skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love the idea, and can definitely see the need.

But I always come to the same question with services that provide auth and user management: You pay a lot of money for someone _else_ to own critical information about your customers. What happens if you want to move away and use a different/your own/your customers own service?

Your customer data (at least login) lives in WorkOS' database.
How do you get it out? How much does that cost? Are there contractual guarantees around that?

The same goes for your customers integration points. If the customer has to do any setup to integrate WorkOs for your app then moving away would involve them making changes. Not necessarily an easy thing to manage.

Not to be negative: I'd be happy to hear that WorkOS have great processes and guarantees around this.
If they offer support for some cases, especially complicated cases like those, they'll get bombarded with all sorts of questions anyways (if you've never heard an IT person get asked about coffee machines "because they're tech" or to help out with somebody's personal phone/PC/whatever, i suggest you visit Reddit, more specifically r/sysadmin and r/talesfromtechsupport. It makes for fun, albeit sad reading.

And discarding that, it's a tough balancing act between helping users recover accounts without helping malicious actors takeover accounts and/or helping malicious actors keep malicious accounts. It'd take effort to train personnel and establish policies to do all that properly.

And regarding customer loyalty, why do you think Google care about that? It really doesn't seem like they do, and financially, their revenue per customer is negligible for that to make a difference.
The most affirming thing in the world is making something and then selling it.

The second most affirming thing in the world is watching someone make the exact thing you thought of and then selling it.
Any evidence supporting general relativity at these scales is presumably also evidence in favour of dark matter actually being matter, as opposed to gravitational theory needing modification. Seems like we can still learn quite a bit from ruling out alternatives, even if it's not the quick answer we might like.
> Kutcher is known to older millennials for movies such as „Dude, where’s my car“. Outside of his acting career, he has dabbled in technology investing. With Thorn, Kutcher entered the market for surveillance technology: In 2020, the organization launched „Safer,“ which claims to be the „first comprehensive third-party CSAM [child sexual abuse material] detection platform“.

So he's shilling his startup investment by trying to get the EU to mandate it.
this is not entirely accurate, it depends on the policy area: the parliament shuffling bullshit is part of the treaties, so France has a veto there

whereas most policy is done via QMV, so the veto isn't a problem, especially if you can wait for a compliant set of governments

once it's implemented: getting another majority to initiate the legislation to remove it is even harder by the very nature of the mechanism
Funny how the "beautiful" of yesteryear looks like Yet Another Beige Box today.
There probably isn't strong support for the outright general ban that's coming to most states. My state has a trigger law and is unfortunately geographically right smack dab in the middle of a bunch of other states which will ban.
"Gripen", only one p. (Pronounced ~"Greepen" in English, and means "Griff[i|o]n". "Grippen", OTOH, is German for "flus", the plural of an illness.)
>"For many decades the idea that the U.S. props up the rest of world ..."

It does not do it for free. It gets many benefits from "the rest of the world". Like buying US debt, trading oil in US dollars, access to cheap labor, bigger market etc. etc. Nothing of what it does is "free". This giant war spending also helps them to bomb other countries into oblivion when they feel like.
The solution is not having any form of "winner takes it all" voting for anything with a lot of power.

Due to the dynamics it creates "winner takes it all" is fundamentally undemocratic.

Through that would be a fundamental change in US politics on all levels, so it's a bit too much to ask for.

And a bit tricky wrt. the president.
"I'd be curious how the other interviewers handled it.

If that happened I would actually directly ask the other interviewers "Did I do something wrong or say something to offend him/her". Put the ball in their court and hear what they have to say."

This exactly. The initial event is not necessarily the worst unforgivable crime in the world. What's more interesting is do they consider that a lapse and are apologetic, or do they consider it normal.

And no one who isn't a complete ass should have a problem with merely being asked "What was that?", and "We don't know but sorry about that." would be good enough for me, at least enough to proceed.

There's always at least one or two douches around no matter where you go (if there weren't, that would bother me more like some kind of brainwashed cult), or someone with a bad day, or someone who "struggles with asshole" ie not a bad person and you could work fine with them but they just have their moments and even they know it. So the incident by itself shouldn't be taken as more than a flag to find out whether it was the exception or the rule.

Leaving immediately is essentially committing the very intolerance that I would hate in others.
Agreed. It's bizarre, but I also know a large proportion of the population get their nutritional information nowadays from tenuously referenced YouTube/Facebook/TikTok videos by unqualified authors, so perhaps not surprising. They are in my eyes no different than the Atkins and Peter D'Adamo's of the 90's. The exact conclusions of this study were:

From the results of the studies included in this review, we conclude that (1) the myth that frying foods is generally associated with a higher risk of CVD is not supported by the available evidence; (2) extra-virgin olive oil significantly reduces the risk of CVD clinical events and weight gain, based on the results of a large randomised trial that included as part of the intervention the recommendation to use large amounts of extravirgin olive oil for culinary purposes, also for frying foods; however, the whole Mediterranean dietary pattern plays a more significant role rather than the supplemental extra-virgin olive oil alone; and (3) high consumption of fried foods is probably related to a higher risk of weight gain and hypertension. However, many factors such as the type of oil used and the frying technique (deep-frying or panfrying), frying duration and temperature, and use of new or reused oils for frying have to be taken into account.
JWST is an infrared scope pretty much specifically so it can see through dust clouds.
Different (maybe controversial)take.

You should be given the choice to be grandfathered into the version of TOS upon first using that service.

I think with social media where value is derived by ongoing time investment of users, the TOS changes should only be applied after mutual agreement.

When I invest hours into helping to flourish a community, I need to be assured the company holds their side of the contract and not change the terms at any arbitrary time.

I disagree with the notion that you can stop using it, if you don’t agree with the new TOS.

social media is different than let’s say visiting Politico, where I’m just a consumer and not a contributor. Politico doesn’t owe me anything.

When you start contributing and building value under an initial sets of policy and agreements that initial agreement should remain in place until mutually agreed to change it.

I understand that causes some operational headaches, but it’s just cost of running a social media company.
I didn’t have cable growing up, but by the time I was in college History channel had already given up on history and was just running “Ancient Aliens” and its ilk along with reality TV. As far as I know, there is nowhere to find good documentary content on a regular basis (whether by streaming or legacy media). PBS gets close, but even their Nova and Nature programs have degraded in quality.
Well there’s this guy on YouTube who demos all kinds of synths and got a huge following from his OP-1 videos: https://youtu.be/7z4hoazra_g

The video shows me that OP-1 is a pretty cool all-in-one package, but it probably needs honing a special skill to work with it as smoothly as that guy does.
See also Control Character Separated Values: https://www.ccsv.io/
Crypto and blockchain tech has real potential, but unfortunately it just morphed into an actual ponzi scheme. I wouldn't be surprised if most of bitcoin was held by ~5 people that manipulate the market and make millions off it.
The 100 was per month so the 6k is also per month. But let me ask: if no time is specified, is salary alway considered per year?
I have an opposite story.

I created a reddit bot that recommended some words to the users on https://reddit.com/r/whatstheword subreddit posts.

I could've done a lot of things to improve quality, but it looked good as a first draft and shipped it following that philosophy. It turned out to be buggy, and the bot ended up getting banned after an overnight run.

So I think "just ship it" applies only in a large market where you can recover, and losing a few customers is expected.
Also, since this is HN, I'd like to mention that I am looking for collaborators/co-founders to work with me on this project. You can contact me at mail@konstantinschubert.com
Wow, that's incredible. Is that because of all the material the black hole is "devouring?"
'next pandemic'...
Engineering Search Outcomes
Prez, probably. Sale is a guy.
– Back then Jack, active CEO, enacted this ban.

No. He's even commented on this. He was CEO at the time, with a board of directors. He didn't "enact" it any more than any CEO "enacts" every single decision at any company.
Implants are not a thing because there's already a much better alternative in the form of highly portable devices that can be easily replaced. Unless there's a specific use case where a device needs to be inside the body, it won't happen.
Yeah, we know. We've already seen this image.
It's somewhat a chore to use but gawkextlib has a CSV extension. so you can do this in gawk if the extension is loaded.

@include "csv"
BEGIN { CSVMODE = 1 }
{ print $2 }

https://earthly.dev/blog/awk-csv/#gawkextlib
The text of the website overflows outside the screen on mobile, and the main menu is split into two lines, which disturbs the design.

I doubt very much that this is intentional. The explanation that this is a bug on a site intended for desktop users with large screens is much more likely in my eyes, as it would be consistent with their other layout issues.

When I use my tiny MacBook Air, I simply resize websites to 75%, otherwise most of them have layout problems.
I wonder what sort of range/throughput you could get with "Heavy" versions of the inter-satellite communications lasers which SpaceX is putting on their Starlink satellites...
Yeah, the thing about “supermassive” black hole is that it sounds terrifying in extent but it actually is not. The sun contains almost all of the mass of our solar system but the SMBHATCOTG contains essentially none of the mass of the galaxy.
> In most non-IE languages that are considered difficult, the difficulties are not in grammar, but in phonetics, when those languages use sounds seldom encountered in other languages, e.g. tones, clicks, pharyngeals etc.

In Hungarian the verb conjugation can be quite complicated and there a lot of rules and exceptional cases. On the other hand, it doesn't have any sound that doesn't exist in German.
Because CS had physical offices and servers behind that digital knife. Lacking a physical security guarantee like the army, some armed group or nation state can simply take or destroy the physical things from CS and there goes your digital possessions too.

It's hard to imagine, but basically a state does need some level of force to be able to protect property rights. Without that you can't have much of an economy period, nevermind a digital economy.
In fact, you don't even have to have a product to start selling. All my successful products and companies started by selling first and building something only once I already had someone who wanted it. Those turned into companies generating $100k/mon.

The ones where I just went and built something and started selling the MVP are making a couple $100/mon.
Oh, huh. I w as getting my lenses from Coastal and Clearly.
An account created 24 days ago using talking points generally considered incorrect and inflammatory and the account name is literally named "donthellbanme"? And that is whom you chose to give the benefit of the doubt?
If Americans don’t know his name, they know his voice. And we would know it better if we could get more BBC nature content licensed for display in the US.
I disagree. As someone from Argentina which has a high percentage of crypto owners I can say poor people in poor countries aren't literate enough or don't have the resources (ie: liquidity, bank account) to get cryptos. It's more of a middle class thing here. Real estate isn't cheap in the big cities if you take into consideration the average salary and barely any financial aid to buy property. Besides, being a landlord isn't profitable enough given the initial investment because rental prices are heavily regulated. Also not good for reselling because price have been going down in the last years and it looks like it will keep going like that. Stocks options are heavily limited and also (obviously) regulated. A lot of people here are afraid to invest in stocks here anyway. with an estimated inflation rate of 60% people save money by buying dollar cash, crypto and classic bank instruments (fund investments and fixed term investments)
They have to make some minimum amount of changes to justify their job/importance. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9137736
The UK did send a warship near Ukraine in 2021 (before the start of the current war), and the Russian military might have fired warning shots at it.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-57583363
Well, Königsberg.
Idk why everyone hated them so much. What’s wrong with transparent pricing and not ripping people off on trade in? I mean maybe it’s a bad business model but competitive environments are a good thing
> Ah you think the government sends an official person and start to blackmailing you?

You mean governments are run by criminals that break the law?

If being blackmailed over alleged pedo pornography in that case is what concerns you the most, I think you have a pretty simplistic view of what's happening in the real World right now...

> I really cant believe that you think the EU is so much better.

I really can't believe you don't see it!

> But i see, the propaganda to implement that we are the good one's worked pretty well for you.

I don't really think you are making any sense.

You just posted propaganda links of a commercial email service and of European pirate party which is the most biased source of information about digital rights in Europe, they are so small (only 4 seats in the parliament, 3 from Czech Republic, one from Germany, zero from any other EU country) and and in need of funds that are constantly screaming "WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE" and have been for more than a decade now, for no reason.

I consider myself much more on the left side of things than the pirate party and have been participating on discussions about digital freedoms as a tech consultant for the EU commission, the pirate brought virtually nothing to the table.

But it's working for them, their MP salaries are still flowing in their pockets anyway.

Ask them why their HQ is in Luxembourg City (one of the richest cities in the World) and not in some more piratesque place...
Lol, the only reason CIS is relevant is because of Russias nukes. Their combined GDP is a paltry $1.828 trillion which is below that of each Italy, France and Germany.
"There's no such thing as a dragon" by Jack Kent. It's a short story written for children with a very good message for all ages. Here's a very young Dr. Jordan B. Peterson going through it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J54FMA895OA
the 24 hour clocks I've seen usually are set up like this so daytime is the top half and night time the bottom - as though the tip of the hour hand was the sun
Bootstrapped, developer owned businesses, how do you grow?
I'm a developer at heart and have been bootstrapping our business for the past year.

Just from seo, we (team of 5 including me) have managed to get initial traction. However, when it comes to scaling from here - I'm kinda lost.

When I speak with other founders, I've seen almost everybody has raised millions of dollars spending on ads, pairing up with influencers, hired extensive sales teams and setup long processes. Other engineering products focused on either developers, operations, etc have tons of funding.

We are bootstraped. And it seems difficult to scale without money these days.

It just costs a lot lot more to market than I initially anticipated. We did a show HN to show this community our simple product but didn't see any interest.

Nothing is free and that's fine but nothing is really affordable either.

Things we tried - sponsoring GitHub contributors, ads (Google ads and developer based ethical ads), seo, social (not so much)

At this time, our strength is building good software but continuing to improve and build more doesn't translate into growth in revenue per se.

Money would help and raising is an option. No other way from here??

For reference - I built https://Spike.sh - a simple incident management platform (think pagerduty)
I think you posted the wrong link.
Do you know why everyone hates Nazis? I mean the real Nazis, not the wannabe Nazis that exist in pretty much every European nation right now including Russia. It's because they dehumanized their opponents. You're doing the same thing with your statement. You're not alone, and what you do is common, and people's reaction to it seems to be full of double standards, but that's what you're doing.

Humans are humans. Right now I really worry about the people in Ukraine. I really worry about the people in Russia. I really worry about the people in every other area of conflict. This is called empathy. A lack of it is pretty much the only reason these conflicts gain traction. Try to be empathetic to the other humans you share the planet with.
I wonder if diff is considered a "reverse engineering tool"

I wonder if User-Agent "spoofing" is a "work around".

That's what they do, you focus on one level, the magicians use misdirection.

"We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out."

Slow golf clap.

This is not a criticism of Twitter. There are issues with these platforms and different values, but social media gives untold millions a voice, and the alternative is a monopoly.
> I don’t begrudge any American who wants a country of their own, just like Indians and Bangladeshis do.

Neither do I, but between "open borders let everybody in" and the Kafkaesque legal immigration process highlighted in the article above, pretty sure we can come up with something in a happy medium that is more useful and less stressful to everybody involved.
Oh neat, an asset that can only keep or lose value.
Not sure I agree or not.

The question is she did not where she was, guess there is no gps map. And more importantly she has to fly the thing.

And in a commerical one you have gps and auto pilot. You can concentrate on those, as long as you have radio. Metuor has a video which is basically just use radio. You basically do not fly the plane. In fact the basic advice is not touched the yoke.

The responsibility is much higher of course.
Well, some of Android. Huawei Honor phone happily accepts DHCPv6 issued addresses.
I'm not a religious person, but I've always been partial to this excerpt:

"I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and behold, all is vanity and a chasing after wind." - Ecclesiastes 1:14
https://archive.ph/lYc66
Yes you could do it manually, but it would be nice if the solution didn't require carefully managing update queries so the journal addition isn't missed and increasing write amplification to manually update a journal table when that information probably already exists somewhere in the WAL implementation.
Is using their API really any easier than using Rails gems? Some gems are more mature than others but usually it’s easy to drop them in and configure.

They claim SSO takes months to implement without their product. Is that true?
If you need encrypted DNS and you have to do it over udp, you will have to use doq or doh3, both of which contain session state on both ends points. We thought of dns over dtls but it just wasn't more efficient than dot, even though dtls and dot also contain some session state.
I feel like Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) pushing for sobriety checkpoints is another great example of this.
> Note that the word "derivative" is used here as defined by the license, not in its plain English meaning

The license does not contain a definition for "derivative" nor of the similar term "derived" which it also uses.
> Spacecraft could theoretically be used to extend the baselines but the volume of data to be transferred is prohibitive with current spacecraft comm tech.

Space-based very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) has been done at lower frequencies, most recently with the RadioAstron satellite[0]. There hasn't yet been a VLBI satellite observing at the same frequencies that the EHT uses, but there are mission concepts being discussed. [1] discusses some of the technical challenges.

[0] http://www.asc.rssi.ru/radioastron/

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.09144
French bibliophiles voice alarm over Vivendi takeover
I was only presenting an American view regarding the notion of “we pay for others at our own expense”. Trumps comments were directed at NATO members and not Finland or Sweden. He also famously said South Korea and Japan needed to spend more.

My personal view on the matter is that I support an imperial retreat by the U.S. The EU needs to listen more to the Baltics regarding defense and foreign policy.
Check out The Kybalion, and also Prometheus Rising.
> Has Finland significant pro-Russian politicians?

Nowadays, only Erkki Tuomioja...

[Edit: Fortunately he's old enough to soon be significant only historically.]
It's a question of security and privacy: what matters is what can be read from the URL.
This is a problem in a market where they are maybe a small # of potential customers (ie. a niche market like 'satellite imagery data'), but not if your market is the Fortune 10K
Hurray for US citizens footing the security bill for more of the EU.

If the US goes bankrupt (it already is), makes one wonder if the other countries will come to our aid and supply us with money, weapons, personnel when the time comes.
Customer acquisition funnels are multiplicative (E.g. Ad -> Landing page -> Signup -> Trial -> Actual product usage -> Purchase). Double any factor along the way, and the final output doubles. But it also means that if any factor along the way is 0, you get nothing out in the end. That can be incredibly demotivating when you're first starting out, because you don't get any payoff (or money to pay yourself or employees with) until you've made every factor non-zero. It also means that as long as any factor is zero, attempting to optimize any factors downstream from that is basically done in the blind (i.e. improving the product when you still don't have anyone even getting to your landing page).
Can someone ELI5 for this news?