skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is evil genius level theft and I love it.
I know moderation is expensive, but how much of a cost is it to Twitter on the scale of their various expenses? Is Parler's idea a reasonable cost savings from a business perspective?
I came for the, "ha ha hah ha!".

I know, did Bezos just pay for "street cred" for his WaPo?

If the same writer follows up with, "Space Wenis, retirement project for Bezos to see new heights" then I know that the WaPo is an independent journalistic organization.
"Two is one and one is none."
I don't know the exact history of the domain, but many of the accounts on it are OG arbor networks people (a DoD spinoff focused on volumetric ddos mitigation/traffic engineering, now part of Netscout). Those that weren't there originally were at least in their circle.

Also several were significant openbsd/openssh contributors back in the day.
A virtualenv is just a bunch of packages, you end up with the same thing whatever you want to call it. It is probably a more roundabout solution that it needs to be, but I don't find many problems myself (also using poetry).
Or a lot of other languages...
Still a lot better than going to prison for multiple years which is what common man would face for stealing.
Damn, as someone who has only ever subscribed to RSS feeds on the odd occasion in the past, your comment here has really shone a light on just how powerful this tool can be.

Thanks for sharing this insight!

Is your daily driver OS also Ubuntu? How do you organise / consume your RSS feed(s)?

Seems like you've really streamlined your setup to the point of it having minimal friction - I'd be keen to try emulate this.
I have a few friends in the service industry who prefer the tips model since the tips are often 200-300% of their base pay. If it switched to fixed hourly pay, they'd be taking a pay cut since there is no way their hourly pay would be $30/hr.
Because they were receiving all their tips. They were not receiving the same pay as before.

I suspect they played with words to make people think one thing instead of another.
Something like b2g: https://github.com/kaiostech/gecko-b2g/tree/gonk/b2g

geckoview is also such a product, well hidden behind the android glue :)
Only 5? The raspberry pi 4 has nearly the same computational power as the servers I did my first research projects on and uses something like 1/100th of the wattage? I actually how no idea how much it cost but I imagine it was more than $5*50
I run a paid email forwarding service that allows you to redirect mail sent to a burner address to be published as an RSS feed. Link in my bio if you're interested.
This is such an absurd argument.

One of my first jobs, I worked in a private members-only clubhouse where tipping was prohibited. The service was held to a higher standard than most restaurants open to the public. If you didn’t do your job well, you’d no longer have a job.

We were paid quite a bit higher than minimum wage, so we were fine with it. Most people are fine doing their job well for a decent hourly wage.

If you’re the kind of employee that acts out with poor service towards a customer because you’re upset with the wage your employer pays you, then you need to find a job that isn’t customer facing.
With deep fake technology you could presumably do one take in the main actors primary languages, then just hire voice crews per language maybe?

The deep fake could adjust the actors to make the body match the audio where appropriate.

Maybe a couple years off from being very feasible? Maybe use a sensor suit to add gestures.

There’s a lot of advances coming up that seem like they could make for some interesting art.
I'm happy for either
I don't understand why you think upholding free market capitalism so personally.

Just because someone has more money than me doesn't mean they are deserving less or more than you and me.
To the deficiencies that you list, I have to say that your organizational structure can create better developers, or make them worse. Delegating all responsibility for the bigger picture to architects and hiding developers from those issues will make them worse. On the reverse, I admit that not every developer can learn to do architecture well. But when you enable developers to take those responsibilities, the ones who are capable of it will step up.

My rule of thumb for developers goes like this. I mentally divide developers into junior, mid-level and senior. This has nothing to do with their titles. The breakdown is that a junior developer is still learning basic programming consistency and good habits. They generally struggle on programs that go over a couple of thousand lines. A mid-level developer has internalized consistency but is unable to remain aware of the big picture while focusing on details. They tend to top out and struggle at 10k-20k line projects. A senior developer is aware of the big picture while dealing with details, and remembers details while dealing with the big picture. They tend to top out around 200k line projects. And a principal software engineer adds an awareness of subtleties about how the big picture is likely to evolve, and how to guide that in a long-term positive way. These people can manage architectures in the millions of lines.

On this scale, I rate myself senior. To move to the next level, I'd need to spend more time at large companies with very large codebases. But dealing with the associated politics is not my preference so I'm happy where I am.

The issue is that really good developers are rare. Developers that you can delegate to them and sleep well at night are a rare commodity on the market. I been working in dev for 25 years, both in startups and in established companies and I maybe know only dozen of people like this.

Judging by what I saw of environments with software architects as a role, I guess I shouldn't be surprised at this.

However I know a heck of a lot more than a dozen programmers that I consider good like that. OK, throw out top-notch organizations like Google, and just go for relatively small companies that I've worked at. Let's narrow it farther and just do places that I've worked in the last 10 years. I still have no problem getting past a dozen.

Why? Because I choose to work at organizations where software architecture is owned by developers. With other developers who have made the same choice.

(Incidentally, 3 of those programmers were co-founders at ZipRecruiter. Who hired a lot of mutual acquaintances on my list, then grew to be a billion dollar company. Somehow I don't think that this is coincidence.)
I'll gotten gains need to be fined at some integer multiple >= 2.
Stein's paradox [1]. Quite well explained in the book "Computer Age Statistical Inference", available online [2]. Cute quote from that book: "The James–Stein theorem came as a rude shock to the statistical world of 1961".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stein%27s_example

[2] https://web.stanford.edu/~hastie/CASI/
Cause is probably https://www.auscert.org.au/blog/2021-01-15-quovadis-issue-im...
Also happening in NYC.
We would have nationalized the effort to produce vaccines, building entire production chains and staffing them with anyone in need of work.

But that's not what happened in WW2. Businesses were not nationalized and they weren't staffed by anyone in need of work.

The War Productions board simply directed companies on what to produce. They could run their business as they see fit with some controls like wage caps, raw material quota, production quotas.

And it works better for war - switching from making planes to airplanes versus having companies switch from making microchips to making vaccines.
Well I just think that if you aren’t aware you are being tracked, you probably don’t really care too much.

People who care they are being tracked will take the time to learn how stop being tracked. That’s why I learned about cookies etc.

I think this is probably a way for google to assert further control over the advertising industry, using the guise of improving user privacy. Like I said, most users don’t really care because if they did they would just disable cookies, so I think they are solving a problem no one is actually having and that seems suspicious.
The development in the article is basically gene panel using nanopore sequencers. It dynamically ejects sequence that doesn't match the thing the user is interested in programmatically
User dues are $120 to find out. I think it’s a nameserver host? Idk.
I don't know anything specifically about monkey.org but I went to high school with the user "dros" in the late 90's when local BBS's (Grex and M-Net) were still kind of cool and it was even cooler to have your own.
Almost 11,000 moved from HK to Taiwan last year
No. 6 definitely is an anime.
He also said virtual envs install their own copy of Python. No need for that either. Coming from other languages the whole virtual env thing seems alien especially the way it messes with your shell.
Can we start calling this Agile Culting?
heh, I remember grex. Ann Arbor native?
> I wish I had a search engine for every content I browsed, watched, heard, but I don't care about the content I didn't read yet.

You want something like ArchiveBox[1].

[1]: https://archivebox.io/
No. Someone else can't copy it. With new technology like this there is often a ton of fairy dust involved - knowledge gained by the people who developed it that even they aren't aware is critical to the process.

I was involved in a relatively simple tech transfer of a pharmaceutical agent to a plant in China. We pulled it back to the US because every single batch failed. And it wasn't due to shoddy workmanship since we had US people on the ground directing everything.
Valuations from VC vs. non-VC investors
My company just started a fundraise and investor interest appears strong. The fastest moving group is actually a real estate PE firm (we serve the commercial real estate market).

Before we get too far down the road, I am curious if there are any data points about seed round valuations from VCs versus non-VC investors. Thanks in advance for your input.
100%. Totally a market that could be disrupted
>Parler was never a "free speech" platform. This was always a lie, they heavily moderated their content.

I assume you’re just spreading what you’ve read in liberal news about Parler, without having used the app yourself.

Because the reality is, if the users didn’t like the post or comment, they simply downvoted it until it was buried. Even r/politics and HN does the same thing with their downvote option. If multiple users flag a post, then it went into Parler’s review, just-like-Hacker-News.
wait till you hear about the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_number
So we knows it's you, but you are a integer.
I do most of my development in docker. It's tricky to start but once you get the hang of it, it's fantastic. My goal is to one day roll something like RancherOS and provision my entire desktop environment in containers. Then you can just pick up and move it to whatever machine you wish.
I do agree with parent that this is an interesting political hypotheical though. There was so much media focus on Parler for a while and ultimately AWS was exonerated as the good guy in the mainstream narrative.

If Parler had self-hosted, would the potential wrath of the media just have turned to their upstream telco or whoever instead of AWS?
Why aren't you hosting them?
A relevant paper (authored in part by the subject of the Atlantic piece being discussed): https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5884693/
The word is “stole”
5 orders of magnitude means the number of zeros. $50 -> $5,000,000
Parler had moderation too. The difference is that Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter's moderation lean left, and Parler's leaned right.
Huh! So in that case, it could be that there's an old PBM file somewhere that could be a contender for this record.
Yep! From birth to CHS graduation in 99, then moved to California with the Versity.com team who went on to found Stubhub and Twilio without me.

A more Ann Arbor story there is not!
Buttery smooth on an old windows box using firefox. The load time is not an issue if the product interesting.
Performance is the currency which you trade for ease of development, new features, etc.

Ignoring performance comes at a cost to you (server side resources) and your users (device resources). This is why generation after generation devices get more powerful and slower (from user point of view).

It is up to you to find out which point in the performance vs new feature/bugfix tradeoff gives you maximum value.
Doing just easy things isn't much of a business model.
You're paying google very little for the amount of space you're getting. I assure you, your very cheap cloud storage is being subsidized. [1]

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2020/11/11/21559930/google-train-ai...
>>>But where is the left's QAnon?

Working at MSNBC? [1]

The far-left conspiracy groups probably got really quiet after one of their own tried to murder Republican Congressmen. Did everyone just forget about that? [2]

*On May 22, Hodgkinson wrote "Trump is a Traitor. Trump Has Destroyed Our Democracy. It's Time to Destroy Trump & Co." above his repost of a Change.org petition demanding "the legal removal" of Trump and Vice President Mike Pence for "treason". He belonged to numerous political Facebook groups, including those named "Terminate the Republican Party", "The Road To Hell Is Paved With Republicans", and "Donald Trump is not my President."*

[1]https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/russia-has-been-cult...

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Congressional_baseball_sh...
I don't think challenge trials would have really helped much. The issue is that obtaining an accurate estimate of vaccine efficacy in the real world is a crucial piece of information. There is a very large difference between a 95% effective and a 70% effective vaccine in terms of the roll out and who/how many need to be vaccinated. Additionally, challenge trials are fundamentally contrived in terms of the innoculum size and mode of transmission. There is no substitute for a proper randomised trial under native transmission conditions. Challenge trials would lead us into a long night of uncertainty about efficacy.
Stole.. Amazon stole $62M from employees
So, do you rate GW Bush better or worse than Trump?

Why wasn’t the left all in a lather about killing 100s of thousands of innocent Iraquis based on false evidence of Chemical weapons stockpiles? Why not impeach Bush then? Why not now?
They may even have built effective moderation tools, instead of having a backlog of 26,000 requests!
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That's what they've been working on:

https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2021/1/19/bb-parler-moves-...

https://www.wired.com/story/parler-russia-privacy/
Under a Blood-Red Flag
> What empires has it built since the Catholic church started allowing interest on loans?

What does this discussion have to do with the Church? Islam is a separate religion and system, and up until relatively recently (post WWII mainly) the Muslim world was not involved in interest. Even post WWII, there existed nations that did not deal with it (e.g. Kosovo). Furthermore, just because someone decides to abandon their religion or morals does not mean that we have to do the same. We take pride that Islam is the only religion left in the world that is the way it was when it was revealed, without corruption.

> How does that work for someone buying a house?

Firstly, the government is responsible for providing a good quality of life for its citizens. Secondly, people can save money and buy, or buy in installments like they did back in the day and still do today in some parts of the world. Finally, owning a house is not an end goal, that's very materialistic thinking. I understand that it one has to secure his future, but home ownership as per the Western or American view wasn't the norm historically as far as I know. Today there exists governments that provide housing for their citizens (e.g. the UAE).
As a PM who works with multiple scrum teams / products - I agree with this and I understand where OP's message comes from as well. While I work with 4 teams, my involvement in each team is dependent upon the product mindedness of the team. I take care of internal/external enablement, customer documentation, bargaining design bandwidth exclusively for all the cases, for a couple of teams, I call team leads into more than half of my customer conversations, product strategy discussions. I believe the team collectively can decide the best work item for them 80% of times without my inputs. Only when org strategy or market reactions change, we reset.

That being said, product mindedness is hard for engineering teams. 2 of the teams I work with, I am giving them inputs on every single feature they need to build. While I dislike doing this for every feature, its upto how the engineering leader envisions their team to function. For some, unless there are jira tickets, properly prioritized, with designs ready, they dont want to involve engineering teammates.
Is staffing your meat packing plant with sickly orphans a reasonable cost savings from a business perspective?
Wonderful insight. Most people use humour to reduce the pain of complexity of a situation , in this case, esoteric tech stuff. Thank you for this. Will try it out.
> You’re just spreading what you’ve read in liberal news about Parler, without having used the app yourself.

You have no way of knowing if this is a true statement. He never said whether he used the app. Maybe he's speaking from personal experience with the app. You should focus on debating the argument and not introduce assumption as fact.
The current stable version of Firefox on Android works just fine with uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger, Ghostery, HTTPS Everywhere, etc.
Kind of weird that the law prevents the agency from additionally charging the company. If you screw someone over, why should you not pay them some extra compensation for the trouble they've gone through?
> Parler was never a "free speech" platform. This was always a lie, they heavily moderated their content.

Exactly. Alt-left speech was not welcome on parler - only alt-right speech.
Tips:

-Incentivize doing your job. I don't expect anything crazy and give 20% as long as you did the baseline properly. If you can't be assed to read or follow a two sentence delivery instruction that says how to find me then I'm not rewarding that.

-Result in taking home much more money than otherwise in many cases, else the company still has to make up the difference to minimum wage but that almost never happens in practice

-Let lower income people keep more of their pay, if cash

I really see no compelling argument for eliminating it. If multiplying a two digit number by 2, rounding, and moving a decimal is too hard, we all have calculators in our pockets all day.
DNA macro expansion.
And how is this hacker news?
I don't buy this argument. Saying "because they banned parler they might lowball you on an aquisition offer and deny you service if you don't accept" is a complete non-sequitur.

As a society we make value judgements all the time. I think most people were in favor of shutting down parler. Most people are not in favor of letting AWS deny you service if you don't accept their aquisition offer and the response will be different.
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I have 7 personal apps on the store 3 of which are successful. Total of 1M downloads from my personal apps. I've been developing Apps for the past years for different clients now.

Portfolio of published apps that I built from scratch:

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If they don’t hate Elon Musk, he’s not doing enough
I’m currently contributing to an open source project that aims to tackle the chain of custody and ensuring steps happened by trusted functionaries. It’s a very interesting problem to be working on but the more you dig in the more you realize how daunting and terrifying the problem set is.
There is always an older fart.

Netscape Navigator was the second popular web browser to show images.

Problem is that the first one changed their domain name since then, from ncsa.uiuc.edu to ncsa.illinois.edu, so unless there’s some obscure little server still running, those are gone.

You’re going to want to look for one of the pilot sites of the internet, but find one that’s been continuously operational. The original CERN site went away.
Sorry, but you don’t just get to incubate insurrection without facing societal consequences.

You have free speech, but zero freedom from consequence.
> Step 2: Write draconian terms of service that incorporated every possible offensive thing that any vendor might object to.

No, just violent rhetoric associated with a real world violent movement. I don't understand why that keeps not registering in these discussions.

I mean, even accepting your frame that we leftists have infested Big Tech and want nothing but to censor our political enemies: they've had years and years to do it, and didn't. And only when it got to the point where congress was actually attacked that a site had to be shut down. And it was just one site, and its users just moved on to Gab and such.

I mean really, if conservatives are so terribly censored... how is it you guys are so loud about it?
Again you accepted the single sided story that those re-education camp are forced upon them.