skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reverse engineering for interoperability is protected with no routes to contest if done with a clean room reimplementation. If you physically own the item and are using it you are even more protected (think fixing your own tractor).

Unfortunately I think some lower courts have some messed up decisions or companies are trying to bully others with threats of suit. For example, some medical coding systems have copyrighted codes that are claimed to require a license and you can not install a system to cooperate with these. Except... this has already been decided, and you can.
I think you and me see different values in linux as a platform. What I want is for linux to be a true alternative to windows or macOS for all users - not only the tech-savy. The goal should be for someone like my mom or my wife to be handed a linux based machine and for her to not see it as a scary thing, but as a viable daily driver.

I'd argue that your comment is somewhat elitist - what does it even mean to say that someones interest are "primarily superficial and not aligned with the core values and spirit of linux/foss"? Plenty of linux users already care about how their interface looks, that does not mean that they don't care about open source.
Are you somehow forgetting the bizarre, unmarked "police" presence Trump sent into Portland? Are DHS and Border Patrol agents with no identifying information or accountability reassuring to you?
Definitely to some degree. I see younger people learning lessons that I learned 20 years ago right here on HN. It's not that they are stupid, ignorant, or didnt get the memo way back then. It's that learning is a life long adventure and they aren't as far along yet. Ok, so they did just get the memo but because they were 5 when I read it, and it's been around far longer than that.
Twitter's "rules" would have stopped huge stories like The Pentagon Papers, Panama Papers, Watergate, etc from being posted on their platform. The statement read like it was typed up by an intern that didn't communicate with the legal team or any logical person.

(edited for clarification)
I have only gotten as far as setting up K3s and am still figuring out how I want to deploy code to it.

Gotta say, the docker ps output on those machines looks like line noise to me.

Not all movement is progress. Young developers are incentivized to embrace new technology because it levels a playing field where time with a tool is your most important asset. That playing field is not real, but a lot of managers seem to think it is, so the strategy works. I don't know how we sell a different version of reality there, but we need to figure it out.

At my first big job, the oldest developer told me shortly before he left that essentially we keep facing the same set of problems in a loop, and that if I watch for it I'll see it happening. That was in many ways a very big shoulder to stand on.

That challenge, added to historical information I had learned in a class on distributed computing, changed my perception of my first loop, like I'd found a shortcut. In my second loop, I found myself having productive conversations with people on their third loop, while my coworkers were still chirping on about how it's going to be different this time.

We just keep playing a game where the rules (like cost inequalities between resource classes) get tweaked every game, but quite often they revert back to the previous rules in the following game (because the people who make hardware for that resource finally figure out how to fix their bottleneck). But instead of recycling or democratizing the tech that worked last time the rules looked that way, we reinvent it badly with new names.

Elixir is a rare exception in this case, which is part of what attracts me to it. It's essentially recycling 25% of Erlang and 45% of Rails and being transparent about it, creating a new recipe out of old ingredients that have worked well in the previous 4 tech cycles.
England built a bunch of nightingale hospitals. They don't have enough staff to safely run them and the regular hospitals.
'Censor social media and harvest data from banned accounts': House Intel hearing
This line of reasoning has always felt as dishonest. The arguments you mention where all the hype ten years ago.

For instance, hyper political correctness always has ment a double speak word to me for “I want to be racist / misogynistic, but they don’t let me”

It’s not about mental superiority, imo it is about turning around polarization and hyperbole.

If you’re happen to be “mentally unfortunate” as you put it, I don’t see any lambasting going on. Feel free to give examples.

Edit : for clarity
I am all for this trend. Microk8s and k3s are both a joy to develop with (though I have ran into a few bugs with k3s so tend to prefer Microk8s).

How many folks are running self-managed k8s in production though, out of curiosity?

It seems so economical to deploy k3s or use something like Rancher on dirt cheap VPS's from some place like Hetzner -- but what's the ops burden and failure risk like?

Never tried it myself because it seems intimidating. Use managed k8s services.
I spend about as much time talking to people, but I talk to less people. I don't like it. I've come back to office recently and so much more bandwidth to exchange information IME.
Kudos to BBC for covering this. All US outlets other than FoxNews(obviously) are keeping quiet. Which is a shame, this is history in the making
It's like when you were in college, and you do assignments at home, and then get together with your study group, your TA, your professor, or your project buddies, in the computer clusters...

See? Totally makes sense.
this is like thinking because everyone is against what you are doing you must be doing the right thing. it could be what you are selling is just bullshit and everyone knows it is bullshit.
Entry barrier became too low, no skills required to post anything.

Web became centralized. Instead of visiting dozens websites you started visiting few conglomerates.

People thought that their opinions are unique and matters anything, so they started posting everything everywhere.
Before anyone takes above comment seriously, do some investigation of your own.

That article is nothing more than a damage control and is completely funded by the "green tech" billionaires. Just look at the history log.

If you want to see how far these """green""" tech billionaires have gone to censor and suppress this documentary and what kinds of legal tricks and other pressure they've used, read Max Blumenthal's article.

>‘Green’ billionaires behind professional activist network that led suppression of ‘Planet of the Humans’ documentary

https://thegrayzone.com/2020/09/07/green-billionaires-planet...

Michael Moore also interviewed Max about this amazing investigation into how these rich people censor things: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDIEqHGAveA
You usually build a chain of hashes of messages, not of the messages themselves. Meaning that you can delete the message, leaving evidence of the deletion in the form of a lonely hash in the chain.
USDC set to land on Stellar in 2021
What has that todo with "disingenuously"?
I don't think that acting weirdly when confronted with your own irrationality is a sign of mental illness. Accepting that you were wrong is generally a hard thing. Admitting to someone else that you were wrong is similarly hard.

If you get totally and irrefutably proven wrong by someone you are having a heated argument with, that is doubly hard. In order to respond correctly you need to, within a very short time-span:
- Realize the argument makes sense
- Accept your entire world-view, with a great many other related things, is wrong
- Admit that you were wrong to someone who just a minute ago you were angry at, who you thought was making bad arguments, and someone you felt was attacking you.

Doing that in the span of 10 seconds is really hard. I could easily understand how someone would fail, and instead get even angrier at the person making the argument. This certainly is irrational, but it is not a sign of mental illness. It is a form of irrationality that I am ashamed to admit I also have sometimes.

I think a big deal in the on-line space. Is that there is barely a way to re-engage after a cool-down period. You can't come back to a discussion a few days later, having had more time to process.

Especially with conspiracy theories, the shift in worldview that is required to accept that it is wrong is massive, that isn't going to happen over the span of a minute. Heck, it seems unlikely to happen over the span of a day.
> We used to have the same kind of crap in the USA.

Oh we still do: https://houston.culturemap.com/news/city-life/01-26-12-there...
Maybe for a short time, but soon drivers will learn that the by the book cars exist and account for it. I try to be a by the book driver myself, but I will admit to making many mistakes - even still I can think of several times where following the book sved me from an accident.
I was really hoping Apple would make it possible to use an iPhone as a webcam on macOS as a first-class built in feature (reverse AirPlay?) by now.
Show HN: Made a web app for Christians struggling on their walk with Jesus
Well, because the below is an incendiary and mostly false statement. Additionally, just because the police in your community are perfect doesn't mean real problems don't exist elsewhere.

"when politicians condoned publicly looting and robbery and violence and abolishing police"
The "everybody is stupid except for me" hypothesis (which is more accurately the "everybody who disagrees with me is stupid" hypothesis) has been around for ever. Conceited people have been espousing this since we first learned language. The basis of it is a failure to understand that your opinions are in fact opinions, and instead believe that they are established/unassailable/scientific... fact.

The only thing that's made it appear worse than before is an increase in political polarization. That has made people less likely to believe that people with differing opinions are simply people with different views to them, and more likely to believe that people with differing opinions are simply wrong/stupid/malevolent. For every person out there wondering why people are so stupid, there are other people making equally valid observations about them.
I was experimenting today with using my iphone as a webcam. It seems to work best with camo, and the image was way better than the builtin webcam of my imac or any regular external webcam. But I found it surprising how niche this still is. There seem to be no standard mounts for sale for easily clipping an iphone on the top of a laptop or imac, and the software situation is unsatisfying.
Currently the companies never explain their decisions, so we cannot know if there was a gag order.

A public authority is required to reply to requests unless there is explicitly a gag order. Of course the reply may be _the account is disabled as part of ongoing criminal investigation_ but again, once everything's done they will be required to disclose information.
I'm probably just using a bad term, but there's a difference between an observer and a referee, and that's all I'm getting at.
Ask HN: Questions for Engineering Managers
Hey ya'll. The title mentions q's for EM's but would love input from anyone who has experience or an opinion.

Q: Did you get hired in a new company / team as an EM, or transition within the same team?

Q: Do you keep on building your technical knowledge? In your experience, is there a need for doing that or does experience gained in people management skills remove that requirement

Q: How good of an engineer would you rate yourself when you made the transition? Did you ever think 'I don't know enough eng yet'?

Q: Do you manage teams in the same technical domain you worked in before? Have you been an EM for teams in different domains? Did that have some effect / no effect / needed tech ramp up?

Q: Have you moved back to an eng role? Was that easy? Difficult? Have you ping-ponged between the two?

Context: I'm a senior (whatever that means) engineer, and casually considering moving more towards the management side (currently a tech lead for a team). Enjoy / have some people skills so this kind of work is attractive to some extent.
The jobs industry is incredibly scummy. Everyone comes in thinking, 'Wow, I'm going to help people get into a job they'll love!'.

You leave because you get tired of pushing Uber jobs on everyone because they have unlimited budget to spend to attract job seekers.
> Where does one go when Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube seem to take these steps in tandem?

I know folks like to get all conspiratorial over social networks "acting in tandem", but it really shouldn't be all that surprising.

Individuals have vastly different tolerances for all sorts of things, but if you lump them into groups of tens of thousands, the average tolerance for things will be quite similar.

When the latest alt-right provocateur hits the threshold of bad PR for Facebook, he's likely right at the threshold for the other major social networks. No need for a shadowy cabal.
I don't want to digress too much here but I thought this was interesting:

> Believing that to attract a great CEO we would need more than two years of runway

What is involved in this process that takes 2 years?
Several Takeouts may work: a gmail-only archive, a photos-from-only-last-year archive, ...
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Twitter is the worst for long form messaging.
That may be due to wanting to tap into a global market. This is how English became simpler to use historically.
Ignorance not stupidity
I would be curious about what is the author's definition of the word "stupidity"?

"Lack of judgment"?

"Lack of knowledge"?

"Unintelligent"?

"Mental slowness in speech or action"?

Perhaps, "Lack of education"?

In a lot of the points, the author uses "smart" as the opposite of "stupid". Smart is also a vague word that comes up with multiple definitions such as "having or showing a high degree of mental ability", "stylish or elegant in dress or appearance" and "appealing to sophisticated tastes".

I have read the article multiple times, and it seems to me that it fires in all directions. It addresses environmental cognitive issues (air quality, etc.), education, political polarization, etc. In short, it lumps multiple issues under a personal interpretation of a vague (and rude) word.

I avoid the word "stupid". Not only is it vague but it is ableist because it creates and enforces systemic and institutional bias.

Is a lack of education the same as having temporary cognitive issues? Is it comparable to having a condition which decreases someone's cognitive ability permanently? What about people who are unable to grasp social intelligence? What about people who take beneficial drugs that happen to have mental fog as a side effect? Where is the line? To me, the answer is no. Those are all unrelated social issues that need to be addressed separately.
As the person who has worked on making sure telemetry is useful and valuable for users and customers (helping drive insight into quality of kube and close the loop on fixing persistent issues), can you provide some more details about how we’ve let you down? We tried to be as responsible as possible but obviously we’ve failed along the way - what can be done to improve it?
Its also because the fed has flooded the market with cash and at the same time reduced bond yields to near 0%. There's nowhere for cash to go. And if you sit in cash it slowly becomes worthless over time.
You got down-voted, but it's naive to think that's not true.

US and UK did orchestrate a coup to overthrow the democratically elected Prime Minister of Iran in 1953. (Operation Ajax)

The Prime Minister was a lawyer and politician that took control of Iran's oil resources from British Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (What we know as BP today), and he was going to take more actions to take control over their resources.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9ta...
But they are explicitly not liable, that's why their position makes no sense...in fact their curation/censorship for this news event could make them liable for -other- posts that are completely unrelated.

One of my takes is that Twitter leadership is completely incompetent. Facebook didn't censor the story completely, Twitter did. Twitter is arguably one of the most valuable (if not the most valuable) platforms for news in the entire world...yet they can barely make any money. This isn't the first time Twitter has massively botched something so simple. It really comes down to a detached CEO, and incompetent leadership.
I'm pro-management of information on platforms but anti-this sort of management for these purposes.

Public health misinformation, sure. News articles? Hm.

I think it is stupid to not vote for Biden over something like this. But, I also don't think the articles I've seen "debunking" the NYPost article have been very compelling.
Quite the opposite: https://www.wired.com/story/media-hack-leak-steve-coll-inter...
You say on HN which has highly moderated comment threads.

So suppressing free speech is only ok if it’s done by unpaid volunteers (never mind that free speech as such never existed, since you still had all sorts of restrictions include libel, defamation, fire in a theater, etc kind of restrictions).
The story makes no sense and falls apart under even the most cursory inspection; most of the news is around how bogus the story is and social media's reaction to the bogus story.

Slinging unsubstantiated mud at your opponent is an old trick in politics and relies on the idea that you can make your opponent look bad just by having them address it at all.

The fact that Biden isn't addressing it is strong evidence that the story isn't getting the traction the hacks that put it out there wanted. It is not strong evidence of its truth.
You're speaking in very black and white terms, but yes in general that is my view and like all historical trends these things tend to decrease or increase in their effect over time. It's not a binary thing. Certainly I am saying that the number of people who read the Bible has decreased as a percentage of the population substantially since 1785.

> Is it possible that becoming an MD might require a base level of mental capabilities and hard work?

As an example of what I'm talking about, back in March/February all of the nurses and doctors I know were saying that Covid-19 was just the flu and that only medical professionals should wear a mask. I even reached out to one or two of them to try to give them more of a heads up. This was at the same time that videos were coming out of China with vast stadiums filled with sick people and where people were committing suicide rather than infect their family. Now all of those same medical professionals I know are saying that Covid-19 is extremely serious and that everyone should stay home when possible and wear a mask despite the fact that clearly the risk level is a lot lower now. Here where I live Covid-19 primarily attacks the GI like a typical stomach bug rather than as a serious respiratory illness.

> Feeling like everyone around you is evil and stupid isn't healthy.

Again you are imputing a black and white meaning to what I am saying when it was never said or implied. Certainly if one were living in Nazi Germany in the 1930s or the Soviet Union in the 1920s it would be reasonable for one to feel like generally speaking, "everyone around" was evil and/or stupid. Are things that bad here? Absolutely not however we are much closer to living in that kind of environment in the US than we were at the beginning of the 20th century.

You have a very typical midwit view on this. I do genuinely feel bad for people that are so naive.
Yeah that crossed my mind as well. People who have so little understanding of the mechanics behind it all that they think it's impossible we've put anything in Earth orbit - how could ANYONE understand that?

In one case though I had someone say that I wasn't hitting satellites, I was hitting a solar-powered high altitude plane. When I pointed out that it would have to be going at 23 times the speed of sound at sea level and flying at 120,000 km, they said of course: technology is amazing. While in the same conversation claiming that satellites were impossible. At that point I stopped believing they even had basic common sense.
A knife is a tool and a weapon. We teach our children to be careful with such things.

At large social scales we really don’t have the education to talk about implementations of technology and whether they are dangerous or not.

For example: Instagram is a knife and we’re talking about it as if it’s a plushy.
Visa and MasterCard instituted new rules in October 2015 that put retailers on the hook for all of the losses associated with counterfeit card fraud tied to breaches if they haven’t implemented chip-based card readers and enforced the dipping of the chip when a customer presents a chip-based card.

Nice job, holding franchisees responsible. Dickey's won't have to answer for the actual breach because the franchisees also had poor security.
You know, the private kind ;)
That seems like an extraordinarily risky undertaking. You would certainly be found out and face real consequences.

Remember the guy got the FBI involved, which would make the whole operation a federal crime.
People couldn't sell adverts?

Working on PouchDB I spent a good amount of time thinking about how to "sell" local / offline first apps. It seemed a lot to me like the problem was plain old capitalism, offline / local first software is faster / and more robust, for most circumstances its a better decision for the user. However the economic incentives arent there to build the best software, the economic incentives are to slow webpages to a crawl with adverts and planned obsolescence.
I like the general idea, but ultimately suffers the same problem in that people have to know about it.
There actually is a setting to set the default bind address already.
That's Twitter's choice to be user-hostile. There's no technical reason they can't show me all the posts from people I follow and nothing else.
The NYT recently had a piece on the NRC issue in Assam, India. In the lede they claimed that NRC was anti-Muslim because Muslims were caught up in it, and it was being done by Modi because he's anti-Muslim.

Elsewhere in the article the reader would learn that 75% of the people caught up in NRC were non-Muslims, and that NRC had been started before Modi became PM, by the previous government, under orders from the Supreme Court of India.

I honestly believe
I became stupider by reading that article, and realized that the NYT is basically functioning as a tool to confuse people at this point.
> It’s only a tautology if you believe that ethics have a subjective dimension.

Utter nonsense, it's a tautology either way, it being derived from a subjective or objective source has no effect on it.

> Simply vilifying them just closes us of from understanding them.

"Simply vilifying" them? It's not rocket science, a trillion dollar business is trying to protect its image using shady tactics. Your framing is again reeking of bias: "people are just vilifying poor Apple" according to you, but it's more like you blindly defending Apple, spamming the whole thread.

> Once again, you aren’t actually engaging in a discussion.
You are begging the question with your framing.

We are engaging in the discussion, while you are trying to fool people with deceptive rhetoric. You have been given many evidences, but you always deflected with pseudo intellectual, unconvincing rhetoric.

>As I said, if I were really defending Apple, it would be easy to show.
Just repeating over and over again that I am is not that. You can’t explain it because it isn’t happening.

People besides me have given you enough evidence & have also pointed out your weaselly rhetoric.
You are truly living in your own fantasy world, most of your comments are greyed out for a good reason.
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