skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I still don't understand why anyone need third party pixels on a paid professional service. Is it really so hard to count GET's in a server log?
The power law rules (almost) all things human.

How often words are used in a language, wealth distribution, social network followers, you name it.
> OVH cloud archive

seems this the cheapest of all
You can I'd you live in a jurisdiction which gives you the right to demand for all information a company has on you, and the right to be forgotten ( GDPR in the EU, maybe California as well?)
Who are you accusing of doing that? YouTube?
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Worth noting that an antivenom for the funnel-web was created in the early 80s [0], and Australia hasn't seen a single death since.

Its still more than a one day stay in hospital, but it isn't likely to cause a fatality if you actually seek treatment.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_funnel-web_spider#T...
Surely thinking you've got the right to police and punish other people for their views is wokeness, regardless of how ridiculous said views are?
What makes you think NR or Datadog will be a better custodian of your customers' private data than Facebook's world class data security team?

Spyware is spyware, and embedding it is rude no matter who it is from.
> The ad hominem stuff isn't classy at all. I agree.

I don't see any ad hominem there. Where is it?
I can’t square that line of reasoning with the inclusion of the last paragraph, which reads as if they’re blaming Denmark:

> I really wish richer nations would think more globally before they rush to such decisions. Thousands of people will die in poorer nations due to the delays it causes.
How, exactly, does that do anything about the underlying fact that there's a limited amount of attention to spread around on the populace of creatives?
> I'll be the first to line up in three week's time to get my second shot

I believe the second dose of the AZ vaccine is at 2 months. If your second is at 3 weeks, you got a Pfizer shot, not AZ.
To me, actions is the insight in the reducer approach popular in React community. Actions and reducers force you to clearly define the logic of what can happen in a way that keeps it decoupled from the UI or some global state. When used properly, this actually helps arrive at a better and more sustainable design overall.

I’m working on a somewhat complex app and for a long time was sticking to plain useState and contexts, and lately I’m finding that moving it to a reducer (plain React, no Redux) has positive effects on architecture.

That said, the devil’s in the details—I personally think the approach is sometimes misused, including sadly certain tutorial materials. I’m reasonably new to reducers though.
This is essentially true for every single human and the reason discussion forums has discussions, because we keep being unable to see the other persons perspective and think we need to spread "the truth" to them.
In other news, I have yet to make a single dollar from GitHub sponsorships, and I have several tens of stars and forks on my project. Who is going to look after me and my rent? /s

In seriousness, you gotta build or make what people want. The vast majority of YouTubers, like open source devs, are making things that mostly they themselves care about. Of the remainder, most are making things some people appreciate, and might even pay attention to for a while, but when push comes to shove wouldn't pay for.

A few things are just genuinely so good that people will pay.
Since you mention plague ...

Looking at the screenshots and video in the article I kinda wondered if an event like this (flooding) might have been an originator of some Biblical plague stories from Genesis [0].

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[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plagues_of_Egypt
What is the CPM for other media like TV and movies? If Youtube's isn't substantially low, it should be expected as millions of people are experimenting as a creator, and power law rules.
Then it’s a good thing no one has monopolized distributing videos across the internet.
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You are literally projecting your own views on this, which is exactly the problem here.

The law? In which country? Who is correct? Is 18 mature but 17 isn't? Or 15? There is no hard coded rule/value, only arbitrary laws trying to generalize.

And the rest of your post is not even worth dissecting (even though it would be moderately amusing), you're clearly missing both what I and RMS are trying to say.
> would be non-profit in the sense that the ads profits would be mostly returned to the creators on that platform

The basic premise that by making it non-profit, it would garner a higher returns for the content creators is false. The problem really is that there's not enough revenue generated, to pay people producing the content.

Even youtube is run at a loss (only offset by the valuable data they collect for google i suppose). I think people who want to create content, but cannot find the right market to sell that content (aka, cannot reach viral levels) may want to consider doing it only for their own desires, rather than to aim for commercial success.
> like BBC (I am not English/American, so I don't know what the state of these is today)

Still going strong. Still supported by taxes. Still subject to political interference.

> transparently and fairly

Do you give the rewards out based on views/listens? Because if so then you haven't fixed the system. Because the audience doesn't like everyone's work the same. 10% of the creators will get 90% of the revenue.

Do you give out the rewards based on effort? If I spend 10 days making a tune that no-one wants to listen to, should I get the same reward as someone who creates a tune that everyone loves? Is that fair?

Is there some middle ground, where say 50% of the revenue is allocated on audience size and 50% on effort? If I spend all my time making bad music then I should get my rent paid, right? That's fair, right?

What system should we use that would be fair and still allow unpopular creators to get paid enough to pay their rent?
Why should these creators deserve to be paid more? Making money on YouTube and Patreon is a privilege not a right. Yes the big creators make a lot of money, but that's because a lot of users are watching them. If someone is trying to make a career out of YouTube while only making $10,000 a year then the only problem is the person trying to make a career out of that. Making $10,000 on YouTube at all puts you well far ahead of the majority of users and the pay for creativity has never been about how much effort you put in.

People should stop trying to view YouTube as a viable career. Most YouTube careers were made out of people doing it in their spare time and finding out people actually want to watch. That's the only way it works. Do your day job and work on your YouTube career in your spare time. Maybe one day you'll find success.

The way most entertainers get known is just through sheer luck or connections. This is nothing new. For decades actors, musicians and artists have put up with this. They will follow their dreams while keeping a regular job. Then one day they might get the breakthrough they need. It's never been easier to be a creator today, but the chances are still slim that you'll ever start making serious money out of it. The benefit is that you can easily find a niche to fill, and while you might not making a living wage, you will make some good side money drawing something like vegetables with boobs or something.
Except that it's not about profits, it's about culture and quality of life. And pursuit of profit at the expense of everything else reliably destroys both.

It's also about closing one of the few paths that the poor can use to stop being poor.
Outside of parts of London (notably the startup-friendly zone in Shoreditch and the financial centre in The City to the south), and a few other places like Cambridge, programming is not that highly rewarded in the UK.

Nor is it particularly well respected as a skilled discipline, developers are treated just like any other office worker and tend to be paid similarly. The programmers you find in most SMEs are probably not underpaid for their skill level and productivity though, they tend to be plodders, being paid to plod. It's a vicious cycle of low pay, low expectations and low productivity.

If you want to be part of something that moves fast and pays well, you try to get into those places, or leave for another country (mostly the US, the pay in most EU countries is worse AFAICT).

There used to be the option to contract/consult on an independent basis, but the tax authorities are doing their best to entirely kill that business model right now.
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A corporate playbook is an agreed-upon-in-advance set of rules to follow by a group of people.

That's pretty much the definition of a conspiracy.
This looks interesting but I’m struggling to understand why the user’s data are being sent and retrieved from the server. I would understand it when the request was initiated from a web browser and the user needs to continue the flow on their phone but from what I understand this only works on mobile apps. So why doesn’t the library simply return the information and why are my users’ information sent to a third party server?

The dpa states that no data are being stored, so I’m not sure I understand how the flow actually works. What does the developer exchange in return for the user’s info? The docs mention a client token. Is that a jwt or something that contains the users info? If so why does the dev need to send it to the server to unmarshall it? If not, it means that the library has sent the user’s data to the server and they are being stored between requests right? I’m most likely missing something though.

Ps. The download links also don’t seem to work (404).
SpaceX has already flown classified payloads so they're at the trough with the others.

https://www.space.com/spacex-launches-nrol-108-spy-satellite...
The US, most likely.

>although I am not inside IR35

That's what I meant though, this is going to end soon. There will be no "outside IR35". One of the more foolish decisions of the UK state recently (and they're not lacking in that department).
> WW1 and WW2 both relied heavily on forced conscription, on all sides

Yes, sorta. Once again, you can't generalise about this stuff. Every country approached it differently. Often conscription only happened after all the volunteers were depleted - i.e., it wasn't the first port of call.

> So did the Vietnam War.

Not in my country. The US, and Australia, yes, but New Zealand hasn't used conscription since WW2, despite fighting in Malaya, Borneo, Korea, Vietnam, East Timor, Afghanistan etc.

> Deserters are imprisoned or shot.

I thought it was just executed? At least it was in your prior comments.

> The US military is currently all volunteer. But they're still not allowed to desert.

Sure. Military discipline being what it is, well, yeah, I'm not overly surprised.

But a) no-one forced them there at the muzzle of a gun, as you alleged, and b) no-one is shooting them for leaving.

So... well, not really sure what your point was.
I don't think people should be shamed for trying to minimize how much they pay for something they didn't consent to, that ends up mostly enriching government sector insiders in powerful unions.
But even then, component aging and drift is something that is considered by serious manufacturers- Mitutoyo can probably guarantee and back it up with tests, that their design will maintain the accuracy over some time frame.

Of course it doesn't matter for most machine shop uses of calipers- but when it does, there is definitely more to it than meeting stated accuracy once.
The drone might have streamed the video back to the operator, so it's not a given that the drone survived. Since the photographer knew they were going to take a risky shot, it's not even unlikely.

Maybe that's why the footage stops in the middle of the lava spray...
How is this an excuse to spell "grisly" as "grizzly"?
"The in­for­ma­tion must be dis­closed un­der a fed­eral rule aimed at mak­ing the $1 tril­lion sec­tor more con­sumer friendly. But hun­dreds of hos­pi­tals em­bed­ded code in their web­sites that pre­vented Al­pha­bet Inc.’s Google and other search en­gines from dis­play­ing pages with the price lists, ac­cord­ing to the Jour­nal ex­am­i­na­tion of more than 3,100 sites."

What a great example of the saying "don't listen to what someone says, look at their actions"
You have full authority over the meaning of my words.
> The anti-vax crowd is complete nonsense

friendly reminder that this is factually false. vaccines can and do cause harm all the time. there is danger in getting all medicine, and more danger in rushed medicines with potential unstudied long-term side effects.

thats not to say that the history of vaccine use isnt overwhelmingly net positive, with the net-positive per cost metric being somehow even higher, but the fastest way to discredit yourself is to ignore the obviously valid and true points of your opponent, even if their overarching thesis is wrong.
At the risk of pedantically zooming in on your choice of words:

> I only listen to podcasts that are well-produced and edited. Very few actually are.

I disagree. Good production is a nice extra, but it's secondary. I'd rather listen to Miles Davis on vinyl, than a mediocre musician on high-bitrate FLAC.

Some examples: I recently discovered the Happy Path Programming podcast. It's a good listen as the hosts are knowledgeable and insightful. The production quality is fine, but isn't at the professional standard. The hosts acknowledge this, but make no apology for it, on the grounds that they don't want their podcast to turn into a chore.

In contrast, the Security Now podcast has professional production. Again that's a plus, but that's all. If the podcast were no good, their high production budget wouldn't be enough to save it.

Good production quality doesn't turn a boring podcast into a worthwhile one, and mediocre production rarely spoils a worthwhile one.

> There are way too many people who think podcasting is just turning on a microphone and babbling away with a friend or guest for however long they can do it. I only have a few hours a day I can spend on podcasts and I'm not going to waste it listening to some inane meandering chitchat.

Sure, it makes sense to insist on good quality podcasts. The hosts need certain soft skills to deliver a good podcast. Not everyone has them, but it must be easy to convince yourself you do. People may be tempted to think I could easily do a podcast, or comedy, or acting. The skills aren't as immediately obvious as in, say, gymnastics or theoretical physics.

Podcasting may be the victim of Sturgeon's Law, 90% of everything is crud, but fortunately it's pretty easy to filter out the ocean of poor-quality podcasts and find a few you like.
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Why isn't there a Linux laptop to directly compete with OS X/Apple?
There does not seem to be a top-of-line laptop with full linux support.

Imagine a Thinkpad series with full support for Debian for example.

Full support meaning that all HW works without any user required effort and keeps working during updates.

So, in essence very good HW, running linux (or any POSIX OS), coupled with company support.

All that adding up to a good, reliable professional laptop at a reasonable price.

It saddens me that as a professional I seem to have only three options for a good laptop:

1. apple mac ~3000 Euros

2. top-of-the-line Win ~1500 Euros but I'll have to work on Windows

3. top-of-the-line HW ~1500 Euros with linux where I'll have to babysit and troubleshoot every time OS upgrades

I just can't understand why this market gap has not been filled yet...
They tried to impeach him twice!
Not just that. To even get access to their API, you need to apply. That is the future of AI I'm afraid without projects like this. That is Elites controlling AI and deciding who is "worthy" to use it.

I'm sure they have the best of intentions but "worthiness" is subjective.
Maybe, but it didn't contain a priority clause, which the UK one did.
For some reason I get stuck at the "security check" when clicking that n-gate link -- none of the buttons do anything, which might or might not be the point.

Granted, the site was interesting enough that I clicked around until I made my way back to the article you were linking to in the first place, but the link itself at least failed to fulfill its purpose :P
In the city I live in there are a lot of jobs in tech for gambling companies. I swore I'd never work for one of those companies, and know others who've done the same.

I often feel guilty for not being as altuistic as I'd like, but at least I know I'm not using my skills to do something that a net negative for humanity.
It was not dropped. VLAs were deemed as optional but (if I am not mistaken) this specific syntax is not optional, only local VLA declarations.

> with clang and gcc probably being the only C compilers on Earth that might still support it on C11 and C17 mode

Are there any other C11 compilers even?
> Because otherwise how do you know when they suddenly change their script to do something entirely different?

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Security/Subres...
The truth that no one wants to acknowledge is that successful content creators are usually brilliantly multi-talented and hard-working. I'm never surprised to find the ones I like have had whole careers in media (or media-adjacent) fields.

I like food youtubers - Binging with Babish was formerly a video fx artist, Adam Ragusea was formerly a journalism professor and musician and Alex (French Guy Cooking) was an electrical engineer, filmmaker, and marketing manager. These people are basically one-man production armies, the food part is basically secondary. They have a killer mix of good-ideas and charisma, production quality (cinematography and sound design), marketing and community savviness, and ridiculous hard work.
> There will be no "outside IR35".

If the end client decides it is so (and assumes liability), you can still be outside.
If the end client is a "small business" then there is no change*.

The best thing I can think of for those who want to continue to operate as an independent business is to actually become more business-like. Start a consultancy with a couple of like-minded individuals, based on your skills. Let clients and agents know you are available to deliver work on a fixed-cost basis, not join a project on a day rate.

But I agree, the whole thing is a nasty mess, and it's going to screw a lot of people.

(*though I imagine HMRC will be launching many more investigations into such small businesses. This is the bit that gets me, they leave a grey area in which you can get screwed).
No, some chick's memory of exactly that -- from 1987 or -92 or something -- was a fairly prominent part of what everyone was howling about.

(And yes, I'm using the rather dismissive noun quite deliberately: Ordinarily this person would have been just another young [at the time; not so much nowadays] woman, and I'd have used some more appropriate term. But this bird-brained behaviour is worthy of a chicken. If anyone has a problem with that, I'm perfectly amenable to switching. How about "harpy"?)
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Probably isn't, but I'm sure someone, someday, will figure out a use for NFTs beyond riding the next bubble.
Apparently it's incompetence, if they're unaware that they could have been making money on the deal.
I wouldn't even say it's just this. Consistency, high quality (in terms of writing, delivery, production value) and a boatload of other factors matter, too. As does the ethos of "authenticity."

Ben Eater and 3Blue1Brown are I think good examples of this. I doubt "the market" was demanding videos about higher level math with superb visualizations, or especially implementing a 6502 on breadboards, but these guys both made it happen. I doubt they're raking in the megabux, but they seem to be doing pretty well.
> "shouldn't be discussed"

Why not? Technical implementations can always be discussed separately from the context they're used in, and even your extreme example of guns has perfectly valid uses in the police and military. Yet you're making the strange comparison to being "a gangster". Why? What's the point of this convoluted analogy?

> "sharing PII with Facebook is something most web sites should avoid, not something they should do properly"

Again, why? You seem to claim a lot without any basis. Data has valid uses, and being used properly is foundational to providing privacy.
Show HN: Distributed – Live social chat app to help remote teams stay in sync
Hey all

Distributed is a live social chat app on the Web and Mobile which helps you stay connected with your friends, team and colleagues at work. We initially built this as a demo of our API development platform but it turned into something much more. We spend 2-3 hours on it everyday and thought it might be useful for others too.

It looks like a combination of slack and video. Your video appears as a small bubble at the top of the screen, you have the choice to enable video and mic or just listen. For the most part the text based chat is just a way to share links and interesting content while chatting over voice. We've purposely limited group sizes to under 24 and kept everything private by default.

The experience is best on the web. Let us know what you think.

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I think the issue here is that you've misunderstood the politics of these kinds of "resignations".

In the public mind (even if not in reality) when someone "resigns" because of "past comments", they have either been given an ultimatum - "Jump or be pushed" - or they are experiencing intrusions into their personal life (or there is behaviour from the community that makes this person believe these intrusions are imminent)

My understanding at the time was that it was the former - there were murmurings of possible action against him, and whether it was to avoid harm to the FSF or risk the public damage to his reputation I have no idea, but he decided to gracefully step aside.

So yes, officially you may be correct - but especially with someone like RMS, it is highly unlikely that he just chose to resign because he previously made comments that people didn't like. RMS is very used to making controversial statements and weathering the storm, I find it unlikely (though not impossible) that this was just one storm he couldn't weather - and much more likely that he chose the path of least damage, to himself or his cause or his legacy.
Ask HN: What is your “this-should-be-just-blogpost-not-a-book ”?
I mean so many bad books being written left right centre by wannabe "best selling" author. I am going to exclude
being harsh on technical books - I can't judge because I don't know everything. Also nothing against fiction book. But for God's sake, what is up with self-help, motivation, life advice etc. Honestly, they have a drop of milk and then they add 10-litre water and they proud of being "bestselling author"? I am not blaming everyone but you understand what I mean.

I think if you don't have solid 10 different ideas then there is no point in writing a book. Some bloggers have more content on their site
then these "authors" with 10 books combined. Needless to say, I am throwing more books faster than reading them.

Do you feel this frustration too? Do you know any book which should not have been a book? Can you tell us why you think?

I hope this list will help us not to waste our valuable time reading worthless book also save us some money. Thanks :)
The absolute worst scenario happened
When I went to university in 1979 there was a clear distinction between polytechnics and universities which served industry well. Political correctness killed all that.