skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Extended with: "and all his customers are based in a country with strong plumbing standards and regulatory guidelines" - rendering his advice less valid for every country which doesn't.

A practical example I ran into lately, we had a small system run on GKE and Google Cloud Loadbalancer and struggled to automate the certificate renewal process. Because the cluster/project was for an internal tool this automation was given a low priority and we still have to "manually" swap a certificate every few months (and if we forget to we get an angry slack DM).

TLDR; there are still many combinations of networked services that still do not ~easily~ support certificate automation, even ones you expect really should by now.
Sellers have the option to ship things themselves too. They just aren't eligible for Prime shipping.
http://archive.md/UbD7r
That's a statement that cries out for analysis, although I'm not doubting you could be right still - it's not the kind of thing one just states without backing it up.
It has a residence time in the atmosphere of 72 hours. Water vapor only works as a feedback. It isn't a prime mover of climate change.
I've seen references to gVisor being used 'in production' for google app engine && cloud run and so forth.

Scanning through recent commits && the github repo this is clearly not the case - there are way too many outstanding issues and outright missing support for various things. Is this another project where it was written in a different language or something and then ported out?

Can you clarify?
It's a terrible decision for developers everywhere but what about Apple's profits?
That is (at least one reason) why you should implement both, instead of just one.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-dns-over-https#...
We have a similar plan with GCP and honestly the customer support has usually been great.
Good luck to them.

For my personal projects, GCP is definitely my preference although I also like AWS and enjoyed using Azure while I had a Microsoft BizSpark grant. GCP is very easy to use.

For huge customers GCP provides good support, but I think that the GCP team really have to work harder to support small companies (I base this on HN comments, no personal experience).
Because there's not a replacement that syncs well and is easy to teach your non-techie parents/spouse how to use to log into their shared accounts.
Its US based on Constitutional Right of Freedom of Religion.

However, your points about the law in Canada/Germany where a doctor can force treatment gets to the original comment I replied to...which called such forced treatment by a government or doctor...tyranny.
I like that Mattermost is written in Go and can deploy on-prem with Docker. Those are two huge points for MM over Slack IMO.
Arguing for base-load is arguing for the whole energy system. The only way solar looks favorable is by ignoring base-load requirements, which is why it needs to be explicitly called out.
I bought a new AOC monitor from Amazon, sold by Amazon.com Services, Inc last year. When it got here, It was obvious it had been an open box item. The stand was wrapped in the worst, most unprofessional packing I've ever seen. It wasn't even in a plastic bag, but rather the plastic bag was wrapped around it with twisted, old, previously-used tape was used to bind it back up. Whoever repackaged it didn't even bother using new tape, even though the old tape was all twisted and nearly worthless. I ended up not liking the monitor and shipped it back.
As someone who actually usually GCP professionally, I’ve never had a problem with their support process.
Our Christmas bonus this year at our small startup was a large Amazon gift card. I'm intensely conflicted on applying it to my account. But that amount of money is not insignificant and I feel almost obligated to use it despite my ethical qualms with Amazon.

How might my fellow HN denizens navigate this situation? I already asked HR and they don't want to exchange it for cash because "we already bought it" and "we don't want the bonus to be taxable income".
This. I do exactly the same. I have bunch of python scripts in git repo that manage my notes / flashcards and so one stored in csv files.
I was mostly thinking from the perspective of a founder, not from a public investor.
> Guess what, my maternal granddad had Parkinson's disease
> Just think of what we could do if we could easily treat Alzheimer's or other age related disorders

If only scientists focused their research on Medical Cannabis which is time and again showing positive results on plenty of patients afflicted with Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. My grandpa had Parkinson's too. I wish I or my family knew of Medical Cannabis and the positive effects of CBD back then. It makes me angry that this naturally occurring plant was banned by the CIA and India followed suit when Cannabis (called Vijaya in Sanskrit) was used in Ayurveda for thousands of years. We discarded a medicine that was working perfectly fine for chemicals made artificially by Big Pharma. Now people have no choice and have to resort to going for allopathy when an alternative natural medicine exists but would invite prison time if you use it. No one would dare to break the law. And when accompanied by social stigma in using it you have this fine concoction of guilt for breaking the law and anger, sadness at the sheer ignorance of society.
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Does anybody know of any MX Master 3 modding forums or other resources?

The firmware and electronics in these things are fine, but these mice are one size fits none. In my case: way too small. I probably need one that's 2 times the size + preferably vertical.

I was thinking of doing a mod where I convert an MX Master 3 to a much larger MX vertical type thing. Shouldn't be too hard, but if I can think of this someone probably already did it. Right?
I wonder what is going to happen to Redhat now that it's been acquired by IBM, who from my understanding, survives off of legacy support (might he wrong though). From what I understand Redhat was pretty big in the RTP tech scene.
I don't think that's really true. At least, it's not true in the way that I use eBay -- I never participate in the auctions. If I'm buying something from eBay, I always go with "buy now". If you use it that way, the barrier to entry is no higher than with any other retailer.
The problem with this:

out/image-id: $(shell find src -type f)

is that if you delete a file from src (without also modifying or adding a file), make won't consider image-id to need rebuilding
This seems to be mostly non-tech jobs being automated. The expected result of hiring these people is whatever menial work they were doing (not trying to be insulting, menial work is where automation thrives). Tech jobs, are already about automation (to a degree) and that is the expected result of hiring a dev.

Therein lies the fundamental difference. If a dev automates, they are doing what they are being paid to do, if a non-dev automates, they are no longer doing what they are being paid to do (in the eyes of the company of course, we can have a whole different argument about whether they are being paid for effort-input or value-output).
>moved over pretty early on (paid account is only $10/yr)

LastPass started as $1/month, which I thought was a great deal. I started using it in 2011, and never really paid attention to the fee.

Then, it got bought by LogMeIn, and in 2017 they upped the price to $2/month. Last year they upped it to $3/month ($39..that's when I noticed the charge). That's right: for 6 years it was one price, which tripled in 2 years without any enhancements as far as I could tell.

Needless to say, this will be my last year with their product. I'm using KeePass2 locally on my devices, and it seems to do what I need.
My grandmother is on insulin which the Bulgarian government mostly pays for, the rest is equal to about 50 euro/month or 55 usd. So it's practically free for us. The US has f-ed up healthcare. Change that.
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They already wrote that marketing 8 years ago. Only gets more and more true over the years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QI4KmlcQr4
Whoops you're right. I misread.
No, there are no solar+battery projects in the west (at least in the US), that are cost competitive with natural gas. If that were true it would be major news.
That's like saying what if the charity for the homeless to whom people donated money suddenly was found to be a front for a global human trafficking (slave) organization.

People would be rightly outraged and angry, but that doesn't mean they made a mistake by giving their money to the charity.

Everyone makes judgement calls every day, it's the way the world works.
After reading both of these statements, idk I feel the grey area is large enough that it didn't necessarily justify firing but also I don't blame Google for doing so. Ugh.
Why high schools don’t teach CS: It’s the lack of teachers, but it’s way more
Heart surgeries, joint replacements, kidney failure. Stuff like that. Good for you if you don't end up with those issues... But they are common for a reason. Take a look at your parents/uncle's/aunts and you will have an idea of what your 60s will be like. I'm watching my father and all his siblings have different issues in their 60s and I have suddenly realized that lifestyle can't beat genetics.
I haven't quite figured out what to do with this new realization yet.
Is there any evidence that any of this is affecting Amazon adversely? Or are we just wishfully thinking that it is because it should?
Azure has a pretty nice tech stack in my experience, what issues are you experiencing with it?
Dharma Bums > On The Road IMHO
> Why would anyone want a cloud based, proprietary, non-free, non-oss password manager is what I really want to know.

Former reputation and inertia. I use it, and when I started it seemed to have the best reputation for ease of use. I also recall that its security model was publicly endorsed by quite a few people who looked at it closely. I only use it for "less important" sites, which basically means everything that isn't a primary email account or an investment website. For those, I use 2FA whenever possible and memorize random passwords [1].

I've been interested in switching since LastPass was bought by LogMeIn, but it's never been a high enough priority for me to actually spend the time to search for another tool.

[1] when memorization gets to be too much, I split the passwords in half: a common half I memorize, and a unique half I write down on paper.
I think a lot of it is the money: https://jakeseliger.com/2019/10/15/teachers-and-the-income-c..., which is another way of saying "lack of teachers."
As someone who learned it casually a while back: Haskell's not great for strings, I'll give you that.

How does the OCaml type system compare with Haskell's though?
I didn't know of this attack, sounds interesting :) can you explain in a bit more detail how it would work?
Didn't Citrix own LogMeIn?
My point was that had they initially released cloud based on what they had at the time, AWS would have had a very hard time competing. These days as you mentioned their competitors moved on and even K8S is surpassing Borg in some ways.
We get good support. But recently I think I have heard about big/huge potential customers of us tell us that they are scared of moving because Google suddenly starts ghosting them.
What about zulip? They seem to fare well in terms of features against slack and mattermost.
They just lost my business. I was planning to use them over AWS for a new project. Now that I know they might cancel it like the other Google experiments, I'm not going to risk that investment. I'll stick with AWS.

They have a great platform, but I think they've just lost the war by the top brass waffling on this. That's a shame. There could have been a lot of money in third place, and as long as you're in the game there is a non zero probability of moving up the ladder.
I'm not 100% sure this perspective works, but could one take the position that this is because of a disconnect between model and reality?

You look at some big list of symbols and say "this formula (model) corresponds to whether a Turing machine enumerating all theorems of ZFC produces 0=1 (reality)". But does it really?
Do you know of a good resource that tells you which things are significantly better priced?
The earth has both warmed and cooled since the end of the ice age 10,000 years. You don't give a mechanism for this warming you seem to just chalk it up to the natural cycles that drive ice age related warming and cooling. It's just we know what causes those and we've ruled it out. Milankovitch cycles. The periodic variability in earth's orbit should have us cooling ever so slightly. Instead we are warming rapidly. Your claim that this is the same warming as what brought us out of the ice age is false and has been known to be false for a long time
That rationale simply doesn't cut it.

Amazon won't cancel my AWS service because they don't like the shirt I ordered.

Having personally lost a Google account, the risk of using them for something business critical seems epic.
What Is the Role of Tech in Mental Health Treatment?
Putting aside the fact that this assessment is really just your opinion, what was your reasons for claiming this is a market failure? I believe you never got around to mentioning that.
I agree. There's a scene from Futurama that is useful here :) https://i.redd.it/gy1a8j3rqhx21.jpg

Also for a less tongue-in-cheek response this is related to the notion of "false consciousness" first written about by Friedrich Engels in the 1800s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_consciousness
It was the end of the halo effect for Google amongst the prosumer crowd, definitely.
Take a cue from what my friends and I do: we generally agree to do whatever in general terms, say, visit a place Saturday after lunch. That's it. We might coordinate on a start time, but after that, it's whatever we feel like, no set schedule. We occasionally do this for longer trips, where we rent a cabin somewhere for a few days and then just do whatever we feel like. There's some planning involved in order to get to the correct area with the correct equipment (whatever is needed for the activity), but there's no strict timeline.

By the way, my wife is a "planner", so this drivers her crazy, not that she is going with us anyway. So a conversation might be like this: Wife:"What time are you going to the brewery?" Me:"Eh, after lunch" Wife:"So what time?" Me:"Maybe 1300?" Wife:"After that?" Me:"We'll get dinner somewhere" Wife:"Where? When?" Me:"Somewhere, whenever we get hungry. We'll decide on-the-fly." Wife:"Arrrggghhh!!" I have to confess I get a lot of amusement out of her reactions.
Lies are still protected free speech in most circumstances. Additionally you have the problem of policing who decides what is illegal
I just looked up Sydney in their map-app. I like how the entry says "Heat? NO". Same for San Diego. The only people without AC in SD are the homeless.
Ask HN: Best mobile note taking app without sign-in/registration?
All the ones most people recommend seem to initially require sign-in or registration. I'm looking for an android app (Notes on iOS already satisfies this requirement).
That's the narrative, yes, but all of this is predicated on the fact that Amazon does not regulate its sellers appropriately.
They're not evergreen. The last major Java release was 9, two years ago. Since then, Java has had a perpetual stream of free support.

The very notion of a "support period" becomes less relevant because what is the version that is being supported? It used to be a major release but that is now gone. The old six-monthly feature releases were also "supported" by patches for only six months. There were no more patches for 8u20 once 8u40 came out, and people were fine with that and not desperate at all. So now that we name a version 12 instead of 9u60 it's not fine? If you like, you can think about it as if we're on Java 9 forever, with an eternal support period. It's just that how the versions are named has changed.

People still don't understand the meaning of the new versions and the change to the version naming scheme. With time, they will. In the meantime, some of them still apply old terminology to new concepts and reach wrong conclusions.
Sell it to somebody for slightly less than its worth.
If it hasn't been 14 days they have a pretty generous return-for-any-reason policy. That's the simplest way to get a new one. Otherwise, from talking to them it sounded like it was covered under warranty anyway and they offered to send it in for a free repair.
Isn't that AppEngine?
> Well, using "BSD extension" in 2019 is a luxury.

Considering it's the default on the OS I'm using to post this (OpenBSD) I'd regard it as fairly standard.
Well sounds like you're trying to legitimize Russian disinformation campaigns, tbh.
... that pay a lot less than their big-city counterparts.
Has Google ever shown to be good product stewards or to know how to engender the trust of their customers?
Who said these things come from "your" network?
I wish it was even 10% true. There's still so many mundane tasks in software engineering that I need to waste time on doing manually... I regularly waste significant amount of time on setting up deployments, configuring logging, monitoring and alerting, organizing data for tests, and a myriad of other mundane non-creative tasks that take time from real fun job - like designing and implementing new algorithms, functionality, features, etc. Most of these not only not automated to a significant degree - they are small and varied enough that automating them wouldn't probably even be possible without spending inordinate amount of time. Those rare happy circumstances where it is scriptable, it gets scripted and it's a huge help, but never in my multi-decade career as software developer I ever wondered if what I do can be done by a script. I'd be happy if even 1% of it could be - I'd have 1% more time for the fun stuff - but we not even there yet.
Vim was never about typing efficiency. However, it is indeed the best way to navigate and edit text. This statement is very subjective because, just like any tool, it depends on the user. Chainsaw looks ugly, heavy, cumbersome and dangerous to someone who doesn't know how to use it. But with some practice it becomes an incredibly efficient tool. People make ice sculptures using chainsaws.

And I'm not talking about Vim the editor. I'm talking about Vim as an idea. Which is today implemented for pretty much every single [popular] editor and IDE in use. That fact alone is pretty illustrative of awesomeness of the idea of Vim.

And the comment about Emacs is quite disingenuous. I have never been inside a Formula One cockpit, but I can totally get "the job done" with my Camry, because it is totally more efficient for parallel parking.

I have used many IDEs, including InteliJ (which I used for about seven years). Emacs wins solely by its extensibility, no editor/IDE has ever matched its capabilities. For some people that is not an important factor, just like the efficient parallel parking might not be important for Formula One pilots. But when you can automate pretty much anything it feels very empowering and liberating.

Small example: when I'm about the create a new commit, an emacs-lisp script can figure out the current ticket I'm working on (based on currently clocked Org-mode task), generate a branch name based on the ticket description, generate part of the commit message (in the way that it is in compliance with git tool like gommit), I would just have to type the rest of the message.

That is not only more efficient, but also reduces frustration. Compare that with the workflow in any other editor and IDE - most of these steps will have to be manual. Then someone might say: oh there's actually a plugin for Editor X that does some of that stuff for Jira. But what if I join a different company that uses Pivotal Tracker instead? I can extend my emacs-lisp script. Whereas if that's an InteliJ plugin I would either have to go through daunting process of forking and modifying the plugin or submit a feature request and wait for something that may never happen.
Define optimally. Seriously, there is always going to be some easily measurable value(s) that will operate as a proxy for "optimal". Even if the model perfectly maximizes the goodness of the proxy values for every customer, the model will still be wrong inasmuch as the proxies are divorced from the actual "optimal". Also, if optimal-ness is focused entirely on maximizing revenue under the current model, the result will be a an automated user-abuse mechanism that entraps the user and forces them to put up with a horrible experience just to eke out a 3% boost in ad impressions and the 0.003% boost in clicks that generates.

And I hate, hate, hate that aspect of Facebook. God forbid you should ever want to find a post a second time. God forbid I should see posts from my friends in a timely manner. Nah, show me posts from banks and cell phone companies that I will not do business with, ever, and show them 50 times.

YouTube Autoplay is a pain in my ass that I keep having to disable.

It's too bad we weren't responsible enough to manage Usenet and email in a Spam-free way. Now we've driven ourselves into a walled-garden, crappy version of Usenet with proprietary clients that serve only the site operators. At least we know where the spam comes from...
> Mr. Thiel has argued that Facebook should stick to its controversial decision... to continue accepting [political ads with no fact checking]

Okay, so just to recap:

1. Thiel is the investor who made billions off of Facebook before becoming a high-profile Trump supporter.

2. Trump is the guy who became president thanks in no small part to misinformation campaigns at scale made possible by Facebook's ad platform.

3. Thiel is now one of the strongest voices arguing that Facebook should remain in the political misinformation-for-profit business.

I couldn't read the entire article due to paywall, but forgive me for having doubts that Thiel's convictions are based on a desire to do what's right for democracy.
In the US:

1. You are not entitled to any of the profits of the company by owning stock. Not even if you own preferred stock.

2. You have virtually no control over decisions the company makes. And your vote may not count as much as someone else who has the same number of shares as you. Furthermore, you can have no voting privileges at all as well while owning stocks.

3. A company can devalue the shares you own by simply issuing more (similar to governments printing money).

Not only is all this legal, this is normal. For the average person, the only real reason to own shares is to hope the value goes up. In a few cases it is to get dividends from the companies that have a track record of paying out, but the RoR is not particularly good.
For anyone looking to give it a try, here is a Dockerized version of Mattermost: https://github.com/mattermost/mattermost-docker

Very straightforward and easy to set up.
Gov agencies requests still take precedence over any such agreements don't they?

In other words, I would add some canary that nobody forced them to break rules of those contracts.
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Click the three vertical dots to see what "highly subsidized" means -- it's a specific level of subsidy, which you can actually modify in greater detail in the "detail" view.

I absolutely agree that this thing needs a margin of error on the visual output!
Many startups have a culture where you could spin up an X1 AWS instance with 2TB of RAM if you need it, without having to go and get approval. Similarly, Google has a culture where engineers make various changes to internal tools without needing approval from higher ups.
Hope they bring the new tech over to the G502 (basically a wired version of the Performance MX suitable for work and gaming).
We changed the URL from https://investor.logmeininc.com/about-us/investors/news/pres... to a third-party article with a bit more background.