skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> you can be quite confident that your plastic rubbish won’t reach the ocean

Alas this appears to be false. Plastic is being exported to Thailand et al for "recycling", since china has stopped accepting lowgrade rubbish.

This means that when they "process" it, can can endup being dumped in rivers, or blown by the wind. https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/uk-plastic-polluti...

Now, one can argue that plastic is a permanent store of carbon. The problem is that we continue to produce plastic, which releases loads of carbon.

So unless we reduce, reuse, and as a last resort recycled, we are continue to have issues.
You're honing in on a specific definition of violence, ignoring its historic colloquial usages.

People make their own choices about who to do business with and how to go about their business

More attempts to pin the narrative as a business transaction while ignoring the larger implications of phenomena such as deplatformization in public forums operated by unscrupulous corporations who control access to their audiences of millions.

The lesson to take away here isn’t that YouTube should be regulated like some kind of utility and to take away their ability to terminate relations with producers, but that you shouldn’t be so thoroughly dependent on one supplier for your business that it is financially ruinous to lose their services.

Try applying that same logic to someone who is stuck in an abusive relationship, deprived of the resources needed to secure their financial and emotional independence. We shouldn't regulate domestic abuse, because people should not be so thoroughly dependent on one person for their welfare. It's their choice.

Information is the currency of modern society. In a two-decade span we've allowed extreme centralization and gatekeeping of digital information, placing control of its flow into the hands of a dozen or two corporations.

Twenty years ago, decentralization was alive and well and if a community of 50-100 people had a hardass for an admin, that was fine, because there were often plenty of other communities of similar caliber elsewhere for popular topics.

Now we have things like reddit. "Decentralized", but communities are constantly plagued by misguided, ill-informed decisions handed down from the guy upstairs. Entire communities of thousands of people are destroyed overnight. But where else will they go? No one registers for forums anymore, reddit is in the top 20 most popular websites in the world with 300 million users. That's an entire country.

YouTube shares a similar tale. Whether you would like to admit it or not, what these large companies in positions of power are doing today is the equivalent of mass censorship, restriction of speech, and ideological persecution. And these platforms often support user-created censorship as well.
Huh? No it’s not. He is exactly right that we’ve invented a lot of “bullshit jobs” that don’t add anything of value to society and would not change anything if they were gone tomorrow e.g. How many jobs out there just prop up rent seeking?
I know people who work there out in Chicago. They distribute pamphlets and have it cooked into their health insurance policy. It's mostly a city and urban problem for the company, and done on a community-by-community basis; the stores they do not drug test at are the stores they impliment the program in. All you have to do for yourself is walk into a wal-mart in a bad neighborhood and ask.

Understand this is a company that advertised converting their employee's to all part-time in 2008 to save on health insurance and then lost their proverbial behinds when they had to hire 8x as many hands whom stole 100x as much merchandise. Some stores had 7 figure shrink numbers. They're under indictment under FCPA by the SEC right now.

If you want some REALLY fun numbers, go look at BLS OES Job wage data for number of warehouse supervisors vs number of warehouse workers. More supervisors than workers. Walk into a warehouse sometime and look around, lots of people who can't speak english.

Not hard to find statistics on how these kinds of outfits work.
It depends on the size of the container, but it can be a few seconds for a cold boot if small, then instantly for requests soon after that.

Unfortunately Cloud Run obfuscates when a cold boot is necessary.
This makes me anxious as well.
For the likes of it, 15e9.

While throughput is reasonably easy to optimize for, for latency you will havSoftware latency is a hard to optimize target. Throughput is much easiere to fight against each abstraction layer on your code. And that includes layers bolted on your OS and hardware.
If you already have an EC2 instance reserved on AWS for a year, you could just throw all those small projects there.

If they are truly stateless then the bottleneck will probably be the database, anyway.

For anyone starting a new app I recommend just building apps that are TRULY serverless. Then you can make them client-first, work offline, not tied to on one particular domain name, support end-to-end encryption, be embarassingly parallel and scalable, and take an activist position against continuing centralization.

A fuller exposition is here, so I don’t have fo write a whole mountain of text: https://qbix.com/blog/2020/01/02/the-case-for-building-clien...
Non-competes was the only part of his post that had any merit. But read my comment again, I’m not wrong.

> All but one of the rest of your theories are illegal everywhere, and the last one is illegal in many places (or at lease unenforceable).
I am running various flavors of BSD, mostly FreeBSD and OpenBSD. The only compatibility issues are with web sites that require the latest browsers.
Set budget alerts. And check what's going on if they start going off.

Or think again if you really need 'infinitely scalable bla blah' for personal project on a small budget.
wut? are you suggesting that if there's a cost overrun you just shutdown the LLC? that sounds like a loop that couldn't possibly be true? when you sign TOS you agree to be responsible for service fees. if being an LLC indemnifies against these sorts of charges it would also indemnify you against other legitimate fees? take out a business credit card and cash advance and then close the LLC? free money!
Absolutely it's different from taxing income; it demands liquidity. I.e. an entrepreneur with a billion dollars in stock has a net worth made mostly of "paper gains". Very little of that is likely liquid. By letting the money continue to work as an investment, it can keep growing and producing returns. Effectively adding liquidity requirements for private investment would be devastating.

> doesn't the USA have property taxation for land

That's state-level, not federal; the constitution gives the feds no power to confiscate capital. More importantly, it's a direct fifth amendment violation:

> nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.

Not only is there no enumerated power (enough to make it unconstitutional), there's a specific prohibition.

That said, I'm not a huge property tax fan, either. I'd rather the gov't just bill each citizen for services used as an average, at least at the federal level.
All of SED... learn so much every time I click play.
https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/
These tools are my daily ones too, but they're abstractions on top of JDBC and as such a different gap than what the author is trying to fill.
This is only because America has incredibly bloated healthcare costs - that "compensation" mostly isn't all that valuable.

A $1000 slice of pizza is still only 1 slice of pizza.
I don't quite see your point. I agree that both traditional and modern slavery is not voluntary. But if there are no other options, other than taking an extremely low-paying job, then modern slavery is exactly what you get.

None of that contradicts what I originally said. Not having a minimum salary, and removing options for people to get by when they find themselves unemployed, creates a perfect environment for modern slavery. The OP that I replied to above seemed to think this is a good idea - it is obviously not.
I didn't mean to start religious discussion, rather used this term as in writings of Mark Weber (value of hard work etc.). This is more about set of principles that shaped Western and American societies, not really being related to religion anymore.
It was 130C / 260F that is considerably higher than the inside of a car.

Still, this suggests that ranitidine may not be stable and its breakdown products may be risky. If mixing it with nitrite produces NDMA under condition found in the stomach that is another risk case. I wonder if there is any breakdown over time just sitting on the shelf?
so ... tough luck for people like Whitney Cummings?

https://www.whitneycummings.com/
That only looks at three cancers. The oncology literature tracks survival rates across all cancer incidence, in which the US consistently comes out on top. Only a few other countries, such as Switzerland, are close.

It is attributable almost entirely to more aggressive (and expensive) diagnostics combined with many new cancer therapies being available in the US years before they trickle down to the rest of the world.
Not sure if you are aware but Chapelle is black
I have a few friends who have left cushy tech jobs to take roles in the non-profit sector, which they augment with side jobs they enjoy (teaching, writing, etc.) One just plays poker for rent money to augment what she makes booking gigs as a lower-tier musician.

They all seem much happier.
Other podcasts come and fall by the wayside, but I'll always look forward to the next episode of In Our Time ( http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/iot ).

I'm excited to try others listed here that are new to me, though.
That honestly seems like a bigger problem, if researchers are not paid for reviewing who will do it?
Exactly this. Until robots can entirely replace humans, there will still be the need for humans to do certain jobs. As robots become commoditized, companies will start to compete purely on the pieces that can't be automated, ie the human element and increase demand for human workers
I'm not sure what is meant by impactful, but for me the most interesting podcasts this year have all been miniseries, namely

* 13 Minutes to the Moon (13 episodes) - a documentary about the 13 minutes leading up to the first moon landing

* The Drop Out (8 episodes) - a documentary about Theranos/Elizabeth Holmes

* The Missing CryptoQueen (10 episodes) - a documentary about the OneCoin scam and how far it has reached, along with the disappearance of its founder.

In terms of stand out episodes:

* Supernova in the East III (Hardcore History) - a continuation of the 'Supernova' series, I recommend listening to the first 2 though.
You also didn’t make the phone. Apple did and sold it to you under certain arms-length terms, presumably terms that both sides were willing to accept.

That’s quite a bit more acceptable to me than someone deciding that Apple’s phones should be theirs because reasons.
The issue is that the AI can generate all viable versions of the article by front-running someone else’s style.

Our society is built on the assumption that attackers are inefficient or dumb.
haha

>Warning: This example removes billing from your project, shutting down all resources.

this is the digital equivalent of literally pulling the plug. i wonder how long it takes for GCP to register that you've pulled billing though? in some cases i'm sure even milliseconds could make a large difference.
That's not quite true.

If you took a single production line and replaced the workers with robots - then yes. Those workers have lost their jobs.

However if there was a second hypothetical production line that made a product that was now economically viable (or just cheaper) by partially automating it, then that's made more manual jobs available (maybe the line didn't exist before, or now as the product is cheaper, there can be two lines).

So you've still got people working - and you've now also got cheaper/new stuff for them to buy.

Watch making is a good example. Wherever you are on the planet, you can afford a watch - something that used to require incredible wealth. This is due to new tech and automation. Doesn't mean that nobody's handcrafting cogs with little files, just means that those watches are now only being bought by the wealthy.
They are: https://www.freshports.org/x11/kde5
The point is there are a lot of people in this position.

Even if there are, that's not going to lower the unemployment rate significantly; it's more likely to raise it. Say there are 100 million people in the labor force, of which 4 million don't have jobs. The unemployment rate is 4% (4/100). Now 10 million previously retired people suddenly realize that they need to go back to work, and they all get hired instantly. The unemployment rate falls to 4/110=3.6%, not a huge change. And in reality all of those people won't get jobs immediately, and while they're looking they're counted as unemployed. If 1 million out of the 10 million former retirees haven't found jobs yet, the unemployment rate rises to 5/110=4.5%.
GCR runs containers like Fargate, but scales to zero like lambda, so you only pay for usage
The answer to just about damn near anything is Miata, of course.

But I formerly drove a Miata, and now drive an American Medium Size (that's a rest-of-the-world extra large) SUV. Same mileage for both, about ~23mpg.
I had a moment of excitement when Google announced their practical quantum computing breakthrough, then I instantly realized it meant they will just find a way to track me at a quantum level and anticipate my consumer targeting brand preferences 10000x more quickly or something equally as awful.

Not so exciting after all.
I do podcasts when I’m not consuming information in other ways. Mostly while driving, showering or working out.
Interesting. I've been looking looking at options too & opted for essentially the opposite: Get a big(ish) VPS and stack everything on top of each other with docker behind a nginx reverse proxy.

So far so good. Managed to host gitlab, prometheus, grafana and ghost working this weekend, which I'm pretty chuffed about.

Not as clean as OP's, but the intention was learning, so sacrifices on convenience are acceptable.
Thank you.

Just for clarity's sake:

Medicare is a health insurance program for all citizens of U.S. whereas Medicaid is health coverage for low income group and people with disabilities.

Medicare is federal-supported program and Medicaid is a joint program by the state and the federal government. As such the eligibility and coverage for Medicaid vary from state to state.

https://www.differencebetween.com/difference-between-medicar...
Also, commercialization can create fake economic growth.

For example, suppose in the past one spouse worked a job for a wage/salary and the other spouse cared for some of the couple's ailing parents, provided childcare, and cooked for the couple's children and parents. Now instead, the second spouse also works a wage job, both spouses pay higher taxes some of which go to caring for the old people, and with the extra income they instead purchase prepared food and pay for daycare. The economy grew a lot because formally unpaid labor is now being paid for, but is everyone better off?

Note: I don't think women should be limited to being homemakers, this is just an example.
Disclaimer: I work closely on Cloud Run as an SRE.

IF you want, you can still have it by use "Cloud Run for Anthos", and deploy your container to your GKE cluster with the same Knative API. This allows you to have more control on memory/CPU etc.
Matthew Walker of Why We Sleep fame, on Joe Rogan https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pwaWilO_Pig
Mostly.

There are 12-16 byte hash or hash-like results are plenty secure. They’re keyed though.

The output from HMAC and AEAD ciphers with no encryption (think the additional data portion of ChaCha20-Poly1305 in a Nonce-MAC mode)... or maybe I’m wrong because these require nonces and keys.
No it's not. Low unemployment is a result of a system that forces people into employment to make a living (not to mention how skewed the statistics are when they consider part-time workers seeking full-time opportunities as "employed" and exclude disparaged workers).
If it's not, how come political parties have viewpoints on whether or not AGW is real?
Others feel differently, as podcasting is a multi billion dollar industry
It basically does work like that, however the law is almost never that cut and dry. The situation you're describing would have the person benefiting from the money as being personally liable because that person presumably would be taking the cash advance for self-interest instead of taking the loan in the interest of the business.
This fire hydrant in Toronto probably makes more $ than you
> This is the worst thing they could actually do because people will just run the Linux versions and there would be even less demand for anyone to bother with a FreeBSD version.

The alternative is that people will just run the Linux version on Linux. From my perspective, Linuxolator's job is to let me run commercial software that is released for Linux and unlikely to be released for FreeBSD; for example, whatever JNI garbage SuperMicro needed for their Java KVM; I had to keep an old Java 7 JRE around for that because they wouldn't update to fit into the security model of Java 8, so they're really unlikely to build for FreeBSD, especially in a competent way. Of course, if I had a choice, I would use a native build / something with at least source available, so I could build it natively; but if it's a sometimes run utility, I'm ok with something terribly hacky.
I gave a reason for my "splitting hairs" and you conveniently ignored it.

Stop projecting opinions that are not mine onto my post. I believe the health care and insurance industries in the US is broken and does not adequately serve a huge portion of citizens with low incomes. I have never suggested the current system is okay.

If your opinion is reliant on misinformation, you should reevaluate it. Otherwise, you should not be concerned with someone like me "splitting hairs".
Loads perfectly for me with js disabled via ublock origin, just a clean article.
> Also keep in mind that I update it every single day.

I can't remember what I was looking at, but within the past week I ran across a comment that said Arch Linux only supports constant upgrades such as that, and any delays that result in skipping a version are what risk causing breakages. The commenter was very surprised that they were even thinking about supporting a version jump on whatever the thread was about (pretty sure it was somewhere here on HN).
I remember I had to do one project at my university. I hated it. I still wonder if there is a successful product out there which I made through bpm. I doubt it.
Executable Grammars: Seeking the min extensible self-compiling compiler (2009)
more or less, yes. bankruptcy courts vary by location. the whole point of a 'limited liability corporation' is you not being personally liable.

BUT if you have 'malicious intent' -- meaning you build an llc on purpose to overrun costs and get free stuff, you CAN and WILL be sued and face penalties. cause that's just cut-and-dry fraud.
> So you're taking a high (100s-1000s) dimensional problem and projecting it onto a 2-10 dimensional space where your conclusions are based on a form of clustering which itself is purely dependent upon your (probably ideologically driven) assumptions. In such drastic oversimplifications it is extremely east to paint whatever picture you want, even unintentionally.

It's possible there are only a few main dimensions which matter for showing the majority of the benefit, with the error being negligible. For example, in computer graphics, to solve the rendering equation you're sampling an infinite dimensional space (all paths a photon might take), but you can do it with one dimension (direct bounces from light->surface->camera + deterministic shadow) and the error is almost negligible depending on the application, because most photons get absorbed after the first bounce.

> Case in point. Those evil fat cats simply hoard stolen money and don't interact with greater society in any other way, right? Nevermind driving social policy, producing jobs, and building indirect relationships where large and small actors do benefit from cooperation. Those evil tech CEOs wouldn't have any cash if there wasn't incentive for the poor exploited proletariat to spend their money on goods and services, and offer their time to provide the same.

Perhaps these effects are negligible? If you consider the worst case with one person hoarding all the money, it certainly would be unless he distributed it equally through the means you mention.

I'm not disagreeing with you however, you could be right. It's hard to tell without a large number of empirical studies to be done. The gain from such a change could be worth it, or the effects might be negligible.
Yes. This is exactly what the “limited liability” in LLC means. You are not personally liable, only the business is.

There are nuances to this, obviously fraud is fraud, regardless of using a shell company to perpetrate it, and a new business is unlikely to get a credit limit large enough to be a worthwhile avenue for fraud.
Netlify (without extra features) is simply static hosting. With Lambda, it does add server-side code.

Cloud Run is to run a fully custom server, as in an API. It can obviously do more than Netlify, however Netlify really excels at static + some server code, while Cloud Run is extremely flexible (server in any language, more resources, etc)
If it were a simple website it wouldn’t be broken. The over-complication here isn’t in the browser, it’s in the website.
Thanks, although unfortunately I'm not in the price bracket for Anthos (starts at 120k/year or so I believe).
This is inflation adjusted, which means it accounts for all that.
Not a day seems to go by without major fuckups by Facebook.
> Citation badly needed here

Fair enough.

https://www.nber.org/papers/w24127

https://jech.bmj.com/content/70/9/917.full

https://www.bmj.com/content/341/bmj.c6089
Cloud Functions isn't 1:1 IIRC, once a Function is booted it keeps serving more requests once warm.
> Why waste a human life flipping burgers or banging away in the mines? Make robots do that, and let’s provide a solution to the displaced, like for instance basic income but totally open to alternatives.

Because we don’t have the technology to actually do that? We don’t even have the technology to replace the guy taking drive through orders. (“You want one Big Mech?”).

This discussion is pointless and premature. There are enormous economic incentives to automate away every job that can be done efficiently though automation. It’s just that our technology is actually very primitive, and that shows when trying to apply it to replacing service workers.
First of all, I'm not saying I know better than parents. I'm saying society can find people that know better than parents.

Second of all, this seems like a question of semantics. I don't know what exactly you mean by elitism, but if you see this as elitist then I find it acceptably elitist for me.
Banks often ask for personal guarantees from ltd owners for precisely this reason. I've just skimmed the T&Cs and I can't see any indemnity clauses, but that document's massive and I'm just some guy, so who knows.

(Incidentally, it's fairly common to structure a pair of ltds with the assets in one and the liabilities in another. If the whole thing crashes and burns, at least the IP doesn't go with it).
In Poland some politicians admitted that the leaks were true.
I agree, end-to-end tests have been really valuable for catching SQL issues in my experience.

> Identify unsafe queries that could potentially lead to SQL injections

This feature seems like a perfect use case for static analysis and would be a great tool in addition to automated tests.