skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Distroless is a misnomer. Any "distribution" of files that has its own build process and unique end state, is a distribution. So, "distroless" containers are still "a distro", it just has less extraneous files. This has some useful properties, but at the same time downsides: bolting-on additional requirements is significantly harder, and development outside of a tightly controlled CI system becomes burdensome.

At the end of the day, any such change comes down to a single principle: the "distance" from development to production. If whatever you do puts more distance between how development is done and how production works, then in the long run it's counter-productive. Call this the "developer distance principle".
Movies are real physical artifacts. Calling them a social construct is beyond specious.
You misunderstand that list. It's not the worlds richest. Bezos is actually pretty far down (probably 100 people or more richer than him in the world).
This is a joke. fraud is fraud. Civil penalties are not a good deterrent
Not just her. For the entire non-islamic countries
I forgot to update the demo :) Now it works
As far as I know, everything they make sells out instantly, you'd think they could start doing bigger production runs. I realize scarcity can drive up demand, but everything in their store being out of stock is little much.
There’s a “listen” button at the top of the page. It may take a second for the Javascript that loads it to run after the rest of the page loads.
It is unlikely that this drug will be given to a comparable number of people as the vaccines. That makes tail risks a lot less important.
The Fallout When a Video Game Became an NFT
So lots of people saying the ultra rich are hard to tax because they take out loans against assets to fund the day-to-day. This then results in an argument about the morality/viability/etc of a wealth tax.

But... why can't we just tax the loans?
I thought it was just a pretty UI on top of git, the bit about "It's good for large binary files!" is hidden under the link to the SnowFS github project...

Since the HN headline says "3D artists" I was expecting to see an app that has a 3D viewer that can show 2 versions of a 3d scene on top^W^W inside each other and you can see toggle to see the differences...
+1 to the external clients. Not sure if it makes sense for it to be agency driven with external client stakeholders, or company driven with external agency developers/PMs. I'd imagine the former would be more common but could be quite a different solution for the latter.

At the moment, $400/mo is more than the savings calculator suggests we can save, but we're currently 1 full time, 1 part time iOS engineer, 1 release a month, 2 apps (same codebase, whitelabelled). I think $400/mo for ~10 devs makes sense, at that scale it's similar in cost to our other collaboration and CI tools, but I suspect we'd have a hard time justifying it until we're at that sort of scale.

Are there costly features you can cut that could make it, say, $100 for < 5 people perhaps? Something that opens it up to small teams who can then "grow up" on the platform?
But if that where the case, they could just recover their passwords? From the sound of the "suspicious activity" line, it seems they may have been blocked?

Also, I wonder how the corp avoided chargebacks
The problem isn't that it hurts the sheep as well, it's that it hurts the sheep almost entirely. Raising capital gains would be a decent idea that forces the rich to pay more. Basically zero support for it. Closing loopholes helps too, not what we're seeing in tax policy discussions which focus on rates instead.

Raising the top rate on income when most of the ultra-rich's money comes from investment isn't making sense. There is also little interest in creating ultra-high tax brackets. I agree in principle with someone earning $5 million/year paying a higher percentage than someone earning $1 million/year. Many countries the top rate starts at $120,000ish in local currency.

Taxes on the sale of a primary home is not as rare as you think. It may be a twice in a lifetime event for many people but if it costs you a fortune each time people are discouraged from buying starter homes and then upgrading as their family grows. Make this too expensive and people even choose to have fewer children rather than get a bigger house. People may also choose to avoid the real estate market early to wait for a realistic home and risk getting priced out entirely. Admittedly, capital gains taxes are less punitive than land transfer taxes in this regard but it's still a factor. A capped to $500K of capital gains on a primary residence of tax avoidance is useful for middle and upper middle class Americans. It's not a measure designed predominantly for the rich unless your definition of rich is so broad that it includes any property owner. We've seen what happens when you create markets where people can't move and it looks a lot like San Francisco. That's not something I'd want policies to try and replicate.
If you are in the US you should brush up on your personal finances.
Being able to converse in person off the record is one of the big value propositions of being in the bigger cities.
> the researchers noted that students who tended to speak more ended up doing _worse_ on final exams

Surely those exams focus on literary analysis or advanced grammar structures.

Who is the better speaker of a language? The person who can carry simple (daily life topics) conversations fluently or the person who knows pedantic language constructs but can only utter them with significant delays and only speak in chunks of a few sentences?

Knowing a language and being able to speak it are different things. I agree you have to know it (understand grammar and vocabulary) before it makes sense to practice speaking it. Until you are forced to quickly think on your feet in another language your speaking ability won't progress much.
Classic tactic, similar to insurance companies who advertise great service but throw every caveat in the book at you when you actually file a claim, such that you can’t get to use, you know, what you actually paid for…

There has to be a term for this?
"Under the proposed settlement, MoviePass, Inc ...will be barred from misrepresenting their business and data security practices."

Isn't this how things are supposed to be from the onset? That'll teach 'em!
Curious how do you setup this?
Granted, that particular phrasing could imply that Repl.it would never sue the OP ever (for issues unrelated to this IP keruffle), which could lead to an issue down the road.

Everyone hates it, but this is why you involve lawyers from the start if possible. It's better for everyone in the long run.
And it will never change!

Taking things requires force. Force only works against the powerless. That’s tautological.

And also tautologically, if you’re benefitting from the use of force, it’s because you are powerful, and you are exploiting the powerless. I don’t care how poor or oppressed you think you are.
Any examples of things that aren't supported? It doesn't need to embed the metadata per-resource anymore.
FLORIDA!
Wouldn't the solution be jamming or EMP related? Of course, because the technological system must propagate itself at any cost this idea is counter-intuitive. Technological progress is seen as bending towards an inherent good. People never stop to think if it will be bad. Now people are to live in fear of drone swarms because nobody has autonomy in the technological system. People think they control technology, but it is really technology that controls us.

-sent from my iPhone
$75M gift accelerates transformation of data science at Berkeley
Then when a flamewar breaks out you just have to get your adversary to click a link to get them IP banned.
This is wildly misleading advice. Using materials with comprehension below 80% is a massive waste of time.

Will you learn something? Yes probably, but will it be time and effort efficient? Not even slightly!

At 80-95% it can be productive if you're putting forth a lot of effort, but comprehensible input assumes comprehension above 95% for passive learning of materials.

To demonstrate what different (reading in this case) comprehension levels will get you take a look at this[1].

[1] https://www.sinosplice.com/life/archives/2016/08/25/what-80-...
Jokes on you, my WLAN MAC is B00B1E55:B00B1E55:B00B1E55:B00B1E55 and yours should be too.
The craziest part, to me, is how the CEO could have expressed his view in a way that would have been much more compelling.

"Hey, really cool project. Though honestly, not sure how I feel about a former intern of mine publishing a project that is so similar to what they worked on as an intern. But on that note, we'd be happy to have you back on the team if you want to continue the project with us :) What do you say?"

or something along those lines. I still wouldn't agree with him, but at least I'd sympathize.

instead he went full-on attack mode, lawyers and all. sheesh. talk about tone deaf.
I feel the opposite -this speaks to me more than any other device I’ve seen, but I was obsessed with calculator games in high school, spending many hours on ticalc.org and IRC.
> there's more recent legislation

California decided it liked Obamacare and the idea of Medicare for all, so I think that's when they made Covered California available for people who couldn't otherwise afford it. It might actually save money because there are less emergency room visits.
No, I'm of the same opinion of croes and saul_goodman.

> they didn't nab any of the big players in the operation. So effectively they helped the biggest players by making it harder for the small to mid-tier drug cartels do conduct business.
Off-topic, but does anybody remember the name of the emancipated slave that said something along the lines of "You can't give me freedom, you can only give it back"? I really love that quote but I can't find the original source.
This is clearly laid out in the ProtonMail TOS. You are allowed one personal account. Any other accounts are at risk for removal.
But the article lays out wealth as a baseline, stating that taxes paid are a small percentage of the wealth increases. Wealth is mostly unliquidated because it is stock.

If I'm understanding the argument correctly, the proposition is that we should ( morally, not legally ) have levied additional taxes on these folks because their net worth has gone up as calculated by the value of things they own, like stock. I find that surprising and somewhat unintuitive. Thanks for clarifying.
My op-z (buttons fell off or stopped working), ob-4 (buttons fell off or stopped working), pocket operators (battery doors snapped, buttons stopped responding, lcds leaked) all join you in the disagreement. As far as I can tell the only thing they've made that is robust is the op-1 (yet..., I still love TE).
Correct me if I'm wrong but it looks to be mostly frontend stuff to me.
Michel Houellebecq: The West is committing suicide
It does sometimes feel that way.
I have no idea who was responsible for the flying dildos, but Kasparov was an outspoken critic of Putin, so I imagine the incident made him even more conscious of how easily Putin could reach him if he wanted. He continued his political activities, but he left Russia a few years later and announced that he couldn't go back in the near future because if he did he wouldn't be allowed to leave again. He has still not been back, to my knowledge.
I believe Jane Jacobs also discusses the same point in her book The Death and Life of Great American Cities.
Off topic, just for your information: gentile in English is not the same word as in, for example, French.

The English word means not-Jewish whereas I think you probably meant gentle which has an archaic meaning of noble. See https://www.lexico.com/definition/gentle
Actually, most HNWI capital growth is not taxed, ever. It is a mistake to think any meaningful percentage of the wealth is sold or transferred, except on a stepped up basis to descendants, who likewise will hold it indefinitely. This does concentrate wealth.
Also relevantly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBO_7UezpbY
For a subscription based business, that’s just extremely unethical
Log it all, and use network discovery and the legal process to access each new device? The main problem for the feds is that the data will be gone. Since it's not gone, they can use the legal process at their leisure.
Namecheap ruined by project before I launched it
Every single time someone tries to make a tax targeting the ultra rich, someone writes a comment just like this. Every. Single. Time.

As far as I can tell, this comment is semantically identical to:

"Every time someone tries a new cancer therapy, it ends up not helping the worst cancers."

"The sting operation was a failure because it only caught low- and mid-level criminals."

"We shouldn't use automated tests because some bugs cannot be caught by it."

"Look, this bully is ten times stronger than my kid. He's gonna beat him up whether my kid wants him too or not. We should just accept that the kid is gonna get pummelled."

There are at least four flaws I can see:

1. The obvious "perfect is the enemy of the good" argument. Unless you have an alternative proposed tax that is flawless, then the comment does not get closer to a world where people pay a share of taxes commensurate with their point on the wealth continuum.

2. By framing it as "hurting" the moderately wealthy, it applies a narrative that taxes exist to punish, that the extremely wealthy deserve that morally, and that the moderately wealthy do not. Every piece of that narrative is wrong. Taxes exist to fund services, not enforce moral orders. It's not like we have a higher tax rate for convicted criminals. The moderately wealthy also have a capacity to afford taxes higher taxes without lowering their quality of life, so a tax law that hits them too has not "failed". Even if taxes were punishment, this comment presents no actual evidence that the moderately wealthy are morally purer than the ultra-wealthy.

3. Some fraction of today's moderately wealthy are tomorrow's obscenely wealthy, so applying some tax pressure on them today is a step towards preventing them from escaping that tax burden tomorrow.

4. Equating people who make 500k in a year with "the working class" is... I don't even know what to say about it.

5. Forcing the ultra-rich to do extra work to dodge this new law is a net good. Defeatism, which seems to be the counter-proposal here, makes it even easier for them to retain and acquire wealth. We should keep passing laws. Every time they find a loophole, close it. Vote out politicians that get bought. Make them keep jumping. Wear the fuckers out because eventually some will lose if you keep trying. If you let them win... well you let them win.
Ya, it's super frustrating!
I still don't believe the FBI actually seized the bitcoin. We have zero proof of anything.

We are just supposed to take the FBI on their word? There is a huge motivation for them to lie about seizing the BTC, in an effort to discourage other copycat crypto criminals.
In regard to financial institutions getting away with crime, a former SEC commissioner became exasperated that this had become US government policy by 2015:

“the latest series of actions has effectively rendered criminal convictions of financial institutions largely symbolic.”

https://www.sec.gov/news/statement/stein-waivers-granted-dis...
Network bandwidth utilization doesn't degrade gracefully. When network saturation is at 80% or more, it can degrade drastically and the usage can fall off the cliff. It's important to monitor the network bandwidth utilization to raise alarms at lower thresholds so that you can add bandwidth capacity at real time, diverge traffic, or rate limit to slow down the download. That relates to the reliability of the service and the real time bandwidth capacity adjustment. For long term planning, it's important to collect statistics on peak/average/median network usage for capital expenditure purpose, to spend money on buying more bandwidth, adding switches, routers, servers, or building more data centers. This deals with the long term capacity planning.
The proposed "death tax" idea is to make inheritance a taxable event. I'm against that. I'm for however that capital gains carry past death.

If you inherent cash, that cash has already had taxes paid for that. It shouldn't be taxed again like some "death taxes" propose to do. If you inherit stock, then sell it, the basis date for that stock should be the date it was bought, not the date you received it.
s/their/there/
> The device is nothing extraordinary (imo)

This is it: the peak Hacker News comment. A gizmo with a handcrank and a black and white screen is nothing out of the ordinary in 2021. I bet you could even make it yourself in a weekend if you just use a Raspberry Pi and an e-ink screen!
Simplistic. A poor person is not usually trusted, so their thefts are often more egregious.
You are right, but if they crafted the right bill, I think we could tax the ultra rich, without affecting the asset rich widow, or the moderately wealthy.

Give everyone one big tax day on a house. The family that bought a ranch style house years ago is allowed 1 huge tax holiday. That married $500k deduction is a joke, and needs to be increased.

So, the widow living in the ranch style house should be exempt from taxes, say up to 3M, if she decides to move. With that money, she could move anywhere, and not worry about property taxes too? I know you guys don't like prop 13. (Only about 4-5 counties in CA that will accept a recriprovial property tax transfer. Keep that in mind if older, and looking to move.)

Let's face it, most Americans will only see one big pay day over an asset, and it's usually the family home.

My point is only allow the tax holiday 1 time, and it would be for individuals whom make less than $500k/yr. Don't allow the tax dodge to go on forever, and abused by every ultra rich guy forever.

Let Elisabeth Warren right the bill, and I would bet the lucky middle class 1 home asset person would not be affected by a wealth tax? Warren is wealthy. She is not ultrarich. She knows the difference.
Criminal “kingmakers” tricked into using FBI-run messaging app
I find it absolutely fascinating that your arguments are shot down on this board, because it's business, but that is literally what you're told on a constant basis if you want to go into the education field in the US.

You don't do it for the paycheck, you do it because you like it. Why education, social work, and other human services fields, but not business? That is odd to me.
fork() is evil[0].

[0] https://gist.github.com/nicowilliams/a8a07b0fc75df05f684c23c18d7db234
Right, this makes a lot sense.
im certainly not defending big tech, but as you say, they have different problems than MoviePass did.
There's a large set of different algorithms with a sliding window. Another interesting one is the Rabin fingerprint. This kind of chunking is often used in storage file systems w/ deduplication and snapshot features.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabin_fingerprint
Congrats, you've discovered:
"Dictatorship of the Bourgeoisie"

About 150 years late, though.
You know what's weird? I spent part of my morning thinking about "time is a flat circle" today. I swear, the serendipity sometimes in daily life is wild.
His HN response is pretty baffling to read. Saying he's "no longer the struggling kid from Jordan" who now needs to "be kind and model better behavior" is oddly focused on him, but it also kind of points to... people from Jordan are incapable of being kind?

The whole approach he took here is just very poorly thought out.
Fujifilm Refuses Ransomware Demands, Will Restore Servers via Backups
Indeed, cheap and available in massive amounts also makes very dangerous.

Funny that we see this in various computer games, ships with drone bays. What you mention would be a drone missile perhaps?
An operator might be overkill.

I used a K8S cluster to run untrusted code. User code was executed inside of a container running as a job, rather than a naked pod or deployment. To monitor/track/handle abuse, I used a sidecar container running alongside the user's container.

The real challenge around running user's code isn't running code, per se. Instead, it is storage! I was never able to come up with a good solution for allowing users to create a very large number of files, such as the number of files created by creating a React app.
Microsoft Excel Esports Tournament Is Real and Happening
Not sure, but I would be happy if this case was brought even if users were still able to reset their passwords to access the service. This would mean that the FTC takes dark patterns that attempt to prevent a customer's rightful use of a service seriously.

If MoviePass had concerns about losing money on customers who had not violated any terms, the right thing to do would be
to re-evaluate their plans/pricing.
Until they prove this with an experiment it's just an hypothesis as likely as us existing only to be viewers of Rick and Morty.
I'm not sure I understand #1.

Your points would still apply if a resource (e.g. aws_instance.foo) is created in one module and then referenced as a data source (e.g. data.aws_instance.foo) in another module. Are you suggesting remote state is different? Or would you also advise against referencing data source attributes from resources created in other modules?
Yes, it’s called a “contract”.
Or may be not do business with China like Facebook, Twitter and to a certain extent Google.

Apple really cares about your privacy when advertisements are being served and wants the advertisers to serve iAds. But if a government wants to throw you in prison for what you said, Apple stops caring about your privacy.
I don't need my email provider reading my emails. This is a feature.
Ruby Laser
Ask HN: How much salary should I target
I am a senior software engineer making $110/hour ($200k/year) with no benefits.

I recently got invited to join the startup company.

"What kind of compensation package should I target to be worth while for me to join the startup."

I have seen salaries in the market ranging from $110,000/year, $150,000/year and on Level.fyi to be 300,000/year total compensation package.
This may not be the correct choice in the current market. Usually this is true but used car premiums are insane and the discount may not be worthwhile. The car market is messed up right now so you might be able to get a better deal on new If you can find one in stock close to msrp
They could never survive -- their customer demand came from selling $10 movie tickets for $9 -- funded entirely by investor burn.

A sustainable business is one where you sell cinema tickets for $11 having bought them for $10 with the customer choosing you because you've added more than $1 in value for them.

It's a car racing down a hill. The acceleration looks exponential but it's just going to crash.
Google ditches pay-to-play Android search choice auction after EU pressure
https://github.com/spotlightpa/poor-richard/
> still refused to list any specific part of Replit he thought I had copied, even when I asked him for such details multiple times during the phone call, despite his continuing to claim both privately and publicly that I copied Replit unethically

And unwilling to backup their public accusations with detail or receipts.

The CEO was also on Twitter doubling down on the accusation that Radon is a thief even after posting on HN.
I could always perfectly imagine songs, make up music in my head, etc. I have no experience with music.

On the other hand, I am almost completely unable to imagine anything with my minds eye willingly. I have been drawing for 15 years now, and i did not notice any improvement in being able to visualize things in my mind.

So, at least from my standpoint, it does not seem like a skill that you can easily train.
I like decriminalization, but don't like government production.

The film idea is funny, but I still disagree with that too. As anyone can tell from my commentary, I'm a crazy no government guy, so that's just my bias.