skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I second that, mynoise is amazing!
I do have a close friend trapped in a complex situation, so yes, I'm certainly biased, but also very much the opposite of hypothetical.
>NSO will continue its mission of saving lives, helping governments around the world prevent terror attacks, break up pedophilia, sex, and drug-trafficking rings, locate missing and kidnapped children, locate survivors trapped under collapsed buildings, and protect airspace against disruptive penetration by dangerous drones.

Intelligence groups should have to fucking prove this.
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California is still worse. NO ALMONDS. They are water pigs and if you eat almonds you are aiding and abetting environmental damage at a grotesque scale.
Is there anything really stopping drivers from not striking? Unlike a union strike, Uber/Lyft drivers are striking on their own terms.

Presumably if everyone else is striking, rates will be really high and the drivers not striking will be making decent wage (ironically part of the reason to strike).
Use fdroid or from there github release find an compatible version. The internal env. are updated for everyone
So it was essentially a cross-licensing deal that allowed other automakers to use Tesla charging tech (did this include other Tesla-owned patents?), but the others would effectively have to license their entire patent portfolio to Tesla (can't sue is not too far from a blanket license to use).
Since this is here, I wanted to repost something I shared a few months ago about COVID vaccines (I sincerely hope it helps someone out there).

My brothers Mother in Law died due to COVID, and she got COVID a week after her first vaccination (it was one of the two dose vaccines). I do not know the exact circumstances about how she got it, but I got the impression that she and her husband thought they were "okay" just because they got their first dose.

You are not out of the woods just because you got your first dose COVID vaccine! It will take time for it to take affect, do your research on it!!

This is the study that I first posted that comment:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26224519
I don't care. US spies, corporations spy, China spies, Russia spies, pretty much everybody spies if they can. Why single out this group?
I live in an area of the country that has some of the very best environment in the entire world for growing crops. Length of seasons, rainfall, topsoil depth and quality, etc. The very best in the world, no hyperbole.

And yet, due to this land being near a major metroplex, we are busy paving it over with roads and buildings. Mostly what is grown now is Kentucky bluegrass, which doesn't do so great here (or anywhere besides Kentucky?) and so needs frequent applications of pesticides and water to stay green.

Market forces, I know. But from a larger perspective, how does this situation make the slightest bit of sense?
> with out (sic) any proof that Apple had anything to do with Pegasus.

Um, bundling a messaging app that parses feature-rich messages sent from anyone in the world using a memory-unsafe language and abusing DRM laws intended for anti-piracy protection to *ensure that no one can uninstall it from their phone* doesn't count as proof that Apple had something to do with Pegasus?

Yes, Durov's assertion that the bugs NSO exploited were intentionally left there by Apple at the behest of US intelligence agencies is presented without proof, and while conceivable is very unlikely [1].

But his assertion that monopoly practices by Apple had something to do with the Pegasus hacks is perfectly accurate given that Messages is insecure, forcibly bundled, and was in fact how many journalists and human rights defenders were hacked.

Durov's point that "it doesn't matter what apps you have installed on your phone" is especially depressing and a direct result of Apple's use of DRM to prevent users from uninstalling Messages. It would be nice if people could install Messages from their iPhones right now. Thanks to Apple, they can't.

[1] Not because Apple wouldn't do it if pressured (we know, for instance, that they caved to such pressure on iCloud encryption) but merely because there are likely so many vulnerabilities to find that the chances NSA, Apple, and NSO were all aware of the same vulnerabilities are very low.
In prison I had no phone for the first year. Then smuggled one illegally. Not joking.
I gave an example here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27909949

But in addition to that, 1-3 seconds per click is horrible imo. I have to literally pause, and slow down my workflow, because every input (navigation click) takes 1-3 seconds to load? That sort of delay starts to drag on users, imo.

Wasn't JS based UI's supposed to _lighten_ the load? Make web pages faster because they could just ask for the data that changed? This feels like such a massive step backward from simple HTML, like HN.

1-3 seconds being good, or even okay, is abysmal to me. Especially when the full page isn't needed, just a handful of data. Something is fundamentally broken with this version of the "modern web". And i say that as a web developer who loves complex frontend technologies. But to me if the user isn't getting a faster response, the frontend tech would be better off as plain HTML.
I know plenty of developers who decried the surveillance state before covid, but who now gush about information-rich vaccine QR code passports and what not. "Such cool information!" I heard one say. I think most developers who didn't care for the surveillance state in 2019 just don't mind it now.

Me? I accept that everything we do online leaves a huge metadata trail. Same as in meatspace. So much metadata as to be sufficient for all legitimate state interests and then some. But only the metadata should be available w/o warrants -- same as in meatspace.
Single most obvious customer obsessed (their tenet BTW) feature they could add, but after over a decade of requests, it's seemingly clear they won't. It keeps me from playing with AWS for side projects as well. Their loss.
Everyone here is saying "NSO bad", which I agree with, but it misses the point.

You and I are not target customers for NSO. They don't care if we think they are bad. There answer is literally just saying "we are going to claim we aren't legally liable and we aren't answering questions".

This is probably sufficient to the people it needs to be sufficient to. If anything, all of this is probably great marketing for them.
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That's true so often, you could probably write a bot for that response
It is extremely difficult to compete with good enough, and it is extremely difficult to compete with free.

There are a plethora of good enough free programming languages available, that also have good enough free tooling and ecosystems.

There isn't therefore really a business model.
“Cryptocurrencies are described by their fans as a people-powered revolution, digital banking unchained from the interests of the wealthy and powerful.“

Not quite correct. The wealthy and powerful can be wealthy and powerful and express their interests. They just have no special powers, as crypto currencies aim to be permissionless and deregulated.

That means price manipulation or other financial games are largely quite ok by crypto standards so long as anyone is invited. It’s anti-bank and anti-government.. not anti-capitalist or anti-finance.

Whether you are on board with this vision or if it’s good for society is another issue, but crypto is largely fulfilling its goals in my opinion.
Shorting even an obvious piece of shit like Lyft is risky in this environment. We're talking about a company that has never earned a profit, has no prospects of ever making a profit, has a huge and rapidly accelerating annual loss on shrinking revenues, the share price of which has doubled in the past year (up 5% today alone). You're going head-to-head with all the lunatics in the world.
Fair enough. It was the word that came to mind and I might have used a better one. Important doesn't quite capture it. Time is invariably the most precious resource, so perhaps "crucial".
But I don't. I just plan to hold onto the property, if I buy another house.

As dev with a dual citizenship and ability to work anywhere in Europe, I have pretty high mobility and I can always move.
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Time for my usual post on water in the western United States.

We have know this for more than 140 years [0]. Since my previous post I can now also strongly recommend that everyone (yes, everyone) living in the western United States read at least the introduction[1] to Beyond the Hundredth Meridian[2]. The introduction is more relevant now than it was when it was written 67 years ago, itself 75 years after the publication of Lands of the Arid Region.

I fully expect the western water related engineering projects of the 20th century to fail in this century because you can't store what never falls from the sky, and you cannot refill a depleted aquifer. Powell presented us with the reality of the ecological and political situation, maybe some day we will finally get around to implementing the solution [3,4].

Edit: for a special treat RE the thread on water usage in Utah as see the discussion of page 84 (96) of [0] where Powell writes the following: "In general, there is a great wastage, due to badly constructed canals, from which the water either percolates away or breaks away from time to time; due, also, to too rapid flow, and also to an excessive use of the water, as there is a tendency among the farmers to irrigate too frequently and too copiously, errors corrected only by long experience." Apparently long experience is more than 140 years.

Previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18098899

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26964166

0. https://pubs.usgs.gov/unnumbered/70039240/report.pdf LANDS OF THE ARID REGION John Wesley Powell 1878

1. https://erenow.net/modern/beyond-the-hundredth-meridian/1.ph... Bernard DeVoto 1954

2. Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West ISBN:9780140159943 Wallace Stegner 1954

3. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/visio...

4. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Map_of_Water_Sheds_o...
Launch thread over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27906787
> you're a league of superheroes saving the world from all its evils.

Never mind that every authoritarian regime labels its opponents as "terrorists". Thanks, "War On Terror" for enabling this!
Not sure if poster meant it specifically, but these are ON ear headphones and can cause a lot of fatigue and hot spots for people, depending on clamp strength.

I only use over ear, and have found that of the popular brands, Bose have the most comfort for me.
That’s the theory, in practice “no schema” in my recent painful experience translates to “move the schema into the apps” which really sucks when you have a bunch of interdependent services owned by different teams.

And you still need to do joins to enrich data from different collections.

I want Postgres back. :(
I just think this money shoulda been paid in taxes so we could collectively solve problems instead of some guy hand picking a couple lottery winners.
This is a $65,536.00 question.

Keep in mind that:

a) once hired, you will be dealing with a team hired using these programming quizzes, in other words, people who value simple rituals instead of in-depth understanding

b) if the employment takes priority over quality of team, you must learn how to deal with mediocrity and incompetence. In fact, I suspect the main reason for these tests, especially those conducted on a whiteboard, is to gauge the candidate's ability to deal with idiotic assingments (i.e. can I offload the work I don't want to do on this guy?)

So perhaps, if you want to be employable, you should state upfront: I LOVE doing meaningless repetitive tasks that no one wants to do!
Because "avoid (success at all costs)" makes the best PLs, and startups are literally about success at all costs.
> [...] to the point where it could be used to train [...] require a tremendous amount of human labor by expert clinician.

This is how it has been done for decades at this point (at least in some systems), and yes it is expensive. To really tackle things like above rare disease interactions, it would require at least an order of magnitude change, this is at least plausible; but would require some systemic changes.
Link says Core Gen 10 or Xeon so you may be out of luck on AMD or at less than $50.

I think this is more likely aimed at AMD than Arm - don't think Arm is yet a threat in this space - and whilst they're entitled to do what they want it does make me less enthused about Intel and frankly more likely to support their competitors.
Hard of hearing
Contact their security team. They should have contact details on their website. Provide links to the data. Do not copy/send any of the data.
Not really what I asked. If the police get a report of an ongoing violent crime, do they respond? If they respond, do they send more than one or two officers? Are those officers armed?

If the answer to all of those questions is "yes", then congratulations, you have exactly the same situation as this case in Tennessee. (If the answer to any is "no", ...?)

"1 more trivia item is that we actually have more police officers per capita then America."

50% more. I'm impressed.

OTOH, that site shows The Netherlands as having ~155 police officers total. I guess they're not counting the 24,000 "peace officers".

New Zealand has 5 total (0.1 / 100,000).
I definitely support a statewide ban on requiring lawn watering. Luckily here in California, because of continuing drought, most cities have already made it legal to not water your lawn, and you can't require tenants to water a lawn.

I would definitely like to see it taken farther as you have suggested -- give tax breaks and subsidies for people xeriscaping or replacing lawns with synthetic turf.
How quickly we forget the massive warrantless wiretapping that occurred under the umbrella of the patriot act.
Rental car companies don't have enough cars for their normal customers, I doubt they're in a hurry to rent them out at a discount for rideshare drivers.

It's not that Lyft is brain dead, they aren't a car manufacturer and they can't wave their hands and make more cars available. Even car manufacturers can't make enough cars available.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2021/07/16/rental-car-...
Majority of Americans lack college degree. Why do so many employers require one?
Sure it could be better but to say it's utter garbage is a hyperbole.
And also do not call during business hours, we are not going to pick up the phone…
Joel Spolsky's team actually built that approach into a feature: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2007/10/26/evidence-based-sch...
I don't think it's hypocrisy so much as ignorance. Most people recognize an AR-15 and Kalashnikov. But few now the origins of the Mini-14 nor the other weapons you've described.
> that would be justification for termination from a job

From how many jobs tho. This happened in 2017. The problem is there's no statute of limitations on moral outrage, so if acting on it is justified, the punishment would effectively be a jobless life.

And I think that's a little excessive.
That would be called betting against the fed. Excess liquidity trumps subpar fundamentals.
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In India, NSO's Pegasus allegedly used for toppling two state Governments by Central Government plus used for various Political gains be it opposition politicians, election commissioner, Judges, Journalists, Activists etc.

And, NSO response is "Enough is Enough". This is not enough, this is just starting.
I see the shade thrown at k8s... but honestly I don't know how much of it is truly deserved.

k8s is complex not unnecessarily, but because k8s is solving a large host of problems. It isn't JUST solving the problem of "what should be running where". It's solving problems like "how many instances should be where? How do I know what is good and what isn't? How do I route from instance A to instance b? How do I flag when a problem happens? How do I fix problems when they happen? How do I provide access to a shared resource or filesystem?"

It's doing a whole host of things that are often ignored by shade throwers.

I'm open to any solution that's actually simpler, but I'll bet you that by the time you've reached feature parity, you end up with the same complex mess.

The main critique I'd throw at k8s isn't that it's complex, it's that there are too many options to do the same thing.
In the last drought, California actually started fining agencies for over-using water. And our water provider established water allotments based upon our residence, and if we went over we would get fined.

And it definitely works. I knew a lot of people in HOAs that mandated residents eliminate a certain amount of lawn due to these fines.
Investigate?

He wasn't investigating. He was canceling somebody who criticized him.

In violation of his own promises both to Disqus and to the woman whose job he destroyed.
As a fellow physician I agree with your statement completely.
Didn't they have TextWrangler for this?
This isn't a good example.

Switching languages does not make this simpler. Switching the _implementation_ of an interface does. For example, I could implement a "queue" interface three times - once for Confluent Cloud's Kafka, once for Kinesis and once for EC2 instances that run OSS Kafka. The interface remains stable, the implementation changes. This can also be done across clouds.

I think it's worth you doing some more research into what Pulumi opens up before using it as an example like this in marketing material.
Jon has talked about this on his "Jai" streams. They need some sort of income to fund development of the compiler (hiring more programmers to work on it), but the number of people willing to pay for a compiler is probably not enough to hire programmers
If you had access to the data, how would you verify that Durov's number was listed? Then what confidence would that give you? Trusting an anonymous leak more than the media who vetted the data seems misguided.
That’s just empty airframe without any electronics or engine.
If I knew then what I know now...

I'd still be confused.
Sometimes tech companies have the wrong people at C-level. These people constantly make bad decisions, and have their subordinates pay for them.

Investors are often oblivious to these details. If the company is not doing as well as expected due to crippling tech debt, high turnover rates, dumb decisions, etc. the CEO will come up with an excuse (since COVID, this is easier than ever).
Personally, I been upvoting everyone who makes realistic and valid points, even if I don't like what they have to say, because especially in discussions about this particular topic, we need to entertain a wide variety of viewpoints and be willing to accept that not any one magical solution is gonna fix this.

The reality is that the whole "climate crisis" thing is gonna require humanity in general to gang up on the problem from all angles and each contribution will help the overall situation improve to some degree. The sum of all those contributions is the solution.

The longer we keep looking to corporations, politicians, and scientists to come up with a "magic bullet" for the problem, the worse it's gonna be for everyone and the less likely any amount of human efforts will be able to improve it again.
I've idly thought about which areas are likely to come out ahead because of climate change. It's going to affect just about everything, but surely there will be at least a couple winners next to the pile of losers.

Obviously you can't predict too far out, but like you've said, the midwest seems likely to be a winner in the short-term. I've also seen a lot about the Russian permafrost melting, and I can't help but think they'll come out ahead as well. It makes me wonder if they've done that same mental math, because it would give them incentives that conflict with most of the rest of the world.
Just wanted to say that this quote is hilarious. I tried to look it up, but couldn't find anything. What's it from?
Should be a little cheaper if no physician directly sees the patient as midlevel's can't charge as much as physicians for most insurance companies.
Yeah I was surprised by that figure too

Seems it's only the airframe though and maybe the fuel tank.

VTOL motors, alternator, engine, props, control system etc. are all extra.
What is unique to NSO and a small sample of companies like them is that they are the ones who get caught.
> Statutory health insurances are Körperschaften des öffentlichen Rechts, which (as the name implies) are public institutions and very much not private companies.

This is not so clear-cut as in other countries.

Translated from Wiki:

> As a public corporation with self-administration, a health insurance fund regulates its budget on its own responsibility. In doing so, it must fulfil legislative performance requirements (compulsory benefits) and may in some cases go beyond this (statutory benefits). According to § 260 para. 2 SGB V, its operating funds should not exceed one monthly expenditure.
I treat side projects as a "nice to have"

Some of the best engineers I've worked with had exactly none, and very full lives outside of work. But you could tell they punched above their weight just by looking at the resume.
Actually that depend upon the phone phone you are using if its 2-3 years old. It should be fast enough.
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Yeah. I'm a big fan of making the person who made the promise fix the mess. You dreamed up something and promised it to the customer? You get to go back to the customer and eat the crow. Maybe that will teach you not to do it next time.

Anything else is just enabling (or even rewarding) bad behavior. If you do, expect to get more of it.

Note well: I have never been a manager, especially not an upper-level manager over both sales and engineering. I don't know how well my recommendation will fly in the real world. (Hey, I guess that makes me the guy who just sold something without knowing if it can work...)
That's "End Game" - they aren't claiming the current version (or even the beta) are there yet.
Israel is not immune from international pressure though.
I'd be curious what a better alternative looks like.

I'm a huge fan of keeping things simple (vertically scaling 1 server with Docker Compose and scaling horizontally only when it's necessary) but having learned and used Kubernetes recently for a project I think it's pretty good.

I haven't come across too many other tools that were so well thought out while also guiding you into how to break down the components of "deploying".

The idea of a pod, deployment, service, ingress, job, etc. are super well thought out and are flexible enough to let you deploy many types of things but the abstractions are good enough that you can also abstract away a ton of complexity once you've learned the fundamentals.

For example you can write about 15 lines of straight forward YAML configuration to deploy any type of stateless web app once you set up a decently tricked out Helm chart.. That's complete with running DB migrations in a sane way, updating public DNS records, SSL certs, CI / CD, having live-preview pull requests that get deployed to a sub-domain, zero downtime deployments and more.
The most successful programming language startup (Microsoft) ultimately had to pivot to operating systems to go public and then pivot again to office suites and cloud computing to stay relevant.