge volume of urgent tips, 90% of which are totally incorrect or useless, and that they nonetheless manage to stop 95% of super-bad acts like terror attacks. Then the public hears about the 5% that they don't stop, and especially hears about the 0.5%, say, where a probably-unreliable tip was not successfully used to prevent a super-bad act.

In order to argue convincingly that agencies are actually bad at using the powers or information that they already have, we would probably want to know a lot more about base rates (and about thwarted or deterred crimes).

Edit: This comment downthread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25579252 just before mine makes a somewhat similar point (although I was emphasizing the idea that we should want more data for this argument, while the other comment emphasizes the idea that there are more fundamental or important grounds on which to oppose expansions of surveillance powers).
Seeking damages seems silly, but I’m sure that’s something you could get a court to order Google to change.

Technically you could make the argument that the map directions are incitement/solicitation to commit a crime. But I doubt you’d get a prosecutor to pick up that case.
100% agree on the companies overdoing email automation. Just look at my "Promotions" tab in gmail. 1000 unread.

I believe one of the reasons this happens is limited trigger types for email sequences and even more limited support for customizable content in the email (I know Mailchimp does this). Because of that you are left with primitive trigger types like time than something more granular like trigger based on user app activity.

By bringing the automations closer to the application source code, I believe you can build in "engagement" and "rentention" mechanisms that don't suck.
I know that, and you know that, but other people don't know that. Look at cow tipping, snipe hunting, tide pods... "Everyone" knows it is all BS, and yet...
That podcast is a national treasure. Thanks for the pointer, am listening now.
Reminds me of Prey by Michael Crichton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prey_(novel).

(from Wikipedia): "The novel serves as a cautionary tale about developments in science and technology; in this case, nanotechnology, genetic engineering, and distributed artificial intelligence."

Autonomous flying drone army you say? what could possibly go wrong?
Make a set of "The Intellectual Justifications for Capitalism" which is complete(you couldn't argue something has been destroyed which at best you could come up with a partial definition for, how would you know you destroyed all of it?) and that would be able to reach even an absurdly low bar of societal consensus.

It doesn't exist. My justifications would be different than many others and there is no official source on the question. The premise is nonsense.

Happy to take my downvotes for calling nonsense nonsense. It doesn't require a justification in every case.
Has Xbox ever been profitable for Microsoft? The rumors I have always heard indicated that it wasn't [1]. Maybe it was worthwhile for protecting their Windows business, maybe they never should have bothered. Even if it is profitable now (I can't find any information one way or another), it doesn't seem like it turned out to be a worthwhile investment. Maybe Steve Ballmer was right?

[1] https://www.cgmagonline.com/2017/08/14/microsofts-xbox-never...
This challenge isn’t just legal and operational, the required computer science and data infrastructure software literally doesn’t exist. I am a subject matter expert on this and was consulted by a few national governments to see if it was feasible. Large-scale technical experiments were run in the US several years ago.

If you use off-the-shelf computer science, you have an O(n^2) problem on a data model that is growing by several petabytes per day. Existing systems can’t even ingest data at that rate in a useful way, never mind analyze it. Much more scalable algorithms exist; this was literally the topic of my supercomputing research back in the day. If you can severely constrain the data model in certain ways that are not possible in many countries, or you have a small enough population, you can kinda sorta brute force it. In practice no one is AFAIK, because off-the-shelf software simply isn’t designed for it, even at small scales. The US has an unconstrained data model combined with extremely high scale and topological complexity. You can’t magick state-of-the-art exotic data infrastructure into existence.

I did “what would it take” studies earlier this year for a couple governments. We are talking about 100k lines of advanced C++ for a system design that has never been built before, only theorized. It isn’t something you do over the weekend. Even in the most optimistic scenario, building the software would take at least 18 months. For COVID, there is no point (but they are still interested for the next pandemic).

We know from prior experiments that if a disease is endemic in a population and extremely draconian lockdown measures are not realistically possible — both true in the US and some parts of Europe — then contact tracing is basically an exercise in futility unless you have some exceptionally advanced data infrastructure (we don’t) and the legal authority to use it (the US doesn’t nor many countries in Europe).

Don’t confuse the lack of capability with a lack of will. The fact is that I was approached by multiple national governments on this subject very early on because they know I design this type of data infrastructure.
Seems whois lookup shows godaddy as their registrar.
This would make me avoid them as a registrar.

Namecheap in our experience also has a similar policy and simply sends an email and threatens to suspend domain in 24 hours if they have a significant abuse report. Abuse reports can of course happen and are needed, but sending a single email and then suspending domains is utterly a horrible practice since many domains will have significant user uploaded content.

On the other hand my experience with Amazon abuse team has been positive. They send an email and follow up, without something as ridiculous as suspending domain automatically.

I would avoid Godaddy and Namecheap for domain usage in any significant business.
Reclaiming Email with Astroid
This is why I desperately want a routing mode for 'easiest' drive. Surface streets only, no left turns onto busy highways just to save a minute, no weird shortcuts through neighborhoods, keep me on the highway. I've had so many times where google has had me drive through sketch areas of LA which ended up taking more time dealing with cross traffic. All they have to do is give up on quickest route.
The Year in Search magazine [pdf]
Makes me wonder if most of the "give us more surveillance power" claim is nothing more than a convenient excuse surveillance apparatus give to "excuse" their lack of result.(and sometimes failures) Probably starting somewhere from the bottom/middle managers excuse, then that excuse being used by above manager, rinse and repeat to the top. Then politician with different incentive(voter satisfaction) granting that power just for their own game.

"oh if you just gave us the power by unshackling us from regulation, we could've done better! I promise, it's not related to our lack of efficiency or ingenuity!"
I have a friend from Ibiza who described the same problem of vastly disproportionate income opportunity for locals compared to the price of real estate. For them, moving out from the home means leaving the island.
Probably because people just complain about Godaddy but don't recommend alternatives and explain why they are trustworthy/better.

Who do you use and why?
On a less 'well, actually' note, I want to take up one other thing you wrote: that nothing could've been done to prevent this. And I agree: within the context of the status quo, it appears that nothing could have been done to stop this man from loading up his RV with homemade explosives and blowing up a chunk of Nashville.

But, I think we (collectively, as a society) owe it to each other to think about what we can do to reduce social isolation. This is attenuated by the pandemic where we are caring for each other by isolating ourselves from each other. However, we're at least halfway through this thing. What can we do on the other side to ameliorate chronic isolation of other people, especially elderly folks?

I'm not asking you for answers. Just asking folks who read this to think about it.
The only war you’re really good at fighting is the last one.

I don’t know much about the Fusion Centers, but post-9/11, the failure of intelligence and law enforcement to communicate was regarded as a major reason why the plot was never uncovered. In totality, there was a lot of signs something was coming but different organizations had different pieces so nobody could see the “big picture”.

So I’m just wondering if the focus on Fusion Centers and not on intelligence from foreign powers is just our gov’t “skating after the puck” instead of “skating where the puck will be”.
I'm right there with you dude. Every time they tear down some Confederate statue or take George Washington's name off of a school I'm just, "Dulles Airport is right over there! And he only lived 60 goddamn years ago!"
Thanks! I took a six-month sabbatical in 2017 to get things off the ground, and then returned to work at ~50% later in the year.

To compensate for the lost income, I did freelance consulting, though have scaled that down as the products have started to generate real income.
Having spent several years in Chinese supply chain activities, the factories building iPhones, XBoxes etc. Are some of the nicest ones around. Clean, large campuses with organized activities for workers etc.

There are several tiers of factories below that, with worse worker accommodations, Longer working hours, worse working conditions. Some of the smaller, poorer factories will provide little in terms of personal protective equipment, ergonomics, and make stuff for the local, African and South Asian markets where there’s little pressure on companies to have a “clean” supply chain. These workers would go there.
I don't think there is a best one but better ones.

Personally I use Gandi when I want to pay a bit more to have a user friendly interface and support. When I just need a domain for myself I use bookmyname because it can't be cheaper and the old interface is fine for me.

If you are already sending your money to Amazon, AWS Route 53 is also a good alternative.
Use the distributed file system as a Key-Large-Value store
I am working on SeaweedFS, and developed a feature that should be interesting.

Basically, it enhances a distributed key value store, such as Redis/Cassandra/HBase/MongoDB to a distributed key-large-value store, by storing large values as files to SeaweedFS. The smaller values can be optionally stored in the KV store directly, saving one network hop.

Let me what you think.

https://github.com/chrislusf/seaweedfs/wiki/Filer-as-a-Key-Large-Value-Store
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The NYT article has a lot of other details: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/29/us/nashville-bomber-antho...

Fortunately the guy didn't hurt anything other than himself and some property damage.
I wish you weren’t downvoted, this is a valid, rational, and interesting question devoid of any kind of message or blanket statement like “all vaccines cause autism” or what have you.
Ah, we found out the future location of Skynet.
The song he played during the bombing was "Downtown" by Petula Clark. It's a happy song whose lyrics basically talk about going downtown to escape loneliness.

His song choice and the fact that he made efforts to evacuate the area lead me to a similar conclusion. He was lost in nihilism, had no reason to live, and wanted to go out with a bang. Obviously not meaning to excuse his actions -- only to explain them.
The statement I responded to specifically focused on military application

"Technological progress will gaurantee this scenario of >> military use << . If not BD, it will be another company. If not now, it will. >> If not the US, it will be someone else << "

This argument is

"Technological progress will (always) lead to military use. If not us, it will be someone else"

or:

"The future is guaranteed to be full of war because of decisions made by humans that they somehow have no agency over. Because of this false premise, we need to be eagerly building weapons as fast as possible"

It's a classic argument and it stands up to no scrutiny whatsoever.

So instead the standard response is to generalize it through a deflection: "this is just general forward motion progress" which is exactly what happened.

That's not the point. It's the idea that the fundamental inescapable nature of humans is to be as violent and brutal as possible - which is not true - it's a choice, an act of agency, a matter of policy, it's a decision that is freely made.

Just getting to that simple realization, that barbaric brutal self-destruction takes choices, planning and intentional action that we can simply just choose not to do, would be a groundbreaking epiphany to most.

I'm pretty confident I'm going to die without murdering anyone, just like almost every human ever. It's not natural in the slightest.
NearlyFreeSpeech.net is great. They don’t upsell you, there are no ads, whois privacy is easy, and everything just works.
Exactly what I'm going through as a junior programmer. I have no idea what to do, and everything is changing so fast I'm not sure what to grab.
Literally is a tax specifically constructed to target sellers (not buyers) of >$10M properties, otherwise known as rich people. With an exemption for sales to affordable housing nonprofits. This issue, passed by a wide margin, demonstrated that SF YIMBY is little more than a real estate lobby front at this point.
I suspect that a lot of the financially awful decisions come from relationship troubles.

If you think your spouse will waste the money, you might try to spend it first. Of course, that is probably waste in your spouse's eyes, so your spouse is incentivized to spend the money first. That justifies your suspicion that the money would be wasted by your spouse if you didn't spend it first.

Especially after divorce, people can get into a bidding war for being the favorite parent. Christmas has just had a huge impact, but it goes on year round.

Somebody who is hopelessly behind on child support might not see any point in having assets that are easy to seize.
I also don't think clever monopolistic businessman Gates would ever be 'hoodwinked'
"Nothing was hurt but some infrastructure" is a hell of a way to describe taking out the 911 system for millions of people. https://fox17.com/news/local/att-internet-phones-911-issues-...
Realistically, companies should probably pay what the market demands. The engineer with ties to Wyoming is used to making $50,000 per year. You offer him $60,000 – a substantial pay bump – and he's over the moon, ready to jump ship from his current job. Why pay the former SV engineer who moved to Wyoming $200,000 when you can get the same thing for $60,000?

When we used to think being in an office in the heart of the Valley was important, $200,000 was the cost of getting someone into the office. But now that we've decided the office wasn't all that important after all, the rest of the country (and world) are ready to moderate things.
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Coming from Python into the Node.js/React world, I find myself missing the Python library ecosystem, and as fantastic as NPM is, Poetry was not so far behind it that I generally noticed...

Sequelize is an order of magnitude worse than SQLAlchemy, IMO, as the Postgres support seems tacked on, and Sequelize hasn't correctly guessed a single column or table name yet.
There’s nothing wrong with threads.

But the promise of Fibers + a fiber scheduler is that you won’t have to think about the performance impact of blocking IO as much as you might normally.

For example, in a rails app (or any ruby web server) I am very scared to make slow external http requests because that might tie up a thread for a while, and request threads are a pretty limited resource in typical configurations. (16 threads/process) * (1 process/cpu core) might be a reasonable default, giving you at most 128 concurrent requests in flight on an 8 core server.

Suppose you make a really slow 3rd party api call that takes 10 seconds to service a request. Your server can handle no more than 128reqs/10s = 12.8 of these requests per second, even though it will spend most of its time doing nothing but waiting.

If we bring fibers in to the mix and do one fiber per request, then they can yield to another fiber while waiting on the api response - you can then easily have thousands of requests in flight instead of 128.

Granted, if you are entirely IO bound then you can probably get away with a much larger thread pool, or do thread-per-request. But if you have some other endpoints that are more compute intensive then bumping up your thread count might be dangerous... then what do you do? Fibers might be the answer.
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There were a few recent HN posts about "ADS-B privacy"

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

I wonder if the change you're seeing is due to adoption of this new mechanism.
The design was great too.
You and me both. It's hard as a layman to keep track of what's happening in real-time. I love going back to things in ~1-decade intervals and seeing lists and articles etc showing what's happened "in-review".

Usually those kinds of overviews are limited to things like media genres, not fields of science. (eg best video games of the last 10 years, best movies and how they changed the industry etc). Something a bit more academic would be nice...
I think you may have read that chart wrong. ~75 is the # of drinks/week of the top decile (!!). Your linked article says:

> As Cook notes in his book, the top 10 percent of drinkers account for well over half of the alcohol consumed in any given year.

Also notable from this article:

> "If the top decile somehow could be induced to curb their consumption level to that of the next lower group (the ninth decile), then total ethanol sales would fall by 60 percent."
You jest, but in time this will be true, not because of Google, but insurance requirements. Same for autonomous cars. You would still be able to drive your car yourself, if you can afford the insurance, and you won't.
I appreciate your opinion on this and I don't quite understand it.

What if the arguments against something are simply dramatically weaker than the arguments for it? Does that still mean you really don't know your case? In my experience, sometimes (often) there really is a very clear winner, though my experience does not include anything historical at all.
> Basically, to get one of these types on board with your idea you have to find a way to convince them the idea was originally theirs.

Central plot of the movie Inception ;-)
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