skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How about crowdsourcing a social network? Look at synology NAS boxes-they have a ton of apps. They have even developed a stupid-proof way of connecting NAS boxes securely over the net without opening router ports. If i choose to install the synology 'chat' app, i could designate a fraction of the NAS space as a se[arate volume to be used soley by the app and sandboxed from my LAN. And just as synology boxen can sync with each other silently, securely and in the background- this 'chat' app can interact with the millions of other synology boxen. Of course to be a member of this ad-free, toll free network - you need a synology box in this model. But after all, it's just a linux box - however the tech for connecting them securely requires a handshake mediated by a server at SYNOLOGY. And they provide all this FREE. It is similar to the iMessage network that apple runs. And again you need an iPhone to be on that network.
I would guess there was some negotiation we don't know about, and that's why they're giving up some money.
On Substack, readers pay writers directly. The writers are independent. We take a cut of the subscription revenue, which is the same in this case as for others.

We think this aligns our interest with the writers interest, the same way that the subscription model aligns the writer with the reader.
Or the damage done to everybody, particularly the poor, from MT's "suffering is Christ like" mentality.

My point is, you have to compare them entirely. At least Gates seems to have moved into the "good" quadrant later in life.
There are a hell of a lot more poor people than there are rich people.

It’s also a hell of a lot easier to take advantage of them, given they generally lack the education or resources to protect themselves from predatory businesses. I struggle to think of McDonald’s as “helping” poor people. It’s putting food in their mouths, yes, but if McDonald’s were more concerned with the health and financial wellbeing of their customers as opposed to exploiting psychology to get as many people to impulse buy as much junk food as possible it would be an incredibly different company.

The goal of a company is not “help” its customers, the goal of a company is to exploit any and every untapped source of wealth. If it can do that by hurting someone who doesn’t know better, it is going to.
This approach was popularized (even if not pioneered - not sure who came up with the idea originally) by Tim Ferris in the book "The 4-Hour Workweek". He stopped short of actually accepting payment though, and took an attempt to purchase as validation.
Unfortunately they're deleted now.

He didn't defend his points when people disagreed with him and just said "you don't understand". That's a shorthand way of calling someone stupid when you haven't even tried to explain.

At this point I forgot what he said about the CTO but some of them were pretty insulting.
Documentation, the other "hard" task in CS.
I read this knee-deep in snow on the Annapurna Range.

Still keeps me the creeps...
"Raise doubts" is a bit stingy. Here is what one of the allegedly-harrassed women had to say (in the Paste article):
“These claims that Matt would do this stuff are ridiculous,” she said. “I left The eXile because we started dating, and Matt was worried about impropriety. He didn’t even ask me out at work! Matt is a fundamentally decent and kind person.”

The smear seems to me to have been completely refuted on the facts, and there's a second issue: if it hadn't been, there's no way those mainstream publications would have retracted it en masse (especially not given the social climate around that topic). When was the last time they all did that? It's practically a magic trick to get them to do that.
Drupal or Wordpress, full control, very low budget, very low expertise needed. From a business owner's point of view, Drupal and Wordpress are amazing. But if you ask any coder, they'll tell you they're a pile of shit, so don't ask :).
Exactly. Even if you don't want it for yourself you could at least milk Facebook for some good purpose.
But as I said in an earlier comment, there must have been some negotiation between them and FB
Question: Why is the price of a subscription significantly higher than the price of a book? Serious question. I read the first chapter and found it quite interesting and I have been considering subscribing, but one of the main reasons that I did not subscribe was that it seemed like the price would end up being much higher than the price for a book. I do like the fact that most of the money goes to the author.
Agree on the biased info. There are reports of cases of cardiac arrest and death after taking magic mushroms. Maybe not common, but it happens. I know the case of a girl that needed cardiopulmonary resuscitacion also.
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I have been hearing a lot of good things about signal... How are their servers paid for though if it's a free service?
Ok. In that case, it took 49 years from the discovery of radioactivity to the production of the atomic bomb. It took 60 years from the development of the Tsiolkovsky rocket equation to the production of the ICBM. Nuclear science still advanced significantly faster than rocket science.
" Not sure what Facebook employees don't understand"

It's the part where What's App doesn't actually make any money and as a standalone business isn't worth a whole lot.

The issue boils down to business model.

It's really easy for WhatsApp founders to take the moral high road when he doesn't have to bother with trying to make a dime.

The WhatsApp founder is in somewhat of a hypocritical position given that his $17 Billion dollars comes from FB practices that he is ostensibly uncomfortable with.
Django is a far bigger pain than Vue.

DRF is great for making APIs, authenticating and talking to the APIs with Vue is super easy and straight forward (I recommend using Axios and writing service files in Javascript to encapsulate the logic for actually calling the API.

The main pain point is that Django is kind of unwieldy to deploy, because you'll have your built Vue project (i.e. the dist/ folder by default), and then you'll have the collectstatic files from Django, so setting up a build process that combines all of that is a bit difficult.
"Deeply evil"? Is this based on ideological considerations which reject any sort of government oversight?

We have experience of what sort of quack "medicine" appears when unscrupulous people take advantage of the hopes of the terminally ill for personal gain.

Is that what you want us to return to? Or do you have a way to prevent it?
So is GitLab the new GitHub for opensource?
Dang. Afaict, you guys are the exceptions to the rule.

I guess you folks gave it enough hardware to run properly. From what I'm reading that's what's missing in a lot of failing installations. It seems particularly resource hungry.
On Windows, all I've ever had to do is try different driver versions. On Linux, I've run into multiple problems where the story is "broken, many people have the same problem, there is no cure, maybe if you want to spend a week wrangling ACPI code you can figure it out." I wouldn't call that a smaller pain in the ass.
"[Swinging] for the fences" literally means to swing a baseball bat as hard as you can at where you think a baseball will be thrown[1]. You're far less likely to connect with the ball, but you will propel the ball much farther if you do manage to.

Swinging for the fences is more apt for companies like Magic Leap, Groupon, Gilt, Pebble, etc.

I'd characterize this guy's approach as being more like "Moneyball." [2]

[1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/swing_for_the_fences

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moneyball
"It has been a crazy 24 hours for GitLab. More than 2,000 people tweeted about #movingtogitlab. We imported over 100,000 repositories, and we've seen a 7x increase in orders." That's quite an impact!
While I enjoy my free gitlab.com account, I would prefer to use a version of Gitlab that is 100% open-source. This in order to not feel trapped the day they are bought by a bigger actor. I hope they will allow such an option.
I think it's ironic that so many of these "frugal living" gurus advocate cutting your expenses to the bone to avoid taking part in America's rampant consumer culture.

Then they advocate plowing those savings into home ownership, as if that itself isn't a consumerist decision. As if there isn't a multi-billion dollar real estate industry pushing the idea of home ownership as "the American dream".

Certainly, it's possible to err too much on the side of irresponsibility, but the author of this blog post has a point. Of all the joys we have in this short existence, "buying a house with cash" seems like a pretty lame one to build your whole life around.
Without sounding too negative, in its current state I wouldn't even want to use GitLab for free. I applaud them for this move, but I simply don't understand how a company that employs that many people and that redesigsn its entire software the 3rd? 4th? time still has a complete usability mess at its hands.
Yes, I tried doing this too but it forces me to flip between the notebook and a separate text editor (for editing that module). It's not that seamless and the context switches were a little expensive (at least for me), but your mileage may vary.
> Product trusts Dev on implementation

Currently having issues with this one right now, and it is the most frustrating thing I've experienced at a job.
Its a valid point to consider that as part of the learning experience. I don't think that students with limited time should be forced to go through that though. If you get them hooked on to computing, their natural curiosity would lead them to explore it further. Bogging them down with unnecessary setup stuff would probably only make them think that this shit takes way too much effort etc.

I've had many courses that were bogged down by software setup issues in college; I would rather than not be the case.
One of my challenges is that I don't like easy problems, they are too simple to solve and I get bored. Because of that I have always invested most of my time into interesting technical problems instead. Just not always at work.

There are a couple of things intertwined in the phrasing of this particular question, job satisfaction and the quest for a challenge.

I stepped into this mess when interviewing a candidate who shared that they were looking for a new job because they wanted greater challenge (and this is a fine reason to change jobs in my opinion). I asked them what they were doing now that was challenging. That lead to a good discussion on how much of the problem of lack of challenge was their problem, and how much of it was their managers problem? Clearly a good manager would try to keep you challenged but a good employee can seek out challenging things without needing their bosses approval. One need only look at various online courses to realize that with no more than a few git clone operations and an AWS account you can start looking at very challenging problems. There are programs like the HeroX one which seek out participation in technical challenges, and there are local opportunities to engage in challenging problems that impact the community around you.

The discussion came around to this question, "What prevents you from taking on challenging problems right now?" And the answer was, for this candidate, nothing really, they had just not felt empowered enough to choose their own path.

My advice is that if you like your co-workers and your management and the work isn't hard, just repetitive, then automate as much of it as possible and look for your challenges outside of work. If you don't like your work environment then change it if you can.
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> but doesn't really help with population nor materiél.

To add, AI can help reduce staffing, failures, costs, etc. What it can't do is magically project force. This requires boots on the ground or a weapons system capable of reaching out and touching someone. This requires materiél, and for the initial build-up flesh-and-bone soldiers.

However, there is a possible exception in the form of cyber warfare. If AI can sufficiently disrupt digital infrastructure it could hypothetically bring another power to its knees. Still, if that power can bounce back from the initial setback that AI would again become a less direct asset.
Time to capitalize on the senseless sudden hate for gitHub
I think the more likely benefit is that pretty much every engineer knows git, it has become the de-facto standard even if other alternatives like Mercurial are easier to learn and use. In terms of onboarding new engineers, this probably saves them a week where new engineers don't have to ramp up on a new technology. It might make a difference in terms of recruiting new engineers. In terms of understanding their customers, I'd guess that a significant number of customers are using git. It probably also makes it much easier to open-source code.
Here's a today example: there are lots of Windows 10 de-bloaters [1] to remove awful features and telemetry disabling tools [2]. Will these stay up?

[1] https://github.com/W4RH4WK/Debloat-Windows-10
[2] https://github.com/10se1ucgo/DisableWinTracking
I agree completely, but I ignored that because it's very likely that you're hosed at that point anyway.
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Only to send messages to your contacts; if you deny whatsapp access you can still respond to anyone that contacts you

You just can't be the first person to start the conversation
Yeah you're totally right. In my freelancing days, I didn't need healthcare really, I was 22. That being said, I feel like a good software consultant can pull down 250/hr, which probably more than compensates for healthcare. You'll pay more tax, and more for healthcare, but probably still come out ahead.

So maybe that's the formula, work a corporate gig until you're a legend, and then become a consultant. :P
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Doubt it, in the long run. I also question the move from one VC-backed company to another unless you're only using their self hosted options (though I guess being open source is better).
Mine automation is a big deal.
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> You pay $0.20 per hour for the EKS Control Plane, and usual EC2, EBS, and Load Balancing prices for resources that run in your account

Objectively that's not bad for HA masters in separate AZs, but I think for those who have been using Kubernetes on the Google cloud it's certainly going to have a hard time competing with "you don't pay anything for HA masters at all."

> ingress

from the Twitch stream, it sounds like they have not worked out ingress with ALBs. No mention of Ingress on the announcement page. Twitch stream is here[1]. (it's over now) [2]

This is going to be super expensive to use in the near term.

Just now Nishi Davidson has just mentioned ingress/ALB is a focus of the sig-aws, so hopefully we can expect another announcement soon.

[1]: https://www.twitch.tv/aws

[2]: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/269722012
What a lovely comment. Thank you for taking the time to write that all out.
Instead of looking for interesting technical problems, how about looking for interesting business problems. I find far more personal value in solving real problems for people than I do in technical challenges. Also, you're more likely to find more money is present in creating things that offer meaningful business value.
Does this mean ECS is going away? It’s sort of strange that they have two managed-container-deployment products.
Well, you'll probably end up getting two books over the course of the year, or something on the order of it -- This book is likely to be finished by September, and then I'll be starting on something new (I have a couple of projects I'm working on now). So over the course of 12 months, it will work out to be quite a lot of stuff. Thanks in any case for taking a look.
I had a similar headphone crackle issue when setting up an XPS13 with Arch Linux.

There's a good guide here :

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dell_XPS_13_(9350)#High...

Using alsamixer, I set 'Headphone Mic Boost Volume' to be 22. Then persisted the change with 'sudo alsactl store'.

I haven't experienced the other issues with Arch, though.
Can we please change the title to match the article instead of being sensationalized/ politicized ?
This is one of my most favourite "start up" stories ever. It almost feels like the "millennial" way of starting any business nowadays.

Quitting your day-job, sitting in a co-op space, risking thousands of personal funds, building, and building, and building, and building, and then finally releasing something with no real idea of it's potential is an almost sure-fire way of failing, and risking your well being at the same time.

This "prove-everything-at-each-step" side hustle method is how most businesses should be started.

Take notes, well done.
s/seem/are/ imnsho . best place i've worked at in 25+ years :)

strong engineering culture. great products. really, really smart people. management that understands the value of management (and what can be detrimental of management).
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I think it is great that they are offering is, but it's a shame that students/lecturers/researchers cannot apply individually. GitHub and others work around the administrative load by checking the e-mail address against educational domains.
The ability to bypass the FDA's regulations process entirely.
Oh I agree; Apple’s brand carries a ton of heft in the laptop market because they generally get the “product” features (keyboards, battery life, screen quality, etc) right. It’s only so noticeable because their track record has been so good — we would still have plastic laptops and trackpads with mushy membrane keyboards without Apple’s industrial design incorporating metal and glass.

And honestly, their desktop line looks very similar to many PC companies. They make the Mac Mini (aka the Apple NUC), the all-in-one iMac, and the Mac Pro (ok, the Mac Pro sucks and there’s no excuse for it).

Anyone doing serious workstation tasks these days is likely using a cloud-based solution. There are a few specialized exceptions (ML development stands out to me), but none big enough to build a product around. Especially when doubling the entire PCs and Laptops category wouldn’t move the needle for Apple at all.
Don't worry, the free market will take care of it by killing patients who choose unwisely.
And then spores entered the atmosphere of the earth, burned and disintegrate, as spores always do when there is a flame around.
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Dig ditches sure. Do work that you fundamentally disagree with though? I mean where do your principles come in to the work you are doing? You choose not to rob banks to support DWB, so you have a line you yourself aren't willing to cross.

I don't begrudge him one bit for his decision.
Bottom-up estimation is probably more accurate for the work to be done, but not for other project overhead. Using data from an analogous project to forecast the delivery date would include that overhead.
It would appear that US law states that the owner of the vehicle owns the Event Data. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event_data_recorder
Most likely yes. They've seen the writing on the wall, that K8s has won. It will probably just be a slow deprecation like they did with Simple DB.
Worth noting that one of the issues is Tesla's data, such as sensing hand placement, might inherently be problematic. As r/teslamotors users pointed out in the wake of Tesla's response to the Utah crash, AutoPilot apparently has false negative problems: failing to detect when hands on the wheels:

https://www.reddit.com/r/teslamotors/comments/8jz5tl/tesla_r...

> Ok so here's what bugs the shit out of me: The overwhelming majority of the time that my car nags me to put my hand on the wheel, my hand's already on the wheel, I'm just not applying enough torque for the car to "see" that because my left elbow is resting on the window sill and my hand is resting on the 9oclock position. So I give it a quick wiggle and then we're friends again. This means the car logged a "no hands" event.

In the case of the fire truck, the driver pretty much admitted to fault. But what about the California man (i.e. the "six seconds" incident) who died by running into a median? We don't know for sure if his hands were on or off, or when, or if the car properly detected it. Tesla was kicked off the NTSB investigation for releasing data. Tesla's argument was that it had the right to make a defense, but I think it's reasonable to argue that NTSB's rule is to prevent such selective release and framing of data:

https://www.ntsb.gov/news/press-releases/Pages/NR20180412.as...
You can always ask the mods to delete a comment. They care more in cases like this were there's a legal dispute going on.
Why is BitBucket not being kept in consideration with this move?
> Imagine a future where every time you want to electronically communicate with someone you have to spend mental energy filtering out ads.

There should be a law that says that ads should be clearly identifiable as such. Like: they should be placed in a frame with the word "advertisement" on top of them. (Coincidentally, this would also make it easy for ad-blockers to remove them).
Anecdotally I've found Github much cleaner-looking, much faster and more usable than Gitlab. Github was never opensource, and I think people used it for all of the above. I'd be surprised if the recent acquisition changes that.
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Haswell+ has much better IPC than the SB generation. AMD's Zen platform has a bit better IPC than SB, a lot more cores, and generally clocks above 3 GHz. I'd consider upgrading.

(FWIW, TR is a very upmarket part compared to a 4-core SB and you will pay a large premium for that, especially for the motherboard. However, even an 8-core Ryzen 1700X would be a huge upgrade over a 4-core SB and the 4- and 6-core Ryzens look very affordable.)
What don't you like about it? I had to use it at my last company and was very impressed all-round.
Thanks for sharing. I'm not making a comparison to existing programs, just countering the articles underlying argument that because treatment may cause more harm than good or they may provide false hope, that patients with advanced forms of illnesses should have limited options.

With sufficient guidance and information, when available, I'm simply saying that informed patients may opt for highly speculative treatment options, on a case-by-case basis.

I can't speak to your question directly, will check it out...