jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I have a love/hate relation with K8S, I have several customer project that I work on deployed on GKE. For the most part it has been a rock solid set-and-forget experience, but...

The problem for me is that these project are not under full time development. Most of them see maybe one or two deployments per year. It seems like every time I do a deployment, some part of the YAML config structure has been deprecated, with no clear path on how to migrate. In the end I have to spend a day figuring out how to rewrite the YAML configs to do _exactly the same_ as before. This is really hard to explain to a customer.

But it's not just K8S itself that suffers from this, third party components do this too. Stuff like ingress control is a nightmare, I've seen the nginx ingress controller (not to be confused with the 'other' nginx ingress controller) grow from a 50 LOC base config to multiple KLOC of YAML config you are supposed to pipe to your production environment. The ACME/LE extension (cert-manager) is even worse, the default config is 26KLOC long! [0]. And you are supposed to pipe this config straight into your environment. The amount of new and amazingly complex components that are added with each new release is staggering.

If you are an average Joe developer and you want to use containers in production, just stick with a machine with docker-compose on it. It's a lot easier to maintain and has far fewer surprises down the road. It is also much easier to make a quote on maintaining a VPS box that having to get a crystal ball to predict when Google will deprecate parts of your setup.

[0] https://github.com/jetstack/cert-manager/releases/download/v...
Unfortunately all alternative browsers on iOS are forced to use Safari's webview.
So they can't fix rendering issues or, e.g. support newer WebRTC features than stock Safari does.
Can't imagine anyone being happier nowadays without tabs.
In my opinion and in my experience, many actual programming languages are fine for defining config, and (due to you inevitably needing some control flow, and them having it built in) are often better than declarative languages. I for one have no problem with config in Python, JS, Bash, PHP, or Ruby. As long as it's in dedicated config files, and as long as it's kept as simple and as declarative as possible.
I wish there was a possibility to opt out of / hide things like Fleets and (in the future) Spaces.

I like my Twitter experience as it is – latest timeline, chronologically ordered, nothing else – and would prefer to keep that experience.
I think most of Europe has a 37 hour/week work schedule, and because "we're better" we have 36 hour/week.

At least some of mainland Europe: Germany, France, Scandinavia, and IIRC the UK.
Ah but that's the krux of the issue. If we're talking about mastery over "programming", can you really only count time spent coding?
Various forms of server-side rendering for JavaScript-heavy webapps are definitely picking up steam, but I don't see how they will gain popularity among the long tail of web developers because of one thing: cost.

Simply put a client-side SPA is much cheaper to run than almost anything else because you're pushing as much computation as possible onto the client where you don't pay for it. You just need a good static host with a CDN like Netlify, Firebase, etc which is nearly free (for small sites, completely free).

Developers who have tried this are not keen to go back to paying for servers to do this computation. Big companies can and will pay for this cost to improve user experience (see: Next.js popularity) but I just think a lot of solo hackers will shy away from it and that will affect momentum.

This isn't really a critique of the technique one way or the other, just a prediction of how far the trend can go.
I've never looked into Taler before this, but they could be matched by token value and approximate time, no?
Sometimes they are. I gave up on playing with my water meters because of it; my RTL-SDR can pick them, alright, but I checked the manufacturer docs, and the meters encrypt the datastream.
The debate as to whether the Earth or sun is the center of the universe was silly. It's all about frames of reference and simplicity of calculations in predicting observations. See "The Grand Design" by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow.
I did not say my profession is smarter than everyone else. I was merely using startups as a familiar example that was pitched towards the audience (of HN) as one of many things that people find more interesting than politics. Apologies if that was unclear.

I'm sure there are a great many able-minded potential good politicians in many other sectors of business, as well as other areas like charity-work or the armed forces.

The point is not 'which non-political area are they in', the point is 'they're in ANY non-political area'.
That’s really neat. You might explain why people would want to pay $29.95 because it is not exactly clear why we would need to pay. The practice feature is mind blowing, and works really well. Congrats.
The 5 times I've attempted to connect to a posterous page, I've had a connection issue or something went wrong. There are technical problems with posterous and they need to get fixed. And it's slow.
Earlier this year I was at a conference where the keynote talked about "sentiment analysis" of social media. Using real tweets as examples he went on to debunk the current techniques as useless, really, because they can't understand the sentiment. The current techniques he knew of and shared were all keyword based. The OP mentioned the problems with this kind of analysis, and I agree too.

Edit: typo.
I also use Steak in my everyday job and I think Steak is more an idea than a library. The idea of doing acceptance testing without extra layers such as Cucumber, and some little convenience tools for the job (those aliases you refer, a couple generators and rake tasks, and a common reference for the community on how to do it). I remember @cavalle pointing in Twitter something like "Steak is a gem but it could be a gist".

So using this definition, you're still kind of using Steak =;-) (and actually is what made you do that step).

I think it provides that value, but you can cook it on your own because as you point is not difficult at all.
Exactly my point. I don't know enough to make a value judgement one way or the other, simply pointing out how shocking it is when you come into contact with someone from an alternate reality to your own.
You’d have to venture outside of our planet to find such a thing, and even then I doubt you’ll find what you’re looking for.
You should see how they they treat African Jews from the upper Nile who're definitively proven to be genetically Jewish but who face all sorts of discrimination when it comes to work and inter-marrying with, you know, their fellow Jews
Are Amazon employees really going to even read those leaflets? This is just too rich on Amazon's site. Like they really give a flying fuck about people saving those $500 in dues. C'mon, tell it to your house cat. It might actually believe you.
When I first put my personal website up on Github Pages last summer, I didn't include any analytics. I figured it was unnecessary—why should I care who was looking?

I quickly realized the obvious—without any analytics, I had no idea whether or not I was just screaming into the ether. Even for a simple noncommercial site, it's discomforting!

I now have Cloudflare Analytics and I'm much more satisfied. I feel as though I'm respecting my users's privacy, while also getting a basic sense of traffic.
I've yet to work for a big non-union company that didn't have some anti-union literature or speech once in a while. It didn't even matter if unionizing was in the employees best interest or not. The company knew it was not in their best interest, and so they spoke out.

I'm not at all surprised that Amazon is doing the same.
I can't emphasize enough how important Purchasing Parity Power is. Making it affordable for other countries is crucial.
Yeah I know about that incident - but also believe companies have the ability to learn from past mistakes and do better.
Hints of the Sandbenders stuff from gibson's Idoru. But like the modular smartphone products (fairphone, essential phone, etc) probably doomed to failure.
That's not where the money is though unfortunately. It's why manufacturers like the solder on components. Easier to manufacture and make as small as possible. I hate it, and think it's bad for consumers.
I think I just made my first startup too: http://abielinski.com/startup
It's one of those things where it's bad, but it's the best we have, especially given that in some of the flaws you mention, they're pretty much copied by alternatives who want to be compatible with Excel.
What space are you in that you need advance mathematics? I would think that you shouldn't really need more than average skills unless you are building the calculation software that everyone else is using.
> Why are using Zetta Hosting Solutions LLC out of Bulgaria?
I'm a pretty rigorous Catholic, but they have a vanishingly small Christian and even Jewish population to my knowledge.

Bulgaria is predominantly Christian, mostly Eastern Orthodox.
So basically, if the Fed wasn’t printing money the rich’s wealth would have far greater intrinsic value, and they could be content with hoarding cash or making less risky investments, because there is little to no inflation to fight against.

But because of all the money printing, they have to run in place just to stand still, so they funnel their money into assets like stocks, which the general public also invests in and gets a benefit from the rising stock price. Meanwhile, the actual day to day items that the general public relies on to live that are tracked by the CPI are mostly unaffected by this.

Brilliant!
It might be better for you to take the hit now and land a junior job and progress from that than continue to wait for the perfect job to arrive.
There is more than one way react to this paper. The top comment illustrates one way: "Everything is a lie. Distrust everything."

Obviously this approach could put the paper itself in question. How do we know it is not funded by "Big Fat". OK, that's silly but honestly where does the skepticism end and the truth begin.

Another way to look at this paper is that science is biased. It is biased in that people choose what to study. They decide what is "interesting". Given that resources to do research are limited, this has consequences. If they choose to focus on studying fat, then that may mean not studying something lese, like sugar.

Generally, scientists tend to be followers more than leaders. It makes sense to build on the work of others instead of striking out on a new path. New discoveries do not come easy. If the majority of labs are studying fat, then to a majority of people, including those funding research, studying sugar makes less sense.

This sort of herd mentality is certainly seen amongst programmers. I think it is even more extreme. As a programmer running with the herd, one lesson you could take from this is that whatever it is you are focused on right now might seem like the "right" choice of what to focus on that will lead you to the truth. If more or less everyone else is focused on it, too, how could the majority be wrong. The truth, however, which may not be recognised until some time in the distant future, is that you may be chasing the wrong thing.

I am very skeptical about the programming trends and areas of focus I read about every day on HN. I sense that is a minority viewpoint.
Loving the PETAL stack.

Phoenix

Elixir

TailwindCSS

AlpineJS

LiveView
Isn’t that a good thing though? This reminds me of the people complaining cochlear implants are destroying deaf culture.
It's the What-If and Goal-Seeking behaviors of Excel that CRUD app developers consistently overlook.
Yeah or Black Lives Matter! Whoops!
Good call out. Maybe parent is just loosely referring to larger TXT records (or maybe DNSSEC or ipv6?) etc. My guess is that even these are probably a relatively small percentage of overall DNS traffic and that's not likely to change anytime soon.

So I can't imagine why records would all of a sudden exceed 512 bytes on avg either.
Headlines.

The answer is clear. Of course they should.
I don't think you're aware of the value of the brands then...

Because for example, the people do pay hundreds for Fruit of the Loom or Gildan hoodies with graphics when albums come out. And it's not a secret either, people like that it's a common well established brand making the clothes the graphics go on.

What makes them cool is exclusivity and authenticity (as in being from the brand). After all, no one thinks Supreme made a factory to manufacture bricks: https://stockx.com/supreme-clay-brick-red

Yeezys are also considered cool but they're also by Adidas... a giant boring multinational compared to the image Yeezys portray
I don't think I was very clear because I agree with you, but I'm also confused by you -- my age wasn't meant to be a key part of the post. It is there to show that I should still 'have time' to create wealth, but doing so is not assured, even if I'm very frugal.

Mere work and knowledge are not sufficient to create wealth, regardless of how they are applied. Many people work, and even work intelligently, and also save, but they never make or have wealth. To your point, many smart people start and work very hard on businesses, but they still do not succeed beyond a normal salary's value. Luck remains necessary, and I would argue, is often sufficient. Even just avoiding the bad luck (health, family crises, economic downturns) that can derail a nascent business.

The luck surface area concept definitely comes into play here, but I feel the money habits touted by r/personalfinance and similar don't really have much impact on wealth-luck, only on slightly nicer retirements.

With a few hours to think about it more, I have softened in the view a little, though: I think they help with creating a cushion. If you're going to do something stupid, doing some smart preparing first may really help you recover.

But I still don't think it's worth trying to find a 30-year coat.
There's a statute of limitations on collecting debt. Looks like in Texas, it's 4 years. A creditor (or its assignees) can certainly take debtors to court and get a judgement, which would reset the statute. But that's a lot of expense, and may not be recouped.

If Griddy is booted out of ERCOT, Griddy (or its assignees) probably can't prevent them from switching to other providers with a balance due, and probably can't have their electricity turned off for non-payment, so for customers that ended up with a balance due in the thousands, I expect they'll have to write off a lot of that.

(I'm not a lawyer, if I was a lawyer, I wouldn't be admitted in Texas, I didn't even read the law, just a web page that looked appropriate)
This reminds me of Deseret, the made up language by Brigham Young.

It was part of early efforts to make learning Mormonism “easier” for immigrants.

The alphabet failed to take on. Original copies of what was printed are rare.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deseret_alphabet

https://www.schilbantiquarian.com/product/1868-1ed-deseret-a...
I think what we are really seeing is a private equity bubble propping up fundamentally unprofitable companies, and its deflating because so much time passes between VC turbocharging of Uber for hamsters and IPO that it is becoming very difficult indeed to locate the greater fool.
> 1. Basically anything that's expensive has had its price inflated in some way. That doesn't make it anyone any less willing to pay the price.

That doesn't make sense. Liquid expensive things like gold have a market price plus some transaction fee or fee for storing etc. Even illiquid expensive things like houses cost market prices + transaction fees + fees for agents etc. The point here is that diamonds are marketed like liquid assets when in fact they aren't.

> 2. Same as number 1. Lots of things are only expensive because they've been marketed well. Does that make them less valuable?

Yes, unless you define value to be 100% subjective, in which case, no.

> 3. No one buys an engagement ring as an investment. Who buys an engagement ring thinking they'll be able to recuperate costs?

I've had lengthy arguments with family about this. Engagement rings aren't bought as an investment but every single person had the expectation that diamonds are an investment, and as such can be resold, will appreciate (at least not depreciate) etc.

There are valid reasons to buy a diamond, don't get me wrong, but the large majority is not aware that diamond rings loose 30-50% of monetary value the instant they are bought.
Lockfiles don't fix a fundamentally broken dev ecosystem. Users of left-pad fell into one of two categories: people who don't understand the most basic programming tasks, and people who do understand these tasks but are so apprehensive about their own ability that they pull in random libs without even glancing at the source (a single glance would have informed them that they didn't need it). These are both signs of inexperienced programmers.

Amateurishness is normal to some extent, but JS has the ecosystem where beginner mistakes are often seen as the right way to do things.
This pales in comparison to some of the stories I've heard from women regarding the sexually aggressive and harassing behavior they've experienced from (always male) Uber drivers, often on the way home late at night (where the driver gets to see their home address).

This isn't apparently a firing offense at Uber.
The website is not mobile-friendly (as of yet)
I love the Economist, but they're not "non-partisan". They're simply upfront about their bias.
There's definitely a market for it!
Perhaps, but that's entirely off-topic
> It rejected Uber's claim that the company itself was not liable, because, it argued, its drivers had the status of contractors rather than employees.

Another example of how rideshare companies attempt to offload risk and liability onto individual drivers who are generally unprepared and unaware that this is happening.

Insurance is a more important example (most rideshare drivers are not properly insured), but this legal play illustrates strategic consistency by Uber.
Yes, X-ray machines, whose dosage is lower than the amount of X-rays you receive during a reasonable flight or when sitting behind a CRT monitor for a while. You're just repeating FUD, without having actually looked at the numbers.

we are adding to the damage unnecessarily

That's a value judgment, based on what is 'necessary'. If these machines aren't necessary, then the argument against them shouldn't be based on some fringe notion of a health risk, but should directly focus on the fact that they are not necessary to improve safety.
Amen. That's exactly what I'm doing.
I once had a dream of being an academic, because my perception was that you got to teach people, think smart thoughts, and get paid for it. My idealism got burned very badly after working on research with my profs, thankfully prior to getting too invested in advanced degrees.

It turns out that there are a lot of careers where you get paid to think smart thoughts. Running a small business is one of them. You can still teach, lecture, and even publish in academic journals. (I'm inflicting a paper on the unsuspecting readers of one fairly soon, at the urging of the editors. The institutional affiliation section promises to be a barrel of laughs.)
There's a part where some of the quotes from the apology letter are implied to have been given to the Gazette in a phone interview. (not necessarily intentional)
"Imo, there isn't enough of a critical mass of India specific issues related to hacking/startups/programming etc sufficient to support a whole new community." - So true !!! I have been thinking about this very topic for the last month or so.
Shawshank Redemption

Hudsucker Proxy
That was before the public release and only lasted for a week.

So saying now 2.5 years later some things are closed source is ridiculous.
What high paying jobs do doctors get that aren in medicine?
> I understand that you don't like writing YAML, but to be honest, it's not that complicated, especially if you use our VS code extension (it autocompletes and suggest all the properties, validates the config file, and give you on-hover documentation).

I think you've missed the point entirely. Just because _you_ do not find it complicated, doesnt mean others wont. This comes across dismissive, people dont want to use your flavor of YAML and have to install a VSCode extension to do so effectively. This alienates a bunch of people that dont use VSCode, and who would rather utilize a safely typed library that provides autocomplete out of the box regardless of which editor is being used. IaaC/S should move on from thousand long lined YAML files that shoe-horn in extensibility and composition in favor of using tools (programming languages) that support this out of the box. These libraries could output YAML files for the sake of compatibility.
Yeah, good question.

Another thing to consider here is if instead of putting skyscrapers into Central Park, what would happen if it was instead paved over into a single massive parking lot? I think one way to handle this is to treat each 'scope'(local, state, federal) of government as its own land value tax, and your taxes would go to your local community, but a piece of which would then need to pay the state tax, etc... It would be in the interests of NYC to use their land to the best use that they determine. If they choose poorly and paved over Central Park, this would meaningfully impact their finances.

And what of the privately owned Bryant Park, would they need to pay the Land Value Tax despite the fact that they are just as positive externality driving as Central Park? Grand Central Station was another case of this, where the city disallowed the company that owned it to knock it down and build a skyscraper, as renting out the skyscraper would earn the company more money.

Georgists care very deeply about tracking the capturing of positive externalities, but this is the opposite. This is attempting to value the release of positive externalities. I don't have a perfect answer for this, but it's clear there are 'privately-owned' places that act as publicly-owned, and thus if we exempt from taxes public, they deserve to as well. I don't like exemption, - it will surely breed corruption - but I see no real way to find out what that value really is.
Absolutely. The man is outstandingly influential.
I wish someone else besides Apple would discover the 16:10 ratio. I love my MBP but every company I've worked at has been allergic to OS X. Right now I'm stuck working from home on a 1366x768 screen because it's "business-class".
Why are the on-page examples images, instead of web components?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/03/20/hospitals...
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* https://boards.greenhouse.io/warbyparker/jobs/1920992
It's at least not as wide varied as "One type of exercise is lying perfectly still in bed" and "Another is sprinting and lifting weights".

To me, that's the range of definitions that meditation has. I have heard that meditation should be thinking of nothing, I have heard that meditation should be reflection on the past, I have heard that meditation should be free-form thinking, or focused on the present.

This range is, to me, roughly equivalent to "meditation is basically anything, usually (but not always) involving some quite though process".