skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but there's a few great outliers in the negative direction that really makes me try and avoid these interactions unless I really need something

Especially when it comes to air travel, it's probably a self-fulfilling prophesy. There's the perception that people are grouchy when traveling (and doesn't seem to matter whether infrequent leisure traveler or road-warrior on business) and when we combine that with largely only remembering the negative reactions and...there you go.

Air travel has become so uncomfortable[0] and the loss of control feels so total that people seem more likely to enforce what little territory/control they have just because they can, not for any rational reason.

0 - Yes, yes, I know, mathematically it is cheaper, safer, more frequent, and so on... But it doesn't matter. It's turned passengers into self-loading cargo and every part of the experience, from queuing to be argued with when dropping off a bag (or dealing with a half-broken and poor user experience automated kiosk), then queuing to be yelled at through the shitty experience that passes for "air security" in the States, then queuing in a blob to get onto the pressurized metal tube then squeezing into ever-smaller seats[1], to be lectured at about how the twenty minutes of rules barked at me are for "my safety and comfort" meanwhile I can't even go pee once on a four-hour flight because of the seatbelt sign, and so on. People have compared it to "bus travel in the sky" but I have a far better experience riding King County Metro in Seattle--at least I can move around and pull the cord to get out wherever I want--than I do on almost every airline flight I take.

1 - Yes, yes, I know, you get what you pay for, but increasingly airlines are only willing to sell me two kinds of fares: a) rock-bottom, $79 each way each person, absolutely-nothing-included-except-maybe-emergency-oxygen, 37 rows back next to the aux power unit, and with add-ons bringing the per-way, per-person fare to $341.92; or 2) exotic business class with throne seats, flatware, a three-course meal served even on a flight from Dallas to Houston, no lines anywhere, and a personal thanks of gratitude from the Captain, First Officer, Purser, and Chief Baggage Handler, all for the low price of $4,027.88 per person, per way. On the handful of flights with "premium economy" (that get me a little more leg room, which I like, but no more seat width, which i don't), they're increasingly taken by the airline's Elite Travelers and what used to be $30-$60 to buy up has increased to $70-$100.
click bait. webpage crashed my browser.
Replacing badly executed solution A with well executed solution B is obviously a good idea, but adds nothing to the conversation.
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I enjoy using AWS Lambda and believe it has many valid use cases. Unfortunately, Einar learned the hard way and hastily made a significant decision with regards to their architecture. To be fair, Einar admitted their faults in their decision was rooted in a lack of understanding in the AWS API Gateway and Lambda pricing model. However, a lot of comments are using this as a source to validate their opinions on why they believe AWS Lambda and AWS API Gateway is bad. Lambda is excellent for low volume, bursty traffic. It is not designed to be a solution for a web api that gets 300M reqs/month. It is technically feasible but fiscally irresponsible. Conversely, if going Serverless means you can get rid of a system administrator for a dedicated API server then that is a whole different situation where it would be fiscally irresponsible not to use serverless. With regards to the performance concerns, concurrent requests spin up concurrent Lambda functions. If you can limit the number of concurrent processes you _might_ actually see better performance with Lambda than you are seeing now.
Sounds awfully familiar to "real socialism has never been tried" - if every attempt ends in failure, the value prop needs to be reevaluated.
> went in with a constructionist perspective and it didn't work out

I have no knowledge of OLPC, but it seems obvious to me: successfull autodidacts in societies where self-directed-learning is not commont (probably most societies...) tend to be internally motivated, so higher proportion of them are introverts, also higher proportions have at least little bit of aspergers-like traits etc. Extroverts on the other hand tend to learn most from human teachers they physically interact with!

If you'd crunch the numbers and compare them with the personality traits of "influencers", you'll likely see they are opposite. So any chance that a positive view of the device will spread via word of mouth is low, aka any change of whatever the equivalent of "going viral" would be amongst African villages is low!

By targeting the self-learners you're basically going anti-viral... you're doing anti-marketing! You'd need to try and hit the "micro-influencers", and probably only chance of that is by hitting teachers and some community leaders and local "celebrities".

We techo-focused hyper-individualistic self-learners only thrive in societies after they've been properly wired up both socially and technically. Drop us in a borderline-medieval society and we're useless and have zero influence on the people around us. Heck, "geeks" started to thrive in medieval Europe after the church managed in a primitive way to network part of the world. Probably similar patterns happened in China and the Arab world too. Most underdeveloped societies today totally lack that kind of useful networking ...otherwise they likely wouldn't be underdeveloped in the first place!
What came to mind first for me about this situation was this parable from Luke 14:

"""
When someone invites you to a wedding feast, do not take the place of honor, for a person more distinguished than you may have been invited. If so, the host who invited both of you will come and say to you, 'Give this person your seat.' Then, humiliated, you will have to take the least important place. But when you are invited, take the lowest place, so that when your host comes, he will say to you, 'Friend, move up to a better place.' Then you will be honored in the presence of all the other guests. For all those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.
"""

Basically, it gives people the opportunity to vouch for you, which is good for social capital.
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Please renew :)

I would like to read https://martinfowler.com/bliki/CanaryRelease.html
There is a reason alcoholism was/is rampant in many three letters, but is quietly ignored.
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The climate has never before changed as quickly as it is changing today. It seems likely to me that major ecosystems will collapse completely because they can't adapt quickly enough. It is doubtful whether our technological civilization will survive the intense struggle for food and water that is too come. Look what a measly million Syrian refugees did to the European political landscape. Climate change will likely lead to a hundred times more refugees.
> This will sound counter-intuitive, but lower your expectations. You'll hear lots of stuff from experienced meditators about how life-changing it is, and I'll echo that sentiment. But it certainly doesn't feel life-changing at first. If you go into it with high expectations, you'll very likely get disappointed and frustrated.

This. When I started I didn't see any results right away but after a month of consistent daily practice, wow. And after six months, my emotional state was solid as a rock.

I experienced other benefits too. Significant pain tolerance, and the ability to consciously block pain from affecting my mental state. Sweat control. Extreme cold tolerance/body temperature regulation. Immunity to being startled by loud or sharp noise. 4-5 hour attention spans.

The 15 minute daily routine gave me all that. I used the method described by Sakyong Mipham in Turning the Mind Into an Ally
I disagree with most of the comments here.

Right now, you can build much much quicker and with a less skilled team using serverless than traditional servers. This is very very important.

Serverless is not static and stuck in time, it's going to change and become cheaper over time as competition increases. Pretty soon everyone except already built products and large businesses will be using serverlesss architecture. The barriers to entry of building a website will be so low, you would be an idiot not to use serverless.
54 French streamers raises 3.5M€ over week-end for Institut Pasteur
Often it's neither whim nor regulations, but simply bureaucracy. Mistakes happen.

Cryptocurrency advocates promise you freedom from everyone else's action, but at the cost of no way to correct mistakes. So if your computer security is ever 100% less than perfect, or you're defrauded by your counterparty, there's no way to recover the loss. (Well, there's legal action, but "freedom from legal action" is also cited as a benefit..)
Many don't. You can always just refuse and move on.

I've wasted a lot of weeks on these things. They are a major risk for the applicant because the slow the job search down considerably. The large time investment makes the application process prohibitive for people already working full-time, which is bad for the hiring team because employed people looking for a change are often the most competent candidates.

I would never agree to a coding challenge anymore without some assurance I'm on the short list of candidates. i.e. Ask to schedule a code review meeting with the hiring team, or insist on a traditional interview before you do the challenge. If that's a problem for them, then you can be sure that they aren't going to hire you no matter what you submit.
Earlier he had said that we shouldn’t keep old grudges, so I was surprised he then turned around and asked for them to renounce statements from 20+ years ago, made by people that aren’t even there anymore.

In my mind, .net core and vs code and countless smaller projects are a complete renunciation of their previous public statements. Maybe Stallman can’t see that because they MIT license those things, but why ask for more talk when you are already getting action?

Edit: here’s Ballmer turning around in public on the cancer thing. https://www.zdnet.com/article/ballmer-i-may-have-called-linu... so I really don’t see what more Stallman wants.
This is true, but ...

... you can analyse this in a different way: think long term! The more successful you are in your job, the more you will bump into the same people again and again later, sometimes a decade later. Somebody else abused your trust by talking to HR, hence you could decide on the simple policy of never trusting them again, and cut them out of your high-trust network. Some fail your trust-related tests, some pass. Use this information wisely. (Note that an alternative policy is not being too history-sensitive, and let bygones be bygones.)
Yeah I just wanted to point out like the authors whose post I copied here that the way of going serverless taken by the story author was probably not ideal.
I've implemented a couple changes in the landing page text based on your feedback @xcubic. Again, thanks :)
Its telling when people respond to the personality stronger than they do the actual ideas.
Does the page do anything for anybody else? I see one chalkboard with swirls, but it won't scroll.
>Release the source code of Windows under the GNU GPL.

>I know that is a stretch, but from what I heard there. it isn't totally impossible.

Really? Does anyone have more info about that?
Imo the biggest obstacle to solving pollution is raising living standards in poor countries. India and China are eviscerating their own ecosystems as part of their growth phase. The faster these countries develop so they can start focusing on renewables, the better.
True.

I stopped using windows for dev machines long time ago, but I'd guess with the Linux subsystem stuff it will catch-up in the next years.
This is a hypothetical. I realize the improbability.
> SME aren't startups, quite the opposite.

That's what people are trying to tell each other but it's BS. For every start-up that made it there are 1000 SME's that didn't. Usually you only know that your company has the potential to succeed big quite a few years after you've started it.

The whole idea that world wide scale companies are the only ones that deserve the label 'start-up' should die, it's a SV born re-purposing of words to suit a particular agenda.

> Startups raise funds, try to build a big scale business as fast as possible and sometimes become profitable because they became big enough fast enough.

They can, but they don't have to.
Case 3 is indeed a non trivial one.

1/ put all those important to-be-published-later data in an archive

2/ obtain the archive SHA512 hash

3/ cypher the archive, using a symmetric-key algorithm and a a random key

4/ use secret sharing, with the key being the secret, with the adequate amount of redundancy (this is the most tricky part). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_sharing

5/ give each part of the secret to some notary, and pay him to have it delivered to each member of a group of tech-savvy friends of yours. Chose unrelated notaries installed in different countries

6/ give the cyphered archive along with detailed instructions to each member of the group, in order for him to be able to rebuild the secret and then decrypt the archive. If they will have to act this way more than 10 years after receiving the instructions give them full "image systems" (a real machine!) storing all required software, ready to run

7/ publish the SHA512 hash (on archive.org?), sealed-signed by you, along with some explanation "At date X I, John Smith, created the archive whose digest is...". You may also publish the cyphered archive (this is not very useful and raises the risk)

8/ pray. The symmetrical cypher has to resist attacks during the timelapse, enough groupmembers have to survive long enough, image systems must be usable when time comes...
We were talking about software and philosophy, if you attack the person and not the ideas I think you are lacking arguments.

About what he said, I did not see him saying rape is Ok,

Anyway I would love to see your reaction if say you watch a porn video and later will surface that the actor was 17 years old, then all the press will say that you are watching child porn, you are assumed guilty and get fired and never find a job.

Your friends that would try to say that maybe we should get all the facts get also fired because "he is a child porn apologist".

Just think about it, in fact I don't wish this to happen to anybody, I read about a case where a guy was accused and he was innocent, he lost his job and was forcefully separated from his children, my point is go easy with the accusations you won't like it to happen to you.
That's a damn shame. I used to fly with them for next to nothing. Decent airline. Never would consider staying in their crappy hotels though. This will have a major effect on low-cost long-range tourism. Everybody is going to bump their prices up a notch.
Side conversation.

I am constantly amazed how a tiny piece of code, the linux (or bsd) TCP stack, can be a source of mysteries and adventures for decades, even for kernel experts and industry leaders like CF. The thing has around 11 states and 20 transitions, around 4000 LOC.

Compare this with some of the multi-million LOC, distributed monsters we all know and love.

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...
This is of course just plausible deniability. The truth is that the video game with its impossible algorithm is a message left by a stranded time traveller as a means to help his mates locate him.
I can't sleep on my back, so I can only sleep in a window seat.
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Sure, but arguably he was one. I don't know whether that has been true for a long time, and I am not personally a believer in Free Software writ large.
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marketingleaks :')
I think one could do it on a bus trip after you have been practicing for a while.

I got to where I could meditate in a noisy open dormitory.
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And RMS much definitely is part of this smaller subset.
I'll bite once more. I'm not negating my own point. First, a digression.

I can't read Greek and haven't read that particular insurance policy's scope. But I've read all of mine, and they all say "insures against <list> and only that". They don't insure me against generic other mishaps, and exclude force majeure.

If the legislature decides to expropriate all or part of someone's property, that act doesn't extend the list of protections afforded by an insurance policy. Perhaps the legislature shouldn't have done what it did, I'm not arguing that point. But a legislature is sovereign, it can do things.

If a bank or someone else tricks, cajoles, persuades the legislature to expropriate all or part of someone's property, that act still doesn't extend the list of protections afforded by any insurance policies.

That they banks could have done other things instead of going to the legislature is entirely correct, but not relevant. Once the legislature acted, the thing that actually happened was out of scope for the deposit insurance, because the legislature's sovereignty is a unique force.

And after that digression, my point is that the original article bends the truth too much. In this case by making it sounds as if an insurance policy was worthless ("poof") because it didn't protect citizen against expropriation ordered by the legislature of the citizens' country, without arguing that what happened was in-scope for that insurance.

He didn't argue either that the legislature was acting beyond its powers, or that the insurance policy covered the what happened. He could have argued, but didn't, he just put words next to other words. The words are spatial connected, not causally, and my point is that that's ugly and misleading.

It sucks for the Greek who lost part of their deposit, but that doesn't license anyone to be bend the truth about what a particular insurance covers.
“If you run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole. If you run into assholes all day, you're the asshole.”

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An AWS DevOps should be able to manage a lot more than one company's lambdas. That's one of the big reasons the cloud can save money. I don't see why it would be different for serverless setups.
Look at any engineering company that isn't primarily a software engineering company. They still have lots of really cool software problems that need solving, but tend to have a lot more sane working conditions. Just don't expect to get paid top end silicon valley salaries.
They use blockchain as a synonym of "distributed ledger" (which blockchain is not just.) However, a distributed merkle tree is most of the "block and chain" part of the bitcoin paper. Yet, like other people in this thread, I believe Blockchain has come to include distributed consensus or byzantine fault tolerance, proof of work, and public keys as identities. Just because the word itself wasnt defined in the Bitcoin whitepaper, doesnt mean it hasnt been defined after the fact.

They also claim to have used it two years before bitcoin existed.

https://bedrockdb.com/blockchain.html
It's like JSON, but fast and small
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Sounds like a wild place to work at.

Also sounds like a great way to end up isolated and alone. Even at work, you sometimes need people in your corner.
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NIMBY-ism ever present and accounted for.
> I can't talk about every European countries, but this comment offers a really shallow analysis of the late stage funding situation regarding France at least.

And your comment shows that you probably missed that the conversation had shifted away from France in particular. GitLab is Dutch for example.

> The differences between France and the US, in terms of Culture, wealth distribution, financial and fiscal environment, country size (& heterogeneity of the European market) are really important factors

Yes they are. For one, French - very capable - possible entrepreneur will be the last to see themselves succeed independently, they will jump t the first opportunity to work for some crap salary for a large company who will then make lots of money over their life's worth in contributions. And if you're lucky you too will get a golden pen on your day of graduation: the day you get to collect your pension.

And as for Americans shooting first: for all the flak that the Samwer brothers get for copying American concepts in Europe, there are plenty of companies in the United States that came late to the table. Facebook isn't the first social network, it just executed better and with much more capital, and there are many other examples besides.
What does "small companies" mean in this context ?

Do they do engineering or manufacturing?

And how could they maintain an advantage over so many others and of course over large companies ? Where's the r&d budget coming from ? And what about marketing ?
It’s useful for services which fit its design: using an extremely heavy environment like Java will rarely be a good fit but for even Python/Node it works much better, without even considering things like Go/Rust.
There is plenty of traffic in which to hide already. Another bot making and breaking random connections 24/7 is of no additional help.
> e-commerce was a step too far at the time

I remember those times. A number of companies in the UK saw web-sites as extensions to their teletext based advertising, just with more information density and a few small pictures (emphasis on both few and small: most of their customers were using ~28k8 connections at home and/or overcommitted shared connections in collages & libraries). You were sill expected to phone in your order, or physically go to your local branch, once you had seen something that took your fancy.

eCommerce was happening at that point (Amazon started in '94 IIRC, and the gambling & other adult entertainment industries were already actively making moves in that realm), but it was in its early days and far from trusted by either the public or many companies.
He is not his brother though, right?
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Yes my large tech company has a blanket ban on us using GPLv3 (it's possible to get some exceptions but a pain in the arse), but no problem with GPLv2
When I read any article like this I always go back to Louis CK's "Everything's Amazing and Nobody's Happy" bit. Like, c'mon people, can't you just let someone happily experience the miracle of flight while you watch your downloaded Netflix shows? Is that so hard?

If you're trying to sleep and the light bothers you, bring something to cover your eyes with. If you can't sleep with something on your face, maybe practice a bit before you fly.

I personally have a _very_ hard time sleeping on moving objects of any kind. I have to be at my wits' end of sleep deprivation to be able to do this. I would not think of suggesting a bus driver stop so I can get my winks -- it's _my_ problem, and I'll deal with it as such.

The sense of entitlement in this article is huge, and this is also one of the most first-world problems ever.

Almost every airline except the budget airlines (Frontier, Spirit, Southwest) make it possible to book a window seat at no extra cost. If it's this much of a problem to you, you should get a window seat yourself to grant yourself that control.
I've been told to raise the shades in Mexico & Peru as well, but for the US they don't care.