skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SSB has a special place in my heart. I wrote this a year ago on HN and it seems truer than ever:

> There’s no global timeline — just archipelagos. It assumes that network heterogeny is the default, and is transmission layer agnostic. Breakages will occur. Maybe you’re living on a catamaran in the South Pacific and you only have connectivity once a month — SSB will work even then.

> Your own timeline is a sigchain — a sequenced list of signed messages. You replicate the content in your network (2 hops away). Bridges between communities can be built or burned. Many islands can exist without needing to erase the others from even existing — mutual separation is possible. Consensus is not necessary. #againstconsensus

> Is global network culture still possible? If it is, in the midst of the national internets we now live inside of, I suspect it will look something like this. A little different from what we were promised, but maybe a little better too.
"The strength of activists, social change, and opposition movements seems to be decreasing around the world. The trend is reinforced by the seemingly old tactic of discrediting, deception, building mistrust among members, and disinformation spread by various political and state actors, who over the millennia perfected their methods."

Could the decrease in "strength" (i.e. interest and involvement by its participants) be possibly due to how unpopular the demands of the activists are to the general public? It seems the author has a very myopic view of the situation. People are seeing what "defund the police" leads to, and what their kids are being taught in schools -- they see it, and they're judging it, and their response is increasingly "NO". The democrats in the US see their polling numbers plummet, and are recognizing that pursuing the agenda demanded by the activists will take them out of power altogether.

The examples cited are COINTELPRO and the Soviet Stazi? Those were quite a long time ago, and not at all part of any suppression of today's activists. The article fails to mention that for the most part, "big tech" has supported opposition movements, and show clear bias against conservatives.
Frohe Weihnachten :)
Why wouldn't you continue to have government officials and a standing human army with regular recruitment?

Just because there is UBI and most people don't have to enslave themselves to eat doesn't mean people won't want to do something with their lives. Soldiers and officials get UBI plus salary and they are chosen the same way they are now.

It seems that you just want to setup a straw man argument that you can then knock down.

UBI doesn't replace all human labor. It just incentivizes automation and puts people first. You'll still be able to find a job as a mechanic or robot engineer or programmer if you want. Then you can take a paycheck and UBI. But it will be of your own accord instead of forcing you into compliance with wage slavery like we do now.
True, though it’s also worth considering that Webb is going far beyond “orbit“ as we generally think of it. I don’t know how much has been launched all the way out to L2 before, but it’s probably an order of magnitude less than what’s in Earth orbit.
“Being treated” implies a lot of things.

Someone using something I have written doesn’t cost me anything, but it also doesn’t create any obligations for me. I don’t need to make my contact info public, or have any interactions with users whatsoever.

log4j accepted donations which is really it’s own thing. Running a charity, which is what it means to get paid full time to maintain OSS, has a host of issues that have little to do with OSS and a lot to do with public relations.
Ask HN: What's Your Opinion on Web3?
My personal take is that there can be a lot of good usecases that will come out of it but I don't believe in the toppling the world order with people's revolution part of it.
Also, NFTs are good usecase for digital artists but is an extremely bad buy for a normal consumer since most art is worthless in future unless you get hands on something really unique and respected like Beeple's art collection.
Ah. I get what you’re saying and agree strongly.

I mis-read your intended (but clear enough) message the first time.
https://mailinabox.email/ does most of that.

I have my own domain since when I was about 15 years old and used that for a while on a digital ocean droplets. It's incredibly easy to set-up.

The only issue I had was that other people were not getting my mail and I sometimes it was not even reaching their spam folders. Probably because Google/Microsoft were blocking that IP range of Digital Oceans.

Nowadays I just pay for a personal Gsuite license and use Google Infrastructure.

Much simpler that way and I'm almost guaranteed that my mail will reach the recipients. You only need to set-up your DMARC / SPF records and point your MX records to the ones that Google provides.
> someone had this crazy idea to sell spare cycles

I've heard this too, but I don't think it can possibly be true. That would mean that, at the start, any service or VM etc. you started on AWS would only work during non-peak Amazon hours. So your website or app would be down if the traffic to Amazon's website ramped up. I can't imagine many companies going for that offering. If that was the product that AWS originally offered I can't imagine it would have been successful.
https://www.emcell.com/treatments/als-mnd/

A potential treatment option for ALS, using fetal stem cells, and so why not widely known - especially not in North America; free documentary on the Emcell clinic here - https://stemcellsmovie.com/ - they've been doing research using fetal stem cells for 30 years, and providing clinically for 25.

MS is also apparently stopped and regressed (damage/degeneration healed) if treated/healed if degeneration of the body's healing systems aren't too far degraded.
Interesting they found a way to add a hidden risk variable to the launch, by sending it up on a day people are having to choose to not be with their families. Have a bad feeling about this :/
Well, on the flip side unless you constantly check your spam folder (which pretty much completely defeats the purpose of a spam filter) you most definitely have lost important mails thanks to gmail.

I just don't see what people see in gmail part from the google brand - which surely isn't a good thing anymore.
Red Rising is great, I love the whole capture-the-flag esque storyline - it might be my most favorite out of the whole series.
I’m always scared to click on political videos in you tube, just in case it’s Jordan Peterson. Even one accidental click will inundate your suggested videos with right wing hatred.

But don’t worry. YouTube’s algorithms aren’t making the world worse!
He mentions regularly eating at Trump tower - so he spends his time on 5th Avenue. I don't think the guy really cares why people aren't paying for his real-estate investments.
Lots of sister comments here saying that they've been running a mail server for X amount of years, where X is a rather large number. That will obviously come with some reputation for your mail server, reducing the curve of being classified as down. I would be interested in hearing from someone who tried to setup a new mail server in the last 1-2 years who was able to run it without a hitch.
It's fun! I think I encountered a bug. Seems like I managed to accidentally bid twice, which shouldn't be possible if I understand it correctly.

https://i.postimg.cc/85TPBKgC/Screenshot-20211224-153956.png

EDIT: Also had a game with only 3 dice?

https://i.postimg.cc/PJMCT9sG/image.png
>Sometimes I can’t even abort the program with Carl+C or D after the error has occurred, and I have to close the terminal

In my experience, whenever Ctrl+C doesn't work, LaTeX can be terminated by pressing the X key and then Enter. (Look for the "Type X to quit or <RETURN> to proceed" in the error message.)
You're 100% right. A few years back you could sign up for business accounts which were seperate from your personal identity, but 2 or 3 years back this practice was cancelled and you had to start linking your business account to your personal account.

Also having two facebook accounts is not allowed by their TOS. That's the first thing our partner manager asked me: "do you have multiple accounts by any chance? That often gets people banned".
God Jul till er också!
Classic "honest mistake"™. Followed by people calling for immediate cease of any critique since "they are very sorry and corrected the error".

In all seriousness though: It's time to find some name for this behaviour where the only chance for support or help is being a VIP or making the news headlines somehow.
Inspired by my dad scanning 20,000+ old photos, I created "Smallest Day". Photo organizing apps didn't (and still don't) handle old scanned photos well.

For example, Google Photos would not allow any photo to be dated before the 1970 unix epoch. Picasa required an email address for anyone tagged, which was problematic for nineteenth century photos!

Short demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAObvfnDso4
Presenting at the Personal Archiving Conference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzBkuXvqEo4

In hindsight, I really needed a co-founder, especially someone more of a "hustler". I also should have committed more fully to reaching a GO/NO-GO decision instead of letting the project peter out over a year while I gradually took on more consulting work. Should have bought some ads to determine market appetite.

Still, I'm mostly happy that I didn't pursue it too far. 1000 Memories (a YC company) was also in the space and had an only mediocre exit. I'm relieved that no other company seemed to knock it out of the park. But a little sad that so many old photos (and the stories behind them) are not getting digitized and may not get preserved.
I think it depends on the idea. Generally, you should patch together something as a beta and roll it out to community/friends/family for feedback. But if it is something that will take almost a year for a beta then you should spend time validating as well.
Intel apologizes for banning use of components from Xinjiang
መልካም ገና!
From Ethiopia :)
I never understood why zoom destroyed my work macbook pro's battery either. It was a max of about 90 min like you said. Seems ridiculous.
Merry Christmas to all HN-ers!
To quit when the error handler is asking for input, enter x and RETURN.
Using a different e-mail or phone number should be enough to evade the ban.
Merry christmas hn!
Once you’ve sent or received email containing “sensitive stuff” you no longer control your data. Folks need to come to grips with the fact that email security is dead and hosting it yourself doesn’t fix this.

The author of the post should have included that in his post.
Festivus Report on wasteful government spending [pdf]
I've heard the FIRE movement described as living miserably for the first half of your life so you can live miserably in the second half.
>It just didn't pan out. Steam has a death grip on the market despite having terrible software.

But what software do they need?

Personally I just need to buy, download and play some game

it annoys me when I buy games on steam and want to play it and it tells me to create some ubisoft / epic games account, like what the hell.
Being one stepped removed from the suicide nets really changes nothing about what I said. Still entirely within their control and responsibility.
The author skips over some pretty egregious examples from the past few years in favour of examples that best support their world view.

Where is the outrage over the Trump administration's rollback of consumer protection regulations that protect students from shady practices by for-profit colleges? Students are promised significant income growth, but are actually roped into poorly staffed courses, significant debt, and questionable career advancement.

Instead, the author bangs on about eviction protection for people laid off during the pandemic.

The author bemoans '90% of all charges against rioters and looters' being dropped in the aftermath of the George Floyd protests, but links to a news article that only indicates that approximately 90% of all protest related charges were dropped across several jurisdictions. The vast majority of protestors were not engaged in looting or violent acts that would amount to rioting.

However, the author curiously ignores the fact that the vast majority of people that stormed the Capitol building in the hope of preventing the peaceful transfer of power managed to get off with misdemeanours.

Not even to mention that the former President's one-time Svengali, Steve Bannon, suckered Trump's own supporters out of 5 million dollars that he had pledged to use to construct a wall to keep out Mexicans; only to be pardoned for his troubles.

I think it's fair to say that political affiliation coloured this article.
List of 4,248 open source programming languages
#14: Expectations move slower than reality; Reality is moving faster than ever
I don’t mean to be rude, but if you can’t center content without googling and getting frustrated, you might just need to slow down and take 5 minutes to actually learn how to do it, and let it sink in once and for all. It’s been very straightforward for several years now. The idea that it’s difficult is just an old meme at this point.
Wesolych swiat i wszystkiego najlepszego:>
Why are gas prices so high and what is happening to fuel bills?
Yeah, there was (is?) a period of time where viruses were used to send spam so if you got infected you'd suddenly be sending out a lot of SMTP traffic from a residential IP address. The entire industry adopted the practice of not trusting residential ips. Then the spammers shifted to cheap VPS providers and ip and netblock black lists became more common.
Reverse Job Board for Rails Devs
Pretty much anyone who has worked in datacenter disagrees with you. Your assumptions that you know better than people working there are arrogant to extreme.

If electronics (not just computer) is going to fail its almost always at power on or power off.

And since DC is one big electronics warehouse, stuff breaks. Old spinning drives were most prone to this, with power supply and motherboards being second.
Glad to hear you sound like you're recovering nicely.

For me I did take a day off when the fever peaked because in that sort of state I could sit in my chair and join calls but nothing useful would have come out of it.
Worth noting the dose amounts vary wildly with the mushrooms and batches. The stuff I have (grown by a friend) would barely do anything for you at 2g. 3g was really the minimum, and 4g if you wanted anything other than feeling happy and high.
> positive impact

[citation needed]
You’ve done much better in summing them up here then I’ve ever seen elsewhere or done myself personally. Well sluiced.

Will note the writing style is almost weirder and more niche than the rigidly strange content though if that’s possible. It’s not difficult to get past and without a doubt enhances the general vibe & chewiness of it all, but man the sentence structures are just downright convoluted at times. Totally fitting.
I'm interested in anything that tears Sapiens apart, partly because I loved that book so much and need something to temper my enthusiasm.
How to Lose Money With 25 Years of Failed Businesses

https://joeldare.com/how-to-lose-money-with-25-years-of-fail...
Building a project isn't a single-core workload usually, though.
It's just sad that I am in a country where drugs are illegal and we are in a pandemic where travel is hard.
> percentage of its population behind bars, should ramp up punishment and somehow jail even more of its own people?

Corruption isn't only about who avoids punishment, but also who is the target of punishment. In highly corrupt environments you will often find complex and often contradictory rules, that produce a default state of guilt. The only way to avoid punishment is to participate in the corruption.
Trading Strategies in Runescape in 2007 (2019)
Same here in terms of use, except sativa instead of indica, and I've only found one other person like me in my career.

Smoking definitely helps me reach a deep state of focus but unfortunately it's fairly brittle (cars idling nearby, other subtle things can be really distracting) and requires a long period of stage-in if I haven't worked on something for a while (I have little long-term memory for code details).
> Yes, even GitHub

Maybe it's just me, but I never got the hang of the social network part of GitHub. Sure, I interact with issues related to work and I star repos that I might need later, but I never used the feed or had some discussions on it which are not work related.
The Legend of Zelda: Decompiled
Time and time again "crazy" conspiracy theorists end up being right.
When you reply to emails, does google let you put your custom domain address as the sender so folks don't see the underlying gmail address?
Nice. Thanks.

I'll have to reread, more slowly.

Until then, some quick tidbits.

One anecdote that popped out was the correlation of Walmart super centers and crappy towns. Market segmentation via geography vs demographics. "The Twinkie Index" was the first time I heard this notion. Starbucks' real estate and marketing groups had came up with a infographic, contrasting cafe locations and per capita Twinkie consumption, for when people asked "When are you going to finally put a Starbuck in [insert town here]?"

Back in the 90s, Walmart's profit sharing (employ stock grants) was a role model. Cited as one of their competitive advantages. (How things change.)

I read that what made Walmart possible (feasible) was their early, enthusiastic adoption of bar codes.

For comparison, what are (were) Amazon's critical success factors?

Lowest cost of capital. Uniquely, was able to sell growth over profits story to Wall St. Superior tax avoidance (eg sales tax holiday). Compensating employees with stocks. It's hard to imagine anyone challenging Amazon while this disparity exists.

Amazon Prime, for sure. Brand loyalty, reduced cost of customer acquisition, and all that.

I have questions:

How did Amazon figure out that programmers are a consumable resource? Cattle instead of pets. From the very beginning, my friends and I marveled at how poorly Amazon treated programmers. Surely, that can't last, right? Whelp. I was totally wrong. And I still don't know why.

Why hasn't Walmart's Jet acquisition done better? Is Walmart unable to invest in Jet sufficiently to compete? Did Walmart and Amazon accept and settle into their comparative market segments? (eg Maybe Walmart's demo doesn't buy stuff online as much.)

Why hasn't Amazon's eBay-ification, the rise of fraud and counterfeits, harmed them more? Is it because of their "customer obsession" and generous return policies? With comingling and other bullshit strategic decisions, they're promoting fraud vs mitigating it. So weird.
If I want to host my own niche curated video community, where do I start?
"When did we decide that this should have a low barrier to entry..."

That's not the argument I took away from that. Poster includes a summation, "it's complex" and is noting that simply adding regulation that only increases costs of compliance may just enable the formation of a tent seeking monopoly and does not necessarily result in a better outcome for citizens. The poster could advocate for a ban (or not advocate for anything) rather than deregulation as implied.
> And let me ask a question, if systemd is crap, why does every major distro use it?

Won't find systemd in Gentoo, Slackware or Alpine. Also it is a little interesting, just a little, that whatever imperative systemd has to exist is entirely absent in every SysV and BSD, and yet variants of SysV and BSD and thier hybrids still exist, somehow, no worse for the wear.
> Eh, the article does mention that point: "It only looked at the effects of hospital treatment, but to many that is the crown jewel of medicine

It mentions only one of the three points.

> So health insurance may be useful, but health insurance for hospital treatment isn't.

No, that’s not justified by the study, because as the study says, it only was designed with the power to detect changes in hospitalization rates over the term of the study. not health outcomes, which would require a much larger study. The study is useful if you are trying to use pre-policy hospitalization rates to predict the usage under (and therefore cost of) a public hospitalization-only insurance policy over the first several years, but it is very much not useful in evaluating whether that or any other insurance policy is useful.
This. Also, your email isn’t secure just because you host your own server. Once you’ve sent or received email, you longer have control over that data.
I Youtubed higher order functions: 6th result
I enjoyed this book as well, but wasn't as enthralled by the subsequent books in the series. I think it just sort of lost me after a bit.
Last year I tried building an animated laptop sticker business.

People loved the idea! People paid for stickers! Profit was reasonable!

But, on the downside...

The equipment is horrifically expensive. Minimum order quantities from 3rd parties means that every idea has to be a killer. They are a novelty, and quite pricey, so you can't rely on repeat custom. Zero barrier to new entrants.

I was glad that I did it - and I learned a lot. Perhaps when I'm a tech-billionaire, I'll work on getting the price down ;-)

More details at https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2020/06/building-a-minimum-viable-l...
For office workers in general, 3 is typical.

https://www.inc.com/melanie-curtin/in-an-8-hour-day-the-aver...

Has held true at all 7 jobs I have ever had.
Plebanning? The act of banning a John Doe that will never have the connections to revert the ban.

"I'm a VIP, you can't pleban me."

Any other term more fun and memorable?
Is it worth getting the 14” MBP M1 Max or do you absolutely need 16” because of the wattage?

The 16” seems really too big and heavy for me and I use 3090
for the GPU stuff.
While it is good to have another alternative, I think Dropbear SSH[1] is also being used very widely.

[1] https://matt.ucc.asn.au/dropbear/dropbear.html
"not recently" is underselling it a bit. ESA agreed to launch it before Falcon 9 (let alone the Heavy version) had ever flown.
I forgot I read this book since I read it in January, but you're absolutely right. It's hard to learn about large scale architectures since such scale isn't something every company gets to deal with. I like when a book teaches me a lot, but also makes me realize how much more there is that I don't know, and this book did that for sure.
Elon pays some tax
Kind of more and less than one step. Apple (and other companies that used Foxconn) did investigate their relationships with Foxconn after the suicides at their facilities and that's why Foxconn increased pay and installed the netting.
Merry Christmas, HN! Peace on Earth, goodwill toward all!
Some ideas to 'manage' remote-work:

when you're working, always turn on the camera but in fuzzy mode, i.e. nobody see your real facial expression but knows you're there most of the time.
make technical document a personal performance review item.
make a system for all to fill out their daily progress, everyone does it before the day is called off.
Ask HN: What is the best podcast you listened to in 2021?
I’ve been listening to all of Darknet Diaries this year and it’s been amazing. Hoping 2022 will be filled with similar gripping brain food. Happy new year.
One of the big email providers that starts with a g has a really bad outgoing spam problem through their cloud api. Hard to block because you can't block them or you will miss real emails from them.
golang is absolutely capable of writing databases and audio/video code. the libraries just dont really exist for the audio/video stuff.

but there are DBs written in go.