skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, much of the economic backdrop of the book involves transporting water to Ceres.
I disagree. While it is clear that no single faith can be favored in a democracy , acknowlesgement of a creator and an authority beyond humans is crucial. Up until the 20th century the US congress held church services at the capitol hill for example. Government has no bussiness meddling in religion and vice versa but just as religion must acknowledge government's limited authority, government must also acknowledge that all people are created equal and govenment's authority is not an absolute rule over people and that people are properties of their creator (whoever they believe that is) not properties of government (as they are in completely secular regimes such as China and NK).

Ethics itself means nothing without a legitimate moral authority so how can secularism lead to ethics? Either you accept a higher power exists and by that logic define ethics that allows coexistence between religions or you embrace secularism and tell religion there is no higher authority other than government and their religion is subject to an authority that rejects the absolute moral authority religion embraces. In other words you are expecting religion to self contradict in order to comply with secularism,which defeats the whole point of coexistence.
I've said elsewhere that I've never terminated services purely because the customer complains, and I've never done it without notice. I think the CEO gets that wrong. As I said, neither party comes out of this looking good.

But I have certainly terminated services from one side, without asking permission, after trying multiple times to resolve the issues.
> people who say arbitrarily awful things in public ought to be able to keep their jobs regardless of the extent to which their views are deeply offensive to their coworkers and society at large, and inconsistent with the mission of the company

I should note that the donations here were meant to be private, I believe, but were found through some transparency law or the other; not an active public endorsement or anything, especially one officially sanctioned by putting Mozilla clout on it. But yes, to be logically consistent, I am saying that I think you should be able to keep your job even if you grab a loudspeaker the moment you step out of work and proclaim that you think we should drown babies (I am even willing to entertain this if you actually drown babies, though I believe this to be a very unpopular view). I as your coworker will certainly have some very strong opinions about your character, some of which will likely leak into my interactions with you as personal bias, but ideally if you are a normal, well-adjusted person while at work I think you should be able to remain employed.
>In that case I think it was someone insecure in their English skills, which I guess I can understand. I would rather they just do their best and we will make it work. Most of my coworkers are ESL anyway.

I think at this point, I can discern even the thickest of accents if the person were to talk slow because of my (awesome) ESL coworkers, but I'm not sure the average person from my city would be able to do the same with some thick ESL accents. I'd personally prefer the human voice like you, though.
They really are not. Even Mozilla would not make that claim.
a guess: cheaper to produce than other videos & favorably ranked (& chosen by consumers) in search results (vs only text)?
> The CEO was right to "fire" him as a customer

He wasn’t right at all. The customer was still paying, and was still making use of the service.

Why in hells name did he take that twitter post to mean that the customer wanted to cancel.
It also does without it's star players which is what I mean. A company needs a lot of people, but has a pool of star players who are redundant only on paper. If they really drop away, it's a massive issue. And if they drop away all at the same time, the company will stall or worse depending on size and cash position.

Ofcourse the large enterprises have (ISO etc) processes in place to make everything as process-driven as possible, but you can see that even in teams within MS / Google / Facebook there are superstars who are simply very hard to replace (and in these companies they are well compensated; but outside tech that might not be the case). Obviously it never happens that they leave all at the same time, so that's why it looks redundant.
>> We never disable sites for traffic spikes, so no need to worry about the front page of Reddit or HN. If you exceed your limit consistently on a 3 month rolling average, we'll just let you know that you need to upgrade.

> I think this is pretty good? It would be better if they allowed the user to set a hard limit in advance.

I agree that that's pretty good, although it still leaves you vulnerable to a page that goes viral enough to get triple the number of allowed views. That will block your 3-month rolling average for 3 months, but if your monthly traffic looks like this:

Month 1: 50k views
Month 2: 50k views
Month 3: 400k views - no big deal, sometimes surges happen
Month 4: 50k views - you know, you're starting to push your limits...
Month 5: 50k views - OK, at this point, we need you to upgrade

At that point, the demand to upgrade looks pretty strange.
>They're probably still a small start up

Sounds like they are determined to stay small.
On AWS, I sign up to be billed at per gigabyte. I don't sign up for a 100 GB bandwidth bucket and at 101 GB AWS automatically upgrades me to the 1000 GB bucket.
Because the number of CEO positions much lower than the number of people.
Not all of them, but a lot seem to be.
Last minute changes to the content become a bit of a nuisance when the deliverable involves a voice recording, to say the least. A good synthesis pipeline could be set up to re-render the whole thing on a git hook.
Weird section indeed. A lie mixed with truth is the worst ever.
Yes, some are probably. Steve Jobs, Nadella probably but it's maybe 10 in the world? The rest really are not.
In the quoted tweet in the submitted post the CEO says:

> "Kicking a screaming on Twitter doesn't actually accomplish anything other than making you look like an asshole."
The fine European-academic tradition of considering actual development as grunt work that is an unworthy thing to do for the great minds. You can see where it got the European software industry as compared to the US. It is endlessly frustrating.

"Software Engineering" in Europe is the other kind of bad, learning methodology without knowing what it is applied to, and learning some "enterprise grade" rubbish.

It is as if no one who has anything to say in academia here knows how good software is actually created. And that is probably the case.

</rant>
The reason for the first sentence quoted is the second sentence quoted.

I, for one, am happy that my homeostatic regulatory nets have not evolved to "the edge of chaos."

Is there something provocative about his thesis, that would require focused argument?
A flutter in time: Quantum mechanics is immune to the butterfly effect
> The terms of the service allow doing so for any reason, but that's no justification. In fact, having such a term is a good reason to avoid Ghost.

This is a standard condition in most ToS: we can kick you out for any reason whatsoever.
I don't see a reason why these figures should be correlated.
Can we just please stop duct taping the broken system?

We need fair taxes.Not high, not low. We need to hit the sweet spot between "it does not pay off finding the loophole and transfer all the money elsewhere" and "not paying anything to the system".
Why would the company allow you to exceed these limits? We aren't talking about traffic here, just how many accounts they were able to have. When Netflix says you're allowed to watch two screens at once so you can share an account with family, isn't it unreasonable for Netflix to allow you to watch on three screens and then tell you your bill has doubled?

At a minimum, the CEO should have: emailed the customer telling them that the policies are non-negotiable and that the customer is free to disable accounts, increase the amount they pay, or cancel their subscriptions after the 7 days grace period ends. That is just basic professionalism.

What you really should do is address the core problem of how did a user get more accounts than their billing allowed - either grandfather them in if the price model changed or add a feature that prevents a user from exceeding their two allocated staff accounts (again we aren't talking about traffic, this is how many admin accounts the customer is allowed to have).
> Reliable 10mbps is a stable full hd stream

Nobody needs HD video, unless to flex their new TV.

HD might be nice to have, but Youtube video is fine at 360p and audio at 240p.
The issue is not just the donations but the subsequent refusal to make any public statement, which for a CEO effectively constitutes a public statement in itself.

The rest of your comment confirms that you are indeed advocating an extremist position, which I don't think it would be productive to discuss further.
Stop comparing yourself to others and work on yourself. Look inward, not outward.

You make six figures at a top tech company and you’re bitterly complaining because you think you’re entitled to more, and in the same breath you’re chastising Google’s pretentious culture? There’s a lot of irony there.

Focus on improving yourself and don’t get caught up in comparing yourself to others.
Does anyone know if the new stuff touted over the last few years (servo, webrender etc) is going to make it into the mainline Firefox release?

I moved back to Firefox back when they released Quantum and was really excited about the plans to make it even better - the blog posts from Lin Clark around parallel layout engines, web render etc. made me really excited about the trajectory of FF [1]

I know this stuff is complicated and they're working to get it right, but I heard in the recent round of layoffs most of the Servo team has been decimated. WebRender is only in the mainline releases for Windows and experimental everywhere else [2]

[1] https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/11/entering-the-quantum-era-h...
[2] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Platform/GFX/WebRender_Where
Foodstuff Trading License in UAE
Please India, if you're done with that, can you come to Germany?
Mozilla has so many privacy issues so that calling it privacy-friendly is misleading:

https://brmlab.cz/project/spyzilla
Secularism - or rather the declining role of theistic religions - seems to have given rise to a number of problems which the likes of "Gott ist tod" Jung seem to have had premonitions of. It now seems that the hole left behind by "traditional" religions is being filled with other belief systems which are just as irrational as the ones they replaced but which have not been cleared of their warts and bumps by a few centuries of use. The meteoric rise of 'wokeism' (for lack of a better word) is a good example of such, the movement has all the tenets of a religion together with the fervour of a cult. Given a few centuries of being battered by opponents and different cultures it would end up resembling a "traditional" religion - probably something like a non-theistic Catholicism with its complex structures, martyrs, saints, catechism and above all hierarchy. I don't think it will survive that long though since it is far too divisive and does not provide redemption.

I still have hopes that the gains of the enlightenment can be presented in such as way as to fill that hole left by the decline of religion - the "belief" in the scientific method, the sanctity of the individual, the concept of "natural rights" which form the basis of the American Declaration of Independence and the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen and more. Maybe I'm foolhardy, maybe this is my own replacement for traditional religion but given the alternatives - the results of which have become very visible in recent months - I'll just keep on believing.
> to a superior

Even now it lacks a lot of necessary APIs that the old one had - such as the ability to disable ctrl+q on linux. I would argue that only around now the new model became usable.

> Making it a more secure

In expense of usability.

> wouldn't play YouTube

It played youtube before and it would still play it without the switch.

Regardless, the old extension model was not the only power user feature which they killed (rss and panorama were two others).
Yes, I do support it. I don't see the issue of changing the definition and legal framework to include multiple partners, which may be added or divorced over time.
Many CEOs who aren't famous because they failed still got paid at that 200x rate.
What do you mean? Everyone can start their own company and become a CEO overnight. The answer isn't what you said it is.
I think it deserves mentioning that if any individual here believes that what Mozilla does is valuable, either to them selves or to others, and would like to "put money where their mouth is" as it were, then they can do so here: https://donate.mozilla.org

I had not thought about donating until these recent layoffs, but have now set a monthly 5$ donation up, as Mozilla's tools and work mean enough to my own interests, as well as being important enough for the internet as a whole, for me to donate.

Sadly the public donations will never be enough to cover their whole operational expenses, but every little bit helps.
Not sure about this take. Every language doesn't have to have every feature of every other language. Simplicity is in itself a feature.

C# at this point is already probably 'larger' as far as feature set goes other mainstream languages.
Of course it's Harman - who else? And as for the contents of the shadow cabinet... as I'm sure you know that varies a lot, she spent most of her career in either the cabinet or shadow cabinet, and right now I'm not sure I could really describe any of its current members as either prominent or influential. No doubt the fact that the actual current Leader of the Opposition was almost infinitely more obscure a figure than someone like Harman until less than a year ago plays a role in this. (Apparently, she's currently Chair of the Joint Committee on Human Rights, one of a few big-name former Labour cabinet members with non-cabinet roles like this.)

Anyway, we're now way off topic, which is why I didn't want to go into this kind of detail in the first place.
Catering to domestic demand rather than to china's demands https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/china-extends-an...
Negative feedback is how I improve stuff. I mention the value of negative feedback, here: https://littlegreenviper.com/miscellany/the-road-most-travel...
I think the CEO stepped in and made a judgement that the customer was not going to be worth it. I'm not saying the call was the right one.

Everyone here seems to think I believe the CEO acted perfectly correctly and that I'm defending him. I don't, and I'm not. I'm saying both parties come out of this looking bad, but I can at least understand the CEOs actions, and even if I don't actually approve of them, I have some sympathy.
> it's great that people are taking it more seriously now.

Quite frankly, I don't see it. Globally we emit over 36 billion tonnes of CO2 per year – this continues to increase[1].

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/co2-and-other-greenhouse-gas-emis...
Back in the 1950-1959 decade a period existed when we had 90% tax rate on the upper decile of income... because the only place industrialists could flee to was the Soviet Union. But how are you gonna stop people from moving nowadays?
Cairó, Sim. “Market Power, Inequality, and Financial Instability” [pdf]
No, you're not even close to correct.

For example if you say, "I think somebody is following me.", US police will just say, "So go file a restraining order."

They're not your friend, and won't let you use them as a tool in any way.

If you do call 911, the response time varies depending on the city and the nature of the call. In Detroit, you might get next-day service, if that.
As per article "1.5 lakh gram panchayats in the country have been connected with optical fiber". Each gram panchayats consists from 1 to 10 village. Average may be 4. So now we are talking about branching out the Gram-Panchayat connection to all villages under it's adminnistration. Totally doable. Of course there are still some remote villages/panchayats without Fiber.

2nd important point is monetization model, because these thing require maintenance. Private telecom players have mostly given up to participate in this Bharat-Net connectivity scheme. They seem to prefer their own Microwave backhaul for village cluster. That leaves National Telecom Operator BSNL which is not really in good financial shape.

Still I believe this is doable.
I'm sorry you feel this is disingenuous. I really tried to explain why there is only one Snap Store from a neutral point of view. Let me know if you have any tips to make it more genuine.

You are right that this has nothing to do with the dependency problems Snap solves. Snap does many things differently but this article only focusses on one to keep it relatively short.

This article doesn't try to present a comprehensive comparison and definitely not between Snap and PPA. The article only focuses on the question why there is only one Snap store. The answer to this question has nothing to do with Snap bundling dependencies.

I also wrote a separate blog post about bundling dependencies here: https://merlijn.sebrechts.be/blog/2020-07-06-why-snap-flatpa...

That blogpost lumps Snap and Flatpak together since, for the sake of bundling dependencies, the two technologies are pretty similar.
That really isn't an assumption that people make about natural phenomena. Let's compare a swamp, anywhere:

1. It's causing disease.
2. It's not us.
3. We're sure.
4. It's bad.
5. We can fix it.

And we do! Draining swamps is an important way to make uninhabitable land habitable. But there's no one out there saying "why bother, just wait for the swamp to go away on its own".
The CEO needs to see his psychologist. I’m neither being sarcastic nor being provocative, but as a CEO when you find yourself calling your paying customer an asshole and deleting their website over a tweet, it’s time you look back at what you have become.

Probably he is in too much stress due to the pandemic, or he has developed too much of a “I’m the CEO, bitch!” attitude. In either case, Ghost as a company should take care of that guy to stay in business.
A very forgiving description for what is just plain hypocrisy.
Post Apathy OP here -

I was definitely being an ass when I first tweeted about it (IIRC, this was after I e-mailed them). I was generally frustrated with some wider issues around building my website so I decided to blow some steam by tweeting about it. I actually thought "that was too harsh" considering I had nothing but praise for how user-friendly Ghost was (and how great Ghost support was - shoutout to Sarah, whoever you are, you shouldn't be there).

The one thing you don't expect is that a CEO of a company would take the annoyance of an account with circa.350 followers seriously and respond with what is apparently vitriolic rage, not only cussing me out, but then immediately going to shut my website down even though I was talking to a support rep at Ghost about upgrading and getting migration underway.

The main problems are this:

1. An automatic upgrade within 7 days that triples in price is sleazy, there's no two ways to look at it. I don't know if it's an American thing, but in Europe, a company would be crucified for doing this. You always have offer and acceptance before agreeing to something. It would be very easy for Ghost to simply put a popup stating "you cannot add more staff users as you are on the basic plan - please upgrade here to do so". Again, no excuses here, it's clear that some customers are being caught out by these automatic charges, judging by the dozen people that have expressed similar issues with Ghost since I published my post. So much for being a non-profit.

2. Something I forgot to add to the story - the main reason I went over the 2 staff users I was permitted to have on my account was because I had invited Ghost support in as a staff user to help with migration. This made me really annoyed as I had some friends on to help with setting up the website and I had to kick them to avoid being charged triple - for bringing Ghost in to help with some stuff.

3. The CEO going from cussing on twitter to deleting my website (all within 15mins, as I was working on it) is unacceptable, again, from any POV. The people here talking about this being an acceptable practice to deal with "toxic customers" have clearly never actually been in a customer-facing role. You wouldn't last in such a position if you dealt with every disgruntled customer in such a manner. Stop LARPing.

Anyway, that's my side. I understand the cynical mood of Hacker News so I won't say more and let the people here make up their own minds.

Feel free to subscribe to the Post Apathy newsletter. I promise you it's enriching.
Kubernetes was first launched in the repo: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/kubernetes.

It doesn’t use docker as container runtime. And also the pods were also called `tasks`.

From: https://github.com/boddumanohar/kubernetes-first-commit/blob...

```
The Kubernetes API currently manages 3 main resources: tasks, replicationControllers, and services. Tasks correspond to colocated groups of [Docker containers](http://docker.io/) with shared volumes, as supported by [Google Cloud Platform’s container-vm images](https://developers.google.com/compute/docs/containers) . Singleton tasks can be created directly via the /tasks endpoint. Sets of tasks may created, maintained, and scaled using replicationControllers. Services create load-balanced targets for sets of tasks.
```
What specific problems will privatization solve? Profitability? Efficiency? Something else? Which of your problems cannot be fixed by changes to the current system?

I'm asking this seriously. I'm just trying to understand what problems you believe privatization will fix.
How do you figure that out? If someone is genius looking 20 years into the future like a time machine, they may look like an idiot today.
That might be so, yet it still seems that CEOs can do pretty magnificently out of being fired even when they fuck up really badly.
> something based on CSP

Gives the game away. Just another proselytising FP nut trying to justify all the time they've spent learning "universal" FP-abstractions (ie., highly specific hacks around lazyness).
The joke that I always used to have when I worked near their Dublin office was How do you know someone is a Googler? Don't worry, they'll tell you :)

This was prompted by me noticing that most of the people who still had their badges visible after work appeared to have Google badges.