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Because of the low quality. All the bots I've encountered were ridiculous. Like different "people" starting to follow me on Google+ (obviously intending to attract my attention so I would follow back) at the same moment and posting exactly the same (equal as string values) "thoughts" simultaneously. You can also find crowds of human-impersonating political bots posting exactly the same things on Twitter and in comments many times.
My guess? An unholy alliance between government and private industry which allows each to get away with things the other can't. For example, squelching free speech can be done by a private company with practically no impediments. Meanwhile, governments want to eavesdrop on everyone and develop dossiers on everyone because that's how you control people. Corporations are doing that for marketing purposes, but the intelligence agencies are right there in that data now, too.

Google always had a CIA connection. You do the math on how this works and what it means now that you can see it all unfolding like everyone else can. They want total control over your mind and barring that, they want total control over your behavior one way or another.

What can't corporations do? They can't force people to buy their products or pay their bills. Governments can, though. It's actually the only tool in the box. Corporations would love to gather and coalesce the information and then have the jackboots do the violent stuff to suppress and subjugate. The very definition of fascism.
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The degradation happens only when you explicitly start using a service (such as AirDrop) that uses AWDL. The AWDL interface becomes inactive once there is no more traffic on the interface. In the measurements, we show the performance when both infrastructure and AWDL traffic is present (i.e., the Wi-Fi radio needs to switch channels in between).

In fact one could argue that AWDL actually reduces "interference" because two neighboring devices can communicate directly and do not need to go an additional one-hop detour over an access point.
> I remember how MS-Office for DOS shipped on 7 floppy disks.

You must be remembering something else because there were no DOS versions of Office.
> For this reason, there is no real protection in the review process against people making results up.

You can still sanity-check the results, even without redoing the experiment. For example if the average agreement to a certain question on a 1-5 scale among a cohort of 10 people is reported to be 3.26, you might want to ask for the raw data, because that average is only possible with fractional answers.

I recall a study looking at such impossible aggregate statistics leading to several retractions of articles whose data had been made up outright.

Similarly, when someone claims that "four men watched 2,328 hours of hardcore pornography over the course of a year and took the same number of Implicit Association Tests", you might realize that 2328 hours/(4*365) > 1 hour 36 minutes per day; and ask for the titles and duration of the porn allegedly watched, just to make sure that this extremely onerous experiment has actually been performed.

Note that the paper about that "experiment" was not accepted , but at least one reviewer actually recommended less data ("My first piece of feedback on how to make this hybrid article work is that they should remove the quantitative data."), perhaps due to a misunderstanding of sample sizes ("It makes no sense to undertake quantitative analysis for four people – when you flatten the detail out of a sample of four you’re not left with anything interesting.") — the real sample size is at least 2328.

I realize that peer review mostly doesn't operate at that level of scrutiny, but maybe it should. Checking the raw data requires slightly more work of both reviewers and honest authors, but increases the workload of dishonest authors from "make up a few numbers" to "make up as many numbers as if'd actually done the work and don't introduce statistical anomalies", shrinking the gap to "actually do the work".

So even though you need to trust authors a little, it's certainly possible to trust less. There is no perfect protection against academic dishonesty, but there could be better protections.
It's actually the least political article on anything in Gaza that I've seen for a long time now. The previous almost-unpolitical one was also about Gaza Sky Geeks.
Marginally better than Chrome

That's a gross misrepresentation.
> I'm not sure I understand. Sorry, my exposure to Kubernetes is only a few days and is limited to an overview of all of its components and a workshop by Google.

No worries. The fact you asked the question is a positive, even if we end of agreeing to disagree.

> I was thinking that Ansible + FreeIPA(RedHat enterprise product) + Elastic logging setup(ELK) + Prometheus would be easier for my successor to deal with than figuring out my bespoke setup of Kubernetes(which keeps adding new features every so often). Even if I did not create proper docs(I do my best to have good doc of whatever I do), my sucessor would be better off relying on RedHat's specific documentation rather than guessing what I did to a Kubernetes version from 6 months ago...

So both FreeIPA and ELK would be things we would install onto a kube cluster, which is rather what I was commenting about. When either peice of software has issues on a kubernetes cluster, I can trivially use kubernetes to find, exec and repair these. I know how they run (they're kubernetes pods) and I can see the spec of how they run based on the kubernetes manifest and Dockerfile. I know where to look for these things, because everything runs in the same way in kubernetes. If you've used an upstream chart, such as in the case of prometheus, even better.

For things that aren't trivial we still need to learn how the software works. All kubernetes is solving is me figuring out how you've hosted these things, which can be done either well or poorly, and documented either well or poorly, but with kube, it's largely just an API object you can look at.

> Is it not the case? Is Kubernetes standard enough that their manuals are RedHat quality and is there always a direct way of figuring out what is wrong or what the configuration options are?

Redhat sells kubernetes. They call it openshift. The docs are well written in my opinion.

Bigger picture is if you're running a kubernetes cluster, you run the kubernetes cluster. You should be an expert in this, much the same way you need to be an expert in chef and puppet. This isn't the useful part of the stack, the useful part is running apps. This is where kubernetes makes things easier. Assuming your bespoke kubernetes itself is a different thing. Use a Managed Service if you're a small org, and a popular/standard solution if you're building it yourself.
Well... regarding what Mozilla did with Cliqz, I'm sure Google won't be sending my user data to third parties, which Mozilla did. So maybe Chrome is better than Firefox in that regard.
This bothers me a little bit

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Those are fair points for side projects that have no visitors, but at least for me a side project can also have quite some traffic and then even a little timeout may not be an option. Plus you get a ton of goodies by relying on k8s (or similar) - ability to do an easy rollout, rollback, blue-green deployments, partial rollout, ability to replace multiple containers together if frontend and backend containers must be in sync (a pod) etc. Just my 2 cents.
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Can you elaborate as to why it is "marginally better than Chrome" please.

You could start by explaining how a privacy focused nonprofit is marginally worse than a multi-billion dollar advertising company with regards to privacy.
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The most annoying thing about unifi is that you have to host their management interface somewhere (could be a rpi or something), so the devices does not have a webinterface where you can manage them.

You can install it on your personal computer, but you loose some functionality and you would only be able to configure the devices from that specific computer.

Thats holding me back from going with unifi wifi even if I am very happy with their edgerouter series.

Unfortunately I cant really find good competitors to unifi in the same price range.
I have already begun to vote (against Google) with my feet/fingertips. I realize that even if I use non-Google products/services - much like the Kevin Bacon game - I'm only so many degrees away. But still, I feel i have at least a little more agency over my data. If I do this (move away from google), and then another person does this, and then another...eventually if many more do this, there could be a dent; which would hopefully more positively influence google (AND others like google); in essence manually move Adam smith's supposed invisible hand.
I think this a sidee effect of the _goal driven_ mentality so common in the US. You're never just doing something for your enjoyment; you're doing it for a goal. It's never, ever, about the journey; it's absolutely always about the destination. Of course someone in that position won't enjoy a hobby: unless they can be the best at it, and do it for a reason (money, social status), they won't do it.

Yesterday I was in the train and I overheard two young girls talking. One of them said she hoped she'd be made captain of her sports team at school, "because it would look good for college". That's it. That's the whole reason. Fill a role not because you want to contribute, or because you think you'd be good at it, but because it will be one more bullet point in a few years.

This is part of a trend where I see kids growing being instructed to use 100% of their time with goal achievements. Leisure time is a reason for shame. Hobbies would just be a waste your time. You can't _find out who you are_; instead you just need to check the imaginary boxes set by someone else that will guarantee a superficially successful life.
You should have implemented a probabilistic acceptor with probability around ½.
Because you can't get 10 undergrad students to each put in 50 full days of work. Just can't be done.

I do hope you see that such a thing would not be a reasonable demand on these people. That's WAY too much. That's literally 1/5th of their entire school year.
Let's say the speed of long distance travel.

I dropped dramatically when railways were invented and dropped again when commercial airliners became common.

In between these short bursts of innovation, not much has happened.

I just noticed though that I may be talking about a slightly different thing here, speed of innovation vs product life cycles.
I believe the Edge team is actively working on open sourcing the whole browser. They have already open-sourced the JS engine behind it [0], and they worked on some integrations with other things (IIRC there was an experiment with node using the chakra engine instead of V8).

I'm with you though, I really hope this opens back up into an all out competition between 3 or more big players. And I think firefox is in a great position to take up the "top" spot in terms of security, performance, and resource usage. They have been "paying their dues" for a while now working on that stuff, and it's starting to pay off. And if they gambled right, they might just have an architecture that is overall better than Chrome's, who will be stuck with the cruft they've slowly built up over the years.

[0] https://github.com/Microsoft/ChakraCore
Damn, you might want to not hang around that kind of negativity. Talk about a wet blanket.
This, is the essence of life.
Testosterone levels drop significantly with age, and that probably explains the lack of competitiveness and increasing agreeableness in older people.
What ever happened to stink bugs? A few years ago they were overrunning everything. Now I hardly see them?

Did animals adapt to eat them?
But that's the whole concept of social studies: identify grievances versus a given value system that is treated as dogma, and then threaten and shame society into (sometimes draconian) measures to fix those grievances.

Is it any wonder they treat students the same ?
Yes, unless your AP and ad hoc networks are on the same channel, you need two Wi-Fi radios to support this. AWDL "solves" this problem by quickly switching between these channels and schedules frame transmissions when the radio is tuned to the correct channel so the operation is (almost) transparent for the user (obviously, you loose some airtime for channel switching and your average latency increases).
There isn't anything to try out, here.
Robots are coming and so is automation. Programming opportunity will only exist in custom projects but most companies want to use COTS solutions to not beholden to contractors in the long run.

This change is starting to emerge and the programming opportunities for the future will start to erode.
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Hah! Surprised to see squash mentioned here - such a great game. Similar to you, I love it, but am fairly bad at it (compared to the “average” person I see on the courts). That said, I’ve recently got a resurgence of excitement out of it by:

(1) paying for lessons once a week (I committed an pre-paid for 20 lessons)

(2) Attending the weekly/bi-weekly round-robins; playing/meeting people there. Anyone who I have fun, spirited rallies with, I get their contact info

(3) once a week (I put a calendar reminder), I look at my next two weeks, and I email blast my list of squash contacts and get games scheduled in

(4) my gym uses ClubLocker, which has a ranking system. Sometimes I try to “gamify” the sport by looking up people just above me in ranking, and seeing if I can beat them.

(5) once in awhile, I’ll try to turn some of the squash buddies into “real” friends - suggesting a post-squash beer, etc. It’s been really fun, and made a few real friends this way!

Nothing groundbreaking, but it’s been fun lately. Happy squashing!
Generally speaking if there is a federal law explicitly allowing political calls of a given nature (e.g. robocalls over VOIP) a state law cannot disallow them. It depends on the exact wording of each, and the willingness of both parties to go to court. Even if it's illegal, that only matters when someone is willing to (literally) make a federal case over it.
What OS are you using for industrial IoT apps?
My previous startup did a prototype using OpenWRT. As far as I can tell, the decision was based more on 'comfort' than a hard technical requirement.

If you're using an embedded OS, what drove the decision? If you decided against a particular OS, same question - what drove the decision?

Thanks.
Indeed, that's part of the point. I first started using kube at a UK Gov Org about 4 years ago. All the units of the org has different standards for hosting, they weren't written down, and the vendors would quote unreasonble sums of money knowing that their systems weren't really supportable by anyone without specific experience of the system.

Kube was used to enforce standards, and make things supportable by a wider number of people, which is a weird thing to say since barely anyone used it at the time.

This was a large success though, as we only really needed to train people to use kubernetes once, and then it was over to worrying about the actual applications.
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Should I go for a) All in one powerful desktop b) multiple PCs with RAM in the 4-8 GB range? How to decide?
Firefox is better.
Same here, so I always close the tab.
It's quite liberating to be totally shit at everything and fail everybody's expectations. For some reason we all hit rock bottom at some point. I'm reminded of this talk from Simon Sinek when somebody at Google asked him what his worst moments in life were - a rather weird question, but the answer was great - his life was falling apart and that somehow led him to do more: https://sahilparikh.com/simon-sinek-the-finite-and-infinite-... I see adults around me all the time - not doing things. We all have something that holds us back, and it would seem the more successful we are, the more we are held back. Like it was pretty weird when Michael Jordan started playing baseball https://www.bleachernation.com/2017/02/07/michael-jordans-ba... but then the question sort of becomes - wait, what does everybody do instead? Why don't every great athlete go try some other random sport instead? And likewise - why don't we all just go and do it, whatever the "it" may be for ourselves.
>who believe with all of their heart that God wanted them to find it

Yeah OP is way off on his God scapegoat. People in the West are far more likely to not return a lost wallet due to the wide variance in cultural identity. Japanese people have such a shared identity which promotes a level of empathy that only Americans in small towns could hope to replicate. Call it hospitality. Religion has nothing to do with it.
The importance of this is amplified at larger corporations. Great advice.
Can I ask if your nodes are "in the cloud" (ie AWS/rackspace) or in _your_ datacentre?

Can you go touch your boxes? Who can add a new one and how long.

As i understand it k8s is kind of designed for renting a bunch of AWS boxes and just having "my" cluster look like it operates seperately (the traefik router proxy comes to mind as something K8S should do)

I speak as a complete K8s novice.
Aren't there ways to automate this though? Even if it's not 100%, maybe you could get the first parts, and then get everything setup so you only need to click a window and then "select all, copy, tab, paste" to finish.

I'm sure with some clever thought, you might even be able to use a GUI scripting program to work with the VS window. I'm thinking of a series of keyboard shortcuts to reliably set the state of the VS window to where you can script a mouse click in the appropriate spot and then more keyboard shortcuts to copy and save the output.
Because you care about the well-being of your workforce? Greed doesn’t _always_ have to prevail.
And one of the end results I see (and have done myself) is people give up as soon as they see they're not immediately a natural at something.
If you really wanted to find out you could just ask the phone company, they know the real number/identity of the person calling you, or at the very least a layer deeper than caller ID. It's not like caller ID spoofing makes you anonymous.
This bill isn’t limited to phone calls. It also applies to any bot on any social media site that receives more than 10mm visitors per month that exists to “incentivize a purchase or sale of goods or services in a commercial transaction”. In other words, a Facebook Messenger bot answering pre-sale questions is violating this law unless it has a massive disclosure about it being a bot. At first glance it also appears that this law would make chats in which a bot handles most but not all of the interaction illegal. For example, an online chat with a support tech that begins with an automated “this is Larry, how can I help you?” seems to be illegal under this law. Larry exists, but the bot is “impersonating” Larry during the automated portions of the conversation. This is a poorly thought out, overly broad law.

One sidenote...HN really needs a way to just “save” articles. I didn’t want to upvote this article, because that sends the wrong signal - that I am somehow in favor of unworkable regulations. I didn’t want to “favorite” it either, because this certainly doesn’t fall into the category of my favorite articles that I’d like to keep around on that list for a long time. But I do want to keep track of the discussion today, because I find it fascinating just how many technologists are in favor of onerous regulations governing their own industry. Currently, there is no way to simply save an article on HN without upvoting or favoriting it.
I wonder if, in a couple of generations from now, we’ll be browsing private messages, emails, browsing history, etc—all the “private” details that Google et al, have amassed—much in the same way the Stasi files are available now.
It's not that bespoke, but it is a bunch of building blocks glued together, rather than being a framework, and thus one needs to figure out which blocks you've glued together.

Your average guy with unix skills that works on small deploys probably doesn't want to learn kubernetes, once they work on larger deployments, they tend to convert in my experience.