skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just to add to the comment: you also have backups, automatic logs on all services, raw access to postgres (you can do whatever you want with it), custom integration with stripe, plus specific dashboard for users, database, and storage.

It's freaking crazy
A. Just curious, are these servers performing any work besides purely serving content? Eg user auth, album art, show description, etc?

B. What’s the current biggest bottleneck preventing higher throughout?

C. Has everything been up streamed? Meaning, if I were to theoretically purchase the exact same hardware - would I be able to achieve similar throughout?

(Amazing work by the way in these continued accomplishments. These posts over thr years are always my favorite HN stories.)
You guys seem to be more informed than me since I didn't use the pebble. Do you know how the pinetime compares?
I recommend Arq Backup all the way
https://www.arqbackup.com/
You're "expected" to study for job interview questions. It's more a measure of willingness to jump through hoops than your competence. Developer interview questions in general has little to do with what you'll do as a developer, and what you're expected to know as a developer.
It’s definitely easier to go along with the status quo, but where in life is that not true? Things like academic debates have a lot of rules and structure trying to reduce that but even there it’s understood that certain positions are harder to argue than others.
The wrench in being against ML was that it was responsible for the tremendous growth of the USSR and China. Every third world country would love to replicate this. At best, ML would make a country self sufficient enough to withstand geopolitics and economic pressure from first world countries seeking to use their advantage against third world countries. Cuba and North Korea are isolationist in this regard. However, their standard of living is comparably higher than similar third world countries.

The issue in countries where "socialism" (arguably indirect democracy state capitalism) took off were that they faced backwards conditions compared to the first world. ML provided the command economy to quickly divert investment for creating the nonexisting infrastructure necessary to be able to achieve more advanced modes of capitalism. This capitalistic step is necessary to build up the conditions for socialism according to a Marxist timeline of development. The Stalin model attempted to reinterpret a state control of capital as a socialism since it was in theory held responsible to the worker masses as opposed to private individual capital holders.

Perhaps, the fall of the USSR inro capitalism for better global trade and investment and the fall of Maoism into Dengism were rebukes of the Stalin model in being unable to sustain growth without global trade that first world capitalism benefits from. China however maintains the ML party control over the state and economy in order to maintain control over how capitalists invest and develop their country more for the Chinese benefit rather than the foreign country interest.

This is not as free and bottoms up as alternative models of socialism, but from a game theory perspective its hard to compete against a top down system of private capitalists and their democratic representatives without another top down system unless the economic circumstances do rapidly shift (perhaps in a Marxist manner where the economic forces destabilize the upper classes and the lower classes are empowered to grow the economy in a new way)
Looks interesting, though I’d hesitate to tie my infra to GraphQL out of the box. Unless I’m mistaken
I'm not sure why you think I am questioning your responsibility?

My observation has been that teams that don't have tool choice almost always lost it because they had an overly specified build environment. Often under the guise of "streamlining" the setup. And this is why they have that particular build server still sitting around that only the head developer is allowed to modify.

In what should be a straw man argument, I've seen this go so far as folks not knowing how to even try to build their software on anything other than the sanctioned IDE with them having to use the mouse to click the "now build" button.

Which is all to say, my argument is intended to be that you do need a repeatable and streamlined build system that is tested and run in a variety of environments. The more diversity in where/how it is run, the more trust I have that the team actually understands how it works. Especially as a whole.

For the personal control, letting the devs accomplish onboarding in a way that they control empowers them to make the changes to the setup that help make that happen, and gives more autonomy to them. Giving them autonomy means they can fix things they see. And you want that, as they will see far far more of what is happening than board level management will.

Does this mean you can't/don't meet compliance? Of course not. Most compliance can be tested. And it should be tested. Again, this testing benefits from diversity of execution, as well, such that a test that can pass on a variety of environments and toolsets is far more trustworthy than one that can only pass on a particularly sanctioned setup.

Now, pulling this back from a straw man argument. I accept there are situations where this level of freedom is harder to achieve. If you take my argument as absolute requiring that the entire team supports every possible variation of tool that could be thrown at them, please walk it back some. That isn't my intent. I just get scared by efforts to unify it all down to one, as well.
>And it had an insanely long battery life.

Is there a term for complementing something that is objectively much worse than what came before only because it's better than what we have now.

Stockholm syndrome?

Watch batteries used to last month's/ years / didn't need batteries at all.

It's the same with phones, they used to last a week easily, now we get excited when they last 2 days.
Write it now. This is the time.

Look... IMO, these tend to go the wrong way from the first sentence. Almost any polemic on this topic starts by assuming or implying that Freedom of Speech means X or that censorship means Y.

The reality is that Freedom of Reach means something totally different than it did 25 years ago. Freedom of the Press and Freedom of Speech didn't use to be the same thing.

We can't keep going to the past and pretend that early republican politicians, early liberal philosophers or early modern lawyers have the answer for everything rights-related. It's ridiculous to extrapolate what Free Speech means in the era of TWitter and Youtube from the early modern era's thoughts on pony mail and leafleting.

What Freedoms we have, or should have, now that technology enables them, is a question for people of now to decide.
Completely agree with you RE grift, but there is a realistic niche that converted work vans offer.

Transits, sprinters, e350 etc are all very common/shared platforms and parts are incredibly cheap, well understood. Tire sizes are standard/cheap, and manufacturer warranty for the drivetrain often still applies. Significantly less GVW combined with 87 octane fuel in an economic 6 cylinder is very attractive to people into van life (for some reason).

Also considering GVW, tripping in an RV allows for very little flexability (imagine getting into a campsite in the woods). So you likely need to tow a smaller vehicle, which at that point may require a CDL depending on area.
> In many cases that's not even enough.

Users rarely deviate from the established upvote/downvote patterns. In fact, I'd go as far as saying many users don't even read the comments before voting.

When two users are having a heated argument, it's common for a third person to respond to the 'right' person with an innocuous comment and be heavily downvoted for it.
Do all those softwares mentioned here also work with external harddives as "cloud"?
OP's friend didn't get paid like an owner because he wasn't an owner. If you want to be an owner you have to take on the risk as well. If they had missed it, and lost the 5M, you wouldn't support them taking back half of this guy's pay for the next 6 months to help make up for it.
It is not xenophobic to be anti Chinese government. You should know that Xi's government has a recent history of increasing repression and paranoia. It is not that the people are "at risk" of rebelling, it is that the government is paranoid about it.
Opponent-dependent strategies is what humans already do
Twitter is and for a long while has been the main marketing and advertising channel for all of Elon's companies -- Tesla, SpaceX, the Boring Company, Neuralink, OpenAI, etc.

Instead of spending billions on flashy TV ads, magazine spreads, and the like, Elon has been announcing and promoting every new product and service offered by his companies by posting genuinely interesting comments about it to his 100+ million subscribers on Twitter -- many of whom would retweet his posts and, having large numbers of followers themselves, would quickly reach what may be billions of people worldwide. Few CEOs or companies have such instant global reach.

Now Elon controls the main marketing and advertising channel for all his companies. Few CEOs or companies control their main marketing and advertising channels.

What will Elon do? I'd expect he will want (1) to cut down operating losses by as much as possible, and (2) to maintain or increase Twitter's subscriber base.

In the meantime, from his perspective, any operating losses at Twitter will be money spent on marketing & advertising, in all but name.
> “I got a $5 grocery card,” wrote a one employee. “Excuse me?? What the hell am I supposed to buy with $5?”

Also a grocery card is kind of insulting. Sure everyone buys groceries, but giving one can be interpreted as implying you think they need help paying for food.

----

My company contracted out its "performance rewards" gifts to a 3rd party company. As far as I can tell ALL of the items are 2x overpriced in points, compared to gift cards, but the gift card selection isn't great. At least for a couple items I was looking I could get the offered item via one of the offered gift cards and save literally hundreds of dollars.

Another suggestion for the list: don't do that, and make things a good deal, or at least value them fairly.
To be fair California was named after a mythical wonderland popularized in a Spanish novel.
Creating money causes inflation if it ends up in the hands of people ready to spend it. But if you printed money endlessly and gave it all to Jeff Bezos, there would be no competitive pressure to see prices rise in the general economy. He might try to buy up all the real estate or stocks, driving asset inflation, but there is little reason for him to buy up all the bread to see it appear in CPI where we measure general inflation.

And by all accounts the people don't have any more money. In fact, governments around the world have been creating support packages to deal with the people not having more money to support the rising prices. This suggests that it is supply-side driven, and I'm going to suggest food in particular.

The farm price for food started rising at the beginning of the pandemic when labour was difficult to secure amid illness. Then came the big fertilizer crunch which remains ongoing. Then the war in Ukraine, Europe's bread basket. And now there are looming fears over diesel availability. A quadruple whammy in short succession for something that everyone has to buy.

Saving rates are crashing to support this temporary blip, but with very little income growth it doesn't look sustainable. You can't have inflation if people don't have money to spend. As we start to solve some of our food issues, fertilizer in particular, a massive deflationary event seems quite likely.
I use Kopia + Backblaze with linux. No problems so far.
For a watch that you can no longer buy from OEM or get OEM support from, it's a lot, no?
Ask HN: Ideas to have fun poisoning data collection by trackers/data brokers?
I have used adnauseum every now and then for a minor attempt at poisoning my profile. I wonder anyone at HN has other ideas to go about and poke fun at this data machine that tries to profile us all?

Any scripts that would generate valuable noise to trick the trackers?

Any other obfuscation methods that create enough nuisance to the ad companies?

P.S I am not looking for a 100% foolproof way to get away from trackers. Just some fun and creative ways to trick them.
What I want is something with the off-road capabilities of a legit truck, but instead of a truck bed, living space.

I don’t understand why this doesn’t exist. Is it because vans become so prone to tipping that they can never behave like a truck?

Edit: Just a full sized suv but with all the back seating area converted to living space.
I would strongly prefer van for moving around or parking then tow camper.
Show HN: unsock: shim to automatically change AF_INET sockets to AF_UNIX, etc.
unsock is an LD_PRELOAD-able Linux library that converts AF_INET socket connections to AF_UNIX, AF_VSOCK, AF_TIPC, etc, helping reduce the dependency on TCP/UDP/IP for local communication.

It even handles the painful "CONNECT" proxy dance on Firecracker AF_UNIX/AF_VSOCK multiplexing sockets for you.
You can't force people to update the doc when it gets out of date, can you? There are limits to what can realistically be done through coercion.
Did he begin answering the question, drop some big philosophical terms, and then just drift off into here is what I think we should do about climate change in 4 steps...?
"For Pablo Ruiz-Múzquiz, who heads up PenPot, an open-source competitor to Figma, the deal was a shock to the design community, since Figma had long marketed itself as the “anti-Adobe.”

Didn't know PenPot exists.

Hope it takes off. Importing Figma files would help drive adoptions, but it feels like a long way off.
I think gp meant that you can get enough electricity to live off-grid, that is, powering appliances, not powering the van itself.
Maybe a Garmin vivomove HR, I got mine for the same reasons
I don't get it either.

I do own a smart watch, but I don't use it in the typical manner.

I don't ever want to see notifications on my wrist. People seem to think it's ok to read notifications in situations where looking at a phone would be rude, such as at dinner or whilst having a conversation.

I wear mine when doing sport. I like that I can play music and track my activity without my phone.

And I wear mine when navigating cities. I like that I can pay for public transport and check map directions without making myself a target by getting my phone out.

Other than that, I don't wear mine. I don't see the point of wearing it day to day.
Have been using this for years, it has its quirks but it works and it costs me next to nothing - I keep looking at possible alternatives but so far haven’t shifted.
> Moderating spam is very interesting: it is almost universally regarded as okay to ban (i.e. CENSORSHIP) but spam is in no way illegal.

Interesting, in my country spam is very much illegal and I would hazard a guess that it is also illegal in the US, similar to how littering, putting up posters on peoples buildings/cars/walls, graffiti (a form of spam), and so on is also illegal. If I received the amount of spam I get in email as phone calls I would go as far as calling it harassment, and of course robot phone calls are also illegal. Unsolicited email spam is also again the law.

And if spam is against the service agreement on twitter then that could be a computer crime. If the advertisement is fraudulent (as is most spam), it is fraud. Countries also have laws about advertisement, which most spam are unlikely to honor.

So I would make the claim that there is plenty of principled reasons for banning spam, all backed up by laws of the countries that the users and the operators live in.
Why not make the goal "providing the best education possible to the brightest?" Why is reducing inequality the goal of an educational system, while taking as an unstated premise that inequality is somehow unnatural or bad?
At what point will it make more sense to use specialized hardware, e.g. network card that can do encryption?
> When the cops don’t show up to take a report

In San Francisco I didn't need the cops to show up to file a report--I filled it out online! It's easier than ever to file a report these days.
In typical Microsoft fashion it has enough to check the box but not enough to actually be useful.

Does it generate diffs/patches that ultimately can be used to reconstruct the document? Can I take a document and apply a patch and get exactly the same as you get? Can I reorder and edit patches? The answer is no.
Implementing RBAC with Permifrost on Snowflake
Had to look this up: GVW = gross vehicle weight.

Ya coulda just said "weight"!

EDIT - now off to Google "CDL".
But mobile home is entirely different use case. They don't move at all or move only rarely.
pg_stat_statements
> The real problem is that using spaces for indentation is an accessibility issue.

The problem of leading spaces not changing their size can be solved through programming.

Those programmers who have such a problem and need leading space to be rubbery, if those programmers are worthy, will solve that problem instead of complaining that everyone should adapt to them.

The use of tabs is detrimental to code bases. Whenever tabs creep in, invariably people use different tab settings and make a dog's breakfast out of the code.

Code exhibits indented sub-structures that are internally indented, but not themselves not aligned to a tab stop, but aligned with something. One kind of example is something like:

function_name_of_random_length(lambda (a, b) {
if (a < b) {
indented();
}
},
arg2);
But only a little bit of help, evidently. Maybe they want you to treat yourself and splurge on an avocado.
Most of the users I've seen using Nhost (and Hasura) treat data/the db as the source. Given that you have raw access to postgres, you are also the full owner of your data and you can swap interfaces as you see fit (I've seen users use Hasura internally and not expose it to the internet)

Notice, also, that Hasura has support for REST endpoints.
Wikipedia is not a good source for politically sensitive or contentious subjects as these tend to be taken over by self-appointed keepers of The Truth™ who only allow their own narrative to stay on the page, removing anything else. This is doubly true when relating to the ideologies favoured by those Truth Keepers™, Communism being a prime example of such.

In other words, the Wikipedia page on Communism is not a good source for an unbiased view on Communism.

To answer your questions arising from the propaganda page on Communism on Wikipedia: no, I do not agree with a Communist view on Communism.
> I would say 1-5% of them are mysteries as to why they are dead (meaning they have been automatically killed, not killed due to other users flagging).

More than likely shadowbanned accounts. Some green accounts also seem to be automatically [dead] until they get couch’s, but I’m not sure the exact situations around that.
nitter.net has a vaguely more readable view, not good but better.

https://nitter.net/yishan/status/1586955288061452289
So you can save something like $10 of gas per day off sitting in the sun? Sounds pretty good for the intended use.

That giant battery could potentially power your climate control and appliances etc when off grid. And if you run down the battery by accident, you won’t be stuck for long.
Be careful with this website. Cloudinary is a developer of JPEG XL, is an affiliated party, so there is absolutely no reason to expect a fair comparison.

Instead visit https://storage.googleapis.com/demos.webmproject.org/webp/cm... and you will see that JPEG XL has color fringing and ringing artifacts.
Astounding to see racism and ignorance represented as virtue signaling so blatantly!

Are you aware that the majority of STEM seats in Indian colleges are set aside for either affirmative action for ‘lower’ castes (itself an arbitrary criteria) and women?

The average man in India is competing for approx 10% of college seats!

And saying an Indian STEM degree is worth millions in lifetime earnings reveals even more ignorance - outside of a handful of colleges, the India higher education system is considered woefully inadequate, underfunded, pumping out graduates who only succeed out of personal initiative.

Every major corporation in India essentially has a retraining program to actually teach what’s necessary for work. The worker training issue is one of the top challenges faced by businesses there.

Perhaps it’s time you described your own ethnicity and background etc. Let’s learn a little more about where your biases flow from.

If you actually grew up in India in the time period of the OP, or knew anything about it other than nonsense in woke
publications, you would feel ashamed for your tone and envy and render a sincere apology to the OP.
Well it turns out, people aren't grownups. So your idea pretty much fails there. Wait, you think I'm wrong, well, prepare for a thousands of posts and flamewars on this discussion! Oh it's also going to spill over into the gardening discussion that generally gets 5 post a day, but now will see 600 because of our firestorm.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini%27s_law demands moderation. Community and society demand moderation. Hell, I'd even go as far and say physics demands it. The internet breaks our ideas of social norms on moderation by taking distance and anonymity and shoving them in the same place all at once. And much like if you take groups of conflicting fundamentalist religious groups and put them together, the enviable violence outbreak affects everyone around.
Okay, maybe this “ Judeo-Christian idea” is far from being the best option.

But at least it has a few thousand years of growing and evolving civilization to back it.

And it’s not just a random lucky civilization, it’s the one that made most of the modern scientific and cultural breakthroughs to date.

It doesn’t mean the work/life schedule played a major role in it, but it at least mean this approach is not that bad to dismiss in an instant.

And what evidence do you have to support your alternative ideas?
It has the name of a very powerful shield from Greek mythology, so it will protect you.
Have you tested restores? The problem I had with duplicati was that eventually restoring from a backup would take exponentially longer, to the point of never finishing. Maybe it would have eventually, but I can't wait multiple days to restore one file. There's a possibility it was an error or problem on my end, and this was a couple of years ago, so ymmv.
Yeah, I was wondering about how Duplicati compares to Kopia, which seems to check pretty much all the boxes for me.
For those who expect troff to be an ancient relic, Neatroff and Heirloom troff include modern features like microtypography. troff is still great for a lot of applications.
I think most of the problem is the font they use
> Almost immediately sub-reddits pop up that are at the very least attempting to skirt the law, and often directly breaching the law- popular topics on reddit included creative interpretations of the age of consent for example, or indeed the requirement for consent at all. Oh and because anyone can create one these communities, the site turns into whack-a-mole.

Twitter is already a whack-a-mole, but for a range of content that's much broader than just illegal content. A change like this would reduce their moderation burden.

> The second thing that happened was communities popped up pretty much for the sole purpose of harassing's other communities. But enabling this sort of market place of moderation, you are providing a mechanism for a group of people to organize a way to attack your own platform. So now you have to step back in and we're back to censorship.

You can ban harassing behaviour without banning open discussions.

Finally, I don't think the ACX proposal is exactly like reddit. Reddit still has moderation imposed by a third party, this moderation configuration is in your control.