skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Their site indicates that the free tier requires adding a JavaScript beacon (which is what I’m trying to avoid).

Is that what you’re using? Or did I misread their offering (which seemed to clearly indicate a paid plan was required for the non-JavaScript analytics)?

See at the bottom how it says “sign up for a paid plan” in the section that says “there is no code to add”:

https://www.cloudflare.com/web-analytics/

Edit: Oh, you're the OP! Just checked out your site and you are indeed using their JavaScript beacon. I know I'm being unreasonable, but in my case, I'm going for no JavaScript, and no trackers (so some sort of request logging on the server or proxy side is likely my only option). It's my attempt to "be the change you want to see in the world".
It's a shim on top of a file picker dialog. Instead of taking a picture and picking the file from its saved location, it skips a step and lets you directly supply the file from the OS's camera app.
Is it pointless to report hosting Abuse?

I do not believe it to be a waste of time. I regularly make reports for my personal systems for two types of abuse.

1. Email: phishing/spam

2. Text:
a) political spam
b) banking fraud

Positive instances.
Results vary by the abuse@ owner. In cases where there is a successful take-down or escalation, I typically receive a positive response within 24 hours. Gandi.net and AWS are examples of an abuse@ that responds quickly. These types of escalations take ~5 minutes of my time when the data includes a screenshot of the activity/logs + whois details.

Some instances take longer.
I have an ongoing escalation with Microsoft that started at abuse@microsoft, was redirected to junk@o365, and has now been redirected to abuse@azure. I assume Microsoft is just a massive org and there are inefficiencies. While somewhat arduous, I have received a response ~24 hours from Microsoft staff, and they have been helpful in forwarding the requests.

Some instances may be successful and have no response.
I have never received a response from SendGrid (small number of escalations); however, the group associated with the activity appears to have been kicked off SendGrid or moved to Microsoft services. This is the same group I am escalating to Microsoft.

Some instances are not successful.
For text message spam, I have found that bandwidth.com (owner of the source phone number) will only forward the complaint to their downstream customer w/o identifying the customer. Similar to what you have described. My bandwidth.com experience includes cases of what I would consider excessive abuse. Note that the downstream customer for bandwidth.com may not be the consumer of the phone number, rather a reseller of the phone numbers (if I understand their responses correctly)

I have never received a response from godaddy for any type of escalation. I do not recall a single escalation to godaddy ever resulting in a takedown.

reported by hundreds of others on sites like AbuseIPDB, etc.

A report to a blacklist is not equivalent to a report to an abuse@ address. A few of my opinions/experiences working at the ecosystem / platform level:

- IP addresses for abuse may be highly ephemeral. Professionally, I've run into many occurrences of AWS Lambda (and other serverless) IP's being marked as malicious. This is not limited to Lambda, but it provides a good example, as the owner of a serverless function often has no control over their public IP addresses.

- Data quality can be a major problem with crowdsourced abuse lists. Especially when it comes to evidence, last_seen timestamps, and classifications. This can be an impairment to monitoring these lists as a provider.

In summary, I've been able to do take-downs on banking fraud that took me less than five minutes. I have also had some failures and these can be frustrating. I don't mind doing the escalations, and in total I spend less than 20 minutes a week on this. I do hope that you continue to try. Further details to the above anecdotes are linked in my profile.

*edit for formatting.
Not just playing MIDI files, but interfacing with MIDI controllers (including ones that weren't designed to be accessible over the web leading to RCE).
The ozone will destroy the odors, where the filter just traps some.
Thank you so much for this post. I am a person who is not used to ever asking for my money back. But I felt these banner ads were misleading and to be honest I felt cheated. I made the request and gave a link to the mailing list post and quoted a couple of lines from it in particular. I am grateful you were there to help me practice being assertive.

Imagine my surprise when I clicked your profile and saw the first word. That, combined with the quotes found in the post’s URL and the fact that it was posted in the first place lead me to believe the issue likely lies with the Wikimedia Foundation. I will continue to use Wikipedia as before and due to you taking the time to reply to me I will hold it in the same high regard.
Are you really arguing that we shouldn't tax the rich because there's homeless people?
In the US, use of residential natural gas has stayed nearly constant for decades. Natural gas use for electricity generation on the other hand has nearly gone up by 4 times in the past 40 years:

https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/natural-gas/use-of-natur...

Restricting or eliminating home usage of natural gas seems identical in its relative ineffectiveness as restricting home water use while ignoring large agricultural users.
There is not much difference in allocation (see portfolio tab):

VTSAX - total US stock market mutual fund
https://www.morningstar.com/funds/xnas/vtsax/portfolio

SP500 - VOO
https://www.morningstar.com/etfs/arcx/voo/portfolio

Tech simply has a proven track record of raking in outsize profits, and I see no reason to bet against businesses with unmatched efficiencies of scale and enormous barriers to entry. Hell, even the king of investing, Warren Buffet, has been humbled by BRK only just keeping up with SP500 because of its huge 25% investment in Apple.

You would have to go out to VT - total world market to see a difference in portfolio allocation.

https://www.morningstar.com/etfs/arcx/vt/portfolio
Before .NET Core, C# can't run natively on non-Windows. That's probably the only real advantage.
"UBI Helps People Be More Productive And Work More, Study Claims"

https://www.econotimes.com/UBI-Helps-People-Be-More-Producti...

"Universal Basic Income does not Reduce Worker Productivity, Study Finds"

https://www.technology.org/2021/01/19/universal-basic-income...
No idea. But at least this is empirical data from a lot of samples.

What if we had the results of learning difficulty for native speakers of all the major languages, and some languages were hard for everyone? In principle, this is an experiment that's doable, if the foreign ministries of the other countries also publish this data.
Ah I've heard of those, but that seems like another "first world problem" similar to 3-D Secure not being widespread. That's why identity theft is such an issue in USA, just by having enough information you can make customer support do all kinds of things over the phone.
Isn't this state of things a failure in the "universal" part of USB?

What we have now is a bunch of different types of serial busses that all happen to use one of a handful of different connectors. Even if we ignore everything but the USB-C connector, we have a bunch of different types of serial busses that all use the same connector.
"I've touched all of these areas in my career, and they all require those connections you are so quick to dismiss out-of-hand."

I hear you, and I'm usually first to remind people that their own use case is anecdotal and irrelevant.

However, are you really suggesting that the use cases you mentioned make up a large enough percentage of the whole to warrant manufacturers catering to them?
I am not sure what you are looking at, but when I go to the 1password page from my mobile I see big buttons with: memberships, families, business and team, Mac, Windows, Linux, IOS, apple watch, android, 1password in the browser, scim Bridge, cli, secrets automation, ssh, desktop betas, browsers,android betas, IOS betas, previous versions.

Now that is a whole different level of confusing then keepass. I mean I generally know what I'm looking for, but wouldn't know if I should click on the families or Linux button for example. So I think this refutes your point that market share is due to the download page.
Great question, there are lots of multi lingual apps out there, and although localization isn't our main use case - We support multi lingual apps by identifying the resource files that contain the key-value pairs. From this point our platform continues to work as usual.
Alternatives to Heroku Free Tier
Most of these are not available in chrome or firefox.
It's not being distributed to the whole of Europe.
> the cost of university today is too high to force people to study what they don’t want.

The value in a guided education is that it is guided. If you want to study what you want, just go to a library and study what you want for free.
> Even if the probability is very small we have to dig in deeper to prevent the next catastrophe.

There are very small chances of many catastrophes that we happily ignore.

Among the less small ones, off the top of my head: a large earthquake on the San Andreas fault and the Yellowstone supervolcano erupting.
They talk about not living off your parents as an adult, not being a burden on others after your parents escape you, being able to take care of yourself and your family...
> If the United States had universal healthcare and education wasn't brutally expensive then more people could justify being entrepreneurial

Doesn't it strike you as odd then, that US is unique among first-world countries at (1) not having a safety net like universal healthcare and (2) being by far, almost the most entrepreneurial country in the world? (May be behind Israel and/or Singapore, but it's a whole other topic anyway).

I mean, if your assumption was right, then European countries like France or Germany would be homes of Silicon Valley, but it's the other way around.
Thanks! I'm not really sure how to make it work with Glicol -- I don't know anything about the livecoding world. But in theory it would be easy to add a new "magic variable" (shader uniform) for like "mean root squared audio sample amplitude over the last frame..."? You'd just need some way for Glicol to tell Bauble what the value should be. I don't know how they'd communicate or if there's some standard for integrating music and visuals...?

Apart from that big question mark I think it would be very suitable for livecoding visuals, as you can write some impressive effects with very little code. Easy CSS change to make the canvas full-screen and like overlay the code on top of it. That's a thing that livecoders do, right?
Sorry, I mistakenly thought you replied to the post you posted your post under. My bad.
Relying on this seems to imply strongly overbuilding for the worst case. Meaning all regions should have enough wind power capacity to compensate for the occasional lack of wind everywhere else.
California battles wildfires and faces blackouts during a brutal heat wave
You could be surprised. Read Zero to One or watch his Stanford lecture.
The Feelings Monster: building a character with all the feels
The Terrifying Choices Created by Wildfires
very analogous to airplanes running on fuel vs batteries
Any chance your philosophy degree was rooted in the analytic tradition most popular in english-language philosophy departments? It focuses specifically on logical analysis and argumentation and took over anglo departments so thoroughly that many students seemed to forget that other traditions even existed.

It aspired to demonstrate that philosophy can have the idealized rigor of math or at least the empirical legitimacy of a science, and generally rejected the creative and interpretive analytical practices of literature and history. While still often in the "humanities" school in many places, it's usually an outlier in what it teaches.
I think this is common enough personally.

The most important thing is understanding the problem itself. So in the case of compile issues, rust for me has just blown me away. But I won't harp on.

There are times too where it's just not clicking and you shouldn't be afraid to step away from it for a bit. I like taking a walk. But something to step away from it.

I do have crazy lows when I'm just stuck and feel so stupid at that moment. But solving it then gives that addictive high.

As for tools and those obscure errors that are impossible I'm always reminding myself of the X Y problem and to make sure I'm not getting trapped in it!

Power through though, you're not alone and all the problema you've solved you'll remember!
If only FDR had seen the Swiss system of streetcars…
I am all for heat pumps, but this seems a bit extreme. They want this to be enacted within one year? They want a gas stove to be regulated the same way as a power plant?

At a time when we _badly_ need to build more housing that people can actually afford, artificially raising the cost of building new homes also seems problematic. The rhetoric used by the republican lawmakers opposed to it does sound like the usual anti-regulation talking points, but I have to agree with them in this case. This would make life a lot harder and more expensive for a lot of people and I don't think "a few environmental groups" is enough consensus for the entire country.
Archived: https://archive.ph/tzC4X
"The petition, if implemented by the EPA, would require homeowners to replace gas appliances when they break down or must be replaced with expensive new heat pump technology."

Assuming a heat pump lasts about 10 years, Has there been any analysis of the supply chain dependencies or repairability of heat pumps? I've asked this elsewhere and have had trouble figuring this out.

Saying this as someone currently fixing an old house, made haphazard 'kotatsu' heating setups, seen plenty of videos and articles evangelizing heat pumps, yet feel like there's little asked about the long term resilience or repairability of a given tech despite the greater efficiency.
Holy fuck, this is so pernicious.

I don't see Visa as culpable here—no more culpable than the ISP serving PornHub, or their analytics provider, data center, ad services, or anything else. If the judge is after Visa, they should be after the others equally.

The blame for platforming the content and careless-moderation lies squarely on PornHub. And there are surely other institutions than Visa that should be obliged to take immediate serious issue with CSAM on PH.

Why isn't Visa being forced to stop providing payment processing services for liquor stores that sell alcohol to people who drive drunk and injure themselves and others? I swear, this isn't a strawman argument—Visa is as removed from culpability in this case as they are in this PornHub case, and deaths caused by drunk driving are reasonably far more damaging to human life.

The specific behavior users posting CSAM on PornHub is unquestionably damnable (and those who posted it are the most culpable, and must suffer the most consequences). This doesn't mean PornHub is a whole is a net-bad. Sex work is real work, and America has a damn hard time appreciating the aesthetics of the human body in a comfortable and unproblematic manner, and the pressure to keep PornHub hidden in the shadows reinforces the negative feedback loop of unhealthy perspectives of sex, and promotes some bad behavior—we can't culturally talk about sex comfortably and openly, when we're all made for it.

In any case, Visa's job is not to moderate the content of the internet, nor any other purchases on their platform—aside from an interested best-effort response to deny outright the sale of illegal goods and services. Visa should be able to fine or sue PornHub for breach of contract. Or increase their payment processing fees, and force them provide reports and transparency.

It is not ok for Visa to feel forced by external pressure to cut off this entire business category as a whole.
We'll be back there in three years.
"Yep, nothing besides doing its job supporting the organisation preventing a European war escalation as well ad providing intel to Ukraine."

Source?
> The hosting costs of individual users with a free though generous account is supplemented by paying companies and governments.

I can think of a way to lower costs... :-/
If only this were something that the rapidly growing cadres of university administrators could address. Perhaps they could erect a new Research Integrity Campus at every major university? If the buildings are eye-catching and the research integrity campuses have their own sport ball teams and diversity coordination hierarchies (diversity provosts, diversity deans, etc), Indian grad students will show up to do all the work.

Then there can be international seminars with Chinese representatives donating to our research integrity efforts.
Hard disagree. The system showers rewards on the older generations in exchange for votes. It offers young people almost nothing.

Retirees also have nothing better to do than sit around watching and reading conservative propaganda which is close to impossible to compete with.
I had a typo in url (wrote .xys instead of .xyz, fixed now), thanks for letting me know.

The .xyz pun was not intended, but it does make a lot of sense for a math related app. Thanks for spotting that too!
>Serverless and edge functions: Deno, Vercel, Netlify, Cloudflare.

Databases:. Planetscale, Supabase, Cockroach, Fauna, Upstash.

Services:. Fly, Railway, Render.
mmartinson quoted the part of the article agreeing with their statement.
The Long Boom: A History of the Future, 1980–2020 (1997)
> any semi-functional Mars colony is going to have to spend a considerable amount of resources just battling the environment…any self-contained government created "Scienceville" wouldn't have those constraints, and as such it's output would be super productive compared to any Mars colony

I’m arguing those constraints are what will drive ingenuity. In large part because pitching smart, ambitious on a Scienceville is dubious. In part based on the history of settler civilisations outperforming their home countries.
I've added both of these to the README. Thanks for the suggestions!
Remember that all motion is relative. You can’t model space travel as simply going from point to point. Instead, you transfer from orbit to orbit and have to match velocities wherever you go. Relative to the propellant depot you have to reach zero velocity, but the propellant depot will be orbiting something at a very high speed just like you are.

You will likely have to go out of your way somewhat to reach a propellant depot, so you don’t want your propellant depots at the bottom of heavy gravity wells or in hard-to-reach orbits. But it’s still a viable strategy.
Precisely. He likely had a revelation about himself, and writes about it with the language, "people are mostly xyz." What a joke.
yes? in what way is UPI leap frogging the ubiquity of wechat/alipay?

p2p, b2b payments go through WeChat. it all goes through WeChat.

people selling food on the street, basically all retail stores, e-commerce, goes through some combination of wechat/alipay
Yea, in this case it sounds like the admins did the correct thing to avoid witch hunts and accusation storms (Sunil Tripathi as an example).

If you have the moderation team to quell issues like this in real time it can be possible to stop behaviors like this without taking down sites. It tends to get problematic in sites with small moderation teams, poor moderation infrastructure, and users with a higher than average amount of conspiratorial thinking as any attempt to moderate rapidly increases the number of posts.
Okay, but colleges that teach about the rest of life (language, cultures, arts, etc.) charge money and will kick out students that don't pay money.
SQL is around since the dawn of relational database and its hard to replace. The best option for mass adoption is to have drag and drop tools with visualizations like no-code ETL. Template like and markup language or framework are easier to adopt for new developers but majority of the population still tend of stick with the original language.
It works just fine for my PC, laptop and Android. Shame that you had a bad experience with it although perhaps your use case is a bit unusual. Although that's surprising about Android being so difficult to work with in Go. It sounds like this is being resolved in Android 10 upwards: https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing-android/wiki/Frequent...
As you said: both products have a similar goal but Plasmic and FlyCode's approaches are pretty different. Plasmic requires using their own libraries in the code for making it editable and focuses on editing content that is in CMSs such as Contentful. FlyCode requires no such integration. It reads the existing code and allows users to edit copy inside the code without any action required by the developer. This is the reasoning behind our claim for "3 minutes setup". For developers FlyCode is "transparent": it doesn't affect the code and can be removed at any time. Also, from their examples it seems like Plasmic focus on content / e-commerce use cases while FlyCode focuses on web-apps (e.g. B2B SaaS).
I wonder if that would have ever happened had the internet not selected Chris-Chan for lolcow status.
This feels like something that really only makes sense as part of a greater plan. Like, if the government announced they were phasing out fossil fuel home heating by providing heat pumps in new construction for cheap, while simultaneously having a plan to expand the power grid to accommodate the new power requirements, that would be fine. But this feels really slapdash and is likely to have unanticipated side effects.
As mentioned, there is a wide variety of these available of different types. They were made popular and available enough by the mining boom that there are different styles (and different qualities).

This was the one I used: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07N38Y799
I have had the EXACT same experience with humanities majors.
I actively avoid hiring anyone from those on my teams even with bootcamp experience.

The best employees I've had are from technically focused universities with some kind of STEM background.
Are you confident at building simple effeciently-written games? Making computer games is harder than doing CRUD apps. And making simulations games is as twice as hard. My advice is to learn to make simple games at first because even simple games "simulate" some aspects. Instead of making one big very complex simulation game, build many simple simulations with increasing complexity for every new game. In the process you would see many problems you need to solve so that game uses resources effeciently, etc. ... I know this is not what you wanted to hear, I am sorry. :-) I think not any single book can answer your question, but rather many-many books.
Replying to myself, seems like I went to the 1password.community page, which somehow is the 1st search result for me.
Totally agree. Every single new subscription product someone buys that can't be run independently or avoid updates adds tech debt to their personal life. At some point that product will be killed, degraded, or made much more expensive. Software that can be purchased once and run indefinitely is all upside on the long tail.

I wish more companies followed the Jetbrains model where a subscription buys lasting access to the current version and recurring payments gets you continuous updates. It's easy to see why companies mostly avoid this model though; it's easier to squeeze users for money when you have them held captive.
So, the C style they use is: function types on their own line and spaces between function names and their parameters?

That's not a style I would be encouraging to use today

It also uses sizeof to calculate the size of an array which would be good in any language except C
Ask HN: What is the next big thing?
In any domain where you think you have some insight: what do you think is the next big thing?