skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There seem to be somewhat underground organizations that distribute porn produced in the mainland.

I found some photosets labeled 秀人 which claim to be from "xiuren.com" except there is no "xiuren.com". These were pretty tame (no private parts, no nipples, but plenty of bondage) but I thought stuff like that is banned in the mainland but if they were from someplace else (Taiwan is liberal) why are they using simplified characters?

Many of those photosets start out in the lobby of a luxury hotel and I thought maybe just maybe I could geolocate one, at this point I was getting like the protagonist of Videodrome, then I finally found one that was shot across the street from

https://www.chinahighlights.com/beijing/attraction/cctv-head...

so I got my answer.
Every time we have one of these threads, it fills to the top with denial. Maybe it would be healthier for the EU if people would accept the stats and consider how to improve the situation? It's certainly possible - consider Massachusetts turnaround after the 90s, same with Pittsburgh, Colombia etc.

Inertia kills economies, dynamism drive them. I see a lot of cultural acceptance of "the way it's always been done" here.
Well, the International Flat Earth Research Society was founded while MKULTRA was active...

But I have met at least one genuine flat Earth believer, who was a Biblical literalist and considered it must be true to match his other beliefs.
For small projects I'd remove the bit about 'saving money' being a reason to use VPS. If you want to get better at Linux, then by all means. However, if you'd like to save money, assuming you place any value on your own time, it's just not worth it.

If your project fits in a "serverless" environment use Vercel or Netlify for free. If not, use the Fly free tier or pay a small amount of money per month. Use Supabase or Planescale for the db.

For the price of $0-5/mo* you can deploy whatever you like, without managing the infrastructure. Then you can focus on building whatever it is you wanted to deploy.

* The asterisk is of course that these services usually cost quite a bit more if your usage goes beyond the free tier, but you can always move to a VPS at that point.
The only thing I can see that could possibly be done is to either remove commenting altogether, and remove that as a method for determining engagement with the video. Or to make it so that to comment requires full validation (either by restricting to individuals with Youtube Premium, or some cost to be able to comment) of the individual who is commenting so that automation of it is no longer feasible from a monetary perspective. In theory, they could still allow users to post "Anonymously" but they would have to be posting from an account which has been paid for, or for which some monetary or time cost was necessary to prevent a spammer from simply spinning up more accounts.

There is no way to automate this because you have too much money on the side of the scammer should they break through it since if they only catch 1 out of 10,000 people, it immediately pays their bills. This is the big issue with email spam, we can fight and fight, but at the end of the say, there is no monetary cost really to sending out a stupidly absurd number of emails.
There are always wars. USA is not at war with Russia - at least, not openly.
Surely they'd run this on a system without a fan? I'd say immersed in liquid nitrogen to minimise thermal noise and powered through an ultra-low noise, DC, battery-only supply, and the whole thing inside an independently Earthed faraday cage.

If not, all the effort on the memcpy is going to waste.
They probably meant that most of the time Web UI is implemented in Python, it is by someone who does not care much about design and complicated interactions and does not want to learn JavaScript, it is someone doing AI/ML who just wants some buttons, sliders and charts to quickly experiment. Gradio, which is similar to Pynecone, explicitly targets this audience and frameworks like Streamlit and Dash are also used by AI/ML community.
The "global" vs. "directory" dichotomy seems... off. Haven't PYTHONHOME and PYTHONPATH been supported since approximately forever?
How Portland Became a World Leader in Stop-Motion Animation (2020)
I posted an answer to this in one of the other comments but in short Pynecone is much more customizable and flexible in terms of what your can build.
I just added lowendspirit.com to my bookmarks bar, thanks
Industrialization forced the standardization of parts.

PL and libraries influence some standardization, but software is wildly bespoke today.

Low-code tools and Large language models writing code for us might further influence standardized inter-changeable "parts". The more standardized software is, the easier it would be for ML models to write it for us.
Are you able to say more about that? "We will have local contractors" sounds great but in my area I don't think you will be able to find anyone to work with you. The local contractors and supply houses have closed ranks to fend off internet sales. I can't even buy sheet metal from the local supply houses without presenting an HVAC license. These folks are seeing their livelihoods threatened by a looming shift toward the "appliance" model (which I for one surely welcome) so they would see partnering to service a model like this as slitting their own throats.
I just really like the car and want to drive it.
The problem with forcing everything over USB-C is that you end up overloading hubs. I have four laptops in front of me, and I've got a setup in front of me that just about works tolerably, but:

1. None of the machines I have to switch between have remotely enough sockets for the USB devices I actually need to use. Mouse, keyboard, headset, external webcam, yubikey are all USB-A. For the machines I've got that are USB-C only I need at least two hubs daisy-chained if I want to have the first in the chain be something I can put in my bag.

2. If I try to power some of them through the hub, they complain that they can't get enough power.

3. If I plug those same ones into the power directly, I don't have enough ports to also have a USB-C monitor connection, forcing that over onto HDMI.

4. Only one of the machines I use has an HDMI socket, but the hub I tend to use has one so that's usually fine.

5. It's not fine on my XPS13, which for some reason can't power both its own screen and the external screen when plugged into the hub, and it goes into a flickery loop as it tries, fails, and resets. So that's either lid-closed-only, or is the only device connected over USB-C as a direct connection, which means an extra plug to plug in for only that laptop, and I end up fiddling with the screen controls every time I switch to it.

This is supposed to be a unified ecosystem but it just falls apart in practice, and my desk has never had more wiring all over it. I get that I'm an outlier here: two work laptops, two personal laptops, and regularly needing to use any of them, but there's nothing I'm trying to do that's outside what USB-C claims to be within its sphere of capability. Maybe the problem is the hub I've got but if that's the case I can't see how you're supposed to make better purchases. The ecosystem just seems to be broken.
I don't know about Wisconsin, but in my state RealID is entirely optional. When you get a driver's license (or state ID/"Non-driver's license") you have the option to have your fingerprints taken to receive a RealID compliant ID, or not, in which case your ID is valid for only state purposes.

I'm a natural-born US citizen, and I opted not to get a RealID-compliant state ID. I have no need for it. I use my driver's license for most things and my passport card when I fly domestic. A RealID-compliant state ID offers me no benefit.
I don't think Mercury pays any interest on their regular checking or savings accounts.

They offer treasury accounts that you can move money to and buy securities if you want yield.

So I don't think they have too much risk as far as interest on deposits. But what worries me, as a small business owner that has been using and loving Mercury for a few years now is that they offer free domestic and international wire transfers and I worry that they might start charging for that. It is the first bank I have had that did free international wires and I actually use that frequently. My last bank charged $85 and I literally had to fax a signed form to them to get it done.

The thing I don't know is if there is a per transaction fee that the banks pay. I assumed that there is and that Mercury was just eating the cost as a marketing expense.
Ask HN: 24/7 Managed Service/monitoring, other small SaaS what do you do?
Hi Team HN :)

Tiny bootstrapped B2B SaaS startup here that's on a very good little growth path. Left the corporate world a year ago, first solid tranche of paying customers, all bootstrapped and getting some headlining clients in the little vertical I'm in. Living the dream !

I'm now at the point where it can't be just me for 24/7 on-call server alerts. They're so rare 1 in the last year for an actual issue (disk space... of course), 3-4 with just little 30sec-3min timeouts connectivity related at the hosting provider end. A more risk tolerant person would just leave it be, but I need to be able to get on long haul flights with confidence someone else can be on call should disaster strike a server.

The usual stack of Linux/Postgres/Rails/Nginx, with a few extra little services like SOLR, Redis etc. But nothing out of the norm that good DevOps/Infrastructure people can't manage. Possibly about to drop GlusterFS into the mix.

I'm with Linode so looking at their managed service offering by default, as that seems to be pretty cheap for what it provides. There's another service by MNX.io but that's $2500USD min/per mo.. way too spendy at this point in time, but that gives a full infrastructure team to handle complex stuff (absolutely overkill). I really want a service with a team vs an individual

Wondering what other HN'ers use/do ? I've been surprised I've not been able to find much out there, and this is the kind of thing you really want to see what peoples experiences are - as the 1 time you need it, the service has to deliver...

Thanks in advance :)
-Rowan
`virtualenv` still exists and is still actively developed. It's true that Python 3 ships with `venv` but I think `virtualenv` offers some additional features.

https://github.com/pypa/virtualenv
I didn't say "once you have a family you'll see you need to drive everywhere". so I don't know where that is coming from and also I'm not from the US.

I think it's fine if one decides to buy groceries for 2 weeks instead of every couple of days, everyone is different and this might be more practical for some than others. That's personal choice.
That has to be his imagination, or else maybe he's hearing some other artifact that he's mistaking for a collision between fingernail and plastic. There's no way in hell he is actually hearing what he thinks he's hearing.
It is not even close to true that most employers don’t know their employees are illegal immigrants. Your view on this is wildly out of touch with reality. Describing it even as “open secret” makes it sound more secretive than it is in practice.
The agency had enough information to prosecute and fine the company. I would rather trust a govt agency than a for profit company whose only motivation is earn profit by any means necessary.
people*

*includes only super-rich with money to drop on two $50,000 treatments yearly, or a gold plated medical insurance policy.
Thank you so much, and also, thanks to your acquaintance for the suggestions. I really appreciate it.
My first thought is, "how often will it break"? I don't even care if there's a warranty. I just want it to do its job for 10 years straight without a blip.
The companies would execute them on the spot if it was legal and profitable. I'm happy with a company being required to do due diligence on age. If they can't prove they're old enough to work, they can't work.
> biological parents abusing their children is exceedingly rare

Even if one were to accept this as truth, this doesn't preclude them from abusing other children. This is where 'access' comes in. Most men with children are around children because their kids are friends with other kids, etc. Homosexual men generally do not have this access.
I might steal these aliases, thank you.

Using virtualenv directly has also been my approach, and has not failed me yet.

I also used Poetry for one of my personal projects, and I liked what I saw.
Maybe you do different programming from me but I find NULLs far more common than NaNs.
I understand that logic but the interest rates were not the cause of the inflation. If the FED had made the interest rates negative and that caused inflation then I understand how raising the rates can fix inflation. In this case other “knobs” were turned which caused inflation and now by turning the “interest rate knob” to a new position while leaving the others as they are the economic system will get into a new state which is not the low-inflation state it was in before the pandemic. Why do we believe that this new state will be better than the state the system is currently in?
A good companion to this story is the Oregonian's 2003 piece on how Will Vinton lost Laika to Nike founder Phil Knight's rapper/intern son: https://www.oregonlive.com/history/2021/06/squabble-in-toon-...
Thanks great links. I've been following some of those projects for a while.

I haven't dived into the differential dataflow stuff yet. I think a lot of these projects may be handicapped though by trying to work with existing SQL queries and user SQL knowledge which makes things more complex than they need to be.
Implementation-free TypeScript functions with Imaginary Programming
We've recently released a new library that implements a concept called "Imaginary Programming" for TypeScript. The idea is that you can incorporate Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT into more traditional webapps by simply defining a function prototype with a good comment but without an implementation. Our library then finds those functions in your code and replaces them with a runtime call to GPT asking GPT what such a function would return for particular arguments if the function existed.

It's sort of a mind-bending paradigm, but I think it's really delightful to use from a programmer's perspective. Just write out the function name, the arguments that the function takes in, the JSON-compatible type it returns, and a descriptive comment saying what the function should do, and voila. You have yourself a function you can call, and it actually works.

To be clear, this is not the same thing as Github Copilot. Copilot is great at writing code for you, but Imaginary Programming doesn't write code. Rather, Imaginary Programming uses GPT as the runtime for your function. This means you can solve problems that you never would be able to code normally, answering questions like: "How angry is this customer email?", "What are all the proper names in this email?", or "Come up with a good name for this song playlist.". Copilot lets you code the same things faster; Imaginary Programming lets you do things that were previously impossible to code in TypeScript/JavaScript.

I'm interested in seeing what developers make of this, so I'd love for folks to try it out, either by installing the library or using our online playground: https://playground.imaginary.dev/ . Any and all feedback is very much appreciated!
> even that it's their preference

> they'd lose a big part of their experienced workforce and would incur significant additional labor costs as the market adjusted to the change

The second statement clearly disproves the first one.

Tyson could get Americans (TM) if they paid significantly more and moved them in to rural areas; but it’s much easier to employ cheap immigrants and act dumb.

Disclaimer: No judgement passed on immigrants, only on capitalism and stupid politicians.
Shitty low grade what-about-ism.

I marched against the Iraq invasion. America isn't perfect. There's plenty to discuss about that. But.

But you're crusading is doing no one any favors. You are deflecting from a far more malicious war of aggression, with dastardly & vile strategies of causing civilian pain en mass, being pushed at the highest levels of government.

What did America do once we invaded Iraq? We tried to build a functioning safe democracy. We turned the nation over to the people as we said we would. We built tons of infrastructure, a gift from America. We rebuilt transformers time and time again after insurgent attacks. American military interventionist keeps feeling extremely stupid & never goes right, and comes with tragic losses & horrors of war, but the contrast of intent versus the war against Ukraine just cannot be any more razor clear.
Yes, because on a tech related forum, the disambiguation of city name vs the name of an OS is front of mind on almost all readers
>The banks themselves will pay through a special assessment

And that money comes from the bank's clients, ie basically every taxpayer
Ask HN: How are your Russian friends/colleagues?
Have you lost contact with friends? Colleagues? Has their funding been cut? Have they been silenced by Western companies for where they live?

What is their opinion regarding things? Can they be truthful considering where they are?

There's been so much rhetoric regarding the people as a whole I hear very few stories/anecdotes of the people stuck between a rock and a hard place there.

Seems only to be mentioned when something pivotal from a global tech perspective hinges on 'that one Russian developer'.

Personally I know indie lens manufacturers that are Russian and indie lens manufacturers that are Ukrainian and we all have a mutual love of cinema and soviet lens design. But fundamentally they cannot break bread. It's hard to see.
The human ear is analogue, therefore it can be subject to a form of asymptotic Sysipheanism, ever searching for the smallest shred of better quality audio, not realizing that "quality" can be hallucinated.
Do they pay anything at all for business accounts? It wasn't even legal to provide interest checking and savings to business accounts for a few years after dodd-frank. I haven't seen a lot of bank jump to offer it.
looks very cool. consider putting estimated savings in the pricing area too. similar to solar where big upfront cost but amortization prob makes it relatively cheap!
Are you seriously suggesting that in order for women to have personal autonomy the quality of life for everyone needs to decrease? Really ripped your mask off with this statement.

California housing is so fucked because of ladder pullers and obstructionists. That has nothing to do with women’s rights.
When you say it's rated at 47F do you mean its efficiency is measured at 47F? If so, does that matter much?

The unit linked in the post you're replying to states that it can operate as low as -13F.
You can find such an entry for "recursion" at the index page in Kernighan & Ritchie: https://social.wildeboer.net/@jwildeboer/103509861237806820
Yeah, it had a custom gold alloy. Almost the entirety of the price was in the case, and only a limited number were made. I do wonder how much those are worth now, though.
I live in Buffalo NY, and from the recent record-breaking snowstorms, I've concluded that the push for electrification of home appliances may not be the best solution. Although gas furnaces still require electricity, they can operate for a more extended period on a generator, and gas stoves are a crucial backup option for staying warm during a power outage. Until our electricity grid becomes more reliable, I would hesitate to switch to an all-electric setup.

While I think your product looks excellent and applaud your launch, I regret that it's not something I'd purchase anytime soon, given my concerns about relying solely on electricity during power outages.
> There's value in a laptop that can be easily repaired/upgraded for non tech people

How does the price of a Framework today plus upgrade modules in three years compare to a cheap laptop now and a new cheap laptop in three years? Obviously the former is better for the environment, but if you don't break even on your investment in a Framework laptop by the first upgrade then it's going to be a very, very hard sell for most consumers.
Not every artist is Michelangelo.

Collaboration and feedback can be extremely helpful for creative endeavors. Successful writers have editors, successful musicians have producers, successful directors have EPs, etc. Sometimes the one-man-army approach works, but especially early on, it's best to get feedback.
Yep, exactly. Though the sheer complexity of the problem makes me really curious how this is implemented under the hood. I'm surprised there aren't parameters devs can use to modify this behavior.
I live in a rural part of New England with an electricity company that everyone dislikes because it's super expensive and sometimes things go bad. Since 2010 we've had the following major outages:

* October 2011 Snow Storm - Lost power for 4 days, didn't end up being that cold

* October 2019 Thunderstorms - Lost power for 3 days, thankfully generator kept the house going

* August 2020 Tropical Storm Isaias - Caused widespread grid damage, but only lost power for 18 hours. Internet was out for 36 hours.

* August 2021 Hurricane Henri - Widespread grid damage, lost power for about 6 hours. By this point I had powerwalls. I didn't even turn down the air conditioner.

That's it - every other outage has been a few hours. And that's living in a rural area that is heavily wooded with most of the power lines above ground and often long runs close to trees. If I lived in a suburb or city those times would be even less.

The grid in the United States, despite some widespread and documented regional failures (2021 Texas, 2003 NE Blackout), is remarkably resilient.
Ask HN: Why doesn't ChatGPT learn to simulate you from your chats with it?
Maybe there could be an option that would allow anyone to chat with the simulation of you and perhaps you could even browse and rate your answers in those chats.

As for the usefulness of this feature, imagine being able to go on hundreds of simulated dates in a short period of time. Browsing the resultant chats could yield an actual date.

This feature could also make you immortal in a way.
> gusto wants a different bank to SVB.

Why the hell would they want a different bank than the one being run by the US government?

The whole point of the herculean effort of a all-deposits-protected federal takeover is to prevent disruption of this kind by providing the firmest possible guarantees.
Schemaless Databases Don't Exist
I consider Matter support to be vital for any product that’s “connected”. You can keep all the specialised features limited to your app but basic controls should be exposed via a standard protocol like Matter so I can use any Matter controller to set the temperatures and such.
I think you're projecting your lifestyle on other people, not sure what your goal is here. If this works for you, great, I'm happy for you.
It seems hard to believe that employing an actual child would save you less than $1.5k over, say, 6 or 12 months.
The advantage is for the shareholders. Keep up poors.