skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It appears so:

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

>Roth described in a 2012 piece for The New Yorker how his novel was inspired by an event in the life of his friend Melvin Tumin, a "professor of sociology at Princeton for some thirty years". Tumin was subject to a "witch hunt" but was ultimately found blameless in a matter involving use of allegedly racial language concerning two African American students.

...

>In the reviews of the book in both the daily and the Sunday New York Times in 2000, Kakutani and Lorrie Moore suggested that the central character of Coleman Silk might have been inspired by Anatole Broyard, a well-known New York literary editor of the Times. Other writers in the academic and mainstream press made the same suggestion. After Broyard's death in 1990, it had been revealed that he racially passed during his many years employed as a critic at The New York Times. He was of Louisiana Creole ancestry. However, Roth himself has stated that he had not known of Broyard's ancestry when he started writing the book and only learned of it months later.
EA's Madden NFL 19 set to launch soon
You have to short it by billions and billions of dollars.

Bitmain, alone, made 3-4 billion dollars in PROFIT last year. And they don't control even close to 51%.

Bitmain would have to make enough money off of a single attack so as to cover all it's FUTURE profits.

And then it would also have to not be noticed.... Do you really think all these exchanges would just suffer under an attack that loses them many billions of dollars, without retaliating? No, they wouldn't. And then people would end up in jail.
Low wages, terrible working conditions, drivers as commodities: autonomous long-haul trucking looks like a no-brainer.

I had two uncles who retired from a F500 train company (many years ago). It sounds like this industry is going to end up with one person riding in the equivalent of a caboose to handle the unexpected stuff, or to oversee intermodal activities.
>I read somewhere that it's not actually widely used within Google

Borg and Container Engine:

https://www.quora.com/Does-Google-use-the-Open-Source-Kubern...
kubernetes is a classic case of a tool designed for consultants and companies to sell consulting services (Including cloud services, which is why every cloud provider leapt onto it).

In like 90% of the cases when someone used Kubernetes, Docker Swarm would have easily sufficed.
I agree with your point, but I wonder if there has been a shortage of food or water in the last 30 years that more money could not have solved quickly. It seems these happen in poor/war torn areas.
What if the development of an universal decision framework, which obviates sourcetrust, is the natural result of the calamity.

I ask myself this sometimes.
Running OpenShift has felt like early Rails to me. You can get started with a hosted version, switch to on AWS easily and dive deep down into Kubernetes whenever you feel ready. It is also opinionated so it’s easy to get started on the golden path and modify it to suit your needs. The only real frustration has been upgrading clusters which has gotten easier each new release.
How are you defining shortage? If half the drivers vanished, then half as much stuff would be shipped by truck. What's the problem with that, other than things would be worse for people? Is there a correct amount of truck driving that should happen? Are we currently at that correct amount? Have we ever been?
The one where you stole people's money.

The court system isn't run by idiots who will just shrug their shoulders because you thought you found a loophole.

They would instead laugh at your "clever" loophole and throw you in a cell.

Your legal defense has to convince a judge and jury. You are not going to be able to do that.
I find the author's description of the E1 class persuasive. I think there is a selection effect here. To become a member of that class it is usually necessary to be a clever, heartless sociopath, and so most of the people who achieve that status have such personalities.

You want us to believe that today's E1 is not in fact an evil class, but you offer no specific arguments, instead just a vague historical one. Furthermore, you say, "What action is to happen varies, this form of argument has been used to justify everything from the taking of land and property to outright genocide." But as the article explained, what happened after WWII was instead the elite were restrained and forced to behave in a moral fashion, and the populations benefited enormously.

I am going to assume that the reason you offer no specific arguments that today's E1 is not evil is because you don't have any remotely persuasive ones, and the reason you don't is because they are in fact evil.
The author also chose to emigrate to a minimally quantified society with abundant warmth, natural light balanced with natural dark. "Pura Vida" isn't just a marketing expression in Costa Rica.
Generic Deriving of Generic Traversals
No. This is a full-frame 35 mm sensor. Few of the industry-standard super-35 lenses fit without vignetting at 8k.
> That happens to be the modus operendi of the propagandists, the liars, to say there is no truth, there's no way to determine it, there's no source more accurate than another. They say 'it's all propaganda', trying to put themselves on equal footing with honest people. It's liars who say, 'everyone lies'.

Yes, this was my point. If you (not you personally) are arguing against a propagandist who says that all your sources are biased, then I don't know what is an effective rhetorical strategy—it seems that no-one does, if there even is one—but I'm almost certain that asking for a citation for the claim of bias isn't it, since all it does is shift the question from "who is biased?" to "who can be trusted to judge bias?".
> Not tracking your bad behavior doesn't make it go away. It just makes you ignorant.

In some sense, ignorance can be bliss, which I think the article hints at. I used to diligently track my workouts, for example, seeking clear and measurable improvement over time. If I could knock out 30 consecutive chin-ups in one session, I expected >= 30 consecutive pull-ups in the next. What I failed to realize is that progress isn't actually made by means of observed improvement -- progress is actually significantly more subtle. And, because it's deeply psychological...fuzzy.

At 32 years of age, I've realized that "bad behavior" is symptomatic of the mindset of self, and sometimes necessary. Sometimes my workouts will go very poorly, for example. The quantified self laments those workouts, but the self-accepting self accepts those poorer workouts as an inevitability. Sometimes you simply cannot give it 100%; sometimes you'll fail.

Subjective satisfaction, as you put it, is the key to happiness. Do better than you expect in the aggregate and largely ignore the specifics. The specifics only bog you down.
If someone thinks kubernetes is complicated, they would cry during their first month with the borg.
Which proves that despite the naysayers it's actually easy to fix mistakes in Wikipedia: you just need to become a quintessential American novelist and then have the New Yorker publish your letters to that effect.
I'm still working through the report, but your TLDR seems wrong.

The report seems to be repeatedly emphasizing that the grid is supposed to be resilient to unpredictable failures at unpredictable times. While the trees were the immediate cause [0], the real story of the outage was the resulting cascade failure, which absolutly should not have happened.

To take a CS example, when Google/Amazon/etc suffer a cascade failure, they do not blame the proximal cause (such as a few nodes getting overloaded), but rather their load balances and failure recovery systems for allowing/causing the problem to cascade into a full network failure.

[0] And a result of inproper vegetation management
Correct, you can check out Kubeapps for a collection of apps packaged as Helm charts https://hub.kubeapps.com
My favorite is the OS/2 2.0 debacle BTW.
I should know what's forbidden without having to go consult every judge.
If I find a funny-looking stone, and promise to give it to you in exchange for goods, it would be fraud to give the funny-looking stone to somebody else instead. Cryptocurrencies are no more "money" than the funny-looking stone, but one could still commit fraud with them.
Damn, he beat me to the writeup.

> The most surprising result of the benchmark is that LuaJIT’s FFI is substantially faster than C.

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=ndesaulniers
In the following paragraph, the author considers and appears to reject that solution:

>Maybe the combination of operators and Helm charts covers this, but I don’t think that will cut it. Then we’re forcing developers to learn about two other things in addition to Kubernetes. Even if it’s just increasing the vocabulary and installing a new command line tool, it’s extra effort and thought. These things need to be first-class citizens and part of the Kubernetes out-of-the-box experience. They need to be accessible via kubectl.
I wonder if a blog entry by Roth would have sufficed as a secondary source. It probably would have. They need something to point to after all. It can't just anecdotally be noted that a wikipedia editor received an email from the author.

One solution could be to give people forums on Wikipedia to state their perspectives, which would then become source material for articles. Assuming there is some way to verify their identities, this could be a way for famous people to participate in their wikipedia entries without editing the entries themselves.
I’ll save everyone the trouble of looking it up on google: 100,000 Kenyan Shillings is $985 USD. Pretty hefty fine for sharing a video you recorded with your cell phone.
The worst outcome of this is other so-called democracies exploit incidents like this to follow suit and take away more rights from their citizens. If one looks at the fall of Rome, the first autocratic emperor was Augustus followed by the rest of the sinister characters of the Julio-Claudian dynasty. America and other countries could go that way if corrupt senators bestow emperor status on their leader. Russia is already this way, Turkey to an extent and China definitely.
Offhand IDK, I was more thinking in terms of a theoretical resource constrained environment where the population is beyond the carrying capacity. You have a shortage that money cannot solve.
Food prices do go up and down, and on each up, more people on the fringes of survivability die from lack of food, perhaps indirectly through disease. How high do food prices have to go before it would be classified as a shortage? The distinction seems arbitrary.
Ask HN: Which tools and techniques do you use to plan software architectures?
Australia recently proposed (and later shelved) drug-testing welfare recipients in certain localities. These areas were to be chosen partially due to the level of illicit drugs and metabolites in their waste water.

So, welfare recipients may find themselves drug tested not because they use drugs, but because the people around them do. It stinks of collective punishment.
If the economy is being boosted by the cost to the environment being ignored, that just means the world is taking on a type of debt.
The headline is slightly inaccurate. Filming (for the purpose of public viewing) without a license is illegal, not posting videos online.
Scottish Hospital Launches Treatment for Cryptocurrency Trading Addicts
Docker Swarm is a hot mess.
I have Kubernetes in Action on my desk and I haven’t cracked it open yet because Kubernetes seems monstrously complex. Sure helm gets you up and running. When something goes wrong in prod at 3am, what do you do?
Why would people use Bitcoin for money laundering?
This is one of the main reasons I am so heavily in favor of UBI, even though I am quite the anarchist if we are talking about idealism and not pragmatism.

There IS money being made out there by large firms and small firms alike, but it is absolutely NOT based on merit or skill at all.

Whether a business is a failure or a success is 99% based on the relationships and contracts it forms. Typically, unskilled managers and executives will forge the deal FIRST, and then go get the expertise and skilled laborers after.

Startups are an exception to this rule, since the technology is all so new. But rapidly, we all see the "money guys" and the "business guys" coming in to the profession day by day, buying up tech, creating bogus certifications and so on that just add the cruft and bureaucracy that monopolies need to survive.

For every trucker making $130,000 a year, there's 100 truckers making $35,000 a year.

For every trucker making $30,000 a year, there's probably 10,000 unemployed or underemployed people begging for the chance to make middle class money rather than $10 an hour at Burger King
Paddle and Fastspring are worth looking at if you want them to deal with EU VAT for you. Neither does Bitcoin as far as I know.

Also, you'll generally have to come up with and integrate your own solution for user management and how your users are linked to subscriptions. Both services above for example assume you have an existing user database.
I couldn’t imagine writing a huge web app in Go without a framework, but you can go framework-free if you’re doing microservices or APIs. I recently used Echo to build my latest side project https://kvdb.io - Echo and similar frameworks provide small enough API on top of net/http that you’re reducing boilerplate without framework lock-in. Most provide basic middleware like anti-CSRF, Basic auth, etc. but for app-wide security and access control like roles, you might want to use a specific library.

Compared to Rails and Django, Go web dev seems closer to the metal with less magic going on, and that’s probably a good thing.
Successful Academic Summer Camp Set-Up and Development
How School Shootings Catch On (2015)
Ask HN: Want to text with someone living in poverty in the developing world?
I've been doing this lately, and it's been really interesting and perspective-altering. Anyone else want to do this?
Wasn’t there a study of hotel cleaners whom had an overall increase in health because they were told their jobs already included exercise? This also seems like a self-fulfilling prophecy effect, whereby a “healthy” thinking person makes slightly different choices than someone else whom believes themselves to be “unhealthy.”
Unfortunately, this is what happens when you need to ensure backward compatibility with the lowest denominator...
>Food prices do go up and down, and on each up, more people on the fringes of survivability die from lack of food, perhaps indirectly through disease.

This really isn't true. In practice it may be, but that's due to inefficient allocation, not due to a lack of resources. We have enough food to feed the entire human population. A shortage would be if we didn't.
There's Fastspring as well.

You can get lower transaction fees doing the VAT yourself but when you're starting out a few percent more per transaction is probably worth it so you can focus on your project.
Apache Kafka vs. RabbitMQ
I believe that these practices should be completely outlawed.

I could in principle not see it anything less than a form of unlawful surveillance.
The pdf version is better than the markdown.

https://github.com/kiwi0fruit/sugartex/blob/master/sugartex....
Orbot: Over 20M Served, Ready for the Next Billion
This looks at the election days. What worries me most is that it's still is ongoing today, and it's more obvious than ever, and completely taking over social networks. Every presidential tweet is followed by a horde of bots praising some religious aspect of belief in the greater work achieved here. None of it makes sense.

Why is twitter not fixing these issues?
I wonder if we could see a spiral that effectively kills off smaller coins?

> Exchanges respond to these `weak` coins by increasing their confirmation requirements. Some of the really small coins would probably need huge numbers of confirmations.
> Lots of confirmations, which would likely damage the value of the coin.
> Lower price would reduce the miner hashrate
> Lower hashrate would further lower cost of 51% attack.
> Exchanges increase confirmations further

-REPEAT-
How ‘Authentic Relating’ Made Vulnerability a Movement (2017)
The complexity of Kubernetes largely reflects the complexity of the problem. Nobody has delivered anything significantly simpler that hasn’t had a much smaller scope, and those tools approach the same level of complexity when composed with others to get the same level of functionality. But setting up Kubernetes is both well documented and automated on multiple cloud providers, whereas something like Nomad & Consul doesn’t really have a good end to end walk through to get you to the same destination as Kubernetes. I suppose if you’re fine with pushing that complexity into service clients you can avoid the need for a lot beyond what Nomad and Consul give you by themselves — but then you end up with the downsides that something like the Netflix microservices stack gets you. Fat clients ultimately leave the developer with more complexity, and Kubernetes helps you eliminate that in favor of more SRE/Ops/whatever-you’d-like-to-call-it complexity. Since cloud platforms can take a lot of the edge off of Ops complexity, that’s my preferred approach.
It's an issue of transparency. I don't mind if I know what it will be used for but "sell me some ads" isn't the only thing it's being used for as we have discovered recently. If Facebook et Al. were more transparent about exactly how it is used then users could decide if the cost is worth it.
It appears to take weekends off. Bad bot.
Consider suggesting to a parishioner that a priest they deeply trust is up to no good. How similar is your reaction? Both of you have beliefs head so strongly you don't even need to check what was suggested. I cant imagine you would make that comment if you really looked at the "art" collection I alluded to.
The reason why the world doesn't work the way you're suggesting and why shortages do exist is nominal rigidity. And it's much more complicated than "the boss is reluctant to pay the worker more". The client might also be reluctant to pay for the service more, regardless of supply and demand. Consumers might be reluctant to pay a higher price. If the current increase in demand for trucking services is temporary, and they increased wages, they're kind of stuck with the now higher wages as wages are strongly sticky-down (in other words you can't just constantly adjust wages to their market price, up or down, because humans react very negatively to their wages being cut). It is deeply entrenched in the economy and human minds. This is why shortages often only resolve themselves in the long term. Until they resolve themselves, they certainly do exist.
Yeah sorry I wasn't clear, I was talking about Windows since this is the approach Windows takes. And somehow (perhaps mistakenly) I assumed "executable" meant EXE, not DLL (since I refer to the two as "binaries"). Otherwise yeah I agree [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17175361
This doesn't surprise me. My BMO credit card has a 6 character password limit. Not minimum, limit!
I clicked them just fine (??).
Huawei will no longer allow bootloader unlocking
What's with the Airbnb hate?
I agree that it's a difficult social and political problem. Interestingly, companies are fine banning hate speech, for which the same can be said.

There might be better solutions. One idea is to pay nonpartisan organizations to fact check viral posts. Another is to reduce the use of engagement as a metric, which tends to promote emotionally charged rather than factual content. For example, in January Facebook committed to prioritizing "meaningful social interactions".
Surely a lawyer will find a loophole in no time?

It might cause a drop in the number of people intending their footage be for public release, but one might expect a rise in those who intend for it to be private and then conveniently change their plan at a later point. But maybe in due course cunning Dr Ezekiel would get wise and require a licence to change intentions...
The security of these Canadian banks is very weak IMO. CIBC/Simplii, for example, does not support 2FA, has no sign in or transfer email/SMS alerts and their maximum password length, I believe, is 12 characters.
The juice is at the very end of the README, where you can see the unicode markup (ignore HN-mangled newlines):

ˎˎ
˱∇ × [ ⃗B] - 1∕c ∂[ ⃗E]∕∂t ˳= 4π∕c [ ⃗j] ¦#
∇ ⋅ [ ⃗E]\ ˳= 4πρ ¦
∇ × [ ⃗E] + 1∕c ∂[ ⃗B]∕∂t ˳= [ ⃗0] ¦
∇ ⋅ [ ⃗B]\ ˳= 0 ˲
,ˎˎ{#eq:max}

where ˎ[ ⃗B], [ ⃗E], [ ⃗j]: ℝ⁴ → ℝ³ˎ – vector functions of the form

ˎ(t,x,y,z) ↦ [ ⃗f](t,x,y,z), [ ⃗f] = (f_˹x˺, f_˹y˺, f_˹z˺)ˎ.

renders to:

$$ \begin{aligned}∇ × {\mathbf{B}} - \frac{1}{c} \frac{∂{\mathbf{E}}}{∂t} &= \frac{4π}{c} {\mathbf{j}}\ ∇ ⋅ {\mathbf{E}}\ &= 4πρ \ ∇ × {\mathbf{E}} + \frac{1}{c} \frac{∂{\mathbf{B}}}{∂t} &= {\mathbf{0}} \ ∇ ⋅ {\mathbf{B}}\ &= 0 \end{aligned} ,$${#eq:max}

where ${\mathbf{B}},,{\mathbf{E}},,{\mathbf{j}}:,ℝ^{4} → ℝ^{3}$ -- vector functions of the form $(t,x,y,z) ↦ {\mathbf{f}}(t,x,y,z),,{\mathbf{f}} = (f_{\mathrm{x}}, f_{\mathrm{y}}, f_{\mathrm{z}})$.
Unicode has APL characters, so create the operators using them.

If there is a conflict with an existing feature you could always create a Slang. A Slang is a module that changes the parser. (It could be argued that with this feature all programming languages are a subset of Perl 6)
I am personally happy to see that this happened in Vermont and not on the federal level. We now have the opportunity to see the impact this has on the citizens of Vermont and whether or not the regulations are effective. Nothing beats experimentation and the scientific method.
> By your logic entire concept of labour shortage is outrageous because any shortage will clear with high enough price.

Per wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shortage#Causes

In a perfect market (one that matches a simple microeconomic model), an excess of demand will prompt sellers to increase prices until demand at that price matches the available supply, establishing market equilibrium. In economic terminology, a shortage occurs when for some reason (such as government intervention, or decisions by sellers not to raise prices) the price does not rise to reach equilibrium. In this circumstance, buyers want to purchase more at the market price than the quantity of the good or service that is available, and some non-price mechanism (such as "first come, first served" or a lottery) determines which buyers are served. So in a perfect market the only thing that can cause a shortage is price.

So while it can happen, 99% of the time these articles are just some company complaining about the cost of labour which they don't want to pay.
That’s a bit extreme. Most of this data gets used for targeted advertising. While that sounds (and sometimes is) shady, it also enables a lot of niche companies that had a much harder time existing before.

For example, what’s the point in showing ads for custom quadcopter parts to an 80 year old grandmother who doesn’t know what a quadcopter is?

Data should be regulated and protected much more than it currently is. But the idea of banning it entirely would have a lot of negative effects. Let’s be smarter than that.
As there usefulness increases so does their price and subsequently hashpower and volume, making 51% attacks harder to perform.
In AUS I can confirm that the cafes nearby to large construction sites always have a steady stream of hi-vis customers, many of them taking trays of espressos back to the worksite.
It seems so obvious that this is happenening, but I’ve never really thought about it before. Like the article says, “that’s the point.”
I'm inclined to agree with you, but you need to substantiate your thesis with evidence.