skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe, but if that is the case, why even pretend to get consent? I have clearly not consented to waiving my rights in this scenario despite it maybe having no legal effect, if Amazon can simply dictate the terms of our business without any negotiation, why bother pretending? They can just post the terms and conditions somewhere on their site and then not bother forcing people to pretend to read them.
Serial swatter who caused death gets five years in prison - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27911412 - July 2021 (126 comments)

Man dies of a heart attack after minors swatted him over his rare Twitter handle - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27900825 - July 2021 (558 comments)
>Burying fire in dirt stops fire

Not so fast ! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal-seam_fire
> But I can’t help but wonder if an on/off embargo with, say, four and year eight periods wouldn’t work spectacularly well?

Maybe in the case of some other countries, who knows. The Cuban dictatorship has its own "internal embargo". The country runs a command economy and none of its enterprises have been too profitable. In a good year, the aggregate's country output is just survival. 2020 and 2021 have been bad years.

The dictatorship have tried to open up to private businesses but they are so scared of the concept that they don't even call it that way. They call it "trabajo por cuenta propia", or "work on your own". To them, it is a huge defeat to even have to admit that much "entrepreneurship". Private business need legal infrastructure. Things like property rights, recognized and well-thought legal persons (ever heard of limited liability?), independent and impartial courts, a sensible tax and levies system, business schools, etc. Cuba has none of that, and far from trying to create that infrastructure, they are working on firewalls to prevent private businesses from being successful.

In practice, the government works on a stubborn principle that communism must be proven better than capitalism at any cost, including at the expense of the people, and thus, it's unacceptable to have a private enterprise thriving where the government-owned equivalent failed.
I guess that depends on your definition of "Edge". There are quite few a "hybrid" (cloud plus on-prem) use cases where running K8s on-prem can be a good option.
If you check
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-stack/edge/... those devices can easily run a K8s cluster.
I've been working as a Sr SWE in Berlin for 3 years, and I network with a lot of others. 60-90k is probably the most accurate range. Developers making 100k+ are in the top 5% of the market in the city. If you're making 100k in Berlin you'd be making 3-400k in the Bay Area.

Taxes are high. You're probably getting slightly less than 4k a month after taxes/insurance. Your apartment/utilities will be around 1200.
> For example, if the #1 person believes something is being said that is really damaging in some way, they could put at stake the entirety of their karma and downvote it, which would pretty much obliterate the comment.

We are building a P2P network with subjective moderation [0], so while we don’t know what works yet (we’re experimenting) I can at least tell you why we’ve found this is suboptimal. The issue is that this creates an even more direct USD/upvote market in which users are incentivised to the max to harvest as much karma as possible (with cat posts) and then sell them to the highest bidder, which would invariably be people who have a lot to gain from a certain piece of information being hidden. In essence, if you make karma spendable by more than one per post, you up it’s monetary value 100x, and given that even at 100x it’s worth so much more to PR teams and to not many else, all you will ever see is going to be propaganda on your platform’s front page.

[0] https://getaether.net
I wish it worked on iOS
Communists didn't invent genocides, prisons, concentration camp, slavery, or forced labour. But they do hold the world record.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Book_of_Communism
Don't you think it's selfish to shame your friends if they decide they don't want to be part of a predatory social media company?
Thanks for the constructive feedback.

I was emotional as I found the accusation deeply offensive.

I'll try to edit the response and to not do that in future. Thank you for being even-handed in your application of the rules and acknowledging that the post I was responding to was also a violation :)
> "Our rules do not allow content that states that hydroxychloroquine and/or ivermectin are effective in treating or preventing COVID-19, that states there is a cure for the disease, or says that masks do not work to prevent the spread of the virus," it said in a statement."

Weird, I can still find on YT videos stating that masks don't work and we shouldn't wear them from the Surgeon General, Fauci, The Guardian, NYT, and other major experts, institutions and media. When will they be purged?

The Guardian:

> Masks should not be weared and they are potentially unhelpful because they give a false sense of security

https://youtu.be/gASCBhA2bE4

I will report it right now for the greater good.
The is basically Durkheims conclusion: suicide is the outcome of sociological, rather than psychological, forces. [0] There is an argument that a lot of the mass shootings are actually better classified as a type of suicide under this model as well [1]

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_(Durkheim_book)

[1] https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2019/08/mass-shoo...
The boy who cried wolf is not a story of over-reactions. And none of this evidence proves or even suggests such a thing, unless perhaps you were claiming the laws themselves were an over-reaction. Or unless you are defining over-reaction as any reaction at all other than omnisciently knowing when a warning is false and not reacting to it.
Just trash. Psychopath probably, at least they caught him early on in life.
There is one huge point that you both missed: after World War II, USSR was a mess. It lost half of its industrial infrastructure, IIRC. Meanwhile, the US profited greatly. This means the starting point for both was very different.
At the win95 time plenty of BSODs came from microsoft bugs, from userspace accidentally weitingbovervkernel data, or even from running out of resources.

You have to remember the barrier between kernel and userspace was very porous, applications had their own address space but e.g. DLLs were projected at identical addresses and shared some resources. Kernel memory was mapped in userspace, if I'm remembering it right. Basically, apps had their own cubicle, not their own apartment.
I had a good time with Kubespray. Essentially you just need to edit the Ansible inventory and assign the appropriate roles.
Ah yes a progressive claim backed up by psychology papers. A field currently drowning in a reproducibility crisis, and a group who believe that lying and slander is not only okay but should be actively utilised in every goal they pursue.

Yes I think that one can be dismissed.
> Those folders is precisely Microsoft acknowledging there is something wrong about the files-first approach, but as usual, in trying to make it more approachable, they ended up with an even more confusing solution, virtual folders that try to abstract the actual filesystem hierarchy with some virtual collection folders based on file types.

I don't think those are "virtual collection folders based on file types"; they're just virtual folders (=directories) that point to two (or more?) actual folders (=directories). AFAICR you can save .JPG or .PNG files in other folders, and they won't show up in any magic "Pictures" folder; you need to save into one of the actual "Pictures" folders -- your personal one, or the shared/public/all users (WETF it's called) one -- for that to happen.

But yeah, it feels like the "solution" is at least as confusing as the problem was to begin with.
I realistified the drawing that one of you guys sent to me
> 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.

I understand you might outsource the Helm chart creation but this sounds like oversimplifying a lot, to me. But maybe I'm spoiled by running infra/software in a tricky production context and I'm too cynical.
Sure, if it works, upgrades are somewhat fraught though (I mean, upgrading a 20 node cluster is an hour long ansible run, or it was when we were using it)

We switched to rke, it’s much better.
Especially given how common media files are as an attack vector.
That's not even the point. In particular, the article is more of a opinion piece since the author goes out of his way to judge. Anyway, the point is big tech now thinks they're the ones up to decide what is truth or not based on whatever criteria they label as "scientific".
It's not so much about being open source or not, but rather how easy it is to set up, integrate and maintain. People know this so many companies offer their products as open source plus a nice hosted (usually marketed as "cloud") version for easy access. So your choice is between two clicks and paying a few bucks using company card vs. spending a few hours or in complex cases days dealing with setup, resolving dependencies, solving any problems that arise when you deal with any complex piece of software and so on. Moreover, you need to maintain it yourself, so again you have a choice of updating it with each new version to stay up to date, without any guarantee that there are no problems with each update, or withhold the updates - but then you risk either a security incident or delaying it so long that updating gets difficult. So for non-essential services it's a no-brainer, you just pay a bit and forget it. Especially if it's open source so in the worst case you can just migrate to a self-hosted solution as nobody holds your data (incl. configurations etc.) hostage.

It's quite different with core and expensive proprietary services though. In this case you better think and calculate everything precisely as you may regret going with a proprietary solution in the long run and switching can be painful.
Thank you for reply, I meant to say that abstraction of all currently existing political systems is aristocracy, democracies/communism/socialism what ever else label we are using is just aristocracy in disguise. Representative democracy is not democracy, as you pointed and I do agree, problem is centralization. You have gave me few valuable insights so I will try to explore more about the topic.
<sarcasm (maybe?)>

No citations are findable. All indexes (search engines) prevent finding said data, all videos are missing, all forums/boards are purged, and discussing over zoom/voice results in a disconnect.

Also, now Google, Facebook and others have tagged you as a conspiracy nut, just for hitting a flagged term.
We've banned this account for repeatedly breaking the site guidelines. Please don't create accounts to do that with—that's against the site guidelines in its own right.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> dumped billions of dollars back into the economy.

And how did they do that? By wasting earthly resources and real human lives on pointless rocket launches.

The disgusting part isn't that they are going to space. The disgusting part is that ONLY they get to go to space. They are pushing the worst conditions here on earth (forcing shit hours and trash work conditions) so that they can go fly in a rocket.

It's pathetic.
Youtube Alternatives :

Centralized : Dailymotion, Bitchute, Rumble, DTube, Vimeo, Vidlii, DLive, Triller

Decentralized : Odysee(LBRY), Peertube
"Light gray" is easy to misspell as "light gay", e.g. "light gay knight takes dark gay bishop". IMHO, it's better to use "wine" (w) and "blue" (b) as colors.
it seems to have antiviral properties which reduce the virus load in a patient ( if taken soon enough). I recommend the ihu marseille videos on youtube from mid/late 2020 at the time when the debate was heating over his protocol.

Warning : the main guy has a huge ego and likes to be contrarian, but the institute does legitimate science on real patients, together with other professors in his team.
>As a result, an opposition party had no media coverage at all

The party in question is supported by an entire media conglomerate, Ikonomedia, and they have always supported first and foremost the interests of the local oligarch Prokopiev who owns Ikonomedia.

P.S.
This is not a story of the good underdogs being oppressed by the evil system, those are politically motivated players with an aggressive and often provocative political message, pursuing goals that favor specific people.
I have no clue about the radio math, but the consequences of FTL information transfer are physics-breaking so it's like 99.9999999% bullshit and would require truly extraordinary evidence.
"In contrast, even though you keep insisting otherwise, Security Keys don't give "escalating amounts of personal information to tech companies" but instead no information at all, just that useful answer to the question, "Are you still you?"."

No, I am responding to the above assertion that I have insisted security keys give esacalating amounts of personal information to "tech" companies.

This is incorrect. Most users do not have physical security tokens. But "tech" companies promote authentication without using physical tokens: 2FA using a mobile number.

What I am "insisting" is that "two-factor authentication" as promoted by tech campanies ("give us your mobile number because ...") has resulted in giving increasing amounts of personal information to tech companies. It has been misused; Facebook and Twitter were both caught using phone numbers for advertising purposes. There was recently a massive leak of something like 550 million Facebook accounts, many including telephone numbers. How many of those numbers were submitted to Facebook under the belief they were needed for "authentication" and "security". I am also suggesting that this "multi-factor authentication" could potentially increase to more than two factors. Thus, users would be giving increasing amounts of personal information to "tech" companies "for the purposes of authentication". That creates additional risk and, as we have seen, the information has in fact been misused. This is not an idea I came up with; others have stated it publicly.
FYI, the github link on each product page does not work. Also, it would be a useful feature to see the license each product has without having to go to it's github and scroll down.
Relevant Computer Chronicles episode from 1988: BUS wars

https://youtu.be/aYt4ZPxVkSs

IBM engineer responding to the accusation that MCA is proprietary (around 14' 15"):

"I really don't understand the term proprietary. To me that would mean that it's not available [snip] and it's available for use by anyone."
“Pro-family” is an euphemism used pretty exclusively by religious extremists to condone homophobia. Well, sometimes also to draw attention away from the fact their role models are child rapists.

If anything, the anti-LGBT actions are against the family: their only purpose is to make life harder for LGBT families.
The Guardian's Headlines:

Revealed: leak uncovers global abuse of cyber-surveillance weapon

Spyware sold to authoritarian regimes used to target activists, politicians and journalists, data suggests

UAE linked to listing of hundreds of UK phones in Pegasus project leak

A special investigation into NSO Group, which sells hacking spyware to governments

The Washington Post:

Invisible surveillance: How spyware is secretly hacking smartphones

How Pegasus works, who is vulnerable and why it’s hard to protect yourself from hacks

Prime ministers, presidents and a king found on list that includes phone numbers targeted by spyware

All this with no inkling of where those 50000 names were obtained from or how they established a link between that list and Pegasus.

From a cherry-picked list of 67 numbers of which 37 were found to contain it - how do you establish a "link" between the list and Pegasus with that kind of sample?

What looks like propaganda?
What if ending poverty was next, that would be cool, and then Mars?
Fair enough but at $150k, Hawaii is actually at 8.25% (jumps up to 9% for 150,001-175k) while California is at 9.3% from $56k-286k. Oregon’s top bracket is 9.9%, but kicks in at $125k, and 9% from $8,401-124,999.

So effective net income from a $150k job, barring deductions, in California is $98k (Oregon is virtually identical give or take $100) vs Hawaii at $100k.
PGE is more concerned about the billion dollar law suites. This solution makes economic sense to them.

But doesn't help the fire. As long the dry woods are piling up, which it eventually will, something else will trigger the fire. And amount of fire won't be even reduce by 25%.

But the court won't be able to blame PGE then, that's the whole point.
It looks like this startup is going to monetize findability, ease-of-installation, and hosting of quality open-source alternatives.

Would be very cool if either some of the revenue of their service would go to the projects they offer this way, or if they at least drew prominent attention to how we might offer that to the project ourselves.

In other words, offer commercial services that are truly in support of (F)OSS and not just benefiting and exploiting it (tragedy of the commons, etc.)
Smart people aren't a moat, even if they're super smart.
If you live in the US, they have a file on you and it's probably very thick. A credit report will run a couple of pages long, the LexusNexus report on me (a complete nobody) cost them about $8 to mail. It contained many errors, mostly about property I don't own but also about an insurance claim I never made.

Like your credit report, you can get a free copy by writing them and requesting a copy. IIRC when I did it a few years ago, I had to make the request in writing, I wasn't able to order it online, at least not for free.
You give as truth that #2 is not 100% morally wrong. I am not so sure, and many other people would also disagree.
That's just it though. Part of the definition of "algorithm" is "correct" and these things are all just ML output that generate correlated noise.
The Anti-Vaccine Movement Is Much Bigger Than Facebook
Yeah i'd like to know some examples as well, I've never had a problem with this
The Gail.com FAQ
don't ! they're actually the last proof we have "scientific consensus " on those issues is a myth.
Fairly crassly written article, with little substance, by a person who cried watching Wall-E. Expect nothing less from Gizmodo.
You may be right, it's logically possible. We don't know.

But you seem pretty darn sure about that, and people who are too much sure about something can be easily sold another kind of bridge.
Why not algocracy or robocracy?
Raoult's claims have been thoroughly disproven by the scientific community and he is absolutely a snake oil seller right now. His initial """studies""" involved throwing out of the patient set the patients that died/whose situation worsened. His enormous publication count is only held up by the fact that any student at the IHU is forced to include him as a co-author of their thesis/PhD. Oh, and you forgot to mention that the IHU charged over 2000 euros for a full day stay to be treated with HCQ (when the treatment is... just eat some HCQ), which is being seen very much like embezzlement.

So, no, they've not "treated" patients. HCQ's effects are nil. Azythromicine does not work either. Raoult might very well be a prolific scientist, but on Covid, he is absolutely full of shit.
IMO this is Farhad Manjoo's first good article in years.
A hundred percent
You know, I met not so few physics PhDs completely immersed in perpetual motion engine cult, PhD economists claiming "endless money" through monetary manipulations, and MFin graduates claiming discovering "a new ingenious super duper trading strategy" which turn to be banal spread trading when you undo the math bullshit.

All of them took great insult when I point to banal arithmetic errors in their "innovations" down to taking the dispute to tvitter and press.

It's impossible to get through to such people. The more obvious is their folly, the bigger extremes they go to self-convince themselves that "they really can't be wrong, even if they are"

PhDs today may signify the level of knowledge, but not necessarily the level of intelligence.
I have a family member who was in national politics in an EU country. I spent a lot of time talking about the role of Facebook in the political process with him. Some takeaways:

1. Facebook is essential in their country to have a chance getting elected; especially so if (due to your policy stances) you rely on the younger portions of the electorate for your votes. AFAIK in the US this is not entirely the case, since Twitter provides strong competition in this space, but in our (EU) country your options are Facebook and Instagram.

2. This is particularly annoying situation for the politicians themselves, since they need to engage social media specialists and optimise their political presence to "engage" on these platforms. Apparently this means mostly short, casual videos. This takes up a lot of time which is not going to serious policy based discussions and more in-depth write ups. So in some sense it directly contributes (involuntarily in the case of my relative) to a trivialisation of politics and turning it more entertainment oriented. I hate to see what happens when the Tik-Tok generation starts voting...

3. Aggressive politics also do really well. My relative had a post with some strong criticism of another public figure that was (IIRC) their most popular post by far.

4. The geo-political implications are troubling. Democracy is fragile enough (our country saw its top politician buy up all the top newspapers), without the political process being strongly influenced by a private company in a foreign power block. No offence to our honoured American allies of course...
Not to mention warming and acidication of the oceans:

https://www.quora.com/When-will-the-world-s-oceans-lose-thei...

https://www.noaa.gov/education/resource-collections/ocean-co...

https://knowledge.insead.edu/blog/insead-blog/the-ocean-cann...
Biden says ditching the filibuster would throw Congress ‘into chaos’
> proper systems programming language that everyone (except UNIX folks) is trying to get back to

Wikipedia: Written in PL/I, Assembly language

????
if you are running say a monolith in container in Fargate fronted by ALB that talks RDS PG or Aurora there is not much complexity in moving that anywhere
By the way, the nazis were successful because they used censorship. If you want to support censorship, beware that this is what enabled the nazis.
Is Reincarnation in the Bible? – God's Good News
From my experience of using microk8s for mostly offline development and trying minikube once:

Microk8s pros:

- bind-mount support => it is possible to mount a project including its node_modules and work on it from the host while it hot-reloads in the pod.

- The addons for dns, registry, istio, and metallb just work.

- Feels more snappy than minikube.

Microk8s cons:

- Distributed exclusively via snap => can't be easily installed on nix/nixos.
Why is he acting as if he invented upvotes and downvotes?
> Twitter is already very groupthink

Just like all social platforms including this one. Here on HN if you have a controversial opinion the site literally fades your comment away until it disappears.
Do not commit sacrilege or you will be excommunicated.
Stack Overflow did it quite well imho
Is this not a problem on HN? I think it is but if it's not, what makes it work here?
Thank you for writing this, it's a very thoughtful explanation of what some of us have experienced.
>scratch txt files

We started using rider at work and I already have made like 20 scratch files in under a week. It may become a problem soon.
I really don't understand why your comments keep getting flagged. Bizarre.