skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It depends on what one means by "open source."

Open source is fine; there's a ton of available code out there, to mix and match for whatever goals you need. Open services were never a thing, and what we're observing is that the SAAS model is eating the entire marketplace because tying services together to solve tasks is far easier (and depending on scale, more maintainable) than tying software together to solve tasks on hardware you own and operate exclusively. Owning and operating the hardware in addition to owning and operating the software that does the thing you want to do doesn't scale as flexibly as letting someone else maintain the hardware and provide service-level guarantees, for a wide variety of applications. But the software driving those services is generally closed-source.

If by "open source" you mean "Free (as in freedom) software," the ship has kind of sailed. The GNU-style four essential freedoms break down philosophically in the case of SAAS, because the underlying assumption is "It's my hardware and I should have the right to control it" and that assumption breaks down when it's not my hardware. There may be an analogous assumption for "It's my data and..." but nobody's crystallized what that looks like in the way GNU crystallized the Four Freedoms.
Well firstly, we were attacked by the Japanese, not the Germans. And believe it or not, the predominant german population in the US at the time did not like war with Germany. Go figure.

In regards to the Pacific, the Japenese navy couldn't even hold a candle to the US. Even after Pearl Harbor it basically equalized it. What was discovered though throughout the Pacific campaign was that air superiority defined who'd win. The Japanese instructed kamikazes as opposed to saving the aircraft. Since it's a lot harder to rebuild a new aircraft and ship it out than it is to just put a fresh out of flight school kid in a plane, they basically crippled themselves with a semi accurate human guided missile with a minor payload. Not to mention the Japanese still had a smaller navy.

The US had a lot of WWI era ships, but they were still perfectly viable. The Japanese had no chance from the beginning. Thats specifically WHY they attacked Pearl Harbor. They anticipated US involvement so to try and get ahead of the game, they waited until they knew many of the US naval ships were in Pearl Harbor to attack. While it certainly dampened our navy, it didn't stop industry building one up, and definitely did not even compete against US at the time. In terms of chess, the Japanese basically took a rook or a bishop with a pawn.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_history_of_World_War_II#...

The Battle of Britain though was far more of an important battle. The British and whomever the Air Marshall was at the time got absurdly lucky they discovered radar. That coupled with the Air Marshalls strategy alone was a testament to his intelligence of the battle he was facing. He knew it was one of attrition so he let the Germans waste time trying to draw out his fighters. Radar helped them determine when the real invasion was coming so they could go balls out to defend it. Had Britain been taken over, I'd be willing to bet the US would only have faced the Japanese. Germany would've likely be able to successfully push through the eastern front with more resources as well.
I have a friend that works for one of the major assistants not made in MountainView... there is explicit logic where it looks if the song title includes "live | cover | instrumental | etc" and tries to find a new version.
no doubt. He made a career of it.
I don't think the Trump administration is going around destroying census data and prison records.

I'm also highly skeptical of the idea that any of the Nuremberg defendants would have gone free without 'private office' documents. As an example, Karl Doenitz was convicted on (somewhat dubious) charges that had nothing to do with Concentration Camps or PoW treatment.
You don't get to be a "Corporate VP" in a Fortune 1000 without either being a True Believer, or being so comfortable with toeing the party line that you don't even notice the hypocrisy any more.
This is like a VP at Exon/Mobil talking about their commitment to fight climate change
Not that I want any part in increasing use of always-listening devices, but can't you change the trigger word on these things?

I've been meaning to have a play with https://mycroft.ai/ but only out of interest, I don't see myself leaving it running.
Just another case where an idea originally created for developer convenience turned into an enterprise thing and instrument for mass control. Reminds me of Java build tools having long forgotten that they're there to make developer's lives easier rather than appeal to enterprise control freak desires. Now have fun developing k8s-compatible containers to enslave us in "the cloud" with developer workflow an afterthought.
jacquesm was talking about test purposes, which is a different problem.
Hey googoo also works
Why gamers invert their controls
I don't agree the implication is obvious at all. Interpreting it that way make it a total truism - nonsensical unless interpreted within a greater context.

And it looks to me that's just what the GP poster was trying to do - challenge others to argue with a truism while pretending that the context in which it was stated isn't relevant.
Have you ever considered what freedoms we already lack due to our barbaric car-centric society?
Apple Music allows this, and might be a better solution for you. A client is available on Android and Windows as well.
Sure, that's why I am convinced that they are working as fast as possible. (I'm fully aware by now that you seem perfectly fine with corner cutting, so no need to reiterate that again).
SS7 is an old legacy standard that can be viewed in the same vain as DNS and it's associated legacy and subsequent mitigations and improvements over the years. For more perspective, 2G came along decades later and that had more thought, why it used cutting edge 56bit encryption, which today is akin to plain text.

A nice readup upon SS7 here: https://www.infopulse.com/blog/telecom-security-ss7-network-... which also links to https://www.gsma.com/security/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/GSM... which fleshes out the picture even further.

Remember that SS7 was invented in 1975, so if they designed cyber warfare into it, I'd be impressed with that level of planning.
dockerd is the literal name of a binary while containerd is the name of a project. As far as I can tell containerd stylizes its name in all lowercase but more than half the time I still see it written like a standard name, ContainerD, exactly like this.
I agree with the cheap launch platform argument but from another, perspective.

I don't believe SpaceX numbers and BFR (it will always be BFR for me) is still a paper rocket (Raptor looks good though). But it is still cheap compared to traditional launches.

The problem is: SpaceX has now plenty of cheap, reusable Falcon 9s but not a lot of stuff to launch. There are not that many companies who want to build and launch satellites: it is expensive no matter what and the cost has to be justified. Falcon 9 rockets (including heavy) are also limited in capability: small fairing space and not the most efficient beyond LEO. Also, it may not be suitable for some sensitive payloads (military, etc...).

Ii means that SpaceX has good rockets, they already have the "culture and skills for rapid relaunch" but not enough market for it. So they did the obvious thing: create their own.

As for BFR. I made the choice not to take SpaceX communication into account, it is worthless. Same thing with everything by Elon Musk. I only believe what they show, which is already impressive enough.
That’s not what the parent comment said at all?

Americans know very well that their public sector fails to execute projects on time and on budget. They just don’t think the tradeoffs to convert to the Chinese system are worth it, nor are the benefits of the Chinese system exclusive to that system.
Half-OT: What are alternative runtimes and why would you use them?
Why VCs deserve more credit than criticisms
That is comical if true.
I dislike humor on HN (but don't mind it in more light-hearted places, everything has a time and a place) for two reasons.

a. It crowds out other content.

b. It's harder to argue against a point made as a joke. Consider your examples. Let's say there is an issue with argument y. It's much more natural to point out in phrasing 1, than in phrasing 2. You look like someone who doesn't get that it's just a joke and there were some artistic liberties taken. So y is allowed to stand uncontested.
I thought the change in node name was relative to the percent improvement in density, i.e 70% increase in density 5 / 1.7 ~= 3
OMG these guys are insufferable. Really brings me back to this quote by David Foster Wallace that I've been ruminating over ever since I was on Bali myself:

> “To be a mass tourist, for me, is to become a pure late-date American: alien, ignorant, greedy for something you cannot ever have, disappointed in a way you can never admit. It is to spoil, by way of sheer ontology, the very unspoiledness you are there to experience, It is to impose yourself on places that in all non-economic ways would be better, realer, without you. It is, in lines and gridlock and transaction after transaction, to confront a dimension of yourself that is as inescapable as it is painful: As a tourist, you become economically significant but existentially loathsome, an insect on a dead thing.”

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/211278-to-be-a-mass-tourist...
Wait, do you want to seriously study the way that China is able to do the prestige projects you point to, or do you want to ignore the historical patterns that provide evidence of what the reason is that they are able to do them?
I think this is actually pretty spot on. The same, ironically, goes for comments that espouse a view that's contrarian against the already contrarian HN perspective. I say ironically because in many ways HN prides itself with being contrarian.
Apple isn't going to be replacing TSMC. It would take a few hundred billion dollars of investment at best.
Business Acumen becomes crucial for you
>Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't think there is anything at all about developers which would set them apart from the hoi polloi.

Maybe their arrogance and inflated self-importance. But, then again, the hoi polloi are like that too.
More like saying "You should get that polio vaccine... but you are still going to get hit by a car."

Ultimately, if you have a bad boss, they are going to find some shitty way to screw you over. If you have a good boss, this is irrelevant.

I do think it's good that Microsoft pulled this, I'm just cynical it will make a difference.
the google assistant is getting objectively worse and stupider. It worked better a couple years ago. The thing I hate the most about these opaque, closed box systems is the absolute dependence I have on them. I can't just freeze the version of software I'm running that is working. Nearly every app I have that works great, will at some point stop working and regress. Almost universally that is true. I despise the new era we're in where the user has zero control over what is running on their hardware.
Fortunately, there are many non-authoritarian countries with working train systems. It is funny how Americans choose the worst countries to look up to for relatively mild accomplishments. Maybe because it would hurt our pride to talk about the successes of other countries without the safety blanket of thinking that we still wouldn't want to live there. Maybe out of a perverse sense of intellectual stimulation ("bad yet good, mmm how sophisticated."). It might also be that everyone imagines themselves as the powerful, decisive officials, without realizing that only a few people can occupy those spots; statistically, they should expect to be the peons. But whatever the reason it is funny whenever it happens.
Even if they approve today and the best case happens were are still looking at the same 100000 lives lost. Maybe a handful would be prevented, but no matter what supply ensures that they cannot vaccinate enough people to make a significant dent in that number.
I wonder if their concentration camp er.. Re-education camp guests share a similar admiration for how well run they are. Or political prisoners for how efficiently they were reported and disappeared.

I wonder.
Very dystopian. I'll file that image with the memories of dark red wildfire smoke filled skies that looked like Bladerunner as the future we want to avoid.
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EUV patterning, of which TSMC bit the bullet on early, adds another huge cost to an already crazy expensive manufacturing process.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EUVL
The Great Courses has a nutrition course I watched and it it indicated a vegetarian diet if done right is 100% fine. I wouldn't expect adding artificial meat to a vegetarian diet to cause any deficiency if the vegetarian diet alone is fine.
We probably have to acknowledge that if you are using Windows at all, MS probably has this kind of detailed data about everything you do on your computer.

This has been possible for a long time, the only boundary which was being tested here was the idea of selling this data to your employer.
> compares a half continent sized country to a single city
These are two ends of a very broad spectrum: On one end it's bulldoze everything (including human rights) and get 'er done. On the other end is spend decades and $billions doing endless studies and analyses, barely getting anything done.

There is a middle ground where projects are ethically and considerately done in a reasonable amount of time, at a reasonable cost. This doesn't seem to be happening in either SF or China, but I can imagine it's happening in many places around the world.
Every president in recent history has been sued for record retention reasons.

Here is a case against Obama for instance https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/tran...
Presumably in this scenario the employee was one of a small group of people that was responsible for maintaining the cork board, and used it for their political beliefs
>Authoritarian regimes are often highly efficient

I would argue the opposite is usually true. Setting aside China, authoritarian regimes are usually NOT known for being efficient or well-run.

I am not American, but I came back from my visits to China with a similar feeling to the grandparent comment. The West tends to stick their fingers in their ears and yell "Authoritarian regime, I can't hear you!" at the mere suggestion that China does certain things better and there may be something to learn there.
No, I don't misunderstand. A deposition won't care whether things are separated by a software wall. A deposition will want everything on the device. So it's better to just not mix the two at all.
Regarding those sibling comments that try to explain away Chinas efficiency with its authoritarianism: consider other, democratic Asian nations like Japan, Taiwan, Korea, if you prefer. They offer just as much to learn, e.g. in how they handle infrastructure projects, technological advancements in the public sphere, or pandemic prevention. We westerners would be smart to question our perceived superiority from time to time.
Feel free to try my iOS app. You can track the frequency. It's basically SwiftUI on top of SQLite. All data stays on the device. It has support for Siri, Shortcuts and widgets. Feedback is welcome.

https://apps.apple.com/app/id1481868897
Interesting! I'm going to read into the info you linked. Thanks for the info!
I think you are less diplomatically saying the things I was trying to say more diplomatically.
Not if it was set up with corporate deployment methods. Look into what Apple MDM is capable of on an iPhone, for instance.
Microsoft, Code.org Partner to Teach Elementary and HS Students AI and Ethics
I'm interested to see the actual percentage of HN users that want to buy the M1.

This could help predicting how fast the adoption of ARM as a main development machine.
Your post contains two distinctive arguments: paying premium for managed services instead of learning a thing or two, and paying AWS for their services.

Re first argument: I don't know how to implement DDoS protection, neither is my company a DDoS protection shop. Should I learn how to do it myself, or pay CloudFlare to do it for me? What about S3? What about Aurora/Dynamo/SQS? Where is the line between "your company TOTALLY has to do it on its own" vs "pay the people who know how to run X to run it for you"?

Regarding AWS prices: it's not like you are forced to use AWS. Use the cloud your team is most familiar with. I'm not an expert on cloud offerings, yet if your problem is $20k/month and $15k/month infrastracture costs, you might be solving a wrong problem.
Similarly, there’s a podcast called the “Bill Simmons Podcast Podcast”, which one of my voice assistants consistently chooses rather than the real one.
Acid Rap for me
> Have you ever considered what freedoms we already lack due to our barbaric car-centric society?

Barbaric is a fun word, but one that would be easy to twist the other way. In one system you get to be crammed into a little train car with dozens of other people, in the other system you have some privacy and personal space and a seat...

Again, pros and cons all over the place... the US doesn't have good trains because it built other systems instead due to the point in time in which many of its cities developed, and they are "good enough" that most people would see little benefit from ripping it all up to replace it with trains.

It's worth noting too that "they make the trains run on time" is literally a cliche about certain types of government at this point, not some unique accomplishment.
I'd hazard to guess there's no way to, "by your logic," someone who's already crossed the threshold of equating a working train system to slavery.
Just bought a new Macbook Pro with Intel Processor on the day they announced the new machines (old computer broke).
I'm good for now and also gonna wait until the next generations come out
I'm familiar with reddit/AskHitorians. Any other good subreddit like that one that you know of?
This really doesn't have anything to do with what I said or the long-term goals of a fusion project as stated in TFA.
Well sure, when you can use Uighur slave labor for your infrastructure and kill their entire family if they speak up, you can have some nice things...I guess...

/s
I think Derek Taylor does a good breakdown of all the various software choices by The Linux Foundation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-2dYfYvJGk
Not only that, Do you want for someone to "deeply care about something"? pay them a lot to work on that.That's it.We are masters on deluding ourselves with post-hoc rationalizations.
John Brown: America’s First Terrorist?
In this scenario we did have an account manager at Stripe, however fortunately and unfortunately the show brought in somewhere in the region of 7X the initial target.

Servereless stampeding a payment processor like Stripe as opposed to something like RDS are two different kettles of fish, as am sure you can imagine, stripe have very high capacity and there is 1:1 relationship to the user unlike DB writes, where there may be many per transaction / action.

I have don't it both ways in the past, queueing payments and processing later. Problem is with doing that you cannot immediately return card errors, which has a large effect on conversion. With something like Amazon it is fine to do that, as users inevitably come back to buy the products they want, for donations not so much.
From Wikipedia[1]:

>Whataboutism, also known as whataboutery, is a variant of the tu quoque logical fallacy that attempts to discredit an opponent's position by charging them with hypocrisy without directly refuting or disproving their argument.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism

I am not trying to counter an argument by pointing out hypocrisy. I am simply stating there are bigger fish to fry. Maybe you object to that argument, but it wasn't whataboutism.
Same here. I really wonder how these products sell. The most basic things dont work. And if they are confused, then for real. For about 2 years, when Siri happened to misunderstand the command "Call ..." it would answer "OK, calling you" and actually try to call my own number. This is so weird that it actually feels like someone wrote that piece of code to prank the user.

If these things would actually work, I'd definitely use one regularily. However, whenever I visit an Alexa owner, I realize after a few interactions that I really couldn't be bothered with this stuff.

I think the "taxi" problem is still around with Siri. Put any taxi organisation into your phonebook, and include "taxi" in the name. You will likely not be able to call it with siri, since it insists to search for taxis in your area. Its always the same bug. These things have absolutely no idea about the context. And some hand-crafted rules go haywire after a while, because apparently nobody reviews them. When I got my first iPhone (iOS 5) I put in my date of birth during configuration, and promptly noticed that the german speech synthesizers says Nineteenseventynine when I enter 1979. All aother 4-digit numbers are fine, only 1979 is pronounced english. So apparently someone put this exception in there for a completely bogus reason, and it stayed there. It is still there today, after 8 years.
Yeah, this annoys the shit out of me. We get less features because we paid?
I agree. Google is collecting all of this data, but every time I'm going to Wegmans, "hey google, navigate to wegmans", its always, "I FOUND SEVERAL OPTIONS, WHICH WOULD YOU LIKE TO GO TO?". And in what is apparently always a surprise, I always want to go to closest Wegmans.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wenzhou_train_collision

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/jul/25/chinese-rail-c...
I censor myself on wechat just so I can take high speed trains lol

Its actually not that hard and Chinese content platforms are a breath of fresh air

Me thinks you would be surprised at what works

The state there takes a paternal approach, like a literal parent, or teacher or school principle (or unit commander, or HR department). It isn’t that unrelatable, we all grew up in similar restrictions. When everyone agrees that is what the role of the state is, nobody is trying to be a freedom fighter to alter that
Right. The simplest option is to use containerd, as the runtime. Installing docker will also install containerd (because docker uses it internally), so nothing much needs to change except a configuration option. docker and k8s can run side by side sharing the same containerd instance, in case you need to do something like build containers inside your k8s cluster.

You lose out on things that require access to the docker daemon socket, but ideally any such software should be replaced with something that talks with the kubernetes API instead. (exception is building containers in cluster. If you need that, run docker side by side with the kubelet, or use buildkit with containerd integration). You also lose the ability to interact with containers with the docker cli tool. Use crictl instead, which has most of the same commands, but also includes certain k8s relevant information in output tables.
> Worst of all possible worlds.

At least there are no tribbles.
>That’s not what the parent comment said at all?

It was written to agree with the parent, not disagree. Yes, that does break from the normal comment thread cadence of agreement on odd layers and disagreement on even layers. ;)
My toddler wants to hear a song 1000x, I can't do something like "Play 5 little monkeys jumping on the bed on repeat or in a loop or 10x" I have to tell it each time.