skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please keep the tired trope of "whataboutism" off HN. It has become a cliché, used to cordon off discussion to what the original speaker wants to talk about—as if speaking first conferred some right to decide what is admissible. That's not how conversation works.

Comparables are often relevant, and looking for contradictions in what people argue or believe is a tool for shedding light on a situation. Somehow the word "whataboutism" became catchy enough that people started to believe in the right to exclude unwanted examples this way, but that's clearly a fallacy. If you can show how I'm applying a principle selectively in different cases, you've taught me something valuable. We need to stay open to that.

There's a subtler fallacy worth pointing out too: it doesn't follow that you're justifying the thing I'm against. That is, if you point out an inconsistency or some comparable example on my side of the argument, it doesn't follow that you're a communist or whatnot. Maybe you are, maybe not. Maybe we actually agree. All that follows is that you've found an inconsistency in me, and that's information I need.

When someone brings up an example that they think is relevant and you don't, the way to refute that is not with a garlic word, but to explain what the significant difference is. If there isn't a significant difference, maybe it's not irrelevant.

People do bring up irrelevancies, but that's rarer than it seems. More likely it's that they have a different perspective on what's relevant, as part of the original disagreement that needs hashing out in the first place. Cordoning off discussion doesn't help with that, and no party to a dispute gets the power to draw the lines of what's in and out for everybody. Indeed, that would amount to the power to impose one's view on the entire dispute.

And I wonder: if we could agree on what's relevant, perhaps by including everything we both really care about, how close that might get us to resolving our conflict itself.
Do you think China's social credit system is the same as your payment history / financial risk factor credit score?
Yep. Uber is more than one person or team. Competing priorities.

The customer service team's priority is maximizing customer satisfication.

The legal team's priority is minimizing legal liability.
"Islam has certain political goals built in"

From looking at the texts, you could say this about most major religions. From looking at the people, things are much less simple.
In my experience learning to ride a regular longboard takes about 10 hours of practice across 5+ sessions. Learning to ride a boosted board to the same level of competence is a half hour endeavor. Really, the hard part of skateboarding is pushing, not standing.
>about half of what people spend on coffee each year:

Yeah, but the difference there is that when people spend money on coffee, they're getting a cup of coffee out of the deal. When we spend money on traffic, we're getting hypertension and car accidents instead.

That number is literally just time lost in traffic jams. That doesn't even factor in disutility incurred from actually being in traffic like lost sleep, road rage, traffic fatalities, etc.
Doubt it. HVDC is still HV. While you could bury the lines without a bunch of loss, you also have to start thinking about insulating the lines to keep the electricity contained but also to make sure that if someone digs up the line they don't cause a situation where you'd have to kill a large portion of the grid.

A benefit of aerials is that, all things considered, they are pretty cheap to put up over land. You don't have to insulate the lines, the air does that. You don't have to worry about people digging them up, they are too high. And if the voltage is high enough, you don't generally have to worry about something bridging the lines and causing a fire.

About the only thing you need to worry about is some natural disaster taking out the tower.

What I see HVDC being used for is joining the various grids of the world to allow for power from Texas to supplement power in Idaho. A national grid would improve efficiency, especially of renewables across the time zones.
Alpine Linux Docker Image Root User Hard-Coded Credential Vulnerability
Someone mentioned that MS is not publishing the C# debugger. What good is all that open source code if that key component for development is missing?
The F'ing Circle.
I love the way commenters here equate FLOSS development with unpaid hobbyist developers.

Fact: most of the contributors to the Linux kernel are highly-paid professionals who do that work full time.

The same goes for many, if not most, of the popular and successful FLOSS projects.

It is an error to assume that free (as in speech) software is only made by free (as in beer) development.
I've stopped taking the car completely due to environmental concerns. I see no justification unless you absolutely have to.
yes because the correct request is https://feedi.me/feeds/popular not "https://feedi.me/popular"
No, it's not. With samepage merging it's nothing, let alone docker only loading the image once.
I think by a wide margin the biggest problem is that IRC doesn't have any offline features. In a world where people swap devices all the time, it really sucks to have to drop your connection on every device change, and lose any chat that occurred while you were offline and be unreachable while you're offline.
TLDR

"Driving is bad and economically unsustainable and highly subsidized. Ride hailing apps take advantage of that to make profits in their bid to displace service workers (taxi drivers) and usurp their wages.
However these companies may run out of investor money before accomplishing this.
A lot of municipalities are now considering congestion charges. Walking and public transit may also be an option"

I'm a bit annoyed how the article takes the angle of cheering for Uber and Lyft while barely mentioning public transit as a solution that doesn't economically exploit underprivileged people.
Fascinating: the idea that end-time cults happened to emerge in a society with an “endless monotonously increasing” numbering scheme for years, as a kind of response to some cognitive dissonance about the inevitability of time to go on forever.

For those who also find this stuff fun, I’m reading and highly recommend “When Christians Were Jews: The First Generation” by Paula Fredriksen [1], about the very early Christians.

I find it a vivid and history-backed picture of those times. It’s hard to appreciate just how apocalyptic the first believers were, and how the continued failure of the end-times to come would change the messaging and focus of the religion over the first few generations.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paula_Fredriksen#Books
When I bought an iPhone 7 earlier this year, they walked me through the transfer of the data from my iPhone 5. It was more like me doing it with a trained assistant at hand. They were confused at first because iPhone 5's don't have all the options for transfer that newer phones have.
Maybe for GNU project contributors, but look at some of the most currently popular FOSS projects. They all came from companies that rely heavily on proprietary software for their core business. They're certainly not contributing to FOSS because they're ideologues who believe all software should be FOSS.

Kubernetes (Google), Angular (Google), TensorFlow (Google), VSCode (Microsoft), TypeScript (Microsoft), React (Facebook), PyTorch (Facebook), just to name a few.
Yes. Assume Docker/kubernetes is the way to go.
In general the sure bet right now is

Docker / Kubernetes / Istio .

You need all three for good micro-service platform.
That's a really nice price point.
I'm usually much more pro-google than most on HN, but this is quite bad. I understand it enables other features and a technical work-around that also keeps those features is difficult. But this is a disastrous user experience.

It reminds me of caller-id spoofing. Yes, there's a legitimate use case for it. But don't just throw security out the window to enable it, especially when there is a clear and obvious way to abuse it.
This is such a close minded view of the world that the only way to monetize software is to violate software freedoms to do so.

The valuable good in exchange is the developers time, not the code itself - nation states have constructed a goliath IP apparatus to impair the natural capacity to instantly and infinitely replicate information. But its wholly fictional and fabricated - its just an outdated paradigm from the era of the commoditization of the printing press where there were still marginal costs that could endanger businesses to overspend on.

There are many ways to monetize your time while creating liberated code in the process, but that is where the focus must be in the free software ecosystem.
There's a great deal of irony in a publication promoting FOSS, but their own website is closed source.
Roads are perhaps the single greatest invention ever, in terms of economic enabler and value creation, right after the wheel.

Sliced bread is substantially lower on the list.
I don't know if the attitude you're conveying is yours, or the population, but it's really sad. That if you don't drive a car, you're crazy for riding a bike. And if you want the combined environmental and cost benefits of a bike with the speed and lack-of-work of driving, you must be a drunk.

Even if there is a grain of truth in some stereotypes, it is harmful.
Which market?

The only thing that's directly attackable by the market is the chinese cny peg/trading range and china controls the convertibility of the currency, they can perfectly legally stop their own citizens from taking money out of the country while protecting their peg with their USD reserves.

Their bonds aren't in foreign hands, so there's nothing liquid to panic sell or short, there's nothing for the markets to directly apply pressure with.

If the currency doesn't fall I don't see where this inflation comes from, cancelling debt essentially owed to a state owned bank just re-starts the credit cycle.
What does an obese fly look like?
The point is, if everybody was on a bus there wouldn't BE traffic. There would be no such thing as a traffic jam, because the road would be 90% empty.
Usually 10s or so. Not a great user experience, but she mostly uses it to share recipes with friends or relatives. Once it's awake, it's pretty quick, faster than Google's App Engine free tier in my experience. If she wanted to generate traffic I'd have no problem paying the $5/month to keep the lights on, and Heroku's pricing seems reasonable as you scale up.
I don't believe for a second they keep the data at a company of Google's size. But they don't need to anymore if they just feed your data through some neural network training that outputs a black box filled with weights. They can legally show your data is gone but now their model knows that people with similar browsing history, location, etc have a weak signal for tea cups. You'll get the occasional ad for them if their other networks don't filter out all the history for appearing suspicious. Google can bring in a bunch of experts saying how much data they've processed and no one really knows how the ML algorithm learns, etc.

They've improved their model none the less even if you delete your data after the fact.
Note that Bird is a Los Angeles company, but the point still stands.
I love this warning about halfway down the page:

"How Not to Use this Dataset

As the images in RxRx1 are generated by carrying out biological experiments using reagents known as siRNAs, which are designed to target and knockdown a specific gene (more on this in another section), some may be tempted to use this to identify gene-specific morphological changes. DO NOT DO THIS. siRNAs are known to have significant off-target effects which you only have the chance to overcome through a number of computational methods and using multiple siRNAs per gene. As this dataset only includes one siRNA per gene for a random subset of genes, do not attempt to identify gene-specific signal. There are many ways you can convince yourself you have succeeded in this. You will be wrong. The data provided is insufficient for that task, and should thus be used to conduct research focused on alternative problems only. Just for clarity because we know somebody will ignore the warnings above, we’ll state it again more clearly: DO NOT USE THIS DATASET TO TRY TO GET AT GENE-SPECIFIC CHANGES. IT WILL NOT WORK."
Reconsider it. Unless your enterprisey company is building a platform itself, you don't care about VMs, containers, or MicroVMs.

Build serverless workloads and run them on whatever compute is available.
But "converting" my free time to gas, it gets worse MPG than cars.
>The ideological reasons are practical reasons. We don't want to give you software freedom because we believe in some abstract ideology. We want to give you free software because we believe this is the way that you will eventually get the best software that will let you do the most.

While I wholeheartedly agree with this particular stance--doing away with ideology and sticking with ethics and pragmatism--, I am not sure that everyone in the FOSS community, if such thing exists, adheres to that same premise.
This version is actually the last before Survival test versions started, less than two months after release of the first version (which didn't have multiplayer either)
I thought about buying a thermostat for my district heating radiators. But for the time being I just manage with a cheap thermometer and regulating the radiator manually, because they already have a crude thermostat. It works quite good, because weather is not changing as fast day to day and heating season is not very long.

Many times more technology equals more nuisance.
It's probably about as common as being a CTO/VP/Director level employee within the general population. Most HN users are likely individual contributors; this is because most people are individual contributors.

(I did know one VP at Google who read HN. Only one, though.)
tl;dr mostly by beating it out of their victims and relying on people feeling bad about the plight of robbers.
I am answering your question as the best I can. If there is misunderstanding or something I misunderstood, you can simply point that out.
Targetted ads are inherently bad, and that resonates with most people I've talked to about it. I want to be able to specifically search for things that solve my problems; I don't need a torrent of competing products that I have no interest in distracting me from reading a cool article. I blacklist products advertised to me, refuse to buy them, because I hate the snake oilery the advertising profession has become. And, Google is evil and has perpetuated and propagated (and profiteered) the monetization of personal information, and bolstered that environment by sabotaging the open web.
It was a similar story in London where people borrowed money for cars, then Uber cut pay stranding people with loans.

Uber seems to use "incentives" and some kind of quest system rather than just paying the drivers the full amount. It's similar to bonus systems on casinos, where the goal is to keep the player hooked.
The problem with google’s mission is that it doesn’t say which information has to be accessible to whom and in what way it’s going to be useful.

Given that google’s income is mostly from advertising, it feels like the mission is about making my information available to someone else, and useful for them to make money.
Here's a thought - can we trace this back to the point at which everyone moved from Slashdot to Hacker News? All of a sudden the dominant social incentive changed from open software to startups and profit.
One Man's Junk
I've seen (and also not understood) the use of Slack/Gitter/etc. but the "not running Linux" part is a surprise to me, personally.

I've used Linux or BSD on all of my personal machines for a long time, and assumed, wrongly I guess, that most other people were in the same boat. I'm not sure it's a problem, but it's interesting.
True ..

I got a boosted board when I moved to San Francisco.

Well, reason number one is that the public transportation system is a joke in this city compared to the European cities I am used to.

The price still felt steep but I can afford an 1k skateboard with a tech salary. Especially if I can recoup part of its cost by avoiding lyft rides.
> Ubuntu which is only around 40mb […]

I just downloaded Ubuntu 18.04 and 19.04 and they are not 40MB:

$ docker image ls | grep ubuntu
ubuntu 19.04 f723e3b6f1bd 76.4MB
ubuntu 18.04 d131e0fa2585 102.0MB
ubuntu 16.04 a51debf7e1eb 116.0MB

How do you get a 40MB Ubuntu Docker image?

---

I followed @sofaofthedamned — https://blog.ubuntu.com/2018/07/09/minimal-ubuntu-released

But I’m still confused, where are they getting 29MB from? Even the compressed files are big:

Ubuntu Bionic [1]
- ubuntu-18.04-minimal-cloudimg-amd64-root.tar.xz | 77M
- ubuntu-18.04-minimal-cloudimg-amd64.img | 163M
- ubuntu-18.04-minimal-cloudimg-amd64.squashfs | 96M

Ubuntu Cosmic [2]
- ubuntu-18.10-minimal-cloudimg-amd64-root.tar.xz | 210M
- ubuntu-18.10-minimal-cloudimg-amd64.img | 295M
- ubuntu-18.10-minimal-cloudimg-amd64.squashfs | 229M

Ubuntu Disco [3]
- ubuntu-19.04-minimal-cloudimg-amd64-root.tar.xz | 69M
- ubuntu-19.04-minimal-cloudimg-amd64.img | 155M
- ubuntu-19.04-minimal-cloudimg-amd64.squashfs | 89M

[1] http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/minimal/releases/bionic/relea...

[2] http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/minimal/releases/cosmic/relea...

[3] http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/minimal/releases/disco/releas...
The mouse look doesn't seem to work in Firefox, unfortunately.
Nonsense, it simply means they switch to templates which don't contain abusive, unenforceable clauses.

Lawyers would of course have to draft those templates. But they would rapidly end up being offered for $199 on document-prep websites which sell them already, along with divorce papers and bankruptcy filings.
The 'concrete harm' part comes into play when a corporation or nation-state weaponizes this data in order to sell you a product, influence your thoughts on a political matter, or otherwise manipulate you.

If you're of the opinion that this is not problematic on a fabric-of-society level, could you please explain why?
6yo Spell Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5COAi6KM8o
The car is the last place you might have some privacy, listen to loud music, talk to yourself. I take "micro-vacations from marriage" consisting basically of driving alone a couple days.

The bathroom is arguably the other remaining place for complete privacy, so I understand completely people that can afford huge bathrooms with magazines, TV, etc.
No, because local labor costs affect more of local government costs than just direct employment.

But another big chunk is that California has realigned a number of functions previously done at the State level (and still done by the state in other states) to counties (this includes certain portions of the State Medicaid program, and prison realignment, among the larger elements), plus San Francisco is a City and County, whereas Seattle is a city that is distinct from it's county, so a number of functions that in Seattle to would show up in the King County or the Washington State budget are covered by SF.
Not 15% renewables. "15% nonfossil power consumption". This includes nuclear power.
Because it's tiny, I tend to default to Alpine and then move away from it where necessary. Rather than worrying about potential CPU performance requirements upfront - premature optimisation and all that.
So I just learned they're not laptops.
I still rather like some of the output beam (libchan), just that GRPC came along and it's all history now.

But yes agreed this was all completely frustrating at the time, and completely depressing now.
You trust snail mail carriers not to read your mail.

The digital equivalent of the envelope is encryption - the carrier is allowed to see the outside but not the inside. The function of encryption is lack of comprehension - the carrier still knows the exact encrypted bytes of your mail, but cannot comprehend it. We generally accept that this is already a useful proxy for privacy.

Imagine a mail protocol that somehow lets you encrypt everything but the part necessary for spam identification. The carrier is able to apply some algorithm to determine whether it's spam, but no other information. I'll assume everyone thinks this sounds good (though impossible). Because encryption is just lack of comprehension, an algorithm that is only capable of parsing an "is spam" feature from email has the same level of privacy as this hypothetical. But an algorithm that is capable of parsing "your credit card payment is overdue" is able to comprehend something else, which is a different level of privacy.

(Of course, encryption is better than "They're not running anything that can parse this," because it says "Nobody can parse this.")
I get extra free time because my commute also counts as gym time.
You're not wrong about that. I don't think this is a case of that, though.

CBS is one of four major legacy broadcast networks. They are owned by National Amusements, whose other assets basically amount to a lot of movie theaters. This contrasts with NBC (owned by Comcast), ABC (owned by Disney), and Fox (also owned by Disney now).

This show is exclusive to the CBS web streaming service, an arena with even more competition.

That doesn't seem like a sufficiently-dominant corporation to me. They are a major player, yes, but at best second strongest in their domain.
Adding a shell seems antithetical to deploying production code as a static-linked binary, not to mention an expansion of the attack surface of the container.
Its more like if it takes 12 clicks to do it but I was shown how to do so at school/work, or it was preinstalled I will keep on clicking.
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The same people making mega churches possible and believe that a pastor needs a 54 million dollar jet.
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In urban areas like the one I live in, most trips are faster by bike. Especially considering I always get the closest parking and almost never wait in a queue.
In pinebook’s defense... OpenOffice/LibreOffice is slow and lags pretty much everywhere.
Azure is steaming ahead at a breakneck pace, too. Everyone wants to capture the cloud. The amount of funding going into it is incredible.
We also need to donate more to FOSS. And find more ways to monetize FOSS. It's tough for many FOSS projects to succeed on a volunteer basis.
In my experience, using Linux until even recently had some rough edges, which I personally was ready to deal with. I suppose some don't want to do it. But I've always seen not doing it as not modeling our values, same way the article suggests, so it was an obvious choice for me, despite the learning curve.
> What do they intend to do with it?

Reveal my Top 8 when I run for congress?
You once told me that if we (the company) don't succeed it will absolutely be our own fault.

So many avenues to (huge) success, shutdown hard by the wrong attitudes towards the rest of the market.