skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Imgur jumped the shark long ago.
Which is why it's especially troublesome when we see _kids specifically_ being targeted with dopamine-addictive services like this. Get 'em when they're young and stupid, and they'll be your recurring revenue for the rest of their useless wretched lives. Why useless and wretched? Because they got hooked on dompamine hits from this, and never had the time to develop any skills which we, adults, lucked into developing due to not having these "services" which consume 5-8 hours of our kids' days, every day, for years on end. Quite simply I'm a software engineer today because I was bored out of my mind when I was 10 years old. There were only 3 TV channels (USSR), only about 30 minutes of children's programming a day, and no internet, let alone smartphones or Instagram. If there was all that, I'd be literally cleaning pig shit between dopamine hits from my smartphone.
I have a rM2 that I've never connected to their reMarkable Cloud and I'm pretty happy with it; you can get the screen-sharing via other software. (Bunch of options here: https://github.com/reHackable/awesome-reMarkable#screen-shar... )
That's one of my favorite jokes on there, it's meant to draw attention to the excuses abusers use to make it sound like it's the victim's fault. It's not making fun of the victims, it's saying you shouldn't fall for that manipulation.
Union Pacific Railroad: Using Bunker 'C' as Locomotive Fuel (2013)
The parent comment is quite obviously correct. The US Internet isn't just some large exchanges. It consists of many tens of thousands of services/companies/sites with private data exchanged over TLS. The US Government does not control those services/sites; in China it directly controls all of it, top to bottom and without exception.

Does the US Government control GitHub? Imgur? Do they have monitors implanted at the organizations to control them?

Do you know why there was so much anti-Trump content on services like Imgur, Reddit or Twitter, during those administration years? It's precisely because the US Government does not control such services, and fortunately it's an area of real freedom that the US still largely excels at.

In the US I can set up a file/media hosting service tomorrow morning, with zero oversight by the US Government. I can make it a politically focused service for the left or right as I see fit. I can blast Biden 24/7 via the service, hosting media that is anti his administration, or focus that against Republicans instead.

Or I can set up an encrypted data service, where you can post encrypted files, text notes, whatever. I can do that any time I see fit, the US Government has nothing to do with it. Try that in China and see what happens to you.

Those are intentionally simple examples to make a point. You can do none of that in China, starting from step one of just setting up an open file hosting service that can take in almost any content you want it to (outside of things like CP).

The US Government does not control the US Internet other than with some quite basic regulations. In China, the CCP now directly controls all relevant corporations, all Internet services, anything that matters whatsoever.
Python and Firebase auth role-based API
I am half-hoping a company will buy this so I can write the "amazing journey" post I was born for.
IMVU, Eric Ries, lean start-up, metaverse, are we coming in full circle? Why metaverse now?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMVU
> agile ceremonies

Not to pick on your comment, because I know this is, sadly, common parlance, but:

Weddings are ceremonies. Meetings at work are just meetings. Sometimes stuff in this field gets so ridiculous and pompous sounding.
Juniper networks is evidence that the us will backdoor things just the same as China.
Prison vs Forced labour camps that keep you alive just long enough to sell off your organs to the highest bidder.

China definiately has the upper hand when it comes to exploiting the natural human resources that would otherwise be thorns in the political landscape.
Adversaries have malicious intent, or at least self-serving intent; our countries and their allies have a greater interest in preserving our well-being than malicious adversaries.
One variant of this that I've seen lately is some sort of wrong or easily-disproved assertion or challenge. "Bet you can't name an American city with an E!" or "95% of people can't name three European countries. Can you?" It drives engagement not only for people answering the question, but also for those talking about how stupid the post is- either way, it's engagement.
Cryptocurrency expert pleads guilty to conspiring to help NK dodge sanctions
And where she gets all that money to literally throw at crappy internet services when she could be using Dropbox|Google|FTP|Fifikno for cheaper.
The median sale price for a detached single-family home in Sept 2011 was $390,000. The median sale price for a detached single-family home in June 2021 was $1,300,000.
Who are you replying to? Or are you just choosing to take the most inhospitable interpretation of the parent, rather than the one that makes sense?
yea how hard would it be for Disney Imagineers to make a C3-PO bartender that understands all the galaxy's languages

or paint a beer keg blue and white and give it wheels, i'll have a draft from the R2D2
That 'empty string/purple link' issue still happens to me even on NewReddit. I can find old Galleries that work just fine on both, it's so weird.
> Why does it the answer vary? Does it change depending on the grade of the fuel?

Yes, “gasoline” is a family of related fuels of different densities and compositions, and it will also vary based on assumptions about how it is burned. Incomplete combustion will result in more “dirty” pollution and less CO2.
Because the author isn't hiding who they are (there's literally a link to their personal page in the footer), he's a well-known HNer with some street cred, and he operates in Europe. We happen to have laws here. He's set himself up so that if he screwed with your CC, he'd find himself in jail faster than your bank could process the chargeback.
So it's actually sharing with added notes, like quote tweets. Indeed makes a bit more sense now, with this piece of knowledge.

(Perhaps once upon a time I'll end up also finally figuring out how the hell comments on Tumblr work. Not that I'll have practical use for that anymore.)
Cisco too actually.

Huawei did sell plenty of pure Ethernet / IP switches and firewalls in the US.

Cisco does have plenty of Carrier-grade, Telco-grade and ISP-grade equipment that are used by operators (4G core, Network Functions, BRAS, GGSN/PGW...).
We are already in the situation where some schools are better than other schools (regardless if they are private or public). This wouldn't change with a voucher system. It is impossible to have perfectly equal schools. Some teachers are better than others and that will always be the case.

Currently kids in the inner city are poorer and stuck in the crappy public schools. Even if their parents wanted to send them to a different school they couldn't afford it. It seems clear to me that the current system is not working for the poor and lower middle class.

The worst case situation would be nothing changes for kids in bad schools. They were going to bad schools and continue going to bad schools. The best case scenario would lead to some kids currently in bad schools going to better schools. This would allow them to get a better education which would be impossible in the current situation. I won't deny that some kids would still be stuck in bad schools, but I fully believe some will get out.
It's been a few generations since either Belgium or Germany had concentration camps, and both are allies of the Five Eyes, to varying extents.
Then go with that. With as few words as you need.
A pawn has value to the state as a tool. One such example is to be used as cannon fodder.

The US democracy is fake. Entrenched interests hold
virtually all power.

You have 6 trillion dollars and thousands of lives lost over fake wars. Where are those WMDs? Why didn't we pull out after getting bin Laden in Pakistan?

Go back a generation to the Vietnam War. 50k American lives lost.

History keeps on repeating itself and people are oblivious.
I read an academic paper, perhaps a dozen years ago, I've lost that and can't find it now, I REALLY wish I could find that again.

They took a group of intellectually "challenged" students and ran them past a panel of judges to evaluate them. Then they put the kids through an acting class, not Shakespearean acting, but "acting normal", and again ran them past the panel of judges. The increases in scores was amazing. And that is exactly the sort of judgement that kids like those are going to have made on them every day of their lives. And this is exactly what is not going to be a part of almost any usual school.

I do not know where you could find a class like that, perhaps the authors of that paper could help. I think something like this might make as big, or bigger, difference than almost anything else. There is what you are able to do and then there is what those people around you will let you do.

If anyone can find anything like that then I have an idea for a project that might make use of exactly this.
As a professional classical musician for the last 30 years, my first question would be, is this superior to the built-in app on the iPhone for recording, and if so, can you explain how and prove that?

Also, as others have said, I would never consider paying until I could try it out in a full-featured way, and I definitely would not pay for yet another subscription service for something that is so dead simple. Especially not $20/yr. If I want to shell out that kind of coin, I can just use a Zoom H4n and own the device myself and have a lot more features, better mics, etc.

I do wish you well, though!
I'm ok with confluence too. It used to be slow, nowadays it seems to be fine.

I think the real problem is "writing is difficult." I used to write blogs, now I don't do it anymore. it's too involved.

could there be another form of content that's easy to create? like audio and video (with searchability ).
Agreed. Nikolay appears to be trying to sicc a mob on Stavros.
Multiple outages now, worse ux, broken video call functionality, this annoying forced pincode, very bad desktop app instead browser portal. The list goes on.

Whatsapp is actually an amazing app, now that I think about it.
Isn’t that what STONES.ASM assembles to?

Skimming it, it has lots of data (or, possibly, bytecode that gets interpreted) and has a section called “animations” (starting at line 2259)
No, but I do personally expect a single, one-time price. There's no justification for a subscription fee for something like this. Especially a fee this high.
I used to work for a company in a niche industry that used to clear 7 figures a year using the online platform I put together back in its heyday. And while traffic isn't quite as good as it used to be, it's still at about 70%. Their ad revenue is today about 1/8th of what they were making back in 2011-2015ish, and they basically have zero dedicated staff to the platform. I just do some maintenance and bug fixes for them every month.
so according to this, users of Epik are to blame, and not the hackers who published the data?
No it didn't demonstrate that. Vitalik et al reached consensus for rolling back the DAO hack. A major reason why they reached consensus was that so many players had a vested interest in the rollback. If Vitalik had tried to push something unpopular, he wouldn't have been able to push it through, because - in contrast to your claims - Ethereum is not a centrally controlled blockchain.
> This absurd push to remove Chinese products from the market is just the latest example.

This is effectively the default for the Chinese market for foreign companies. Whatever "absurd" push you are thinking of, it's nowhere close to even basic reciprocation for Chinese policy.
I can do this myself for much cheaper by buying a used computer from eBay, waiting 3 weeks for it to ship with missing parts, trading my old bike for more RAM from Craiglist, setting up Arch on it, compiling my own drivers, writing a webserver and firewall from scratch, connecting it to the internet and then using it twice before my ISP cuts my service for breaking TOS by running hosting on a consumer plan. I could have even just gotten a DigitalOcean VPS for $5 a month and conned friends into paying my costs for me in return for creating them a username and password to a half-working FTP server where they can upload their images in sixteen easy steps.
Might be worth looking at pulling with a Worker if that's ever an issue. They don't care if you do it that way :)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20791660

E: lol you were in that thread, you probably know about it
This piece reads like some westerner that hasn't practiced meditation in any way before. Which imo, leads to the stupid trap that a lot of westerners like to believe in meditation and make an effort to do it as some sort of "healthy" lifestyle choice (a la Sam Harris; although I do admire his work). Just because you did a retreat for a few weeks by no means opened the stars in your eyes and changed the world. You're not special, we all die. The fact that you came to some profound conclusion on your own is not any more special than someone else going to lunch at McDonalds for the day. Solitude for some reason is championed as some sort of virtuous among westerners, but seen as a weird thing if it's done too much, thus canceling out it's positive aspect. Why? Because you become a self centered asshole that's why.

Jim Carey has a quote on it and I 100% wholly agree with it:"Solitude is dangerous. It’s very addictive. It becomes a habit after you realize how peaceful and calm it is. It’s like you don’t want to deal with people anymore because they drain your energy."

I bring this up because I myself have been a borderline schizoid through middle school through college. All it did was made the world flat and filled with pessimism for myself. You begin to really see and understand the world for what it is...except you have no power to influence it to work for you. You get stuck in a rut that makes you go back and hide in your solitude of misery. You realize it's a safe space for any thinking and engagement. But you forget to interact with people.

From 10-21, I said a rosary, various other prayers, and read the bible, and then reflected on that piece of scripture in my life or just let my mind wander while I read it. Every. Single. Day. If I missed for whatever weird reason, I made up for it by doing it twice that next day, which was extremely rare. What you learn in solitude, you ignore in real life. What you don't know in real life, increases your anxieties in solitude. Leading to a viscous cycle of self centered cynicism.

The biggest irony about all these western revelations about solitude are the exact things religions that exist have been preaching for centuries. Praying to god or going "ohm" for 2 hours at the end of the day achieves the same objective in that you pretend like what you're doing is beneficial when in reality it's not and it's just a waste of time.
It was one specific date which imageshack decided to essentially ban all images being linked on Reddit. Imgur filled the void and grew via their own social.
Storage is cheap. Bandwidth is usually the killer.
I believe, but am not a network engineer, that more channels of the system are dedicated to downstream and the standard prioritizes it.
In the late 90s/early 2000s, I worked for a fairly large ISP. Every customer-outage since the previous meeting was reviewed by senior management in the morning -- in the parlance, sev-0 and sev-1. This was scheduled for 60 minutes and usually ended early; occasionally ran late. A lot of them were 20 minutes.
But that doesn't automatically make it available to 3rd parties that have no connection to you.
Yes. Though it did seem genuinely well meaning at the time. Reddit was pretty shit pre imgur pictures wise.
Yes you can, but that wasn't a geniune question.
BCH has been doing this on Twitter and reddit for three years
Even wind. I had not realised how volatile it was (I expected some sort of diversification at the scale of a country) [1]. It basically requires to duplicate your entire power production capacity with a more dependable technology to make up for the low days.

And I don't understand how more wind will improve things. More unpredictable capacity means these episodes where the country finds itself short will be more frequent.

[1] https://gridwatch.co.uk/
If you were going to redistribute nonuniformly why wouldn't you just tax people and give it to the poor and skip the hide-tax-behind-a-fancy-name exercise?

In practice billionaires wouldn't care how much you tax them unless you taxed a substantial portion of income, they'd still consume what they wanted. In order to materially change even middle class peoples' behavior prices need to change by double digit percentage points, and when you factor in that people don't spend all they earn, that's a lot of tax.
Here you go: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning
I think making a super cheap service is the exactly the kind of thing that allows you to be "an ass" in your copy. Kudos, stavros!
You know, this is an interesting question. The site makes it, I think, abundantly clear that I don't really care whether you use the site or not, I made it for me and you can use it if you pay for your resources. It's even open source and you can self-host if you want!

Yet people in the comments seem a bit offended at the perceived breaking of the unspoken assumption that a service can't exist without a need for customers. Merely asking the question "why should I trust you?" implies that I want you to trust me, which I don't.

I think it's very interesting how deeply culturally embedded the notion that a service wants customers is. It's so ingrained that we even don't believe that something can just exist without wanting us to use it.

To me, this kind of feels like you coming to my house, asking me whether you have some of my dinner, and when I say "yes but you need to pay me for the materials" you ask "why should I trust you with my money?".
We had a shot at a real "Metaverse" around 20 years ago. New protocols were blowing up, p2p internet usage was off the charts, and new software was being developed at unfathomable speed. Eventually though, that fun and connected internet got shook down by the cable providers for not making enough money, so now we're trapped in this dystopian http hellscape. Microsoft started it, then Apple and Google followed their lead. Now, all it takes to be a success story in Silicon Valley is licking the boot of a Fortune 500 company. You aren't building a future system, you're hoisting a content silo that's locking people into an even more centralized, railroaded system than before.

Facebook wouldn't be spending this kind of money if they didn't expect it to pay dividends. Keep that in mind as you read about anything "Metaverse" related.
> You may think Scrum is dogma, but my statements are factually true by reasonable definitions of the terms.

Your statements are dogma. "You must've just done it wrong" is scrum marketing. If it works it's scrum, if it didn't work it must not've been.

> Strawman.

Go on then, explain? Your gripe was that your team, that you admitted didn't find value in retrospectives, didn't bring up process issues in retrospectives. Why would they? They didn't find them valuable. Probably because the things brought up in retrospectives never got addressed. Agile solution? Add more process. Again, this is dogma.

> Of staff or customers? Attrition is very low of both. Not sure it's that relevant though.

If I employ 500 engineers and they're all miserable and constantly leaving, and we're never adding value to our clients, should I be proud that I employ 500 engineers? What does team size matter? Value-creation and employee happiness are the metrics that determine the health of an engineering org. Which I chose to label as "throughput", or how much value is created, and "attrition", a proxy for employee happiness.
Viral Video to 'Stay in Your Hood' Was Recorded by a Known Fabulist
Most of this is dead on but I've been in the middle of this type of deal and "happy to sell" wouldn't be an accurate description of the investors. Having some % of failures is built into the VC model but they'd still much rather have gotten their capital back.

Also, this reminds me of Computer Associates' (later CA Technologies) business model: buy enterprise software companies with locked-in customers, fire staff and cut costs as far as possible, and increase maintenance fees, all with the understanding the the business will deteriorate over time. I think here the equivalent of "increase maintenance fees" may be "load up the product with even more ads".
It is amazing how the CIA didn’t end up dragging the USA into the Third World War.
Missile gap, dominoes theory, programmer gap, space gap, wmd in Iraq, the list is almost endless
Imgur should have sold to Reddit a long time ago. Not being able to work out a deal was lose-lose for both companies.
Clicked on the Cambridge Analytica story Vox ran that you linked. As quoted the author of the piece states "It’s not clear to what extent Cambridge Analytica helped".
That's just a variant of the "nothing to hide" argument.
100% agree with you. We gave the ISPs more than enough time to get this under control, yet they don't seem to want to bear any cost in preventing what are essentially crimes (though as shown in the blog post cybercrimes are seen as a bit of a joke unless they cause monetary damages) taking place on their networks. If they are not willing to self-regulate it's the governments job to regulate them.
> Unless the contract explicitly says otherwise, an email, chat, or phone call saying "I'm cancelling" is sufficient notice

This would not constitute legal notice under most contracts. There will be termination instructions. Often involving mailing a letter. But almost no contract technically permits termination via phone call.
How on earth can FB

> invest the money globally over two years to ensure metaverse technologies are "built in a way that's inclusive and empowering,"

when they can't even build their current platform to do that?
Thanks ! Sure, we actually have been taking the opposite perspective. Because we believe he will get a job only via the disability route, we have focused on government + big employers since they have such programs. let me think through this.
It was just updated: https://gitlab.com/stavros/imgz/-/commit/7bdac35c8bc397bf829...
A vegan cattle rancher doesn't want everyone to be vegan.
Reading that story, I wonder where hustle culture went wrong. Paul Graham famously celebrated "breaking the rules" (http://www.paulgraham.com/founders.html) - but - this is a crazy ratchet.

I really hope that this behaviour doesn't become any more normalized than it already has. Success is not worth anything, and, while some rules may be pointless, not every rule (and norm) is an obstacle you have to hack around on your way to success.
and recruiting them :(
> If it had been 2 million dead in the same period, it would still have been a fairly tame global pandemic

Untrue, at least for all of US history [1]. I honestly think this downplaying of the deadliness of COVID belies an agenda. If it was 3x more deadly...

[1] https://www.statnews.com/2021/09/20/covid-19-set-to-overtake...
Here's the thing: Voice Memos can currently record in stereo if you use an external mic with your iPhone.
Make it then. Nobody is obligated to create your perfect tool for you.
"The standard has to be sufficiently simple that it makes sense to have multiple implementations." -James Clark
What timezone is that? I don’t see it in the tz database.

My favorite may be Lord Howe Island in Australia (Australia/Lord_Howe), which uses +10:30 in the winter and +11:00 in the summer.