skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
WinAMP

It's plugin system really made it the swiss army knife of one's multimedia ecosystem. My personal favorite was the iPod syncing, letting me bypass iTunes entirely.

Unfortunately it feels like streaming platforms, with their proprietary players and locked content, functionally kill any emergence of a phenomenon like winamp.
The author seems to be suggesting that Databricks/Snowflake are selling "storage", "language integration", and "a better Postgres", which is like saying that Toyota sells an air conditioner, entertainment unit, and leather chairs. Technically right... but missing the car for the parts.
Not sure what sourcetree has that others don't. I loved sourcetree right up until it started glitching out for no reason, refusing to commit and not telling me why. I switched to Gitkraken, which experienced the same for a while, giving some cryptic unrelated errors. Then I switched to Fork, which works perfectly fine so far, even with commit signing and all.
Salary incentivizes the employer milking every last hour from the worker.

Hourly incentivizes the worker to work slower.

Project-based incentivizes the worker to cut corners and get things done as fast as possible.

It seems like the optimal setup is some mix of these: retainer plus low hourly plus bonus on project completion.
* A retainer block is a fixed price for up to a certain number of hours per week, usually 10 hours and clients can buy multiple blocks. There are four blocks in total (all sold currently)

* The client pays this amount regardless of how much time is worked

* The advantage for the client is they have this time available to them and them alone - no one else will take it since it is already sold

* The limit of hours per week naturally focuses my time where I’m going to be most effective; more impact in less overall time
While I definitely do sympathize, these might be alarm bells telling that we've given too much to these faceless corps.

Maybe it's time to reimagine content sharing that has full uncensorable control of the creator and reach of today's centralized platforms, with a fair way to monetize.
They did a facelift of their iOS mail app six months ago and this week.
And Jobs ended up being right. Dropbox is a feature not a product. I can get a lot more by spending $99 on O365 + 6Tb of space on OneDrive than I can spending $99 for 2TB on Dropbox.
Never expect efficiency when their inventory is time.
To be clear, the part of the original post that I took issue with is this:

>Probably the whole "oops we actually DO share IP addresses despite our ToS"

Which conveniently left out the fact that they shared it when required to by lawful order. The way this is phrased (more, the intentional omission of that detail) implies that Proton is continuously sharing IP addresses with whomever asks for it. If you don't think that is a disingenuous way to relay the incident, I don't know what to say, we're probably at an impasse. They way you've relayed it is a more honest characterization of the incident, and one I don't take much issue with.

I would note that a small amount of networking knowledge would make the "until the government asks us to" part implied. A quick look at the user settings (specifically, the "Advanced logs" toggle) would also make it abundantly clear that Proton has the ability to track IP addresses upon request. Does that mean Proton is entirely off the hook? Of course not. But people should make decisions and come to their own conclusions based on all of the facts, not statements that omit material details.
I've been doing the hourly thing for over a decade and that is not my experience at all. If anything I work less because I make far more per hour. I'd be very afraid to do $X/mo or something like that because the clients would want to feel like they are getting maximum value out of me.

With hourly, if I want to take the day off no big deal. I just don't get paid but I'm not burdened by obligations. Whereas if I do want to work extra, I'm getting paid directly for that time.

It's honestly more relaxing.
This could have interesting implications for Go programs. Go optimizes io.Copy down to splice if dst and src both support the necessary bits. Unlike C code where you could easily grep this out, this happens transparently, and could even by influenced by user input in various cases. The tail could be quite long for bugs that show up from dropping support. I'm sure some dynlangs may have similar optimizations.

edit: checked the current implementation in go, and it's only doing that for unix and tcp sockets, so it'll be fine.
Any youtuber that uploads comment/react/compilation/commentary videos are good targets.

This is not a new thing. It's been going on for at least 4-5 years if not more.

Blackmail is also a thing. "take down video x or I'll strike your account" and such.
> How does a client know whether a provider that charges double is also twice as efficient? I suppose it might work if you have a long relationship with said client, but if you are talking to a new client, it seems they'd just go with the lowest price per hour that seems reasonable.

The same way that a client (or potential client) would know whether the existing rate is proper -- I (or my network references, word of mouth, etc.) must be able to sell them on the notion. If I can't sell it, then I might need to question whether that efficiency was really providing value to clients after all. I don't think people hire me because they're looking for the lowest bidder, so I'm not too concerned about that.
It's been done as a trolling technique for ages.
The retainer amount has gone up over time with both the market and outcomes I’ve gotten for clients. The ROI is pretty easy to quantify.
I encourage those looking for standard NDAs for business to have a look at https://waypointnda.com and https://guestbooknda.com.

FriendDA is a cool concept. As a concept, rather than as a name for any specific terms, I suspect it’s done a ton of good in the industry. It can be a quick way to make folks aware when a causal convo takes a potentially unexpected business turn.

Of course, it’s also fundamentally (mockingly) different in kind from what industry folks mean by “NDA”. As long as all involved get that, it can be useful.
That is fraud, and if you get caught you would be looking at prison time.

And in the case of the legal and accounting professions, doing this will get your license revoked.
Databricks didn’t just do 800m revenue - they did it at over 100% growth. Shame they didn’t IPO last year though! But I’m sure when they do they’ll rake it in.
This is just using a tragic event to try and attack free speech.
Current belief is both.

The reason you get Alzheimer's at a later stage in life is because as we age sleep degrades, a big part of this degradation is that we get less slow wave oscillations as we age. Less SWOs, means more build up of amyloids.

Years of lack of sleep also leads to build up of amyloids.

Of course this is only meaningful if the amyloid Alzheimer's connection is solved.
That's the spirit! :-)
The lawyers we consulted said the biggest risk for a company without many individual customers was their own employees.

A disgruntled former employee makes a GDPR request, etc.
Few main things I did that made my workspace just a little nicer;

1. Added decorations and art that I can see when seated at my desk.

2. Put down some LED strip lighting behind me and also at the back of my desk so I can control what the room looks like a bit more.

3. Traded in my bluetooth headphones for a HomePod mini. It's my own house so I can play music as loud as I want!

4. Plopped a cat bed down on top of my drawers, so I've got a little company during the day :)
Are you suggesting that because the only way to have truly private email (in the U.S. at least), is to own the server hardware, the property it's colocated on, and the Internet connection. Because this is true, but not helpful.
Checkout.com, Klarna, Revolut, Transferwise, Mollie, Deliveroo, Spotify, Hopin, Trustly.
Anxiety, hate, “disaster”... it’s a 50k luxury item. People who “hate” iPhones evoke the same response from me: being bored at your rich toys is gross.

I also own a Tesla and it’s the best car I’ve ever driven. Was it worth the money? God no, I’m going back to buying Hondas like I used to, but I’m certainly not filled with disgust over what the vast majority of humans would consider an insane luxury. Would I prioritize phone support a bit more if I was the CEO? Sure... but I'm not seething over it.

You have to be pretty unaware of how difficult it is to accomplish almost anything to be so full of disgust at so many doing so much.
> often not a deliberate choice by the actor

Especially if they can't act more than one character
> links to sites

Wait so your expectation is that instead of Youtubers using URLs to link to websites, you would prefer and expect that they download and embed those websites into their videos for you? Like, a zip file of the whole site? For.... convenience?

Have you considered using archive.org or mirrors instead?

There are an infinite number of better solutions for this...
Discussed at length at the time (in 2020, 354 comments):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23314937
Yes, so it's important to distinguish between backups and archives.

If you're keeping data for years, it's an archive and not a backup.
It's a meme, and a truth, that simpler people in Africa are happier than us modernized folk

This is not a truth, but definitely a meme
Yeah, if I'm understanding this isn't remotely new or novel?

It's been a standard script kiddy attack since basically there were publication services where you could be banned/blocked/whatever by automated systems. Early blogs were frequent victims, surely earlier stuff was as well? Probably even basic BBSs had similar nonsense.
Why negativity dominates your daily thoughts and what to do about it
It is?! Couldn't this also be considered fraud?
Trade one extreme with it's failure modes for another extreme with different failure modes. Not sure that counts as progress.
I released Boltstream [0] for exactly this kind of thing. It's not a Youtube replacement. It's a self-hosted replacement for Youtube Live, Facebook Live, Twitch.tv, and alike.

[0] https://github.com/benwilber/boltstream
Paying for customer service would result in less overall money than their current system of "you get nothing, we only respond if you have enough followers to generate a PR buzz". The people that aren't affected by the unjust terminations and bans obviously don't care enough to stop using the product, so they tend to not lose any money when it happens.
Use of bots to flag and block content is getting from bad to worse.

We had a YouTube video that we manually recorded and uploaded. Some random guy no way related to it claimed copyright without any proof and YT immediate removed from listing.

The appeal process is so complicated and probably have to deal with another bot, it was not worth the process so we just ignored.

What i've learned is, if anybody want to blackmail or jealous of your channel, all they have to do is submit a request and your video will be out with an endless and almost impossible appeal process.
I think polote is mostly right.

"You think the Collisons are... creating and maintaining a high performing engineering culture"

Yes.
It wasn't clear to me how it was related to Postgres so I spun up a cluster and alloydb is Postgres with a different storage engine (similar to the long awaited zedstore project). That means all Postgres features work.
no man think of all the Wrong Kinds of Speech that such a thing would facilitate the mass transmission of!! that's not what the Internet is for! the Internet is only for safe, advertiser-friendly walled gardens of corporate-moderated content, algorithmically distributed to users based on their best interests (even if they don't know it yet)—nothing more—and it has always been this way, of course
I would encourage anyone who thinks along these lines to read the following posts on Techdirt, which explain why this is not the solution people think it is.

https://www.techdirt.com/2022/05/26/this-is-really-really-du...

https://www.techdirt.com/2022/05/23/11th-circuit-disagrees-w...

https://www.techdirt.com/2021/06/08/conservatives-want-commo...

Something should be done to ward off the Kafkaesque future we are heading for, but declaring websites as common carriers is a poor way to do it.
^this, there are more layers now, and it's all fairly RISC like at the bottom or so I'm told.
But now it seems like there's more criminal profit potential in extortion, as creators are ever more dependent on ever-more-centralized services. A growth industry!
> This is the conclusion I come to from reading firearms experts

To what extent have you studied criminology? How many relevant research papers have you read that have been published in the journals of the American Society of Criminology, which is the largest criminological organization in the US?
If you are reading all columns from same row in your queries that'd break columnar storage use case, and would be slower.
It’s fun to see the long history of this being shared

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=friendda.org
At 4 saas b2b unicorns mostly between 5m and 50m arr.

+ interviews with people working in hr and culture at other ones.

And to give you more concrete data, the significant employees where :

1. The ceo founder (work hard play hard culture) b2b enterprise martech

2. The ceo founder + cto
founder (chill + excellence culture) b2b enterprise productivity software

3. The ceo founder + vp of sales (micro management culture) b2b enterprise martech

4. The ceo founder ( chill + low expectation culture) b2b smb martech
I'm pleasantly surprised that I can try this out right away without an account, instead of having to join some waitlist.
I never want to travel for a job ever again if I can avoid it, and it seems that the world has changed enough that's an option (fingers crossed).

I spent most of my early career traveling all over the place. Meetings in 3 cities in 2 countries in a day? No worries. Got to be 8 time zones away for lunch tomorrow? My carryon is already packed. I got to see great things; always found a way to eek out a little time here and there to explore. When I could book-end a trip with weekends that let me get out were the best.

But, in the end, business travel is about business. The movie "Up in the Air" hits really close to home (tho I didn't lay people off when I got there...usually). I have (had) a job to do wherever I landed that trumped any extracurricular plans I might have. The physical process of business travel has gone from mildly annoying to something out of Camus. Worse...every year older, it's harder and less pleasant. And in the end, with a small exceptions, the inside of an office and hotel room doesn't change much country to country, and on many trips, that's all you see.

From now on, when I travel, I want it to be purposeful. It will be about the destination, and not about whatever I can squeeze in around my business obligations.
What would a flying-free world look like?
what a great find, cheers!
> Website analytics firm Similarweb estimates that both 4chan and 4channel are still within the 1,000 most popular websites in the world.

Would never have guessed.
Well the irony is that Shodan.io also blocks protonmail email accounts and yet Shodan is your goto search engine to launch surgical hack attacks on entities.

I known www.urban-automotive.co.uk are losing out on business because they block protonmail accounts as I'm sure many other businesses are!

Hitting those who dont understand privacy in the wallet is an easy accomplishment!
I think OP was saying the ledger mechanics are the useful part here, not the volatile speculation.
>Blackmail is also a thing. "take down video x or I'll strike your account" and such.

That's still not blackmail. Blackmail is when you threaten to divulge information about someone unless they pay you.
Someone is repeatedly filing “Circumvention of Technological Measures” claims, then asking for bitcoin and Twitter promotion in return for stopping the claims.
Your dreaming or delusional if you think a CEOs output is 400x someone else's. Dangerously delusional.
> * The brain does not have the lymphatic system which cleans waste proteins out of other organs.

The brain has a lymphatic system:

https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.120.31849...
Yiting Zhang as discussed in the comments of the MO thread, is one of the most important contemporary examples. He worked as a temporary lecturer and being aged 58 produced one of the finest works in number theory. He solved the long-standing problem infinitely re-occuring consecutive prime numbers (a weaker formulation of twin prime conjecture) [0]. This will be regarded as one of the most important breakthroughs of 21st century in mathematics. New Yorker had an in depth article about him[1]

[0] https://annals.math.princeton.edu/2014/179-3/p07

[1] https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/02/02/pursuit-beauty
That last part is actually the reason why hourly rates tend to be so high. You can't bill all the hours.

A common rule of thumb for setting a billable rate is 3x to 4x the hourly-equivalent salary. If you are currently making $200k/yr working a full-time gig with good benefits, then your hourly-equivalent salary is $100, and you should bill hours out at around $300/hr to $400/hr on a billable-hour basis.

So, you should figure that someone who would earn a TC of around $500k-650k/yr would be billed out at around $1,000/hr
That’s not trolling.
Oddly enough I've been on the other side of this:

Multiple IC's brought together in a meeting, to prepare for the meeting with the contractor, "to avoid wasting the contractor's expensive time." Writing and reviewing a statement of work for the contractor in excruciating detail, when an IC doing the same work would just figure out what was needed.

I made a mental note of what skills were so much more valuable than mine. Now I have those skills.
What do you all think about the role of genius in making discoveries in mathematics today? Are you screwed if you're not a genius? Or is working hard, good collaboration, and wide-reading all that is needed?
Any NDA that works worldwide or at least for European countries??
There mostly is no line to cut. This _is_ the line. You post somewhere and hope someone who cares sees it. Not really the user's fault that Google sucks.
CBL-Mariner 2.0
I use a custom domain and have never once had a problem with delivery.
Lol this should be illegal. Modern day dragons hoarding wealth. Backed by delusional dreamers who think it's acceptable.
Both, phone and web feel much snappier.
Russia cuts its benchmark rate to 11 percent as the ruble hits a multiyear high
It's too bad that most of the gains will accrue to private, wealthy investors instead of common public investors.
No Escape was great. [1] It is so rarely mentioned when websites discuss Ray's filmography.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnIxt0uKZCM [video][contains scenes of violence]
Run the latest SQLite beta directly in your web browser
So, in which places today do people still wear their native costume in preference to western clothes such as shirts and jeans? I can think of: Gulf countries (Saudi Arabia, UAE), Bhutan, Saharan Africa.

India/South Asia partially but more so for women.
Is software development also a secretary tier profession?
I am not sure if you meant to imply the opposite, but Paddle's price model IS only revenue based.
The sweet spot for columnar storage is calculating aggregations across a subset of columns. It can be really fast at that. But if you what you need is select * it might actually be slower in that case.
The difference is that it's not "fools" that will accept USD, but people who are taxed by the US government. That's what keeps the USD from being worth nothing; even if you do all your transactions in crypto (which you shouldn't), you need to convert it to USD at some point to pay your taxes.

This is why actual currency and cryptocoins are not equivalent; there's no one forcing someone to eventually convert into cryptocoins, so the value of any individual coin can go quickly to 0 based purely on whims - or someone rug pulls and freezes sales, making off with all the money from people who have bought in.

In order for the USD to go to 0, the US Government would have to collapse. We might argue about how likely that is, but I think we can all agree that it's less likely than a cryptocoin staying at the top of the hype cycle.

Another difference between cryptocoins and currency is the deflationary nature of cryptocoins, which encourages holding, which (if used as a currency) slows the velocity of money in the system, which leads to all sorts of macroeconomic problems like shortages - because no one wants to buy things, people stop making things.

Stablecoins and every other crypto scheme are just speed running the lessons the financial crashes should have taught us over the last 20 years. It shows there's a large swathe of people who saw the crash and thought that they want to be the ones who get rich and then bailed out, rather than preventing them from happening in the first place.
Christianity hasn’t lost the sabbath, the idea of the sabbath got steamrolled by a consumerist culture.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31518618
They also know who you send and receive emails to, but your point still stands.
Or $200b (4x Adyen) in Stripe's case.
The content of your email is encrypted.
As someone who was a SAS developer first and later got into Pandas and R for a short time before going straight BigQuery SQL for the last 5+ years, please explain what you mean here because I don’t follow at all.
Ask HN: gRPC in 2022, Yay or Nay?
I haven't heard much about gRPC in a few years, is it worth adopting now or is it still a hyper-niche use case technology?
No one saved any children from the barricaded/defended classroom, no children not in the barricaded/defended classroom were shot after the gunman entered.

If they entered the school and found their own children, it was not from within that room.

"Have it both ways"

Merely pointing out an existing unknown, they may have cctv and know what was happening in the room. It's the part that concerns me the most, did they allow a crazed gunmen to slowly mow down children over 90 minutes?

My expectations is that did not occur but is a much larger concern than your whimpers about whether human beings acted parental within the course of their jobs. None had the opportunity to enter that room, the only one that mattered.

Parkland had a coward cop, I'd be very quick to call out more should they exist, we don't know yet, but from what we do know your suppositions do not hold water.
95B and they still charge me the wrong tax rate on purchases. Note that some zip codes have rural areas that use the county rate. 9.5% vs 7.5% is quite a difference.
Thank you for clarifying, I couldn't find the relevant issues in the nixpkgs GitHub. I understand your position, however, having used HomeAssistant on NixOS, it was as turn-key as many other of the more complex services that are packaged for NixOS - that is to say, there was a slight whackamole of deducing which dependencies needed to be installed for which plugins. This is something one would expect when using NixOS. I use NixOS for turn-key reproducibility and not turn-key setup, and I don't know of any NixOS user today who'd expect software to work on NixOS out of the box. Not unlike Steam and various other big applications that target specific distros often don't work great as turn-key solutions on the less popular distributions, such as Arch, Gentoo, OpenSUSE and debian derivatives.
The post you replied to mentioned an interpreter. Does Go provide an interactive REPL?
Who says they have a problem with it?
The interesting thing is HN did a much better job ignoring it most of the time although that can be just randomness.