skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes and no. The stakes are low in terms of the organization as a whole, but extremely high for the participants because the tiny stakes represent the bulk of their available resources.

Picture a hungry crowd of 100 people. They will fight each other over 10 sacks of rice because without those 'low stakes' some people are going to starve and die. They can't wait for there to be a bigger prize worth struggling over because if they they'll be dead. So what looks like petty conflict from above is actually desperate struggle for survival from below.

When someone at the top of a hierarchy points to a conflict at a lower level and says it's petty and invalid, the higher-up(s) have generally made it that way and are lying about that fact to preserve or increase their power, by offering implicit bribes to whoever is willing to kick their peers on behalf of the higher-up(s). Any time such a person talks about 'the bigger picture' it's an invitation to participants in a lower-level resource conflict to defect to the hierarchy in exchange for a minor elevation in status.
Or in Western Europe. I imported two top of the line cars for a very low fee in the past from Japan. Both had super low mileage and were a fraction of what I'd pay for the same vehicles here. The websites typically look super sketchy but they're legit, you may have to twiddle headlights and other details to get it to pass inspection locally.

Important to check if there have been recalls that have not been applied to the car you are interested in and to make sure that you have a good idea of the tax and registration fees in your intended country of destination before pulling the trigger.

Luxury European cars (MB, BMW, Audi) in Japan are typically LHD so no problem there, but beware of buying Japanese vehicles there, there is a good chance they are RHD.
Sure. Changed from https://scoot.co/stories/bird-adquiere-scoot/.
Nonsense, there are endless ways to escalate and pivot once you get local admin.

That being said, there are indeed restrictions that can and should be set on admin rights. Not that IT would know about it or that it would limit pivoting much.
The best stuff [0] is still obtained by simply rubbing flowers between the hands until enough resin accumulates, it wouldn't surprise me if they had already figured that one out.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charas
There seems to be a lot of people who are building large scale, well behaved applications on NoSQL systems that are finding out "you know.. for a lot of these applications you don't need 'MVCC/ACID or nothing.'"
That's what the essay is about.
Hmm. Sorry, no, that's not my understanding. I think the phenomenon of discovery is distinct from the changing of behavior. I believe it is the discovery itself that is called a "medical reversal." I think the submitted paper defines it in relatively laymen's terms: "Medical reversal occurs when a new clinical trial — superior to predecessors by virtue of better controls, design, size, or endpoints — contradicts current clinical practice."

I think an important difference is that current clinical practice is not necessarily thought to be "unproven/inconclusive." Rather, I think people think it has a solid foundation, but better investigation reveals that not to be true.
Ugh. Do not want. Dropbox used to be a great little tool that did it's job well. Now they're trying to turn it into a Swiss army knife that will do several things with mediocrity.

I stopped loving Dropbox when they killed off Public Links, and it's gotten worse from there.
They do have their own storage infrastructure now. It's just a very low margin business and newer entrants like Wasabi are constantly pushing the edge in raw pricing.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20167106, which was posted earlier and has a bit more information than the corporate press release.
Well yes, that's what Spectre is.
Left leaning people want more government regulation and then expect pot legalization with no regulations. Reality doesn't quite work this way.

No, left-leaning people wanted more government regulation--and expected pot legalization with regulations. Which is what they got. But a lot of places, primarily right-leaning, chose to simply continue banning pot stores and deliveries within their jurisdictions.

Of course, reality doesn't quite work that way. Black market sales are still pretty strong in right-leaning parts of CA. The pot sales are thus still happening there, but they aren't seeing the tax revenues that their more liberal counterparts are seeing.
Have you ever negotiated in a contested deal with a big company?

They get way nastier than PR pieces.
I have a Synology NAS and use CloudSync to maintain a copy of my Google Drive/Photos in my local NAS. The problem with this announcement for me is that the recommended method to backup Google Photos to my NAS is to enable the Google Photos folder in Google drive and use cloudsync to backup Google Drive. See https://www.synology.com/en-us/knowledgebase/DSM/help/CloudS...

This announcement breaks that and destroys the easiest option for downloading all photos from Google.
I don't think Kubernetes is necessarily overly complex. I use it for a side project, and knowing the config primitives, it's been pretty easy to set up a web app with postgres, redis and a load balancer on a single node hosted on DigitalOcean. Since I'm already familiar with k8s from work, I find the maintenance of the mini cluster to be pretty hands-off.
Right, and my point was that it was the people that were responsible for the violence, not prohibition.

After all, marijuana was technically subject to prohibition until quite recently, and yet the very lucrative pot market was not marred by violence.
Sorry, where did I say that? I'm talking about not creating incentives for homeless to concentrate in one city.

I'm pretty sure it's better for society overall for the homeless population to be widely distributed than concentrated in one place.
k8s does not solve any problem around making your system distributed, scalable and reliable.

You still have to implement your own architecture to implement quorum, leader election, failover etc where needed.

k8s will only redeploy containers when a node fail.
No, it can't. But sometimes too much pain relief isn't a good thing. Your body adjusts to no pain, and it becomes difficult to discontinue to drug.

Pain is an important signal and, in general, should only be treated enough to take the edge off. Ideally, the root cause should be addressed.

Of course, there are plenty of chronic and terminal conditions where opiates are appropriate.
> It’s not like any of these are phoning home (I hope)

Firmware is largely closed-source, so all you can do is hope.
I'd assume Scoot can now grow faster, while being less constrained by capital when expanding to new locations like Spain and Chile (buying more scooters every time).

At the same time Bird can benefit from Scoot's operational experience, which at this point must be iterated and relatively efficient.

From what I've heard from regular users though, Scoot's service is already pretty good. I even know two super-users who promote it to everyone they know all the time, and use it every day to commute from Richmond <> Downtown.
The IBM PC in 1981 cost $4,500 to $8,500 in today's money. The original Mac would cost $6,000 if released today. Computers have become a great deal cheaper in the ensuing decades.
Then it's likely the founders and team walked away with nothing from the sale.
Walmart to Integrate Jet Employees as Unit's President Exits
Copenhagen density is IIRC around 5-6x higher than Bay Area. So density isn't the issue, it's infrastructure investment and zoning.
> how would a legacy host which only understands classical IPv4 (with 32-bit addresses) talk to a host which only has "new" (wider than 32-bit) addresses?

Hosts with 64 bit addresses would have to support 32 bit addresses also, just like is the case with IPv6 hosts that have to have IPv4 stacks.

Under 64 bit addresses, it's conceivable that in fact there would not necessarily have to be an entire IPv4 stack; just protocol conversion to widen and unwiden the data format.

The stack would have to know that certain connections have IPv4 peers, and so it would parse IPv4 datagrams coming from those hosts, and likewise send them IPv4 datagrams.

It could be designed such that if the source and destination addresses (A.B.C.D) of a connection are such that A <= 255 && B <= 255 && C <= 255 && D <= 255, then the hosts may optionally use the smaller IPv4 packet format.
Personal attacks aren't ok here. Would you mind reviewing the site guidelines?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
You can "convert" a single HDD drive into a RAID1 (mirror) online, without data loss or backup/restore.
Hmm I'm not following.
This is about moving away from oil dependance, not making bricks bio degenerable.
I'll check out darksky.

And, I concede all your points about bookmarking after turning off all the configs. I just wish the pretty, simple, and easy to retrieve version were more common.
Kinda true even in some western European countries. I have heard the Germans being compared to a cactus. It is tough and thorny on the outside but soft and sweet on the inside.
Right. Imagine teaching most people to pipe "ls" into "grep", even without any flags. You've already lost double digit percentages of people.
This was posted "one hour ago" while item you linked in the comment is "32 minutes ago" - unless time flows differently for you, the other is not earlier.

However, the other is not a press release. So ... whatever.
You have a really skewed perspective if you think that. No point debating further if you're looking at this like someone from a tiny ghost town.
I'm sorry, but if you feel safe around places like 3rd and Pine you are being ignorant and I think you are minimizing in bad faith the danger that exists in these places. See this:
https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/5-people-shot-2-ser...

Indiscriminately firing a gun into a crowd of people seems like something that a reasonable person should be wary of.
Again I'm not saying that darkweb markets are civil disobedience. But first you have to determine that drug laws as we know them are just before you can be sure that shutting darknets down is in the interests of justice.

For instance, drug possession is illegal, but prosecuting every single person found with small amounts to the maximum extent possible would not be just, and no appeal to the law will make it so. I am hugely sympathetic to people pulled up on minor drug crimes, even though they are technically "facing the consequences" of their actions, because they're unjust consequences. Drug possession isn't civil disobedience but that doesn't mean I'm happy when people go to jail on minor possession charges. Ditto prostitution: not civil disobedience, probably unjust to jail someone for it.

People often go to jail for too long for too little, and shrugging that the consequences should just be accepted as the price of doing whatever it was does not follow. Should we just say, well, she voted illegally, I guess she (and we) should accept the eight year sentence in the interest of upholding the rule of law? https://reason.com/2018/11/28/8-years-in-prison-for-voting-i... https://reason.com/2018/03/30/texas-woman-gets-sentenced-to-...

I'm not sympathetic towards him either, but neither am I particularly mad at him over his actions being illegal. Hiring a hitman is wrong regardless of the law. Profiting off drug sales, well that's a more complicated argument than simply "it's illegal." It's probably good that he's behind bars but I don't think you can just point at the statutes he broke and, without reference to anything in the outside world, say that you are certain it's a just consequence. Possibly it was. But you can't just assume that if he really is guilty (he is), the consequences are reasonable.

Meanwhile, Paul le Roux is very likely to get a light sentence due to his extensive cooperation with the government. le Roux is directly responsible for several completed murders. He sold missile components to Iran! His sentence will almost certainly be much shorter than Ross Ulbricht's. Does that serve justice or not? It's not obvious. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Le_Roux
I would like something like this for deep learning papers.
Maybe burning the deceased is a better solution to your land wasting concern. I'd be wary of eating tertiary consumers, if for no other reason than prions. For example, there are risks in eating dolphins because of mercury concentrations that build up. Don't eat tertiary consumers.
Ditto.
Working in the enterprise industry I can relate to a lot of what SAP is talking about.
I think that would actually be less sinister than this!
A well-written Python app using the respective platform's native events through say, watchdog[1] performs perfectly fine for huge numbers of files[t]. The language used isn't at all the problem with Dropbox's performance which has been a problem for as long as they've had a desktop app.

If there's one specific bottleneck (ex: hashing files) then that's a prime candidate for Cython[2] or the plain CPython C-API.

Even when you have dropbox restricted to a small folder with _no IO events at all_ it's still constantly working, which is the real problem and entirely an optimization/design problem.

[1]: https://github.com/gorakhargosh/watchdog

[2]: https://cython.org/

[3]: https://docs.python.org/3/c-api/index.html

[t]: ... except when forced to use kqueue or polling
The real reason is probably closer to Fred Brooks' "second system effect". A new generation IP was regarded by some over-zealous engineers as an opportunity of putting in all sorts of new requirements.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-system_effect

They also didn't know the story of the King's Toaster. (Since it refers to 80386's and Unix version 8, it must have already been written at the time.)

http://www.ee.ryerson.ca:8080/~elf/hack/ktoast.html
> A tremendous amount of these homeless don't want to quit heroin.

That’s sort of how addiction works. Drugs are a lot of fun and feel good for a long time and that lets you ignore negative consequences way past the point that someone not on drugs would make a change in their life.

People who are addicted to heroin would rather do heroin in a muddy ditch than be sober in a 5 star hotel.
No, the law as written states "if the customer gives the provider express, affirmative consent to such use, disclosure, sale or access." - ignoring an e-mail or any other 'auto accept' don't qualify as express, affirmative consent.
Anecdotal, but I've found more people are simply willing to admit they smoked pot now that marijuana looks to be legal. People simply lied about it.
More like a lie which gets spread because it is apparently morally wrong for some ideas to be disproven.
There are reasons to be skeptical of this alleged quote by Ehrlichman.

As user GatorD42 pointed out when this was brought up before:

>...Baum claims Ehrlichman said that to him in 1994 while he was researching for a book he published in 1996 about the drug war. He didn't include the quote in that book, but instead published it in 2012 and again in 2016, after Ehrlichman had died (in 1999).

If the quote was actually said by Ehrlichman, it doesn't actually describe the drug polices of the Nixon administration. While Nixon is remembered for "war on drugs", the actual substance of his policies seem to be different than what people think it was:

>...I have been fortunate over the years to discuss the distorted memory of Nixon's drug policies with almost all of his key advisors as well as with historians. Their consensus is that because he was dramatically expanding the U.S. treatment system (by 350% in just 18 months!) and cutting criminal penalties, he had to reassure his right wing that he hadn’t gone soft. So he laid on some of the toughest anti-drug rhetoric in history, including making a White House speech declaring a “war on drugs” and calling drugs “public enemy number one”. It worked so well as cover that many people remember that “tough” press event and forget that what Nixon did at it was introduce not a general or a cop or a preacher to be his drug policy chief but…a medical doctor (Jerry Jaffe, a sweet, bookish man who had longish hair and sideburns and often wore the Mickey Mouse tie his kids had given him).

http://www.samefacts.com/2011/06/drug-policy/who-started-the...
Ex Amazon here: Amazon itself does not need Kubernetes and has a simpler deployment system.

Facebook implemented its own and it's better than Kubernetes.
Sunk cost (In a good way).

I do not like Go the language but I can begrudgingly admire the ecosystem
What do you want to do, execute them?
It doesn't feel like sports leagues want me to be a fan anymore. Take the NBA for example. I can't attend games because they're outside of my price range. I can't buy merchandise because a simple jersey costs north of $50. I can't watch the games because the subscription per month costs too much and bars are starting to get priced out of the range too. Encouraging my kid to play in high school to go pro is a joke since there are no minor leagues that he could fall into since he's not a genetic freak.

I want to be a fan but it feels like the sports leagues don't really value fans anymore. Instead, they want to safeguard their product so that only the rich can enjoy it.
What about it is Shazam-like? Are they a super hero? Are they funny? I don't get it.
Hi, I posted this about mid 90’s development in another thread:

"""
Before about, 1996-- (I'm estimating)-- before network connectivity was the norm-- I understood how every processor in every system I dealt with worked. Two things happened in the mid to late 90s.

First-- an explosion of silicon. The days of understanding how the system worked, in its entirety, were over. I had a copy of "80386 systems designers guide", and I can't remember the name- but the Michael Abrash's guide to VGA video cards and a PC Interrupts were all that were needed to master computer architecture. If you were super fancy you understood the Pentium math extensions (whose names I cannot recall), that let you do a crossbar in a few cycles, and you understood how common chips like the 16550 worked, which is an addendum to PC Interrupts if I recall.

Second, and this is the key thing, technology started working AGAINST us. As complexity exploded, so did network connectivity. We had this era in which Operating Systems complexity exploded (win95), silicon complexity exploded, and connectivity exploded. The thing about connectivity is this-- that's when our computers went from isolated things to these things that are always online-- they started working against us. They could now talk to other computers, other people, and that changed computing fundamentally.

Computers went from these things that were our helpmates to our masters. This is what I lament the most. I don't miss bit-banging, assembly programming (well, a little). I fudging love Ruby/Python, as opposed to C++ being considered "High Level." I love that I can buy a computer for 35$ (RPI) that is fantastic. RPi's are so cheap I employ half a dozen just to run my 3d printers (yes I have a problem). But I do so much not miss being scared of my computer. Miss being scared of the ne5work. I miss the sense of wonder at what a computer could be or do. You have to understand technology as it exists now, is beyond my wildest dreams. I watched Star Trek TNG as a child and the devices we have now, legitimately have exceeded my wildest dreams. The simplest cell phone now has as much computational power as every computer combined at the time I graduated high school.

But, I do miss simplicity. So much so, I've been considering writing an NES or Sega game; I'm precisely 40 years old, and I've finally come to understand that art and constraints are intimately connected. That they press on each other, and neither is possible without each other.

I have so few restraints on modern systems that I... am constrained. I miss the constraints of my earlier years that were, in fact, my freedom. I miss software that shipped and worked on the first day. I, like everyone, miss my childhood. Because the universe is an explosion of complexity-- and when we look back, we will always feel like things were simpler-- because they god damned actually were.

"""

Also, I am old.
Strange that I need to sign in to see the project page
Isnt every phone a potential AR device? The Minecraft demo at WWC comes to mind.
one less bankruptcy
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20167363.
> Then self-host Nextcloud on your NAS.

Nextcloud's implementation is terrible.

> IMO all hardware and data should be entangled with the Secure Enclave/T2 chip

This is an absolutely terrible implementation of security. There is no reason that your data should be tied to a circuit board that does everything. Mac logic boards are ticking time bombs.

> I don't get tech people who do this. You go to a store, ask about a product that you are clearly more knowledgable than the employee on, and then complain that they aren't knowledgable? Unless you are lost there is zero reason for you to ask an employee about a product.

We as tech enthusiasts should care. What is shown and received by all consumers is what leads the industry. I went in because the baseband CPU had flexion damage in my iPhone 7. I went in for the out of warranty repair. They asked if I had a backup. I said yes. They asked if I did a local or iCloud, I just said no, I use Google Photos. I then got this obviously scripted sales pitch for iCloud.

> That said, I trust Apple not to datamine your photos. I don't trust Google on that.

They're _probably_ datamining your photos anyway. This trust that people have in Apple seems to be pretty blind.

My entire comment was lead with yeah I'm a power user and a different case. My comment was tackling how Apple's attitude is anti-consumer.
Import Python Modules/Classes/Functions via String
That (or McIntosh) is the correct spelling for the fruit breed (though not the clan name from which it descends).

I don't know at what point Apple settled on its non-standard spelling for the product, but it might well have been after this article was written.
> MacIntosh :)

They'll probably program it in "C", and then in the 1990s move on to JAVA, with some software in PERL.
> reflashing every serial number in flash/EEPROM with 0x00.

It will be an amazing video, but good luck if the device in question has (very likely):

* a mask-ROM / OTP-ROM for a serial number - almost all microcontrollers and EEPROMs sold nowadays has at least one permanent and unchangable UUID for hardware tracking and DRM implementation (security-through-obscurity tricks to prevent rogue competitors from copying your firmware).

* "firmware read-protection" - which means the only way to dump the EEPROM is performing a full-chip erase and destroy the entire firmware, commonly used in embedded systems to stop rogue competitors from copying your firmware.
i encourage you to try this with thousands of photos; the list is lazy-loaded so it's not even possible to select them all.
You're right on the money here. Scoot was undoubtedly the worst app I've used in recent years. I liked their scooters but their app had a laggy webview and all the images were squashed and in the wrong aspect ratio.
I assumed this was a problem only on Android and that they were just a hipster head-in-the-sand company like Snap, but guess it was just crappy developers.