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Eternal.gg (YC W20) Is Hiring a Creative Interactive Developer
Eternal.gg is looking for a Creative Interactive Developer to build out our web user experience. We are a pioneering platform that turns streaming highlights from the biggest streamers into digital collectibles (NFTs), for their fans to collect and trade.

As a Creative Developer, you will have significant input into designing the web experience of our users. Since Eternal sits at the intersection between blockchain and gaming, our users are mostly gamers that are accustomed to video-game-level interactions and animations, and that's precisely what we are going to build with your help.

Our ideal candidate should be experienced in:

- Building interactive web interfaces
- Designing and implementing 2D/3D web animations

Eternal is a YCombinator startup and funded by stellar investors including the founders of Twitch, Crunchyroll, Notion, etc. As part of a small and dymatic team, you will be taking on significant responsibilities and can expect huge personal growth.

This position can be either remote or based in LA. Ability to work within US timezones is preferred but not required.

Please email derek@eternal.gg if you are interested!
when i evaluated using a NAT setup using AWS NAT gateways it appeared to be quite expensive. we settled for strict VPC rules using only SecurityGroups in order to restrict communication. the instances did have public ip but nothing but intended services could connect to it anyways... i.e an instance running a HTTP API could only be connected to if initiated from the load balancer and itself could only connect to relevant services such as a RDS cluster...
The parent was fairly pointing out that healthcare in the US is not a free market. For one there is zero price transparency let alone competition. For another there is the insurance industry which is both heavily regulated and state backed. Health insurer market is similar to the wired ISP market.

We don’t really know what a true free market would do with modern healthcare because as you say there is no such thing. Personally I think it could work for middle class and above but would leave a big coverage cliff down below because it’s not profitable to insure or treat the really poor.

The question is whether real transparency with price competition and efficiency gains would make it cheaper to then add a safely net for the poor.
California wildfires: Fighting infernos with Silicon Valley tech
Pimsleur is great. A lot of their courses are on Audible too, so with a subscription you can buy them slowly over a number of months. That is what I started to do.
Freak-out HN: I saw a parasitic wasp controlling a grasshopper
I know this is an unorthodox kind of post but I don't have a blog or an Instagram and I just have to tell someone (everyone!) about this. This morning I saw a parasitic wasp riding a grasshopper, controling it like a marionnete.

I caught it with the corner of my eye and turned to look at it carefully because it didn't make sense. It was a small emerald green grasshopper with a long black winged insect sitting on top of it and skittering across the floor on the verandah. Skittering, as grasshoppers don't! My skin crawled. It ran under a ledge and then I saw the wasp fly out. I looked under the ledge and there the grasshopper lay immobile, dead or paralysed, I don't know. I suspect it's probably alive and filled with the wasp's eggs that will hatch in a few days and eat the poor grasshopper from inside.

No photos, no videos. It happened so fast I was pinching myself afterwards. The wasp looked more like a large elongated fly, all black, no markings.

Has anyone seen anything like this before? I know about fungi zombifying ants but this was ... eerie. The 'hopper moved real fast, like a cockroach running away.
Show HN: RESTful API for images, documents, & video
Yup. Most companies have HR and they know exactly what to do. Your manager will often be compelled to tell their boss, so just relying on your relationship with your boss is a risky move.
They mean the same thing.
> If you go to something that is not a mainstream PC you risk paying 90% as much for 10% as much CPU, the certainty of having at most barely enough RAM, software you can’t upgrade. Don’t do it it’s suicide.

ok, I'll reconsider whether I can really have a printer within the range of a USB cable to one of the servers that I already have. Thanks!
Could a reduced number of work hours/days work? If she's doing 5 days a week, then trading off one day for 20% of her salary would increase her free time by 50% which might lift her spirits?
>I always lose my job or quit.

See a psychologist and/or psychiatrist. This is something you can work through. Whatever issue you’re dealing with, there’s people who are very experienced in helping you figure out what it is and how to start dealing with it.

For what it’s worth, you might have ADHD if you’re always quitting or being fired because of an inability to perform to your own abilities. Or you might have some other different issue. But life doesn’t have to be this way. For most people, it isn’t.

Many people are scared of seeing mental health professionals because they don’t want to be put on medication. Getting better doesn’t necessarily require medication, but it might be an option. Not all ADHD meds are stimulants. Some like guanfacine, for example, will just improve your executive function and emotional stability without much in the way of side effects. But no one is gonna put you on a chemical cocktail without your consent, and you are free to say you want to try non-medication options before even considering that route.

Life doesn’t have to be so hard for an intelligent and capable person. If you work through this you can be happier, more fulfilled, less stressed. That can literally mean extra years on your life. You don’t have to suffer alone.

This comment thread is great but beware. People without a mental health issue do not understand what it’s like to have one. They can usually only think about your experiences through analogy to their own normal struggles. Most mental health symptoms, even schizophrenia, exist in some de minimis way in most people. But normal people can’t recognize that the symptoms are so different in severity in people with a disorder that normal function cannot be willed. A normal person is really bored, procrastinates for a bit, and eventually gets it together. They certainly don’t lose job after job at great personal cost to themselves. But someone with ADHD might feel something almost like pain at the prospect of working on a boring task. They might spend hours trying to work on something but just can’t make it happen. Only the intense adrenaline of a new deadline, maybe the third or fourth new deadline for the same task after blowing past previous ones, can make them finally overcome their issues and get to work. That is no way to live, and you don’t have to live like that.

Finally, if losing this job would be a serious problem for you, be very careful what you tell anyone at work. You might want to talk to an employment lawyer. As plaintiffs’ lawyers, they will almost certainly charge you nothing for just a quick consult.
Banning extreme views on YouTube does help stop their spread
Hey so in any case if someonw or you yourself is struggling to understand how to scan a qr code on their phone, always point them to my mini tiny product called https://scan.lol
I don’t think misleading data increases user engagement that much. And editors usually do a pretty good job not naming victims of sexual assault, reporting in suicides, etc.

Most editors want to maintain high standards, and that means excluding irrelevant data.
Are there good examples of QR-code menus out there? I could see something like adding i18n being really nice for people that don't speak English.
Such a hybrid, automanual system is certainly viable, and your analogy to laws being rules and judges being interpreters is reasonable.

In that context, consider that a single law, "do the right thing," might require too many judges and might produce too inconsistent of outcomes to work well. "The right thing" may have to be better defined.

Similarly for company policy, it is not the automation used to express bad, ill-defined, or secretive policy that's the problem. The problem is the policy itself.
Hey everyone,

Over the last 5 years I’ve been developing across AR/VR, Computer Vision, Computer Graphics, Machine Learning and Web. I work in a solid team, but this stuff is hard. I keep finding myself in situations where dealing with images, videos, and 3d content is an absolute pain (setting up the libraries or to try and work between them). I was doing a lot of reflection last year and I came up with an idea that could make this easier:

Imagine taking the Adobe and Autodesk products and shaking them until all their building blocks fall out. Now collect all the similar blocks together and offer them as a REST API.

REST might not be the best choice. We did a big project in gRPC. It has a lot of benefits but isn’t as widely used so I was concerned about the adoption and learning curve. But REST is just so simple to use across Python, JavaScript, C/C++/C# or whatever language/platform you find yourself in.

It also makes a lot of sense to me to do the processing off-device. I know some really good 3d designers that aren’t making any art right now because their computer died and they can’t afford/justify a new one. For AR/VR I can see things moving to off-device computation that is streamed back over high speed connection to reduce power consumption, reduce heat generation, and enable smaller form factors. But this doesn’t necessarily mean over the internet. I can definitely see a local server running the API for speed/security.

There are other APIs for images and videos, like Cloudinary, Imgix, Imagekit, Sirv… etc but these are focused on CDN. I’m talking about a mega API for images & videos that has all the powerful Machine Learning operations (remove background, upscale...etc) and all the basic operations (crop, compress, convert, resize, filters...etc).

I wanted to start with images & videos but I’m excited to get back to 3d. Boolean operations have always been a massive pain for me in 3d but also super super useful in a bunch of use cases. We really loved OpenVDB for this, but then you're stuck in C++ land. I would have totally used a simple REST API to do that, along with other computational geometry tasks like extrusion, revolution...etc

I’m not saying this is going to be the most optimal way. It is always going to be lower latency to do it on device. But rapidly prototyping an application, getting it out to users, and validating your startup is incredibly valuable. Teams just can’t afford to burn engineering cycles on this stuff, but I want people to make rich media applications!

So, today we’re launching the Massless Media API on Product Hunt. I would super appreciate your support on PH. But more importantly, I would love to hear what HN thinks, and if this API can help you in any way.
I think chess would be a more straightforward example to illustrate the article's point. If you look at old games, they used to be a lot more fun, with more variety and risky, moves; see, e.g., Anderssen's "heroic" style. As the game became better understood, these kind of off-the-wall strategies became less common since they rarely paid off against well-prepared adversaries. And of course, the trend came to a logical -- and more poignant -- conclusion than in baseball, with Deep Blue and other chess AI taking over. I believe a similar story could be told for Go.
I believe PZ can set the terms of reasonable disclosure (and the like) as a condition for paying out.
Harvard, MIT Part of $800M Deal to Push Access to Online Education
https://archive.ph/G4voa
Sounds plausible.
See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backscatter_(email)
Is not about closed or open source. It’s about MS past priorities.
Apple is also closed source, but the need to transition from PowerPC to Intel, forced them to have multi-platform app packages (universal binaries). Nothing prevents MS to do the same. The legacy of Wintel apps reflects the MS priorities in the past. They have UWP, but in the usual MS way: ambiguous messages to the devs adopting the platform.
USDC mostly solves this as it is not too hard to get a circle account.
The problem with Duolingo is that not everyone sees the same, even under iOS. When Hearts came in, it was immediate on my Wife's account. But I didn't see them for 6+ months. We both regularly update apps too. It is a very strange thing.
> 1. You must be able to scale the database up to your biggest customer and down to the your smallest this can be increasingly difficult to provision.

IIRC, Slack had a lot of scaling issues when they won a deal with IBM. Jumping from medium-size customers to such a behemoth will obviously be a challenge, but a lot of the difficulties they faced was non-technical and more business-related (“What do you mean, you want our product but not our monthly plan charged per seat?”). Anyway, that's a nice problem to have for a start-up ;).
This seems like terrible news :( After the focus on monetization of platforms such as udemy and coursera, edx seemed to give me a sliver of hope that education will be open. Given the immense trust funds held by Harvard and MIT, I had hoped money would not be a factor and these institutions would be able to develop their platform in the open.

I'd like to add .. non-profit does not mean free to end users. There are many good non-profits and there are many terrible ones (highly paid execs, insane amount of money spent on marketing).
OK, so someone posts a video of a child being abused. The person is prosecuted, tried, found guilty, and banged up for the rest of their days. What happens to the video?

Because if the answer is "it stays accessible" then this technology is fundamentally broken and we need to stop using it or promoting it immediately.
Forgot about this. Thanks!
Most people's threat models do not assume Amazon or Google are threats. Especially when you sign very large contracts with them, the law is enough to keep them in check.
64-Bit Office for Windows on ARM
Hi Bruce here from Facit Homes (founder). My freind tom recommended i do an AMA. So feel free to ask away.
First comment is - if you buy the right ply its super sustainable and formaldehyde free, we use exclusively Wisa spruce by UPM - they really take sustainability seriously in Finnland.
This was my exact thoughts well done
Can you provide some more information about the claim that the US has abysmal internet speeds and capacity?

Edit: Grammar.
A possible counter argument at least to the plugin problem is that having the people who don't even know what HTTP is joining the internet was part of what led to the censorship problem in the first place.
I think most people will just Google the URL and (usually) get the correct address as the first result. This might even be an intentional (if misguided) SEO strategy.
I think there needs to be. Because the consequences of keeping the bad stuff accessible are worse than the consequences of censoring the good stuff.
The traditional unix "everything is a file" approach would be much better than those metadata services.
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Precisely the point OP is saying. The rules for project zero are different not that project zero is applying it differently.
It’s only rude if it isn’t expected. If reading the menu requires a phone, having your phone out is expected and not rude. If needing to take out your phone at the beginning of dinner is enough to distract your friends throughout the rest of the meal, perhaps there are larger problems than how you order food.

When I eat with people we use our phones to order and then put them away when they’re no longer necessary. It doesn’t change the dining experience at all and people still talk to each other.
If you prefer video, here is an explanation of the Y combinator from Gerald Sussman himself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0m6hoOelZH8#t=1h12m30s
> There used to be a twitter account @govdigirati that was great at satirising GDS after around 2017

it's @govdigerati
https://www.producthunt.com/posts/massless-media-api
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If you're "good" at marketing, both.
I have good experience with Strapi.
> if bitcoin blows up the other direction, the author loses 100% of their investment (if they are smart) or unlimited amount of money (if they are stupid).

Well, he bought put options, so his max loss is the investment he made into that. He's smart.
I'm very curious, how do you handle concurrency? Or is this why you have one db per client?
And every thing you have control over you are also responsible for maintaining. If that's your thing, ok, but not everyone wants to be a DBA all day.
I'm a big fan of GraphCMS since it integrates with all the graphql tooling available for React. I've used it with projects using Next and Gatsby. Their free plan is generous enough I haven't upgraded a single project of mine.
How so? That’s probably the experience of 99% of people who join startups.
All that, but the dog ears. I can hear neighbor's loud TV very well already :-)
It's the 4th result for me, in a new browser and a relatively anonymous IP due to ISP NAT.
Things are not "good" because somebody made you feel it is comfortable. 800 Euro for an Apple device, account at Apple, network connection with provider and full battery - together with a credit card and all of that is no hurdle? You can just pay immediately with cash. And nobody will be informed about it! Words of critique upon Apple are usually not welcome here.
When I look how bad entitlement handling is with MacOS I have more critique...beware.
The vast majority of miner profits come from "mining" new bitcoin, mostly using fossil fuels. These are then sold on the open market.

There's a reason that in GAAP accounting, when a company issues new shares (dilution), it is recorded as a loss to the equity stockholders in the income statement.

I see you didn't bother to respond to the point that people have always been better off saving than consuming.

Bitcoin's cost is wealth destruction. That energy could be used for something with a real payback - housing, infrastructure, healthcare, technology - but is instead burned with nothing to show for it but extra carbon emissions and some landfilled junk gear.

Have fun destroying the planet.
SQL. Doesn’t really matter what form, but it’s just easy to work with. We tend to mainly operate MSSQL, but we’re not so in bed with T-SQL that its hard for us to operate the few MySQL and Postgres databases we have.

SQL is easy to build on and maintain. Systems operators know how to run it both locally, on rented iron and in the cloud, and developers know how to utilise it. At least around here.

It frankly does everything we need as well, from being a database to being a queue and so on, and while there are other ways to do much of that, we’re not Netflix. Having the perfect tech stack is more expensive for us than not having it, because it requires our staff to know more things, and you can buy a loooooot of hours in Azure for the price of an additional developer/operations engineer.
> So how long are people going to believe a kid who said a god knocked her up to avoid getting stoned?

What you say does not make much sense.
When Jesus came to Nazareth as a grown man, this is what His neighbours said about Him:

“Isn’t this the carpenter’s son? Isn’t his mother’s name Mary, and aren’t his brothers James, Joseph, Simon and Judas?" (NIV Matthew 13:54).

And a few verses later:
"And they took offense at him. But Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his own town and in his own home.”" (NIV Matthew 13:57)

So clearly, Mary – Jesus's mother – was not kept from being stoned because her neighbours believed Jesus was the Son of God, see Luke 1:26-38 for what Mary was foretold by the angel about her birth of Jesus as the Son of God.

Before Jesus was born, Joseph married Mary: "When Joseph woke up, he did what the angel of the Lord had commanded him and took Mary home as his wife" (NIV Luke 1:24).

Jesus became known as our Saviour because of His words, acts, death and resurrection, not because the neighbours thought He was so spectacular when He was born.
This would be in line with my question about an ipfs commenting capability. I guess a database on ipfs could support commenting and dynamic data over ipfs.
I do have a phone and usually have it with me, but I don't always have it with me. I think having more payment options is great. Cash, cards, phones, you name it. The variety of options is true convenience. But I don't see how someone can say a phone is more convenient than cash/card for payment. Sure if you already have it with you (an argument which is symmetric anyway), but cash/cards use up less space and...well make payments.
I am fairly hesitant to share this but if I do it I should be willing to talk about it.

I occasionally give my son a sharp tap on the side of the head. I have 3 kids and he is the only one I do this with. Words do not work with him, at least at this age.

This is very close to being illegal where I come from.

I'm careful to do this only when he's say, throwing things recklessly or otherwise engaging in behaviour with real risks to others.

It's not a "clip round the ears" and it's not meant to hurt. It's also not intended as "punishment".

What it is though is a reliable way to get his attention; being honest he just responds much more readily to this than words as a way to communicate "stop now".

Sample size n=1, all families, situations and children are different.

As I write this and think about it I realise there is probably a better way to do this, all suggestions appreciated.

EDIT: previously I found myself yelling, using "stern voice" or physically restraining him before I got to the point of thinking about a "physical signal".
Solutionism
Terrible availability of information regarding this. For some countries in Europe there is this regulation: https://ec.europa.eu/food/food/labelling-and-nutrition_en

but it does not say how or where this information is taken from.
Show HN: Extremely Minecraft rare version found. And other select gaming news
So the universities have decided to monetise their own great reputations by simply selling it to a bidder?
Yes I totally agree. My perspective comes from a mix of zen and systems/cybernetics; matter and other temporarily stable configurations like life are stable attractors in the state of energy flow. So the fundamental essence of reality is energy, rather than matter. The difference been transient energy like "events" and static-appearing things like matter is that the latter is constantly maintaining itself in a feedback loop.

Believing it to be matter is a mistake, and one that leads you to misleading metaphysical beliefs like the idea in the article above, or that all qualities can be reduced to quantities, or all things can be understood by looking at the pieces that it is made of.

It's strange to me that materialism is still such a popular belief amongst people who consider themselves rational, because even the origin point of that belief (the atomistic view of physics) fell apart at the hands of quantum mechanics.
HN submission form has an upper limit on characters for the link title. This may have forced the submitter to substitute 5000 for 5k.
I love wagtail.github.io, it's clean, easy to customize, and integrates well. But you do need to know python, which can be a deal breaker.
Bright Sides to Small Things Most People Worry About
I have to ask considering your name: are your comments generated or did you choose it for unrelated reasons?
People who want storage but don't have it must first buy Filecoin, which creates a market to exchange Filecoin to and from other (crypto or not) currencies. Miners sell their Filecoin on that market.
Is this on top of the 500M in April?

https://cybernews.com/news/stolen-data-of-500-million-linked...

Or is this a follow on with the rest of the data?

Either way, it's pretty shoddy that they haven't put a stop to it