skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People will create content for free. Places like wikipedia, Facebook, YouTube, Yahoo Answers, whatever prove that. Some people like to get upvotes or likes, others just like to take a topic and expound on it a bit and see how people react. Some people probably have other motivations.

Adding money to it commercializes things. Changes incentive. People start working to earn money rather than for the joy of contributing. Partly this is good - some of my favorite YouTubers work full time at creating the content I like. Partly this is not good - lots of content on YouTube for example is kind of cookie cutter attention getting spam type stuff.

Google itself is another example. Before, and in the early days of Google ads Google results were amazing. Nowadays Google seems to mostly return ads, top X lists, spam, and such.

Imagine reddit where the goal was to earn upvotes. That would look a lot like spamming low effort memes. Maximum possible return for effort. If your upvotes are money, I think that's what you'll tend to get.
what are the examples? Aside from Linux?
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Would you please stop posting ideological flamewar comments to HN? We ban accounts that do this. Actually I just banned your account, but decided to unban it after looking a little bit closer. If you keep posting like this, though, we're going to have to.

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Video tends to be more truthful, but news outlets who lie to you, will also only show video that supports their point.

Video helps drive a point home emotionally, but it is not at all a source of less biased reporting. Driving a point home emotionally is important, and the point 'covid bad' seems like it needs to be driven home more. But don't believe news just cause it shows videos.
Totally agreed.

In terms of a "graphic exposé on the reality of COVID" - if you haven't seen "76 Days" yet, I would strongly recommend it. It is a wincingly direct and raw documentary - no editorializing or narrative overlay, just real, high resolution footage of a city of millions of people fending off a deadly virus, shot in close quarters with the physicians attending to those dying and their families.

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt12801326/
AFAIK it doesn't play well with popular (read: omnipresence) libraries like Numpy?
How does this compare to https://github.com/facebookincubator/cinder
>unless someone close to them has a different experience.

my partner could not give two trucks that i was sick. through the sleepless gasping nights where i was wondering if it was time to go to the hospital, my partner blamed it on anxiety. when i couldn't feel my feet, my partner thought it was due to me not eating (because food tasted like paper). this all culminated with my partner calling me lazy for sleeping all day. it really woke me up to their attitude and has reshaped the trajectory of our relationship. as of now it's pretty much just a show so our kids don't end up too messed up
At least for small VMs, Microsoft (And probably Google and Amazon as well) are 4 times more expensive than smaller cloud competitors. Why do people rent VMs from Microsoft for such a crazy premium?
I use something similar with my wife for years (Google Maps location sharing). Just gives us an easy way to know if the other left the house or if one of us is on the way home or something and also we feel safer being able to know if something wrong happened to one of us.
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> Maybe this is why AWS offers a “Free Tier”? https://aws.amazon.com/free/

People in this discussion are complaining that the free tire is misleading, plus not all services are covered. And it is true that if you turn on a bunch of server and you don't pay for a year, but forget about them, you will be charged the moment the year passes. Not to mention that you will be charged if you use the CPU of the free tire server to much - which probably very few people know about.

> That’s not what AWS says https://aws.amazon.com/developer

And my point is that the marketing of AWS is misleading, they try to convince you that if you don't know anything about computers, but you know code, you will be able to manage AWS. This is very misleading because AWS tries to make you think that AWS is a service like Heroku, simple to use, and there is just one button to push to make it all work. Completely false. I've seen countless AWS accounts that were completely misconfigured by developers who thought that AWS easy to manage. A basic example is the autoscaling of EC2. People will go to the autoscaling section of EC2 "enable it" and be superseded when it dose not work. Where the reality is that you have to do 8 other things to make it work, not to mention the work that needs to be done in the OS itself.
This is very upsetting that these people go through this just so a website can be "clean".

Of course it's a kind of a "greater good" question, but that still upsets me.
Are you kidding me? Sure you can make it sound trivial if you give the weakest possible examples.

Let's talk about the border: Trump literally campaigned on the slogan "I'll build a wall and have Mexico pay for it." And what did he do in reality? When attempts to make Mexico pay for it failed miserably, as predicted by anyone with common sense, he begged and bullied congress (to the point of a government shutdown, no less) to put aside American taxpayer dollars for it. When that too failed, he attempted to pilfer money from various other government departments like homeland security and defense. By comparison, Biden has shut down construction and returned that money for its original uses. And I'm not even sure what you're talking about with that "open borders" nonsense. Nobody has ever actually advocated for that other than the bogeymen from the fevered nightmares of Fox News commentators. You're buying into your own propaganda.

As for North Korea, they were antagonized by Biden calling their nuclear program a "serious threat" to American and world security. What did Trump say again? Oh yeah, he called Kim Jong Un "Little Rocket Man" and said that North Korea "will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen". I consider us all lucky that so much of Trump's administration turned out to be all talk and no action.

And yes, Covid. How many hundreds of thousands of Americans are dead because he refused to acknowledge reality and continued to lie and undermine public caution towards the pandemic? What other moron could possibly turn something so simple, easy, and painless to do as wearing a mask in public into a full blown culture war? Now we have grown adults whining and crying like petulant toddlers when asked to put on a fucking mask.

Yes, now I'm starting to lose my temper and ramble, but fuck it. That's how angry I get when I see people try to minimize the monstrous idiocy of the Trump presidency as just being the big bad news media out to get poor Trump. I could go on and on like this, but instead maybe I'll just call him a fat, orange, tiny handed imbecile with the world's most absurd combover - not because I hate him for these things (honestly, I couldn't care less about his appearance) - but because it relieves a little bit of the anger caused by him constantly running the country into the ground while claiming that he's making it great.
Resilience, endurance, learning to overcome adversity, learning to overcome yourself, learning to be self-aware, thinking "differently". I could think of dozens of other reasons. No?
> Washington deployed the ShakeAlert earthquake early warning system just yesterday

Do you know how the early warning system works? How much advance warning do they expect to give?
You don't. You build protections into your constitution that the mob cannot overrule without revolution.
The real problem with direct democracy is that votes can be bought by "news" corporations, advertising, lying, and targeting special interests. So you end up under the rule of the rich and what's worse is that people no longer see it.
> Japan has nothing to gain by canceling

Japan has not paid 100% of the costs already. Cancelling will avoid throwing good money after bad.

If we are _only_ thinking about finances then the question is if Japan will make more money from hosting the reduced olympics than it would cost to finish all work required to host it.
> Depression is a wide array of emotions

Where did you get that absurd idea from?
I don't have any elastic IPs. The only thing under EC2 is a security group that it won't let me delete, but seems like no resources. My bill this month is $2.88 /shrug
>It is entirely within the realm of science to make predictions that certain geographic regions will have significant structural and human damage in the event of some hypothetical natural disaster.

I agree. But that's not the same as saying it's "toast".
It is quoted on wikipedia. An online encyclopedia.
Years ago I was building a play structure. Part of it was a mini rock climbing wall.

The construction manual was very specific and went into great detail about which plastic rock went with which pair of holes on the wall. However, none of the rocks were labeled, and it wasn't at all obvious how they matched up with the diagrams in the manual. Each rock had a pair of screw holes, and the wall also had pre-drilled holes, but the spacings didn't seem to match up no matter how I arranged them.

I called customer service, and they didn't know how to match them up either. They gave me contact information for one of their installers.

When I called the installer and explained the problem he just laughed and said something to the effect of "Yeah, the holes don't line up. Just put the rocks wherever and drill new holes."
> Twitter now supports AIM

Takes me back
I am European, and I recall seeing Italian nurses warning the rest of Europe to take this seriously. They were saying this because they were running out of ventilators and their morgues were overflowing.

That's when I started taking it seriously, 1 week later my country hit lockdown. This was somewhere in March.
This is hardly a problem. I can assure you there's enough public information available on the Internet you won't be able to go through it with any equipment reasonably accessible to a single person.
Depends on how much volume you trade with them.
Wouldn't that get you turn-based strategy?
Well it’s likely those ‘freed’ people would be doing things that were less productive in the short term, though it’s likely the change would have positive long-term effects.
Again - I wasn't talking about how we evaluate/measure the person/politician. I was talking about how our views of the politician affect our evaluation of the things that take place under their stewardship. And a large fraction of the U.S. disagrees with you on many of those (very subjective) opinions you just expressed. No need to presume that your opinions are the absolute truth that everyone must be enlightened with.
Given that tons of tech companies have just given up on customer service, I wonder if they have all done the math and found that customers who need help are just not worth keeping.
AMC is my personal favourite to follow.

CEO literally said in their 10-K that if they're not at 90% capacity within 4 months, and borrow a lot of money. Then they can't maintain minimal liquidity requirements and must declare bankruptcy.

Everyone will loose their money.

Yet FOMO!
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The optics on stalling on safety when affluent people's kids are getting maimed and killed while they jog off their corporate stress... I can't imagine a hollower place.
Why is there so much fetishization of violent content in the comments? Sure maybe liveleak provided some footage you couldn't get on youtube and that is indeed a loss, but to think that the violence you see represents the truth is just as bad as denying that any bad happens in the world.

The world is far larger than any one mind can handle. I wouldn't judge it from a few videos taken out of context. The world can be a great place and so can the internet, buts it's easy to get PTSD from it. Browse responsibly.
Indeed. And everything must be documented anyway, before you start building, otherwise all you're getting is n different recollections of the same meeting causing problems, whether it was in meatspace or not.
There are several maps and studies, depending on which country you're interested in. The best one that I've found was for Norway. Needless to say, it's spreading over an increasingly larger area every year.

Yes, BSE is also worrying, but beef that you buy at supermarkets is also checked more thoroughly compared to game meat. I'd worry more about restaurants and their suppliers.
Eventually you might master your domain of expertise and solving the same problem again and again for different customers may become boring. Helping more junior coworkers mostly do the projects themselves with your assistance for the cruxes could be rewarding and multiply your output far beyond what you could achieve just working on it yourself.
Or put another way, the Biden administration supports the theft of intellectual property belonging to some of the most innovative companies of the millennium, harming their financial futures (https://mobile.twitter.com/CNBCnow/status/139002374219406131...), and discouraging future biotech innovation in America. Oh and also no one will be able to make these vaccines at scale before Pfizer and Moderna have doses available for the entire global population anyways. The profit incentive matters, greatly, and Biden should have asked those other countries to make purchases from these vaccine manufacturers and asked them to source ingredients to help them speed up, instead of robbing them of their core assets.
See, all you have to do is push people who claim to want an apolitical workspace just a little to get their real views to surface.

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It's interesting to see old hardware being used for video that was never thought capable.

A few weeks ago I saw that there is a guy making carts that play 80's movies on Atari 2600's.

(The quality of the movies is terrible, but it's a fascinating project. And the carts and boxes look real.)
I can’t remember the last Olympics I watched. Nor do I know anyone that watches it. Wonder if viewership is in decline around the world?
Not to go after you in particular. But this is somehow the state of the modern web.

Frontend devs not knowing HTML, but having complicated and over engineered build pipelines and continous integration for their JS cruft.

I wonder why sites don't load faster or render... ah right Javascript in the mega bytes.
You don't need to go to office to get laptop replacement at Google..
Actually it looks like this is for an EBS snapshot. Now it seems like EBS is a Lightsail feature, and the Lightsail console says that I don't have any storage or snapshots? Hm
If they're not stopping you from uploading and they don't hide videos from you (à la Youtube) then the content mainly being "right wing nut job stuff" is surely just a failure of non-right wing nut jobs to take advantage of such nowadys uncommon largesse.
Eating breakfast isn't bad just because Hitler also ate breakfast.
Services that ask for captcha solving when on tor are probably hosted / delivered via cloudflare. Not an option for a hidden service.
Can we just finally make a law to ban companies acting like assholes?

The steady drip drip drip every single day of these companies affecting our lives is mentally toxic.
But what else could it be? You can’t just say that something has an evolutionary cause without also implying that the trait is for the purpose of survivability, which we associate with the notion of “good”.
Most crypto companies are fully remote ("decentralized"). Kraken is an example of a major exchange that has been remote for many years.

If you are interested in free-thinking, open-minded workplaces solving very interesting problems, go to coingecko.com and scan down the lists of major coins and exchanges. There is an enormous need for engineers and the pay is very high for remote work.

In terms of startups, basically every engineer I know who stuck with crypto through the post-2017 bear market made a huge amount of money as their tokens appreciated. One benefit of working in crypto is you are liquid very quickly - you might get equity, but you almost always get tokens.

Regardless of what the HN know-it-all crypto-haters say, in 2021 you are far more likely to make appreciable wealth in crypto as an individual contributor than you will in your average SaaS (excluding founders and high-level management).

Of course, I think the problems being solved in decentralized platforms are extremely interesting compared to adtech or whatever AI-nonsense. But even barring the extremely interesting work, the renumeration, ethos, and company structure are very amenable to software engineers.
> We absolutely do

Source please. CDC hasn't said anything about this.
Does anyone know how to perform a virtualized ISDN Network? Such as an emulation?

It would be so cool to get old ISDN phones working again. Quality is good, sound quality excellent and so on.
Much easier to pull an exit scam without property.
It's interesting they announced this only after the IPO. I wonder if they planned to do it even before but didn't want to scare some more conservative investors.
> Resilience, endurance

Literal survivor's bias. If you are depressed but not resilient, you kill yourself.

> learning to overcome adversity, learning to overcome yourself

Overcoming adversity requires doing something. Depression prevents that.

> learning to be self-aware

I wish.

> thinking "differently".

In what way?
As you mentioned it I was to reiterate: you can negotiate on anything. Every time I had a non-compete clause in the contract (fortunately not that ubiquitous in Germany) I negotiated with the company to take it out & every time they eventually agreed (once I had to reached a compromise that I should inform them of such projects but the IP remains mine).

A lot of the time you'll hear "oh this is a standard contract, everyone signs it & we don't make exceptions". If they want you bad enough they will make an exception.
>The most recent summer games, held in Rio de Janiero in 2016, drew in an audience of 3.6 billion viewers.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/287966/olympic-games-tv-...
And the most unknown/underrated feature: you can switch to slideshow mode and export to Reveal.js presentation!
> Where were you and BLM?

https://www.12news.com/article/news/local/valley/mesa-rally-...

Please don't lie and spread hateful rhetoric like the idea that BLM is "bigoted" (against whom, the police?). BLM activists actually were involved in a lot of the Daniel Shaver activism. It is a travesty that the cop that killed him wasn't held accountable, but trying to blame the BLM movement for that when then, and now, they're actively trying to make changes to that system, in ways that are helpful to people of all races, makes me think you're being driven by an irrational hate and fear of the BLM movement.

> ethnocentrism

This word doesn't mean what you seem to think it means. "Ethnocentrism" is an antonym of cultural relativism, which I guess could be seen as a sort of supremacy ideology, but not in the way you seem to be using it.

> Based on the logic of this movement created by people who don't understand basic stats, the discrepancy between men and women must mean that police are systemically sexist against men, right? Because only the outcome matters, and all explanations except bigotry must be ignored.

Certainly there are ways that society fails men, yes. It frames them as more violent and dangerous, and because of this I would indeed expect that (and the stats back up) that men are killed, by police disproportionately compared to women, basically no matter how you measure.
I don't think so. Everybody wants to create their own walled garden nowadays.
We've banned this account for ideological flamewar (or whatever this is). Please don't create accounts to break the site rules with.

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Py2.7 is already dead code, vulture is redundant there... /s
> I imagine you're looking at this from a consumer perspective, and you trust your bank, have a stable government fiat currency to use, and a credit card to make easy transactions with, so you have little use for cryptocurrency.

You're right - I do live in America :)
Please don't cross into personal attack in HN comments, regardless of how wrong another commenter is or you feel they are.

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The economy and the stock market are not the same thing.
I prefer dangerouslySetKillSwitch
Obsidian md has a convenient plugin to render a markdown note as presentation. It's cool, because you can put some highlighted code or tex formulas on it.
How do you find time to work on stuff that's not your awesome ideas? I have the same issue but for taxes.
In the European country where I live, the telecom monopolist used ISDN as a necessary stage before ADSL. This was done to siphon off money from consumers for qt least 4 years before ADSL was offered, even though the tech was ready and in use in other countries such as Netherlands. This held us back in terms of development and innovation. I will never forgive them.
That is a Thing. The Olympics put Barcelona on the map for many Tourists. Although the Consensus seems to be, that it worked better in the past and best for formerly obscure cities not for a whole country.
Safety device manufacturers (whether for OSHA type safety or crime safety) would actually have been a good industry for this.
In a correction he is facing a nasty margin call.
The common cold does not overwhelm intensive care unit capacity.
The common cold does not require some people to go on ventilators to survive.

This virus is worse than the common cold, by a lot. If treatment is available, it is not incredibly lethal. But treatment resources are finite, and the spread of the virus has been hard to stop.

Spread too much, resources run out and corona lethality spikes. Way before that, resources get diverted from other places, cancer treatments get delayed, nurse vacations get canceled (leading to burn out and hence less capacity in the long run).

Attitudes like this probably contribute a lot to corona spread being hard to reduce. People just ignore measures because "it's not that bad". Sure, your chances of dying if you ignore rules is probably low. But the larger consequences go beyond you.
Blizzard should have just hired the dota guy / bought out the team’s idea. It would have been worth it in retrospect and it would have established a precedent that would motivate other people to make truly great content on their level editors, selling more copies..
Cancer has an evolutionary cause, that doesn't mean we associate it with good.
If I have tests for everything coverage is 100% regardless of whether the functions are used or not
Or to put it other away, let companies make money off of people in a pandemic. This is patent on the vaccine, not the research and the methods to get there.
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