skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is really an upside down take.

1) The skill/ability curve is going to look really consistent with the earnings curve, just like in anything, similar to sports.

2) 'Creators fund' is marginal - having a few extra dollars for a microphone is not going to bring in more viewers for a stream. Far from 'false economy' it's probably something akin to very efficient. If there is inefficiency, it's about who is highlighted by the platform.

3) Barriers to entry are very low, and every joe blow is nipping at the heels of established streamers, many of whom have spent a long time building their audiences.

4) This should be thought of more like athleticism: it's popularity, brand, personality and skill, it's populist and short-lived, very risky, and extremely competitive/open to anyone.

" like your friend who invites you over to play video games but they really just want you to watch them while they play because they only have one controller they'll never let you touch." Well this is some cynical stuff, I'm not sure what to say.
I wonder how many email clients will suffer from this policy because they won't be able to delete email accounts from third party servers?
on firefox, disabling referrer means you won't see the image

network.http.sendRefererHeader = 0
> it forever mystifies me that it isn't standard

I can give a few thoughts on why here:

- it doesn't work for collaborative efforts unless everyone is using the same linter or IDE with the same configuration. Not friendly to edits outside of that ecosystem (e.g. open source).
- there are other ways of writing SQL (e.g. dbt style guide) which are still very readable while also being much faster to write by hand without the need for an auto-formatter.
- some of these patterns such as the from and join indentations have nothing to do with readability and are purely stylistic. Nothing wrong with that, but there's nothing objectively better about this pattern - it just comes down to how you're used to reading SQL.
Even with source code it is hard to run a service if not impossible. You would need well written documentation that explains various options and error codes you could potentially get.

Many times there is some magic command only one guy knows and he will share with you on slack.

Rubbing a service of any complexity takes years of institutional knowledge.
Ah, "blue didn't exist until it was named". Top-notch Hackernews science, right up there with "the cure for everything is fasting".
> Tesla is overall near parity with human drivers in terms of casualty rates

Not it is not. It's on parity with human drivers IN IDEAL CONDITIONS. Autopilot is frequently flummoxed by rain, snow, or other high glare conditions.

It's kind of cheeky for these companies to claim their driver assist technologies have a better record than humans when they get to disengage every time the conditions are less than ideal. Humans don't have that option.

Hell, I could claim I'm an expert at anything as long as I get to tap out once I'm in over my head...
My goal would be to keep my data on my device and in my control. It's crazy that giving an app access to your Photos or Health data means it can just start randomly uploading to anywhere on the internet without asking you.

People in the future will be amazed we lived like this...
God, you reminded me what an energy drain it was to be in such a situation. I hear you there. I hope you'll take good care of yourself in your daily routines while you get this bigger-picture issue sorted.

> I think I'd love a job as an architect, but that's unobtainable from my current level.

You do seem like the exact kind of person who would benefit from using an architect's tools and perspectives. Fortunately being big-picture tools in large part, they are very readily adaptable to any process you want.

IDEO design interviews and videos on YT, and lectures on systems thinking are sometimes a fun way to rekindle this type of mindset for problem-solving purposes.

(An open-ended, architectural process of designing the system that will get you into your next fulfilling position? Not everybody can do that, but based on what you wrote, you'd go to the front of my line...)
Yeah, to be clear, I think there are many important factors that go into choosing a shard count, and blindly jumping to something just because it's some platonic mathematical ideal seems naive. I just thought this is a neat related fact and is probably a good starting point if you're in the process of choosing a shard count.
But it doesn’t though right? If there’s a database breach 10 years from now and I’m able to crack pki with like a quantum computer or something then I have that data… I think.
Most of their policies are ones CONSUMERS have liked but BUSINESSES have hated.

The litigation / cases / govt intervention has been on behalf of businesses not consumers. A lot of folks in the "alliance for app fairness" have just horrible billing practices. Understandably, if they can get out of the app store, they can stop you from being able to do things like delete your account or unsubscribe with a few clicks.

A lot of the newspapers make it easy to sign up, but then you have to call to cancel, the same papers that go on and on about how terrible the app store is. There is a REASON people spend fortunes, particularly in the apple app store - it's damn safe to do so in most cases.
New “Report a Problem” link on product pages
> When you're owned by Amazon you don't need to optimize too much to achieve web scale... just leverage AWS services. It's not like you're going to get a bill.

Oh you're be surprised. Divisions get billed constantly for the AWS resources they consume, and this bill gets taken out of their annual budget. From what I hear, this is a common practice in most large organizations.

Also, the AWS services you can access from within Amazon are almost identical to the AWS services you can access as an external customer. It's equally easy/hard for a random company to achieve web scale, compared to Twitch.
> They're not and they'll forget you as soon as you leave (and you, them).

This may well be true in lots of places; I wouldn't know, having only limited working experience at this point. But I worked for a while at a startup of 5-10 people, and this was very much _not_ the case. Perhaps it was the size of the company. I still have good memories of working there (even if the application domain eventually proved to not suit me well), and even now I have mostly-inactive but still very friendly contact with one of the founders.

There are also good people on this planet.
Somebody has to be first.
Could have been a hack of a twitch engineer's laptop or something like that.
I'm not happy, but I don't think another position would make me any happier.
Theranos Fusion.

Edit: There has been Edison, and there has been Musk. If you're not either of them, and you claim other people are doing their engineering wrong ... consider that you might be mistaken.

Make a big song and dance about it, you look like a charlatan.
reminds the ban on crossbows 900 years ago because they were very effective against ironclad knights. Somehow such ban didn't work back then.
Tell me this is ivermectin without telling me this is ivermectin
Hm, could be, if the whales collectively outspend the rest of us collectively.
OTOH an interesting language can be a recruiting draw. It probably helped them recruit engineers who were interested in the distributed systems and concurrency problems they were trying to solve. See for example Jane Street with OCaml.

[edit: oops, thanks for the heads up on the spelling :)]
Couldn’t find it in 1.4 Trillion combinations. Used rockyou.txt with dive.rule.

Took me 6 minutes to try all 1.4 trillion passwords. So either you have a strong password or I messed something up. What is it?

In theory if your password was weak enough to be on this list it would take on average 3 minutes to break it on a GTX 1080.
It's 2021, they won't mind recruiting some hackers.
For now.

If the blockchain survives long enough, that info will become public in time.
I had the same experience. Very simple with only one retention step of offering a discount. Once declined I could cancel.
How Elon Met Grimes – Humorous Short
For every widely used technology, someone had to be the first. And then some small group had to be the early adopters.
Show HN: Microdesktop, a visual history of Macintosh UI (51x34, 1-bit pixel art)
One of the first steps in setting up an iOS device is a great big screen telling you what data is collected and allowing opt-out. There’s several of them for each feature you’re setting up. There’s then another of those for each first party Apple app on the device. I’m really not sure how much clearer they could be.
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I'm convinced that there is a service people will pay for. My idea is that _somebody_ in a social group will want it to happen, and that they can pay for the whole group.
I’m honestly so tired of hearing this lame conspiracy theory/in-joke. It’s so dumb and trollish and barely funny, all it does is give ammo to repubs who think dems are wackadoos. Fellow dems, this ain’t it.
I don't know enough about the Zodiac Killer to determine whether or not this is true. But I do know that when the only $search_engine results to something are from one media network (a few Fox local & Fox News), and a tabloid... take it with a grain of salt.
I don't know the answer to this. If I were to guess, though, it is more about selling reasonable strengths to folks self-treating. First, supplements are generally recommended to everyone living here as part of being healthy, and truly stressed for immigrants. Even eating fish just isn't always enough, especially if you do not have the very fair skin that is common here. Second.. well, melatonin was prescription when I moved here.
100% this, folks do not remember that it was really apple leading on a TON of this stuff.

The storage and other nags I hate, it's a real ethos breaker for me. Get that crap off my iphone. That's why I pay extra - for less crap (I like that they somehow can also block the carriers from installing unremovable apps, for some reason android phones sometimes come with weird apps from your carrier when you get them).
Actually it's true that increasing the overall input of energy in the planet atmosphere is bad.

Yet, this also happens with nuclear, coal, gas, oil...

The only solution is to capture the energy that is already being received from the sun in order to prevent it from heating up the atmosphere on site.

E.g. solar panels on the desert and wind turbines
I honestly can't see how it'd be profitable if someone were to host several TB worth of files that are very frequently downloaded. My fear with anything "free" is that once you actually use it A LOT, it will be pulled from under you. I'm a lot more comfortable with $0.001/GB than $0/GB.
I can notice the performance no longer being the problem for me. The only gripe
I have with Notion is too much flexibility, it’s easy to completely mess something up even by accident.
I did that one year. Got a needs improvement rating for political reasons. Thought I'd just kick ass the next year and get the highest rating. Nope. They don't follow their own rules so I can't spite them within the constraints of the system they run.
Nevermind NYT, what about your gym subscription!
Feels like a celebration of "Apple sticks it to the stupid app developers, hooray!"

Except app developers are mostly small shops and startups. One-person operations.

How would we like it if the web were forced to behave according to some governing body? It feels like some North Korean 1984 dystopia and we've all got explosive collars around our necks.

It's anti-freedom, anti-American, anti-ownership, anti-Stallman. And I own five iPhones and an iMac.

I just want my stupid software on the stupid fucking software execution device. No tap dancing bear rules. No praise to Apple or forced induction to the Church of Jobs.

Steve Jobs made this artificial, ceremonious bullshit to make money. There is no other reason.

I curse history that his authoritarianism won. It's become pervasive throughout the industry now. It should be illegal.

I'll gladly charge 3x the price to Apple users for having to put up with this malarky.
Let's hope it's a wake-up call to HN admins that they need to rescind this unjustifiable and user-hostile policy.
Because most of the criminals are from certain groups in society and the political elites, as well as many of the people here in HN, don't really rub shoulders with those people and don't care about solving crimes which affect the rest 80% of the population. They want to keep the police weak and criminals strong so they can keep controlling us.
This has the same energy as the cigarette lobbyist in congress who talked about how smoking lettuce has the same health effects as smoking tobacco
French people have to file tax returns, it is pre-filled but you still need to check and sign it. It is also the simplest case.

French tax law is actually very complicated, I guess like just about everywhere. If your only revenue is your salary, and you don't have a lot of deductibles, all you need to do is sign the form (electronically). But if you are self-employed, it is highly recommended to hire an accountant if you don't want nasty surprises if you get audited.
But if the price of that benefit is 30% off the top for Apple for all payments, it's a high price to pay. Perhaps better consumer protection laws would be a better way to fight the dark patterns.
Mockery is needlessly cruel, but there's a valid underlying point: the ball magnets are an item intended for adults and teenagers, not young children. When I searched on Ebay for "colored ball magnets", I found what looks to be the same item, and it says "adult" in the title twice.

One could argue that hazardous items should be forbidden from having an appearance attractive to young children, but that's hard to implement in practice. I'm inclined to think a warning on the package that they're not for kids and swallowing can be deadly is an appropriate solution for a product like that. DigitDots brand magnetic balls do have such a warning, but I'm not sure if that's true for the white label version I found on Ebay.
Elon Musk’s Philosophical Musings on Space
“If we want to understand what the universe is about, and what’s the meaning of life, we need to get there and find out,” he said. “And the more that we can expand the scope and scale of consciousness, the more we’ll be able to understand what questions we need to ask about the answer that is the universe.”
I have a communist buddy who runs a profit pool with like 4 other people where they share an office doing different (often unrelated) work and combine/evenly distribute all of their income/paychecks.

Ever since meeting him, I'm automatically skeptical that most people are just reciting platitudes without much real belief behind it.
The durability of corona-viral immunity: a comparative evolutionary study
Yeah, I had a similar feeling about this but it came from the unrealistic interest rates in example problems that we did in math class in school:

"Sally puts her money in a savings account that makes 10% interest. If the interest is compounded monthly how much money does she make in 10 years?"

Wow! That's amazing! I'm going to go put my money in a savings account. Wait my savings account is 0.1% interest...
I’d be interested to hear what dark billing patterns you are seeing rn with Apple?
In fact, space sunshades would be much more useful to us at this point than space PV.
> If you can easily migrate to Scandinavia from America, then you are almost certainly a well educated, talented, wealthy American who will not be subject to any of the vagaries of life that poor Americans may need to deal with. Healthcare, education, housing, and lifestyle are all top notch for the set of Americans that can easily emigrate to other first-world countries.

I maybe am. No formal education, but self taught and we live very comfortably.

However this isn't about "me". I want a country that feels like it's trying to do better for all. America seems very selfish to me. I want to aid and support a government that actively works towards the bullet points i mentioned, not against.
Yep - and these are the SAME places posting LONG articles about how terrible Apple's store policies are. Uh, folks spend a lot on the apple store for a reason.
Dear whoever worked on Xanadu ever ever ever. You keep on saying that you went around the world, talked to anybody who would listen, and nobody got it. Maybe, just maybe, the problem was the message, not the listeners.

I just re-read Wired profile of Xanadu from 1995, and it's the same thing over and over again. It's not the world. It's the message. I mean, once anything is published online, it can never be edited because you link to "start character"-"end character" integer positions as the supposedly immutable snippet? What kind of a universe does that online world live in???
If we're using the car analogy- According to google the profit margin for a car is something like 5-12%, not sure if that includes R&D or not. That's a far cry from 4000% regardless, even if you bring it down by orders of magnitude to account for things you mentioned. You'd think a healthcare company would have some moral imperative to run a relatively thin margin, and maybe not spend 6.5B a year on advertising and god knows how much on greasing up the government for regulatory capture

And yes insurance would cover these costs for most people, but we still end up paying through for it through exorbitant premiums

And to your final point, yes corporate profits benefit the government because they get taxed. That doesn't mean corporations should be able to form cartels, corner a market, and then jack up the price on essential goods and services to make that profit
Hi, Joe here, heading up Coinbase Cloud. tldr; this is our first step in providing a full set of API based services to build crypto applications and unifying the existing APIs that exist.

Importantly, this will go well beyond interacting with Coinbase existing products and provide tooling needed to make it easier for developers to build new web3 applications.
From personal experience (not with Notion) once you fall behind it’s hard to catch up, and nobody declares an emergency until it’s already happening.

Doing big surgery takes time, meanwhile your workload continues to grow and grow. It’s not uncommon for a major win to only reset the clock by 6-12 months, and then you either have to run to the next one, or you have two teams working on separate angles at the same time. All the while people are learning as they go because the business settled on catch-up instead of capacity planning.

Being a little successful can be tough.
I always had the impression that Twitch were operating in a largely independent fashion. For instance, it had been an open secret for years that one of their executives had been sexually harassing female streamers. Only a year ago he was finally fired. If Amazon had a firmer grip on Twitch, I'm sure they would have stepped in much earlier.
Hi! I'm creating the microdesktop collection as a visual history of the Macintosh user interface, using 51x34px, 1-bit pixel art drawings.

They showcase key parts of Macintosh interface design choices, in just 1734 pixels (10 times smaller than the original Macintosh screen resolution , as it was 512x342 pixels)

Each microdesktop comes with historical notes and sources (Check the hicetnunc pages)

You can check this twitter thread for updates: https://twitter.com/juliendorra/status/1441005487986708482

And read more about the last microdesktop ('microdesktop: hello') historical background here: https://twitter.com/juliendorra/status/1445776391278981140
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Now you know? You now know what one person on the internet said.
The enterprise DLP tools were deployed fleetwide as agents and at network choke points; getting access to the raw data wasn't the problem.
I'm missing something here. I could create a coded message that required apeace to decipher. That doesn't necessarily mean that I'm you.
It depends on what you mean by "stereo setup". In the extremely common scenario of you having a 5.1 amp with just 2 speakers plugged in, it's your amp that's doing the downmix for you.
Those email clients don't allow for account creation, so they shouldn't be concerned.
Yes, to both. Gov could do better, and in the meantime until if/when that happens, may be worth it to use a trusted source (Apple) to manage that for you.

Likelihood of Gov doing better seems tied to how much they can get away from Wall St. funding/defunding their re-election campaigns.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/circumstantial

1. belonging to, consisting in, or dependent on circumstances

2. pertinent but not essential : incidental

The original comment used the word correctly. Because dictionaries describe how people actually speak, not prescribe rules on how to use words. That's why they get updated every so often as word usages change.
Look, I don't know why this keeps coming up. I am not the zodiac killer.
SiriusXM is like this as well, you subscribe/upgrade online but you have to argue with a support person for 30-40mins to cancel, at least you can do it on a chat on their website.

Honestly if you can subscribe with a button you should be able to
unsubscribe with a button.
Welcome to devops. Ask Mike down the hall to add you to the “admin” group. Tell him you’re a new dev so you need everything.

(This is a joke but also, at many companies, it’s not. Twitch was once small and grew. Who knows what ancient all-access switches are still critical to running the systems, marked “tech debt” in someone’s backlog)
Yes, this IS the problem. Could not a space tether system help with that? Although, space elevators are quite a daunting challenge too.
I am a consumer... I hate their policies which is why I do not consume their products
They work under a weapon exporter license. Which means the Israeli government knows very well each and every user, and decides who is allowed to buy the weapon and who isn't

It's not exactly permitting, the government is part of the deal

I'm sure some of these deals were part of the background when it came to Arab nations and Israel becoming closer over the years (and the Abraham Accords as a result)
Earning list from the Twitch Leak, any surprises?
Interesting. It would appear maybe I was wrong about general sentiment towards privacy in US. CA law did not surprise that much and most dismissed it as 'what will they do next', but Ohio is not exactly blue, which would suggest some people are finally getting a little fed up with status quo.

All this against backdrop of nationwide corps having tried to stop this exact scenario ( patchwork of state privacy laws ).
If you happen to be a Christian I recommend Spiritual Depression by David Martyn Lloyd-Jones. Addresses many of the reasons people get in a funk or a rut.
Yeah, like the inability for the user to install an app after an authoritarian government decided that their subjects should not be using it, and Apple subserviently obeyed and removed said app from the Appstore.

An extremely beneficial policy for the customers, right.
This makes total sense, and good of them to warn you.

MANY people tie things like password resets to your email, not to you and may not have a retail store presence you can get to for a password reset.

He's telling you - once this email is gone, it is gone and no one, including you will get it again. That is good in the sense that no one can impersonate you, but bad if you have an "ooops" moment and want to do a password reset that needs that email.