skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You think we'll build anything in delphi

Haah of course not! :) but doesn't mean you should flip to the other extreme and learn how to do k8 and spend a whole bunch of time on it.

>Interesting approach but I respectfully disagree. I built a side SaaS app that's really important to stay up 24/7.

From the get-go? Did you spend a whole bunch of time learning it or did someone else pay you? (As an employee). Most solo projects are not like this.

> I would never do this for my paying customers. I have been running a somewhat critical piece of infrastructure for about 4 years now on AWS.

Of course not, neither do I anymore. For paying customers who can afford it, AWS is a great solution. Most small timers with low traffic are happy with DO/Linode. You can be fancy and have CI/CD or webhooks of code checkin on the master branch. As a side note, back in the day, I've used Capistrano, which is pretty much the the above commands wrapped in ruby script. The OP has said he is going to use this as it's a Rails project.

However this is the crux. You're most likely having someone else pay for hosting. You're probably getting someone else to pay for you to learn how to do XYZ. Most likely you're not even aware of how much this infra is costing the client.

I really don't have a problem with this. Good for you. However the person who posted the question was a solo-founder trying to understand whether to learn Docker.

This probably is a person who is not a super techy. (A lot of people here know docker just becz of curiosity) and I would hazard a guess not a big runway. These reasons alone, IMHO I would suggest getting something out there, learning to see if there's a market and reiterating.
"Mr. Hall secured funding from the Internet Society to set up NYC Mesh’s first “supernode” on top of the former Verizon building in downtown Manhattan"

Isn't that a "secret" government agency location now?
Also, who’d pay for that obligation if the service shuts down because the provider went bankrupt? Would such a regulation only apply to paid services?
Are you seriously claiming that your "right" to use my stolen phone outweighs my right to own a device that is less attractive for thieves?

If you like to think of yourself as an eco-responsible or eco-worried person, consider how much conspicuous consumption occurs because stolen items tend to get replaced. Theft causes people to "...keep on buying new products and destroying the planet ever more. Screw this crap."
Updated till 2021: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EWWXQA9D48&t=0s
Or Ken Pile: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgJvgESR920
Freak Gasoline Fight Accident in the Harbor of Optionality
And yet... on the other hand, Indian Casino logos (on Indian land) commissioned by tribes.

As someone else mentioned most of the push against is not from American Indians/Native Americans but vicariously offended others.
Of course it is illegal. But HR can twist it around and just say that he is not a suitable candidate.
Been saying this about Wayback Machine for awhile. They've archived every HTML page ever, but it's weighed down by high-res images, javascript, CSS, and more recently video. All of this is a liability to preserving the HTML itself. I'm not saying that graphics and video aren't valuable, but it would be nice if they took a more defensive posture to the collapse of the internet. If they are in danger of shutting down entirely someday, will anyone be able to "at least" grab all of the PDFs and HTML and TXT docs that IA has archived? Or will we have to copy tons and tons of extraneous stuff too?
See https://www.tesla.com/support/update-3g-services

They're going to upgrade the modems to LTE for $200 each.
I wouldn’t necessarily assume that purchase means with taxes. I think there’s an interpretation this is a non-monetary cost.
Yes. They sometimes even package themselves together so they're easier to identify.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes
I’ve read about anti facial recognition glasses. Does anyone know if they actually work?
How to Be Polite (2014)
Same here. Weeding and trimming my small yard now fills my weekly compost bin, that never used to happen in the past couple of decades.
You were factually wrong to say "The videos and ads are hyper targeted to misinform people".

That statement implies that "videos" are specifically shown to be with the intent to misinform people. In reality Facebook and Google do not do this intentionally, but by accident.

> their entire business model is still built on the fact that anyone can target ads to a specific group to influence their behavior

Not really, unless by "influence behavior" you mean "click on the ad". Ads just aren't that good, and neither Facebook nor Google want to make money off of misinformation.

> not a measure of quality or truth, but one of shock and outrage

No not really. Firstly Facebook shouldn't be the decider of quality and truth, so we can discard that as a goal. Content moderation is complicated, you can't just hide stuff that makes people emotional, or you'd have censored everything that happened in 2020.

Secondly, I don't think there's anything unethical about showing people the content that they want to see, even if it outrages them. There are many things going on that people should be outraged about.

Either way, I still don't consider it an ethical issue, and I don't think I'm delusional. I just know too much about how Facebook actually works to consider them evil.
That’s a really interesting question! Anecdata n=1, I buy vinyl and spin it! I do it a lot more with working from home. (I use an iPod classic otherwise.)

It didn’t even occur to me that people would buy vinyl and not actually use it until an artist I like finally restocked their discography on vinyl and fellow fans on reddit said they don’t (and won’t) own turntables but were excited to buy the records anyway. The records don’t offer anything over the CDs (same booklets, etc) except their physical size. Kinda frustrating having to compete for limited copies with people who don’t even own turntables. Wish they’d reprint, there’s clearly demand.

Lorde’s newest album is released on vinyl, but not CD (to reduce waste, I believe?) To cover off the ‘see them on the shelf’ aspect of CDs, they’ve made a ‘music box’ that’s printed with the album art and has all the stuff you’d get in the CD case except the CD and gives a download code instead. I thought that was an interesting way to sell something to fans in the age of streaming.

Anecdata aside, this is a really interesting question and I’d be really curious for some data. I’m curious for how well Lorde’s thing sells, too.
Thats only about 1500w or 5000 btu. The typical asian kitchen wok jet is about 2-3x that at 10k-15k btu.

Maybe a good equivalent replacement:

https://www.plantbasedpros.com/product/cooktek-605501-drop-i...

edit: @ 2000 dollars
My mom has a beautiful house in Plano Texas. Her homeowners association forbids installing solar power panels. This should tell you what you need to know about Texas. But I agree gas is a great backup solution and her gas powered generator saved her butt this past winter
The HN title is bad. The teen was not falsely accused by unreliable facial recognition technology.

I sort of skipped through the actual headline trying to figure out how AI was involved. It was. But only after several blunders by people.
The GP was incorrect to describe it as "super rare" but rates of phone theft did plummet and have not subsequently recovered. Exactly what you'd expect for an asset which had its fenced value drop from ~$500 (a fully working second hand device) to ~$100 (a bunch of used parts which require non-trivial labour to extract).
It was back in 2015, he made a comment on TV about how glyphosate is safe enough to drink, and then when the interviewer offered him a glass he refused to drink it and said "I'm not stupid." Monsanto denies ever retaining him to make these comments and it's probably true that Patrick Moore has never received money directly from Monsanto.

Patrick Moore is proof that with enough money, you can buy whatever you want, including an "ecologist" who says that climate change is a good thing and not caused by humans.
I would love to have an insider's view of how (if) they'll integrate those tech stacks; the products seem close enough to make it hard to justify not combining them, but the devil will definitely be in the details.
You can do this with xbar [0] (which is also just a super cool app). Looks like someone even made one specifically for checking the CPU throttling speed [1]

[0] - https://xbarapp.com/docs/plugins/System.html

[1] - https://xbarapp.com/docs/plugins/System/cpu-thermal-throttle...
Everything is temporary on a long enough time scale. If new plants grow to replace those that die it is potentially sustainable.
Even if office work returns to something close to pre-COVID levels, one thing that has been proven is that remote meetings can work online. Travel for meetings will be harder and harder to justify. Airfare, car/taxi/uber, hotel, expenses compared to zero cost for a Zoom meeting.

Zoom (and technology like it) is not going away.
A company losing money (-12.33M last quarter, ~ -50Mil 2020) while providing remove work infrastructure during the biggest work from home boom in a century.
Not sure if you've looked into either of postgrest or postgraphile, but I feel like those tools may be right up your alley. Rather than have your app layer generate SQL via an ORM, these tools instead generate your app layer based on your database schema, functions, etc. Postgraphile (generates graphql APIs) is particularly friendly towards frontend-heavy web apps.
The vinyl owned by me had scratches and pops because I'd buy many used
Gas worked during the power outages. I ran my gas fireplace to keep everyone from freezing to death, and used my gas range to boil water. Would have been an even more horrific nightmare otherwise. I actually started looking into stuff like wood pellet heaters because of it.
Well, everything has negative feedback loops, otherwise the universe would exoerience a second Big Bang, right?

But is that statement reasurring in any way?

No, because in between the limits of those feedback loops there's enormous potential for devastation and human suffering.
I agree, that goes for a lot of things in my life.
It's a stretch to describe Windows 11 as "running fine" if you cannot run it at all without hacking the installer.
Last commit, 2016. Last issue, 2018. Open issues in 2014 "verify compatibility with {KDE,Gnome,etc}" and no comments. :(

It's so so so frustrating the current state of Wayland fragmentation. X11 wasn't secure, but at least it worked.
It seems the project has made a trade-off about language support.

One approach would be to say language doesn't matter, just train on converting any character from any language alphabet from image to text. The problem is that higher accuracy can be achieved by isolating characters from each language from each other. I imagine that particularly for Latin alphabet languages, accuracy must improve dramatically by splitting out any kanji or hanzi.
> in this case, facial recognition tech was unreliable entirely because of the people running it.

Wrong.

In this case the facial recognition tech itself was arguably not unreliable. The human operators were the unreliable factor.

The recognition tech reliably tagged the impersonator as Ousmane exactly as it was instructed to do. The system worked exactly as intended. It is the human operator whose intention was wrong.

This has nothing to do with AI being unreliable and everything to do with the employees of this SIS company going "yep kid's black, he's the one who did it" without half a thought.
So, when is this negative feedback loop supposed to kick in and save us from global warming and climate change?
> radiant or, god forbid, coils

Do you really like radiant better than electric coils? To me it takes too long to heat up, has poor temperature control, and hurts you if a pan isn't fully covering the burner. It seems like it's made for people optimizing for their stove to be "easy to clean". What am I missing?
I remember a lot of people wanting to keep the album in pristine condition, so I bet those types are not spinning them. Spinning used to have surprises, like you'd fall asleep to an album and the artists would know this, so they put a bunch of blank time at the end followed by a burst of music to wake you up.
lol, are you saying that any software that does that is 100% safe?
The answer is that natural gas hookups to homes leak some amount of natural gas, and the leakage in the distribution system is somewhere around 2-3%, some of that is residential. The GWP of natural gas is fairly high--somewhere around 84.
Creepy. I wonder if anyone maintains a list of stores known to employ this tech? I'd like to avoid them.
Been using this for 4 years to read and index meme text on my meme-aggregator/search web app :)

https://memebay.io
Zoom is buying cloud contact center provider Five9 for $14.7B
Whoever's developing this software should be ashamed of themselves
> When Texas's power grid went down, people were freezing to death. AFAIK, gas delivery wasn't affected.

Texas's power grid went down in part because natural gas plants couldn't get the necessary gas.
Are they ever used for fencing?
Countries with an energy surplus can export crypto tokens, but they can often export more stable and useful things instead (aluminum, for example).

So I'd have to add a stipulation: it's for people in countries where people have access to surplus energy, but don't have access to better ways to export the energy.
Is there any mention on how to check your own devices for this exploit?
This should be a non-issue. If these 12 bad guys have no points, no arguments, no good faith motives - that’s them against the entire western scientific community, the entire media, almost all politicians, celebrities, unions, vested interests…

How do you explain these “12 people” aren’t immediately shut down with all the facts?
Oh, okay, so this is just a app that bring your fan in the Mac running? ... cool, but, why?
This. In a corrupt country, not destroying the seized equipment in theatrical fashion makes everybody assume cops/government just took it and used or re-sold it themselves, individually.

Similar reason why drugs are destroyed with a lot of fanfare in most Latin American countries (er, when they are). Surely it'd be easier and cleaner to bury it somewhere after soaking it or something, but no, they need to make a pyramid of drugs and have someone throw a pyre at it to create a big symbolic bonfire that is a toxic mess to clean up.
Yes, I get that The Library of Congress Hath Spaketh.

But the choice remains:

1. archive in as agonizingly irrelevant detail as technically possible

2. archive as much as possible before it decays irretrievably

Can't have both.
Where is electricity almost perfectly green? Burning at the house is thermodynamically much more efficient (and by extension much more green) than burning at a plant for resistive heating at the house.

Nowhere in the US is even close to having an energy mix where this is not the case. Why take steps backward and pollute more? Shouldn't we be trying to make strides to reduce emissions?
From my understanding, the hardware tends to be burn out faster than it becomes obsolete. So those "obsolete" ASICs aren't reliable enough to do any work anymore.
The battery technology invented in a Brisbane garage that is going global
> rights that are laid out in the constitution

Just to be clear, under US law, what you are describing (creating a government censorship department that determines how social media companies are allowed to moderate) would have NOTHING to do with the rights laid out in the constitution - it would in fact need to overcome the companies' constitutional rights to publish whatever they wish, just to exist.

You can argue that it's a good idea anyway, but claiming that government-mandated moderation is somehow enforcing constitutional rights is way, way off base.
Seems like some Apple employees need to be thrown in jail for lying to the court.
rust-analyzer [1] goes through the LSP and it's fantastic. It provides an incredibly rich experience nearly on-par with that of TypeScript in VSCode, but for Rust. And it's both third-party and open-source.

[1] https://rust-analyzer.github.io/
Thank you, I will fix this.
I used to do the same thing but now I put my IDE on the middle workspace with the left and right workspaces holding my IMs/music/browser and terminal. Now instead of moving my head to see other windows I press ctrl+alt left/right and the windows move in to the space I am already looking. Effective use of workspaces feels just as productive as multiple monitors did but my neck is always facing forward.
> You can just use a handwritten parser in any memory-safe language.

It’s still probably going to be wrong for a complex grammar, even if it’s not going to literally crash. Bratus et al did a survey of PDF parsers a few years ago and iirc all the popular ones were wrong in ways that don’t necessarily correspond to memory errors (like infinite looping).

> This makes Rust a particularly good choice for writing parsers

In particular, Rust has ADTs, which is the main feature I advocate for this.
> the contents of Facebook is a corporate business decision, not a reflection on morality.

Are you suggesting business decisions are exempt from having moral consequences? Are the decision makers somehow less culpable as long as it is "just business"?
> Hmmm, seems like a lot of people involved in this case should be fired,

I would like to see people who cause others’ freedom and time to be stolen from them because of laziness or malice to be charged with felonies.
Sitting in front of a laptop, the fan coming on at max speed makes me feel like I am stressing the machine and need to be gentle with it. When using the same machine through VNC I feel completely insulated from that effect. It’s a more pleasant feeling. I’ve considered getting a desktop and just using my Macs as remote terminals.
In what country? The FCC certainly allows SDR to be certified. "User modifiable" is sufficiently broad as to be nearly meaningless.
“ This should tell you what you need to know about Texas.”

It’s not a helpful comment. If you have something to say… say it. If you don’t like the HOA rules don’t move to the HOA neighborhood. It’s hardly a Texas specific problem.
My picture was taken 15 times at Home Depot over over the sale of one m8 nut.

(Today--out of boredom, and post Covid depression, I made a mental note of all the cameras viewing me at that hardware monopoly. I was tempted to steal it. Why? Just out of spite. I don't think I'm alone. Treat a man like a thief, and maybe he will comply? Most theft is internal. The managers usually steal the most. That last sentence was from a mandatory video I needed to watch while guarding the Cow Palace. My state security boss Bill was the greatest. He would feed the stray cats, even though management forbid it. I still remember this huge man walking towards me in dim emergency light carying a dead cat, and sobbing. The cats, and Bill, were the only thing I liked about my weekend job. You will probally never read this Bill, but you were one of the few people I truly respected in this life.)
My general solution to this kind of predicament is to install VirtualBox and do everything inside the VM :)
disable networking or enable a firewall, if Apple lets you
Who decides what's off limit?
They have far more extensive permissions like direct filesystem access. It can make some interactions much more fluid or even just possible at all. You couldn't run VS code very well in a browser for example.
I'm a fan of Rust and use it for side projects, but what in particular about this is better in Rust, other than the compile time checking? Or do you mean that because Rust is safe, you can write it faster?
Some stuff is not documented, /launches is one of them.

https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented

The launches page is in this section:

https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented#hacker...
Wrapping oneself in a few blankets would have been an adequate backup in Texas. The people who died didn't have the presence of mind to do so (were senile), and I don't think space heaters would have helped with that. What those people needed was caretakers or family to live with them.
>You system would leave me nervous every time I take a vacation. I go on vacations without a worry in the world. My system just took a couple weeks to learn the ins and outs and costs a little more. Mine over yours any day of the week. If I'm just messing around with a personal project, then I use a VPS because literally no one relies on it.

Your assumption is that I can't build your infrastructure or I choose not to.

My assumption is the OP is doing this for a personal project not working for a paying client which you've also said you'd use a VPS.

Solo founders generally don't get paid until they get paying customers and generally don't have lots of runway (3-6 months?). They are also doing other stuff to bootstrap the business (sales/marketing/content). That may change your attitude significantly whether a few weeks worth of learning was worth it.
The article only mentions climate change, but there are other reasons to eliminate gas hookups:

- explosions
- indoor air quality
- gas infrastructure costs something to maintain, and for new developments, create

Especially if climate change were the only reason, I'd say tax, don't ban.
Nearly everything you list involves Apple blocking features and material which individual Governments consider illegal or objectionable. Apple is merely complying with the laws of each country it trades within, just as you would expect Xiaomi to comply with US laws when they sell their electronics in America.

If you don't like the laws of other countries, you should be angry with the Government which enacted them—not its citizens or corporate residents for complying with them.
I guess this is cultural. If I did that with my family photos and pass-me-downs it would be deeply disrespectful.
> How old is your phone?

A few years old. I broke my previous one on accident.

> Your computer?

I got it for free from a coworker and I really don't know how old it is. I think it is from 2016 or so.

> Your car?

1991.

> Have you updated them in the last 5 years?

No,

> Do you play video games?

Yes, on my computer my coworker gave me. Seems to run everything just fine, even though its 5 years old!

> On anything newer than a PS3/Xbox One? Or are you a true environmentalist still gaming on a SNES?

See above.

> Watch films?

Sometimes?

> Ever take a drive to clear your mind?

No.

> Ever drive somewhere you could have theoretically walked, or taken public transit?

Sometimes, but only in a pinch.

> Do you buy all your books pre-owned?

Yes.

> Ever purchase the "collectors edition" of something with some included trinkets/posters/box set?

No.
Whoever makes that decision for each platform.
Nature is what it is. Either we control it or a lot of us die. Dying is also a solution to this problem, possibly ending in extinction.

Combating climate change will not be fair and it will be hard to swallow with no guarantees of a happy ending. We should not be having this "should we be doing something or nah?" attitude. We really have nothing to lose but the lives of our children.
I really think your specific political leanings are deeply clouding your view of things. People on the side X have conversations with other people on the same side about all topics and discuss the finer points. That is true for both sides.

People on side X can't have any conversation with people on side Y about any of the topics because both sides just instantly devolve into tribalism and accusing the other side of being unreasonable. Which is exactly what you're doing, and what you're saying the left does to you

I don't know where you're getting "30 years ago". It's worse today than ever across both sides.
That sounds dogmatic and short sighted to me.