jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Feel free, but it's a bad hill.

I can write my own config management, secret management, volume mounting, deployments, replica scaling, hardware affinity, antiaffinity for resilience, rollover kicking out e.g. staging if there's not enough room to schedule production workloads, and the list goes on.

I can also figure out how to install and upgrade each piece of software in my universe, across a few different languages.

Or I can just use kubernetes.

From the perspective of my developers, they tell me a few things like: "I need 4GB RAM, 2 cores, I need access to the postgres secret to talk to it, and here is my hostname" and while they can tell me many, many more things, with that little information, they can have a full application in one of several different languages in minutes.

If I were to hand roll this, it'd be held together by prayers and duct tape. And I lose out on a huge active community building tools around this. I now have istio and get cross service telemetry. For free. I can set networking rules up setting up QOS between arbitrary services, both inside my network and outside. All applied behind a single interface. There's a lot of stuff I get for free, and as my team discovers things it needs to do, I have a consistent layer to do that all behind.

I'm one guy. I don't work for Google. But my team still manages _a lot_ of services, both on application end, and things like queues, databases, etc. You can say we don't need all of that, but you'd be wrong. We arguably could use more. I can reason about my infrastructure in both the small and the large.

Then you get into the idea of transferring to other companies. If someone comes into my org, they can look at what I have and see more or less everything there is in any part of my infrastructure. It's all right there, laid out in YAML. If I were to switch companies, or even teams, it'd be the same. Having a lingua franca of common terms and ideas is super critical there. To say nothing of all the work happening in the ecosystem allowing me to help my users ship features faster to our stakeholders. Doing this in VMs would be a literal nightmare.

So, respectfully, I believe your opinion is not correct here. You personally may not need it, but it's not very long before you get to reasonable amounts of services for any project that's sufficiently complex, in my experience. And even when I have just 1 or 2 I still need many of the primitives of kubernetes.
I should be more clear. First the comment is directed at users, not developers. I am referring to sites that can keep you "logged in" by sending a cookie that is then saved across sessions. By "sessions", I mean, for example, you can "disconnect" from the network and as long as you still have the cookie when you re-connect, days, weeks , months, even years later, you are still "logged in". You do not need to send a password again. The cookie has replaced the password. This may be convenient but it opens possibilities for tracking (not to mention security issues) that you would not have, for example, if you were just sending a password each time you log in.

Do bank websites let you "stay logged in" for hours, days, weeks, or longer because you have some cookie you received when you logged in some time in the past. Are they "doing it wrong".
I will also say it took way too long to get to the point. Several points that could've been made with 1-2 examples had 5-6. It got a little exhausting.
Currently 18% borrow APY with 143M USDC being borrowed. You can check it here https://app.aave.com/markets
Isn't this the work by Max Weber? The main idea here is that predestination of Calvin believed that certain people were predestined for salvation, and others were not. But the implication is that material wealth is an indication of whether one is to be saved or not.

Weber points out that even though there were always wealthy classes all over the world - he is quite eclectic and treats ancient India, Babylon, China and Japan - modern capitalism and earning money for the sake of earning money, not for enjoying resulting luxuries, is Protestant in nature.

I am not an expert on Catholic viewpoint, but many religions (other than Calvinism as Weber sees it) tend to see wealth as a hindrance to salvation - e.g. camel through the eye of the needle etc. But the doctrine of karma etc. do tend to emphasize work for work's sake. So I am not sure I completely agree with Weber (he has works on Hinduism, Judaism etc. which are also insightful and unique takes on religion).
Ah governments. For the people, by the people, sold back to the people.
It depends a lot on the area. I run a moderate-traffic finance-related site that gets about $20 CPM via AdSense. (Before the financial crisis put an end to the glut of mortgage-related ads, it used to be more like $40.)

On the other hand, I run a music-related site that gets something like $0.25 CPM.
I started running recently and noticed the zone dawning upon me already. I run around the same path every time (a 3km trail) and try to enhance my performance while evening my pace, so I'm pushing myself. Yet there's a long straightaway where I often start to feel it come in as some sort of positive dizziness creeps in my body and mind (I feel 'lined up' with myself like every part of me is focused together), and the next thing I know I'm 1km later, with a much faster pace than I could expect and a feeling of smoothness and easiness.

I can assure you that it is just as discernible in programming, but I suppose different people experience it with different intensity on the same activities.
How do they 'increase the difficulty'?
Keep in mind that planting trees != planting trees. It's much more important to let natural vegetation grow on land than to plant random trees. For that, the most important thing we need to do is to reclaim land. Currently, 45% of land is used for livestock agriculture. You see what I'm getting at :-)
I was pwned.
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The post went off HN's front page because it set off the flamewar detector.
Rust will sometimes have to insert implicit runtime checks. Wuffs appears to require the user to insert explicit runtime checks when needed (it will reject any flow that could possibly overflow, but if you check for overflow it's smart enough to allow that).
Australia has severely rate limited the number of incoming passengers, including citizens. One year on, there are still tens of thousands of Australians unable to get home that want to do so.
Courts convict innocent people all the time.
I watch this about once a year just to remind myself.

You are required to give your name if asked. You are sometimes required to provide identification if asked in depending on your jurisdiction.

Do not talk to the police, it can never help you.
The language itself is a little unreadable at first glance, but the idea of it is a very good one. sbt [1] is an amazing project for small embeddable toy programs, but using fuzzers rapidly shows how unsafe the code is, and the benchmarks in the original article show the extent of performance compromises made to make it work.

It seems like this would be an interesting approach to a lot of security programming where it involves data structures, since those have typically been a source of issues. Having a memory-safe ASN.1 parser would be really nice, considering how much difficulty that has caused in the security space.

With a lot of security programming there's a reliance on constant-time algorithms, which this may not be well-suited to, however.

[1] https://github.com/nothings/stb
The first time the FBI went to interview him, he should have requested an attorney - whether he had one or not. As soon as you lawyer up (which is totally legal in his case) the FBI get really itchy about having to deal with lawyers and probably would've moved on to another target.

He should have also gone to the media much sooner or threatened to take this public. Yes, it is now, but had he gone to the media sooner, I'm sure the FBI would've backed off a lot sooner. Having a Muslim racially profiled, intimidated and then put on a no-fly list for no reason is not a good look for that agency.
What time of day an item is posted probably has a huge effect, too.
A friend of mine from college works at Livermore labs doing exactly this (simulating, not going bald.) He can't really talk about work, but it certainly seems like a pretty good gig for a physicist.
I'd tend to say more phone calls, SMS and to some extent instant messaging. You could say Twitter, being a broadcast medium has taken over TV more, but it compliments it more than anything.
Oh, that's great. Maybe they will have an 3G connection some day so we can stream directly from the device to the internet. :)
The game against the Colts the Patriots clearly cheated. It is beyond reasonable that 11 of 12 footballs are 2psi less than the rule allows. Especially since the 12th football of regulation weight is the football used for kicking as you want the football inflated properly. But using fumbles as proof of long term violation is tough because their are too many factors to consider. Patriots are a pass heavy team and have been for a long time. They use multiple RB's and a fresh RB is less likely to fumble than one RB used heavily throughout the game due to mental and physical fatigue. WR's fumble but are less likely than RB's. An under-inflated ball is easier to grip so it would be interesting to see how WR's who left have fared on their new teams and if any returned later, after playing poorly on new team, to play well for the Patriots. Since 2007 has Tom Brady's completion % and interception ratio on the road improved drastically? All these things could be explained by an under-inflated but not definitively.
People are cheering it on because there are no viable openly licensed ISAs besides RISC-V and the alternative to this move is RISC-V being crippled due to sanctions. Anybody in the US is just as free to use the ISA, and designs and fab IP can still be proprietary in whatever country.
What is the difference between big, explosive strength for sports and strong?
Must be, 10179 did indeed retailed for 500€ when it launched.
> Dark modes are a lot easier on the eyes if you spend a lot of time infront of screens

[citation needed]. Why do people keep making these general statements. Every time they do counter-examples immediately appear in replies. Why can't we all agree that we're all different and it's largely a matter of preference.
There's a good Star Trek Voyager episode that deals with this: https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Photons_Be_Free

In this case the holographic doctor writes a novel and there's confusion about who owns the property rights to his work. There was a fascinating panel at Comic Con a few years ago where some prominent lawyers discussed Star Trek episodes like this and specifically brought up the monkey selfie as precedent.

I don't have any answers but it's a good episode.

Edit: The episode is https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Author,_Author_(episode...
Try considering the notion that some of us value our mental well-being greater than we value our careers, and that what we do in the privacy of our own dwellings is our business and no one else's.
The beauty of weight lifting is that you just have to do it. When I was seriously powerlifting my favorite exercise was the dead lift. After dealing with complex things all day, here was something so simple. Pick up this weight. I did that simple thing over and over for many years until I could pick up 500+ pounds.

A beginning book I always recommend is starting strength. But, depending on where your current fitness is at you may need to check with your doctor first and/or find a good body weight program to get started. Burpees, pushups, pull-ups, thrusters for 20 minutes will destroy even the most in shape athletes. It's really not something you need to over complicate.
This is just one single feature of the StorageMadeEasy.com solution and commercial pricing seems equivalent but many more cloud storage's are available.
This feels like the japanification of the whole western world plus China.

I don't even follow the valuations of the stock markets, I've been told they are high, but for tech I'm sure they are nowhere near those of 1998, so I don't think that tech will burst the bubble of everything.

I am however sure the party cannot go on for much longer, the negative interest rates and permanent increase of balance sheets of the FED and other central banks will either cause a stockmarket prolongued downturn, or fuck the whole financial system so profoundly that in 20 years time we won't be able to recognise it, nor be able to call our economies market-based or capitalistic.
You know what's ironic about this reaction of yours to the article?

What's ironic is that a world of fewer and fewer superstars making more and more money is a world in which there is more and more equality - in that all the others are equally in shadow of the few superstars.

My Freshman philosopher professor told a parable. One despot asked advice from the another. The second despot lead the first to a field and proceeded to spin his staff, cutting all the stalks of grass above a certain level. That illustrated how to maintain the highest level stalk of all.

I'm into to the rejecting equality thing. I am seriously. I just suspect you haven't thought all of it through...

(for example, have you read Nietzsche?)
It's a good book, but it's as information "sparse" as the post. It could be reduced to a fifth of its size.
If you are starting a startup and plan to monetize it by selling data of your users, you have one more problem to solve now.

If you are starting a company with a very specific market, you might pay for your first customers more.
The prices are listed on this page[1]. Looks pretty expensive to me.

[1] https://tfl.gov.uk/info-for/taxis-and-private-hire/licensing...
My guess is that either: They knew it was wrong, at least morally, but they didn’t feel like the payment justify the extra work, and they don’t want dogs in their cars. Or Uber failed to train their drivers correctly (assuming any training takes place and isn’t left to the individual contractors). Maybe Uber should sue the drivers for inflicting damage to their brand.
Thanks for pointing that out. I'm only realizing now that uBlock Origin is doing this. But I still think the site should be viewable even with webfonts (and JS) disabled.
Somebody should go tell Bald and Bankrupt about this :0
According to my partner, the purpose of incineration is to break down sulfur bonds and render the chemicals inert.
Please make your substantive points without calling names.

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Your example is more like rewriting GCC in Rust and then claiming it no longer needs to be GPL. What Google did would be like writing a set of stock superhero character descriptions and then releasing them under a Creative Commons license so that other movie writers could use them in their movies.
As a contractor I have been a victim of _all_ the examples in that website (yes, even Interix. A company I used to work for immediately tried porting their software to Interix the moment it was released for free (I think XP?), and I still have nightmares to this day. God bless that guy who used to have a website with more recent GNU utilities for Interix). They only really succeeded in some of them (e.g. MSN, browser, email) but they definitely tried. Sometimes it was legal reasons that stopped them (e.g. Java) and not just their incompetence.
I assumed that your parent was talking about wedding rings
I really appreciate how The Economist packs articles full of facts and information, allowing you to form your own opinion, while still arguing an opinion of their own.
True. But in this case the guy doesn't just think that Bitcoin will go down, he thinks it will go down to 0. If you think its literally worthless, shorting could be a pretty good bet.
Pretty sure nothing like this exists in ios. Apple won’t allow it so it must be an android app.

Edit: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.dinglisch....

So Android has this app and it allows your to automate sms among other things.
It's not possible to be Indian and not use WhatsApp, assuming you want to have any contact with your family and friends whatsoever.
I've followed most of these sub-threads here and would like to thank you for all the civil discussion. I found it very informative, and I commend your patience. While I remain convinced that election fraud has not been a meaningful influence on the outcome of this election, I fundamentally agree with you that perception of this issue is just as important, and that the applebaum link is reasonably interpreted as fraud occurring. To that extent, I think that your comments are downvoted unfairly.

Where I disagree with your argument is that this is fundamentally the cause of what has transcended in DC.

You say that Trump lawsuits have been dismissed instead of evidence being entertained, but if according to his own lawyers there is no allegation of fraud, what exactly do you expect? Why would anyone then believe that his other lawsuits are actually trying to resolve anomalies instead of being political smoke and mirrors to point his base to?

Similarly, it is simply inconceivable that there was sufficient fraud for a "landslide" Trump victory. It has absolutely no basis in fact. Yet this is exactly what Trump is preaching to whomever is willing to listen.

The reason people are storming the capitol is not because there are too few investigations, or because fraud has occurred. The exact same rhetoric and lies that Trump is employing right now would have just the same effect if there had been precisely zero cases and zero entertainable evidence of fraud.
Not what you're asking for, but hey, this device http://www.deviceside.com/fc5025.html is different from the standard USB floppy adapters.

Standard is named UFI, spec at https://www.usb.org/sites/default/files/usbmass-ufi10.pdf

UFI does not provide actual low-level access to the drive. It only support a few common floppy formats, like 720kB, 1440kB and therefore not 1.2MB or 360k of the 5.25 inch floppies.
I think there's an argument to be made that the response at the Capitol was what you want from a police force. The Capitol Police have a dual role as bodyguards (for legislators, their staff, other employees of the legislative branch, and the journalists and media covering them) and as security guards (for the buildings of the Capitol complex). Given that as far as I can tell none of the people who were there to do the business of operating the US government were injured, and that almost all were successfully evacuated, it seems they did that first (and more important) job excessively well.

The second job is more difficult to do effectively (with the potential that some of the protesters were armed, any armed response could have escalated into an actual battle), and was almost certainly compromised by the absence of the personnel needed to evacuate and secure the legitimate occupants of the complex (I don't see any numbers at a quick glance, but almost certainly thousands of people on what was a normal workday until 2:30PM).

Not to mention the inexplicable absence of last summer's no-badge secret police in guarding this protest, and an unwillingness of the executive branch to provide requested national guard allocations to support the Capitol Police.
> To do so, one needed the ability to ... command the will of thousands of workers, and have a European supervisory staff.

It's interesting to me how important the class distinctions were in managing the politics and workforce (same factors were used of course in the US Jim Crow regions once significant naked force was, er, discouraged).

The British were effective at titrating titrating this, by recruiting Indian professionals (lawyers, doctors, accountants etc) to manage non-Indian portions of their empire. Gandhi got his start (in the private sector) in South Africa for example. My own grandfather was recruited in the 1920s to move from Maharashtra to (then) British Malaya to be the doctor for a mining town.

It was a form of the effective "divide and conquer" strategy: they could get competent people who were, like the Europeans, not embedded in the local power systems.
Good luck saying good riddance to your immediate family.
I won't discuss other people's rates but I personally earn ten thousand USD per month.
Your grammar is very strange. Where are you from?
Yes, indeed, and because of this, I'd suggest you not rule out bioinformatics before talking to someone who does it.

I'm a bioinformatician, I love it, and having both an M.D. and skill in programming would be a huge competitive advantage. Take a look at the work of Atul Butte, who is a M.D. that has got into bioinformatics at Stanford, and is very successful.

It is true that until you reach high levels of the research hierarchy, (where salaries can be $250K+), the pay is not good. However, if you get into bioinformatics for industry, or do clinically-oriented startups using bioinformatics methods, you can do quite well. It is a career that combines the ability to use computer science to solve real-world biomedical problems with an environment of high intellectual freedom. To me, those things are worth the opportunity cost in pay. Also, I would not pay that much attention to "average" salaries as you can do better if you are exceptionally skilled, and your M.D. probably would also command some kind of premium.

But I can easily see how I might think differently if I had a lot of student debt from pursuing an M.D.
I assume that also means you see engineers who are not substandard get fired for being substandard?

I don't think it's hard to imagine a great developer performing poorly because either the role or company is a poor fit.
Prototypical Inheritance is one of the things I love most about Javascript, and yet, is usually something a lot of dev's don't like/understand about JS.

Do you write Javascript? Do the world a favor and learn how to use Prototypes instead of using classes for everything.
Depends what market you're targeting. Google's "Project Loon" (data delivery from antennas stationed on high-altitude blimps) was explicitly targeted at third-world areas without much on-the-ground infrastructure.
Can't you simply use your server logs?
I know very well what I am talking about. Read for example a credit card agreement from a random bank, say Scotiabank, in the section about fraud:

"If your Password or PIN is used in such a transaction, you will be liable for the full debt, including interest arising from such use" Source: http://www.scotiabank.com/ca/common/pdf/borrowing/revolving_...

In other words, if a thief somehow steals my PIN, I will be liable as a customer. If you still don't believe me, read any of the stories reported by journalists explaining how banks reject fraud claims when the PIN was used: http://mymoneycounselor.com/card-fraud-blame-shift Merchants may be responsible for verifying the customer's identity, but often they don't. This is why credit card fraud is prevalent.

> debating the effectiveness of consumer fraud-protection is quite beside the point

On the contrary, this is important in this debate. You can't use "zero-liability" as a reason why credit cards are superiors to Bitcoin when I prove to you customers are actually held liable in many cases.

Bitcoin can be superior to credit cards, because when the wallet is properly secured (for example a passcode-protected hardware wallet), theft and fraud becomes increasingly unlikely, whereas credit card fraud continues to become a bigger and bigger problem, and banks increasingly shift the liability toward customers as I documented above.