skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: What do you do when you get soft banned from captcha?
I'm not sure why but I haven't been able to pass any captcha I've been served in the last 2-3 days. It just keeps giving me images to solve and eventually will say that I failed and need to start over. When I click the audio button (my normal workaround), it says that my computer is sending automated queries and that I can't be verified right now.

I'm using a regular residential IP, chrome, I'm signed into my 10+ year old google account, and haven't been doing anything nefarious. Other than adblock and decentraleyes I don't have any anti-tracking. I honestly have no idea what to do, 80% of the sites I visit won't even let me in, and I can't login to any of my accounts. Even my bank isn't letting me login to pay my bills, which is really frustrating. I had to call them to get them to send me a paper bill and ask for an extension. Luckily they were understanding (apparently I wasn't the first to call - did google change something recently?).
Actually you are right. I was under the impression that we can define minimum-maximum instances to run. But apparently it scales down to zero and there is no way to prevent that.
It's a lot harder when the people who ostensibly advocate for multiethnic nations reject the only form of multiethnic nation that seems to work: one with a strong national identity and character.

Multiculturalism fails without independent nationalism of one sort or another.
Autism severity can change substantially during childhood, especially for girls
> Remember the first time you saw the AWS console? And the last time?

There was a time in between for me - that was Rightscale.

For me, the real thing that k8s bring is not hardware-infra - but reliable ops automation.

Rightscale was the first place where I encountered scripted ops steps and my current view on k8s is that it is a massively superior operational automation framework.

The SRE teams which used Rightscale at my last job used to have "buttons to press for things", which roughly translated to "If the primary node fails, first promote the secondary, then get a new EC2 box, format it, install software, setup certificates, assign an elastic IP, configure it to be exactly like the previous secondary, then tie together replication and notify the consistent hashing."

The value was in the automation of the steps in about 4 domains - monitoring, node allocation, package installation and configuration realignment.

The Nagios, Puppet and Zookeeper combos for this was a complete pain & the complexity of k8s is that it is a "second system" from that problem space. The complexity was always there, but now the complexity is in the reactive ops code, which is the final resting place for it (unless you make your arch simpler).
Rioting, looting, and even torching buildings is not the close to the same level of violence as police killings, driving down protestors, or threatening people with guns. Tweets endorsing or even glorifying the former don’t come close to be as dangerous as tweets excusing the latter. Don’t pretend like these two are equivalent.
Haven't read the paper, but it's still unclear how the mechanism of one shot learning works. If the weights are not being updated, how is it "learning"?
I wrote a new C++ framework (lithium) last december ranked #4 in this benchmark and while this benchmark does a great job comparing raw performances of many frameworks on a set of test, here are my thoughts:
1/ Best Frameworks are all using Non blocking network IO (based on linux epoll or equivalents)
2/ Very few companies need such performances. Don't look for those number if you have less than 10M visitor/months
3/ Tuning the number of sql connections can do x5 on performances and all framework did not tune this parameter.
4/ Even if you a low ranked framework, it may not be the bottleneck of your stack so changing to a top performer may
not change your thoughput overall.
Do you have a recommended tutorial for engineer with backend background to setup a simple k8 infra in ec2, I am interested in understanding devops role better
Pencil testers consider it a crime though.
If the US pays a magnitude of money more than China to the WHO, how are we to believe that the WHO is China's puppet, and not an extension of western power? How is China so clever with its maneuverings that its relatively puny contributions go so far?
That is very interesting to hear. I would love to better understand the kinds of problems you may have faced with these systems.

On the cost side, the goal is to charge on average 1/10 of what you currently spend, so cost is actually a feature. I'm working on a self-hosted version for some customers that are asking for it, but not due to reliability of HTTP over the internet, I would love to hear more about this. Can we chat?
I hate to see you getting down-voted because I do agree with point one. It won't diminish Chinese influence at all. In fact, it might increase their influence. China has always worked to replace America, why not at the UN?
"Current manchild of the hour" has been identified as a police officer in plain clothes in other threads...

There are a lot of provocateurs and I don't think we can align any of their motives with those of the protesters. Many are trying to create a justification for violence against the protesters. Some are just "break shit and get free stuff".
DNA mutations seem to support the narrative.

Path to the US:

> Wuhan + China - Europe - US

Also, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_COVID-19_pande...

The first estimate of the virus is 6 October 2019 – 11 December 2019 ( Wuhan ). Saying that it was earlier in Europe / US is speculation and not based on facts.
My grandparents were farmers; my parents programmers.

Remember nearly everyone used to farm, including the ancestors of liberals. Today's right wing "family farmers" are the people who were most stubborn or least able to learn new things as their way of life shrank and not the representatives of farming in general.
I actually built a fairly functional combination of bullet hell and tower defense game in Godot about two years ago. Beware, though: the 2D lighting system for Godot is extremely slow, so if you want a buttery smooth FPS, don't do any crazy lighting.
> but back then it looked like a pretty big pita to admin

- well it's also a pita to update services without a downtime.
- and it sucks to update operating systems without a downtime.
- sometimes you reinvent the wheel, when you add another service or even a new website

however with k8s everything above is kinda the same, define a yaml file, apply it, it works.

and also k8s itself can be managed via ansible/k3s/kops/gke/kubeadmin/etc...
it's way easier to create a cluster and manage it.
> Insurance will replace the buildings and stuff.

Insurance only works for the insured.
Agreed, if we had a fallback solution it wouldn't be so bad, but as is, I just feel like the whole world is the worse for it.

Hopefully something good will come of it, but I can't see what from here. Funding cuts to CDC, now this. I just wonder whether the WHO could have been repaired as-is?
Because there's a suspension of civil liberties within X miles of a border, and the power can be exercised by the USBP.

(Edit: see map posted in a sibling comment. See position of Minneapolis on said map)
Yeah just to be clear I completely agree with both of those points. But that's only adding even more reasons why it's completely unacceptable for the riot response here to be anything but completely law-abiding. The police already have no moral high ground here IMO.
Mathematicians are not cryptographers. Crypto is harder to trust when the rationale behind it hasn’t been justified. Signal’s crypto is very easy to justify. That’s about it.
Secure Docker out of Docker (DooD) with Nestybox System Containers? (2019)
A Nestybox system container is an enhanced Docker container, designed to package not just applications but also low-level system software.
I missed any mention of the potential of some psychedelics for triggering mental illnesses (psychosis, etc.) in some people.

I try not to judge users, but I think it is best to dodge the risk and not mess with your mind until science knows a hell of a lot more about the brain and the effects of some substances on it.

Decriminalization is a must, though.
Rapid conversion of working lands, http://www.nolandnowater.org/pdfs/TXLandTrends2014FactSheet9...

https://www.txaglandtrust.org
> I do think however that for someone the value of looted goods can be greater than the random person who looted them, surely you must also agree with this.

Oh, no! I absolutely don’t agree with this! I would actually stop interacting with someone who agreed with that sentiment, mentally tagging them as a sociopath with no respect for human life.
For a second there I thought we might blame the people who burned down buildings for burning down buildings.

Thankfully you saved it with "but muh system".

>Why do you think that the rioters were in koreatown during the rodney king riots?

Because there's incredible racist animosity against Asian people in the black community.

Some people (you) are currently pretending this isn't the case, and that it was just a crazy coincidence that blacks targeted Korean businesses during the LA riots, resulting in _half_ the monetary damages of the whole event.
The way the media presents “cybercrime” makes it exciting. According to them, “hackers” are able to crack into any system and do whatever they want. Banks, ATMs, power grids, etc.

The reality of course is much more mundane and the majority of cybercrime is lots of grunt work and a major dose of luck, there is no “silver bullet” skill or hack that will allow you to breach into any system and do anything, it all depends on how lucky you get with unpatched hosts or users being stupid. For every high-profile hack being reported there are hundreds of thousands more “hackers“ banging their heads against the wall not being able to make any progress beyond basic spamming.
> If everybody is panicking, then the goods go to the panicking people who have the most disposable income.

Higher prices often discourage people from over-buying an item.

For example, at the beginning of the pandemic, people sensed toilet paper might soon become hard to find. Its not perishable, so when they found it at a normal price, they stocked up. Why not? They know they'll use it eventually and they don't want to be hunting for it a month later. You don't need to be a super wealthy person to pre-purchase a years worth of TP.

But, if TP had been selling for double the normal price, they would have bought less. There's no need to pay pandemic prices for TP that you'll be using next year.
Wood has the slight disadvantage that it grows slower than it burns. Wood stoves still need active input for the "supply chain", you have to deal with some additional complexity, maintenance, and extra safety concerns. The forced draft stove in the article needs an electric fan to work.

A solar panel on the other hand is passive, with no maintenance, or safety concerns.

The setup in the article is OK if you already had the stove for heating and a lot of additional parts lying around to build the thermoelectric generator. In theory any electricity it generates is "free electricity" but the complexity is high, efficiency is low, and a bit of the little electricity it produces may be needed to just keep the whole thing going.
Faculty member at a top-tier CS school. For most of the faculty where I am, an hourly consulting fee in the range of $500-1000 is reasonable. If you take the low-end of that range ($500) x 3 hours of class time per week ($1500) x 12 weeks of class you get $18,000 worth of expert time. Multiply that by three classes and you get $54k of value each semester, so even with non-trivial tuition it is still a pretty good deal. Likewise, FAANG et al recruit very heavily from our school so there is additional value-add.

I personally came from modest means and have a ton of outstanding student debt and was hesitant to go the faculty route precisely because I think the higher education in the US can be financially exploitative, but there are places where the high tuition is in fact a bargain based on market rates for the expertise. Likewise, nearly all faculty at top-tier CS schools can make way more in the private sector - we do this job because we really enjoy mentoring and work hard to make sure our students get the best education possible.
China puts the money directly into pockets whereas US puts money into WHO. Big difference.
You can try it today! Where can I reach you?
There are mushrooms which contain B12. Or you could go with soymilk, almond milk, etc. Those typically are fortified with B12.

People used to get B12 from the bacteria in the soil and the plants we eat. Not, anymore.

So, yes, you could eat some meat. B12 is present in very high concentrations in a lot of sea food.
Companies at even a hundredth of Lyft's scale aren't paying 2.9%+ to Stripe, they're on cost-plus pricing based on interchange fees.
>Now I'm thinking of deploying k8s at home

Are we talking about k8 base on your own server rack at your house?
Java Concurrency with Barbershop Problem
> You didn’t respond to anything I wrote. Why should I continue this discussion? It wasn’t a supply chain inefficiency issue. Period.

Yet the only way he could have profited is if there was a shortage somewhere, a.k.a a supply chain inefficiency. Either the supply chain is imbalanced and he gets an opportunity to make money or it’s not. You can’t have it both ways.

> Nationwide chains are perfectly capable of recalling stock from stores that aren’t selling much of something, and moving it to stores that are running low on those supplies.

Not efficiently. Recalling inventory from stores is a very slow process that doesn’t fit their normal model. Also, the inventories don’t come from a grand central warehouse so moving stock from a Walmart in California to a Walmart in New York isn’t really something that the infrastructure can support.

> but there’s no need for them to massively mark up the prices to be incentivized to do so. Unless the product is intended to be a loss leader, they already have a profit margin factored in.

That’s incompetence on the local chains, not that they don’t like more profit. Managers have no incentives to monitor prices and redistribute to higher priced markets so the local chains sell at bad prices.

> Hoarders create an artificial shortage, in hopes of jacking up the price.

No, hoarders do not create shortages. They try to profit during shortages. It’s a critical distinction. Hoarders did not account for the toilet paper shortage, the massive change from commercial to private TP consumption did that.

I recommend reading up on how markets get cornered to gain an understanding of what is required to artificially create a shortage. You’ll quickly realize that it takes an obscene amount of purchasing to meaningfully move a market.

Otherwise we’d have monthly occurrences of people cornering bottled water markets without there being an impending storm.

TLDR; shortages exist because everyone is buying more. People just don’t like price gouging because they are emotional and don’t like paying more when there is a shortage despite this being the mechanism that drives markets around the globe every day (energy, grain, beef, pork, currency, etc).
What is responsible, though?
> That man bought a good in a place where there was high supply and low demand. He wanted to sell it in a place that had low supply and high demand.

That could've been achieved just with a population density map. No reason to use jacked-up prices as a means of determining demand.

More importantly, that could've been done by the supply chain itself, as the stores in high supply/low demand area would be able to return the unneeded sanitizer back to the suppliers, and it would then be redirected to high demand/low supply areas. There's no need for an extra intermediary to make an absurd profit off it.
> I don't get why people hate it.

Because it is hard to manage the configuration. It's why tools like terraform exist.

Anecdote. I worked for a small company that was later acquired. It turned out one of the long time employees had set up the company's AWS account using his own Amazon account. Bad on it's own. We built out the infra in AWS. A lot of it was "click-ops". There was no configuration management. Not even CloudFormation (which is not all that great in my opinion). Acquiring company realizes mistake after the fact. Asks employee to turn over account. Employee declines. Acquiring company bites the bullet and shells out a five figure sum to employee to "buy" his account. Could have been avoided with some form of config management.
A Go Gotcha: When Closures and Goroutines Collide
I get this on my domain, it’s called backscatter I think. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backscatter_(email)

Less technical folks would likely complain about it, as it tends to resemble the spam that was sent from their spoofed domain (I.e. “re: fake pills” subject lines as the rejection message hits their inbox).
Wait, socialization of the parents via some epigenetic effect? Fascinating.
You know bullets can travel up to about two and half miles right? And that they can also ricochet?

This is not a video game we're talking about.
The rules around how a single high level transaction gets divvied up into what ultimately need to be balanced accounts can be complex, with derived amounts being calculated, opportunities for rounding errors, etc.
About time. WHO didn't do their job. I'll do the job at half the price and do it better.
One week of A/B testing would an ideal experiment for social scientists studying impact of world leader's tweets on the world news. Almost a utopia.
That's already happening anyway.
At this point, most big cloud providers cost almost the same but in terms of maturity, google’s offering is still ahead. I have not tried out digital ocean’s hosted solution, but the might be the cheapest.
> some people viewed this as a rant/criticism

What makes you so sure that those people are wrong and you are right? There is this saying, I don't remember by who, that goes something like "If someone is an asshole, they're an asshole, if everyone is an asshole, you're the asshole".

To be clear, I'm not accusing you of anything. I just think maybe some introspection is warranted?
> What if it was a new UAV, designed just for law enforcement? No problems then?

> So, what specifically is it that we don't like about this situation?

What potential "mission-appropriate" use is a Customs and Border Protection drone performing 300 miles away from the border in a domestic unrest scenario?
Yeah, but “supporting plaintext comms by default” is not a trade off to get crypto to the masses, it’s a failure to do so at all. What’s wrong with the disappearing messages feature?
That's an ICAO/hex code. The transponder ping always includes that information, and then tar1090 tries to look it up in a database for other information, like the registration. If it can't find it in the database, then it just displays the code.

Codes that begin with AE are military aircraft, which don't appear in any official (e.g. FAA) database. Enthusiasts have built somewhat ad hoc databases that include many, but not all of the military ICAOs.
Lol apparently Trump's tweets are in par with NSFW
How do you view all the VMs in a project across the globe at the same time?

Do you need to manage keys when ssh'n into a VM?

Do you know what the purpose of all the products are? If you don't know one, are you able to at least have an idea what it's for without going to documentation?

The have also directly opposed many efforts for Kubernetes, even to their own customers, until they realized they couldn't win. Only then did they cave, and they are really doing the bare minimum. The most significant contribution to OSS they have made was a big middle finger to Elastic search...
Come on. What? Setting up a load balancer or nginx is considered complex now?
> Either the supply chain is imbalanced and he gets an opportunity to make money or it’s not. You can’t have it both ways.

But they can, because supply chains can actually run in both directions. GP explicitly mentioned the concept of recalling the stock. And while the supply flowing in reverse isn't moving as efficiently as it normally is, it's still likely much more efficient than a guy fedexing packages to random people across the country.
My kneejerk reaction would be that the worst of both sides are equally bad, but the proportions are wildly different.
So if trump wants the West to treat Hong Kong just like any other Chinese city, why would the Chinese do anything different?

Trumps's policy is going to disadvantage the Hong Kong 'man in the street' and the Hong Kong elites more than the Chinese Congress will.

Another 'Lets shoot ourselves in the foot' moment for the West.
Yes, that's another thing Trump said that was purposefully "misunderstood".

There are many things to criticize him for. But sadly the media is so incredibly lazy that they constantly make up these "scandals" about things he supposedly "meant".

And: you are downvoted because you are not following groupthink. It doesn't matter how factually correct it is.
You get gitops style config management of your clusters with Anthos.
The switch to online learning IMHO would lead to a 'winner-takes-all' market for professors/teachers.

To simplify, if you're attending class at a top university you get a top math professor, if you're attending a school ranked at #1000, then you have to settle with whomever they can get. However, in an online setting, why wouldn't all the students just use the top online material? And in that situation, the top professors become more valuable (since students of many universities not only want access to their lectures, but also can actually get them), but the majority of median-quality professors become expendable.
I don't know exactly what they're harvesting, but I'm assuming Google isn't offering a free font API out of the goodness of their hearts.

Do you disagree? Maybe they're giving away a font API for literally nothing in return........
The theory goes (which I'm not espousing just relaying) that you could simply bribe top WHO officials and avoid having to provide magnitudes of money.

The WHO has been in scandal before regarding [exorbitant spending on travel.] (https://apnews.com/3d8569ea7bd140e4ba02bc1712cd12ab)
The rise in price is the result of the market thinking there will be future rise in organic demand. The price rises because the value rises. There's nothing artificial about it.

That tug-on-your-heartstrings argument works the other way around, too: If I have a hungry baby now, but despite whatever wealth I have I can't find any in stores because price controls have resulted in a chronic shortage, what good does it do me that some people can buy baby formula at an artificially reduced price?
I don't think anyone was arguing that Trump was someone that "thinks these things through"
I work on KUDO team. Would love to hear what you think about it. All devs hang out in #kudo channel on Kubernetes community slack, please don’t hesitate to join and say hi.
Just like my Ansible repo.
When cops who choke a white person to death aren't charged, there's far less outrage. For example, David Glen Ward was killed by a police choke hold six months ago. The deputy responsible was fired, but no charges have been filed.

https://www.kqed.org/news/11818476/deputies-blunt-force-neck...
If we're thinking of the same dangling Variant bug, a fix was backported to 3.2.2 (releasing soon): https://godotengine.org/article/dev-snapshot-godot-3-2-2-bet...
Claiming "they don't care about..." is specious. It would be more accurate to say "they haven't been able to stop..."