skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Helm is a wannabe package manager, designed for people who really like writing yaml instead of executable code. K8s doesn't really have a fully built out "apps" resource, so that starts the whole process down a gravelly slope of pain... with initial care and if your team need to groom their k8s configs, you can go a long way with helm before the pain starts. A particular problem with helm is that it isn't really a fully fledged programming language, but a glue laid over the golang templating system.

I use helm as little as possible. Usually only enough to template out a single file with the different bits of k8s infra stuck together with `---`.

If I was doing some relatively serious work on custom services with minimal needs to conform to best^H^H^H^Hpopular practices, my service's configuration would be a neatly packaged Java program (its libraries for K8s direct API access are good).

There are different approaches to handling ops tasks; I favor the ones that are rooted in writing executable code over the ones with yaml.

Some bright chappie will probably write a Common Lisp library derivation library and k8s will be obvious and simple with that interface, but I'm not that bright - all I can see is the potential.
You really don’t need a DB for a blog. Just write to the file system.
Tabs or spaces ?
> just some developers' vanity project

I think you underestimate the number of people involved in these kinds of projects.. guarantee there were multiple product managers, a host of UX designers, engineering managers, and devs. It's much harder for a developer to get a thing like this through than a product person.
Of all the games companies I have ever worked for, Linux support has honestly never really come up, except, perhaps in some side "I wonder if we can" R&D project.

Granted I've only worked in smaller studios - but anecdotally, OP is correct - game companies don't care about Linux users, high expense for such a small market share.
Compare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_of_Venus
I don't have any deep (or shallow, for that matter) knowledge or expertise in this, I do wonder a bit if these are the sorts of problems we want to rely on IKEA or Facebook to address. There's no question East Palo Alto today is a much safer place than East Palo Alto in the 90s or 2000's and that can't be a bad thing.

I did mean 'context' because without it, it's quite reasonable to ponder what could possibly be so bad or 'unconstitutional' about Palo Alto having its own version of Gramercy Park. Grody, but maybe not actually illegal?

With the context of 'policy-ied their way to creating an actual ghetto which went on to become the statistical Murder Capital, USA by 1992', one might think of it somewhat differently.
FAQ 1: My face is not detected.

Answer: Please check that your genetics is compatible with ML?

https://www.wired.com/story/best-algorithms-struggle-recogni...
Great writeup to use as introduction and reference.

The striping to have a memory location per core is great for performance but can have a noticeable memory overhead.

It would be interesting to have Intel TSX in the mix. It can be a benefit to some workloads and does not require many adjustments to your code.
> Besides that, e.g. Steam is extremely convenient;

For me, Steam is basically spyware that I don't want on my laptop. It's actually a barrier to me playing games because when I (rarely) consider purchasing something then see it's in Steam, my usual reaction is not too bother. It's my computer, I don't want a 3rd party "store" managing my installs. I feel the same way about the windows store fwiw.

> installs are rapid and safe

Just like normal computer programs then?

> saves are synced across different machines

Possibly useful but not really important to me.

> mods are often well integrated with Steam Workshop, etc.

Didn't know about this one, interesting. But I've never found it hard to install mods for games in the past, without Steam.

Overall it's something I never needed and now that it's being pushed on me, I don't want it.
This is important because it marks the point where we cross the Rubicon into territory where social media companies become arbiters of truth.

It's not so much a question of the actual content in this particular case. What's important is that we're no longer limiting ourselves to censoring harassment, incitement to violence, or posts that damage public health or the democratic process. This kind of censorship steps well into the domain of political speech, and regardless of the merits of this particular decision, the long term effects as this kind of censorship becomes normalized won't be good, especially when it's so easy to silence people with the flick of a switch.
I'll try to dig it up, saw it a while ago on a forum.

Another thing might be that in Rubin's framework it's immediately straightforward to do semi-parametric estimation and get consistency and all that. I'd say in practice that's probably not the first thing to do for DAGs, where writings are focused on toy models (the question then would be: how do I get to the correct DAG?).

Edit: This was posted itt, it has some examples of Rubin's framework (potential outcomes) that can not be identified in the DAG framework
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1907.07271.pdf
> Stats is delegated to the applied math program usually

Which is not unsreasonable considering that these things arent really related to computers (although they happen to involve computation). I think its just an artifact of history and how things happened that ML is associated with CS and EE departments, but really its applied math, not a core CS topic like say compilers, formal languages and complexity.
> Is employee health really something that can be traded away?

Practically yes. Not necessary because management are all sociopaths and narcissists (some are). What management see is well performing motivated employee that does not complain. People are expected to not talk about about them being tired, about their mental issues and put themselves at disadvantage if they show weakness.

Employees in order to look good and for the sake of own ego, dont admit they are at limit. The ego thing is big co-reason, that is what prevents employee from taking action. (And yes employee often has that option.)

When employee breaks and stops performing, he is kept around for the sake of old glory for a while. Then he is either replaced or hidden in one of those sleepy corporate departments full of considered loosers. The employee is then blamed for consequences of break down.
Using my google skills it looks like the maximum supplemental pension in Norway is NOK 293 583 or $32,216 USD.[1]

The maximum US social security pension is $49,680 USD.[2]

Obviously it scales based on income, but at least for US tech workers, you're likely to get close to the maximum amount since you'd be earning over $110,000 for a significant chunk of your career.

The US has a much higher maximum pension amount than Canada, where it's $1,176 CAD or $889 USD. You do get an old age benefit on top of $613 CAD, which bring it up to $1,351 USD or $16,212 USD per year.

[1]https://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?catId=1123&intPageId=47...

[2]https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/progdesc/ssptw/2010-2011/ame...
There are ASICs out there that simulate analog synths, such Universal Audio. Brings to mind some interesting pure software approaches if that were the case.
Anyone who says Valve is resting on their laurels clearly hasn't tried Half Life: Alyx. They've sigularly pushed VR further than all the other games and experiences out there combined.
This doesn’t install hid drivers. This lets you open a connection to a USB device from the browser so that you can talk to it. It’s great because we will finally be able to build web apps that talk natively to USBHID devices like barcode readers and signature tablets. I’m sure chrome is going to have some “authorize this site to connect to USB devices” prompt for security.
The Pentagram and the Proportion of the Golden Mean
The odd thing is why you’d want to force a false dichotomy through anecdata.
That's why you split your drug empire into a server for images and static stuff, and another server to run the rest. The server for the rest can be proxied through the image server, and through another tor connection. That way the feds only find your image server...
> Ooh yes is so blatantly obvious that this is just some developers' vanity project that he enthusiastically promoted in order to get his own promotion.

To be fair, if it was a project to get promoted it wasn't really a vanity project. If it was a vainty project I suspect they wouldn't have quite half way through.

> Really bad redesign for no reason at all, ending in a frankenstein solution of mix of old and new interface.

From the looks of it, it's just applying Google's design that is everywhere else to Blogger. While for many people here this isn't needed. But we're for the most part considered advanced users of majority of things we use. This seems like a change that would make it easier for people who aren't that computer savy and are used to gmail and the other Google products and want to start blogging.
Within the last 5 years I know some other studios were focusing on single-player experience at ship time knowing people may only have the disk to play, for exmaple service members serving overseas.
I always thought that there is a specific cadence or rhythm to the human mind and I would create some music (or sequence of tones) that would get people addicted and I would sell it on a per-listen basis and make trillions.
European Cord of Justus Protects Net Neutrality
Agreed on that, then.
I'm always amazed by this. I live in Vietnam, out of town on a rural road, and I get a solid 60mb connection for both mobile and wired. It's dirt cheap - something like $15 a month for both. Why can't rich countries like Australia manage this? I know population density factors in, but we're not talking about getting data in the outback - just where people actually live.
Social Media Mining Using Word2Vec: A New Approach
You classify it as a threat that is outside the threat model that tor can defend against.

Tor is a tool like any other. It has certain strengths and certain weaknesses. When you're evaluating any security product you always have to determine if the security properties the tool provides match up with the security properties you need. Tor is no different.
Build a Background Eraser App with Huawei ML Kit Image Segmentation
IMO because Dhall is unique syntax to the vast majority of developers who have never done anything with Haskell or Elm or whatever, it’s a non starter for large case use. We use Starlark, where the syntax is familiar to anyone familiar with python.

I like your analogy though. For us, the assembly language is using the k8s API directly in Golang. The “compiler” is the golang Starlark interpreter extended with our own config API, like you would implement in Dhall. It’s just in this case, you can implement it in Golang, which has much much better tooling than Dhall does. A typed compiler, debugger, IDE, unit tests.... so much easier to develop and maintain.
I learned not to use it and wait until the k8s fad goes away.
A problem is that people have to justify their employment, so they have to do 'something' even if that 'something' does not improve things. The other option they have is to move to another division/project. Moving may not always be an option.
it's a "known issue"
maybe it should be mentioned in the documents with more clarity. it seems the author of this post stumbled over what is well known to many people and then went on a diatribe. looks like he hit a nerve so maybe it's really an issue with documentation. on the other hand people should learn about how to think via threat models. not sure if the tor project should be expected to cover every hypothetical scenario, and if they did would people study it?
You need a system which sends constant numbers of bytes/second along every network link.

It would actually be pretty easy to implement for tor (either for the whole network, or individual nodes or routes), but as far as I can see nobody wants to work on it.
And perhaps throw some needles of steganography into the haystack.
Ask HN: Will You Upgrade to iOS 14?
With new OS versions slowing the phones down. Is it okay to upgrade iPhone X to iOS 14?

Anyone who has done it please share your experience of the upgrade.
I like Tutanota much more (except for the last week) for a few reasons. The ones that come to mind include email search, more affordable pricing, and more flexible domain allowances. Also, they tend to roll out new features on a faster timeline, such as the recent addition of a new domain verification method that few providers currently support (that I forgot the name of?) and an in-app calendar.
On the one hand most people are awful writers.

On the same hand, being Cory Doctorow’s boss would be stupid. The whole point of paying him ought to be to do his thing, not yours.

On the other hand anyone who spends $10,000 on a story should already know that. Or maybe Cory Doctorow will tell the payer.

Not all fanfic is bad. Particularly atmospheric stuff, normal people can do quite nicely.
I have a newbie question.

Since blogger is such a stable platform and hasn't seen much change feature wise for sometime now, why does one have to rewrite it if some framework that is uses has been deprecated.

Just asking.
Ah, that explains why the long moribund Groups has been updated too.
Language specific IDEs are less because Language Server Protocol solved this real problem. We converged on a good enough solution.

But unlike IDEs and programming language support, note-taking is inherently personal. There is no one-size fits all. I am more disorganized than otherwise, but I prefer separate tools for separate occasions. I like pen and paper for quick jot-downs and napkin math, notepad++/Sublime for quick copy-pastes, OneNote for $DAYJOB and org-mode for long term knowledge base and blogging.

I am sure real people exist who prefer one over the other on more than one occasion.
It seems these pointless redesigns that only worsen the experience are everywhere.

The Reddit one is another perfect example.
I do remember reading that there was a lack of maintenance by PG&E but as you say it is a systemic governance failure and to single out one point of failure is scapegoating.
Ask HN: Which tool helps automate Facebook ADs?
Any experience in using any tool for Facebook Ads automation?
You can get pretty strong anonymity. That actually got built out pretty well in 2000 by Zero Knowledge Systems, and they open sourced all the components into the Linux kernel back in 2000: https://adam.shostack.org/zeroknowledgewhitepapers/Freedom_S...

They actually dealt a lot with the traffic analysis problem, and had both a technical and financial model to encourage defense against it. It wasn't perfect, but it would be more resilient to this stuff than Tor IMHO. It just had the disadvantage that latency was atrocious (for obvious reasons), and ultimately it turns out people don't care about anonymity.
Show HN: Using CI to build AUR packages and reduce system upgrade time
These are all public comments. Here's a page citing sources.

https://www.corbettreport.com/gates/#part3

GATES: Here we can see a chart that looks at the total world population over the last several hundred years, and at first glance this is a bit scary. We go from less than a billion in 1800, and then 3, 4, 5, 6—and 7.4 billion, where we are today, is happening even faster. So, Melinda and I wondered whether providing new medicines and keeping children alive, would that create more of a population problem?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obRG-2jurz0

SCOTT PELLEY: . . . and what the developing world does not need is more children.

MELINDA GATES: And I think that was the biggest “ah-ha” to Bill and me when we got into this work. Because we asked ourselves, of course, the same hard-nosed question you’d ask, which is: “If you get into this work and you start to save these children, will women just keep overpopulating the world?” And thank goodness, the converse is absolutely true.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_xEn5mudP8

https://archive.org/details/AMERICANEUGENICSSOCIETYMEMBERS/p...
yes, I've done that. I did not find a reliable way to make the layout stick to a particular keyboard. but the main problem is it takes too much space
I do wonder how deep Facebook's tracking goes. I deleted my old account. A couple of years later, I had to make another one to advertise a new product I'm working on. I used my real name because it was tied to my FB advertising account, but I added no friends and shared zero details except for my address (again, required for the ad account).

Facebook's friend recommendations since then have been hilariously wrong. I thought they'd just track my location or use some complex algorithm to match me to old friends. But they don't seem to have a clue about any of it.
I suppose you think that nuclear power plants should be operated under the same "run to failure" maintenance policy?
That is just Valve securing their future, and even then it never goes higher than 2%.

It is quite telling that studios rather target ChromeOS or Android than any proper Linux distribution, the days of Loki are long gone.
What gets demo'd on the developer's laptop: [Idris Elba]

What gets shipped to production: [Toonified Idris Elba]

https://assets.justinpinkney.com/toonify/images/vllkyt5r43p1...
I'm a bit confused by the value prop here, or maybe I'm just missing it. There seems to be much talk of theming and extensibility, features which every existing text editor has.

This is not meant to put down the product—I've bought and enjoyed multiple Panic products in the past.
New in Thunderbird 78
You can trivially play Windows games on Linux thanks to Steam Play and proton. I've done so since 2018. Most games that don't work are broken because of DRM. Some more are broken because of some minor thing like missing video codec but very few games actually use proprietary codecs like WMV. The rest just work.
If you've never learnt the algorithms required to solve a Rubik's cube-- don't. Understanding and solving a cube by brute effort is a great little challenge to come back to over the years.
> For traditional e-books, Amazon lets publishers offering titles on Kindle decide whether or not to include DRM.
> The last hop is the exit node. It can see all of your decrypted network traffic.

Didn't see it clarified in the article, but IIRC for onion services like OP's the traffic doesn't go out of traditional internet exit nodes and traffic is end-to-end encrypted. Not only can the last relay before the onion service not see all of your decrypted network traffic, I don't believe they can tell they are even the last relay.

Traffic analysis has been a known issue as long as Tor has existed. What I'd like to see are solutions. Can Tor be used with some kind of fixed-rate noise type of protocol (I toyed w/ a rudimentary fixed-rate traffic algo once[0])? Or is it too broken and do we need another P2P (fixed-transfer-rate) protocol? i2p, tribbler, etc haven't gained mass adoption.

0 - https://github.com/cretz/deaf9/blob/master/mask/context_read...
i'm curious to hear about your alternative deployment strategy (no snark intended)
If you have 4G of ram and 120G of disk and a slow internet connection all of this matter.

Fwiw before getting internet fiber, a 95MB file resulted in about 20 min download (my reference was 300MB an hour).
Maintaining legacy UI frameworks is a tech debt for organizations, so there is always a move to migrate to new frameworks.
> So not only does it blow me away technologically, but also that I got it as a free upgrade almost a year after buying the headphones!

Being pedantic here: it is not actually free for you. The costs of improvements delivered through software updates are built into the original price you paid for it through deferred revenues and "subscription accounting". [1] In other words, Apple is not subsidizing new feature delivery from other sources of revenue or from debts. This came from the collective AirPod Pro users' pockets.

Accounting (and the related legality) aside, it is great to see hardware products get enhancements and a longer useful life through such means (whenever it happens).

[1]: https://appleinsider.com/articles/13/11/01/apple-now-sitting...
Most of them do that now - the better markets have gateways that are CAPTCHA'd and spread out over other providers that then proxy to the real hidden service (you can do this with a second step over Tor again)

Checkout this project which is now being more widely deployed to prevent a lot of these attacks:

https://github.com/onionltd/EndGame
Yes, but the partisan divide based on political parties historically has been far more along the North/South divide than the rural/urban divide.
Also fantastic when out star gazing.
that is not my understanding. how are you defining "effective income"
Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest discusses this, only it's a film.
The Zen of Python: As Related by Masters
For many simple applications, an aws autoscaling group and application load balancer is as good as k8s and far simpler.

If you're running microservices (to the point where you have so many small services that having an asg per service), than the above strategy does waste resources compared to k8s I guess... But you'd need a lot of microservices to justify the significant overhead k8s has.
Wait, people are still using blogspot?
If you are interested in mathematical notations, check out Terry Tao's comment [0][1] on desirable properties of math notations. It was discussed not long ago [2].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terence_Tao

[1] https://mathoverflow.net/questions/366070/what-are-the-benef...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23911903
> Besides that, e.g. Steam is extremely convenient; installs are rapid and safe, saves are synced across different machines, mods are often well integrated with Steam Workshop, etc.

For me Steam is a huge annoiance: every time I want to play a game it keep bugging me with that the client needs an update or with chat windows. It is slow and sluggish compared to the steam store website. And worst of all, some games don't play when you're offline, even though they are just single player games.

Maybe it's because I'm just a casual player nowadays so features like friends lists that keep popping up are not useful for me and the frequent updates never change anything because I'm not using any of the features they update. But Steam is not the solution for everyone.
That's not correct. It is in fact just any comments. It's strange but true. I know because I just finished a D&I training recently.
Where I live in rural Missouri, we have "rural electric cooperatives." They are customer-owned utilities set up in the 1930s. From my experience and that of everyone I've talked to in the region, the coops are incredibly reliable, take safety and maintenance very seriously, and provide service at very reasonable rates.

It seems clear to me that for-profit business is the wrong model for an infrastructure monopoly like power delivery networks.
Introduction to the Relational Algebra
It could be more nuanced than that. In zombie-like states it looks like System 1 takes over and you just do basic activities without really being present in them. In the "flow" state you need to actively engage System 2, although at the same time you tend to reduce the amount of external stimuli to focus on the action at hand.
Probably a generational thing. I get far more phone calls than texts. I’d think it was super weird if a friend texted me before calling me.
>I can play 60%+ of games on Linux because Valve cares way more than anyone else.

I'd give Valve money JUST FOR THIS ! Thank you Valve - Keep kicking ass. No I'm not a fanboy I didn't even play Half-Life.
It’s not though? You can get the ebooks DRM free directly from him and amazon offers the ability to not use their DRM for ebooks