skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The sentence in question is "Even a stinker like Hitler didn’t just pick on [the Jews] for no reason."

The problem with that sentence isn't that he's insufficiently critical of Hitler. It's the naked racism.

If you think perhaps I'm taking things out of context, here's the full quote:

“There is a trait in the Jewish character that does provoke animosity, maybe it’s a kind of lack of generosity towards non-Jews. I mean, there’s always a reason why anti-anything crops up anywhere; even a stinker like Hitler didn’t just pick on them for no reason. I mean, if you and I were in a line moving towards what we knew were gas chambers, I’d rather have a go at taking one of the guards with me; but they [the Jews] were always submissive.”
I have a couple clients like that. 40k on this, 25k on that. Doinky little overpriced home-improvement geegaws. And I'm thinking, "I could pay off my credit cards and take a year off for my own serious projects, for what you're spending to upgrade your stupid crown molding".
I think you need to try a bunch of ideas , because most things don't work or are unmonetizable. Most likely to work is something that's trending
In my workplace folks are begging for MacBooks.
> My concern is that I haven't seen much thought into the security implications.

You may find this interesting: https://indieweb.org/Vouch
Most people will go along with this. Most people don't care. Those that do have already left Microsoft for Apple a long time ago. HN is not representative of the general population, and these comments really show how out of touch people are on this site.
I agree with this - VPNs protect you from only the ends of the chain, while centralizing the middle, and it's rather foolish to think that any VPN construct will reliably blind traffic and identity from the VPN provider. Depending on your threat model this is a good thing or a bad thing overall.

However, this "privacy" goal is something that a huge number of VPN providers, including Google, claim as a goal and market heavily against, so it's fair to assess against it IHMO.

As for the second part, yeah, that's pentest reports in a nutshell. A few nuggets of information combined with checklist-satisfying irrelevant findings from automated tooling.
Please stay where you are. Officers have been dispatched to your location to assist you.

In all seriousness it’s because employers hold nearly all of the bargaining power and mindshare. The recent focus on central banks raising interest rates to decrease economic activity with inflation as a primary target and restraining wage growth as a secondary target shows that decreasing workers’ average bargaining position is official government policy. In the US they sugarcoat it by saying they’re trying to control inflation and only have unemployment go up marginally. In New Zealand they’re more explicit and say tens of thousands of people need to become unemployed to stabilize inflation.
To be fair: titles and headlines are often written in the tense you used, often to give a sense of energy and intensity. In fact, this is the most common form in news headlines, like "Smith wins 2022 election" or "new statistics show increase in employment rate."
> Gravity on the scales where dark matter is relevant has not been tested to this extent, so we're just assuming our theory is correct in this new regime

Couldn't we just as easily say the same about EM or any of the other forces?

The reason we think it is some kind of matter is because we know that matter interacts with gravity in ways that would explain our observations, as long as we assume that matter isn't visible for some reason. And it isn't like there aren't candidates even within the current standard model that might have the right properties.

> By contrast, modified gravity theories can match many of the predictions of DM theories using only direct observations of visible matter.

...and curve fitting. They keep having to add parameters to MOND to make it fit what we see and currently attribute to dark matter, like the bullet cluster. That's the physics equivalent of code-smell.
A skill programmers lack: practice
Main disadvantages: restart services if they crash (so run them in a loop); security and isolation of services from each other and the OS; restart services on reboot. I've solved these problems: https://tobykurien.com/simpler-linux-selfhosting/
I think most people delude themselves that their big renovations added any incremental value to their home. Usually the cost was financed and thus even higher than the sticker price, all-in. Further, the holding periods are measured in a decade +/- often, so the general market moves contribute more to the sales price than whatever you'd done to the kitchen/bath.

On the margin, having a move-in ready home that's been renovated well enough recently enough, generically enough, ensures reasonable liquidity of being able to sell the home for a reasonable price reasonably quickly.

For many this means replacing some dated appliances, repainting, and strategic spending on a few items that may be out of style or more aged, like bathroom vanity or replacing a linoleum top.

Extravagant, expensive, specific renovations may actually detract because the general markets taste are not your taste and so you've either reduced the number of likely buyers, or half the universe of buyers are going to actually deduct value of your renovation because they may want to undo whatever you've done.

Spending $2k replacing a worn appliance or buying a $200 air fryer are two orders of magnitude off from the expenditure levels I am referring to.
I found a bug in SQLite
Well, UK is a part of Europe[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe
We came close to that with a Camry my mother-in-law owns. She drove it, my sister-in-law drove it for a while, and then they tried to pawn it off on my oldest. At the end of the day, I didn’t want my kid driving a car missing out on 25 years of safety enhancements.
Two different streams that have built up over time. I spend less than 10 hours combined weekly on them averaged over a month if i had to guess but both were independent full time jobs at one point

1) ($$m total, $$k/mo now) Server hosting! This started off as hosting game servers for friends in early high school. It expanded to friends of friends for awhile before I pivoted more towards crypto mining (yes I know, young kid with dubious ambitions). Lots of my first software experience was here. I wrote some software for switching the processes between mining/game hosting across the different boxes (raw processes on servers, the horror). Nowadays it’s winding down as just game hosting and some scientific computing rental to a few universities/their robotics clubs. It’s still slightly profitable but I have no interest in updating servers (CPUs from 2013-2015, GPUs mostly re-sold except for what a few people requested) and it runs everything via containers now.

2) ($$k/mo) Sports film review. I wrote the first version of this my first year of college which was a way to keep the stats book for basketball and football games and stitch the actions with the video footage. We had customers throughout ~20 states primarily high school but some colleges as well. In fact it still runs at a lot of them, but I’m not really connected with managing of it anymore. My co-founder still runs it and we rotate a few students from our alma-matter in as interns and occasionally juniors on it.

This became the basis for an esports version of the software that I created a few years ago. This time with CV to do all the gathering of stats and allowing for jumping around in videos and analyzing overall stats from the output. This started in Call of Duty for their then new professional league but expanded out to Halo, Rocket League and Valorant since. I still do some occasional retraining of the models but the product itself got acqui-hired by a larger company for which I still “consult”

EDIT: I’ve also had many more that cost me more money than they ever made, but I’m a big proponent of failing fast and iterating
In Soviet republics you could be murdered by the state every day, or declared an enemy of the pepople, or sent to gulag for a thing you didnt do - and all of those negative experiences ingrained a type of short-terminism among the society.

The state could take away your apartment and make you lose everyrhing apart the clothes on your back - so why bother fixing the apartment, go and buy some nice clothes... at least you look good NOW and maybe you can keep them.

This negative trainig (easy to lose everything) makes people care more about looks. With so many relatively poor people maybe it is some sort of a "lipstick effect" too - for everyone.
On top of my head:

- the epbf episode where one of you started talking like back in the old days you treated servers as pets and not as cattle

- the episode about auditing startups where most of the talk you were carried away and even said somethin “let’s continue or we won’t finish” or something

- oh and that Silicon Valley tv show stuff that just keeps popping every other time

It’s like that uncle of mine that I meet every Christmas who is always “back in my days” (I remeber when we…) or “in my old hometown they used to” (here at changelog we…)

but that’s just my personal opinion. Time is scare these days so I’d like to get as much info as possible.

But hey, I’m sure there are millions that adore you, cause in general the guests and topics are great
On our blog, we give away how to create a home-scale version of our 4G proxy: https://scrapingfish.com/blog/byo-mobile-proxy-for-web-scrap...

We have some domains blacklisted and periodically monitor logs for websites which our customers scrape but so far not a single case of illegal scraping.

We've also decided to go with a small $2 purchase instead of free trial account with no credit card required. If someone contacts us with their use case and request for a free test account, we're happy to create one for them but it has to go through us. This way we're not a good choice for people willing to do illegal stuff with our API.
That's true in mathematics, but I find for any other subject it's a great reference for anyone intelligent enough to understand the subject.

(One might remark that I'm just not intelligent enough to understand advanced mathematics, and they might be right...)
Have you been to The Netherlands? I was a tourist for 3 weeks, and it was quite a common sight to see a family with young kids coming out their apartment stairway, babies loading on to carriers on mom and dad’s bikes and small children riding their own.

Seeing as how children are at extreme risk from cars yet can’t use them themselves, and chauffeuring your kids around because it’s not safe for them to walk or bike themselves is almost the central time sink of parenthood, it is weird to see parents as the primary advocates of car primacy.
Ask HN: Has anyone read a child development book that they particularly liked?
Fatherhood is upon me...
This is the usual debate on "hammers and nails".

You are absolutely right, but what if(just an example) you need transaction behavior between your queue system and your database? Good luck with 2pc or using saga and similar.

Or, as other people stated, how much will cost to maintain postgres + redis + rabbitmq vs only postgres?

In my opinion, the golden rule is: *use the most general purpose tool you know unless you hit a hard limit of the tool, in that case start moving to a specialized tool*.
Also, stateful code, no staging environment, no undo commit, prone to fatal runtime errors...
Dunno man, I’ve been using Linux on the desktop for almost 3 decades. It’s been ok for me :) conversely I can’t stand using windows for more than a few minutes - luckily I don’t have to do this often.
I'd be interested to know what you think, it's quite a time investment to study the entire book.
The Midwest is flat as a pancake.
2040 for trucks, 2030 for cars.
Windows is still my favourite OS, but I surely am not rushing to adopt Windows 11 beyond work requirements.

It is just another Vista.
I pay for Mullvad and also have Google One. I use Google One for times that I have to connect to an unknown WiFi network but don't care about if Google knows it is me. I use Mullvad when I want some confidence in not being tracked.
Looking at electricity maps: Currently burning 28GW of very dirty coal, 46% of demand, 72% of emissions. 12GW of gas, 19% of demand, 17% of emissions. Wind+Solar combined is only supplying 7% of demand.

They decommissioned ~20GW of clean nuclear power over the past 20 years. Whatever way you cut it that’s a huge mistake for the climate (not to mention economy). That replaces most of the coal in that picture. Or replaces all of the gas and then some in that picture.
Thanks! I thought HopToDesk might be worth a look as an alternative to TeamViewer, but RustDesk seems more interesting.

It probably doesn't have to, but I'd expect a fork to mention its origin and explain at least the advantages it's supposed to have.
Yeah, I tried it for questions where Google failed me, and ChatGPT then failed me as well, giving either unhelpful answers (sidestepping the point of the question) or wrong answers.
> infinite amount of additional parameters

Not in any technical sense I can think of.
> If there is one daily habit that has had the greatest positive impact on my life since I implemented it about a year ago, it is walking. In 2021, I averaged about 2,000 steps per day. In 2022, that figure is closer to 20,000. That 10x increase has unlocked me creatively, spiritually, mentally, and physically—I feel like a completely different person.

The author is walking almost 10 miles a day. That may be hard to do when his kids start to get older.
Not any more. Those lucky bastards managed to escape. :P The EU I mean. :)
It happens everywhere, specially around lumpenproletariats around the world, it is a foul situation without an honest fix.

It Latam it leads to horrible levels of asocial behaviors, theft, drug trading to acquire money and use it to purchase luxury items with which signal success

It is heart breaking
That sounds like a response from a Large Language Model.
Yes, of course they should be illegal. Why should US companies have the right to harvest our private information for profit and cause damage by mishandling it without oversight?
Ask HN: How do you planify your sport sessions?
Say you want to play a 4-people team sport regularly.

You have more friends than that who are usually happy to play, but all of them have with their own constraints. It is therefore quite a challenge to plan every week 2 sessions (or more) with exactly 4 available players.

Would you have any tool that would help ?

Ideally,

- no manager needed -> the group just organize itself thanks to the app.

- any member of the group can clearly view when sessions are proposed with the number of remaining seats / who will attend

- the tool automatically reset the calendar every week (or allow to book events on a 'x-days' sliding window)
Interestingly, Dahl himself addressed the idea that he was only anti-Israel, not anti-Semitic: he said “I am certainly anti-Israel, and I have become anti-Semitic.”

It's not at all uncommon, in fact it's a cliche, for racists to carve out exceptions for "the good ones" that they know personally. That doesn't mean they're not racist.

Dahl wrote some amazing books, many of which still stand up today. (I rolled my eyes at the article trying to claim that the wild wackiness of Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator was somehow bad and uncreative.) You can acknowledge that and still acknowledge that he was also very racist.
This whole argument is moot because it doesn't acknowledge the very obvious elephant in the room: the spam problem.
Consensual application is a huge assumption based on recent history.
Fair point on the posted laundry basket being a win. But it is undeniable that it's so inexpensive because of all the plastic that was disposed. We also didn't see all the identical laundry baskets that went straight into landfill. I do understand real life landfills aren't like Wall-E, but in that film they certainly didn't run out of landfill space and it wasn't a utopia.

On the second point, I don't find it too convincing that I don't have to worry about plastics in my blood, my children's blood, their children's blood, because we don't understand it very well yet. And on the ocean plastic, that's just the tip of the iceberg that we can see and talk about easily. The real thing that's killing ecosystems en masse is not at the output end of the system, but on the input end. Global reliance on petrochemicals, industrial pesticides derived thereby, etc. I'm a scuba diver and I've watched reefs die with my own eyes.

I just can't shake the feeling we are on course to strip the planet of billions of years of biodiversity and in 1000 years whoever is left will regard the decisions of our time w.r.t. resource extraction as catastrophically stupid. But I do acknowledge how this is idealogical and emotionally based as you point out, and I can agree to disagree. My friends tell me: we won't be alive in 1000 years, so who cares? That doesn't sit well with me, but I get it.

Edit: noticed your edit and agree a lot with that point!
On the green side, a book I'd read about the Zeppelin world circumnavigation said that wayfinding was much closer to sailing to take advantage of/avoid the weather than to "pick a geodesic". TFA mentions intermediate between air freight and ocean freight; I wonder how these airships compare to trucks and trains?
What was the “wrong reason” he got it right here for?

The reasoning is dead-simple obvious - becoming reliant on a nation-state which does not share your values and shared-future is a foolish idea.

Further even, “the haters” for lack of a better term - spent his term calling him a Putin-Puppet so why would he be suggesting folks decouple from Russia? The only thing coming to mind on that note would be a they-do-the-opposite level 33rd Dimension Chess move a la the Obama-Republican skit from Key & Peele.

Uncharitably, this just reads like cope. A grade school inability to admit your rival has the ability to be intelligent and correct with their own legitimate belief system. Again, like the K&P skit.
It started as a solution for myself, i.e. a tool of convenience.

I made it available for free as an endpoint, and then it gained enough popularity to frequently hug my server into submission. After speaking with a few users, it turns out they were happy to pay for it. So I made it a SaaS!

I've enjoyed growing it over time, and seeing how others use it.
Apologies on the slow response.

That makes sense, but I also recall it was about trying to use the same language on the server as the client. And it worked as well as the efforts to use JavaScript is the server. Which is not to say it can't work. There are a lot of traps there, though.
Those 2% market share are looking great.

The Year of Desktop Linux is as virtual machine running on top of Apple and Microsoft desktop OS, or having the complete userspace replaced like on Google OS offerings.
Linux Gaming cannot come fast enough.

I'm so ready to uninstall Windows on my only Windows machine which happened to be a gaming computer, however there are just a few games that I want to play from time to time that does not support Linux.

For now I can live with Windows 10 which had a workable WSL so I can pretend that windows have a terminal (Some modding needs code!)
> "that being said, ..."

You can think of it as a contraction of, 'despite that having been said'.
Accusing someone of deliberately derailing a conversation when they're doing no such thing is obviously going to be taken as an insult.

You can question the relevance of a comparison without questioning the integrity of the person bringing it up: say it's off-topic and explain why.

More often than not, accusations of "whataboutery" are used to avoid having to explain why something isn't relevant
and thus avoid addressing whatever point is being made. I'd go as far as to say it's why the word even exists.
No one seriously games on a Mac.
One such "interesting finding" is that the VPN software is run with admin privileges, including the parts that deal with concepts which would not need admin privileges, such as debug logging, because this increases the attack surface for a hacker who already has limited control of the machine, to potentially elevate their privileges, if they manage to find vulnerability.

This is one of their medium findings. This report smells like "Guys, we MUST find something, give me something, anything!"... :P
Well... Copernicus did take a cue, he wrote his book and ideas and only published them when he was about to die (or postmortem I don't remember/can't lookup the details rn)
The actual process of writing those reports is generally pretty laid back. It was hell mostly because it consumes all your time. Only about 50% of your time is spent hacking, if that. The rest is poured into that damn report.

It goes through multiple rounds of review, and every small detail is caught and corrected. Which is how it should be. It’s just the opposite of fun.

The report is literally the product. The implications of that didn’t sink in until a few months on the job.
Yes I’m sure if the police used “targeted saturation” in my neighborhood where in the entire county it’s only 3% Black, neither me or more likely my 6 foot 5 20 year old step son would be targeted for “looking suspicious”.

For reference, it’s the most affluent county in GA (not saying much in the grand scheme of things) and I work remotely at $BigTech. So while I make over twice the median household income for the area, we still get looked at suspiciously.
The article mentions the spam problem repeatedly. It’s one of the main threads.
For me, Manjaro, and later (purely out of masochism) Arch. :)

I did "look back" for certain AAA games that either don't work on Linux or DO work but their launcher doesn't (e.g., Blizzard), but AAA game companies have done me the solid of hypercommercializing themselves into unbearable mediocrity. So, even if I want to play one of those games now, I'm not too hurried to wait for a few years so Proton support makes it available (plus you get it cheaper, with bugfixes, all DLCs, and your hardware can run it better).
That's a pretty big advantage rich people have as well: knowing they won't starve to death if they fail.
Thinking about software costs in this way is so oversimplified that it ends up being wrong in practice. I'm reminded of the McNamara Fallacy.

Also, SDKs are not standardized. Third-party software still gets updated which means code maintenance for your team. And, even worse, it's software that is generally opaque because, by definition, it wasn't written in-house. I worked at a place where they had a phobia of in-house code and the end result was huge amounts of time wasted on updating libraries and debugging issues caused because we didn't really understand the code we were using.

The real answer is deeply understanding your product and finding the right mixture of in-house and third-party software that maximizes simplicity while also allowing for flexibility and growth in ways that matter for your specific product.
Or perhaps your understanding of the problem is incomplete?

The point of the batteries are to store power when it's cheap and abundant, then deliver it during peak demand for sustained periods. The time between those periods is measured in tens of hours.
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