skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A friend of mine is an engineer at Lockheed, and used to work for NASA some 17 years long. He explained to me the whole thing was more of a photo-op and ability to over-engineer to show who's got the bigger balls, than actually to quickly rescue people.

He basically told me one of many training astronauts have is in a long dark corridor that is submerged underwater of course to simulate low gravity. However the whole thing inside is wrapped in a plastic bag, for lack of better explanation. Just imagine huge condom big enough to fit people in it. When the shit goes down, you push emergency button and whole thing fills in with air in less than 90 seconds. Since its inside cave/corridor, air has no way to push the condom outside/up, so whole water is flushed out quickly.

He told me all they had to do is put a thick foil underwater, glue 2 sides together, making long sealed condom, and then pump the air in, making a way for kids to crawl through, with no need to dive or know how to swim, almost like they have those tubes on children's playgrounds. That's all.
This punts all the hard stuff to the registrars. Maybe that makes you feel better, but I think in terms of making the Internet secure that's a step sideways at best.
> AMP Project is run similar to nodejs by adopting an open-governance model.

OK, but the only thing I want out of AMP is for it to not exist. Is there any chance that I can get involved in AMP's open governance with a "stop existing" goal?

It is already quite surprising that AMP has gone in the direction of "We'll accept signed webpackages and publish those so we aren't acting as the origin". But my goal is that even this should not need to exist: websites that genuinely load fast on their own, comparable to downloading the webpackage, should be ranked as high as AMP websites. And it's preferable for websites to do that. So there should be no boost for AMP websites, just a boost for fast pages, and if AMP does anything it should just provide guidelines for how to build fast pages. Examples of fast pages include HN and most things published before 1998.

At the end of the day AMP exists because it's privileged by Google Search, and AMP is privileged by Google Search because Malte Ubl has whatever amount of influence he does within Google and has convinced them that AMP is a good idea (or other people have decided it's a good idea and have put Malte Ubl in charge of making sure it happens, or whatever). No matter how many non-Google people you put on the steering committee you won't change that. You don't have the internal access to change Google's mind about it.

This is like saying that it's okay that I should be happy living in a city that always votes $party because I can get involved in the party. If my personal political views are $opposing_party, that statement is technically true but completely useless.
I know Uber and a few other apps certificate pin, since running a mitm proxy myself made Uber non-functional.
when is “too far”? I’m certainly thinking that we are there, but when does most of the world get to that point?
This seems like a situation where a crackdown would be likely to produce positive effects, honestly.

It's one thing to enforce some kind of dystopia, but locking up people for breaking into cars seems like it shouldn't be a particularly radical proposal.
lost in the discussion is that major brands spend millions buying their own name back from google.

see an ad on tv and then type in "progressive" into the omnibox and click on the first link (paid ad by Progressive Auto Insurance on its own brand) and google gets $10+

type in "progressive.com" and google gets $0
"it's not an explosion, it's a rapid oxidation event"
> arbitrary moral judgements

This is redundant. You are making a general argument here against making decisions based on your own morality.
I could argue that Apple is just as responsible for this as Facebook. How can they claim to take privacy seriously if it’s clearly possible for bad actors to get around the rules multiple times! How is Apple any less implicated in this than Facebook was in the CA scandal when a bad actor violated its policies and posed as an academic research project to gain access to user data it then sold to third parties? If you are going to hold Facebook accountable for CA, why does Apple get a pass when it enables third parties access to my data?
> Why did the people who created Kubernetes all leave Google?

Brendan Burns went to Microsoft to work on Kubernetes on Azure. He'd been working at Google for 8 years already. Microsoft probably paid a lot to acquire him and it wouldn't be surprising if he saw it as an exciting opportunity to keep working on his creation while leading an exciting new project.

Joe Beda and Craig McLuckie left together to found a company whose product _is_ Kubernetes (Heptio).

So I could guess they just realized that their resume opened them to exciting new opportunities.

> Have you ever pondered the strategy behind it all?

Yes, and I can't see what it could be, so I'd love to be enlightened.

So far all I see is that I'm using an amazing software that has considerably simplified my life when dealing with my infrastructure. I so happen to be using GKE (and maybe _that_ was the grand evil plan all along!), but I know that I could use AWS or Azure or even go back to bare metal if I wanted to.
My son (8) is going through a diagnosis at the moment, in fact tomorrow we will be going to the last meeting with a pediatrician to effectively get my sons "Autism" badge ( Which here in NZ will open up a lot of funding for assisitance ).

Do you have any advice on things that were beneficial for you? Or alternatively things that were super horrible and should be avoided?
Don’t they use that in the UK everywhere?
The "private capital" you're talking about is largely on top of the massive funds from government sources. In most countries it was entirely built out by central governments.

Re: taxes - please look at your line items and notices the various "fees" you're charged.

I think the problem here is that you believe that utilities should be generating massive profits. Given they're backed by the state - PG&E literally got laws made to retroactively reduce their liability - then any profit that they make or distribute is tax payer money.

Let's put this super simply:

Let's say the company makes $X a profit, and distributes $Y to shareholder and executive remuneration (annually).

After N years they have made N$X, given out N$Y to owners, etc, their bank balance is Z=N($X-$Y) (obviously exact amounts change year to year, but we're being simple here). If Z is less than 0 then they've been running at a loss for N years, and we'd have no problem saying they should go bankrupt - they would have long since lost the ability to get loans, etc.

Now, let's say this is a public utility, then their annual profit is made up of:

1. Revenue in the form of below market resources costs (e.g. they don't pay market rates for land)
2. Revenue from state granted fees
3. Other tax related subsidies

So lets put these altogether and say $X = (actual profit) + $T (T=tax payer).

So after N years, they've received N$T funds. So if their bank balance is below $T, and $Y is greater than zero, they have been running at a loss, and they've been paying out the owners with tax payer money. Eg. they are taking tax money that is intended to support the utility and divesting it.

This is what PG&E did.

They took fees, and they took tax payer money. Then they "reduced" their expenses by reducing maintenance. That gave them a "profit" they divested to private interests. Now, when the costs of their failure to maintain infrastructure came due they couldn't afford it. Which means they're now taking even more tax payer money. Even if the company is taken apart, that money doesn't cover the costs they have inflicted.
> Now they're getting minimum wage and I still feel the need to tip.

I'm not sure that your dislike of your own sense of obligation is sufficient cause for a legal prohibition on tipping. I think you should be free to tip (though employers should likewise be free to prohibit employees from accepting tips, and should have fewer reasons not to do so than they currently do.)

OTOH, I would get behind (and meant to include this before) prohibiting employers from taking, offsetting, or redirecting tips, including directing employees in a sharing regime; requiring tips, if given and accepted (employers would be permitted to prohibir the latter as a condition of employment, so long as the policy was uniform) to be property of the recieving employee independent of the employer. Basically, they are now a dodge around sales taxes for many employers, but effectively still revenue that the employer controls, within some limits, which gives employers a big reason to protect tipping culture.
Selling Pain to the Saturated Self (2017)
Hi mfer! Writer here, wonderful to virtually meet you. I applaud your unique gusto and framing of questions. (btw, pretty much every question/quote was from you)

From afar it looks like `kubectl -k` is due to land despite the expressed concerns. What was your response to sig-arch and sig-cli leads who mentioned that the kustomize features were always intended to be there? I may have missed that, if it was public.

Do you expect that the march toward kustomize inclusion will change after the kubectl usage data has been collected and analyzed?

And what are you setting your sights on next? May I write about it? :)
What if... bear with me... somebody outside of Sweden took bets on Swedish harness racing?
I wholeheartedly disagree. More toilets won't fix the problem -- I suspect they could even potentially worsen the issue by making the city a more attractive place for the beyond-hope.

Fixing the mental heath system that Reagan dismantled would be a far better approach, and a persistent camera + facial recognition system could allow for more effective identification of those that would benefit from commitment.
I think it depends on if you want to interview at a big company that does algorithms type interviews. In my opinion studying that stuff is a waste of time if you are not going to use it in an interview, because you have already proven you aren't using it in your actual job.
Speaking of Elon, did we ever get to the bottom of his pedophile claims? I don't see many people talking about it so i assumed he apologised and gave them a free model 3?
Do you think that every CPU is reporting upstream everything that's done on it?

If not, then tails is a pretty good improvement.

Even if it doesn't mitigate every conceivable issue, it doesn't mean it's without value.
There's a couple ways to work around the issue, you can just configure systemd to not kill processes that were in the user scope when the user scope is closed in which case it behaves exactly as it did before. Or if you want to keep systemd cleaning up hung applications but not e.g. some script that you typically ran with nohup you can just use systemd-run instead.

https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd-run...

In particular you'd probably want --user so that it runs it under your user instance of systemd and --scope so that it's all run under a scope for that command instead of just a transient service. For most uses of nohup you could literally just make it an alias for systemd-run --user --scope instead.
Why not? If you stole $950 from a random guy on the street wouldn't you get arrested?
Really good point.

ML equals diffusion of responsibility.
Q: What do you call an IT admin for 20 children? A: A teacher
Unfortunately I do not live in US, so it's not exactly a 401k (barely know what it is). And upon reading the contract again I see now that they contribute only 2%.

As my salary would be 135k THB (4293 USD) per month (51k/year berfore taxes) that would be only 1000 USD per year, barely anything.

I probably save more than 19k USD per year by myself though, although I'm without children/house/etc right now so that might change.
The shareholders made huge returns in the prior decades. So how much of that loss was a correction caused by the market realising the way historic profits were created was going to start costing shortly?
The irony is that it's actually one of the safest
(and cheapest) tranquilizers and that's why it's used on large animals. It's hard to weigh a horse, so you want something that doesn't require a very precise dose.
I got a “new” number when I moved to Canada. The ONLY calls I receive (about 2 per week) are robo call spam / scams. The messages repeat once in English and then in mandarin. (It’s a Vancouver number.. only logic I can see).

Most of the time they go straight to voicemail and leave the same message.

All my real friends FaceTime, signal, iMessage, etc.

It bewilders me that telcos haven’t done anything about this. It’s 100% of my incoming calls... and they only about 2 unique actual messages, pre recorded...
Opened the first company in the list and saw this very depressing ad :
https://www.crossover.com/job-front-end-software-engineer?ut...
I'm hoping it will be less crashy than the last three or four releases. But they don't say so in the announcement...

Does anybody know whether we get to blame Servo for the crashiness? Rust code is supposed to be "safe", but that never really pans out in industrial use; maturity is a better predictor of stability.
Thanks, will check it out~
Maybe somebody should have told them it was actually climate change's fault /s
What if it was a legitimate emergency?

Like if someone used your number as an emergency contact. Or some hospital in the world trying to contact you because someone you know got hospitalized (touch wood).
So does gentoo, but if you look at there docs if want some things you may need to patch it.
As in my other comment, I mis-read the contract details. They will contribute only 2% and I am able to myself contribute 2-15% (isn't this the same as just saving myself?).

Also the country is Thailand, so there might be differences.
I am enjoying the ludicrous idea that climate-change deniers could possibly be deplatformed, when there a literally billionaires lining up to ensure that any hint of confusion about climate science is amplified.

No-one can stop Thiel from funding whoever he likes; they would just like to be sure that it doesn't go unnoticed that this journal reads more like "Peter Thiel's Journal Of Collected Contrarianism That He Personally Paid For Due To Some Probably Totally Legitimate Reason" and less like "Inference: International Review of Science.”
Europe =/= the European Union.
Doesn't work. Spammers still manage to blind call my actual cell phone number even though I've given it to absolutely not a single person, dead or alive.
Japan still has cover girls in 2019 on pretty much any kind of magazine, including computer ones :-)

Examples:

https://sanet.pics/storage-1/1115/ddg1f8oAy8ORqhRi043E9oEur9...

http://www.macotakara.jp/blog/archives/001/201310/large-526f...
I worked a tipped job for years and hated that aspect of it. It made my income more stressful and erratic than a normal wage. I can confirm what others have pointed out, that it also reinforces stereotypes.

Like any erratic and arbitrary system there will be some winners who make out well, but it's not a great way of compensating people for work.
This is pretty accurate for me thank you!
What the article meant was that the 90% tax rate was on paper, but people didn't pay it because they structured their income into tax shelters to avoid paying it.

Those tax shelters were removed by Reagan in 1986 as part of the deal to lower the marginal rates.

Another tax shelter not mentioned in the article was the "3 martini lunch" where people charged their lunches off to the business, so it was taxed at the lower business rate. This tax shelter was removed as part of that deal.

In England, with their high tax rates, it was common to have the businesses provide cars for the employees for the same reason - tax avoidance.

Tax avoidance is also why in America today people prefer to pay for their health insurance as a business expense rather than a personal one.
While I agree that it is whitewashing biased data, maybe they get good results with new and unseen URLs that try to look like some relevant page using the same tricks as the scam URLs in the corpus.
They're making a decision based on a disadvantage they have compared to the monopoly Apple continues to hold with the app store. Apple also collects usage statistics and uses it for the same purposes, it just doesn't have to make any hard decisions on how to collect that data, because it's their cloud, their app store, and their operating system. They have a complete view of the entire ecosystem, putting all of their competitors at a serious disadvantage, and keeping them firmly entrenched.
Trying to stick with C++, mainly because it's everywhere. But jeez, it's a really huge language with seemingly endless amount of stuffs to learn.
Timmy!! When will knative and istio be handed over to a foundation? Does LF/CNCF have enough carrots in Jim Zemlin's bag of tricks??

'tis fascinating to dig in to open source serverless on Kubernetes options only to realize that there's probably 100+ engineers working on istio+knative, ~10x more than any prior alternative.

When is KnativeCon coming?
Common techniques like relative paths will allow the proxy-cache to see much deeper into a site than the end user is aware. The url bar might say that you're on some site you trust but your traffic may all still be openly readable by Google (or some other proxy). Of course, Google is always going to know about links that users click in its search result list and a huge number of sites blindly run Google (or other third party) scripts anyway but this opens up a new vector for Google to see into your traffic.
Why would people be unable to consent? "You give us full access to everything on your phone for money" is a way to articulate this to anybody.
A for profit company doing something with balanced objectives, how is hat ill intentioned?
They do, but donations are not put toward Firefox development.
How is this not in violation of most wiretapping laws? Facebook is not the common carrier in these cases. Both parties of conversations with teens are not consenting to the wiretapping, which is not allowed in many US states. I’m not sure teenage consent is considered “consent” and the parents aren’t a party to the conversations Facebook is wiretapping. Facebook is both paying people and recording the electronic communications... So how the hell is this legal under current laws?
The biggest problem for me with visual languages:

How do you talk about them? How do you write about them?

It may well be solvable - I'd like it to be, I spent a couple of years of my spare time toying with visual languages, and I still think as an idea there is a lot of potential. But you need a notation that can be read out in a way that makes semantic sense, the way mathematical notation (despite my very many reservations about mathematical notations) can. And mathematical notation is a good example of all the problems it brings in terms of tool support to even ensure you can reliably typeset it without having to include images of it.

I think it's more likely that we'll see improved interfaces to decorate or explore a textual code-base better, though, possibly with some languages starting to be designed with such tools and representations in mind if/when we start to see something closer to a standard emerge.
Did they? Or did they do the same thing domain resellers have been doing for decades, with the only notable thing about this being that a bunch of more desirable domains came up for sale recently?
That's confusing marketing with a subset of it (promotion/advertising).
Fascinating writeup, Google 2FA is the first system covered.
Dad Recreates Son’s Adorable Drawings into Hilarious Real-Life Counterparts
I’m not talking about a downgrade attack. I’m talking about upgrading to a known vulnerable version. You are at version X, attacker upgrades you to known vulnerable version X+1, even though the real latest version X+2 has a fix.
There's only so many hours in the day. If you were genuinely curious about climate science, do you think your understanding will be improved by reading people who have been carefully selected by a billionaire with no background in the field, or by reading from within the world of peer-reviewed climate science papers (which are by no means monolithic).

In theory we should never have the habit of not thinking/ not reading... it's worthy. But with finite resources - and being mindful of the prospect of swallowing stuff that's just out there to shift the window of acceptable dialogue - you might do well to be selective. If you were reading about racial justice in the USA, you might read both left/liberal/libertarian/conservative thinkers, but would you feel the need to make sure you give perspective from Stormfront a good evaluation too?
For anyone who's done even a little diving, sedation sounds a lot kinder than teaching the kids to cave dive, let alone under those circumstances.
Fast forward a few months, criminals are just wearing ski masks when they steal cars, and you’ve given up a significant amount of your privacy for absolutely zero benefit. Not a good plan, in my opinion.
The only new bit of information I learned from this article is Google's Trickuri project: https://github.com/chromium/trickuri

It contains all sorts of interesting test cases to test how various URIs are displayed in various parts of the UI.
> All other apps that host your data in the cloud have access to it, whether it's encrypted internally or not.

> End-to-end encryption in Actual will be better than all other cloud apps: I, even as someone with full access to the server, will not be able to read your messages. Only your device can.

Claiming to be better than every single other similar thing is probably as big a red flag as the lack of encryption.
I call this the Peter Wheel principle. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-YPUHo2uts
It was a horrible choice of insult, but to be fair, the rescuer was a real asshole to him for no good reason (this isn't a defence of the insult, just saying that Musk was justifiably furious).

Why would you attack some guy trying to help you achieve your goal of rescuing the trapped boys, and call him names on international tv.
Wow. I'm cancelling my instacart account immediately. They've made so many mistakes in the past, but I liked their app. But this crosses the line by a mile. When I give someone a tip, it's not because I chose to pay more for an order just for fun, it's because I want the worker to get extra. They don't get to charge me a service fee, and ask me to tip, and then not give the worker my service fee. That's just crazy.
Why didn't you buy call options instead if you're so sure? Could make a lot more.
I think the point was that there were two separate communities of divers, one largely British and one largely mainland European.
Because it wasn't obvious / evident / they haven't received a complaint from an affected individual in regards to this practice?
And the user of dog food isn't the dog either, believe it or not. Dog food is designed for dog owners, not dogs. Everything is designed for humans.
Doesn't matter what the page says. You can buy an iPhone and just press "Skip" during set up. Easy.
Sorry, that's what I meant: an independent contractor getting 100% of their tips doesn't mean Uber/UberEats hasn't adjusted the amount they pay the contractor.
It sounds like Munchery was run by morons who should never get the chance to run a company again
Zuckenberg: "They trust me. Dumb f*cks."

As reported by:

https://www.businessinsider.com/well-these-new-zuckerberg-im...
The cave diver (Vern Unsworth) is suing Musk for libel... the case is working its way through the courts now: https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-diver-vern-unswort...

Musk is trying to get the case dismissed as being just a big joke, after he repeatedly challenged Unsworth to sue him.