skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
South Korea is probably not a good example. Blue collar workers of SK are definitely not doing OK (though it probably has very little to do with robots). This year, 1,300+ died from workplace accidents.
>Their bottleneck is engineer hours, not dollars.

Their bottleneck was software being able to scale past a hard stop. I guess having a known breaking point of scalability is a good thing? But building things in a way where you either have to overhaul your development runtime or not be able to scale past a certain point is pretty terrible.

It seems like the only reason they did this was because they really felt the pain of it from the business and dev side and they were lucky enough that they had traffic spikes to raise these issues. If they had more consistent day-to-day traffic then this would have just hit a breaking point one day and they would've been fucked until it was fixed.
Having a worker that does one request, processes that one request and returns a result isn't accurate, simple or safe? Scaling that simplistic interface in a 1:1 manner across many systems via ECS is pretty straight forward.

Now, in addition to probably optimizing what they've done, converting to, for example another container system, like K8s where they can scale vertically a bit better may have been another approach.

The biggest issue that I see is gRPC doesn't work that great with Node. You can't use it with cluster which means you have to self-manage threads/processes and it adds complexity there. Yeah, there's definitely issues that come into scaling in terms of performance optimization.... but where they started from isn't unreasonable imho.
its disputing his claims about effects on society not that yang trying to stop robots.
For more secure apps we use single use tokens and expire within a very short period of issuance, i.e. invalidated upon use, and exp (expiry) set a few seconds after iat (issued at). Not optimum for performance because you need to get a new token with every request, but means you never have to worry about having to revoke them. Not heard of anyone in the finance sector using JWT for session management, but that's not what they're for.
Which, people should never ever do either. Maybe as a SWE I'm too removed from other people's use cases but I cannot recall the last time I ran an executable on my computer that didn't go through a centralized inspection. Be it me myself, or Debian team etc...
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That box should probably read: “You can't revoke the long-term tokens in a stateless manner, so supposing you truly manage ZERO state, then you're back to square one.”

That seems like the charitable interpretation. Note that the author’s point has not been that JWT is useless, but rather that trying to use stateless JWT for sessions is a bad idea.

If the point of using for JWT was to avoid all server side state in authn/authz flow — which is the case for many, many developers, and that is the intended audience of the author’s post — then one of two things: you either contradict yourself and implement server side revocation for refresh tokens, or you let the lifetime of your sessions be the same as the refresh token — and in the case of refresh tokens with no expiry, the user (or anyone with their refresh token) can stay logged in forever.
Don't they get their results from Google, though?
If you want to feel better about those websites, Provident CU makes you pick a username with the same rules, including capitals and numbers when you register for online banking.

Someone in their IT department is the Grand High Idiot of Cargo Cult Security.
If only Hyper-V didn't screw all other virtualization solutions.
It's also more subtly curved than most people give it credit for. I know a guy that is creating 3D models of the truck for some people that want to simulate it in simulated wind-tunnel. He was flabbergasted at how much they could keep the straight looking form while also smuggling in critical curvatures here and there to stop eddy currents from forming.
Legit question: Who is the market for console buyers these days? Lower-tech consumers who don't want to use a store-bought or home-built computer?
At some point we will have to stabilize the economy with a stagnant or shrinking population. We might as well learn sooner than later if you believe in global warming. We should consider these incentives now.
Shopping doesn't suck. Being picky sucks. If I want gloves I go to the discount store and buy a 5-pack of the nitrile dipped cotton, the half-leather or the insulated rubber ones depending on what I need them for, no existential crisis whatsoever. I suspect the endless options for comparable products that we can access on the internet has made us more picky than we otherwise would be.
Indeed, as revealed in his court documents, Ross Ulbricht paid a lot more more money than this (by an order of magnitude) to have his darknet hits carried out (although he was likely being scammed).

The price mismatch makes me skeptical of this story.
This is a beautiful example of why there is a natural frequency to preventable disasters.

In the aftermath of a preventable disaster, there is will to implement policies and changes to prevent the next one. However the longer it has been since the last, or the safer things seem, the harder it is to maintain those policies. This slide will continue until disaster strikes. Which creates political will to avoid it.

A first disaster may be side by those with influence. But a series of them will undermine their excuses and eventually result in action. Action prevents disaster. Disaster prevention creates complacency and the cycle starts again.

There is no question that we have staved off infrastructure disaster for a long time. And it is just a question of time until the piper comes due...again.
I mean, from my reading of the complaint, the waterproofing method was rather crude. They just simply changed either the apostrophe character or the space character to different characters that are visually the same.

Any system that wasn't actively trying to clean up "trouble" characters would leave it alone.
That is not really true. The iPhone was launched at a lower price (and basically killed) than what passed for smart phones of the time. Likewise, the iPad was priced very aggressively.

Sure, you can buy cheaper smartphones now. But the iPhone is still priced in line with the similarly featured flagship phones from competitors.
Cholesterol studies pushed sunny side, but egg research came from industry funds
I know nothing of the particulars of this case, but a person could order a fake hit and then kill themselves in order to make it look like a murder to ensure the life insurance payout.
I think the key to the article can be found in this passage:

> [T]he problem is that now, somewhat suddenly, perfect knowledge of the perfect glove, for you specifically, exists, if you simply do enough research.

When you're shopping in a physical store, you have no expectation that you're going to find the absolute, one-and-only perfect glove (or whatever) in the world for you. Even in the largest stores, you understand that their shelf space is limited, and therefore you set your expectations not to find the absolute, one-and-only perfect glove in the world for you, but to find a glove that's good enough for your needs. As long as you can find something that meets your requirements at an acceptable cost, you come away satisfied. Maybe not thrilled, but satisfied.

The infinite variety of online shopping tells us to set our expectations higher than that. Suddenly every thing we buy has to be the perfect version of that thing for us -- because if it isn't, that means we are lazy dullards who lacked the research skills and/or wherewithal to go out and find the perfect version. Instead of it being the fault of the shop that we had to settle for good enough, suddenly it's our fault.

The only way out of this trap is to realize that there is no such thing as the perfect product, that even the works of the finest craftspeople are going to have flaws and blemishes on them, and that good enough really is, you know, good enough.

Or, in other words, that happiness is not a glove that you can buy.
FOSS.
The crazy thing is that people are suggesting things that should simply be added on as a function of the site. It's 2019, Dark mode is here to stay, why not just add it natively instead of having to install yet another plug-in/add-in/extension?
You could pre share a public key, but a common way is to use the discovery mechanism in OIDC to automatically manage key distribution/rolling.
I suspect that once that fails, the next step is going to be having to join the Discord server or whatever chat-group exists for that niche. Then asking for a recommendation from some weirdo whose super obsessed with gloves or whatever. The future is weird.
There is in fact not a big difference. Cisco's AM's know exactly what use their hardware is being put to, and Cisco makes far more money off their hardware than NSO makes off their exploit packs and implant software. They are equally blameworthy.
My work required me to change passwords every 90 days. I worked there for 8 years. My first password was [password]1 and my last one was [password]34.

I'm guessing this isn't what they had in mind.
They started with a simple implementation where one node handles one request at a time... end to end. They used ECS for easy-button scaling. That's a perfectly reasonable approach for starting out.

I would have probably pushed for a shift in orchestration to kubernetes along with some tweaking as an initial uplift. Others would re-write the whole thing in another language. They chose to add a bit of complexity for multiple requests per node support. They all have their pluses and minuses, but in the end it doesn't mean the initial approach was bad, or their refactor wasn't pragmatic or practical.

Dramatic rewrites to a codebase lead to instability and in practice fail as much as succeed.
Physicists Use Bubbling Quantum Vacuum to Hopscotch Heat Across Empty Space
I can't read the whole article but...

> there was a probability of between 30% and 95% that Osama bin Laden was in the Abbottabad compound in Pakistan in April 2011.

So they gave Obama 62.5% probability and uncertainty estimate for the prediction ±32.5 percentage points??! Obama was right. That's 50:50 decision from his point of view.

If you have to make a decision, there is usually virtual certainty, very likely and unlikely and somewhere in between. 50% change or 60% change becomes meaningful if you repeat the thing multiple times. For a single event, it does not matter much.
Shopping sucks less now. Wider selection and more transparent information means that you can make a better choice today. If the author stops looking for the absolute best item, they'll find that it's a great world for the satisficing consumer.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/satisficing.asp
Faced with the situation described in this article many times in recent years, I've come to appreciate the value of the wholesale buyer at traditional retailers.

While obviously there are a variety of incentives involved, the buyer has evaluated a variety of products and found ones that they not only expect to be profitable for them, but that are also something they expect their customers to like and want to buy. Also, it's very unlikely they'll risk selling counterfeits. The majority of Amazon sellers seem to optimize exclusively for profitability, and make up for it by gaming the system with fake reviews and the like.
No doubt, but please don't post unsubstantive comments here.
An important meta observation, I agree.

I would add to that a corporate shareholder governance model that takes all the externalities into account like labor and environment instead of primarily profit and public perception.

While we're at it, update our model for GDP to include softer concepts like mental and physical well being / education / etc.

If your metric is money, you become money.
Brick and mortar shops can't stop you from coming in and finding the perfect item, then buying it online to save money. I bought an office chair recently and didn't feel confident picking one without trying chairs out in person. The chair I settled on was $100 cheaper online
Weird, I wonder why they chose to build this? Is this sort of an "end of the world" style system, where it's assumed cell phones, internet, and other forms of communication are already failing?

Here in Maine we already use AM radio (I think 1600 or so?) to broadcast short range info about situations that occur on the interstate, using the mentioned Travelers Information System. Next time I'm in my car I should verify I can receive AM radio signals
Real estate returns are actually pretty much on par with stocks if you include rent [0]. Granted, if it is your main home, you are just transferring that rent value to yourself but it's still much better to transfer that value to yourself than someone else.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19817584
Original source: https://www.arctic.noaa.gov/Report-Card/Report-Card-2019
You're thinking of Pono: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pono_(digital_music_service)

... which unfortunately went out of business in 2017.
I didn't accuse them of anything. I was re-stating what they themselves wrote in their complaint.

Yes, Genius licenses the lyrics, but they often aren't provided the lyrics when they purchase a license. This is where the community comes in... FWIW, Google and the other target of the complaint have the same license from these music publishers.

This is all spelled out clearly in Genius' complaint.
Maybe NYC can learn from other countries. Train costs:

https://nextcity.org/daily/entry/spain-high-speed-train-toro...

Which links to https://pedestrianobservations.com/2011/05/16/us-rail-constr...

Edit: 2019: https://pedestrianobservations.files.wordpress.com/2019/11/c...
I am not sure that math is right. Using the aws cost calculator, its only about 1100/mo for 5B https requests. However, I think if you consider data transfer its still probably in the range of a several thousand a day. yikes.
The outage in Midtown was somewhat of a freak thing. And if you look at the math around it, in a city of 8 million ~70k customers without power for ~5 hours. That's incredible.

Is ConEd's network the best? No, there are always improvements that can be made. There is a lot of aging infrastructure that has been replaced and upgraded as a result of Sandy. And to be clear, I think the response to Sandy was unacceptable to ConEd management, not just the union(s).

The engineering of the Manhattan network (and the Brooklyn network) is pretty amazing. It's the reason that when there are power outages, they are usually shorter and affect fewer customers.

I am reminded of the response to Hurricane Ike in Houston. There were people there in relatively lightly hit areas that went without power for 3+ weeks.
I also thought the same, but I'm not disappointed. The article was much, much more interesting and really interested me.
In my market ATT fiber is cheaper than ATT DSL, and obviously quite a bit faster.
Isn't Heroku using AWS under the hood? So you are still supporting AWS?
Not OP, but I would say no. The corporation is subject to competition. If their curated products suck eventually people will figure it out and they'll go out of business. Do you consider Trader Joe's a planned economy?
This is (sorta) how SQRL works.

https://www.grc.com/sqrl/sqrl.htm
>Lying is softened as "telling mistruths"

Lying is intentional deception. Telling mistruths can be either be misinformed or intentional. This makes it less likely they will be sued for slander/libel if it turns out it is an honest mistake.
It wasn't your fault. It was a bug in our title-correcting software. Fixed now!
>multi-billion dollar company

WeWork is a "multi-billion dollar company" in the same way that Plaid is. Private funding valuations don't really mean anything anymore.
We've already got a co-ordinated YouTube Walkout which, whilst small, is international. It might go further… though I'm looking forward more to people properly beating Google by doing what they do better, and without spying on people to do it.
The Cybertruck can't be brutalist because it us not ugly enough... At least it is far less ugly than anything properly called brutalist.

Its rather nice, comparable (but not as good) as e.g. the Lamborghini Countach and similar designs.
Also on WaPo, but paywalled https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2019/12/10/arctic-may...
I think this might be the key.

It's not that the internet provides too wide a selection, it's that it fails to provide some very basic pieces of information.

How does the product feel in your hand? Is it soft? Does it feel durable? Does the stitching look neat, or haphazard and frizzy?

When we evaluate a product in person, we make all of these assessments without even thinking about them.
Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1036/

It is from 2012 by the way.
I wonder what pre-agricultural lifespans were like? I read recently that humans were significantly taller and healthier before agriculture, due to getting nutrition from many sources rather than a few crops. I expect they were much lower than in the cities, despite the nutritional advantage.
People have a habit of equating ugly with brutalist.

The Cybertruck is just ugly.
*Eratosthenes, best known for being the first person to calculate the circumference of the Earth.
1. No I don't. I don't have to explain how gravity works to know that it does and make scientific claims about its operation. Likewise, I can scientifically demonstrate the mind is non physical and interacts with our physical world without explaining how.

2. If the world is not physically closed then physical theory and natural laws are not violated, since they would not apply to anything beyond the physical world.

3. True, but if the mind can be shown to perform physically uncomputable tasks, then we can infer the mind is not physical. In which case we can also apply Occam's razor and infer the mind is doing something uncomputable as opposed to having access to vast immaterial computational resources.

Finally, calling a position names, such as 'mystical', does nothing to determine the veracity of the position. At best it is counter productive by distracting from the logic of the argument.
i wandered into a talk at MAA ~2006, where an old professor spoke deadpan on how he “wasted his life” on this problem. it was a poignant comedy, and he delivered it well. dont fuck with this problem.
America's infrastructure as a whole seems to be on the verge of collapse.

Our electrical grids are decades old and cannot support the number of people we now have, nor their increasing power demands. Our roads are cracking, and our bridges are crumbling. In the few locations we do have trains, they're old, diesel-powered, and poorly maintained.

As a nation, we steadfastly refuse to invest in boring-but-necessary things that would dramatically improve the lives of average people.
The license only contemplates personal or commercial uses. What if one or more of these fx were used for a FOSS game or a CC licensed song which the developers/authors released for free but could ask for donations? Would it be allowed?
This is covered in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_POSIX_subsystem. Version history:

The POSIX subsystem was replaced in Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 by "Windows Services for UNIX", (SFU) which is based in part on technology Microsoft acquired by buying Interix. SFU was removed from later versions of Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012. SFU is logically, though not formally, replaced by the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) in the Windows 10 Anniversary Update and Windows Server 2016 Version 1709 respectively.

I agree that this was originally mostly for show since the customer base was very specific. That was a different time and place from now. I guess WSL started as an experiment to see how they could serve customers, was validated to some degree, and now they need to perfect it. A lot of related work on the Windows Console is now open source so I take that as a demonstration of how serious they are, but I don't expect it all to be open source. Maybe they'll surprise us.
I wouldn't mind paying a few pounds for them to let me browse the products. Maybe this is a viable business model.
There are companies that will store your gold and silver too

O.O
> I’d love to only spend $17 except there is no way 17-dollar leather gloves won’t be fake and off color and smell of gasoline when they arrive, and after only a few wears the lining will pill or develop holes. I’d love to just buy the $60 gloves except that seems like a pretty large amount of money to spend on non-weatherproof gloves, and how can I, when there are identical $17 gloves right there.

17, which is too risky, and 60, which isn't 17, which is too risky...

There are probably hundreds of salespeople inside small business abodes in a 20 mile radius who are trained in the diplomacy of breaking out of that loop without making the author feel like a complete idiot.

Not saying a brick-and-mortar is a utopia, but at least the problem of ending up with a 5-star pair of "glarves" goes away.
IBM legacy in action. Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM, but some of them probably should have been.
Ring and Nest cameras hacked to broadcast their jokes and your life on the Web
Even without high level reasoning, software can replace a lot of routine jobs, which I think speaks more to the fact that routine jobs are not fit for humans than the humanness of software.

For example in the physical realm, working an assembly line is mind-numbing, and relatively unfulfilling. A robotic arm can take over.

And now in the cognitive realm, sticking to a strict call center script or taking orders at a fast food restaurant is equally uninteresting, and if speech to text + a decision tree can do that, then that's good.

As long as we don't leave people behind, removing in-human jobs is imo a net good.
I think you need to move further back. Civilization accounted for a sharp decline in life expectancy due to disease and other factors like extreme agricultural labor. Humans have only gained back what was lost since the industrial and technological revolutions.

Extant hunter gatherers, living without access to modern medicine, have been studied to show life expectancy closer to 70.
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Would it be ok to scrape google's results and distribute them, while saying you don't accept their TOS? It's a bit like not paying taxes and saying you didn't sign up for that. Who knows, maybe that's the way forward
Google Will Limit Cross-Site Tracking in Chrome by Default Starting in February
New Orleans Currently Under Cyber Attack
> This is part of the lottery. You were very fortunate to have been raised such that you are familiar with the ways in which money can work for you. Being born into a situation where this isn't the case is already a huge detriment, not to speak of actual hardships once you're on your way.

Well, sure, but that's exactly the point of this post: that it's about education and knowing what to do. I agree! I was lucky to have learned when I was young, and lots of those 78% are people who just don't know how to budget and save.

I was responding to a comment that I understood meant people couldn't save due to the economy and such that it's impossible to accumulate savings. No! It's an education issue.
Behold the power of a mistranslation:

> The term ‘brutalism’ was coined by the British architects Alison and Peter Smithson, and popularised by the architectural historian Reyner Banham in 1954. It derives from ‘Béton brut’ (raw concrete) and was first associated in architecture with Le Corbusier, who designed the Cite Radieuse in Marseilles in the late-1940s.

But since the word can be used as an insult in English, it's used with no reference to its original meaning, obscuring the fact it's a botched translation.