jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> So what happens is people convince themselves that the existing tech sucks and use that to rationalize doing the rewrite.

That certainly is a thing that happens, but you could use that to dismiss any technology at all. In the case of Kubernetes, it makes operations a lot easier to the (important) effect that the development teams can do a lot of their own operations work. This is important since they're the ones who are empowered to solve operations problems and it also eliminates the blame game between ops and dev. Further, it eliminates a lot of coordination with a separate ops team--the dev teams aren't competing to get time from an ops team; they can solve their own problems, especially the most common ones. This also has the nice property of freeing the SREs to work on high-level automation, including integrating tools from the ecosystem (e.g., cert-manager, external-dns, etc).

Kubernetes certainly isn't the final stage in the evolution, but it's a welcome improvement.
Slabs?
Well everyone just wants to buy from three companies anyways, right? Just like everyone only wants to visit 3 websites? And everyone really only wants 1 ISP to choose from. /s
The vast majority of torrenting currently is piracy related. The vast majority of knife use isn't murder related. That is the difference, and talking around the issue doesn't help.

RapidShare/MegaUpload/etc. have a very large amount of copyrighted material on them, and Dropbox would be wise to avoid becoming the easiest alternative to them, even if it involves breaking some eggs.
well they have other platforms besides the search page, like android and chrome. both already have portal like features, for better or worse.
Link: http://github.com/jezdez/django_compressor
This contradicts your earlier statement -- that you removed the file from the person's account.

I'm on your side here, but you need to be as transparent as possible here. Are you also saying that your system automatically generates emails that make false claims about having received a DMCA takedown notice?
This is correct.

"a valuable life lesson."

It makes sense though. I never understood why classes you fail are averaged into your GPA as a 0.0 instead of just ignored. After all, the amount of stuff you don't know or can't do is always going to be effectively infinite. So how is getting an A in one class and failing 99 others any different from getting an A in one class and not taking 99 others? The current system is just an attempt to punish people for wasting university resources, it has zero to do with actually assessing the abilities of a person.
Linode, if you don't need the cloud way of doing things (it is much harder to create your own image and use it on multiple servers, though doable it isn't the recommended way).

Things like stackscripts and on demand servers make it closer to the cloud style but not really. They are a good VPS provider with good support and reliability.
http://www.softlayer.com/ seems to be a good provider. Haven't used them as yet but will be making the switch from Amazon as soon as all of my instances are up.
Accidents happen, but you sure do not want your startup to have an accident involving a DMCA takedown notice sent in error. There are penalties for doing such. It is generally best to vet this stuff with a lawyer.
As a salaried employee, you may be paid money to perform the duties in your position; but you still gain internal social capital by doing above average work (or go into debt by failing to perform at the bare minimum standards).

It would be hard to get it right, though. First, you not always have the freedom to pick which projects get assigned to. More importantly, there is no quid-pro-quo in the social dimension, so I cannot really see how to "demand more recognition" for completing an "unpleasant but valuable" task.
Those are not contradictions.

1) A sale to an advertising company will result in WA data being used for Ad sales, there's no reason to believe otherwise.

2) Paid apps would be ideal for privacy, but I didn't imply that people were necessarily willing to pay for it.

The problem frankly is not 'Facebook' it's us.

We want 'all the privacy' for 'free'. If we paid a small amount, we could have privacy because there'd be an underlying supportable business model.
She was carrying a backpack and attempting to breach a security perimeter.

It’s a good shoot pretty much no matter what else at that point. The police officer can reasonably defend that perimeter with deadly force.

Regrettable that it came to that, no one wants to see anyone due, but if you don’t want to get shot don’t go to a riot.
Thanks, I will have to read it carefully, but from the abstract it doesn't seem as simple as "increased Tether printing makes BTC rally." But if there is in fact a statistically significant correlation, I would personally wager there's causation and hedge my bets accordingly.
I'm unsure if you're unfamiliar with this phrasing or are simply trolling.

If the latter, well played.
I assume you were being downvoted because your comment claims to be specifically rebutting a claim in the parent, but doesn't do that, and instead just sets up a soap box for you to pontificate from.

I'm not going to waste the time dissecting it in detail, but your comment is full of not-quite-sensical comparisons ("[S]ubsidized society" vs. "free society"? Intercity highways are "unwise"--where do cities get food?) and provocative language ("Suburbs require gigantic subsidies"--so do cities, right, even if smaller per capita? Suburbs are "luxuries"?).
I'm not in netsec, but i'm still a little fuzzy on some details here:

1)what's the evidence that this is tied to/from the off the shelf core-impact product? using a similar api call? a controlling server is used?

2)other than the target being an israeli aerospace firm and payload pretending to be military in nature (im guessing to generate curiosity, how are 'nation-states' involved?

EDIT: maybe answering my own question
1. a "Campaign" identifier is a variable found

2. lure document exists elsewhere and has been seen targeting multiple nations over years. at academics and defense orgs.
What vendetta? Besides Plan9, which was decent for what it attempted, those are more or less true statements. Golang doesn't have anything that show it kept up with 30 years of advances in computing/PL design.
The problem with using a PC is the wire running from a desktop brick to your blinded head. One immersive "jump" motion you're painfully reminded that reality still exists.

We've reached the amazing time when a serious VR-capable computer is, screen included, a half-inch thick and wide enough to cover your field of view. Just strap it and some thin optics to your face, and you don't have to worry about yanking your computer off your desk.

Yeah, been there done that. Having to constantly remember the wire does detract from the experience.
I'm not assuming that. I'm asking why people who have access to extremely affordable streaming services but who choose to torrent anyway do so. Why should the creators of film X be penalized for the unavailability of film Y on a streaming service by people who are downloading film X?

I mean, I get that people would like a streaming service that had every film that ever existed available instantly, but there isn't any way to force such a thing to come into existence without essentially forcing everyone to license their work to it, and while it doesn't exist some people are always going to cite it as an excuse not to pay for anything that is easily available. And again, my original question was what you would expect someone in the MPAA to do on behalf of users.
I guess the author agrees with me in another one of his articles (so maybe I just misinterpreted):

"There is no trace of evidence that you can get the best out of people at high-level tasks through pressure and competition. The opposite is true. Worried people get dumber. They may be faster at carrying rocks… but they do not get smarter.

Stressing out academics, students, engineers or any modern-day worker… makes them less effective. If we had any sense, we would minimize competition to optimize our performance."

http://lemire.me/blog/archives/2014/12/05/academia-as-an-anx...
They can earn a living in other ways. Some examples:

- having a day job (this obviously means they won't have as much time to put in the site, I know)

- Service As a Software Substitute (this doesn't work for sites that just display information)

- subscription/premium model (for press sites like Arstechnica, it seems like an alternative)

- donations (this usually doesn't scale up to a salary, but can sometimes cover hosting and more)

- sponsoring

Most of the content is by people who make it available for free: blogs (a good part of the links on HN), forums and community sites (HN itself, StackOverflow, Reddit, ...), non-press sites (personal sites, project site, etc). An overwhelming majority of those don't rely on advertising to exist.

It might be hard to have a "service" that's massively used and that you can host and make available for free (i.e. no ads), but I bet it's not impossible (especially if you can upsell something else. See GitHub, Travis, DropBox).

I'd argue that a libre p2p service is more useful to have (e.g. http://tox.im) than a centralized, "gratis but ad-supported" centralized service like TPB.
Considering it's brand new, no.
I had the same experience with AT&T fiber Facebook newsfeed ads. I keep getting them while browsing at home, and when I click through it simply tells me it's not available at my address. I ended up signing up for non-fiber AT&T through that and I still get ads on FB for AT&T Fiber.

You'd think with all the invasive tracking FB would be able to optimize conversion rates and ad spend for their customers even a little bit but I guess they don't really care about optimized spending.
The original thread is about AirPods (non-Pro). There was a conspiracy theory (that's the best word I can think of but may not be the correct one) a year or two ago because a bunch of updates to Bose, Apple, and other noise canceling headphones seemed to make the noise canceling worse and the rumored reason was they internally might have found hearing damage. AFAIK there's no direct or scientifically vetted information that this was the reason for the change.

Headphones and earbuds can cause hearing problems for quite a few unrelated reasons. People tend to increase the volume with headphones (I check the average audio level in Apple Health. I keep the volume quite a bit lower when using the Pro vs the original). Earbuds can compact earwax inside the ear causing pain, tinnitus, or hearing problems for some people.
(HN mods: From 2015)
I don't have a link to reference but without getting into the specific details I was shared it's not really any different than any other wireless just the problem is larger. E.g. a good AP can handle 20 clients spread 360 at different distances with pretty decent bandwidth. Put all 20 clients within 1 degree and all the same distance away and it becomes a problem trying to serve that spot.
If you're not familiar with the author, you're in for a treat.
Maybe you just haven't been around long enough. Many of the earliest pioneers in the field of computing were women. It was "women's work" until all of a sudden it looked interesting to men and it magically became "men's work." A story as old as time.

Kathleen Booth invented assembly language. In 1947.
I agree -- even when the threads here were massively pseudointellectual back in the day, it was a welcome tone shift.

Maybe we can hold the line and hope for some change from dang and the crew. Or maybe it'll pass (though I'd rather not hang my hat on that one there). It's a good site, so hopefully we can hold onto the old "90's practitioner's watering hole" in some way or fashion going forward as a community.
Primarily, bittorrent didn't exist until 2001.

Secondarily, you need to find a person to seed a private tracker, and bandwidth is limited to the seed host. You pay to share the content. With the binary server, it's the speed of the NNTP host. Users pay to download the content.
It's funny how some actors always seem to be themselves, not matter what role or character they play. E.g. whenever I see Martin Freeman in anything, I see him as Tim Canterbury (The Office UK).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Canterbury
Hardfork BTC to use Algorand consensus. Put stablecoins on the same chain. See the magic happen.
The bitter difference between left and right in the US covers up that there are genuine differences within the parties as well. The only way for either party to achieve anything at all is to vote in absolute lockstep, because the other party is absolutely certain to oppose it no matter what.

It's my perception that the conservatives have done this more effectively. That may be my own bias, though it's true that the checks and balances favor the status quo and therefore the conservatives will always have an advantage. (They have, notably, been unable to undo the Affordable Care Act, because it's status quo.)

Liberals display their internal qualms quite openly. There is substantial dissent between the "whig" (centrist) version of the party that would be called conservative in any other country, and the part that comes close to actually being left wing. The former holds all of the high offices, and the latter is very angry about that -- and when the two split publicly, the party fails utterly.

I, among others, would be very happy to have the centrist wing of the Republicans talk to the centrist wing of the Democrats and make compromises between them, but that's not the way it happens. Obviously I have opinions on who's more responsible, but that's not my point. The point is that, given that as a fait accompli, Democrats -- when they win -- have to have open discussions like this one, where the genuine conflicts within liberalism come out. That's uncomfortable, but sincere, and the discussions are important.
Fortran = physics, and perhaps either civilian or military engineering.
100%. Companies don't hire based on capability, they hire based on reputation and the labor supply/demand of the area. If you can do neat stuff but have never proven your capacity to do so, then it's unlikely you'd be hired.
> Rather than a query planner, an interesting approach would be to expose the more stable part of the internals with a new language and let people roll their own query plans.

Those that are ignorant of history are doomed to repeat it.

Go read Stonebraker's "What Goes Around Comes Around"

https://15721.courses.cs.cmu.edu/spring2020/papers/01-intro/...
Well, that makes sense, unless Mozilla's average employee gets paid $12,000/year.
The only thing that is archaic is having awful development cycles because most languages don't provide a repl to test ideas. Pretty much every LISP does.
Weelll, you also have to do the exercises . . .
That $3,000,000 would have payed each of the 250 employees $12,000. Do you think they would have stayed for $12,000 a year?
As a rule of thumb, Flask is good when your app will only ever need to be a single file. Otherwise, as other commenters have said, you're basically reimplementing Django badly.
Delphi, ah the memories. I use to make a fair amount of money in the late 90s making shareware applications with Delphi. It was the most productive I have ever been as a developer. But, the world moved to web fairly rapidly, so I had to move on to the web.
You're not really addressing the one concern voiced in the post you are replying to. As much as you might find the above information interesting, I'm sure tucif wasn't looking for a sales pitch.
And there it is a previous discussion about this on HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8158976) with some useful comments.
Itll cost them much more in the long run. Why hire anyone other than the most qualified?

These policies are trying to correct an imbalance which is based on self selection rather than discrimination and are themselves discriminatory.
Yeah, which means people have to check searches for their result, then the DMCA notice, then file counterclaim and wait for Google to reinstate it. Seems like a pretty nifty blackhat tactic, especially if timed right.
But Linux doesn't have this problem. Paths to loadable modules are given in the application configuration, and dynamic libraries have versioned file names. On top of that you can give a path to the dynamic linker. So that doesn't really make sense.
IDEs win if you need fancy refactoring features or are working on an unfamiliar codebase (or, heaven forbid, one whose build system only works in an IDE). Otherwise, if you like Emacs, enjoy it.
It's hard to justify when 99% of ISP's current customers will never understand what usenet is no matter what.
This definitely does cause problems though; I want to acknowledge that. For example, right now we have an issue that auto-generated documentation does not include unreferenced globals.

I have some ideas to address this, but it does represent a flaw in the status quo design of the language.
OSM mapping in Britain has been absolutely driven by enthusiast cyclists and walkers. That’s not to say cycling is a mainstream mode of transport on Britain - if only - but there is a very high correlation between OSM mapping and cycling.
No one said it's a conspiracy. It is clearly a misunderstanding of our actual knowledge, which is why we have studies that show everything from associations between red meat and cancer, no effects whatsoever between the two, and even reduction in some cancers from red meat consumption. That is standard across the entire field of nutrition epidemiology, but "nutritionists" and health "experts" rely on the fact that, if they cite a single study showing a cancer connection, people will eat it up and accept it as fact.
Ok, but how is that more the case when you argue that the gender ratio is personality-driven than when you argue that the gender ratio is discrimination-driven?
Aluminium is one of the best recyclable materials very low losses and initial energy output is multiple times higher for pristine material than one in recycling.

I suppose copper and steel aren't too bad in that regard either.
How could anyone entertain the idea that American police under-use force?
Skeptical of what exactly? Well, from my corner of the IT world I see Google routinely do these things:

- Google's involvement in web "standards" [1]

- Google sabotaging Mozilla [2]

To quote from [2]:

--- start quote ---

At the individual level, their engineers cared about most of the same things we did... But Google as a whole is very different than individual googlers.

...

The question is not whether individual sidewalk labs people have pure motives. I know some of them... They’re great people. But focus on the behaviour of the organism as a whole. At the macro level, google/alphabet is very intentional.

--- end quote ---

Google today is what Microsoft of yesteryear couldn't imagine in it's top management's wettest dreams.

[1] https://twitter.com/dmitriid/status/1356125702513418249?s=20

[2] https://archive.is/tgIH9
I signed up for their beta, and have been using Shitbowl® for about 6 months and the results have been amazing. I can't recommend it enough.
Computer: I'm going to reorder milk, is that okay?
Me: Yes

Not

Me: Computer do we need milk?
Computer: Let me check, Yes.
Me: Order some then.
Computer: Ok.
Is there any further work going on to support AMD in the KVM driver? I remember the codebase having sat idle for a few years last time I checked...
> And makes your code 20% longer

One thing I've noticed on larger dynamic language projects: Developers tend to adopt a very defensive strategy in terms of validating inputs, to ensure it is clear a bug is not in their component. This includes a lot of what are essentially runtime type checks.

This is not necessarily a bad thing, because it ultimately makes the code more reliable. But it is "more code" which needs to be maintained, and eliminates the much of the advantage of using a dynamic type system in the first place.
Absolutely, but these folks are the one's I'm applauding as it was their work that was the foundation for the next nearly ten years.
Unlikely

> Rukstales was arrested for unlawful entry.
Add video codecs (and the operating systems they run on) on top and you know why the library of congress decided lasering movies onto film (3 black and white rolls, one for each color channel) is the best storage format for something as simple as moving images and sound.
Just wondering is FAA getting away with it?
I'm curious how they hold their technical architecture together. Is the architecture mature enough that there are no decisions to be made? I know if I ran my team without syncing up directly on things we'd end up with horrific inconsistencies all over the place and it would become impossible to support. I would guess longer term quality would suffer as well.
"No individuals have been criminally charged in the government’s investigation into Boeing, which was led by the FBI and the Department of Transportation’s Office of the Inspector General. Dennis Muilenburg, who was CEO when the crashes happened, was ousted in late 2019. He left with more than $60 million in stock options and other assets, though Boeing did not give him a severance."

What a cruel joke
> a place where every request will need to go through a tick barrier of language issues/misunderstanding/bureaucracy

The problem is that those types of places are very susceptible to bribery. So maybe you'd be immune from the U.S. government, but someone's cousin who's angry at you and has $200 to spare could very well tank your site.
The squint test only passes for one and fails for the other because of your familiarity with the Algol-style language.

I immediately recognized a defun or defmacro in the second, and didn't know wtf was going on in the first. It is a (def-something name (arguments ) &body).

(Also, properly placing curly braces inflames my OCD. It seems like a lot of wasted white space, so I end up stacking them, and then they are impossible to match. So I unstack them, but then everything is all spread out and I don't like that at all.)

So, my point is personal preference and experience there...

Aside from that, there are idiomatic patterns for macros (i.e. let-binding-forms, with-x, def-something, etc.) that you learn and generally stick to.

Then again, I like to read, I am reasonably good at reading, and probably read faster than most.
Neither is actually in (or especially close to) Portland, though, right?
Perhaps double-full-stop and stroke-full-stop. Those sound kinda British to me.
What the heck? That's exactly the same as what I said.

Money is an object or record that serves as a medium of exchange.
Steep prices shouldn't deter anyone who's looking to build a takedown-proof site.
1. Construct a complex password key with a minimum length of 8 characters, e.g -Kr/2.pq4

2. Make an algorithm based on the URL. E.g. news.ycombinator.com
a) Take the last 4 characters in the URL, excluded the domain suffix: ator
b) Shuffle the letters based on your algorithm: orat

3. Combine the password key and the output of your algorithm: orat-Kr/2.pq4

4. Always enjoy individual, secure and easy to remember passwords for any services.

The algorithm you use can be more complex, e.g. adding characters in between, but the basic idea should be explained.
This is the perfect wrong answer to a thought experiment.
I use "dash" too, but the "-" character is technically a hyphen. Two hyphens ("--") make a dash.