skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
MIT this and Psychology that don't change the fact that the world is made of a web of abstraction of trust. It is not possible for any individual to have the time or competence to evaluate the trustworthiness of every single entity they rely on in day to day life.

If I employed a plumber and she did a bad job because she used a tool wrongly or used the wrong pipe fitting, will it be reasonable for the world to expect me to know the intricacies of plumbing (where do I learn them? How do, I, in turn, trust that source of information, and ad infinitum)?

Yes, it's good to do some basic due diligence for things that affect our lives, but there's a reason high-trust societies are much nicer to live in.
I'm just asserting that it's disingenuous to claim that the topics Quillette covers are "taboo", given the breadth and number of publications who promote the exact same viewpoints.

No disagreement. We should be living in an open society where even unpleasant questions can be asked. We shouldn't be living in a society where force and coercion is used against "wrongthinkers."
Customers do not look in the address bar, so it has no brand impact.

When putting your domain in print, you should omit the www if you can. Just catch the root domain request and redirect to www if you want it.
This is just highly biased. It's just as easy with IntelliJ and doesn't require any more fiddling around than this.
No idea, sorry. My effort was strictly software.
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Na, the inflation index has a thing called 'rent or rent equivalent' for a reason. The parallel I'm drawing here is between rent control and prop 13, which runs along comparable lines, ie: evicting grandma because she can't afford ( rent | afford property taxes ) because $demographic wants to live nearby is an affront to people's rights to be secure in their home and life. The rhetoric is the same, just with more bootstrapping.
I don't have any objections to the word, but have learned from experience that when the dreaded title fever strikes, it consumes everything. Therefore don't fight it.
If you run your own k8s on GCP, you are not going to be affected by GKE.
Agree, it seems that people have their pet issues, around here, Facebook is bad, Google is evil, etc.

Once we have these memes established we can blame things like extremism on them.
I find it difficult to write code on even a 15-inch MBP display. It feels very cramped to me. There's barely room for 2 adjacent windows, so I spend all my time scrolling and switching desktops and re-layering windows.

13" is barely bigger than the 12" display on my Apple IIgs (late 1980's), or my first laptop (mid-1990's). That was a perfect size for a VT100 emulator (it's the same size as the original 1978 VT100!), but that's not how I write software any more.

The same size screen is actually relatively worse than 20 years ago, because these days all documentation is online, so it has to share my screen.
From Harvard to the Facebook (October 2005)
Those are a different model, and from this discussion it seems that hacking them it at least different and apparently harder: http://doityourselfchristmas.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-...
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Montana is the only exception.
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Were you making that decision for a personal project or for something work related?

The AWS console is wildly inconsistent. I’ll give you that. But, any projects I am doing are usually defined by a Cloud Formation Template abd I can see all of the related resources by looking at the stack that was run.

Theoretically, you could use the stack price estimator, I haven’t tried it though.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGui...
I think it is important to remember that environmentalism is always loaded with trade-offs and there are many aspects to it as well. It brings to mind vicious yet silly lawsuits between plastic and wooden pallet makers over which was more environmentally friendly given variables like weight, fuel consumption, ecosystem impact, and biodegradability.

If you really want to be a smartass you can say with one hundred percent truth that styrofoam and plastic are better for carbon long-term compared to paper and cardboard which break down over time and release it into the atmosphere. (Ignoring the relative accounting of the manufacturing processes themselves for now.)
You could get a bunch of plants. They probably won't solve the problem outright, but they are a good first step.
EMP bombs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_pulse
Even though you have troubleshooting skills and other skills that can help Google, Google assumes that these skills are derivative of what they are looking for in interview. So, they are looking for those primary skills.
Not meaning to be rude, it sounds like you're going strong and providing a great service. But if you retire in future do you plan on handing down your code and setup to someone?
I had a similar idea of making a suspended robot farming robot (e.g. it may hang in between two fences of a backyard or between trees...)

Do you have any contact info?
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You can switch today by just cancelling one service and signing up for another. If, however, you are suggesting that somehow your internal "profile" of likes can be easily moved, then you should first learn a little bit about how these services work.

Each uses internal IP, unique to them, that won't work with a competitors technology even if they could get access to it. And of course that ignores all the issues of trade secrets and patents that your suggestion would bring up.

You can switch cell phone carriers because of a few very simple standards. But when you do you are not taking the majority of data about you. You are only taking your number.

I also challenge that all of this data is "your data." Let's take hacker news as an example. What is "your data"? Your username, passwords, comments, those all seem pretty clear. But what about your upvotes and reports? Is that your data? An upvote involves you, but also someone else's comment or story, so it's hard to argue that it's yours alone to do with as you please. Also, what about website log data? Is that your data? Logs about web requests that you make are definitely trigger by an action of yours, but the log message itself is produced by ycombinator software, so why should you get to "own" it?
The iron-on toner transfer thing has been around since laser printers came out. It doesn't work very well. Note the mention of needing a few tries to get it right. "Touch up" with a conductive ink pen and X-acto knife is often required. The resolution of this process is not that good. There also tend to be registration problems, because laser printer roller feeds are not precision devices. If you're doing modern surface mount components, it may not be good enough. There also tend to be registration problems, because laser printer roller feeds are not precision devices. You don't get plated through holes. So through-board connections have to be made by soldering in little wires. There are special rivets and tools available for this.

Other than as a curiosity, or for very, very simple boards for large components, this is more trouble than it's worth. Quick-turn one-off boards are so cheap now.
Yep. Laws don't matter. Even in going to war, the US went ahead without approval of Congress. Or backing out of Nuclear treaties and building "missle shields" in Romania.

What matter's is who is controlling production and how is this control is enforced.
So, what does this mean for HTTP and HTTP2? Will they always be around, and servers will just "gracefully degrade" and opt for the fastest/newest protocol?

Or will HTTP/1 and 2 slowly decline over time?

Genuine question, not snark.
I was surprised to learn that Harvey Milk was one of Jones' strongest supporters. The article touches on this but doesn't go into it. I ran across it in a different article, which is a bit strident, but it's still interesting to read a different side of the story:

https://home.isi.org/jim-jones-harvey-milk

Milk was assassinated only 9 days after the massacre.
Operating on the basis that one scooter rider is one less car driver, there is an immediate benefit. Scooters have an even smaller footprint than a bicycle.
While I suspect small robots would have a place in the future eventually I'm not entirely sure if tractors would be entirely replaced - I would expect bulk tasks to be handled by a tractor more efficiently. They certainly have the potential to be far more versatile as platforms however.
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Admittedly you do lose the convenience methods from UIPanGestureRecognizer (sure would be nice if Apple would add them to UILongPressGestureRecognizer too), but you can recover translation just by grabbing the location of the recognizer in the associated view when the state moves to .began and then subtracting that from the current location on every subsequent .changed state callback. Calculating velocity is harder of course, but you could do it without too much difficulty by recording the previous location and timestamp and using that to calculate an instantaneous velocity (I'm not sure if this is what UIPanGestureRecognizer does or if it tries to smooth the velocity at all using multiple "frames").

I don't have any linkable examples offhand, but at a previous company one of our standard interview questions was to implement custom drag & drop of a view using a gesture recognizer, and our reference app used UILongPressGestureRecognizer because it let us do such nice things as visually "lift up" the view (scale it up slightly and add a drop shadow) the moment your finger touched it.
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See the reply to my original post. It wasn’t an actually Route 53 “outage”.
I support Quillette's fight for free speech and wholeheartedly agree that it's important that we can debate any idea put forth in "good faith" (subjective, of course, but a necessary qualifier) on its merits. However, I largely disagree with their assessment of the severity of the anti free speech movement in the US. For instance, Larry Summer's dismissal as president of Harvard is a commonly cited example as this backlash. But after Harvard, he went on to chair the national economic council and regularly publish columns in many major publications. So, he wasn't exactly frozen out of society, unlike many members of truly disadvantaged groups. Perhaps academia is sick and in need of reform, but we don't need to exaggerate the problem.
Yes, they are, which is as much as argument that religious beliefs are too protected as it is an argument that political beliefs are not protected enough.
Any machine learning models for IT infrastructure automation
Folks,

Anyone aware of AI models that I can train to do certain recommendations to automate some IT infrastructure flows? For example, a model I can train to scale my infrastructure or execute a series of commands to mitigate an outage, etc.
FWIW Pivotal's S-1 https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1574135/000104746918...

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In addition to mold, mildew, and pollen, a lot of people are allergic to various types of critters and their droppings. I don't want to think about what can accumulate over 50 years in an empty building.
This is one of my favorite internet radio ~stations~ websites. My only beef is that I wish there was a more permanent way to bookmark stations. The current implementation uses cookies or something that doesn't allow me to sync between browsers.
> What the heck does age have to do with anything?

A lot.

If your site is 15 or 20 years old, you're from an era where consumers universally expected www to preface a domain. 20 years ago consumer ignorance was extremely high as it pertained to how the Web worked and how addresses worked, any variations from what was normal would be a poor choice. It was also technically more annoying 20 years ago to try to get by without www, companies like Cloudflare have helped make that far more trivial as an issue. Once you've become very successful such that tens or hundreds of millions of people are using your service and you've firmly established your address (eg as www.facebook.com), the downside risk is greater than the upside potential to bother switching from www to non-www at that point. If you're Facebook and you've acquired a sweet 2 billion person social monopoly, there's zero potential value in messing with switching from www.fb.com to fb.com.

Further, if you've built up an elaborate service over many years using www and attaching cookies and subdomains to countless services, there can be a plethora of super annoying problems (and or very serious security risks) to deal with in switching to non-www for your core. So once again, for someone like Facebook or Google, the value proposition to switching a gigantic service over, is more of a nightmare. If you're just starting out with none of that legacy, such things are not a problem, you build from the ground up for non-www.

If you're Twitter, Imgur, Github or Stripe and you want the identity benefit of having no www in the front - it produces a better url for advertising, a shorter url for function (valuable historically for eg Twitter and Imgur), and stronger visual branding (less cruft around your name) - then you avoid www from the early days.
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Seems like only a matter of time till Tesla has something on the burner for this. After pickup truck I think they are doing a electric bike then after that.....
Again, because their support reps don't believe there's a problem.

Perhaps if you explained it on a whiteboard...
Yes, I do. I loved Gopher. When I was a senior in high school in 1992, a buddy and me discovered Gopher. We were a really unlikely pair of nerds: I was into skateboarding and my buddy was a starting lineman on the HS football team. For the post-internet generation here, you have to understand just how unusual and uncool it was to be into computers in the early 90s. Even the nerds at my school weren't into BBSes or the early Internet but we were, in a closeted sort of way. So, every day at lunchtime, we would go home to our respective houses and get on a BBS and chat with each other just because the technology was so cool.

One day, we were on a local Waffle BBS (I think it ran on BSD-OS or something like that) and we read about a dialup at the local university that could be used to get a gopher client. You would dial into their terminal server and this gave you unauthenticated telnet access anywhere. From there, we would telnet to liberty.wlu.edu, some kind of *nix server (probably Sun) that had a no-auth-required login that would get you a Gopher client. From there, we would browse the Gopher-web, which was pretty amazing for 1992. We'd visit gopher servers in Sweden, Japan, Germany, everywhere. We believed that when we went from the WLU gopher (in Virginia) to a Gopher server in Sweden, that a modem was dialing between those two locations and so on. We were really worried that we'd get in huge trouble for racking up tens of thousands of dollars in long distance.

Yeah, I loved gopher. :)
We did. Our customer had a bucket shared to a role they created, we spent a week back and forth trying to mount such bucket in our instance using fuse. Mounting with gcsfuse took 5 minutes (although no role used, so perhaps an unfair comparison). In general, I found Gcloud a lot easier to work with.
I'm a vegetarian since birth who rarely ever gets sunlight exposure, and omega 3 (from algae pills) and vitamin D3 + K2 seem to have improved my mood within a few weeks of taking them daily. I still take them every day, and the mood improvement seems to have stuck around.
Posting any content that's outside of the mainstream is a magnet to the fringe, unfortunately.

So are internet comment sections. If you've seriously never seen anti-Semitic nonsense on the internet before, I'm going to assume you either never read the comments or are in a left-wing internet bubble (and, even then, you'll still likely run into a different style of anti-Semitic nonsense.)
At first I wrote a lengthy rant about not supporting QUIC as an OSI layer 4 protocol on its own merits and develop HTTP to sit on top of either TCP or QUIC. But I'm hoping that the people pushing this along are only creating a homunculus guinea-pig, and that once this gets adopted widely, will push to turn QUIC out into a real independent low-level protocol like it should have been.

Bundling HTTP and QUIC into one protocol is a bad idea because (1) it increases complexity, (2) it creates application-specific QUIC implementations, which will become a problem later if QUIC is adopted by anything else, not to mention the security holes/feature gaps in different implementations, etc, (3) it reduces the likelihood of the operating system supporting QUIC as a first class L4(OSI) protocol, which will further doom any network application that uses any method of IPC other than an HTTP request.

Honestly, the way modern network applications operate is embarrassing. People in the future are going to look back and wonder what was wrong with us.
Google has spent at least 6 years (and counting) working on SPDY / HTTP2 / QUIC on design, experimentation, implementation, and specification tasks. This is low-level, complex work that requires a combination of experience and talent. This is expensive work - and there was never any guarantee it would pan out. I think it's unreasonable to assert, without evidence, that they did all that just because parts of their organization are incompetent and they refuse to fix it or that the problems they are trying to address have some sort of trivial solution.

It's also pretty unreasonable to point at www.google.com and say that it makes too many requests and it could be trivially fixed to use fewer. But, let's assume that the problem you identify actually is the case: Google is a huge, cash rich organization - if they can't figure out how to enact the change you suggest, how could any other organization? And if HTTP/2 and QUIC (HTTP3) solve this problem for Google, and since they are making it an open standard, also for other organizations, why is that a bad thing?
When I was at google, the big outages were almost always bad routing to the service - it was never that the service couldn't handle the load, and bad service instances were kind of hidden. my service did have some problems on new releases, but because we had multiple instances we could just redirect traffic to the instances we hadn't updated, so they stayed up.
Nice, I wondered if someone had done this. One request I have for the app would be the ability to select a local folder and have the app cycle though all the pictures in it. Being able to change the picture more often (like every 10 minutes) would be great too.

Awesome app overall though!
Looks like their live demo site https://openmct-demo.herokuapp.com/ has an error.
The Geoff Fox? You came to my house in Durham when I was a kid and interviewed my mom for some moon landing story. I think we saved a seltzer can you drank for a few months.
I don't like to blame the tools, but Facebook was used in this way by Trump and the Russians. So there is a current day example. That said, claiming these are "mass surveillance" apparatuses is quite some rhetoric. While they can be used for this, they also have many other users. The were not created to be state surveillance and routinely fight state control of their data.

Like all powerful technology, I don't think trying to ban it is the answer. Rather, stronger regulation over how it's allowed to be used.
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I love this creation! Thank You, shouldn't you add a login service so favorites are not lost?
I'm still not convinced. Even something like early VMware that scanned for the gnarly pieces that break Popek&Goldberg but just passes through most instructions should be better. In this case probably just syscall, some crazy system register reads that might return different things (but there aren't many of those in AArch64 EL0), and enough thunks that code can pretend it's executing at it's original location. Hell, equally sized RISC instructions should mean you can more quickly scan code than VMWare had to put up with doing crazy CISC decode just find out if they need to translate an instruction or not.
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"like this" -- a failure of the service, or a failure of communication and customer support?
The condo association owns the land and building exterior, is responsible for landscaping, etc. Usually in a development with a lot of similar-looking houses close together.
> Which half of your social network goes to which part?

For starters, the part of my social network on Whatsapp can spin off to Whatsapp, and the part of my social network on Instagram can spin off to Instagram.
I wonder how often the cops get called on the FBI. I know that there was the post 9-11 clownish thing with an FBI informant in a mosque who got banned and reported to the FBI because he was a frothing radical that they wanted absolutely nothing to do with.
I agree with what you have to say, but just want to respond to last second paragraph:

QUIC basically is a new version of TCP. Yeah, it's based on UDP, but, that is just an implementation detail. If it weren't for various poorly behaved middleboxes, QUIC could just sit on top of IP like TCP does. But, it can't - so we hold our noses and put it on top of UDP and we end up with something that actually works.
COINTELPRO wasn't public knowledge at the time, and many massive surveillance systems operating recently and today are known, e.g. PRISM.
Should be back online now.
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