skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Funny, I heard a similar thing from someone who had access to insiders in that group, except it was explained something like:
someone inside the search or spam team and put a downrank signal on a site with their name on it - and only if the person who put their name on it was consulted, could it be removed.

No way to prove that's true, or an issue with one of my sites, however I think it would be really evil for them to do something like that and still accept disavow lists from us. IT would also be impossible to fix a site if Matt Cutts had put his name as a downrank blocker on a site and he was no longer at the company and able to take his block off of one - of if his pet sites we assigned to someone else who had no interest in de-penalizing a site that had fixed it's issues and such.

To think of all the hours we have spent creating and uploading disavow lists over the years with the google promise it could help - only to find out there may be a hidden curse that is impossible to remove, I mean, it's unfair and they set people up to waste even more time trying to please google knowing that it will never happen.

I always wondered if it's some things like this that would of caused mr Cutts to walk away from google as it seemed that they decided to take the penalties too far. Just a gut feeling, I don't expect there to ever be proof of anything like that, and I have given up on big G changing for the better.
Wow we need more transparency so we can see if old money families are churning out the most successful founders and the variables their parents invest in for their privileged upbringing.
Doesn't a Kubernetes master on Fargate cost a significantly non-zero amount of money? Pretty sure it does.
> Of course, if today Apple decided that fans were obsolete again

If? Apple's recent laptops have been notoriously undercooled, and the processors can only run near full speed for a brief moment.

The only difference is that they throttle instead of self-damaging.
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The article offers one example buried within its rant about private equities and crypto offerings

I thought that was funny

Basically all they had to do was disclose to investors that they were buying downloads. This can be done in a variety of ways such as mentioning a contract with the firm or service providers, and that is enough information for potential investors to look up the company.
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Yes but they've recently added some P2W features, which is a bit concerning. Here's hoping that they tone down the IAPs in the coming months, before they retire the old scanner.
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"Process Jail – The Firecracker process is jailed using cgroups and seccomp BPF, and has access to a small, tightly controlled list of system calls."

So basically, a gVisor alternative?
While this is certainly true, have you used pkg in the last year or so? It's come on leaps and bounds. The solver is now on a par with apt's SAT-solver, and overall it's (IMO) almost as good as apt at this point.
The Crosstour was such a dorky thing. It had a fastback instead of a proper hatchback which really limited it's utility. For comparison, Honda's CRV had the same engine, more cargo room, and better fuel economy for $5k less.
As Carnegie used to write, "no one ever kicks a dead dog". Also, the more important the 'dog', the more satisfaction some people derive from kicking it. So unfounded and nasty criticism is probably best seen as validating that your work is making some impact.
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In most cities, the outlying communities already exist. It's the transportation that's the hard part.
Does anyone have a big list of issues like this? Both for NPM and for other package repositories. I remember there has been more cases than leftpad. I'm trying to teach some people to not rely too much on them.
Agree, this is still quite expensive.
> Your phone came with an adapter for them.

Not anymore

https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/12/17827970/no-more-free-iph...
A lot of working professionals don't want the hassle of also being landlords, particularly remote landlords. If your tenant has a habitability issue, it's your problem. If they don't pay rent and you have to evict them, it's your problem. If they trash the place, it's your problem.

If you pay a property manager 10% to make it their problem, the economics of paying a mortgage on a home you're no longer living in and renting it out become significantly more questionable - particularly in some place like the Bay Area, where mortgage payments are already often more than you would pay to rent the equivalent dwelling.
I use a six dollars worth 3.5mm to blutooth reciever to convert my good old headphones into a wireless one. Didn't regret since.
I mean, it could be, but I meant like a completely silent sound feeling, there is no sound (well, the microwave oven is noisy, but that bothers me as much as a blabbering TV, which is nearly not as much as this complete screeching silence.) To add to it, it gets 100x more bothersome if I'm within a foot of the oven, whereas being in the same room is still very upsetting and being just outside the doorstep feels more comfortable.
Previously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13850210 "Was object-oriented programming a failure?"
If he desires high quality audio he should buy a separate DAC/Amp or a dedicated audio player. DACs in cell phones are mediocre at best and you can get better sound (and headphone jack support) elsewhere.
From Amazon's perspective, someone who just bought a toilet seat is much more likely than the average person to buy another one. Maybe they're doing interior furnishing work and put loads of seats on toilets. Maybe they're replacing a broken crappy plastic seat on one of their toilets with a nicer one -- might they perhaps decide to upgrade their other toilets as well?

And sure, I know that these are all pretty weak signals and that the toilet seat recommendations will probably go un-clicked. But Amazon has to do the best it can with not very much information, and if they have to hawk toilet seats to a hundred people who've already bought them to find the one guy who's remodeling several bathrooms, that's probably a really good gamble for them to take.
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An unrelated note: there seems to be lot of comments in this thread that are downvoted just because people disagree with them.

I would prefer a culture where comments that you agree with are upvoted, comments that you disagree on you offer an alternative point of view, and only comments that are completely deragatory to the quality of discussion are downvoted.

Thanks!

And yeah, I love my 3.5 mm jacks, sometimes tech matures to a point where it really does not need to change for centuries.
This is entirely orthogonal. Free software is ideological by design. Rich here is complaining that the culture surrounding open source grew its own ideology, and that it interferes with the very process & value proposition of open source software.
The VPC startup times are insane, so we quickly move our lambdas out of that, accepting the trade off.

Our normal cold starts are in the 1-2 second range, and the app initialization comes after. Too high for an API facing users :/
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Interesting. Thanks for the examples, those do seem challenging. I suspect I'd do astoundingly well on that test in the medium to long term, at least compared to population norms, and quite abysmal in the very short and short term without time to process and encode the memories.
I'm amazed how condescending you can be about such a simple and easily proven concept!
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No, honestly I didn't. I've installed OpenBSD to a VM in the beginning of the year to learn it, but I had no time to either play or learn using it.

Looks like I need to resume learning it. Thanks.
Yep, if with KNative, it is possible.
I don't have a mac but it looks like incomplete documentation. Since Vs Code and dotnet core both works on Mac, you should be able to follow the linux instructions from these videos without changes : https://youtu.be/-uqbk0v7qxo?list=PLlzAi3ycg2x0TScJb7czq7-4L...

F* is intented for proofs, probably not what you want if you are looking for a general programming language.
Thing I and two friends noticed about newer cars, the wide low sloped A pillars create blind spots making it difficult to see pedestrians in crosswalks.
I think most people just want the AWD to get in/out of their driveway, then you're on plowed roads and the AWD doesn't really make a difference anymore.

Plus, AWD+snow tires is still better than FWD/RWD+snow tires. It's not always an either-or situation.
Pretty much..

No not really! Perhaps I wasn't clear. There are multiple services within our platform. Each running on node in either serverless or docker. Their front ends are single page apps running on react/redux

Does that help?
It's fine on bandwidth, but I learned for whatever reason it sucks for network filesystems... 15mbps powerline links absolutely kicked the pants off N900 for SMB performance.
I can't help but have the feeling that there is something simplistic and fundamentally flawed with the concept of productivity in this context. The assumption appears to be that advances, like buses in the public transport system, should show up on a more or less regular basis. However that appears to ignore or misunderstand what all these scientists and engineers are actually doing - foraging. They are searching for new things in a multi-dimensional space with the added complication that traversing the area where ideas may be encountered gets increasingly more complex to navigate and relies on more people - either searchers or support staff or other searchers building the tools needed to do the searching, etc. etc.

The apt (but somewhat stretched) analogy here is space travel. It's relatively simple to put up a high-altitude balloon - even school kids can do it now. Travel to the local planets - difficult but we've been doing it for a few years now. Sending probes to the next galaxy - not happening anytime soon. So why don't we ask the same questions of the aerospace industry? Probably because it's easier to see that getting from A to B and then to C takes a lot more effort and a lot more people and support infrastructure.

Of course the other possibility is that advances are simply harder to find, not because we are looking in the wrong places or not looking hard enough but that there are limits to creativity in the way we think and so advances become a form of the infinite number of monkeys scenario where if you throw enough monkeys at the problem you will get the complete works of Shakespeare - eventually.

I know this must be disappointing for the bean-counters that fund all this science but some problems are hard and barring the arrival of a generation of super-geniuses are going to stay hard unless we can find completely new ways of doing things - which is going to take a lot more effort.
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It's as if the presence of the headphone jack offends them. Like, what significant negative does having a headphone jack have?
The worst thing about other people's SUVs is they obstruct your vision. I suspect there's an arms race going on with more and more people picking up SUVs to see around other cars.
Aside from the first question (may first 2 questions), the top questions are arguably more qualitative than quantitative.

> Do I solve more problems than I create?

Who judges what constitutes a problem? How do you know when you've created a problem?

> Do I see simple solutions to complex problems?

Define 'simple'.

> Can I refactor terrible code to more easily maintained code?

Define 'terrible'. How does one know what code is more easily maintained?

> Can I avoid terribly written code in the first place?

See above.

> Can I effectively communicate with people in order to get the answers I need without wasting their time with needless questions?

What constitutes "effective" communication? What are "needless" questions?

I generally agree with the questions, but I would imagine most programmers could read them and think, "I must be pretty effective."
The idea with SRS is that the exponential scheduling is supposed to be more efficient than random or sequential scheduling.

I did study for medical exams with mnemonic techniques. Studies have shown that they do not inhibit understanding at all. In my experience they even help understanding. They totally dominate SRS on anything looking like a table or list. With text it's not as pronounced, but still you can memorize the key words, as few as possible, as many as necessary.

Flashcards are first of all a rewrite of the original material. If that is really necessary, the original material sucks, at least for the purposes of the exam. The physical cards are marginally easier to use than a textbook, but then again, writing them takes a lot of time and effort.
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I assume the original commenter meant maximum specific damage - essentially the air detonation causes a bunch of shockwave structure (pre cursor waves I think?) that result in much increased overall damage over a much larger area at the cost of a reduction in direct damage at the point of detonation (essentially vaporising basically just a few buildings/block vs functionally demolishing an entire city). There’s a documentary called (iirc) “trinity and beyond” that covers a lot of this a at least to the level of understanding of a non-physicist like me :)
Sure, but if you already have one then there is no incremental cost.

It would be great if they announced that they were gonna remove EKS master costs altogether. Technically Firecracker should make it possible for them to run that infrastructure more efficiently :)
are latency, not bandwidth-bound.
I haven't run SmartOS for about a year, but I was using it to run Linux binaries. It was fundamentally great. Stable, efficient ... great. Joyent were nailing compatibility bugs in a matter of days.

A couple of small things - one is that entire distributions "just as they are" are unlikely to work, in much the same way as trying to boot a docker container doesn't. Lots of things rely on /proc and cgroups and these are big, ugly interfaces that are never going to see parity between the two OS's. /proc is (amusingly) built as a r/o filesystem that has an htop-esque thing writing state onto it constantly.

The big one is memory allocation. Linux will let memory allocations fail. It will also just shoot apps in the head if it wants to. Solaris does not do such shit and will return the malloc call when it has allocated some memory - even if it's next week some time. On more than one occasion I have been completely locked out of a SmartOS box because of this and one ends up having to be really, really careful with allocation strategies as a result.
gVisor doesn't use KVM:

"Machine-level virtualization, such as KVM and Xen, exposes virtualized hardware to a guest kernel via a Virtual Machine Monitor (VMM). This virtualized hardware is generally enlightened (paravirtualized) and additional mechanisms can be used to improve the visibility between the guest and host (e.g. balloon drivers, paravirtualized spinlocks). Running containers in distinct virtual machines can provide great isolation, compatibility and performance (though nested virtualization may bring challenges in this area), but for containers it often requires additional proxies and agents, and may require a larger resource footprint and slower start-up times."
Seems like Amazon's response to GCE Premium Network Service tier. Instead of user traffic going over regional ISPs until it hits the AWS region, user traffic hits an AWS PoP and then uses Amazon's backbone network to get to the AWS region running your service, leading to marked improvements in multi-region deployments.

With CloudFlare, you're limited to what you can run in a CloudFlare PoP (i.e. CloudFlare workers).
custom asterix (you do Not want to that route), then gizmo(?), then gvoive because of inertia (Google bought gizmo), now a custom sip provider (just because gvoice numbers are bogus and not accepted everywhere) which I forgot the name but will update here when on my phone
My coupe completely fits below the window line of most crossovers. Driving is terrifying sometimes. I suspect part of the CUV trend is just an arms race to keep up height wise with the general vehicle population.
If you have to switch between lightning and 3.5mm constantly, how in the world does buying another dongle help?
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This sounds like "if it's not perfect, it's a failure."

I'm actually not aware of a single piece of software that didn't at some point have a production security vulnerability.

Facebook failed.

Google failed.

Amazon failed.
Exceptions in many languages carry messages and exceptions can be nested. There's also nothing stopping you from logging messages as you handle exceptions. The best case of exceptions is easily as good as best case go-style error handling and reporting. The worst case of exceptions is far more informative than the worst case of error messages. I'm not sure what an example that requires great use of some language facility is supposed to be illustrative of - good use of a facility is usually... good?

[Edit: this was a reply to a comment you seem to have rewritten (I think for the worse) but I think the response still mostly works]
I don't think that's really plausible that it wasn't intentional. Daniel Ellsberg's recent book "The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner" has a pretty good analysis of how we went from the idea of bombing civilians being considered barbaric at the start of the war, to purposely incinerating cities full of them and attempting to create "firestorms" to make the damage even worse (Munich, Dresden, Tokyo, etc.) in just a few short years.

I think the worst thing people could take away is that the nuclear bombs were outliers - the conventional fireboming of Tokyo a little earlier killed more people than Nagasaki and Horishima combined. It was shocking that one bomb could do what we'd previously employed hundreds or thousands to do, but it was just the culmination of several years of intentionally bombing civilians.
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This is almost certainly just a me thing, but just in case: I got some Bluetooth headphones that seemed to sound terrible wired, but it turned out to that the cable had to be pushed and rotated to lock into the headphones at that end. If you really mean atrocious atrocious (and especially if it’s Sennheiser HD 4.40 BT), this might be it?
Only if you use aws
Well yes, it's technically courageous, in the sense that punching a random person on the street is courageous.
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So, you own it until someone takes it from you, then good luck getting it back.

It’s a bit of a worry.
The juniper tree in the back yard is currently producing these very small blue berries, that, when infused with vodka produce a very delightful beverage that tastes quite similar to gin!

And like gin: seems to get you quite drunk.
I can see your point but I disagree that it's worth it. I think wireless would have gotten better even if we did not remove the headphone jack.
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How does the microphone on the phone work then?
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It’s QEMU without all the legacy stuff, they also open sourced it, interesting.
A common use case for me was in the car, where I want to be charging it but also use the audio port to interface with one of those tape deck adaptors, or just a rental with a terrible Bluetooth implementation (seriously, some of them scrape all your contacts assuming it is your car, and store them in the center console).

I also have broken or
lost over 3 adaptors now. This wasn’t broken and was pretty transparently done to increase the adoption rate of airpods IMO, so it is pretty frustrating. If I hadn’t had mind-blowing-ly bad experiences with samsung phones I would have jumped ship over this.
I'm also wondering this. I've seen plenty of hate for systemd, but I've never personally run into any issues with it.
All of the points are very valid and valuable. But by reading only this post, you will have basically no idea how to go ahead and do all these things. You have to scour the internet, and collect every blog post and video ever produced on the subject, and intone them all, and start experimenting, and just sort of create your own version of what these things are.

I'm going to interviews right now where people are trying to hire a "Senior DevOps Engineer". They seem to think hiring this somewhat low-level employee will magically imbue their organization with DevOps principles, and suddenly everything will be cheaper and faster. I tell them it may take them 2 years to build a solid DevOps practice, assuming they do everything right, and they frown. Why can't we just have the DevOps right now? To that I reply, go hire a company that specializes in DevOps. And again they frown.

I don't think it should be this hard. I think we can consolidate all the important knowledge and pre-packaged work, collaboratively, to empower teams to actually get shit done quicker and better. I think we can make it so nobody ever has to go through the painful process of learning by trial and error ever again. And, of course, I think it should all be free. So I've started a wiki, and I hope I can convince a few more people to help contribute content.

GruntWork, I love what you're doing, but I'm also hoping to make your business obsolete. :)
Why couldn’t they build it with a jack? Due to the thickness?

I’m typing this out on my iPhone 6 (which I will keep until it disintegrates because of its headphone jack) and it is plenty thin. I think only Apple themselves are obsessed with thin devices.
This is also why I think the idea of combating fake reviews is not really viable. I sell a widget for $20 with real costs of $8. I expect positive reviews will increase my ranking as well as purchase rate the order of let's say $5million+. I give my widget to 10,000 people on the condition that they agree to write a positive review for it. I just spent $80,000 (and then some change to get in contact with those 10,000 however) to make $5 million+. And those reviews are "real".

The whole point is that as we enter into an ever more connected world popularity of views start to mean less and less because "popularity" can be so easily faked. Imagine once there are bots that can compellingly market products (or ideas/politicians/etc) in language to the standard of a Tweet, which isn't exactly a high bar. Suddenly now you could have literally millions of "people" advocating for something that perhaps only a handful actually want or believe in. It's also perhaps presumptuous to imply that this technological milestone has not already been reached.

Even draconian ideas like trying to remove anonymity would likely do little to nothing since, as in the reviews example, people can simply be incentivized to play ball for what amounts to peanuts compared to the stakes for those doing the incentivizing.
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Loneliness, or alienation, can certainly be exploited by politicians & the malevolent. Not as grave as climate change but possibly impactful at scale.
Or they do realize the con, but they don’t care because pure speculation works anyway.
I don't know, I don't think any of those personal reasons invalidates the arguments of the parent. Your mileage on cables may vary, but the removal of an interface that had been understood by laypeople and was universally supported for the last 50 years seems a more important point to me.