skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is not true at all.

The constitutional powers of the monarchs in Scandinavian countries do not at all reflect reality. The monarchs have no power to influence politics or elections outside of public or international relations.
So, can you point to any case where this power has actually been used against the will of e.g. the parlament or the courts in the last 60 years? Don't misunderstand me, I am a republican, so against the monarchy, and it is clearly a relic from the past. But that is also all it is, in practice the norwegian king weilds political power until the moment he tries to use it, then its gone.
Queen Elizabeth is the Head of state of Canada, is Canada also not a democracy?
My late father bought one of these in the late 70s (he was a bit of a gadget nut) and I played with it when I visted him - things like Adventure, Dancing Demon, Hello World programs etc. Shortly after, I got a job at a university where they had several RML 380Zs, which were basically the same thing as the TRS-80 (Z80, CP/M, wonky graphics), and started writing code in BASIC and assembler. So really the TRS-80 (and similar) got me into computing, as I'm sure it did for many, many people. Thank you, Tandy!
You can describe your wine as a "burgundy style" in your marketing material, just like you can say your wine is made using the "champagne method", but the words "Burgundy" or "Champagne" cannot appear on the label of your wine.
So, this is totally pop-evolutionary-psychology, but I think the relevant predisposition is towards hoarding. For 100,000 generations, humans (and our ancestors before then) have had to gather and store food and other supplies to see them through the winter (or other hard times). We are wired to do this because we would have died out if we didn’t.

Building games let you build up your hoard of stuff (whether trains, rails, buildings, tiberium silos, green circuits, …) in a tight feedback loop that repeatedly triggers the “this is my stuff, now I am safe” dopamine response.

This also explains collecting hobbies, and goes some way towards explaining the desire for wealth acquisition in general.
There was an article posted on HN (no comments were posted) not long ago about European Dark Age manipulation of graves after decomposition:

https://www.sapiens.org/archaeology/medieval-graves-heirloom...
I was a bit annoyed I couldn't use keyboard shortcuts in most online json formatters so I build my own mostly for my personal use. After a while I got the idea to ask the guy who owns jsonformatter.com if he wants to host it and after a while he got on board. So there you go : https://jsonformatter.com/
His full sentence was:

> tell Women painfully stupid stuff they want to hear about their quantum vibrations matching and other new age nonsense.

Do you think "quantum vibrations matching" and "other new age nonsense" are not painfully stupid? Or do you just want to attack the parent comment?
My wife speaks near-native German (C2 level), and as an exercise from her teacher she was given to read Die Jakobsbuecher (and latter to write an essay on that). She says it's an interesting experience, even for her.

PS: I'm improving my German by reading Stanislaw Lem's 'Observation on the Spot' (untranslated to English I believe) - in German 'Der Lokaltermin'. The most useless book for everyday German :), but I love it. It starts with something like 'After crossing galactic magnetic fields I feel them now in my every bone' and continues in the same vein. Not something you could use in a shop or when renting an apartment :)
> Women are preferred for most entry level office jobs

What is that based on?
Here in Europe it's starting to happen already. These companies that are forcing 80% office or anything below are starting to loose talent.

We are a cloud shop 100% remote and I can say we have been hiring some really good talent at the major companies just because of this.

Some people even accept a full pay cut for this.
Uhm, if I remember correctly the UK removed an elected prime minister of Australia (on basis that he was a leftie) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Australian_constitution...
They are not fully "alive and well". Twitter and Reddit have APIs because they are old enough to have made them back when it wasn't clear it would hurt their business. Can you imagine TikTok or even Instagram to add APIs to support third party clients?

Twitter has been gradually killing their APIs.[0] Reddit doesn't offer APIs for the newer features, like polls.

[0] - https://blog.twitter.com/official/en_us/topics/product/2018/...
I can think of a few recent examples.

The 1975 Australian constitutional crisis, where the Governor General (granted power by the Queen) dismissed the Prime Minister.

In 2019, when the British PM suspended Parliament - a provision that would not exist without a Monarchy, as it was technically done by the Queen on the PM s advice. This was later ruled illegal but there was no way to right the wrong.

Recently, Queen's Consent was exposed as a secret process where laws are changed in secret before coming to Parliament to gain the Queen's approval. One example being that the Queen can hire without complying with laws against race discrimination. She also has exceptions from environmental and COVID legislation.

Checking Wikipedia, it looks like Queens Consent was withheld in 1990 preventing debate of reforming the House of Lords. Probably the world's least democratic legislative chamber of any democracy.
Here's the transcript of the NASA Accident Response Briefing in which the Flight Director recounts the loss of Columbia: http://web.archive.org/web/20100318021756/https://www.nasa.g...
I think low ego people attract low ego people. Some are naturally better at detecting this than others.

The problem is that high ego people have a really bad radar for this stuff and attract high ego people, and for some reason they think that they're also low ego.

I adopted some ideas from Ray Dalio, but essentially, pain -> fear -> empowerment -> confidence -> ego (-> = creates). It's actual work to keep yourself from having a high ego, esp. as you naturally advance in life. Maybe I have a naturally high ego, but I have to do things like:

- Practice self awareness through journaling and introspection
- Medidate, think rationally, respond but don't react
- Assume that there's always a lesson in pain
- Assume that if I'm mad at someone, I'm missing some piece of info about them or the situation (~90% accurate)
- Read books
- Talk to people who have achieved more and are generally just nicer to be around than me.
- When I'm wrong, verbally admit it to myself and anyone else involved.
- Constantly be open to learning how imperfect I am.

So then I would just ask them: "What do you do to manage your own ego?" It's principally the same question as what do you do to manage your emotions such as fear and happiness, etc. But unless you can deeply answer these yourself, as I claim above, you probably won't be able to assess whether they're giving you a high or low ego answer.

^ These are my thoughts, I'm not claiming that I'm 100% right.
Strap a GPS on their back and have the surplus go to OpenSteetMap. Or give them a bin bag and have them clean their environment. Or fix bicycles. Or volunteer.

I have a lot of time on my hands, and I always find ways to use it. However I suspect that most modern men don't enjoy such a privilege. They're just as busy as they ever were.
Using the Return Youtube Dislike extension tells me that it is sitting at 12k dislikes to the 11k likes.
This is just another step towards ruining art. Trivializing it, if you want. Why should I care for a piece of drawing generated by a computer? I care for something into which a person put their thoughts and imagination, yes. Even if it's of a lesser quality. But here, why should I be ecstatic? Nice lines, meh, I've seen nice lines thousand times already.
And Tenerife resulted in improved processes and regulations like verbal confirmation of takeoff approval (aircraft now state intent to 'departure' and the word takeoff is only used by the tower when giving the permission)
It's a little surreal to see all this cheering and adoration of fly.io, but they can't even keep their blog webserver up. It's not a great look for a cloud-related company.
I like the type of interviews (even if I don't start working for that company afterwards) where they treat me like a human being. I don't mind even if there is a test that takes few hours.

I like when they are approachable, when they don't use generic questions, when they have actually read my CV and application letter, when they show their genuine interest in my skills.

I've been at numerus interviews where I had a feeling that they don't even know who am I and why did they call me.

I also like if there is more that one person that I'm talking to, like two or three of them (lets say - future team mate, future team lead, someone from HR).

I've learned a great deal from interviews: what are the trends, which technologies really are in demand, is there future in certain fields of IT, what do different company cultures look like, etc. This all has helped me to do a better screening of my next gigs. I've built a vision of what the perfect company looks like for me and what would make me feel conferrable.
Really great, have signed up and embedded on my site. Beautifully simple, very flexible, considering an upgrade to pro already. This is how to do a business!
Can you or your friend provide example links?
Power users would like to get all the space, but when the choice is either you buy just one hdd and get some space or 4+ hdds to replace old array with a completely new one and then left over with unused old one - most would pick first option.
I mean, the real fear for me, is not being vaporize, but learning to live in a post-judegment day style dystopia.

I can see no way that a strike does not lead to escalation.

Our world is so specialized, that even if we have the ability to keep growing crops locally, most of us simply might not have access to the information to how get access to water, grow food, and build shelter in the time we need to survive until we can reestablish society.
almost all the standard c/c++ tools

By that do you mean the GNU ones, or…?
A similar concept has worked well for drones.[1] That's an electric quadrotor VTOL with wings. It transitions to a fuel-powered prop for ranges in hundreds of kilometers. The two-blade electric props stop pointed fore and aft when in fixed-wing mode, for minimal air resistance. There are multiple manufacturers of such aircraft.

NASA has been trying out variations on this theme.[2] Package delivery up to 25Kg or so should work. Human-carrying designs are possible but may not be practical.

[1] https://youtu.be/eyEW8mAJ5a8

[2] https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20205000636/downloads/20...
I don't really get it. If you don't want the harsh limitations of a distribution like this, intentionally made with these limitation as its main feature, why run it? A piece of software that doesn't do the things you want existing is in no way limiting your agency.
Why couldn't you just allowlist your company's network and partners ?
My first computer was a TRS-80 32k.

It also had the CTR-41 tape deck with data transfer at roughly the speed of a good typist.

I learned BASIC by copying short word game programs from magazines and just playing around with it.

Things have certainly changed in the last 40 years.
Scientology was on the menu ?! From there it's just a hop and a skip to FSM :)
Juan Browne goes into the different [software based] flight laws (modes) governing Airbus aircraft at different phases of flight and how this could have happened.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0wh2pZHSjc

TL;DR: different flight laws (modes/parameters) are loaded until airfact has been airborne for 5 seconds and this could have allowed it.
Mine is https://sumi.news. I use it, others use it, and I consider that a success.
Sorry, but this is just a bunch of bunk. Some of the claims here are verifiably wrong. Take a look at this linked Substack post from that thread [1], which claims "The real world data has shown that the death rate among the vaccinated, if infected with COVID, can be 3 to 5.7 times higher1 than the death rate of the unvaccinated" and provides a source [2] that directly contradicts it (ie Table 5). Many other claims are usual alarmist stuff such as making a huge deal out of side effects.

It is intriguing that a lot of high-level decisions were not made based on solid evidence, but this twitter thread also doesn't provide that.

[1] https://drrollergator.substack.com/p/damned-lies-and-vaccine...
[2] https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
We Killed Our Marketing Agency to Grow Our Business
It was a Friday evening in September 2021 when I nearly took the decision to shut down my agency.
Since 20217 where we launched in the UK, we decided to niche down and serve only the nutraceuticals industry. We were doing great until COVID hit.

After the middle of 2020 we started to feel the pressure. We were great at maintaining our clients (actually none left since 2017) but we had a very hard time closing new ones.

I started getting depressed. Clearly something was not working, and I started toying with the idea of closing or selling the business and start something else (maybe become an arms dealer, in another life maybe!).

It was early September that I woke up late at night with an idea.
What if we repositioned our agency and leaving the nutraceuticals industry? What if we appeal to everyone? I mean after all it is digital marketing we are selling - it applies everywhere.

So I took a hard look at our processes and toyed with various business models, until I came up with narrowing our focus NOT to an industry, but to the services we were offering.

So I rpesented my idea to my team early December, and with everyone on board, we redesigned our website in a week, recreated our processes and now offer just three services:

A semi-custom website that we can customise to the customers needs, blog-ready
A CRM embedded into each customer's website
A done-for-you, professionally written monthly newsletter
Optimised lead forms to capture those leads
abd Google Analytics

All these for €129/mo.
Clients who want to scale can do it by selecting an upgrade where we handle managed targeted online advertising, blog posts, extra support hours.

We think its going to work. Only time will tell.

I am submitting here as we just starting to request feedback before we go full promo - we haven't done any promotion and I am looking for feedback and opinions.

I would be grateful if you could tell me your thoughts.
I'd already written a small (server focussed) tool to make use of certbot (or any ACME client really) certs a bit more automated (getting the right combination of certs/key in a file, converting to alternative formats, fetching the OCSP data, syncing across machines, restarting services after they're updated etc);

Last year I added in a 'create' mode where it sets up a self signed root CA, and issues certs using that. The other logic (convert, sync, combine) is obviously all the same still.
Yeah. Things trying to second guess my intentions are not cool.
I'm assuming Corten steel would never be used structurally nowadays?

I know it's sometimes used as a fancy cladding material, but I'm assuming thats all?
>Feminism isn’t about putting women ahead of men though. It’s about creating equity.

This is demonstrably incorrect. In our society, men are underrepresented in all kinds of quality of life metrics. They die younger. They comprise the vast majority of the homeless. The vast majority of workplace death and injury. They work much longer hours. They commit suicide at much higher rates. They have much higher rates of unemployment. They're failing, relatively, at every level of the educational system. They're far overrepresented in endemic illnesses like heart disease and diabetes; as well as mental health problems like depression and addiction. I could go on for a long time.

This isn't to say women don't have their own unique issues - like sexual assault. Feminism advocates for only issues in which women experience issues, and none of the issues I listed above. The net effect is observable today: areas in which women underperformed are now normalising at that "equity" level. But all of the many ways in which men are underperforming are getting worse. Any movement which purports to aim for equity cannot only focus on one side of the equation. Feminism doesn't aim for equity or equality. It is an advocacy movement for women. And that's okay. Just don't lie and say it has anything to do with equity or equality. Don't try to prevent men from having their own movement to try to improve some of the horrific ways in which men are suffering today in Western nations.
Ask HN: What are your favorite crypto SaaS products?
Such a wonderfully human-conscious feature.
That your remarks are counter-productive ? Congrats, you've leveled up at being useless !
>gitmo if not "organized genocide"?

There are 39 prisoners in gitmo. In its total lifetime there have been 780 people. 9 died in custody. I wouldn't call that genocide.
My devtools with svelte and webasm: https://pilabor.com/dev/#/

I use it to generate passwords, hashes, colors and base64 encodings :-) I plan to add more stuff in the future...
The core conceit of their post is that women want to hear stupid things, and won't partner with them because they will not say them. This is essentially a misogynistic point of view and there is nothing wrong with pointing that out. Refocusing the argument on some peripheral part of what was said is not useful, because it doesn't address the core issue.
Partner with someone who does love marketing and split the proceeds.
What Bauhaus ideas do you hate?
Only entrepreneur understand this.

"Manage the top line: your strategy, your people, and your products, and the bottom line will follow." - Steve Jobs

Most managers or CEOs just dont get it. They are always looking at their bottom line.

Edit: I just notice this quote has the word strategy in it, which is strange because Silicon Valley VC BS suggest "execution eats strategy for breakfast".
Some companies do things in stupid orders though. I recently got an offer that had a contract that said the whole deal was contingent on me passing vetting and reference checks. Inside the contract.

Like I was going to sign, give notice at my current job, and if they're not happy I simply don't have a job.

I nope'd out of that process. Their HR was a mess.
For compute:

1. In the beginning (new startup), you don't know what usage looks like. It may not even be used at all at night / during the day. If you're not full-in on managed services, you're burning money on stuff you're not using.

2. Eventually you start to see consistent use. Run back-of-the-envelope numbers on using something less managed, i.e. Lambda -> Fargate -> EC2. If it makes financial sense to switch, do it. If not, stay where you are.

3. Continue to optimize over time in the direction of bare-metal as your cloud spend hits seven figures and higher.

For data:

1. If you have a small amount of data, then managed services are a trap, as services make implicit dependencies on the managed service. Stick to open core. If the amount of data is small, then it won't be too expensive to export it off the environment where it is to a new environment where it will be cheaper.

2. If you have a large amount of data, then your data is probably locked into whichever environment / provider is hosting it anyway, due to egress issues (either via network or via logistics shipping drives). You might as well use a managed service and reduce talent dependencies, as described in the article.
That has nothing to do with lock-in, you can still do your business elsewhere and have egress.

It is more like the position of power AWS has; you can go elsewhere, but you'd have to choose not to make use of the facilities AWS provides. So you either pay for egress at AWS, or pay for reinventing the wheel elsewhere so you won't have to pay the same egress rates.
Yes! Reminiscent of Scott McCloud in the way it establishes and reuses its own motifs.
Doesn't github do that with the dependabot alerts, for free? On each push and via email. Why would you pick this one when you get that without even turning it on
Is this like saying a bicycle removes my agency to sit in a seat and be powered by an internal combustion engine?
My favorite was Posthogs, it was an all-day onsite where they stuck me in a slack chat, had me code a full-stack python app, and then paid me $900 for it. Awesome.
If you are attractive bars will work. Perhaps if you are attractive but not photogenic, bars will work but online dating will not :)
While this might have niche uses, I will say no thank you. Last thing we need is more tech for device attestation and DRM diminishing the property rights of buyers.
Russian Ships Near Data Cables Are Too Close for U.S. Comfort (2015)
> Unless you care about problem-solving, are fascinated by cool and shiny tech, you will have a hard time as a software engineer.

Why would I care about, or be fascinated by, how "shiny" something is?

For me, the only relevant attribute of new technology is how useful it is. I don't give a damn if one is a drab-looking CLI tool with only a manpage for docs, and the other has the most gorgeous looking interface I ever laid eyes upon, with a docs-webpage that looks like heavenly choirs sung it into existence...if the former requires 10% less CPU cycles, and can be intergrated into bash scripts, it wins, period.
To put it in perspective: The A320 rotates at about 150kts, the B350 approaches at about 140kts. Their combined speed was around 290kts, or 333mph. With 3nm separation, that's about 30 seconds before impact. They were half a minute from absolute disaster. Scary stuff.
No, only ad-hominem against people carrying the Gospel are frowned upon. There has been plenty of ad-hominem against me and I don't see you condemning those.
Is it related in any way to the recent news ?
Ormolu: The challenge of formatting operator chains
This. It kind of reminds me of this meme floating around: "And then one day, for not reason at all, people voted Hitler into power." Having young men who feel they have no future is rarely a good thing for a society...
Would recommend some examples and some investigation into the the trade offs and some false positives, coming from someone who's read like 10+ blogs on first principles thinking. The article really doesn't stand out from the competition at the moment. Has good potential though.
> AWS was fucking everyone on egress price […]

And they of course still are, as they didn't change anything related to the prices, but just increased the amount of traffic in their free tiers. That removed the pain for toy projects and workloads not requiring much egress traffic, but doesn't really make a difference for traffic heavy applications.

For example transferring 10TB/month from EC2 in us-east-1 to the internet did cost $899.91 before and costs $891 now.

For reference here is the announcement of these changes: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-free-tier-data-transfer...
I faced this off, said I wouldn't sign until after they'd done all their checks.

Then I got radio silence, could see all the checks passed on their end. Didn't end up signing, kept my current job.

Glad I refused. I don't want to work for any company that tries this bullshit.
Inhaled vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 and variants
> without social stigma

Is this really true? You are describing the quintessential basement-dweller, which is not exactly a rosy stereotype.