skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well written reply so I'll try to address thoroughly.

>You're building an argument atop the assumption that if Amazon didn't exist, nothing else would be available.

I cannot be making this argument because Amazon exists and we have many other options. We also had many other options before Amazon. Despite this, Amazon became an e-commerce powerhouse. Why? I suspect it's because Amazon is by the far the best option for consumers and others are only close because they adopted many of the same guiding principles like fast free shipping and easy returns.

>Amazon's strategy is to spend money that no other company can spend (by forgoing profits) to be the fastest / cheapest option available. Bezos' innovation is not the "fast shipping" or "broad range of products" Amazon offers, his innovation was the foresight to understand how to dominate the market and the gumption to do it.

He dominated the market because he offered those things. How else would Amazon be able to overtake its much larger competitors? Amazon is not operating at a loss with external funding like many startups, it simply reinvests in itself because it makes incredibly impressive use of its resources. Other companies could do the same but as it turns out, it's quite difficult to repeatedly leverage your profits into bigger and better outcomes. Apple and Google sit on a pile of cash because they don't know how to best make use of it despite a history of successes.

>A single business that owns the sales and distribution of goods is one possible solution to the problem you describe, absolutely, and it's pretty clear that Amazon is doing the best job at that solution... but it's not the only solution, it's one of many.

Nothing stops me from shopping elsewhere and I frequently do. Best Buy gets much of my business for certain products because they've been quite good ever since their early 2010s turn around. eBay gets all of my business for used products. Walmart, Target, and regional grocery stores (not Whole Foods) get the rest. And I shop online mercilessly and don't have a particularly strong taste for Amazon (despite my countless comments in this thread would suggest -- I'm simply arguing for principles) so I'm as decent of a gauge for the state of things as anyone.
I don't see any top 1st level comments promoting anything. The only promotions I see are comments to the top comments which is hard to avoid!
True - In my little experience, cold calling/ mailing people seems to not be well received. They would rather be connected through a 'warm' lead. How would I overcome this initial resistance?
Yeah, people keep saying that.

And year after year it sets higher lows, and new highs.

Transactions go up, users go up, dollar value goes up. New technology like lightning gets developed, it gets cheaper/faster (https://bitcoinvisuals.com/lightning).

But hey, the price is down 50% this year, so we can call it a failure.
That seems like a dangerous line of thought. Imagine a software engineer (maybe one who writes code for airplanes or medical equipment) writes some sloppy code late one night and puts it on their open source github, and the commit log is "this code rocks."

You could make the same argument that As a software engineer, you have to be able to identify and write high quality software to be effective at your job. So should your employer fire you for writing this code outside of your regular job duties?

What about if a friend shows you their code, and you say "that looks good" but it turns out that this code is vulnerable to a key security issue? Should you get fired from your security job?

I think we'd agree not, and more broadly, that making a statement or doing a task related to your job but outside of your job's responsibilities should not be sufficient to fire you from your job. Especially when it's clear you are not representing your employer, by using pseudonym.
Those damn chefs.
Have you tried Firefox Browser (Nightly for Developers)? I'm using that on Android since the whole debacle that you described. It mostly works fine and from the start it already had a lot of the features that are missing in the main Firefox. I don't understand how it can all be working fine in the dev build whilst the main visible product is so lacking. Sometimes the UI gets some odd changes with updates, but I haven't had to switch browsers again so far. Though I'm not sure if your specific issues are addressed. I mostly ignore or work around them. I have pull to refresh disabled for example as it was driving me nuts.

And yes, I can't understand how Firefox was updated with so many features missing and it is still not there. It's quite sad, really.
Felony murder is still not 1st degree murder, though.
...except people actually use K8S.
“We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.”

John Archibald Wheeler
This isn't a bad analogy. Like modern houses, software has gotten large, specific, and more complex in the last 30 some odd years.

Some argue it's unnecessary complexity, but I don't think that's correct. Even individuals want more than a basic geo cities website. Businesses want uptime, security, flashy, etc... in order to stand out.
> This is unbelievably pessimistic.

It's not pessimistic, it's realistic. It's just that what the parent poster means by "how we survive as a species" and what you mean are...different things.

Going to the moon, going to mars, are necessary for the survival of our species...on a 100,000 year time horizon.

At some point, something catastrophic may happen to earth. An asteroid impact, or a Gamma Ray Burst, or some other unexpected cataclysm. If a GRB happened to hit earth in 10,000 years, we only survive as a species if we're self-sufficient on other rocks by then.

If your time-frame of "how we survive as a species" is the next 100 years, then colonizing the moon or mars isn't on the list of potential solutions. I know of very few people who advocate that the moon and mars are the solutions to our climate change issues. Climate change is a crisis that we have to confront within the next 100 years. It's extremely unlikely that any moon or mars base would be self-sufficient within that time frame.

To survive as a species, the human race has to eventually be able to survive a fatal blow to earth and keep going. Hell, eventually we have to be able to deal with a fatal blow to this entire solar system.
Software has been around for longer than aeroplanes

Developers who can only configure AWS are software operators using a product, not software engineers. There’s nothing wrong with that but if no one learns to build software, we’ll all be stuck funding Mr Bezos and his space trips for a long time.
I mean, Kubernetes is just some Go binaries; you can have it up and running in literal seconds by installing a Kubernetes distribution like k3s. This is actually what I do personally on a dedicated server; it’s so easy I don’t even bother automating it further. Helm is just another Go binary, you can install it on your machine with cURL and it can connect to your cluster and do what it needs from there. The Docker registry can be run inside your cluster, so you can install it with Helm, and it will benefit from all of the Infra as Code that you get from Kubernetes. And finally, the Helm repo is “just files” but it is less complex than Apt.

I’ve been through the rigmarole for various Linux package managers over the years and I’m sure you could automate a great deal of it, but even if it were as easy as running a bash script (and it’s not,) setting up Kubernetes covers like half this list whereas setting up an Apt repo covers one item in it.
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> Well I'd argue that if you take this approach to hiring, you can only hire people who share your area of expertise, that thinks the way you do.

What? Why?

There are different modes of reasoning. When I am to assess to quality of other peoples reasoning, I do not necessarily need to be an expert or have them think like I do.

Think semantics. You have declarative an operational semantics. It is perfectly alright to have multiple implementation of the same type deceleration, multiple proofs of the same proposition. It is not not really the proof that is of interest, but what modus of reasoning was used to arrive there.

I declare the role I need in a hiring position. And the person being interviewed tells me how she inhabits that role. I assess that is actually constitutes and inhabation.

Though it appears that we fundamentally agree as I read from you last sentence, that the "removal" of the explainable parts are only a last step before deployment.

> But for "managing" the model ...
substitute "posix threads" to see why it was written this way.

WebAssembly is the platform (aside: and an assembly langauge) that provides WebAssembly threads. It makes sense to say "use posix threads from C or C++". Posix is underneath whatever language you use.

Saying "running posix threads written in C or C++" seems to suggest that someone is running their own custom threading library in C or C++.
> Ex-Amazon here.

I don't get it. Are we supposed to value your opinion more because you used to work for Amazon? Guess what...I also used to work for Amazon and I think your gatekeeping says a lot more about your ego than it does about fundamental software development skills.
The first iPhone didn't have a front camera nor 3G, which were common features at the time. Not saying it wasn't groundbreaking (it was), but "better in every aspect" is a bit of a stretch.
Im Not sure why you are being downvoted.
Non-paywall link: https://archive.is/coOQ5
Ah, The Inner Light, s05e25, by many regarded as the best TNG episode ever. I re-watched it recently, still a powerful message. And there is plenty of other quality to choose from...
Sure, but in the automotive world Musk is taken to task plenty when it comes to "more serious" EV's with more moderate performance that appeal to a broader market. He is given credit for popularizing the market, again, thanks to his carnival barker style, but he isn't bringing EV's to the masses. That's a large void that companies like Ford, Volkswagen and Toyota are filling =/
Being on the moon or mars isn't helpful if you still need all your supplies to come from the earth.

The survival of our species depends on us being able to keep ecosystems running, and we can do that on earth.
> I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic, but given that NK already has nukes (and so do tons of other bad actors) I'm not sure what you think you're proving here.

North Korea has leveraged cryptocurrency to evade sanctions to the tune of billions of dollars. [1] This has a material negative impact on global security.

> We already know this whole "give up your privacy for safety!" thing is nonsense, because the privacy has gone way down over the past years and safety has not changed at all.

We are roughly at one of the safest, most peaceful points in history. [2] This is in no small part due to our careful and measured efforts to balance privacy and the public good. Generally you have a right to privacy unless someone can show a good reason why you should lose that right - at least at a state level. I think this is the right balance. I think most people do too.

> It's theater, a puppet show put up in order to rob you of your essential freedom for the gratification and enrichment of another.

Citation needed. And I don't mean that glibly, if you have some data I'll happily read it.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2021/02/09/north...

[2] https://towardsdatascience.com/has-global-violence-declined-...
I did try to tell people there was money in old SGI and Sun kit rather than just scrapping it (and then had to buy spares from a scavenger of Sun kit I know of before Sun shut them down). I didn't realize there was much of a market for real SGIs now, though. We used to have a literal stack of Indys to swap in when one off maintenance packed up. Now I only have a mouse somewhere.
> The end-result of systemd for the average administrator is that you no longer need to write finicky, tens or hundreds of line init scripts.

Wouldn't the hundreds of lines of finicky, bespoke Ansible/Chef/Puppet configs required to manage non-k8s infra be the equivalent to this?
Except that both companies are competing for govt money. SpaceX is already serving NASA
> Tell me you have near zero experience with pistols or long guns without actually saying it. XD

This is a childish comment I would expect in a Reddit thread. I've gone to the range a number of times with my firearm, and more importantly, I've taken friends who've never shot anything before. Shooting a stock Mini-14 is incredibly easy for even a first timer. But, for a first timer, it still requires sitting and resting the barrel on something to get decent control.

A pistol grip makes it much easier to accurately shoot multiple rounds from a semi-automatic, especially free standing. That's been my experience and the experience of those I've brought to the range with me.

And that's where you have completely missed the point. This thread isn't about which gun can beat up which in a fight. It's about whether semi-automatics like the AR-15 enable novices to easily kill large numbers of civilians. The answer is obviously yes.
I was referring about the concept of giving people cash (UBI) in general and replying to the comment above mine.
Whatever you think of what Viola posted, if she is fired, Benton should definitely also be fired for doxxing her. Disqus should also revoke Nieman Lab's account (but I bet they won't).

I don't agree with Viola, but if she's able to live under the radar then more power to her. Frankly, people on the "fake news" side of US politics usually can't keep quiet, so let's maybe even commend her for her discretion.

But Benton's acts were worse, WAY worse. Not worse than being a fake-news Republican, but worse than simply being a shithead on Twitter.
Maybe they'd be from another solar system.
PS/2s were overpriced and underpowered, and people I knew told me that a surprisingly high percentage of them arrived DoA. That was basically the end of "no one ever got fired for buying IBM".
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The police then gets a nice profitable side business involving the confiscation of $20k drones.
I wasn't arguing anything related to the lawsuit. The comment that started this thread stated that doxxing was wrong, and morality was dragged in in the comment I responded to, which said that doxxing people is ok if you feel it's morally justified ("the right way to live").

I personally think the university had every right to fire her. I also think that what Benton did was extremely unethical, especially because he works for a journalism organization.
Amazon’s New World reportedly breaking RTX 3090 graphics cards
The Dark Reader performance impact is something I have definitely noticed, had to uninstall it, which is a shame because it works very well.
Jobs was specifically targeting Microsoft there. Back then, Microsoft had two distinct operating systems … Windows 2000 (based on the NT kernel) and Windows ME (based on Windows 9x and MS-DOS). Windows 2000 was the "professional" operating system and ME was the "home" version.

PLUS there were multiple versions of each of those.

There were actually rumors and concerns that, moving forward, Apple would do the same with the NeXT stuff. Because they did do the same with the NeXT stuff.

For a year, Apple had Mac OS 9 (Classic) and Mac OS X Server (which was based on NeXTStep).

Amazingly, saying, "We're just gonna ship one thing to everyone, and change the features depending on the distribution" was actually novel.

That same basic strategy persists today, since macOS, iOS, iPadOS and tvOS are all ostensibly the same operating system with different interfaces.
Mars and the Moon will be unusable long before Earth in that scenario. Our atmosphere is a really good shield.
No one has a problem with dick measuring contests, the criticism is that Bezos and Branson aren't "whipping it out", so to speak. They're just continuing to do what's already been done before and drumming up press about it.

I don't have a position one way or the other, it just sounded like you were missing the argument of the post you responded to.
Woo hoo! Thank you!

Sure, would love to chat. That sounds like a great opportunity for collaboration. Can you fill out the form at https://epsilon3.io/contact and we'll follow up with you?
Did it make Temple a better place to learn? How can you know that? Was anyone having problems with her before? Is academia's march towards a highly policed speech environment a good thing for students? Even marginalized students?
That’s what actually happened to accounting firm Arthur Andersen for its role in the Enron fraud and bankruptcy.

I’m all in favor of the corporate death penalty.

Originally corporations were chartered under authority of the king for a limited time, typically 20 to 30 years, so great was the mistrust in them.
My gut tells me Rust is going places and I predict in retrospect Mozilla will be seen as having abandoned their stake in Rust just as it was taking off. Just another example.
The real crime here is the continual negative stigmatizing of consentual sexual behaviour in adults. Yet blind eyes are turned elsewhere..

If you're gonna grind(r), and could have your life collapse upon being caught, buy a burner, for pope's sake! Was this a "company" phone? Wasn't clear from the article.
I agree. GraphQL is conceptually straightforward, even if certain implementations can be complex. Any developer familiar with static typing is going to get it pretty easily.

I’m far from an expert, but ISTM that Kubernetes is complex both conceptually and in implementation. This has implications well beyond just operational reliability.
Yes, blue origin was founded in 2000 and spacex founded in 2002.

Blue origin landed it's first rocket in 2005. It was a tiny rocket and a tiny flight and purely for testing.

SpaceX landed it's first rocket in 2015. It was an orbital flight delivering real value.

Would it have made sense for SpaceX to stop because blue origin already flew a reusable rocket?
Not sure why the % returns really matter here.

Even if you lose money, insider trading is still insider trading. Congress + senators 100% receive insider information. Even if its not near-term merger announcements or big federal contracts - they still have an extremely advantaged position and access to information that the general public doesn't have.

Its ridiculous that they can trade individual stocks, yet alone options.

They should be restricted from buying individual stocks, and should only be allowed to buy mutual funds and ETFs at a minimum. Pretty much any employee on Wall Street (even if "back-office") has similar restrictions.

I don't even know why this is a question - the optics of short-term levered bets from elected officials (or family of) is terrible. Completely ruins any resemblance of "public service."

Even with this, it might not be enough. Elected officials could still buy the TQQQ ETF (3x leverage on NASDAQ) prior to a stimulus bill passing. It would be too onerous to not allow any stock exposure, but maybe they should be required to disclose trades in real-time vs. at the end of every quarter.
If you're interested in high performance video processing with Python and want something more than just a fancy ffmpeg wrapper, then I can highly recommend checking out Vapoursynth: https://www.vapoursynth.com/

It's been around for ~9 years and has a relatively large community around it, most visibly found on the Doom9 forums: http://forum.doom9.org/forumdisplay.php?f=82

I'm personally still mostly using Avisynth these days since it's what I'm most familiar with, but I've also used Vapoursynth and it's definitely the one to learn if you want to get into programmatic video processing these days.
Give me a 10000 people and 100 billion dollars. I guarantee you I can squander it like a pro.
People were blocking ads long before those were reasons.
I was thinking you are a bit like a left-wing version of a holocaust denier.
It's funny how at the time pop science said "eunuchs seem sickly and age more quickly" and today's pop science says "eunuchs live an unusually long time."
Disclaimer: I'm not the author of the article and I don't agree with it. I think this kind of approach to testing is more likely to end up with test suites that test the implementation rather than the behaviour of your software, therefore making it more difficult to refactor and improve. Would love to hear other people's opinions
After Didi Fiasco, China Imposes Cybersecurity Reviews on Foreign IPOs
Your case is def not the norm. We’re not google sized but we are taking a big advantage of k8s running dozens of services on it - from live video transcoding to log pipelines.
Recently I had cause too try kubernetes… it has quite the rep so I gave myself an hour to see if I could get a simple container job running on it.

I used GCP autopilot k8 cluster… and it was a slam dunk. I got it done in 30 minutes. I would highly recommend to others! And the cost is totally reasonable!

Running a k8 cluster from scratch is def a bigco thing, but if you’re in the cloud then the solutions are awesome. Plus you can always move your workload elsewhere later if necessary.
I'm all in for cocaine legalisation, but how do you make it safe? So much heart problems and overdoses that it's obviously would cause so much unnecessary deaths.
Yeah it is not about truth but about cost and the cost can sometimes be catastrophic (death). For example it is better to mistake a rock for a bear than a bear for a rock.
Demand for a solution is probably quite high.
Agreed. They generally hire teams of people to do it for them.
Do you understand that Firefox boasts "privacy by design" but does very little to promote it?

If you have no problem with this, you might as well use Chrome.
You're latching onto a set of kinda transparently obvious joke papers [1] written by clearly accomplished individuals [2] and claiming that the whole institution is rotten. You're not being realistic; you're being absurd -- literally using a bunch of April Fools Day jokes as evidence that all of academia is broken.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27909164

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27911634
Yea if it turns out she didn't write that one he's got a big problem.
It's actually not even an ideological or moral issue. Modern Russia is not particularly collectivist; influences of liberalism and Christianity are strong, if not stronger than the Communist collectivism of Soviet times.

It's purely an issue of sovereignty. For NATO/Washington, it does not matter how a country is run as long as it is run with significant influence from Western interests.

Saudi Arabia is an absolute monarchy that brutally limits freedoms and butchers dissidents, yet it gets to be in the "democracy" club, because it does not attempt to defend its sovereignty (i.e. it lets Washington build military bases and control private industry on Saudi soil).

Russia, Syria, et al. are democracies, yet are in the "authoritarian" club because they do attempt to defend their sovereignty.
Someone hacked her disqus account to hate muslims? It's a pretty laughable defense. I wrote all the other bad things, but the worst, totally wasn't me. Someone jumped on your laptop and wrote it for you?
They could still have refused to sign it. Doing so would have saved their honor - congress can force a legislation but they cant force the prez to debase himself by adding his signature.

As it stands their signature signifies that they agree with the legislations.
Sorry, should have been clearer - Intel's CPU OpenCL drivers only supported Intel and not AMD whereas the AMD's CPU OpenCL drivers supported both - so GPUs not relevant in this case.

I can see how if you've invested a lot in software you'd like to get a competitive advantage over your nearest rival so maybe a price we have to pay.