skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not from the US, but moved to Georgia (the country).
> things that are happening but are wrong for wokes

I'll admit that I found parsing the whole comment rather difficult so I may have missed something, but what are "wokes"?
There’s already a practice of businesses storing a paper copy of a critical infrastructure password in a safe for emergencies. I don’t see why the same concept couldn’t be used here.
There's an incredibly large cohort of people that discount or deny their privilege, to the point they laughably claim people can become successful if only they worked hard. They're so out of touch with reality that it helps to post reminders like this from time to time.
Perhaps I'm mistaken, but the difference I see is that SpaceX is spending money they earned from NASA rather than being given money to develop a product.
>also shows that 4 states were carved out probably as favors (does anyone know more here?).

Probably not favors but codifying the status quo to get their endorsement on the rule. That said, I agree that it gives some states more power, but isn't completely useless. It allows the party to test how good candidates are at getting out the vote And adds some option for course correction.
I definitely will not use jDeploy on Linux. Downloaded JVM, without disto-specific patches, is useless, because it will hang or segfault.
well being unable to acknowledge your labor as a legitimate form of work does probably fall into that 10% overlap you need to form a labor movement though.
It is indeed about perspective.

But many people who live in Western, industrialized countries have never been to a developing country, so they have no basis for comparison except what they see around them.

Even my modest apartment, which is completely mundane by Western standards, would be rather luxurious by developing world standards. It's very easy to lose sight of that sometimes.
Yep! Just as soon as, like my parents used to say, "you become very rich and famous and buy your dear old parents lots of nice things".
Not saying India did this, but I would imagine someone aware of Benford's law could tweak numbers to look valid with it taken into account, right? The more folks talk about "I used Benford's law to spot malfeasance", the less useful it becomes.
It really depends on how you're manipulating data.

If you're just making up numbers, Benford's law could pick it up (unless you're aware of Benford's law and create numbers to follow it).

However, if you're just counting a sixth of all deaths, then your numbers will follow whatever pattern they were following before, just lower across the board.

The general form of Benford's law also fails in situations where numbers are capped for some reason. You'll wind up with a strong grouping around that particular number.

All in all, Benford's law can never prove anything. At most, it can give a good reason to look into a situation.
I mean, that's what elections and votes of no confidence are about. And we just HAD a fully democratic election, less than 6 months ago - which is as fresh at it gets in Canadian terms.

This is not necessarily the case where majority of population desire a federal government change, or even disagree with public health policies.

Just because these guys really Really REALLY want to "Fuck Trudeau", does not make it overall representative.
And see my other post - majority of public health policy in Canada is at provincial level, including lockdowns, masks, and majority of other restrictions. Ontario & Alberta are under conservative governments. But some people just want to see things burn and will empathize with anything that goes in that direction :)
Key management is definitely difficult and is full of tradeoffs depending on the risks you want to protect against. There are some nice guides out there that go into some of the details[1][2] as well as inheritance plans, and it typically involves multisig wallets (2 of 3, 3 of 5, etc) with some of the keys stored with a lawyer or other trusted party. Some commercial solutions exist like Casa which can make it seemingly easier, but has increased risk as a result. If you don't plan ahead, it's likely gone, but the setup time/cost of these solutions really only makes sense for large amounts.

I recall reading at one point about future support for time locked multisig in Bitcoin that could maybe help with that but don't know the status of that capability or how it works, or how difficult it is to set up.

[1] https://github.com/fresheneesz/TordlWalletProtocols

[2] https://glacierprotocol.org/docs/overview/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30340548
"i" not in "denial" -> False.
I don't know why this is downvoted. I also have Crohn's and it is word-for-word true.
Sudden death of Crohn's is something I cannot imagine and I've been trying for good 5 minutes now.
Contrary to some of the negative replies this comment is receiving, just wanted to add that I've had new coworkers do this very thing to introduce themselves to me, and I found it a great way to get to know someone new and develop a nice working relationship with them.
I run a blog that gets about 200k unique users a month. My wife lost her job at the beginning of Covid-19, and I slapped a single ad on my most popular post to supplement our income. I hate ads, but income is income. It’s bringing in over $300 a month.

Fast forward to now, my wife has a new job. I still hate ads, but I have become accustomed to that extra $300 each month and have had trouble talking myself into taking it down.

The moral here? I am working on that myself.
This is so awesome. This is what the web used to look like in the 90s when I was a kid learning to program, and it was glorious. Now everything top-10000 websites looks the same. Let's have more daughters design websites!
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30343207.

(There's nothing wrong with it, the subthread just ended up veering offtopic.)
Show HN: Svix – Open-Source Webhooks Service Written in Rust
We are super excited to be open sourcing the Svix webhooks dispatcher!
Svix makes it easy to send webhooks. You send your payload to Svix, and Svix takes care of deliverability, retries, security, and more.

You can read more about why we built Svix in the original Show HN[0], though the gist is: our customers wanted webhooks to build integrations and workflows around our product, but we weren't willing to commit the engineering time, resources and ongoing maintenance required of a webhook delivery system.

Why open source?
On a personal level, I've been an open source maintainer and contributor for many years, and I care a lot about open source. So open-sourcing the Svix dispatcher was one of the first tickets I created on our issue tracker.
As for the company, webhooks are currently a mess, everyone does them differently, with differing levels of quality and features supported. This is something we really want to fix. The Svix service is already making a difference there (we're lucky enough to call some really cool companies our customers), and open-sourcing the dispatcher is the next logical step to increase our impact.

Why Rust?
It's really fast, it makes writing secure and correct code easier, it's easier to deploy and distribute (one static binary), and it's a lot more fun. :)

Webhooks are really cool, and I absolutely love what they enable. They make the web compose-able, interconnected, and enable people to automate a lot of their work! Our goal is to make them easy, reliable, and consistent, so that more services offer them and they are easier to consume.

I'd love to hear your feedback! We've incorporated most of the comments we got the last time[0] (thanks again everyone!), and we would love to know how we can improve the product further. Got any suggestions?

Homepage: https://www.svix.com

Repo: https://github.com/svix/svix-webhooks/

Docs: https://docs.svix.com/

API reference: https://api.svix.com/

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26399672
No link to download :( ?
Using GNU/Linux. Rejecting most tech even if it is “inconvenient” for me. Use cash only except when absolutely required. Use of torrents.
BLM riots were ok

But honk honk honk is terrorism
A bit off-topic and I don't know whether anyone will find it as interesting as I did, but today while reading the source code of npm I stumbled upon a word called "arborist" (which means "tree surgeon" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arborist)), and there's an npm package @npmcli/arborist whose stated purpose is to "inspect and manage node_modules trees".

I have neither directly used this package nor have anything to do with arboriculture (what arborists engage in), I just thought that someone chose a very fitting name for an npm package.

After seeing this HN post I couldn't not share this finding.
I do wonder if the whole data ownership thing has become somewhat confused by the regular usage of "your data" to mean data about you. My email is my data. Facebook's record of how many times I've logged in isn't my data, it's data about me. There should be regulations on what corporations can do with data about me but it's fundamentally different from "my data".
> Yeah, that seems slightly fishy.

Updating your will before a big trip to the other side of the world just seems responsible. No idea what he was doing in India, or what part he was visiting, but it could certainly be considered dangerous and sounds like a smart trigger/opportunity to update your estate docs. Everything else this guy was involved with might seem fishy, but this does not
Too bad that repo maintainers cannot PGP-sign their packages.

Repo ecosystem is only as strong as their weakest link.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I'm as introverted as the next dork but when introverts get their ass on their shoulders and define themselves not so much in what they like but why they think extroverts are lesser people..

I don't say hey... Dudes introverted like me! I relate!

Instead I see a small, insecure person that can't understand people are different.

Because people like a different level of social connection doesn't mean they're miserable or that you are their unpaid therapist.

You sound like a scifi geek who's still grumbling at 30 years old that your dad made you try out for the football team when you were 13.
I'd say the more important part is a baseline of stability. I went through two evictions by the time I was 19, and I ultimately had to estrange myself from my family to avoid getting evicted for a third time.

I'm very happy with my current level of success. I've made 6 figures for a good amount of time and have more than enough saved to take a long vacation.

I can't stress enough how important it is to cut out toxic people. Hell a big part of why I left LA is just how lame folks are.

The typical personal I went out with in LA was around 30 , and simply didn't want to work. Bad things happen when your around people like this.

The moment I moved to Chicago, I was dating a beautiful, amazing career- driven girl. More than worth moving for.

If you date someone who doesn't want to work your life will be very very hard.

I've met a good amount of people from privileged backgrounds ( for me this means you've never been evicted) who squandered their privilege. For ever rich kid that started a million dollar company, another 2 sat around all day doing nothing. These tend to be the most entitled people on earth. If you work at the local pet store cleaning up animal droppings I have way more respect for you then if you live off a trust fund.

Keep in mind alot of lifestyle gurus fit the trust fund kid stereotype. Mark Manson comes to mind, because of family wealth he's never had to work. Then he made millions writing a book about not needing to worry about anything.
I think you are confusing progressive progress with left wing Progressives, which is not the case I am making.

I mean it as: making progress toward better conditions; employing or advocating more enlightened or liberal ideas, new or experimental methods, etc.:

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/progressive

So in the light that Brown vs Board of Education was progressive progress.
A potential solution for platform risk
I was answering the unasked question of why Reddit would care if someone removed the email address associated with their account.
Which ad network/provider did you use for your ad? Did you shop around for the best paying one?
The octane rating of your fuel does not in any way affect the emissions of your car[0]. You should use whatever octane-rated fuel that your manufacturer recommends. Using a higher-rated fuel will not confer any additional benefits whatsoever onto your car.

[0]https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/ask-mr-green/does-premium-...
> Having looked at a few games' source code, are there really any complex games with pretty code?

I haven't seen the Factorio source code, but having read their blog enough, I have to believe they have beautiful source code.
No nonononono, I don’t have any idea how to make or sell Notion templates. This is an AWS backed storage and hosting solution through and through.

Your emails use SES for send/receive, files are stored in S3, auth is managed using cognito, the blog that users present to their site visitors are a Svelte SPA.

(The blog itself is a WIP so im using Notion to host my own content for now)

Think of it as a single replacement for Wordpress, dropbox/wetransfer, and gmail/gsuite.

The intellectual property is the working to provide a fully functioning business-y email inbox running on your custom domain, the code to host your own content at scale on your own domain, and code to secure access to private content.

So, your customers could use you for email management, use you to send and receive files, write blogs, and manage their team’s authentication and authorization.

I wish there were a simpler word to describe it but since it’s so many things, I went with “backend in a box”.
>> Cotten's will was signed 27 November 2018, twelve days before he allegedly died

> Yeah, that seems slightly fishy.

Updating your will right after a major life event (getting married) isn't particularly strange.
Assuming that a person will always be productive for X hours a day, regardless of how long they are in the office, is naive.

The reality is that people spend some percentage of their time being productive. During the day they take coffee breaks, chat with coworkers, check Twitter, etc.

Assume people are productive for 20 hours now. If you reduced the work week to be 20 hours, productivity would go down. There would still be meetings, coffee breaks, etc that eat into those 20 hours. Now people are only productive for, say, 15 hours a week.
Tech exec used access to White House computers to look for dirt on Trump
The issue is far more likely the low volume transaction (of one user) which is itself likely to be a consequence of lack of demand/reason for this service so far.

No one is set up to explicitly monetize your data with consent. It doesn’t seem like a bad idea once society catches up with it.
Lots of ways. For example, say you bought a luxury watch or handbag; found its not your thing, and sold it to someone for $2k in cash.

I sold my GPU for $2500 yesterday. Cash please. It's currently lying on my kitchen counter.

Now, piles may be crazier, but sell a Tesla?
Benford's law is sort of like the Bechdel test. It's trivial to evade if you know what algorithm for which to optimize; it's value is in demonstrating the surprising number of places where it fails.
I have an envelope in a fire safe in my house that says, "Open on Death". In it is a list of all my accounts and passwords. My computer password, my phone password, everything. I use a password manager, so it's an easy thing to print the list of passwords. If I were to die, anyone could pick up that envelope and have the literal keys to my kingdom.

It also contains all my estate documents, like a will and other things. I have emailed my family and told them the location of the safe. The fire safe also contains original paper documents like deeds and birth certificates.
The U.S. is definitely NOT pushing for war. No one wants war with Putin's Russia. But Putin's Russia is a bad actor on the world stage and have attacked the U.S. repeatedly. So we are being proactive now.
This isn't that ironic, as there are often safe deposit boxes with contents more valuable than the cash on hand of the bank branch itself.

Yes, ironic that digital currency is being protected by physical bank, but that's really stretching for something to be haha. It's SOP for banks really.
I'm banned from askscience because the mod doesn't believe that I can both do my day job and make comments on my old day job.

Apparently nobody on earth has two related specializations, and since he's a college kid in one of the two topics, he knows that the comment I made is wrong.

Nevermind that it's about a device that I created, or that I gave him the manual and showed it to be true, or that my comments were friendly and positive.

Nope, just saying "it's a lot smaller than most people seem to expect, around the size of a minivan" and I'm gone, despite a dozen 3000+ comments and no negative ones

Reddit pulling its staff from free labor has left it in a position where nobody can be fired no matter how toxic they are to reddit's user base
Projects like this make me warm inside. Lovely work.
Are you volunteering to call my grandma and walk her through setting that up? Are you also going to pay the yearly domain fees? No? The legal framework needs some work.
Right. Even if I, say, spend half the day taking a walk, vaguely mulling some task in background, doing some vaguely related reading, chatting with colleagues etc. doesn't mean I'd get as much work done if my hours were 9-1. Would I get more than 50% of my work done? Probably. But I'm pretty sure it wouldn't be 100%.

I actually think if I took every Friday off, I could probably hit pretty close to current productivity but I work a pretty flexible schedule and don't have to do a lot of coordination.
I thought reddit died when people started posting those image memes.
"The government won’t say precisely how many American retirees live in Vietnam. Interviews with about a dozen such retirees suggest that some are here on one-year tourist visas; others are here just for a season or two; and still others have qualified for long residence by marrying Vietnamese citizens, as Rockhold did."

It's always odd to read stories like this. There's some kind of implication from the headline, or maybe even that the story was ever written, that there's a significant number of people doing this thing that's highlighted in the story. And then the story invariably will say that the actual number of people doing this thing is not really known, or is pretty low. Seems like you could write this story about so many different groups of people doing a thing. Maybe that's just the point, find a person doing something that's worth writing about and make it a more interesting story? Not really anything wrong with any of it I suppose, it's just usually obvious from the headline that the actual number of Americans retiring to Vietnam is pretty low.

Maybe indication of some kind of new trend, especially after people read this it brings more people over?
Companies are made up of people, and people get things wrong. A great example is working from home - prior to the pandemic many companies refused to consider it. They didn't believe it works. They refused to trust their staff. They thought the IT issues would make it unworkable. It was only being forced to try it that made them understand that it's actually really good for many people. So much so that lots of companies continued to do it, and recruited people remotely because they don't plan on stopping it.

It takes a leap of faith to make big changes like this. Sometimes the decision makers don't have the courage to try.
And GitLab since v10.3:

https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2017/12/22/gitlab-10-3-rel...
It was a joke, lighten up
> I’m an IC and get so many direct requests from my manager, other managers, my team members and people from other teams.

I’ve been where you’re at and I get it. Here is what has helped me get out of that. This is the essential basics of backlog grooming. Track you commitments, manage your capacity, negotiate your priorities.

It’s a fact that one person can only do so much per time period, and reasonable people should recognize that. The process I’m recommending here acknowledges the fact that your capacity is limited and must be managed.

So you keep a list of what you’re working on now and what’s coming up. You keep that list sorted in priority order. Each item on the list has a description and success criteria, to help you and other interested parties see the scope of the work so you can interleave other items into the list as needed.

You have a plan of what you’re going to do with success criteria for each story going out kinda far, so it’s not just a big list of stuff it’s a rough plan of how it will come together. You also keep a task breakdown of how you will approach the items you’re working on this sprint. Together these two facts make it fast to put together a status report of what’s happening now what’s next and when you estimate it will happen.

You collaborate with your stakeholders (all these people wanting things from you) to negotiate the relative priority of things on that list. If everyone thinks their item is on the top of the list, then negotiate or escalate, but the true reality is that only so many things can get done at once. It’s better and more professional to push back instead of over promise.

Manage yourself to focusing on the things on the list and meeting your commitments as a sign of respect to your stakeholders, and in turn they will help you do what you need to do to manage your backlog and your planning.

Once your work process is aligned like that you can focus better.
Some say that doing the above is what a manager or technical product manager does for you. If you’re lucky you’ll have such people to take care of planning and management you. But being able to do it yourself is a good because it’ll boost your skills considerably.
Not at all. Why would I have opinion about what poor africans "should" feel? Who even thinks like that?

I just meant what I wrote.

The implication, to spell it out, is that if you succeed in closing down these jobs, you'll make life worse for the workers you claim to care about.

BTW, why do you quote "these people"?
Most peoples' conclusions are based on some kind of logical deduction. Where people differ is the fundamental "beliefs" which are treated axiomatically (taken on faith) on which the logical superstructure is built.

Edit: people also assign different "comparative value" to different things. Most value judgements involve comparing apples and oranges, but one person might have a preference for oranges and someone else might prefer the apples. Not for any "rational" reason.
...while promising that they would implement new APIs to allow for the same extensions to be built. (still waiting)
Again I ask, if I followed you around making a piercing noise, would you ... like that? Or would you eventually scream "Shut up!"
How to decide if location-agnostic pay is right for you
I have received a few reports on Linux. I'm working on it. Literally this is the reason why jDeploy is helpful. I've spent 2 years working out many details. Every OS/Version/distribution has needed some special care. Up to now I've been working with a single Ubuntu 20 box for my linux testing. Today, in response to these reports, I'm setting up a number of Linux VMs to test other variations to get to the bottom of this. I should have these issues resolved shortly.