skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed, it was inexcusable.

However, we all have our moments where we do dumb things. If you expect anyone to be perfect, you're in for a rude surprise. One has to look at the whole picture, and that incident was an anomaly.

I've noticed a tendency for people to jump on one thing someone says or does and try to ruin them over it and de-platform them, as if that one mistake defines their whole life. I think it's uncharitable, and hypocritical. I don't like that trend.

Let him who is without sin among you be the first to cast a stone. I'm not religious, but you have to admit, there's some wisdom in that. To be clear I'm not saying you can't criticize someone, especially a public figure, who does something wrong. I'm saying don't stone them to death over it - there's some proportionality missing in the response of the twitter mob.
Maybe it is designed for cars as cargo i.e. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roll-on/roll-off
0) Dockerfile is amazing

1) Let's make something else so we can commit it, and get famous

2) buildpacks.
This is so smart! Love how this can even become a selling point for switching to Iaac setups!
People are talking a bit past each other here, but inexplicable arbitrary machine learning false positives are anthropomorphized as whims of the algorithm. Without any explanation as to why the false positive occurred, the effect is indistinguishable from the whims of a person pulling a lever behind a curtain.
You sound like you're from there. Because you're clearly over exaggerating.

It's been pretty quiet down there for at least 20 years. You can literally walk over the border near Vukovar in some places without even seeing a border guard.

In Palestine people have a giant wall and are forced to go through humiliating border checks just to get to work. And it's been going on for longer than I've been alive.
I was pretty attractive in high school. The most startling example of this I ever experienced was sitting at a table playing yugioh with only traditionally "nerdy" looking guys, and a girl came by and said "do you know how unattractive playing that game is?" and then she looked at me and said "except you, it's cute when you do it". It truly is a completely night and day experience in how you're treated, negative things about you become cute and quirky and you can do no wrong in many people's eyes.
I get subtracted points on every single reply to this thread by God knows who, but the point I've been trying to make is, when someone talks about consequences of speech, it sounds threatening.
> So I get why they would try to automate bans.

The problems are less the automated bans but the missing human support after you got automated banned.

I you got banned go through a reasonable fast human review process then temporary reinstated a day later and fully reinstated a view days later it would be super annoying comparable with all google services being down for a day, but no where close to the degree of damage it causes now.

And lets be honest google could totally affort a human review process, even if they limit it to accounts which have a certain age and had been used from time to time (to make it much harder to abuse it).

But they are as much interested in this as they are in giving out reasons why you are banned, because if they would do you might be able to sue them for arbitrary discrimination against people who fall into some arbitrary category. Or similar.

What law makers should do is to require proper reasons to be given on service termination of any kind, without allowing an opt. out of this of any kind.
The object was actually in the rest frame of our local patch of the galaxy, so in essence, we came to it via our motion about the center of the galaxy.
Apologies, I elaborated further in another comment [1].

Here is a good overview in written form [1] but as long as you don't verify the credibility of the writer, it won't say much.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26065075

[2] https://www.plainsite.org/realitycheck/tsla.pdf
So Medicare already fully reimburses screening and yet only 3% of the eligible population gets screened.

Imaging convenience is a bit chicken and egg.

Not sure how you get the bonuses you are describing to happen. It seems to me like no one really is caring enough to make it happen.
Has bitcoin actually solved that problem though?
What I don't understand is why the internet permission (one of the most dangerous permissions in my opinion) is assumed to be always requested and not even reported when downloading an app. Sure, most apps need it (most of them for ads though) but at least warn me before installing like you do with other permissions like calls and sms.

But wait, there is more, that permission (and some others) are considered so harmless that if you install an app without it, and then the developer publish an update with it, play store will automatically update it without even asking! Remember this doesn't happen with 'dangerous' permissions, so apparently Google thinks accessing the internet is not dangerous at all.
Not true. I've found AWS support really helpful even on accounts without a support contract. Super fast, responsive and professional.

I love Google Cloud for its technology, but their support needs improvement.
I really don't get why bitcoin is worth so much.Bitcoin is called a store of value like gold, but gold has inherent uses. If the price of gold went to zero then you could still use it to make jewellery or use it for electrical conductivity. If the price of bitcoin goes to zero then it's worthless. It's also not environmentally friendly and bitcoin mining uses up 0.21% of the world's power supply. And all of this energy is used to calculate billions of hashes per second out of which all but one will be discarded. There is also increased regulatory focus from governments who see it as a threat , with India even going so far as to suggest they would ban it.
I don't think this was an alien probe but the size argument is not convincing to me. I would think that if you want to design a probe that can keep going for very long time spans and distances it would have to be big and work more like a factory that can constantly refresh its parts. Devices of the size of our satellites aren't and probably can't be designed to last thousands or millions of years. Something bigger on the other hand can be designed that way.
Yes, just like voting machines. But how do we confirm that the software which was vetted is the software that was actually _used_?
I have been attacked by 2 packs of dogs...neither were wild, just dogs that were not leashed up and formed a pack in the neighborhoods.

One pack was formed of smaller dogs, mostly of the puntable size. The other more medium size, family friendly dogs.

Neither packs contained pit-bulls. It does not matter about the breeds in the pack, just the size and number. 5-10 Jack Russel terriers can mess you up just as easily as 3-4 Labradors.

I notice that the discussion of dangerous dogs now is focused on pit-bulls, I remember as a kid that the German Shepherd and Rottweiler always seemed scary.
San Diego man reunited with wallet lost in Antarctica 53 years ago
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" Bitcoin is a way for me to step outside that debt I did not want or deserve"

Try paying your taxes in Bitcoin. Then you'll find that it has nothing to do with trust and everything to do with avoiding having your assets stripped by the IRS.

You want to live in a jurisdiction, then you pony up the tokens that jurisdiction demands. Or you lose your liberty and everything you own.
I'm tired of always hearing from Crypto. It's just money, and it doesn't solve any problem. It's beyond boring honestly.
It is what people values it to be. We cannot define it to be a particular thing.

Some people see it as digital gold. Other people sees it as a type of money.
The focus on customer service and customer care is what sets Amazon apart from Google.

Amazon will bend over backwards to ensure that the customer is taken care of and will even eat some costs or make concessions to make sure that the customer experience is top-notch.

By comparison, Google's customer service is absent. Google has plenty of money that they could spend to hire customer support teams and boost the customer experience so that incidents like these do not happen or at least get resolved quickly, but that does not appear to be a priority for them.
Less harm there in the trash than in the cloud to be used by perfect strangers to profile you.

"This will go down in your permanent record" comes to mind.
> The thing I've learned investing so far: never sell anything.

I once believed this to be a truth that I had learned.

Then time moved forward, and I learned that it was not a truth. :)
Let me explain bitcoin in a way that hackers will understand.

Bitcoin is javascript.

Hackers don't like javascript. It's got a lot of terrible quirks. There are so many languages better than javascript. But that doesn't matter. Javascript is ubiquitous, and you can't avoid it. Bitcoin is the same.

Either you accept it as the way things are and profit from it, or you keep pounding your head against the wall.
Me too.

I think we'll get there in the next 20 years.

The limiting factor is building codes in the USA. But there are some really cool things all around the world in the building space, very little of which is publicized.

The construction industry as a whole suffers from inefficient communication.
> Personally I trust developers more than marketing people, and I generally have a bit of disdain for marketing folks. They market their trade as exposing the right product to the right audience, but usually what it amounts to in substance is manipulating people.

I hope someday you get to know people who enjoy good marketing like I imagine you enjoy good software, so you can change this view. Imagine a different POV: developers sell their trade as solving real world problems, but usually what it amounts to is overcomplicating things or trampling domain experts opinion in favor of bad assumptions.

As in all professions, most work you'll see around is not work to be proud of. Don't use random sampling to form an opinion about the value of a profession.
I would claim that if something requires 8 man years, that it will most definitely take more than a year to develop with 8 people.

Communication takes time, coordination takes time, there is an incremental cost to each news person added to a team. From experience, perhaps with 2-3 people who happen to gel well together you may get close to proportional scaling of output, but with 8 it’s really unlikely in the real world.
My point is, have you read the book and can you specifically point to why his theory is wrong? I'm not saying he is right, but I think if you are going to cut him down, be specific about why he is wrong.
On Facebook I can (passively) keep up with people I might otherwise rarely speak with. I don't have to call someone to see baby photos, or big life events. A lot of the posts point this out as a negative but frankly I couldn't disagree more. Being able to stay connected with people that I care about, regardless of how I do so, is a positive for me. I have neither the energy nor the extraversion to call up every person I occasionally think of, but on Facebook I can at least stay connected with them on some minor level. And it's the same for other people, too. Many people that I care about but we're both very introverted I've managed to maintain or even improve my relationship with them because Facebook exists.

It's also the hub for my family. Everyone is on it (for better or worse) and ultimately it's the easiest way for us to communicate with each other. Could this be done on an external bulletin board? Sure. Is that at all convenient or even a better solution? Probably not. The older folks aren't really interested in moving platforms, particularly when the one that exists already works perfectly for their use case.

I get it. They don't respect your privacy at all and likely never will. The writer of this post didn't get the same value out of it. He acknowledges that some people might find more utility in it than he does and that is fine. But to gain traction on Hacker News of all things feels peculiar to me. To read all these posts about how positive an impact deleting facebook has been on their lives when they're discussing these effects on another social media website, with even more questionable added value.

I have no connection with anyone on this website. I don't know any of you personally (at least as far as I know) and I've never developed any meaningful relationships with people on here either. The value to me perhaps is occasionally about finding new and interesting articles but more often than not it's largely tied to the discussions about technology with, if not actually, effectively anonymous folk. Those discussions are rarely fulfilling though, and it's often just a platform to try and point out why my point of view is correct or to argue with someone about theirs. I find value in it, but it's definitely not as valuable to me as Facebook.
Wait... why?! I can't think of a single reason Google would do this.
Normally people talk about rebalancing in terms of asset classes, not individual stocks.
Defi is a scam.

Have you calculated the energy costs of the current system, when yelling "huge" energy use?

Have you considered the wasted energy of a government halving a fiat currency holder's purchasing power in a year or less?
I love animals and had dogs and cats living with my family. When I had my first kid, my wife had a large dog (a mixture between a labrador and a german shepard, and probably others - she found it as a puppy attached to a rope in the forest, left to die).

The dog was extremely quiet, socialized and what not. When we brought our baby from the hospital, he was really curious. We left him sniff the baby and the dog apparently understood that the thing that was brought in was important and decided to protect it (he was sleeping in front of the baby's room and would not let any stranger approach.

I had a similar case when I was a baby - my parents left me with their dog sleeping next to my crib outside and it would just do a "woof" without even waking up if someone would approach.

And then, one day, I left the dog alone with my son. My son was in that sort of cage made of ropes he can wander in and the dog was outside. I came back to the room and I found

... the dog licking my son face pressed to the ropes (unexpected happy ending)

I was really scared because it could have been something different (my childhood friend was bit to his face by his own dog, a normal one, not pitbull style but Great Dane IIRC). Nothing ever happended but still, this was this one time where it could have had happen and it would have been MY fault, not the dog's one.

I now have a cat. Well, my family has it, we just live together. The cat does not interfere with me (except sleeping on my laptop when I am not around) and is extremely found of my younger son (14 yo). I am telling my son to never get his face that close to the cat because she will a day or another scratch him (they are running and jumping together, playing). She scratched my leg once (and would not left from under my son's bed for that day because she was probably scared of what she did) - but that could have had been my face.

Accidents happen and animals are animals. This is not something bad - just something one has to be aware of.
Apple Car Talks Aren’t Happening, Say Automakers Hyundai, Kia
Tesla is not an automaker and i don't know why people keep calling it that. It is a technology company.

It's designed chips, software, Cars, trucks, manufacturing lines, battery's, solar panels - And oh my god, if you saw the random products the engineering team designed in Keto Factory outside Fremont, you'd think very differently about Tesla as a company.
Interesting that such a big part of the population believe god (one kind or another) exists but when someone thinks aliens exist, then they must be crazy.
Definitely. If anything has unique features, it's worth asking if there's some relationship.

The strain of white supremacy running through America's history is willing to do absolutely anything to maintain power. Things like the Wilmington Coup and the Tulsa Race Massacre and all of the Jim Crow violence make that very clear.

It's possible that has absolutely nothing to do with America's legalized bribery. But if somebody wants to make that claim, they're going to have to argue it. It isn't a given. And given that the Citizens United decision, which legalized even more bribery, was supported by the judges appointed by the much whiter party, they're going to have to bring a fair bit of evidence to it.
It is uncommon for sure.

But then again, now days, most people don't consider gold as a serious currency.
Have fun staying poor.
For reference, whole Tesla Autopilot is 'few hundred thousand' loc.

https://youtu.be/YAtLTLiqNwg?t=947
It’s nowhere near consistent enough to say 10% going forward, as block rewards per day have been anything from 1400 to 10 BTC per day over the last 3 years.
> I can't prove

This is a good reason enough for some people to write a book for a general audience!
> still have 0 real world usage

you need to do a little bit a research, it seems...
> I was forced to watch my government bungle a pandemic in the worst possible way and then asked to pay for it for decades. No I don’t think I will.

That has very little to do with currency and everything to do with you not wanting to pay taxes.

You may think that COVID response has been a catastrophic waste of money but if you'd lost your job would you have claimed the increased unemployment benefits? I suspect the vast majority of people would have.

There's a lot to criticise in terms of government COVID response (and from your post you could be talking about any one of a number of governments!) but big government spending right now to stop even greater economic depression in the future is not some kind of wasteful accident, it's deliberate action to improve everyone's situation in the long term.
> by replacing currency with a worse kind of currency.

The reason why Bitcoin is a mystery for many people is exactly because of this ^. Bitcoin is NOT a currency. It doesn't position itself as a currency. This fairytale is long gone, forget about it. Bitcoin is a store of value.

It cost $7.6M and took five years to repatriate 53,780 gold bars worth $27B back from the US to Germany.

It's >1000X faster and >10X cheaper to move that much in Bitcoin , even accounting for N>>6 confirmations.
This is such a common story that a lot of people have actually witnessed it. I mean you might as well do that with a stack of CVs, so people actually do it. A friend of mine witnessed this, and clearly the boss hadn't thought of it himself.

Variations:

"The way we hire traders is we don't hire unlucky ones."

"The most important thing in sales is selling yourself."

Followed by unceremonious dump into bin.
"the news media is a for-profit business whose interests are tangential to telling the truth" <- That's well put.

And yeah I guess I wasn't that surprised by MSNBC, but definitely didn't expect the percentages to be so high for the "paper of record" and NPR.
Man I remember this one, it was all the rage in its hey-day.

One other I would love to see resurrected is Babo Violent 2.
I believe it's still Vala.
What should happen for you to say that Bitcoin has taken off?
Additionally it could be made a requirement that, like in professional sports, two or three blood drafts are taken - one sample is analyzed and one is either kept until the case is closed or analyzed at a different lab if the evidence is contested.
Probably "they" refer to prosecution. And yeah, why is prosecution going with that lab/software only? One reason is probably the DNA available for more testing is not enough / one testing could been done reliable with DNA taken from crime scene. Other reason might be behind the scenes incentives, which seems is the defense strategy here
Can I use buildpacks with Kubernetes? When I look for it online, I find some stuff like the Cloud Native Buildpacks, but no good simple tutorials on how it actually works. I remember Dokku was a joy to use, wish I could interact with Kubernetes like I did with Dokku.
I cannot tell if this is sarcasm or not. But I’ll assume it’s not:

You cannot eat gold or bitcoin. The “hoarders” at some point will want to consume be it a pizza or a lambo.

Then there’s those who invest in ways to get more... what for it.. gold or bitcoin so they go out and purchase picks and shovels.

Crazy stuff, extremely complicated when I write it as such. Btw, the FED made a trivial recession into a “great” one back in 1929.
I wonder if it's possible to get the job applicants to evaluate each other?

That way you have a process that automatically scales to the number of applicants you have.

Exactly how to structure it so it can't be gamed/subverted is tricky, but you might imagine some team activity where the team does a task together, and then each person in the team is asked to so some kind of review of the other people in the team.

If you make the team activity be a small nugget of the actual work you need done, and you pay all the interviewees generously for their time, I can't imagine interviewees walking away unhappy at the end, even if they don't get the job.

You then interview the top 2 people from each team.
If the error goes against innocent people, then it must be unacceptable. If the error sides with the “would-be” criminal, that is more acceptable as we, as a society, have decided that letting a few bad folks go is preferred to imprisoning innocents.
Thanks for sharing. This is what I was hoping people here claiming he is wrong would provide.
To you first point, there's probably no example of a Buildpack because (unlike Dockerfile) most Buildpack users don't write their own. They are reuseable. I'm not sure why the author didn't include an example of running a buildpack against an app though.

To your second point, Buildpacks are written in code too. But unlike Dockerfile, they use real programming languages that you can write tests for.

For example:
https://github.com/paketo-buildpacks
It one-sidedly favors the merchant, though.
It's a very bad quote by someone who understood nothing about currency.

A currency is literally 'trust' - it's a social contract. it's trust in the economic system where the currency prevails.

If you don't trust it, you don't trust where it comes from.

It's impossible to have a currency that is not use widely in some economy, and it's almost impossible to not have some management of that currency. For example, if any nation officially adopted BTC as their currency, as opposed to some fiat, they would be in for a difficult ride with a complete lack of any monetary policy. Nations that use the USD are actually leveraging the value of the US system. In general, the US system has more credibility than their own, so it's a benefit, and they are generally small.

As a store of value it's monopoly money.

The 'allure of not having to trust' people is a total myth, for any currency, even the hardest ones back by gold, land etc..
I have done a lot of source code review in my time. For security assessments. Our general rule of thumb was about 10k lines per week that we can really get deep on. 10 lines an hour would only be for the most dense code and critical path stuff. They will need a reviewer that knows the domain (DNA), but it’s perfectly reasonable to review that code on a weeks/months time scale, definitely not years.
You should compare like for like. Second-hand BEV vs. second-hand ICE, or new BEV vs. new ICE. Mixing them means you’re putting all the market boosting on one product category and all the market reductions on the other category.

To put it another way: how would you react to a study which compared the environmental cost of a second-hand BEV to a brand-new ICE?
Bitcoin has been the best 10 year investment in the HISTORY OF THE WORLD. What more of a bull case do you want?