skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a read vs write optimisation trade-off. If a senior engineer would need to write down all it knows and all things that were considered for a specific implementation or project he would have to spent a lot of time writing. Especially if the writing needs to be clear for some junior just joining the company.

If instead, only the high over view is written down the person can be relied upon the fill in the nitty gritty details without having to spent years writing.

(It can also be of course that we just lack a sufficiently efficient fork of dumping our mental context for others to digest.)
Is there any better solution for large scale AAA than Kerberos/AD? I think it does the job pretty decently for the large problem that it encompasses.
No... Uber is not more efficient than a taxi service. They were at one point but now they aren't. Taxi businesses have similar apps, drivers who know the area, and regular hours. If it were more efficient, than they wouldn't have needed all that SV money, they still need SV money while cutting worker wages, commanding a ton of the market, and externalizing most of their costs. There is no way Uber exists without someone dumping money in to keep them artificially in business.
No, that's a mathematical trick in graph theory that has rarely been seen in real life because it depends on very specific arbitrary parameter choices.
> But the randomness of the serial numbers...

That sentence is an oxymoron. They are called "serial" numbers because they are applied in series, i.e. one right after the other.

The randomness is not important. The person setting up the drop already has the dollar bill in hand. The important thing is that the bill can't be duplicated.
Reminds me of the classic Nicholas Kristof article, “Two Cheers for Sweatshops”. (http://archive.is/W6ABE) The gist of which is, a job can be ‘not good’ from the perspective of the privileged but still ‘much better than the alternatives’ from the perspective of the people who take that job.

If the employer of a “sweatshop job” is not coercing or lying to its employees, then I have a hard time faulting the employer directly. We may still want systemic change to create more options and more equity for employees, but the “sweatshop” (that pays more than alternatives and which employees freely choose) is not the villain in this story.
Cars are being built for 100 years; there are improvements, but not that big to say a 26 year old car is not safe enough. My 6 year old motorcycle has the almost the same technology like my 1993 bike I had 15 years ago, the only difference is fuel injection and nothing else. It is not even more reliable, but the manufacturer is the same.
You are not really at mercy, they are selling them to whoever pays the 100$. A bit more limited version is free of charge.

As for the distribution, you can distribute your App open-source and let your users compile and install it themselves.

Yes yes, it's not like what we have on the PC's but the situation is definitely not "you cannot install apps that Apple has not approved".

The reality is this: You cannot mass distribute proprietary App's that Apple has not approved.
So are you technically a different person when your every cell is replaced?
Target is also behind lorri: https://github.com/target/lorri/

I view corporate interest as a good sign for the continued health of the ecosystem. As long as they don't "take over" the project there's no harm. And in particular, publishing an RFC like this shows that they're doing things the right way and cooperating with the community.
Lying is now blatant, endemic and unapologetic. It's really more propaganda than just lying. Let's hope the sane people will tax these politicians otherwise we risk new Nazi systems.
I can verify this from recent Apple dealings. A subscription for a single person that doesn't use in-app purchases is a no-go.
"The weak law of large numbers states that the sample average converges in probability towards the expected value"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_large_numbers
Law is not intended to be a reflection of morality. There's a lot of behavior most people would consider immoral (lying, adultery, cutting in line) that we generally don't want laws against. Coordinated social pressure can be a powerful coercive force as well!
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I wish this was the only report about Amazon's poor working conditions. But it's not true, is it?
Sorry, hug of death on shared hosting. Just enabled caching, please try again (I couldn't find a cached version on google, doh!)
I (and people I directly worked with) have been interviewed a couple of times by what one would call "mainstream press". Once by a NY Times columnist and another time by TechCrunch.

The resulting articles bore very little semblance to what we said, omitted crucial facts, and contained the kinds of exaggerations that neither I nor any of the people interviewed would ever make. I'm talking "breaking the laws of physics" kind of exaggerations, and making it look like we said things that not only aren't true now, but will never be true in the future, which is something that would be immediately obvious to a technically competent person in our field of work.

Nothing changes one's view of the press quite as readily as being a part of the news. I'd wager the majority of what you see and read is handpicked BS made to fit an agenda, and outright lies to drive traffic aren't as infrequent as you think. If you think the tech press is any different, you're naive. There's really no incentive structure currently in place for reporting to be factual and balanced. You always get the behavior you reward.

I now always try to "read between the lines", like I would back in the Soviet Union when reading Pravda.
Also gout and constipation. But it is the other way around now.
You can find list prices and option prices on the manufacturer website. Then google for what discounts people are getting off msrp, as well as interest rates. Then tell the salesperson you know what if costs, and you’ll buy it if they give you that price. If they don’t, walk and use a lower hassle service like Cartelligent.
So was Kafka, but in the opposite direction. Results about Apache Kafka have seriously polluted the search results making it a lot harder to filter out pages not related to the novelist. Something is very wrong when the top result for "Kafka" is some software. Do you want to live in world where you kids google "Socrates" "Beethoven" and some software project shows up on top?
From the company in "The story of Mel" http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/story-of-mel.html
When I'm trying to contain my costs, I ask how much something costs if I pay 100% in cash right now. If they can't give me a number, I generally won't make the purchase. When they that I'm ready to walk away, they usually find a way to give me a number.
If your keep a car for 10 years it doesn't matter what you pay for it. People who buy new every 3 years are the ones lighting money on fire.
Don't lead off with the history. #protip
I think that'd be the sweet spot. Do lower level portions in something like Rust or C, but the environment can be in Go, D, etc. Although a D OS could potentially be all D. Was this not what the Inferno OS did anyway? They used C for the core, and then made Inferno for other parts.
Oh, man, let's not go there. It's a silly place.
In what sense was Martin "doing the right thing" by hoarding documents seemingly for its own sake/to satisfy some tick? I don't think it's fair to the others you listed to lump Martin in with them.
I wouldn't say US median income is stagnant, more like volatile. It climbed from 50k to 60k between 1985 and 2008, collapsed back to 55k during the recession and slow recovery in 2012, then climbed back to an all time high of 61k by 2017. But that actually supports your point: it is very difficult to predict a "safe" time to take on debt.
- sketches will have a dependency on the electron version used by Quark

- sketches are effectively extensions installed over quark, much like VS-Code extensions. They come with the same advantages, and drawbacks of being tied down to what the "platform" offers, the platform being Quark. If quark makes opinionated decisions on architecture, you're limited by it

- uncompressing to an in memory file system and using that as the app binary unnecessarily increases RAM/CPU footprint

- each "sketch" is likely to spawn it's own JavaScript node context, at the very least. Maybe even it's own chrome content context, for isolation and security purposes. How exactly does this take the same resource as a single electron app? The likely increase is comparable to [New Chrome Tab + Node context]. It's lower than a whole new electron app, but probably averages 60MB-ish in RAM, and the overhead of 2-3 new precesses
If a millionaire has a $400 unexpected expense, then they'd most likely pull out a credit card to pay it. Which is additional debt, and according to the article's definition it'd mean that they're "living paycheck-to-paycheck" since they'd take up additional debt for that expense. Heck, I have reasonable savings but I'd not touch them for an unexpected large expense because it's a hassle to touch any long term savings and using short-term credit for that is simpler, faster and cheaper than breaking a deposit or selling stock or whatever.

It has everything to do with that notion - the definition used in this research is ridiculous; having $2000 of unused, readily available credit limit is the functional equivalent of having $2000 cash under your mattress. A $400 expense is going to reduce your net wealth/increase debt by definition, so if the answer to "what would you do for a $400 expense" is "duh, I'd borrow 400 because for me being able to borrow 400 on a short notice is simple and certain to succeed" then that's a quite reasonable answer that doesn't imply any financial problems whatsoever.
> But maybe that is unrelated since if he would still ex-filtrate data even if he worked directly for NSA.

This is something that's not really clear. There will always be leakers, but being part of an organization becomes part of many people's identities. The success of the organization then becomes a much more personal effort, which would likely discourage people from taking actions that might hurt it.

My point being: contractors may not have the same sense of ownership or belonging-ness that employees do. I will freely admit that this is an untested hypothesis though.
And if two governments do this at the same time?
Well it turns out people prefer to pay 10$ and 5*12$ instead of 70$ for a flight, probably because it feels like you can save a bit.

At the end the airline needs to get its bottom line green and airplanes and satellite wifi are not cheap, not to speak of the highly paid people needed to run it all.

It's one thing to call that unethical, but at the end the market decides and it seems that all-inclusive deals simply do not resonate as well.
I would not model the risk on fuel as part of the risk on jet engines.
The day Go reinvented macros (2015)
Ah whoops, sorry about that. Thought they were referencing the larger IP space issue. My point still stands, ARIN is terrible :)
Alternative report:

https://quillette.com/2019/07/19/the-problem-with-tourist-jo...

Discussed here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20486348
I don't think that the system would suffer much if someone was using a stack of fresh dollar bills where the serial numbers are in order. Randomness doesn't hurt, but for the main threat models they expect (presenting a fake token, repudiation that they didn't receive the goods, etc) it's not stricly necessary.
Agree with the studies, but the singular of data is not "cure" or "safe". A substance that is shown to be beneficial in general may not be beneficial for you, and may even be harmful for you.

I have a family member who cannot take various common medicines, not because of the active ingredient (which they need) but because of the inactive ones which are generally considered safe.

Conversely, it is possible for a substance which is not shown to have a general effect in a study to have an effect specifically for a person or small group of people. Discounting this and hiding behind "evidence based medicine" is not helpful.
Inferno Operating System
Yep, I looked into that but you basically cede all control back to ARIN. ARIN does not let you consider them “assets” so they get involved in any company acquisition. IPv4 space from other regions is much more flexible.
A thousand times that...

But the matter with roads is different, because we will not see orders of magnitude improvement on road capacity, ever. What we need is completely different solutions, but it would be great if people pushing for city mobility weren't pushing against the one form of mobility that actually works most of the time.
They say appreciation is icing on the cake + negative cash flow means that you are constantly investing and can’t pause. Not the best situation to be in.
It is not super fair to tell people having enough food all the time is a luxury they cannot afford.

Where exactly is the line when it becomes entitlement?
I tried running this and then I remembered why I stopped tweaking Windows, I wind up running into odd issues. Windows stopped being unstable for me years ago when I stopped fidgeting with features. I'm better off disabling as much as I can through the normal settings they provide. I don't know if it's just I'm doing something wrong but it's been my experience.

I would love to see Windows not take up 4 gigs of RAM out of the box. I don't need Cortana running period. Let me uninstall Cortana please Microsoft. I'm sure there's other crap I don't want but I fear if I can't just hit 'Uninstall' it wont go well, or an update will bring it back.
I admittedly paid too much for my first car. Bought new in 1998 at way too high of an interest rate. I did keep that car for 18 years though, so it worked out in the end.
A relative worked in a big bank in the 80s where a vendor CE died of a heart attack while doing maintenance on a mainframe at 6AM.

Directed by operations management, security did a “these aren’t the droids you’re looking for” move, rebuffed first responders, who shrugged and left. Employees in the data center were directed to go about their business. They rolled the guy around for most of the day until someone told a bigshot of sufficient stature to override the lunacy of the production control people.

Given sufficient empowerment and toxic enough culture, people are capable of anything.
Apple Music link: https://music.apple.com/us/album/jayme-stones-lomax-project/...
AWS has not had a global outage in a very long time (I think there was one S3 outage that was global because at the time there was only 2 regions).

The venn diagram between services that need very high availability, and yet have such low traffic that distributing resources across 2 or 3 AZ's is a waste of money, should be pretty small.

Multi cloud for a individual service will never make sense as all the providers know how to price network transit to make this infeasible.
I agree with the principle of your point re: marijuana in specific -- it was often used as a way to stack charges, and especially in a racialized way.

But I'm not sure it applies here. Clearly if the US is investigating a serious computer crime that came from your server, they can't take it on your say-so that it actually came from somewhere else. They need to be able to investigate. And typically for forensic reasons that's going to involve an infrastructure seizure.

Now, the failure to return infrastructure over a long period of time is more extrajudicial punishment, and they do that too sometimes. Lots of people haven't gotten laptops back for years via this.
> Being a force multiplier I think is critical.

Totally agree. At some point you spend less time doing the work and more time unblocking other people, doing spikes and research, and coordinating across the organization. For someone who like to be in "flow", all of these can be frustrating.
Yuuuup. I ran into an issue where it became completely impossible to install a .net redistributable. Basically every possible method I found to install it would fail silently. So my computer became incapable of playing a ton of video games.
While I appreciate your viewpoint, you did nothing to address the argument being made: putting restrictions on rent prices will result in less rentals available. You instead put forward a moral argument as to why we should have rent control, ignoring the real world effect the GP was claiming such a move would mean.
Cost is the proximal issue, but why? My claim is that if the fission products and TRU were not radioactive it would not be expensive. This point is pretty easy to argue, as most cost ratcheting has been related to protecting against radiation hazards.

Fusion products are far less radioactive but the engineering to get to the proper physical conditions is very hard and expensive. Fission is the opposite. Trivial to get fission chain reactions given the material (done in 1942 by Enrico Fermi with natural uranium), expensive to deal with radiation.

Fresh fission products will always be radioactive, that problem isn't going away easily. Engineering challenges of fusion could possibly be solved by good engineering and fancy materials. That's a lot easier to postulate.

Thus, fusion remains a potentially-attainable dream.
Funny that discovering how they did concrete 2000 years ago can be seen as progress..
>It's hardly slavery. It's a choice.

This mode of thinking makes a dangerous assumption - that any issue can be resolved simply by an individual action. It assumes that because one person is making the complaint, then the issue which the complaint attempts to access must therefore be individual. It's an anti-political stance; politics isn't only about individuals, it's about creating a better society at large.

Let's say that it really is such an easy choice as you're describing. It's implausible that it's the case for every worker who feels mistreated there. Therefore your solution means to them we say "tough shit". This is one consequence of the divorce of economy and politics. In no political situation is it viable in rhetoric or otherwise to say "tough shit" to a group of people. But it's fine to say that in economic circumstances. The examples go on - most of us are in favour of democracy in the political sphere, because we believe we should have a say over our lives, but in the anarchic economic sphere in which pressures arise which are extremely compelling (so compelling that there are even markets for selling one's own organs) we balk at the idea of democracy.

This is why I'm in favour of economic democracy - to stop statements like "It's a choice. You can go somewhere else." from being the end of these discussions, and to take away their logical basis which falsely assumes democracy should be relegated to politics.
> I would love to see Windows not take up 4 gigs of RAM out of the box.

It... doesn't? I feel like last time I tried it was less than 2? Did you only install Windows or a ton of other things too?

This is what it looks like "out of the box" after disabling memory compression and the pagefile: https://imgur.com/a/D5b8bk5
It's turning consumption wealth into capital wealth. Printing money has a huge impact on that distribution, but it's not something you can increase globally by printing.
Were you quoted by name?
So you probably want to log the requests, figure out what people are doing.
Which isn’t happening, so what’s your point?
Maybe I'm just judging too much from personal experience working under a system that may be poorly implemented.
I learned to love the defaults on everything and its liberating.

Every time a new major update comes out, I do a clean install, put on Office, Visual Studio and a couple of apps and I'm good to go.
I'd imagine it caches more if you have more ram
I wonder if cocaine users have lower incidences of certain kinds of cancers? Would be an interesting thing to look for in large epidemiological studies.
Honestly, most trained journalists make similar mistakes, simply because they're not people with experience in a field or industry.

Even assuming they're 100% honest about their intentions and trying to minimise factual errors overall (which isn't always the case), it's still a person/people at an organisation doing research into something they're not experts in and trying to distill their findings down to a level understandable by their publication's audience. Usually with limited time and a limited budget.

By definition they will make mistakes, and probably quite a lot of them too. Just like a software engineer would if they were told to write an article on astrophysics or molecular biology without any real experience in either field.
Absolutely!

So this really began with reading through Eliezer Yudkowsky's post series on LessWrong about Fake Beliefs [0].

In summary: start with a thought/opinion/belief (the more recurring or obvious the better; thoughts about what I should or shouldn't do, beliefs about society, economics, politics, or biology). I then try to write out my understanding of that concept and try to dig at two questions (and I find typing this stuff out is much better than doing it in thought, but talking to someone works as well):

1. Where did I obtain this understanding of the world - was it my education, something in the media, friends, coworkers, family, childhood) and is it factually accurate? Generally this involves research and attempting to see how in line this understanding of the world is with evidence-based literature or people I trust.

2. Does this belief or understanding actually allow me to make falsifiable predictions about the future or the state of the world, or does it merely give me the feeling of doing that while occupying space in my brain? [1]

Personally, this involved facing and digging into assumptions I had about the world that were given to me before I had a chance to form my own judgement of their validity. Beliefs about morality, societal expectations, and sexuality were at the top of the list but I fixed plenty of my perceptions of economic policies and government regulation. I will say this is an ongoing process, one that I think will never actually end - but it's allowed me to become much more sure of who I am and what I base my decisions on.

[0] - https://www.lesswrong.com/s/7gRSERQZbqTuLX5re

[1] - https://www.lesswrong.com/s/7gRSERQZbqTuLX5re/p/a7n8GdKiAZRX...
I have to ask, for anyone that cares this much, why bother with Windows at this point? Wouldn't it be easier to just use Linux?

I know the usual argument is that you need Windows to game, but why make your gaming instance your main work instance too? Why not dual boot and use Linux for work and Windows for gaming?
And private ownership hasn't?
I'm pretty sure this is a wrong use of the spirit of HTTP code 451. It is meant for censorship by external forces like governments. If you block people from legislations that don’t allow invasive tracking by default, it’s you doing the censorship, for economic gain no less.
On Windows 10? I closed everything except Firefox (and this HN tab), which is taking up 600MB of RAM, and now it's at 4.6GB of RAM. Before with two instances of GoLand, Slack and Discord open it was over at 8GB of RAM.
Usually it's the rusting steel that cracks the concrete.
Well, I've known of it for 30 years. Since starting with AX.25 to a TNC, then playing with KA9Q NOS.
So it isn't really a secret.

As I understand it, the range was supposed to only be used for Ham to Ham comms, so if routed (generally tunneled) over the Internet, was only supposed to be to other Hams.

Certainly there are people with ACLs expecting that 44.0.0.0/8 will never be sent to the Internet, nor received from the Internet. So it has in effect been a bit like a shared RFC1918 space, but for Hams alone.

Moreover those in the know probably have it in their Bogon filers, I certainly do. So it may not yet be as usable as Amazon hope.