skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Building your own has more margin, colos are expensive and they force you to buy things like blended bandwidth to increase their margins. Running your own dark fiber ring with dwdm and peering at exchanges is way better when your product is data.
It’s not a scam, it’s a business model being tried by a startup in one of the most competitive and dirty industries ever.

Much less scammy than what google and chrome does.
Skype’s legacy and the rise of the ‘new Nordics’
It's open source, be the change you want to see in the world
Then you’ll get steamrolled when you need to expand or build a merchant navy on short notice against the adversary which builds all your existing merchant fleet cough China cough, not that they don’t ALREADY have us by the balls in a million other ways.
The ads are not replaced. More like they are placed within Brave as ads for the application itself. They are defaulted to off.

I can't understand how this seems negative to anyone. There is a certain assumption that any Brave user would have an ad blocker anyway.

What is the alternative?
https://www.computerworld.com/article/3284076/brave-browser-...

from 2018

https://productmint.com/brave-business-model-how-does-brave-...

its worse

>In June, reports emerged, which stated that the company had been quietly inserting affiliate links for certain search queries without telling users. For instance, Brave had added a home widget for Binance a month prior, which turned out to redirect users via its affiliate offering.
Yes, I think it probably is uncommonly good for the US--all the hate the MBTA gets notwithstanding. But that's sort of my point. The city has relatively good public transit that is pretty much as convenient to me as is reasonable. And the commute still sucks. (I'm pretty far out but not unreasonably so.)
Agreed, same goes for feature requests from users (I get a lot more of those than PRs on Aerial).

Yet if it's a decent/good idea, my go to answer is "not yet" and not "no". If it's really a great idea, eventually I'll get to it. By keeping the issue around open, it's still peripherally in my vision and I may have a plan to take care of it that depends on something else. Extra information is never wasted and may inform your decisions on what you are working on now. Plus you know, it's kind of the polite thing to do.

I feel it's the same for the original Steve quote, Apple was/is pretty famous for saying "no" to a good idea and revisiting them later. I think "not yet" is closer to the originally meant intent.
See also, grocery corporation CEOs bragging about price gouging under the cover of "inflation" during investor calls, https://pluralistic.net/2022/10/17/united-states-vs-vons/#pr...

>As Kroger CEO told his shareholders: "a little bit of inflation is always good in our business" because it lets him raise prices and "customers don’t overly react."

etc, etc.
National defense. In peace time a merchant marine fleet may have poor economics but is immensely valuable to have during wartime. You can’t just snap your fingers when that happens and magically get all of the boats and crew and logistics in place so instead we the people have to pay to maintain it.
That requires being logged in and gets regularly reset.
They are orthogonal, plenty of people are happy with themselves despite being abusive or toxic. It’s a poor heuristic for one’s ability to socialize with others or be a parent. Also, unhappiness can be something people are in denial about.

I think what people are trying to say is that if you want to become a parent you should be capable of providing the child with a good childhood. That’s an admirable goal but answering that question is exceedingly tricky.
Yes that's the scale for monthly public transport ticket price in large number of continental European cities. I don't own a car so I may be out of touch with those expenses, 15% just sounded to me like a lot.

The time value is of course then on top, but the parent accounted for that separately.
Say I had an project that produces a file that people will subscribe to get access to said file. Is this what you would use to sell it? Why not say shopify?
PR voted for statehood THREE TIMES already... THREE!!! (2012, 2017, 2020)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puerto_Rico_political_status_p...
404 for me, archive mirror:

https://web.archive.org/web/20221019160545/https://sites.goo...
What part was illegal exactly? My legal understanding is that there's no cap on salary working hours, no mandatory vacation or weekends, and a 3-day minimum on paid sick days (in california) .
A straight forward fix would be a gradual repeal. Start with foreign territories and Hawaii allowing for non-US vessels. Then in the US allow for 10% of all traffic to be serviced by an international company, and keep increasing that until some X% that allows for a US maritime industry and international competition.
How many times I had to strace an application because the fucking error message didn't give enough information!!
Repealing the Jones Act in particular is really about outsourcing the construction of ship-building to places like China and India to get the cheapest labor rates and maximize profits. The well-known scarcity of medical supplies during the pandemic is part of the broader trend of neoliberal globalization.

> "Among ocean-going commercial ships, worldwide 2,873 are under construction and China is building 1,291 of them while the U.S. is building only 8 (as tracked by the shipbroker BRS Group). The other leaders are Japan with 697 and South Korea with 475, both also heavily-subsidized, although less than China’s mega-billions. Other nations subsidize the building of commercial ships, including India and France. But the U.S. discontinued its shipbuilding subsidies decades ago."

https://townhall.com/columnists/ernestistook/2020/04/23/chin...

Note the above article has a kind of 'fear China' theme, but the reality is that the US oligarchs in the shipping industry would be the immediate primary beneficiary, in terms of profit margins and overall labor/material costs. Of course, if the US economy and state goes belly up, they'll run off to hidey holes in New Zealand, Singapore, Switzerland or similar.
The iPad is not waterproof anyway, and I'm currently holding a smaller, waterproof Android phone with a headphone jack (Samsung Galaxy S10e), so whoever gives that as an excuse doesn't know what they're talking about.
Umm it should concern everyone if FBI, a law enforcement agency with sweeping power, invades a journalist or a private individual’s house. This sort of normalization of FBI raids to individual citizens is bad for individual and civil liberties, the number of such raids have disproportionately grown over last decade. FBI is an agency known for broad abuse of power and the last thing we need is politicization and sweeping normalization of their abusive behaviours. Even as recent as July, a judge questioned their tactic of raiding a defendants hous instead of just asking them to turn themselves https://www.politico.com/amp/news/2022/07/15/judge-questions...

If anything we need more oversight from media, not less. FBI is known to bypass any scrutiny like FISA warrants and rubber stamp things as they wish.
Russia ramps up Kherson relocations, may soon lose the biggest prizes of its war
Pins are fun to own but the pricing has gotten inflated since 2019. If you get into your local pin community you can likely still find machines for $2k-$4k though they may need a little work to bring up to top level. The pricing varies widely based on the condition and popularity of the particular machine. Fortunately, the pinball collector community is large so there's good availability of information and parts to maintain and restore machines.

You can start down the rabbit hole at www.pinside.com
Totally. I just never really got into them.
So first, your last paragraph really does feel like some kind of post hoc reasoning - "elves should be pale and elves like the moon, ergo elves are pale because of their relationship to the moon"? I don't get the logic. (I mean, they're obviously not following or even based in any kind of biological laws here.)

But also - orcs also hate sunlight, yet have darker skin. And harfoots have darker skin but prefer the sun. (And trolls also prefer the moon, for different reasons.)

So even trying to find some thematic association within Tolkien... it's just not there.
Somewhat related, but the Earth's rate of rotation changes somewhat randomly over the centuries due to tidal friction, tectonic motion, and climate change. These random perturbations add up, so over the course of a few thousand years, the rotation angle of the Earth can be uncertain by up to 70 degrees or so.

But because total solar eclipses occur at times that we can calculate and are only visible from specific locations on the Earth, geologists have been able to use ancient accounts of solar eclipses to constrain the long-term change in the Earth's rotation rate.
lol, thanks! onnx, docker, and fastAPI on CPUs with AWS fargate. although i'm switching to GPUs in a month or two, so if you have any suggestions let me know.
True, exponential backoff doesn't necessarily mean doubling, it's just the common understanding. Using Fibonacci explicitly gives me easy-to-use whole numbers.
I didn't mention that they ad-swap. I just refer to the fact they remove ads on the website but then display ads through the browser in terms of push notifications etc.

I'd argue that website owners are being scammed by a company stealing profits. Brave is literally going "We don't think you should earn money from your visitors because of factors we decide, but we're going to show people on your website OUR ads because we picked them."

Adblock is just as bad. They block all ads and then go "If you've got plenty of money and want us to let your ads show to our users, you've got to pay us for the privilege."

They're literally like an Ad mafia.
https://blog.turbotax.intuit.com/tax-deductions-and-credits-...

I got that number here. It has a bit of a range depending on income and a few other factors. The number appears to be low no matter what your factors end up being, though.

The childless support those with children because everyone recognizes that we have to reproduce to keep society running. If nobody has children, then our standard of living plummets, among other consequences. Thus, we subsidize kids for those who choose to have them.
Yes, but my point was that the set of 25 year old couples who ended up working from home and having sex more often because of it probably will not end up with a baby because they will not have forgone birth control.

Or a couple who has already had their desired amount of kids would not end up with more kids even though they are having more sex due to them using birth control.

Whereas a 30 to 35 year old couple who was already planning on babies in the next couple years would have opted out of birth control to take advantage of the increased time being spent at home.
For history's sake, here are 3 of 5 parts of the original story preserved in the SA Goldmine for anyone who wants to read 2002 forum comments:

Part 1: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=18... (dead link)

Part 2: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=20... (dead link)

Part 3: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=26...

Part 4: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=30...

Part 5: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=33...

Disclaimer: The word "sir" seems to have been edited into the f-slur at some point on part 5.
> Ships transport almost exclusively foreign made products, today.

You understand that this is because the Jones Act makes shipping domestically prohibitively expensive. Which is precisely why ground shippers are insistent that the Jones Act remain on the books.

> I have 0 interest in building something that has little to no use in a free market.

If you see a free market there, you haven't read the article.
Repealing this will be difficult, because you have a small focused organization supporting it, and you have a large, diffuse, and distractible public.

And those maritime guys are hardcore union guys, which will make Democratic support a given.

The only reason it has a chance to pass now is because the repeal may reduce costs for millions of consumers. If it's hurting home heating oil customers in New England then the NE delegation may get behind it. That'll put them against every state that's contiguous to water (including inland waterways). I'd put the chance of it passing at 15% unless something exciting happens.
This is just opinion spewing.

That said, the comment you are replying to didn't provide any sources, but if you google, for example, "china outsourcing effect on middle class", it's easy to find research supporting the conclusion that outsourcing had a real negative effect on large swaths of Americans.

Also, as a counterpoint, lots of other countries that have had a more robust middle class in the past 2 decades have stricter regulations than the US does.
A series of films from Adam Curtis: Russia 1985-1999: TraumaZone
On the other hand, down south in South asia, thanks to the remote work boom, the packages being offered to developers have gone to insane levels. Good devs with 5 years of experience are being offered $80k in non equity compensation. We got beat at 3 recent offers because we could only offer $60k usd in non equity compensation.

I'm not sure how long the good days are going to last but I don't have a good feeling about this.
Any immune reaction can trigger it. Covid itself also often triggers it.
We were married (and trying) for over a decade with only an ectopic to show for it before our “happy surprise” was born 6 months after my 40th birthday.

There’s the small matter of my husband hitting retirement age about the same time our Überraschungsei hits university, but hopefully post-secondary in Germany will continue to mostly be living expenses.
Etckeeper exists: https://etckeeper.branchable.com/
It puts your /etc/ directory in version control, with some automation so you don't have to manage it as much.

I don't think it really counts as an app with a backend, and it can use other VCSs as the data store (it used to default to mercurial until a few years ago), but it's up there as one of the things I install early when I'm using a new system.

It has only saved me once or twice, but each time I've been glad it's there.
I know you insist that it was a win32 game, but apart from that Aliens: A Comic Book Adventure seems to fit your description really well, even down to the blue disc.
https://www.mobygames.com/game/aliens-a-comic-book-adventure
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSHTQSc6iGI
> My cousin has had it twice as an adult, the second time left her at about 60%, which has been pretty hard on her.

Do you know if her occurrences were on opposites sides of the face or the same side both times?
> It's hardly hijacking when they placed you in those bubbles in the first place.

Don't people create their own feeds? I hardly ever go on these sites, but I just checked my Facebook, and it's still people I knew in high school/college posting pictures of their travels, kids, etc. plus some lawn/garden groups my wife subscribed to. Don't you have to follow people on e.g. Twitter for them to appear in your feed?
And add to that the fact that pretty much all the urban things which were pretty much the justification for choosing a small city apartment weren't even available.
a third of the votes in the 2012 were blank in protest. Can not say that that vote proved anything at all. The 2020 vote seems definitive enough though, although it was quite close.
Economically speaking, does your job not pay enough for you to afford a 2-3 bedroom apartment?
No. They testified that a single person wouldn't be able to.

> The court-appointed expert asked who at Facebook would be able to answer the question: where is all the information on a single user stored.
>
> "I don't believe there's a single person that exists who could answer that question. It would take a significant team effort to even be able to answer that question," answered Zarashaw.

https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-doesnt-know-where-all-y...
Honestly as I operated a fully remote small business for a long long time, I think you're missing the real remote work lever.

Access to talent. Dramatically increased access to talent. Exponentially increased. You can get anybody across the whole world if you like, or at the very least anybody within a reasonable time difference.

This cannot possibly be overstated as an impact on your business. Talent is actually fairly evenly distributed across the world, but you only had access to a tiny slice of it before.

The issue here is that most management I've run into has a seriously hard time managing, recruiting, retaining, or honestly even identifying talent. Most of the time people just punt and say "Well they got hired at a FAANG, or somebody else promoted them, or they went to a school with a basketball team I've heard of, so how bad could they be" or something on those lines. So they're missing out on all these great people that were previously outside their narrow slice of who could reasonably drive in.

And managing a remote team is a big pain in the ass, no question about it.

So it's harder with a meaningful upside. Managers that can turn the corner will win, the rest are gonna get left behind. It's even more stark in tech, because organizations that can make that adjustment are going to poach a ton of talent from managers that can't get it together. WFH is very very very popular in tech. (I'm not really a WFH fan aside from family concerns, but family concerns are probably the biggest driver in my working decisions, so that's that. WFH is a big deal if you've got kids, and the best, most skilled workers you can get often are dealing with kids and a family. Folks with decent emotional intelligence, work experience, good energy, these people are textbook quality workers, but are usually married with a family.)
In addition to this, measuring from just before covid until now, the US GDP grew way above its normally sustainable pace.

Fewer workers + fast economic growth = labor shortage.
I have friends who are not in my profession. But I have very few friends in my profession who are not my coworkers. There is definitely social bonding to be done with people who deal with the same work you do 40 hours a week, who understand your work life in a way that others don't.

Less coffee pot talk means work sucks. It means you don't learn about other roles in your organization. It means not breaking down communication barriers between people and departments. It means people know less about each other and each other's work. It means less empathy and sympathy around common struggles.

Nowhere is anyone saying "your only friends must be work friends". But if you are unable or uninterested in establishing any connection with the people around whom you work day in and day out, IMO, that's abnormal.
It's election season and I've been out talking to voters, who share their life stories... what I would say is that there are many women who are choosing WFH because they either can't afford or can't find day care, which may lead to deciding that hey, they might as well have another baby if they are now committed to this employment model. I've spoken to several women who were over-qualified for the jobs they had taken to WFH, but felt it was the best job situation for their families - spouse could then take on new career opportunities when both weren't struggling with commutes, day care, etc. So this article feels like it is overlooking the way women have stepped up for their families often to the detriment of their own careers.
Shipping Florida or Texas to PR would be where you see a benefit to PR. Currently, shipping an American-made good (car made in SC, maybe) to PR requires using the US merchant fleet, which is more expensive.
>contraceptive access being removed or severely limited in many states

Not being combative but as someone who isn't up to snuff on this subject can you provide some examples? I haven't seen examples of this so I'd like to read more.
FYI, I have such a call to maintainer [1] for a "Twitter cleanup" template similar to the "Google search cleanup" one [2]. There is definitely a need, but it seems over my current carrying capacity.

For Meta's properties, I would wait for the maintainer to have a track record of contributions before being comfortable opening that door.

[1]: https://github.com/letsblockit/letsblockit/issues/269

[2]: https://letsblock.it/filters/google-search-cleanup
Ask HN: Does a role-based file manager exist?
I am in search of a synchronized file manager that contains the following features. Let me know what you have used.

---

1. A traditional file system is composed of folders and files; where files (including folders) can nest under other folders. This is useful as it provides a file structure (UI) for your data.

[i.e Windows File System]

2. The ability to add or exclude people from reading, writing, managing, etc, an individual file or folder. As an example, one could assign a role to a folder which only allows accounts (people) with those roles the ability to read its documents. In other cases, one could allow the ability to view a folder, but not its contents to maintain its file structure for other viewers.

[i.e Discord Role System for Channels and Users]

3. Synchronization

The ability to synchronize the storage space or a subsection of the storage space to a specific location on a local file system. If there is no file-locking, this may also warrant a Version Control System or CRDT to resolve the editing conflicts of a file.

[i.e Sync: Dropbox, OneDrive, Rclone]
[i.e Collision: Google Docs/Sheets, Adobe Collaborative Editing, Git, etc]

---

Combining 1 and 3 is the equivalent of using a shared local network. My issue with cloud solutions (i.e Google Drive) is that the file structure of shared documents is lost. When I share a nested folder (i.e Space > Sub > A) with someone, that person is only able to see "A". This is confusing and relies on the search feature.

2 would allow any software that uses the local system to be used with roles. As an example, Obsidian doesn't have sharing built-in. However, one could add this functionality by using the Obsidian application in a folder on that file manager; with the role-based restrictions applying to actual files.
The system used to produce ddr.densho.org uses Git and git-annex to manage archival metadata and binaries. Unfortunately it's not directly visible on the site and is not open-source licensed.

The original use case was to support branch archives in remote rural areas with poor connectivity who were collecting video oral histories. The metadata could be synced over the wire to the central hub but binaries would be shipped periodically on hard drives. "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon loaded with backup tapes".

Git's structure has excellent properties for maintaining the fixity of data and helps with provenance and chain-of-custody documentation.
mosh + tmux/screen is a wonderful UX. The lack of an escape key is less critical on a command line, where C-c more reliably does the same thing (and if you're using vim, try C-[ or remapping the action to `jj` instead of Esc).
I feel like the difference is company dependent, but in my experience the difference, or at least the difference that is wanted is that a product manager implies a manager of both the end result and the process by which that end result is met. A product owner is someone who decides WHERE the product goes, but has no say in how the engineers make that happen. Its their job to set priorities and keep the product going forward but they have no tech management authority.