skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Using volumes as some sort of s3 would require you to basically build s3 from scratch, you would still need to create an auth system, a server to handle uploads, a way to manage uploaded content maintaining their content type somehow (maybe using another db), a static server, .etc
How about people revising their views on the Economist (and its real job)
You may be interested in this article: "The Money Behind Academic Publishing"

https://tidsskriftet.no/en/2020/08/kronikk/money-behind-acad...

The margin on these businesses is substantial. (e.g. This article says 40%)
The Art of Luca
by people caching or pinning content they want to help distribute.
I don't like the analogy to writing a novel because in a novel you do want suspense, drama, surprises and generally a non-ordinary flow of the story. With source-code, you want none of that. The whole process is geared to remove it. And we should not deplore that but embrace it. Maybe there will be non-conventional things, because you have non-conventional requirements, or you're trying something new, but that should be the exception.
I've definitely seen sites simply showing the current date at a place where you'd normally expect the article's original publishing date.
Don't know what you want to tell us by comparing software tools with hardware tools. Quality hardware tools from the last century are still doing what they are designed for and in professional context even work bettern then most current tools as the old hardware were designed to last.
Might as well then also get consent from cadavers to do autopsy lmao.
Computer security really isn't THAT much of a nightmare for an average user. How many people do you know that got hacked lately, for any reason other than not using 2FA, or installing random garbage?

If you don't own cryptocurrency(That is more critical because it can't be reversed), you're probably way more at risk for physical theft than cyber crime.

In fact I think we are more secure than ever before because browser sandboxing actually works worth a crap, unlike 10 or so years ago.

The more you strip out of a system, the more manual work you need to do, and the closer you get to just a fancy version of a pencil. Technically, every line of code is a security risk.

But a lot of things just... are barely worth it when ultra simplified, and you start spending more time than you save at a certain point.

This bug is pretty bad, and I could see distros getting rid of it, but only with plenty of thought and analysis and maybe a replacement. They clearly put it there for a reason. Lots of stuff seems to need it.
And unless you use sandboxing or multiple accounts for different things.... if you have attackers running as your user, you are already screwed.

I will be keeping polkit.
It's less about scale and more about availability - by the time I've set up a 3 Redis + 3 sentinel cluster it doesn't look operationally too different in complexity than a small Kafka cluster (and more complex once KRaft is ready). But a single non-HA Redis is way easier. (But if I don't need HA - a single memcache is easier yet...)
> Put them in a drug rehab facility.

Sure why not, but what after that? If you think helping them overcome addiction then throwing them back out on the streets is gonna have any positive effects, i can say with 99% confidence you haven't spent more than a day being homeless.
Ask HN: App Subscriptions in India–do they work?
I am an aspiring app entrepreneur and would love to hear, if anyone shares a perspective on How viable Subscriptions are in India for app monetizing, as I hear lots of smartphone users lack credit cards down there
Can it be a side effect of SEO? IIRC Google et al. have recency bias to determine page ranks
You can transport your family on a motorcycle or scooter in the US too. You'll just be on a first name basis with all the cops everywhere you go regularly because even if the cops themselves dgaf there will be no shortage of people calling them on you.
Abstractions, Their Algorithms, and Their Compilers
Only when the urban infrastructure is already broken.

Google Warsaw is in a vibrant city center and there's tons of restaurants around.
The algorithm behind zlib is showing it's age, after all rfc1950 is 25 years old, and the deflate algorithm dates back to 33 year old pkzip. By now you get better compression at better speed from zstd, or vastly better compression at slower speed from lzma2, for basically anything you throw at it. But we still use zlib nearly everywhere, not least because it just works, no matter what language or hardware you use. It's a great piece of software and probably one of the most ubiquitous libraries out there.
Where mechanics' labor is cheap, used cars cost nearly as much as new cars. This surprised me too when I first observed it.
Probably not what you are expecting to hear: Tumblr.
Yes, but if I were a cat I wouldn't lick my own anus and yet cats happily do that - my opinion on what I would or wouldn't like as a cat is not really relevant.

My point is - we are not cats, and cats aren't humans. They deserve good treatment, respect and all the love they can get - but at the end of the day they are not humans and should not be treated as such.
what.cd was one the most incredible archive of music ever created, happily spent £10/mo on a seedbox to support it and had a bunch of scripts to auto-seed things to get some sort of ridiculous ratio.

The powers that be truly did destroy something great, if there's a tracker that's anything like it I'd happily rent a seedbox again.

Even now most music streaming services will only give you a single crummy option of the album version to listen to, usually some stupid remaster, AM sometimes gives lets you listen to the original but it's far from perfect.
I'm vegetarian and have no issue with using animals for medical purposes like this. It's one thing to kill for pleasure as in fur, cosmetics and food, but quite another to kill an animal to save a human life. I am pretty sure even most vegans would be happy to accept an animal death to save their own life, even a pet.

Similarly, I guess, I was vegan but I had to stop that diet as it caused severe health problems for me.
Not bias, deliberate disappearance of specific categories of ideas. Independent blogs and forums not owned by large silicon valley companies have disappeared, for example. So have all discussions of current events, except for "mainstream" news publications.

Whether this is because of a short term greed motivation to maximize adsense yield or a larger conspiracy of global information control isn't clear yet. But it amounts to the same in practice.
No, this would not work for a couple of reasons. Manipulating the content itself such as changing the order of words is very dangerous as it can influence the meaning, and if you process things at scale it could lead to devastating consequences. But there are many other aspects of text such as kerning and others (a dozen or so in this particular case) that are virtually invisible to the reader but are detectable by a machine. I'd prefer not to get into the details of the implementation here but of course a dedicated team with enough resources could successfully break it after some time - but I believe it wouldn't make any sense economically.
I think you mean Nature is capturing some of the rents bestowed upon authors for publishing in Nature.

Honestly, I wish more journals mandated open for a fee—I want my work open, but the choice makes it easy for universities to decline to pay—if mandatory, they would gladly pay 3x to have their researchers publish in top outlets (I’m in administration for a large R1)
Since I am a coyote, I will simply flop around like an accordion while birds circle my head.
I hate being treated as "just the nerd who pushes the nerd-buttons to make the thing we want work", as if the important part of the work was having the idea and not the execution.

One reason they do this is usually around control. A lot of people feel like they have to be in control of everything in order to be safe. There may be ways you can make them feel safe without needing them to be in control.

Another reason is that until the thing is built, there's nothing to do, so everyone gets involved in that. This happens a lot in startups where they have a "build it and they will come" attitude. It's not true; building a sales/marketing channel doesn't actually need a product at the start, and there's a ton of stuff that needs doing while the product is being built. But it can be difficult explaining this to new founders.

Good luck :)
This website no longer relies on Google Analytics
You can actually get pretty fancy and lightweight with listen / notify as well if desired (use select for a notify instead of endless queries)

https://www.psycopg.org/docs/advanced.html#asynchronous-noti...
I have been there and I still am in some way. There are two things I have found to be working

1. Reduce friction as much as possible. I am currently living in a condo with swimming pool / gym. To start exercice I just need to take the elevator. I pair it with an audio books or podcast, I am able to get consistent exercice with it.

2. I spend few weeks doing wide explorative phase. For example, I was addicted to soda and junk food. I tried dozens of water brands until I could find a decent replacement (San Pellegrino sparkling water and fruit infusion for me) and when it comes to vegetables I settled down for chicken, eggplant. I also go to a healthy place for breakfast where I get real oatmeal with fruits.

I also replaced coffee with matcha.

I then exploit it. I eat the same thing everyday switching only when I am with family/friends. I discovered that I don't really need new things. (That's what I do when I am on my productive phase of course, when I am back to having more relaxing time, I enjoy reading, trying new healthy things, walking/biking more, etc).

This way, when I am working long hours, everything else is put in autopilot and I don't want to think about it. I want my default choice to be decent.
> White space is bad for readability anyways.

Question{Which|of|these|sentences|is|easier|to|read;This|one?}

Or this one in the next line?
My mom thought that way until we ended up with 5 more cats. The prospect of 20 more cats didn't quite appeal to her either.
> I can't imagine many subjects for which decades-old results would be more relevant than current ones.

When I’m searching, I want the original article, not one of the 20 blogspam copies that were republished over the years, SEO’ed and loaded up with ads. I wish search engines could come up with a way to more reliably return only the OG article and filter out the copies.
Some grants require open access, which unfortunately often translates to tax money being transferred to big publishers.
Good information hiding and watermarking doesn't get affected by common transformations. Most changes will be relative to other content, so noise and resizing shouldn't impact it, especially if there's redundancy in the fingerprint codes. It's not "frame is 1.1231 mm == 1", but rather "frame is slightly wider than average of other pages == push 1 into FEC".
YC's software team is looking for a full stack engineer
Small nitpick, but COVID and flu are not the same type of virus - coronaviruses are separate from influenza.
You don't need to though. Most desktops only have one user, and you can do plenty of bad stuff without root.
Or they could take a page from the semiconductor industry and replace human hearts with 128 genetically modified mouse hearts in an array.
Most of the benefits of that sort of automation are actually going to customers. Aggregated across all such automation in an economy, that means we all benefit.
> like how-tos on Kubernetes

Honestly although I've occasionally derived benefit from these, I think I'm reaching a tipping point where I feel the plethora of how-to articles with their ads and newsletter pop-ups and everything are less productive than just some plain old documentation and taking the time to fundamentally understand the tech so that I no longer need the how-to. Mainly because I trust Kubernetes to keep their documentation up-to-date but who knows how current a random how-to article is, never mind the marketing bloat they're usually polluted with.
Many offline calendar apps do prune old calendar items after a certain amount of time ... and sync that pruning back to GCal.
Sure, it's obvious that you can't capture that complexity in a single number.

I could tell you my weight, and it wouldn't tell you if I'm a smoker or a drunk, if I eat my veggies or exercise. But if I'm 400 pounds you can still reasonably predict I'm unhealthy, and if I lose weight from there that's a decent sign I'm getting better.
I'm trying to get back to those times, I use Apple Music for most stuff, but I've got a SSD and cheap VPS that I use navidrome on. Nobody can pull the plug on me. AM and Spotify et all is great but the feeling you get when you can't access them for some reason and realise you have become near totally dependent on corporation and laws for something that is core to your soul is a huge realisation.

They can pry my music from my cold dead hands.
There's also survivorship bias at work here -- the SF we remember from the 1960s tends to be stuff that was initially popular and has stood the test of time. (There was a lot of terrible SF in the 1960s, and it was still cluttering up the second hand bookshops when I was strip-mining them in the 1970s.)
By now it's fairly well known the most addictive apps & sites exploit your dopamine system to keep you hooked in:

https://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2018/dopamine-smartphones...
I personally much prefer this version:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUbp_d2DkYU
Watermarks don't even have to be visible. They could do things that survive re-encoding but are too subtle to see. For example adding a few slightly off color pixels to random letters on the page.
> You own the file

Probably not. I bet they're just "allowing" you to have the file.
At the very least though, I would expect my search engine to rank results higher, if they contained the words I was looking for, without having to wrap in +"..." every single word. This seems to be something, that few search engines are capable of. Is this very basic thing labeled as "advanced" now?
Ask HN: Any startup founders that have dealt with emotional problems / PTSD?
Hi HN; I'm at a bit of a low point, because I have some startups that I want to launch but I seem to mess up every possible business relationship that I would need to be able to make it work.

This happens due to past trauma and abandonment; I'm anticipating that things will go wrong, to the extent that anything I don't understand could cause me to panic and give a reaction to that would seem emotionally incoherent to the other person, and therefore a red flag.

It's really not easy to fix this, finding a psychologist that understands it is not easy, and people that you don't know are not likely to give you a second chance if they see something weird. Additionally, it's very hard to get any feedback at all, since it's not comfortable for most people to talk about.

Has anyone had to solve this for themselves? I understand it will be different for everyone, but I would be interested in hearing about any strategies or workarounds. I'm not that confident about being able to solve it with a therapist in the short term, so I'm open to other ideas, for example, hiring staff to aid in communications, or different communication strategies.

Many thanks.
I assumed “victim” referred to the pig, but I believe this is in reference to the fact that the heart recipient stabbed someone, leading to their death: https://nypost.com/2022/01/13/historic-pig-heart-recipient-w...
So not a realistic option, isnt it?
What’s your cofounder say?
I knew I was being milked everywhere in Peru. It didn't bother me because extortionate prices in Peru are still cheaper than prices in my home country.

The only exception was where people insisted on being paid in American dollars. I'm not American so it never occurred to me to buy and bring American dollars to any country outside of the USA. We treat American tourists with a certain amount of eyerolling when they try to use their money in my country, but I have learned my lesson that it is a good idea to have an emergency stash of the currency of dishonesty when travelling abroad.
Tor Project heads to Russian court to appeal against censorship
There are many things I would like to reply to this comment but I'll be brief and direct.

If you consider yourself in any way a Marxist or a leftist, you _aren't_, you are pretty far from it. You are not making a rational analysis of society, humanity or reality based on historical materialism. Going back 200-1000 years is not progress. Period.

Clearly, underdeveloped tribes living primitive lives are poor in almost every sense of the word. They may not be poor spiritually, which is debatable, but that's it. There is no colonialism boo-hoo here. Their means, technologies and knowledge are primitive compared to most current day humans. You are romanticizing them based on tedious with current day lives, but if you analyze their situation they _are not_ in a good position compared to humans in more advanced places in the world.

If you think you would like being one of them just think what their average lifespan is, or what their access to drugs, medical treatment, etc is, or what happens to them when there is a drought.

There is nothing to romanticize about it. They have it very rough and they are poor. You shouldn't based your world view on the "noble savage" myth.
> People who were forced to quarantine and miss work due to government mandates don't get unemployment.

Yes they did. PUA made them qualify too. Or if they didn't lose their job, there was PPP and child tax credits.

> Trillions that ended up in the pockets of the country's wealthiest people, who saw their net wealth double or triple during the pandemic and corporate profits soar while working people fell further under water.

No, this didn't actually happen. It looks like their wealth went up if you measure starting from March 2020 when there was a stock market collapse, sure, but poor people's wealth went up and their income has gone up significantly with pay raises since.
> I feel like I'm encountering more and more sites and articles where I can't seem to find the date.

I think this is referred to as "Evergreen Content", and is encouraged by marketing/SEO companies.
Definitely - how I wish I was surrounded by people from Spain!
Closer to home and a bit more extreme, a few transposed numbers in a scholarly article would be enough to rekindle another autism/vaccine conspiracy theory!
That seems surprising - many citation formats involve the date?
The vast majority of the population used to work in manual agricultural work, until it was largely automated to the point we're down to <1% in agri employment.

The result of this huge wave of automation was not profit for agricultural companies and farms. The average operating margin for farms is 11%. What else happened? The resulting plummeting food prices lifted billions out of poverty, to the point where extreme poverty is at the lowest level ever.

It's a little bit hard to see backroom fat cats with cigars behind this movement when automation has only ever brought massive benefits to society, including when 90% of the population worked in a vulnerable industry.

Your mistake is believing that humans have a fixed set of jobs and when jobs are removed from the job pool that the pool shrinks. In reality, the size of the pool is increasing while some jobs within the pool reduce in size and scope. From my perspective, it's also hard to see how automating back-breaking laborious jobs like cleaning, burger flipping or fruit picking is a bad thing. These jobs ruin your body. Ever see a manual laborer who was over 50 and didn't have at least one body ailment?
That's also true in many big cities (Singapore, New York). This article fails to consider this point of view that she really didn't need the car similarly to many people living in those places today.

The fact that she could afford a maid and nurse, maybe was because she was wealthier than majority of population. If she was in 1% of income bracket (that would be $421,926 per year in the US), then it is not unusual for those people to hire cleaners or baby sitters on regular basis even if they don't employ them full time.
I don’t think the American governments biggest problem is it’s scope and power: I think it’s biggest problem is inefficiency due to corruption (regulatory capture, etc). It seems to me that the biggest obstacle to fixing this is that many Americans see this as an inevitable character of government rather than something specific to their system, and thus spend their time trying to reduce government (ironically making it even less effective by hobbling it with silly restrictions) rather than fixing it into a well functioning system.
If you replace a human organ by organ with one from a pig, is he still the original human? Ship of piggus.
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I wanna thank you for the time you took to lay it out. And, I'm gonna need to look up everything you mentioned, cuz it's more like a 301 for me not 101. I don't even know what a port 80 is!

In the 90s I taught myself html to build out stuff, but never had to host anything.

Apache? I've heard it a thousand times. Couldn't tell you what it was.

So, yeah. Assume I'm yr mom.

This is also a good example of why web2 came to be. Cuz people like me have zero idea what's being talked about.
Nope.

First of all, healthcare in many European countries is often insurance based.

Yes, in some cases it’s socialized. And in those places the healthcare system is rapidly falling apart/getting worse, and everyone who can afford it goes private.

Just look at the boom in private doctors/insurance in countries like the UK and Denmark.

And of course you also ignore the price paid in the form of taxes, VAT, etc. (Nope, not corporate taxes, which in Europe tend to be lower than in the US.)

If you wanted to nationalize healthcare in the US, you’re basically talking about adding trillions to an already bloated Federal budget.

For some reason, I’ve yet to see a solution to that problem that wasn’t some kind of immature, unproductive slogan throwing like “tax the rich!”
The more sleep-deprived I am - the worse my working memory feels to work, nevertheless the more productive I am. A sleepless night gives highly elevated productivity during the next day. I feel boost of attention capacity, inspiration and creativity. It even gets easier to do mental math.

Obviously a sleepless night also causes some physical discomfort but 500 mg of L-tyrosine cures it (and itself also gives some extra boost).

I also used to practice taking a nap every time I come home from the office but such an evening nap always (since my early childhood) makes my mood horrible (grouchy, unenthusiastic and asexual) for hours to come.
> they remove the need to do the work in both music selection and discovery

And this right here is the problem. It makes you lazy, it makes music discovery a passive process. It kills your soul. By requiring active effort to engage with a scene and music itself, you regain a certain beauty and excitement to music because it becomes an interactive process and something you are part of. Once you have "earned" a new album and or band by discovering it on your own whims, you are more motivated to share it and discuss it with people as opposed to just appreciating it as an individual.

Sure, there's a time and a place where you do just want to kick on a vibe and do something else (especially at work) and for that AM Stations or Spotify Radio is adequate, however, it is a gilded cage.
If the site doesn't make many requests in order to work (like for instance HN) then you can also use it just fine despite being very far away from their DC.

And by optimizing for few requests and small size, you also get the additional benefit that it will work nicer if the user has a bad internet connection!