skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get in my car. The weather app is suggested to me, because I oftentimes, when getting into my car, want to check the weather. This is innocuous; definitely not an ad.

I get in my car. Candy Crush 2 is suggested to me, because I oftentimes, when being driven around by my wife, play games.

At a surface level, one could argue: Candy Crush did not pay for that impression, its not an ad. On the other hand; Candy Crush does pay Apple 30% of every transaction in the app; and that service fee includes not only access to market on the iOS App Store, but also, critically, access to be installed at all on iOS. Developers pay Apple to be allowed to install Applications on users' phones; any installed application could be given preferential display by iOS in suggested applications, location based suggestions, etc; Apple has a monetary interest (30%) in suggesting applications which would generate revenue for both them & the developer; the algorithms which power these application suggestions are black-boxed and poorly understood by consumers.

Similarly; I drive up to Starbucks, and iOS displays the Starbucks application. The innocuous argument is: arrive at location -> many users open this app at this location -> presenting it is convenient. The "weirder" argument is: arrive at location -> Apple wants to keep Starbucks happy, in the App Store, and using Apple Pay -> presenting it is monetarily beneficial to Apple & Starbucks, Starbucks knew that their app could be presented like this and approved of it, and thus its an Ad. Critically, there's nothing different about these two situations beyond intent, and to some degree that just speaks to the fact that we live in a capitalist society. But I label the situation "weird" for a reason. And "weirdest"? Arrive at location -> There's a starbucks & a panera bread right next to each other -> iOS can only recommend one application, so which does it choose? This is where being explicit about "this is an ad" actually matters; its no longer a matter of convenience or "wow that's cool", its a matter of "a billion devices are now pushing their users to make getting coffee at Starbucks a little bit easier than Panera", and that's not ok even if the intention is totally ethical.

I think there's an argument, maybe not a strong one but extant nonetheless, that any "preferential display" iOS exhibits toward one app over another, anywhere on your phone, is advertising, simply due to how intertwined their megacorporation interests & reach is with how money flows through their platform.
> It would 100% be more secure, requiring a state issued id card to reset your password.

You seem to be under the illusion that state-issued id cards and even passports are secure.

People are able to get them simply by showing a birth certificate, which is basically a piece of paper signed and stamped by a town official decades ago. Which comes down to trusting underpaid, overworked people (and possibly underqualified political appointees) who work at the local registry of births or drivers licensing agency or passport office.

Considering how important email is for peoples' lives nowadays (especially if it provides access to financial information), a state issued id may be a weaker link.

Are you able to detect forged passports and drivers licences? Will your business have insurance in case you make a mistake and reset the password for the wrong person?

Have you ever worked in an in-person customer-facing role before? You will encounter angry, sometimes aggressive people. If you're in the US, then expect some of them may be armed.
Hum... You are basically equating frequentism with the null ritual. The article itself is basically equating frequentism with the null ritual.

Ok, that explains why people bother spend so much energy badmouthing frequentism, but it's a very bad framing anyway, bothering a lie. Frequentism is not the null ritual. In fact, it's almost completely compatible with bayesianism, the one large difference being the freedom to set priors before doing your analysis.

If the article was titled "It's time to stop teaching the null ritual to scientists", nobody would even disagree.
Agreed. Who likes "talk to sales" :)

We have a pricing page — https://codecrafters.io/pricing, and do have it linked on our menu and footer. Would that help?
i meant that i was kidding calling it a book.
Not totally unrelated but I had to turn off email alerts and come up with a way to summarize things because Fail2Ban and other alert systems were hit quite literally every 15 seconds with port scans/attempted entries on SSH and other ports. Reporting the abuse to ARIN/ICANN didn't help because almost a full 95% of the traffic originated from China, and 90% of the remaining 5% was Russia. Of the remaining they were zombies inside of America, typically on digital ocean, and I was able to get those handled quickly and efficiently. When I had a simple (secure) login system hosted on HTTPS it was getting hit hard enough my VPS ISP was sending emails to figure out a way to stop it. There are literally 3 people that even know of the existence of these services.

It is actually nuts just how much bot spam there is.
Yep. In the past few months I've bought tools from VESSEL, Wera, Wiha, Tekton, Milwaukee, etc., all from Amazon. No issues with anything there.
Amazing, how much does it net you?
How did you install Google Maps though? I assume you are a technical users?

I'm also running LineageOS+MicroG+Aurora and it works for me, but 95% of the populace isn't going to have much luck doing this, which is as Google intended.
I don't know if I'm what you're looking for but I recently quit my job to take some time and work on projects for myself. I've budgeted at least a year to see how things go. I've spent the last 20 years in the web space and honestly tired of it.

I've spent a lot of time adjacent to games in my free time, doing reversing/modding/speedrunning tools. I'm currently learning Godot and plan to jump into development hard next week working on a rogue-like platformer, in a similar vein to Spelunky.
There is a special place in hell for people who do this.
> I'm not very familiar with all the workings of HTTP/2.0 - why would it break bots?

There's a lot of outdated garbage bots out there. Not using HTTP/2.0 is also often the default with various HTTP libraries.
I couldn't help but do the same thing when I was reading the article, in the opposite direction: "wait - you had a wife and you were poor?" When I was young and my income was low or nonexistent, it seemed like women could smell the poverty on me and I couldn't even get close to them. It was like trying to sneak up on a grazing gazelle - they'd hear me coming and just sprint to a safe distance. The more money I made, the closer I could get until I finally made enough money that they stayed close enough to talk to.

Even now, married 20 years, the author talks about the burden on his wife and kids if he went back to being poor - I'm sure my wife would just leave if I was genuinely stuck in a poverty cycle with no way of getting out, and I wouldn't really blame her.
Every HN post I read while at work, I'm earning money in the background - passive income.
Infrastructure as Code with Examples
Amnesty of out of touch
That’s not web3, someone has to maintain the rails, that’s centralized. Imagine crypto-trucks assembling into a train through smart contracts.
This is literally opposite of me. Would you mind elaborating a bit on the negatives of working on the ML side of things?

Definitely not saying your wrong or that it's better than backend dev (it's probably just personal preference). But as someone considering it, I'd like to hear the good and bad of each type of role.
The Founder of GeoCities on What Killed the 'Old Internet'
We can handle our own companies with regulations that reflect the fact they aren't owned by a hostile state. We need to be much much more restrictive with china and also restrict our companies ability to work with them when it comes to data and technology sales
The whole issue in this is people think China and Indian actors are maliciously polluting when they are usually relying on foreign investment from companies that ARE acting maliciously and evading the US to skirt climate regulations and other accountability issues. US/UK/“the west” companies often were the prime movers in building cheap coal power plants to provide electricity to whatever business they outsourced. Just because someone doesn’t look like you doesn’t mean they are evil, or different in mindset or situation.
I agree with "Safety is a spectrum". By all accounts, Java is a "safe language"... until your code uses sun.misc.Unsafe
Would you prefer almost everyone being poorer due to inflation? If you take out debt there’s a presumption that you’ll pay it back. At least there used to be. No one gets a credit card and thinks “oh gee this card’s 29% interest rate is so affordable compared to a 31% interest rate”.
Embedded probably.
Localstack is super useful for local (or CI build) development of tech that would be deployed into the cloud. I would definitely not recommend using Localstack for anything in production. I don't think serverless has anything quite as fully featured as what Localstack is able to provide, 1:1 parity across most of AWS's offerings.

I use it for stuff like SecretsManager and Cognito testing (as well as for S3). I don't use it for RDS emulation at all, and just stick a stock postgres container in that spot to achieve local development.
Not my experience. I've been running natively-encrypted ZFS on Linux for over a year now with zero bugs or errors. It may help that my distro NixOS has excellent support for it.
I removed `overflow: auto` from `#__next` and that fixed it.
(Incidentally - I want to make it clear I don't mean "Dall-E has no understanding of the elements and it's just a fancy image search/compositor" - there are results that absolutely require some semantic "understanding". It's just there are limits and spatial understanding is one of the weak spots)
Huh. Most of the smartest people I know are really pretty lazy. They'll put a lot of effort into something they care about, but they're usually aware of the effort-to-reward ratio.

The hardest workers I know are the ones of ordinary intelligence. They have jobs that require more hours for less money, and often have families to take care of as well.

I don't think of anybody in my circle of acquaintances who's genuinely dumb, so I can't vouch for what happens once intelligence really dips far below average. Still, my anecdotal experience is that the really smart people are only kind of ordinarily diligent.
There's a material difference between a public, open forum and a court that can mete out punishments. Though people tend to confuse the two these days.
Is this still a better experience than seeking out reputable brand names that have their own online shop?

I get my recommendations from user forums and YT channels I trust, and then go straight to the manufacturer.
I'm 58 and feel like I still have a lot to offer. But my focus in these days is to help my team (most of whom are easily half my age) be successful. I find that their success gives me a lot more of a buzz than coding something I've probably written more times than I remember.

I do step and code from time to time but only when it's clear that it will have some kind of multiplier effect for my team.

[Edit] I just wanted to thank the poster for starting this discussion. It takes more than a bit of courage, I think, to write something like that.
Manali hack
Gamechanging. Built an internal admin tool with Superblocks in just a few minutes - definitely saved me hours of time and let me focus on building my core product. Congrats on building an awesome product already.
2-strokes are actually pretty astoundingly awful for pollution and air quality. They emit so much that when running a leafblower and an F-150 Raptor the same amount of time, the leafblower will emit orders of magnitude more pollutants, save for CO2 specifically. pretty much any vehicle on the road is emitting less hydrocarbons per-mile than a two-stroke.

Obviously CO2 is a problem for global warming, but I definitely don't think its worth the air pollution trade-offs of a two stroke in a crowded city, especially when 4-stroke alternatives exist and are better in almost every way.

https://www.edmunds.com/car-reviews/features/emissions-test-...
I lost 2.5K USD because of a botched return, so YMV…
Geographic --> does not matter much because of 100% remote teams

time zone --> plenty of people will work during nights and sleep during days if they can 10x their income

cultural --> doesn't matter too much for software engineering. But I will agree that this is important for jobs like marketing.

legal --> a lot of companies have popped up to make it easy to hire around the world and stay compliant.
The attitude that you need a PhD to practice ML is over a half-decade old.

Modern ML tooling has progressed enough that not only is a PhD not necessary, but overcomplicating ML model construction fully utilizing said PhD can easily lead to technical debt and make things worse.
Market will correct itself eventually.
Your low-effort posts can barely even be called legible sentences, let alone all the misspellings. I'll stop criticizing your posts if you stop criticizing mine. You are obviously following me around the site, there's no other way to explain the creepy behavior you're engaging in.

By the way, the users on this site are almost entirely losers. There are a cabal of perhaps 12 impressive people on here, the majority of you have no real connection to the big tech capital funds YC ingratiates itself with. I could care less what you fuckheads think about me or my comments. If I reach even one of you retards in a meaningful way, it's a victory to me.
Even NEWP, still being used today on the ClearPath high security mainframes has an unsafe escape hatch.

Note that Burroughs doesn't support Assembly, all low level hardware capabilities are exposed as compiler intrisics.
In this thread: a group of temporarily embarrassed billionaires over and over saying banning private jets is a bad idea for the dumbest reasons.

Hacker news is a cesspool when it comes to climate change.
Super interesting. Is the idea that this is like Retool, but a little more dummy'd down (in a good way) and has cron/workflow capabilities?
In my experience no matter the field breaking into it via ops is almost a certain way to never get to where you want to be. Cloud Engineering/SRE/MLOps are so in demand a company would be foolish to let you move up unless you really, really made a stink about it.

Better to just get your MSc in statistics/CS. It's possible to break into the field with less but of the (very talented) ML engineers/scientists I know the ones with the BScs are basically stuck. Most people want to actually make cool models and novel ideas. You won't get to this position without an MSc /PhD.
> opiltimization

Is this some portmanteau for “compile time optimization”?
Or JNI, Panama,...
Build a fleet of controllable, thin, mirror satellites in earth orbit on the plane of the ecliptic.

Like an artificial ring system for earth.

Something like huge flat mylar mirror sheets with an outer foldable spring rim so they can be packaged small and pop open on deployment.

Using an magnetic field generated by electricity flowing through looped coils on their perimeter they could be angled relative to the Earth's magnetic field.

On the sun side of the orbit each one can be used to cast a controlled amount of shade from parallel to perpendicular.

Enough of them - say 2% of the Sun-facing profile of the Earth could reduce incoming solar radiation by the same amount, but in a controllable fashion.

In other positions they could be used to direct solar radiation to specific areas by pointing their mirror surface at the appropriate angle in orbit.

You could heat up bodies of water to produce cloud cover.

I imagine that you could, with trial and error, and lots of modelling, have a degree of climate and weather control.
I’m assuming this comment is sarcastic. However, Rob does a lot more than just write and sell books. He started several SaaS companies, and runs an accelerator for indie SaaS companies called TinySeed. My hunch is that book sales are a tiny fraction of his income/wealth, and he earnestly wrote it to help aspiring entrepreneurs. I’ve read the book and it’s worth reading if you’re interested in starting an indie company.
100$ worth of...?
What sort of company size would find this useful? I can already see several pushbacks against this type of tool.
You don't need a luxury jet to transfer parts around, a cheap learjet with a military style barebones interior leased to a corporation won't break the spirit of this law. It's the elite getting shuttled around the planet to a Paris shopping trips before their closing the evening at a luxury restaurant in Toyko for absolutely no productive reason that's the issue.

Hell, you could even still allow hobbyists where the owner is required to be the pilot and that would still solve the primary problem
Xpenology: Run Synology DSM Software on Your Own Hardware
Put a smile on my face.
Same here, but everything changed as some folks started having children. Now all events are back, people attend & they are fun again. So, at least in my family, the events are there for the kids and, without kids, no one gets interested.
> There should be a collective effort by the international community to crack down on this and if caught scamming the punishment should be severe enough to discourage others from following the same path.

Unfortunately, there's no financial incentive. Not enough people care that the elderly are being taken advantage of by these assholes.
It was a never published port of Unreal to Playstation 1.

Interestingly enough the renderer was up and running. It was a lot more limited in triangle count than the PC version, hence a lot of fiddling with models.

In any case, the project fell apart for the usual disorganized management reasons.
Air travel contributes to about 2.5% of greenhouse gas emissions and is responsible for about 3.5% of anthropogenic warming [1]. In my opinion, there is an outsized amount of public outrage going on and we should be directing this outrage toward larger sources of anthropogenic warming. There is only so much people can take before they get fatigued. "Spending" this outrage on something that is only 3.5% of the problem seems wasteful.

[1]: https://www.eesi.org/papers/view/fact-sheet-the-growth-in-gr...
I've seen people complain on reddit about Fakespot not being good anymore.

ReviewMeta is an alternative and supposedly "better": https://reviewmeta.com/

I have little experience with either, I'd probably try both at the same time.
Hmmm, maybe offload your comments to something else ?

Im thinking of using GitHub issues/discussions as a comment system.
The website and everything will function normally without CloudFlare, but the comments are based on GitHub, which will deal with spam and hosting for me.

And i personally think using it is better from centralizing the internet view, as you don't increase the absolutely crazy 20% that CF controls of the web.

But that obviously doesn't solve the DDOS problem, which should be solved with big cloud providers which have included DDOS protection.

Another workaround is using IPFS, but for a normal user, he/she will need a gateway, and guess who operates on of the biggest IPFS gateways ?, Yes CF.
That without considering the tradeoffs is using IPFS.

I think a static site + external comment provider like Github, might help with the attacks and spam without using Cloudflare, but I don't have any website close to your blogs size, so its all just a predication.
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32343165
All social conventions are artificially made-up ideology.

If you insist on calling a black person a "negro", despite its change in connotation over time, you are not being very nice.

If you train an AI, or a person, using old books to call someone a "negro", you're condoning and continuing offensive behavior.

Ditto, here.

> since the grievance grifting relies on always coming up with new issues,

We pretty clearly, culturally, have a whole lot of issues. Becoming more nuanced in how we label them makes sense. And, of course, language changes rapidly.

It especially changes rapidly when we're talking about marginalized groups. Pejoration is a process by which a word associated with marginalized groups become offensive over time. "Idiot", "moron", "retard" were all originally clinical and relatively non-offensive words, but society as a whole ended up changing them to include a value judgment. The euphemism treadmill is annoying, but insisting on continuing to call someone something that has developed a negative value judgment is not really good, either.
MLOps: Right Problem, Wrong Solution
It looks like the parties reached a settlement prior to defendants filing their answer.
Yes, I'm interested in writing a game centered on non-voxel procedural generation, in an single open world, online, in low poly, with networking split on multiple servers per square area, to allow creators to submit their content for some sort of theme park for players.

I've learned a lot, but being solo is a massive obstacle for motivation and funding.

I guess there are a lot of wannabee game developers like me.
Oh okay, so you are a lawyer? My condolences.
This. But it also reminds me of the Milgram experiment.

Someone will always be willing to do the job and most of the time obey instructions against their conscience.
Or play the lottery
Show HN: Serverless Notion Blog using React
Using Notion to power a blog and rendering data on a React front-end with just a server-less worker.
Im a Texan and its relatively flat here. We have some undulations and rises but not too many real climbs here. A 39 is the max the average Santa Cruz supports - Im running a mere 36 on my Salsa Timberjack because one more tooth and I got a frame grinder. It's adequate but if you're out on a ride with an equally fit friend with a 39 you just get smoked.

Now knowing that 700c roadie wheels and 29" MTB wheels are the same circumference ... riding a roadie on gravel with a 48 up front and a 11 out back is comparatively fucking fast!!! Im not going to take any "real trails" on the thing but as the gravel path around the lake goes - fitness rides etc - it hauls ass like my old MTBs that had the similar gearing. I really miss it to be honest.
I see what you're saying and mostly agree. I should have worded my original comment better and to be careful with "awareness". I think the degree to which people understand, perceive, and struggle with their existentiality is a wide spectrum. What I really should have argued is that the desire to fill the God hole exists across this spectrum and drives a lot of human behavior regardless of how aware the person is of this effect. I'm reminded of people I grew up with who blindly grab on to, say, religion or patriotism - they may not be thinking in such a "meta" way about their existence, but have a primal desire to fill the God hole and enjoy the effects of their chosen filling. I think I'm more arguing that filling a God hole is a much more primal desire than we may realize.