skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Where can you (pay to) promote your web business?
But without corporation advert companies like Google Adwords, Facebook Ads, Twitter Ads, etc.

I'm thining of how to promote a SaaS product specifically, but rather than sink money into temporary advert social media, going a bit more direct.

Can you pay someone to post on their blog? Is that still a thing?

Are web directories still worth it anymore?

If you reply/comment on relevant blog posts, it's spam, right, so how can you talk about your product (paid solutions are fine).

Or are we stuck with the only real way to promote, is sign up to FAANG and give them money?
I think they lost quite a bit of public support when they selectively leaked documents during election time.
Multiprocessing won't help you when accessing shared resources.
Not that I've noticed (I'm EU based).
yeah opened this in a new tab and by the time I opened it, it was just a popup on a black background. I nearly closed the page before realising it was an article I actually wanted to read.
> In the us the credit card option has very strong statutory consumer protections. As a rule people should be using credit cards, not debit cards.

... and pay a lot of interest to their banks as a result. Here in Europe, we don't need to pay interest for credit cards or worry about paying CC bills on time to avoid them, as we have strong consumer protection laws in general and SEPA direct debits can be clawed back no-questions-asked for three days.
> Do you mean, lack of capacity in the power lines to that regions?

Yes, more exactly reaching full capacity for the existing power/energy transport infrastructure. Which transport infrastructure is not bad per se, and that's another big plus for the government that used to rule until about 30 years ago, but most probably it wasn't built with this new energy source in mind.

I would have dug deeper for a source of the Romanian power transport network, but taking into consideration the existing geo-political conditions most probably that information is getting more and more sensible by the day, so I'll leave that sharing to someone else.

> That was also the norm in Italy during the oil crisis.

Yeah, I had a geography atlas published in 1982 who also had maps related to the major countries' economic infrastructure, so to speak, i.e. where most of their industries were located, where were they generating their power/energy, stuff like that. Being the kid that I was, with no internet access because the late '80s and no TV program to speak of, I of course devoured it, so that I can remember from those maps that Italy and France each of them had one tidal power unit installed, France somewhere around Bretagne or Normandy, Italy somewhere on the Tyrrhenian coast, near Grosseto (I might be slightly off with the Grosetto thing, though).

So, yeah, different countries were trying all sorts of unconventional stuff back then (in the late '70s - early 80s), but I do have the feeling that the cheap energy that I don't know how exactly (maybe Eastern Europe getting rid of its entire industry after 1990?) was available again starting with the 1990s made us forget almost all of that, on an institutional level.
> WikiLeaks originally used a "wiki" communal publication method, which ended by May 2010.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiLeaks#Staff,_name_and_foun...
During Uni. I worked very briefly as a hand for construction workers, via a temp agency. The most common task was to clean up the work site, and one fall we worked on this very long apartment project - I'm not sure exactly how long it was, but we only worked on the sides. Huge scaffold wrapped the building, and I'd walk around collecting trash.

My first day on the job, I worked pretty fast. I collected all the trash I could find, and when I was done, I sat down for probably 10 minutes trying to figure out what to do next. We were few people, and the worksite was pretty big.

During lunch, I get a call from my supervisor at the temp agency - she sounds worried and asks what is happening? Apparently one of the construction managers had briefly observed me sitting down, and immediately called my supervisor to inform her that I was not working, and that this arrangement was not working out. They wanted to booted off, and replaced with another temp worker ASAP. We agreed that I'd work "extra hard, and walk the extra mile" rest of that shift.

One hour into next part of the shift, I find out that there's not much more to do. All the trash has been collected - and I have 3 hours left. I kind of just say fuck it to myself, and start walking from one side of the project to the other, carrying the same bags of trash. I'm doing this non-stop for 3 hours.

I continue doing this for the next days, whenever I'm out of actual things to do.

My supervisor calls me, excited, and says I'm now getting glowing reviews from the site managers - and asks me if I want to extend the contract by 4 weeks.

Years later I end up working for a shitty firm that monitored keyboard activity, your desk presence (via movement sensors on the desks!), and a range of other frightening KPIs. Once again, I end up "refactoring" code all day long - essentially just moving blocks of code up and down, doing no real change to the code. I got "exceeds expectations", but soon jump ship.
First video I see: a visit to Tim Hunkin's Arcade. That's a good sign, Tim Hunkin is basically the nerd equivalent of "the band your favorite band likes".

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kQE0Ooqmoc
No, intent labeling wasn't manual, it was done automatically from raw data.
well, it was interesting stuff, proving how the primaries were heavy biased against Sanders https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/11/02/ex...

I think, that overall, it was an interesting and meaningful leak. Not just "toxic".
ARM is much more than just smartphone chips, and their embedded market share is under serious threat from RISC-V.
Wikileaks is a spent material at this point, its taskforce has been retasked with other, more topical objectives of the agenda.
Even wood stoves are bad for air quality here in the PNW.
I think I remember one called preserve_none. That might have been in a downstream fork though.

The calling convention you want for a coroutine switch is caller saves everything live, callee saves nothing. As that means spilling is done on the live set, to the stack in use before switching. Return after stack switch then restores them.

So if a new convention is proposed that solves both fast stackful coroutines and bytecode interpreter overhead, that seems reasonable to me.
I guess I'm insane then... I built his pantorouter, and am half-way through his 16" bandsaw build. One good reason to build the bandsaw is that it's actually a very high-quality machine - if executed well. It has an extremely stiff frame (for a relatively light weight), and a large capacity. Buying a similar quality saw of a similar size would be a lot more than a few 100 dollars. That is in fact part of the reason I'm building it (though mostly it's for the challenge).

The other advantage of machines you make yourself is that you can always fix and improve them yourself.

Both machines are an engineering challenge by the way. In the pantorouter, alignment/calibration was a big issue for me - there too many of degrees of freedom, combined with inevitable slop in the mechanism, that has to take a lot of force from the router. Also, even after calibration you need to be careful to not cut too deeply, and in consistent direction to prevent the router bit pulling too hard. But it's all worth it once you're making perfect mortice and tenons with minimal effort :-)
Our Demarkacy
My “labeling” is a form of expression to describe my point. You can disagree, but please be explicit instead of just going “well, that’s just what you think”. This is a discussion forum; I expect people to have differing opinions, and I want to debate them. You just seem to want to instead shut down any debate.

And yes, I do want to “gatekeep” any profoundly unhelpful people out of programming. Programming should be about helping people do things they otherwise don’t know how or could not do for themselves. Navel-gazers and gnostics (while they have their proper place and use) are generally not suited for, and reflect poorly on, the vocation of programming.
Yes, this is exactly it. Btw. POSIX is grossly overrated. There are many things that could have done better.
I have no doubt that most people, let alone people who have accumulated that kind of wealth have done plenty to deserve some ire. It’s the focus on him that can make it seem irrational and like it’s more because he’s a loud mouth. There are a lot more businessmen doing substantively worse things for the world that don’t catch an ounce of hate. For me that looks a little superficial and does resemble something closer to hating a pop culture icon.
So? The leak has happened. All interested parties have already seen these. Now they are just an academic dataset, like Enron emails.
Just small increases in the CO2 concentration can cause brain fog and headaches even if you won’t literally die from the room. Normally the feeling of a room being “stuffy” is the first sign. That’s a mere 600ppm where that begins to happen.

Here’s the basic levels of CO2 that are acceptable in a room. I know I get drowsy in rooms without good airflow when in meetings at the office.

https://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/amp/co2-comfort-level-d_1...
They wish. (And the agencies backing them wish.)

Wikileaks had the public backing of, and was composed of, people who had proved the painful way that they weren't working for governments or other established interests.

Merely getting access to flashy hacks will never win DDoSecrets that.

Assange paid a huge price for being the organization's public face, but it wasn't for nothing. It could never have worked as well as it did unless someone was willing to play that role.
Isn’t it called ReScript or something now?
With what army? The customs agents get bribed to stamp the lumber with official seals and it is sold to exporters with official documents so it can be shipped with plausible deniability. There's no incentive nor will to protect those trees.
What blockchain lets you store terabytes of data permanently?
The day example.org broke our tests
Alternatively, you could use Bazel and have it handle the shared objects. I normally put them on an object store (e.g. GCS).
I think the "fish way" (if we can call it like that) is better for me when you start to type the command you want to run and if you run it before it comes up as opposed to the ! way. Maybe it is only me.
You are probably arguing with another developer here. Imagine having this same discussion with some business person who uses MS Excel and Word all the time, and trying to convince them that your text only thing where you can't easily add a chart coming from Excel is better than what they are currently using.

Would love to see how that conversation goes.
The miracle of Smalltalk’s become: (2009)
Are you saying one couldn't leak documents on WikiLeaks if you wanted to?
The symptoms sound like the website is in dire need of basic maintenance. Who's paying the bandwidth bills if there are no admins left? And surely there are mirrors of the site out there?
It was "toxic to touch" in that it was hacked material of an American political party, which you might not want to be redistributing publicly (such as hosting on a server) if you can't afford lawyers.
Everyone who's been through true turmoil knows. Without a "village" around you you're dead. That's literally why villages formed as they did instead of people just spreading out.

This Death Stranding bunker meme is just clueless people playing survival.
They use wayland compositor (gamescope) under linux (even under X11), in their new SteamOS UI and it's already working a lot better. Plus they can do other awesome stuff with it like completely having control of where and how the game outputs its buffer. So it can fix games with bad multi-monitor behaviour, force game to render in their native aspect ratio / resolution etc... it's just great and makes gaming experience feel more like a console where things (usually) just work.

Gamescope + mangohud + steam overlay working together is very big part of SteamOS and Steam Deck's success, and it does zero runtime modification or hooking into the child process. I can imagine all the trouble you run with the hooking eventually and all the hacks it must have piled up.
I bet they are accessible somewhere, it's just that the place everybody knows is breaking down.
I’m not the GP but in the UK “trumping” is what we call it (amongst other things, lots of fun words for body sounds).
Indie.Deals – Discover Products on offer by Indie-makers
There are different places to discover offers and deals by SaaS companies, how about a place we can discover products by independent/solo-makers and support them too.

If you are one of them, feel free to submit your product.
https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bürgergeld

"Der Regelsatz des neuen Bürgergelds für alleinstehende Erwachsene soll monatlich 502 Euro betragen (von bisher 449 Euro)."

Bürgergeld is increasing Arbeitslosengeld 2 aka Harz VI. They want to increase it from 449 to 502 euro per month.

https://www.arbeitsagentur.de/arbeitslosengeld-2/auszahlung-...

"Arbeitslosengeld II bekommen Sie normalerweise für 12 Monate".

You usually get it for 12 months.

It sounds like you're having a cognitive dissonance where your idea of what's happening in Germany doesn't match reality. That might explain why you think my post is a joke.
Mostly that SPACs have substantially underperformed and he was a big promoter of them. As it turns out “It’s like an IPO, but without all of that pesky due dilligence” wasn’t great for investors.

To Chamath’s credit, he did wind up 4(?) SPACs that hadn’t found an acquisition target and returned capital to investors.
Assange was directly working with Russian intelligence so let’s not pretend that they were somehow above politics.
Most people don't need it. Look at sports. Why do top athletes have their own personal coaches, fitness trainers, nutritionists, psychologists, data analysts etc?
FWIW, if you want to improve your penmanship, write slower and more deliberately. (Speed will improve with time.)

Also good advice with ennunciation and typing.
Timestamps are used for a lot of scheduling tasks that need to be reasonably precise. So an event happening one second earlier than expected, or even twice, could be a problem I suppose. Not exactly impossible to deal with, but I guess lots of people screw it up? Haven't really worked on systems where this _truly_ matters.
Same as for any other country. Dirty laundry of all sorts: tales of corruption, collusion, etc.

What makes it different is that Russia is expected to be like that. Not the US.
Thats medieval northern europe, aka france, germany, england. The rest, the forrest was basically used up permanently during roman times.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macchie
Wake from hibernate is pretty slow, but wake from suspend to RAM is like a second or two on my Linux machines.
2D Rubik’s Cube solution visualization
A few points in an attempt to improve the discussion of education here:

1. The current model is not the only model. The US higher education system is unique amongst Western countries, AFAIK, in having both a very high cost and a large number of private institutions. This could (and probably should, IMO) change.

2. There is not one goal to education. For example, some people get an education to get a job while some people get an education to follow their interests. These are both valid reasons.

3. Education can drive equality or inequality, depending on how it is implemented. The current US system (and the UK system, to a lesser extent) probably drives inequality more than the other way around, but this is not the way it has to be.
Then you have to ask helpkit.so why they are using render.com to do the redirect.
Emacs on an iPad
Googling "Grandview Systems" now leads to a system for handling Masonic lodges.
You Shouldn't Use Coupons
I’d love to see some more information about these fairs if you have a link.

My wife likes watching a lot of British YouTubers in Japan and it’s made me want to see more about how the Japanese view British culture.
The definition of "democracy" is not subject to your broad, sweeping, unfalsifiable judgments about human nature and other peoples' apparent ignorance. (Presumably the author and reader are excluded from this, through some luck?)
Everything is bad and needs replacement :)
as always, different circumstances can generate different results.

In a merge, you solve conflicts once. Whereas in a rebase, those conflicts will turn into incremental conflicts.

If the branch history is "tidy", with discrete, purposeful commits, this can be easier. Especially if incrementally rebasing.

The main difference is one rewrites history and the other does not. A rebase is by nature destructive and as such can introduce subtle changes in the process, especially if commits are reordered / modified in the process
> And, you add some antifreeze to your toilet, after you flush it to empty the tank.

If we're talking catastrophic, persistant, total grid collapse, you won't want a flushing toilet. It'll be time to start doing nutrient recycling instead of relying on industrially applied fertilisers to crops -- because that infrastructure depends largely on the other and will inevitably collapse too.

You'll be wanting a composting toilet.
Cause there leaked documents were/are on it as well. At some non-ideologic point the interests of all state actors meet. The might makes right mentality of a seasoned bureaucrat is the same everywhere. Which is why the narrative of Wikileaks being funded as a psy OP does not hold up. Such a "attack" would only host one type of document and its journalists wouldn't "attack" all governments equally.

But hey, if i betrayed the fourth pillar of democracy and suffered from cognitive dissonance therefore, this not being supported by the "evils" behind it, would be woven into some nice story too.
Can someone comment on the practical usefulness of having UTC stay strictly synchronized with the rotation of the Earth?

Intuitively it should be synchronized, but giving it more thought it is not entirely obvious why; e.g. my current local time zone is more than half an hour off of local solar time, and that isn't really a practical problem, so if UTC would be, say, five minutes off of actual solar time in Greenwich, what issues does it cause for people? Astronomy would be using specific time systems and/or adjustments anyway.
If you replace XML with JSON and PDAs with phone apps he's spot on.

"Truly powerful applications can be built using combinations of JavaScript and XML"

"XML can be used to mediate between Database row-based output, asynchronous message records, and other types of business forms and data."

"Business-based TXP systems of the future will need to incorporate XML as part of their backbone services technology. The ability to read and understand an XML description of an incoming record or object, and the ability to easily generate XML to describe an outbound record or object, will be a major requirement for system-to-system, business-to-business transaction processing. Intelligent browsers will have XML built in, allowing XML to be used bi-directionally all the way up and down the business hierarchy: from PDAs to PCs to Web/App Servers to Transaction processors."
> Specifically using the Japanese term shows what sort of continuous improvement you're doing.

Yeah but I find it weird that the meaning of kaizen is now different in that specific lean or whatever context when kaizen just means improvement in Japanese.

Come to think of it, There are many English words that Japanese people use that now mean something different, so I guess it’s just how things are :p

I think I’m just annoyed at these types of articles that puts Japanese words everywhere they can.
There are likely more data points here than sunscreens. One study [1] seems to indicate that the EMA is typically slower to approve drugs that both the FDA and EMA end up approving.

Another article [2] seems to reach a similar conclusion, where the FDA typically approves faster than the EMA, but when this is not the case there tends to be a larger gap between EMA and FDA approval.

More to the point, perhaps, the at-home flu tests in question seem to have been approved in Europe, or at least received the CE mark which is some level of authorization. [3]

[1] https://ascopubs.org/doi/abs/10.1200/JCO.2021.39.15_suppl.15...

[2] https://www.bioprocessonline.com/doc/first-in-line-fda-vs-em...

[3] https://www.lucirahealth.com/lucira-receives-ce-mark-for-bot...
I don't disagree with any of this except I don't think Brexit has much to do with it. Countries all over the world (including in Europe) are facing the exact same issue.

Many workers want to come to the UK even now, and yes, even many Europeans.

I don't think in the longrun that British immigrant numbers will go down but now the control is better and the perception of control is higher as well. There is a lot of value to that as politically illegal immigration (or perceived excessive immigration) has a way of sucking all the oxygen away from other issues.
I doubt it. I suspect they're thinking of bank loans, but resourceful fintech already have solutions for getting by without a loan. I see similar business models in Africa, so poverty is not an argument against it.
Do other JIT developers who would want to use Deegen need to pull in LLVM as a dependency still?
Yep. It also made unnecessary busy work for UK wide online retailers such as Majestic who had to add a special case for sales to folks in Scotland.
https://parmanu.com/2012/10/28/family-matters/#more-4671

A meditation on immigration and the opposite, "why someone would leave a good job for no other reason than to be close to family". This is a rich piece that I've always gone back to over the past decade. The rest of the blog is equally as brilliant.
HTML is one of my favourite technologies. Functional, resilient, progressively enhanced.
My understanding is that Apple as a company doesn’t officially support this effort for whatever reason (be that legal or whatever), but their hardware team does (I’ve heard they use Linux themselves when bringing up new hardware), and have done what they can under the limits of secrecy imposed by corporate Apple.
Also, the UV light involved is very damaging to eyes (causing cataracts and macular degeneration), so it has to be kept entirely contained, yet have all/most of your breathable air pass through it somehow.
> Like if you were Russia or Iran right now, paying a bit of money to keep wikileaks' servers running would seem like money well invested.

Who do you think paid for those servers in the past, lol. Seems that the GRU has defunded the project, though - they must have other higher priority projects.

Some details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GRU#Unit_74455
I should probably have been more specific in my comment; I fully understand people who are working on visa's (or wanting to obtain one) working for these companies.

What I don't understand is why people who have no "nothing to lose" incentive (for example are "native" citizens of a country such company is based in) want to work for these companies. These people can lead perfectly comfortable lives without working for companies which behave questionably.
Problem is there are so many sites that it's hopeless to turn off firefox anti tracking and ublock origin based on a promise from one site that i've seen once because it was on HN...
That's an interesting essay, thanks for sharing.
I remember when I was getting into woodworking and found Wandel's channel.

I had so many 'unusual' questions in my mind, and watching Wandel's videos answered about 90% of them.

I'd also highly recommend Paul Sellers channel. He's a traditional woodworker. Watch for example his mortice and tenons how-to video. He's an old school master craftsman.

If Bob Ross would have been a woodworker, he'd have been quite like Paul Sellers.