skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm always amazed at how more people do not know about the Proxy protocol. (Also why is this not an RFC?)

I suspect one reason is because the cloud vendors push hard for layer 7 routing, and cloud managed cert management. (ie: ALB and ACM.) These have a lot of vendor lock-in, whereas k8s layer 4 ingress and cert-manager do not.
>>Safety is a characteristic of systems and not of their components
>>Safety is an emergent property of systems; it does not reside in a person, device or department of an organization or system. Safety cannot be purchased or manufactured; it is not a feature that is separate from the other components of the system. This means that safety cannot be manipulated like a feedstock or raw material. The state of safety in any system is always dynamic; continuous systemic change insures that hazard and its management are constantly changing.

fits perfectly the description of Security of complex IT systems, nice way to explain why IT security marketplace is a wild wild west
Nostalgia. I was part of the team that came second in 2012. Our fun trick was accidentally marking C: as read only on the active directory server. The red team thought we did something great that they could not get their payloads in ;-)
You do not necessarily need to fully know the environment you are in, but you need to be able to evaluate how good the actions that you can take are in terms of an utility function. That’s how a RL algorithm can learn that going through a wall is a bad decision (reward(“ahead”) <= “$0“), and then decides for something else such as turning right or left (reward(“Left” || “right”) > “$0”).

I think the main problem with RL is deciding if an utility function — as precise as it may be — can fully capture/estimate all nuances of an environment. Another problem is at adapting to the environment by having new actions added dynamically into your model and having it to converge as quickly as possible.
Well despite anecdotes of workplace drama, they’ve definitely been effective at continuing to manage Steam, which is likely orders of magnitude more lucrative than developing single player videogames. Everyone points to Valve failing to deliver a Half-Life sequel as a failure but it’s more a symptom of changing organizational priorities.
To suggest that any of these people would have any other objectives in mind than the public's health is irresponsible conspiracy theorizing.
I mean it's a complex piece of history.
America bombed to bits Japan and nuked it twice. Should USA not be remorseful at all?
Or how about the European colonisation of Asia? I don't recall Brits feeling bad about the opium wars.
Or how about China invading Tibet or its horrific "cultural revolutions"?
If curious see also

2015 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10145480

Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1498136

Related from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25546787
Linux 5.11 Is Heavy on New Features, Improvements for 2021
Show HN: Turn any photo into Impressionism (sort of)
Just curious, how do you sync file ownership and permissions when going to a ZFS target server with a non privliged account? Or would you have all the files on the target owned by the user ID accessing the target server, then keep the metadata (owner/mode/SE Linux attributes / ACLs, etc) in a separate log file?

And do you typically turn on ZFS compression? I tried that years ago with ZFS under Linux, but had major slowdowns after a while. But I'm sure it has improved quite a bit in more recent years. Also how does ZFS stack up against Btrfs in your experience?

But for a direct-to-cloud backup, the way you do it is really great -- to me it is much easier than messing with things like S3 buckets and similar technoligies.
The purpose of a bicameral legislature is to have a process for placing them in office that sufficiently differs as to allows the bodies to represent distinct interests in the legislature.

The US Senate was originally appointed by the state legislatures and intended to represent the interests of the state governments at the federal level -- representation that they no longer have, leading to a massive federal takeover of government. Compare the ratio of tax revenues collected by the state vs. federal governments before and after the 17th amendment. There was a drastic, immediate, permanent shift.
I would add automapping to that list.
> agents are investigating whether or not Warner had paranoia that 5G technology was being used to spy on Americans

Truly a "paranoid" notion, completely disconnected from reality.
CompileSwift Podcast – Happy Swiftmas Edition
This is generally correct. One of the main effects of CRS being separate to FATCA is that a person from a CRS country like anywhere in the EU, UK, Aus, Canada, NZ... many countries... can hold assets in the US itself which is not a CRS signatory.
That didn’t take long.
Why Vizio Is Getting into the Advertising Business
Glad you brought up the hiring threads on HN. Recently I've felt so many of these threads have devolved into "these stupid companies using whiteboard hiring are all a bunch of idiots!" that I usually stop commenting.

What's most illuminating about those kinds of comments is they rarely even try to view thing from the hiring company's perspective. Having been in that boat, you'll find:

1. The cost of a mishire is huge. And, even worse than hiring someone who is downright awful is hiring someone who is just plain mediocre, or slow. I mean, I've hired diligent, hard-working, otherwise smart people who could only get stuff out the door at about a third the rate of other devs. Having a performance discussion with those folks can be extremely difficult, because oftentimes there is little they can realistically do to go faster.

2. Experience can have little correlation with proficiency. I've interviewed people who were "senior engineers" and "architects" at major corporation who couldn't code FizBuzz, moreover they could barely code a syntactically correct function in their chosen language.

3. Many companies want to diversify their employee base by going outside just friends/referrals and well known college programs, but to "take a chance" on other folks means they need to get a strong signal during the interview process.

I'm not saying there aren't problems in hiring, but given how there is a giant economic incentive to make hiring as accurate and efficient as possible it's at least valuable to attempt to understand why a company might interview the way it does.
Not that useful as it only appears to show the top marginal rate for corps, individuals, etc. ignoring exemptions and how much income is actually subject that rate. Would be more interested to know the average rates paid (ie, total corporate taxes paid vs total corporate pretax income)
To suggest that these people are 100% focused on human health is to ignore human motivations.

I'm very disappointed in you Andrew. You're playing the "conspiracy" card to suppress discussion.

Are we not ask who is going to profit from this?

Are we not ask what their motivations are?

Are we not allowed to question the motives of others?

I'm very disappointed that people are no longer allowed to express certain opinions or ask certain questions online without being downvoted, flagged, and marked a conspiracy theorist.

Simply flagging a post and calling someone a conspiracy theorists is the new way to suppress discussion.
of course but the internet and social media have made it easier to reach more people hence “scamming people at scale”

perhaps it’s just a function of the reach of the internet, but would argue that platforms and influencers get better at “influencing” all the time in a way that sucks more unsuspecting people into something like this even if they would be more skeptical in someone else’s living room.
How about the guy flying with the jetpack on his back?
Batteries don't benefit that much from scale. Large inverters are cheaper (per Watt), but that's pretty much it.

Instead, large battery banks have some scale costs too. Cooling is a large one.
Some questions after spending 10 minutes studying this:

1. These ships all seem to have two towers. Why not more? Can't they be closer for some science reason?

2. This works by spinning the towers using a motor. How do the propulsion gains compare to using the same motor power on a propeller?
Re: RUN's 11th Level
download RE:RUN, click on the folder that has the game in it, go to RE:RUN data and boom you found the secret level.
This is confused in almost every discussion. "Middle class" usually means "middle income" in most cases as people use it. They mean "wealth comparable to that of historic middle-class level" often.

Yes, we could have a "middle class" of managers and white-collar workers who just struggle to get by on the same low wealth of working-class laborers.

Class and wealth are often just confused because of the ways they are correlated.
How do you feel about USA soldiers nuking Japan cities full of innocent women and children?
Or China's cultural revolution where way more Chinese died?
Or
If you don't want to monetize it (with a patent) I'd suggest going to the Spaceflight Stack Exchange and posting the idea there alongside the question whether it'd work.
Building my own HomeKit Thermostat
From the replies

> Macros can be a bad programming idea, but at least they are a fun bad programming idea

Ain't that the truth.
> but chose to keep the citizenship into adulthood

I don't believe it's possible to renounce US citizenship until adulthood, in which case there is no choice.
I wish it would remove the word "just" from titles of the form "X just Y'd a Z".
This is not intended to solve your use-case - in fact, what I am about to write is primitive and childish ... however, I have done it myself and seen others do it:

You can replace a command like this in your crontab:

rsync blah blah

with a command like this:

rsync blah blah ; rsync blah blah ; rsync blah blah

See what I am doing there ? I sometimes deploy this hack with very spotty WAN connections but the laptop sleep/wake is basically the same thing ... you wake up the laptop and the running command bombs out and the next one starts.

The reason this "works" is because rsync picks up right where it left off on a broken transfer. I believe restic and borg have similar behavior ...
Fighting MLM is a good thing. But good intentions of TikTok and other ad based platforms can be questionable. Especially TikTok that approves ads of Android apps that cost over $100 dollars and are aimed to commit "friendly fraud" - a nice way for a thieft.
> so there is zero room for negotiation

My understanding is there is still room for clarification.

E.g. If you ask "This doesn't apply to me helping charities in my spare time though right?" and they say it doesn't, then that's binding.

Similarly clarifying that open source projects that aren't related to the product they sell aren't covered.

Ambiguity = flexibility
Adding line breaks before FROM, JOIN, WHERE, GROUP BY, ORDER BY, LIMIT/OFFSET (and usually before some of the ANDs) is the first thing I do when analyzing some SQL. Capitalization is rarely needed after that and useful for longer term readability.

I also normalize by removing optional/redundant keyword noise, I'm looking at you INNER/OUTER.
I would recommend keeping it for a few years. Working from home is a godsend for infants and toddlers. I’m also often thinking what else could I do but the problem is that almost no career is portable like software engineering. There are credentials and local requirements and relationships which are not as important in software.

My current thinking is to de-emphasize work for the kid years. Maybe get a more boring stable job with minimal hours and focus on the kids. There are a lot of adventures and experiences with them that no job will replicate.
You can try that, but that approach tends to fail, because people don’t like changing what they do, and they definitely dislike jumping through extra hoops. You can improve things with education, but only up to a point. Most people just don’t want to think about any of these things, so until it gets really bad (most commonly of the “leopards ate my face” variety, when something you’ve tacitly endorsed suddenly starts to harm you), they’ll normally just go along with whatever happens. This is the whole reason for government, to maintain rough balance so that no one gets too upset. It’s extremely imperfect, as you correctly imply, but that’s the general idea of it, and it normally works well enough (better than nothing, at least), and no one has presented any better alternative.
I had to click through a few times to find this definition on the same website:

>Middle-income households – those with an income that is two-thirds to double the U.S. median household income – had incomes ranging from about $48,500 to $145,500 in 2018. Lower-income households had incomes less than $48,500 and upper-income households had incomes greater than $145,500 (all figures computed for three-person households, adjusted for the cost of living in a metropolitan area, and expressed in 2018 dollars).

Although, I would not agree with equating the above to middle class. In fact, I would simply never use the word "class" as it's utility in a discussion is zero except to evoke an emotional response, in my experience.
The rise of a quiet Uighur counter-surveillance state
Unsurprisingly, companies go where the eye balls are, especially since Facebook marketing campaigns can very effective forms of advertising for small or big businesses alike.

I imagine, quietly or not, that most of the companies that said they weren’t going to advertise in Facebook will do the same.

I figured it wasn’t going to be until after the New Year that’s the only surprising thing here to me
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Thanks to automation, fractional shares and zero commissions, "direct indexing" is a thing now. You can track an index of your own design instead of trying to cancel out positions.
Pointing out an exception does not make the previous comment false.
>lasercom

I'm calling it tight-beam and you can't stop me
I'm not convinced by the article on a few points:

- powerlines work as a grid, NYC to Texas happens to cross several other cities which heavily mutualizes cost of the infrastructure. The question is not will those lines be profitable for the 2h NYC need power. It's the overall need that matters.

- energy transport represents 6% of current electric cost. To make the grid irrelevant for economic reason would suggest that energy price will changed from an order of magnitude.

- energy transport also innovates and improves.

If you are interested, this report from the MIT has a section about the future of the grid: http://energy.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/MITEI-The-F...
People who lived in apartments (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insula_(building)) would have gone to such places - if they tried cooking on the upper floors they'd burn the place down.
Is this the primary source of this https://fs.blog/2014/04/how-complex-systems-fail/ ?
It's interesting how varied were the answers to their first question, Is it possible to design trustworthy (hardware or software) systems without using formal methods? (page 8).
My comment was about lost revenue and how Prop 13 is blamed for all money ills, not the points you are addressing.
This paint fades quickly with sub exposure. On our tour of Pompeii, we saw many food stalls that had been previously excavated, but there was hardly any paint still visible. Uncovering these ruins also destroys them. It is a strange mix of ephemeral and lasting. As Pompeii has been excavated by generations of archeologists, it has also been part of developing modern archeological methods. Visiting the place is so incredible, it has no doubt inspired legions of archeologists to enter the field.
> The way I interpret DKE is that low level people don’t (yet) know what they don’t know.

That's obviously a part of it, but if that was all of it, you would expect accuracy of assessment of relative ability to consistently get better with relative ability.

But, in fact, the result is basically “everyone seems themselves as closer to the 70th percentile than they actually are”.

Everyone focusses on the low end of DKE to use it as a low-brow dismissal, but the fact that people at the top of the distribution tend to underestimate their relative ability is also interesting.

> imposters DO exist (that’s kind of why we use interviews when hiring people).

Yes, the presence of imposters in hiring and hiring-policy-setting positions is why we use assessment tools that don't work very well to evaluate candidates.
What problem does Docker solve that using a VM cannot solve?
Joel Spolsky has a very good (now old) blog post about this: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/10/25/the-guerrilla-guid...

Basically the argument is that it is much better to miss out on a good person than hire a mediocre/bad person.
How Much Herd Immunity Is Enough?
AGI might be running our models just like you run your docker containers. Maybe it investigates other ways humans could have invented it by recreating the period before the singularity.
Never understood why with a B2B average volume weighted battery cost of 137$/kwh per BNEF do LFP batteries for retail always start at 500$/kwh or so including Tesla powerwall. I understand part of it is inverter and may be BMS but still the difference is excessive.

Stationary storage should not cost > 200 $/kwh and hopefully as demand accelerates we see these prices soon.
This was in response to the quote:

> If I basically stop being a citizen of the US by moving to another country

And I was saying you don't stop being a citizen by moving somewhere else.

Citizenship is not something you can (or should be able to) just turn on and off at your convenience.
What Cyberpunk 2077 Gets Wrong About the Genre
>you can clearly see that the satellites are visible from the ground (the photo from Germany)

No, you've misunderstood (in numerous ways, but this is a specific one you've cited). That photo you linked is of a satellite "train", which is a temporary state of satellites after deployment as they take themselves the rest of the way to final deployment orbits. At that point they'll be both spread out and the albedo will be vastly lowered because SpaceX has already made design alterations to the sats so that in their operational alignment towards Earth they are far less reflective. They're not going to interfere with the sky from the naked eye, nor even for general photography, even from low light pollution rural areas vs typical urban ones.

It doesn't help that you're almost a parody of "entitled, dismissive urbanite". Even in the developed world, tens to hundreds of millions of people have crappy DSL at best. Outside of the developed world that rises to billions. Marine and aircraft stand to make enormous gains as well. The demand for Starlink is clear and well founded, and you do your argument zero favors by trying to hand wave it away (unless you just mean to rant to no constructive end).
If you find great value in longer writing that’s fine. Some of us don’t want to spend minutes reading an article about something we don’t care much about and we would rather read a short summary with a few key points and be done with it.
The value of the usage/tracking information they collect basically subsidizes the real cost of the TV. Similar to other "free" Internet services where you are the product.

They basically don't need to bother with more expensive non-smart TVs. A cheap tv with good picture quality is a win-win.
From the same author, last year. https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2019/08/20/space-based-so...
Both of your Python projects will likely have `python:latest` (or such) as their base image. Sure, they will diverge after that (with further layers for dependencies and your code), but at least the base system will be shared.
What is the advantage of space-based solar power? It's hard to imagine that they overcome the obvious challenges (launch cost, transmission, etc).
Many thoughts occurred while reading this, including: ‘Almost the pinnacle of first world problems’
> Fundamentally, technique differs a lot based on size of the player.

I'm not sure about this. I'm tall and have huge hands, but I've seen the same approach work for quite small people. The actual technique you end up with can look quite different, but I think the goal is pedagogy that directs attention to the right things and let the rest fall in place around it.

> you want the finger to land normal to the board for any given string.

It's not clear to me why that would be.

I don't have access to a music library anymore, so the Babitz stuff looks like it might be hard to find, but the Martinic-Jercic book looks really interesting. Thanks!

> For me, what helped the most was removing the shoulder rest during practice.

When I decided I didn't have time to maintain both a Baroque and a modern technique, I ended up merging them. Haven't used a shoulder rest in years, but I do use a low, center mount chinrest with a gel pad on it.

I'm actually starting on the Bach two part inventions on piano these days in my small amount of time I allocate to music. I haven't touched my violin in months, sadly.
I've never seen a Philips TV with ads. Is this a US thing?

I have a Philips and it is fantastic. No ads, no microphone, simple UI, full keyboard on the back of the remote, and it links natively with my room lighting and matches the colors of the room to the TV (if desired), and it cost less than other comparative models.

It's been going strong for about 4 years now with no issues, including the UI.
It's a wonderful idea however it should be a nudge and not a requirement. A software with a SATA license as proposed there could not be redistributed by a Linux distro, because the distro could not enforce the SATA with the end user.

This is also tracked as an open issue:

https://github.com/zTrix/sata-license/issues/5#issuecomment-...
Why bother, who cares what other people say? The recording thing is not necessarily a bad idea but who has time to go through hours of mumbling? I’d record main ideas and summaries to have them be converted into text and revised. But ultimately the best way to go about this is to write things down either electronically or on paper and use self talking and circular walking as aids to this process
Not as much has changed in Europe. These cultural values of beautifying your surroundings never went away. It's America that is incredibly utilitarian in contrast. It is amazing the ugliness we are used to.
Linux Devs Ponder Decade-Old Decision to Disable PCI Runtime Power Management
My pleasure. Cooperpress.com has an awesome suite of newsletters, too, and their editors are pretty responsive. However, they only cover technical content related to webops.
While it seems like this could possibly strike some good discussion, the "post" itself doesn't really contain much substance...
I hope that people use discussions for this in the future :)
Agreed. Though, I could imagine a RE market correction breaking the correlations - if only through bankrupting the market players forcing that correlation. i.e. I'm in rural America seeing commercials for cash RE buyers from mobile applications. That's got to be indicative of factors correlating markets intimately. I'm also wondering whether this indicates new factors actually creating connections between markets that weren't previously there - or simply hubris.
Nashville blast: investigators examine whether bomber had 5G paranoia
Black Mirror stuff.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Christmas_(Black_Mirror)
Core i9-11900, i7-11700, i7-11700K Specs Reportedly Exposed In New Leak