jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I get what you're saying, but my point is a bit more nuanced:

If your goal is to build highly reliable and available services to end users that are secure and scalable with a team of more than 10 engineers, eventually you will run into more than 50% of the concepts in Kubernetes anyway and end up re-inventing them.

Scaling up and down, node draining, finding out whether services are healthy, RBAC, resource distribution, secrets management, service hardening, introspection capabilities, explicit declaration of dependencies and endpoints and many, many more.

My point is: Sure, if your goal isn't that, it doesn't make sense to start out using Kubernetes.

But if at least eventually that's what you need, imho it's way preferable to just learn and apply well proven abstractions instead of reinventing the wheel along the way and end up with a less maintainable, capable and standardized solution you won't find anyone for maintaining.

If I hear about some of the comments here suggesting to "just spinning up docker-compose with Traefik in front" (disclaimer: I really like Traefik), then that reminds me of how some of the ops mess started that I historically had to care for.
I think that model is discontinued. You need to compare with the X1 Carbon models.
TL;DR: Because the / character was used for options. (as opposed to -, on UNIX)
Somebody failed to communicate you the big picture.

Usually, prices are higher if the demand is consistently lower. But that's not a certainty.

Anyway, production and consumption are in (near) equilibrium, and the price is the communication channel that brings that (near) equilibrium. That doesn't imply in any price level, it's only a communication channel, where both sides input their preferences and settle on some value. The actual value depends on what are both sides preferences.
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You haven’t seen businesses using things like Square on an iPad or iPhone as a pseudo POS system? Square even has a contactless reader on the Apple Store. Presumably, now businesses do not have to use those third parties anymore.
Sounds extremely similar to me. Even the 6-8lb weight loss. Keep it up!
For france:
contactless on phone should be ok with widely used card providers (VISA)

Beware, since covid, use of cash has dramatically fallen, last month a restaurant struggled to give me 2€ change, they didn't have 2€ in cash !
Paying in cash with the right amount should never be a problem though.
> Regardless, I don't really care

You do care or you wouldn't be arguing with me and sounding emotional.
> That's almost 80% of your peak concurrent users on Second Life in your first point.

Which is still miniscule if you think of the number of users you need to have that many people online at once (it's a lot more). And Second Life is hardly massively popular. Like you say the effort -> reward is way off.

> If I'm understanding you correctly, you're referring to the thing with Twitter Blue that people can mint a copy of a picture from a different NFT collection cheaply, and Twitter Blue will still show it as a verified NFT because it doesn't distinguish between official collections or not, just that "it's an NFT that was minted". People can click the PFP and see that it belongs to a fake collection. Or Twitter Blue can be changed so it will display a checkmark for official collections or something over the icon, just like OpenSea does it.

Right so poor UX and centralized authorities again.

> But they don't have to actively get permission to make derivative works, which was the main point. And a lot of these being CC0 means they're pretty much effectively public domain anyway, so yeah, there's no copyright to defend.

Well not if you own a BAYC image or anything not CC0.

And the point about your game is exactly what I mean the effort to actually enforce the license you bought is not trivial and really only available to companies. So why buy the thing in the first place?
With a style guide and linter I've never experienced this and idk why you would. Then the only time style comments come up is pointing someone to the guide
That's a relief. I'm old enough to have gone through the 1970s global cooling scare stories https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_cooling
Hacker News is such a bizarre place.

On the one hand, we have threads about how browsers are fingerprintable and some app is using telemetry and endless discussions on theoretical zero-knowledge protocols and the importance of cryptography and Snowden saying this and that that get voted up to the top.

On the other hand, something like this comes up which is basically another step along the "no-one accepts cash" funnel and so now everything you ever buy with metadata is part of the borg. Like, you've literally deliberately introduced an MiTM.

I don't get this blind spot. Paying with cash is literally the easiest thing I do to reduce my data trail.
My wife works for a UC school and they post-pay on the 1st of each month. I've skimmed the article you've posted and it would seem that such an arrangement is not allowed.

Do you know how they get away with this, or have any other insight?
There was an early home gaming system called the Vectrex that was based entirely around this. They got around the lack of color with clear plastic screen overlays.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijc6afTifqI

We had one when I was growing up as a kid. It was a pretty cool little machine.
That's what butt does! `but` doesn't do this because to be honest it's quite rare that you'll need it. and it's also butt-ugly to do that.
Maybe it's just me, but the audio output sounds really cool.
The ambiguity actually works in Uber's favor: as long as there is the tiniest thread of plausibility that you are using a similar price algorithm, they can convince a judge to tie you up in court, burning time and legal fees while the onus is on you to prove otherwise.
I'm doubtful that any advice here would make any meaningful difference, but as a pathological optimist, I hope I'm wrong :-) . Try reading "The seven habits of highly effective people" by Steven Covey, at worst you've wasted a few hours, but I think there's a lot of useful advice in there about how to change your circumstances.
If you want to redefine a commonly used term your doing something wrong. What you need to do is define a new term. Replace "High Level Languages" with "Abstract Languages" and nobody would have a problem with what you said. It might not mean anything, but at least it's clear. However, when you, redefine an existing term and you can be wrong and people will call you on it.
You're probably not as good at evaluating the difference between startups as you think you are.

I've never worked at a startup, so I'm speaking from ignorance. That said, what always struck me as a problem with the work for equity is just that. Investors are professionals (or competent amateurs) at evaluating startups and understanding the deal. They have access to more information and have more leverage in demanding it.

They also do a lot more choosing too. I think this is the one that get lost in an analysis like this. Most startup investors invest in a small portion of the deals that are a signature away and evaluate many more. Employees are much more limited.

Sweat is a lot less liquid than money. The problem of receiving risky stock in exchange for labour is like the problem of trying to trade without money in general. A graphic designer is limited to accountants that need designing and want you. An employee is limited to investing in companies that want to hire them.
That could very well be the case, but if that were really the cause you'd expect to see this pattern every year. However, it apparently didn't happen for at least two years in a row[1]. Also, I would have expected Skype engineers to have wised up to the situation by now if it were really a seasonal thing.

[1] Since the last outage was 3 years ago. I can't find a source for that right now -- would be interesting to see if the outage was also around Christmas time.
He seems to think we have only two options, transparency and pain, or discretion and balance. The next step in this sage will be finding a way to have transparency and balance.
Wise words. I will be really impressed, when you guys can deliver this. Your startup has a great future and will be very useful to many of us.
The problem is that Comcast wants to sell "20 megabits down, 20 megabits up, no torrent traffic" but market it as "20 megabits down, 20 megabits up". Which is actually a problem that doesn't require complete network neutrality to solve, but might benefit from government intervention.
Case in point: http://diveintopython3.org/strings.html
Ron Paul makes a very valid point about differentiating between capitalism, and what is described here, which he calls corporatism (somewhat at odds with the definition for this term offered in Wikipedia).
Python is generally terrible at providing immutable types and workflows. No such thing as a constant, class variables are mutable by default, no built-in immutable dictionary class, etc.

I use a linter to catch this sort of thing and subclass `collections.namedtuple(...)` whenever I need to at least try to abolish mutability. It's one of the worst things about the language.

[edit] You can argue that there would be use cases for mutable defaults, and as with any edge use case you'd be right in asserting its existence. Unfortunately, I can't think of any solution (typing, changing function argument evaluation rules, etc) that wouldn't fundamentally change the language and break just about every sizable python library in existence. This looseness is baked deep into the language as far as I can see.
Since you asked for me to explain it to you, I'll do so.

As someone who has hired many people I've learned that people with so little interest as to spend five minutes looking us up are typically generally lazy (even outside the context of our company) and specifically may be incompetent.

At the point of looking at resumes I have very little to go on. If the resume comes in with Kool Aid stains on it, and states that you'd like any job that pays, preferably working with hot chicks, I'm less inclined to spend much time with your resume. Everyone says they're a professional. Unless I'm desperate to hire someone, the burden of proof is on you. And the fact of the matter is if I'm getting 500 resumes, and 50 of them can point to having reverse engineered our object-model in high school, why does your resume asking "what is it that you guys do again?" merit a second look.

Maybe in a world where you're especially in demand, what you suggest is fine. If I get Sergey Brin or David Cutler's resume on my desk, I'll call them and let them know what we do. But if you're random dev -- well you need to prove you're not JUST a random dev.

And this really is relative. If you're applying for the most coveted dev role in the world, you need to show more in the resume than if you're applying to fix bugs in the Waste Management LOB app written in COBOL from 1979.
Would you agree the "describing" issue you raise is the same as "English can describe what it feels like to be pinched, but cannot make you feel a pinch"? No dolphins are needed, it's the issue of qualia.

A universal language can express anything that can be expressed in language. If qualia are outside the realm of language, that wouldn't make English less universal.

You may say dolphins use a language, and then feel qualia in response. Similarly, we can imagine a human who is genetically engineered for his skin to pinch when he hears certain sounds, so that he would feel the pinching quale. I think in neither case should triggering hardware features by sound be considered language. A nice example is "clap on" devices -- surely that's not language.
The article actually covers that:

Virtually every single one of the large sites does it:

"Think switching pricing on your users is is unfair or clumsy? The biggest ecommerce sites in the world have been doing it since the turn of the millennium!"

Links to:

http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/news/2000/09/38622

If you have a lot of returning customers offer a price-drop gaurantee or similar.
I liked Readability, but since I got a Kindle I am in love with Instapaper. Does more or less the same thing, but pushes it to your ebook reader. I hope they add a similar feature.
You can't host your own Posterous and it has fewer features and no third party plugins but it's easier to use, has built in syndication to TwitFace, and is probably far more secure than WordPress.

(Edit: How is this wrong? Was it my playful nickname for Twitter and Facebook collectively?)
A slight correction for the article:

They say, "You’re not going to win me over if I have to own a Mac or use a nightly build to see something," but if you have a Webkit nightly on Windows you'll still see that same message telling you to use Safari on OS X.

So, basically you'll need a Mac to see any CSS 3D transforms. It's because that portion of Safari relies on the Core graphics framework.
It's not really compulsory in the sense that someone is making you participate. It's simply the peer pressure. Here's some "anecdata" to illustrate the point: I don't have a Facebook account anymore, but my wife does. Anyone among my friends and family who wants to see my son's photos is told to go to my wife's photo gallery. Sure, we could use Picasa or Flickr or even e-mail, but she's already using Facebook and it's easier that way. So if a friend or family member wants to see the photos and doesn't have a Facebook account, they have an additional small incentive to get one.

Facebook has become one of those things everyone mentions now and then. You can use it to keep in touch with high school friends (even those you didn't like in the first place), to exchange gossip, to kill time (if you think mindlessly watching TV is the worst you can do with your time, think again), etc. If everyone around you uses it for something and mentions it often enough, you'll feel left out of that. Those of us who can say "well, I'm glad to be left out of that" are a minority.
And to be honest it's a great way to showcase tabs.
For quite some time while I was in college, I read mail through a Vim plugin that I wrote for the purpose. I like Vim that much. However, I can't imagine using Vim to access Gmail for daily use, because Gmail actually does email _well_ (unlike just about every other email client I've used).
Interesting. That is hypocritical, you’re right.† Being a Mac user I never have this problem in any browser, except, come to think of it, for the live keynote streams they started doing a few months ago.

Apple even uses JS for use cases where one would traditionally use Flash, such as 3D product views, whereas Google still only uses Flash for Street View.

†Do you have an MPEG-4 decoder? I know a lot of Linux distros, and Firefox, only support e.g. Theora out of the box, for patent reasons.

Edit in response to edit: I know all about the various formats, etc. But <video> absolutely is ready, if you’re willing to support exactly 2 formats (MP4 and Ogg Theora) with a Flash-based fallback — something companies offer as an upload-and-paste-simple service.
corrected. thanks for the catch.
You're jaded and want to address the problem of rural isolated low-access to education children by giving people in big cities more money? You're jaded by the selfish acts of corporations and yet are encouraging trickle-down in an economy and in reference to a problem that is probably uniquely even less apt to respond to trickle down?

Huh.
Wait a minute, who says that the specialist also can't do "fast enough"? And more to the point, how do you know that the "fast enough" solution is within the reach of the generalist or that the specialist can't figure it out sooner than the generalist can? I can't count the number of times I've spun my wheels on something for days and then brought the problem to an experienced database developer who figured it out in minutes.
the machine onboard the spacecraft can detect the collapse

You cannot detect a collapse.

Now, if we can perfect this phenomenon so that we can actually send real data instantaneously between two points,

No information can be transmitted using just entangled photons.
I was weighting myself on these same thoughts for a while now. There could be another option - you could maybe start a part time opensource project/s.
PS aside, you might find that walking aimlessly satisfies the same itch as browsing aimlessly, but you feel better at the end of it.
As Sterling Archer put it: "Holy shit. [That] security is atrocious. Seriously, it’s really bad. [...] No way. It can’t be. Jesus Christ, that is just Baby Town frolics."
Humorously poignant:

http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=3625
> Many services promote themselves as life-expanding — there
> to free up your time so you can spend it connecting with
> the people you care about, not standing at the post
> office with strangers. Rinse’s ad shows a couple chilling
> at a park, their laundry being washed by someone,
> somewhere beyond the picture’s frame.

A case of letting the destination (free time for socialising) overrule the journey (social interaction in your everyday life)?

For example, if you go to a laundromat regularly or catch a bus regularly, you eventually end up seeing the same people and might even end up making friends with them. Maybe even good enough friends that you coordinate your journeys/tasks in order to catch up?

Getting philosophical, an awful lot of things, including life, can be viewed in terms of "nodes and edges". In the case of life, why put so much emphasis on the nodes (the goal) whilst most of your time is spent on the edges (the journeys)?
What needs a citation is the comment I replied to, SSLy's assertion that:

> No one mines bitcoin on GPU's anymore, since 8? years.
You seem to be in the wrong forum - personal attacks are not welcome here.
Can you link me up to your source? All the ones I can find suggest that there's no trend at all to support what you're saying...

Here's 1880-1995:

file:///Users/petersergeant/Downloads/unemploymentbackto1881_tcm77-267536.pdf

And then 1992-2015:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10604117
That one line is me offering personal life advice to anybody reading.
What you described is just a blockchain implementation.
That's certainly one of the hypothesized solutions to it.

Two-way communication certainly has this issue, but it's less of an issue for one-way detection. The galaxy should be awash in "we're here" pings of this nature.

Perhaps people only use radio for a while, and it's supplanted by a better communication method we're awash in but unaware.

Perhaps everyone collapses after a hundred years or so; maybe when they invent the internet and VR and everyone hops on to waste time and spread disinformation.
> It's one thing to pay 10x the taxes of your neighbors, it's another thing altogether to have a class of people benefiting from lower taxes over generations!

And, surprise surprise, that class is white people.

https://twitter.com/alfred_twu/status/1327821019931787264?s=...

Makes sense given that minorities were at large disadvantages to buy property in the past so mostly whites have been able to take advantage on the low tax rates. I'm surprised this isn't getting challenged in court. Nordlinger v Hahn didn't consider race.
Yup. My first time being in a leadership position I pushed to get better health insurance and to have my company pay for more of it. The CEO said something to the effect of, "This will be a 2% raise for our employees" which was true but not how I or probably any of the employees would have looked at it.
There is a major part of this debate that keeps getting brushed under the carpet due to decades of fear-mongering. Nuclear energy.

It is a large scale solution that works today, not at some indeterminate point in the future. Yes there are problems, yes there are limitations, yes there are risks and yes it is expensive but many of these can be addressed by governments and through regulation.

A major part of reducing carbon emissions is to transition Asia and Africa away from coal and towards nuclear energy and not by the free market but by government supports. This can be supplemented by the plethora of technologies available today viz solar, wind, demand response etc.

What is of prime importance is that we limit carbon emissions today and keep doing so even as economies grow and energy consumption increases.
> What is the reason the Raspberry Pi is not open at a lower level?

Broadcom. Much of the Raspberry pi lower level software has been closed since its inception as Broadcom will not publicly release specs.
Yeah, Snapshots work quite well, you can even transfer them between accounts and copy them between regions in the same account, but it's a "transfer" meant to be used as a migration mechanism, not distribution.
"The Road Not Taken", a short story by Harry Turtledove.

https://eyeofmidas.com/scifi/Turtledove_RoadNotTaken.pdf
I'd take my family on it in a heartbeat if it was $99 for the whole helicopter, like a taxi. But it's certainly $99/person, so taking a family would get pricey. And much worse after the first ride!
Your opinion is wrong. Mario Kart Double Dash is the best Mario Kart.

/thread :P
It's worth noting that a while back, American Airlines calculated that replacing the 35lbs flight manual in aircraft would an iPad would save $1.2 million annually in fuel expenses.

If SkyMall weighs about 1 pound per magazine, and it's in a fleet-wide average of 200 seats backs, that might be >$3 million in fuel costs for airlines to carry the magazine.

http://thenextweb.com/apple/2012/09/11/american-airlines-fir...
Kids are more likely to text, less likely to email these days. I can understand why they’d use SMS for their target demographic.

That doesn’t justify the security implications of doing this...