skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Imgur does this weird thing on mobile where it will always redirect you to some page where it can then nag you to download their app with grayouts, big buttons, and then a content feed they hope you scroll down on.

It also downloads like 6 megabytes worth of local content. Doesn't matter if you are going to the imgur page of the image, or literally the URI to the image file itself.
Crypto is international. Courts are terrible with that scenario.

Pretty hard for US courts to make a random person across the globe give up their wallets.

Also, banks can be court ordered to hold funds. Crypto doesn’t have that.
They can no longer project infinite growth

This is true, but only applies to the "tech unicorn" VC-funded model. There are other ways to build businesses and if the model we're used to always ends up with such terrible social results, maybe it's time we strongly considered them.
Most people's threat model considers their personal data leaking to someone who might financially exploit them MUCH MUCH MUCH more of a threat than their call records ending up in bulk in some NSA db. Because most people are rational.
The NSA has been hacking Huawei for years. If it had anything concrete, it would have shared it years ago rather than forcing its NATO allies to dump Huawei based on vagueries like "I know we wiretapped your chancellor, but trust us, Huawei is evil, we're just not going to prove it to you".

https://www.computerworld.com/article/2488962/nsa-hacked-int...
Fantastic! I will send you the contracts to sign.

I didn't relaunch though, I just wrote a comment about it and someone posted it and now I have to fix my EXIF stripping breaking animated GIFs at 2 am :( Ah well, no better time than the present.
Is it free? Free image hosting always eventually shuts down or monetizes with redirects to an html page with your image and bunch of ads. Bandwidth isn't cheap enough for free image hosting to survive.
7:30 meetings are horrifying to me

also, do 1-1s need to be weekly? what about biweekly? i only have a few direct reports and even then i feel weekly is too often
Can't believe a comment that openly discriminated China-born US citizens is now a top comment. The whole logic behind the argument (around China-born US citizens) is so weak.
Facebook Grew Marketplace to 1B Users. Scammers Are Using It to Target People
Nortel collapsed long before Huawei even began expanding out of China. The recent attempts to blame China for Nortel's collapse don't even make basic chronological sense.
Because they are a teenage sociopath. (Quoting from the article: "... since the attacker was a minor ...")
Nope.

It's a few bucks a year silly image hosting account. I mean, I'm a grumpy, cheap fucker, but even I would struggle to find fault.

- ed

in fact, to clarify - I have twice written to Stavros, and both times he's been upmost helpful. Proving what a liar he is and how he fails to live up to his marketing.
(It changed in the last hour https://gitlab.com/stavros/imgz/-/commit/7bdac35c8bc397bf829...)
Thanks so much for the explanation and the example. I at least know a little more about these complicated endeavours now.
"Gernot Zippe, an Austrian physicist, .. in the early 1950s figured out (with others) how to fix the problems that Beams had with his centrifuges. Amazingly, he did this while being a prisoner of war in the Soviet Union."
http://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2012/05/28/zippes-centrifuges...
Hey, I use this thing, it has to work.
Nationalize the railroads?
As an alternative, don’t use root for Dockerfiles. Ever. It only takes a few lines to create a user, group, and use said user, and closes a whole class of security issues.
The environmental cost of excavation is externalized, but it's negligible compared to that of fossil fuels ("economical cost" is nonsense), but the environmental cost of managing waste very much isn't externalized. At least not in the West (less sure about China, but I'm guessing they do roughly what we do).
Plants use solar, and it's pretty green here ;)

Annual average kWh/m^2 in the UK ranges from 50%-75% of what you'd get in Spain or Italy. That's enough even for domestic solar panels to pay for themselves.
Hm, very odd that the type wasn't detected properly. The animated GIF issue is because of EXIF stripping ruining the image, though. I'm fixing that now.
Hah, Greek time zone eh?
I've never seen a dedicated scrum master, they've always coded features on the same team. Is this really a thing?
> My FB feed is lousy with these sorts of things. My family & friends seem to enjoy answering questions like "What was the first concert you attended?" I don't think it's for advertising purposes because I have not noticed any improvement in the accuracy of targeted ads. I don't think it's for political purposes because that is much easier to figure out without these oblique questions.

Hyper dystopian take: Gathering data to be able to create real-seeming narratives for fictional profiles to push political agendas.
Except that's not true at all. HN works with javascript entirely disabled, and the upvote buttons become actual links.
Really? It doesn't get much cheaper than $1/mo. Yes, I know that's only 2GB, but how many images do you need to share anonymously with the internet?
Of course I do. But making deals with autocratic regimes is not the way forward for the EU, at least not if we hope to practice the democracy we preach.
I apologize, I guess I mistook your misunderstanding as bad faith.

I feel like I must point this out, but no one is arguing that "jobs that have negative economic value" would somehow exist.

> Do I have evidence that employers will have to eliminate jobs if the position doesn't create enough value to cover the wage?

This is actually not at all what my second point was asking... The ask was, if we assume for a minute that a $15 minimum wage simply eliminates jobs (as opposed to bringing extracted employee value more in line with employee compensation and reducing employer profits), whether eliminating the jobs that cannot pay $15/hour would actually increase unemployment in such a meaningful way as to offset the potential benefits it would offer... The context being that we, as a society, have already decided that the benefits of eliminating (see assumption above) $5/hour jobs was worth whatever effect it had on unemployment.

With this is mind, it's obvious that QFC closing two stores is completely meaningless because it provides nothing close to an objective view on A) the effect on overall unemployment, nor B) the positive or negative effects it had on the employees whose jobs (according to QFC) were eliminated. That's not even to mention the fact that QFC has a vested interest in blaming regulation, or the fact that a single anecdote is not at all representative of the job market.

I'll just also add that it's very hard not to take what you're saying as simply constructing a straw man (as opposed to misreading or misunderstanding), given how completely unrelated anything you wrote was to my other comment.
> saved image in the DB

Whoa now... you're putting images in the database?
As others have mentioned, that prevents the bills from being paid but it doesn't nullify them. They can send the unpaid bills to collections, which creates more hassle for you and negatively impacts your credit score. I wouldn't recommend relying on virtual accounts and spending limits as an alternative to proper cancellation.

Blocking the payments can still be a good idea—money you have in hand is worth far more than the dubious hope of a refund—but you should also keep clear documentation showing that you cancelled your subscription following the specific steps required by the contract before stopping payments.
HN contains enough people of different vintage and background that it would be rather more surprising if there was any subject that we all agreed on. This has nothing to do with cognitive dissonance, which is something unique to an individual, at best you could conclude that HN is able to cater to people on opposing sides of some spectra without turning into a hate fest.
$12/year for 2GB.

Free plans: Dropbox 2GB, OneDrive 5GB, Box 10GB, GDrive 15GB. They all let you generate public read-only links which aren't connected back to your account.
How is it worse? I also don't have a lot of faith in representatives passing the same legislation you'd be trying to argue against, especially with the near-trillion dollar lobbying industry.
I was fine with all of it except the domestic violence jokes. Those weren’t funny enough to warrant the topic.
Yes :( There are worse timezones, there's this school in England whose timezone is like 12 minutes away from the rest of the country.
"Well--well look. I already told you: I deal with the god damn customers so the engineers don't have to. I have people skills; I am good at dealing with people. Can't you understand that? What the hell is wrong with you people?"
> At least those citizens have aligned interests and political recourse with their states;

I’m curious to know what recourse you think western citizens have for unknown abuses from their governments’ surveillance states.
To become the next Yahoo.
> I'm confused about HN. Everyone here seems to agree that in person learning is best and not remote, but exactly the other way around when it comes to work and I wonder why.

Hot take: because school as most of us conceive it is fundamentally about soft-coercing children into ignoring that they're bored out of their mind so they can focus on something they don't really care about learning.

Remote school fails for the same reason old-school management can't be remote: because its efficacy strongly depends on the teacher's ability to coerce children, and it falls apart when you remove that ability.

(I'm curious how we'd determine if anything I just said is actually true. I'd want to look at how well Montessori schools adapted to the pandemic, but their philosophy is kind of remote-hostile too.)
From the hint about knowing the likely identity of the attacker, its probably an old and very specific vendetta. Perhaps an early player who was spurned by the community or developer who fell out? As the attacker has run tweaked gaming servers and things, it’s puts it at the upper end of scriptkiddying.
I am definitely on something.
Happy to do it! Thanks for asking insightful questions. :)
Yes, and the reverse also is an interesting thought exercise-- if this paper contract really was a piece of software, what would folks do to QA it, write it, interpret it. I mean, paper contracts are written using hopelessly buggy and ambiguous human languages theoretically capable of so many non-harmonious interpretations. The solution really is about friendly, trusted compilers approaching the contracts from a fundamentally cooperative direction. You write a contract with your trusted partner on a napkin at dinner. And when trust fails, courts interpret in an explicitly prosocial way.
Regular money handouts have been called tips for a few years longer
Unfortunately, Stavros has some issues keeping his services up. I was a user of his https://historio.us long-time ago, a paying one, and he just killed the service and lost all my data. Some time later, he restarted the service and gave my username to somebody else. Don't put anything meaningful and valuable into his services!

Hello,
I'm afraid I couldn't find your backup file :/ It looks like your account may have been one of the older ones to be reclaimed, when we hadn't added the backup functionality yet. I'm sorry about that :/

Thanks,
Stavros
Is this any different from Craigslist, Kijiji, or eBay? Stopping low level fraud is very much an unsolved problem, especially since (at least in Canada), it seems like police have given up.

We are basically pestering Facebook to fix something government has made no progress in fixing.
> The government does not by any means micromanage or control even a tiny fraction of companies in China

This is a straw man argument. No one accused China of micro-managing companies. It's never that overt. For example of how this works in the real world, look at Vladimir Putin in Russia and the case of Mikhail Khodorkovsky [1]. He was, at the time, one of the most richest and powerful oligarchs in Russia. By imprisoning him, Putin sent the message that no other oligarch was safe and if they wanted to continue to exist they had to fall in line, which they did.

> How tightly connected is Silicon Valley to the US government?

I'll assume good intent here and that this isn't simply "butwhataboutism". US companies need to obey US laws of course. This includes, for example, the FISA court nonsense. You can argue that Chinese companies are simply following Chinese law. While that's technically true, it's a question of degree.

US companies are more independent from the US government than Chinese companies are from the Chinese government.

> First of all, these partnerships were not theft.

I beg to differ. For example, look at the case of ASMC and Sinovel [2].

> ... and as of last year, Tesla was the top-selling EV car manufacturer in China

Now to much this year [3].

> China is one of the largest markets for Boeing and Airbus.

Yes, because China currently cannot make commercial aircraft at scale to compete with Boeing and Airbus. I guarantee you that's a problem they're working on and they're going to be aided by the boards of both companies giving away the keys to the kingdom for access to that market.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Khodorkovsky

[2]: https://money.cnn.com/2018/01/25/technology/china-us-sinovel...

[3]: https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/10/investing/tesla-china-sales/i...
To me it's charming and funny. I like it. Others will, too.
iCloud has a 50GB plan for $1/mo. OneDrive does 100GB for $2/mo, GDrive for $1.67/mo.
You’ve described Amazon. Google and FB are different kind of beast.
I would rather take up work on the farm shovelling pig shit, and administering anal suppositories to sick horses than do all that.
This is same character "Maddox" plays (if anyone remembers him)
There is no one-size-fits-all answer here. It’s certainly fine to do them less often if you aren’t finding enough value in doing it weekly.

Most of these rules of thumb came about before tools like slack, which for better or worse, let you communicate more directly more frequently.
Yeah, who would've thunk that a ~90% vaccination rate[1] would mean that the disease could be classified as "mostly harmless"...

[1] https://www.fhi.no/en/id/vaccines/coronavirus-immunisation-p... 90% of adults have gotten at least 1 dose, and my bet is not a lot of these people would suddenly flip and turn to a QAnoner...
I think the issue could also be viewed from the perspective of arguing that the insurer has overweighted some variable in an overall opaque process for calculating premiums, and the conclusion might be "Don't get XXX insurance from YYY Corp"
I don't even know if it's a thing with new developers or old developers; I think sometimes you just get people who don't want to play along. Half-hearted participation is as good as no participation. You end up with user stories that are poorly written, poorly estimated, and you can't really reap a lot of the core benefits of Scrum like velocity forecasting. What you end up with is I Can't Believe It's Not Scrum; a shoddy clone of Scrum that never comes near the mark. You're forced to keep going along this way because not everyone agrees that you're failing.

Maybe people are tired of the nonsense that systems like Scrum bring with them? Even the name is a bit silly. And when you start naming roles and inundating people with rituals the eyerolls really get going. Why add abstraction to common sense?

Or maybe Scrum is really just an attempt to turn bad team members into good ones?

Good team members...

- Provide good estimates

- Cooperate to create clarity around requirements

- Work to divide big problems into small chunks

- Keep good track of their work in a shared format

Bad team members shun all of this and expect someone else to do it.
For more I think is having someone around to ask questions of.
I wish more posts on documentation talked about some of the principles that make similar documentation platforms excel. Specifically, there has been hugely positive feedback from engineers about g3doc: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnB8GtPuauw
A lot of this seems like things that could be cut. 1.5h every day on post-mortem meetings stands out as the obvious time sink – does the organisation really have that many production issues to debrief every day? Also a fair amount of ceremony, planning and pro-bono. Webinar for distributed ledgers in enterprise??

The things that truly matter – 1:1s, own team stand-ups... - only take about 8 hours per week.
I honestly wouldn't be surprised if credit card companies essentially screen calls from some gyms. I can't imagine you're the first person to have a terrible experience with 24 Hr Fitness. I don't know if it'd go so far as to effect their credit score, but I imagine businesses like that are flagged in processing systems.
Good ones spend most of their time in meetings or preparing for them. Bad ones tend to have a lot of free time or waste the teams time with pointless crap.

To be a full time position generally involves a lot of administrative work or covering multiple teams. Talking to management is kind of a catch all but generally it’s interfacing with the rest of the world outside of clients. Legwork on security clearances, making sure all the boxes on contracts are checked, and or enduring the team has all the hardware software they need etc.

It tends to be more important in less software oriented companies.
Replace "China" with "The USA" and "Eastern" with "Western" and the other way around and not much of meaning or value would be lost.

It's the rest of the world that's really up the creek without a paddle in this respect, they have no options other than to side with either behemoth and hope for the best.
It is definitely a thing. And for big projects it can be helpful. But in most cases I think a scrum master should probably handle multiple projects if that is going to be their dedicated role.
Like I said, I'm cheating a little bit, and using the knowledge I have today to "retro-edit" this hypothetical 20-year-old program.
I love this!

My one request that would enable me to recommend this to my musician friends is an export feature, along with a promise of adequate notice before a shutdown of the app, to allow people to export their recordings in a worst-case scenario.

The one thing that may keep musicians using Apple Voice Memos despite your app seeming much better is that they often make a lot of recordings, and losing them all would be unimaginably tragic.
I wasn't able to find anywhere to buy just the board, but starter kits with sd card/power adapter/hdmi/etc are available on Amazon for ~100 USD as of this past Thursday.
larger cloud providers are free/cheaper

https://catbox.moe/ et al are free and no account needed

B2 and similar with a little effort is half a cent per gig

I don't know why you would use this unless you like OP's attitude and want to simply support him.
Written In
Closes security loopholes, increases operational burden (if only slightly). A tale as old as time.
You know what, I literally couldn't give a fuck.

I have multiple hosted web storage, google storage, paid-for dropbox etc accounts, as well as reddit and imgur accounts - and the one I use to share stupid images is this one.

This was posted here a couple of years back, I liked the pitch, i paid for it.

I also enjoy avocado liberally smashed on shit.
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I don't think anyone needs to prove malfeasance here - a threat to national security doesn't require wrongdoing, only the existence of attack vectors by a foreign hostile nation/entity. Publishing those attack vectors would be a hilariously terrible idea as it would have ramifications in every country with Huawei in its infrastructure. Plenty of products are deemed essential and produced domestically or only by close allies, this goes for just about every country, I'm not sure why communications infrastructure is somehow different.
Hey, before you judge them, note that their stated goal is: "to enrich and empower consumers in their everyday lives...through expansion and acquisitions."

All I can think of is that silicon valley tech disrupt bit. "We're making the world a better place...through paxos algorithms for consensus protocols."
Don't discount the capriciousness of the law's execution. In many cases, being the right skin color and wealthy comes across like a superpower compared to Joe Average. I'd hazard a guess that many "use code for law" types basically want to put Lady Justice's blindfold back.

That doesn't mean it's a good idea, nor that is bad. It comes from good intentions, is all.

(Very aware that those can be used for paving certain roads)
You know what will impact the poor a lot more than it will impact rich people? In the form of crop failures, desertification, water scarcity, land degradation etc…?

Climate change.
Cost of connectors matters. Manufacturers wouldn't want to put expensive optics adapters for every need where a cheap connector would suffice.
Marketer to Programmer in 6 Months
I would change any links you have pointing to Imgur. But as for storing the contents, wasn’t it just a site for memes? I can’t recall a single time over many years seeing anything worth preserving that wasn’t essentially throwaway content.
Ask HN: How to avoid boredom in a nondestructive, sustainable way?
Not only to get started. What costs me €20 on hetzner costs me $800 on DataPacket.

That’s quite a difference.
> Cloudflare Email Routing service acts as an intelligent router at the transport layer, handling and modifying the SMTP envelope to deliver the message at its final destination but preserving the original headers and keeping the body intact. This approach ensures that things like SPF, DKIM, and other security or anti-spam protocols don't break and the recipient stays protected.

My understanding is that this is not technically feasible in some scenarios. Especially the one where the sender has SPF and DMARC, but not DKIM. In that case you can't keep the envelope sender address (SMTP MAIL FROM) as is when forwarding because that would fail SPF at the recipient. But if you rewrite the envelope sender address, then that will fail DMARC at the recipient (due to the SPF Authenticated Identifier being out of alignment with the header From, see RFC 7489). So no matter what you do, the message will fail validation at the recipient. I guess you could change the From header to bring it back into alignment, and that would work because DKIM is not being used, but now the recipient end user will see an incorrect sender address…

If you managed to solve this problem then I'd be really curious to know how!
Either that or part of the same PsyOp groups in Israel that frequently try to discredit anything negative about their country.
You don't know how he's defining 'team' in this context. I often organize management of my big-T Team by referring to groups of teammates focused on a particular task or project as a small-t team, especially if they're on-going tasks. So this week I had a couple of people working on a 'team' covering API issues, another group covering IAM, and another set on key management.

But then this reply is just full of "I don't actually know what your on-the-ground reality is, but that definitely won't stop me from telling you what you're doing wrong".
You are competing to get better at something, but you better be detached from the result as well.
And the pleasure of competing at a high level in any sports discipline is second to none. You are not doing it for glory, but for the purity of the experience, and there is nothing quite like it.