skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True, religion is certainly the worst offender, but it's clearly not a one item list.

At the moment, anything related to Richard Stallman seems to bring out the worst in a lot of people. And anything related to a particular gender isn't likely to go well.

And to be fair to HN, what tends to happens is that the initial set of low-value comments gets replaced over time by better ones. Even the worst of threads can have good conversations in them, it's just sometimes difficult to find.
Should it be illegal to dump toxic chemicals into streams because they're "killing us all?" Shouldn't consumers be allowed to choose where they dump the cleaning products they paid for? Or is this soviet Russia?

Ok bad example because the soviets weren't known for their environmentalism, but you get my point. Once a problem becomes big enough scale that it affects us all regulation is justified.
That seems fair? They might have cars then. It seems you're imaging a scenario of a specific single woman with slight muscle mass with her 100lb dog and no car living in the heart of DC. I'm sure there are a few but I doubt that's the norm.
It's not clear from the article if she had her prints registered then put the protector on or if she put the protector on first. If the former, then it's particularly heinous because people could easily replicate it. If it's the latter then people could just avoid screen protectors (Which shouldn't really be needed regardless).
A single-payer system isn't the only way to bring down costs and fight hospital consolidations. Enforcement of antitrust laws on regional hospital monopolies is another potential way. Although tipping the scales more in favor of payers, with single payer being the extreme variant of this, could work as well

The issue with any political solution is that hospitals will fight any legislation like crazy. Hospitals probably have more political power than even the drug industry, and the drug industry has obviously been able to fight price controls pretty well.

The risk I see with any political solutions is that politicians create watered-down legislation that makes voters think they are tackling the issue, but don't really have much teeth. That's the win-win for politicians -- if you pass a toothless medicare for all bill, voters will applaud you, and you won't anger potential donors from industry.
The Yield Curve Has Dis-Inverted. Are We Safe Now?
I've grown to like Avro, mostly because of its ability to support schema evolution for reader and writer independently. You get the usual niceties around binary wire format, schema, dynamic parsing and/or code generators etc.
The title "Hacker News in Now Reachable via IPv6" is false. The Ungleich guys have done amazing work on promoting IPv6, but this is simply a proxy.

However, if you want to actually use HN over IPv6, then force it in your hosts file:

news.ycombinator.com 2606:4700::6810:686e

This comment's written over IPv6. :)
I'm not the OP but I would agree and my problem with the syntax is the number of symbols that don't make the semantics clear at all. The Lens library for example, but also a lot of standard stuff like the bind operator, it's extremely complex. Many people also seem to go overboard on the dot notation which can be very hard to read.
> The relevant question isn't really why religion is declining in the US, but why it hasn't declined sooner.

I believe the reason is that religion has been very different in the U.S. than anywhere else in the world. Few countries have the great variety of religious denominations the U.S. has and the relative peace between said religions.

But I agree with your perspective.
I briefly worked for a school district that had 8000 Macs to support. They fired the entire technical team (for reasons unknown) except for me and then proceeded to hire people who had never used a Mac in their life. The woman in charge of the department was like Lorraine Bracco’s character in Hackers - extremely overpaid, could barely figure out how to work a computer, and used God as her password. I’m still disgusted when I think about how corrupt and incompetent that district was and likely still is. A few of the fired guys wound up with a nice settlement, I’m sure the webcam recordings of the superintendent exchanging teaching positions for “favors” probably worked to their advantage.
This reminds me of the Gitlab outage when they realized their backup images existed but were size 0. If you aren't regularly restoring backups to a machine, you are setting up for failure.
It's true that it's harder to sell people on a monthly subscription, but once you do, the revenue is much more predictable.

From the entrepreneurs perspective, SaaS is a much more appealing business model, though of course customers would prefer to pay once instead of every month.

Also, I'm not a technical person so I might be wrong, but I'd also imagine that an online video editing tool requires a lot of money to maintain, so random one-off $5 payments might not be enough keep the lights on.
A Chronicle of the Fall of Richard Stallman
If you like this and have some dough: https://axidraw.com

If you have less, google 4xidraw...
When I was at a start up the CEO was someone who had started a business, sold it, then retired. He said he enjoyed it for a month, he did some things he wanted to do, cooked. Then ended up missing work and applied to our company. Some people love to work.
Because it'll get them taken away before the world ends

Its an annoying needle to thread
Mozilla’s marketing budget is between $20 million and $100 million, said Kaykas-Wolff, adding that “it varies depending upon the different programs we’re running.” Per Kantar, which doesn’t track spending on social channels, Mozilla spent $8.2 million in 2018. The budget is split with 50% focused on North America and 50% focused on the rest of the world.

Mozilla’s pivot away from Facebook followed the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Now, the majority of the company’s digital spending goes to Google properties — Mozilla’s Firefox competes with Google’s Chrome — as a part of its digital acquisition strategy. According to Netshare, as previously reported by Digiday, Firefox’s market share is 9.3% of global monthly on desktop; meanwhile, Google Chrome’s is 66%. Aside from Cambridge Analytica, it’s unclear why Mozilla is fine with Google’s data practices but not Facebook’s as the company did not immediately respond to a request for clarification. The rest of the digital budget goes directly to publishers.
> I know (you are not the first to ask!) but honestly, sorry, I won't and I will let anyone truly interested to do their own experiments

You made an extraordinary claim, yet refuse to provide any evidence.
Either backup your claims with data or don't make blanket statement perhaps?

As to your points regarding scrutiny.. that's the whole point. How else would be able to measure the metrics?
I moved to Germany because Brazil is not a stable and prosperous country
There are parts of the world where IP exhaustion is forcing the hand of ISPs. My home broadband connection is with a fairly minor player who don't have the address space of the incumbent telcos (but do full FttH), so I have native IPv6 connectivity, but IPv4 is through CGNAT. So I think the momentum is coming, just slowly.
I think considering they've grown the MRR to $5000 from nothing since then, it looks like it was a pretty good strategy even if you don't like how it was concocted.
They don't understand how PON works, think of it like FDDI or even DOCSIS; You'd never be capable of receiving 10Tbps due to fiber topology... The 10Tbps number requires DWDM anyways, its like saying a Kia is a Lamborghini.

The Cable/Wireless carriers will use this misdetermination to undermine what these guys are saying so in the end its unhelpful.

They'd have a much better time pointing out that existing cableco's have mismanaged their DOCSIS networks and that Comcast is considered the WORST company in this country (even worse than Monsanto) because of how poorly they manage their networks. There's also so little adoption for "Wireless to the Home" that its pointless to consider that a reasonable option.
It has a drive shaft, worm gears, and a single motor. Seems like an odd design. I wonder if I can build similar device using a 6mm DC motor for each string and some gears to crank up the torque?
This is the exact class of problem that docker itself attempts to avoid. This is why I run docker-compose inside a docker container, so I can control exactly what it has access to and isolate it. There's a guide to do so here[1]. It has the added benefit of not making users install docker-compose itself - the only project requirement remains docker.

1: https://cloud.google.com/community/tutorials/docker-compose-...
Alternate names: BlocksOS, DistrOS, DistribOS,BuildOS

I'd suggest cloning the repo locally, as when this gets TOS'd for obvious trademark issue, Github's deletion won't hit your local machine (but will also nuke forks on GH).

Cool project, poor choice in name.
Flying high with Vaex: analysis of over 30 years of flight data in Python
There are so many implied claims in what you say, it is difficult to give a response. We would almost certainly be talking past each other.

> I think I see this decline as a correction. It's not actually normal to have so many people finding religion important to their lives in a ...

Why use that as your normative base? Why not say that everything after, say, Descartes or Jesus or the printing press is abnormal level of religion, and that we are in a lull of divinity? Why do you think anything about the religiosity of anyone in the last 1-30 centuries is normal?

> in a large, connected ... but since the Internet has connected us all ...

Are we in a large, connected society? Has the internet really done as you say?
Pat Metheny's Orchestrion project may also be of interest here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsYEOUKS4Yk
Alas, twenty minutes is plenty of time for a flamewar to get going. When I posted that, the thread consisted of comments like these:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21284379

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21284381

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21284266

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21284355

You're right that there's a sore spot for me, but it isn't religion—it's long experience with how wretched HN threads become as soon as religion is mentioned. But I should have been more careful and not posted hastily and vaguely.

If I hadn't intervened by posting and doing other standard moderation things, though, the thread would likely have become more of a flamewar. These things don't self-correct; would that they did. I made this case more complicated by posting in a way that stirred up additional waves—it was not a splash-free dive, like we usually try for. I was distracted and my irritation managed to grab the steering wheel.
I haven't found any good source of religious affiliation data, but if instead we go by what percentage of the population say that religion is important in their life, a lot of Western nations had a higher percentage than the US according to a 2009 Gallup poll [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Importance_of_religion_by_coun...
Security cameras usually monitor the exterior of the house for bad agents.

Always-on listening devices and interior cameras are absolutely a new thing and to pretend like they aren't is what's actual lunacy.
Those are some excellent points.

You know how some people have pointed out that McDonalds wasn't in the food business, it was in the real estate business to franchise owners? They often hold prime real estate locations.

The Post Office also has prime real estate locations.

I think that Churches, collectively, hold some of the most desireable property locations in our communities. Especially older churches in city centers have been there and grown organically since cities were founded so now they're very valuable.
Menu labelling linked to less fat and salt in food at UK restaurant chains
Streamsheets Are Open-Source
Don't forget the blatant price manipulation from exchanges and scammers! Search numbers show fewer people care now than ever and yet the price is pretty high. You should be surprised by that because the block reward requires $5.25B in new money to enter the market to maintain the price, and yet...
Good point, I didn't think about B2C vs B2B difference, I was thinking about B2C SaaS.
As for corrupt IT Directors read here

https://statescoop.com/4th-cio-leaves-baltimore-within-five-...

It is a corrupt town the facts/history clearly show this. It's where I was grew up/live/work; all within in surrounding counties, which is solid living! Though Baltimore isn't the only corrupt US city!
They are creating new technologies and contributing to society in many ways (job creation, business optimization and much more). Accumulating is probably another side effect of growing their creations. I don't think they give it much thought. The ones I know are actually kindof the same. You would not know their status by seeing them on the street. Controlling does not describe them at all. The word I would use is empowering.
>but what's wrong with the syntax?

I'll just link to this blog about readable Haskell. If everyone followed his advise, it would be much better.

http://www.haskellforall.com/2015/09/how-to-make-your-haskel...
Yeah I've gotta be honest the first few times I was taught OOP I couldn't quite grasp the purpose. I like it now for encapsulation of state, but generally I find it much easier to deal with records + pure functions as building blocks.
How about `~/workspace`? With tab and autocomplete it‘s not hard to type.

But I must admit that `~/code` seems a good alternative to me.
I guess a failure to do backups of any kind is beyond any solution we could offer, but if one could take even a single step forward beyond nothing, a read-only (immutable) offsite destination is well worth your consideration.[1]

Most end users looking for "ransomware protection" probably just want to drag and drop some files, like Dropbox, which is why a simple SFTP (filezilla) solution is nice, but of course you could point any old thing[2] if you were more sophisticated ...

[1] https://www.rsync.net/products/ransomware.html

[2] borg, restic, rclone, git-annex ... rsync ...
I am somewhat baffled.

> You don't become a better person if you don't change your habits, rituals and your deep rooted mental frameworks.

You think, say, monks or rabbis are worse persons, then? Certainly to you they are stale, as you say?

What about Homer, whose rituals you may imagine never changed in his lifetime. Was he a worse person, and lazier, than someone modern, who changes them often?
Requiring a daemon with root privileges is another big reason to explore alternatives to docker.
Maybe you want to accelerate it?

Merge all the regional monopolies into one big national hospital monopoly, with all the drug buying power that brings. Then get the Trump/Clinton Care bill passed that controls insurance prices and regulates this new 'National Health Service' as the hospital monopoly might be called.
I worked in local govt as a consultant, then as their IT Director for a few years. Nowhere near as big of a place as Baltimore though.

The hardest thing for me to do was convince anyone to get me money. They STILL have servers running that were purchased in 2007-2008. (I moved all critical services off, and made damn sure backups worked). It took two years before I was able to convince the board to give me $5000 for server hardware alone. That went towards the most needed hardware too, not my wish list.

This was before I was able to get things set up so I was able to buy something under $500 without board approval, just needed IT Committee approval. The board required everyone in the county to go through the IT Committee for any purchase related to IT. Printer ink, a $10 wireless mouse, etc. That was the first thing I got rid of while I was there. They only reason they did that was because it gave them power over people. I've seen them turn down people over $15 purchases...

The other person who replied is pretty correct about politics. The board there HATED tech for no reason other than if you weren't in the "old boys club" you were garbage to them and they treated you like that.

So overall, it really gave me a great view on why so many counties are so dysfunctional and why government works so slow (for most things at least). I don't regret my time there, but I wish it didn't take such a toll on me.

/Edit
Also, there's no reason that they couldn't have tested backups. I was the only IT person for a county of 350+ PCs and a hospital, and I still managed to test backups every month. Shadow Copies saved me so much time too. I also used linux /pfSense when applicable.
The Imperial Presidency, Secrecy, and the Intelligence Community
All good things...
This doesn't have anything to do with Docker, but specifically docker-compose. What are the alternatives you suggest to that? Minikube?
One thing I haven't seen brought up in this thread yet is support for foreign language embeddability. For example, Python code is technically quite slow, but that often doesn't matter much because it is easy to write external functions in C or C++ that behave like normal Python functions. I imagine that it would be more difficult to embed C++ code into a language with strong functional gauruntees. In that sense, the performance of Python is close to the performance of the fastest language with the same paradigm, which is (with current compilers) better for imperative programs that are structurally more similar to how the CPU operates.
Really cool hardware, but I wish there were a bunch of more photos of plots on the page! I want to see the output.
There's the middle ground of using Firefox and wishing the Mozilla Corporation wasn't full of hypocrites.
Have you looked at podman? You can do daemon-less, user run containers.
Press release: Merger between two logistics industry startups in Europe
Speys and Shipitwise have announced today the planned merger of their business operations to offer digital logistics solutions to enable manufacturers and retailers outsource their logistics operations to virtual teams and automated tools. Speys will acquire the Shipitwise assets, people and customer contracts and the merged business will operate under the Speys brand.

Shipitwise, founded in 2015, set out to build a shipping aggregator that would provide an instant dynamic shipping price to anyone, later pivoting to build software that helps bring shipping firms online.

“Shipitwise offers an exciting opportunity for Speys to strengthen and expand its service offering” explains Jouko Sipilä, founder and CEO of Speys. “With the knowledge and technology to bring shipping firms online, the acquisition of Shipitwise supports the Speys strategy to lead the market and meet the future requirements for a single provider to automate logistics of everything”.

Aleksander Gansen, founder and CEO of Shipitwise, also commented “Speys’ acquisition of Shipitwise provides a major growth opportunity for both our businesses through an extended service offering for our clients. As organisations begin their transition to optimise and digitise their logistics operations, we will be best positioned to support them on that journey.” Gansen will join Speys as head of the Digitalisation division within Speys.

The expanded business will continue building Speys’ virtual logistics team offering. The whole team of Shipitwise will continue working with Speys after the merger.

Speys is a Finland-based Digital Party Logistics (DPL) operator focusing on automation of logistics. It has solely focused on providing outsourced logistics services since the year 2016. Since its inception, Speys’ business and service offerings have evolved to meet the unique demands of the dynamic and maturing market.
Self hosted is fine, thank you, will check that.
Ah - TIL ... thanks for a solid response =)

Either way - I'd avoid using someone's brand unless it was changed up in a MAJOR way.
Yeah, I never understood how you could hash fingerprints or face unlock data. How do you do a fuzzy match on a hash? I guess you can make the original data less detailed/precise, such that slight variations would still come out with the same hash, but that seems to defeat some of the security.
Weary Light
I came to the comments just to voice a similar concern. We need to take ownership of our data, whether it is biometric, environmental or social. And once we have established this for ourselves, we should make it as accessible as the commercial offerings. This should be the new open source movement. Projects like OpenHAB and homebrew sensor networks with low power open source schematics and drivers.

Hey, we are already heading there. It’s just the masses that will stay ignorant for a decade.
I am not sure it's just IT competence. If this was the worst thing going on in Baltimore it would be doing much better as a city, but its not.
Individual cores execute instructions speculatively these days!

Predicting how the program will be executed, even in a language such as C99 or C11, requires several layers of abstraction.

What most programmers using these languages are concerned about is memory layout as that is the primary bottleneck these days. The same is true for developers of FP languages. Most of these languages I've seen have facilities for unboxing types and working with arrays as you do. It's a bit harder to squeeze the Haskell RTS onto a constrained platform which is where I'd either simply write in C... or better, compile a subset of Haskell without the RTS to a C program.

What I find neat though is that persistent structures, memoization, laziness, and referential transparency gave us a lot of expressive power while giving us a lot of performance out of the gate. In an analogous way to how modern CPU cores execute instructions speculatively while maintaining the promise of sequential access from the outside; these structures combined with pure, lazy run time allow us to speculatively memoize and persist computations for more efficient computations. This lets me write algorithms that can search infinite spaces using immutable structures and get the optimal algorithm for the average case since the data structures and lazy evaluation amortize the cost for me.

There's a good power-to-weight ratio there that, to me, we're only beginning to scratch the surface of.
New capitalism gets lift from CRM
Facebook’s bogus video claims cost it $40M, but caused much more damage
True, but managers also usually fail to account for the time and cost of remediation after a pentest.

Had the city engaged in the pentest, would there have been an appetite to spend 10-20x that amount on remediation?
Would be interested in how this stacks against mathbox2*

* https://acko.net/blog/mathbox2/
Pardon my ignorance, but why would U2F support be disabled for security? Isn't that the entire point of U2F?
Docker Hub still does not have any form of 2FA. Even SMS 2FA would be something / great at this point.

As an attacker, I would put a great deal of focus on attacking company’s registries on Docker Hub. They can’t have 2FA, so the work/reward ratio is quite high.
For AMD it is. They calculate it using a formula with constants that differ for each processor.

Gamers nexus does a pretty good job explaining it: https://youtu.be/tL1F-qliSUk

There are loads of videos on YouTube about how AMD 105tdp processors beat intel processors with a lot lower TDP
Run numbers. Do simulations. Have a plan.

I concentrated too much on minimizing long-term interest expense. I didn't think about how the money I was using to pay-down principal could have returned income over the long term. The real estate asset I was paying on hasn't appreciated at all in 20 years. I could have seen major investment returns on that money which would far exceed the interest expense I alleviated.