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behindsight··on “You want to know something about how bullshit insane our brains are?” (2018)
You might be interested in the concept of qualia [0]

Vsauce did a good video on it, "Is Your Red The Same as My Red?" [1]

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualia

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evQsOFQju08

behindsight··on Running Costs of a SaaS
> Is there a total for the items listed there?

Rough calculations come to ~$155.15/month with the caveat that:

* excludes billing costs/charge

* excludes the one-time $500 costs of incorporation

behindsight··on Ask HN: Dear open source devs how do you sustain yourself
> Open-core, have an open-source core and a premium version with more features (these suck)

Out of genuine curiosity, are there some egregious examples that merits (these suck), or is it more of a blanket statement?

I would love to avoid making those mistakes.

behindsight··on React Native for Windows and Mac
Unless you are referring to another issue, using `expo build:android` will create an apk file so you don't have to rely on staying up to date with the Expo app.
behindsight··on Microsoft's GitHub account allegedly hacked, 500GB stolen
Unfortunate timing[0] but that is pretty much what Keybase had implemented a few years ago[1]

1: https://keybase.io/blog/encrypted-git-for-everyone

0: https://blog.zoom.us/wordpress/2020/05/07/zoom-acquires-keyb...

behindsight··on Analyzing Analytics (Featuring: The FBI)
You'd need to disable tracking protection or whatever equivalent in your browser. It's a known issue with removeddit.

If you check your console log, you'll see:

> Tracking Prevention blocked an XHR request to https://www.reddit.com/api/v1/access_token.

behindsight··on Whole Foods is tracking and scoring stores it deems at risk of unionizing
Fixed link:

https://www.businessinsider.com/whole-foods-tracks-unionizat...

behindsight··on Tauthon: Fork of Python 2.7 with new syntax, builtins, libraries from Python 3
Thanks, I appreciate the context links

(friendly note: code blocks break clickable links)

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13144713

2: https://github.com/naftaliharris/tauthon/issues/47#issuecomm...

behindsight··on Show HN: Gentle is a social app where you give and get kindness
> it's /r/roastme

Have you visited /r/toastme? [1]

Its whole concept is built around kindness (like the app), the opposite of /r/roastme.

1: https://old.reddit.com/r/toastme/ (link for convenience)

behindsight··on GitHub has completed its acquisition of NPM
Indeed, and here is the accompanying HN discussion when they first announced their intent

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22594549

behindsight··on Show HN: Subreddit Finder - Trained on 4M Reddit Posts from 4K Subreddits
Apologies let me clarify: Pushshift has a live api that mirrors reddit which you can use to compile a more recent dataset[0].

The uploader of that BQ has cited Pushshift as their source[1].

PS: In the next couple of days the batched archive data for Q4 of 2019 as well as Q1 of 2020 will be available[2]

0: https://github.com/pushshift/api

1: https://www.reddit.com/r/bigquery/comments/fcyu4m/extended_o...

2: https://www.reddit.com/r/pushshift/comments/fuoe2d/september...

behindsight··on Show HN: Subreddit Finder - Trained on 4M Reddit Posts from 4K Subreddits
You can also download them from their original mirror at pushshift[1]

PS: that BQ you linked is maintained by fhoffa[2]

1: https://files.pushshift.io/reddit/

2: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=fhoffa

behindsight··on Yet another novel I will no longer write
FTR the show runners and the author had a lot of creative differences throughout the show (and especially in the later seasons) [1]

> "It can be... traumatic. Because sometimes their creative vision and your creative vision don't match, and you get the famous creative differences thing — that leads to a lot of conflict," he told Fast Company.

1: https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/10034023/george-rr-mar...

behindsight··on Why Don’t We Use Chemical Weapons Anymore?
Apologies if I misunderstood, but I don't think that particular point was missed; it seems to be the article's first stated viewpoint actually:

> the narrative I got was fairly clear: we didn’t use chemical weapons because after World War I the nations of the world got together and decided that chemical weapons were just too horrible and banned them, and that this was a sign of something called ‘progress.’

That point is even further iterated on in the conclusion when comparing them to cluster munitions which as you put, "cause multi generation effects" due to remaining active years after the conflict.

behindsight··on Twitter rewrites developer policy to better support research and ‘good’ bots
(slightly offtopic, hope you don't mind)

I believe the term is: masquerade.

Though mascaraed is technically correct, it just denotes wearing mascara and not to "mask" oneself as someone else.

behindsight··on How to make a web app work offline
Ionic and Cordova generally are "webview" apps. Essentially a headless mobile web site with access to device APIs.

In modern Android and iOS, you could also just install a PWA directly without wrapping it in Ionic/Cordova with the caveat of losing access to some device level APIs.

React Native utilizes actual native components that are declared via a JS bridge. It's not a webview.

However in the author's defense, with the current work on react-native-web, you could share a lot of your react-native code that would swap device components with their equivalent web based components.

behindsight··on A high school student created a fake 2020 candidate, and Twitter verified it
Not that I disagree with your point, but Twitter has been known to "strip" the checkmark from controversial accounts.

It's no longer for simply verifying authenticity.

behindsight··on GitHub was down
Maybe not directly but it could still apply.

I interpreted GP as saying the aforementioned management has just enough cursory knowledge to want to apply the same hammer that worked on a simple system to that on a complex system, but not enough knowledge to realize the unknown-unknowns that they aren't even aware of.

behindsight··on Apollo: An iOS Reddit app built for power and speed
Reddit's developer terms do have a provision for contacting them with regards to monetizing your app. I recall the developer of "reddit is fun" had a revenue share agreement with reddit.

YouTube for example, prohibits showing any ads on screens that serve YouTube api data, and you will lose api access if they catch you doing that.

behindsight··on Cotton Candy (2010)
The title has not been changed according to this tracker.[1]

1: https://hackernewstitles.netlify.com/

behindsight··on Python dicts are now ordered
I use ordered maps to keep track of state snapshots/patches of redux/mobx-state-tree stores.

It allows me to both apply them sequentially as generated, or to "jump to" a particular point in time.

behindsight··on Dark Horse Discord
I am pretty sure that's the standard legalese for most platforms. Reddit and YouTube also effectively have the same wording.

I would struggle to find a major platform without it.

Reddit [0]

> When Your Content is created with or submitted to the Services, you grant us a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable, and sublicensable license to use, copy, modify, adapt, prepare derivative works from, distribute, perform, and display Your Content and any name, username, voice, or likeness provided in connection with Your Content in all media formats and channels now known or later developed.

YouTube [1]

> By providing Content to the Service, you grant to YouTube a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable and transferable license to use that Content (including to reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works, display and perform it) in connection with the Service and YouTube’s (and its successors’ and Affiliates’) business, including for the purpose of promoting and redistributing part or all of the Service.

0: https://www.redditinc.com/policies/user-agreement#text-conte...

1: https://www.youtube.com/static?template=terms#a294b3b51f

behindsight··on YouTube Gives Us Love Without the Messiness
Although the post doesn't mention it, you might also be interested in reading about parasocial interaction[0]

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasocial_interaction

behindsight··on We’re approaching the limits of computer power – we need new programmers
Having worked with React Native and Xamarin: wherever platform specific problems come up, there is some sort of "escape hatch" you can use to tailor to it.

Still room for improvement but it's not so restrictive about the common denominator.

behindsight··on Amazon takes a swipe at Honey, PayPal’s $4B acquisition
Assuming you're alluding to COPPA, isn't the age < 13 whereby it becomes an issue with storing their personal information?

Regardless, on Amazon you need to be at least 13 years old to make your own account.

behindsight··on Show HN: Simple PDF to PNG Server
> [...] mention this is happening serverside

Not being snarky, but the submission title does say "Server".

behindsight··on The Google Squeeze
> It's the only service that everyone seems to feel positively about: it doesn't inspire the [...] mockery that Snapchat does (even by their users)

Well there is actually some mockery about the lengths some people go to alter their perceived appearance[0].

0: https://www.reddit.com/r/Instagramreality/

behindsight··on Show HN: DevShop, the Game of Kanban
> you should add project managers that can take some team members and auto-perform their work

Though it's not yet implemented[0], it seems that feature is purchasable per person:

> ️Observation Training - When a person finishes a card, train them to look for another card. If trained multiple times, they will look for multiple cards.

0: https://github.com/secretGeek/devShop#walkthrough

behindsight··on How to Beat a Patent Troll
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21447215
behindsight··on Life Is a Ponzi Scheme (2009)
Although a good sentiment, the information age coupled with more advanced climate models makes us much better at predicting.

Additionally, it's only been within the last century where we've been technologically capable of causing a mass-extinction level event via nuclear weapons. Here's a fun list of close-calls [0]

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_close_calls

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