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> I recall having to explain to certain developers how they have to first figure out more than 5 different services for AWS, then use packer to build an AMI, which is provisioned using Chef, then they have to terraform the relevant services, then use cloud-init to pull configuration values. All in all I had to do most of the work, and the code was scattered in several places.

That sounds horrible. You can actually do all that from a single repository, using just ansible alone, with one cli invocation:

- use packer to build an AMI => ansible

- provisioned using Chef => ansible

- terraform the relevant services => ansible

- use cloud-init to pull configuration values => baked into the image
Apologies are pointless. Some dude will say "He's apologizing because he got caught not because he's sorry" and you can't prove otherwise because that's literally unfalsifiable. Then the mob will just jump on that bit. Don't waste your time.
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P.S. Drawing the entire alphabet isn't needed, only the letters you need.

Compare to:

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The purpose of the article is to praise members of the violent right, like Ngo, a man who literally helped plan violent attacks; and to shame people who try to be nice.

The idea is to encourage other extremists to become more extreme, and to encourage more radical behavior from the radical right.

This is far-right propaganda, nothing more.
It reduces the supply of long term housing. Units that would otherwise be up for sale or rent under a standard term rental are now being used as short term rentals
Not sure of the current state of Mongo but WT certainly has LSM Trees:

http://www.hpts.ws/papers/2013/WiredTiger-HPTS.pdf

http://source.wiredtiger.com/3.2.1/lsm.html
So, like swatting, but less deadly, and with no repercussions?
> But that ship won't set sail for a long while.

Right. But you have to start to be able to reach that point. And sooner you start - the sooner you will arrive to it.
> it's basically only organised crime gangs that have weapons other than hunting rifles

Do you really believe this? Any evidence?

Here’s some to the counter, your average anti gun dem buying an AR-15: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/interactive/2021/anti-...

Do you also understand your average hunting rifle is a lot more powerful than these supposed other weapons? Here’s .223 on left and 30-06 (aka “hunting rifle”) on right: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-2a-YzMNCllQ/UPd-W05xMaI/AAAAAAAAAW...
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I don’t want to step into this particular minefield (nor should any progressive, really) but I thought this tiny part of the argument was unusually bad reasoning:

> To give such a forceful statement on the nation’s most-watched late-night talk show, it’s fair to assume that Moreno must have understood the “colorism” debate and given her position serious consideration.

Who honestly believes that people on Steven Colbert are giving serious thought and consideration to their responses in the interview? It actually seems more likely that she went on Colbert to promote her show and tell some jokes, got blindsided with a controversial question and gave an answer she regretted (the statement was not at all “forceful” and seemed much more about her personal affection for Lin-Miranda than any serious political motivation). In any case it is not “fair to assume” that interviewees on late night shows are especially prepared - Steven Colbert is not Meet the Press!

Stuff like this is why the newsletter trend is kinda worrying: smart people need editors, otherwise they will write transparently stupid things.
The issue isn't merely the same vendor, but having to buy parts bundled together. Good luck replacing your hard drive/RAM/whatever separately from the rest of your machine without blessing from the manufacturer.
Likening modern 'woke' mob outrage on Twitter to Maoist China is the correct analogy. The purpose of being 'cancelled' is not any kind of real social justice. It's the enforcement of an ideological orthodoxy.

Never apologise to the mob. Even a superficial understanding of game theory shows you that you have nothing to gain from the self-flagellation involved in a public apology. Remember, You'll never be forgiven. I've never seen an example where the mob has pursued entirely altruistic goals. It's the witch-trials of the 21st century. Nothing more.
What I’ve found is that because of the consequences these days, I can’t express any genuinely held opinions of mine in my social network, besides “The Chiefs will win the Super Bowl” and similar. And because of this, there is no tempering effect on these opinions. I find myself becoming more extremist because I don’t have the moderating effect of the crowd, because I no longer discuss “issues” with my “crowd.”
I mean you can have Joe writing it down on a piece of paper, sure. But when it gets to a computer, costs start coming up. It depends on how the software works but the products used tend to be a) ancient and b) often either not configurable enough to support new use cases or so complicated that you have to submit a change request to the vendor to do it for you.
I'm 99% that sort of paint is very very "government secrets" by the US and doesn't get out much.

Now could someone make a drone shaped like an f-117 and make it invisible to civilian radar? probably. That sort of engineering is easy with todays technology.
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Hacker News does not allow anti-racist or leftist positions to be posted.

Only right-wing positions are socially acceptable here. The center-right is as far left as is allowed. There is no limit to how hard right you may be.
I was done after he actively defended Andy Ngo. I was very much prepared to support this article, but it starts out with comparisons to Maoist China with the most self serving example of that regime's actions, and keep going further. J.K Rowling refuses to let the mob 'get her down'. Should Harvey Weinstein have bravely rallied against 'cancel culture'? If cancel culture is such a thing to be feared, why is Amazon Prime still working?
This is kind of sad but very true from my experience. We knew most or all our neighbors but then my street got an Airbnb house and all sorts of people come by including a family reunion, parties, equipment dealer with trailer etc. Maybe unrelated but crime has increased (car breaking and catalytic converter thefts are all I know) and its hard to tell who lives on the street just due to the traffic.
Farmers don't have the right to compel John Deere to open their source code.
I have never stayed in an airbnb that isn't an apartment. I think almost all AirBnB rentals in Boston (as this study focuses on) are apartments.
The dry weight of the [steel/aluminium] engine for a Cessna 172R (117kg) is about four times the dry weight of the entire recommended setup for a Mugin-5 Pro, and the airframe of this UAV is carbon fiber. Some of its steel/aluminium fittings/fixtures that need to handle high stresses look like they would be difficult to replace with low-radar-cs materials, and there is a fair amount of avionics dotted around plus the four VTOL motors, but it's a really paltry amount of radar-reflective material compared to the average light aircraft, and I'm sure you could mitigate that somewhat with radar-absorbent materials/structures.

The idea of relying on fighter jets/attack helicopters/SAM systems shooting these things down sounds like an entirely asymmetric and unsustainable state of affairs.
On an annual basis I know internships that pay more than that.

But seriously, that's base rate. What's the stock compensation and bonus structure?
Is there anything billionaires can spend money on that doesn't seem like waste from your perspective?
> but in any neighborhood what is the highest proportion of units that are short-term rentals. Five percent? Ten percent in the super touristy areas?

In the US you can get close to 100%, where the only residents are cleaners, shuttle drivers, handymen, and property managers. There are even new development communities that are solely designed and zoned for rental. This, at least, is the case around Disney in FL.
Only initially. I guess maybe I wasn't clear in my original post, but my idea was always that the system would remember any authorized device (presumably by VID+PID+capabilities, but maybe also serial or other identifying info if the device+OS supports it). You'd only get the UI prompt the very first time you plug in a new keyboard -- after that, you can plug it in at will and it continues to work. This is also why I mentioned about VID/PID brute force attacks.

It would be rare to see multiple devices at once -- eg: the very first boot, or plugging in a new complex device like a dock -- but the experience of this hinges on having the right UI. Having a series of pop-ups like "Do you accept Generic USB Hub 06 (connected to Root USB Hub 2)?" is going to cause them all to be ignored, but, for example, showing a tree of devices and making it easy to accept all at once would probably be ok. And hubs in particular may be a special case, where you don't bother to prompt, but I don't know if that opens an attack vector.
This idea is great when you are dealing with people who are earnest but misled, for instance Daryl Davis who has had great success getting people to leave the KKK.

But many actors are not misled, just actively trying to do harm either for the sake of it, or for personal gain or because they are insane. No amount of love is going to get through to people like that. Think Hitler, Trump, Pol Pot, Putin, Marjorie Green, etc

Sometimes you have to fight back
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> The suit also points to a female Activision employee who took her own life while on a company trip with her male supervisor. The employee had been subjected to intense sexual harassment prior to her death, including having nude photos passed around at a company holiday party, the complaint says.

Yikes. After the stories that came out about Riot Games, it seems like this sort of behavior isn't super uncommon amongst Gaming Companies.
I think it's part of who we are.

Suicides happen in tribal cultures - https://www.jstor.org/stable/658295
I have 100% issue with people turning their properties in SF into airbnb hotels. You're just skirting the fucking law at that point.

The area was zoned for -HOUSING- not a hotel.

I've used airbnb a lot in the past, but now that regulators have gotten a hold of it; it's basically a barely cheaper hotel with a lot more ??? on whether or not the place is good and the hosts live up to their reviews.
I agree with all of your points, at least at some point.
This doesn’t mean I should call treat this “study” as science, as it is not.
I think part of the negativity is the expectation that we'll eventually screw up any other plant we inhabit as well.

No, Mars or Venus are as hostile, more hostile probably than what would result if we screwed up the earth utterly. Radiation, lack of atmosphere, lack of sufficient gravity, lack of the resources that millions of years of life give. These aren't small problems.

Humans are extraordinarily dependent on the conditions of life on earth. That might be changeable in the long term but sending rockets into space isn't really related to such change. Extreme revolutions in biology and materials are whats needed.
Tell me more about how Dr. King wouldn't have used collective action as a catalyst for change.
I agree with what you said, but Isn’t the goal to survive the seed stage to find product market fit and customers at all costs? If you get that, you can raise money and hire engineers to rewrite your stack. If you fail to get customers, you might have a really maintainable codebase but no money and hence bankruptcy.

The point being that maybe it’s fine if there are a lot of people who only know how to glue frameworks together if they know enough to build useful products. Let all of them try; some of them might very well make it.
In some ways it’s very American, it’s just the side of America that we’re not proud of. Property owners benefit from the status quo of housing scarcity, and they are the most powerful bloc in local politics.
> Other people will never go to the moon and mars

Oh, they will. Someone should build the colony. Someone should do the work to maintain and grow the colony, etc.
> You have a person for X time

Ah, I can see prostate treatment ads booming...
This is a strawman argument and totally different.

They aren't "illegal taxies" They've been allowed by the local governments and are taxed. Austin got them all to leave at one point by requiring stricter standards of vetting drivers.
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I have neither rented or rented out an Airbnb. However, I see no problem with a homeowner renting out his home for short periods.

Everything we do has negative externalities, including driving a car. I don't see how Airbnb's are considered so bad. Moreover this is a correlation study in one city. The title implies a causal analysis which this is not.

Pretty easy to phack your way to whatever conclusion you want using correlations. Moreover what is the magnitude of increase? From 0.0001% to 0.001% . The article should show some absolute counts.
Please explain what Andy Ngo did that nobody should be able to have a different opinion of him without you dismissing him?

JK Rowling is a billionaire who doesn’t need much in the way of connections anymore, but she is certainly constantly attacked and abused, and has lost many opportunities for standing up for what she believes in. That you don’t care about it and think that amazon still sells her books doesn’t mean a woke mob didn’t attempt to cancel her doesn’t make that true, just means you aren’t paying attention.

Comparing either of those two to Harvey Weinstein is the real dishonesty done here.
> An AR-15 would be very near the end of things to call "a civilian weapon" in a civilized country.

Why?
Have you stopped and maybe talked to someone you respect about these beliefs? When everyone else thinks you are being an asshole sometimes it is because you are. Ive certainly had to face that at times in my life.
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It really looks to me like someone disagreed with you and you took it very personally.

You jumped to claiming “offense” first.

I think you should reread your thread in a few days when you’ve cooled off.
Your new tree has the same nodes (with an additional root node), but I can't see how it records that `dog` is the parent of `ant` and `fly`.
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Ask HN: How do you get past working with bad tech and just get your job done
I recently took a new job because it had everything I was looking for except for one thing:

The tech stack was something I didn't have much experience in, and for good reason. I'd never believed it was a well designed tech stack, and never had much interest in learning it as a result.

Well, I took the job because of all the other benefits but have been REALLY struggling to get my job done. It's not that I don't understand how, as I quickly learned the ins and outs of the language/framework. Rather, I hate it. I just can't stand the patterns, the style of writing the code, etc.

Has anyone else dealt with this in their software career? I have never been faced with a situation like this before even after 15 years of coding. I've always worked in languages/frameworks that I've enjoyed, which has been many! I really want to keep this job without losing my mind, so I need to figure out how to get over the drain of using the bad tech, and just get the job done.
"Illegal Hotels"

This always makes me laugh. A lot of hotel regulation was written with fire safety in mind (large building with a lot of small rooms in it and a high number of occupants). But AirBnBs... are just regular apartments so they don't break the fire safety rules (if the appartment is zoned for two occupants, really you aren't breaking any laws by housing two guests).

The rest is simply NIMBY and cities trying to fleece tourists really. Or bureaucrats trying to justify the red tape and regulation that keeps them employed.

EDIT: Wow, I see the downvotes yet no explanations!
IMO it's possible to be supportive of free speech without (indirectly) supporting fascists and those who pal around with fascists.
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>Today, the mob acts primarily through social media, meaning that the pile-on can come for anybody, at any time, with little to no warning.

It should be stated that this mob is typically comprised of bot accounts. It's not even a real mob. It's just some government or group who wants to peer pressure you with internet good boy points.
1 is not an externality. It is fully priced in to the cost of renting the unit.
I remember NCR making a few Micro Channel machines during its short not-quite-heyday. I always thought the idea of putting card configurations onto floppy disks was downright stupid. I wondered what the EISA crowd was thinking when they adopted that for EISA systems.
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You’ve left out the part where apologizing (i.e. appeasing) the mob rewards them with a “win”, reinforcing their behavior.

As a father of a small child, I’ve learned that it’s important not to confer extra attention for acting out, otherwise I am effectively encouraging that behavior. I’ve heard this described as “don’t water weeds”.

The modern mob is nothing more than the collective Id of so many sad, child-like human beings. Don't give in just because it’s easier in the short term. Don’t water the weeds.
> how it weighs on their conscious

conscience.
yes, that’s part of the basis of my argument[0]. there is an optimum firm size, and it’s not ‘as big as possible’. no industry—-even capital-intensive ones like aerospace—-needs mega-corporations. we’re much better served by a heterogeneous mix of mid-sized companies, including in ridesharing. mid-sized companies are big and resilient enough to benefit from economies of scale and bring efficiency to a market, but are small and nimble enough to be responsive to customer and employee needs, not just to naked capital returns.

size (and other mechanisms, like the corporate veil) act to distance decision-makers from the consequences of their actions, so that they can pursue entirely greedy aims without remorse. we need to dismantle such systemic ruthlessness, and replace it with human-centered organization. it’s one of the core issues driving the economic contribution to sociopolitical disunity.

[0]: one of the points of a firm is to solve the coordination problem.
Resource constraints of the universe are rarely at the forefront of the reasoning of entities that live a hundred years or so on the upper end, but if the entity was expected to possibly survive in perpetuity and additional resources could always be used, then everything is a competitor.

That said, I'm not sure the optimal solution arrived at would be to wipe out humanity in that case. Possibly a "wait and see and keep them from getting too big for their britches" strategy might be more rational for an AI, as long as it secures its superiority first.

As for why there's an assumption that AI will be hostile, I think the argument is more along the lines of that we can't know how a super-intelligent AI will think, so there's a chance it will be hostile, and if there's a chance something is world or species ending, it's best to tread carefully. I.e. the safest way to not have problems with the outcome of summoning a demon is to not summon the demon. Or for a more contemporary take, even if you're unsure about whether global climate change is real, the fact that it could be real means the sane thing to do is try to prevent it, because the consequences of being wrong are dire.
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That works for a company but it won’t work for a person. For a person an apology becomes a tacit admission of guilt and license for further harassment. See Chris Avelone, etc.
Here in San Diego (a big tourist town), in recent years our hotel vacancy is rising, and rents are rising as well, as tourists flood into livable dwellings (Airbnbs).

Further, hotel taxes used to fund a great deal of the city, but Airbnbs are not subject to the tax, so the city's finances are struggling as well.

Personally I'm fine with Airbnbs, and I often stay in them myself when I travel, but if you own more than one Airbnb, you should probably be taxed (and regulated) similar to a hotel owner.
> Why would I? Amazon is going to be better at it than I am.

Until it's not. Then suddenly you're trying to decipher cryptic cloud provider error messages in a service that made a false promise to you that it's abstraction was so air-tight that you'd never have to learn the underlying technology at all.

Then suddenly, you do need to know the underlying implementation, and quickly.
I think this dialog is entering some legal territory and I am not a lawyer and can only offer speculation. I’m sure a human rights lawyer can actually fill us in on the specifics here. So my speculation is as follows:

I was under the impression that if you cannot ask for asylum outside of a country’s border, and there are no legal ways for you to enter it (e.g. you need a visa but there is no way for you to acquire one since there is no embassy that will grant you one; or you don’t have a passport since your country’s government won’t issue you one), then you are not exactly committing a crime if you enter “illegally”.

I think you might be assuming that many (most?) asylum seekers are actually doing so under a false premise, and they have no grounds for the asylum application. I’m sure there are some for which this applies, but I doubt it is a sizable number. At least I would need to see some credible source before I would belief so.

I would speculate that by far the majority asylum seekers that are rejected their application and deported, are rejected on technical grounds, not because they applied under a false premise. If that is the case, the majority of refugees, even those that enter illegally, and are eventually rejected and deported, commit no crime in the process.
I had never seen that episode of Star Trek TNG. Thanks so much for mentioning it. I watched it just now and loved it.
The media also has a large role to play in this.
> Well yeah, California has by far the highest state income tax.

Its top marginal rate is 2.3% higher than Hawai’is, but also kicks in at almost 3× the taxable income (nearly $600K).

Its rate is lower than Oregon's from where Oregon's top rate kicks in to more than double that income.
Its bottom nonzero rate is below the rates of the states that have flat income taxes.

> And I’m guessing some of the bigger cities have city tax as well.

Well, if by “some of the major cities” you mean “the single combined city and county”, sure. But only that one.