skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think most people have a problem with immigration. A term that gets used to cover many things these days.

If you listen closely, you will find that people don't like two things. 1) Mass immigration (we probably need to further define that). And illegal immigration. I think most people understand (at least in America) that we are founded on immigration, and we enjoy amazing food, and cultures because of it.

Mass immigration - large number of people immigrating and displacing the existing population within a short period of time (probably also needs defined). I think when places and areas change slowly it is much smoother. Its like boiling a frog. Regardless of where you are from it can be upsetting to see your culture displaced by another. And that is why we have limits on how many people can immigrate to America every year. Some say they are too high, some say they are too low. I am sure we will find just the right amount one day.

As for a short period of time - that is mostly defined in generations. For immigration to work I think it needs to happen slow. Both sides need to adjust. The existing culture needs time to meld with the arriving culture, and the arriving culture needs time to adjust to the new culture. Both sides will need to be willing to give and take to form a NEW culture. Neither side can force full respect of the entirety of all parts of either culture. Doing so will result in generational disputes and battles.

I think most things can generally be solved with culture clash by having a potluck and enjoying each others food. Fat bellies of tasty food can bring people from all walks of life together.
Yep. We experimented around a lot with pub/sub (listen/notify, wal-lr). But it was getting hard to scale and heavy/spiky write loads needed careful thought. This seemed like the right way to get started esp. given that Hasura can get the entire sql query including authz, before moving to tackling that problem more effectively[1].

For folks that want to play around with wal and listen/notify:

https://github.com/hasura/pgdeltastream
https://github.com/hasura/skor

[1] https://github.com/hasura/graphql-engine/blob/master/archite...
A lot of these pieces, including the Elgin Marbles, weren't part of an ancient theft. Many of them weren't stolen until the 18th, 19th, or 20th centuries. For example, the UK has also refused to return certain pieces of artwork that the Nazis stole from Holocaust victims. That theft occurred at roughly the same time this letter was stolen.
When AWS has gone down in the past, it's severely impacted massive tech companies like Netflix and Spotify.

Why would there be an expectation that a 2-man shop have "another cloud offering" as a contingency plan when some of the biggest and best tech companies do not?

People use services like AWS or DO because they are the contingency plan - they have the size and scale that smaller companies cannot afford or implement.
Implementing a Convolutional Neural Network Using Only NumPy
I see a lot of people saying "They should have had more than one provider" and "They should have had better backups".

What I'm saying is: If you ARE going to put your business at the mercy of one company from top to bottom, would it not be wise to try to get some kind of account rep? Or have some sort of communication with the company as to the nature of your operation?

And if that isn't an option, should you do business with them?
I am reminded of the absurd threat in the film "Rock and Roll High School" that "This will go on your permanent record"

Nowadays it will.
Okay, let's imagine an alternative universe where home-sized nuclear reactor somehow got popular and people got used to it.

As a result, a typical city has millions of small nuclear reactors. Even though the government tries hard, it is impossible to regulate all of them to absolute safety, and every month there's a nuclear leak somewhere, in every city. As a result pretty much all mankind (well, at least the urbanites) enjoy(?) a permanently raised level of radiation and elevated rate of cancer.

Experts say millions die per year worldwide, but since nuclear is a part of our life, we have accepted it as a given and decided it's the price we're willing to pay. On the bright side, because each reactor is so small, each leak doesn't cause evacuation of a city: at worst the unit is locked down for a few months, and (because we've been so good at it) usually nobody dies as a result. At least no one's death can be conclusively linked to any particular accident.

So, in your metric, do you think this world is safer than our own Earth with large-scale nuclear plants?

...Now, note that this isn't just an idle fantasy: it's pretty much an exact mirror image of what we do with vehicular emission.
Yes to all. Have a look if you want for a bit of evidence:
This was one of the 10's of possible techniques that could identify devices uniquely among billions https://boingboing.net/2019/05/22/unique-device-fingerprints...

However the author of the paper could not get it to work on low end devices, whereas we could. And we discovered this around 2015.
Agreed. I wish we had more details. A hint of apple's touch is simply the radius of the connector metal - it's very elegant.
China Rx: Exposing the Risks of America's Dependence on China for Medicine
This is a good point. Some of the techniques that I employ today (prototyping at a large scale) are ones that I can employ simply because I have experience and can see ahead to what potential problems there are in various designs. These things aren't obvious to a junior developer and letting them get too far with a prototype can be dangerous.
I just moved, and I have access to 1gbps fiber at my home for $50 a month vs a severely crippled 100mbps from comcast for $120 a month two blocks away. So land internet is not free, and 1gbps is rare.

Qcom charges Apple $14 bucks for the modem. That doesn't sound crippling or unfair or unreasonable. I think if consumers had the option to buy an ipod touch for 500, then add the modem like you do with a PC no one would be buying a fully integrated device from Apple for 1000.

I worked at Qualcomm, so take this with a grain of salt. But I find it laughable that Apple is complaining when they can sell the exact same thing at 2x the price by just adding a $14 dollar qualcomm modem.
The market is only good for optimizing cashflow. It doesn't care one bit about human needs or happiness. External factors are needed if you care about humans.

Having a bunch of factory jobs replaced by a machine is an excellent example of this. People are blaming the management, but really it's the market forcing it. If the management here doesn't do this and their competitors do, they'll become uncompetitive and eventually go out of business.

The worst part is that there isn't an easy solution to this. You can try to re-train those workers so they can get new jobs, but eventually those jobs will be automated away as well. You can try to make laws to protect the jobs, but this makes it inefficient and prone to corruption.
Sure, a backup would have been a significant improvement, but still – a backup only protects against data loss and not against downtime.
A one-off luxury OS could be extremely secure and difficult to hack.
A bit incomplete title then. They are also testing legal boundaries, population reaction, and few other things that are morally objectionable.
Linode is definitely in the minority here. Most companies, in tech and outside of it, seem to follow the DO model. Twitter provides decent service, and the official help channels provide canned responses and template emails.

I somewhat blame people in tech, actually. More than one company is creating products that "cut customer service costs via machine learning", which is code for "pick keywords from incoming tickets and autoreply with a template"
Minio is great! I use it! But spinning up and managing yet another service when you're already a small shop adds more barriers to entry. Maybe find an already s3-compatible store (like Wasabi) or find something cheap and easy to spin up that's supported by the tool (like https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box)
> I'm not sure how much political power the UN has in all this, I would guess the US has more though?

Not sure, but I would think they couldn't do much in regard to veto members.
PSA to anyone reading this thread: Do not take Accutane without a prescription. There are very good reasons that doctors don’t want to prescribe it, and if you can’t find someone willing to do it, it means that the risks very likely don’t outweigh the benefits in your case. Doctors are going to want you to try more conservative treatments first, and you shouldn’t second-guess that.

Accutane makes the “horrible side-effects” of Tetracycline look like a mild headache. Aside from being a powerful teratogen (i.e. it causes nasty birth defects), Accutane is linked to suicidal tendencies, liver damage, heart damage, and more. It’s not a drug anyone should be taking without supervision.
I think he means the correction of a system with wealth inequality that leads to the people we love most suffering through no fault of their own. We can see the backsliding of quality of life for people who's output has been unchanging for decades. Many of us have friends and family who live "back home" and are not software engineers with healthy budgets. Many of us are married to or are related to people who come from different socio-economic, ethnic or racial backgrounds which have given us the uncommon knowledge (to privileged society) of what it is like to be stuck in a class of perpetually losing.
> You mean the strict processes that strictly demanded mixing imperial and SI units ?

You're describing a mistake that happened literally 20 years ago. Don't you think they might have changed the processes in all that time?
This is both absurd and obscene. I could think of a million better ways to spend the money and benefit people or ecosystems if I had 10 or 20 million $ burning a hole in my pocket. Shame to the people spending this kind of money on such trivial and useless things, and to Bugatti (and other brands) for humoring them. It makes me really sad to know there are people who would rather blow these amounts and waste the money.
ISPs don't (can't) have your browsing data anyway... Not sure what the point of this law is.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect

Partially this.

And while it's possible this post will go down, there's also a worthwhile discussion to be had about Medium. Some things are bigger than Quincy might want them to be (I say this as someone who's a HUGE fan of FCC and what they do).
When states are looking for growth industries and new tax base, why can’t they incentivize generic manufacturing ?
That's not a solution though. That's something that would work if it could be used, but it won't, like saying the solution to having a cough being "well, just stop breathing". That's not how people are. Fake photos have been around since the Cottingley Fairies and we haven't adjusted at all, I don't think society will.
As somebody that benefits from using a drug 'off-label' I strongly disagree.

There are many cases where off-label drug use gives a minority of people tremendous benefit. Take a look at the people with various brain disorders using Ambien off-label. It can literally bring people out of coma-like states temporarily.

Other examples off-label use:
* Propranolol for anxiety.
* Guanfacine for blood pressure issues, now used on label for ADHD.
No problems from me. NY schools already have a security guard on duty that watches everyone coming and going through the front door. Its not always easy job, anything that can help them would be great.
This is conflating two different things. One point is valid, the other is not.

- No offsite backups? Agreed. Even for a two person team it is sloppy.

- "Relies on one tech partner?" Strongly disagree. Even large enterprises often have a hard dependency on AWS, Azure, Rackspace, or similar. To suggest that a two person team should have deployment plans for multiple independent cloud vendors is just fantastical thinking with no basis in reality.

Plus if they did over-engineer it by making it cloud agnostic, setting up accounts to sit dormant, cold instances elsewhere, etc, people would just criticize them for that inefficiency/wasting time.
Your argument also allows mothers to kill their children up till around 3 years old.

And if you reply that someone else can care for the child, your argument also allows for killing mentally disabled children and adults.

Giving humans value only because they are useful is abhorrent to me, I find that humans have inherent value.
Am I to believe that one-off (or low production) cars are exempt from emissions, mechanical inspections and crash testing requirements?

And if so, why am I breathing in their exhaust or involuntarily at increased risk with their driving?
Which isn't even technically possible in the first place. So voting to allow it doesn't do anything
There’s nothing wrong with that approach, the person raising the support ticket likely hasn’t read through all the documentation of the product they’re using.
Yeah, probably. But we shouldn't be calling these guys out for not taking the "obvious and simple" solution when we aren't 100% certain that it would actually work. That happens too often on HN, and then sometimes the people involved pop in to explain why it's not so simple, and everyone goes "...oh." Seems like we should learn something from that. I've gone with "don't assume it's as simple as your ego would lead you to believe."
This is what's wrong with the world. I can understand a $100k car, but this level if unnecessary decadence and the apathetic world view that one must have to own and operate one is staggering to me. One of these cars is the equivalent cost of education and medical Bills for several large families over a generation or more. One question, why? How do things like this move us forward as a civilization and society?
I think Microsoft would argue that Xamarin and Xamarin.Forms are already respectably competitive on that front. Particularly because they see the focus on Native controls plus XAML as being kin to the React Native approach (Native controls plus JSX).

From a design standpoint they have been working to merge their Fabric design system (started by the Office team and originally focused on web, then React, but now with a bunch of Fabric UI Native controls especially for React Native and Xamarin) with their UWP design work (Fluent Design System 2.0 and the WinUI controls library). That merger in progress is working to sell Fluent Design as a cross-platform design system that feels native on each platform (adapting to be more Material Design-like on Android, and more Apple-design like on iOS), but also coherent (and brandable) across platforms (since many users use multiple platforms each day).

It's an interesting strategy, and maybe even a great idea to have a cross-platform design system focusing particularly on stuff that matters (accessibility is huge focus area for Fluent Design), and with Office seemingly all in on this strategy it may even have weight to it. It's also something that potentially complements the Xamarin and React Native approach well, of adapting to native components and feel as much as possible, but trying to leverage as much high level similarity as possible as well.
This is one that we knew of in 2015, and the public researchers just found out in 2019: https://boingboing.net/2019/05/22/unique-device-fingerprints...

Now we're waaay past this easy stuff to fake stuff. This now considered to be basic.

Look into distill networks, but their public product is very far behind what we did. Not sure if they have better tech to be used in future.
Collectively all of the coal plants are going to render the world's coastlines uninhabitable, except to fish.
Medium is done as a platform. If you still post content there you need to look for an alternative. It will not get any better. The management shows zero will to recognize the issues and to solve it.
As soon as a company resorts to dark UI patterns (which medium has done for some time now) it is always downhill from there. Just in the last few weeks I have found 5+ regular authors that does NOT intend to post premium articles but have been tricked into doing so through a misleading/dark UI.
Kind of a shame since it used to be quite good as discovery platform and it had promise but it is not anymore and I spend zero time on the platform apart from reading articles that I click from my Twitter feed.
It depends on what you are writing. Also, there is a question of readability. A document written in legalese is certainly “accurate,” but that doesn’t make it comprehensible. Writing with clarity isn’t about following a standard, it’s about using language in such a way that the consumer of that language understands the message. If documents were written following like the RFC, they’d be incredibly tedious to read. English isn’t a computer language, there is a such thing as context, tone, and diction. Of course if you are actually writing a legal document or standards document, certainly use that idiom.
I think about this quote a lot.

>"The clientele between Bentley and Bugatti is remarkably different," Bentley CEO and Bugatti president Wolfgang Duerheimer told Bloomberg. "The Bentley customer on average owns 8 cars. The average Bugatti customer has about 84 cars, 3 jets and one yacht."
I feel this comment doesn't contribute.

It is true there have been hype waves. But there also have been huge medicinal revolutions too (e.g. vaccines, antibiotics, etc)

It sounds to me that you're just lumping all "great claims" into the "false" category with no basis. It doesn't sound like you read the studies and take issue.
See: kit cars.
You Get What You Pay For.

Yes, this is a bad look for DO. But the way they're able to beat AWS on price includes things like "worse support." And if AWS goes out of business, you'll know in advance. DO isn't the same story. You should be planning for redundancy if DO is truly business critical for you.
What a shock that the multi-millionaire owned media companies don't want to discuss class except to rile up hatred of poor immigrants and minorities. Something like Occupy Wall Street gets only lightly covered, and mostly to discuss how smelly and filthy the bums are.
Burqas are already outlawed in some parts of europe, it's dehumanizing and extremists symbol. Also by that ideology, women would not go to school anyways.
Facebook Lawyer Says Users ‘Have No Expectation of Privacy’
Should be noted that (spoiler) some of the people the author presumed instantly killed in ep1 are actually shown alive later.
I'm currently in construction on the lower level of my house in Oakland, which will be split in half and include an ADU (accessory dwelling unit) that we'll be able to rent out.

There are two ways of doing this in Oakland, and presumably most places - the Legal proper way, and the not-legal way. Most seem to be the latter.

But we wanted to do things right. Oakland has a housing shortage and we have more square feet than we need, and we were renovating the house anyway. And according to the city, they're trying to encourage ADU's to help with that housing shortage, so we went that way.

But that means we're subject to a whole new set of zoning and construction regulations. Originally I wanted to keep a (locking) interior door between the main house and the ADU so we had the flexibility of having it as a guest room or literal mother-in-law suite if we weren't renting it. Zoning shot that down - ADU is required to be completely separate space.

Oh and that 'separate space' is quite literal. Separate HVAC, separate electrical, separate sewer plumbing to the lateral with separate cleanout, and 1-hour fire rated separation on shared walls and ceilings.

Some of that makes sense and I'd want to do anyway, but it means a simple 400sq. ft. 1 bedroom ADU in an existing building is about a $100k buildout.

The previous owner rented the downstairs space as it was - not legal, no real separation from the main house, shared everything. That was pretty much free for her.

I wonder if there's a middle ground somewhere. A 'legal' way to dense up our housing but without the great expense of rebuilding it from the inside out first. This seems like something that we'll be seeing a lot more of in the future, but I can't imagine most people will want to spend what I'm spending to do it 'legally'.
You do if you want to sign and publish it.
Yikes. Those metrics are entirely unreasonable for providing any support besides canned responses. Rough seas at DO.

Disclaimer: Based on providing support myself and coaching a support team at both a web hosting company and ISP I used to own years ago.
Maybe - AWS at least, you'll have an account rep to bang on whose job it is to remove obstacles to your spending more. I'm not sure how big exactly you have to be to get an account rep, but my small company with only 50 instances has one.
ISP here: The margins in bulk hosting services are incredibly thin, and companies have resorted to automation tools. If somebody asked me to run backend infrastructure for something like DigitalOcean or Linode, I would run away screaming. It would literally be my own personal hell. I would rather run any other sort of ISP services on the planet than a bulkhosting service where anybody with a pulse and $10 to $20/month can sign up for a VPS.

I truly feel sorry for their first and second tier customer support people. I imagine the staff churn rate is incredible.

People who work for these sorts of low-end hosting companies inevitably quit and try to work for an ISP that has more clueful customers. When you have people paying $250/month to colocate a few 1RU servers, the level of clue of the customer and amount of hassle you will get from the customer is a great deal less than a $15/month VPS customer.
The difference is that when AWS goes down, Netflix/Spotify still have backups and could adapt infrastructure if the outage involved permanent data-loss. You're talking about the people who built https://github.com/Netflix/chaosmonkey

I'd argue that it should be _easier_ for a 2-man company to adapt to cloud service outages, as they likely don't have to keep up with nearly as many backups or moving parts.
I ended up getting phenylephrine once because I was vacationing in the US. Needless to say, I was not impressed. How do you guys treat colds?
Nasa Says Earth Is Greener Today Than 20 Years Ago
That's much less troubling. It's much harder to engage in shenanigans in that case.
what parts of glibc make it trouble for embedded systems? is it the way it uses memory? or just “too large”?
Apple Is Finally Killing iTunes
This is what we knew of in 2015: https://boingboing.net/2019/05/22/unique-device-fingerprints... you can figure out where the industry is now yourself.
On the other hand: Get customers and traction before you build a multi-site, fault-tolerant, self-healing, webscale platform that Google would be proud to have.

I think we needlessly shame one-person operations for focusing on actual customer needs instead of ops busywork and yak shaving.
This was used publicly in around 2016, stopped using around 2017 when research showed even better ways that cannot be spoofed: https://boingboing.net/2019/05/22/unique-device-fingerprints...

Ours was more advanced then this. As far as I've read the paper cited on the source above, they are like 30% of ours tech POC back in 2015.
We do a fair amount of business with DO to the tune of about 40+ droplets used together and separately for various tasks.

While we could certainly survive the loss of these assets, the recovery would be long and costly.

So I would certainly say that this story gives me a great deal of pause and will take up some mental space this weekend as I think about future dealings with DO.
I see. I misunderstood then. IMO, that is not a good description of a Marxist uprising.
This does feed hundreds of family's: the families of those who design and build the car.
That seems like an odd cost increase. How do you figure it would lead to a tripling of op costs?