skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Flutter won't survive long. The whole point of cross platform dev is to pull better apps with limited resources. An app without backend is nothing. JS is web native language, it will always be easier to code Node JS backend than to code using Dart. 1 indie developer with one skill set can pull off an end to end app. Dart seems to be competing with Javascript only that too in
client side dev, totally ignoring JAVA, Kotlin and Swift.
I have been noticing the impact of excessive multitasking on myself lately, and I am now actively trying to avoid it.
At first i thought that multitasking would increase my overall efficiency by filling in gaps of downtime in certain tasks, but it soon turned me into a person incapable of focusing on anything deeply.
One day, I noticed that I am unable to read a book the same way i did as a child (cover to cover in one sitting for example), and it kind of shocked me.
I now have a rule that i do one thing only, and start other tasks only when the previous task has been finished. This applies to both productive work (learning, programming etc.) and entertainment (YouTube, books etc.).
I think that it is starting to help, but I feel like it will take time to undo the damage of years of bad multitasking.
SWIFT disconnection is discussed alongside with oil embargo and freezing a ~$1T on the US/EU accounts of Russian elite. Taken for the face value it's pretty significant; however given the history of West generally letting Russian government doing whatever, the stakes could appear to be lower.
I wish I had a better recommendation than Postfix, if you really need a general-purpose MTA. But absolutely not Exim.
i'd be shocked if there were more logos than penises.
Today's kids need end-to-end encryption.

https://blog.nucypher.com/todays-kids-need-end-to-end-encryp...
> Android apps are much more likely than iOS apps to be sending data to third parties, and are much more likely to be sending to high or very high-risk third parties

This seems like an important conclusion because most schools do not use Android. I run and edtech startup and we don't even have an Android app. No school has ever asked for one (individuals have, but not enough for us to build one). Most schools use Chromebooks or iPads.
Now do yourapihere.com ;)
Network Solutions, Register.com report widespread DNS outage
Json is great. Their implementation of it, not so much.

Way to complex only needing to give permission to a single "thing". And much of the naming makes little sense to new yes.

DigitalOceans interface is easier for 90% of people.

But to be honest it's years ago that i worked with AWS, but i remember everything being way more complex than it had to be and i had to use days undestanding their enourmous interface and "usersystem". And as long as this is a problem that pops up again and again, something is very wrong with their system i would say.

If not creating a simpler interface / user system for regular users then at least give some huge warnings that unless you know what you are doing a key with the wrong JSON means access to all funds on the credit card.
There are over 20 deaths in the anti-neoliberal protests. Colombia is run by a “friendly” government. Imagine the media coverage if this was say in Venezuela (insert any country Biden administration dislikes) and statements that the leader is a dictator and should step down.

https://twitter.com/OVargas52/status/1389575160118788098
I'm not from the US. This is not available in any of my banks.
Not at all. I think Chomsky's claims and using armchair philosophizing to support them are fundamentally unscientific. You can't argue things into existence. It's empty rhetoric, not actual science.
WTH Are NFTs
> Could you help me understand why you feel "cultural Marxism" is so, totally, totalizing?

It simply means that the ideology won’t stop until it has transformed all of culture. The progress thus far has been academia -> journalism -> tech companies. It’s coming for the rest of society. There is no area of life or society that this ideology does not claim to address.

You missed “sanctified” - the ideology resists criticism. Do you not see that this is the way religion used to be?
Author here. I just updated the post with an additional idea for fixing the free tier, suggested by several readers.

It turns out there is a non-widely-known program called AWS Educate Starter Accounts [0], which give no-credit-card access to a limited but useful subset of AWS services. The problem is that you can only get access to these accounts through student affiliation with a participating educational institution like a high school or university.

It might be more feasible to expand this program, say to any applicant who demonstrates some reasonable threshold of non-bot-ness, than to re-engineer the normal free tier.

To any AWS people reading this: I believe this could be a useful step toward solving the free tier problem, and would be happy to be a sounding board.

[0] https://aws.amazon.com/education/awseducate/aws-educate-faqs...
People did equate the names list to some mass shooting of Asians though.

A name like, say, "Fuk Yo" is accidentally similar to the English "Fuck you". It's kinda funny in a childish way, but I don't think that making fun of it automatically implies that they think these people are of lesser value. i.e. I don't think it's automatically racism in the first place.

It's inappropriate because making fun of your customers is never a good idea, and it's also inconsiderate and impolite. But that's not the same thing as racism, or evidence of white supremacy.

And maybe some employees who worked on that list were racist; there is no way for us to know. I like to opt for a more good-faith interpretation, which seems very uncommon these days.

The idea that this would "escalate" from a simple list to actual racism seems unlikely. Everyone knows the difference.

Also, the holocaust was a lot more complicated than this "pyramid" lets on. The Nazis took power by force, in some exceptional circumstances, and the Holocaust wasn't widely known among the German people. It's overly simplistic at best.

> It is only meant to illustrate the classic slippery slope.

I have never seen a single "slippery slope" argument that I found convincing, including this one. In every single case I've seen everyone is acutely aware of the difference between A and B. I don't consider it an argument, I consider it a fallacy.
It's like if github said that someone could just take over your account and all its repos if you took a sabbatical. That's an absolutely wild policy
My 4 Favorite Cloud IDEs for 2021
You could break the glass and roll back the year numbers on this comment, switch the "Exim" badge to "Sendmail", and sell this as an authentic comp.security.unix post circa 1996. I think we can see in retrospect what an absolute debacle that was for the Internet. The difference is that today we have better options. Postfix is written in C, and none of us should be comfortable with that, but it's not macraméd out of heap overflows, and its heap doesn't start with a blob that will shell-expand to system commands.
> DigitalOcean is the worst with the dormant accounts. Just got dinged around $2.40 on my credit card. Going into DO I could not find what was causing that charge. There was nothing there. Wuuuttttt.

Oh I used to get this, for me it was snapshots of a VPS I destroyed. Completely my fault, but yeah it was annoying to figure out at the time. Probably worth checking you don't have any reserved IPs, disk backups or snapshots left over
Why the f do I have to use a service like billgist to get a breakdown of my services?

AWS billing IS complicated but could be made so much simpler...
Fishing at scale? Pun not intended (I presume).
BEWARE the site will serve additional stories that appear to be malicious. For example do not click on the Clint Eastwood story appearing at the bottom.
Only 60%?

I would've expected this to be closer to 100%, honestly
repeating my comment from the last times this was posted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27026039
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27034782

This post (whether intentionally or not) is misinterpreting some of the evidence it presents.

For example it gives this example research grant as evidence for chimeric viruses being made in the Wuhan lab. https://reporter.nih.gov/search/xQW6UJmWfUuOV01ntGvLwQ/proje...

This is actually pretty standard virology grant. Nowhere does it say that they are making chimeric viruses. Note that "S protein sequence data, infectious clone technology, in vitro and in vivo infection experiments" is not even close to "Creating chimeric viruses". This is not the same thing and it would not be rational to compare the two.

The posts claim that: "What this means, in non-technical language, is that Dr. Shi set out to create novel coronaviruses with the highest possible infectivity for human cells. ". That is simply false, they are collecting and testing viruses. They were not creating new ones.

This post also tries to claim that these researches had been doing genetic engineering in past work because of this paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/nm.3985

Note that Nature added an editors note here: "30 March 2020 Editors’ note, March 2020: We are aware that this article is being used as the basis for unverified theories that the novel coronavirus causing COVID-19 was engineered. There is no evidence that this is true; scientists believe that an animal is the most likely source of the coronavirus."

Also note that the Wuhan lab is actually 5th author on this paper. In big publications like this order of authors is very important. 5th author usually means that they had a very minor role in the work. I.e a consulting role. This is compounded by the fact that only 2 people from the Wuhan lab worked on this paper.

It is actually more likely that the "genetic engineering" took place at the University of North Carolina and not in Wuhan. The paper lists a 9 people on the project in the US. Usually the people who do the actual lab work get first author.

Even further what about the 9 other virology labs that are on list? They have about the same amount of contributions to this paper? Why are they not suspect?

In my opinion these are some pretty key details to leave out, especially from a science journalist who should not be hiding some of the key facts here.
Have you noticed that your inability to just “read a book” differs by genre? I suffer from that with pretty much any fiction, but can still lose afternoons reading a well-written history or scientific explainer.
Over 20 deaths in Colombia protests and minimal media coverage
> This isn’t a helpful approach. Prescriptivist appeals to the dictionary and dismissal of others’ viewpoints are not ways of listening to the perspectives of others or empathizing with different experiences, and seem to be actively preventing constructive discussion in this case.

Agreed. On the flip side, I think it’s just as unhelpful an approach to co-opt a generally understood word (or phrase) and then (unbeknownst to the majority of peers) expand its definition to capture even mainstream behavior that might be construed as undesirable even if not obviously unacceptable, and then beat the same peers in the head with it when they express confusion at the changed meaning of words (or phrases). It’s a cheap rhetorical trick, and gets us further away from collaboratively solving very real and important problems in a pluralistic society.
The article contains multiple interpretations of what was said, including the one the parent comment used.
you say

"My Man Spouse is doing the domestic science"
Web error and performance monitor SDK
Is inspecting stacks used for logging backtraces during instrumentation?
Hahah yeah I say the same thing every month "yeah okay go ahead and do it then"

I have to imagine that these things are manual and a human has to do it, so they'll sort it by the size of the account and do what matters
Chromebooks are going to be doing a lot of "send to Google (and its affiliates)"
I'm honestly very surprised at this entire thread.

Clearly the smiley face at the end didn't convey that I was half speaking in jest. But people seemed to have taken my position as an assault on their entire world view.

Let me ask you this though:

> overridden one of your most primal biological instincts

Have you considered the existence of individuals that are gay, lesbian, or asexual? How do these individuals fit into your apparently biological-reproductive-imperative based view of happiness?

Or would you go further to say that those individuals also cannot be happy, since they can't be truly fulfilling their biological instincts either?
Perhaps not - asking honestly, What did I miss? Other than people saying they didn't love working for the founders (and that seems to predate this issue). I said that in another comment, that it seemed the internet beat up is at cross-purposes: employees not loving the employers and founders asserting control (with repercussions) are both reasonable positions.

I read the first third-party piece about this and nothing sounded outrageous. Read Jason and DHH's pieces, and then DHH's follow-up entry. I read Jane Yang's bit. And I read some Twitter threads from employees.

Obviously employees are well within their rights to want a workplace where they form HR policy and the founders can want another scenario if they think it's to the detriment of their product. Former can move on to another workplace. Founders can wear the blowback of their decision.
I hope too, I don't want my drawing efforts be wasted.
Not sure about housekeeping but husband is gendered so I assume that is the "problem".
Also relevant: Bicycles of the Velocipedia project: https://www.gianlucagimini.it/portfolio-item/velocipedia/
For me its currently over two years, not 90 days
That’s the problem. Once you’ve started adding Compose to your app and are finally midway through it there will this new shiny toy and the entire herd will be playing with it. Then what? Finish compose or leave it there and start with the new toy?

While there’s always a fundamental way of doing it - you just need the damn view! But no! To avoid even writing exactly 3-4 lines of findViewById per class on an average someone decided it’s revolutionary to add Butter Knife to the project and so on.. Or maybe there’s some one who gets kicks from seeing so many annotations in the classes!

Android ecosystem is really plagued by this fad culture imho.

PS. Nothing could make me an iPhone user. But finally being an Android developer did that! Really that’s the reason.
Owning BRK and no dividend is the best thing since sliced bread in my taxable investment account; the 8% discount on Geico insurance is nice too.
with the term literally being able to mean figuratively, I'm hesitant to agree.
It definitely is, I vividly recall this from my university days.
The reductions in your linked paper [1] are not polynomial-time reductions.
>This dismissal of people as "unhinged", "cultish", and "lack of mental balance" at best unsympathetic and at worst callous.

It seems to me all these problems at Basecamp could have been avoided in the first place if these people were dismissed for their unhinged and cultish behavior as soon as they started to exhibit it. If they are suffering some sort of mental trauma the proper place to address that is therapy, not at work.
For me, I'd rather get a bug report about a failure during compilation, than something more obscure and harder to find at runtime.
I don't think you know what Flow is. At all.
Not to mention it only goes one-way. If you destroy the service that created all those others, it won't clean those others up.
This year my son was assigned a login and password for a learning site by his school.

I logged in the day it was assigned.

Google Chrome immediately notified me that the login and password were part of a leak.

I contacted the school IT to let them know that the service they used seemed to be compromised ( other parents saw the same alert), but they seemed confused how I would know the logins were compromised...

Most school IT teams are woefully underfunded, and often aren't making decisions on what they use.
Doesn't exist at the company, not in general.
> The argument is simply that the behavior everyone claims to decry (e.g. racial violence) starts somewhere, far below violence.

Funny. That's the same thing the right-wingers are saying.

> Just like we avoid pest infestation

Well that's a nice phrase for a discussion of genocide.
Beautiful!

The telnet server zooms and scrolls more smoothly than Google Maps for me.
So.. they capitalized on the hype around the technology and crowdfunded? From the past comment, I was hoping there’s any benefit to DAO itself that’d make an enterprise this size easier to run - you could technically achieve the same with a kickstarter campaign or a gofundme?
Of course, the obvious orders-of-magnitude in value would be different, but that’s inherent to crypto’s inflation, not really due to any virtue of DAO?
And after SARS and H5N1 no one thought we would ever need N95 masks again.
> proper regulation either forces companies to curb their emissions or taxes it. In other words, to internalize it.

No, in other words, to pass on the costs to society, because the cost of whatever they are providing goes up. Plus, since the companies are a concentrated interest, it's easy for them to buy regulations from the central authority that are favorable to them and unfavorable to potential competitors.

A proper regulation would look more like this: a company cannot even build a factory to begin with until it can convince all the parties who could potentially be impacted by their operations to agree. No centralized authority (like, say, a government) can agree on behalf of those parties, because no centralized authority can possibly properly represent all of their interests. So either every single party agrees, or nothing happens.

The usual objection to this is that no factories would ever get built, because there will always be some party that is simply unwilling to agree. But that objection ignores basic economics. If the factory really is a profitable venture, even with all of the potential impacts taken into account, the factory owners will be able to bargain with the other parties to some kind of mutual agreement. In some cases, they might just offer to buy land outright from parties that are unwilling to agree to having the factory built next to them. Or they might offer shares in the enterprise to neighboring landowners in exchange for permission to build. There are plenty of possibilities; the key point is that the economics of the situation forces the people who want to undertake the enterprise to show good evidence that the benefits really do outweigh the costs. Whereas under the centralized regulatory regime we have now, the burden to be met is much lighter and does not really do anything to ensure that the benefits outweigh the costs.
I'm not sure I understand. Is this essentially a cross-platform tool, like Electron?
Merriam-Webster is not the ultimate authority on the English language. If people start using the word to mean something else, then, ipso facto, that's what it means.
perhaps they want to go down in history, or they are so bitter and resentful they want to take others down. Like kids who do school shootings..

Not sure though.
I wish there was a way to learn more about photographic lens design. Seems completely inaccessible. I wanted to create some basic lenses from scrap parts (this has been done before by others)
I used to bypass AtEase using MacBasic or something like that. Write a one liner to launch Finder, done.

Compare AtEase to your iOS home screen. We have come full circle?
There are certain issues (like this one) where silence has historically been used as a form of endorsement. It is certainly not irrational to perceive it as being an endorsement.
> My favorite moment was sitting there, and having a coworker (US born, but of Arab descent) who grew up in an extremely wealthy neighborhood with immense privilege, lecturing a blind white male employee about how much privilege he had, and then going on to talk about how white people were uniquely tainted by the slave trade that some of their ancestors engaged in.

I find it pretty hard to believe this went down the way you say.

> Children understand that calling people names isn't the same as violence.

So in your ideal professional environment, name-calling would be fine?
Who is getting rich off "git"?

GitHub, yeah absolutely, but git makes no money because noone pays for git.

Likewise, noone pays for command line package managers (in fact I doubt anyone pays for a command-line tool at all). So its ok to say it generates value, but if you can't caputre that value its not a sound business model.
My daughter will be a hacker if she wants to follow in her old mans footsteps. Please don't take that away from her.
I guess, no matter which person author is. Could you tell something that overturn his arguments?
Does anyone have more information in this WSPR system? I’m not certain how someone could have access to enough stations to pick up enough stray radio signals to detect a flight path. It sounds very intricate.

Edit: sounds like it’s based off of amateur radio operators https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WSPR_(amateur_radio_software)
I'm on your side here (in that I have little patience or care for religious dogma around anything, let alone sex), but I think the point you bring up argues the opposite of what you're arguing.

> That survey describes personal satisfaction. So it doesn't mean that they have more sex, or better sex, simply that to their own standards and expectations they are satisfied with their sex life.

The thing is, that's literally all that matters in this kind of survey. If I'm 10-out-of-10 happy, that is objectively better than someone who is 7-out-of-10 happy, even if those numbers were arrived at via subjective means. Wouldn't you rather be the guy who says "I literally could not be happier", vs. the guy who says "I'm pretty damn happy, but my life is still lacking in some ways"? Ignorance really can be bliss, sometimes.

Your "knowing better" argument is probably a big factor. But isn't that an argument for only having sex with one person? If you end up enjoying sex with that person, then you have nothing to compare it to; most importantly, nothing to compare it to unfavorably. If you don't end up enjoying sex with that person, then yes, you do have a problem. But the survey data seems to suggest that lifelong-monogamy must not produce that outcome often enough to matter.

Not saying everyone should opt for religiously-motivated lifelong monogamy. It's definitely not something I was ever interested in. But obviously there are benefits to it, or no one would do it. (Well, ok, true believers might cite fear of divine consequences as their reason for doing it, which isn't great.)
> The argument is simply that the behavior everyone claims to decry (e.g. racial violence) starts somewhere, far below violence

This is just a rehash of broken-windows theory, whether its proponents know it or not. The Hutus and Tutsis didn’t start with some off-color ribbing and escalate from there.

There is zero evidence behind the “pyramid of hate” — it makes a shallow kind of sense, but has no basis in the real world. An equally valid hypothesis is that harmlessly blowing off low-level steam prevents the atrocities higher up in the “pyramid”. Things only really get bad when people are encouraged to form and defend identities around characteristics like race, religion, national origin, etc. Unfortunately, that’s exactly what this kind of hysteria promotes.