skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This, and only this. He literally states "Fast forward two years and several pivots, and my slightly-less-early-stage business is doing $900 per month in revenue... from ads."

I used to hate ads, until I started making money from ads. Now I am writing this fluff piece where I try to use rhetoric to re-frame the paradigm where I was once a disgruntled user, but now I am a profitable pusher.

Particularly distasteful is the notion that "attention is a form of micropayment with low friction". If in the Library of Babel, all combinations of words are possible, I do not believe a more loathsome or self-serving bit of drivel could be found.
You're not actually disagreeing. OP is saying the negative numbers are useful conceptually, which is what you're demonstrating here.

Also thinking about a number line is useful when talking about both negative numbers AND complex ones: negative numbers are to the left of 0, but complex numbers are up and down from the number line.
Is it still? I thought the ability to produce semi-custom APUs for game consoles more or less saved AMD when they were unable to compete in the CPU market.
Well for part of your question you can use rootkithunter (http://rkhunter.sourceforge.net).

Google hardening <your distro> should give a lot of info on best practices.
> I truly hope we do not let technology be used to create this kind of artificial scarcity

Aren't virtual economies old news by now? Plenty of games and game networks have accomplished this with virtual goods.

The 'metaverse' stuff doesn't scare me personally (where this concept could become widespread). I don't buy for a second that it's going to be a big deal where it will be anything more than a niche glorified game lobby.
The problem is, how to actually fund decent journalism? Quality journalism costs money, and personally I pay about 40€ in total a month for a selection of quality media.

Crap journalism - and I'm not just talking about clickbait of the Buzzfeed style, but especially right-wing-leaning rags - in contrast are funded by dark or enemy government money, so they can publish their crap without needing paywalls... which leads to people drifting towards these for getting their news.

Austria has experimented with a different system, in contrast: there, the government pays a ton of money in advertising, so newspapers are essentially free - but at the cost of corruption like the scandal that (thankfully) caused the demise of the former Chancellor Kurz.
Poe's law, sorry. (Although some truth snuck in with the parenthetical about not asking.) The arrest warrants were supposed to give away the joke...

If you're wondering why people see it that way, just imagine a world where a large number of people had undiagnosed social anxiety, and another large group of people had undiagnosed sociopathy, and they both got pushed out of normal society into the same place. Then the ones with social anxiety look at the ones with sociopathy and associate their slightly greater success with short-term relationships with the condition they do have, rather than the one they don't.
These are just over-the-air software updates. When your iPhone gets an update overnight, do you tell your friends that Apple "recalled" your iPhone?

I don't know why they keep pushing these dumb stories on us. It's not going to prevent people from rushing to buy Teslas, as they are basically sold out through the rest of the year!

These dumb stories are not going to lower the $TSLA share price either. They have absolutely no effect
I think your household may not track with many others. Not disagreeing with your personal number as I am sure they are accurate but for most they are very different.
Housing is sky rocketing across the US. Rents are up over 30% in a lot of markets. Child care is basically free for most people after their kids start elementary school. Groceries are far more expensive than they used to be, I am going to estimate at least 20%. For me a very rough estimate of inflation is probably 15%. Luckily I have a 30 year fixed on my mortgage, if i was renting it would be far more. Rents in my city are up 25% last year and expected to increase a further 20% this year.
There's no law in the US unfortunately so there's no obligation on the employer to provide this information either. There is something called "The Work Number" that certain employers subscribe to for employer verification, but that is not accepted by USCIS.
I think, logically, if they wanted thing or service, they'd know they want it, yes?

What you mean is, they want it after being told how this and that it is, how utterly special, how pathetic they are for not having it, how bad they look without it, and a spell of desire and want are cast over them, to covet thing $x.

So many things, are only a thing because someone else has it.
Yeah this discussion around inflation feels a lot like gas-lighting.

> Person: My friend was shot!

> Expert: No, he had his heart stop beating. Stop being so uneducated™ and get your information from places that dont spread disinformation™.

> Person: But he is dead!

> Expert: Stop being so racist and anti-science. All the experts agree that his heart is just transitionally not beating. People dying would make us look bad and that is not the case here!

That is how I see the current conversation about inflation. You're supposed to ignore reality and parrot some dumb talking points. A lack of supply and increase in money IS THE LITERAL DEFINITION of inflation. I don't care about technicalities about gas prices and supply chain. If my money cant buy as much stuff as last year, that is inflation.
People never stop buying tulips. There is always a new breed that create a new self-propelling market rush of doom.

Crypto assets have one rational thing behind them - as an asset class their value seems to fluctuate more or less randomly, hence (as long as the value fluctuates above zero) they provide a nice asset class that is detached from every other asset class - which means they are a nice way to pad an investment portfolio.
I have the distinct impression that whether you put the imports in package.json or in the source file itself, ~100% of the industry is engaging in sloppy practices now. I am terrified when trying to write secure es6.

AIUI, when you add a module in go, the specific and exact version of the module is cryptographically locked in your project metadata. npm/yarn store the hashes in the lockfile but the package.json still uses those (usually) fuzzy matchers, and I'm not sure whether "npm i"/"yarn install" uses the lockfile exclusively by default. "npm help install" suggests that it uses package.json (which does not cryptographically secure the deps so that they match what you originally added) by default.

(Additionally, tons of people install and deploy docker images by tag name alone, which is not cryptographically secure - different environment, same problem.)

My mixed feelings about it are that we are slowly blurring the line between local and remote software, and pretty soon it will be nearly impossible to use most modern software in an offline environment (which is a hard requirement for certain security circumstances).

Basically every single js developer in the world has granted Microsoft (owners of GitHub and NPM domains) the ability to remotely execute code on their machine at will. It's a lot of tooling and infrastructure to update and change in the event that the threat landscape changes significantly (e.g. war, national security mandates, etc).
> we fragment and destroy the entire Internet

I would call fragmenting these things rebuilding the internet. Not sure how consolidating everyone on a few Mailchimp type services is in anyone's interest.
As a US analog, I'm more concerned with my own government collecting data on me than I am about the Chinese. One of those has an entire ocean to cross to cause me IRL problems.
I would say it’s complicated. Religion reflects culture, and culture reflects technological and environmental realities (e.g. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/people-ate-pork-mi...).

Nomadic desert life is brutally hard—I suspect that if a tribe of Arab nomads had the individualism of people from San Francisco they’d all quickly die of starvation. Independence of the individual from the extended family unit isn’t all that viable absent market economies, social safety nets, etc. Independence of women from men isn’t all that viable in an environment where survival requires physically demanding and dangerous work (herding animals, fending off intruders, etc). Even in modern western society, the old depend on the young for survival; the physical safety of women is underwritten by armed men, etc. We just have layers of abstraction (Social Security, police departments, etc.) that allow those things to be done at arm’s length. In a pre-modern society those social dependencies all collapse into the family unit.

I tend to agree that, as all these economic and technological predicates for individualism arose, Christian societies were better positioned to take advantage. On the flip side, my personal belief is that modern western societies have taken that too far, to the point where they’re no long even viable as societies. The future of Europe, for example, looks to be Islam. Maybe a moderated, more secular version, but probably still quite different than the culture that prevails today.
Clickhouse has got a lot better in limited memory environments. They now recommend 4GB minimum.

The production environment that crashed due to Clickhouse OOM was our hosted product a while ago :) After that, we haven't had any downtime on our Clickhouse DB for over a year.

The issue with disk space stems from a bad default configuration. Clickhouse used to have EXTREMELY noisy debug level logging enabled by default with no rotation. This has been fixed in our hosting repo[1] so you get sensible defaults.

If you don't want to worry about downtime, planning disk space or compute capacity, then that's exactly what we offer at https://plausible.io. We process and keep the visitor data on our Hetzner servers in Germany.

1. https://github.com/plausible/hosting
Ok, now what's the difference between sharing "1 bread sold" (with no identifying information about the customer) with a third-party and "1 page visited" (with no identifying information about the visitor) with a third-party?
explain to me what crypto and NFTs are and why they are bad without knowing anything about crypto and NFTs
Polio's deadliest year, 1952, killed 3,145 Americans.

The deadliest day of the COVID pandemic beats the deadliest year of polio.
A heuristic I like to use is that when someone presents many reasons for why they like or dislike something, they’re usually excluding the main reason.

The rationale for this is that causes are often power-law distributed in importance, so the top reason will be most of it and the other reasons are merely supplementary or for the purpose of argument.
As someone who lost a day of work because a clever ad prompted my partner to install malware (it looked like an official Adobe Flash update), I'll continue blocking most ads for the foreseeable future.

The only ads that I don't block are banner ads posted by small time websites. For example, a sports blog for my almamater hosts their own local ads. I don't block those because all their ads are image banners with a link to local to the university businesses.
I don't think it can. Maybe they can buy yandex, but i think europe has drained its talent tothe US. And even if they build it, how will they monetize it?
Does anybody have an exmple of this and how / why I could use this?
Patience. Trying to get ahead of the market will most likely just put you in a bigger hole. There is really no safe haven right now, treasuries pay nothing, inflation is eating savings for breakfast, housing is the worst of all.

Your best bet would be to pick 5-15 uncorrelated assets and spread you investment over those assets and just wait. This would simply be to reduce risk.
maybe dust?
I’m not sure I agree. Inflation started rocketing up in April 2021 and if I search google for news articles with the word “transitory” before 2021-06-01, the top two results are “The Fed needs to get real about inflation” and “Inflation: transitory or persistent?”

Obviously there’s some bias there in regards to ranking (as inflation is a highly charged topic so these articles were probably popular for months), but it seems clearly false that media has taken as fact that inflation will be transitory
Hey all,

Distributed is a quick hack I built on top of my day job M3O, it's an open source bulletin board which you can use to stay in sync with your remote team. I spend a lot of time on slack, discord and zoom. I think some of that can just be reduced to async comms in a notice board manner. It was inspired by HN in some ways with a different format. Feedback and contributions welcome.

The demo app https://distributed.m3o.app

Check it out https://godistributed.org

And Github https://github.com/godistributed/distributed
Which camp is plain wrong?

The side that insists on using strongly typed languages for a weekend throwaway project?

Or the side that insists on using dynamic languages for 2000 file projects?

I always see "rifts" as a lack of perspective. One solution is obviously the only best way because they only see their narrow sets of use cases.
I suppose GA effectively tracks you across IP addresses and maybe even across private sessions on one very popular browser.
Even though many of these things are grifts wrapped in scams boxed in hustles, the idea of fiat currency upheld by energy and math seems like an improvement over a fiat currency upheld by energy and weapons, and a worthwhile endeavor.

BTC has beaten my money market account by a ridiculous amount. As a store of wealth, it has done its job well so far. People keep saying that it's a bubble, and perhaps it is. My gut tells me that the Weimerica scenario is just as likely as a BTC bubble-burst. I like having a variety of baskets to put my eggs in.
Bitcoin DAO Tooling Survey – What Can BTC DAOs Learn from ETH?
> [...] but the distributed ledger system is pretty interesting, isn't it?

Yes, the protocol itself is pretty interesting and I've seen no one bashing Satoshi. If anything, Satoshi is often venerated on this website for his impeccable technical and communication skills - and for good reason IMO as the body of work he left is astounding.

A big part of parties involved don't understand the first thing about currencies and yet they want to disrupt "currencies". Don't understand the trade-offs of democracies but they claim that BTC will "democratise money".

So put together all these absurdities that we often have to bring down on HN and I can why someone would consider that "hate". It's not hate it is healthy criticism. Before disrupting something, you need to make sure you understand the reasons behind specific choices the society made.

That said, crypto-currencies are here to stay, eUSD, eEUR, etc. are on the way :-)

ps. Isn't it ironic that Satoshi invented BTC as a non-centralised system and instead the tech will be used to enable the most tightly controlled monetary flow ever :-P
I think they're actually a media company that happens to make hardware.

The loyalty of their customers is a result of the high-production value streamed and recorded classes and the celebrity appeal of their instructors.
Yeah a pull-over, as I understand it, is a run ending event. They try their hardest not to get pulled over.
Because of the way shelter costs enter into the CPI, these increases in owned home and rental costs have not yet contributed much to overall inflation.

Our analysis, however, suggests that these higher shelter prices are likely to soon show up more clearly in the monthly CPI, potentially adding several more basis points (hundredths of a percentage point) to monthly inflation than they do now.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/cea/written-materials/2021/09/09/...
Why is someone not enjoying something someone else does sad? You probably have things you do not enjoy, yes? And people pestering you to partake of those things you do not enjoy ("just try the liver") annoys you, right? And if someone told you that made them sad you would ... well, I don't know, what would you do?
The US is a surveillance state entrepreneurial free for all. I suspect the surveillance databases we know about are only the tip of the iceberg.

"You could sit at home, and do like absolutely nothing, and your name goes through like 17 computers a day. 1984? Yeah right, man. That's a typo. Orwell is here now" - in a movie that was released over 25 years ago, and our society has been sleepwalking further into the panopticon ever since.

We desperately need a US version of the GDPR, one that doesn't get neutered by all of these surveillance industries interested in preserving the status quo of their anti-human businesses. In fact I'd say the US should just wholesale adopt the EU GDPR verbatim, and let the courts figure out the details arising from different legal systems. That couldn't be any more complex than interpreting all of the loopholes the corporate Parties would end up adding to newly-drafted privacy legislation.
Am I wrong in thinking this is similar to the below code?

<?php include("https://otherdomain.com/somephpcode.txt"); ?>

PHP got ridiculed for years for having this sort of stuff available (even if off by default eventually).
IANAL but I don't believe this commenter is correct. If they were, this would essentially prohibit any non-EU company from doing any online business with anyone within the EU.

I suspect the issue is rather that Google Ireland are not in fact exclusively housing EU data within Ireland (or the EU in general).
Flowers are also advertising. Flowers are usually considered beautiful and a good thing. It follows that advertising is not categorically bad.
I stumbled on this excellent article from 2015 that describes a really cool mechanism for tracing function execution in Python. This technique is used in the [autograd library](https://github.com/HIPS/autograd), which is a precursor to [Jax](https://github.com/google/jax), a competitor to Tensorflow and pytorch that's starting to gain traction.
Is it? You don't need 100 pushups to build muscle. At a certain point you are well overdoing it, and definitely not doing your joints any favors. So why do it?

Overtraining is a real thing, and this person is doing it. Either that or they're embellishing to make a point.
Wait, wouldn't that imply that EU startups can't host their infra on GCP, AWS or Azure? I'm not even talking about analytics - just about simple user email required to login would be problematic now.
Well, it is true that when I see someone bashing Bauhaus style without elaborating on why, I start looking through their comment history for far-right dogwhistles.
I've kept an aquarium or two in my time so I'm always happy to see articles that show the proper way to do things.

If any beginners take away one single point from the Aquarium Basics guide then this is it -

Feed lightly once a day an amount equal to one fish eyeball (six fish = six fish eyeballs)
>I'm sorry you're having a hard time.

Hmm? What makes you say that?

>I think you might want to moderate and adjust your media consumption. I don't think the information you're getting is benefiting you.

Is there something you disagree with?
There's no way the janitors are Apple employees. Standard procedure at big companies is to hire contractors for janitorial and food services.
I don't understand your point here. In literally all these scenarios, you would still be billed, and it would be appropriate.
Interesting that it appears the cranberries are being harvested in dry fields. I always assumed that flooding was an old harvesting technique.
There are plenty of smart people - scientists even - who believe in all kinds of deities.

Mathematics is indeed not a form of science. But the existence and shape of mathematics is an observable phenomenon, and so metamathematics - the study of what it is and where it comes from - can be studied scientifically. How do you know mathematics exists? Well, there's a textbook right there. Who wrote the textbook and why? A human, expressing metaphors inside their heads. How did those metaphors get inside that human's head? Ah, well, that's the interesting bit - the answer of course transpires to be "a combination of innate ideas imprinted by genetic evolution by natural selection, and sociology". And you don't have to stop there, you can explore in glorious detail exactly where each idea comes from, what innate monkey-ish tendency is being deployed, how exactly ideas like "infinity" fit in a mind designed for finding fruit and chasing things.

We can similarly bring all manner of religious beliefs under the anthropological knife. It's not a pretty process though, to the people who believe in them.
> because it would mean the web server has to produce rendered bitmaps, specific for the fonts, window size, and display panel led configuration over the web. The browser cannot even select text or provide a search dialog. That is almost VNC.

So not much different than "modern" <canvas> based apps.
Third-Party APIs: Shatter the Big Data Barrier
A recent HN submission [1] highlighted that a surprising amount of detailed employment history is shared by employers with third parties.

When I pulled mine it said “SW Dev Eng 4”, curious to see if that’ll change to “Associate” after I quit… or if third parties track the entire title history, like they do track salary history.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29834753
I saw this coming and knew I'd need some things when the stimuli hit, so I bought a computer and some other stuff I needed. It extended me a little more than I would have liked, but I have to admit it was the right call.

I still would have needed what I bought, but it would have cost more (or I would have had to buy a different - probably more expensive - item due to supply chain issues) if I waited.

I hate being incentivized to be 'irresponsible'. It feels like I'm living in upside-down world.