skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think floc will be useful because I'll hardcode a very inaccurate cohort in my browser to get amusingly meaningless ads that are as unobtrusive as possible.

From what I've seen the most unobtrusive ads are the most expensive methothelioma and personal injury ads since they're generally a short message on a solid color background.
Peloton told The Verge Apple told them to remove it

> The spokesperson also said: “Peloton is committed to bringing the GymKit integration to all workouts and disciplines within Apple’s terms of service,” seemingly suggesting bootcamp workouts didn’t fall under those terms.

https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/15/22385515/peloton-bike-plu...

I don't understand why the other fitness types ran afoul of the rules... Maybe there wasn't a strict 1-to-1 mapping of activity types which Apple didn't like?
World’s 8 Richest People Now Have a Combined Net Worth of $1T – Technology News
Love that data this is making public but I wish it wasn't always so much blue vs red, Republicans vs Democrats, who is worse, my team or theirs. They're all corrupt to some degree, why make it even more partisan that it already is.
Whoops, you used the word master ...
>Why would people want to have an iPhone for only a week?

Indian culture is about display of wealth. Wealthy individuals are respected and get access to inner clubs while the people who don't have much don't get invited anywhere.

College students might want to leave a good impression at a party and might get an iPhone so people start taking them seriously.

Similarly, a guy might get an iPhone so his date considers him important.

iPhone is status symbol in India because not everyone can afford it.

I can certainly and easily afford it but I am still using android because I don't feel the need of uncessarry attention
Physical inactivity is associated with a higher risk for severe Covid-19 illness
Good for Mexico.

I wish the US would do the same.
He also does a lot to offset his private jets.

> I have a higher-than-average carbon footprint, so I’m taking extra steps to do my part. In the book I briefly mention how I’m offsetting my own emissions. I spend about $5 million every year to offset my family’s carbon footprint. As of now, the standard calculation for carbon footprints is based on an estimate of $400 per ton of emissions. But since the way we calculate carbon footprints is still in its infancy, I take our family’s carbon footprint and double it to make sure we are fully covering our footprint and then some.

> I also like to think of my investments in zero-carbon technologies as another kind of offset for my emissions. Investing in companies doesn’t make my carbon footprint smaller. But if I’ve picked any winners, they’ll be responsible for removing much more carbon than I am responsible for creating. I have given more than $1 billion toward innovations and ideas that I hope will help the world get to zero—including affordable and reliable clean energy, low-emissions cement, steel, meat, and more.

https://www.gatesnotes.com/Energy/What-you-can-do-to-fight-c...
There's something in that text that I find worrying:

"... shall disclose that the content has been artificially created or manipulated. This obligation shall not apply where necessary for the purposes of safeguarding public security [and other prevailing public interests] or for the exercise of a legitimate right or freedom of a person and subject to appropriate safeguards for the rights and freedoms of third parties.”.

Does the above mean that the powers can create deepfakes, but given certain conditions, they're not obligated to reveal their nature? There's huge room for bending these rules to disseminate fake news to attack opponents, falsely accuse innocent people of crimes or save others from crimes they have committed. These laws will be abused, that's for certain, because they look exactly like they were thought with abuse in mind.
Russia invaded Ukraine and repeatedly commits major cyber espionage against the USA, to the point they arguably changed the result of our presidential election (and I don’t mean altering vote machines) to name but one instance but no!! The aggressor is USA.

Yeah we do cyber attacks and many other fairly inexcusable things. But to claim USA is the aggressor in this cause is highly debatable.

And I’m not saying appeasement will cause ww3, I’m saying it’s had a past history of not working in a spectacular fashion, so it’s weird to default to it.
Meanwhile ordinary people still believe that the war is against their fellow people, in identity politics, religion, sexual orientation etc. Devide et Impera.
I don't know about the GP, but I use a Quest 2.
If anything shrooms would be contributing to neurogenesis[0] not destroying brain cells. Opposite to alcohol which is well known to destroy brain cells.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurogenesis
If anyone would have something knowledgeable and useful to say on this topic, it would be Michael Geist, who studies technology and Canadian law.

I've no idea if anything has changed in the last month, but here's what he wrote on the topic most recently: https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2021/03/blocking-is-back/
Apple already is making an electric self driving car. They are talking about 200k vehicles that could be substituted by 50k additional electric self driving cars, that don’t seem much by 2030.
If it's true that Ethereum blocks have any kind of checksum of the expected results, then if the patch has a mistake, I'd think the failure mode would just be that they continue to fail processing the failed block, or they get further but fail to process a more recent block. In that case, then I think it would make sense here to rush out a patch that's been manually checked, and then go back to add some tests.
Interesting. I normally use the external speakers on my iMac. I have verified with a number of different people that they're not getting echo.

Yet one sees other people utterly convinced that using external speakers is bad, bad, bad.

That may explain it.
Core wants to be the YouTube of game development
REI did the same thing. People would return ten year old jackets for a full refund because a feather was sticking out.

Even Costco has drastically scaled back the return policy on electronics for that reason. In large enough groups, people suck.
> a 3x funds pays 3x the dividends

what? which funds pay 3x dividends? All of the leveraged ETFs i'm familiar with replicate the 3x exposure with futures contracts, which do not pay dividends. the drag exists when these futures contracts are in contango, where the back-month is more expensive than the front-month. The leveraged ETF pays that drag every time the fund rolls to the next futures. Nothing to do with borrowing costs.

This is also the reason why USO trends down long term, regardless of the spot price of oil.
Oligarchize doesn't quite have the same ring to it.
While they're investing in marketing / engineering and they'll see user base grows, especially if products is free or almost free. But at some point of time question will come to revenue per user. And that will be completely different problem.
> With many buying latest smartphones, and returning them after a week after trying them "[1]

That alone is not only OK but was recommended recently in the USA.

Specifically, during COVID the Apple retail shops were shut so you couldn't compare devices when shopping. I bought my GF a regular and max sized iPhone and she took a week to decide which one she wanted. We sent the other one back and had a refund before the credit card bill was even due, so as far as my bank account was concerned I really did only pay for one. In normal times we would have been unlikely to have bothered with this (although with something as personal as a phone...)

I can imagine that this only scales to a certain percentage of transactions though.
Ask HN: How do I deploy my product?
Have been deploying SaaS sandboxes so far, now doing a first deploy of our product to a prospect's private cloud due to security constraints,

1. What's the best way to deploy to a customer's private cloud? AWS AMI, Docker artifactory?
2. How do I license my product? Setting up a license server seems overkill, not sure if there's something easier.

This should be "solved", yet the internet doesn't seem to have good resources for startups getting started on this path. Thanks!
we all gamble that have excess money to do so.

there is a huger "we all" that don't.
A few random thoughts on investing in Bitcoin vs Coinbase:

- The risk of losing your BTC would've been high if you used something like Mt Gox, or maybe you wouldn't have made the purchase because you didn't trust the purchasing channels.

- My guess is investing $300k back then would've raised the market price quite a bit before you finished your purchase, but I'm just speculating.

- Investing in the company gives you a little more agency. E.g. if you have a great idea, you can help the company become 1.5x or 10x more valuable. Investing in BTC is very passive. This is not worse or better, but a personal preference.

- I bet Coinbase contributed to Bitcoin's success by providing an easy onramp. If Bitcoin were 1 or 3 years behind where it is today because of mass adoption starting later, then $300k invested in Bitcoin in 2012 would be worth much less.
Then note that the correct spelling is "malapropism"
Translated: I can't afford X so it's OK to steal it, because corporations are evil for being for-profit. Got it.

re UBI: you don't have to wait to see how 'well' would UBI work in practice - ask anyone from any European countries about their Roma population and how effectively they use the 'subsidies' (not the right word, but I can't recall the right one) from government. So many enterpreneurs and artists ... (/s just in case)
When Half Our Time Is Spent Online, We Live in a Delusional World
That’s what’s happening with flight tracking info.

It got too easy to see who’s flying their private jets and where.

Meanwhile if you travel by car, get bent.
I'm a huge proponent of Firefox on desktop, but the new Firefox on mobile is just awful awful awful.

I've switched to Vivaldi and it's just much snappier and doesn't have the papercuts FF mobile is currently struggling through.

Total rewrites are cool, but they're real rough around the edges at first.
Done. Now you can sort by newest/oldest date.
> Is it really, though?

Yes, it is. If you're an unhoused diabetic living in the US without access to insulin, it literally doesn't matter if the country is run by Ivy League graduates or uncultured generalissimos. Note that I said "many", not "most". I'm not even making a claim about proportions but in the US alone there is a large quantity of people for whom the status quo is either a death sentence or at least entails a lifetime of suffering. This isn't even taking general trends (e.g. the income gap, militarization of the police, or Climate Change) into account.

Note that I said "worse outcome", not "worst outcome". Yes, almost all bottom-up political change is brought about with "populism" (i.e. saying things are bad and promising that they can be changed for the better) that doesn't mean that all populism is deceptive or false.

Generally drastic changes only happen when the situation is already sufficiently dire precisely because the status quo (no matter how undesirable) feels like a safer bet than a leap into the unknown. This is why these changes are often so drastic and the means to achieve them (by necessity) so violent: incrementalism has failed and left them no other choice.

Whether the outcome is better or worse mostly has to do with what power dynamics will remain in place when the existing dominant power structure is gone.

The Cambodian Civil War is messy and complicated but portraying it as "people wanted political change and got the Killing Fields" is reductionist to the point of satire. The government was on a left-leaning (and even pro-communist) progressive path leading up to the fraudulent 1966 election and then suddenly snapped to the violently repressive hard right only for the monarchy to intervene by imposing "centrism", alienating both sides. Note that all this went on while the US was also wrestling for control in the region and China was trying to shake off the Soviet Union. These things don't happen in a vacuum but even without the Khmer Rouge Cambodia was unstable and spiraling into chaos.

Dropping in the Khmer Rouge as if Pol Pot is a meaningful representation of all political change is absurd, even if you only consider drastic changes (i.e. revolutions, overthrows, secessions and annexations). Outside of imperialist conquest almost every nation on Earth, past or present, is the result of such struggles.

The foundational mistake is believing that the status quo is stable and permanent because it never is and never has been before. Even episodes in history that are considered "stable" (like the Roman Empire/Republic) are tumultuous and only seem somewhat stable because we're looking at them from a bird's eye view often thousands of years later.
Yep, thanks!

I'm well aware of datomic family databases, but it's the part about solving interesting problems with them that interests me, not that someone has implemented another one ;)
Yes. That may soon be gone though. China passed the regulation on eSIM and may be two more years before they make the switch.
Like https://www.opensecrets.org/personal-finances ?
I had started reading about that and Siacoin a while back. Never got around to starting a node or anything like that. With Sia at least, you had to put up a stake first before you could start a storage node (for reasons that made sense). But then I'd have had to go through the rigamarole with buying some other coin, trading for it, setting up various wallets, etc.

Maybe at the end of the day I should just be giving a little money to rsync.net or Backblaze.
I am in favor of medication (and drug use) that improves quality of life. I am not in favor of using drugs for competitions, regardless of the domain, eg employment, sports, academic. I feel that many people medicate for the wrong reasons and that we are over medicated as often as we are under medicated, because of our competitive nature. We can do better if we had better reasoning about when how and why to medicate and didn’t draw the arbitrary line around legal substances (cocaine and opiates being less prohibited than marijuana).
I agree. I myself have noticed how bad all reviews have gotten. For example, I bought an S20 FE last year, and it had a horrible touch screen. Almost EVERYONE who bought one said the same thing and complained. I can think of zero 'reviewers' who even mentioned it. I would be supremely angry if it were a $1200 device with no return policy.

I don't really know what the solution is. I think a phone rental business could spring up. Charge $10/day or something to rent a high end phone to folks to see how they like it.
> Their problem is that people are going to want a single interface to view everything through.

I mostly agree with this. I know you're talking about a single streaming service, but just to expand your point, for me, my single interface is Roku. From it I can access Netflix, HBO, Amazon, Hulu, and a ton of others - all with the same remote on the same TV. One of my favorite permaculture Youtubers even has his own Roku app/channel. I've been looking into creating my own Roku app and the process doesn't seem overly burdensome. You need video content, an HLS or MPEG-DASH streaming webserver (I'll use nginx and HLS), some json, and maybe something minor I can't remember now.

But I like your idea of a standard streaming API. If it actually happened the resulting ecosystem would be awesome.
> You need to write idempotent ansible from the start. No excuses.

Absolutely. And code reviews, etc. just like code.

> Then you would implement a retry logic in ansible since your cloud APIs will fail for weird reasons or you really must wait that a resource in AWS is truly ready before you run another task. ( for example vpn gateway in AWS must be ready and then you can attach a vpn connection, or a route53 zone record has to propagate before you do something with it. But in the meantime your other tasks can continue in parallel. Only the vpn tasks needs to wait)

Yes, Ansible modules have a retry built in or a wait_for statement. You can also control the serialization serialize: (or was it parallel), or run_once or when. You have a couple of tools at your disposal.

> At this point we did not do any code reviews yet and we did not answer the question: “how should the infrastructure look like?”

Why not? We usually start with some diagram in README.md or Confluence or a Design Proposal before the code. Code never gets released without a merge request.

> This especially means: how do you actually delete resources with Ansible? So you Start to introduce a kind of “state” for your resource.

state: absent, you can use in about every module.

> So, if you squint hard enough, idempotent, resilient, parallelizable, thread-safe, fast ansible with a state is what terraform solves. If you look at tools like terratest you even get to do unit/integration testing for your infrastructure code.

I believe terraform hides way too much and is too magic. Troubleshooting when terraform goes wrong is really really hard. You have two states to look on -- the cloud state and the TF state.

And now you need to know two tools too, since you will likely need Ansible anyways to configure and operator the hosts later.

> So as soon as you are more than 1 person handling infrastructure following best practices like code review and testing, without getting insane, use terraform.

Beg to differ, 100s of engineers sharing ansible galaxy roles with semantic versioning and whatnot in a very good way at my org.

> Once you do not work in isolation any more, either in a team or as a consultant who needs to hand over their work (and Teach people how idempotent ansible works), I would favor terraform any time.

Maybe you're right. If I'm doing freelance I will likely use Terraform to interact with Cloud. IMO Ansible, just like coding, requires a bit of a community around it with best practices, reviews and etc.
Not allowing Airplay on Fitness+ at launch was such a faux pas on their part. Who wants to do a workout looking at their phone when there's a big tv in front of you? Glad they offered a fix, but wonder how many customers they lost initially.
Same thing happens here in Austin, if you don't force them to also build affordable housing as part of their deal with the city virtually 0 will be build because the profit margins are so much more with luxury apartments that are 500 sq ft and you can fit a ton of them in a high rise.
Not really :-)
Similar from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26807695

HN can't see the forest for the trees.

Trading isn't the issue.

Why are our top elected officials not compensated enough? Income inequality. If it isn't trading, they'll chase Bezos until they "get what they deserve" one way or another.
Ask HN: How do you improve in your free time?
Towards the end of last year I gained a job as a junior developer and while the job and the environment itself is wonderful, by the end of the day I'm usually feeling so exhausted that I seem to struggle to do more then lie down as mindless zombie. How do you manage the balance between work and home, and how do you develop your skills effectively outside of office hours?
Curious... why not Photopea as it is handpicked by sites like https://alternativeshub.gitlab.io/graphic-design/ ?
Well, you've got to pay for a bike as well, because the kikr doesn't come with it. Or use the same bike you're using outside for normal riding and faff around with mounting it each time you want to use it.

What I'm saying is that Peloton is a whole integrated experience which has, in some regards, more conveniences. Some people value that.
Maybe we could stop making fun of (the very few) people using their stimulus checks to buy stocks.

When I hear that, I’m like, great. Don’t bail out corporations, give people money directly and let them decide if they want to acquire a stake or not.
yeah! And possibly more importantly, after looking at Solidity contracts and seeing how much they were hacked, they severely limited the stateful side effects of ChiaLISP transactions. Apparently their thinking was so that these programs could be better audited by enterprise users that way, making Chia a more attractive blockchain to target.
Docker Desktop for Apple Silicon General Availability
The US was just so much larger and so much more powerful then anybody else that its mistakes didn't actually fuck anything up.

The whole thing with the US is that it is basically secure with friendly neighbors and before China was the largest economy in the world by a huge margin for 100 years.

The amount of absurdly idiotic mistakes the US made are mind-blowing. The US response to Mosaddegh taking the oil from the British for example was utterly idiotic. The British literally sold the US on the idea that Mosaddegh was possibly a communist.

The US walked out of the conference to settle Vietnam and that eventually (with more dumb choices). The Vietnam war itself serves as one of the single most idiotic strategic decisions ever.

The US Iraq policy looks like the action of a complete mad man.

US just spent 20 years in Afghanistan fighting an enemy that had basically nothing to with the reason they invaded originally. While some of the people they invaded for originally are in Yemen and get cover from the US supported air-force.

And lets ignore what a complete and other fuckup Wilson made in WW1.

The problem is, non of those are actually relevant, for a country the size of the US, 20 years uselessly throwing money down the drain Afghanistan. Who cares, a gigantic economy and a private army, what is a couple 100 billions more in debt. If you don't use conscription the Anti-War movement is not big enough to matter.

Or its 20 years of hopelessly trying to prevent North Vietnam from winning only to become basically allied with them not so long after. What is a couple of trillions spent and a coupe 10ks of casualties.
Peloton is certainly a fad, but Bowflex still exists. The idea that Peloton isn't just an exercise bike with an at home gym subscription, is is highly suspect.
The price arbitrage is USA -> basically everywhere else on earth.
That's not the case in poker. If someone thinks a novice player is messing them up somehow with poor play, it means they're not a good player either. A good poker player wants their opponents to play as poorly as possible.
Those who do bad things can always justify to themselves "everyone is doing it" even if the only evidence they've is a newspaper report of a person doing it in their country. I personally frequently manage accounts of my family members including my Dad's and girlfriends account, they aren't doing it infact my dad has kept a lot of crappy things he received because he didn't have time to return and he's a busy banker, his time value is more than all these products etc...very few people in the country actually get paid enough to make these tactics not worth it for them, but a lot of people are god fearing and honest even if they are poor.
He's done more than most -ref. Polio eradication, his (foundations') work on malaria... What have you done in this space? I know I've done shamefully little, but ride an electric scooter and take my son to school and back in a Bakfiets, trips I used to make in the car.
Well, it is! Just not the version you're hoping to use.
> if it's like a bell curve or more "camel shaped"

By the way this is generally referred to as a "saddle curve".

But I like the imagery: it would be lovely if "bell" and "saddle" curves were referred to as "dromedary" and "bactrian" curves!