skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Long experience shows that it doesn't. It just adds layers of obfuscation to the subject. You spend all of the time explaining what a "resolver" is, for starters, and then have to explain how that model then doesn't really match how the softwares fit together on their operating system and LAN, because it was intended to be an operating system neutral model. And then you get to explain that almost no-one will understand you correctly if you use the term properly.

Whereas explain to them that it's a form of publication, from content servers through proxies to client libraries in applications, like HTTP, and it generally clicks what part of the overall system talks to what other parts. People have some absurd models of how things work, from ISPs talking to ISPs to relays along chains of content servers.

Explaining that it's actually like HTTP gets people using the correct mental model, and matches how the softwares in reality fit together. There really is a DNS client library, and it has a name such as (for example) libresolv. There really is a proxy DNS server, and one can point to a specific process running its program, again with names (dnscache, pdns-recursor, et al.), to its back-end and front-end traffic, and to whether it is configured to forward or to resolve. There really are content DNS servers, again with nameable programs (nsd, tinydns, walldns, pdns_server, et al.), with specific locations, and with content sources that one can point to.

The fact that RFC 7719 exists should tell one something, even if it weren't spelled out in its introduction that the RFC terminology is confusing, contradictory, and going to change wholesale "real soon now".

Here's a mental exercise:

Configure your machine with 1.1.1.1 in /etc/resolv.conf. The RFCs, including RFC 7719, tell you both that your "resolver" is the program that does the entire job of "resolution" and that it is located on the same machine as the program requesting the lookups. You have a DNS client library locally, linked into your applications, that is talking to a resolving proxy DNS server running on a machine operated by Cloudflare. The resolving proxy DNS server is doing all of the grunt work of query resolution, retrieving content from content DNS servers with back-end transactions, and Cloudflare's machine is where its front-end and back-end are. It's simple to explain that way. Now point to your "resolver". Then further try explaining it to someone else. Then try explaining that Cloudflare's server is a DNS server, but not a "name server". See what happens when you tell them that for an explanation of "name server" they just need to use RFC 7719 to "research it more".
Engines is the least of concerns. Mercedes win, not because they also produce the engine, but because they pour nearly half a billion euros into the car, with engines being a vanishingly small amount of that. They have a car with superior aerodynamics and mechanical grip. Making the engine standardized will not change that.
Small-time embezzlers are just normal people too! Loan sharks, shady mechanics, and bail bondsmen are also extractive everymen.

Landlords extract the marginal difference between what people can buy and what people can rent. By participating in real estate markets, they leverage inequality of capital to overcharge renters beyond what the market would clear at without landlords.

I know most tax evaders are poor too, paid under the table. I'm sorry for them but I don't forgive their theft from the rest of us. Likewise, I don't forgive market-distorting landlords extracting rents from would-be buyers.
This is somewhat a philosophical question/ Ship of Theseus - you are only licensed to run MacOS on Apple hardware, but what if I had, say, an Xserve and replaced a hard drive? What about a Motherboard? Would a Franken-XServe with an AMD Threadripper still be ‘Apple Hardware?’
I expect you will see barriers come up over time that make it more difficult for American tech companies in Europe. It makes no sense for the EU to outsource such a valuable part of the economy.
I notice milk frozen immediately after purchase and then weeks later thawed doesn't last very long, a few days a most, before it curdles (US Costco organic 1%).

We also get organic UHT chocolate milk in small boxes which lasts a few months. UHT organic heavy cream in small boxes last some months as well.
Not sure about the big warning I got upfront about performance in my browser (Firefox) urging me to switch to Chrome. I ignored it and everything ran just fine.
Arylic boards

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As a kid I used to sneak UHT (long-lasting) milk in the shopping cart because the sweeter taste went well with cereals. It always seemed like a magic trick by Nature, along with roasted bread (the Maillard reaction) or simply leaving a pear to become ripe, soft and sweet.
Gentoo ebuild for Firefox 81 allows settig own Google API Key
The commit would be: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=ed273ce...

Via the usage of MOZ_API_KEY_GOOGLE
Unless you're large and popular to warrant custom case, spam en-masse is almost always computer generated and certainly without JavaScript support, you can battle it easily.

Just add an input with value which is submitted when user has no javascript. Change that value via javascript and check for existance server-side.

This has been working well ever since comment spammers became a thing 15 or something years ago. It has not failed me since.
90-95% publication rate might have worked in 1905 but it would not be feasible given the huge volume of papers now. A journal must provide curation because the majority of submissions it gets are terrible, and it’s too much work for an editor to do. Hence peer review.
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Ruby is slow. Also micro services over http. No contradict.
Unless one is somehow inconvenient for the company e.g. involved in employee organization or tweeted some wrongthink. Then they get thrown out faster than they can say "is this legal?".
I wonder if irradiating by say 10 MeV electron beam could work for raw milk. Perhaps with the right dose, the taste shouldn't be altered significantly, yet the bacteria should be gone
I love how some CEOs think that their engineers are like cobbs of corn that they can sell in the market. Motherfuckers ... these are human beings. They aren't your "produce". If you don't make a valuable business, you aren't owed money when your employees leave for better jobs.

Fuckin Silicon Valley "business" types make me sick.

I had a 1 on 1 with a business school type who said, "anyone can code, but it takes a special person to come up with a new idea."

I smiled over the zoom call, but in my head I was thinking ... good luck finding engineers.
What did it actually do? The article is pretty light.
All I can think reading that judgment is that I would never in a million years want to work for or with the CEO of Hooked on anything.

As others have noted, California’s strong labor laws, especially around non-competes, are part of why there is such a concentration of talent there as opposed to other states, let along other countries. Talent wants the freedom to move around.

Part of the reason why the no-poach agreements between Apple and Adobe and others was so disgusting was because that was collusion by multi-billion dollar companies to prevent employee mobility. And the companies were sanctioned heavily for this as a result.

Because in other states, something as egregious as a company trying to sell off its employees (after rejecting an acquihire agreement), and then suing one of the employees who decided to jump off the sinking ship and join a company that actually wanted to compensate him and where he might actually have a future, might be successful.

Take the recent Amazon situation here in Seattle [1] where the company attempted to enforce a non-compete on an employee it wasn’t going to promote and whose hiring-manager assured that the non-compete was “boiler plate” and that the company would not exercise. When the employee’s boss (that same hiring manager), left for a job at Oracle, and wasn’t sued, he took that as a sign he could seek outside employment. The employee took a job at Google, took steps to make sure he wouldn’t be infringing on any sensitive information, and HR congratulated him. Then Amazon sued him and got an injunction on letting him work on PowerPoints at his new job. This was ultimately settled but the fact that Amazon did this — and did this not to an engineer but a marketing professional — should worry any Amazon employee in the state of Washington. (The more senior employee who took a job at Oracle was based in California).

Washington State’s non-compete laws are good for low-level employees, but the salary cap of $100,000 makes it worthless for virtually any person employed by a tech company (or a place like Boeing), though the existence of those kinds of non-competes varies from company to company.

[1]: https://www.geekwire.com/2020/amazon-settles-lawsuit-former-...
Last week's discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24627745
The amount of cream in pasteurized milk is tightly controlled; the milk is literally run through a centrifuge and the skim milk separated from the cream, then cream is re-added to a certain percentage. With raw milk, this processing doesn't occur, allowing for cream content as high as it comes straight from the cow.
> IP is one of the very few areas wherein smaller companies can have any hope of leverage over larger ones.

Leverage over another isn't the only way to compete.

If there was no IP, smaller companies would have alternatives such as blatantly copying the larger companies' better product features, while being nimbler to innovate with those ideas, and to blend features from different companies into a new product.

Not every small company would be good at that. But some would. Some smaller companies would have more ability to out-innovate incumbents.

Of course that already happens, but it could happen more freely without IP.

The smaller companies would still have the problem of being noticed, selling their products, and getting investor interest (which I'm told IP helps with), but those problems aren't new.
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Can't believe someone's praising the US job market during the pandemic.

Although it must be said that the FAANG & co employees are insulated from the effects of it and maybe unaware of the drama unfolding right now.
Thank you.

I think we should draw on XML strength points. People read articles in browser, not plain text. "Add to cart" is just a POST request with id

curl -d id=foo

yet we have forms and interactivity. Like in literate programming text and data live together, interactive application like a Smalltalk image.

In XML we can separate data from presentation.

<?xml-stylesheet type="text/css" href="foo.css"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="bar.xsl"?>
<root>...

Machine receives data, human receives application with documentation, builder. That's exactly what we have today except UI can be plugged to any stored document. To good to be true.

I think XML was killed by poor usability. Plain text XML, XHTML and XSLT authoring is not fun.

I am trying to uncover it from DOM perspective [1], so far I like it more than Markdown. XHTML and HTML is just a serialization format. HTML is not a good one [2], [3], [4]. XSLT may have nice GUI or compact syntax like RELAX NG.

[1] http://sergeykish.com/live-pages

[2] http://sergeykish.com/script-style-is-cdata-in-html

[3] http://sergeykish.com/pre-newline-ignored-in-html-test

[4] http://sergeykish.com/content-after-html-appended-to-body-in...
Re: DDoS protection:

AWS includes their standard anti-DDoS support for free with most AWS services exposed to public including Cloudfront. https://aws.amazon.com/shield/getting-started/
office space
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9E_SDwUM4kM
I will push back a little bit, because I'm curious to see if anyone has a good argument for why I'm wrong on this.

I would say that it's the equivalent of having the HR person mail their computer in, swapping out the motherboard, and mailing it back. This is, from my experience, what most IT departments actually do in this sort of situation. Maybe I'm wrong. I'm not an IT guy.

The surgeons proposed to directly fix the problem. I don't see a good alternative proposal for their team to make, given imperfect information about every patient.

What is a plausible mechanism for a real-world physician to intricately investigate every moment of every patient's personal life to get to the elemental root cause of every single illness? Someone would have to follow them around 24/7 with a video camera.
Yes, this is the only kind I buy but even better is High Pressure Processing. This pasteurizes the milk with pressure rather than heat preserving all the desirable properties of raw milk without any of the risks. There is a company in Australia (Made By Cow) selling this kind of milk but it does not seem to have spread to other countries yet.
Vaguely related: We use AWS S3 to poll for changes in a file from dozens of deployed devices regularly (polling is not the smartest way...). We get failures that the file header cannot be retrieved many times a week. Well, one could guess it's a connectivity problem of the device. Most are on cellular networks, but the problem also occurs from devices connected to one of the top US universities' network. The devices send an alarm right away when it happens via AWS SNS and we receive them, so we are forced to believe that AWS S3 reliability is not that high. If it really were a general connectivity issue we wouldn't get the alarm either; there is (light) retry for the S3 access, but none for the SNS alarm. These are authenticated accesses so more points of failure involved on S3 side. We use several regions relatively local to the devices and it happens in most if not all of them.
It seems this and other similar large machinery were built in the 1950s as part of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_Press_Program. This article notes they’ve since been surpassed by larger presses internationally, but presumably remain the largest in the US.

While there is some manufacturing innovation coming out of Tesla, with their planned creation of the world’s largest casting machine (https://mobile.twitter.com/elonmusk/status/12939230581099601...), it is disappointing to think that America’s best manufacturing days might be behind it. I wonder how hard it would be to remake the entire supply chain to be able to build big things again.
When I was last made redundant, in the UK, the notice period was 1 month and there was no redundancy payment.

They let me go just before 2 years of employment, when a redundancy payout would have started. I don't think there would have been a longer notice period after 2 years, just a payout.

It was legitimate redundancy because they let go of a number of people at the same time. So it wasn't personally targeted, though of course there was an element of deciding who to let go of.
The same reason they ask for the monthly fees for a self-hosted solution. They really want to be paid.
> Such things are illegal now because if they were not the sport would be dead within five years.

It's already dead. Might as well have the testing.
https://github.com/Cloudef/android2gnulinux
There's also this clean-room implementation of android apis and bionic->glibc translation layer that I worked in past. It can launch some unity games, and cli tools usually work. I used this mainly to reverse engineer chinese DRM in some android apps.
Yes, you are right. You couple it with other constraints and an audit to ensure it's done well. I did not state the entire thing for brevity.
(home-made)! Although for the sake of relevance to this topic, it's worth noting that although Dan hand-scraped many of the surfaces, and employed the spirit of these techniques to measure and align the lathe, he didn't actually need to use the 3-plate method to build it because he was working against an existing master surface plate.
I'm personally happy with Bose Soundlink speakers for Bluetooth. They're not the cheapest, but they have good sound quality.

If I were going to go for a wifi speaker, though, I'd seriously look at Bluesound's product line. They're a Sonos competitor and they're not nearly as well known, but they're part of the same little group that owns NAD Electronics and PSB Speakers and use amplifiers and acoustics from those sister companies. If you're an audio nerd (or even if you're not), that's a pretty good pedigree. AFAIK Bluesound products work with various voice assistants, but don't build them in.

(Edited to add: I don't own a Bluesound device, but I do own a NAD T758 receiver, which uses an earlier version of BluOS for its streaming/wifi capabilities and it's pretty solid.)
What about other labour laws? Isn't it hard to fire people in Italy, whereas CA has at-will? My friend whose father ran a well known cultural institution there also says organised crime is a problem, effectively an extra tax. Basically he was told he'd have to "hire" certain people, or else...

On top of other issues there's the fact that once SV is established somewhere, it turns into a magnet for all the new startups.
Actually, English is not my native language, I started learning it in primary school in fifth grade (at around ten).

Unfortunately, teachers do teach that and there was a test for the various group names, like a school of fish, a pod of whales, a parliament of owls, etc. And yes, the murder of crows was included. That was in secondary school, though, so admittedly at a higher level of education but it is taught and tested against.
I have experienced reverse. Few times when I bought organic milk, it started to smell foul after couple days. Even though the printed expiry date was far away in the future
Really naive question:

I can see why an individual company would include non-compete clauses if legally allowed to. But who actually benefits from non-compete clauses being allowed? Aren't companies hurt more with hiring difficulties and unmotivated employees sticking around than whatever benefit they get avoiding raises?

Are there really a bunch of managers thinking "I want an engineering team that is stuck here and just plods along fixing one bug a week".
Good stuff. We are doing the exact same thing at Grofers (more or less). Our philosophy of our service registry is exactly the same - using services to connect kubernetes objects to AWS resources to monitoring dashboards to github repos.

The place where we differ is:
* YAML instead of JSON
* A lot of python based tooling to do the plumbing
* We don't always rely on terraform for provisioning everything so we have monitoring of new resources in AWS and policies on how those untagged resources will be treated

Good to know that there are more people thinking in a similar way. Validates our approach. :)

Would love to chat in person to learn more about the setup and exchange ideas if you are up for it.
> ...so I was assuming that would carry over to their caches.

I see mixed results with Cloudflare (pro plan): Sometimes the load times are as low as 50ms, the other times as high as 250ms; both for multiple hours on end, even when I am connecting to the same co-location.

I gave AWS Cloudfront a try as well, and to my surprise their load times held consistently at less than 40ms throughout. It is another thing that, quite unfortunately, for my workloads, Cloudfront turns out to be very expensive.
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This veil of ignorance is such a simple concept, yet it never occurred to me. It’s actually making me reevaluate my worldview. Thanks for linking it!
Yeah, and exploiting loopholes in the rules is as old as F1. You follow them to the letter, gain an advantage, hopefully win a championship, and then the FIA specifically bans what you did for future years.
Neat game. I like that it's not as heavy as Factorio.

I love that it's open source software. Games are usually challenging programming tasks. I had fun looking up how tiles are moved on bands =)

Maybe a mini-shapez game would be a nice addition for digitization consultancies, so business prospects can experience the pros of automation.
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>F1 was much more interesting

Yes, and when they were pushing for absolute speed. With a similar 1.6L engine being used in 2022, I could only hope there are areas left for more innovation in the Engine.
If you’re interested in this, there’s a great short video about the USAF Heavy Press Program:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hpgK51w6uhk
ESL is a whole different beast than pasteurization. It comes in two major versions: Microfiltration or a heating akin to UHT but shorter and at a lower temperature (127 °C vs 150 °C). Microfiltration won't change the taste, heating will. Microfiltration may be combined with pasteurization (heating to around 72 °C) to inactivate enzymes which may affect shelf life.

Pasteurized milk will keep for 5 to 7 days, while ESL milk can keep for 12 to 21 days in the unopened container.
You don't need a dedicated server running macOS, which would be more problematic as you say. There are plenty of CI services supporting macOS. Looking at the pricing sheets of CircleCi, Github actions and TravisCI. CircleCI was only one listing lower maximum concurrent and varying cost based on machine size and type. Others only listed total minutes without differentiation between machines. As long as you are using it only for making builds and daily testing instead of anything compute intensive that takes long time, the prices should be reasonable. There are also free tiers for open source projects.

In my experience developing cross platform open source software, doing builds isn't the biggest problem. The situations when you need to debug platform specific behaviour, integration with OS and verifying that your software is properly packaged for macOS is when you might want direct access to a real machine.
Press light alloys for every aircraft ever since WW2. The Americans discovered that Germans were able to build better airplanes because of die forging presses like this (larger pressed metal pieces spanning the whole fuselage, instead of smaller pieces and more rivets)[1].

So the Air Force initiated the press program, leading to this thing. It's on the list of mechanical engineering landmarks[2] and it's my dream to see it one day.

People don't know how important this thing is.

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

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Historic_Mechanical_En...
I think that’s something different from what I’m describing, since it’s higher temperature than the HTST that’s typical in North America. UHT milk never became very popular in North America, so I’m not to what extent ESL has been introduced.

I think it breaks down like this:

* Vat-pasteurized (63°C/30min)

* HTST (71°C/15sec)

* ESL (123°C/5sec)

* UHT (135°C/2sec)
Looks cool, but links are not clickable.
By a decent margin, yes.

There's a reason it's "reduce, reuse, recycle" in that order, but obviously companies are not interested in their customers reducing their consumption, nor are they interested in letting them reuse or repair too much. They want us to buy something shiny and new on a regular basis, and to throw away our old devices for destructive recycling so they can't be reused or repaired.
There are more details in the following articles:

https://www.cleveland.com/business/2012/02/alcoas_50000-ton_... (see useful diagram in this page on how the pressing process works. It also notes that the press makes parts of the F-35)

https://www.asme.org/wwwasmeorg/media/resourcefiles/aboutasm... (PDF of a past article by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, includes more technical details and older photos)

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/03/iron-gi... (some historical details on what motivated the program)