skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't think the hardware is that trivial. I used to think that, but I've learned a lot more respect for the people who understand how to troubleshoot it, how to purchase compatible components, and spot troublesome products and brands. It's a whole career, it has its nuances.

I didn't mean to suggest there isn't a skillset there. And that's really important when you're doing it at scale. The person who knows what they're doing can do it in a fifth of the time -- they don't have to consult the manual because they already know the answer, they don't have to spend time exchanging an incompatible part for the right one.

But when you're talking about an amount of work that would take the expert three hours a year, having it take the novice fifteen hours a year is not such a big deal.

> Of course this is an advantage for hosting internal company stuff, for web facing things you may need to place hardware in remote datacenters, and then you do need people on location on call who can service it. You have to generally have much larger scale for that to make sense.

On the other hand you have to have rather larger scale to even need a remote datacenter. A local business that measures its web traffic in seconds per hit rather than hits per second hardly needs to be colocated at a peering exchange.

It's really when you get to larger scales that shared hosting starts to get interesting again. Because on the one hand you can use your scale to negotiate better rates, and on the other hand your expenses start to get large enough that a few percent efficiency gain from being able to sell the idle capacity to someone else starts to look like real money again.
Amazon is a publicly traded company. How does that compare to 23andMe?

There are obvious loopholes to the statement “no single individual can be identified”.
How the hell do I navigate this re: filing taxes? I'm an independent contractor.

Obviously the best answer is "talk to a CPA" but I'm curious if anyone has insight into how to wade through this.
Social media-predicted personality traits and values can match to ideal jobs
Well, this isn't the first article on the subject in the last couple of months. look at the other comments. take a guess at how this kind of PR will do to amazon's sales/revenue and brand. I'm not saying they are suffering from it yet in term of financial, I could imagine their profit to be higher than ever on the market side of their biz today, but one can see a downturn in their future ability to grow and remain the dominant ecommerce in the west. (they've already totally lost the battles in the far east, even though they try there and there)
I know it's a period soap opera. Do you really think a period drama set in Napoleonic France would depict then-current medicine as unfailingly effective?
I'm buying less from Amazon due to flood of garbage they allow.

In some cases, there are hundreds of junk items before finding something acceptable. This is complacently allowed Amazon, in several ways: 1. they don't calculate shipping costs in price sorting (allowing dishonest sellers to sell 0.01$ items, with high shipment prices), 2. they hide where the item comes from, 3. they don't police items which should be grouped together (I think I once saw an item replicated more than a thousand times).

This makes the buying experience really tedious, and I don't think I'm the only one who thinks this is a problem.

But of course, while this affects Amazon adversely, I think it's a stretch to qualify it as "the downfall".
You can't model things like innovation on a hundred year time scale. The reason the predictions from the 1920s "would be comical" is not because people in the 1920s where all fools but because modeling future innovation over a 100 year time scale is extremely challenging. Even if you could include innovation it would reduce the benefit of such a model. Imagine you have a model that has access to a global temperature oracle and it says: "global temperature decreased 0.1 C in 2120 because of innovation". You don't know why that happened and so such a model would be mostly useless to achieving any result.

What you are proposing is like a software performance analytics tool that already includes the fact that you will improve the software performance in the current metrics. However the purpose of such a tool is to figure out where the performance problems are so that you can fix them. Adding such a feature makes the tool useless. What you want to see the baseline and then you want to model the impact of solutions after you discover them.

>What if in 100 years we make fusion work (probably for space travel/war?) and then we replace the existing infrastructure with that.

I think fusion will happen faster than that. However the model we are discussing only goes out 81 years so it doesn't cover the impact of events 100 years hence.
Based on what I'm reading here, firing somebody that early in their career is cold and Google deserves all the criticism it is getting lately for basically being a combination of tone deaf, insensitive, overreacting (or shall we call it panicking?), and biased to doing things most of their own people would simply characterize as "the wrong thing". In jurisdictions outside the US, this kind of random act of corporatism could end up being very expensive. Firing people without good reason is a not a thing that holds up in court and this looks like it doesn't stand much scrutiny.

Also, this seems like it is policy rather than an isolated incident. I'd suggest fixing it by maybe correcting people up the food chain. Google is a long way away from their don't be evil motto when they were young, naive, and producing lots of cool new products and services because they weren't held back by corporate idiotism and political correctness.
I'm guessing that the current revenue of GCP vs. Google Reader tells management that they made a smart decision.
Which CAs have never been subject to a National Security letter? Can't say cuz you can't know? Lets talk about that false sense of security indeed.
You can create private channels in MatterMost for as long as I can remember.
Well, I always search for items that are physically as close to me as possible, and I'm not looking for the cheapest price for anything. If I'm buying from eBay, it's because I couldn't find the item anywhere else (except Amazon, which I only use if eBay doesn't have it).

The lack of reviews doesn't bother me at all, as my experience is that reviews are worthless anyway.

So, I guess it entirely depends on how you're using eBay and what your goals are.
Controversial Former Death Row Doctor Built an Empire from Treating Inmates
Just for clarity, Hipchat users were strongly encouraged to move to Slack because slack purchased Hipchat from Atlassian.
Citrix owned Citrix Systems Online (owned GoTo* IP)which was rebranded to GetGo which was then spun out using a reverse-Morris trust to LogMeIn after receiving threats of a hostile takeover from Elliot Management.
> IMO that is a profoundly unhelpful way of looking at it.

Agreed.

> The money spent on the Iraq war [& Afghanistan, etc.] would be enough to buy enough batteries to store ALL US ELECTRICITY for full two days.

Or, a base-version Tesla Model 3 for every driving-age resident of the US. Given that they're manufactured in the US, you'd be reducing emissions and hiring however many tens? (hundreds?) of thousands of people in the manufacturing sector.

We don't even need to be that creative to feed two birds with one scone.
Clearly the author hasn’t visited any Finnish message boards :) Even the mainstream ones are full of weird conspiracy theory nonsense, it just happens to mostly be foreign conspiracy theories e.g. Epstein murder
> HipChat was shut down by Atlassian

Not entirely accurate. It's was bought by Slack, and then shut down.
Newegg, Walmart & others seem to be following Amazon here by offering items from random retailers.
I appreciate good weather and culture every day. Interesting topography, while not directly interacted with every day, is also very pleasing and calming to see on a daily basis.

I say this having grown up with endless smooth moss-like rolling hills in every direction as far as the eye can see. Rain on an annoying unpredictable day-to-day schedule ruining plans got old very quickly.

Clear skies and beautiful mountainous skyline haven't gotten old so far for me. In fact, weather is the very first thing I'm reminded of when I travel anywhere else.
"Opinionated" sure is right.

I love make, but a lot of this advice is targeted at being able to write "better" shell scripts in make. I don't recommend it. If you find yourself writing a shell for loop, you probably want instead to build a list of targets. If you find yourself wanting complex shell variable preparation, you probably instead want target-specific variables. ONESHELL is a good way to accidentally build some invisible dependencies into a recipe, and make it difficult to use custom functions or canned recipes.

If you do find yourself really wanting a shell, you'll probably also want "advanced" features like error traps, and you'll probably want to work with tools like shellcheck (imo critical for any shell script longer than one pipeline). Both are thwarted by baking the invocations into your make recipe. And the recipe still looks great - probably better! - if you extract any logic into a separate script (which then also opens up further possibilities, like including that tool itself in a shell pipeline in a make recipe).
Only because you brought it up, someone in the typing pool likely has more education and experience:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/kathryn-spiers-1b3048a1/

By any measure she's not an engineer.
I've never personally had this happen but I've seen it alleged that items listed sold by Amazon occasionally get fakes in the mix or shared as common stock in Amazon warehouses for items like MicroSD cards.
I think if you take any serious time digging into this you'll find that people who actually use tactical rifles in military operations do not attach the same significance to fully automatic fire that you're alleging they do. There's a reason that military carbines are selective fire, that many selective fire weapons do 3-round burst instead of fully automatic, and that most combat operations are performed exclusively using semi-automatic fire.

The simple fact is that MSRs are tactical military weapons; that's what the AR-15 was designed to be as well. "MSR" is an Orwellian term. It's proponents believe that citizens should have unregulated access to military weapons, but lack the courage needed to make that argument forthrightly to the public.

I don't know what Humvees have to do with anything. I suppose you could be concerned that military vehicles might tear up the streets? Who knows: despite the fact that Scalia himself, in the text of Heller, affirmed the right of states to regulate military weapons, states have in reality almost total authority to regulate vehicles, and almost none to regulate firearms.

(I don't think semi-automatic rifles are going anywhere; they're too useful for hog and coyote hunting. I'm not an advocate for a national "ban" on really any firearm, or really any national firearm policy at all. Let Montana regulate how it wants to.)
How come this is so low on the front page? It was posted 4 hours ago and has accumulated 607 points...
Does a network card "poll" ? it's hardware activated by current flowing into it. Does the CPU poll the card, no, the CPU is interrupted by the network card, again by receiving an electrical signal.

If there's polling, it happens in a matter of a few CPU cycles.
#1 problem: requiring identification. Sorry, I don't want to provide ID. We are not in a police state yet.

#2 problem: the snitching mentality. HAMs sure love to snitch on those who don't follow the rules to keep their clubs very exclusive and very obedient

#3 problem: banning a bunch of interesting uses. Can't transmit encrypted - linked to #1 and #2 I guess.

Overall, a nice hobby for someone who aims to work at a FANG: if your life objective is to obey, serve and extend the order decided by the status quo, HAM is a nice matching hobby.

If it's not for you, stay out of the snitchers band, and play on low power on the unlicensed bands instead. The smell of freedom is intoxicating.
I cannot say anything about internal use of gVisor. Sorry.

As a bystander from outside, I generally don't like VM type of mechanism as security mechanism. Unless it's actually a VM hypervisor. That way hardware can be utilized to define a relatively simper and more robust security model. (Of cuz, not saying hardware is always superior please don't chase me on this direction).

On the contrary, true software sandbox like ebpf and webassembly with limited capabilities in its building blocks and clearly defined application scenarios, are better ways to do security in software.
Workmates might still be reading that 'unshared' Slack document
The one proposed in the paper: looking for time-dependent correlations in the measurements of quantum states that are prepared to be as identical as possible.
"National Labor Relations Board is requiring Google to post a list of employee rights at its headquarters".

Requiring Google to post a list at hq doesn't cover other locations and/or browser notification when visiting certain sites.
This. Bazel is as close as it gets.
"Protecting your kids" is often "we log everything and have complete visibility over how people are using our service, and we're willing to share a bit of that with parents to spy on their children". It's a valid concern to have unless there's evidence to the contrary.
I can’t answer the question about cat food but there are fakes for one of the cheapest Casio watches out there, so it seems plausible.

https://www.burningimage.net/genuine-and-fake-casio-f91w/
Having it available isn't the problem. Having it show up above the regular product, and misleading people about what they're actually buying, is the problem.
My friend, who works in an Amazon warehouse, agrees with you. He advised me to never buy food or personal items from Amazon because the warehouse is heavily infested with rats and most items therefore end up coming into contact with rat waste.
$5k “Hyperscooter” goes 38 MPH
Case in point, I believe in climate change... that it's man-made (so to speak), that it results from higher than normal levels of carbon, that it will cause sea level rise, etc.

But I disagree on some core orthodoxies. I think the root cause is deforestation / removal of carbon sinks, and a even lower-level root cause is simple human overpopulation. The amount of missing biomass from trees over the last few hundred years tracks very neatly with CO2 levels, as does of course human population levels.

I also know for a fact that other countries are much worse offenders when it comes to Carbon emissions and pollution in general, compared to the US or any other Western nation. Therefore, I don't understand nor support most US policy changes to "combat" climate change... I think these are at best a farce, and at worst cynical money grabs by professional fleecers.

How exactly is any US policy going to stop a poor farmer in Brazil from cutting down trees to make money to support his family? How will any US policy prevent the other 4 Billion or so impoverished people who are doing similar things?

As far as stopping China from polluting, we probably can't do much better than the effect Trump's tariffs have had, and are continuing to have... but Heaven forbid you tell anyone that who proclaims to care about the environment.
> There's a lot of magic - and a lot of risk - in an emails_are_equal method.

My whole point is that changing reset_password(user.id, email) to reset_password(user.id, user.email_address) neutralizes that risk. Then it doesn't matter whether emails_are_equal is risky or not, because a failure in emails_are_equal can only cause you to do a safe thing. What's less embarrassing -- "we accidentally sent a password reset for your account to you", or "we accidentally sent a password reset for your account to someone else"?

So you might not feel compelled to rewrite reset_password(user.id, email) as reset_password(user.id, user.email_address) -- but you should.
This is one of the reasons I love docker, for personal use it makes experimenting with new projects soooo easy.

Plus I have a simple traefik + compose setup so I can easily have it all automatically routed with a subdomain and https.

I might recommend something more robust for businesses in production but man is it easy. Want to try node-red? Done. Want to destroy - and it's gone, no need to futz around with dependencies.
I had 3 of these mice over the years and each one eventually the cable would go bad/loose, I think including my G5, and I'm no fast twitch fps gamer. Looks like they changed he cable on this new one.

Ironically I switched to the MX series (multiple mx2 and mx2s, home/work) and I absolutely love them apart from the problems I used to have where they'd stutter on every OSX machine I used them on. I haven't had that problem in maybe a year, though. Logitech or OSX BT update maybe.

I can't go back to a non MX scroll wheel. I love it.
I wish more people would understand this. Although the big coastal cities still have plenty of institutional racism, glass ceilings, etc., at least your very existence is not often challenged.
Journalism in a large part is just propaganda tool of different factions. Regulation is applied by humans and humans are biased by their investment in different interests. Citizens should realize that every piece of news that they read are biased and need to do their own home work carefully. If they cannot or are not willing to do proper homework the next best idea is to trust no oneone and only care about local issues.
By what mechanism is water vapor increasing to be the primary driver of the warming? We know why co2 is going up. What can cause water vapor to go up and stay up when it only has a residence time of 72 hour and do you have any peer reviewed work supporting this idea that h2o can be a primary driver of climate?
GCP has the same support model as AWS. You don't get to enter cases with either free plan, your support is posting on forums and hoping for answers. If you want to pay then you have different levels of access to varying response times.

The "Google has no support folks which can be reached" for GCP isn't applicable here.

https://cloud.google.com/support/#support-plans

https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/plans/
Logitech has top quality hardware, but their software is degrading rapidly.

Why does Logitech need to update the mouse software every so often? Installing fresh Windows 10 on a new computer, a popup automatically appears on the bottom-right to download and install Logitech software - without installing anything. This is built-in ads for Windows essentially. Also, Logitech wants us to connect to the internet to create a profile. It nags you constantly.

We need software engineers to push back on these things that are pushed on to them by marketing execs.
Ask HN: Case sensitive email provider?
Does anyone know of a email provider that treats the email username part of the address in a case sensitive way? e.g <username>@domain.com
No, the post states that it is obviously the case:

>This kind of code change happens all the time. We frequently add things to make our jobs easier or even to just share hobbies or interests. For example, someone changed the default desktop wallpaper during the walkout last year so that the Linux penguin was holding a protest sign. The company has never reacted aggressively in response to a notification such as this in the past. It’s always been a celebrated part of the culture.
4-5 years doesn't sound significant to me.

I still have an iPhone 6, bought new nearly the day it was released. It plays music, it does podcasts. I can text, answer calls.

It's no longer supported by Apple.

I was planning on upgrading to the iPhone 11 Pro this year, but my current phone still does what it needs to do and does it well enough. It's a little slow though.
Funny: "You can home-build a device that transmits a watt or two of power (the same amount as a fairly dim lamp) into the sky, and can be received thousands of miles away (imagine trying to do that with a torch, illuminating clouds so that their reflections in the ocean illuminate other clouds, so somebody with a telescope in a distant country sees it and picks up your message!)..."
How to automatically deploy to Gitlab pages with CI
From what I remember they had a joint venture, which was mostly under LogMeIn's control.
Their payed support is terrible and getting worse. We've had no end of issues with being told incorrect advice, being advised on how to administer our systems (when its very clear the problem is with the infrastructure). We've had disks corrupted, which is theory impossible. The list goes on and on an on.
When I want to pay the lowest amount humanly possible: Ebay (or maybe even Aliexpress).

When I need it tomorrow: Amazon.

At least in Canada, there isn’t much in-between on the massive marketplaces.
It does. The animals will be colonized by bacteria that have "learned" to deal with all those antibiotics you gave. That resistance is easily transmitted.
I'm not saying that the product doesn't have it's use, but it is not how DoH should work.

I'm trying to bolster the point that they are promoting logs and more importantly, blocking DNS queries.

How can I trust the DoH endpoint if I know they have an active product whose purpose is to log and not give back the requested IP.
I have a small team, but about a year ago, we deployed Mattermost on our K8s cluster using their Helm chart and I have been very pleased with the performance and stability. We never looked back at slack. I have not had to fiddle with the configuration at all since deploying it. It just works. And that is also considering that to save costs, I launched it on preemptible instances which go down usually once every 24 hours. Mattermost recovers and reboots flawlessly every time.
Note that Belkin is owned by Foxconn.

Otherwise, I agree with the dynamics you describe. There's two kinds of brands, the ones that make cheap crap that kinda works and the expensive decent quality ones. On some level, you get what you pay for.

Re counterfeits, Amazon's Transparency program effectively solves it cheaply if you're willing to QR label all your products.
$3K net after taxes monthly is certainly high income in Sweden (almost second bracket of extra high income state tax). Most engineers here make around $3k pretax out of school. Your living wage example would be high income middle class in Sweden.

I ran the numbers quickly for $ 68k/year you'd be in the top 3% earners all ages in the entire country enough to put you well beyond the public pension roof, on the edge to put you into the highest ultra high earner tax bracket (70k).

So I guess a poor person in the US would be part of the ultra rich in Sweden and I'd be poor beyond salvation in your country, living on ~1.5k/mo while bootstrapping my company.
Add it to your income from that employer and pay taxes on it accordingly. Alternately, you could donate it to a non-profit, get a receipt and have it be a net zero on your taxes.
Walmart seems like a possible competitor.
The difference here is that your input is used to specifically exploit you and others like you.
I miss Phil.
They literally had entire cities cheering for the arrival of their product, and they shuttered it.
Brr-rr-rr-rr-rap!
how is it spam if it's just shared various blog posts from a single website?
Mostly all you need to know about Microsoft's support lifecycle is that my Windows Mobile phone just got a security patch on Patch Tuesday, and apparently Microsoft also extended its support an extra month into January just because.

Microsoft platforms most people think are long dead and buried still get maintenance updates years later.