skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course he's going to say he's proud of it; he's kinda obligated to. I'm willing to bet he neither knows what the day to day working conditions are, nor does he care.

It does remind me of an anecdote: Early in my career, I worked for Western Digital. They had a headquarters campus in a smaller city in Orange County. When I was there, they started growing. We didn't have the parking space, and people ended up having to park pretty far away up a hill. People were grumbling quite a bit about it, and it had a negative effect on morale to not be able to find a spot in the morning or coming back from lunch. At one of the quarterly "employees ask questions of the CEO" things, someone asked what was being done about the parking problem. The response, from the person who has a reserved parking space, came, "I wasn't aware there was a parking problem."
Cloud providers instance types, prices, etc under one API and UI
"Responsibility to consider the harm" is a far, far cry from "should be held accountable for the harm", which is the statement I was responding to. Not even comparable, really, in terms of impact. Whether the harm should be "considered" was never in question, AFAICT.
Yes. The $64k question is: how many is enough, and do we actually have that many close enough in space and time that it matters?
This too is a political will problem. Designs for proliferation-resistant gen IV nuclear plants have existed for a long time, and many have been tested. We don't use them because nobody builds nuclear plants any more out of overblown fears of meltdowns (which, incidentally, also can't occur in most gen IV designs).
> This seems odd to me. Solar panels should last at least 30 years but we've been finding most just keep working, potentially for decades longer.

What installations do we have data on that have been running since 1970 or so? You say they should last at least 30 years but may keep working decades longer.

> While the power they produce degrades with time, it's not enough to be worth junking the panel.

It's not surprising to me that they will fail, even before 30 years. I mean, they are outside, subjected to weather and thermal cycling. They are going to get hit by lightning, hail, and lots of freeze/thaw cycles. Almost everything degrades in that environment. Even the panel support structures themselves will get crooked on that time scale from soil moisture changes.
This article is ignoring the benefits of standardization.

Let's compare it to some other "unnecessary" thing, actual containers:

You can put stuff on ships without them, but turns out that once you start using them, just the fact that everything is standardized gives you insane benefits.

Of course you could reimplement each part of Docker differently. Of course it's not magic. Nothing is magic about a metal box, and yet that metal box completely revolutionized shipping.
> Does anyone know why they decided to migrate to GCP?

You are unlikely to find an explanation in their docs.

Here's a likely answer:

> Kubernetes? Yeah right... The reasons are very clear: 1) GitHub being acquired by Microsoft. 2) Google is an investor in GitLab (through GV).

Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17393503
> "A friend of mine once said: You know what the problem is with being an economist? Everyone has an opinion about the economy.

That's the problem with all pseudosciences - politics, social sciences, etc. Everyone has an opinion and they can't provide any empirical tests to get at the truth.

That's the difference between a science like physics and a pseudoscience like economics.

It's why two economists with contradictory views can win a nobel prize at the same time.

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/15/business/3-american-profe...

It's fundamentally nonsense.

> Nobody goes up to a geologist and says, 'Igneous rocks are fucking bullshit.'"

Because a geologist can show you that igneous rocks are not "bullshit". Empirically, physically. They can provide empirical tests to differentiate an igneous rock from bullshit.
#China #Tick #APT group targeting air-gapped systems in Asia
The root of the problem isn't the tablet, it's the restaurant owners, most of which are notorious for stealing wages from their workers. This is just another tool in their arsenal to accomplish it.
It's not really that generous. If they put you on a PIP they want you gone, but it may be a few months before they get rid of you. And if they do eventually need to fire you, you're still probably going to get severance. It's cheaper for them to just give you the severance up front and not have to pay you for any additional months spent working

Also I don't find the concept of the "jury" that generous either. In fact it's pretty weird and seems like it could become extremely political. There's the fact that the person advocating your dismissal is potentially the boss of the people advocating that you stay, which creates a pretty severe conflict of interest. There's a potential factor that a team needs to downsize, and by advocating you not being on a PIP the members of the jury risk themselves being put on the PIP. And of course there's all sorts of problems with whether you're well-liked or not by people in the office for reasons not relevant to your work
Watson is a thing that is good at Jeopardy. Therefore it is not AI. AI is only things that a computer can not do. Nothing that exists is ever AI
A database consultant once told me that half his gigs were telling people with a database to use Excel
All of these arguments are well-aired, and the tone of the article doesn't make this particular presentation of them more useful than any of the others. I would guess a large portion of the developers actively using containers are well aware that they are built from existing system capabilities that can be utilized without docker or any container runtime. I mean this is from 2015: https://chimeracoder.github.io/docker-without-docker/#1. You can argue that the new way of bundling these things together is not better, simpler, more reproducible or less error prone, but whatever... the market has voted. I personally think it is all those things, but we can disagree about that.

One thing in particular I wanted to respond to and that is the idea of your container filling up with orphan zombie processes because init is not pid 1. If I understand the issue correctly this can only happen if pid 1 creates child processes and then itself dies/exits. I've never personally seen this issue in four years of working with containers, and since all of our containers now run on k8s they would be restarted if pid 1 exited abnormally or otherwise. I'll be interested to see if any other HN commenters have actually had this problem.

Also re: the supposed absurdity of one process per container... it's just simpler and works more robustly with orchestration. Containers are lightweight, so there's no reason to try to pack a whole system into an image. It's simpler to reason about a composition of containers than a mess of processes running inside a single container, imo.
For more information of how details are retrieved/automated and the open source code you can read this post - https://banzaicloud.com/blog/cloud-provider-productinfo/
The "ephemeralness" of the internet is still a huge, huge problem. We've only started to scratch the surface of the issue, and between censorship, "right to be forgotten" and linkrot, it's already a complete shitshow.

We need a distributed and censorship-resistant conservancy system, because the Wayback Machine can only do so much (and it can trivially be censored). Unfortunately, it's not a money-making enterprise.
There was a dual screen ebook reader called Kno, that came out in 2010. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kno It had dual 14.1 inch touch screens. I recall it was priced at $2,000.

The Amazon Fire 10 inch is frequently on sale, as low as $100. You could build a cover that holds two of them, and write software that connects with bluetooth.

Google search returned something from MSI in 2010.
Extra props for including "old." there.
There's an XKCD [0] that hasn't aged well at all about how non-programmers fail to understand that some things that seem easy are actually really hard for a computer.

Modern ML research moved a big chunk of these tasks into the "easy for a computer" category, which is very exciting for programmers. However, as the comic points out, most of these things are stuff that normal people sort of felt a computer could do already.

I think this is the reason for some of the backlash/disappointment.

[0] https://xkcd.com/1425/
I guess a lot of people enjoy his style of "humour" where he randomly insults people, countries or cultures for no apparent reason.
That's entirely predictable given that was explicitly John Oliver's objective. The real question now is when will this experiment implode? Isn't there a theory that totalitarian states must inevitably collapse?
It’s more that I don’t know the reason it’s being taken. We have had photos taken by tourists that have sidled up and taken photos and had companies take photos then ask for permission for use in promotion. We felt pressure to accept these after the event, though didn’t.

And then there is privacy.
It does - BUT depending on how often you have it syncing changes to disk you can lose data.
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George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair,) was a lifelong avowed socialist. However, the Memory Hole was an observation squarely aimed at the behavior of the Far Left. Beware of those who push a narrative against the facts.
Ask HN: Machine learning risk and control framework
I'm working on building a risk framework for machine learning models to mitigate the risks of machine learning going wrong.

What are the risks of machine learning and what are the corresponding controls that can be used to mitigate those risks?
An abusive employer, just like an abusive SO, can demoralize you to the point where you think you deserve the abuse and that nobody else will take you.

Getting out of that pit is genuinely hard. One of the companies I worked for back in the day was abusive, and it took me a very long time to get out. I eventually mustered up enough confidence to leave, but I stayed for ages even after I realized the company was toxic.
Please stop linking articles with paywall, it’s tremendously annoying on mobile. Thanks
About firewalls and docker... It's so fu##ing annoying that docker changes the default iptables setting for forwarding when installed. :@
That was my first thought too, and that applies to nearly every fast dining or fast food restaurant, not just in San Francisco or the USA, but also elsewhere in the world.

Many fast dining restaurants exist where you order your own food at a counter, they call your order name/number, and you bus your own table. It's fast and obviously must be efficient for the restaurant otherwise they wouldn't do it. I don't see a problem with that either.
Strife: 2d game programming in Go
This falls along the same lines to me as the "autonomous car morale quandary" questions that were really popular for a while. Both assume the situation is bad enough that the pilot has ejected/car can't avoid the accident but the airplane/car has the control authority left to actually make the choice.
> Yes this is true, but the poorest people are better off and there are fewer of them than there have been historically

Better off than when? A decade ago? Two, three, or four decades ago?

Poverty wages have stagnated for almost half of a century. Cost of living has gone up, inflation has gone up and the ability to afford healthcare has left with them. Bankruptcy rates in states that didn't expand Medicaid are soaring.

I was raised on a low income and it was tough, then. Looking back on people who are still living where I came from, they are struggling. They're working multiple jobs, whereas one was enough to live on 20 years ago.

Truthfully, I don't know how they're making ends meet without being in a ton of debt and I don't know who would continue to lend to them in that situation.

Constant housing, health and income insecurity is soul crushing and I find it strange that it's so easily dismissed.
This is actually the setting for a sci-fi story I want to write. There's no reason to believe that the dinosaurs didn't have some kind of civilization, because we are so far removed from their extinction that any artifacts would be long gone. Unless they went to space, and the issue there is there's a whole lot of territory.
You make good points. I just don’t think we have the luxury of leaving ourselves in a position where burning fossil fuels might remain more economical than carbon-neutral alternatives. A carbon tax seems the only way to get around that. I agree that a carbon tax remains unlikely, which is why I spend most of my days in a depressed and anxious haze for the future :)

But maybe a group like the Citizen’s Climate Lobby can pull something off (they suggest using the revenue of the tax as a monthly dividend for all citizens. Never underestimate the power of a monthly bribe in generating consensus in the American public).
I think the point is these new selfs-serve options are higher-end (at least in terms of food and drink options) than previous examples.

But, I don't see this becoming normal. Certainly, I dine out when I don't want to prep my own meal. Having the drinks refilled for me is part of that experience. And while I wouldn't classify myself as a foodie, I am willing to pay for quality service.
I would object to the premise of the question:

> I would want to build in a way for the plane to try and save itself if possible

In a combat situation, I would imagine you'd want to destroy the aircraft if you lost control of it, to prevent the enemy recovering: the working aircraft itself, the technology it contains, or any sensitive reconnaissance recorded on it.
I guess what's missing is that many of these self-serve restaurants with $22 pan roasted salmon or whatever still have 20% tip preselected on the payment screen.
Very tired discussion, see "Are paywalls ok?" https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
I'm sorry, but as someone who pays the majority of a resturant waiter's salary via tipping, I don't think it's an issue of the restaurant saving the $5.50/hr.

I have never seen an article hype up the McDonald experience so much.

[Side tangent, I hate the concept of waiters. If I am having a romantic dinner with my wife, I would much rather get her a cup of water than have someone butt into our conversation]
There’s a LOT more to it that that. Part of why you DO see them is policing and treatment of the homeless population has been (until recently, anyhow) much more progressive & humane.

”Out of sight, out of mind” is not good policy.
If you want to learn more about container security I recommend https://blog.jessfraz.com/ and https://github.com/projectatomic/bubblewrap
Which means the old panels should be reused instead of recycling. Perhaps that's the point. Clean the protective layers and resell on used market.
Kind of inflammatory way to phrase it[2], but to save you the time: restaurants are shifting to models that use less waitstaff, closer to fast casual. In the first example, they say that runners bring the food but you have to fetch your own water and go to a counter for each wine glass; sadly, it was ambiguous on how orders are placed.

This is kind of to-be-expected as the wage/cost-of-living ratio dips too low so that lower-labor models are preferred. [1].

My peeve about these kinds of models is the ambiguity of the tipping situation; it's obviously not full service, but it's not zero either. And places like Super Duper are zero service (you stand in line, fetch your order, and bus your table) but still guilt you into tipping. I don't know the amount for "this satisfies the standard expectation".

[1] If you automatically say "lol pay them more", it's not that simple: higher prices and you'll scare off too many customers -- into fast casual and home cooking -- to cover overhead. Take lower profits and it may not pay enough to be worth the investment.

[2] Edit: original version was something like “... putting diners to work”.
This article probably needs a (2016) tag. Docker has moved on quite a bit since then...
The point is it's NOT SQL. It's NLP and whatnot to extract value from relatively natural non-fully schematized data.
To be clear, it's not obvious that the paper you linked is actually accurate. A lot of researchers consider that paper to be deeply flawed, and to show something other than what it claims to.
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And you think k8s is simple to run on bare metal ?

To care and maintain ?

Do you understand the kernel tuning and routing Google does to avoid the NAT hell you are going to run into when you manage k8s on your own ?
Show HN: Had a simple idea to track app trends(still in Beta) What next?
Sure, whatever. Cause $2.35/hr is just sooooooo expensive. So we sucker diners to do our labor for us, and , 'pass on the savings' HAH.

Try, "Nobody wants or can afford to do the work for such a pittance, so nobody does." I hope those businesses that do this die. Then again, won't really need hope. New restaurants easily die within 1 year. Good riddance.
>>This is a net positive for Americans (increasing real estate prices mean increasing total wealth).

Uh, not so much. Being priced out of home ownership means a smaller and smaller portion of Americans would (do) benefit from this increased "total wealth".
I'm considering a filter that looks for emails from my parents with the words "computer" and "problem" and auto-replies "Did you try rebooting?"
There are generally two categories of homeless: People who can actually get back on their feet again and hold a regular job, and the long term either mentally ill, or mentally ill + drug/alcohol addicted who are not capable of holding down jobs. Just because empty positions exist doesn't mean that the available "talent pool" of homeless could theoretically fill them.
Another variation of toxic social media, 'fake news', and misinformation/propaganda, which is ubiquitous online and only growing.

In the current internet environment, it's best to assume everything seen, found, rumored, or heard online is fake until proven otherwise.
Many of the most self righteous progressives in California have made a few million off their ramshackle bungalows and would like to keep the housing prices sky high. Incredibly, they argue that increasing supply would make prices higher, even though the past 40 years have conclusively disproven that, to their great enrichment.
“Specific SF restaurants are too cheap to pay proper wages to their staff” would be a more correct title.

This is not a general problem in SF.
> If you ask me, it is more likely for watsons law to be ...burn thru hundreds of millions and ultimately fail rather then the intended meaning.

That’s already called Musk’s Law.
Something else I didn't understand until I read the code: I couldn't figure out why the ephemeral key would be Ed25519. Turns out it's not, that's probably a typo: https://github.com/oxy-secure/oxy/blob/571ef12199f8b0f3eca55...
You may have different tastes and preferences to those who love it.
The US does not have "absolute freedom of speech". Try sending a believable death threat to a federal politician on twitter (don't, the secret service will track you down and arrest you- it happens more than you think)
This is the same thing done by a startup that is current spamming Reddit with ads.
> I usually tell people not to believe anything that comes from the internet, because that's how low the general quality of conversation on it happens to be when it's looked at in totality.

Fixed that for you. It's far beyond WhatsApp, it's every social media site, every fake news site, almost everything. Assume everything is fake until proven otherwise.
Housing costs in places with good economies and lots of jobs are getting absolutely ridiculous compared to the median wage.

I guess people are supposed to look at less glamorous cities, but if everyone affected by this did that then they would probably run out of opportunities, fill up, and have housing prices shoot up as well. Something's gotta give here. There's a real disconnect between the prices and the ability to pay. Who is paying for these things? People with lots of generational wealth? People with upper-middle class jobs yet no savings and razor-thin margins due to living expenses? That's so shitty.
It would have to drive fully autonomous in all conditions that humans drive in, for enough miles to produce a statistically valid lower rate of accidents than humans.

Since it can't drive fully autonomous until it has proved itself, it would be allowed to have a safety observer onboard. But here is the catch: Any intervention by the observer counts as an accident, since we are simulating what it would do without a human. Assume worst case.

Oh, and software updates reset the clock.
AT&T to Acquire AppNexus
Harley-Davidson, Blaming E.U. Tariffs, Will Move Some Production Out of U.S
Does anyone know what is the way to deal with dust and bird poo? I can imagine that the panels get dirty over the years which reduces their efficiency more than standard wear (less sunlight reaching the important layers). Is that accounted for in the numbers? Is there a study that provides insight on the maintenance required to run PV plant over 30yrs?
Sure, if I were in that position after 25 years, and I wanted to increase my kWh sold to the grid per month by buying new panels (let's imagine that a 1.99 x 0.99 meter panel in 25 years from now might be rated at 450W)... And I could make the math work for the ROI to pay off the new panels, I could sell the old panels in place as-is where-is, buyer to remove.
I don't have a problem with the idea of trying to stop China's unfair trade practices, I have problem with how inept and awful Trump's policies have been in trying to do so.

China has really perfected the practice of massively unfair trade practices and perform them with the masterful foresight of a chess grand master. They've managed some pretty brazenly one-sided practices all without falling afoul of the WTO.

The problem I have with Trump's agenda is that he's playing this whole thing like a rank amateur going up against Magnus Carlsen, and he's going to get smacked down hard. Trump has managed to piss off all of our closest trade partners, and has seemingly taken bribes from the Chinese to relax the embargo on ZTE. The US economy is on the verge of a major collapse from Trump's rather arrogant and unfocused use of tariffs against every major trade partner. Trump's efforts are going to fail, and in a massively spectacular way that will cause massive damage to the US economy, and will leave China in a very favorable position.

A better strategy would have been a coordinated effort with our closest trade partners and allies to place pressure on China via technology and financial embargoes, as well as getting the WTO to identify and penalize China's massive indirect corporate subsidies. A global coordinated effor of cutting China off from the global markets until they open they massively reform their trading practices and open up their local markets to foreign companies is probably the only viable way to equalize trade with China.
NIMBY’s are not Progressive.

They’re practically the definition of Conservative. There’s just this wildly mistaken belief that CA (and SF in particular) is populated by ultra-left people.

The Bay is centrist at best.
In the near future customers don't have clusters, cloud providers offer elastic adaptive compute sharing.
Not really too much worse than the old TI-99/4A keyboard.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Instruments_TI-99/4A#/me...
It should be said: Nintendo has always had another console or handheld as a crutch, and lots of money in the bank. They've never been in danger of going bankrupt. Ever.
Go to dinner in Europe. The wait staff is paid a humane wage and they won’t bother you at all unless you wave them over. This was my experience across Germany, Poland, and Italy, so I assume it’s a continental preference. YMMV.