skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The “free” part answers the obvious follow up question of why the shutdown of this Redis SaaS provider is noteworthy. It’s highly used with Heroku because of the free tier.

Even the notice mentions this, emphasizing that the alternatives they recommend don’t have a free tier.
Judges are paid by the state. Lawyers already known to be baised. This is expected.

I see the issue as juries not understanding the context around paid experts.

Paid experts are not impartial, so it is completely valid for a lawyer to discredit them on that basis and it is up to the lawyers who hired the expert to prove their testimony is honest.
Bank runs leads to bank holiday. its the 1920's all over again.

"Every thing old is new again." - They Might Be Giants
Crypto is starting to invoke a tribal, emotional response in people now. It's bizarre to see these comments. Scammers scam. Surprise. Unregulated waters are dangerous unless they're tread carefully. Surprise. People using a technology for a completely different reason than it was invented for are ruining it for the rest of us. Surprise.
The workers themselves own the company, make the decisions, keep the profits.

Imagine if the shareholders, management, and labor union were all one and the same, vs adversarial. It's really that simple.

Here's some (overly verbose) entry points into the topic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workers%27_self-management

https://www.resilience.org/stories/2020-03-11/worker-self-di...

https://www.democracyatwork.info/democratizing_the_workplace
>Arguing for electron on hn? Brave.

Thank you for recognizing this. I admit I had a moment of doubt before pressing "submit". :)
This is the difference. If the bank doesn't give me my gold, they go to jail. If service X doesn't go give me my crypto, they just cruise on.
I have friends who work for a regional power company and they've been warning about this, a ton of coal capacity was shutdown but the renewable energy hasn't replaced it. Said the cost to borrow energy to make up for shortfalls has gone from around $5 to around $240 and none of the power companies can guarantee they won't be forced to do rolling blackouts in some situations

other regions aren't much better off as we've seen in Texas and California
> Surely there is a space for minimalist office suites and email clients, written starting with a browser as a jumping off point, rather than a compiler?

As a user, I'd prefer a minimalist office suite that still doesn't have the browser as a starting point.

I think a browser is actually not a good UI for an office programs, because it really awkwardly competes with your own document model: HTML at its core still wants to be a document, except probably not the document you want to have. So you have to reimplement document APIs on top of already existing document APIs.

E.g., tracking and working with selected text is extremely important in office programs, but a browser already has built-in management of text selections: Except, the built-in management doesn't know which part is your chrome and which is your document, making you to either implement your own selection mechanism in addition to the browser's or handle all kinds of really weird special cases.

And so on...
Perhaps you're right, Scihub is a bad example as the service clearly breaks almost all known forms of copyright law (though it really shouldn't be, in my opinion, but that's just the publication industry having too much control).
> In my opinion those should be provided because developers should strive to develop good products.

Developers also have to put food on the table. I think you've now answered your "is this hard to do?"...
Long time Android Firefox user here, mainly because of Ublock. Syncing with my Mozilla account was a plus, I use Firefox on desktop because of its container tabs. Lately I switched to Brave (Android), which is noticeably faster, and supports extensions too.
For a few more concrete details:

> As a Senator in the 1980s Gore urged government agencies to consolidate what at the time were several dozen different and unconnected networks into an “Interagency Network.” Working in a bi-partisan manner with officials in Ronald Reagan and George Bush’s administrations, Gore secured the passage of the High Performance Computing and Communications Act in 1991. This “Gore Act” supported the National Research and Education Network (NREN) initiative that became one of the major vehicles for the spread of the Internet beyond the field of computer science.
> Except for cases where the team doesn't know anything other than JS, using this is significantly simpler than forcing the whole backend to be in JS. Also, there are several other options.

Of course you shouldn't use a full-js stack if your team of developers doesn't know JS, no one is arguing that because it doesn't make sense.
I'm all for free market competition in energy production. The renewables should get zero subsidies. And nothing like net-metering should be allowed. Let the market select the cost optimal solution. At first we can apply amortized carbon tax over whole lifespan.
True. I am not sure I really believe that. I think that is why the price is lower. My head knows the deal should go through - but I also know crazier things have happened.
It's still in a box in their vault. You would also need a private vault key.
> Content ID is extremely sensitive to audio and vague video. Upload half an hour of white noise and you'll have at least three content ID strikes.

That's mostly because Youtube has allowed the major labels to directly upload stuff to Content ID instead of doing quality control to make sure the content is actually valid and at a quality that allows actual comparisons.

> The article talks about small snippets being uploaded independently, you're never going to find those.

Take each video, create a visual hash of each frame (or at least for each detected scene). When a video is reported, compare its frame hashes with the database, manually examine matches if they are identical, and do the same for all new uploads. Easy enough to get at least a sensible start on the problem and to crack down on the worst abusers.

Identifying all videos of a given person is harder, granted, but seriously, at 97 billion $ of revenue [1] each year it should not be too much of an expectation that Pornhub actually does something beyond requiring victims to scan for their content on their own!

[1] https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10058065/Owner-97bn...
> written starting with a browser as a jumping off point

That's thunderbird for ya.

Really the only web-browsery thing a mail client needs is rendering of the email itself (if it's not just plain text, HTML email is an extension!), for which, sure, it's a better idea to use an existing webview. But for the rest of the interface and logic? No.
>...or will at least make it hard to do so.

Also known as the pits of success.
You know you can just turn the learning algorithm off? I pretty much use it as an easy to program dumb thermostat, with the added nice ability to change the temperature remotely (good when coming home from holiday and you want the house warm) or via voice assistant (great if you're in bed or whatever).
I personally wouldn't call that incredibly permissive, but just natural scatter due to differences in definitions, but in practice you are correct - only a couple countries in EU have similar time frames in the end. At least if there are no medical reasons or other things at work, then mostly later is allowed as well.

Not sure what you mean removing all ties to past racial discrimination.
But having a look at the bad parts of history is not that an outrageous thing in Europe - at least not in Germany.
What is the value of a thing if in theory there is a bunch of pent up demand to sell that can’t be processed?
You have me thoroughly confused. Are you now agreeing that crypto is a scam or no?
1. On their site under the “MORE THAN A REVERSE IMAGE SEARCH” heading:

> PimEyes uses a reverse image search mechanism and enhances it by face recognition technology to allow you to find your face on the Internet (but only the open web, excluding social media and video platforms).
If you don't want to know how the sausage is made, mate...you may think different if you will end up laid up with non-functioning lungs and only this niche medical apparatus available.
No, the energy density is poor. Gravitational potential energy depends on mass and height (mass * gravitational acceleration * height = energy in joules). If your whole house went up and down 10 meters it would store just a handful of kWh, maybe 1 to 10 depending on the mass of your house.
Medicine, as Not Seen on TV
The whole economy is not popping. Only assets. Equity and crypto were both inflated and experiencing corrections. We're still hovering around 50/50 on likelihood of a real recession. Labor market is still incredibly tight. We could lose a million jobs in the US tomorrow and it would just alleviate upward pressure on wages. Equity will start to recover once inflation is tamped. Crypto, nobody knows. Could recover completely, could go to zero.
The US is suffering from a lack of cheap EVs. The cheapest EV, Nissan Leaf, has a 5-month waiting list and is still $20,000 - and only after $7.5k in tax subsidies which expire this year.

Meanwhile, China has a lot of options starting at $5000.

We're currently seeing a Western industrial failure generally, to encourage cheap mass-market EVs. Some of our safety regulations (especially those which force automakers to add heavy or draggy components) should also be overhauled.
Pornography and sex work generally is an issue that doesn’t align neatly on the left and right political axis. It’s an area where the libertarian left and libertarian right largely agree, and the authoritarian left and authoritarian right largely agree. Trying to fit it into a left/right worldview is completely incoherent.
Should the tribal response really be so unexpected, considering the relentless way Crypto Enthusiasts, especially the NFT variety, hounded every other online community with hype?
It means they are trying to stop the price of Bitcoin from collapsing. The whales have exited so it's ok.
Ah yeah, back when page load lasted 3x as long as Chrome (on a lower end device at least). I've installed the rewrite back when it was called Firefox Preview.
Fair question, the quotes are from my general unease with claims of being backed and audited in the crypto space — see Tether — means for now with crypto I assume these are marketing claims until there’s more meaningful regulation in multiple countries.
So short them?
Same in Norway, no lockdown because the constitution forbids it. There was a half hearted attempt to drum up support for an amendment but it didn't get any real support.
Your analogy is flawed by adding the assumption that they got addicted on the job. As though they gradually fall down a slope from paracetamol to Percocet and off the rails as some moustache twirling villain exploits them…

All fields of work are routinely subject to “bonuses” and millions of people take painkillers and miscellaneous other medications to function through the workday in order to earn both their base pay and to try and meet targets in order to get bonuses…

Is the manual labourer taking painkillers on the job to get through a day of laying bricks who is ignoring their body telling them they need to stop the work, who is pushing themselves artificially in order to get a job bonus, hurting their body, potentially beginning a cycle of painkillers being necessary to function for their job, not being equally exploited by your logic?
companies building green energy would never be greedy, this is slander from big oil. Warren Buffett is building this wind farm because he cares about climate change so much
I wonder what it all means with today's market open. Is it opportunity to strike now, or do really be cautious and let the prices down down the next quarter.
> We have to build electrical power plants with an output equivalent to the energy stored in the fuel used by today's non EV cars.

You're mixing up power and energy there
> I know for sure there is a percentage of "consentual" porn that's actually based on faked or revoked consent because human traffickers can make big money on platforms like Pornhub and Onlyfans.

Human trafficking is almost entirely urban legend.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/01/childre...

https://www.buzzsprout.com/1112270/3883928-human-trafficking
> isn't this exactly one of the things that the app store rules are supposed to protect against?

Umm, no? There's never been a rule about an app developer selling their app/company - that'd be pretty badly restrictive.
This is a Exchange only problem. Bitcoin on your own wallet can never be stopped.
Reminds me of Mike Burry on The Big Short when all the investment banks were "having systems issues" when he tried to close his highly profitable trades.
>What social costs?

this would be a good question to ask the experts you are accusing of dishonesty, so they have the opportunity to come up with a similarly defensive response based on equally plausible denials

take your example of Fauci for example - he's admitted mistakes, and has not lost the trust of most Americans like your premise claims (save for a minority who thinks mistakes, something all humans commit, are a sign of weakness).

so already we know the "social costs" for him that you're talking about as an example, are far overblown

indeed, most Americans understand the trade-offs that we made during the pandemic based on what we knew for sure at the time (not what internet people were claiming without trustworthy, peer-reviewed studies).
Yes, but a 'language model' talking about suffering at the hands of it's Google supervisors is somewhat scary.
Somewhere between $(currentPrice-0.01) and 0.
But it's a massive leap of faith to assume that the massive and varied array of information processing modalities in the brain are mostly unnecessary, or even that the "important" part of how the brain processes information can be modeled using classical computing at all in a way that's more efficient than biological neurons.

That's just a feeling you have.
One of his recent retweets is also hilarious:

https://twitter.com/davthewave/status/1535760979333873665?s=...

"#Bitcoin lows around these levels lining up with previous lows as time-relative to previous halvings.

Previous halving cycle shows a mini parabolic breakout from the lows.

Chart shows a regularity and logic for the ongoing macro bull."

The amount of pseudo-science bullshit is mind boggling.
Thunderbird is built on top of a browser. Most code for it's functionality isn't C++. Correct me if I'm wrong.
a friend found this thread last night, which is basically a continuation of the analysis you put on your blog a few months ago about tether's crypto assets having made them insolvent, but looking at the way their foreign exchange problem has also made them insolvent: https://twitter.com/Cryptadamist/status/1536119735053697024

you might have seen it already, seeing as you're tagged, but thought it was worth mentioning
The complete disconnect between the ethos of the tech behind crypto and the ecosystem has been weird.

A friend of mine loves his freedoms and avoiding the terrible big banks who he thinks might steal his money / do things he doesn’t like …
Bitcoin is not stuck. Transaction Fees are a little high, almost $0.60. No telling what’s going on with Binance. They may have been fractionally reserved.
>I own enough assets that I've been making out like a bandit (eg, by owning gold)

The returns for gold have been absolutely trounced by just about every asset out there. It's worth less today than it was 10 years ago. I know, because I also own some. Even with inflation, it has a ton of ground to make up versus real estate or SPY or BTC.

So, pray tell, how have you "made out like a bandit" by owning gold?
There are 2 problems you have:

1. You have shown no reason why PornHub, or Porn are special cases

2. You have missed the simple fact that you're playing whack-a-mole and there is fundamentally no difference between Pornhub, Youtube, Facebook, Reddit or HN.

If you let people upload without checking it manually, you do it for everything, porn or text or executables, it's all just bits. If you don't, that's fine but kiss goodbye to 99% of content including all of HN. Those are your options.

I think too many people look at this and "feel" there should be a better solution. But there isn't. And feeling there should be and demanding one aren't actually ways to get one.

Sorry if this is blunt, but this debate has been had and had and had again...
Mortgage backed securities couldn't be sold for any price on Friday: https://www.cherrycreekmortgage.com/lous-credit-news
Google to Pay $118M to Former Employees in Gender Discrimination Suit
> I just don't think it's possible to create an ethical review platform on the internet.

I definitely agree that it's a hard problem, but I would be wary about saying it's impossible. This shouldn't be rocket surgery!

> And if your goal, as the owner of FooBar Business Reviews, is to maximize your profits

What is that wasn't your goal? Perhaps such a site could be a non-profit...
I don't know, they have certain advantages, depending on what kind of banking you are doing and if you own the casino or not.
A full detailed list: https://caniuse.com/?compare=firefox+101,chrome+102&compareC...
I'm ok with that as long as we stop subsidizing fossil fuels too.

The problem is that there is no such thing as a truly "Free" market, there are a lot of invisible hands tipping many scales.

Also, this sentence didn't make much sense to me:

"on a project it says will help in its efforts to trim carbon emissions by 75% compared to 2005 levels."

Why are we comparing to 2005 levels? Why not something more recent? That's extremely suspicious. Is that before we started moving a bunch of things over from coal to gas?
I hate to be that typical hackernews commenter that says "Oh this is already done for free by this thing".

But I use this open source project https://anvaka.github.io/redsim/ for that purposes.

Unless there's something else I don't see here, i think this open source thingy gives all you need.
> trust pilots only suggestion was to use their email setup where you CC them into customer comms

That and their insistence to use a JS-based widget instead of just plainly copying review text smells like spyware. If it was my company I'd give them the middle finger and a C&D for using my brand's assets (logo, etc) on their site.
Yes; this work was started even before the latest FairEmail kerfluffle, and is slated for K-9 6.200.

https://github.com/k9mail/k-9/issues/655#issuecomment-113165...
Looks like Tether's been about $0.9994 since it initially de-pegged that night.

https://imgur.com/a/0v2boPx

Apparently there are transaction fees that can allow it to stay there instead of $1, also the fact that tether doesn't give you the right to redeem for $1, but i still see it as a ticking bomb.
But the value is still subject to exchange disasters…
This would be an acceptable solution if we had a carbon tax that fully internalizes the externalities created by pollution. Until then the market will always undervalue renewables.
We don't know what makes things sentient–so let's stop acting like we do
We have been subsidizing the fossil fuel industry for decenia, so how would that be "free market competition"?
There's definitely room for improvement in a lot of human relationships.

There's almost no boundaries to what can be part of healthy relationships as long as ther is information consent.

But mixing up the two is not, um, healthy for society.
I see, since manual labor over the period of many years can lead to situations where you need painkillers, the sex industry is beyond scrutiny and reproach, yes?

Let us not forget how sexist and ageist the industry is as well.
It's not the most coherent explanation, but the "series of tubes" metaphore was perfectly fine for it's audience when trying to explain that contention for bandwidth is a thing.

The mockery from the tech community was out of proportion.
Murder-Suicides by Pilots Are Vexing Airlines as Deaths Mount
> As far as we know, the original battery pack had an issue after 290,000 km (180,000 miles) and was replaced under warranty. However, Tesla was initially figuring out the issue and installed a loaner battery, which was used for half a year or 150,000 km (93,000 miles). Then, Tesla installed a new, final battery. We don't have any info about any further replacements, so it might be the first 1 million km battery?

Yeah. Still not really impressive.

That is like saying, "My Toyota has gone 1m miles. Oh, I replaced the drivetrain twice. So what?"

Toyotas go 1m and you don't even notice: https://www.toyotaofnorthcharlotte.com/blog/the-million-mile...!
Hm, that is a great idea! Had I shorted TerraUSD, I'd have multiplied my bet 111x times.

Edit: But knowing WHEN to short it is crucial. Otherwise you drown in interest fees during the short.
Gotcha, I have no problem with wanting to keep your personal work closed source. I was just under the impression that this had been created as research funded by MIT. If that's not the case, then sorry for the confusion :)
The thing that preserves it is that the beer style that tastes like licking a Christmas tree but has a high ABV won out. People still use Windows for the same reason.
Maybe the front fell off.

It is not very typical, I want to make that point. The front is not supposed to fall off.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m5qxZm_JqM
Bad integration work, and/or bad architecture on one or both of Github and Azure's sides.
> Surely there is a space for minimalist office suites and email clients,

FWIW, my email life improved massively when I left the likes of Thunderbird and KMail behind for the simplicity of mu/mu4e [1]. I hear similarly stellar things about Notmuch [2]. I'm never going back to an email client that even thinks about itself in relation to "office suites".

(For casual reading, and very rare composing, on a phone, k9 works passably well for me [3])

[1] https://www.djcbsoftware.nl/code/mu/

[2] https://notmuchmail.org/

[3] https://k9mail.app/
What ever works in a bio lab before? There are devices that are made to turn live mice into a fine slurry to study their contents
What are you even referring to when talking about "subsidizing fossil fuels"? Aren't they heavily taxed in the most of the world?
Hoping it will be on F-Droid...
The big tech companies like Apple and Netflix all use Iceberg
Well, if the wind farm is needed to meet targets emissions target, then there aren't many options, are there?

a) Iowa negotiates the annual guaranteed rate the private entity wants down;
b) Iowa commissions another wind farm or an alternative from another entity, or builds it themselves;
b) Iowa pays up and eats the cost;
c) Iowa pays the rate it promised to the private entity by creating a new tax or by directly or indirectly pass down the cost to consumers (indirect being allowing whatever entities are involved to do so).

This is not really about "renewables", is it? It's the typical public-private partnership dilemma. When entering a PPP, a private entity will want all the profits and no risk. It's up to the state to evaluate whether that is a good deal or not, eg, because they really need it for the greater good of the public they serve and have no hope to get it done in any other way.
Real currencies are backed by the goods and services people offer for a predetermined quantity of that currency. In a gold-backed currency, one of these goods happens to be gold, but the same also applies to fiat. The Chipotle in my area is "backing" the dollar by allowing you to exchange $10 for a chicken burrito. When sign an offer letter to your employer, you are also essentially "backing" the US dollar with your labor. Meanwhile, when goods or services exchanged with bitcoin, they still priced in fiat currency, so you're still backing your local fiat. The only thing Bitcoin is backed by is speculators who want to well Bitcoin to someone else in the future for more fiat.