skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi Steven, thanks for sharing your opinion!
Since options' underlying are stocks, as such value is being exchanged.. agree, no goods being produced but the same in stock investing, the purpose is a speculative wealth creation. I do agree that outcome is not completely under your control but with options people can minimize their risks.
Setting up the right parameters/eval criteria to exercise inside of a few week timebox (I'm assuming this wasn't a many month task) is extremely difficult to do for a complex system like this. At least, to me it is--maybe more ops focused folks can do it quicker.

Getting _something_ up and running quickly isn't necessarily a good indicator of how well a set of tools will work for you over time, in production work loads.
Could be birth marks of a king or some famous, so having them was considered high status. See beauty marks
Well yeah, how else would you move the water? USPS? You need a massive network of canals, pipelines, pumps and reservoirs.

I'm really glad our ancestors had the foresight to build the national electrical grid and the national highway system because with an attitude like I'm seeing in this thread I think the folks today would just throw up their hands and say it's too big and too difficult.
> They made billions from excellent businesses

Bezos is not 1 million times more productive than other human beings. He just managed to create a system that exploits people in a massive scale. That's not what I call excellent business.
> but I do support a fair quota system to balance transportation availability with congestion management.

The alternative is people using their cars and having to park it. Or taking their business elsewhere in more parking-friendly locations.
No it won't, heat from the sun (and radiation away from the planet on the dark side) completely dwarfs human energy utilization.

Climate change is happening because of changes to atmospheric composition, solar panels aren't going to have a massive impact on that.

Austerity is the bad, risky idea that isn't a solution to anything.
My thoughts exactly. You think they’ll ever drag the CEO of T-Mobile or Xfinity in front of Congress for privacy violations?
It's not really corruption. It's moral hazard, and its self-reenforcing. The moral hazard is that the people paying for the solution don't make it and don't support it. They make poor decisions based on what they can see and don't know enough to ask deeper, relevant questions about complexity. It's self-reenforcing because the kinds of people who do know enough to ask deeper, relevant questions usually have little interest the work of keeping fundamentally broken systems alive on life support, and their thoughtful improvements will go unnoticed or worse, taken as evidence of incompetence. (I suppose the value proposition of some companies is that they can do both; I have doubts that that has ever happened.)
Why the “Why Now” fundraising slide is more important than ever
You are assuming we know all the problems we might encounter. We don't, in fact there are many ways the human species can go extinct that are not fault of our own.

The best we can do is to create general knowledge which allow us to better combat future challenges. Climate change is a potential problem but not existential and not something we can't handle with our current technological understanding.

The idea that humans can somehow survive or progress without an impact is IMO missing the entire premise for human survival if that is in fact what you want.
> "Is this really bad UI, or is it just you who are averse to change?"

It doesn't matter!

The funny thing about human-computer interfaces is that they are used by humans. Humans are adverse to change; ergo, a constantly-changing interface is also a bad interface.

When you change something—be it a GUI or an API—you need to take into account not just whether the change is better, but also whether it's worth the very high inherent cost of change. I don't think the modern tech industry does this anywhere near enough.
Why is it a claim? It's an economic exchange? Do you get upset when CA buys electricity from WA?
This is just absurdity. They can't have relations, and relations with men is an even further crime. I don't care that he's gay at all, I'm neither catholic or a Christian. But to say he can believe in what he's preaching while he's in the upper echelons of the church while using grindr at the same time is just lunacy. I mean he doesn't even just have a secret boyfriend or something, he's using a hook up app. Jesus also destroyed a temple when he found it full of merchants,I wonder how he would react to the catholics.
High level, there are basically four paths to getting revenue in journalism:

- ads

- subscribers

- donations from small patrons

- donations from large patrons

These cover a lot of different business models.

If you want to make money at journalism (or just keep the lights on), focusing on ads when they've been a declining source of revenue for decades is kind of crazy. And that's not due to ad blocking.
The swap file stores edits rather than the whole file. I guess this could be laggy if you were doing global substitutions on a massive log file, say, but I've never had an issue. Vim was written for much slower computers.
and much of what we do "know" is still based purely on speculation but has been repeated enough to be considered truth. consider modern "ironic" appreciation of things, how would that appear to future archaologists?
I think part of the negativity is the expectation that we'll eventually screw up any other plant we inhabit as well. Which I think is true, unless we make some fundamental changes to our society.

But I agree that it's important to make planetary colonization a priority now rather than waiting. We can -- and should -- develop the technology and expertise needed to build a settlement on Mars while simultaneously trying to arrest and reverse some of the damage we've done to Earth. The latter is unfortunately largely a political process, not as much a technological and scientific one, so it will take a lot more time and effort than it should.
The only such org I'm aware of is the ham radio group Raynet:

https://www.raynet-uk.net/

https://rsgb.org/main/operating/emergency-communications/
France now in 4th wave of Covid due to Delta cases soaring, says PM Jean Castex
actually I have a pretty bad life right now. I just chose not to feel too bad about it and I know it can and will change.
Having tried half a dozen brands, I prefer Scitec Nutrition 100mg caffeine capsules.

Pretty much the least bitter powder I tried, and the effects come on slow and steady.

I'm really curious what they do differently when extracting caffeine.

Most other brands have a comparably more dry powder that hits like a truck for me even at (supposedly) the same dosage.
Now say the same thing about roads or the electrical grid and see how silly it sounds.
I differentiate distributed from re-distributed.

He may have a higher percentage of available wealth, but it’s not like other people have lost their money.
> If they’re the interstate highways, then the gas tax pays for most of that.

That's mostly a subsidy from passenger cars to larger vehicles, because road wear goes up much more rapidly with vehicle weight than fuel consumption does (IIRC, the former with roughly the fourth power of weight, the latter sublinearly.) Since Amazon mostly isn't using passenger cars as part of its delivery fleet, its actually being subsidized by gas tax, not paying its way.
Which is doubly weird where in Texas there's nary a mountain found.
It’s best to think of him as a nerdy twat who hit big on one of his ideas and proceeded to get way too much money. Every time I’ve heard him say anything he came across as a pompous and condescending sociopath.

A perfect metaphor for our times.
Lobbyists are paid for by private businesses, to win contracts which will be poorly performed by privately owned contractors.

OTOH the US Government, with programs run by publicly paid employees: went to the moon, built a ton of dams, including the Hoover and Grand Coulee, electrified the Tennessee Valley, built the interstate highway system, etc.
Yeah I don't think all the hacks are out, yet. But my point is only that the availability of some feature is not the only input to the decision to use that feature at runtime. Some of these conditions may look suspiciously like shorthand for IsGenuineIntel(), even if they are legit, like blacklisting BMI2 on AMD, because BMI2 on AMD was useless over most of its history.
On a long enough timescale the heat death of the universe will occur and there won't be any free energy left for life to exist. Therefore we must invest massive resources today to finding another universe. All life in the universe depends on this, so you can see how important it is.
It's possible to care about more than one thing at once. Some people simply cannot be motivated to work on climate change, but there are 7.5 billion people on the planet, and they don't all need to work on the same thing. We just need a critical mass, the same as for any other problem.
That goal has been stated and sought repeatedly, usually with poor results.

Microsoft Bob is probably the most infamous example. An early-dot-com-era roommate worked at Xerox PARC which had its own spatial 3D file manager / management interface. There were three principle problems:

- It severely taxed the limits of available consumer hardware at the time.

- It was confusing as hell.

- It didn't solve any real-world problem(s), and made numerous others worse.

Though in fairness it did somewhat resember Doom / Castle Wolfenstein....

File or document management shouldn't be the most intensive process your computer does, it should be one of the least intensive, saving processing power for Real Work, and not being resource-starved when you actually need to use it.

The organisation(s) that seem most useful are lists, lists of lists (hierarchies), tag-based systems, or search-based systems. (The fact that file-based search remains primitive in most system is its own small wonder of modern computing, though yes, the situation is slightly improved over, say, 30 years ago.)
So it is ok if somebody kills you on a whim?
Yes, but you don't need many or any of those things to launch a Minimum Viable Product.

So Kubernetes can become invaluable once you need to scale, but when you are getting started it will probably only slow you down.
Was this the origin back story for Florida Man?
No wonder the '20s were so roaring :)
Yes, you can use the scientific method in the historical sciences. There are all kinds of methods that you can use to be more certain about things. (I'm no historian, so I cannot elaborate, sorry.) The level of certainty you can reach may often be different from the exact sciences, but some things can be very certain; no-one is going to deny that Julius Caesar existed, for example.
Even Bezos and Branson stopped right now, they've still proven that it's possible for a company other than SpaceX to put a man in orbit and dumped billions of dollars back into the economy.

False. I hate to be "that guy" but neither Bezos or Branson made it to orbit. Those were sub-orbital flights with parabolic trajectories. To use your analogies: If Tesla were the Ferrari, then Virgin Galactic and friends would be the kit cars that look like a Ferrari but have a typical muscle car under the skin.

That's not to say that neither is impressive. They are definitely impressive. But they're also just carnival rides for Billionaires, and that's what gets on peoples nerves.
> you should expect to be held accountable if your estimates are too far off the mark because you failed to do your due diligence when coming up with them.

In a perfect world, I agree.

In the real world, which has a remarkable knack for failing to live up to expectations, what I find is that companies are rarely willing to allow the development team adequate time to do their due diligence. Answers, in and of themselves, are cheap. I can give you those all day. If you want to be able to hold me accountable for their accuracy, though, then you need to be looking at my correct answer rate sheet.

For me, the magic of #noestimates is the magic of open, honest cynicism. If my realistic options are silence and blowing smoke up my boss's ass, I'd really prefer it if they would allow me to choose silence. That way we can both keep our dignity.
Indeed, Medicare and Medicaid base their pricing on what private insurers pay. This is the problem.

Instead, they should base their decision on $X/QALY (quality adjusted life years) like most of the world with socialized medicine.

Just because someone with private insurance can pay 500k for a cancer treatment to extend their life 1 day, doesn't mean that it is a valuable use of tax dollars and that Medicare or Medicaid should cover that treatment.
A natively flexible 32-bit Arm microprocessor
I absolutely love Zig, but based on what they praise Crystal for, I don't think they'd enjoy it. Polar opposite syntaxes, do-it-yourself type system, batteries-not-included standard library, and manual memory management? Probably not what they're looking for.
> At least with building to k8s you can shift to another cloud provider if those problems end up too difficult to diagnose or fix.

You're saying that the solution to k8s is complicated and hard to debug is to move to another cloud and hope that fixes it?
An anti-pattern, but I think it's somewhat acceptable for one-offs, examples, ... where there is really only one thing it can come from.
For many workers, wages have stagnated but total compensation hasn’t, when you account for increased costs of benefits. I support universal healthcare, but it’s important to realize how much it costs employers has gone up.
Well you won't find that my direct peers and companions have a recent history of shuffling pedophiles around when they're caught so I suspect the situation is a little different.
In my case, it was not because of the strike, but just fewer drivers. I assume because covid meant less rides, and that meant less drivers signing on.

I was willing to pay a premium to drink without risking a DUI. I don't know how many others would make the same decision, but with things opening up I suspect the number will be growing. Conversely, In the begining of the pandemic I had many medical visits that were super cheap and fast because the only people on the road were uber drivers.

I think surge pricing is almost perfect free market, and the only thing that could be better is more competitors in the app side of it. Most drivers already drive for uber and lyft, and choose whichever they think is the best deal for them at the moment. If there were 4 or 5 viable competitors then it would be perfect. Not as great from a user perspective, but also not awful. Many people I know have uber and lyft and check prices/times on both before picking one.

I am really surprised all of the traditional taxi companies have not got together and made an app yet. Uber made things so much better in every way that matters from a rider's perspective. They didn't even need to compete on price, all they needed was a way to get a ride, and know how long it was going to take to get to you, and trust that the price was the price. Anyone who ever needed a taxi in anywhere but a classy urban area hates taxis.

That said, I think operating at a loss on purpose to drive out competition should be illegal. I'm not sure how that could be enforced while it's happening, but it's usually obvious after the fact. In which case I think jail time is warranted.
Netlify is a good solution, glad that it is getting some love.

The move for us was before netlify became popular so never could consider it.

That's why I was tempted to build, then I realized bulk of the work will be to build the graphical UI editor and templating tools - the parts I hate to begin with.
Bezos makes an easy identifiable target, much easier to call out Bezos than any of the Walton's of Walmart.

The real issue is that major corporations aren't paying their fair share of the costs of running this country. From underpaying workers (who have to use public assistance) to getting sweetheart deals to build in your area.

Thanks to amazon I have more heavy delivery trucks running up and down my street. Meaning that street wears out faster, meaning my tax money is gonna have to repave it.
"Write it all yourself"

- Install software onto your machines

Package managers, thousands of them.

- Start services

SysVinit, and if shell is too complicated for you, you can write totally not-complicated unit files for SystemD. For most services, they already exist.

- Configure your virtual machines to listen on specific ports

Chef, Puppet, Ansible, other configuration tools, literally hundreds of them etc.

- have a load balancer directing traffic to and watching the
health of those ports

Any commercial load balancer.

- a system to re-start processes when they exit

Any good init system will do this.

- something to take the logs of your systems and ship them to
a centralized place so you can analyze them.

Syslog has had this functionality for decades.

- A place to store secrets and provide those secrets to your services.

A problem that is unique to kubernetes and serverless.
Remember the days of assuming that your box was secure without having to do 10123 layers of abstraction?

- A system to replace outdated services with newer versions ( for either security updates, or feature updates ).

Package managers.

- A system to direct traffic to allow your services to communicate with one another. ( Service discovery )

This is called an internal load balancer.

- A way to add additional instances to a running service and tell the load balancer about them

Most load balancers have built up processes for these.

- A way to remove instances when they are no longer needed due to decreased load.

maybe the only thing you may need to activelly configure, again in your load balancer.

None of this really needs to be written itself, and these assumptions come from a very specific type of application architecture, which, no matter how much people try to make it, is not a one-size-fits-all solution.
You're correct, but that doesn't really change the point I was trying to make

Since you've edited your post, I'll respond to the rest.

> But they're also just carnival rides for Billionaires, and that's what gets on peoples nerves.

If Bezos or Branson had sent someone else up in their place, does that really change anything?

Sure, it's expensive and only the super wealthy can afford to go into space right now, but there are plenty of technologies in our past that only the wealthy could afford at first, but as time went on, they became more affordable.
>simply being a decision maker.

This right here shows you don't understand what it takes to make a trillion dollar company.

They were a book seller that eventually expanded into an online Walmart, that ended up becoming the largest cloud provider in the world.

Just look at Borders/Barne's and Noble if you want to see two companies that were actually in a better position in the same industry 25 years ago. That's the difference between 'simply a decision maker' and an average CEO.

> I'm willing to bet even if Jeff Bezos is a super employee, one thousand times more productive and smarter, than the next best employee he still couldn't amass 207 billion himself.

This is actually just false. He essentially just proved you could. [0]

[0] Reality
Simple protocol: one coffee cup in the morning to wake up. Green or black tea through the day as needed.
Huh, never seen that before.
5 deaths yesterday, for reference.
Personally, I find it in very bad taste.
> TextMate, in turn, was heavily inspired by BBEdit.

This assertion is surprising. They're not all alike in any way that any two Mac-native text editors wouldn't be. Sublime is markedly different only because it dispenses with Mac-native UI conventions (which IHMO makes it unpleasant to use on macOS).

> BBEdit at the time was, as its name suggests, fairly bare-bones. It had auto-indent and syntax highlighting and very sophisticated grep capabilities, but not much else in terms of programming support. For a long time, it was THE code editor for mac users who wanted a graphical interface but not an IDE. TextMate rose to popularity by mostly mimicking BBEdit, but offering additional programming features like snippets and shell-script based plugins and more sophisticated syntax highlighting (enabling e.g. correctly highlighting CSS and JS embedded in an HTML file).

This seems not quite accurate.

My recollection is that BBEdit was just another Mac plaintext editor app -- solid, but stodgy -- until the Web arrived, and someone built a suite of HTML editing commands for it. That's when it took off. It was the plaintext editor everyone used for HTML until TextMate came along.
> College, medicine have increased 5-10 times

I think you should be mad on your govt, not Bezos.
- Projects only become official and tracked once someone has hacked together enough of a prototype to prove it works.

- at this point all project management is pretending it takes 100 managers to land something one girl / guy got flying.

- stop project managing, stop estimating, and just start treating companies as VC firms.
Hire good devs, make them care about your mission, invest in those that take off. Don't take the control away from the original devs
>Step 2. Turn off “safe browsing”.
>Firefox has a feature called “safe browsing” which reports information about your browsing to Google.

I'm no fan of Google's practices but that list is just fear mongering. For example Google safe browsing just downloads a blocklist. It doesn't send any browsing data to Google.
I'm not aware of how being a contrarian would really apply to my example.
Except it doesn't get per se, loans are taken out and paid back on a schedule smaller than the appreciation of the stocks which were used as collateral.

That's what that $1B was, and is relative scales we're talking about.
I agree, Blue Origin at least was thoughtful enough to use fuel that doesn't emit CO2.

Branson is more likable but does seem like he's just trying to defend his title of being the eccentric billionaire, rather than thinking too hard about the future.
"Almost all progress is connected to selfish goals"

[citation needed]
There may have been some "normal" component added to the update that I downloaded that was designed to verify that the machine could run the software after the update. I don't know how common anti-cheat functionality is in Steam distributions so if that is a thing and if it behaved in a manner that would trigger a trojan downloader warning from Malwarebytes then that could explain it.

I enjoy(ed) the game a lot. Great graphics, reasonable sounds, good tools for choosing and maintaining your tanks, planes, etc. I thought it was one of the best tank battle simulators online. I have to keep a low threshold though for potential spyware, etc since I use my machine for work. It is a one strike and you're out thing with me to use a baseball analogy.
Title Companies provide this information in the USA.

I'd assume someone like that existed there as well.
"Don't be poor"

Like to hit 1% effective just living on $20k/yr is $2M/yr in capital gains.
> a few thousand from unknown vaporware companies isn't really a level comparison

I see, So: "If a company that I don't know about is putting money into a language, it's doesn't really fit my definition of 'real' sponsorship"

It still counts as sponsorship whether if it is a FAANMG company or a tiny startup and there are companies that use Crystal that are sponsoring it monthly. No need to move the goal posts here.

Probably the Golang people did the exact same comparison to Rust when that reached 1.0 in 2015; way before the Rust foundation was formed or any company sponsoring Rust other than Mozilla.

So perhaps Ocaml (The language that Rust was first written in) doesn't count as well since that has a couple of so called 'unknown vaporware companies' and zero FAAMNG companies on the list of 'sponsors' then? [0]

[0] https://ocaml-sf.org