skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh sure! Project your fears onto other people, and put them into psuedo-categories. Much easier to do this than to humanize them. Bravo for your technical analysis!

Oh boy! This sarcasm is what living in Britain for 10 years has helped me master. I think deep down my sarcasm actually represents pain.

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“We Americans stubbornly resist the possibility that what we do is profoundly shaped by policies, norms, systems, and other structural realities. We prefer to believe that people who commit crimes are morally deficient, that the have-nots in our midst are lazy (or at least insufficiently resourceful), that overweight people simply lack the willpower to stop eating, and so on. If only those folks would just exercise a little personal responsibility, a bit more self-control!” — Alfie Kahn

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Seriously, what needs of yours are met by psuedo-diagnosing some of American society's most vulnerable? And more importantly, what needs of yours are unmet? What emotions do you feel, and what do you feel in your body?

I think American society has evolved into a culture that glorifies violence, turns young girls into sex objects, sends young men to their deaths to ‘defend America’, and indoctrinates it's citizens with bizarre nationalistic views and a sense superiority that to me is completely removed from a compassionate view of life.

For some reason, instead of having an empathic view on those people, your ego has decided that it is actually better than these people. This to me looks like a case of good old grandiosity! This seems oh so common in the great U. S. of A.. Exceptionalism seems to be embedded into the culture overall.

I invite all of us to take a gentle look in the mirror, and I believe the following video reflects our collective unconscious and our society’s ‘shadow’. It has helped me reflect, maybe it will for you too.

“No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.” -C.G. Jung

(In-Shadow by Lubomir Arsov)[https://vimeo.com/242569435]

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Update - comment on prison:

"I don’t have a solution to ruiners that isn’t prison"

Have you watched the recent documentary 'The Work'? I think putting people in jail is possibly the worst crime of all. Let's get them in therapy instead. We can help to heal them by listening to their stories.
The trailer for 'The Work' can be watched here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8OVXG2GhpQ
This is some Challenger O-ring type of shitshow.

I think it's worse.

The first crash can be compared to the Challenger shitshow. It was a (massive) engineering mistake, which lead to the Lion Air plane crashing. Looking at the history of the 737 in general and the 737-MAX specifically it was rekless, but I'm pretty certain not intentional or foreseen by Boeing.

That massively changed by the fact that they didn't immediately pull the plane after this crash and went into deep analysis mode to really evaluate the cause. Instead they smeared everybody but themselves, developed a completely useless checklist without really knowing or (apparently) caring if it's useful at all and let that deathtrap fly.

The second crash, in my opinion is corporate mass murder for profit. Maybe not legally, but morally most certainly.
The grim reality of life under Gangs Matrix, London's predictive policing tool
Great to see new, in progress applications from reverse-engineering that Zero Point Energy Drive. Unless the spatial light modulator is just a sheet of acid.
It's amazing the length some people are willing to go to to defend AWS marketing slogans as a source of truth. I've seen vendor lock-in before, but AWS seems to be unique in that people actually enjoy working with a vendor whose services go down randomly to the point where they blame themselves for not being "fault-tolerant".

Guess what, if your service is not required to be up because the consuming service is super tolerant to it timing out after 140 seconds, self-hosting it becomes even more of a no-brainer. After all, you clearly need none of the redundancy AWS features.
We use Helm, but we really only use it for two things: Templating and atomic deploys/deletes.

Helm templating is pretty terrible. Whoever thought generating YAML as text was a good idea deserves a solid wedgie. But it gets us where we need to be. During our prototyping of our GKE environment, we had lots of individual YAML files, which was not tenable.

Atomic deploys/rollbacks is essential. What Helm brings to the table is a high-level way of tying multiple resources together into a group, allowing you to both identify everything that belongs together, and to then atomically apply the next version (which will delete anything that's not supposed to be there anymore). Labels would be sufficient to track that, in principle, but you still need a tool to ensure that the label schema is enforced.

We don't use any of the other features of Helm -- they're just in the way. We don't use the package repo; we keep the chart for every app in the app's Git repo, so that it's versioned along with the code. We've written a nice wrapper around Helm so people just do "tool app deploy myapp -e staging", and it knows where to look for the chart, the values by environment etc. and invoke the right commands. (It also does nice things like check the CI status, lint the Kubernetes resources for errors, show a diff of what commits this will deploy, etc.)

I've looked at Kustomize, and I don't think it's sufficient. For one, as far as I can see, it's not atomic.

I'm hoping a clear winner will emerge soon, but nothing stands out. My favourite so far is Kubecfg, which is similar to the unnecessarily complex Ksonnet project, which has apparently been abandoned. Kubecfg is a very simple wrapper that only does Jsonnet templating for you.

I'd be interested in how Google does these things with Borg. My suspicion is that they're using BCL (which Jsonnet is based on, last I checked) to describe their resources.
Is "Which bathroom should this person use" an easy question? If it is really easy, why it is so controversial? You may think it is an easy question, in reality it is an actual hard question.
I guess it depends on how much a stickler for rules the particular tech is? I had a laptop replaced which did not have waterdamage but did have the indicators activated; the guy asked me; ‘did any fluids spill over this?’ I said no and he gave me a new laptop. I had an iPad which definitely had no water damage either (I was the only user) but that one was refused because the indicators were triggered. Those things are flawed and this process is/was flawed, so now I simply have insurance that covers whatever: saves thinking about it.
He's certainly just exhibited some behavior true to that statement.
In the comments on the article, someone asks about Bitwarden. The author mentions there's a possible vulnerability, but in depth research isn't worth it, because he doesn't get paid for reporting vulnerabilities. This scares me about all these 'better than Lastpass' open source alternatives. First, they tend to get less attention from the infosec community. Secondly, I need to make sure to properly secure the server I'm running it on myself, of which I'm not 100% sure I can do myself, nor most developers I've worked with, let alone any person not working in IT.
>Especially since his organization has or had the motto: "to publish fact-based stories without fear or favour".

I honestly can't believe why anyone thought this after he published the first thing that put Wikileaks on the map, the embarrassing Collateral Murder video.

It's funny because before that came out, I considered donating money to Wikileaks because I thought it'd be more like an organization like Wikipedia. I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of people were seduced by the name "Wikileaks" piggybacking off the credibility and mission of Wikipedia.

I guess no one had any critical thinking skills or were prone to conspiracy because everyone from progressives to libertarians started eating everything he did up.

EDIT: Wow just did a search on HN to see what people said back then about it and it seems a few people had the same take I did.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1243842
Another potential bribery case, is buying your coach's house okay?
Keep up the great Wikileaks!

“In one of the messages, sent at 6:35 p.m. on the day of the election, Wikileaks wrote, "Hi Don if your father ‘loses’ we think it is much more interesting if he DOES NOT conceed [sic] and spends time CHALLENGING the media and other types of rigging that occurred—as he has implied that he might do." Wikileaks reportedly claimed contesting the election could help his father further delegitimize the mainstream press and build the new media network he seemingly desired”

Also without Wikileaks no one on planet earth would have never discovered that diplomats sometimes engage in diplomacy AND that wars are terrible
Facebook asked some users for their email passwords
All of them? I've never thought of purchasing another way.
Are you saying it's okay to commit fraud?
Ah Paypal getting even worse than it was for sellers. They already were horrible if you are not a buyer anyway.
I mean, it's possible that he's lost his mind during the 7 years of imprisonment without trial.
Another potential bribe to get someone into a prestigious school. This one is interesting because the student seems well qualified and had a brother already at Harvard. The father bought his son's potential future fencing coach's house for about $350k over its estimated value, and then sold it a year later for a loss of around that much money.

I didn't go to a prestigious school; indeed they paid me to go there! (because I had a scholarship). This is years later, should these probably innocent kids lose their degree? Your life is ruined if that happens. I didn't get into Harvard but somehow I managed to work at the FANGs, lead teams, get advanced degrees etc.
The threat scenario described by the article: If someone within LastPass wanted to gain access to your passwords (e.g. rogue employees, or via court order) there is a way that the extension could be made to upload your vault key back to LP if you click on certain things within the extension, namely some parts of the preferences, or something like that. Any such change would be publicly detectable, but could theoretically be targeted to avoid widespread notice. So in other words, the vault itself is not fundamentally flawed, but the design of the current extension doesn't proactively firewall against LastPass turning into a bad actor.

My $.02: Given that all the cloud-based password managers have their own phone (and even desktop) apps, this seems like a moot point since a bad actor could push out an app update that does anything with your keys anyway.

As a long-time LastPass user I appreciate this kind of analysis, but this is just not something I have enough cycles in the day to let bother me. BTW the last time I opened my preferences was 3 years ago. LastPass is quite open to scrutiny and what's important is how responsive they are to new findings -- very responsive, from everything I've ever seen. Including many findings from the author of the article.

By far the biggest problem with LastPass is that it sometimes just doesn't apply (or misapplies) the password or username to the appropriate form entries, and I have to go find it and copy it. Occasionally it also misses the saving of a new password (that it generated) and I have to put it in the vault by hand. I suspect this is a really hard problem given the massive variety of forms out there, but would be curious to hear if other password managers never have these issues.
Great, let's hear that criticism and constructive alternative solutions to the vexing problem of fair allocation of scarce resources?
I would sneak out with fake beard, buy papers and hide in Thailand years ago.
If anything I had much more troubles with the datastore than with any other DB ever. We are migrating away and the day it's over will be thz biggest profesional relief I've experienced.
I guess you coule consider that you don't need to manage it, but the trade off is that you have to go around all the limitations through nasty software hacks instead of just a simple configuration.
Serverless is not a panacea, actually most of the times is true the opposite.
You will spend much more time dealing with configuration, deployments, managing cold starts, orchestrating everything.
Sure, for some use cases is perfect, but I can tell you almost certainly that the future won’t be on AWS lambda &co.
But something stinks. I don't see how it gets around either FAR 25 airworthiness certification requirements, because it can be disabled.

That's easy. When the manufacturer rubberstamps his own ariworthyness certification this is not really a problem.

Disable it, and now your airplane is not airworthy and your pilot possibly not suitably type rated?

That's the exact crux of the issue. Boeing panically wanted to avoid recertification of the plane and the pilots in order to be competitive with Airbus' A320 NEO.
Referential transparency ;-)
What would performance be like compared to imperative style i/o ?
It really happened, bank in the early 90's. Though I imagine it was a common occurrence.
Unreal: Return to Napali and Unreal Tournament at 1024x768 on a GeForce 2MX with 32M DDR ram on a K6-2 300MHz.
These GPU even could handle Doom 3 (at a barely playable frame rate) at low Res and scaling down textures.
In July 2018 he was going to be kicked out "within the next several weeks". Now it's "hours to days", so it's closer.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17582652
I suppose I don't agree with the premise of your argument. Economic and market forces are only a part of the political decision making process, poor investments and low public good projects are pursued all the time as well as many good projects.

Getting things done in politics is about political will, organization, sacrifice and being determined to accomplish a cause, not really much to do with how good or bad of an idea it is.

The economic costs of rent control are real, but distributed and I think its difficult to make people resonate with that. I don't think it would have a significant effect on the viability of other projects one way or another.
Yeah! It's a fixed point.
He knows what's is waiting for him in US prisons. A lifetime of legalized torture
Clearly propaganda, and there was only the single source that as we can clearly see now was adversarial.
I think you’re missing the point. The people that OP is referring to refuse to use all the public facilities offered, they don’t want to sleep indoors, they don’t want to use trash cans, they don’t want to piss in mobile bathrooms or take showers, they don’t want to be corralled into designated hang out spots.

They want to go wherever they want to, camp out wherever they want to, they want to collect whatever garbage they want to and they don’t want to clean up after themselves, they want to do as much drugs and alcohol abuse in public as they want to, they want to piss wherever they may happen to be at the moment because they don’t want to be burdened with the responsibility of thinking out their actions.

This doesn’t describe every one exactly but it generally describes most that fall into this category.

Ultimately these are people who refuse to play by the rules of society. No amount of public support is going to change them because they simply do not want to change. They are perfectly happy where they are right now, doing whatever it is they want to do. Nobody can solve their ‘problem’ because as far as they are concerned there is no problem.

So understanding that fact, society needs to decide just how much of that behavior it is willing to tolerate.
Monads are not about I/O.
In normal circumstances which applied to most public population, a 50/50 split of shares is fair.

But Jeff Bezos doesn't belong to a normally distributed population, his is an outlier case statistically, with Amazon being an extremely important asset that not only affects their personal lives, but also has enormous impacts and responsibility to the public.

Jeff Bezo's personality and leadership are crucial for the organization. You can't apply the same principles to his case vs. the majority of public.

The key to being effective is the ability to recognize the differences in special circumstances, and knowing how to be flexible so you can adapt to those situations. I can tell it's not easy for most people.

One of the biggest problems today is most people only perceive the world as either black or white, and there are no "in-between", or "grey-zones", or "outliers". But the real world in our lives has never worked like that. This viewpoint is producing a lot of narcissists and their "you are either with me or against me" attitude, which subsequently contributing to a lot of hatreds around us.

Emotionally intelligent people are the ones who truly understand the meaning of the word "compromise", in order to produce a win-win result. That's what separates them from the rest.
Not to mention that Intel chips are already running Minix ...
The most useful spam is still spam.
The leaked chat logs don't sound like he's lost his mind

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4378830-Excerpts-Fro...
I'm not against creating new languages. In fact the Lobster language is something I would want (although current syntax is bit repulsive). Python with static types but without getting in the way is pure gold. The problem is that creating interpreter/compiler is one tiny little part of creating language. Much bigger task is creating vast number of libraries that every other popular languages have. Think about everything from numpy to scipy to graphics to networking to web frameworks to OS APIs... Another bigger part is creating tooling and interoperatibility - everything from debugger, refactoring, linting, IDEs, CI, docgen etc. Now put on the top of it all the reusable code that millions of people have already written spending billions of hours in existing languages.

Without large teams working for years, its very hard for a new languages to break in to general use. There are ofcourse outliers and you can get lucky - but then you have to be terribly lucky. So the end result is that 99.9% of languages just die or become hobby project for a person regardless of their features, benefits, beauty or aesthetics. Again, nothing wrong with becoming personal hobby project but if my goal was to create game engines that becomes force in the industry, I would probably not start by creating entirely new language.

I'm not experienced as much as the author, so this is my personal opinion and likely not very well informed. I writing this just because I see several people spending years in creating new languages while their goals have been something else. They dream about repeating success of Java while not realizing how rare it is. After they finish their labor of love, I wonder if they find it depressing to become just line item in the list of dead programming languages. What if they would have actually focused on their original goal instead with emphasis on adding new powerful features that integrates and plays well with existing stuff? It's sure not as sexy and respectable as being father (or mother) of new language but has much higher chance of generating desired impact.
Water damage indicators are known to not be perfect. That's unfortunate but true. It doesn't mean Apple is deliberately making them be bad in order to avoid warranty replacements though.
Soon we'll be combining statistical, symbolic, and algorithmic intelligence techniques. I question why that isn't the assumed position. :(

That is to say, we have devised some algorithms that are truly impressive. There is little reason to think an intelligence couldn't devise them, of course. There is also little reason I can see, to not think we could help out programs by providing them.
Consistent with many descriptions of what it was like to have Assange on one's sofa. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Le3jrp6LzjI
and an actual CPU ? I think that running at 3 GHz would help a lot.
It sounds like this NOPEC thing must look like kind of a nuclear option to Saudi Arabia, otherwise why would they threaten something so drastic?

Given that, is the NOPEC thing serious, and if so, why would people propose it knowing how critical the Saudi relationship is?
Wikipedia is extremely biased.
I’m appalled by this point of view. Perhaps this is a weakness of capitalism.. primary responsibility should be to those who perished, not the shareholders.
JavaScript 2019: Are we at the beginning of a new era?
> I found (apparently) the only Gameboy emulator written in Pascal, ever: UGE.

Hmm, I don't know. If I've learned anything about programming languages, then it's that the progression of programs written in them is usually: #1 Hello World, #2 Factorial, #3 Gameboy Emulator.
According to correspondence posted on the SEC website, Amazon had sought the regulator’s permission to skip the proposals as being insignificant to its business, among other things, but was turned down on March 28.

Amazon then took the unusual step of asking for a reconsideration of that decision, but was again rebuffed in a April 3 letter from the agency.

I think if you feel the need to ask again, because you really don't want to let them vote on it, that works against the idea that it's insignificant to your business...
He lives in a diplomatic compound that he is free to leave at any moment. He's gone without trial by choice. The real victims here are the poor Ecuadoran diplomatic staff, and his ex-cat.

Oh, and his victims, of course.
1Password does not support sharing (or transferring) of single passwords. You can for example not create an account for a user and send him the credentials through 1Password.
I’m sorry but the I-Pace is a terrible value, just like the e-tron: https://twitter.com/matty_mogul/status/1113871540158914561

But to each his own, I guess.
Or from cowardly refusing to face his trial.
When I read what you wrote, in conjunction with this defensive post asking me to speculate as to what you were trying to do, I think of the OP's question as a question on an exam and your reply as the work of a student familiar with the concept of "business" and utterly unaware of the concept of "poetry."
It’s disingenuous to imply he’s being held against his will in violation of his human rights when in fact the UK government has gone to great lengths to get him to show up to a criminal investigation, and his appeals in the courts were entirely ordinary.
I thought I read something about his cat shitting everywhere too, which was revealing as a cat companion myself. How rude.
But as far as I know, US citizens[1] don't recognize sovereignty of the British Crown since 1776… In that particular days, they even ratified a text saying “that all men are created equal”.

[1] (and Instagram is owned byt a majority of American citizens)
Note: there is genuine uncertainty around what good economic policies are. For example, South Korea became rich by blatantly ignoring advices by world economists. Back then, everyone recommended ISI(import substitution industrialization), but South Korea tried ELI(export led industrialization) and succeeded.

Another example is land reform. US was against South Korea land reform because it reminded of communism, but recent research suggests land reform dismantling landowner class was critical to South Korea's success.
I subscribe to 1password where your data is synced to their servers.

I'm not sure if this is a good idea now that I've read this...