skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For anyone else interested, here's the old:

https://us.etrade.com/e/t/estation/help?id=1209031000

and the new:

https://content.etrade.com/etrade/estation/pdf/10118customer...

Here's the new force majeure definiton:

> “Force Majeure Event” shall mean any act beyond E-TRADE’s control, including any earthquake, flood, severe or extraordinary weather conditions, natural disasters or other act of God, fire, acts of war, acts of foreign or domestic terrorism, insurrection, riot, strikes, labor disputes or similar problems, accident, action of government, government restriction, exchange or market regulation, suspension of trading, communications, system or power failures, cybersecurity incident, and equipment or software malfunction.

Here's the new force majeure clause:

> No Liability for Indirect, Consequential, Exemplary, or Punitive Damages; Force Majeure
In no event shall any E-TRADE Indemnified Parties be held liable for (i) indirect, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages or (ii) any loss of any kind caused, directly or indirectly, by any Force Majeure Event, and the Account Holder unconditionally waives any right it may have to claim or recover such damages (even if the Account Holder has informed an E-TRADE Indemnified Party of the possibility or likelihood of such damages).

Wow. First they define acts beyond their control to include things clearly within their control. Then they say they're not liable for "any loss of any kind" resulting therefrom.

These contracts are maddening because they won't be enforced as written until they are. Until a loss due to an avoidable issue costs them more to cover than it does in reputational damage. So it doesn't get reported because it doesn't feel like a real policy.

New York law applies here. If you sue them and lose, you pay their attorney fees. You've waived the right to a trial by jury and have likely agreed to forced arbitration unless you've explicitly opted out (see last page).
You can also use the BSD extension, flock(2), which is supported everywhere except commercial SysV clones like Solaris and HP/UX. flock has the semantics you would expect[1] and isn't Linux-only.

This LWN article has a great explanation of all the behaviors: https://lwn.net/Articles/586904/

[1] Effectively identical to the Linux extension/POSIX proposal except that (1) they don't support ranges, (2) don't contend with POSIX locks (they do on real BSDs but not Linux), and (3) BSD flock won't work across NFS.
Remember, Apple had the market to itself in 1984. The Amiga and Atari ST weren't out until 1985. That said, I'm with you as I was an Apple //e user who jumped to the Amiga 1000 on day 1: it was a decade ahead of anything else at an unbelievable price point. The Mac made no economic sense if you were somewhat technologically savvy in the 80's. But for that first year, the Mac was amazing product that stood alone.
AI microchallenge: build a blackjack bot
According to https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=blog.twitter.com it's the Twitter blog site, is it not? The quotation marks seemed to convey something else, whether you intended them to or not. But since the original title was neither misleading nor click-bait it's besides the point.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Personal politics is a larger dynamic than scientists like to admit. When you are planning something big, something international, you have to think about access. In 2030, will this facility be accessible to the international community? Will Chinese involvement become a security issue? Will data be shared openly? Those decisions are made by the executive branch, subject to the whims of whoever is in charge at the time. Planners think about this stuff.
PR and branding exists to make the consumer think that the product is aligned to the consumer in some way, and can even drive product design (think of the "healthy choices" now available at McDonalds). Projecting some morality in your brand isn't too much different, is it?
Thanks! In my mind a key goal for Knative is to:
"Free customers from serverless lock-in through industry-wide portability"
I think I like your version better so maybe I should start using that :-)

We are still very early in the process so code (and comms) are a bit rough. Really appreciate your feedback and we will work to clarify things over the next few days.
Well, I guess my movie quiz bot (@whattheshot) which turns 8 in a few hours, is almost coming to an end then. I had to adjust so many things the last few years that the game lost completely interest to most of my players. I was shadow-banned anyway.

My last hope is that the "review process" they talked about could really differentiate bad apps/bots and interesting bots and let them work. But I honestly doubt it will happen.
That looks a lot like Digital Ocean's offering - anyone tried both who can compare Lightsail vs DO?

edit: Blog post that says they are about equal, Lightsail has AWS integration but DO is a but more full-featured as of the writing (https://cloudacademy.com/blog/amazon-lightsail-vs-digital-oc...)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17478260
Your argument, out of everyone else's, is the most sane. So lemme point this out:

> But the bigger question is "Why wouldn't you encrypt it"?

You're right. There's not a lot of good reasons I can think of. The best argument I've been able to come up with is ISP-level caching of HTTP traffic, which may save on bandwidth. But my host doesn't even charge for the measly amounts of bandwidth I use, so that's certainly not a concern.

Modern servers have HTTPS hardware-acceleration in the form of AES-NI, so it doesn't even use much more CPU power to use TLS these days.

So really, bandwidth savings from ISP-level caching is the best counter-argument I've got. Which is to say: not a very big concern of mine.
Not sure why so many are pooh pooh'ng this. I consider the quality of display and the speed of modem two most important aspects of modern smartphones. Not everyone lives next to cell towers or in high density areas like NYC. I actually do live in NYC, but in less desirable area where avg download speed is ~2mps (Oneplus 5T on TMobile), but it was much slower and frustrating on my older phone (Note 4 on AT&T).
Might you give us your own input then? It would be more useful to those who have not received an education in economics going beyond the freshman level, as the others apparently don't need your input.
Remember the Y2K scare? Japan is facing a similar date-related tech crisis
A likelihood that is 100% informed by a choice you make.
If the screen were selectable between 4k and lo res 3D modes, that would be superb.
Well I guess the saying "if you don't use it, you lose it" must be true
What about fire or other disaster?

Easy. Don't keep it all in one place.

Also, don't you care about interest or capital gains?

The interest rate on savings is under 3%. It's like paying that amount on an insurance policy to guarantee that your money isn't stolen by the bank or through the bank's negligence. And considering how banks behave these days, that's not a crazy investment.
I'm having the same issue in OSX firefox.
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the consensus is "uncertain" for [2], some of the questions don't make sense or are really vague. Behavioral economics is all about critique of the rational actor in rational expectations theory, I think that fits in with critique of neoclassical theory as too mathematized and unrealistic

the categorization is arbitary, even if you think it's heterodox. he's communicating to a general audience

have you read chang's kicking away the ladder? much more specialized if that's you're thing, with historical data

>In this provocative study, Ha-Joon Chang examines the great pressure on developing countries from the developed world to adopt certain 'good policies' and 'good institutions', seen today as necessary for economic development. His conclusions are compelling and disturbing: that developed countries are attempting to 'kick away the ladder' with which they have climbed to the top, thereby preventing developing countries from adopting policies and institutions that they themselves have used.
This book was fantastic, and elegantly laid out in how it described behaviors that human beings take.
I think the OP wants to know why this asked, not for sample answers
Right now we're working with a Google-hardened Ubuntu image; same one we use for GKE. COS is still TBD.
I agree with you generally, but I don't think you can say that the US was parasitic in Iraq. I've never heard from any credible source that the US looted the country and in fact Trump has often complained about that ("We should have taken the oil!"). That said, companies hired to develop infrastructure in Iraq, it seems, were highly parasitic toward US-supplied development and defense funds.
Interesting.

I had to learn Kubernetes very recently and this seems to simplify a lot of the boilerplate needed to have an app running.

One the most grating part for me was having the ingress run with a proper SSL certificate with the right handshakes though (had to install a nginx controller just for that).

That’s the kind of things that everyone will go through, and is solved in one click on heroku. Yet it seems to be left out of all the samples, if it’s out of the scope that diminishes a lot the appeal.
How is this trolling?
A reasonable question but I think it's caused by confusion. The answer to bad speech is good speech, not censorship. The answer to unjust violence is just violence, not appeasement.
This is a great answer. Kubernetes is missing (or said another way, OpenShift has...) buildconfig and imagestream primitives to make building containers a natural extension of your Kubernetes deployments/daemonsets/whatever.

OpenShift has done a really good job of being there, wherever Kubernetes is lagging behind. They may not provide the new canonical implementation of the solution to the forseen problem, but they are expert at predicting where the gaps will need to be filled (and preemptively making an effort to fill them.)

I see Helm project has a specific advice for multi-tenant usage now, too, in their best-practices advice! That was one of the criticisms of helm from OpenShift, and now it's evidently solved(-ish) with the advancements in modern k8s rbac and some documentation.
Yes the problem with light-field displays (and cameras) is that they do need massive bandwidths.

But there are ways to mitigate it somewhat. It's possible to have a gaussian or random distribution of light rays so that you end up with only average about 10 or so rays per pixel, instead of the 45 here.

But yes, expect to need a massive increase in bandwidth for light-field holographic displays. This includes headset VR mounts, where you can finally have a display without the limited field-of-vision that you'd have from current VR headsets. A VR headset can focus the light rays towards the range of each eye, which can also cut down on bandwidth.
I tried it when I was teaching Calculus...

Turns out, recording video lectures so that they are lively and watchable is hard.

The students loved the couple of videos I posted, but then I burned out making them - since doing that was in addition to actually being in class, grading, and working on my thesis.

So I went back to the more traditional (and ineffective setting) - one thing I regret about that semester.

However, looking back, I'd need an entire semester just to develop the materials. Of course, that was not an option.
It's also worth pointing out that there are multiple types of neurons, so I suppose that you could argue that some of them are more "software-like" while others are more "hardware-like", as well as glial cells that essentially serve as dumb cabling (huge oversimplification). Purkinje cells in the cerebellum, for instance, are known to be more involved in muscle memory, although they still exhibit properties that are both hardware/software-like.
You take action with your own speech, not by using the power of the majority to censor opinions and ideas that the majority doesn't like. You have the ability to do this anytime without fear that someone will tell you your perspective and opinions are wrong.

If the roles were reversed and you were living in an authoritarian dictatorship, you might be considered a "bad person", and your speech might be censored or worse.
Have you looked at this: https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/atc18/atc18-o...
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This is frontloaded with proclamations of "extremism" upon things the author disagrees with and doesn't give us any technical evidence that the foundations of open source are helping in some major way to perpetuate big government -- Isn't the US Government very keen about acquiring proprietary software? (obviously the party referenced in the brief subjective opener)

It's interesting how faced with ethical issues, people with vocal opinions about tech resort to coming up with some over-designed workaround that has no technical feasibility (this is my opinion of GDPR incidentally) instead of standing by the principles we should defend in the face of bad actors.

“contact me or my agent, tell us what you’re doing, and we’ll decide whether to grant you an additional licence for use”

seriously?
I have lots of ex side projects, but family commitments means they are not maintained. How does that fly with you?
Fortnite Mania Fuels Epic Growth to $8.5B
You have to be kidding.

What you're referring to is a branding tactic. It has nothing to do with some subconscious direction on how to use the device. It's not only reasonable, but expected, that customers will use the device in their laps... no matter what the naming convention. Come on.
The extreme was already explored by Philip K. Dick in his 1952 short story Paycheck: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Paycheck_(short_story)

> Jennings, a talented electronic engineer, has accepted a secret contract with Rethrick Construction. The terms of the contract state that he will work for two years on a secret project after which he will have his memory of the time erased and will be paid an inordinate sum. It is implied that this type of working contract has replaced non-disclosure agreements in business and is commonplace.
They weren't "scare quotes" - that was the part that was directly quoted, the other was to provide the context for the exact quotation.

Perhaps I should've put:

Twitter introduces “new developer requirements to protect our platform”

To be honest, I do what I think is right, and I don't care to second-guess the mods. But I'm slowly being trained not to care at all.
Awesome! That's totally understandable, your non-response was actually a hint that you were up to something, so it's good to see what it was. So I'm not that surprised to find you here in this discussion.

I'll check it out in more detail when I'm back in front of a computer! Glad to see the rails logo somewhere new, too.
According to the docs, the high level overview is misleading.

You don't have to explain physics to explain how a car works. You only have to explain it in terms of something your audience is familiar with. Magnetization would be hard to explain to someone without physics, because there's no other parallel to quantum mechanics for the average person.

But a car is based on general principles which most of us understand at a simplistic level. We understand "stickiness", so "stickiness" can stand in for "coefficient of friction". We understand "weight", so we don't have to explain how gravity works. We understand that fuel, oxygen and a spark creates a fire (or explosion), so we don't have to explain chemical reactions. We also understand that explosions exert a force on things around them.

So when I say that an explosion in your car's engine exerts a force pushing against a piston, and that piston is connected to a rod, and that rod pushes on and turns a crank, which (skipping the transmission for brevity) turns an axle, which is connected to a wheel whose tire is stuck to the road, and that the weight of the car on the wheel forces either the road or the tire to move, we understand that even though the car is heavy and the turning force on the tire is pretty strong, the road is probably stronger and isn't going to move, so instead the tire moves, and the car is attached to the tire. So you can understand at a basic level how a car works without having to know physics.

What I was asking for was what combination of components in what order are required to make the thing run, and how these things are accomplished without the developer seeming to have to do anything. If they've built a car for developers, that's great, but it seems more like they've created nuts and bolts.
> They don't want pornography on their website.

They wont allow it because they thoroughly understand the effects of positive feedback loops if they had allowed a tiny bit of porn even partially. See Tumblr.
it's not an exact science in the same way physics or chemistry were. by the arguments of market fundamentalists/etc you'd think they think economics is a deductive science

part of his whole thing is that economics isn't something too complicated for the average person to understand. too much mathiness and touted as an absolute certain science

>The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed, the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually slaves of some defunct economist.
It's probably harder for us to dig ourselves out of the various deep dives and rabbit holes we've been over the past few months.

I think there are two parts to the story here. One is what Knative is for, what it can do. That's some version of "source code to event-driven system on any Kubernetes system without the tears". As with previous Big Changes there will be a cottage industry of explanations, and that is fine.

The second part of the story is: who is working on it. And that's the underrated part for me so far. You see Pivotal and Red Hat -- we are fierce competitors -- working on the same project with Googlers, IBMers and SAPers. You find folks who work on riff and OpenWhisk sitting in calls with engineers who've worked on Google Cloud Functions comparing notes on problems and solutions.

I have sat in working groups where experiences have been shared from Cloud Foundry, OpenWhisk and Google App Engine in the space of 5 minutes. I've sat in other calls with teams comparing notes on Buildpacks and S2I, Concourse and OpenShift ImageStreams ... it goes on and on.

The big story here is that Google were able to catalyse a conversation that would be very difficult to start any other way. People from contributing organisations are busily sorting out common ground that will let everyone to move past this level of abstraction much quicker than would otherwise be the case.
I agree. There is a diminishing return on service reliability as you approach 'free', and at some point, you finally pay $9.78/mo and survive anyway.
While the cluster can operate in a disconnected state, much of the functionality is provided by the connection to GCP. Things like UI integration, policy syncing, Stackdriver, etc. Our early focus is on datacenters that have a connection to the internet. However, we're starting to look a lot more are airgapped environments.
Is part of this project intended to support easy federation of Kubernetes workloads across data centers and public cloud?

Any comment on what the pricing model will be like?
Everything you listed is a feature to me. To each their own, I guess.
I am certainly more comfortable with a corporation assuming the role of thought police than with a corporation saying "Sorry, we are bound to promote things happening that everyone knows will be terrible for the world."

Corporate thought police are certainly bad, but not the worst possible thing - since they are corporate thought police instead of governmental ones, there will be ways of communicating without them (and I already have positions I hold but do not feel comfortable expressing publicly, and if I want to share them with people I will need to find private and point-to-point means of conveying them, and I already have means of doing that). And since they are corporations subject to government, there are already positions that you cannot post on social media without getting in legal trouble of various sorts.

And at least with thought police, you have a hope - maybe a slim one, but a hope nonetheless - of convincing them that your thoughts are fine and should not be policed. (with corporate thought police, you can also try outcompeting them, of course.) With a corporation that feels obligated to promote all thoughts no matter how awful, they will not shut down something that 99.9% of society believes is dangerous, for any reason.
Depends on the style of photography. I tend to go for hyperfocal-distance landscapes using a 36 megapixel FF sensor. If you want to call that an edge case then I'd agree.

I'm not too hung up on shallow DoF - it looks nice for a portrait or picture of your meal but I think there's always room for higher resolution sensors capturing a world of visual information (provided they can produce great dynamic range which a lot of recent/new high resolution FF sensors do).

APS-C, similar to M4/3's 16-20 megapixel sweet spot, seems to be stuck at 24 megapixels for good dynamic range results.
Why Some Gravestones Are Shaped Like Tree Stumps
The quote that hit me is, paraphrased, "women have to play the part until they're well known enough to be themselves"

Yes, you have to act strong and confident or else no one from whom you need something will take you seriously. This applies to both men and women, in almost every walk of life. I fail to see a problem here. (Not in general, but that complaint is not well reasoned.)
Yep, no free lunch. Scaling up has a few different "cliffs". To outline a few:
1. Existing pod scheduled and ready (fastest)
2. Room on existing node (so no docker pull needed)
3. Room on existing cluster (so no VM creation needed)
4. No room, need to increase cluster size.

Optimizing 1-3 is very much in scope for the Knative project. Optimizing (4) is a provider problem and will vary by provider.

The Knative Scaling working group is discussing this every week on Wednesdays and that meeting is open to the public. We also keep good notes linked from our community page:
https://github.com/knative/docs/blob/master/community/WORKIN...
Yes, it's unjust to not allow people to idle their cars. It's a minuscule portion of total emissions that's not worth the tradeoff of convenience.
There are devices for scooping trash out of rivers, I don't know how well they could be adapted for the ocean.

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/02/mr-trash-wheels-...
Sure, it affects things at the margins. However that is all this does. The biggest outcry against bots is not the low margin spam/advertising related stuff. People learn to ignore that type of content almost as soon as they start using the internet. The real troubling bots are those used for harassment, influencing financial markets, and influencing political discourse. The first was never about pricing. The latter two are still amazingly cost effective. I would bet they would have to go up by an order of magnitude or two before the pricing effects start having a real impact.
Every "side" has their own morality. And believes that they are good and the other "side" is evil. This is just a fact of life.

It is very noble to attempt to adjudicate based on impartial rules rather than picking one of the many possible moralities and enforcing it with an iron fist.

Despite not being a fan of Facebook as a product, I'm impressed that they've been principled enough to not go the route of petite totalitarians like Twitter.
Changing the width or zooming in and out changes the number of columns (nice!), but the max seems to be 4. Is that a hard limit? Seems like a responsive UI should respect wider screens in landscape.
Nice work, btw.