skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Debt is not a loss unless you default on it.
You are the man.
Was Starting Twitch a Mistake? – The OnlyFriends Show Ep #6 [video]
I use Materialistic - Hacker News on Android [0]. It's suitable for my needs, reading the stories and comments. This is an open source app. You can find the source code here [1].

[0]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.github.hidr...

[1]: https://github.com/hidroh/materialistic
When you put a bounty on dead rats, you don't get a reduction in the amount of rats in your town. What you do get is people breeding rats, to turn in for the bounty.

Drug markets will operate with similar incentives.

If you want to kill the drug trade, what the government needs to do is to start selling drugs. When drugs are cheap, violence and interest in the drug trade plummets. Nobody wants to go to jail over their drug dealing 'job', when its earning them $8/hour.
What about small rivers and ponds ? I had strange experiences sitting near water. The flow, the sound, the reflections.. maybe someone knows about rituals or recent studies about it.
DeepLOB – deep learning on specialized IPU hardware – stock limit order books
I'd love to try LSD, or some other, similar psychedelic compound, but I don't even know where to begin sourcing it. I was that kid in high school who never even took a hit off a joint, because "drugs are bad, mmmkay," so I'm a little clueless. :P
> Plus, managing DIY security is more complicated than just running Signal on an encrypted phone. Same concerns regarding supply chain interdiction, remote code execution, and other security vulnerabilities on the operating system running Signal.

Yes, but specifically to supply chain security, as this attack shows, the most affordable option to secure your supply chain is to ensure your devices and downloads cannot be uniquely targeted.

Buying a stock iPhone in cash and downloading Signal from the App Store is a far better approach than buying a "drug dealer phone."

I do think this attack, as you imply, simply highlights how hard it is for even motivated consumers in the market to make actually secure choices, which in turn is why the market underemphasizes real security improvements.
> Tell that the huge clients that lost sales because of this, and all you have to say is: "wE DoN'T kNoW..."

Tell these clients that they should've carefully read their contract with Fastly, especially the 'Service Level Agreement' part.
The police are so considerate. Not that long ago they were offering to test your meth to see if it contained coronavirus ;-) https://www.news4jax.com/news/weird-news/2020/03/03/is-your-...
It’s interesting to see numerous comments here advocating for mental asylums. Detaining anyone non-dangerous in the US is unconstitutional - the Supreme Court’s ruling in O'Connor v. Donaldson dates back to 1975. That’s why all those places shut down.
Breaking Up with Occupy (2013)
I think the design and concept are really cool but it seems like actually owning it would get old too fast and be more of a novelty.

I could see myself buying this if it could emulate NES or GameBoy games though.
Shame, I got a lot of value from it in the first few years after it’s launch. At the time that sort of content wasn’t really available elsewhere.
I tried Traefik for the first time around 6 months ago (version 2) - man, coming from nginx (which I wouldn't call simple), I found Traefik config to be really confusing. It felt like I had to specify the same stuff 2 or 3 times, and in general it was just so unintuitive. And the docs (at the time at least) only showed snippets of trivial examples.

I don't think I'd choose to use it again. Instead, I'll try Caddy, or HAProxy if I need massive performance.
Short of a 1031 exchange, I'm not sure how you would do that.
Thanks for sharing, props to you for getting out of your situation. I fully respect doing what has to be done to get by, but I think its still worth pointing out that achieving what you had done would have been considerably more difficult if you had stuck to the straight and narrow like society would have wanted - to the larger point that there are systemic issues that in fact do inhibit the agency of people. "The law, in its majestic equality, forbids all men to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets and to steal bread-the rich as well as the poor."
Safari or Chrome

“Open in new tab” is a must.
This site fails to load in Firefox, with an error about there being no overlapping TLS ciphers available. Using the up to date public stable release of Firefox, no other TLS issues elsewhere, I wonder what has gone wrong.
Thank you for the feedback.

I chose to support SMS text messages initially because the functionality is built into the device and the app can make better decisions based on SMS text messaging history. I plan to review support for WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger and friends in the future.

As for the UX, I concur; more work needs to be done here. I see the app UX as more of a utilitarian/set it and forget it and kind of thing with little interaction with the app itself once it’s configured, but point taken.
>brought their culture with them.

Yikes. Do you really think places like SOMA, SLU, DTLA, etc. got better because rich people brought their 'culture' there? I'd recommend you visit said places and see for yourself, most of the 'culture' is in adjacent (usually historically minority) neighborhoods.
But you basically always do use your house as collateral on the mortgage loan. I think this is a more radical change than you have realized.
How do you feel about 7zip's AES encryption functionality for files or sets of files?
End to end encryption in email is a myth (unless you actually go through the process of encrypting your messages with a PGP key—that can be done with any provider), all ProtonMail does is encrypt your email on receipt.
You could put diodes next to each drive so the tech doesnt even have to read serial numbers.
Most of the high paying professions outside of software require the degree and that first job to break into them. Sure for banking and consulting it’s not a hard requirement, but it’s much harder to get into them with bad grades or a degree from a non-target school.

It’s really only in the software bubble where people are able to prove themselves to break into it, due to various factors including engineers being in very short supply relative to demand for over a decade now. Sure nobody asks for my grades now that I’ve been out of college for a while, but they still look at where I went to college (based on high school achievement) and my first job (based on college achievement) and subsequent jobs (much easier to get because of where I worked at my first job), etc.

I just see this argument as very tone deaf because there are hundreds of millions of us regular people out there, and academic achievement is the most surefire way to get noticed and be given opportunities if you aren’t lucky enough to come from an important/influential family.

It’s not only about the grades themselves but how they pipeline the rest of your career and credentials. Rich people can shmooze and scheme to get some of those credentials and opportunities for their kids without the grades, but not us regular folk.
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Its not a new trend. A friend went to go work at this company, so I looked up what they do.. Its better than it used to be but still not really clear:

https://www.pega.com
reddit.com

Seriously, not that you can source directly from there, but give it 20min and you'll figure it out. Hint: BTC & DMs
I wonder how long until DIY weaponized drones are available to common criminals.

It doesn't seem like we are prepared to deal with something like this.
> I've actually become less ambitious and content with my life.

This is really interesting, and something I myself experienced (in reverse) of going from small-town living to a world city with a thriving tech ecosystem.

Now I'm contemplating moving back out into small-town life (I'm sure many city dwellers are thinking along the same lines after being locked inside for a year). I'm concerned that I'll lose my drive and ambition and settle for less in life.

Health and wellness matter more than any achievement or accolade at the end of the day.
One of the US political parties has had their strategists admit that several of their policies are racist, and that their communication strategy foments and encourages racism. This is not news, it's been publicly out there for decades.
Something was startling to me to watch those guys shoot the shit. There is a certain etiquette you'd expect from such high profiles. It almost felt like I was an intruder into the conversation, but nonetheless, I really enjoy it.
Drones are the new aircraft carriers. That is, pre-WWII, the dominant naval ship was the battleship. Heavily armored, with enormous guns, military planners expected that the battle for the Atlantic and Pacific would be carried out by these monsters slugging it out. Though there were hints that planes could be quite effective against ships, few admirals realized that the longer range of an aircraft carrier would make the battleships effectively obsolete in ship-ship battles. And after all, they'd spent a ton of money producing those battleships, and developing doctrine. Would you really want to throw that all away on some newfangled novelty?

After Pearl Harbor, it became clear that the answer should have been Yes.

Drones offer overwhelming advantages -- they're cheap and disposable. A drone generally costs less than the US missile used to shoot it down. You can lose 100 of them, and there will be no lives lost on your side.

During WWII, by 1943 the European theater was essentially decided, except for a lot of killing. The US was producing tanks and planes so quickly that it was simply mathematically impossible for the Germans to counter them. Will the same thing happen when China decides to throw its manufacturing capacity into war drones?
you force goodwill onto humans and you push them to the serpent even faster. The whole topic here is based on making people do more work for less rewards, after all. More work billionaires benefit most from.
I think I can break your point down into two smaller facets:

* the notion of voluntary association. How many social media users use social media because they think they're supposed to? Voluntary association facilitates the perception of good faith on the part of others by its nature.

* the type of user, e.g. an enthusiast vs otherwise. A lot of social media's problems stem from it's crazy scale, which, as a byproduct, increases the amount of bad apples and their visibility.

Forums and their ilk had similar problems with cabals and such, but the fact that they weren't the single destination to be made the stakes lower. I can see a future where we cede current social networks to the very online crowd and let them continue to play their power games in their own little sandbox while the rest of the world moves on.
Sure until you visit a geopolitically aligned airport and get detained and propositioned by a foreign intelligence agency. Then you end up spying against your own country because your VPN provider was just a honeypot for a foreign intelligence agency. Blackmail, forced detention, "crimes against the Chinese state", jail without due process or civil rights, who knows. Maybe you didn't even break US law but Chinese or Russian law.

I would never willingly trust a country like Russia or China with my information.
Not only that, but developers have at least as much incentive to push to avoid cross platform implementations. More work, more complexity, bugs, maintenance, etc., and many (most?) do all of their dev and testing on Chrome anyway.

Web monoculture simply has a set of labor/$ incentives builtin. It's the default, and it's hard (and probably getting harder) to appreciate the long term system-wide risk that accumulates by allowing one company to control web standards.

I don't see it as a dev vs. suits issue at all. If anything, in my experience it's people who remember Internet Explorer and people who don't.
What about when reading books?

"It was an average sized room with orange carpet and white walls, entirely empty except for a small circular table with a telephone on top in the middle."

When you read something like that do you not form a coherent mental image of this room?
Show HN: You probably already hang out with your first 100 users
I’ve been very happy with Fastmail. Their webmail is fast and simple and you get essentially unlimited domains and aliases in your subscription.

PM’s interface by comparison is significantly clunkier and more expensive.
Yes, stainless steel is about 4x more expensive, but that ends up being about 2% of project cost. This is a big win long term, if the owner is looking that far ahead.

Right now, the main use seems to be concrete bridge replacements of bridges over saltwater in climates that use salt for de-icing. Oregon built one 20 years ago, Montreal built one last year. When you're replacing a bridge because corrosion destroyed it, it's not hard to justify stainless.

The price is coming down as the volume goes up.
>and not going anywhere

What is this certainty based on? Google's history shows the exact opposite likelihood.
We’ve legalized marijuana in Canada. While the illegal market is still pretty big (likely over 50% by volume), the illegal prices have cratered.

So you don’t just have a big shift out of the black market, but what’s left of the black market has also been decimated, and spends more on marketing/quality/experience.
The value of the land at Burning Man is much lower than the Bay Area, even though it has many of the same people.

I think the infrastructure is pretty important. Disregarding it entirely seems a bit much. Even a bad neighborhood in Philly has more value per square foot than farmland in Kansas.
It’s well-known that money transfers are public in bitcoin and on/off ramp via virtual asset service providers like coinbase requires kyc and is subject to aml/ctf (anti money laundering and counter terrorism financing)
Assignment of Crimea to Ukraine was an internal assignment within the USSR, from the Russian SSR (or whatever) to the Ukrainian SSR. The USSR is kind of a weird beast - it was nominally a union of equal republics, but it was dominated by the Russians. In a certain sense, the transfer within the context of the USSR wasn't important to Russians at all, since it was still part of the USSR and Russians ran the USSR - didn't matter THAT much that it was part of Ukraine (though there still werevarious Russian objections to the transfer throughout the Soviet into the Post-Soviet era), at least from an geopolitical standpoint.

When the USSR dissolved... well, it was definitely a period of chaos. As for why wait till 2014? I have no answer for that.

There's no clean US analogy, since the US doesn't have a singular state that completely dominates its political landscape.
Just to be pedantic, it's never been available on Linux, and in my experience, iTunes on Windows has been much worse than Mac for about a decade.
NPR is using a clickbait headline. I fell for it just like you did. This conveys the opposite of what it actually is - "Govt Agents setup a fake bank in a sting to attract drug traffickers to launder money netting $90mm in cash and over 100 arrests".
The “two-track” affiliate marketing model that builds genuine trust
User iso1631 talked about attacks, not just outages.

The basic design BGP is very vulnerable against malicious attacks. Email security is nonexistent.
Oh, hmm. Well, hypothetically, if I were going to, that sounds like a good idea. Hypothetically, of course.
I feel fortunate in that regard, in that I work from home and we homeschool our children[0]. Not only do they have a chance to see how adults work, but I they also get more opportunities to see how adults interact with each other in general. I also get a chance to be more a part of their childhood, which is a nice plus.

[0] Don't worry, they socialize with plenty of other people
I use Harmonic on Android. It's the best one I've tried so far and the UI is very pleasing.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.simon.harm...
This has happened before.

After the end of WW2, the Allies decided to repudiate the ReichsMark (the German dollar) and issue a new Mark. Everyone who held ReichsMarks saw it go to zero. To get the economy going again, everyone was issued 50 of the new Deutsch Marks.

Within a couple weeks, the people who had been wealthy before were rapidly moving ahead, and the ones who had not been were again at the bottom.

I.e. the people who knew how to make money still knew how to make money, and the people who didn't still didn't.
It’s your choice - you want Rx - you do Rx. Everyone gets something.
A better list of new features in 8.0:

https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/whatsnew/whats-new-i...

I like grafana.

It's the de facto realtime graph consolidation platform where I work; if the thing you want to use for monitoring doesn't interact with grafana, you shouldn't bother trying to deploy it because the rest of the org will be blind to it.
greater detail can ultimately lead to less information if noisy commits crowd out the important ones. IME you want a commit to mean something and that usually leads to tweaking the work/change/commit relationship, which is where squashing helps.
> However, there is a lot that says that the 1% actually pay the vast majority of taxes collected:

Yes, that's an argument against people who want Europe-style social programs while simultaneously making the US tax code even more progressive than it already is (it's generally considered the the most progressive in the world).

It's true that the top 1% to pay most of the taxes, and it's also true that the top 0.1% or so pay a significantly lower tax rate than those in the income ranges just below that level.
Sorry it took me so long to reply.

>I'm mostly in the "dev" rather than "ops" space

Same here, for the most part. I'm a freelancer, so I end up having to do a fair amount of cloud management (often with k8s), but it's not the part of the job I particularly like, nor is it what I spend most of my time doing.

>I believe our (non-container) machines are running nightly updates of OS and other packages via `apt-get update` etc. That is definitely a pre-immutability world, which certainly has it's own problems.

With containers, you would effectively do the same thing. The workflow is:

1. Pick a base image (e.g. debian:latest) and write a Dockerfile based on that. Add any system libraries or other configuration you need here. Run apt-get upgrade.
2. Build your image and give it a version tag.
3. Rebuild the image nightly and bump up the version tag.
4. Perform a rolling upgrade to the new docker image in k8s or whatever.

There are more elaborate workflows, but I've never needed anything else. Note also that k8s is not necessary at all (and arguably not worthwhile).

>it seems there is some controversy over how people actually do this with container-based infrastructure, especially on small teams...

I think this is spot on. Containers are quite general tools, and there are quite a few reasons to use them.

Personally -- and I suspect this is where you might benefit as well -- I use Docker to standardize the runtime environment. That's basically it. The benefit of having the same runtime environment across dev machines, and in production has been incalculable.

YMMV, of course.
> There's no need to price anything. You value the assets put up as collateral as the amount of the loan they are securing.

People take out loans for much more or less than the value of the collateral. Do we ban that, or do we open up another tax/laundering loophole by letting the official value of a property diverge arbitrarily from a hypothetical sale value?
It's not even hypothetical; governments can and do fund astroturfers. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27368214
It's interesting that this comment and its replies use the third person "they" where many other comments in this thread use "we" (or the even more othering and accusatory "Americans").

I agree completely that one of the main drivers of mob behavior is that it feels good. However, I don't pretend to be immune to that dark corner of human psychology.

We are a tribal species. Our evolutionary history is imprinted with the reality that for thousands of years sticking with our tribe meant survival, as did warring with other tribes that wanted our resources. And even within our tribe, shunning has always been an important form of social control.

Now, I'm not committing the naturalist fallacy and saying that this behavior is right or justifiable. But the seeds of mob mentality are within us all and we won't make progress by blaming it all on others without acknowledging that they aren't so different from ourselves.

If you want this to happen less often, you need to learn how some people avoid it and teach that skill to others.
iTunesU predates things like Coursera. I’d say it took someone like Apple to convince major universities that making their lectures available was worthwhile or else people like Coursera never would have gotten off the ground. It’s a very different market now and iTunesU definitely stagnated but in 2007 it was pretty cool.
A Project of One's Own
Wait so how do I 'not-force' my kid into programming these days? Our generation didn't have roblox, youtube and minecraft to distract us much.
Economies based on this idea tend to do very poorly.

For one thing, people won't have money to invest in new ventures.
Ars Technica has a good article about it, if you want an overview:
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/06/playdate-the-console-...

as well as an article from a couple years ago about the device: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/05/why-the-quirky-playda...
The enforcement objectives are like a horseshoe.

The police have an incentive to get collars for petty possession, mostly to bank warrants for future trouble, and to go after big or brazen networks.

The people in the middle are mostly free of interference. I used to work in a building that was about a block away from the county court, 4 blocks from a police precinct hq. Yet I watched three guys sell drugs across the street for the two years that I worked there.

It has its ups and downs. In my state, with bail reform, woke stuff, and marijuana possession decriminalization, there has been a wave of shootings and murders as the gangs reorg and the cops are caught with their pants down.
It's not a "freedom" perspective. Once you get an overlord, it's just a matter of time until it starts abusing you.

Or, in other words, it's just a matter of time until it's Chrome keeping you up at night eating all of your productivity to avoid some defect. It probably won't be a rendering bug, but there will be something there.
I didn't figure it was worth starting...

- Lack of functions (the only real functions are modules which are basically unusable for quick computations such as "slugify this string").
- Very primitive loops.
- Lack of temporary variables. I often end up looping over a list multiple times and storing intermediates.
- No panic or log functions.
> highly recommend you try something like shrooms in the safe environment

Just listened to Seth Rogen's audible book (hilarious, and decent anecdata on shrooms particularly) and he would say shrooms are a lot more intense than LSD. Shrooms take control while on LSD you're "the pilot."
Launch of James Webb Telescope Postponed
I agree, I don’t see why income tax couldn’t be levied on any amount greater than $X borrowed/secured by an asset as collateral.

For all intents and purposes, it is income and should be taxed as such.
the wealthy take loans secured by unrealized gains in order to finance their lifestyle.

It's even worse than that. The interest on those loans is tax deductible, according to the New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/08/us/politics/income-taxes-...