skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Atlantic[0][1] has run a number of articles about the ACLU's changing values, and refusal to grapple critically with more authoritarian voices in the halls of power. There was also a New Republic article[2] discussing strife within the ACLU itself; "Finally, there are those within the ACLU who scoff at the First Amendment completely, arguing that it is “disproportionately enjoyed by people of power and privilege” and therefore, presumably, of little or no value to others. And Powell reports that some ACLU lawyers believe free speech (presumably meaning disagreement with the organization’s new direction) is now being suppressed within the organization itself."

[0]: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/11/aclu-devos...

[1]: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/05/aclu-johnn...

[2]: https://newrepublic.com/article/163073/first-amendment-fire
I agree with that too comments that you should avoid having a backend at all for your MVP if you can avoid it (just make a static hosted website with HTML, CSS, and minimal JS).

But since you asked about backends specifically, this is what I would use. I would use clerk.dev for authentication, Hasura for the CRUD API, neon.tech for the database, S3 for static files (images), and AWS Lambda for any extra functionality you can’t accomplish with Hasura natively (but call them through Hasura).

Personally, I like using GraphQL because I can just focus on my data model and not think about what endpoints I need to make. But there’s definitely a learning curve, so sticking with a REST API is probably better for most people.

As an alternative, I would also consider Supabase like you mentioned. It sounds cool, but I’m already comfortable with Hasura so that’s what I go to first.

Update: For a website, I would actually use Remix with Clerk for auth and Prisma/SQLite for data stuff. That’s one of their premade starter stacks. I made one prototype with Remix and had a lot of fun using it. It’s easy to learn and will give you a high performance full stack app. My original answer is what I would use if you’re making a mobile app.
Why is Tesla FSD afraid of the dark?
FIRE is a known sponsor of Turning Point USA.

This is absolutely a molehill mountain propped up to generate outrage, which you can see manifest in these comments.
Boeing to be arraigned in court on criminal charges over 2 Max jet crashes
> Private companies can stick closer to that intrinsic value

It's normally the opposite. Public markets are a lot better at judging intrinsic value than a handful of VCs. Every single private company out there is either wildly over or under-valued, more so at earlier stages.
The law requires the retailer to deal with warranty claims. The law also requires a 2 year warranty minimum. Additionally a retailer must take back old electronics and recycle them at no cost to the customer.
They can't override prenups. They can invalidate prenups, or portions of the prenup for specific reasons. I couldn't find the stats that you mentioned. I would guess that number included specific provisions that were invalidates, such as custody arrangements, which are outside the scope of a prenup.
But isn't this about someone posting an image to Snapchat? Not about reading a book?

And without seeing the image in question, and the context of why it was shared, it's kind of hard to say what's going on.
Hydrogen is superior because those high pressure tanks and electronics do not require metals.
As a tall male with some success on the apps, I find women 5'10" or more are much more likely to match me than those who are shorter. They prefer taller men and for a tall woman that reduces my competition.

Still contemplating why those apps are so terrible, but the are.
I used to work for a small startup, and postmortems were truly no blame - engineers would talk about exactly what happened and wouldn't hesitate to put the blame on their mistakes.

But as the company grew, the postmortems became more about blame since now you're not blaming an engineer, but an entire team so singling them out isn't personal. The postmortems were no longer a single engineer describing what happened in his code, but were team leads talking on behalf of teams. They were all about shifting blame from your own team and talking about why a service from another team led to the problem, even if your team could have (and should have) been able to work around it without melting down.

I'm no longer at the company, but Postmortems are much more useful when they really are no-blame because you can get to the real root of the problem, but I don't know if that's possible in a large company.
Instead of an S3 bucket you can use GitHub Pages. You push stuff to the upstream git repo and it gets deployed. It’s free (you have to pay for GitHub Pro if you don’t want to make the source code publicly available) and comes with Fastly CDN if I recall correctly. You just have to configure your custom domain.
Some artists images just don't contain much entropy though?

If an AI art engine outputs a frame of solid blue, is it infringing the copyright of Yves Klein's solid blue "IKB 79"?

I think that some artists' styles can be accurately replicated without training on any of their work: because the artists' style is generic enough that it can be exhaustively encoded via the works of others.

This seems like a bad test because generic barely-creative works are much more easily generated by AI engines regardless of the source training data. I wonder if we're going to see IP troll style behavior from artists drawing many obvious things so they'll have standing to sue (and negotiate a 'fuck off' settlement) with AI art engines.
Some rando on Twitter reposting an screenshot of an anonymous person claims the following: https://twitter.com/barrydeutsch/status/1618697230382399488

> This article hasn't framed the incident accurately at all. the incident was two theta girls posted a Snapchat story of them reading Mein Kampf as part of their costumes at a pregame and laughing, clearly in a joking way, not at all in a historical way. The joke was in poor taste which is why it got such a negative response (as it should). Obviously people can read Mein Kampf, but that's not what's contested here.

I imagine this story is going to get stupider.
IMO for early stage startups, proven tech is almost always a better bet than the hot new thing. Your goal is to capture market share quickly, not wrangle beta tech into place.
This article is about a picture posted on a snapchat story.
I like that phrase. On style 2 with high legibility (~75% to the right), max speed, and min width I ran it a couple times with good success then it looped off the screen for the next few runs.

The same settings but with min speed got caught at the z, creating what looked like repeating waves then a few letters that I couldn't place from the phrase.

Also amusing are the loops that get the tops cropped even though other letters extend higher.
Unfortunately for Capt. Howell's recollection, the causes of secession as published by many of the states were explicit about slavery: https://www.battlefields.org/learn/primary-sources/declarati...

I don't know if it be hagiography or truth, but according to Freeman, Lee himself admitted he had fought for his State, but it had been in the wrong. (see the later chapters, about his time at W&L*, and how he counselled postbellum reconciliation)

(and as far as States' Rights go, reflect upon the company they keep: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQLapDdEKmY )

* as it would become
I've found the "Docker for Rails Developers" book by Rob Isenberg [1] to be a great resource for getting started using Rails and Docker. It's only a couple years out of date at this point but should still be highly relevant for anyone trying to get started.
The only issue I've had with Rails and Docker is serving the container on a 1gb d.o. droplet - the node-sass gem is usually a sticking point for a lot of people and believe the 1gb droplet to be just too small to host a dockerized rails app. But the benefits of using docker for Development is still overwhelmingly worth the effort of containerizing things.

It's super cool rails 7.1 is including the Dockerfile by default - not that rails apps need more boilerplate though..

[1]: https://pragprog.com/titles/ridocker/docker-for-rails-develo...
this is why farming as it goes on now in California is never sustainable… there isn’t enough margins to pay manual labour a living wage or benefits. This is why we must AUTOMATE and start farming small acreages. A network of automated small acreages that takes care of local food. Whether we need industrial/commercial farms which are essentially open air factories that have horrific working conditions and environmentally debilitating for meager profits is something for CA to decide. Do we really need to ship perishable lettuce that is mostly water across the country or grow almonds to sell all over the world at rock bottom prices which extracts value from unsustainable practices and exploitative labour?

There will never be enough margins to pay living wages in CA…That’s not going to work. Automation is the only way. Ag as an industry to ship perishable lettuce and growing almonds in one of the highest COLA states in the country is insanity…that’s like buying retail and selling wholesale
FYI, coal is nowhere near dead. In fact it had it's biggest year just last year. It's most likely replacement is... natural gas.

And if you replace "fusion" with "fission" it is a very sensible argument.
I have a feeling not many people buy satnavs in 2023.
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Please accept an upvote for this wonderful comment. My experience bears out your view. Whilst there is good stress - the sort that can make us feel alive, the majority is harmful to a lot of people.

I've long felt there is an epidemic of stress which I think accounts for a host of poor outcomes for many, many people and society in general. I wish I had the ability to describe it more fully myself but my thinking on this is not fully formed given it must involve sociology, culture, politics, work, family, education and philosophy etc. In fact the whole fabric on the way we live our lives and why.

I think the foundations for possible solutions have been set by many cultures. Chinese, Japanese and Greek philosophies in particular are, of course, practised by a lot of people, myself included. Ultimately, I feel human evolution will be through the mind and perhaps generations, hundreds of years in the future, will look back at this time in horror the same way we may look back to when leg amputations were carried out with no anaesthetics.
Open AI is logging everything for future training. I don’t think Open AI employees actively look at the logged data, but they likely have people rate the exchanges or suggest replies, so that could be a source of leaks. Besides in 6 months / 1 year, when an updated version is released, Chat GPT might very well spit out some private info information.
Once again, I have asked you for evidence of him being a bad journalist, and once again you have provided me with nothing of the sort. You still don't even demonstrate an understanding of what journalism is. I'm done. Have a good day.
> - price history so you can see when sales are fake

in case you were unfamiliar https://camelcamelcamel.com/ does this for amazon
Only problem with us Androids is a lot fewer pay for apps (I probably would).
2010 low tech Google is _exactly_ what I'm looking for.

Everyone else in the search space (even paid search - kagi I'm looking at _you_!) seems to be under the impression that it was abandoned because it didn't work but I'm pretty sure it was only abandoned because it didn't drive ad revenue.

Moar power to you mate, if I wasn't busy with other things right now I'd be beating down your door!
Your "just" there ignores the efficiency, pollution, and emissions aspects.

Going from gas to electric is slow.

If electric -> hydrogen offers fewer of the benefits beyond removing a dependency on battery metals over much-cleaner-already EVs, that transition will take even longer, if it happens.
Meltano also supports Airbyte connectors https://meltano.com/blog/meltano-community-contribution-enab...
Pocketbase is surprisingly easy to use to build prototypes and smaller apps! Love it so much
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I believe the original author posts around here, @lispm IIRC?
I'd just say: Careful about non-competes and potential trade secret violations. Regardless of their merits, if Google wants to take you to court, they could bury you in legal costs before it ever goes to trial.
Very interesting. Having worked at AWS in the past, the company had very similar features/principles to what you have mentioned except for simplicity.

I think it's things like these which makes me thing AWS will remain the top cloud provider for the next few decades.
You can check the relevant Wikipedia pages on prostitution in e.g. Spain or the UK to see that your are misinterpreting the significance of the blue keying. It is not illegal to sell sex or to pay for sex in either of these countries (or in any of the other blue countries, as far as I’m aware).
Many years ago I wrote a C compiler in assembly language. It wasn't hard, and C hasn't changed that much. The complexity in modern compilers is in the optimisation, which you don't need if you're bootstrapping. It's not impossible.
The AI is also _deceptively_ "right". For example, it will cite precedent that has since been superseded.

A non-lawyer representing themselves in a criminal case would overlook that, make a bad/wrong/misinformed argument, and go to jail.

In other fields, it'll lie to you about the thickness of steel pipe required to transport water at a certain pressure, it'll refer to programming libraries that don't exist, and it'll claim something impossible in one breath and happily explain it as fact in the next.
oh, and extremely cheap.
Actual memo from the horse's mouth: https://www.aclu.org/sites/default/files/field_document/aclu...

Tldr: under the new policy, they consider impact of the speech to marginalized communities before deciding to defend. Presumably this would exclude Skokie IL nazis, in contrast with their past record.

Credit to them for transparency by just publishing it after it was leaked.
But if a cloud goes offline, there is damage to the economy linear to the length and breadth of the outage. Sure, there are losses to businesses serviced by the cloud's users, but they'll bounce back, even if a day-long outage was so severe as to temporarily ground flights and halt supply chains.

If a stock exchange executes trades at incorrect prices, even for a short amount of time, all of a sudden you're in a kind of non-linear sigmoid regime, where investor confidence can suddenly tip into panic selling and recessions can be triggered. Thankfully, that didn't happen here, but it could have. If you're going to give a company that power, you should better hope that they're held to higher standards than most dysfunctional tech organizations!
Ask HN: Starting a company in valley as Canadian citizen
Looking for some experiences of folks who came to silicon valley (or US) on TN visa and then ended up starting a company. How did the experience go, what would you change if you were to do it now, and, how did you handle health insurance at early stage?

For context: I have a wife and 2 kids as well, not sure if that complicates things.
Hydrogen cars are no help here unfortunately, they also use metals such as steel and aluminum.
That conclusion does not follow. Often the slower architectures need the higher performance code where modern computers can afford to waste some. 8051s are ridiculously common, because they're stupidly cheap, but they're so under-powered that software performance is absolutely critical.
> Can someone explain why I'm wrong about this because when ever I tell any of my Java / Node colleagues that I love PHP they tend to roll their eyes.

You're not wrong so much as out of fashion.

It's very important to recognize how much industry trends are driven by fashion. But being fashionable also makes an ecosystem good. Well, at least makes it better. For certain definitions of better. Lots of development attention that means there's probably a highly visible project building exactly the bells and whistles that will garner praise and more attention for the ecosystem.

You can make your slow, measured, careful decisions about tech to use. But webdev is full of YOLO projects too. Churn and fashion are always going to be at your door.
We never sign up for a free trial of anything if it involves giving more than a login and password which is made up on the spot, and an auto-generated throwaway email. Any personally identifiable or corporate information is worth money, especially a credit card number. With a credit card number and a (non-throwaway) email, any startup now has enough information to make a deal with a data broker and sell our information. This is considered a data breach for some employers.

I think you can see by Mr. Steinberg's article that you need to protect yourself and your company.
It first asked me to log in and said I had no credits and needed to purchase them. So I could not try it. I don't know if this fits into Show HN. I suggest having a free tier where people can at least try it.
lol, you are of course correct. It seems they are owned by the Center for Media and Democracy, which looks pretty neutral, but it is of course hard to tell.
I'd tend to agree that psychology can be unscientific at times. Certainly a lot in that field is derived from very abstract theories (e.g. psychodynamics) that are not as falsifiable as one might hope.

Yet, the comparison to astrology is also unfair. Scientific studies have repeatedly shown that many psychological treatments (e.g. CBT, DBT, interpersonal therapy) are effective. A lot of early medicine worked this way: we knew a treatment was useful before we understood the fundamental biology of how it worked (e.g., rudimentary vaccines came before germ theory).
> laughing, clearly in a joking way, not at all in a historical way

What should the penalty be for laughing in a non-"historical way"?
But to GP's point, that appears to be the only news about the event:

https://news.google.com/search?q=mein%20kampf%20stanford

It seems like this really is a molehill.
Which parts of my comment do you believe are dubious, and why?

If we look at the eradication of female-only spaces, for example, the reasoning behind this is that proponents of transgenderism want women's spaces to be based on self-declared gender identity rather than sex. Where this occurs, it means that formerly female-only spaces and services now admit a mixture of males and females, as they will also include men who say they are women. Any attempts to maintain female-only spaces are shot down as being 'bigoted' and 'transphobic'.
When language models run out of more trillions of words to train, there is one way ahead - we need to generate more. But wait, you might say, garbage in garbage out. It won't work.

Normally it wouldn't, but we add an extra ingredient here. We get a validation signal. This is problem specific, but for code it would mean to integrate the LM with a compiler and runtime so it can iterate until it solves the task, step by step. For other tasks it could mean hooking the AI to simulators, games and robots to solve tasks. It is also possible to use LLMs as simulators of text.

Basically doing Reinforcement Learning with a Language Model and not just for human preferences, but for problem solving on a grand scale. Collect data from problem solving, train on it, and iterate. It costs just electricity, but LLMs can make their own data. Anthropic's Constitutional AI which is RLAIF - reinforcement learning from AI feedback is proof it can be done.
“Stopping the circulation of this book and these ideas is 100% a hill I will die on.”

That’s Chase Strangio, part of ACLU leadership, fighting to ban a book she doesn’t like: https://www.iwf.org/2020/11/16/some-in-aclu-have-new-cause-b...

You might object that the ACLU also fights against book bans, and that Strangio wasn’t necessarily expressing official ACLU policy, and those would be good points. But the ACLU tolerates this kind of rhetoric and keeps this individual in a prominent position, representing the organization. There are other examples.

Even if you don’t like the book in question, surely the old ACLU, the one I used to support, would have no truck with book banning and book banners.
I read the sourcewatch link and see lots of conservative funding. So I went through FIREs articles and found lots of conservative-learning articles, but also:

https://www.thefire.org/news/florida-school-district-removes...

https://www.thefire.org/news/fire-warns-office-missouri-secr...

https://www.thefire.org/news/texas-bill-targeting-diversity-...

https://www.thefire.org/news/florida-school-district-removes...

So there's at least some bipartisan criticism. This article seems to match with the stanford article... so do you have any criticism of the contents of this article?
I have recently inherited the small and unsophisticated data engineering practice at my company and it's been a learning experience. The market for tooling seems to be incredibly frothy right now and I'm almost at a loss to make good selections. Is airbyte a direct competitor to stuff like fivetran or AWS Glue?
The pricing is on another level as well.
See also: https://www.csmonitor.com/1982/0729/072913.html
"The index for all items less food and energy rose 0.3 percent in December, following a 0.2-percent increase in November. The shelter index continued to increase, rising 0.8 percent over the month."

Food inflation increased over November. Shelter index increased at an annualized rate of nearly 10%.

Sometimes, you have to dig deeper than the headline.

Source: https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/cpi.pdf
I’m able to suppress my inner voice for a couple of seconds. Similar to meditation, it’s not easy. I find it striking how much the level of thinking devolves in that language-less state, including abstract thought. I imagine that it is a like how an animal’s consciousness may feel.
I guess it seems somewhat mixed as Auth0 also has some elements of RBAC but agree that it is not meant to lock down individual items - just api level. However, I think your approach of separating this out is a good idea for your product as many organizations will have already chosen an identity provider (often AzureAD). In any case, best of luck and I will check it out!
Thanks! That's a useful portrait of the landscape.
OpenAI will store all your conversations with ChatGPT. We know this because those conversations appear on the left-hand side of the website where you interact with ChatGPT...
Yeah, but there is a vocal subset who have made it into a hate group and they drive anyone sane away because they don't want to be associated with the hate. There's also the basic flaw of humanity that most people will look very hard indeed for others to blame before accepting that the problem is internal or just the luck of the draw and unfixable. And once someone is seduced by this they'll never address the real issue and thus the belief becomes self-perpetuating.
"PHP is by all measures on it's way out."

Would be very interested to know what you are basing this statement on. 78% of the web runs on PHP.

https://w3techs.com/technologies/history_overview/programmin...
- Spring boot (Java 19)

- HTMX + Thymeleaf (replacing need for any SPA framework)

- Bootstrap

- Vanilla JS when needed

- Postgres

- Deploy on Ubuntu server with a deploy.sh that just does cd => git pull => gradlew build => systemctl restart X.service :)

Why? I have been convinced that most web application can and should be created without JS frameworks :P