skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If other companies are created and thriving specifically to fix systemic problems in your company's business model, how much more do you need a 2x4 upside your head to FIX YOUR BUSINESS!?
Hi! DynaBlogger targets mostly users who don't need WordPress which is a beast and has a lot to offers because it's designed to create many kinds of websites, but like I said in the OP it's often overkill if you just want to publish content easily and quickly. It has just the features that most people truly need to publish content but it's not too "minimalist" at the same time. It's a balanced option IMO :) I know that there are several other options of course, but most of them are website builders (so kinda different) or by companies like Google who you pay with your privacy. So I am hoping that some people share the same views :)
What are those chances? Are you judging their experience based on your non-experience? How would you know what bad design is and the reasons for it?
Not quite. BLM in particular is called Marxist because the people who actually organize that movement have called themselves "trained Marxists" and the British BLM website for a while claimed their goals involved overthrowing capitalism and the nuclear family. If you don't think BLM is Marxist that's understandable because those facts didn't get much attention, but, they definitely are. Adopting a clenched fist as a logo should be another hint.

At any rate, it's mostly because Marxism is not really an economic ideology, even though communism is often presented as an alternative to capitalism. Communism is arguably not an economic system at all given the absolutely minimal detail Marx provided about how a communist economy was actually meant to work. Marxism is best understood as a packaged set of views about the current state of the world and human nature, the correct/perfect state of the world and human nature, and a plan for how to get from here to there.

A key component of Marxist thought is that the current state of the world is one of "alienation" (today we would say oppression), in which a small minority subtly oppress the majority in such a way that the majority don't realize they're oppressed. But if they were to realize, they could rise up and via a revolution overthrow their oppressors. This would establish a transient state (the dictatorship of the proletariat) that would eventually, once society was finished being transformed, sort of melt away leaving communism as a kind of superior form of existence in which there's no oppression, human nature has fundamentally changed and as a consequence everyone is equal.

It's that last bit that gets the bulk of the attention because, firstly, the rest is kind of vague, and secondly, the socialist revolutionaries were expected to deliver obvious, real-world benefits for their revolution and focused on the "everyone is economically equal" bit as something that could be achieved via large scale government action. But to Marx that was only one part of it. The rest was about human nature.

The modern left, especially in Silicon Valley, is easily identifiable as a new variant of this basic ideology:

- Society is split into oppressors (white men) and everyone else (women, other races). People are always one of these groups and cannot move between them. Many oppressed people don't believe they're oppressed, but that's because they've been deceived and it's very important to make them realize that white men are oppressing them.

- People are either really good, or really bad, and people who are really bad (anyone who doesn't subscribe to this ideology) need to be suppressed, expelled, or silenced in various ways.

- The world is suffering under vaguely defined oppressive forces (Marx: imperialism, the Woke: patriarchy/systemic racism). If these forces are defeated, humanity will be elevated to a superior form of existence.

- Exceptionally aggressive "with us or against us" tactics are legitimate and even required to reach this state.

There are a bunch of other similarities, but that's the gist.
Controversy Budget
Grass-fed cows gain weight more slowly, so they produce more methane per unit of meat produced. However, it can be argued that grass fed cattle farming is a net positive for Greenhouse emissions, since the carbon captured by the larger pastures can offset the effect of the methane emissions from the cattle. In some cases the entire farm's operational emmisions could be offset. Note that this is climate dependent. [1]

It is important also to note that if the land were instead used for growing crop for human consumption, then the carbon capture effect would be far higher, and that generally grass fed beef in the US are fed grain in the final months before slaughter. Other factors like water usage of cattle farming per calorie produced compared to human consumed crop can put even grass fed cattle farming in a bad light.

[1]: https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/08/13/746576239/is...
>Apple contractually forces recycling partners to shred old devices
America's housing crisis is the result of classist credit guidelines
Inertia is real.
It works both for and against you in different usecases.

It works in favor of companies, who monetize it.

The company just need to not treat a person bad enough that he overcomes his own inertia and leaves.
"Be the change you want to see" doesn't really work for society level collective action problems. My concern with Facebook isn't that they have too much information about me, it is that they know too much about my country's citizens in aggregate (and thus can manipulate them). Whether I opt out has a real impact on me, but zero impact on whether they can run disinformation campaigns and swing elections.
Downvoting this just further proves my point.
Don’t make me kick you off insta
It's the same kind of tragedy that happens with free software. I once spent an entire year using nothing but free software, all the way down to the peripheral firmware. It's still important to me, but as I grow older I get more and more important things competing for time, money and attention. Especially things you do outside, away from technology, with other people.

It's all subject to the same FUD too. If every proprietary EULA was replaced with the GPL overnight, and if a webshop where you could buy all the parts to repair anything was to spring up overnight, everybody would still use the same software and devices they know and love, and would not be any worse off than before. But the opponents of either try to make it about protecting the consumers.
jaclaz, that's interesting, but Wikipedia alleges it to be somewhat of an urban legend:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CE_marking#%22China_Export%22
In Maxwell’s words: “One of the best established facts in thermodynamics is that it is impossible in a system enclosed in an envelope which permits neither change of volume nor passage of heat, and in which both the temperature and the pressure are everywhere the same, to produce any inequality of temperature or pressure without the expenditure of work. This is the second law of thermodynamics, and it is undoubtedly true as long as we can deal with bodies only in mass, and have no power of perceiving the separate molecules of which they are made up. But if we conceive of a being whose faculties are so sharpened that he can follow every molecule in its course, such a being, whose attributes are still as essentially as finite as our own, would be able to do what is at present impossible to us.”

The reason why we can’t move heat from hot to cold is that we don’t know enough. If the demon does know the position of every particle there is no notion of entropy.
Or police reading a timestamp from a website, not realising it's actually a non-local timestamp so offset by X hours, and then requesting based on the wrong timestamp. Fairly sure that's happened before.
I’d hope that the person debugging my code had written at least one program of their own. If not, I wouldn’t be particularly interested in their opinions on software architecture.
It almost makes you wonder if we shouldn't just go back to brick-and-mortar stores, where the "rating system" is implied by the "curation" of the store itself. Physical shelf space being limited, they're only going to carry the stuff that sells well (on the longer timeline of word-of-mouth through actual conversations), and that doesn't get returned very often.
That is correct, but the intent of the double jeopardy laws are to stop people from being perpetually retried for a crime by someone that is convinced they have the right person (ie. every cop and DA that ever lived!) and holding the threat of that over them the rest of their life even though the case has already been adjudicated.

What you described is an unfortunate loophole in this concept.
> I think Joe Rogan has said in the past that he just considers Alex Jones a friend and just enjoys having him on the podcast. Also, the guy has had literally thousands of guests on his podcast, including Bernie Sanders or whoever these woke people presumably agree with.

He’s also had Colion Noir (a black, ex-lawyer, gun rights supporter) on his show a few times, and seemingly supports gun rights. He’s also a gun owner. He’s got quite an interesting and divisive way with both sides.
> The only "real" reason you need a loadbalancer is that you want to save IP addresses.

NAT. You're thinking of NAT.
I believe a lot in this. It's logarithmic.

Not having a land line phone -> having one: life changing.

Having 3 land lines in your house -> slightly more comfy

Same goes for smartphones, and others
Not if you don’t install any of their apps. I use it as a web site which is enough to post pics of kids for relatives, pretty much my only use for it.
Waterfall for calendars does not work. The code IS the design.
To expand a little more: BGP is a protocol for exchanging information about routes between routers, not a protocol for shipping non-routing data (e.g. your HTTP request is never carried by BGP).
This was sobering. A couple of points that resonated:

* the modern developed world just isn't a welcoming place for families. It's very focused on individual achievement, usually through the workplace, and family obligations detract from that.

* regions of the world have gone through demographic decline in the past (the black plague, for example) and it dramatically remade societies. Buckle up for that same effect on a nearly global scale.

* if demography is destiny, we will see the rise of African super powers in this century.
Ask HN: Robinhood-esque JavaScript number counter animation?
I'm looking for a JavaScript library that can provide a number counter animation similar to or inspired by what Robinhood uses for price tickers. Theirs is particularly smooth and doesn't feel "janky" or too quick or jarring, in my opinion.

There seem to be many Robinhood-inspired number counter libraries on GitHub, but they're all for iOS and Android apps rather than (JavaScript) web apps.

The most popular counter animation library I could find for JavaScript is CountUp.js (https://inorganik.github.io/countUp.js/), but I don't like the animation style as much.
That article really isn't a good critique of Postgres.
Browsers are pretty good at loading pages, it turns out (2019)
Yeah, wait for the shot and always late for a save. They do this for a living, they move before ball rolling for a reason: human not fast enough for a shot from pro.
>Whether I opt out has a real impact on me, but zero impact on whether they can run disinformation campaigns and swing elections.

Being the change you want to see doesn't automatically mean the world changes. It just means live with principles regardless of external factors. You don't like Facebook? Then don't use Facebook. It's as simple as that. Others can take it or leave it.

I just see it as people complaining about Facebook while continuing to use Facebook so it must not be a very big deal to them.
eBay's product search is also miles better than Amazon's.

I really don't know what happened to Amazon's product search, but it's almost entirely useless unless you search something super specific, and even then Google will actually give you better results.
Most routine maintenance items are still easily DIY-able and there’s likely an enthusiast forum or group to help give some guidance.
I found no mention (cmd+f) of “concrete” or “concorde” there; I still don’t follow.
How do you improve your genes? Removing obvious deleterious disease mutations is easy, but as soon as you try to “go where there are no roads” you hit the same combinatorial challenge as evolution.

Also more intelligence does not equal better ideas. The world is full of crazy or amoral people with apparently very high IQs. Your average flat Earther probably has an above average IQ.

Improvement is a war against entropy and n^n^n^… combinatorics any way you slice it.
Collecting passwords and dumping the storage is likely all they did. 3 months is fairly prompt for any kind of "cyber" in the UK to even get a brief look at, due to huge processing backlogs in the overworked departments whose job it is to deal with it.

I'd suspect that what happened here is they thought they had an easy win, went through the motions, determined fairly rapidly from interviews etc it wasn't actually a viable lead, and didn't pursue further. But the machinery is set in motion by the initial conversation, for fear of prompt deletion if the storage is left with the would-be perp.
Soccer/football coach Thomas Tuchel, previously at BVB & PSG and now at Chelsea is pretty well known for handing out copies of that book to his players.
> While the Japanese are amazing at hardware

You're listing hardware companies though, we'd have to look at Japanese software companies to see. Now I agree Sony and others struggled to absorb software and considering they were very high grade hardware device manufacturers the delta was damning. It's a different approach I guess
Cool, there it is!

It is super awesome to have briefs like this. Imagine having it for all major packages in Linux.

I guess it could be synthesized with fetches from Wikipedia.
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I was out of school for a 3-month period at 10 for an extended family holiday, and a 2-month period at 16 for illness. It honestly wasn't that disruptive - at 10 I probably learnt more on the road than in school, being tutored directly by my parents, and at 16 I had all my textbooks plus extreme boredom as motivation.
>Surprisingly, SHA256 is much slower than SHA512 here.

SHA512 is expected to be faster than SHA256 on modern 64 bit architectures due to fewer rounds per byte.
> Unless France is going to use the depleted pension fund as an excuse to cut benefits

That is exactly what has been happening several times during the last 3 decades.
Cool, hello-world is easy, now give me a basic bar chart.
It most likely is. Built in RTCs need to operate off battery backup without the main processor running. A general purpose support microcontroller would burn more energy than a hardware calendar state machine.
I find the comment section on that page really disturbing. An incredible amount of homophobic statements.
I find Rossman insufferable due to his hyperbolic approach to shaming Apple and having a bone to pick with just about everyone- he's the definition of a narcissist. I agree in principle to "right to repair", but Rossman's motives are purely financial and self promoting. I've watched over 100 hours of his content and realized that his audience is primarily made up of anti-apple PC Master Race fanatics that just want to hear Louis troll apple for an hour.

Rossman always presents himself as the ultimate victim. Apple has it out for him, NY has it out for him, people less successful than him have it out for him. When you've watched as much of his content as I have, you start to see where his head is, and it's not a pretty place. Anyway, I have found other repair guys that are better than Rossman and don't have so much negativity on their channels. I can get a deeper understanding of repairing tech without the hyperbolic commentary.
I'm surprised when people don't even know more mainstream science YouTubers like vsauce or veritasium.
I've asked a class of ~20 college students whether they know vsauce and I was surprised no one knows him.
Even with scarce IPv4 you could currently do that just running backends on different ports

It's common to do internal services that way but you can't control how or who or the internet might try to connect to your service so the load balancer offers a layer of protection so servers can't be picked off individually.

They can also offer an abstraction/routing layer so you can do things like canaries and controlled rollouts which would be much more difficult just advertising IPs directly to the client.
How did you get a system architect title while somehow never looking at haproxy in the last.... 15 years?!
Neovim 0.5 is almost out
Yeah sounds a bit like it, at least scion would be a superset as it embeds many other concepts.

IMHO, source routing concept is not abandoned as Segment Routing seems to be used in specialized / large networks:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segment_routing
Blindsight by Peter Watts for a fun book in this direction.
It might also be that they're taking a CYA tone in public but a healthier tone internally.
What is RDF?
60s and 70s were the golden era of light aircraft as well. Lots of working class people flew airplanes as a hobby. (A significant multiple vs today anyway.)
Apple silicon repair: do you want an new device or just a new mobo. Costs the same
A few years ago a replayed an old video game that I hadn't played since childhood. There are a few parts of the game that were quite difficult and involved a fairly complicated sequence of events, one of them being the final boss battle.

When I got to the boss I remembered the battle being quite complicated and intense but I couldn't remember where to move, when to jump, or when to attack. But after a few tries as if by magic my fingers took over and executed the sequence of buttons flawlessly. It was amazing because I didn't consciously know what came next but my fingers did. I also felt a sense of euphoria as the memory came back to me; it was a really interesting thing to experience.
SB-327 says:

it shall be deemed a reasonable security feature under subdivision (a) if either of the following requirements are met:
(1) The preprogrammed password is unique to each device manufactured.

I read this as a password based on the mac address or serial number would be compliant without meeting what I think is the intent of this law.
What about Korg software?

While I'm not sure what country they develop their software in, the company is Japanese.
Looking at the standard haproxy error pages present when using an Azure App Service, you might be surprised to learn that the cloud providers are using haproxy for you, behind the scenes.
Yes, I think so, just to a lesser degree. People playing VR half life Alyx don't actually think they are part of a human insurrection fighting alien overlords but an alarmingly large number of people watching these hottub streams think they have some legitimately romantic connection to the streamer, or a chance of it. Young men can be remarkably stupid in this way.
How Many Servers Do You Need for a Crucial Website?
Downvote me all you want but “architects” need to look at the solution landscape at least once in 15 years.
> One side of the political spectrum outright rejects the validity of GSM rights, and the other doesn't

This blanket statement is either a purposeful lie, or opinion. In either case, it’s wrong.
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You might be right, but this can be checked by listing the colonies of the city in question. If the origin cities of the bodies and the list of colonies differ, it will be telling. Also, Black Sea was colonized from mainland Greece and Malaysia, not Sicily as far as I know. The greek diaspora was moving east to west in the Mediterranean Sea and east to west in Black Sea.
I remember working through the Denthor tuts back in the 90s and how much that helped me get into the demoscene.

This modern-day equivalent is awesome (and although I haven't been through it in detail, it looks super thorough!).

Thanks for sharing it. It's great to see the demoscene still going strong.
Some models of router are pretty easy to run code on. You could then run code on it to give you a permanent 'bounce' IP address, which you could then use from anywhere on the globe.
They have the metadata I presume - who you text, how much and when, and that's probably pretty valuable in itself.

Even if you put in no personal data to FB at all they create a ghost profile that will be very accurate based on who you are connected to.
I'm guessing it's more about transparency. Monsanto using a proprietary genome for the sake of increasing yield at scale seems fundamentally different than a local farmer who selectively breeds to maintain some heirloom crop. I think the former is much more of a black box and has more potential for something unexpected to occur than the latter.
> The most unfair part about it is more productive "loyal employees"

It's not unfair in general. If you're not actively seeking money and raises, who said you should get them? This frustrates me as a kind of kindergarten mentality, "I was 'good' therefore I deserve good things back". No, you don't; learn to protect your interests.

What I think is unfair is that a lot of companies would never admit this adversarial attitude towards employees. Most of them will bullshit you with "we are a family" and whatnot.

I worked in a company (20-30 people, Russia) where salaries were secret and not the same for everyone, but the company openly admitted it and actually encouraged employees to ask for more money (and the manager could ask for more results in return). "Everything's negotiable" was a phrase I heard a lot from them. It was my first job, love that place.
People used to send writing on paper in an envelope. Some still do. Perhaps one thing that’s not being said is the degree we each care about communication relative to how we communicate; this is a very personal topic. I am one who deleted all social media (except HN; joined recently because the stress of it is lower and I still like to share) and one who is comfortable with the slow pace of letters and email-as-letters. I’m of the Star Wars generation, growing up with computers and still knowing what is was like to place orders by calling on a rotary phone the number on the back of the catalog.
We spent a decade recovering from financial calamities (not of our making). To secure a better future, we avoided debt no matter what. This meant no A/C during sweltering 11 month summers and eating mostly plain rice (or nothing when it ran out).

Things improved a couple of years back. We are debt free and we have saved up 20% toward a home (to avoid PIP). However, no lenders will work with us - because the outcome of the most debt-free-living possible is a zero credit score.
And last week he released a video titled “The myth & fallacy that one brand is the problem”.

3 days ago “ASUS becomes a meme” with the thumbnail text “ASUS ARE YOU KIDDING”.

The guy runs a Mac repair store. That’s his day business. It doesn’t sound inauthentic that he would have more complaints about Apple products.

Further, as far as right to repair is concerned, it’s undeniable that Apple is easily the worst of the lot, and has used its massive market driving ability to move other companies in that direction as well (although you can still find complete hardware manuals for a Lenovo, HP, etc, which was never possible with Apple).
> The game might not run (rather crash) if the game uses some Windows specific dependencies.

It links against Steam, so you'll need to make that available to avoid the crash, but that seems to be the only part of the code that wouldn't work out-of-box on other platforms.
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