skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Congrats on this launch, it's great to see serious efforts at Kubernetes simplification and I hope you succeed! K8s bills itself as a "platform for platforms", and such projects are a real test of that idea.

Questions:

1. How do you deal with the mutability of K8s resources? Do you assume people won't change the underlying resources that you generate, or do you keep k8s controllers running to ensure there's no deviation?

2. How understandable is your generated output to humans? Do users have a way to go "backwards" through your abstraction? (Since your tool lives in an ecosystem with many other kubernetes tools, your users will sometimes end up having to deal with the generated output, since other tools operate at the K8s level such as prometheus, log aggregators etc)

3. Do you interoperate with K8s-level resources well? Do _all_ my services need to be in this abstraction for this to work well? e.g. Can my hyscale yaml reference a non-hyscale service for any reason? Or are they essentially two separate worlds?
I've been trying to use duckduckgo for almost a year, but I can't really justify it. I've even gotten used to just adding !g at the end of each search. It has terrible results for anything non english and pretty bad latency where in asia it seems.

Does anyone have a recommendation for another search engine that does decently well in terms of privacy and also supports chinese results?
True, but at least on the web I can inspect what network requests it sends, what the code is (even if it's obfuscated). Native SDKs are just a black hole.
“Naturally“ is a mental trap we have walked ourselves into, with John Muir leading the charge.

There is not and never has been in recorded history, a “natural” forest in California. They were anthropomorphic, but in a manner the Western eye refused to see. The indigenous peoples were not a bunch of ignorant riffraff living in a forest paradise wrought by God or Nature. They were the forest paradise, and when they were gone the forests began to change.

“Tending the Wilds” has great coverage of this topic, but if you are not into horticulture it might be a little dry. Still worth a skim.
Community college is a lot more pleasant than military sevice.
Quoting it yields the expected result: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22vk%22&ia=web

Compare with Bing (where DDG gets its search results from) https://www.bing.com/search?q=vk
I just fell in love with this list.
I'm considering handing it to the very expensive consultants who make shiny presentations but tend to be very vague about how concepts get transformed into tangible things.
Creating a Decision Journal
The Censor's Hand: The Misregulation of Human-Subject Research
Show HN: Topic-based 1-on-1 chat
This comment really did not help my depression as someone that makes $150k two years into a FAANG job. I've never even been able to get interviews from HRT or Jane Street, and my Citadel offer was less than $200k...
I thought that "VK" was too short to register as a query, but other capitalized two letter combinations return many results.
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Or the wikipedia page for the site?

As others are pointing out, this is actually a popular site not just for russian content. Owing to the jurisdiction, it's actually a popular place for hosting various ripped/pirated PDFs.
Ive been using DDG as a default search for a while now. My conclusion is that the results are just NOT as good as Google's. I find myself using Google searches for time sensitive or mission critical searches, which totally defeats the purpose of a search engine.

As an example, I was playing around with Phaser and found that DDG just does not surface the entire Phaser documentation or forums correctly, and had to switch my default browser search for when I was putting time there.

I want to want to support DDG, but the lack of quality around searches makes it difficult.
> what was the purpose of the free lunch then?

A completely irrelevant point, just like this tired cliche.

> Not sure why you are looking at download costs, how about the employee costs who develop IOS.

The cost to the end user is how much it costs them to download/acquire iOS, which is $0, for all versions & updates, previous, current & future. The employee costs is part of the Apple's massive investment into creating & maintaining iOS, an investment they're able recuperate from App Store revenue.

Which is exactly my point, it would've cost Apple billions to develop & maintain iOS over its lifetime yet they give it away for free because they're able to collect revenue for alternative revenue streams such as the App Store.

> If you googled those business models you will understand that there is no free lunch, similarly there isnt one with IOS, you pay for it when you buy the device.

Your forced cliche keeps failing. Android like iOS doesn't have a price because there isn't one, there is $0 cost to the end user, maintaining an ubiquitous dominant mobile OS generates incomes through alternative revenue sources - shouldn't be a surprise to anyone they both have App Stores that generates revenue from the same standard Royalty %.

> Apple has no problems when IOS does not run "acceptably"

Of course they do, they care deeply about UX and maintaining high Customer satisfaction & Brand value which is always at industry highs, they'll never throw a link to new OS's and say we don't support & have never tested this on legacy hardware older than 5 years, but feel free to try installing the latest software on inadequate devices yourself - it may not run & may brick your device, but we don't care because it's years out of warranty so it's no longer our problem! No, just like their other OS's they'll enforce the minimum hardware it can run adequately on.

> infact they make it a feature so that IOS runs slow on older phones so that people will buy new phones to pay for IOS.

Not only are your cliches bad, but so are your debunked conspiracy theories! Also you can't pay for iOS.
Fraud is extremely common and the best way to avoid it is to get personal recommendations for anything important, like business contacts, lawyers, or accountants.

Over a decade ago, a friend of mine was under the legal age when he sold his collection of websites with the same theme for around $100m. I'm sure you've heard of at least one of the properties. Being underage, he didn't know how to protect himself, and he gave his lawyers power of attorney. They took almost the entire acquisition for themselves and left the USA.

That's fraud. Those guys are still out there. He contacted other lawyers and they basically said "it's been too long the money is gone and so are these criminals."
Yes. I manually put Region=Russian in the comment's URL.(kl=ru-ru)

So you get russian results.
Checkout Kanaree.io it is the real deal for building out eCommerce data warehouses
True. But then you might not have the cost advantage over the jet.
"Old firefighting techniques have build up vast caches if flammable material that we cannot afford to remove by any other means than forest fires."

I see this repeated a lot. Can you talk specifically about the effect of early/mid 20th century firefighting in the Big Basin fire as compared to the Australian bushfires last year, the Siberian fires in 2019, and the Amazon fires this year and last?

I am not sure any prior firefighting occurred in Siberia. And I feel like a lot of people repeat that "firefighting has left too much fuel and that's causing these fires" as though it's conventional wisdom... but it's not quantified so I don't know if it's 100% of the cause or just contributing 10%. In fact, I don't even know how to measure the buildup of flammable material (kg/sq meter?) or how it effects fire intensity. It feels like the discussion around this can veer into being hopeful and unscientific.
There are a lot of advantages to defining these things in some form of text-based configuration files. You get to track everything in source control, you don't need to worry about upgrades somehow breaking the UI or database, you can quickly and easily check any deployment config anywhere if needed, you can diff changes in a sensible way.

Adding a web UI option in addition isn't a bad idea at all, but I like the canonical form being config files, be it YAML or HCL or some CoffeeScript-type thing.
I agree. More like exporting a debt economy, which necessarily has to be capitalist at some level.
Overall the number of hurricanes is down dramatically. 2 in Texas don't break that trend.
"Intents and purposes" has a meaning on its own word-by-word. Not so much with the eggcorn. What is "intensive" about the "purpose" in "intensive purposes"?
Which book(s) would you recommend?

I quite liked:

Validating Product Ideas

https://rosenfeldmedia.com/books/lean-user-research/
Is it that easy now? I actually was in this situation about 3 years ago and found I could not simply mount the ZFS drive - and I cannot recall exactly why. I think it had something to do with the pool…configuration(?), and I went down a rabbit hole trying to sort it out. Fortunately in this case the tradeoff in time was more valuable than the data (it was a system drive on a small SSD) so I had the option to ditch my efforts with little to lose. But, I did spend a handful of hours on it with no traction.
GloFo has historically been unprofitable and their investors were unhappy with the idea that, just as they had finally reached profitability, they now needed to either

A) spend tens of billions of dollars on a new fab facility
B) shut down production in one of the existing facilities while spending billions of dollars to upgrade it to 7nm

While not having the volume to be able to court the largest customers who are the most interested in 7nm.

They decided to stick with their existing 14nm infrastructure and specialize in the long tail of smaller customers who want custom chips and don't need a leading-edge node.
The kindle for pc software downloads your books on a folder. These are the encrypted versions with no real evident names to identify but it is a local copy that you can backup.

If you want to go the dedrm way It has been answered a little further down the thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24272631

Edit: link to the dedrm post.
Well is there a similarly situated concentrated zone of toxins in florida which isn’t sufficiently secured against damage?

You still haven’t addressed the central point! Every disaster has some potential to cause wider damage. But the linked article is making a a specific claim that the Galveston area is far beyond normal levels.
!vk is one of DDG Bangs. This may have something to do with it.

https://duckduckgo.com/bang?q=vk
No if you change the language to Russian, it still shows the single result in English. Changing region is the only way around it.
The Boomer and the Millenial
A big difference is the size of the population that lives in the danger area because of Houston zoning. It's the 4 largest city in the US by population with a massive greater city area
> there being no reason to protect Sun anymore

There is still a reason to protect themselves, of course, from a historical judgement that wouldn't appear particularly kind.
Only in one of the concerts did they do that. One of the concerts was meant to simulate pre-Covid days. No masks, no social distancing. At least that's how it read to me.
Per item 1, now would be a good time for every single developer on the app store to revolt in unison.

Collective bargaining.
Optimal Peanut Butter and Banana Sandwiches
How to Wake Up Early
Neuron (https://neuron.zettel.page/) can be useful for this approach - it's purpose is to basically turn folder of Markdown (or Org-mode) notes into static, interlinked page with pretty formatting, tree view and search support. Not only is it great for making reading more pleasant, it works great for building blogs and knowledge bases.
VK is the most popular social media site in and near Russia. It is like Facebook there.

A lot of pirated content exists there. Mainly songs.
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Searching vk "" gives the results, no matter the language or region settings
Why People Use Instagram and What Brands Can Learn
In Dutch, "VK" is the abbreviated form of United Kingdom. There should be far more results than that.
Our team actually ported the GemRB project to the web!

https://personal-1094.web.app/gemrb.html
> Either you're good enough to maintain at least that level of comp, and you stay, or you're out within a year or two.

Tech companies have explicit up-or-out policies for lower-level engineers. I don't think the top trading firms do any more firing of new grads than FANG does.
In other weird search results if you search for 4chan with tor you get wikipedia and news results. If you search without tor you get the real website and in general more relevant results.
I have to second this. The problem described in the article is how cheap phones get exploited by malwares and apps that come preinstalled on them. This could be the reason why they become so cheap in the first place, both the manufacturers and distributors could have been collaborating with the app makers. I seriously doubt any brand would intentionally pre-install any money-stealing app to damage their long term business. Without looking into the details of the specific apps and how they got installed, using a title of obvious Sino-phobia and simply play the blame-China game like Donald Trump, is just lame and iresponsible.
Even if you want to make it complex it's if it is core to your business and provides competitive advantage build otherwise buy.
> Obviously the protectionist crowd would take issue with all this,

"We" (the US) still lives in a violent world, or at the very least a slow, soft violent world where soft power might cut us off from Taiwan.

I find the fact that one half of the "techno-elite" crowd thinks that giving up on hard problems is a long term feasible position. We must be able to manufacture and produce the absolute best fundamental technologies from a strategic standpoint, even if it isn't a core, market efficient concern.

The rest of the world is modernizing, dealing with modern problems (disease spread, high end technical manufacturing, green technology), and we can't even get out of our own way. Frustrating.
“and before you realize it, you’ve got a load of freshly overhauled attack helicopters getting snuck out of Marseille in the middle of the night going to Chad.”

Maybe not but if it's not illegal, why would they need to be snuck out? He might have just been adding more drama to a regular old arms deal
> Just don't use it

What's the argument here, why not just don't use an iPhone then? Why turn an iPhone into more of an Android? I have an iPhone because I don't want to be like an Android. It's a feature to me that this (and other possibilities, bad and good) is not possible, hence why I bought it.
I guess I might have some misconceptions of OCaml. Are there other companies that use it? I ask because whenever someone says "OCaml is used in industry, for example, Jane Street", they say it like it's just one example, but it's always Jane Street.
> Is there a reason why that text needs to be sent before the user clicks the "translate" button?

Yes - UX latency. I would expect this kind of thing to take a few thousand milliseconds, and shaving off a few hundred milliseconds from between when the user highlights text and when they select "translate" is significant. The fact that this data is being sent to Wikipedia of all places further signals that the usage is likely to be innocuous.

Do I think that this is globally a good design decision? No, for both engineering and privacy reasons. There's definitely no good reason why it should be sent to Amazon at all.
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Death from Above: Lateral Movement from Azure to On-Prem Ad
It's getting harder and harder these days to get a good meal in the US for under $10 all-in w/ tax outside of rural super low COL areas.

In any of the major urban areas in the states, a $5 budget would limit you to various street foods (a couple of tacos, a banh mi, maybe a slice of pizza) or a couple of items from the dollar menu at the various fast food chains. Frankly, your typical airline meal is more filling and nutritious (but not as tasty, unless you're flying a middle eastern or flagship asian airline, of course).

A decent McDonald's meal for example, would blow up your $5 budget pretty easily.
> It's better if you can write something like: "If you were born before 6 April 1960 ... otherwise ...". Note that "after 6 Apr 1960" is arguably more ambiguous than "before 6 Apr 1960" because there's a slight risk that someone could interpret "6 Apr 1960" as meaning 1960-04-06 00:00:00.

I strongly prefer pairing “before” and “on or after” (or “on or before” with “after”) when it comes to dates. “On <date>” is widely and conventionally understood to encompass the entire day, and it seems to make it far less likely than with after/before alone with “otherwise” that people will trip up over boundary conditions. But the right phrasing is highly sensitive to the context and the underlying rule; if it's an age based rule and you have fixed text that doesn't dynamically adjust by dates you can't use date-based language even if it would be clearer.
That’s a great point, but I don’t think theory says that you have to stay at the base level of your specialization. While not as high margin as the other industries, they could go up the value chain and start producing smoothie packets to make more money.

If they made great smoothies (in addition to growing bananas), then they wouldn’t be leaving that market to blond Californian influencers living in Bali.
This date has no bearing as most of these stocks will not be traded before November 3rd
That's not a problem with the admission system, that's a problem with the scholarship being underfunded. If 33% is missing people, go to 50%. This idea that college admissions should be competitive is absolutely toxic
!yt is also a bang for Youtube.

Searching YT gives results https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=yt
One of the major points of EUV is to avoid the need for this kind of thing in the first place.
Sometimes I consider myself lucky that most of the things I read, except for technical books, exist in the public domain.

I'm really not comfortable that my license of reading could be revoked. Or if the company somehow died, or if the kindle program is terminated, or if the relationships with the publisher deteriorate, my content will vanish.

I gained this anxiety when Netflix pulled away "House M.D.", which I binged watched until just before Season 8. Life became busy and I had to stop. When I came back, eagerly wanting to watch the last season, it was already gone from the catalogue.

TV shows, I can forego; book collections I cannot.

When one day I no longer reside in a small apartment, I'll probably go back to buying physical copies.
> ZFS-on-Linux was always behind BSD ZFS until recently.

Sure, but the sort of people who need ZFS are the same sort of people who are doing their storage on a SAN, and so the sort of people for whom choice of OS (for the SAN itself) can be contingent on choice of storage layer, rather than the other way around.

This is half the reason ZFS-on-Linux didn't have much momentum: most ZFS deployments were happy to just run BSD on their SAN, then serve SAN volumes out over the network (or into a hypervisor cluster) for Linux systems to consume.
I don't think this is it. VK has an english version as well. I've seen it being used by the English-speaking people.
As unpopular as it might be, but DDG is just a very bad search engine, and always has been. Bing really is the best at the moment IMO.
How tough is it to take down such an operation? Bill Ackman bet and lost $1B trying:

https://dealbreaker.com/2020/05/herbalife-fined-for-china-br...
If you take the companies as nation states and the citizens as users then yes Epic’s citizens are largely minors, whereas Apple’s are adults.

Also, the nation of Apple is larger and much more politically connected to true nation states.
That document doesn't mention anything about Airplane mode at all. Nor does it describe the Significant Locations feature as "saving the list of wifi access points"; in fact, I'm fairly sure that's not what they're talking about, and instead they're talking about the feature iOS uses to determine that you tend to go to the same place for lunch on Tuesdays or the same friend's house on Saturday afternoons and offer that as a Siri suggestion -- which is almost certainly GPS-based.

Last but not least, Significant Locations data is not just described as "end-to-end encrypted and cannot be read by Apple", it's clearly in the list of items under "By enabling Location Services, location-based system services such as these will also be enabled": e.g., if you're really, really bothered by this, you can turn it off.
Google like all other web search engines never scan their whole index when searching, it's way too expensive. All sorts of tricks are used to aggressively prune matching results at every opportunity during retrieval until maybe a few hundred best scoring docs are left and that's what you're paging through.

But yeah, estimated result count is still a big lie either way
Same here (sans the Kindle). All eBook readers I have bought have never been connected to a WiFi network.
If I want to change the books, i do it via USB.

That fact that Amazon collects these very detailed metrics has been well known for a long time. You will find old discussions in the MobileRead forum. Here is a thread from 2013 "Block Big Brother":

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=205224
I think you can prepend your search on DDG with !g and it'll search google for you, without leaking your info to google.
What information in The Mom Test would you say is misleading or incorrect?
Change My Mind - I currently agree with Apple's strategy with blocking Unreal Engine. Why is it that a big company (like Epic) thinks it's no longer subject to the Apple Tax while us small guys thrive with the platform for which we wouldn't have the audience/opportuity without Apple. Are we all subject to the same cycle if we "make it", we'll buck against the 30% cut and bite the hand that fed us. This is bad business, it's going to create a stronger reaction by Apple that will only hurt the smaller guys. Plus is Epic doing anything to help us smaller developers in the mean time besides wasting money in a court system? Are they creating a fund for us help bridge us to a different system if their appeal fails? So please let me know your opinion, and if I'm wrong, please let me know why.
If you want to be a software engineer instead of a "code monkey", this is part of it. The software engineer has to be able to see the second order effects of changes to the code.
Comparison is the thief of joy. You are more than your work, and I would say you'll always be unhappy if you define your identity or your success by how much money you earn. Someone around you will always earn more than you, or have some other successful characteristic that you do not.

That being said: while it's not perfectly meritocratic, I would say tech and (this side of) finance is uniquely attainable for someone who has the determination and tenacity to build the requisite skills. You don't need to have gone to a particular school. Barring a felony, your past choices in life will not hold you back.

If you already got into one of FAANG, you almost certainly have a strong baseline skillset already. If it's really important to you, focus on achieving further mastery of your craft and figure out what you need to do to pass an interview at this kind of firm.
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