skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No one will read this, but as a public service I have to say: Storing data you need without backup, or maintaining a channel of communication that you can't replace, with a company you don't pay money on a regular basis, is a recipe for disaster.

Tech companies love to be roach motels for your data. They want to lull you into dependence on their platform for mostly innocent reasons. If they have something you need make sure you have your own copy.
A long wished for feature, but closed wontfix a long time ago: https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/1957 :-(
Russia was blamed, not Twitter or Facebook. They were victims ...
You'd be surprised at how much fits in a good backpack or set of panniers. A bike trailer is also an option if you really need a lot, and as a side benefit you can carry your kids in it when you're not grocery shopping. Delivery is another reasonable option that probably causes less pollution and traffic than everybody driving their own car to the store.
I have exactly the same problem. Michael Burry (notable for profiting off of the 2008 housing crash) is predicting an enormous index fund bubble, or the "safe" investments that people are so fond of in 401ks and IRAs. Even the market indicators like the S&P 500 are somehow outperforming the prior year.

High-risk investments and stock picking is high risk and a bad idea; index funds are a bad idea because they're overvalued; cash is a bad idea because of the inflation risk; where should a young person (<40) put their money?

I wouldn't even mind hearing "there is no safe investment right now, buy real-world assets like land and weapons and wait for the crash", but I only hear that from gold-standard idealists, not from professional investors. What do the investors recommend?
I shop with a backpack with can contain plenty.
The pandemic also would have hit them pretty hard had they not semi-collapsed a few months before.
Blockchain!

Proving that reviews haven't been removed might actually make this a real application for a blockchain.
Linux is now the best desktop, despite no advances since 1998..
Yea the transcript of that video is definitely not accurate. The pilot was the first to mention the flying suit jet pack, not ATC.
Microsoft is a company born in selling physical products. Their software used to come on floppies and CDs. Google hasn't really sold anything real their entire existence.
> it's another thing to get the transfer function between "75% transparent" and a certain amount of ink into the printer's brain.

Assuming the printer has sufficient color resolution/depth, you could do gamma correction as a preprocessing step on the host computer. Still obnoxious, though.
Major eyeroll at this. This site conflates algorithms, data, machine learning, math, and specific applications of any of these.

Math _is_ neutral.

Algorithms _are_ neutral, and are simply instruction sets for operating on data.

Data is certainly be biased, but any researcher, designer, engineer, etc. worth their salt will try to minimise the inherent bias.

Machine learning is basically brute-force statistics on data. Or alternatively, iterated application of an algorithm on data. In and of itself it is neutral. Any apparent bias in the results will almost completely be a result of bias in the data, _not_ the design of the algorithm.

All of these (except data) are tools. What we should be worrying about is the specific applications of these tools. Which, I agree, should be subject to some sort of ethical review before widespread use.

Stop trying to drag math and algorithms into this political quagmire, and instead focus on the actual problem. We don't outlaw knives because they are still incredibly useful tools. We outlaw stabbing people.
To elaborate on that, my local library has a pretty dumb laser printer. I don't think it has the memory to store many pages and no significant internet-facing functionality (apart from accepting files if they configued it badly). So I don't think there are significant risks sending my documents thorugh it.

But the city main library has some smart "document center" machine. Amongst other it can "print to pdf" for the paperless age. In other words scan. And send the results to an email address you enter on the touchscreen. Here I would be pretty worried what insecure operating system and software that machine is running. I wouldn't be suprised to read a headline on hackernews that the last 1000 pages printed/scanned on such type of machine are all publicly accessible on the internet...
> extort - (transitive) To take or seize off an unwilling person by physical force, menace, duress, torture, or any undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity.

This is taking money from an unwilling person by duress, using an undue exercise of power (ie control of bad reviews on their platform).

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/extort
Software bloating to consume all available space is a long-observed trend that has been called Eroom's law, for Moore's law backwards. What Moore's law giveth, Eroom's law taketh away.

Here is what an 8-bit CPU with 64KiB of RAM could do in 1986:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9k5Xa2PpEg

Obviously this is far behind current UIs in areas like resolution and graphics, but it's not so strikingly far behind that it's unusable or unrecognizable.

Does it really take gigabytes of RAM and multiple 2+ghz cores to deliver the same basic paradigm as this 8-bit CPU in 1986, but in 32-bit color, 4K resolution, and with better language and character set support? Really?

What would a quad-core 2ghz machine with 16GiB of RAM be able to do if software were written in equivalently efficient ways, dispensing with so much unnecessary bloat and layers of indirection?
Goodhart's law in action. "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure." Nothing more, nothing less
Whatever works is what I believe. I feel lots of parents just don't have the balls to not coddle their children, and they justify this fear with rude comments like this.

FYI the two blind kids actually knew each other when they were kids, and I "kid" you not the kid that was the "libertarian" bullied and beat up the other one because he was thinking "wtf, why is this other kid helpless."

Listen to both podcasts. Worth it for any parent as it gives a true more "scientific" perspective on the coddling going on with kids today.
This is more limited than X, since it's designed just to speak HTML. (Though I suppose that HTML5 supports Canvas which could, potentially, be used much like X Windows... but I don't see that becoming the main way people write applications.)
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Not really sure your point. Are you saying that there is no upper safe limit for B12 for all people?

>...Case details: A young woman was treated with multiple daily doses of 1 mg of cyanocobalamin for severe pernicious anemia. After a total dose of 12 mg, she developed acne, palpitations, anxiety, akathisia, facial ruddiness, headache, and insomnia. She improved two weeks after stopping the drug. There were no sequelae nor complications.Discussion: Although these symptoms of cobalamin toxicity were unexpected and unusual, the case reminds us that the administration of any drug is not entirely safe.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31018715/
What do you mean by "personal"? It's on the Cruise blog.
> What about constant interruptions, loud neighbours and that white light above you, even though you'd rather have it yellow? All the inconveniences of sharing a place with other people, wouldn't any of this take a toll?

Are you describing working in an office or working from home?
*Some Sony cameras
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> There are also no ecological grounds whatsoever to prefer user-replaceable batteries.

Really? I used to routinely replace batteries in my family's phones. Now they're more inclined to get rid of an otherwise working phone since I no longer have the skills to keep up.

And the battery is usually the first thing to need attention as a device ages.
Well, you need to be open about new experiences. And until I got my first VR headset I didn't know what I missed. Now I feel that having a powerful GPU and playing a 3D game on a flat screen is such a waste.
We use HCL broadly across the HashiCorp portfolio. It was popularized by Terraform, but also used in Vault, Consul, Nomad, and Packer.

Important to note, that HCL is designed to be completely interoperable with JSON. In practice, we find that HCL tends to be more human readable and writable and is significantly less verbose.

However, if you are doing any sort of machine generation, it can be convenient to generate JSON and feed that in.
I personally think this is a awesome strategy. Or, better than alternatives. I always go to pricing page when evaluated SaaS for my former company, but I NEED to get some grasp of the product before.

Interrupting my observations about the product on the welcome page just makes me angry and harshier against the sale.

This is why I avoid some clothes stores where the first thing you meet is a salesperson. Just say "welcome, I'm here IF you need" is the best approach.

If your product is maybe useful I will ask things against the perceived value, so the pricing page.
I had a job for a bit over a year where I commuted 90+ minutes door to door many days. Even though I could take the train if I wanted to (after driving to the station), it still got old and I wouldn't have wanted to do it long term. I'm about the same to go into my company's Boston office now--I'm technically out of our suburban office and in practice I've been remote for a few years--and it makes for a long day but one day a week would be pretty doable.
Your mask still covers your nose, just not the whole nose. I'd say covering your nose up to 80% works fine.
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I've lived on a one-way street for over a decade now. Pre-COVID, it was unusual to go a week without seeing someone going the wrong way. It was not unusual to see this multiple times in a day.

I also bike down a two-way separated bike lane to/from work. It's separated by concrete barriers, except at intersections. I'd come across drivers trying to drive down them, again, roughly weekly.

It's predictable that I'll see a car turn the wrong way onto a one-way street, and I've learned to anticipate it, but it's not accepted.

Most drivers are okay, but there's a small number who are really bad. If you come across a hundred drivers a day, you're going to come across bad ones pretty often.

The author didn't say every driver sucked -- just that he regularly comes across drivers who suck. I'm willing to bet that most road users will assert the same experience.

Most drivers pass safely, and several times a week, one won't. Most drivers stop at red lights, and every week or so, one won't. Most drivers check their mirrors before turning, and every few hundred, one won't. Most drivers use their turn signals and...actually, that last one might be a lie.
I want a review site where I can only see reviews from people I have vetted (could be pseudonymous).
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Excellent question. And what if the other party, at fault or not, is not a driver? What if they are a pedestrian or a cyclist? What if they are alone, incapacitated and need medical help?
I think the upside of this is that if you get hit by a self-driving car, due to the way the media behaves around self-driving accidents, you can be almost sure that they will deal with it professionally and pay off all damages if it's even remotely their fault.

They might not leave a note on your windshield but they would surely acknowledge the accident and as a company, would have to cooperate with any investigations. It's not some random dude that if they hit and run off you will never see them again.
There are various levels of outages you may encounter with an etcd outage, but it shouldn't take your workloads completely offline. The cluster API will be offline, but the workloads will keep on chugging. I think with the decoupling of etcd and the expectation that this might happen, we'd see more improvements on how to (gracefully) handle these situations.

Also, there was a bug with kube api where it wouldn't failover to other etcd members during an outage. So I would say most customers have ran kubernetes with a "single backend" at some point.
Such thing shouldn't be more than a concise 1 page book and a good example, that's all that's needed, life is already flooded with overwhelming information wherever you look.
Anyone know if an A7III can be used as a webcam on gnu/linux?
Right now, the differences are all in the details (income categories, no weird credit card handling, etc), and there are many of them. But instead I'll focus on what is to come soon:

* A custom rules engine (to be released in a few weeks). You'll be able to write a list of conditions for matching transactions, and a list of actions to apply when matched. The system will automatically encode what it learns as rules (apply category X to payee Y) so you can see what it's doing and adjust.

* Multiple budget types. Zero-based budgeting is cool, but Actual is just a tool for you. If you want, you can use a simple report based that just shows income vs expense. You choose the type you want adapt it to your lifestyle.

* Custom reports. This is really where having all your data local is incredible. You'll be able to write queries into your data, process it, and render any kind of visualization.
Is this something that is similar to pocket?
If the theory is that it is someone living around there - it seems very unlikely they could take off or land without being spotted. From 1000ft to 0ft they would be in the view of tens of thousands of people.
Isn't this kind of like wishing that we could apply the lessons of the fallen Roman Republic to present-day America?

It has the same problems: the historical context is imperfect and very tedious to understand (for those who even try). Reinventing the wheel is always easier, cognitively (perhaps while being vaguely cognizant of how there was a Roman Republic that fell to dictatorship that then fractured into hundreds of apocalyptic Christian fiefdoms and how there was an incident with this thing called Therac-25 [and maybe crystallizing that cognizance in proper government standards for medical software]).

Also, since the bottleneck is brain bandwidth, it's not helpful that old code is written in old languages which were formulated in a time where the most salient bottleneck was memory/processing speed.
6 year old.

At 3, he just had a playstation.
Microk8s just works, and it's a big reason that I am running a ubuntu derivative rather then RHEL or Centos for my homelab. It's got the right level of feature enablement with the addons, and supports the whole set out of the box.

ETCD is a nice piece of nick, but I am still disappointed that other options haven't displaced it, such as consul. That said, I am not sure I am ready to trust a new distribute store for this. Its hard to get that right.
This doesn't answer your question, but I'm piggy-backing with comments on k3s.

For me, using k3s for development (not prod), the killer feature is running it in --docker mode where the node uses the local dockerd to run containers (vs. managing its own containerd instance).

This allows building images locally with `docker build` and immediately using them in kubernetes pods _without_ first pushing to a (possibly local) image repository and having k3s pull the images.

Last time I investigated, none of kind, microk8s, or minikube supported this mode. For large images (gigabyte or more, and I've got a handful of these), it's very space-inefficient to have a copy in my docker and in a local registry _and_ in k3s's containerd at the same time. How is this problem typically solved?

(I note the kubernetes included in Docker Desktop on macOS works in the same way: images built with `docker build` are available to kubernetes without going through a registry.)
Thank you for highlighting this. As others have said, I could not agree more.

As a Product Manager, working remotely 100% of the time is absolute hell. And I say this as someone who was already working from home ~70% of the time before (and I was mostly ok with that).

I also wanted to pick on a few of the categories you mentioned:

> "only incompetent managers need to see you in person"

Some of the best work I've done is when I'm able to go brainstorm in a room with my leadership. Lacking the ability to do this as we plan our next release, or the next 3 year strategy or whatnot is extremely difficult.

Having competent management means that they understand when this is valuable and when it's not.

> "your co-workers aren't your friends"

I hear this a lot, and I have to feel bad for people who have never experienced true friendship at work. At each of my jobs, I've made lifelong friends. Friends I've since vacationed with, stood up as a groomsman in a weeding for, etc. This is part of what made those jobs so rewarding.

I think the general thought is that "jobs change, so that 'friend' might not be around next week", and that's true. But in my experience, if they're true friends, changing jobs doesn't change that.

This says more about me than anything, but where else am I going to meet friends?

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All of this to say, in addition to being tone-deaf in light of the current reality in the world, these sentiments are also suspect under normal circumstances.

These things may be true for some people at their place of employment, or for them personally, but it's hard to understand where this comes from.
> That was the gist of a discussion among four technology and policy experts convened over Zoom

For starters, stop using Zoom and start using open protocols. Thank you.
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> 1. Needs more blockchain for versioning/authenticity

Are you serious about this?

why not just git versioning? what does blockchain offer over any other versioning system that doesn't require a ton of useless math solving?
"This is exacerbated by the fact that 9 out of 10 times a story like this appears it's an algorithm gone rogue which its billion-dollar shepherd assumes is infallible."

The "facts" are a bit misleading though. You won't hear stories like this when it isn't framed as a case of an algorithm gone rogue, and of course whether the billion-dollar shepherd assumes it is infallible or not is something being projected onto the story.
I have not seen the idea of rules and limitations discussed. Is it possible we could we be falling to a wilderness of mirrors? Take for example observations about our universe. Are they our observations, or the computers presentation of data that we receive as observations?

To put it a little more succinctly: What if the only barrier to determining reality from base reality, is that the software will not allow us to view and comprehend that barrier?

If we are a simulation, would not the goal be for us to become sentient? Wound the simulation even allow that?

Do we even understand the true concept of simulation as it pertains to base reality?
You don't _need_ grid, but it does make it simpler. You technically don't need flexbox either.

In grid you can define this layout in a single construct. Whereas with flexbox, you're defining several nested flex elements to get there.

You can think about the entire layout as a unit, rather than the horizontal parts first (sidebar/main content) then the vertical (header/footer) or vise versa.
I've plugged lots of webcams into a mac and they just work. I think apple must use a standard protocol.

chances are they work on mac, they'll work on linux too.
> but they're gonna be following a set of rules different than the human drivers around them

Hmmm... a "different set of rules than humans" aka following the actual laws that were designed for safety rather than the human rules of "whatever maximizes my personal convenience"
Definitely interesting

> They also negotiated deals with local African rulers, many of whom engaged in war and kidnapping on behalf of slave traders from Europe and the Americas ... <

This seems to imply that African rulers engaged in war and kidnapping only for European and American slave traders. Slavery had been widespread within Africa for centuries, arguably for millenia, and continues there to this very day
This platform/publisher dichotomy is made-up bullshit. You have to write and publish something yourself to be called a publisher. Moderation on an internet forum doesn't make you a publisher. Is HN a publisher too? dang pretty actively moderates the conversations here.
I think OP was surprised that this was on medium.com/cruise/ rather than blog.cruise.com or blog.gm.com or some such.

It's a strange shift in branding that has occurred over the last 10 years of social media, where once companies were very cautious on branding and required everything to be on their own domains, but are now comfortable making announcements on platforms that are not self hosted (e.g medium, but also Twitter, FB etc)
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How is billing supposed to work with this?
I'm glad I read all the way to the end. Somehow I had missed the "Apple doesn't have bugs" statement the first time.
I guess the same thing that happens when a pole falls down on your car? You report it to the authorities. You take pictures for the insurance, and file your claims?
Well that policy is terrible. It doesn't matter if it is in line with one or another bureaucratic policy, it's still censorship.
A lot of the philosophy is similar to the Solid (Social Linked Data) project that Tim Berners-Lee started.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid_(web_decentralization_pr...
* Does it really take gigabytes of RAM and multiple 2+ghz cores to deliver the same basic paradigm as this 8-bit CPU in 1986, but in 32-bit color, 4K resolution, and with better language and character set support? Really?*

You haven’t described what modern software does though. You’ve just listed a random subset of features.
It seems that the Biden campaign isn't denying that the emails are authentic. That would be strong evidence that they are, assuming this hasn't changed in the last 24 hours: https://twitter.com/lhfang/status/1316461339842289664

For what it's worth, NY Post (sorry for the link) is reporting that the Biden campaign isn't denying most of their claims: https://nypost.com/2020/10/14/notice-biden-campaign-not-deny....

To be clear, this is a separate question from how the emails were obtained. That story is beyond weird and surely bogus.
To be fair, it also seems to me an indication that Biden is more honest than Trump. Trump would just say the emails were fake whether they were or not.
writing one application was hard so instead let's assume writing lots of tiny applications will be easier (???) but isolating them is hard so let's put them in containers but running containers is complicated so we need orchestration managers like kubernetes or something but running those things is too hard for someone whose job isn't to run kubernetes for a living so microk8s or minikube or k3s or whatever? that's the gist of the industry? that's really what we're doing these days?