skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your basic problem is that a single person can pretend to be many persons, and therefore use up much more resources than expected.

The only way to prevent this is to identify the users in some way. Every way of identification is a tradeoff between convenience and security.

CC card info is very secure (it's really hard to fake a CC), but it's extremely inconvenient. Personally, if a service requires me to put in my CC info before even trying it, I am not using it.

Phone number is fairly secure (can be faked, but faker must spend money to buy phone cards, so their costs scale linearly), and it's kinda inconvenient, but not really, since every website and its grandmother ask for 2FA nowdays. It's more inconvenient for you, actually, since you have to find a way to send an SMS to any phone, anywhere in the world.

Email addresses can be secure (but only because most email providers require email confirmation over phone number), but they are the most convenient option I can think of. Ngrok does something like that, they require an email for an account, and provide you with a key you can use to use their service. Free option only gets you like 4 tunnels and 40 connections/minute, which I assume is negligible, given their total traffic.
I take a really libertarian stance on this stuff: why should I care? If someone wants me to call them 'she' when they were biologically born 'he', why not? They're not hurting me or anyone else. If it's not my thing, that's fine. Guess what? One of the cornerstones of libertarianism is: everyone is not like me and that's okay.

The whole thing is obvious right-wing outrage trolling. Yes, before someone says it, the left does outrage trolling too.

Read Utah's Republican governor's letter on his veto of an anti-trans bill: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/03/read-utah-governors-...

TL;DR: I am vetoing this because it's pointless theatrics that could hurt people.

I must also add that this is a tiny percentage of people here. Even if (hypothetically) this is not a good thing, it's not going to cause the (rolls eyes) collapse of Western civilization.

A nuclear war on the other hand could destroy Western civilization. I hear one of the extreme right's favorite strongman buffoons is threatening such a thing right now.
Yeah I believe that could be true for the wider population, but the empirical evidence from my personal study into this shows that I’m completely incapable of any kind of extended concentration without entraining my neurons with repetitive beats. n = 1.
same here, it worries me how many people are unaware of this :(
I think this is a great idea. You don't even have to market it like that: just have a very simple sign up form for requesting a trial. The only "requirement" would be a short discussion with a representative from your end where the customer explains why they want the trail.

Market it as a positive (free trial!) and not a negative (if you don't want to give us your CC info...) and you'll have human psychology in your favor. You also get insight into your users' use cases for free.
I'd like to add:

3. You usually end up with prints of all your photos after getting the film developed. It's really nice going through them on paper and you can put them in a photo album.

One thing I found was that when you arrange your shots like that there's quite a few shots that you didn't like initially but end up growing onto, especially when juxtaposed with other photos.
"Content moderation" is literally intending to trample on free speech. It's the point.

Hate speech is not pejoratives. It's speech that the authority hates. These might right now appear to be overlapping but it's not going to stay that way.
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I didn't say 30% fees are immoral, I said 30% fee walled gardens are immoral.

Especially when you make it all but impossible for third parties to operate outside of that walled garden.
95% of the article is about getting Docker to run properly on M1 - not Java. The JVM works fine.
That would make me not only tell everyone I know what a bag of dicks your company is, like people I haven't seen in years would get a hand written letter telling them about this, my techno-illiterate grandma, every. one. I. know. I'd hand out free T-shirts printed with an account of my experience. After this I would then sign up for your competitor's most expensive offering out of sheer spite.
I used to use slack-term and/or Ripcord specifically I wanted the "degraded" experience - i.e., smaller resource footprint and none of the gimmicky nonsense.
He criticizes Plato's idea of philosopher kings, saying it was likely motivated in part by self interest, but are we supposed to believe that, as a Jew, the idea of an open society was not also out of self-interest?
SaaS is definitely hard to price but some trends are hostile. Recently, Netlify contacted us about our pricing and we had a call with them; because we had more than 7 users, based on their new pricing structure we were consider "enterprise" to them, and our bill was going to go from ~$200/mo to $2500/mo (not a typo) very graciously "discounted" for a length of time to $1000/mo.

Despite our low usage of resources and features that hadn't changed in a year, they suddenly wanted to charge us more than 10x a month, solely based on user count. If we dropped our user count below 7, we could still have the same pricing. It's absolutely absurd.

Zapier has similarly unfriendly user pricing; one of our team needed a few basic simple zaps for a workflow and since it's business process, we needed someone to have access to it too for management. That means we now qualified for the "team plan" which jumps the cost from $0 for the free plan (which already offered more features than needed) to minimum of $299/mo, with a whole ton of resources and features we didn't need, just to have an extra user.

For all that cloud pricing is difficult to predict, I'd much rather be charged by usage than arbitrary metrics like users (except where it makes sense).
Age: simple, modern and secure file encryption tool
That's a wild edge case. And yes, a bank or whoever should be able to note your real name. It's the banks' problem for using obsolete things, not a GDPR problem.
NATO Bombing of Yugoslavia
Reading the comments I get that everyone agrees that UI has gotten worse over the past few years.

My word of choice is amateurism.
Yes, but the people who don’t trust them with their CC are much more difficult (non-)customers to reach. Filtering the set of prospects to the easiest ones to convert, providing that set is still large, seems like a good 80/20 use of a startup’s limited time.

If you were a really hot prospect, super-interested in using elest.io for a big project but didn’t want to give a CC because <reasons>, I’m sure you’d find a way to contact them by email and try to work something out. And they’d find a way to vet you or just turn on a free account for you.* The casual “no way I’m giving my CC” people aren’t high-likelihood future paying customers.

Gate with a CC, make sure there’s a way to send an email/free text form and move on with building the company.

* “no way I’m sending an email either for a free trial just because I won’t give a CC.” “OK, you’re not a prospective customer. It’s a numbers game.”
They can, but why they should be forced? I mean its their own platform, they shouldn't be used to offer interop. They _could_, if they wanted to, but it's their platform after all, and forcing a private company to open their own pripriatery platform to 3rd parties is plain wrong and against the rights of the company. It's theirs after all.

The right thing here would be making a standard, modern way of communication that supersedes SMS/MMS with a push for global adoption that has all the necessary features of sending videos/images/links/locations etc. with E2EE that is part of GSM technology suite which is either super cheap or free, to offer a sensible alternative to free but closed down services offered by giant companies. That would be much more fair play for a free market.
Yeah, and trade certain security for certain freedom?
Where in the world did you get these ideas?

> They desperately need new revenue streams to support their primary product (the Firefox browser)

No, they don't. The Corporation receives almost half a billion USD annually—over 2.5x what they were bringing in 10 years ago (when they were supporting 20+% of the world's Web browsing; for comparison, they're now at <5%). And whatever they make from MDN Plus, it likely won't even be half of what they flush down the toilet on the marketing department every year.

> since it's non- revenue earning

What? There's a reason why Firefox is Mozilla Corp's primary focus, you know—because it's one of the few things that does pay for itself (and then some—most of Mozilla's adventures are funded by revenue tied to Firefox).
It's not until you decide you want to start tracking people or in other ways use their PII that you should become worried, indie or not.
People became too trigger-happy, and there's this ever-changing baseline and being left in the wrong side of it immediately kills your career.

I'm a cis male who's also a proud feminist, but I also think that I can get myself easily cancelled if I'm not formulating my opinions very carefully.

Heck, even the things I just wrote here can be enough to trigger a lot of people!

I'm totally ok if people will argue with each other, or use their free-speech to protest the things they see wrong. But no, what's forming today is an organized "shut these people up or we'll kill your business" angry mob.
‘People would chase me’: the taxi bike rider breaking Uganda’s taboos
Ask for a phone number for 2 factor authentication.
This PDF brings back memories. I went down this path about a little over a year ago—it’s great fun. I didn’t end up finishing anything significant but I’d highly recommend everyone give writing a kernel or an OS a shot sometime. You will learn a whole lot.

If you’re interested, the OSDev Wiki [0] is a great place to start, as are Bran’s Kernel Development tutorials, which I can’t seem to find on mobile right now.

[0] https://wiki.osdev.org/Main_Page
No, it's until they decide they want to abuse personal data.
How often do one change IP when on cellular? I have no idea, but seems like it might become a problem. Probably worth the trade-off though.
This is not my experience. I've seen a lot of borderline cases where the doctors don't really know if there's a minor fracture or if it's just a partially torn ligament. Typically these are hairline fractures, but it's still valuable to know that it's there to ensure the patient protects the bone until it's healed.
I am only disappointed that SSH certificate didn’t leverage OpenSSL for their powerful capability.

I guess that’s the small price to pay for speed of development without going through the international committee of ASN.1
Microsoft couldn’t employ their standard anticompetitive playbook on Chrome due to the antitrust process. So that gave it a chance to become viable.
As we grow older, we tend to do things with intentions. We want to make the best use of our time and be productive. However, what we often need is not to keep the mind engaged. We need to relax and play. One thing I found helpful is to think of some outdoor games or activities you used to enjoy in childhood, then do it without purposes in mind. Just for the sake of doing it.
What state, and which rights are being removed? Give us some pointers to the laws related to those rights which are being removed. If you can show proof that men and women who want to live as the opposite sex are granted fewer rights than others I will concede your point.
WhatsApp still uses XMPP, but has never federated with other servers.
While I get the intention behind simplifying the web and the way we author documents on it, just like gemini this misses the mark by simplifying to a degree that gives as less capabilities we have now in the medium of html/text.

For one thing, I think common mark is really the worst form of markdown and especially considering the whole angle of hacker culture and DIY these kind of projects clearly aim at, I am always baffled that something more feature rich and easy to interoperate with like pandoc flavored markdown is not chosen.

And tables are optional? That does not sound great for many Text documents to be honest. I would rather argue, forcing browsers to not only implement tables but sortable and filterable tables would give such a standard an immediate leg up over the existing web and browsers and is absolutely something people working with text documents would gain benefit from.

But to this point, I always fell a way back to a more text focused web should also have even more a focus on hypertext than the original web did. The real value besides having it run in simpler browsers would be to offer features that were never realized on the web but could revolutionize how we work with text. I like to see more inspired be Engelbart or Nelson and really bring forward a new, more useful sort of web. Of course, that adds complexity and that has to be careful managed, but besides the community around it, gemini, and looking at it also this, are mostly not more featured than swapping text files over ftp, and I feel this is really a shame.
> flags are encoded as combinations of two letters, etc.

Up to four (or more?) in some cases. Example: The flag of Scotland, that's a four-character combo IIRC.
Great advice, consider different free tiers as well (anonymous users get x free uses, registered get y more, registered w/CC get z more free uses etc).

Once you have your CC subscribers really work on retaining them and reducing churn, if they try to cancel show then messaging that reminds them of the value of the service or offer them a discount, as examples.
I am totally lost as to how this is a cloud.

The author's definition of pocket-sized cloud is "a place to run our code, which can be configured through an API - using containers for packaging" and that is not what I understand a cloud to be.

It doesn't seem to have any of the definitive properties of cloud computing. What am I missing here?
No I dont mean that at all. I mean the point of view that Stalin was effective manager and that purges was unfortunate event that "just kinda happened" without anyone being responsible for anything. I also mean interpretation of Ukraine as "not a real thing" and everything related to it.

I also mean what went on with Memoir group in Russia for years already, suppression and persecution. I also mean closing of archives in Russia that happens years ago.

Self image of KGB is based on them considering themselves useful and good servants of the country. The ones keeping it together and the ones protecting it.

I am not entirely sure what you refer to.
> It tracks clicks on non clickable items

This rattled my brain, that this is a feature now, says volumes about the quality decline in UI. I am a developer, and mainly use tools on the command line, or with TUIs.

But whenever I use android apps and websites, I constantly find myself longclicking or rightclicking things, hoping for stuff to happen, that just doesnt.
Mark Fisher’s “K-punk” and the futures that have never arrived (2018)
Fellow OSS founder here (robusta.dev for Kubernetes monitoring).

Can you explain in more detail the way people are misusing your service? Aren't you running within someone else's infrastructure? At least that's how I understood your site.

We have an extended free trial for our SaaS platform (the only part that isn't open source) without a cc and have seen a lot of usage but nothing we'd flag as abuse. (Lots of fake accounts, but those don't hurt us.) Different product though so obviously the potential for abuse is different.
The EU and other counties can get the gas and (especially) oil elsewhere, admittedly at not such a cheap price.

Russia however has just alienated its biggest paying customers, and for what?
I'm not going to explain to you why discriminating on things not relevant to job performance is bad. The fact that we have horseshoe'd our selves back to this conversation is honestly appalling.
And what’s the coffee machine running too ? wouldn’t be surprised to see armv7 in use there.
> R and its inspiration S had these, SPSS, SAS, SPlus, and who knows how many other stats programs over the decades, going back to the 1970s or even 1960s, mostly under Unix and mainframe platforms.

Minitab!
Which is why QtQuick controls always looked like absolute garbage.
And firefox degraded as well when webrender got enabled.

I'm not sure I follow the upstream reasoning, in either gtk/qt/firefox/chrome... I'm reading text all day. The UI is still built around 90%+ text, except in very few edge cases.

I'm using 4k monitors, and I'm still a minority. Despite this, at 4k, we're still several years away from the point where we can turn off hinting. Probably a decade away for universal support. A lot more if we include existing monitors.

Between 92 and 270 dpi text still looks bad without proper grid fitting. Under 120dpi we're talking about garbage-level quality. And between 250-300 the difference is still noticeable to make it worth it.

I'm not sure what these people are smoking.
>I have to add that I don't think any of my films were ever destroyed by an airport scanner.

That is a bit of a myth these days. Modern airport hand luggage scanners are safe up to ISO 800 or so. And from my experience airport staff is very willing to hand-check high ISO film (did an intercontinental trip with T-Max 3200 once and had no issue getting it hand-checked in 4 different countries - it probably helped that I separated out only the 3200 film and got all others scanned regularly)

I hear there's new CT machines which may cause issues, but apparently the staff is well aware of this and they should be labeled.
> Because it's their corporation and they can do whatever they want with it

No, they can't do whatever they want with it. Consumer protection laws are an obvious example for how corporate interests can be limited.

> because it's far from a monopoly since there are alternatives.

It's a duopoly. iOS and Android together represent about 98% of mobile devices.
> the option for not having the official COVID green pass app here in Italy is to find an authorized place that will print you a green pass on paper, and it's hard to find one, let alone schedule everything and get there without a pre-existing pass

Apple's pseudomonopoly does not strike me as the root cause issue here, developing processes and using tech to solve a people problem does.
Isn't skin color based privilege the same though? If someone darkens their skin so everyone perceives them as black instead of white, then that person lost their privileges of that point forth.

White privilege is very much a treatment by society. Racism and sexism are both enacted upon by people based on social norms.
I heartily disagree. Maybe its just my privacy conscious european-ness but seeing how companies keep leaking data I do not went to give my data, much less my CC, to a service I'm not actually sure i will end up using.
I can only assume that I've finally found a soulmate that just don't like writing TS code.

Like, in my full-time job I'm using 100% TypeScript, but I don't really ENJOY writing in it - that's why in my all side-projects I use good old JavaScript.

I think it's just a personal syntax preference.

But I don't want to answer this for the OP, just added my 2cents, maybe he has similar feeling about it :)
> Personally, if a service requires me to put in my CC info before even trying it, I am not using it.

That seems unlikely. I am going to go out on a limb and guess that you’ve signed up for at least one service in the past year that required a credit card up front.
Come on, you are comparing a full-blown IDE that holds the whole indexed project in memory, provides constant analysis to a TODO MVC.
They didn't have to look far for the murderers of Charles 2 - very probably the treatment his doctors gave him for his ailments were the proximate cause of his death.
The Paradox of Fiction (2010)
A paid tier would be a product if it granted you access to content that solves problems you can't get for free.

My take is this isn't a paid tier. It's paid features, e.g. notifications. That's not to say it provides no value, but that there is massive value being unrealized.
It seems that quite some dependencies like for networking, databases etc use natively build code internally using JNI. If those new targets like Mac arm64 are not added, those dependencies don't load. I can remember for example the Google Protobuf JVM package which uses the C++ written Protobuf library internally. It took quite some time before people inside Google had M1 machines and were building the JVM library too for M1.

It seems that those CPU architectures indeed sneak back through a back door... The same on Android, there you have also many libraries which need to be build and published for specific architectures. But luckily new architectures are not added regularly.
If you only need PostgreSQL, I find Postico much superior to TablePlus. The GUI is nicer, the support for PostgreSQL features more complete, etc.
JetBrains Gateway – Remote Development for JetBrains IDEs
> Is something a button? Should I click it or double-click it? How about long-press on it? How can I know when there's no visual clues?

Since Windows 7 (or 8, I can't remember) and the "Metro" style apps, in the Control Panel in particular one of the controls (IIRC it was something like the 'show/hide icons in task tray'), that was previously a button, became a "hyperlink", essentially clickable text. Clickable text that was the same colour as unclickable text. What. The. **
> Real Hackers have also known, for a while, that C and C++ are not appropriate for most programs that don't need to do arbitrary bit-fiddling.

Strongly disagree with this statement. I've read it so many places now that it has to be a meme. I actually wish I could use C++ on the web instead of this JS nightmare ecosystem. I don't understand where the idea comes from. I'm never "bit-fiddling" in C++ and almost never need to use pointers.
It's not about NATO as much as it's Putin's wet dream to restore the Russian Empire. This isn't even something new: if you, and many others who talk about "understanding Russia" (btw, there is a term for it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putinversteher) were paying attention in the past 20 years - just like most of Eastern European and Baltic countries did - you would understand why this argument is funny. Actually, it's not funny - it's becoming increasingly annoying to hear it repeated. And it's not a surprise it mostly comes from pro-Russian countries like Serbia, Hungary, and India.
Unfortunately, this (really nice) PDF isn't complete.

For me an Operating System means processes in userland, sadly it comes short of that.

I'm now pushing my own x86 32bit OS in Rust using [0][1]:

There is definitely a shortage of information on this stuff (for example writing a USB driver is really hard and I couldn't find easily available tutorials - you have to resort to raw *HCI and USB specs to get things done).

[0] https://wiki.osdev.org/Expanded_Main_Page

[1] https://os.phil-opp.com/
My son died 10 years ago at age 21, my dad died 3 years ago. There's also a couple cats and a dog who have died along the way.

I LOVE seeing Google photos rotate in pictures of them in this type of thing. It brings back great memories and I always smile. To me, this is better than having them stashed in a printed photo album that I never look at or in Google Photos album that I never look at.
This video has a delightful correlation between explaining the high level schematic of how it's made, and then showing you a pretty nitty gritty on what those machines look and sound like when working and how they're monitored.
Most companies shouldn't be storing CC numbers in this day and age but using tokenized cards instead. Let Stripe worry about PCI compliance, and OP can simply advertise which processor they're using so customers feel secure.
Yet another Java criticism here on HN? For every new supported CPU architecture you need time for "things to stabilize"...