skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Once had the very surreal experience while in court waiting to litigate a case to object to a higher court's jurisdiction over a case; my motion was granted, and the case was sent to the lower court.

While waiting for the above motion to be heard for over an hour, the person directly behind me was calling how the judge would respond to various matters that required the judge's opinion. Having nothing to do, since mobile device weren't allowed, I listened to the predictions made and the outcome. The predictions were wrong most of the time.

As I stated earlier, my motion to send the complaint back to the lower court was granted and it turns out that the person behind me was the judge for the lower court.

Yes, the lower court was predictably unable to predict the higher court's judgements the majority of the time.

To me, this if it holds true statistically across the legal system in a blind test of judges -- it is a major issue; normally, judges don't want to publicly rule against another judge unless it's obvious the other judge was wrong.

Strange end to my experience was that I won in the lower court and the other party failed to appeal the judgement in a timely manner; meaning my motion to dismiss the appeal was granted based on it being filed one day late by the opposing party by the higher court. Always wondered what would have happened if the higher court had heard the case and issued a judgement; lucky that never happened.
The post mentioned that they are using the cloud version (that is, hosted by Atlassian themselves).

I also use the cloud version and find it painfully slow.

We have probably less than 200 issues logged at my company. We have 3 users for ourselves, and another 3 for customers to report issues. It's a second or two for every single bit of navigation on the site, and absolutely ages for a search.

So, have Atlassian configured their own software badly?
"Fatalities per kw" is terrible risk management. I really wish nuclear activists would stop making crappy arguments.

Risk analysis has two axis - likelihood, and impact. The maximum potential impact of solar/wind plant failure is negligible - what's it going to do, fall over on someone? Meanwhile, the maximum potential impact of virtually any civilian nuclear plant is massive - release of toxins and carcinogens over large residential areas, rendering them uninhabitable.

Any respectable risk analysis requires looking at impact, not just likelihood.
Wonder how this will translate to resource usage in my node projects. Those memory reductions are significant.
you don't even need to run the gui and do all the greaskmonkey stuff, its overkill. just set up fbida (https://www.kraxel.org/cgit/fbida/) its available packaged in most distros and you can set up the slideshow right through the command line using the framebuffer to show the images. I've built several picture frames this way.
> These people rarely change

How do you know? What's for sure is that a regime of severe punishment guarantees that they won't, whereas an opportunity to reform (a carrot appropriately seasoned by a stick if necessary) at least allows that they might.

(Also, who are "these people"? People who do something wrong? Have you never? Your misdeeds have been more minor, assuredly, but what if one of 'us' finds them offensive enough that you suddenly become one of 'them'?)
Yeah, if your a dev in a company like that, it's incredibly hard to change - it takes buy-in from the top, as it involves paying developers more, while still paying managers too. Convincing them that the long term loyalty of staff and the expertise you'd have available by having people stick around with far longer tech experience is incredibly hard - if they believed that, they'd probably already have put something in place.
No, I was referring to bzr (formerly called "Bazaar").

There was a really good talk given by one of its lead developers about why it failed, called "Remedies for Frustration".[1]

It's well worth reading (make sure to read the slide notes, not just the slides themselves!) and has some great lessons about how the aversion to "premature optimization" can lead to the ruin of a product (in this case, of bzr, which had an elegant UI, but was too slow to compete with git).

[1] - https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1awg1CHM1w128iOBp_JOx...
Magit puts an extremely intuitive UI on top of it, and has made git a pleasure to use again, for me.
> nature itself is inherently violent, dangerous and in a constant state of flux

beware the anthropic fallacy. nature itself just is. violent is a human value judgment. danger is subjective and situational. "constant flux" is itself a contradiction in terms. some ecosystems are long-term stable, others change rapidly even in the short term, and others get suddenly disrupted by unpredictable events.
I think this is probably because there is still a stigma associated with being a VB programmer. If you knew F# instead you might have been hired anyway.
No. What I'm saying is that until it has been declared as theft/stealing by a court of law, the author here is probably taking on some liability by notifying his family and publicly relishing in the aftermath via this blog post.

There's a little concept that you may have heard of: innocent until proven guilty. No crime has been committed until a court of competent jurisdiction says it has.
what if...

I think total societal collapse is unlikely, these events will not happen in a vacuum and will take a hundred years or more to fully play out. Governments and peoples coalitions will resist, make attempts to fix and generally resist total anarchy.

If owning land becomes unstable then the general notion of owning wealth is impractical. Leaving property, and well stocked proptery, so that my descendants can convert it to whatever is required still leaves me better off than not saving.

/what if
I used to be a big Atlassian homer because I enjoyed using their products and they were easy to use. Over time I got into some administration and saw the other side and it wasn't quite as pretty. Did some migrations and those were actually okay but had their share of glitches.

I'm starting to see companies "become Agile" by enforcing Jira usage. It's a sad trainwreck to see. I personally think you get people to buy-in to Agile and then once they do you can introduce tooling that will support their needs, not install Jira with all the bells and whistles on Day 1.
New Yorker is ambiguous. Could be someone from specifically NYC or someone from Buffalo. South African can be ambiguous. There are lots of cases of this. The official name for Mexico is the united states of Mexico but only the last part is used in daily usage. Same with united states of America. Or the united Arab emirates.

It's common and no big deal. People who argue the case are arguing cross linguistically to make some weird point about their language use and how they expect English to follow similar rules.
I thought the reason people hated micro-apartments was because they're used by extra rich people as second houses during the work week. I've only ever heard of them before for living in another city from where you work. Builders keep building those at the expense of normal housing, and young people are stuck with fewer traditional apartments (and therefore higher priced), or one of the crappy tiny places that most of us don't really want, despite how the article paints millenials. I would have loved for the article to research why people oppose them in the first place, other than vague and scary NIMBYism.
See my comment below: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12461647

A "money bubble" caused by too many people wanting to keep assets in cash (rather than make investments) is deflationary. The apparent deflation is caused by the reduction in availability of credit. So the central banks are backfilling, like pumping air into a deflating balloon.

It's not arithmetically possible for everyone to hide from all risk forever. It's got to end up somewhere. Diversify, don't just hold one asset class.
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"Enhanced interrogation" was not "torture". Before starting the program, the CIA asked the Justice Department to take the definition of torture from the Geneva Convention, and design guidelines to exclude any such behavior from the Enhanced Interrogation program. So, to call it "torture" in the headline, only exaggerates the description of the program and demonstrates a bias in the reporting.
I think it is interesting how many people down-voted for a thought experiment. The what if hypothetical wasn't clearly stated or something?

How can we discuss these ideas without a bunch of downvotes?
Eudaimonia is more like "ethics for virtuous and stable society" rather than saying very much about human relationship with the ecosystem. in the ancient world the human relationship with the ecosystem was extremely different than it is now.
Where do you see a comment section? Ah, maybe it is hidden in my browser.

It is looking at genetic differences between humans, which is something to be careful with. Though only US-americans (and Nazis, weird coincidence) think that genetic differences between humans mean that they are of a different race.

The article itself is less surprising than one might think. Mexicans in the north, center and south already look very different, with very typical types of looks being common in those areas. And I'm not talking about clothing and style here. It is not surprising that those visible differences show deeper differences.
One thing that can provoke NIMBYs -- understandably -- is zoning changes. If Mr NIMBY buys a home in a neighborhood that is zoned for, say, 20 units per acre, he expects that to remain.

Often a builder requests special permission to exceed the zoning law, and build, say, 80 units per acre -- then solicits public outcry when denied. Zoning law gives owners a legal expectation.
I agree entirely, but the sovereign issuing debt in it's a currency it controls (and let us assume, push come shove, the Treasury will side with the government over the Federal Reserve) is different than an individual taking on debt for consumption.

Keen is very good on this and has convinced me, despite it going against my inherent anti-debt biases.
Yes, if you try really hard, you can pretend that Europe contributes just as much to the tech scene as America does.
It's also proven that judges make harsher sentences just before the lunchtime. (Because they're hungry)
Or change your profile picture to Napalm Girl and let Facebook close the account for you. I'm strongly considering it.
Ouch, deleting a post by a foreign head of state? I predict some serious backpedaling coming up...
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Having a discussion about what constitutes consciousness likely meets whatever criteria you can come up with handily.
TIL that I wear an antisocial badge.

It's perfectly possible to be happy and healthy without a Facebook account. You might lose out on one particular kind of "social" connection, but that doesn't mean you lose actual social connections. You just catch up with people in person, via telephone, via email, via chat, or a million other ways.

Personally, I don't really find the "social" information Facebook has to offer all that valuable. It's just a stream of trivia from extended not-really-friends.
> I sometimes think they reject the idea that the whole point of existence is human flourishing and happiness.

Whether or not someone agrees with your idea of the purpose of life is not the only cause they have for decision making. Even the very idea of "human flourishing and happiness" means something different to everyone. Personally I cannot imagine myself flourishing or being happy in world were we have destroyed the beauty around us. Here is an excerpt from the book "A Last Chance to See" by Douglas, which does a much better job than explaining the ideas of conservation.

> "In every remote corner of the world there are people like Carl Jones and Don Merton who have devoted their lives to saving threatened species. Very often, their determination is all that stands between an endangered species and extinction.
But why do they bother? Does it really matter if the Yangtze river dolphin, or the kakapo, or the northern white rhino, or any other species live on only in scientists' notebooks?
Well, yes, it does. Every animal and plant is an integral part of its environment: even Komodo dragons have a major role to play in maintaining the ecological stability of their delicate island homes. If they disappear, so could many other species. And conservation is very much in tune with our survival. Animals and plants provide us with life-saving drugs and food, they pollinate crops and provide important ingredients or many industrial processes. Ironically, it is often not the big and beautiful creatures, but the ugly and less dramatic ones, that we need most.
Even so, the loss of a few species may seem irrelevant compared to major environmental problems such as global warming or the destruction of the ozone layer. But while nature has considerable resilience, there is a limit to how far that resilience can be stretched. No one knows how close to the limit we are getting. The darker it gets, the faster we're driving.
There is one last reason for caring, and I believe that no other is necessary. It is certainly the reason why so many people have devoted their lives to protecting the likes of rhinos, parakeets, kakapos, and dolphins. And it is simply this: the world would be a poorer, darker, lonelier place without them.”

Studying nature shows us just how resilient plants and animals have been to the intense changes in environment and finding and endless stream of ways to survive. However, it has become increasingly even more so since this passage was written that the human race may be the one hurdle life on earth may not be able to overcome. Human flourishing and happiness itself is reliant on the very planet we currently occupy and it's no longer enough to try and temper our environmental impact. We need to minimize it. I'm not well informed enough to have an opinion on hydro verse solar, but I can say its incredibly valuable and important there are people who hold different ideas on the importance of conservation.
> I sincerely doubt they can be eliminated. We haven't managed it in society and the workplace despite significant legislative effort.

Right. Who made the standard (for anything!) 100% success?

But society and the workplace have greatly improved, through social effort and also the resulting legislative one. Just 60 years ago, women were only allowed to be teachers and nurses; not long before that, they needed their husband's permission to get a job and were locked out of higher education for the most part. Now most college graduates are women and most law school graduates are women. 65 years ago the U.S. had segregation! Now a black man is President, the black middle-class has exploded, etc. Look also at attitudes toward race, sexual orientation, religion - look at surveys from the 50s and 60s (and later).

In fact, I think the pessimism in the above comment is completely backward. The track record is of amazing revolutions in human affairs.
The Danziger study assumed that the order in which the parolees appeared was random, which turned out not to be the case:

"Danziger et al. (1) concluded that meal breaks taken by Israeli parole boards influence the boards’ decisions. This conclusion depends on the order of cases being random or at least exogenous to the timing of meal breaks. . . [But] case ordering is not random ...the board tries to complete all cases from one prison before it takes a break and to start with another prison after the break. Within each session, unrepresented prisoners usually go last and are less likely to be granted parole than prisoners with attorneys...

[O]ur data indicate a success rate of 67% for prisoners with counsel and 39% for unrepresented prisoners. Excluding deferrals in the authors' data yields very similar success rates, beginning at about 75% and dropping to 42% at the end of a session. Thus, we strongly suspect that the pattern of declining success rates is a result of hearing represented prisoners first and unrepresented prisoners last."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3198355/
We are lucky to have big rivers far north. This allowed us to destroy entire ecosystems and native lands where nobody could see or hear about it.

Hydro electricity is not without its downside.
While Facebook censorship policies are very annoying, I fully support their right to have complete discretion over what goes on their platform.

I would rather punish them through voluntary market mechanisms than by using the government as a blunt instrument to force them to behave as I like.
Why on earth would you ever think it's a good idea to move to all cash?
Man that's a pretty strong statement to make based on a tiny sculpture that looks vaguely roman.
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I'm going to argue with myself:

> Do they have demonstrations in China where they shout "Death to Japan?" The hate might be there but at least the government isn't breading extremist.

I'm calling B.S on my own statement. There are many times in history where cultural hate has breed terrorist besides our current situation. But I stand by my final statement. Just because other things are messed up does not mean we can't strive for better.
A U.S. Government that staved off bankruptcy by selling such vast, historic and valuable assets, would be on even worse footing that one that maintained the assets and defaulted on the debt.

Hell, while they're at it, why not sell off the exclusive economic zones, permanently sell off bandwidth rather than lease, turn the military into a contracted mercenary force and sell naming rights to the Washington Monument.

There are worse things than defaulting on debt.
Not everybody has to worry about future employers.

Not everybody builds things with mass appeal in mind.

Not everybody has to understand the reason for something.

Some things are done for ourselves and how we like them, regardless if it has some sort of use case.
Something that works only during certain times of day and weather is not reliable from the perspective of generating electricity.

The fact that your solar installation is in good working condition means it works reliably but that doesn't make it a reliable source of electricity.

Whether or not something is a reliable source of electricity or works reliably are two separate things and OP is talking about the latter. Can I flip a light switch at any time and reasonably expect solar to provide me electricity? No. Then it's not reliable source of electricity.
Exactly. You also see this across the board in virtually every area of politics and society.

My personal favorite example is around the general population's opposition to school choice / voucher programs while based on the status quo the only people who have that choice now are the people with higher incomes.
How do you get Docker and the Kubernetes client containers up? How about your host monitoring?
This may not fit your criteria, but: https://github.com/kelseyhightower/kubernetes-the-hard-way
Google contributed cgroups to Linux, so saying that it invented Linux containers is a fair statement. Other operating systems had containers before Linux.
I think we're saying the same thing. :)

I don't feel Airbnb is particularly innovative on the technology side; they're just exploiting a combination of inefficiencies in government regulatory mechanisms and the naivete of inexperienced landlords.

There are plenty of horror stories about houses being trashed, etc. that professional landlords will cover with insurance (and that add to the price of a rental). By not being experienced enough to cover themselves, many renters expose themselves to a huge amount of risk. As the horror stories propagate, they will look to reduce their risk in other ways such as discriminating against renters that they have pre-existing biases toward.

Given the amateur nature of their landlords, I don't see a real way for Airbnb to stop this type of discrimination other than by providing insurance coverage -- which, of course, would significantly raise the prices of Airbnb rentals and likely force many hosts who are already operating illegally (i.e. against the terms of their leases) from the market. No insurance company in the world would be willing to underwrite a policy for damages that are already prohibited under an existing contract.
1) Developer pushes code to repo, its tested, if pass>
1) Rkt/Docker image made by CI/CD system and pushed to docker registry
2) Automatically deploy new image to staging for tests and master for production (can be a manual step)
3) Sit back and relax because my time invested up front saves me hassle in the future

I have 30+ nodejs apps that can be updated on a whim in under 5 seconds each.

Setting up bare metal instances, even when using something like ansible is slow and cumbersome compared to what I'm now doing with k8s

Doing an apply/patch to kubernetes nodes takes seconds (assuming services aren't affected).

edit: Sorry, for the unfamiliar by services I mean load balancers/ingress, it's a k8s term. It takes 45s-1minute to update glbcs so I modify them as rarely as possible.
The biggest problem with nuclear is that it's too expensive. Even after massive subsidies, it's more expensive than unsubsidized renewable alternatives would be.

And the worst part for nuclear is that while solar and wind are getting significantly cheaper, nuclear is getting more expensive.

Finally, the major costs for solar/wind at the moment is storage. With electric cars, and the fact that nearly every consumer company is spending money towards cheaper electricity storage, it's just a significantly better bet at the moment.
So once your platform gets popular enough, the government can tell you what to do with it? Why? It's not Facebook's fault that politicians started using it.
I know it's young still, but I think Nomad is going to get a share of this market with little effort.

I played with Mesos & k8s and I picked Nomad instead. Now I'm not managing a huge fleet of servers I want to abstract away as much as I wanted a simple, consistent framework for allocating resources to containerized tasks across a small group of nodes. And I don't think that use case is anything to sneeze at and for a new user there just isn't anything out there as easy as nomad IMO.

https://www.nomadproject.io/
Okay weird, yeah not sure why it's happening for me.

And thanks so much for spotting that, will fix that up.
What do you mean "used to".
You mean Mercurial bookmarks.
So Apple are wilfully breaking trademark law? Give me a break...
So it would basically be daemon set sitting on top of all the other services, with their own load balancing turned off? That should work. I like that
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> only US-americans and Nazis

Citation needed.