skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Something touched on with the piece, but not quite hammered nearly as much as it should have been: switching costs, which have dramatically changed in the past 10-15 years.

The initial round of California VC money came from hardware startups cashing out. Hardware is tied to the physical realm, and thus locality is important - if you need to buy leftover equipment or supplies, it's way easier to get them if you're in the neighborhood as your vendor.

The next round of software startups in the 90s through early 00's had a similar switching cost with VC funding. Though we obviously had telephones and email, we had not fully transitioned into the "remote work" mindset that allows teams to collaborate regardless of distance. It was challenging for VCs to work effectively with their founders, and for founders to work effectively with their teams - which forced teams to co-locate with founders, and founders to co-locate with VCs.

You don't need the world's best software engineers to launch a startup - you can launch something with sufficient complexity to start making money in Denver, or Austin, or Chicago, or anywhere else with a reasonable supply of engineers. And now, VCs are far more tolerant of remote founders given how easy it is to stay in communication. If all that is true, why make things more economically challenging than they need to be by trying to fight the economic headwinds of California?
I understand and agree with the suggestion that the whole fleet be grounded, but isn't personally avoiding the planes an overreaction? While the chance of another fatal crash in the imminent future may be high, surely the chance that you would be on it is still quite low.
> I think the only way to square any version of free will is to radically redefine what the term 'me' means.

The problem is that you're employing an incoherent or invalid conception of free will. Free will can be compatible with determinism, eg. Compatibilism.
China is upper middle income, so its wealth is comparable to Mexico, Brazil, and Thailand. Now, many people don't really get how rich those countries are either (e.g. many Americans think Mexico is an undeveloped struggling place when they are biased by a borderlands and illegal immigrants that are very different from the rest of Mexico).
It's interesting that you mention Holmes, because I think there's an alternate interpretation of Anna Delvey (and Holmes) that answers your question: they didn't see themselves as scammers, but rather as geniuses, and they were both so convinced of their genius that they decided "fake it until you make it" was therefore moral even if it had to be taken to the extreme. After all, if you don't "make it", how will you be able to change the world?

Draper's behavior makes sense if he still sees Holmes as Holmes sees herself, as a visionary who had to make some ethical concessions for the sake of a dream. I think both of them still believe that the machines would have worked eventually, and they had to keep the hype wave going or else everything would collapse. I bet both of them could imagine a universe where the machines did end up working and their indiscretions were relegated to footnotes in gossipy Tell-Alls written 20 years from now.

(Isn't there some story about Bill Gates promising software he didn't yet possess in order to close a key deal? Imagine if that didn't work out as well as it did...)

Similarly, while the article paints Delvey as a scammer who just won't admit to it, I think it's possible that Delvey never saw her actions as "scamming"... Her attitude was probably a mix of egomania and extreme narcissism, something like: "banks have so much money anyway, and I was going to use it better than anyone else could."

In fact, she straight-up says this at the end of the piece:

> “Money, like, there’s an unlimited amount of capital in the world, you know?” Anna said to me at one point. “But there’s limited amounts of people who are talented.”

I could be misreading this, but based on the previous paragraph, it seems like the author is implying that Delvey is talking about how she's so talented at deceiving people. But I don't think that's what Delvey means at all. I think she sincerely believes she's deeply and profoundly talented in a positive sense, and therefore money and power should be hers (because in a just universe, money & power accrue to the talented), and if she has to cut some corners to acquire this money and power that is rightfully hers, so be it. Same mindset as Holmes.

"Fake it until you make it" can be useful in certain circumstances, but this ideology is dangerous in the hands of delusional people who are convinced that they're brilliant.
Presumably people notice this is explicitly targetting the consequences of China banning them the same way: when china moved, the feedstock moved to India.
I just looked at https://github.com/containers/libpod/blob/master/docs/tutori... .

For debian/ubuntu users (of which there are a fair quantity) whilst podman's install process looks like that, I don't see it taking over from Docker any time soon.

Not to mention Windows/OSX users.

Ease of use should not be overlooked when it comes to developer tooling. Podman can be the most technologically advanced solution, but if it's a pain for developers to get going with it, it's not going to replace Docker any time soon...
Agreed. Not only that, military historians who don't base their knowledge of the Eastern Front solely on German sources, such as David Glantz [0] and Jonathan House [1], claim that when there was superiority of Soviet vs Germans numbers, it was because the Soviets successfully employed concentration of forces, which is a sound military tactic!

That is, to the German caught unawares, it looks as if there is an endless "Asiatic horde" (which was the fascist propaganda to explain losses), but what is actually happening is that the Soviets are successfully concentrating their forces by thinning them down where they aren't needed, and achieving greater numbers where they are needed. Good operational warfare that is, and the Soviets excelled at this. Also, a lot of the time the Germans were unaware of Soviet reserves, so that fresh forces would appear when they weren't expecting them.

The self-serving memories of Wehrmacht Generals mostly conveniently "forgot" about this, and so the myth of the endless Asiatic hordes was born.

There's a fascinating YouTube video [2] where House (Jonathan, not Hugh Laurie!) dismantles the three usual German alibis of why they were defeated:

1- Hitler interfered too much and was the cause of every blunder.

2- "General Winter".

3- "The Asiatic Horde".

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[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Glantz

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

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zinPbUZUHDE
And now guess how the trucks are powered? Now you use a cobustion engine to power an alternator to charge a battery. What is the net gain, if any?
Computers are ideally non-deterministic, but due to NP-completeness, they can't predict their own results.
Kubernetes supports encryption at rest of secrets: https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/administer-cluster/encrypt-...

They're encrypted in transit via mTLS.
The bathtub curve suggests you shouldn’t. A five year old plane should be safer than a two month old one.
Yes, precisely. It is a common practice in medical research as well.
Thank you, will check it out.
It seems from the way you're writing this that you view yourself as non-ideological, but I fail to see how belief in the liberal democratic capitalist state is not also ideological. You make several mistakes about the nature of labour under socialism, for instance, it entails giving labour to the community only insofar as capitalism entails giving it to your boss - and in fact less than this, since even Marx's theory of socialism posits a great reduction in working hours. You also mistake the nature of equality, one which Lenin refuted personally more than 100 years ago[0]. You must first understand what labour means to a human and indeed man's position in relation to his society not only from a capitalist standpoint but from a pre-capitalist (using the tools historical analysis gives us) and post-capitalist viewpoint. The notion of private and individual labour is very new, as is the moral and legal system constructed around it.

It's funny that your stated problem with a laissez faire view is merely the idea of competition squeezing money out of people rather than the much more fundamental one of people being unable to achieve the greatness you speak of because they are too busy working for someone else. It's not a trick to undermine competition, it's the nature of the capitalist system to be trapped so aggressively under these forces.

(Is it just me or is it curious that this post has a downvote and flag within less than one minute of me posting it, which is not enough time to read and assimilate its contents? Boring reading or not, it speaks volumes that someone with 500+ karma, someone given the power by the site to downvote, would rather click the button than make even a name-call response[1] even after spending so much time on HN that the have themselves racked up "insight points".)

[0] https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1914/mar/11.htm

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Graham%27s_Hierarchy_of_D...
Yeah that sentence is egregiously incorrect. Technology and policy have been intertwined for as long as we have had states. This is a clear example of somebody not trained in history just winging it when making historical claims.

Heck, the specific technologies that Schneier cares about (related to communication and privacy) have been tightly coupled with policy for like 600 years. Way back when postal routes where just becoming a thing you already have state leaders and bureaucrats writing about how technologies like ciphers cause problems and enacting policies to ensure that states had the power they wanted over private communications.
California will be Elysium [1] in 50y.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elysium_(film)
unfair how? certainly not according to WTO
How long does it take for the plane to crash plane after an over-thrust induced stall condition? How long does it take to crash the plane after an errant MCAS induced nose-down event (which might not be overridden by pilot response)?
You can avoid that, by having your vote correspond to multiple potential entries.

But that is still pointless cause the person you sold your vote can be physically next to you, or you can film yourself voting.

Online voting is unsafe, and should only be used if any other option is unfeasible.
I'd be curious to hear how many successful flights have happened since the 737 Max has launched, for comparison.
We need to tax foreign-owned, non-owner-occupied properties in the San Francisco Bay Area. Some sort of scale:

Foreign Owned, Non-Owner Occupied - 10% Per Year of Assessed Value

Foreign Owned, Non-Occupied - 25% Per Year

Foreign Owned, Owner Occupied - 0% Per year
>yeah but part of cracking down on vote buying has to do with making it difficult to track if you actually did vote for who you said you would

That isn't necessary to prevent vote buying. Vote buying is easy to detect because advertising in secret is impossible. All that's required is the political will to look for people wanting to buy votes and come down hard on them when they're detected.

Moreover, if you do do away with the ability to track then you open up the electoral system to other forms of abuse that can't be trivially eliminated with police and stiff sentences.

>it becomes totally possible to track you did the vote, give it to the guy who has promised to pay you, forgive your debts, the debts of your son, not beat you up

If I were to define "secretive electoral fraud that could never possibly scale" I would define it as "I promise not to beat you up if you vote for me".
The National Security Agency's GitHub Page
Microsoft Has Enough Clean Energy to Power ‘Back to the Future’s DeLorean
ita est totali ridiculus! ergo ridebam tantum. concordamus nos. bonus risus, amice mi atave.
Here's a video on an interesting talk about Estonia's e-voting system: https://youtu.be/PT0e9yTD2M8

(Spoiler: Opsec fails begins at 42 min. But watch the whole thing, it's interesting.)

It might be prudent to point out that Estonia is one of the better e-voting systems. Voters can override their e-vote with a regular one on election day. However that just means that other systems are mostly even worse.
Going on a 737 MAX plane: X% chance of dying

Going on a non-737 MAX plane: Y% chance of dying

Given these two accidents, X > Y

Why sign up for a higher chance of dying?
Yes, 51% of evidence. Also known as "random guess plus one percent."
I'm down to two a week and often will re-listen to them throughout the week and pick out different topics.

[0] The Giant Bombcast

[1] The Giant Beastcast

I use to listen to more, but I feel like their quality dropped and many have since they jumped the Patreon Shark. I already subscribe to Giant Bomb, so I'm not looking to pay for yet another service either. Especially when the quality is less.

[0] https://www.giantbomb.com/shows/giant-bombcast/

[1] https://www.giantbomb.com/shows/beastcast/
Hah, of course the headline was written by an Irishwoman. It'd read differently had the author been Indian or Chinese.
I've set up my configuration management system to drive certbot and to handle certificate distribution:

https://github.com/irtnog/certbot-formula

https://github.com/irtnog/salt-states/blob/production/certbo...

https://github.com/irtnog/salt-states/blob/production/salt/f...

There are a few bits I haven't published mostly due to laziness on my part, like how I handle certificate assignments, but it's all pretty straightforward. The hardest part has been developing the necessary configuration scripts for Windows. It takes some effort to get keying material installed in the appropriate certificate store, which you can see part of here:

https://github.com/irtnog/salt-states/blob/production/wincer...

And then there's how things that use CryptoAPI/CryptoNG reference the desired certificate by SHA-1 thumbprint, which you can see part of here:

https://github.com/irtnog/salt-states/blob/production/iis/ce...

https://github.com/irtnog/salt-states/blob/production/rd-gat...

In some cases there isn't a clean API for certificate installation:

https://github.com/irtnog/salt-states/blob/production/rdp/in...

In other cases one must run the necessary PowerShell cmdlets under user accounts with the correct privileges, which is something I haven't quite figured out (e.g., for Exchange 2007 and newer).

Sometimes the services in question require the keying material be structured in very specific and slightly odd formats (e.g., Splunk). Sometimes, I just stick a load balancer in front of it, terminate the TLS connection there, and call it a day (e.g., Tableau), perfect being the enemy of good and all.

I've given a lot of thought to the question "how would an attacker use CT logs against me", but I think the probable losses of something untoward happening due to certificate transparency is extremely small compared to attackers getting onto my networks and eavesdropping on sensitive, internal comms. I'm also not confident in my ability to run my own internal CA, both because it'd be a lot of work to secure and because the bus factor would be so damn high. At least this gives the rest of the team some incentive to tie new things into the configuration management system because they get certificates for "free". Maybe there's a better way. I don't know.
It will take mere days to determine definitively if the crashes involved the same trim system.

I think you are completely free to avoid the 737 MAX as long as you like, but it seems like panic and hysteria to call for a widespread public reaction before any actual crash data is available.
Get too hot for use on a device like a leaf blower. Also would add non-negligible costs.
Using DNS verification also for a couple of non critical production websites which are hosted on GitLab Pages.

It's really nice not to upload a challenge file for doing so.

Tutorial here: https://about.gitlab.com/2016/04/11/tutorial-securing-your-g...
These guys like 3M and Dupont and Monsanto are doing worse things than tech to destroy our society - why aren't we hearing calls to break them up or take them over or stopping their operations in our society? (ie. Are you listening Elizabeth Warren?)
It's a more efficient engine, with better particulate filters, a catalytic converter to reduce NOx emissions, and yearly emissions inspections to ensure all of the above is up to standards. It's a gain.
The dumping of "recycling" onto other countries just goes to show what a lie recycling actually is.

It's not recycling, it's just garbage, but the word recycling makes us feel good about sending it to some other country to be dumped.

With India and China refusing it, look to the "recycling" companies to make deals with countries that don't have the political will to say no to accepting the worlds plastic and paper garbage.

Why are we spewing out an infinite quantity of single use plastic and packaging?

It's all about the packaging industry and profit.

The thing that annoys me most is the in almost 100% of cases, the solutions discussed are about "how do we make use of all this plastic and other waste?", instead of asking the question "why haven't we turned off the tap?"
I've always disliked articles that use this tone. It's meant to be informal, but comes off as lazy and spoken in muted tones as if the author were in a pub; Docker sitting in a booth a few meters away blithely sipping on a pint of bitter. The substance isn't much more enlightening than typical bar banter either.

Docker played a pivotal role in creating our modern understanding of containers and we should be thankful for that. I don't understand the value this article provided beyond pointing out a few container runtimes I hadn't heard of.
You didn't go through the education system of the republic of Ireland - ie victimhood 101. The Poles moan about the Russians and Germans less than the Irish do about the English, it's truly pathetic given their century of independence.
Her wording is clumsy but the meaning is crystal clear to me:

If you provide a platform you should not be allowed to compete with those who build on top of that platform, because it wouldn't be a level playing field.

Apple provides iOS as a platform for others to build on, so in her view Apple should not be allowed to offer Apple Music to compete with Spotify or Apple Maps to compete with Google Maps or the upcoming Apple Movies to compete with Netflix.

And this is not a small issue. This is everything Apple means when they say they want to expand their services business.

It's very clear what it means. It's not ignorant. But I fear it could have side-effects that she hasn't considered.

What if those rules had been in place when Apple first came up with the iPhone? I think Steve Jobs might have opted for vertical integration and against becoming a platform in the first place. There might never have been an App Store at all.

There wouldn't have been a level playing field because there wouldn't have been a playing field.

I think there is room for better regulation of internet giants. But it's incredibly complex, and each case is very different.

I would favor a more cautious approach. For instance, large platforms should be required to have some sort of independent conflict resolution mechanism.

Closing accounts of small businesses that build on top of your platform without recourse and with scant explanation is unacceptable if you're one of a handful of platforms worldwide.
> when 99.9% of it is not used for drinking

What is it used for? Cooking?
Looks this would be perfect as a "sofa keyboard" for controlling a home media center or similar. I guess that the main difficulty would be not pressing the keys while using it as a touchpad, but I imagine it would be possible to get used to that.
I never thought that there will be a modern programming language that is more verbose than Java. But there you go, golang proved me wrong. and Java is getting less verbose with each release. The major pieces of verbosity in Java is auto-generated by IDE anyway.
The movie Hackers started it all for me. 11 year old me thought it was the definition of cool.
Ok, so the long term aim is an OS I can put on Grandmas computer?

Ok, then I don't think it's fair to start being hostile to people when they expect USB 3 support and a web browser. I don't expect a product, that's what you're saying you're offering.

You said you're nearly there, I think it's reasonable to ask when that might be. I'm not asking for a cast iron guarantee to the day, but 1 year? 5 years? The thing stopping me from trying it is lack of stable release.

" "basically compete with "Desktop Linux" in terms of functionality" On what terms?"

I mean do you want to be judged as a hobby OS, or something to stand toe to toe with Linux on every measure. Theres no point me complaining USB 3 doesn't work if your only aim for the project is something to do on an evening. You've indicated that you want it to be something to put on Grandmas computer. Fine, but that sets a much higher bar, and you can't say "fiddle with config file" when something goes wrong.

Ps I'm still detecting hostility, I hope its because you vehemently believe I'm wrong and you can succeed (I hope I'm wrong, and you do succeed)
> Brexit and the Irish border is almost impossible to solve.

the solution would be to kick the illegal English occupants off the island of Ireland. also what gets labeled as terrorist in one country is called a freedom fighter in another. The Kurds are a great example of that too.
And if you just rely on the default trust stores you’re actually introducing over 100 third parties, some of which are known to be controlled by (or at least work with) the NSA, China, etc.
I’m curious where this 25% statistic comes from, and after a bit of googleing it seems to be a 2015 report from:

https://www.nrdc.org/resources/threats-tap-widespread-violat...

This does exlcude ~13 million private water systems (wells) which is good. On the link rhere’s a map you can click on and see what the health violations are.

[edited to move into commentary comment]
Eventually those of us in America and Europe will have to start actually recycling rather than just saying we are while shipping it to other countries.

Obviously part of the solution is going to necessarily require companies stop putting so much waste packaging on products.
yes, less noise, and less pollution (by the economy of scale).
I knew that I wanted to be a math major when I started college, and my college's program required a course in programming. I took that first semester, and the rest was history.
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That’s exactly what insurance is for, to spread the risk among the entire pool of participants. And the best way to expand the pool as large as possible is with universal healthcare (ie “everyone”).

Everyone pays because everyone should pay.
Baristas?
Pity, since California is such a nice place weather wise. And there is the crux of the problem: people put up with this madness because there is some other non-market reason that isn't very portable (e.g. Austin has very hot summers).
The article explains what is meant by political correctness in this case:

What people mean by “political correctness.” … [is] their day-to-day ability to express themselves: They worry that a lack of familiarity with a topic, or an unthinking word choice, could lead to serious social sanctions for them.

It's about a careless word, a misinterpretation, an honest mistake or as little as stating a fact in a questionable context being able to ruin a person's life.