skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If it were just that, then overall the project would be dangerous trap, as there is a big cost of added complexity from the new high level configuration language with its limitations and own terminology (volumes, etc).

Adding a wrapper, and then eventually forcing you to learn all the abstractions that leak through, creates an attractive nuisance. The Hyscale project is at least trying to overcome this problem. Not sure how well they succeed.

Along with the high level config it attempts to help untangle common K8s debugging steps, which normally require using multiple tools to determine what caused an error condition like CrashLoopBackoff - see
https://github.com/hyscale/hyscale/wiki/App-centric-Troubles...

Looking at the code they painfully enumerate different Docker and K8s options in Java, so it will be expensive to maintain and keep up to date - the host company Primati may have the resources to do this and that's exciting!
Our initial goal is to achieve sufficient abstraction levels to satisfy at least 80% of the app deployment use-cases out there. Meantime, for any insufficiencies, we’re coming up with a way to merge K8s manifest snippets into the generated YAMLs. See this issue and associated PR for more:
https://github.com/hyscale/hyscale/issues/284
What Does the Administrative Bloat in Universities Comprise?
Exactly, I also added:

mobile-app-expan.amazon.com

cde-ta-g7g.amazon.com
Dangling significant financial incentives to the poor or otherwise disadvantaged is one of their big tricks, too.
The debate is all about goals. The vast majority of athletic goals outside of bodybuilding and power lifting can be achieved with bodyweight and one kettlebell. The choice of that kb depends on your goals again. I have a 35lb and it's enough to get a hard workout.
I agree.

E-Readers do a hell of a good job at emulating the experience with e-ink displays & you can't compete with the ability to carry 1000's of books in your bag, but there's something about the reading experience that I wish to keep completely 'analogue'!
"Ask" as a noun - "What is the ask?"

"Build out" instead of just build.

"Actionable" - although it is a real word, it is a legal term, not a synonym of practical.
It's a fact that wealthy donors support specific research that interests them.

On the one hand, hasn't research always been funded like this? Wealthy patrons have always supported work that somehow gratified them. And history is replete with despicable personalities who have nevertheless financed good science.

On the other hand, when the patron's interests turn out to be questionable, the research supported by those interests can be examined. It's okay to give it a second thought in light of new information about the patron.

I happen to think this article raises valid questions. For example, I have questions about the idea of buying a visiting fellowship. I have questions about the mechanisms by which faculty become oddly encumbered by donations.
Kindle is a great tech (e-ink) with a terribly expensive ecosystem (amazon store) for books.

I load all the books I get directly from my computer (Mostly from project Gutenberg).

Turning airplane mode on permanently now.
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> How do you split the lunatics from the evidence based? All over the world people are taking off shoes and belts to get on an airplane.

Experts have widely decried airport security procedures as nonsense, including the penetration testers who are charged with proving whether or not these measures are effective. An evidence-based examination has therefore proven these measures are, if not lunacy, at least not practical.

Intelligence officers, on the other hand, wrote up detailed explanations of how airplanes could be hijacked and turned into missiles. These people were experts in their field, and their hypotheticals were all reasonable. They were ignored, essentially, because people didn't want to deal with it.

When it comes to the dangers posed by hurricanes, it's fairly easy to determine if someone is coming from an evidence-based perspective, or a lunacy-based perspective. Are they engineers? Do they understand weather patterns and hydrology? Are they talking about how likely the events they're talking about are likely to occur over the next five, ten, one-hundred years? Or are they screaming about how God is going to level the city because he doesn't like it when two men kiss?
FYI your times are out of order. 12AM is the one in the middle of the night.
I just switched from my Kindle Paperwhite to the Kobo Libra H2O and I really like it.

It's easier to hold with dedicated page turn buttons, good lighting, and fast screen response time. Also water resistant and good battery life.

So far I've been able to get all the books I've wanted, mostly from the Kobo store, but it can work with any open format.
Herd immunity, in the United States, anyway, absent a vaccine, means between 5 and 8 million people dead.

If 8 million dead doesn’t move you, consider that it would take most of a decade.

Estimates at present of duration of post-infection immunity are less than six months, so it’s also possible that even after millions dead, herd immunity would never be reached.
I have a $350 Kobo Forma and the UI is so slow compared to my $200 Kindle. It takes a long time to startup and it has horrible & slow touch detection which makes it really hard to highlight quotes properly.

Maybe other Kobo variants do better however.
Stanley Milgram preformed an experiment that was incredibly valuable and has been replicated in many countries around the world. Variations of the experiment with different results helped narrow down important factors.

Today, it's unethical to preform the Milgram experiment. Michael/vSauce did preform the actual trolley experiment for a YouTube video, which is interesting, but it was bad scientifically because the sample size was too small, the experiment changed for one person, and the ethics for the entire thing was questionable.
> How do you split the lunatics from the evidence based?

Counter-question: How do you know the flat-earthers aren't actually correct and earth is in fact flat?
You know how many variations are there on pull ups? change your grip width and angle, can you do a parallel pull up? regular pulls up are so easy to overload even if you can't do the variations a backpack is all you need.

And honestly i want to see a one arm pull up with and a proper one (not when you hanging willy nilly sideways) with 150% body weight that puts you not only well above the average gym but well above the elite athlete territory here is Magnus Midtbø doing one arm pull ups https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zoN4DvEpKA and there is no way he can do it with 150% bodyweight, I don't know of a single climber that ever achieved that.
I still can't find the original post I read, but the guardian wrote about this recently [1]

[1]: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/feb/03/amazon-ki...
> I thought everything could be done remotely these days.

Jamming is an issue for one. Latency for another.
Type out the question in full in a text editor, then paste it after the greeting if you're worried about delay. Although if you're posting in a channel, I don't even think it's an issue; people will see that you are typing and follow up when you have provided more info.
Just use airplane mode? Will also increase the battery life.
Yeah, it seems kind of crazy that a modern browser can't be trusted to just render a few pages of text in boxes without such techniques
What formats does it handle? Can it handle EPUB for example?
Instagram can’t recreate TikTok’s magic
Miami Int. Airport Debuts Scanner That Lets You Keep Electronics in Bags
The Art of Facing Rejection in Sales
Developers are overly optimistic, undervalue their time (they don't know the loaded-cost of their time), and overvalue their solutions (they rarely account for maintenance costs or the long-tail of time to perfect the solution). So developers think they are cheap. For example, I had an engineer express disgust that we might have to pay $4/month-per-user for gitlab just to have mirroring enabled. He said "we can do our own mirroring." When asked how long it would take he said, "between 2 hours to two-weeks if we have to iron out bugs". So when accounting for his time, his price to deliver ranged between $200-ish in the best-case scenario, to $8000-ish in the worst-case scenario (which far exceeds the cost of paying for the licenses). Needless to say, we paid for the licenses. He also wasn't considering the opportunity-cost, i.e., what will he NOT do that's more valuable while he works on this proposed solution that we could just pay for?
> Als Gregor Samsa eines Morgens aus unruhigen Träumen erwachte, fand er sich in seinem Bett zu einem ungeheueren Ungeziefer verwandelt.

Haha, that's a nice one, thanks for sharing :)
> Each request also isn't sent as soon as it's generated. A number of these records are created and stored locally, then uploaded (note the sequence_number field). Even if a person is offline while reading, this data is stored and sent when reconnected.

Keeping it in offline mode doesn't help.
Why would they use the offensive term "crusade?" People were murdered during the crusades. As a descendant of people targeted by the Crusades, I wince whenever I see this word.
No, i have no such assumptions. Developers can and some may even will (though market forces will push at least one app store to be the dominant - chances are it'll be the one that comes out of the box with the device) focus on a single app store and there is nothing wrong with that.

The only wrong part is users not being in control over what they can install on their devices and from where they will install them.

Yes, it is possible that people will be forced to install applications they do not want, but this isn't something that is or even should be up to the OS vendor to try and protect against - the person being forced to do that is the one who should and if they cannot, then legal action should be seeked. The entire issue is outside the scope of the OS.
I reckon it's time to stop working around all data collection bullshit. No more technical solutions to political problems.

Applying technical workarounds is still supporting a company, and is giving them a thumbs-up to keep at it.
Abstract and conclusion are useful for quickly determining what the authors want the takeaway to be, so they're better than journalism which can misconstrue even that. But the problem with reading just the abstract and conclusion is that you don't learn the methods the scientists used. Lots of science is junk due to bad methodology. Of course laypersons are not likely able to determine that even if they read the whole thing, which leaves me to conclude that you should never modify your world view in response to a scientific publication until many credible sources all say the same thing.
> >[Twitter] amplifies meaningless shit into the stratosphere with its trending algorithms

> Doubtful, given how popular it is among people and ogranisations that carefully measure the RoI of their marketing & outreach operations, and constantly adjust balance of their efforts among 2, 3, 4 different communication channels (YT, Insta, mail, in-person events, topical forums, old style media, etc.).

I'm not sure why you think that the two are incompatible, or opposed.

I don't mean to suggest that marketing is entirely meaningless, but surely the ROI of any particular marketing effort is largely independent of its meaningfulness?
I have an Onyx Nova 2 and I like it quite a lot. It runs android and has access to the android ecosystem, so I can read my webnovels and mangas and even kindle books without needing to use any external applications like Calibre.
Ask HN: Sales Engineer – Experiences
I'm 2 years shy of 40, have been a software engineer till now.

The last 5 years I've found myself enjoying social interactions far more, and am intrigued to go into sales engineering. I'd love to hear from people that did this.

What are the skillsets you leverage mostly, do you like it?
When specifically are email addresses case-sensitive?
As a former Kindle developer, I can say that most of what's mentioned in this article are metrics used to understand how the features are used (bookmarks, highlights, dictionnary, etc.), how much they are used, and in which country.
This allows the teams to focus on features that are actively used, and sometimes lead to discontinuing features that see little to no use.
Hope that helps.
There are online converters for it all, the process is a little annoying but works fine and you can do it locally too with various tools:

https://www.epubconverter.com/epub-to-mobi-converter/
Ah, thank you. Always confusing that :)
I meant noon.
I have a 2015 Kindle Paperwhite. I've put it on flight mode the day it arrived and it never went online again. Yes, loading new books takes slightly more effort (I use USB transfer with Calibre) but the peace of mind I get is more than worth it. Unlike OP, Amazon can neither track my reading habits (beyond my ebook purchases) nor delete anything from my Kindle.
Texas Monthly has a long, storied history as a well-regarded print magazine. A content farm it is not.
Docker volumes are great. I've also run databases in docker without issue. But they're different from kubernetes "persistent volumes" and "persistent volume claims"

The issues come when you move into high availability (specifically in a Kubernetes context). K8s may decide to move your database to a different node (server) on a whim, and suddenly your data is gone. You have to solve this by having mounted, block-level storage available to your cluster (eg AWS's EBS; the product being discussed) so you can use persistent volumes. That comes with added complexity, and usually the need to incorporate db operators into your stack.

As a result, a lot of k8s admins (myself included) choose to pay crazy amounts for RDS and S3 to avoid the complexities of persistent data.
It will make people uncomfortable, but this is standard practice in terms of event collection for analytics. Many articles here write about discovery from the side of a particular app or site.

If people reviewed some analytics solutions (many trials are available), then they'd see how pervasive this is and what product vendors are encouraging. The like's of Amazon have much more scrutiny around the use of data collected than those of smaller organizations. Obviously, they wield great market power so the concerns are broader, but an attacker has a much better chance of raiding smaller developers for volumes of data with much the same fidelity.
>That was a long time ago, I hope things have gotten better by now. :)

Reviewer techniques of course improve somewhat and evolve over time, but in terms of basic heavy reliance on automation and the like it's doubtful much has changed. But that's ok, because the battle is about economics and layers not perfection. The final layer is what HN has been so up in arms about: eventual detection after the fact, at which point Apple bans the devs and in extreme instances can revoke certs/delete the malware in question (all while its harm is limited by sandboxing/trust chains/etc). The $100/yr wall layer stops some automated attacking and makes anonymity more difficult, the signing requirements make it harder to avoid specific attribution, the restrictive permissions model and such stop some attacks, the review process maybe catches a few more and certain softer attacks, all of which combined hopefully reduces the final volume of what gets through and the value of what can be achieved with it vs consequences to a level where post-hoc response (the most expensive kind) can keep up. And the single market means the process is hard to avoid entirely, and the interests of users can collectively push back on the power of developers.

So no silver bullets, each layer has a part to play. That's kind of expected though isn't it? It's the typical trade off scalability vs specificity.
The Kindle handles .mobi and .azw3. It is trivial to convert EPUB to MOBI before you send the book to the device over USB (it can even be done as part of a command-line script, for example).
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I grew up reading a lot of long novels as a kid and rather enjoy long-form articles as well since there’s an opportunity to gain a richer perspective of the story. Texas Monthly has been around for half a century and their long-form articles are a welcome respite from short blips of journalistic writing that barely do justice to an interesting story to cater to short attention spans. I’m not saying this is the best article ever, but as an example of one I appreciated a lot, they once covered the twists and turns a Collin Street Bakery accountant took to steal vast sums from the company over many years so he and his wife could enjoy being part of the high society of the prominent small town. You might not care about that topic but my relatives have ordered this famous bakery’s fruitcakes for generations so it was a particularly intriguing story to me, and I know Texas Monthly was not trying to win someone like you over with clickbait. I’ve seen their hefty magazines on coffee tables for decades and I associate them with thoughtful writing. The story I mentioned is “Just Desserts”.

https://features.texasmonthly.com/editorial/just-desserts/
I’ve always considered America’s uniform worship to make the 3rd irellevent, I guess it goes to show that ensuring rights via law is good even if you think it unnecceraary
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I have a different perspective. In a drug trial you have to prove that a new drug is safe before handing it out to a bigger number of people. The default case (if you don't test the drug) is that nobody gets it.

In this case, it is different. People will put pressure on the government to allow concerts again rather sooner than later and the default case is probably that there will be concerts again before the Corona situation is over. If you don't do the test, you have to make the decision whether / when to allow concerts again blindly.

So basically you have the situation where people will take the new drug anyway and you have the choice whether you want to test its safeness before they do.

If you do the test and it turns out to be unsafe, at least you have good arguments when you need to make the decision.
I've no idea of my precise age.
We have accepted this risk with infectious diseases for the longest time. What has changed?
Loading books using programs like calibre [1] allows you to covert EPUB to MOBI (the kindle format) seamlessly before transferring. In my experience this works perfectly.

[1] https://calibre-ebook.com/
On main page I see: "Customize with emojis", take a look at https://medium.com/@mantia/the-plural-of-emoji-is-emoji-7d05...
Principles of digital literature: how to use them in the text
This is my criticism of most git GUIs. They try to provide 1:1 functionality with the command line. But this defeats the purpose -- instead of making it more obvious what every button will do, it adds an additional layer of complexity where now I have to guess which CLI operation that button maps to. But the point of the GUI is that it's more accessible than the CLI. If you have to learn the CLI interface anyway in order to use the GUI, it is wasting a huge amount of potential.
You have not addressed the significant difference between the two regions. In Florida, the danger is a hurricane knocks things down. In this specific part of Texas, the danger is toxins being thrown everywhere and causing long term harm.
This is only one reason why I absolutely love my Kobo Aura HD, it's never been connected to WiFi. Its storage device is a standard SD card which can be swapped for a larger one. Oh, and it's not giving money to Amazon which is always a big win for me.
It also happens to be a super nice piece of kit, and it has my warmest recommendations.
One heuristic: does this person (or their org) make more money if they get more engagement on Twitter? You can unfollow most such people.
I've already been to concerts this month, so yea. Lots of Europe already restarted large gatherings.
The bargaining is between users and developers. Developers have increasingly taken adversarial positions with their users, who have accepted increasingly onerous terms and privacy policies because individual users are not in a good bargaining position. Apple, in contrast, is in a bargaining position to negotiate terms of use on behalf of its users with developers.

For example, if I purchase a subscription to a language learning app on an iOS device, my ability to seamlessly cancel that subscription has been collectively bargained by Apple (via the terms of service of their payment processing system). That's valuable to me, particularly given the absurd difficulty of canceling subscriptions that are not collectively bargained like gym memberships.

How would Apple impose that same term of use, that subscriptions can be cancelled on device with one click, for a sideloaded app? If they can't do that, developers would offer their app only via sideloading so as to be able to take advantage of that stream of revenue, like gyms. Now there's less competition for language learning apps in the first party app store, and I, a user of that store, suffer.

That's not to say there aren't tradeoffs for that collective bargaining; there are. As you say, we have much less control over iOS devices than we've historically had over our computing devices. Similarly, workers who collectively bargain have much less control over their terms of employment than workers who individually negotiate. But for many workers (and many users), that tradeoff is a good one. Apple is currently the only organization offering it.
I'm in South Jersey and it's the total opposite. I have two friends in the process of buying a home, and all of the homes they look at are immediately sold, sometimes with bidding wars.

It seems like values are up like 10% as a result.
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As someone who weights 250lb? ;)
> Why would you leave on wifi on an e-ink kindle, when not actively downloading a book? The battery lasts 3-4x as long with it disabled (on my 3rd gen device at least).

I concur with keeping the wifi off while not downloading, because battery life is way better, but it doesn't help against data collection.

> Each request also isn't sent as soon as it's generated. A number of these records are created and stored locally, then uploaded (note the sequence_number field). Even if a person is offline while reading, this data is stored and sent when reconnected.
The true GPT-3 was us all along.
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Correction: _commenters_ think of Reddit titles as discussion prompts. I think that's a pretty important distinction to make. It's possible that there is a sizable group of people who actually do click the links, but they don't also go back to comment.
Tarsnap Podcast episode with FreeBSD ex security officer Colin
No it cannot. It only supports Amazon's proprietary ebook formats: AZW and MOBI.
I love the paperwhite, but the limited format support led me to choose a different ereader when I last bought a new one.

Edit: I know I could convert between formats, but that process is not always perfect and can lose important formatting.
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Having to deal with the .epub conversion was the main reason I ditched my Voyage and got a Kobo Aura One instead.
> Keeping it in offline mode doesn't help.

Permanently keeping it offline and only transferring via USB does.
For this I recommend Calibre: https://calibre-ebook.com/

It will convert any format of E-Book to a compatible format for the Kindle (usually MOBI) and allows you to upload it directly. I use it often and it's an amazing piece of software!
The sysadmin in me dies a little bit inside every time I realize there are shops that actually pull images for production from the global registry.