skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you feel like saying "ein Ex-Freund von mir" still carries this boyfriend connotation as opposed to "mein Ex-Freund"? The latter is clear to me, but I could see myself saying the former and thereby mistakenly suggesting a past relationship. (Non-native speaker.)

On the other hand, it's clear that "eine Ex-Freundin von mir" means ex-girlfriend.

Maybe I'll stick to "ehemaliger Freund" or just use "Kumpel" instead of Freund(-in) altogether. Otherwise people will think I've dated everyone I know.
London thrives because it's a world city with a massive talent pool. The standard of financial regulation is as high as anywhere else in the world, and the regulators hold a firm position against money-laundering.
The math doesn’t work out. If you save 3% of gross starting at age 22, get 8% returns, and target 50% of gross for disability income you only cross the threshold to make it to 65 at age 56.

Like all true insurance, we’d expect disability insurance to be expected value negative but this isn’t something it’s practical to self insure.
The entire comment thread of this article is on-prem, low scale admins and high-scale cloud admins talking past each other.

You can build in redundancy at the component level, at the physical computer level, at the rack level, at the datacenter level, at the region level. Having all of them is almost certainly redundant and unnecessary at best.
Have you ever heard of one any one of those who anybody gave a shit where they went or if they went to school? (Other than athletes, of course, but for them school is no more than an unpaid apprenticeship forced on them by monopolistic leagues.)
The user interface of a car was standardized 100 years ago. If you need to read the manual of a car to decide which crap feature to disable seven menu layers deep in a configuration menu - assuming that the function to disable it even exists - then that vehicle should come with a mandatory examination before you can drive it and should not be allowed to be used for rental / short lease fleets.

Your typical manufacturer makes a very large fraction of their income from exactly those two applications.

If there is a mindset that has to change then it is that sticking something somewhere in a manual is sufficient disclaimer to be able to claim 'user error' in case of trouble.
I think you're giving him too little credit there.

The parents point is really spot on though: most websites aren't at scale where every stateful api has redundant implementations.
But the author's point does have merit: inevitably, something goes wrong with all systems - and when it does, your system goes down if you trust your HA config to work.
If you actually did go for redundant implementations, your users likely aren't even gonna notice anything went wrong.

It's however kinda unsustainable to maintain unless you have a massive development budget
It remains to be seen whether lightning network will actually work for this. If it does, then I'll allow that only the volatility and energy waste are the reasons this is a bad idea.

But yeah, if you sell this to me as a test of lightning at scale, then I'm definitely more interested in it, while still thinking a super volatile asset is a bad currency.
> but if there happened to be an outage during that time now you’d have to have your team working then anyway.

So you're having them work late 52 times a year AND when there's an outage vs only when there's an outage. They're working late WAY more in your plan.
> Removing religion completely has been tried in a larger scale experiment in the Soviet Union and the results were very much worse than the most barbaric religions.

What am I supposed to say here? "Good thing I'm not Stalin"? Just because he's against religion, too, does not mean I want to use his methods.

> When arguing about religion one shouldn't forget that they have a number of good attributes as well.

I've heard that often, but that argument isn't very good. When the $ANIMAL mauls the offspring, one does not reminisce about how well it plays fetch, this does not counter-weight or undo the damage.

It is entirely possible to have the good attributes (let's say social cohesion or introspective peace of mind) entirely divorced from the gods-and-religion business (let's say by joining the local ping-pong club or taking up a meditative practice). I posit there is no attribute that uniquely belongs to religion and cannot be had otherwise.

> [monks] ended blood revenge, brought herbs and fruits and medicine and and and to Europe.

That result is a function of smart and persuasive people, not a function of belief in and worship of Yahweh. Mentally substitute the monks for hypothetical missionaries adhering to Voltaire/Smith/Kant &c., we could imagine the result is similar, just without the gods-and-religion business.

> Enlightenment grew out of the fertile soil of literacy and surplus and relative peace and quiet that this created, not the other way around.

I did not say that this fertile soil grew out of Enlightenment. I said that values of Enlightenment supplanted values of Christianity.
> Tax competition is a good thing. When raising taxes is hard, government has to work to justify its spend. If it doesn't, the business and talent goes elsewhere.

Doesn't this mean that they're competing for the upper classes? The "value" in government is, in my opinion at least, ensuring rights (specifically equality irrespective of wealth) and services for all citizens, not only the very rich. Maybe you'd argue that the very rich care deeply about poorer citizens and would not leave a country that adequately provides for its poor, but I don't think history supports this generalization of the very rich. It seems like this is a recipe for exacerbating inequality--I'm not an ardent leftist, but I can't get down with "let the poor starve" nor can I bring myself to subscribe to the various economic trickle-down theories for caring for the poor. It seems to me that economic inequality must be limited and that the government is the only institution that has a chance at limiting it.
> you don't understand how supermarkets work.

Agreed ;-). That's why I hang out on HN, hoping to gain some insight and knowledge.

The customer->FBA->merchant relationship is much clearer than in any supermarket I've been in. Maybe I'm really buying from a third party and the supermarket is just acting as the fulfillment center and payment processor, but it is well hidden. I'd love to know more about how the business end works.
Wall Street isn’t to blame for the chaotic housing market
I would assume that same kind of attack vector would work via Teams, Discord etc.
Giant blinking star spotted near center of Milky Way galaxy
The best way to help them is to challenge them with questions. Basically teach them to learn it and ask things like 'did you look at the docs and what did they say?' 'if you were going to do it how would you?...' and so on. One important aspect is to teach them to have their own authority to do things. Basically do not show them exactly how to do something but guide them to learning how to do it. But it can take awhile to 'fix'. No quick answer for that situation.
Oh, I was wondering how long an open source, (presumably) backdoor-free hardware platform was going to last.
You seem to be under a mistaken impression of what HN is for. If you read the first paragraph of https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html, it should correct that. We want stories on the widest range of curiosity-gratifying topics, well beyond just tech and startups.

Historical material is particularly welcome here!

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The “bubble” you speak of find themselves censored out of the bigger bubble that is mainstream media/academia.

You’re free to look away.
Meanwhile some budget homelabbers are jumping on the 2.5Gb bandwagon
> Since 1971, unfettered monetary inflation has been used to siphon wealth from the people for the benefit of a segment of rich elites close with the federal reserve.

The median household debt is $90,460 in the US, and the median savings is significantly lower than that. So barring hyperinflation, some reasonable inflation is actually beneficial for 'the people.' It's diluting their debt. Meanwhile, the most common investment for working people is in their home, and real estate is one of the best inflation shelters.

The parties most harmed by inflation are the ones sitting on huge amounts of cash without using it productively (so, not 'the people'), and those are exactly the parties who need a fire lit under them to prevent a deflation spiral.
Its called Seigniorage. The people and businesses closest to the money creation gain more from the creation of the money. That's because when new money is first used, prices haven't accounted for it yet. It takes a lot of time for that to happen. So by the time that money has trickled down to the masses, prices have inflated to account.

Not only that, but that money is very often used to fuel government debt, which only leads to paying more money later down the line. Debt rises faster than inflation dilutes the money supply, so its simply not true that we can simply print enough money to devalue our debt. The more money we print, the more in debt we'll collectively be.
Agree that it's a lot of wasted engineering effort for companies that can have planned downtimes.

My guess the conversation was 'To be agile, we need to be 100% CICD'. Next thing you know everything needs to get pushed straight to prod continuously with no downtime.
I find the coding standard too long to be taken seriously.
Has anyone here leveraged pglogical for this before? Looking at a similar migration but it has native extension support in AWS RDS. Would love to hear any success / horror stories!
Passwords don't matter as much thanks to Google and iCloud blocking my spop3 auths coming in from random ops despite doing everything to allow it. Rip passwords.
Thanks for the shoutout!

Values can sometimes feel cliche, so we have tried to make them more memorable and thought-provoking by using short metaphors with a backstory. Appreciate your thoughts here, this is something we’re still thinking about.
NNTP does support authentication (with username/password or with SASL), although I don't know which client programs implement it (my own currently doesn't, although this could be fixed in future).

You could use a mailing list and/or web forum with the same messages as the NNTP. I have my own NNTP server software with partial implementation of a web forum but none of a mailing list yet; I would hope to fix this. Other software might already do this, I don't know. (I know there are programs that can duplicate the messages and make them available, but I don't know if there are those that will use the same message database for all three and/or that will use NNTP as the "main format".)

Synchronet might be able to do it; I know it has many functions, including Telnet, NNTP, email, IRC, FidoNet, HTTP(S), SSH, Gopher, PETSCII, etc. There is a web forum too. (As far as I know, it doesn't have Gemini yet.) However, Synchronet is a complicated software, and is designed for a BBS and might not be what you wanted, so having other software can be good if a BBS is not the kind of service you intended to run, I think.
The OP was saying how by allowing the accelerated approval, the FDA failed to protect people from a drug that hasn't yet been shown to be effective. My point was that it's not like the FDA protects people from snake oil anyway. Doctors can already get their patients to spend tons of money on unproven treatments. As long as the treatment isn't lying about what the evidence has shown, adults and their doctors are able to make decisions based on available information, and generally society is ok with that. That sentiment conflicts with OP's sentiment. That is why the comparison is relevant to the discussion.
i don't see what the big deal is about google promoting its own products on the results page. All that means is one less slot for wikipedia/pinterest/amazon/ebay/nytimes or some other big site.
I think it's always worth questioning both sides. Why is downtime acceptable? People on this site routinely complain about windows needing a restart for system updates while boasting about their Linux servers uptime.

People talk about how kubernetes is overkill for many people, but it gives you rolling deployments for your applications out of the box.

There's also the "slippery slope" argument. A 0 downtime migration means 0 downtime. A 5 minute migration creeps up to a 30 minutes migration occasionally, and then regression to the mean happens, causing standard migrations to be 30 minutes.
And here, ladies and gentlemen, we have a perfect example of the kind of person I was describing in my post above. Note the utter lack of nuance or reading comprehension.

To the point: No, you do not have to "pick one," for the reasons I just stated.

If you have any evidence that your data will not be kept private by an Apple Watch, then by all means, present some! It would certainly be a scandal for the company, given how hard they've been pushing the privacy angle!

If all you have is a) a general feeling that All Tech Companies Are The Same, or b) a seething hatred of Apple and all that they do, then kindly keep them to yourself, because they are emphatically unhelpful in this context.
Your sarcasm would be funny except for the fact that almost all serious US partners are doing fine and have vibrant democracies. Regardless of continent or history, race, etc. Japan Europe SK Colombia etc.
You can often get away with some downtime, but that's not the same as not spending any engineering effort.

What kills you is when you take an hour scheduled downtime, communicate this out, get everyone on board... and then are down for a day. If you don't have a good, well-rehearsed, plan, you might be unexpectedly screwed even then. As a rule of thumb... something usually doesn't quite go how you expect it to!
They pissed off the left by being sociopathic big businesses that treated people poorly. They pissed off the right by exerting perceived control over public discourse. They've pissed off government in general by swinging around their power when called out on these things.

It wasn't a question of if the feds would screw them it was a question of when.
> IMO it comes down to this: do we advocate for laws that give companies the ability to decide what is right/safe for the public, or do we advocate for laws that reflect trust in the individual?

This is a really great way to put it, and it applies broadly to so many fundamental disagreements in the tech world.

I firmly believe it’s better to trust the individual—so I think users should be able to sideload iOS apps (only if they want to) and install their own root certificates. Others think individuals can’t be trusted, and so we should let tech companies dictate what is safe for everyone else.
It is not well known that web components have terrible dev ex, because it isn't true.
I assume compression works well for source code and other developer artifacts. Obviously you have to do dedupe, then compression, then encryption.
In my country every engineering or math student had a copy of a translation of a book by the Russian authors Bronshtein and Semendyayev.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronshtein_and_Semendyayev#Sem...
We should probably define what kind of stability we're talking about before we devolve into fisticuffs. Are we talking about a "stable" economy? A stable buying power of the currency? Something else?
I am a natural born US citizen of primarily German descent. I have zero connection to China, any Chinese institutions, or any Chinese nationals. I asked this extremely aggressive zepto person what proof they would accept of that, and I got downvoted with no response. Are we just making up stories about anyone who disagrees with us now? How do we know all of the anti-China people in this thread have no connection to the US state department or intelligence apparatus?
Sure, but if they are the actual customers of their suppliers, it doesn't seem like what Amazon does. I don't walk into Kroger and buy Doritos from Frito-Lay with Kroger just doing the fulfillment and payment processing, do I? I'm actually buying product that Kroger owns.

At least this is how I understand it. I am 100% open to being schooled in how it actually plays out. I'm just a software guy, but I like to learn.
Thank you for letting me know!

Later I'm going to test it on another computer with a RTX 2060 super, but slower CPU and slower interconnections (PCIe).

Thanks for the link too. :)
If anyone is interested, Visa reports that their payments network (and supporting infrastructure) uses 740,000 Gigajoules[0] in a year.

Can’t quite find a one for one measurement for Bitcoin, but due note this is the energy needs of all of Visa’s operations and they process in excess 100 billion transactions a year and Bitcoin (in 2020) averaged around 300,000 transactions a day[1].

If interested there is this[2] digiconomist article with more numbers (no clue as to the veracity of them).

[0]: https://usa.visa.com/dam/VCOM/download/corporate-responsibil....
[1]: https://www.blockchain.com/charts/n-transactions
[2]: https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption/
> This is very clearly aimed at advertising on Amazon, potentially Google as well, where merchants often must pay to gain visibility in the search results

I'm a little confused here. Are they saying that this would prevent a business to pay to be listed at the top as an ad for some specific searches in those results?
The Cold War which ended 3 decades ago yes? There wasn't some other Cold War necessitating wanton environmental destruction that I missed?

... As a country, at this time, there is no excuse for this exemption remaining on the books, none, none at all.
The other side of this equation that isn't talked about as much is "actually getting rest when you sleep".

A problem that became worse for me over the years was "sleeping but still being tired". This manifested for me when I started falling asleep at my desk at work, or in the middle of a conversation while I sat down.

I did all the regular things, bed same time everyday, less/no caffeine, I would even workout when I got a "sleepy spell" figuring it was downtime?

I finally saw a neurologist, got a sleep study, turned out I had restless leg syndrome. Basically running marathons in my sleep! I take a pill, and things are vastly improved.
Sorry if I sound blunt but you're clearly not a resident of the Lisbon metro if you think public transit is serviceable. Maybe some 20% of commuters would have to trade 45 minutes in a car for 2 hours minimum in public transit. Lisbon =! the city centre. And our public transit is impossible to improve as seen in the last 50 years - we just can't make public works work.

Maybe it's a sign of old age but I've grown tired of idealistic solutions to persistent problems. Would I prefer a phenomenal public transit system over cars? Absolutely, I hate driving. But it is what it is and pining for Nirvana will not help us whatsoever. Better work with the momentum we have.
It does work, they have been using it in El Zonte town for quite some time now [1].

The volatility will come down as the market caps get larger, but it'll never go away (I mean even fiat currencies and gold's price fluctuate on a daily basis).

The energy usage (not waste if you consider it to be a useful thing) will only go up as the price goes up, but it'll use increasingly renewable % and stranded energy and even bankroll new renewable power plants that wouldn't have been profitable to start.

1: https://www.forbes.com/sites/tatianakoffman/2020/07/14/this-...
Currently in phase 2, daycare is like having a 2nd mortgage. Plus, I'm exhausted all the time.
Orange conclusions of the crisis that impacted emergency calls in France
>> focus on making high school much much better

Meanwhile we're lowering standards and just passing every kid we can, for 'fairness'
Skipping a Docker Desktop update is not free
I just opened the Docker Desktop app... Was really surprised when I saw that I can't skip the update without the Pro subscription... Seriously??
Cool, thanks. Will be keeping an eye on this.
False. People are already storing their wealth in gold, art, collector items, land and real estate without looking for any profits. They're just defending from monetary inflation. These assets resemble hard money in their properties, because they're scarce and can't be created from thin air. You can't stop people from parking their wealth in non-productive hard assets.

The problem is that money is created from thin air and it's used to buy these hard assets. It's not used for productive investments.

Inflation is stealing and it's not healthy for economy.
It is probably because they are so big and successful and impervious to macro factors that they don't need to .
exactly, the problem with listening who is betting in bitcoin is that they will try to pump the price almost all the times
According to the wikipedia entry you noted, ALE did not exist in 1957. One could conclude that ALE re-used the station callsigns assigned for CW.
Another difference between Amazon and physical stores is that Amazon has pagination. If a product ends up on the second or third page, it will likely not be seen by the vast majority of customers.

With physical stores, your options are always all right in front of you.
Broken window fallacy.

Letting things fail is a possibilty. The boys' club can get together and coordinate a rescue, but in one out of every n attempts of coordinated rescue, they'll fail. Which will be good for leveling income inequality.
Does the stage block include a way to present PowerPoint or other slides, e.g. through screen sharing or uploading the slide deck?

Is there a way I can attend a demo event with a stage block, to see what the UX is like for an attendee?
Well said, Linus! I'm sick and tired of anti-vaxxers spouting their drivel everywhere. It's so unfortunate that unvaccinated anti vaxxers can infect others through their selfishness.
Yeah, I think that “blueprint” or “plans” works pretty well, especially if you think about it like the plans for a weapon (say, an advanced airplane) that one country wants to keep a secret so that other countries can’t figure out how to build the same weapon. The other countries will be able to see the airplane, they may even get their hands on one of them, but you definitely don’t want them to get their hands on the plans.
Astronomers spot a 'blinking giant' near the center of the galaxy
Thanks!

Still a bit strange to me that they started a whole new project rather than contribute patches or fork something else.

The only one I'm fairly familiar with is restic. It also compiles for the major OSes and has deduplication. For compression, I think there are patches available, but alternatively they could just have contributed one. That leaves tying the command-line interface to a few buttons in a GUI.

Edit: Kopia turns out to be from 2016. I guess the author didn't know of the others yet, or the others weren't as mature. This makes a lot more sense, somehow the .io domain and my first hearing of it only now made me expect this was written recently.