skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Sorry, what pain motivated using k8s, and using k8s relieved that pain.

CTO / CIO / $SOME_C reads a blog and decides they want k8s is how it usually is introduced

> What is 'proper' for staffing?

Experienced C Developers who can do operations ( like google level SRE )

Summary of k8s : if you use the proper methodology to implement k8s and you are in a cloud framework you likely dont need k8s :)

What shines about k8s is it leverages the current container fad to ship code faster because devs like it. The current container fad pushes the burden of supporting buggy code to operations teams. IF the operations teams have issues they had better be highly skilled to figure them out

I have yet to see a company let requirements drive the choice to use k8s.
And you probably can’t even get to the water from your toilet’s upper reservoir ;)
You also get a compass rose embedded in the sidewalk outside of the station [1].

But of course when the sidewalk gets replaced due to other construction projects, it is never replaced.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/77aq9c/t...
Compare your projection of each local economy over the next 20 years. This will help choose the city.
Yeah, Boston area housing prices will be the death NH/ME/RI. Considering how culturally incompatible the Boston area is with NH and ME I feel really bad for the people of those states who get to see their states turned into MA-Lite.
Snow sled boy cool too
The capitalists would argue that free market competition will work in space as well as on Earth.
You have to hand it to the bottled water companies. They pulled off what must be one of the biggest cons in the world. First world countries with potable tap water buying it in bottles with inflated prices because of reasons.
My favorite is that every service asks you if you really want to delete but CloudFormation.
Suicide rates climbing, especially in rural America
I think the trick is, you need to live in a larger metro area for awhile and establish yourself before you're seen as a viable remote candidate by most employers. That, or start your own busienss.

Smaller areas typically lack competitive tech positions and larger areas don't want to take a risk on you when they have a pool of warm bodies to choose from.
Do you mean "Society of the Spectacle"? That groups are dehumanizing, the product becomes the relationship? I think it's more as if they've rediscovered AOL chatrooms, with AOL style aliases and rooms. People naturally enjoy talking with each other, just shooting the breeze, but I can see how these groups would be a real help towards making a purchase decision. (In the West, advertising (which IS "spectacular") is supposed to tip the balance and make our purchase decisions for us.) I don't see how putting a cap on group size is sinister. AOL chatrooms with only 20 users produced so much text it was often hard to keep up or to engage in anything like a conversation, so 500 people typing all at once would be impossible to comprehend. I'd mainly be worried about product shills, less so about outright fraud.
Suburbs of a big city != small city
This resonated with me. Particularly during my university years. Friends would go out all the time. Mainly parties, get drunk, discos ...

"Do you wanna come Harry!?"
"Err, I'm going to give this one a miss"(x300)

Then they'd leave and it was bliss. Peace and quiet. Just me. And whatever the hell I wanted to do.

I could never really put my emotion into thoughts. But the joy of missing out was pretty much it.

"Missing out" is now the status quo. And I'm not sure that's a good thing. Sometimes I feel like a should try more stuff, but do it on my own terms. I'm sure I'll get there.

Thanks for writing. I intend on checking out Svend's book.
For what it's worth, many of the impacts don't seem to be well-reported in popular media. Consider this 2013 NASA report[0] on its socio-economic impacts: an IMPLAN input/output analysis shows NASA directly generates $2.60 of economic output per dollar spent, compared to the federal non-military average of $2.30 and military average of $2.00. This often-quoted 1975 paper[1] posits a 14:1 increase in GNP resulting from a sustained $1bn increase in NASA R&D spending over ten years.

The civilian tech benefits, even if you only look at the immediate spinoffs technologies in the short-term, are rather significant. There were over 2,200 tech transfer transactions in 2012 alone, beyond the ~50 or so they profile annually in Spinoff,[2] and ranging from small software usage agreements to patents used for massive changes in the market. There are a ton of articles and infographics out there that list just some of those spinoff technologies that people often directly experience in their daily lives. I don't think meager is an applicable descriptor, even if we haven't seen the sort NASA generate the kind of "wow!" technologies like flying cars, personal jetpacks, and space colonies that people in the 50s imagined would be commonplace by now.

What's really interesting, however, is that space spending is rarely defended—or even thought about much—in these terms. In that sense, NASA spending is often discussed in terms of national prestige or a very general sense of scientific advancement. The science benefit is absolutely, 100% true, and an excellent reason in its own right, but sadly not one that has a lot of political persuasiveness. Outside of regions that are directly involved in NASA manufacturing and operations (which lends itself to fierce congressional support by their elected legislators), there's a sense of "that money is spent 'out there' in space, not here at home." Of course, the national prestige aspect does give space funding a bit more protection from the sort of direct attacks we've seen directed at various basic research funding and grants. No legislator wants to be the one to kill something "as American as apple pie."

0. https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/files/SEINSI.pdf

1. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/197600...

2. https://spinoff.nasa.gov/
Everyone pays it on almost all goods, some labor, and usually not groceries (depends on jurisdiction)

You can have state, city, and local tax applied (or item specific like Chicago charge tax on soda for a short while)
Emacs for the React Developer
If it just killed the smoker unlike cigarettes, liberty issue.

At best same treatment as cigarette
Social commerce would be different from MLM though. MLM has incentive to recruit salespeople and then profit off of the salespeople you recruit, usually several levels down. This creates immense pressure on those at the bottom, as their revenue potential is much more difficult to realize. China started heavily regulating MLM due to the social problems it was creating among a large populace that was only still just starting to develop their economy. M without the multiple levels (ML from MLM) is completely different and still feasible in this social setting.
What I'm struggling with is the opposite of FOMO. It used to be, if you liked a particular type of music (e.g. New Wave in the 80's) you stood a chance of hearing a significant percentage of what was available out there.

With the advent of things like Youtube and Garage Band, MOST of a niche music type will be made by people, who won't be well compensated for it, and you'll never get the chance to hear it...because there are so many people making so much stuff.
Maybe you're not reading his quotes carefully enough. The wing failed at 146% of max design load which was BELOW the required failure limit of 150% which caused Airbus to add more structure to strengthen the wing.

https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/air-transport/2006-1...

QUOTE: Since manufacture of the initial wingset used in the tests, Airbus has refined the design, which will be slightly different on production rigs as a result of continued development, according to the European manufacturer. One factor may have been that earlier A380 weight-saving exercises had left no margin for error in the formal static load tests.
Even in the USA the main meal of the day is the dinner. That’s the whole conversation on this post that sandwiches are crappy in the USA, so that’s your experience. But good sandwiches exist and are cheap and easy to make
For the second time in the thread you've responded to scientific studies with a single-line dismissal but no substantiation.

I provided a (brief – appropriately so for a discussion-board comment) summary and analysis of 5 different scientific studies, each of which had varying methodologies, results and conclusions.

If you're going to dispute the findings of the papers or my analysis, you need to point out where the papers or my analysis of them were flawed.

That's people do when they are interested in engaging in topics scientifically, and in good faith.
A space elevator wouldn't destroy cities if it fell. Most of it would be flung away from earth, the part that fell would mostly burn up in the atmosphere. The rest would flutter like leaves as it came down.
Some thoughts: You push the cost purchasing, maintaining, and upgrading of the device to the user. You don't have to pay for the whole stack, just the application which is basically a web service client.
Yeah I managed to get the file into the bucket. However I couldn't get the permissions to let it be publicly visible despite working through several tutorials.

I ended up on Netlify, it's 1000x more my speed.
> One example is the work done by parents to raise children. If we really were fixated on the monetary value of things, then parents would only raise children if they got a salary for the work.

This is not far off from reality for the majority of the world (outside the industrialised bubble): Parents raise children as a means to retire one day and have someone look after them. It's very common in many countries that the son will live with his wife and children in his parents' house, together with the parents. The parents have not only raised their own children, but will also help raise the grandchildren. In return the son's wife cooks for the entire family and the son will look after his parents long after they've retired until the end of days. It's ingrained in our human nature and therefore we don't think this way, but it's essentially just a form of business transaction.
Does it?

Here’s the kind of house that $35k BUYS you in Cleveland:

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/2840-E-122nd-St-Cleveland...

I can only assume the neighbourhood and/or it’s schools are atrocious, but damn.
Grams are always mass, never weight.
>Even fuel was less than we expected due to getting 50+ mpg

The only way I can see three adults enjoying a road trip in a vehicle small enough to get 50mpg (assuming petrol) is if you're all car enthusiasts and enjoying the novelty of some 30yo compact car. The second row of a modern compact is a really crappy place if you have to be there for very long.
Ultimately, if you want to take on a challenge like this, be prepared to buy everything in bulk, and be prepared stop eating meat, or eating very little.

Agree on the meat, however: Most folks that are poor simply cannot buy in bulk. If you are lucky you get paid once a month, but getting paid once a month also limits how often you can eat fresh vegetables. Canned might be your only option. If you don't get paid once a month, it doesn't matter if it is cheaper to buy 12 rolls of toilet paper if you can only afford the 4-pack. Or you might be able to afford bulk at tax time, but as soon as an emergency comes up, you can no longer buy bulk.

Not only this, but things like transportation and storage become an issue. You may or may not have cold storage, freezer space, or containers to store leftover/bulk food in. You may or may not have a vehicle of any sort to carry the stuff in. Even if you have transportation, you might not have the money to use it (or public transportation, if that is a thing where you live).

I'll mention that the unfortunate bit of $2 per day doesn't actually include only groceries, but other necessities as well. I don't know what the amount is in the states, but wherever it is, it doesn't leave a lot of room for anything but the most basic food. No spices. No chips since you can buy beans (or lentils!) and rice that last for multiple days cheaper than you can buy the bag of chips.
It’s really bizarre. There’s so much to criticize about the transit system here but the majority of what’s done (or perhaps what bubbles up on popular websites) is weird breathless criticism of things that either don’t matter or are small enough to be minutiae.

- Bring the NYC subway fully under the control of the city: remove Albany from the decision making process so we can actually fund the system.

- Charge based on distance.

- Stop policing poverty. E.g. stop paying cops to arrest fare jumpers and fix shit instead.
I'm not sure there are inappropriate map projections. Or maybe there are no appropriate map projections. Either way, every single projection has its uses and its shortcomings. Mercator is misleading for a map of the whole world, but it's excellent for navigation and for local detail.

For a good overview of the whole world, I prefer a map that shows the world is round, but they break down as soon as you zoom in.
Then you are absolutely not the target market for any Porsche, let alone this one. Not a dig, I'm not the target market either.
Thanks for sharing your results.

How did you find out about vitamin K2 and its effects on dental plaque in the first place?
Given how many of these they seem to be adding to each platform, the main issue for me is the removal of the old paper map display as opposed to supplemental, digital kiosks.

It's not like they're going to stop printing paper maps (or are they) so having one on display and available on the platform is useful, and far less annoying than the lo-rez rubbish displays they've installed.

Also, the problem of digital light pollution is very real.
Only one child had electronics. Perhaps things aren't so bad after all.

(I don't know which country he was from. The captions didn't work for me on iOS.)
Cancel Culture
It's a mistake to assume that the legal definition of insanity used to determine whether a defendant can stand trial is the only one relevant to conversation.

Someone who commits mass murder can be legally sane if they are cognizant of the concept of right and wrong, are not severely mentally handicapped, are capable of understanding and responding to questions, etc. Yet I doubt anyone would consider a person capable of shooting up a synagogue to be sane. I don't think it would be "strange" to consider that someone with suicidal thoughts or someone in the heat of passion should be trusted with a firearm simply because they can also sign their own name.
An Entity-Driven Framework for Abstractive Summarization
>Is San Francisco representative of metropolitan US cities?

No. It's not even representative of the ones on the west coast. It is an outlier in most regards.
Engelbart's Usability Dilemma: Efficiency vs. Ease-of-Use
> Dockerfiles are no configuration management system.

Y'know, we might violently agree. That is a much more concise statement than my rambling attempt to explain why I think Docker is so much more palatable for development workflows.

You're right, it is no magic bullet. And I misspoke when I said "configuration management"; I forgot that that's a term of art in operations. By "management" I really just meant "stick it all in one or two files so I can get my checklist down to one step, and manage shared packages in a way that's at least a little bit less kludgey than simply abusing environment variables." So I find that it save some yak shaving, and for that I can deal with it under certain circumstances.

I actually hate using it for deployment or production config management, because IMO it seems to do a crap job at it. And it does a crap job at it precisely because of the features (or lack of features) that make it convenient for development. Even using it to manage our integration tests' runtime dependencies is kind of a hot mess. But I'm willing to concede that, together with Kubernetes, it might be nice for cloud-native elastic scaling microservice-y stuff, insofar as it seems to be popular for that. I don't actually know firsthand; I'm allergic to complexity, so try to avoid building things that way.
This is a good thing, whilst centralisation of workforce has it's upsides, it has in many places exceeded that balance with many negative impacts. Whilst these are small steps, for those removed from the overheads of a delayed saturated comute and associated impacts upon health. Equally, one less commuter, helps reduce that saturation and crowing with associated delays, might even be that per person we are only talking a nanosecond level of scale. But when you have many of these small reductions in saturation, and those gains project across a larger scale. You end up with slightly better air quality, slightly less health impacts, slightly less delays.

Hopefully this is a trend that tractions as many roles can be shifted in this way and improve quality of life overall.

On the flip-side, will we see large corporation office space shifted into the virtual World? Will signs start appearing in offices "Will the last one to relocate, please not turn off this server". Maybe.

But the ability to use up an area and then move on, expand and repeat the process has been one trait humans share with many biological organisms. Is this just nature at play thru adaption to the environment,on some level - I'd say yes.
This reveals an important issue: Allowing GMOs changes more than just plant biology - it tilts the business landscape further in favor of multinationals. It also allows more options for product optimization. And since their incentives aren't aligned with those of the general population, it's unlikely the changes they make will be entirely beneficial. Look at technology for examples - coffee machines and printers with DRM. Or the processed food industry.

Monsanto has the same incentives as other corporations, so why should we expect them to act any better? And is it wise to let those incentives control food-crop biology to an even greater degree?
> and most of that payment going towards my saving

For the first several years at least, most of the mortgage payment goes to interest and taxes, not principal, and is "wasted" in much the same way rent is.
GDP is entirely irrelevant. What matters is salaries. The US may have a high GDP per capita, but it is the most unequal western country. Minimum wage is very low in the US compared to Western Europe.

US GDP is higher than Sweden, but workers tend to make more money in Sweden. In the US GDP is mainly distributed to the upper classes.

I think in Norway a McDonalds worker makes something like 2x-3x as much per hour as an American McDonalds worker.
What resources/budgets do NYT need to fix the subway system? Is it because the public transport is always underfunded and/or because the bureaucracy is very ineffective in the U.S.? Is there any decent coverage on the issues, like City Lab's? Have any politicians pledged to solve the problems?
or, perhaps, a junior year level of education in medical device design.

and a healthy skepticism of anything that thinks henry kissinger is a great person to appoint to their board, if we’re all aboard the tu quoque train today.
My experience is exactly inverse to yours. IMO Azure's documentation, in general, is far superior to AWS's. And my experience with Azure support has been stellar.
If you think “make the countdown clocks work” is a small thing you haven’t researched this problem thoroughly.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/11/why-d...
As usual for India attempts at greatness are usurped by incompetence!

So common in this country. So much corruption. So much complacency. So much waste.
Tangentially. I moved from SV to Austin, and work at the Google office. Not technically remote, since I'm growing a team out here.
Can confirm that the daily/weekly service changes are deeply confusing. A lot of information is implied through the MTA's frequently terse announcements of service changes.

For instance, I was waiting for a R train in the Canal St. station last weekend wanting to go to the Dekalb Ave. station. But then a N train started to come into the station on a platform it's not supposed to be on. A glance at the paper announcing this change said that the N would run on the R track between Canal St. and Dekalb Ave.

Does that mean the N would stop at Dekalb Ave (a stop it ordinarily would not make)? I didn't know and the MTA app's arrival ETAs for the Dekalb Ave station indicated that it would not. The "Next Stops" board inside the N train indicated that yes, the N train would stop at Dekalb Ave. If I boarded the N and it turned out it wouldn't stop at Dekalb Ave., it would take me ~15 minutes to backtrack. So I decided to wait for the next R instead.
Not everyone pays sales tax - though this might vary depending on the state. I know in Indiana, businesses do not pay it on most of the things they buy. So if an accounting firm buys printer paper, they pay no sales tax. But if I buy paper for my home, I pay it. Companies generally had a tax ID they used to get out of paying.

Non-profit organisations did not pay either in many cases.

In situations where this tax was paid, they could get a refund at tax time.
Wow cool thanks for the link!
I don't think I'm skilled enough to do it properly, but I'll give it a shot
Aside, but is there a good class or resource for learning about parallelism in computing? I'm reading the blog post and vaguely recalling differences between threading and forking. I regularly encounter the same concepts over and over but they haven't been sticking. A hands-on project would be great.
I think the underlying issue is absolutely a power struggle.

Until recently, the general understanding was that each network operator was responsible for the clients inside their network - and therefore also had the ability to set the network's configuration.

In 99.99% of the cases, this included access to nonlocal sites on other, public network's, aka "the web", but this was nowhere technically required. Browsers and other DNS-consuming apps were perfectly capable of working within other networks. What a DNS name resolved to was technically a property of the network.

By now, this model is shifted towards the Web as a platform with browsers and DNS as clear parts of it - a platform that is incidentally pay-to-play and centrally controlled by the US because at the very least you need recurring payments for your domain and you need to give companies and institutions located in the US control over your machine.

This shift has been going on for a long time, but I believe HTTPS-everywhere and DoH have served to make this unignorably obvious because those bring the concept of the web platform into the technology stack itself.

To make the tired old car analogy again: In the vast majority of cases, you will drive your car on the public road network and nowhere else. However your car is technically capable of driving off-road or performing highly questionable maneuvers in your backyard because the car itself doesn't have any concept of "public roads", "private roads" or "non-roads". DoH would be adding a device that turns off the engine as soon as you're not on a public road. What exactly constitutes as a "public road" is determined by the car manufacturer.

I do agree that in the long run it might be better for ensuring that "the web" is the same no matter from where you visit, but I think it's definitely more than a simple technical change.

I also think all the heuristics, opt-outs and special rules for corporate network's don't cut it, because they relegate the current default case to an uncommon special case - and developers have a habit of ignoring uncommon special cases. I wouldn't be surprised if we see a lot of non-browser apps and devices in the future that use DoH by default and that an administrator would have to reconfigure by hand for each single installation - or that are simply hardwired to some set of DoH servers without any way to configure them at all.