skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right. Reading the entire conversation shows the parent messaging is FUD.
Yeah, moving objects around the config is common if you want to keep it organized and requires manual actions that require essentially a global lock on the stack (and Terraform has no built-in feature to actually take this lock). It makes it basically impossible to implement a fully automated production change pipeline with Terraform.
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Thanks for sharing. Give me extra motivation to learn about these and do better plans for future.

As much as people want to cry about it, nothing will change on ground. Too much money at stakes.

Also people forget these were incentives for people to start companies, because of this US is leader in global technology. China will really appreciated if you guys take away these incentive so they have most enterprise people which in turn make them Global leader in technology.
I have limited experience with Ansible, but afaik calling it declarative when compared to Terraform is a stretch [1]

[1] https://blog.gruntwork.io/why-we-use-terraform-and-not-chef-...
Shadama: A Particle Simulation Programming Environment for Everyone
this would effectively auction off everything you own. What if an original piece of art is priceless to you? Where does it end?
No, because it’s not the government complaining. The people complaining didn’t create the rules as such the rules are irrelevant to their complaint.

Really, it’s not a question of laws but one of obligations to society as a whole. Because society and the government are different entities but society depends on it’s government.
I test mostly on Firefox and Epiphany; I figure if it works there it's going to work just about everywhere.

Safari is a different beast because I don't have a Mac and it's support for a lot of standards is pretty dismal. It's like the IE6 of browsers these days.

I keep the JS simple though and for CSS I keep around a few handy LESS functions so I can get some basic stuff on crap browsers. Stuff like:

.opacity(@default, @percent) {
-webkit-opacity: @default;
-khtml-opacity: @default;
-moz-opacity: @default;
-ms-opacity: @default;
-o-opacity: @default;
opacity: @default;
// ms-filter *SHOULD* work on IE8 & 9 but ... doesn't always
// for me? WTF... anyway (filter should also work). This
// should be listed before filter to be safe
-ms-filter:"progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Alpha(Opacity=@percent)";
filter: alpha(opacity=@percent); /* support: IE8 oh god we're all gonna die*/
}

or

.box-shadow(@value) {
-webkit-box-shadow: @value;
-khtml-box-shadow: @value;
-moz-box-shadow: @value;
-ms-box-shadow: @value;
-o-box-shadow: @value;
box-shadow: @value;
}

This way I don't rely on some framework like Bootstrap, and I can write fairly simple stylesheets. I used to transpile compliant and legacy sheets and serve different urls depending on user agent strings but that didn't work well and was generally crap so - one it is.

Don't worry, when I transpile I strip my unprofessional comments.
You still need humans, even if you have AutoML and AI
Technically, Fossil didn't destroy the code; Zed destroyed it by running `fossil revert`. All Fossil did was run off into la la land where nothing makes sense and everything is invisible and the working directory is empty.

Still an impressive bug – but the first rule of “my CVS has broken” is “stop running commands, and copy the CVS directory somewhere else”. (I've needed to do this to a .git twice.) Had he done this, he wouldn't've lost work. While he shouldn't've had to, “stop doing everything and take a read-only copy” is the first step when any database containing important data has corrupted.
RxDB + GraphQL (via Hasura) is amazing, and offers all the things the author notes.
Show HN: I made an app to automate some of my texting because I’m bad at it
The realities of batteries is that most of the cells will be at 90% capacity while a few will have dropped to 50%. So recycling really can be just plucking out the good cells and breaking down the few old cells.

Those 90% cells will also have a pretty nice degradation curve as most of the loss happens within the first few years of operating.
> I was also considering working for your company when considering changing forms, but I never would after hearing about this episode.

Some personal reflection might be in order here before making harsh judgements. Your current employer (Facebook, according to your bio) has done far worse far many times, wouldn't you agree?
Unfortunately when connecting from Firefox I get the following message: "This browser is not supported, please use the most recent version of Chrome or Safari."

Is there any serious reason for this kind of omission in an open source project?
And what drives these decision makers to act so shamefully is the reputational economy. Yes, sometimes a boycott will damage the bottom line, but most often it is the damage to one's status within the wider society that is being protected by the decision to fire someone. If you personally want to avoid this, reduce your dependence on reputation.
17 intelligence agencies agree!
I'm surprised this hasn't been censored yet. Companies have a lot of insulation from criticism on HN, particularly in the "Who Is Hiring" monthly threads and sponsored front page posts.

Apparently criticism of companies is "off topic" in such threads, so companies that openly engage in unethical or illegal behavior such as copyright infringement have free reign. Here's an example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27363823

Somebody needs to flush the toilet and get their shit out of here, it stinks.
Ask HN: What iOS/Android do you use for Hacker News
For many years, I have used MiniHack on iOS to read Hacker News. Despite years without updates and increasing bugs, I have never found a better HN client app. Now MiniHack has been pulled from the App Store entirely, I really need to move on. What do you use?
And the situation you described basically be true with most modern email services.
It does not come as a surprise but saddening, because freedom is the most important thing in life

With out freedom life is miserable, and it saddens me that people seem to be valuing freedom less and less, one day they will look around and ask "how did we get here", and people like me will just shrug and say "you should have listened"
So we’ve created one loophole. What if I buy multiple properties below the threshold? Is the limit per household? If so, does this apply to people heavily leveraged with little net worth who own many rental properties? The rent is income, but they often make improvements to the homes and take a cash-out refinance to pay for the cash down payment on a new property. If we do this to homes, and the wealthy move their money to a new place, such as venture capital, do we try and re-price those illiquid assets each year? If one IPO’s and they take a loan against the stock to buy a home, do you give them their previous year’s mark-to-market payment back to them if the stock goes down the following year and they get a margin call? I’m just going through a few scenarios but this would quickly inflate the tax code to an almost unmanageable state without creating just as many more new loopholes. Imagine trying to grow a startup and being worth X on paper with no actual gains or money in the bank. If you don’t include it, it suddenly becomes a tool for someone else to use within the assets you’ve excluded. If you don’t exclude it, you may force an early sale of promising new businesses to their competitors to cover a tax bill on the unrealized gains.
Hello hackers. I wrote the app and I hope it can help others like me.

My girlfriend likes little text messages here and there, and I’m not good at sending them. So “there’s an app for that,” right? No, there actually wasn’t. So I made one.

I define the app as a smart device automation tool for SMS text messages, calls and email that’ll help you stay in touch.

The story on how the app got started, my eureka moments, repeated failures and a little technical detail is at https://medium.com/@mtc.dev/my-first-android-app-story-331c9....

I’d love some feedback.

Cheers.
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What about the other alternatives, like fastmail? I mean what made you choose proton mail specifically?
The idea is to treat a loan against an asset with capital gains as a sale. So one would have to pay taxes out of the loan and then you get a stepped up basis.

The exact rules could be tweaked to keep it from being a burden on families taking a second mortgage, e.g. if you borrow less than a certain amount in the tax year perhaps the rule doesn't apply. Use your imagination.
Any ideas if similar usage data is available for spotify users?
I think that's true to a point. From what I've seen these people "have as many v's as their neighbors". You don't want to be living in rural Kansas and driving around a v4 "like some kind of Democrat" (a phrase I've heard in western Kansas before)
Many of the ultra-wealthy have little or no income.

What needs to be taxed is wealth, not income.
Indeed, but us nerds lead by example ;)
> What's your SLA with them?

Sorry what?

You've just witnessed almost the entire internet break because of a catastrophic cascading outage that affected lots of huge companies, since third party services used and trusted Fastly.

Shopify stores couldn't accept payments on their websites, Coinbase Retail/Pro transactions and trading apps failed to load, and delivery apps stopped loading all of a sudden. These are just a few that this outage has caused, and now you are trying to blame this onto me for not checking their SLA when millions were indirectly affected by this?

Fastly offered a product, their main product which is a CDN which took down lots of websites. I don't care if everything fails sometimes. There are sites that should NOT go down because of this configuration issue which they messed up.
Consider editing. Yes, a paper goes through revisions, which are holistic, and represent one iteration to the next. But in between those revisions, you can see markups, and editor notes as to why a change was performed.

Sometimes those insights are just as useful as the packaged whole.
Can you imagine the day that you declare a value on your house and the following week someone much richer than you comes along and tells you to "beat it; I just bought this place!"
I think that main reason Russian "sphere of influence" has shrunk is that they literally attacked and annexed parts of neighbours, supporting insurgents with their own military.

Hundreds of thousands are dead over last 30 years because of Russian invasions. Millions are dislocated. Be it Chechnya, Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova etc.
You could also consider buying a cheap, low-tier VPS somewhere and install Mailcow (https://github.com/mailcow/mailcow-dockerized). Takes around half an hour to set up, flawless, worry-free, fully-featured email stack on your own infrastructure. Comes in cheaper than ProtonMail, too.
Science journals encouraged a false narrative about Covid origins
Correct, exactly the same way as if you'd realized some gain a day before your death. Your heirs are also taxed again on the money you earned as a regular income. This is more of an argument against estate tax, not against step-up-basis.
I think people should spend a lot more time considering what they're trying to get informed about and for what purpose. Reading books (particularly older books), talking to a wide variety of people, looking at primary sources, paying attention to what's around you in your environment - all of those is going to put you in a much better position than being a media junkie.

For instance, if you want to be an informed voter, then spending a few minutes flipping through the Vote411 pamphlet put out by The League of Women Voters is going to put you ahead of the vast majority of people who absorb political news 24/7. It's also often the only information you'll find on many local races.

Often people will tell you that they're watching the news to be an informed voter, except they're mostly watching things that align with the decisions they've already made. I know many people who decided years ago how they feel about a national candidate, spend hours every week for years watching news that just reinforces that, and then zero knowledge about any of the candidates in local races where there vote actually has a much greater impact. That's not being an informed voter, that's feeding a bad habit.

Likewise with international news - what are people actually trying to accomplish? Most of the time it's not being informed, it's following a media narrative and ignoring things as soon as the narrative changes. Do you remember when Darfur was a big topic in the early 2000's? Mali about 9 years ago? Those conflicts are still ongoing, but seem to have been forgotten. How about "Bring Back Our Girls"? Likewise Libya, Syria, and a host of other conflicts that suddenly shift from "very important and everyone needs to be informed about it" to a distant memory.

Again, the way these things are treated isn't about keeping people informed, but feeding media junkie habits. And the nature of this kind of poor reporting has very real consequences - just look at the Iraq War. Ignorance is preferable to disinformation.
Shared storage is the solution. Caddy supports multiple different storage backends (filesystem by default, and Redis, Consul, DynamoDB via plugins) and uses the storage to write locks so that one instance of Caddy can initiate the ACME order, and another can solve the challenge. See the docs: https://caddyserver.com/docs/automatic-https#storage

I'm doing this exact thing, with the Redis plugin behind DNSRR and it works seamlessly.
They absolutely did.

That something is legally within the bounds of the US tax code is public knowledge.

That ultra-wealthy utilize something to an extent is not public knowledge.

Which cuts to one of the central issues with viewing the US tax code as democratic: there's almost no transparency of use.

The public might feel very different about a particular tax rule if they knew small businesses primarily used it, vs if they knew major corporations used it to shield 90% of their profits.

The IRS should do a better job of anonymizing actual tax reports, and reporting out on patterns in aggregate.
I recently had to do a piece of AWS work that required cross-account resources (create certificate in one account with ACM, set DNS entries on Route53 in another account).

Not sure about pulumi, but AWS CDK and CloudFormation can't handle that as one step (there are some horrific hacks). With Terraform it's absolutely trivial.

I was liking CDK up to that point, but that limitation is a complete deal breaker for me. Had to come back to my old friend Terraform.
My money's on AWS ECR Public.
At least in the UK, a 3rd rail was common. IDK about the rest of the world but wouldn't surprise me.

Some major cities in the US had overhead powered "trolleys". But, car lobbies destroyed those :(.
Putting this here makes it even less likely marketers will miss "gaming reddit" as part of their strategy.
it sounds to me like you're talking about a particular implementation (the browser) not the language itself. The browser intentionally has that limitation. The language itself has no problem with it.
> Why isn't the mob a top priority?

Part of that is the incentives going in the opposite direction, as other commenters have noted.

Even assuming they are in good faith, though, I believe it is an extremely difficult problem. Building and maintaining large scale communities is next to impossible, you can't just turn off a switch and make the mob go away, a mob is, by definition, out of control.

Historically, we have solved this problem by effectively limiting access to large scale communication, with small elites acting as gatekeepers. Social media tore down the metaphorical wall, allowing any random person to talk to anybody who will listen.

This is, by and large, a good thing. However, those elites did play a role, because they could keep each other in check and enforce standards of behavior that would prevent the worst abuses.

So the question is not how we go back to the 70s or something (yet again, the change is overall in the right direction), but how we can replace the missing piece. Needless to say, I don't even know where to start.
Biopsies aren't cost- and risk-free, including from a patient health and mental health perspective. On top of that, the decision space isn't simply binary: there are multiple types of biopsy procedure, and understanding (even implicitly) the probabilities in play can guide those decisions.

The Cult of the Doctor never ceases to amaze (and frankly disgust) me. I think it's absolutely a noble profession, and that doctors are generally smart and conscientious. Even some of the classic complaints are understandable. Eg, my incredibly kind, humble, and open-minded brother-in-law occasionally betrays some extreme disdain for his patients, a common complaint about medical culture. I continue to be a little put off by it, but I understand that he has to deal with some incredibly stupid things from most patients, and it's easy to see how taxing maintaining the welfare/autonomy balance can be. I try to keep this in mind whenever a doctor has an initial defensive reaction to my attempts to be an engaged and informed patient.

But, the lengths to which people bend over backwards to make flimsy excuses (like your comment) for massive errors in reasoning is just astonishing. I can't think of a single other context in which people so desperately clutch their pearls at any suggestion that a professional culture or institution could be improved.

Doctors are people, and people have flaws. They go through a training and acculturation process, which may also have flaws. This shouldn't be controversial. The only reason I can think of is that patients are no better at dealing with uncertainty than doctors are; the idea that you're being treated by a deity levitating in absolute epistemic certainty is more comforting than the idea that you're dealing with a smart, conscientious, trained human that nonetheless has human limitations (and that the field of medicine itself has plenty of uncertainty).
On the same day that old.reddit.com stops working I'll leave.
OpenPGP specifies cipher feed back (CFB) mode[1] for block ciphers (normally AES). CFB has the inherent property that it is self healing in the face of corruption. It does not work in all possible instances of corruption but it works for the normal sort of corruption that is seen with mass storage devices (multiples of 512 bytes). A practical example here[2].

[1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc4880#section-13.9

[2] https://articles.59.ca/doku.php?id=pgpfan:agevspgp#encrypted...
Seems like it was postponed[0].

For very tiny hooks, you might be able to get away with using request matchers[1] and respond[2].

[0]: https://caddy.community/t/missing-starlark-documentation/958...

[1]: https://caddyserver.com/docs/caddyfile/matchers

[2]: https://caddyserver.com/docs/caddyfile/directives/respond
> So it's okay to encroach on the privacy of private individuals as long as it serves a political purpose?

Interesting how your turn "public interest" into "political purpose".
I think you misunderstand the problem I'm trying to solve, or maybe I misunderstand your response. My goal isn't to write YAML instead of HCL, my goal is to get rid of HCL and Terraform semantics altogether. If I had my way, Terraform's low level engine would operate on a verbose (i.e., "not DRY") YAML (or JSON or HCL or I don't care) description of resources which would be generated from (for example) a Python script.

The Python/Go/etc script is what humans interface with, and it is DRY. The YAML/HCL/etc is what the Terraform engine operates on and humans should very rarely need to interact with this.
Anyone else notice the hit list of wealthy individuals is all democrat supporting (maybe except Elon). These feels like a political hit job wrapped in a moral righteousness trying to shake the foundations of America. I really can't believe ProPublica published this - the security aspect is deeply concerning.

FWIW I don't believe the tax system is working properly etc but theres some real fallout from IRS leaks/state level security breaches at this level. How can you possibly feel safe supplying the IRS with your personal information if it was all leaked to the internet. Very unsettling.
Gluing together personal projects is the foundation of the UNIX operating system. It's the point of any operating system really, but UNIX does it best. Docker and the microservice paradigm have also had a meteoric rise, probably because they promise to plug together clean slate personal projects.

One management technique I've seen companies use to grant employees the freedom to pursue personal projects, without it being seen as treachery, is to have a contract that says the company owns everything your mind produces, and then define quarterly expectations. That way you can sprint for a month doing what management wants, and spend the rest of the time inventing things like voicemail for fun.
As a teacher, this resonates. For many, the knowledge and skills development in school is too abstract.

An aside: Is ‘take your child to work day’ even a thing anymore?
The millionaire next door uses an artificially low threshold for wealth. It’s not a book about the wealthy, it’s largely a book about retirement. 1M is only generating ~40k per year, if that’s your savings you can’t afford to live in an affluent area without a job.
Caddy can serve thousands of sites without a sweat. What are your concerns exactly?
Oh man... I got to work w/ prz for several years (which is why the "two n's" thing stands out in my memory, since it's a common typo). And yet somehow, I still managed to screw that up...
>They cannot provide end-to-end encrypted mail because limitations in existing email protocols prevent it

You misunderstood something, end-to-end encrypted mail just works from a proton to a proton address.

>Messages between ProtonMail users are also transmitted in encrypted form within our secure server network.

https://protonmail.com/security-details

But yeah, the free storage is a joke and the complicated add-on pricing too. Calendar and imap on the other-hand is pretty important for me.

BTW: When did Apple open-sourced their email server?
A colleague recommended it to me. I haven't heard of fastmail but I'll check it out now that you've mentioned it.
Hi, exotree, I have declared you to be of interest to the public. What's your annual take-home pay?
You mean ordinary people might develop a bad view of the untouchably wealthy because of the system they created to preserve their wealth? Cry me a river.
It already happened in Britain over cancer medication: https://www.bbc.com/news/health-39711137

You'd predict that in a few years and after a few billions wasted regulators will wake up to the Phase IV results and withdraw approval.
No more than a transatlantic cable...
Yeah because of their greed. CCP was smart and used our greed against us.

Universities get these students to pay full tuition. Professors get graduate workhorses for research.
Companies get cheap labor, low environmental standards, etc so they get a larger profit margin on their widget.
The source of how they got the tax returns is the story - very unsettling that the IRS had a security breach (either leak or hacked). I suspect SolarWinds has a part in this