skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> ... if we talk about a small company with a single product (which, the developers being sane, is a 'monolith' as opposed to being broken into microservices) then containerizing the thing really adds nothing.

I totally agree with the monolith thing. Did that my self recently too. I don't agree about it not being helpful to containerise them, though.

I've containerised a recent Go application I wrote. All it contains is the binary, an assets/ directory for CSS, and a templates/ directory for the HTML server-side templates. Deploying a new version consists of 'make docker-push' followed by 'make docker-run' on the remote server(s). All the Makefile is wrapping is Docker build, push, pull, rm, and run commands. Hardly taxing work.

It's also much easier to version control components when they're all placed into a neat and tidy "box" (image.) And because changes are just diffs of the filesystem, it's absolutely fine having 5,000 versions of your application because like branching in Git, it's cheap.

An example of this is wanting to change a library your application is using and trying it out. Super easy: change the lib', package it into an image with a specific version for that "product", deploy it, it fails (let's say), and you redeploy the previous image and you're back up.

Not to sound too arrogant or obnoxious, but anything other than the above is creating more work for oneself for no reason at all.

> So we use VPSs. Which kind of solves the issue in itself.

Do you pay per VPS? Sounds expensive. Would it not be cheaper and easier to have a "cluster" of VPS and run Docker on them, containerising your application? No need for K8s or any kind of orchestration, but using VMs as a "container" (like using AMIs for example) seems like a heavy, expensive option? I could be wrong.

I think you're solving the problems containers do using a heavier, weightier solution that's also slower and more expensive. Again could be wrong (and happy to be proven so)

> A kernel exploit is enough to break out of them

It would have to be an exploit that gets you a shell or the ability to execute code on the host. They're quite rare, I believe.
My friend has a startup and a single person got a k8s cluster running on aws with kops+GPUs in a couple weeks. He loves it. The people who are running it successfully don't come on here to complain.
Because my company is risk-averse, and perfectly happy to drop $1000 a month for a ridiculously overprovisioned database instance just to ensure an issue with the database will never cause their contracts to be lost.
Rinsing is good at /gorse/ cleaning, getting the really big obvious, bad to chew, things off.

The cooking is the part that actually sanitizes the food.
Nope, you can't restore to an iOS version that isn't being actively signed by Apple's servers. Restoring a backup just puts back user data, it doesn't change your iOS version.
Recently visited Lepenski Vir, oldest urban setlement known in Europe.
http://www.serbia.com/visit-serbia/cultural-attractions/arch...
Highly recommended for anybody interested into dawn of civilisation
Our own DNA-based life may actually be the von Neumann probes the author mentions -- self-replicating spacecraft, controlled by AI and capable of interstellar travel via "Panspemia".
current acting*

I believe the jury is (literally) still out on the legality of his interim appointment.
> Your only remotely objective criticism of Make is that "it just won't evolve".

I'm not the critic. You misunderstood the thread. Another user observed that lots of people have made other tools because they found make wanting and that make evolved to add features (presumably borrowing good ideas from its challengers). If you must be defensive, take it up with the authors of the aforementioned make-rivals.
Enter the hell of "with so many standards, which one" and "lets invent a new one" -> "with so many standards +1"

I think, if they went with pandoc as an input filter and Markdown as a common-core, we'd actually be good. I don't care if its static page, or from SQL vi Wordpress, I care how I write up the wordery.
I wonder if the availability of fossil fuels is the great filter? My understanding is that all that plant matter didn't decay only because fungi hadn't evolved thr ability to break it down, and thus fossil fuels are a one time burst of energy that isn't going to ever be available again.
I have no argument with transit systems being self-sufficient, nor with fares providing a reliable source of funding. But what needs to happen, ethically, is for the relief valve to be elsewhere when it comes time to balance the budget. Maybe that means more advertising, maybe it means cutting costs. But it shouldn't be taken from the users of the system, because their demand is flexible (as we're seeing in NY), and the inflexible ones are the people who already have no alternative and are hit the hardest.
i think people are just losing interest since nothing has happened in the crypto space in ages....yawwnnnn
Reference: https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/conservative-n...
This is wild. I honestly had no idea, but I am really glad that Hacker News showed me this. I really wonder what the implications have this has been all of this time.
An "is this child pornography" filter is a wildly different beast than "is this copyright infringement".

The crucial difference is something either is or is not child pornography, regardless of context. But whether something is copyright infringement depends on a whole variety of factors, and the exact same content uploaded by two different people might be a violation in one case and not in the other.
Yes, the ux was horrible, especially on mobile.
Why Do MDs Get More Research Dollars Than Doctors of Osteopathy?
Kubernetes is a single binary, too (hyperkube).
If really was horrible but I feel that staying inside was enough.. but I'm not sure if this is accurate from a scientific perspective.
Even if they aren't a corporation in name, capitalism naturally concentrates power with the richest groups of people. Without some external factor draining wealth from the wealthiest they will eventually soak up the entire monetary system and crash it. Capitalism is a positive feedback loop, like an open mic next to an amplified speaker, and we're pushing the mic closer and closer each year.

Thus far nobody has found a better institution that can act as a check on excessive concentration of wealth.
It seems like this happens all the time. I really wonder what the implications of this will be to companies like Chipotle, who use Romaine Lettuce exclusively. Personally, I am more of a fan of Iceberg, but it just makes me wonder why E. Coli is much more common in Romaine than in Iceberg. Any thoughts?
Haha you really believe this? Everybody lost because of the misuse. The effectiveness of real emails is way down from 15 years ago. Obviously there are many factors, like multitudes of alternative services, but wading through tons of spam opened the door to those new options. The same fate probably awaits today's popular services. We will move on, they will die.
The general theory is that the continued distribution of child pornography is itself re-victimizing the person or people depicted.
Shameless self-promotion: I wrote down some thoughts a while ago about this: https://www.notion.so/The-Hyperreality-of-Big-Data-ae0aebb35...

It almost feels like the only solution (for one aspect of the problem) is for the "good guys" to outmeme the "bad guys". But of course, that's much, much, much easier said than done.
The common HN user over 1000 points is happy to downvote you, but your dead on that both major US parties are bought and operated by the major companies, with social policies being the main differentiator.

Its really sad that there is no choice in American politics today outside a handful of socialist politicians at the local level.

Edit: Keep the downvotes coming! The lack of responses is telling :P
What if intelligent life exists all around us, but operates on vastly different time scale? For example, being thousand of time slower or faster? It would be almost impossible for us to notice each other either way.
The problem is if you come on here and talk about how great nomad is, then only later say you are only running five nodes, that gives people false impressions. Kubernetes is tested regularly with 5000 nodes. To get to that level takes an entirely different level of software to be able to run a cluster that large reliably without issues.
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So true! I think the Rick & Morty reference alone speaks volumes for everything. haha
I'm not a k8s expert, but I'm pretty sure it has an extensible architecture (plugin or similar), so it probably would allow for the definition of an image tagging service interface that could be satisfied by Azure or whomever. Would love to hear from someone more knowledgable than I.
"Too big to fail" is when they are already holding a gun to your head.
It's been a while since I took the Metro but I had been all over on it including to "end of the line" stops outside the boundaries of Paris and it was always the same price, EUR 1.40 (back then).

You might be thinking of the RER, that has different pricing.

I understand your point now though: it's the long fares that are insanely cheap, due to the flat pricing model. There are only a few comparison points I guess since very few cities have a "subway" system that large (some may have large transit systems that reach the suburbs, but they are often separate from the subway and with a different pricing structure).
With small companies being the primary rationale behind these measures.
That’s exactly how I would have reacted to the parent in real life. Your failed execution is your fault.
There’s a lot wrong with this “maybe they’re all ascended beings that we can’t detect” line of thought.

Firat, the EM spectrum is radiative energy. Simple as that. It’s everywhere, and postulate that it isn’t detected because the Ascended Ones have moved to woo[0] technology, assume ms that woo tech doesn’t radiate anything in the EM spectrum, not even heat. That’s an even bigger lift.

Furthermore, this transition to woo technology occurred far enough into the past, that no evidence of pre-woo technology exists in the light cone[1] visible to Earth. Keep in mind, even Bronze Age development can be detect in atmospheric samples.[2]

Second, “formed from baryonic matter”? Are you postulating noncoporeal life? If so, I’m running a subscription service to educate people how to communicate these noncoporeal living beings. I take cash and Venmo.

[0] https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Woo

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_cone

[2] https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/11/why-536-was-worst-ye...
Except for the case in the USSR when gamma rays were an issue at a train depot computer system due to radioactive cows from near Chernobyl: http://www.jakepoz.com/debugging-behind-the-iron-curtain/
Facebook’s Profit Margin Is Shrinking, but Not for the Reason You Think
Hi HN,

This is a small project that i've been meaning to launch for quite some time. Cronrunner is a job scheduler addon for Heroku applications, similar to standard scheduler but more powerful: you can define jobs with cron, set timezone, see history and receive error notifications. No need to setup webhooks or background jobs.

I've been using this addon internally for many months and finally decided to clean up and make a public site. The addon is not listed on the marketplace yet, i just need a bunch of test users to try it out, once it's done i can move it to the beta phase.

Feedback/ideas are highly appreciated!
Lest anyone think that last paragraph is hyperbole, note that the current head of the Department of Energy had previously stated that he wanted to abolish it. This was, of course, before he found out what it did (!), which occurred after he took the job (!!).

(In case anyone doesn't realize how ridiculous this is, the DoE is responsible for, among other things, the production and maintenance of the US's nuclear arsenal.)
What's "the right way"? Spending an extra few days on making your own visualization code, throwing away flexibility in the process?
I sort of fail to understand the outrage about the sex thing

I will suggest that, in this case, the outrage may be rooted in the fact that the dolphin literally killed itself.

She didn't masturbate the dolphin for her own sexual pleasure. To her, it was a perfunctory part of her job. It was expedient, to free up time to teach the dolphin. And no one stopped to wonder what the emotional and psychological consequences would be for the dolphin.

It was smart enough to try to teach language to, but then it was simultaneously assumed to be a "dumb animal" just needing to ejaculate, like that's a necessary bodily function like peeing and that's it. But the dolphin apparently experienced emotional bonding and was completely devastated when separated from her and literally committed suicide because of it.

So I think on some level people are reacting not to the "sex" per se, but to the "You did a thing that caused an intelligent creature to want to be dead because of the thing you did. Seriously? What is wrong with you?"
The points made apply equally to London's lines, which are even older.

(Some lines aren't yet upgraded to walk-through trains, but they're ordered. Stuff like speed regulators is decades old.)
This is so illogical.

For one, who is going to build these properties for low-income people only? Costs will be almost the same, profits will be way less. So why would a developer bother?

In fact, the recent change to require a higher percentage of low income units in new structures has killed the pipeline for new building starts.

Even if it seems counterproductive to the goal of helping low income people, historically new building starts have always been aspirational. Which makes sense - everyone wants a new car, but if you have little money you are better off getting a reliable used car. It is exactly the same for housing. When someone moves into a new condo that opens up a unit (and lowers the price incrementally) for someone who has less to spend.

Would it make sense to force carmakers to build cheap cars that only low-income people are eligible to buy?
re: "The SEC filed an injunctive order against Gulf Oil on the grounds that their bribes were material information that should have been disclosed to investors, and that by failing to disclose them, it violated existing federal securities laws."

Huh, that looks like an early example of Matt Levine's rule that everything bad is also securities fraud. (From before the anti-bribery law was passed.)
Facebook's ad platform was down for much of Tuesday
I’ve gone to a few restaurants in the US that do a cooked version of a caesar salad that’s quite good. I’ve made it myself, too. Grill whole heads of romaine until they’re blackened and wilting, then dress and shave parmesean on them.

Well ... don’t do that now, I guess. But once the red alert is over, it’s pretty tasty.
To offer a real life example, in Hurst v. W.J. Lake & Co., the court ruled that 49.5% was not "less than 50%" because of "the peculiar meaning attached to the words" by the trade in question.

tldr casebrief: https://www.casebriefs.com/blog/law/contracts/outline-contra...

More details & quotes: https://h2o.law.harvard.edu/collages/2981
My guess is that more folds make it harder to clean properly.
Do you have any hints as to what terms I should be googling for to find out more about this? I'm _very_ curious...
Bret Victor's Inventing on Principle talks a fair bit about how the greats don't solve what are thought to be the pre-existing problems of their field, but find solutions for problems no-one else even realized was a problem.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUv66718DII

The genius is a genius by the first look he casts on any object. Is his eye creative? – Emerson, Representative Men

(That seems related to Emerson's remark that though he didn't have a musical ear, he had musical eyes. I like that.)
I'm dubious but I can't dismiss this as a reason because all I have is anecdotal evidence; I've never had any stolen from me, and I've just used off-the-shelf wallets, including the gui client (bitcoinqt) at one point. The closest I came was I had some on deposit at MtGox, but I had luckily withdrawn to my personal wallet well before the collapse. I also came close with Bitfinex, but I had to withdraw because they decided not to allow New York residents to hold accounts, so I got lucky.

I also don't know personally anyone who had any stolen either. The generally available wallets are fine; you just get a pass phrase that you write down somewhere. Paper wallets are fine for cold storage (though the barriers are higher for the casual user).

And it's not regulation that saves banks, it's mandatory insurance. If the banks lose your money (through incompetence or theivery) the FDIC (in the US) will pay out (or national organizations through the EU). But this comes with built-in limits; the US maxes out at $250,000 but I don't think the insurance exceeds EUR 100,000 in any country in the EU.
Point being made is that actual experience with aws, azure or google cloud would be preferable to reading some white paper.
Bostrom dismisses, as a fallacy, the idea that the relatively rapid appearance of life on Earth is evidence for it being somewhat probable, yet it is just about as fallacious to think that the absence of life on Mars would be evidence for humanity having long-term prospects.
That "corporation/industry" combination is bizarre. Those are very different things. Disbanding a corporation means others will fill in. Disbanding an entire industry is basically unheard of and would be incredibly disruptive.

Consider the current call on the left to abolish ICE. The right paints this as meaning "abolish the border patrol" but that's not what it actually means. The call is to either pass the responsibilities to other agencies, or create a new agency. That would be like disbanding a corporation.

Now consider the calls on the right to abolish the EPA. The intent is not that the EPA's responsibilities get picked up by other agencies or passed to a new agency. The intent is that those responsibilities cease.

I don't see any movement to disband the industries you mention. The closest would be oil/gas, and even then the movement is not to disband them, but to regulate them so that they actually bear the costs of the damage they cause, and let the market take its natural course from there.
It may be a process rather than an abrupt change, just like most evolution.

Adoption/revolution.
The last sentence shows that they, Nature, are seriously suggesting that there is something wrong with defining sex based on observable sexual characteristics. This shows they are willing to put ideology over science: the only reason to suggest such a thing is ideology.
Like everything, it has trade-offs and is not a free abstraction.
What I got out of this, it appears in essence he's saying that "those creatures with the most accurate picture of the world are the ones best prepared to succeed in the world"?
Okay got it. :D That's totally fair. Honestly, I don't think we are spending, or the problem wouldn't be where it is right now.

Two things are needed. One, attack the root cause. To remedial spending to beat back this problem that we're now faced with.

We need those things, because Downstream effects from all of this will be very very expensive.
>With Apple hardware, unlike in their laptops, you have no choice but to run their software.

Apple laptops are also in a pretty bad shape. Eventually, they may be usable as laptops for other (free) OSes with sufficient reverse engineering, but currently they can't. That they can be used at all is quite accidental due to things outside of Apple's control and other historical factors.
Worth the price in your mind?
There's some wonderful prehistory in the Orkneys. When I was a little kid (1950) Skara Brae was just open to run around; my sis played house.
> Short of locking them up, what do you do with those people?

Give them access to mental health services.
> soak up the entire monetary system and crash it

There's no evidence of that ever happening, or even close to it.

Consider the Hunt bros who attempted to corner the silver market. They paid higher and higher prices for it, then were left holding the bag when the market price for silver crashed.
To me it matters a lot. Capitalism only works when the true costs of things are accurately reflected in their prices.

If the road maintenance cost of transporting the potatoes is priced into the potatoes, then the potato company might opt to transport the potatoes in a different (cheaper) way.

But if the road maintenance costs appear free or near-free to the potato company, they have no incentive to care about it. Also it makes drivers who don't eat potatoes subsidize the potato consumers.
I think you are more right than wrong, although it's obviously an intentional simplification.

There are two subtleties that I think are interesting to point out.

One is that the left tends to argue more for things that increase market competition, such as busting up monopolies. I see the right arguing more frequently that anti-competitive practices are justified because limiting them impinges on the freedom of the monopolies.

The other is that portions of the libertarian right are less against governments than they are against the ability of a democracy to limit the power of the wealthy. This is why some classic libertarians like Hayek and Friedman supported right-wing dictatorships in non-US countries. Now obviously, they would say they believe this for a reason (market efficiencies, etc), but I think this is a pretty clear conflict of interest that can lead to motivated reasoning.
The assumptions are:

1) third party fact-checkers (eg. snopes) are credible and reliable.

2) the third party "Botometer" (machine-learning model) is valid and was trained on an accurately classified corpus.

This type of study always relies on the elevation of someone's subjective assessment (eg. "this account is a bot/human", "this fact-checker is honest") to the status of objective truth.

It is a serious weakness when studying subjects loaded with political consequence, wherein well-resourced stakeholders are constantly attempting to shape competing narratives by any means available to them.
Can someone explain to me why it's disputed?
It could help, depending on one's goals - one of the most notorious issues (or features, depending on who you ask) with the Linux development process is ruthless interface refactoring which requires device drivers and board support packages to be in mainline or to become stale almost instantly.

A smaller surface area with a stable HAL would separate the proprietary / often bad board support code from the kernel itself and allow core changes to progress without requiring software-adverse hardware manufacturers to keep up.

Whether or not this is a good thing is certainly debatable, but I'm not convinced the Linux "get to mainline or get wrecked" approach has stood the test of time well.
Thats hardly a gold standard anyone should be aiming for.
I commented at almost the precise moment (great minds!) of your comment on this fact, and cc'ed matt into the discussion: https://twitter.com/wokeberia/status/1065053152775270400

The followup tweet includes my suspicion this might have been the first because they first discovered the lack of a law, and creatively got around that fact.