skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You want examples outside of China of more serious screw ups, once the real seriousness was known?

Ok, then. Bavaria had beer festivals in February and March, Austria kept Ischgl open and infected most of Europe. Other regions let the German carnival running. Leipzig had Champions League match. All in Feb and March. Just from top of my head.

At least local Chinese authorities still had the benefit of doubt. And did we already forget how fast they built hospitals and how many people the tested?
I looked at the references on the other end of the link. I expected it to be a particular article with all four of those words in the title. It was not; it was just a search for those four words.

The top result is an article about the Swiss theologian Karl Barth (d. 1968), who was among other things one of the leaders of the theological opposition to the Third Reich and its subversion of Christian belief in service of white-supremacist ideology. The article says that Barth's interpretation of Romans 2 provides us a way today to avoid commingling Christian identity and whiteness.

It's certainly possible for someone who believes white supremacy exists (and is worth opposing) to think that academic work that reads Barth today to counter racial superiority disguised as Christianity is of low value. I'd say it's pretty unlikely.

To be fair, this is not the most charitable interpretation. The most charitable interpretation is that the author of the essay has never seriously read any academic work involving the words "hermeneutic," "dialectic," "hegemonic," or "whiteness" and they're just four words that he thinks mean nothing, and that he didn't actually read the results in the Google Scholar search before a middlebrow dismissal (to use his own term) of the results. That would make him like the vast majority of the folks who deny the existence of white supremacy - dismissing serious opposition to it as silly instead of specifically disbelieving it.
Ask HN: Why is Oracle moving to Texas?
Two questions:
1) Why is oracle moving to Texas - in other words what does it get there thst it dosnt get here 2) what does it say about the state of things to come for Bay Area?
> "if only people used computers like I personally think they should"

I think that if one could take a sufficiently aggregated superset of that from everyone on HN, one might very well come up with a philosophy of computing that actually is quite powerful.

In general I think the idea is that the computer is supposed to be a tool, in addition to a toy; with the awareness that playing with tools is often just as much fun as any toy could be, and conversely that a toy is a powerful way to learn.

> "Because people don’t understand what computing is about, they think they have it in the iPhone"

I agree this is myopic. I can use my iPhone to do a great many computing-related tasks; and when it is insufficient, it is certainly sufficient to reach out to a bigger, more powerful machine where I can do such things. As long as we retain the powerful (and not yet enshrined) freedom to connect things together over the Internet, your "computer" is not just whatever device you hold in your hands.
> I think there should be a better bash with an very clean and consistent interface.

Absolutely! Some work should be put into making it way more intuitive. Having to remember what every flag means (which is different in every app!) is not intuitive at all.

By default there should be some sort of intelisense auto-complete which can also provide guidance on what on earth all the flags mean, and maybe eventually it could tell you what it expects to do before you run the command. For most users otherwise it ends up being "paste in this command you googled with a load of random flags you don't understand and won't remember"
Here's an easy way to figure out where earnestness matters vs where it's just bullshitting all the way down. Are there any prodigies? Mathematics: yes. Music: yes. Real estate: no.
Someone should write "become IDE literate" as a response to opening of using vim with no extensions and using grep a lot.

I've been using editors that are language aware since at least the late 90s. Depending on the language they'll show me all references, take me to the definition or declaration, stack those jumps so as I follow the links I can pop back a level to where I was. All of this is instant. 1000x faster than opening a shell and trying to grep all the project files for word phrases which, not being language aware, can't tell if one 'foo' is relevant or irrelevant from another 'foo'. They'll also let me refactor various things from renaming a method/class/variable/function and correctly fixing all the related files to doing things like changing class members to getter/setters and other things.

The difference is like using a hammer vs using a nail gun. There are times where they hammer is useful but given the job of constructing a building a nail gun will get the job done much faster.
Oh God, how I wish the interfaces had a "This is not a goddamn touchscreen" option.

I just want buttons that don't take half the screen, for starters. My mouse is good enough.
Yep I can come at someone with datacenter/residential/mobile/etc. IP addresses, all incredibly configurable to slip around network blocks. Luminati and Proxy Bonanza are the services I've used with the most success.

Getting source proxy lists of high-reputation networks is just $$ and a simple API integration game anymore.
Edit: s/surrounded by/near/ (4th para. re Stalin)
One has to suppose it was the lady behind the door. The princess would choose which door to direct him to based on his love for her. If he truly loved her, she could not bear to see him torn apart. If he did not love her, she could not bear to see him move on to some other woman. In his turn, he must recognize that there is some chance that she is lying to him, that she has chosen to send him to his death. Yet he turns towards the exact door she has directed him to with complete faith and calm. There is no doubt whatsoever in his mind that she has chosen to let him live. If he had been the conniving sort, he might assume that the indicated door was the one containing the beast, and on this basis selected the opposite door. Indeed, he is still offered a choice, between faith and deception, whether to do as she says, or to turn away from it. On this basis, one assumes, she would direct him towards the door of salvation, knowing that he might choose to ignore her, and turn towards the door of certain doom instead. (There is a parallel here to C S Lewis' description of religious faith, if you are familiar with his writing)
This would require filenames became valid utf-8. This would be a good thing to do nowadays, irritatingly (having tried handling Unix filenames as utf 8 in the past), surprisingly many users have non-utf8 filenames.
So its called Durandal, tycho or Leela?
Support Vector Machine Learning Classification in Python and Sklearn
I do a lot of things simply to do the thing for its own sake and I've gotten a lot of feedback that people "value" the wonderful things I do out of the goodness of my heart. And I was homeless for years and hearing that shit about how much everyone "appreciated" how much I "cared" and all this shit while mostly not giving me money for it.

The assumption that people should do things for free is an assumption that they have vast resources to spend on benefiting others with no expectation of getting any of that back. Or that they should serve as slave labor out of "virtue."

Having done the latter, let me tell you it sucks. In the extreme.

If you want the world to be healthy, you need to find ways to do good works that pay your bills and you need to find ways to engage in symbiotic relationships where benefiting others comes back to you. The word for that is generally business.

I would like to keep working on the same things I've worked on for years but turn it into an actual business that pays my bills. There is nothing I want more desperately than to do X for its own sake and somehow also live in comfort because I do good things in this shitty world full of shitty people who all want something for free and are happy to take freebies literally from a homeless woman if they can get away with it.
Systems of Differentiation should employ a build-first strategy. These are the systems that differentiate you from your competitors, they are your competitive edge. As such you typically need tight control over these systems and don't want to rely on 3rd parties - either vendors or contractors.

Systems of Engagement & Systems of Record should employ a buy-first strategy. These are typically more operations-focused systems and as such you're usually better off buying them, but not always (see below). It's possible that some of these systems may also be Systems of Differentiation.

What is a buy-first strategy? It means consider buying first. How much would your operations be impacted by the necessary changes to your workflow? How much customization will be required in order for it to be usable and how are those customizations maintained throughout product upgrades? How much integration is required with existing systems? Buying software is rarely a buy, deploy, and done proposition! Usually the TCO is lower if you buy, but not always - depending on how much customization and integration is required.
I find shell literacy more important than ever as I continue to invest in CI/CD using GitHub actions.

With multiple contexts, and sometimes complex behavior, leveraging shell seems key to debug and gluing things together.
You are spot on!
Hmm. I walked into an Apple store and got a "Top Case Assembly with Battery Replacement" service for my 15" MacBook Pro. It was $199 total, which I thought was a fair price.
> Do you think on this specific issue (that the election was stolen) that Independents ought to tell us a bit about what the average, non-partisan belief

Not in any meaningful sense; largely for related limits to those discussed upthread for general centrism: research on voting behavior that has shown those who identify as independents are not particular independent, and contain an identifiable major subset as reliably partisan as those who identify with a major party.

If by “average, non-partisan belief” you simply mean the belief of the average person who doesn't identify with a major party, then, sure, you will have defined it such that independents are key. But this isn't useful information.
Probably better not to use the term "steady state" here (even if pretty appropriate) in that the "steady state" cosmological model is/was one that is exponentially expanding, with all physical observables statistically time-independent. It solves Olber's paradox due to the radiation redshift. That model was observationally incorrect, but actually has pretty much been reborn in "eternal inflation" in which the Universe as a whole is in a quasi-exponential state with local regions expanding sub-exponentially like our observable universe.

In either classic steady-state or eternal inflation case, energy conservation is not necessarily a problem: you can have vacuum energy that converts steadily into radiation, while being generated by the expansion.
There are still a few where variations are excepted. I always think of "cancelled" or "labelled" which some people spell with one L near the end.

Sometimes that's a question of which country, US usage, UK usage, whatever, but sometimes multiple spellings are found in either place.
I disagree, the typesetting is too fluffy. Very little information on a page and turning pages is laborious, and you lose context. Why are the margins so massive? People have forgotten why margins were created and what they're used for (Accounting for spine, holding the book without obscuring the text). We don't have such restrictions on digital books. A professional typesetter from Springer or Oreilly would have many things to say.

Here are some examples from Springer's text books (Note, they're meant to be printed so the margins are set accordingly):

TOC: https://i.imgur.com/gREO73C.png

Content: https://i.imgur.com/1zFmWgV.png
Since when does IPv4-addresses cost money? I'm pretty sure IPs are allocated for free if available and you have a use case for them?

I know RIPE now want members to charge customers for IPs, but..
The hardest part of learning to not look through your developer eyes. Often the 80% solution is "good enough" for your customers or your stake holders, and they'd never appreciate the extra 20% a fully custom solution provides.
How hot can a sauna safely get? (2010)
Your argument jumps around. By the time Steve Jobs returned to Apple he had near total control: yet a central point of your argument was that idealistic founders have trouble when they sign away rights.

And Job, though he did many wonderful things, had sociopathic tendencies from even before he founded Apple.

As for Facebook, Zuckerberg has maintained a very large amount of control. How does this square with your thesis that the trouble comes from VC’s?
File names that contain newlines??
I see what that means..cybertruck only has 16 inch clearance and has 14000 lbs towing capacity. I think I have to go see the reveal video again.

Intuitively i like the design but I also want to understand the physics of it.
It's kind of like "REST" in "REST interface". You know it just means like... normal and good.
Getting rid of a person like this after you realized the magnitude of the hiring mistake you made is not going to be a smooth sailing in any scenarios.
Unix isn’t integrated enough. You can’t go very far with just throwing strings around (or bytes). You can’t safely refactor, say, Java code like you can do in Intellij.

Maybe you can piece something together manually that does the same thing, eventually. But if you have to do all of that work yourself then I wouldn’t call it integrated.
yes, you're absolutely spot on - I'm part of a remote team and we made it mission to try and just use shell-commands to communicating business-centric admin stuff, such as: add this row in the table, modify this stored parameter, invoke that api call via curl, etc. They're all shorter than 10 lines usually but help illustrate exactly what needs to happen with very little room for interpretation.
I recommend https://tldr.sh/. Since I installed `tldr`, I rarely read the man pages.
tldr [0] is great for easy to understand example commands. It is community driven and there are many cli based programs you can install[1][2].

[0] https://tldr.sh/

[1] https://www.npmjs.com/package/tldr

[2] https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr-python-client
> If you want to know whether you are being lied to, learn math and science.

I've got a PhD in CS. I've spent 22 years in the organized education system. Yet I'm barely able to actually understand research results in adjacent CS subfields, let alone an entire scientific discipline. It is absolutely not feasible for even a dedicated person to become meaningfully expert in a large number of fields.

> What exactly do humanities courses help me with here?

The primary loop of humanities work is critical analysis of texts written by humans. A field like history is literally media analysis, except that the media was created by actors in the past rather than actors today.
> Why do we need courts anyway when we can use our own discerning sense of vigilante justice?

You're still talking about humans though, right? Does that system not count as part of "our discerning minds"? What is a jury if not a group of discerning minds?

To be clear, I agree that human systems are necessary (the justice system, military, etc), but when it comes to squelching speech I disagree with that approach. When real people have real concerns and those concerns are silenced by an opposing group, that is oppression plain and simple.

Is satire to be suppressed because it makes exagerrated or nonsensical claims? Where do we draw the line, and who gets to decide when satire crosses the line to become incendiary?

What would be the end goal of your proposed system that filters speech that you consider "noise"? To prevent a tyrant from taking power by spreading false information? The truth is that once we live in a society where free speech is suppressed then we are already living under a tyranny.
Exactly. This is a new type of vaccine that was rushed through testing being deployed widely for a disease that kills less than 1% of people who get it.
RWD has 5000 lbs towing capacity and AWD is 10 and 14k each for dual and tri motor models.
I understand your general point of there being a continuum of paying for building blocks to be integrated. But,

> is not a binary choice

Then, offering two options. :)
I assume the Hughes bids are for HughesNet not OneWeb.
Using Fish as my shell somewhat makes this morn tolerable as it checks the manpages and automatically suggests flags in a tab-complete fashion. It also remembers previously run commands and suggests them, which helps with not having to remember exactly which flag does what, because the example comes from the last time you ran the command.
Sometimes though we are dishonest about #1, and we want a deeper level of integration or polish than is necessary.
Zero to Production in Rust, Part Six: Using Types to Guarantee Domain Invariants
Learning the shell was one of the best things I did as a programmer.

It helped a lot that 15+ years ago I committed to running desktop Linux as a daily driver. Especially back then when things were much rougher on the desktop, using Linux as a daily driver means occasionally doing something in the shell.

Ultimately, just like learning a programming language, one must have a practical reason, a project, to make it worth the while to learn as you go. For someone interested in learning to use the power of the shell, don't just go read a book or do some exercises or tape a cheat sheet to the wall. Instead, commit to using it for daily tasks for a month, or for maintaining a project entirely in the shell, not even using a GUI file manager. It's tough at first but so worth it!
Yup, it seems that shell embedded in YAML is pretty much a pattern now (Github Actions, Gitlab, Kubenetes, Travis CI, sourcehut, etc.)

And I think it's growing beyond CI/CD -- that is, Github actions is a more general platform than Travis CI, etc.

Good example: https://lobste.rs/s/oeelem/using_github_issues_as_hugo_front...

My pet peeve is that YAML is a terrible syntax for a shell script, i.e. there are if statements in a weird YAML DSL in addition to if statements in shell (which people already complain is hard to remember)

People complain about shell syntax, but YAML is even worse.

So I would like to make Oil a better language for specifying these "distributed shell scripts":

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25343716
Goatse Security
No American on the Trump side was indicted of anything actually related to "Russiagate", but for unrelated procedural crimes discovered during the investigation. (You know the saying that everyone wittingly or unwittingly commits three crimes a day?) Several Russian agents were indicted for Russiagate-related things; Putin will turn his goons over to US custody any day now!

Then we have people like Carter Page, whose name was raked over the coals for years because a FBI lawyer intentionally altered evidence (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/09/us/politics/fbi-ig-report...) showing that far from being a Russian asset, Page had for years briefed the CIA every time he met with suspicious Russians. (Got to love how the Times describes said altering evidence as a "serious error".) You want an actual Russiagate-related indictment and guilty plea? Kevin Clinesmith, said FBI lawyer, is your man.
The phrase AWS came up with for this, "Undifferentiated Heavy Lifting", is quite apt.
I'm not the OP and have absolutely nothing to do with the company. I replied to agree with your thoughts the pricing model was wrong and shared some more thoughts of my own; apologies if this was confusing, perhaps I should have made a new reply of my own.

Hope you are doing okay and find a way to vent your frustrations better than all caps on HN comments.
> In what other programming language can you put spaces in variable names?

PowerShell; although you have to use long form to do it:

PS C:\> ${var with spaces} = 1

PS C:\> Get-Variable *space*

Name Value
---- -----
var with spaces 1

PS C:\> ${var with spaces} + 2
3
Critics of Electoral College push for popular vote compact
I love it, and have been manually creating such links every day since discovering the feature. One should be able to link to any portion of a page, and now one can, largely. The highlighting ought to be something a browser allows a user to customize, but I really wish Firefox (which I use about half the time) had the feature.
Let me correct the title...

> Amazon wants to train 29m people to work on AWS.

Unsurprising that a company wants to train people on their own product in order to ultimately sell more of it.
Ever since the big RIRs (like RIPE) have run out of IPv4 addresses to allocate - which was a couple years ago (ARIN was out 2015; and RIPE ran out end of last year - and that was already with quite restrictive allocation policies).
I'm fine, just colouring the conversation a bit, people think it's impossible to choose to do something like this, but it's quite possible for a human brain to logically conclude it shouldn't exist.
This is what a lot of hacker dudes seem to want, I feel despair.
> When will platforms start to be charged for their mistakes? Pretty sure if they had to make financial compensations for their mistakes, they would start using humans more often to support this crap automated system.

How exactly would you enforce this? Media companies have the right to not show content from a given artist, at any time, for any reason. If you passed a law saying that twitch has to pay fines for false DMCA takedowns, they would simply take down the same artist anyway, without giving them any reason whatsoever. Which hurts the artist even more - now they can't even appeal the decision, because they would have no idea why it occurred
The addressing is exactly why IPv6 isn’t something most ISPs want you to have in your house.

Right now blocking a bunch of home servers is easy - just don’t give people addresses. With IPv6 you’ll need to thread that needle some other way or give people access to something that will actually test your advertised bandwidth commitments.

Edit: instead of downvoting how about having a conversation? That’s the great thing about this place, lots of diverse perspectives.
Join 347 developers learning about solving the Multi-Armed Bandit Problem
1) Low personal income taxes + generally lower operating costs

2) When concentration becomes less important, there's less reason to stay in the Bay Area with all of its flaws
Thread-Per-Core Buffer Management for a modern storage system
I should have pointed out this is the strategy that should be employed by an established company. If your company is just starting out then buy everything if possible - your competitive edge is the fact you're small and nimble. You can respond to market changes faster than the established companies can. Over time you'll recognize what are to become your Systems of Differentiation and then and only then should you consider building that yourself. When you're starting out you typically don't have the time or capital to wait and build the software you may need. For such companies doing business and generating revenue now is more important than having a perfect application portfolio. And yes, this is why systems are never as perfect and pristine as developers would hope.
I guess this leads to the question of if there is any way to use polls to get a read on how apolitical observers feel on a given issue through party affiliation. It sounds like the answer you have is "no", but I guess that leaves little value in polls in issues such as this one, given the salient issue (at least, to me) is how strongly it is held by non-partisans. I guess not for this thread.