skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“Bill honey, are you still doing that ‘eat the pussy’ piece?” “Yeah mom.” – “Great… You know son, many people at Sunday school asked me when you’re gonna be performing in the area. Bill they all are so curious to see the material you’re doing now and they’re aaaaaaaaaaall sure they wanna see… the ‘suck your own cock’ bit, followed by the ‘eat the pussy’ sketch!” “Bill, I only wish your grandparents were still alive. If only you hadn’t to put them in that Chuck Norris film, baby. I wish to God your grandparents could see their grandson on stage, using his given surname… …performing the ‘suck the own cock’ bit, plus the ‘pussy eating’ sketch.” “Maybe they’re hearing it in heaven mom.” “Son, is there anyway I can ask you to type up the ‘suck your own cock’ bit, so I can pin it to your grandmother’s headstone?”
Microsoft hints it will open up Xbox store, changing its entire business model
No firewall holes.
New planet discovered, circling Proxima Centauri
there are various providers of unlimited data at around 30 CHF/month. I have yallo for 29. was some kinda lifetime rebate program.
Show HN: music mode for everything, save bandwidth with audio only
We are experiencing a strike. Impresa and Vodafone occurred this month, and today Germano de Sousa Laboratories experienced an attempt as well.
I had similar problems. In my case, the solution was a combination of: ergonomic (split) keyboard, ergonomic mouse (a pen-mouse) and a break program. The most important component was the break program - regular breaks and stretches/exercises is great.

https://henrikwarne.com/2012/02/18/how-i-beat-rsi/
I think the main thing is not to send your customers' data to third-parties without their consent. It's usually fine if you use internally analytics for the purpose of running the company, it's not fine if you send those data to other companies that use it for marketing purposes.
Because he seems to spend no time correcting what he'd claim are massive misconceptions among his fans.

Ultimately, Peterson is famous because of reactionary politics. He got attention for opposing legislation protecting trans people and has been riding the "anti-woke" train ever since. That he also has written self help material is just happenstance.
If anyone has FortiNet FortiGate routers, they have something called "automation stitches"[0] which are a way to action on nearly any event, and they can be created in the routers config file. They can even run scripts and chain together. When the criteria is met they can send to a Slack channel, email, Lambda Function, or any webhook URL. Pretty fun to play with.

[0] https://community.fortinet.com/t5/FortiGate/Technical-Tip-Us...
How are they left out? If they have implemented Universal Profile they should be able to interoperate with those using Jibe's.
The savings usually come from the corners being cut on DIY solutions: not accounting for the time spent on infrastructure services, skipping various security and monitoring features, sacrificing reliability, etc.

You can definitely beat it with certain workloads (e.g. high-volume egress) but I’ve seen more cases where someone thought they had beaten it but was really comparing unlike things (e.g. comparing S3 to unreliable storage in a single location) or leaving out operator time.
I'm surprised this wasn't about WASM.

Either way, I'm receptive to the "LiveView" model, but until such a time a server can deliver both HTML and server driven native UI for mobile interchangeably, I prefer the RPC approach.

I don't want to develop:

1. Both an API for mobile and LiveView for web.

OR

2. Create my own server driven UI paradigm for mobile.

I find maintaining one architectural pattern simpler. I do want to support users with the best technology fit, but I don't see why I have to make this tradeoff. The platform holders are (and always have been) jerking us around.

I want to see a LiveView that can deliver both HTML and equivalent native UI markup. This is needed to sell the vision end to end - the world is not just web.

I feel like this would enable a more sensible choice:

Offline (first)? Use RPC with sync.

Online-only? Use the LiveView paradigm and it'll work with native or web.
How is Netflix “rent seeking?” They pay up front to either license or produce shows.
> The majority of this is a bunch of unjustified assertions barely connected

This is true of 99% of blog posts and HN comments which contain the phrase "first principles" unironically.
There are a couple of interviews with me floating around talking discussing some of the mechanics of a post-scarcity economy. I'm excited for it, but am doubtful I will see it in my lifetime. I mean, I was eager for it in the 1980s when I was actually supposedly working on it(!) but I don't feel we're really even on the path yet. As Gary Marcus has quipped: "you don't get to the moon by building more ladders."

On the economics side, tracking of things like the unemployment or labor force participation rate; NAIRU, and all that Keynesian blah blah are stuck in a model and measurement system that is as utterly divorced from how the practical level of the economy works as GDP. It's not like everybody doesn't know this (except cough at the policy level and among the general public).

Yet monetary policy and much of academic macro appears to me fixated on the most abstract and abstruse, and I wonder if that is a kind of uber-bikeshedding, where you focus on what you can reason about, like string theory or high dimension manifolds. I understand that impetus -- it's why I gave up on CS research and decided to work on practical things. But the foundations of the practical side of macro, as I said, seem to have given up on the concrete regions of the economy (I know I am being quite unfair here to economists like, for an arbitrary example, Autor). The famous abstract homo economicus, non-existent as he ever was, has almost faded away. Let us not forget that those new and exotic credit instruments, at the end of the day, need to lead to benefit of some sort for the person on the street. The existence of some new instrument is not sufficient justification for its existence. Yet that's where a lot of attention goes, probably because finance is no longer considered a service industry like gardening, doctoring, or lawyering, but a calling to service...of itself.

To me the economics that is exciting right now is the empirical micro work that spread from MIT over the last few decades and finally even got a Nobel. But little to none of that seems to address the issues of a post-scarcity world, apart from a few isolated and heavily constrained UBI trials.

And that's what I liked (and all I liked) about MMT: at least it reimagined the whole structure of macro, and caused me to think. But the "worker" is still not really visible, any more than old homo economicus. Oh yeah, and what about "citizen"?
4 OS generations I believe.
Standing in a Garage Doesn't Make You a Car- Why You Cant Just “Hire Developers”
Unbelievably 1 year of password manager is more expensive than 1 year of 100GB storage in a cloud provider.

It also doesn't really fit #1 because if my master password is compromised I'm fucked.
People generally don't question when number goes up. They only question when it doesn't.
Funny to see these new incarnations of the old ASP.NET UpdatePanel. I despised WebForms back in the day, but always had a soft spot for the UpdatePanel, seemed like a great idea. Especially when the alternative was manually building and managing UI on the client using ASP.NET AJAX.
What type of server specs (memory, CPU, disk size, etc.) do you use to self host it?

Based on an open issue[0], it's suggested to run a server with 32GB+ of memory to handle hosting Clickhouse but that would mean self hosting Plausible would end up being $160 / month on DigitalOcean which would make it 10x more expensive than hosting my custom app that I want to see analytics for.

I know you can use less memory but it sounds like using less can result in an unpredictable environment where everything can stop working at any given moment depending on what Clickhouse wants to do. This happened to someone who replied in that issue. Their production set up stopped working because it ran out of memory.

Someone else wrote about it using close to 8GB of disk space to track ~8k page views at https://cyberhost.uk/plausible-3-month-review/. That was only written back in March 2021 too. They said they are going to look for an alternative solution because the the storage costs are too high.

[0]: https://github.com/plausible/docs/issues/67
> I have known "off-the-charts" smart people (like perfect SAT at 14), that are extremely rigid and unimaginative.

Yes, being smart is necessary but not sufficient.
Not in the NY to LA “race” but I’m pretty sure people have died or been seriously hurt in the cannonball runs in Europe where a bunch of rich guys with tricked out super cars rally together.

I think the Ed Bolin guy, mentioned in the article, has been pulled over but the cops thought they were drug mules. When they realized they were trying to go cross country he let them go. Not 100% sure if that was Ed or another guy.
"Risk compensation is a theory which suggests that people typically adjust their behavior in response to perceived levels of risk, becoming more careful where they sense greater risk and less careful if they feel more protected. Although usually small in comparison to the fundamental benefits of safety interventions, it may result in a lower net benefit than expected or even higher risks."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_compensation
Our team manager is not too eager to have the whole team at once in the office because if we all get COVID at once, it would be bad for productivity.
Strangely, that seems to be highly linked to the country

> While Americans drove less in 2020 due to the pandemic, NHTSA’s early estimates show that an estimated 38,680 people died in motor vehicle traffic crashes—the largest projected number of fatalities since 2007. This represents an increase of about 7.2 percent as compared to the 36,096 fatalities reported in 2019.

> 2,780 people died in 2020 on French roads, in mainland France or overseas territories. This figure, 21% lower than in 2019, is historically low. This evolution is largely explained by the effects of the global epidemic of Covid-19. Accidents are down -19% and injuries are down -20%.

+7% in the US, -20% in France. I wonder what is driving this large difference

https://www.nhtsa.gov/press-releases/2020-fatality-data-show...
https://www.onisr.securite-routiere.gouv.fr/en/road-safety-p...
I think a lot of the big tech companies are very reluctant to split their operations inside/outside europe.

They gain big benefits by having a single pool of datacenters able to serve users from anywhere in the world. If they needed to guarantee that an EU user would always be served with a machine in the EU, I can imagine it would add at least 20% to their operating costs.

They'd need more equipment both inside and outside the EU to handle failover, maintanance, etc. They'd also have more complexity slowing development down (they can no longer have small services 'mastered' in just one region). And there is substantial extra complexity in application design (what when a tweet from an EU user is retweeted by a US user, but then replied to by an EU user. Where will the text of the tweet be stored? How will deletion be handled?).

For example, will HN have to have seperate databases for "comments by EU users" and "comments by US users"? And will they need a process to migrate your account from one to the other?
I contacted them approximately 4 years ago to denounce the developers of TrackMania that don't hash passwords [1]. I have not received an answer since, and I bet they do not even care. I'm sure they are a bunch of hypocrites and now that they've realized they can make a lot of money randomly fining Big Tech, this is just what they're going to do.

[1]: If you clicked on "Password forgotten" on the log in page, they'd just send you your password unencrypted by email.
They didn’t allow me to create a microsoft account because I used a VPN. How am I supposed to migrate like this?
They use BAMTech, now owned by Disney.
> With all its flaws America is the only country where you can dream of building spaceships, create multi billion dollar tech companies in less than a decade.

Why are these top priorities? Metrics like happiness seem like much more valuable metrics than number of spaceships or massive tech companies.
I've had to change things up a few times over the years mostly related to the mouse. Dude, are you left-handed? No, switched hands with the mouse because my right elbow hurts. Listen to your body. Adapt.
Unfortunately in practice, there is so much ruby/rails magic going on that most Rails projects end up in terrible shape.

It's kind of a catch-22, and tons of companies have overcome it, but rails by far has the "least long term maintainable" defaults. Good for quick prototypes/small teams but bad for large and scaling teams
How can French websites track conversions from Google Adwords without Google Analytics?
The US where it is currently still widely used.
The idea is it's not beholden to a government (though still somewhat centralized somewhere). Crypto is helping people in Turkey store value. With current inflation and economic conditions in the US and Europe more may need it in the near future.
Reasons:

1. Legal: It's the site owners integrating GA and therefore taking on the liabilities just like they do with every other supplier. When a part in your car fails immediately after you bought it, it's the manufacturers job to fix it even if they acquired the parts from a third party (e.g. Bosch).

2. Practical: A website 100% located in France and catering to 100% french customers is much more likely to fix the problem than the international anonymous machine that is Google.
>Using a messenger app

>Download the app from the App Store (iPhone) or Google Play Store (Android phone) and register as advised.

>Threema

>Signal

>TeleGuard

>The most popular messenger app in Switzerland and worldwide is WhatsApp. However, we do not recommend WhatsApp or Telegram for security reasons (problematic encryption and non-transparent data protection guidelines).

Well done, Swisscom!
And billions of EUR of damages for the 'people farming'. Where is the money?
I remember growing up and thinking that Gauss showed up all time, everywhere:
Gauss's law, Gaussian elimination, Gaussian distribution, Gauss formula, Gaussian filter, CRT degauss, Gauss cannon.

Those are the ones I remember, and I went into CS, I don't want to imagine how it was in math.
The AMD Jaguar cores came out in 2013. On the other hand, the Cortex A53 came out in 2012 so it's still a bit embarrassing for AMD. That was before the AMD renaissance, though.
>I typically slide my key into a little pocket and pray it doesn't fall out.

my little pocket has a zipper to prevent things from falling out.
Here is the link that reports about the smiley case from Belarus [1]. It is a reputable news source, run by former tut.by journalists. What is your reference?

[1] https://news.zerkalo.io/life/8867.html
Is it really such a rare occurrence for people to want to see statistics for a specific page or compare pages/articles? Because almost all new-wave analytics tools either do not support it, or it’s hidden and not easily discoverable.
But even if you deep dive enough, there are discrete values, like in Quantum Mechanics. And as long as you have discrete values, you have integers, no? So integers do not seem only like human models, they seem to me as something innate in the universe.
Not only that, they're using a heavy amount of tradition.

They can't just do any random thing even if it tastes good, unless they're experimental modern types, because Italian has to be different from Mexican or people will wonder what is going on.

Most people seem to like the current nationality based food traditions. It lets you celebrate your own heritage, and also explore others.

We can make things healthier, add variants, make vegetarian versions, etc, but not many see to reinvent Italian or American Chinese from scratch.
i think once you go beyond the basics of math, reading and writing, the problem is to order all the remaining material into some sort of sequence, but it matters less what the actual sequence is. you could start with chemistry earlier, and anyone homeschooling may do just that, but this is going back to the exact problem that started this sub-thread: schools being designed to teach everyone at the same pace.
the major other difference being that I can democratically elect who is part of my government.
I cannot do this in a US owned corporation.
What I find even more frustrating is that even your average retail broker is more knowledgeable, relatively speaking, than their crypto counterpart (not that crypto’s inherent dark forest helps).
I know, I've used them in the past. However, I get annoyed by having to remember the exact sequence for the character I want. And often, when drawing a line, I'll just copy some characters that are already there anyway.

Also, I tend to jump a lot between editors/IDEs nowadays so I prefer workflows that don't depend on a specific tool.
Javascript on the server-side has gone from something that was advised to never be used in production. Now it is so ubiquitous that people are trying to replace it with something new and more strict and less freedom... I am fan of modern javascript, I don’t complain or mad about the fast rate of change and improvement in the language. I kept up with all the latest javascript tools and now can build full-stack applications on mobile and web with very similar codebases faster than ever.
Life is complex – it has real and imaginary parts.
for me, it was a combination of

- Kinesis Freestyle 2

- Logitech MX Vertical

- Typing friendly wrist braces.

- Regular stretches

Also, a standing desk and monitor pole mount helped in order to lower the desk to a more equitable height to my arms while allowing my monitor to be at eye level.

Now, I don't have any wrist pain or issues, and the big thing I think is the wrist braces.
Pretty much any of the books or board games or video games I'm working on. It'd be great if they did succeed, but I'm not doing a whole lot in marketing or promotion to try to make them succeed, especially right now.

At some point (hopefully soon) I plan to make a new personal homepage for my projects, get back into streaming on Twitch, and make more Youtube videos about my games (I only have like 7 overview videos of my board game designs on Youtube when I've made like, 40+ over the years, the ones with videos are only the ones I submitted to competitions), but in the meantime I'm just hacking away on them in the background.

https://www.youtube.com/user/cableshaft/videos

Like a new version of my Proximity video game I've made a decent amount of progress on this past year but my only update video is still from October 2020. I had intended to make that update weekly, and stream every time I worked on it but then I got busy at work and worn out and my office became a mess and I stopped doing it. Been telling myself each weekend for the past like three months that I need to make a new update video and still haven't yet. Maybe this weekend I'll finally do it: https://youtu.be/0IAx9fsBuus
We decided to go for (selfhosted) Umami[0] but don't have it in production yet.

It is not really a replacement for GA though, it collects much less data. We've decided it is enough for us.

[0] - https://umami.is/
AFAIK, this could be pretty disastrous for French businesses that funnel conversion data to Google Analytics, which is then used to optimize their Google Search ads.

Switching to another solution for analytics might be ok, but losing the ability to automatically optimize ads based on conversion data is a big pain.
Anywhere in the West and parts of the South have large stretches of empty begging to be driven at 100+. Plenty of freeways posted at 80 (one place in Texas at 85,) so you're not more than double the speed limit at 120 like you were in the 55 mph days.
Look at Turkish Lira inflows into crypto in recent months. You'll see the value. Also check out the inflow of USD as the Federal Reserve printed trillions of new dollars
It's the first time I've heard about a pen-mouse! How long did it take you to get used to it? I switched from Apple Trackpad to MX Vertical and the first couple of days were challenging due to the mouse profile, but then I got used to it and I enjoy it
The point is more nuanced: The problem is not the handing over (happens here too), but the fact EU citizens do not get informed this has happend and have no legal way to challenge this (especially concerning FISA/FISC). They have the opportunity to do so in the EU.

Yes, this is what will happen with a setup of 3 entities, b/c FANG will not want to miss EU revenue.
I'm not sure such split would require sub-companies to be public, they could likely be private, owned by a single publicly traded US company. Tech companies already have many subsidiaries in countries that they have offices in, for example employees in European countries are not employed by a US company, but a subsidiary which is not publicly traded.
Lessons learnt from shipping APIs for Microsoft's cloud platform (2011)
GDPR enforcement is big business for the government, but no money goes to the poor associations, like LQDN or NYOB.

Quite the contrary, those associations have to survive on 'donations', and probably not very high salaries for their staff.
Unfortunate naming..

"I CLOGed my frontend"
Sure. The distributed ledger is kind of interesting. But Bitcoin isn't a good implementation of it, Ethereum is better but still not good, and the vast number of others are obvious scams picking up on the popularity of the first two.

The ledger is also old news. There's nothing to talk about. The only thing that makes news are the scams.
Anyone have good experiences with a LiveView-style Python framework?
I got downvoted the other day for calling Peloton a Ponzi scheme, look at the "TROUBLING INSIDER SELLING AND PLEDGING" slides and the quotes like "We have built a team that I believe is ready to run a $500 billion company. Pick a number. A FAANG-style leadership team" that the CEO was making.
A physical journal, using the bullet journal method is what works for me. It is hard to stick to it the first few months and require a good amount of effort but that's what I've been the most persistent with.

The book "The bullet journal method" from Ryder Carroll was a good introduction to understand how the method works (try to ignore the preachy tone): https://bulletjournal.com/pages/book.

I now have >6 months of journaling, with only a few missing weeks and I can say it has been very helpful to organize my time and mind.

Regarding the type of notebook or pen, it really does not matter, you just need something you enjoy using. I personally use Faber-Castell pens I got for a few cents each (in €) because I like their feeling in my hand, and an idena notebook because they have a lot of pages and I already had a few of them around my house (~6€ each).
Don't quite understand this at all.

Can we cut through the clickbait and see what's wrong here. If my website askes users for their permission to use GA and they click yes then is that still illegal here? I see this as yes it's still illegal.

Also is it illegal because there is an anonymised id number created when you send data. If that's the case then it's not just GA that's a problem but any tracking system i.e. Plausable.

Furthermore given that a randomised unique id is personal data then there would appear no way to use any websites analytics on any website as you have to store this in a DB which will require a unique id per row by design.

What about other data for example a webserver log will contain similar data is that not allowed? If it's not allowed how can I ensure my site is protected as I need those logs to identify and ban hackers.
Facebook’s Failures of Invention