skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a great bbc sketch show chewing the fat. One scene involves a working class Glasgow couple who wins 15 million on the lotto. They buy a van Gogh and hang it up in thier living room because the like it. Some thieves break in and steal a lava lamp and cutlery, as well as the painting because the frame might be worth a few quid. At the end of the scene, the thieves are selling the lava lamp at a flea market and casually rip the painting up to use as packing paper for the lava lamp.

It's a funny sketch but I really do like it.
I guess because raw VMs are cheap these days, they are a true commodity and k8s takes advantage of that. No cloud premiums for you!
What do you think share cropping and Jim crow laws were? What do you think the several civil rights acts following the 14th amendment were addressing? What do you think separate but equal and then desegregation was? Why is it that there's always someone asking for "proof" of racism? Anyone with a high school diploma knows about these things and yet all of that well known history is insufficient proof.

edit: we rightfully so recognize people demanding proof of the holocaust as bad actors. why not with this?
OTOH people who hated Bush Jr. thought there was a good chance, and some evidence, that he'd find a way to stay in office past his term. Same with Obama.
If you grew up in the church I did, you could have the pleasure of hearing those comments as recently as ... checks calendar at least 2006! (I left after so who knows if they kept that line of rhetoric going).

It’s surprisingly common to hear this stuff today, still.
I am shocked reading some of the replies in this thread.

The average commentator here definitely tries to hide their socially regressive views behind some ideal of being "rational", but even then I truly thought that commentators here were above this.
I think the best/most common example of this is the Jim Crow laws implemented shortly after the civil war: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Crow_laws

That Wikipedia article has a lot of detail in it that explains things well beyond what I could within an HN comment, but I think one example is "separate but equal" which was anything but equal.
To be honest, I'm not sure that even the best authors reject their own poor work. "The complete works of X" for any poet X is frequently full of, well, duds. It's other people who extract the best of X's output and popularize it.
Conservatives continue to ban needle exchanges in some of the areas with the highest rates of HIV in the US.
Spam doesn't remove you from the senders email list.

While many senders will remove people who hit spam on their emails but not all do it. After a while, emails could be getting past the spam filter again.

Unsubscribing is usually more effective at stopping unwanted emails from any semi legitimate company as they are required by law to honor it.

If you want double protection, you can always do both.
By that logic so can google with gmail: of course they can, but that’s why we have to put some level of basic trust in our email providers. If you don’t want an MITM, you’re basically stuck with PGP or hosting your own email service.
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Really? I'd think they'd be more likely for things like herpes, staph and maybe fungal diseases.
There's a not insignificant far-right presence on this website and many are quite adept at toeing that line between "just asking questions" and "outright stating their position" by filling their responses with obscurantist nonsense. It is indeed concerning.
Obligatory thesis that cracks this open:

"Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software"

An utterly phenomenal book:

https://www.amazon.com/Emergence-Connected-Brains-Cities-Sof...
Side project? To make money of course :-)
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I respect your commitment to fighting bigotry, but I mean - those toilets can be pretty nasty. May as well use them, now that we have them. :)
Wouldn't be surprised if the parent commenter is racist as well, you know what these conservative types are like, it all comes as one shitty bigoted package.

Let's hope people like him get fucked up in these riots. Racists, homophobes, conservatives - they deserve to get their teeth smashed in, and worse.
It's an issue with floating point accuracy usually...

2 point decimals can usually be accurate but given enough operations, you can sometimes get a weird floating error and rounding / clamping is discouraged in banking.
This user is referring to slave labour in prisons, explicitly allowed by the 13th amendment to the USA constitution.
It's difficult issue.

While I think that we should totally put the blame on drunk drivers, I would still make a distinction between negligence and intentionality.

Saying that drunk drivers intentionally kill people opens the door to saying that bad doctors kill people, bad medicine teachers kill people, people who vote for the wrong politicians kill people, politicians who enact bad laws kill people, etc.

At that point the discussion devolves into "your party kills people because your ideology is wrong", "no, yours is"
HN is full of horrible bigoted shits.

No idea why I bother with this site any more.
I'm sorry I missed that! I did read the rest but must have been so eager to share that fascinating talk that I overlooked this mistake. Thanks for the article!
I don't know specifically which rules the parent is referring to--their phrasing ("Post US Civil war, we encoded a set of rules") makes it sound like it is referring to the US as a whole, but I'm not sure if that is their intent. Some rules at the state level, before they were forbidden by the Voting Rights Act of 1965, included poll taxes and literacy tests. This is also where the term "grandfather clause" originates, as people whose grandfathers could vote (i.e. whites) were sometimes exempted from these requirements.

> evidence that they were intended

I will say that evidence of intent is not necessary or relevant to the claim. Subjectivity in the application and execution of the voting process--for instance, where to place polling stations--can end up disadvantaging minorities due to implicit/unconscious bias in administrators, even unintentionally.
Indeed. And note that black men are overrepresented in the prison population.
That is... not exactly true: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/06/21/6219083...

I was not trying to diminish the atrocity that is how the AIDS epidemic was handled, I was only trying to illuminate that people (and the super-majority of our lawmakers) are immature and uninformed when talking about all infectious diseases.

Edit: just look at our President’s response to Covid... it is bumbling and moronic.
This whole website is an absolute gold mine. 1) It's like someone finally worked on all the ideas I've had, 2) it's absolutely gorgeous in every respect. Wow.
There was an interesting episode of Radiolab a couple weeks ago about a group of researchers who found a deep water octopus brooding over its eggs, and how they continued to check in with it regularly. I'm not selling it well because I don't want to spoil it:

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/octom...
are you an aerospace engineer or someone just trying to find a positive take on the forth explosion?
Interesting, AWS Lambda provides a runtime API so you can implement your own runtimes. kewl https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/runtimes-api.ht...
To be fair, many cybercriminals do this too, to lock out their competition.
This isn't something I made up. Criminals have been using MMO's in-game currency to launder money for over a decade. The trick is to launder slowly over a long period of time. Very hard to catch.
>Before Docker there were a lot of different solutions for software developers to package up their web applications to run on a server.

There are basically two relevant package managers. And say what you will about systemd, service units are easy to write.

It's weird to me that the tooling for building .deb packages and hosting them in a private Apt repository is so crusty and esoteric. Structurally these things "should" be trivial compared to docker registries, k8s, etc. but they aren't.
Godot is a bad 3d engine, performance is abysmal.
I mean there will definitely be exploits.

It does still seem dramatically different to need to get an escape out of the js sandbox than to just be handed privileges by design.

Particularly if (in some glorious future) the js vm is written in a safe language, not C++.
> the governments refusal to act on the AIDS crisis and the substantial stigma around the disease - resulting in hundreds of thousands of dead

Yes. They could have and should have shut down the bath houses. It would have saved many many lives. We knew where and what the problem was, but we didn’t love them enough to tell them “no.”
Various leaks and whistleblowers have revealed that encryption alone doesn't provide as much protection as people think. There's all sorts of ways around the problem.

State-sponsored attacks against crypto are targeted, they don't care about your online shopping cart contents secured by TLS. They go for VPN connections, IPSec tunnels, and Tor.

A classic example is the Dual_EC_DRGB (Dual Elliptic Curve Deterministic Random Bit Generator), which uses a public/private key pair to generate the random numbers. The NSA pinky swears that they destroyed the private key, and don't know what it is. Nobody in their right mind believed them. Yet, the NSA basically forced a bunch of VPN vendors such as Juniper to include it.

Now, fine, okay, in theory Dual_EC_DRGB is safe even if the private key is know to an adversary, unless ~40 bits of the internal state is leaked during the connection handshake, which seems terribly unlikely. That was NSA's argument for why everyone should trust them and their algorithm. Unfortunately, guess what... the Juniper ScreenOS had a "bug" in it that just so happened to leak a bit over 40 bits of the RNG state into the handshake packets. Accidentally, I'm sure. Ooops.

It's also a safe RNG if the private key is destroyed, and is not known to anybody. But unfortunately for Juniper, the Chinese government hackers broke into their source control and replaced the public key with their own, matching a private key they know. So for a while, all Juniper VPN connections were being spied on by the Chinese government instead of the US government. I'm not sure which is better.

I've read similar stories about Cisco, Citrix NetScaler, etc... They all have purposefully weak crypto, government mandated back doors, and so forth.

The various western governments' fears of Huawei being used by the Chinese government to hack them is absolutely warranted: this is exactly what they would do given the same opportunities!
What an interesting classification. Do you have something on Jeffbot and Elonbot?
Your point is do something simple because k8s is hard? 1) even small scale dev teams an business still need non simple.software processes. 2) learning Kubernetes is easier now than learning the underlying cloud. It's really about all the other things k8s provides. Maybe you haven't seen it used in enough contexts yet to appreciate those other benefits?
Being catchy and being ominous are not mutually exclusive.
I covered ES4 in my book, Get Programming with JavaScript Next. ActionScript 3 was basically a real world implementation of ES4.
“Ahoy-hoy”
I don't have a horse in this nonsense but I find it hilarious that even users of Kubeanraenet have some trouble defining what it even is.
I mean in his defense, DJB has some serious chops that others have lacked, including writing what was at one point the most popular DNS server for anyone who cared about security as well as the first MTA which cared about security while transmitting email, and now two of the more popular stream ciphers, one of which underlies the current fastest secure hash function.

IM2000 probably would have succeeded if it had gotten the attention from him to go past a random idea into a well-specified protocol with a canonical implementation. Standards work is hard!
The GPG documentation specifically says that 4096 is not "better".

https://www.gnupg.org/faq/gnupg-faq.html#no_default_of_rsa40...
You don't need to be an aerospace engineer to be aware of the spaceX R&D strategy which has been spelled out pretty clearly by Musk and others in various interviews.

I'm not saying the failure was intended, I'm saying the reason there are so many failures because they opted to go hard and fast, while government funded shops like NASA can't afford to have such a high failure rate because of the optics and politics. This modality to R&D isn't at all unique to aerospace and is more of a business/management issue so I'm not sure why you think an engineer would have anything more meaningful to say.

As Kelly Johnson of skunkworks said, you can't have innovation unless you are prepared to see failures.
The Australian government's 1987 "Grim Reaper" ad gives some impression of the mood at the time. Of course, it didn't do any favours to the gay community.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lhFc_9U_UY
Eh? Not following, how does the postal system of the internet relate to breaking up the social and news media machines? If anything, it needs to be strengthened with something like HNS
Because emulation is a heavy operation. Be realistic.

Also I don't believe that PC isn't painful to use for everything else. I had a core2duo a while back and it was slowish back then.
> Persistant volumes rely on NFS (or a flavor thereof), which is not great for database performance.

NFS is an option, but it’s not the only option. If you need locally attached storage you can use local PV’s which went GA in Kubernetes 1.14, or any of the plethora of volume plugins that exist for various network storage solutions.
I have to say, you are really good at calling people names when you don’t agree with their views. You’ve made a terrific straw man out of the poster above. Obviously, they were referring to reckless, unprotected sex with many, many partners. Yet you chose to interpret it as a single sex act.

You’ve gone all through this thread calling people out for having views that are different than yours. Maybe try practicing the tolerance you preach?
So how exactly was that guy with a million bottles of hand sanitizer allocating them efficiently by trying to sell at a price that no one would buy for on Amazon?
The notion of the "gay problem" does not come from nowhere though. Gays have extremely promiscuous lifestyles with 3.5 as many lifetime sex partners, resulting in a 60x higher rate of HIV infections[1], accounting for 67% of HIV diagnoses despite making up 2% of the population or so.[2] So gays are clearly massively responsible for the spreading of the virus and they could reduce its prevalence by engaging less in anonymous sex.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3462414/

[2] https://www.cdc.gov/nchhstp/newsroom/2012/hivincidencegraphi...
Hydroxychloroquine would have helped, ironically.
This seems like attempting to weasel-word. If Ghandi said "We have a lot of guns, and looting leads to shooting", it's a lot more clear that the meaning is (2). Trumps tweet didn't just say that one sentence, it said, in order:

* "the Military is with [the governor]"

* "any difficulty and we will assume control"

* "when the looting starts, the shooting starts"

There's a clear causal relationship between these three statements, this is not a plea for peace, it is a threat of violence.
Is there a (real or perceived) class divide in the area? Just curious because I don't know, but I remember in prior riots some people explained that rioters felt like business owners were on a different level to residents and taking advantage of them in various ways like higher prices or not employing locals, so that helped paint them as targets.
So what, this tentative research that shows no causal link whatsoever between HSV-1 and alzheimers is the same as the 32 million killed by AIDS globally?

No. It isn't. Stop trivializing HIV. I don't know what you're getting out of it, but it comes across as incredibly tone deaf.
Where are you? I believe my experience is typical of large tech companies in California, which was the question asked. I'd be shocked if a former contractor got hired without at least a half-baked pretense of an interview, if only for legal reasons--to treat contractors differently from other non-employees risks creating a presumption that they're not non-employees, which HR built this whole elaborate mechanism to fight.

And the agencies are absolutely fine with it. Sometimes there's a buyout fee, but not a big deal. The agencies are pretty interchangeable anyways, so they can't be too picky.
32 years ago, so I dunno, is that “long ago” to you?
I suspect many of the folks who'd be interested in this kind of thing (lowtechmagazine) are the same ones very concerned about climate change and pollution. Maybe I missed it by just skimming, but is there any discussion in there of the particulates and CO2 output of burning wood? In a very real sense burning wood is the same thing as burning coal, minus millions of years of pressure.

Perhaps for their next article on low-tech stoves they can investigate the higher energy density and improved generation capabilities of coal. Why, in some places you can even find convenient coal chutes!
Nice

120 is also what I've settled on & am used to. But I'd be equally OK, and adjust fine, with anything from 100-120.
I was! It really was an amazing place. I absolutely fell in love with Rome while there.
This is so tough and I’m still trying to figure it out. A few years ago I built an MVP label printer app on Electron/React using all sorts of native node modules for a seamless design and print experience. I support dithered images, tons of barcode types, excel/csv integration with variables, and can render multiple labels to PDF “sheets” for laser/inkjet printing.

My software competes with free software provided by DYMO and Brother thermal printers, and also competes with $350+ software designed for more industrial printers like Zebra, etc. My software is used by consumers and businesses and I sell it for $47.99 per-computer perpetual license.

I’ve thought about breaking the features out into $20 for a text/image license, $50 for that and barcodes, and $100 for all that and data integration. But that’s a lot of complexity for both implementation and explaining to the user. Ugh.

Another thought is to do a subscription of $10/month and after 12 consecutive payments the user is awarded a perpetual license that will work for that most recent version. But that implementation is also complex...

I feel stuck. Consumers don’t want to spend more than $20, and some businesses will gladly pay whatever I charge. Some consumers want barcodes and data integration. Some businesses just need text.

I don’t know what the solution is to make everyone happy.

Since my app is “a web app” running locally I’ve given some thought to pushing the design interface into the cloud and keeping the electron app around as a print agent. Then, users will have the ability to design and print to any printer with an agent available. This would be an easy subscription sell, but then the user would just prefer the entire experience locally, anyways. Ugh.

Fun problems to think through, though!
Fuck off.

e: Amazing, I go from +2 to -4 after the comment has been flagged, so whoever is downvoting has no idea what it is I was replying to. Apologies for not treating homophobia in the civil manner that you all would prefer.
One answer to that is not to bear children.

I'm half serious.

The arguments for and against are both pretty valid.

On one hand children raised with positive values and a sense of moral duty to their fellow humans may be able to shift or counterbalance the direction the future is taking, but on the other, we could be leaving them to fend off with in a pretty shitty world that may have already peaked.

Pretty arguable of course, but still something worth pondering I think.
In the chart, the humans vs. mosquitos are not fairly comparable.

First - if you're going to say 'mosquitos kill humans because they transmit disease' and then include humans for a completely different reason (i.e. homicide) makes for an odd comparison.

For example, what if human transmission of the communicable disease results in some massive amount of death, which could very well be the case?

Second - mosquitoes are carrying a lot of otherwise benign things, which most people recover fine from. Possibly things like the flu. Well some people die from the flu, but very rarely. So I'm not sure if the fact it was communicated by a mosquito or something else makes sense.

Maybe inanimate objects, like the door handle to your public building, contribute more to basic pathogen spread, like the flu, in which case again, that would put things in context.

It's a tricky thing to compare lions attacking people to mosquitos that happen to spread in some cases, some minor thing that in may have rare deadly consequences.
He doesn't seem to understand the new landscape well enough to make his comparisons.

The point about AWS was not a Kubernetes comparison. It was a GCP one, because you asked what was wrong with the God aweful AWS
The parent is referring (not that accurately) to the variety of laws known as Jim Crow[1]. It's remarkable that these aren't widely if not universally known today. They were effectively eliminated by the Voting Rights Act[2].

Note, that Jim Crow was enacted not immediately after the Civil War but after the reconstruction period[3]. The aftermath of reconstruction involved a period of racist terror where the Ku Klux Klan and other forces effectively engaged in a guerilla campaign that restored white supremacy in the South.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Crow_laws

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_Rights_Act_of_1965

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconstruction_era
Integrate it with your CI/CD pipeline. I have a Gitlab pipeline that runs kustomize and pipes the output to kubectl for every deploy to do things like setting secrets, image tags, creating ConfigMaps from config files in the repository, etc.
I knew people that would go for a walk during lunch around the office building with a friend. Ate a packed sandwich, got a walk in, a conversation, and apparently got a much needed dose of D3.

Seems like such a low effort, high reward thing to do.

Depending on the latitude and skin complexion that may be all thats needed for D3.
Some of these no longer exist, but some do:

Grandfather voting clauses: https://www.thoughtco.com/grandfather-clauses-voting-rights-...

Felony disfranchisement: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felony_disenfranchisement_in_t...

Related to felony disfranchisement, the war on drugs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_the_war_on_drugs

Gun control laws: https://newrepublic.com/article/112322/gun-control-racist

Literacy tests: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literacy_test#Voting

Cash bail: https://harvardlawreview.org/2018/02/bail-reform-and-risk-as...

Stop and frisk: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop-and-frisk_in_New_York_Cit...

Some of these fall under the broader category of Jim Crow Laws[1], but most the original Jim Crow Laws are more obvious in their racism.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Crow_laws
Uh, funnily enough, the "boring" stuff they've mentioned in the article doesn't seem THAT bad to me. But maybe that's because I haven't been forced to do that sort of administrative work often enough for the novelty to wear off.
Laura Ingalls Wilder's father and the feed store during the blizzard?
Fuck off with your gay bashing bullshit, hiding behind statistics.