skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Do you think the Vatican is profitable?

No idea. I'd have to take a look at their accounts.

> Do you think that a nonprofit that pays their CEO 36% --yes THIRTY SIX PERCENT-- of revenue is profitable?

No idea. I'd have to take a look at their accounts.

> Do you think that the American Petroleum Institute, which pays their CEO $11MM in salary (4.5% of revenue on $238MM in receipts) exists with a real non-profit objective despite what their balance sheet might say?

No idea. I'd have to take a look at their accounts.

> Yes, sure, this does not fit the technical definition of profit,

It is the opposite of profit. It is what you structure if you want to reduce your profit so you don't get taxed.

> I give the example of the lavish cars and trips for the pastor and management paid for by the church my mother in law used to work for. That's profit.

No, it isn't. It might be embezzlement, from the sounds of it.

I get the point that you are trying to make, but doing so by redefining common terms and hoping anyone is going to take it seriously strikes me as remarkably unlikely to succeed. The word you are looking for is not "profit", it is "enrichment", as you say here. They are not the same. Words matter.
It's interesting I have a mid computer (3060/i9/80gb ram/ssd) and with gigabit fiber, it still takes a long time. What is taking a while? Maybe it's request load.

Once it loads though wow, the graphics are great, nice little physics effects. Wonder how many online games are like this. Light source/shadow also cool.

On subsequent loads it's fast like it's near 80-90% already.
Moore's law and all that.
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I didn’t say otherwise. It’s obviously the bad actor’s fault, not the owner of the phone.

But still. Come on.
In this case, the phone would not turn on prior to repair and could not be wiped.
This whole Stripe post reminds me of the Basecamp Implosion a few months back. So Basecamp? :P
This is a pretty well known effect in the Marketing/Comms/PR world though it is generally attributed to a narrative effect rather than detection of deceit.

The way the thinking goes is that humans are wired to tell stories and there are certain stories we are predisposed to. We like to root for “the little guy” and love to cheer on startups, especially those with sympathetic stories, founders, high competence, etc.

We also tend to dislike entities at the very top and in extreme positions of power (eg billionaires, governments, large evil corporations) for a variety of reasons.

At some point in your company’s growth your narrative arc flips and you become the bad guy. The best thing you can do as the company is to try your best to postpone the flip as long as possible, but it is inevitable. When it happens, you are on the downslope and “in the dog house” as far as the media and public perception is concerned and there’s just not much you can do about it. Sometimes the harder you try to explain yourself and fight against it, the worse it gets.

You’ll also notice founders of these companies are often totally caught by surprise when this flip happens. They’ve gotten so used to a sympathetic public and a certain mode of behavior to maintain good public perception - transparent, relatable, “aww shucks” style - and when it flips it can be confusing because this doesn’t work anymore. The perception of them has shifted from “that smart/competent startup person I am rooting for” to “the powerful billionaire CEO that crushes the little people with the raise of a finger” and so the behaviors that come naturally to them take on a different tone entirely from a perception perspective.

When this happens it’s probably time to batten down the hatches and shift PR strategies. The old way isn’t likely to work anymore; the straw has finally broken the camel’s back.

I’m no expert at what it takes to reverse this. My best guess is that you need to spend your time in the penalty box while drawing minimum attention to let the steam blow off faster and not accelerate the roller coaster ride down. Then when you come back after 6-12 months or so, do so with a changed communications strategy that implicitly takes into account the changed public perceptions around power dynamics. You’re not a beloved startup anymore but you can still be “one of the good ones” as far as big companies and billionaire CEOs.
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Helpful links:

Github: https://github.com/johnisom/

Personal site: https://johnisom.dev/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-isom/

Maestro writeup: https://maestro-framework.github.io/

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When I learned software engineering, I learned the fundamentals from the ground up. Because of my solid foundation, I can learn any skill very quickly and understand it wholly along the way.

I recently created Maestro, a framework for rapid iteration of serverless orchestration workflows using AWS Lambda and AWS step functions. It enables developers to easily create whole workflows and deploys and tears down the associated AWS resources ~60x faster than the closest competitor, AWS SAM. I highly recommend that you read the writeup at https://maestro-framework.github.io/.

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Most recently, I've worked at a startup that then got acquired by a big tech company, working on critical tasks. Some of these include:

- Creating a new column in a database table with 118+ million rows with minimal downtime & full backward-compatibility.

Read: experience working with large-scale systems.

- Migrated a massive monolithic rails app from Rails 5 to Rails 6.

Read: know Ruby & Rails inside and out, as well as the Rails philosiphies.

- Seamlessly migrated 20 million file attachments w/o downtime or perf issues using a 3-step approach along w/ multithreading.

Read: experience & competence w/ large infrastructure tasks.

- Migrated our monolith to switch from one attachment backend to another (goes with point above).

Read: experience & competence with ruby/rails internals.
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frankly there is plenty of blame to go around among partisans starting with the complete and total looting of our pandemic response capabilities that occurred during the obama years or the bipartisan offshoring of nearly all our capacity to produce medical supplies and allowing consolidation to make hospitals utterly brittle in the face of a crisis. the lies and poor decisions are numerous enough from all sides that it really is not interesting to play the blame game about who is worse, residents of either team will always believe their lies were noble and mistakes justified while the 'other' is the source of all the real problems. the end result is the same, efficacy and legitimacy of administrators has cratered and i cannot honestly blame anyone who does not trust these institutions to act in good faith anymore.
I wouldn't be surprised if some (or most) browsers don't implement the parts of the FileSystem API that are designed to access the users home directory (with permission). But the parts that are for a "sandboxed virtual drive" will be, that is what's needed for web apps and PWAs for saving their own data in a local block level storage (rather that IndexedDB or LocalStorage). That part of the api is very much designed for enabling things like WASM Sqlite.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/FileSystem

"This interface will not grant you access to the users filesystem. Instead you will have a "virtual drive" within the browser sandbox."
Pynchonesque?
Oh dear God, no. Don't need Google to have even more control. Imagine blocking something and it shows up anyway because Google decided so.

Oh wait, you don't have to imagine, just use Gmail on Android. "Spam? That's not spam" - Google.

Or just Android with it's fucking "notifications" from all the garbage news sites. Tbf, my fault for using Google apps.

Honestly, blocking shit you don't want to see locally is the best solution. Decentralized, under your control, no need to trust BigCorp number 294.
It strikes me that your definition of "most people" does not, in fact, include most people.
It is a very Japanese culture thing in which loyal workers to a company are retired or promoted at middle age and they come out of retirement to work at convenience stores or menial jobs because they aren’t given social security. Repeated retirements aren’t Japanese though.
I've been developing an app on postgrest (which supabase uses) for a while, and my solution to this was to have a NOTIFY trigger and a small program that broadcasted the changed ID's over SSE to clients. The clients would then fetch the changes.

As for the RLS aspect I considered it "good enough" to allow all clients to know the changed ID (an UUID) as long as they got no other info, and planned to have the trigger also send the allowed groups in the NOTIFY so that the program could filter without needing a separate PG connection per each subscriber. In my testing it scales very well.

Anyone from supabase that can comment why LISTEN/NOTIFY triggers were not used, and why WS was used over SSE when the communication is not bi-directional? It'd be interesting to hear your thoughts.
In London they are taking butter knifes from people and bragging about it on social media.
> A USB based method for resetting a device would be perfectly acceptable to use before sending in a device for repair.

I think that is true, but with one caveat, you should test if the resetting actually worked.

I once had an Android phone with "full encryption" enabled that, after resetting, still had all the user data on it. It was obviously not only not reset, it wasn't even encrypted in the first place.

I am sure a lot of mobile phones have problems like that, because I think that smartphone manufacturers don't care about quality too much, as long the issues are not immediately apparent to an average user.

But if you can't recover the data afterwards yourself, I would agree that you can normally send it to recycling or repair.

Thank you. My comments might sound very strict and total. But of course everyone has different threats that they care about, and repair shops are probably not too sophisticated.
in Townscaper, doing the same can cause propellers to appear beneath your structures
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No-one's saying that, those are two bold, unsupported assertions.

Point number 1:
Even if you stretch hard, the closest I can get is 'it wouldn't be permitted to take pictures of public spaces with people in who don't consent to being photographed and then share those on Twitter'.

Point number 2:
It is true that in some countries, you have no (legal) expectation of privacy in a public place. However, it's not universally true. Where I am, for example, in Hungary, actually something very similar to Twitter's new policy is the law[0]).

Although there may be no LEGAL constraint where you live, perhaps you wouldn't want someone standing outside the local reproductive health or women's shelter photographing everyone who goes in and out. I certainly wouldn't.

What I'm saying is that if someone has a photograph of me which I didn't consent to being in, then I think it's reasonable that if I object to them sharing they photo, then they should have the 'burden of proof' that they have a right to share.

I don't think that 'burden of proof' needs to be particularly high, and 'oh, they're just in the background in my photo of the street' or 'I thought it might be interesting that they were snorting cocaine on the main street' is OK.

The problem is that 'public spaces' and 'benefit of privacy' are terms that date back to before the internet.

The trivial difficulty and cost of creating, processing, distributing, and cataloguing data through facial recognition, geolocation, etc. today means it's at least worth considering whether these laws are the best fit for our modern lives, rather than throwing out criticisms as though one specific law is both written in stone and applies everywhere.

[0]: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/14/hungary-law-ph...
IIRC, my friend who works in Google Zürich uses a Android phone for work, because Google considers its own stuff to be sufficiently secure for their own trade secrets.

(Unrelated except to your tangent, but personally I will only buy GM cheddar, as GM bacterial rennet is the only way to make it vegetarian).
More details: https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/12/01/4
How do you imagine this is done? Hashing the town state and storing lookup key as URL params?
I use Namecheap to host more than 10 domains and some shared hosting, and found customer support to be awesome! Just wanted to mention it. Wondering if you have a special promo plan for guys like me that depend on Namecheap for all their personal and business domains?
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>>> 'm not a fan of that approach but again, the West currently isn't doing a good selling it's approach.

All CCP sells is perception. They are masters at that since they control everything. The west sure has problems, but it is better to live free, coz once you trade freedom, sanity and stability sure won't be in your hands anymore.
You dismissed the value of the paper about ten times in a row, barely stopping for breath. Some of the tone is found in which thing goes on what side of the word "but", some in other words, but generally you really messed it up if you wanted to avoid insulting the authors and dismissing the value of research like this. There is an enormous gulf between a comment like yours

> That’s all fine and dandy, but [...] Winning best paper awards doesn’t say a thing about the implementation [...] the goal of PhD students is to publish papers [...] I couldn't trust [this]

and a comment like this

> This is a really impressive project. Obviously this is deeply academic, but since I am so impressed, I wonder what the plans are for this (or the same idea in a new fs) to reach the kind of commercial quality where I can use it in a production system.

If you were so aware of the general nature of academic research vs battle-tested implementations, then you would also know that filesystems are so incredibly complicated that the latter invariably takes on the order of 10+ years from a big team to create. When you forget this fact and say that a few-years-old implementation probably sucks because it's from academia, you're ignoring that NOBODY could have made it production-ready in that time, not even Microsoft or Apple or Oracle. Why would you criticise it on this basis? Choosing to do that was the biggest dismissal of the value of the work. Instead, you buried what was in effect a compliment (this would be useful for my production systems) under ten layers of insults.
This is an obvious case of SEO spam. But there are tons and tons of other examples worth mentioning.

For example many news sites have soft paywalls that can easily be circumvented with a few clicks. The reason they don't have an _actual_ paywall is likely to come up in search results. So essentially they spam search results and obscure the content for technical illiterate users instead of just paying for ads. They want their cake and eat it too.

Now this whole dynamic is super weird. We often talk about these issues as if Google was some kind of public service that should make useful and fair search suggestions. Sure they have the incentive to do so, but they have conflicting interests at the same time.
I design for those, because the experience is similar to that of someone in the Berlin U-Bahn. If you're just displaying text on a page, it shouldn't require a 4G connection.