skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you are building a full API, will you deploy it as a cohesive unit or as individual endpoints?

What advantages does server less offer over the equivalent container based scale to zero?

If you are serving 1M DAU, you probably aren't going to worry about cold starts. If cold starts are an issue, scale to one, or use container orchestration.

I've never seen the appeal of server less. I want more control over the environment, like language version used, and the container based alternatives have the same capabilities, so I reach for them.

Server less will generally be more expensive if you are always getting reauests. They are better for rarely called endpoints. Are you worrying about scale, costs, and runtime properties too early in development?
>Some people know a lot about what they are doing and are highly skilled. A concert pianist doesn't just walk up on stage and wing it.

If I may torture your example to defend the GP, concert pianists trying to improve will wing it during the steps leading up to the stage: negotiating with a venue, exploring new ways to practice, writing or choosing music pieces, and the all the other tasks unknown to this layman.
Shocking drivers with road-death statistics leads to more crashes
Is there white-label open source (i.e. host it yourself) video hosting services like Vimeo / Mux / YouTube / NetFlix? The closest I found was NodeTube but I think it would need a UX/UI redesign before govts or universities would be ready to deploy it on their own.

Fwiw, universities have long paid for their own white label YouTube clones from various companies; at a bare minimum Canvas has been around forever. It just wasn't free (as in beer or otherwise).
Well...I stand corrected.
It used to be very easy to link my profile to my LinkedIn but it does seem that links broken, but yes, I am a quite senior dev having worked in both startup & corporate as an employee & as a contractor.

Maybe I should have beeen more obvious, but the way I phrased OP's actions was to show how the Manager saw it, and sold it to HR. The crux of this is that the dev was enjoying the benefits of being a contractor but wanted the perks of being an employee. A contractor is meant to be a simple resource for a company (although it's is absolutely Spotify's fault for abusing the contractor position with things like teaching Interns as a contractor (which I think is illegal in some countries?)).

To be more clear, my stance is that the employee would make a great employee, but is a bad contractor which is why Spotify blacklisted them (although it'd be interesting to know if they could apply as an employee now).
Sure but with fingerprinting that's only a minor nuisance to most advertisers and sites who are tracking you.
Sure it's technically true but an unpaid parking ticket counts as a criminal record. At any rate, of the 70 million people with a "criminal record", only 16 million have been to prison. That's still a high figure but it's not the insane "1 in 5 Americans are criminals!"
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It's gratuitous shock technique. Sir Timothy has blessed us with the revolutionary concept of the "hyperlink" and these days everyone has a "web browser" in their pocket where accessing a "hyperlink" is one tap away. Absolutely trivial to upload the pornography one "hyperlink" away and let people decide for themselves whether they want to look at it or not.
If the Democrats start performing similar tactics, the republic is in trouble. And I fear that they are learning this is a winning tactic.
Even light is pretty slow compared to the size of space. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qKOpvDa82M
Sure, but they rationalize and sell that "mildly useful educational content" with lies about how it will help people.

I'm totally ok with somebody deciding to translate finger spelling as an educational exercise. Have at! Don't sell it as more than that, because it isn't.
Yeah. Maybe my mom’s claim that she was just resting her eyes was valid. We always suspected she was unwilling to admit she was napping.
You forgot the most important use case, unless you're talking about Europeans and USians only. I use a VPN simply because half the internet doesn't work without it (some guy in a suit decided what you can and cannot read, and there's nothing you can do about it).

Free tiers provided by various "cloud" services work fine for this one (Oracle is the most generous among them).
> There were good reasons for it to do so. C++ is often used for performance reasons, and requiring low level access was a means to prevent some implementation being standards compliant yet with horrible performance.

The API guaranteed mediocre performance and prevented good performance.
Pygame might be basic, but I remember it as being the single best/easiest tool for interfacing with (USB) MIDI-instruments - I remember it being really easy to whip up scripts to take MIDI input from a keyboard, mess with them, and present them as a new MIDI-device. I never used it for games (I'm a game developer), but for specifically the case of MIDI it was great. Make of that what you will!
Interesting, I'd always heard the opposite but I do see a lot supporting what you say, so I removed that for now... Hmm.
What if we rebuild Tumblr in Web3?
Just because it doesn't cure everything doesn't make it useless, bodybuilders do it as well to control blood pressure. Kinda like how those bubonic plague masks don't make covid masks useless.
As with anything, it depends, right? Like, native video does have strong arguments for simplicity. It doesn't have strong arguments for usability. Do you want to seek? Do you want it to continue to work if a user's phone hits a rough patch of the internet?

Nothing stops you from letting somebody download a static rendition too, though. (Not trying to shill too hard for Mux, but that comes out of the box.)
In the US, mainstream culture considers pornography to be totally beyond the pale and no company that isn't itself selling sex would allow its brand to be associated with porn.
I don't mind sending data to the service, but the moment the information is no longer needed, we should have the expectation that you delete the data.
"To achieve a persistent mapping for a significant time you'd probably need an iron bar something like size of the observable universe"

But the observable universe exists. So why can't the observable universe appropriately substitute for the iron bar in his argument?

"As for doubting the field of rocks can be conscious"

Just to be clear, you don't doubt that a sufficiently large field of rocks is conscious as long as it is performing the same computation as a brain?
Yes as it happens statistics are more accurate than anecdotes, especially if they're well documented and proven like this one.

Cancer isn't trivial to treat, people are going to die from it. Just, less people in America compared to other countries.

You're basically saying "Well I know people that died from this very lethal disease here in the US, therefore other countries must be so much further ahead". Which isn't really logically coherent.
Using the hobbled webapp features that Apple hardly allows? That's your solution?
Russian palaces, villas and yachts linked to Putin by email leak
"Anything" can be reinterpreted. If you strip audio from a movie, you can add dialogue or subtitles that change the story and plot. We can probably substitute the nouns and verbs around in a novel consistently to create another novel that still makes sense.

Most random reinterpretations of symbols will be gibberish.
Sadly, Apple's laptop webcams are still way better than the ones in competitors. I used an HP Spectre from 2020 or so and it had literally the worst digital camera I have ever seen, including the 90s. It's pinhole sized, and it made a brightly lit room look like a closet at midnight while being grainier than off-brand film. They might as well not have bothered.
It has approximately the same GDP per capita as the San Francisco Bay Area, while having also about the same population, but more than double the land area. And yet, while I could take a direct train from Basel to Zürich in less than an hour, the similar trip from Berkeley (comparable in size to Basel) to San Jose (much larger than Zürich) would require a minimum of 1 transfer and take over 2 hours. Our trip isn't even cheaper. It would be 17 CHF at full price on SBB, round trip, but it would be $11.40 each way on BART+VTA

The fact is we're rich as anybody here and what we spent our money on is 12-lane freeways.
I mean the alternative is the fat wallet tax. Is your company more than 20 employees or do you have more than 1M revenue, here’s a 500% price increase.

If you’re at the point where employees x services is too big to do manually and then congrats you graduated to the “actually paying for the service tier.”

There’s no real way to skin, “the only real money is by charging many dollars to large enterprises and if we can’t easily price discriminate the thing we’re dropping is the subsidized free/startup tier.
The goal of a university is to promote learning. It’s not very nefarious.
that's not true, the USA has agreements to exchange information on citizens with the vast majority of European countries. While a local yokel might have a rough time, the federal government would only have to put in a request and wait a while. The only cost is the effort to file for it.
Wow, Fotolog and Orkut. Brings me back to when I was first discovering Brazilian culture and learning Portuguese in the early/mid 2000s.
Saleor – GraphQL-first, open-source e-commerce platform (Shopify alternative)
Oh and I'm bad at it, so I forget, but facial expression and emoting are an entire grammar side-channel that we don't have machines to effectively emulate.
See

Solend seized $170M of user funds (reddit.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31802600

Submitted by 55555 | 20 hours ago | 279 points | 205 comments

...and...

Solend is now voting to reverse the decision to interfere with $170M position (realms.today)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31806191

Submitted by lopatin | 11 hours ago | 98 points | 64 comments
What matters isn't percent of shareholders it's percent of shares voted. I'd find it very unusual if a company only required 1% of shares to be voted to reach quorum.

With DAOs governance tokens are basically shares, so why does 1% make sense there?
Some people might prefer two spaces, but my understanding is that all authorities on “good typography” have standardized on one space:

https://practicaltypography.com/one-space-between-sentences....
This is a truth about corporate dentistry, and it common in family practices but less so.

I used to know a few dentists. One was a conservative, family dentist with a small home office in a small home (and a mountain of savings). He had a good rep bc he earned it. The other two had a bit more extravagant lives, and they earned it through specialization (and in my opinion, probably a little bit of this article).

What consumers should be most concerned about is the end of family practices, and the start of corporate 1800-DENTIST/Supercuts for dentists. Issues like this article are the norm, and instead of a local dentist to seek resolution with, you’re doing the equivalent of filing a Jira ticket with a faceless insurance conglomerate.

This is the trend the industry is going bc of the costs and difficulty of owning a practice. If you can, I recommend finding a young dentist who has recently bought into a home office partnership, and stick with them until corporate dentistry takes over. It is the only way to consistently avoid situations like this article.
The concern isn't contamination of the medium -- you pasteurize the medium and use enough spawn so that your preferred mushroom mycelium outcompetes other fungi and bacteria. This intentionally happens fairly rapidly (because if it doesn't, you're very likely to get some form of bacterial or fungal contamination, which usually means tossing that chunk of medium). Once the mycelium have colonized the medium, it's fairly resistant to contamination in the same way that a healthy sourdough starter is resistant to contamination.

The main health concern is over spore production and inhalation of spores. If you're growing in a household environment you'll want to use a growing chamber with filtered air exchange.
What exactly do you mean? Say the university hired you to do the job, I assume you have a budget & headcount ready?
FriendFeed! It was great. Pre-facebook you could build a feed using RSS from all your sources or comments off other sites. It was chronological and it excluded any algorithms. - If you subscribed to your friend feeds all the data slid into a chronological feed on your main site. It was the best, initially FB kept most of these features but in the end slowly killed them.
Is it just me or do dentists rarely if ever suggest that their adult patients change their diet to avoid dental caries? They probably still tell children "don't eat candy", but since I reached adulthood I don't think a dentist ever told me suggested that the reason I needed so many cavities drilled was because I was feeding bacteria in my mouth.

If my experience is as ubiquitous as I suspect, there seems to be a perverse incentive among dentists to allow adults to ruin their own teeth. It's convenient because most people know extremely little about dental health beyond brushing and flossing. A minor carie on the enamel doesn't necessarily progress further than surface damage, and in some cases can even be reversed. Instead of saving the patient time and money by waiting for further progression of a carie, many dentists see the tiniest surface divot as an opportunity to drill n' fill. A more appropriate response would be to suggest the patient eat an appropriate diet that doesn't feed carie-causing bacteria and to come back in 6 months to a year for a follow-up; if the carie is visibly worse, then now it's time to consider drilling.

In defense of dentists, I imagine so few adult patients are compliant with suggestions of lifestyle changes that they figure it's hopeless and they might as well be the ones to cash in on cavities rather than some other dentist. Everyone hates going to them and they know they can't win.
Jezzz I wish I could throw up a facepalm emoji…

My point is because everyone I know uses other messaging apps, not what’s app. My sample size is very small because I’m not having daily conversations on what’s app. Conversations are happening in other apps.
Why is it Apple’s duty to provide an ecosystem for tumblr? If they want on Apple’s platform, they have to play by Apple’s rules - there‘s other ecosystems, too. No one is forced to enter the iOS ecosystem, and anyone can leave at any time they please.
That is five words long.
easy answer - not at all. The difference there is, flagged results in 'no one can read this' which is an act of censorship, while a downvote is part of an ongoing engagement process.
Holy cow, that’s evil.

https://help.audible.com/s/article/do-i-keep-my-credits-if-i...

Do I keep my credits if I cancel my Audible Premium Plus membership?
No. If you end your Audible Premium Plus membership, your credits will be lost with your other membership benefits.
Subtitling Tool – Matesub
This is a nice approach. Have you considered giving customers the option to turn on automatic renewal?

There are certain specific things that I would want always to auto renew (like domain names, hosting related stuff etc)

If I ever get round to building a subscription SaaS I might consider “off by default” auto-renewal and leave it to customers to turn it on if want it… though this does add a bit of complexity I guess.
Does AWS have a way to export your infrastructure to a terraform file? Like if I start doing things via the dashboard and later want to use terraform?
> Single sign-on, however, is a convenience feature, not necesarily a security feature.

What about removing access from tens of saas after a user left the company?
Without SSO / centralized user management this gets skipped all the time.
>So - the guy with the $170m position… his wallet has been recently active so it isn’t a case of lost keys… he’s running a short on Solana?

My understanding is he "owes" interest on loans he's received using Solana as collateral, so the account is at risk of being liquidated. Of course, no one wants that when many people are already underwater at current prices.

What's funny is literally one day after voting to take over this account, prices are rising and now they "have time" to find a better solution? Brilliant governance, all around.
This is a problem with most advice on English writing. They only teach you how to write as at a level that a 8 years old reader would understand. Most modern books, fiction or not, are written at a juvenile level, at the formal request of publishers. As a result, the level of reading and comprehension for most people has decreased to a level that is lower than in any other literate society.
Coincidentally posted 2 days ago:

https://github.com/zerodytrash/Simple-YouTube-Age-Restrictio...

> This extension uses some API tricks to access age-restricted videos from YouTube anonymously.
I wrote that bit about br tags before seeing any replies, sorry :p My sportsmanship is immaculate!
Mullvad deletes all transactions as soon as they are allowed by law/contract with pay agent. That's 45 days for some things and 60 for others I believe. They have more details on their site. This assumes you trust them to shred that info though. They also supposedly don't keep ip logs, but I assume their ISP does, so I guess that's of limited value.
There's peertube [0], which was built to defend against arbitrary censorship.

> PeerTube aspires to be a decentralized and free/libre alternative to video broadcasting services.

> [...]

> Anyone with a modicum of technical skills can host a PeerTube server, aka an instance. Each instance hosts its users and their videos. In this way, every instance is created, moderated and maintained independently by various administrators.

[0] https://joinpeertube.org/
Same, we have had the same dentist for over 15 years and I now drive across town to visit him. Trustworthy and reluctant to do any care unless required. Still tells me I need to floss.
> We've been listening to your criticisms about SLND1 and the way in which it was conducted.

Really?

> The price of SOL has been steadily increasing...

In other words, we changed our mind because the circumstances have shifted, and it's a chance for us to look virtuous/remorseful.
Russian emails appear to show ‘network’ holding $4.5bn assets linked to Putin
Something like Hetzner will also work for 30 euro/month and certainly won't run out of bandwidth. Plus this isn't a great amount of traffic, getting a decent VPS should work fine.
> The business of dentistry is unfortunately antithetical to conservative treatment, which is almost always in the interest of the patient, because it results in significantly lower patient lifetime value.

Isn't this the case with other healthcare providers too, and not necessarily just dentists? For example, physicians will regularly make you wait at least 15 minutes—even in an empty office—so they can bill insurance for that extra time. They'll bill patients for "emotional/grief counseling" and lots of other unrelated charge codes as well. I've seen from firsthand experience how doctors will exploit patients and try to milk as much money as they can from them, rather than prioritizing their wellbeing and health.
Data-driven prediction in dynamical systems: recent developments
> so you can’t impose your own rules.

Actually, we can. We can make a law and enforce it. And there are literally laws being considered to do this.

If you don't like democracy, then feel free to move to a different country.
LG G2 was their last great phone. Was all around a good device. Very little android customizations.
IMHO this does not follow, for a few reasons:

- An experienced programmer would know that IEEE FP hardware is ubiquitous. Why would a language eschew that hardware capability by default? If anything, I would assume that any unfamiliar general-purpose language DOES start from that point (using IEEE float to represent non-integer numbers) because of historical precedent.

- "Number" is about as vague as you can get for a type name. Maybe personal bias here, but I find that vagueness invites research up front. "Time to read the documentation."

(I still expect a language newbie to get various bugs in new Javascript code, because the footguns in that language differ from the footguns in something like C++.)
I don't at all think there are only black and white consequences, what I think is that the comic's "it's just that people think [Cornell University is] an asshole and are showing it the door" is a rather black and white statement. I think the question you asked was a perfectly reasonable one, I'm also interested to know the answer. I just don't think it matches the sentiment of the comic.
This doesn’t make sense. You wouldn’t have an Electron app on iOS anyways. If you used Electron for desktop, you would generate an iOS bundle for the App Store but OP is suggesting just a web app in the vein of HN, just accessed via the browser. The only thing you would use Electron for is desktop but, also like HN, nobody accesses tumblr via a desktop app to begin with. They use a browser.
Hey, really cool idea! Would love to see this fleshed out more.

Some UI feedback:

* On Windows, the tab and ctrl-enter shortcuts seem to be "captured" by the node input, like you have to push them twice if you're in the middle of typing something. You can't just type "test" and tab to the next node, you have to tab-tab.

* Box-selection (drag a rectangle around one or more nodes) would be super helpful.

* When you drag a node to move it, it's not immediately obvious what will happen to it. A move "preview", like a shadow where it's going to end up, along with how the lines will change, would be awesome.

* It would be REALLY cool to be able to import/export UML (https://plantuml.com/sequence-diagram). I love the semantics of UML, but darned if it isn't hard to edit quickly. Being able to use a keyboard interface, along with maybe a quick dropdown-selection to select node type, to quickly prototype a diagram and then export it to UML when done would be something I'd be VERY willing to pay for.

* It isn't super clear to me, in this system, how the connections between nodes work. Are there different arrows, strokes, etc.? Are there different node shapes (rectangles, diamonds, circles) like traditional flowcharts that represent different types?

Overall, really cool to see this happen. Thanks for making this and looking forward to future changes!
It looks like Wordpress may be the solution: https://wpengine.com/resources/wordpress-video-embed-how-to/

I’ve never used it, but they make it sound like just a few clicks.
I've realised my comment sounds rough and very blunt, but my summary comes from how the Manager (who does sound very stressful) might have perceived what happened, and explained it to cover their behind.

I'm sorry you went through all that stress, and I agree it's a smart move to remove your last name from the blog so it's not the first thing future hiring-manager's find.
Doing all the things YouTube does, like transcode videos, gets complicated quick.

At the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, we created our own video hosting site, https://mediahub.unl.edu/ (https://github.com/unl/UNL_MediaHub) to self-host videos for when avoiding government or k-12 firewalls is desirable as well as integrating with rev.com for captioning.

It's really unfortunate that higher education hasn't banded together more often to develop projects of mutual interest.
Tor -> buy mullvad for xmr -> use it for clearnet ip after Tor
Best for privacy, best for abuse.
Arent there any problems like captchas everywhere because the ip was overused?
Or CP distribution lawsuits towards mullvad?
And it's all downhill from here. With the collapse of globalization, everything will become cheaper, slower, worse quality, and harder to get.