skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In graduate school I had a colleague from France echo a similar observation - "In America you go out and raise money for a business idea, fail completely, lose all the money, and then go out and do it again. In France you'd be seen as a failure and never get another chance again."
I think the days of understanding your stack top to bottom are gone, unfortunately, but at least with Linux I am not being spied on, bullied into installing updates I do not want, prevented from installing things I do want, and in general being treated as cattle.
I mean, sure, there's plenty of ways to get the intended character/glyph into the terminal; but I really hope that we don't start doing that regularly as is implied above.
This is such a simple yet powerful idea I don't know how could I not think of that before.

Thanks. 'cat' will be my static site generator.
Fingerprints are hardly permanent, especially out here in the desert. Although it does not rain often, when it does wind comes with it and tends to wipe everything clean and then dirty it up again in whole new ways. If someone had a time lapse of the 4 years it was out there, I am confident you'd see markings come and go from its surface throughout its entire time in the desert.

If you really want to do digital archaeology, you should be looking at the buildup of dirt in corners, and erosion of the rock surfaces at its base, not the amount of dirt on a flat surface.
The syntax makes it look like Python at a first glance. When you write it however, the type system makes it feel much more like Pascal.
Its not build as a film camera and its not a film camera. Its a picture camera.

The market segmentation is totally different for that.

I would still buy it. I have a Canon 80d and 90d and i rarely do any video recording at all. why? Because just a recording ready body doesn't give you good video. You need audio equipment etc. and 8k video is huge like wtf huge.
Please bring this to the attention of your account team! They will bring your feedback to the service team. While I can’t speak for the Cognito team, I can assure you they care deeply about customer satisfaction.
I did this course 5+ years ago and I still remember it fondly! I can pretty confidently say that it made me a better developer
I don't know much about Rust, and even less about Nim, but does this mean that Nim will have the same safety guarantees that Rust has? Also, can you really just add something like that down the line and ensure that the whole ecosystem works correctly? I was under the impression that Rust's strength was that it's been designed from the start to use an ownership model.
Yes, I noticed this from the statement "apply that binary operation to one number from the list". They're basically treating f as a function from R to R.
Which is fascinating because for the last four years they haven’t been in power and at the same time that they’ve been calling for more central control they’ve been bemoaning how terrible the current executive is, and how bad it is that he’s doing all these things and someone has to stop him. Without a single hint of irony that they want to hand the office more power and control.
> That video earned me a visit from the DHS

I wasn’t there, so I’ve no idea if that really happened, but the statement definitely makes his videos more exciting and click worthy :eye-roll:
The problem is how to make the search itself uncensorable, unlike bittorrent ttackers
It's not the Python itself but the ecosystem and tooling around it, especially in machine learning / data science area. I find it strange that many people don't understand it and instead compare languages is. "Just use Julia" is not really an option in enterprise world either, when you already have hundreds of kloc, hundreds/thousands of packages and hundreds of people (not all of them professional developers, e.g. various analysts and quants) working on / using that on daily basis in production, plus all that code almost certainly depends on external packages (eg machine learning libraries) that are simply not available in Julia.

For personal projects - sure, go use Julia or ditch it and go straight for Rust.
> your IP is a much better advertising identifier

Citation needed?
It's clear that 37.5% sure is 0.5% more sure than 37% sure. The problem remains how to interpret these numbers.
Design with Dilemmas: Tools
Kubernetes didn't need to be rescued in the first place. If you know how to manage any Linux box, setting up kubernetes is as easy as "# apt install kubelet kubectl".

Broadly speaking kubernetes saves time by providing an api for existing Linux technology. For example, iptables, ipvs, storage, self-healing, virtual ips, etc via yaml.

Kubernetes was created to give anyone "Google like, production grade" infrastructure without the vendor lock-in of the cloud. And kubernetes on physical machines is where it shines most.

EDIT: it is very easy to complain that kubernetes is complex, but try to do virtual ips with keepalived, corosync, pacemaker to understand how much time kubernetes saves by providing the same capability in a generic way which is easy to use. I have the feeling that people take kubernetes for granted without knowing how much manual work one has to go through in order to build a similar experience using the standard building blocks available.

EDIT 2: straight out of kubernetes home page: "Kubernetes builds upon 15 years of experience running production workloads at Google" that is a lot of saved time just by using kubernetes.
That EU tariff was scrapped some time in around July 2019. The R5 was never sold with such a recording limit (4k 30fps has always been unlimited even with the overheating issues and old firmware). Some new cameras are still being sold with the 30 minute limit so you have to watch out for that if you are looking at another camera.
And the popular reply to that is "orphans with leukemia"
With that name, they should have liquid-helium-cooled them.
it starts sounding like "no true scotsman" though. If one sails, one is a sailor. Being duct-taped to a mast might not count as sailing though. If one invests in early-stage startups that are believed to have growth potential... I guess you can try to promulgate a different definition of what makes a VC, but if it starts sounding too much like "Those who act WISELY are VC's, those who act unwisely are not", or even "those who hobnob with us at parties are VC's, those who go to other parties are not" (Oh, they were on the East Coast not the West!), I'm not sure how objective or useful that is, for other than propaganda purposes.

What is the VC industries understanding/definition of VC then? The tweet thread doesn't leave me clear on it.

Wikipedia says "Founded in 2003 by 19-year-old Elizabeth Holmes, Theranos raised more than US$700 million from venture capitalists and private investors." Google theranos venture capital you can find plenty more references. Evans suggests it's a "straight fuck-up by fact-checkers" to do so, which seems overly-defensive and just plain odd to me.
I intend to add some best practices for optimising a site over time. I only set this up a couple of days ago. :-)

However, I don't think it will ever be available to "average" people (those who spin up a free WP theme that know little to nothing about web design) mainly because many of them will have very little inclination to learn this stuff.

I do have https://mylight.website which takes people through creating a fairly good looking, lightweight site from start to finish. I intend to spend some time sprucing it up soon though, then I will likely integrate the two sites somehow.

WRT WordPress, my personal website is WordPress and comes in at ~350KB (https://kevq.uk) so just because something is running WordPress, doesn't mean it can't be lightweight.
I think the OP's author makes a pretty good point: the censorship itself doesn't bother him; it's the opaqueness that's a problem. If they just said "this is censored because the CIA requires it", he'd be fine (his own words from the OP)

I can understand the call for censorship, but I don't see any particular value in the opaqueness.
I got really into computers in the mid-late 90s by which point we were mostly down to Wintel and Apple hanging on by a thread.

What I remember from that era is that nothing was compatible with anything else. It took a lot of work to interoperate between two PCs, let alone cross the gap between OSes. So for a long time, I have kind of taken the current world of few OSes that are highly interoperable as being a great thing: you can build your own Linux machine and still do real work with people on Windows and Mac, etc.

But the more I learn about computing in the 80s and early 90s, the more I’m impressed by the variety and diversity of ideas that came out of that era. I see now that today’s standardization has a real cost, which is that we don’t really see new ideas or new paradigms.

For the HN crowd, especially those who are older than me and can remember the earlier era of computing, what do you think about that trade off and where we’ve ended up today?

Are we better off living in a world where all computers can work together with minimal fuss? Or would it be better if we still had a wide range of vendors taking significantly different approaches and innovating at a much faster pace - albeit in incompatible ways?
I feel a certain sense of irony from the title.

It's rather reminiscent of the scene from Life of Brian - "You're all individuals!" "We're all individuals!"
Gp was refuting a claim that the American State was formed on an "anti state oppression" platform. He is not claiming the people were bad, but that their ideals were not what was being claimed of them
Thats not the problem this would solve. As long as the node runs and the pod itself runs and there is no issue with a pod with a higher priority, k8s will not throw it from that node.

But imagine a database as a pod with 60gig of ram and a ha setup. Now you need to update your node, what does k8s? It will throw it out and creates a new one which needs to recover or read all the logs to fill up 60gig of ram again from nothing. Instead it could migrate this pod to another node and keep the downtime to a minimum.

Or a jenkins master, it has to shutdown on node 1, recreate to node 2 which takes time and then your agents need to be able to recover from it.

You have to be able to roll through your whole k8s infrastructure to update every node on a regular basis; Alone for security reasons.
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I completely agree with your first section. In fact I couldn't have written it better myself.

That said, you seem to have presupposed that the people doing the censoring are always (or mostly) right. Why? Because they happen to be in power?

Twitter (and I think Facebook) censored the New York Post, even disabling their account, over a major news story that turned out to be true. It went against thev censor's preconceived ideas of how the world is, and they smashed that button as fast as they could.

What makes you think the people doing the censoring are somehow unbiased righteous purveyors of truth, absent their own instinctive biases that mislead then into censoring unfairly? Surely history has shown that to rarely if ever be the case.

I totally agree with your analysis of the problem, but I follow it to a much different conclusion: humans can't be trusted to wield power of speech over others. They are too subject to their own instinctive and emotional reactions to information they don't like.
Hugo looks fairly similar to my custom system, but Hugo is somewhat more complicated. I'd like to move towards something simpler, and Hugo looks like it's a step in the wrong direction.
I hope HN doesn’t become the next place conspiracy theories are peddled.
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K8s networking is just typical networking. Networking always has to be made as complex and clunky as possible. Obvious solutions like unified IPv6 address space must be avoided as they would simplify the system and avoid the need for NAT.

I’m being snarky but it is a long time observation of mine. When I see a network config I am more often than not shocked by its needless complexity.
To be fair, the person you're responding to only brought up this viewpoint in response to another poster who seems to hold the view that the founding fathers were just as progressive as we are today.
Well at least for the near future it would probably work like how people have to find torrents: different sites index meta data in their own data bases.

Maybe with something like opentracker there could be an endpoint like /search that translates search phrases into a sparse column vector and looks up cosine similarity against that instances low dimensional space representation of the tf-idf against torrent hashes, those low dimensional space representation files can also be distributed in torrent file and as well as way to constantly update/compute new low dimensional space representation files as hashes are added.

For example it would probably look something like what I do in [0] but as a compiled module linked into and accessed from [1] as well constant update/rebuild of ldsr files like [2] linked and kicked off from flags passed in [3] as new hashes come in.

[0]: https://github.com/cinquemb/hackedteam-email-index-mining/bl...

[1]: https://erdgeist.org/gitweb/opentracker/tree/ot_http.c

[2]: https://github.com/cinquemb/hackedteam-email-index-mining/bl...

[3]: https://erdgeist.org/gitweb/opentracker/tree/opentracker.c
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The microdictator is amused: https://twitter.com/heydonworks/status/1333058648365535235
>Talk about the military industry, crime financial complex, pretexts to war or history of US foreign policy [...] and see yourself get delisted from Google, smeared in the media, then get harassed by various agencies

uhh, what? You frequently see posts critical of all of those on reddit and hn, and to my knowledge the things you've listed didn't happen to them.
I would add one additional qualifier to your statement, it was wealthy white men, not merely white men. To the extent we tend to project the past onto the present, it doesn't make sense to see a random white male construction worker as part of this powerful elite who was denying women the right to vote or enslaving anyone. It was a very small number of people who had power, and like all people in power, wrote rules that maintained and/or expanded their power.
ECS can be simpler if you stick to the default and use something like copilot - it effectively turns your compose file into a cluster with all of the networking etc
I think it important to entertain the possibility that this person is simply lying. I don't see any evidence that backs up his claim that this was intentional and his claim that he was visited by DHS officials is doubtful to me. There's plenty of videos like his on YouTube already, so I can't really imagine this caused a real government intervention. But maybe I missed something.
How to Be Curious for Yourself
it could be argued it was because people didn't like to pay taxes.
AI tool generates your creepy lookalikes to trick facial recognition
What volcano ? The RIAA ?
Your answer is a mere 2 clicks away: https://github.com/Grew-dev/hacker-ai/blob/main/README.md
Thank you. I hate zooming the browser. And of course half the sites are readable already.

I had no idea they had a 'Minimum font' option.
In the 4 hours since you’ve posted your comment it’s been completely deprecated.
This jives with my own experience. Great comment, thanks.

One group was trying to monetize services which were already free. Like make a list of data provided by stock mobile runtimes (Android, iOS), such as location data, and then create a developer portal for accessing that same data thru web services.

I'm having trouble remembering the details because I didn't even understand it at the time. My buddies were contractors, loved this kind of work, the money was good, and you could never fail. They thought there were helping me, get me some cheddar too.

I was briefly on the "mobile app services" team, it took me about 3 months to figure out what we were even doing. But there were lots and lots of meetings. Convened by empire builders and corporate climbers. Expensive suits. And lots of agile, kanban, scrum masters, velocity. To build something biggly impressive for which there would never be customers or revenue.

I assume there was at least one other group trying to "accomplish" the same thing.

The carriers would print money forever if they simply fired everyone unrelated to the actual network (cables and towers) and charged everyone a flat rate. And some overhead of the basic infrastructure services like provisioning numbers and 911.

No metering, no discounts, no custom phones, no carrier add-ons. The actual effort to create additional income streams was ridiculously wasteful.

It was crazy making. The actual features that would be awesome were never part of the conversation. For instance, I'd love to hear my voice mails on my laptop. I'm sure enterprise customers would love some tools for managing fleets of phones. Etc.

Maybe the carriers got high from the SMS profiteering, didn't realize that was a one-off bonanza, and have never recovered.
My pet theory is that there will always be a constant loop much like the prey-predator relationship. We start by going in one direction i.e. liberalism, then we realize that some pieces of authoritarianism might be good for a problem we currently have, so we water it down a bit.

Fast forward 50-70 years, we realize that the balance has swung too much to one side so we try to do a sharp turn. That action causes an overcompensation which is when revolution and violence happen. Finally we end up back at some sort of liberalism and the circle begins anew.

I see it as a result of generation gap. We don't know the value of something until we lose it. Right now the public doesn't value freedom of speech as much as it used to so we are right on track to have it more limited.
but you probably can get a $100 camera that can do 4k videos (I got a 1080p video camera for $30 5 years ago)... I would expect a $4,000 camera to be able to do 8k reliably...
https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/comedian-mike-ward-seeks-permiss...
Eventually something you agree with or think is reasonable will be censored by a corporation. censorship is always a problem
A moderate wishes to maintain the status quo position of the elite. I don't think it's helpful to try to debate which type of politician is likely to lie more.
I didn't read it as character assassination. I read it as a reminder that we're should not romanticize and fill in details that were not there.

People interpret history differently, and it is a problem when those interpretations differ too much and lead to fundamentally different expectations.
You can either use up to 100 beta licenses from you developer account or Apple Enterprise to load within a company or use an HTML5 app (is that really what we are talking about?) or jailbreak which isn’t statutorially illegal—just against terms of service.

Some more variants on the above in this article.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/01/how-to-get-iphone-software-w...

The crux of the argument against Apple is are they a legitimate intervenor in your personal decisions about what software to run on your hardware?
Great idea, Love things like this!

Competition time - Can anyone come up with a title better than "Rust"?

Edit: I've beaten "Rust" by putting in the title " ". Can anyone beat that?! AI clearly has worked out the less substance the better!
The fact that the two thermal pads only partially cover the heat-spreader on the main processor is pretty damning evidence against Canon's claims that they did not deliberately cripple the camera's video functionality. It seems they want to encourage film makers to buy their more expensive cinema line of cameras.
Dr Barbara Oakley’s “Learning How to Learn” [0] is great.

Edit: It gives an important understanding on how our minds function and how we learn, which, I think, forms the basis of effective work. Knowing how to work, and being an effective learner are incredibly important qualities in life.

[0] https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn
I wish there was a follow up. Brown published their book online, but it's not as fun without a structure.
> You do realize that I think exactly the same about you, right? To assume that your perspective is so superior, that it gives you a right to ignore civil protocol, is incredibly arrogant.

> absurd allegation of systemic racism

So the contents of this article is blatantly false?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institutional_racism

I'm curious to know about what year you think, approximately, that systemic racism against black Americans ceased?

That you find me uncivil doesn't really bother me.

> "The formal structure of institutions, as defined by their formal usually written rules, is the best description of their systemic/institutional properties. Only laws and other formal structures can have a systemic effect, and anything institutional by definition consists solely of them.

One can stretch the definition of systemic/institutional a bit to also include the social contract.

In neither case can one claim there is anything except systemic/institutional racism in favor of black Americans."

As I thought. You have just decided to entirely redefine the accepted definition of systemic/institutional racism so suit your argument. "But it doesn't say anything about race in this formal document!". Ignoring anything - apparently no matter how established and prevalent - that goes against your arguments is the fallacy of cherry-picking.
Application scripting languages, configuration languages, database query languages, and so on. Lowering the threshold to embedding a custom language has interesting consequences for the choices you make from my experience.
Let's not generalize "people like yourself", when people like myself hold a much more nuanced view of U.S. history and progress than your post suggests.

Yes, we have made a lot of progress over time and will continue to do so. However, I think you need to read my comment in the context of the original post, which was "do Americans even know why the country was even founded anymore?". I think a perfectly reasonable response to a question like that is to put the founding of the country into perspective.

Not sure how you can compare something to the past, but only look at the positive sides instead of the negative. Or at the very least, not provide just a understanding of an interpretation as you have done, except towards the present.
There is far more censoring of much more mainstream opinions than you seem to realize. If it was just the crazies you are talking about I would mostly agree. It's not.
> Its also hard to determine if this is a real issue for canon or if its just an issue in a circle of people who are more vocal about it.

he sure went through a lot of trouble if it was not a real problem (maybe he works for Nikon)
IIRC, they had to be careful not to _overcool_ the sensor because the sensors have an acceptable range in which they work.

Anyway, the entire series of videos is pretty fun to watch.
Some alternate theories:

Candles have a social purpose. When no one is coming over, there is less need to make the house smell nice quickly. ;)

Scented candles are sold in malls, which have not been visited much this year.

Scented candles are given as gifts (to aunts, etc.), and many birthdays have been forgone this year.

Candle-making is a popular hobby this year.

Edit: weird downvotes. It shouldn’t need to be said that these ideas are presented for discussion. They’re not political statements.
I agree. There are many people, like me, that barely have a sense of smell to begin with. I would never buy a scented candle for myself. But if I didn't really know that Scott myself, maybe I would suddenly decide to get one based on an article about covid and scented candles and then be disappointed. The reason I say this is I didn't really know how bad my sense of smell was until my son was born and I started dealing with various odours that I could handle easily and others found far stronger.