skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16246805

180+ points
While I do understand you rant, note that in the context of Dick's novels what is constructed is actual reality, so this use of the term definitely makes sense here. Dick's characters move in a world where the boundaries between real and unreal have been blurred to the point nobody can be sure anymore of which is which.

"Concealing the truth" is a particularly bad substitute for the concept. Creating worldviews might be a better one. But consider that there are even in our world actual realities that are social constructs. Think of social media. Facebook is real, has a part in our lives and what happens in it has real impacts on us; in turn this relevance is determined by the socially agreed value we attribute to it. At its most basic level, because of a network effect: it's real because it's used, and it's used because people think it's used.
I’m assuming someone making the decision of CF or TF would already have sold their souls to AWS at that point.
I would bet it's just because working is addictive.
Clever. Would only work if the offending seller didn't already have inventory, but the downside (temporarily depressed sales) is not very large.
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Max Planck said something similar:

"A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it."
It depends how good are you at planning your time/money and what your goals in life are. People in tech tend to make ~2x the median wage, so if you set a goal of scaling down your lifestyle to save enough cash for a personal safety net, it's totally doable. It also doesn't have to be that - you can do consulting in parallel, or find a part-time remote job or whatever.

It's just a totally orthogonal skill set to fundraising. If you're charismatic and can sound confident talking about trendy topics, sooner or later you'll find someone willing to write you a check even if you are crap at planning and delivering.
Personal attacks will get you banned here. So will repeatedly posting unsubstantive comments, which I'm afraid you have.

Could you please take the spirit of this site more to heart, as described at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html? That means posting civilly and substantively, or not at all.
Cool!

I built CurioDB a while back with the same idea, but using Akka as the underlying framework. Persistent Redis with distributed transactions, embedded Lua and a websocket front-end:

https://github.com/stephenmcd/curiodb
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If you are using vim for terraform, then you should try this https://github.com/juliosueiras/vim-terraform-completion, hoping to migrate to langserver by this year so any editor can use it

P.S. sorry for the self-promo
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> The moral face-off between good and evil is core to a great many religions, most notably Christianity.

Well, Christianity is particularly familiar to modern Westerners, but really I'd point to Zoroastrianism, from which much the of the dualistic elements of Christian mythology are almost directly imported.
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I do not know how it looks like in States, but in my home country (Poland) it's quite easy to buy rectified spirit (90%+ ) in a normal grocery store for cooking or so. But nobody uses it to produce vodka by mixing with tap water, expect teens 20 years ago.

Never seen it in Spain though and definitely not in Finland, when I live now and it's impossible to buy a wine after 8pm.
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> Hardly a waste of time unless you're driving your own car.

So, like most Americans and thus most of people reading and commenting on HN? Also, while a train commute is way better than a car commute, being home is better than both. I read during my 40 mins subway commute and I would never want to be driving instead but I'd prefer to be reading at home for that time.
We've warned you repeatedly about posting uncivil comments to Hacker News. If you keep doing it, we're going to ban you. Could you please fix this? The idea on HN is: if you have a substantive point to make, make it thoughtfully; if you don't, please don't comment until you do. And personal attacks are right out.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
and if push comes to shove mention that offence is the best defence.
I run IdeaCheck.io [0] where we try to validate startup ideas by asking the target audience what they think about the idea and whether they'd buy it. I'm not aware of any "full service" market research firms that you can hire without any prior notion of the problem/industry that you'd like to tackle.

[0] https://ideacheck.io
Thanks for that link! It's really ironic I was getting ads of a Mexican bitcoin exchange while watching this!
In the 50s, when Nat King Cole was a world-wide sensation, he recorded a couple albums in Spanish. He learned how to sing Spanish phonetically. He lived and recorded in Southern California, so his record producers made sure he didn't sound too bad.

https://www.allmusic.com/album/cole-espa%C3%B1ol-mw000122605...
There had been a verbose version for standard terminals in the early 1970s on the Burroughs B5500, the famous stack machine. (Similar to APL\360, but using transliterations for the various special characters. Originally by the Computer Science Group, University of Washington, modified by Burroughs. The technical report dates to Sept 1970, the Burroughs source code to May 1972.)

Documentation & source code:

http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/apl/APLSoftware...
Have you asked them if they can just pay it out? It might mess with their budgeting slightly, but they'd be paying the same per hour worked so likely not be a big deal.
And if you are like me, you use cat because it can go first in the command line... Until I discovered that file redirects can too!

<mybody.json http post https://someapi.com/somenendpoint Authorization:sometoken
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> ...note that in the context of Dick's novels what is constructed is actual reality

My understanding is that he used that as a metaphor for getting at this social construction of reality idea.

Additionally, I take no issue with Dick's usage of 'reality'; I have an issue with the article's.

> But consider that there are even in our world actual realities that are social constructs. Think of social media.

Social constructs are real—agreed. However, that is a very different statement from 'alternate realities are socially constructed' or even that a single reality is 'socially constructed,' even granting the reality of social constructs.
None of those are good guy/bad guy narratives (and the last example is just silly). David vs Goliath and Samson vs the Philistines are both examples of warring nations, each gaining the upper hand at various times. The point of the Goliath story was that pitting David against him AND making him win was both a humiliation of the opposing army, and an affirmation of whose god was more powerful. The primary point of the Samson story was the preservation of one's vows. Good vs evil doesn't enter into it anywhere.
I appreciate the frankness, but this is a lot like the usurious trade of concert tickets: not a very noble thing to do, to make an understatement.
One supports inline comments, the other doesn’t. That should be enough for anyone to choose one over the other.
No, but Kubernetes is at peak hype right now. It’s a floor wax and a dessert topping.
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I would be curious to know how this failed, if they did try it. Are captcha automatable? You could make it a bit better by challenging every X actions, and have X decline with a failed captcha.
> the more we represent and perceive the representation as real, the less the real pertains to the reality we perceive.

Does this comment imply that if we removed the Roman Empire vestiges, and removed computers and the internet ...

Does this comment imply that people who lived before all that had a more real reality, or at least a more real perception of reality?

Or am I safe to assume that folk of yore were plagued by their own mythology. And so it was since time immemorial, and so it shall be forever forward.
If this is for personalized recommendations about the Diagnosis or Plan for a particular patient based on past medical record history on that patient, this might be something that a hospital would want integrated into their current environment.

If this, however, is something that takes multiple patients records into consideration, this would most likely never see the light of day. Most hospitals don't want anyone knowing that, for instance, their city has the highest number of leukemia related deaths per capita than any other city in the US.
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Nuking Japan probably saved tens of millions of lives. Mainland invasion alone would have killed millions on both sides. Japanese civilians were throwing themselves off cliffs rather than being captured.

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

There's also the fact that the soviet union was preparing to invade Japan and building up troops in the balkans. The nuke was a show of force to end the war in Japan quickly and make the soviets think twice about pushing into Europe.

The US had a choice between letting millions of their men die or using a weapon that could end the war almost instantly. Nothing to celebrate but it was essentially the lesser of two evils.
No one took him seriously because "I always have a radio on. It keeps the lasers out." is a textbook example of the kind of thing someone experiencing paranoid psychosis will say.

i.e. there are certainly listening devices that operate based on bouncing a laser off of a window[1] (or some other object), but his use of a quasi-magical protective measure (radios allegedly protecting against lasers) - in addition to the other behaviour mentioned - strongly implies that he was in need of psychiatric care, as opposed to being under surveillance.

FWIW, I've met multiple people with paranoid psychoses of one sort or another, and all of them have incorporated elements of real-world technology into their delusions.

[1] e.g. http://www.lucidscience.com/pro-laser%20spy%20device-1.aspx
Science and engineeing may be intimately intertwined, but technology does not "depend on" science in any straightforward way. People were reliably producing alloys before metallurgy, flight happened well before any meaningful understanding of aerodynamics, and most famously, steam engines led to the development of thermodynamic science, not the other way round.
> The temptation of Christ. Revelations. The Garden of Eden. Job.

Job isn't God vs. the Devil (well, not in the sense of hostile conflict, at any rate) and, while its a popular interpretation to associate the serpent in Eden with the Devil, that's actually not in the text.

The other two (especially Revelation) are valid points.
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Looks like its on sale :P https://smile.amazon.com/Making-Fly-Genetics-Animal-Design/d...
This comment broke the HN guidelines badly. Please don't push discussions into the internet swamp here. If someone is misinformed, you can correct them in a way that teaches the rest of us something, too. You can also just post nothing. But please don't post uncivilly or unsubstantively.

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I like it, but it's also a bit confusing. I use a read it later service (Instapaper) to read articles from everywhere and interactive ones like this tend to break it.

That in itself is okay, it's just that you don't realize it's broken unless you open the full article and look for interactive bits.
None of that is presented though... people cheer, teddy bear aliens cheer, and have a fireworks display. The enemy is literally a mass of faceless clones in the sway of an evil wizard cough err, Jedi. The bad guys are twisted by the power they serve, to the point of physical decay. Heroes become force ghosts.

You can think about the implications of anything, but it wasn’t in the narrative.
Except that Israel did the same kind of conquering of its neighbors as its neighbors did do Israel. There was no "evil" in it; that was just the way of things. In fact, Yahweh encouraged Israel to conquer her neighbors. All he cared about was who gets the credit (him).

Furthermore, there is much dispute in what gets translated to Philistines, as the wording often referred to Israel's warring neighbors in general.

We often make the mistake of looking at these stories through a modern lens, and ascribing morality to them that simply didn't exist at the time.
You'd think so, but not really.

Amazon's balance sheet [0] shows assets minus liabilities of $19 billion. So the "assets" that shareholders "own" are less than 3% of the company's $690 billion market cap.

Not to mention that shareholders don't "own" those assets in any real, tangible sense.

If you look around at any form of wealth, from the balance in your checking account to stocks, bonds and even the title on real property, it's all invisible, intangible and socially constructed.

Not as different from cryptocurrency as one would like to think.

[0] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1018724/000101872417...
I program side projects during my daily commute. Part of my routine in the morning is figuring out that 25 minute task to program during that metro ride. Fixing a bug, tweaking a feature, coding an algorithm - its always possible to find something small.
That’show I coded and maintain www.csvjson.com for example.
Don’t underestimate stupidity.

I was a early gmail person and got a good username. I’ve had the following happen:

- An Attorney send me surveillance video of a accident involving a company bus.

- Lots of spam associated with a guy who test drives cars every weekend.

- Some factory manager sent a zip file with a vpn client, and a list of passwords.

I could go on.
Yep, and the downside of that is that so many people will lie that lenders will assume everyone is lying.

People with good credit who have nothing to hide would be worse off under a self-reporting regime because lenders won't believe them and will turn down their applications or demand an invasive level of financial information.
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Usually that combines vacation, sick and personal time, at s net loss to the employee.
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Looking for partner to found cryptocurrency
I am currently looking for a partner who is interested in founding a crypto currency. I don't know how to program, however I know lots about crypto currency and how it works. I can network and do other stuff like that.

I am looking for a partner who:
-Knows how to program blockchain and cryptocurrency, if you don't that's not a problem if you have skills in any language you should be able to learn blockchain easily.
-Willing to work many hours per day.
-You have to be like minded as me. This project likely will fail many times, and don't expect to make any money at first, you just have to be willing to get up every time you struggle and keep persevering. If you have a passion for it there is a much greater chance of success.
-If it works out however, it could be extremely profitable.

If you have any questions or are interested reply or send me or email me at "crypto781@gmail.com"
Wordpress via blogging... but probably not what you're thinking of and ymmv... Never made quit-my-job money though and it was fleeting..

I'm hoping more people chime in though, would love to see some case studies on this.
As long as these "techies" are making 10-15% more than their green-carded and citizen peers with equivalent experience and skill, that seems like a win-win.

If they're not making more than green-carded and citizen peers, that's a flaw in the system that should be corrected. The H1-B program is intended to bring in high-skill foreign workers, and the only way to not drive down wages of green-card or citizen workers would be to ensure they cost more to employ. If everyone is playing by the rules, it's a win-win for everyone: companies get positions filled, the foreign worker gets a good wage, and the green-card and citizen worker salaries also rise.

In practice, though, H1-B becomes indentured servitude, since they cannot freely move between companies.
TWitter trashed my very real account that was tied to a disused email address after I tried to log in from my phone and misremembered my password and refused to lift a finger to help me get it back despite me offering to provide all sorts of other verification information.
For me, it's been "file sharing and productivity tools but inter-operate with these other products by exchanging data and also do single sign on for our domain so we don't have to remember another password".

Others have been "we need this particular view of information with sorting/searching/etc, but involves a non-standard, weird API or requires straight SQL. Also add some buttons to send it to another service and automate other actions. Also make a mobile app for it". These basically amount to custom dashboards with specific modules for each service.

For well-known solutions that have some way to let you run arbitrary code to do these extensions, your small business essentially works a consultant firm writing custom code.

All of these boil down to a story of trying to save time/money while avoiding hiring full-time developers, and I've also heard some compliance requirements mainly in conflict-of-interest-disclosure solved by software as well (usually resulting in some document sent up the chain or to the legal dept).
Yes, but since the mainstay of the financing isn't really based on private insurance coverage, the main objection doesn't apply. Really, denying insurance is pretty much the only legal-but-bad use case for such information. All other legitimate uses are good for the patient, balanced by an increased risk of crime and loss of confidentiality that may be embarassing but not profitable for anyone (well, except if there's some blackmail case).
It sounds like constraining battery replacement costs to a certain fraction of MSRP would be a cleaner solution than banning specific design methods.
"Mechanical Turk" is an 18th century fake chess machine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Turk
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I just searched for tools like this out of curiosity. There are a few but they all seem pretty sketchy, like only allowing one run or requesting dubious twitter permissions to run an analysis that shouldn't require auth-ing at all.
TL;DR: America is failing as a state because it is not a good European welfare state. School shootings, lack of public investment, lack of nationalized healthcare, opioid crises, income inequality, extreme capitalism, oligarchy. We need more Europe, less America in order to save America.

EDIT: Here [1] is more by the author on how making America more like Europe is the key to solving all of America's problems.

1. https://eand.co/the-american-dream-is-over-this-is-the-age-o...
I find that both terraform and cloudformation have their pros and cons like many things in life. It comes down to personal preference and how you think (vim/Emacs?).

For me, I choose cfndsl to build my cloudformation templates. This gives me the ability to actually write code. JSON, YAML, HCL aren't full languages. Yes tf and cf try to provide language like concepts (iteration, etc) but really at the end of the day they are just a definition of your environment and not strictly code.

Note: I maintain cfndsl, so I'm totally bias.
>I argue that is because the narrative has shifted to a war against the White Walkers, a clearly malevolent force

In the books they are described as otherworldly, almost beautiful and their motivations are unknown. The show writers got lazy and essentially made them snow zombies.
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Sorry I should have defined my terms. When I said Universalism I wasn’t referring to religion, more the modernist concept that there are a universal set of values the objectively exist (i.e. my morality is good and yours is bad). Certainly I think this concept sprang out of religion, but it has certainly taken on a life of its own outside of religion, as most people think of it anyway.
The title tricks the reader into assuming "foreign" means "H-1B".

Should it be resubmitted with a less misleading title?
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The whiff of MLM around the ride-share industry grows stronger by the day. I've talked to Uber/Lyft drivers who basically consider driving itself close to unsustainable (the pay just isn't very good) if they aren't also getting bonuses for others signing up with their code, which explains the mass of sites and YouTube channels that talk about Uber/Lyft and pitch signing up as a driver. Cargo seems kind of like an MLM scheme in the style of Amway or Mary Kay, and with a captive audience. So, pretty brilliant, but also pretty shady.

That's not to say it's a terrible thing; drivers deserve to make a living, too, and I guess it'll add a few bucks to their monthly revenue. But, at some point it's kinda ridiculous. And, I don't want to take a ride where I'm being pitched on snacks and "essentials". Every human interaction really shouldn't be viewed as a marketing opportunity. But, I guess we get the world we deserve and are willing to pay for (I don't know what the better alternatives would look like in terms of transit).
Love the visuals. Readability is less than great in some cases. I'd probably model my team's infrastructure this way and keep it as a reference to onboard new members and problem solve.

Is the readability just due to the size that the images get reproduced at? If that's the case, it looks like the text isn't great on the "standard" size people reproduce the graphic in (landing page of your site), but it looks nice inside the editor (second section on your site, very crisp). Optimizing it for size, or scaling up the representation somehow would make this a lot more pleasant to look at for me.
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I do not ever comment, but this article is rife with misconceptions. A specific example would be:

*
How did America’s elderly end up cheated of dignity? After all, even desperately poor countries have “informal social support systems” — otherwise known as families and communities. But in America, there is the catastrophic collapse of social bonds. Extreme capitalism has blown apart American society so totally that people cannot even care for one another as much as they do in places like Pakistan and Nigeria.*

Any honest examination of the destruction of the social family unit easily shows that this was not due to capitalism, but progressive and socialist legislation that encouraged disintegration of the family units.

Three of the largest 'capitalism endorsed' holidays in the USA are Christmas, Thanksgiving, and Easter (though Easter in the last few decades has decreased significantly in its importance and stature).

If anything, capitalism's endorsement of these holidays brings families CLOSER together, than they normally exist during the rest of the year. Left policies and statements about 'patriarchal structures' and why they need to be disassembled have contributed far more to family unit disintegration than capitalism.

Edit:
Not to belabor the point either, but referencing Pakistan and Nigeria in this quote shows the authors bias. Both of these countries are great examples where patriarchy is absolutely thriving, strong familial bonds, led by men in those nations, with a subjugated women class.