skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
...and the Streisand effect strikes again.

Everything Rand was going to present is true. If you're building your marketing efforts around the benevolent algorithmic dictators of Google and Facebook...you're not really building a business. You're sharecropping and building a house of cards. One algorithm change from the overlords and your business dries up overnight.

The fact that organizers are self-censoring their talks to avoid offending Google and Facebook is evidence alone that these companies have way too much power.

My favorite part is where he points out the massive mistake of everybody who drove their customers to a Facebook page and told them to "like" it. Facebook then disinter-mediated these customer relationships and cut business page reach to near zero (0.09% as he shows in one of the slides). These businesses ended up growing Facebook's business more than their own.
As someone who started their career at an F100 and now consults in the SMB space, all it really tells me is that the change is not worth pushing through the bureaucracy and bringing a new mandatory thing to millions of consumers.

At a small town bank, whose risk tolerance is maybe one major loss event per decade? Where a given complaint is never more than 3 people removed from the CEO? Who'se antifraud resources are just normal bankers that also have some extra tasks assigned to them?

Being able to get homoglyph attacks off the risk board at the cost of a few of my billable hours and a week of effort from the marketing person is a no-brainer to them.
Can confirm. Default ElastiCache clustering option chooses an extremely high compute node, I ended up accidentally spending $1300 in a month just for testing some Redis clustering script. The minimum option ends up only costing a few dozen dollars a month. The billing alert did not even trigger until the very end of the month, so I got a $1300 surprise. I complained about it to AWS, mentioning how misleading their shit was, and they ended up refunding me $800. Still -- a $500 mistake anyone could make at 11pm. They also made it extra clear in their response that they are not legally obligated to refund me, and that they were doing it out of the kindness of their hearts.

AWS console is some next level outdated shit that needs to be improved. GCP's console is way cleaner IMO. I really hope AWS fixed this after this happened to me, but somehow I doubt they did.
For those who have used tools like Hotwire, what has your experience been like? How does it compare to something like Vue or React?
Given the non-functional heart icons, I suspect it is going to be more than a blog.
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Or knitting in front of the tv while chatting as another example.
FYI, you can officially roll back firmware to a specific version from Bose, and there are 'hacks' [0] (simple MiTM) to allow downgrading to any version.

0. https://github.com/bosefirmware
Russia has also been working on a plan to run their internet disconnected from the global Internet if necessary. It sounds like they are anticipating various actions that would cause international sanctions and preparing ways to survive them.
> The adult thing to do when you come across a rather juvenile list of "funny" names to accept that you were wrong and move on.

This is exactly what he did.

> To try and defend this kind of juvenile behavior leads to nonsensical arguments about why it's someone's right to make lavatorial jokes during standup.

He didn’t try to defend the list he just didn’t believe the idea that this list had some sorta deep seated root in racism. There were just as many “funny” Anglo/European names as Asian/African/etc from what I understand. He called out ppl trying to act self righteous when they themselves participated in the list making in the recent past and said this list is not proof of deep-seated racism in the company. That wasn’t good enough for the activists so they revolted.

ETA: people are logging their disagreement in downvotes but I haven’t seen a counter argument to this at any point in this thread, I’m ok with the dv, just interested in hearing the opposing view.
When you figure it out, give Elon a call; NHTSA and him want to know too.
Super interesting read, I'm a data science and did some research on the same topic as part of a side business I was making that targeted tinder incels. Check it out, and my proposed solution (lol) https://smoothopener.com/
I mean, sure, measuring occlusion like this is possible in VHF, UHF and beyond. And radar is a real thing that exists, and you can even do passive radar, but to my knowledge you cannot do any of this outside the line of sight of the transmitter and receiver with an object that's only 1-4 wavelengths long. I'd love to be proven wrong because that would be wild and the kind of thing that makes me fall in love with radio all over again, but this source is completely bogus.
Its not true. Glass does attenuate mmWave frequencies, but doesnt "block" them.

https://esprtk.files.wordpress.com/2020/12/2004.12568.pdf
It's true, but every click loses a ton of audience.
AWS is not the cloud. There are others. Please try something else. As someone with extensive professional experience with it day in and out, it is overrated.

Also, the cloud is someone else's computer. It is either AWS or GCP or something else. Move to what works, for you.
Why are people saying this? It's not true. App Engine had a spending limit, but it's deprecated and going away in July. The rest of GCP has never had a spending limit.

The best you can do is build your own service to monitor your bill and manually cut off your billing account if it gets too high. Hope you did it correctly because there's no good way to test it! And the bill notifications can be delayed an arbitrary amount of time with no guarantees, and disabling billing can take an arbitrary amount of time too, so you can still be screwed even if you did it correctly.

I think it's a glaring hole in cloud platforms. I get it, it's hard to implement in a way that is forgiving and doesn't cause a bunch of support tickets from people who set their limits too low and made their site go down. But that's why people use cloud platforms, so they don't have to implement the hard part. It's beyond me why the cloud platforms don't do something better here.
I understand the annoyance but please let's not repeat this in every twitterthread. People choose how they post for whatever reason. It's the content that matters.

There's a site guideline about this:

"Please don't complain about website formatting, back-button breakage, and similar annoyances. They're too common to be interesting. Exception: when the author is present. Then friendly feedback might be helpful."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
We don't know the context, but as to your second item... when did denouncing white supremacy become something controversial?

I know what you're really saying, which is that people on the right feel persecuted by being implicitly accused of being racists. And... y'know, that's fair. Probably 90% of the time in arguments like this that's an unfounded accusation made in bad faith just to score points.

But still... the treatment is to point out that, yes, you guys might disagree with us woke hippies politically but you're still on the light side of the force and care about the same basic morality so of course you denounce white supremacy. Right?

What's horrifying to us hippies is the extent to which so many of you simply won't, and want to turn it around into an argument instead. But you do, right? Denounce white supremacy? If your coworker demanded it, you might roll your eyes a bit but you'd do it? Right?
You'd have to be doing something extremely small to make a $5 Linode more expensive. AWS might be cheaper for a static site, but as soon as you involve a database you're probably paying more.

AWS is not cheap. A lot of people seem get bitten by this.
If you choose to _sell_ at $1 you will likely get a warning because it will fill instantly at the current market rate despite being a limit order. However you can choose to buy at $1 and there's no reason for it not to be accepted into the order book. In fact you often see this via Nasdaq TotalView during low liquitiy events such as right as the premarket opens where someone is bidding $1 or $0.01 for shares of a blue chip company.

The same applies in reverse.
In the first slide, there's a screenshot of the Facebook app showing a picture of a sign referencing pedophilia.

I'd probably be uncomfortable with that and ask to replace those examples with a screenshot from a news website, if I was in the organizer's shoes.

Don't see a problem with the other slides though.
I would be more worried that if you do something about it, Amazon is gonna do something about you.

Starting with obnoxious API changes, followed by ToS changes. Hopefully that's as far as it has to go.
I think there's a problem worth solving here. With the DNS, people didn't have to bother remembering IP addresses or even know what they mean. With search engines, people no longer have to bother remember URLs or even know what they mean. That's a good thing, IMHO.

All we need now is to create a syntax for "internet identifiers" which is instantly recognizable as such. Enter ... drumroll ... @burrito.catering?

The choice of generic words like "burrito" and "catering" is a marketing decision. The original example was mostly a placeholder.
I have no doubt that there's something in the rulebook they can use to get BRK.A to split (or face delisting)!
As a URM in tech, that's not my own experience. There's rarely attention drawn to the fact that I'm a minority - and I like it that way. Heterogeneity is tough with this: some individuals like and benefit from initiatives that focus on their minority status, while others don't. No group is a monolith - individuals have different needs - not to mention that experiences can differ significantly, too.

I think there's a very fine balance to strike where you want programs to reach the people who benefit -- and certainly leaders and co-workers who need to be more inclusive -- without making those you're trying to help feel uncomfortable by having it so front and center that those who'd like to sit out can't. It's a tough balance, and I've seen companies both go too far and not far enough.

All this is to say I can imagine a situation where OP's environment really is making them more uncomfortable than what many (most?) URM's experience in the work place. Can't say for sure without knowing specifics, of course. It just isn't always a case of "more is better."
You'd be surprised, just today we had to have a conversation with a family member about how consistently taking in loser degenerate men is ruining her life.
What is the definition of critical race theory
"Eschew flamebait. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27043767.
A few hundred-thousand dead Kulaks is a good example. Killed because they were just above the peasantry.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dekulakization
Mine is 22x28. It looks fantastic in a frame. I used roughly a 32 MB version of it I believe.
Perhaps a silly question but why do we need to collect the actual, physical black box from the plane? Why can’t planes use satellite signal to periodically upload a few seconds of cockpit recording or even just flight data? Is it as simple as the files would be too large?
Well wherever he's presenting at doesn't care that the presentation is critical of google/facebook, they care about google/facebook might react. As long as he doesn't reveal their identity they don't care about the streisand effect.
I read it the same way as you. I think the slides were deemed problematic because they are inflammatory towards right-leaners or some other group, not towards Google/Facebook powers that be. The acceptable slides are just as critical of G/FB.
While I'm new to Webflow, I get a feeling that some people try to push it too far. It seems to me that it's mostly a no-code tool meant for basic "brochure" sites with some modest CMS capabilities built in. And for many, many businesses, that's sufficient. It provides additional design flexibility for those who understand HTML and CSS. If you're making a site that's so complex that you need version control, you should probably be using a web application framework. But, in a pinch, you can always export your code and do VC on that. Just my $.02.
What are the odds that this remains within the CBP? If police departments decide they can suck all this data from a car without a warrant on a pretext search of a vehicle so you think they won't at least try?
Perhaps then the slogan should be closer to "Replace the Police". Something that represents both the dismantling and rebuilding of police forces.

Personally I'm a big fan of requiring a much, much higher standard of training than police have now. Especially when it comes to hand-to-hand combat. The best way to minimise the consequences is to ensure that we have maximised their skill potential with the forms of intervention which have the least risk of permanent consequences.
There are plenty of airlines with ratings far from maximum on that site. Visit https://www.airlineratings.com/safety-rating-tool/ and sort by the Safety Rating column. Indeed Malaysian Airlines rates only 3 out of 7 https://www.airlineratings.com/ratings/malaysia-airlines/
Please don't take HN threads further into flamewar.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27038051.

Edit: between this and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27038206 and the rest of your recent account history, it's clear that you're using the site primarily for political/ideological battle. That's not allowed here, regardless of what politics/ideology you're battling for, because it destroys this place for its intended use. I've therefore banned the account.

If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
This punching down nonsense ignores the fact that hate and bigotry has to start somewhere, if you think insults against a certain oppressed minority significantly contribute to more bigotry then it doesn’t really make sense to argue that “well they’re doing well right now so it’s ok” Bec if you keep up those insults by your own logic you will eventually be punching down. Why create that dynamic?

It’s kinda like the ppl who say insults have power and then in the same breath say ACAB or “Kill the Pigs” if you believe words are powerful and can turn into actions why are you saying such inflammatory hateful things?
I'm Jewish Colombian among other things. I'm a mutt. I can pass as white.

Where my dad came from (Scary Gary) you voted Republican because up until about the 1960s, they were the party that cared about immigrants and wanted them to succeed. So, when he moved to a similarly Republican state in the 80s, he remained a Republican. The Republican is not a werewolf boogeyman around here. I made the mistake once of saying that I was a "closet Republican" on HN and I got downvoted so fast that I lost all self-confidence for about a year.

I went to a student Democrats meeting on my local campus. Now I know college political groups are a unique demographic and I get why these people (these people, yikes) feel this way, and those that I talked to were completely rational; like I could be and was one of them.

But when we were asked at the beginning of the meeting why people were Democrats, the very first person responded that they were a Democrat because they were not a racist.

The tactlessness, the arrogance, the naivety, and immaturity were so concentrated in a single sentence that I wish I could have left. But I stayed and learned even if that tribalism is toxic and wins no friends nor understanding nor ultimately progress.
You lead with an invocation of bigotry.

You give some examples.

You close with a baldly transphobic sneer.

Really?
> Perhaps it didn't "start" with "off-color ribbing" but the usage of 'jokes' (see: Radio Télévision Libre des Mille Collines) to desensitize people to hatred towards the Tutsis is well documented.

And they were made in the context of a general propaganda/hate campaign. The medium is the same, the context couldn't be more different.

It's the context that matters 100%, not the medium (jokes in this case) in and of themselves.
We need to start listing what we all pay here for auto insurance.

I have a feeling it's a rigged industry, and has very powerful lobbyiests. (That part after the comma is true in California.)

I'll start:

1. age 50

2. no moving violations.

3. bare bones legal minimum in CA. (15-30-5)

4. $550 year, with a Covid credit of $6.30

5. I'm with Mercury.

(I looked into pay per mile, but I don't have a computer in my vechicle.)
Is there anything that describes architecture of the verb? Like https://quark.sciter.com/ or something ...

My guess: it is a JavaVM combined with CEF(WebKit) to achieve actually what?
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27038073.
I think so. And I find it hard to believe that is already priced in, because only Buffett fans are interested in buying BRK.A now, and fans are frequently not rational about their fandom.

You don’t need to buy BRK.A to benefit from Buffett’s financial acumen. You only need to buy BRK.A if you want to say you own BRK.A.

Also, the harder it is to transact a stock (and a price over $400,000 makes it hard), the less efficient price discovery is.
The very cynical (and imo correct view) is that he is very interested in the aggregate demand side and not particularly interested in the saving the planet side.
This is what keeps me from tinkering with the free tiers and never even attempt to host my own projects in the cloud.

I want a free tier with a lock on it. I'd very much appreciate advice for what tiers would fit my monthly use if I hit free tier caps, but if I got hit with $500 right now I'd be ruined.

I think my Google compute stuff is safe, but I really don't like having any doubt.
> If you need the money desperately then do what you need to do, but if you can afford to take a role somewhere else you should.

I would never work for Google or Facebook (and they wouldn't hire me), but it's not fair to expect normal people to choose between their financial needs and an abstract notion of the greater good.

I find this idea puts the pressure on the individual for systemic problems. I am not responsible for what my employer does outside of my own output, and if I had a family to feed I would say: all my financial needs are desperate, fix your own damn world.
> when did denouncing white supremacy become something controversial?

I'm old and never in my life have I ever been asked to denounce white supremacy. If someone asked me to denounce it, I'd be insulted that they asked. There's some serious implications behind asking someone that question that I hope would never apply to me.
Wasn’t this the desired outcome ?
The Sony WH1000XM4 ear cups aren't as "deep" as the QC35s, my ears can touch the foam and it takes a bit to get used to that coming from the Bose.
If you think "I'd be better off if I pretended to be trans by putting on a dress" is the wrong reading, then, what do you think the correct reading is?
Over-the-horizon radar uses HF to detect distant objects. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Over-the-horizon_radar
But why should that matter?
It's quite the opposite - it's a fool's errand harboring fragile employees who are willing to make such a show about a email containing juvenile name calling. You cannot build a solid baseline on an employee who can implode any second on the most miniscule issue.

This will hurt Basecamp in the immediate term but over time they will be better off.
I don't understand why so many people want to use AWS for such small budgets. At that scale wouldn't it be easier to just build everything out of a few VMs at a cheap service?

AWS is awesome when you have a large number of resources, that are created programmatically and reproducibly, with redundancy and duplicate environments.

The budgeting tools are really amazing at letting you categorize your costs and create appropriate alerts. The permissions system lets you define very specific roles.

Its complex. But if your system is complex, it gives you the tools to keep track of it all. If you have a <=$5000/month budget, it is probably too small to make sense in AWS. You can probably run your system on a couple servers.
Same! I literally closed an account and created a new one after a few months because I was charged a few bucks a month and I didn't know what I was paying for.

I think it was either related to db backup or some encryption keys but I couldnt find what and where to delete to get rid of this charge.

Nowadays I use aws only for route53 and s3.
Is this not just the textbook definition of the slippery slope fallacy?
Anyone can use this powerful facial-recognition tool – and that's a problem
So jokes that desensitize people to hatred is cool?
Please don't perpetuate flamewars on HN. You violated the guidelines, which ask:

"Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead."

If people would follow that simple rule, hellfires would die before they spread. Please don't contribute to spreading them by feeding them. The replies do more damage than the originals, because they open the floodgates.

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> its magical thinking that the earth, which has finite resources, can support an infinite number of people, if we only, "manage the resources right"

I have not met a single person that thinks the earth can support an infinite number of people. If that is the position you are arguing against, I believe it is a strawman and a waste of your time.

> Nobody has to be killed off, but what we should be doing is setting as a goal sustainable population levels in the future through reproduction.

Global population growth has been slowing for half a century. If you are concerned about reducing it further, western "baby subsidies" aren't a good place to start. The main place you would have to look is Africa since that is expected be the source for the majority of population growth over the next 50 years. If this line of thought is still making sense to you, you are veering dangerously close to ecofacism and genocide. IMHO, the only remotely ethical way to reduce population growth is to mirror the factors that lead to declining birth rates in the west (i.e. prosperity and social stability.)

This means that the only ethical way to reach sustainability is to find ways to be prosperous and sustainable. To do that we must find ways to aproximate the western standards of living in sustainable ways.
If you post egregious flamebait to HN again we will ban you. You did it repeatedly today (not cool), and we've had to warn you about this before.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
"They are not brains, yet they have all the characteristics of intelligence: the behaviors, the responses, the perceptions, the learning, the archiving of memory. And what is being sent through those networks are [chemicals] like glutamate, which is an amino acid that also serves as a neurotransmitter in our brain."

I love observations like this that make me rethink fundamental concepts like intelligence and what it means to think.
The hordes going around asking you to "denouce white supremacism" isn't anything to do with white supremacy, it's a power play to subvert. Again, it helps to reverse the roles here to see how idiotic this is: imagine someone going into a black neighbourhood asking regular people to denounce gang violence.
Every thinking person I know is critical of CRT. It doesn’t follow any scientific method, rewrites history and tells many lies to advance an agenda.

It’s basically all target painting.

Edit:I’m getting pretty heavy downvoting without any responses... anyone interested in actually explaining why they disagree?