skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How would your incentives not be aligned? On the surface it seems the following would be true: assuming you are shorting companies who are "crooked", you'd do a write up as to what you found and publish it, just like people do with shorts now.

I could easily be missing something related to your specific goals or situation, but on the surface I don't see it? Have you seriously explored it? I mean, if this thing you have works, you might be leaving a billion dollars on the table...
You're taking it for granted that a market-based system isn't going to work. Why?

Utah farmers get their water almost for free, while city residents pay closer to its marginal delivery cost.

This isn't wise public policy choice made by 21st century philosopher-legislators, but simply the path-dependent product of an anachronistic 19th-century framework of "water rights" plus 100+ years of lobbying. It doesn't help that the state senate (like all state senates) is designed to over-represent rural areas.

Second-order solutions like rationing beef might be morally laudable, I just don't think they're really in play until you address the main structural failures, which almost everyone agrees on.
Breaking the TOS of Disqus is between Nieman Labs and Disqus; their likely response would be termination of services. Francesca has no standing to enforce someone else's contract she's not part of.

The GDPR doesn't really apply here in the US. No part of this dispute happened in the EU or to EU citizens.
It's hard to tell without knowing of strong your coffee is, your pink grapefruit intake and most importantly your sensitivity to caffeine.
The main downsides will be that it has much more drag to fight against and also if you're actually underwater you can't just use GPS like you can in the air making navigation much harder.
Well, doesn't Linux have that? Maybe you could go into more detail about what you feel is missing today.
Then swap with "excessive police response" if you want.

The term "swatting" is derived from the acronym SWAT because originally, that was the goal, to get police to respond to targets with SWAT teams/tactics/gear.

The point remains, filling the street with police in response to an anonymous tip should not be the police's first response. A single car should suffice.
> I agree he should have got more, but murder 1 requires intent to kill.

It does not where the felony murder rule applies, though false police reports in many jurisdictions are only misdemeanors. I would argue that a false police report of an imminent violent threat ought itself to be a felony.

(And even absent that, I’d argue that a swatting leading to death clearly is depraved-indifference murder—usually 2nd or 3rd degree depending on the particular statutory scheme, US jurisdictions vary on this—at a minimum.)
It’s unusual to call his ex-wives his widows?
> There is, however, a catch. A system based on cynicism and paranoia means people end up distrusting everything. The Kremlin has, by most accounts, produced a decent vaccine for the coronavirus. But the government can’t persuade the Russian people that they need to take it. People fear they are being used as guinea pigs, that there’s something dishonest going on. In the same week the National Security Strategy came out, new figures (though it’s hard to trust the figures) showed Covid-19 rates rising horribly throughout the country. Only 13 per cent are vaccinated, despite Putin’s claim that the Sputnik V is ‘just as reliable as Kalashnikov assault rifles’.

Maybe if they stop treating everyone like idiot toddlers and come up with real, honest justifications for why e.g. a 25 year old should take the Covid vaccine even though death by Covid at that age is as likely as being struck by a lightning. For young people, the vaccine may be substantially more dangerous than the virus. People aren't stupid, you know? We can read academic papers, we can see numbers, we can calculate. Average age of Covid death: 80+, usually with one or multiple severe comorbidities like cancer. How fucking stupid do you think we are? Do you think you can control us with fear?
Says one guy. Sorry, there's lots of people who make a living writing software who don't know what an OS does. Gatekeeping helps nobody.
Slot 1 based Pentium 2/3. The golden age.
I can't wait until I can trade my credit with other AWS users.
Comparing Kubernetes to type systems is like comparing a shack to a gothic cathedral. Type systems are incredibly stable. They have to be proved both sound and complete via meticulous argumentation. Once proven such, they work and their guarantees exist... no matter what. If you avoid the use of the `unsafe...` functions in languages like Haskell, you can be guaranteed of all the things the type system guarantees for you. In more structured languages like Idris or Coq, there is an absolute guarantee even on termination. This does not break.

Whereas on kubernetes... things break all the time. There is no well-defined semantic model for how the thing works. This is a far cry from something like the calculus of inductive constructions (basis of COQ) for which there is a well-understood 'spec'. Anyone can implement COIC in their language if they understand the spec. You cannot say the same for kubernetes.

Kubernetes is a nice bit of engineering. But it does not provide the same guarantees as type systems. In fact, of the four 'complicated' things you mentioned, only one thing has a well-defined semantic model and mathematically provable guarantees behind it. GraphQL is a particular language (and not one based on any great algebra either, like SQL), Kubernetes is just a program, and unit tests are just a technique. None of them are abstract entities with proven, unbreakable guarantees.

Really, comparing Kubernetes to something like system FC or COIC is like comparing Microsoft Word to Stoke's theorem.

The last thing I'll say is that type systems are incredibly easy. There are a few rules to memorize, but they are applied systematically. The same is not true of Kubernetes. Kubernetes breaks constantly. Its abstractions are incredibly leaky. It provides no guarantees other than an 'eventually'. And it is very complicated. There are myriad entities. Myriad operations. Myriad specs, working groups, etc. Type systems are relatively easy. There is a standard format for rules, and some proofs you don't really need to read through if you trust the experts.
Interestingly I’m a HN addict who reads HN multiple times a day, and this is the first time I’ve seen it.
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has the same problem as bicycles - if a pickup truck collides with you, you're going to be a grease stain on the road.
Low effort trolling with a new account.
Fair point. But this is where the likes of EKS and GKE come in. It takes away a lot of the pain that comes from managing K8s.
This is partially true. If the only feature you care about Kubernetes is container scheduling, then yes, Nomad is simpler. The same could probably be said about Docker Swarm.
However, if you want service discovery, load balancing, secret management, etc., you'll probably need Nomad+Vault+Consul+Fabio/similar to get all the basic features. Want easy persistent storage provisioning? Add CSI to the mix.

Configuring these services to work together is not all trivial either (considering proper security, such as TLS everywhere) and there aren't many solutions available from the community (or managed) that package this in an easy way.
https://aws.amazon.com/eks/
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Another advantage of a mono-repo is that it encourages everyone to use the same tooling & coding libraries. So (at least at Google) I can open another team's codebase (as long as it's in the main mono-repo) and understand it within ~10 minutes.

I fix bugs that bother me in random projects (both internal and external) maybe once a month (most recently, in the large scale change tool!). For context, I've been at Google for ~3 years. I've only had a changelist rejected once, and that was because the maintainer disagreed with the technical direction of the change and not the change itself.
Catch the Asteroid
> if I shoot a gun wildly at a house, my goal being to scare people, and I accidentally kill someone, would the law consider that murder with intent?

Probably depraved indifference murder, unless shooting the gun at the house was a felony, then probably felony murder.
The C64 is really sweet - one of my goals is to eventually develop a game for it (thinking a monorail/train sim like a simplified version of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Densha_de_Go!_2_K%C5%8Dsoku-he...)

Right now I'm interested in the Phillips MSX systems and PC Engine, as they both have a catalogue of unique platform-specific games (such as the original Metal Gear!) and are less-trodden territory for retrocomputing which, alas, makes them a little pricier. But part of the fun of retrocomputing is that it can be a passive hobby where you set some price alerts on ebay and craigslist and then try and go for the score.

If you haven't, be sure to check out https://old.reddit.com/r/retrobattlestations/
Is it different elsewhere then?

In the Netherlands, about 15% of firefighters are paid; in most other European countries I know of it's less.
Bose QC35 mk2 is a good bet, they’re good all purpose headphones, they’re super comfortable, have a conventional sound profile, fold up for convenience and have good battery life. Downside of having micro USB to charge with.

If you have wired headphones already that you like, you can use them with something like Fiio’s BTR3, a Bluetooth amp with microphone that has great battery life.

If you’re in the Apple ecosystem their AirPods Pro are a good alternative for a true wireless in ear, very convenient, but will require time in their case during the day to charge up.
Ohhh that makes sense. And since they are so close to water, there is always an amount of humidity in the air too I suppose.

Thank you for the explanation!
> All you friends left you and you are completely alone to fend for yourself? Still rational.

I don't think suicide is a rational response to that; I even think it's dangerous to frame it as any kind of 'rational' action to take in such a situation.
Cognitect was a successful consulting services startup that didn't build a scalable software product/service, right?

I'm not sure why they would have sold if they ever figured out how to make a software part of the clojure ecosystem sustainable & growable revenue source, e.g., hosting.

In contrast, Julia's recent fundraise is on a successful science tool that happens to be written in Julie, and a hope that hosted Julie might one day pay the bills. But not proven yet. NPM & dockerhub showed repo hosting is tough to succeed on even with wide use, though Anaconda shows promise when mixed with consulting revenue.

Jean's article also toes around developers not always being the buyer, so requiring a model more like Twilio, where they are presales/marketing for some other customer. That kind of misalignment adds another level of pain.
I’m into a weird part of retrocomputing where I mess with things other than just general purpose computers. Most of my equipment is old network/telecom stuff (mostly ISDN and general T1/E1 stuff rn, but I want to get into ATM) and network analyzers. Notably my Agilent J2300E which is a massive Windows 98 machine that look like a laptop but contains all sorts of sync and async serial interfaces too expensive to put on modern PCs (go find how much it costs to get a V.35 adapter) as well as all sorts of modules for various interfaces lile token ring, fddi, fast Ethernet, T1/E1, ISDN BRI, ATM, etc. It also has a nice software suite for emulation / analysis. If you’re curious why do have all this shit, in currently working on a user mode ISDN stack for Linux, which is keeping my love for programming on life support.

But to answer the question, here’s what on my wishlist:

HP-86 - recently sold my HP-85 with serial and GPIB expansions which I regret and will hopefully pick up an HP-86 to replace it eventually. Finding the serial and GPIB cartridges again my he a task.

Lisp machines, particularly a MacIvory - no chance I get my hands on one anytime soon.

One of the Tektronix Smalltalk Workstations - Will probably never even see one in my lifetime.

DEC VAXstation - May be purchasing one of the larger ones later this year. Will probably stick NetBSD on it.

DEC AlphaServer - Particularly models of which I find aesthetically pleasing. Not a Compaq or HP AlphaServer. The ones I like are always just a bit out of my price range. Will probably stick NetBSD on it.

IBM 5100 (running APL) - rare and always too expensive on the occasion I see one for sale

PDP-X - Actually a chance I might be able to run into a DEC PDP machine and be able to afford it someday.

I kinda want an early AS400 , but will settle for a not quite retro iSeries.

Not quite computers, but I also want:

HP 700/70 - A windowing terminal which was based off an old window standard for terminals called AlphaWindows (for which I also need to find the spec because the current implementations are currently commercial software). I’ve see a few listings for these terminals, but always super shady.

X.25 Equipment - PAD’s, switches, etc. I’m starting to thing X.25 was a legend because I have yet to find anything hardware related to it.

Anyway my end goal it to have a crazy home network with all the crazy protocols I hack on sectioned off and connected to the main (modern Ethernet) LAN with my retro stuff sitting on various networks.
It's called "Images and Feelings", but I quite dislike using a the Cloud Native Computing Foundation's quite busy map of services/offerings as evidence against Kubernetes. That lots of people have adopted this, and built different tools & systems around it & to help it is not a downside.

I really enjoy the Oil Blog, & was really looking forward when I clicked the link to having some good real criticism. But it feels to me like most of the criticism I see: highly emotional, really averse/afraid/reactionary. It wants something easier simpler, which is so common.

I cannot emphasize enough, just do it anyways. There's a lot of arguments from both sides about trying to assess what level of complexity you need, about trying to right size what you roll with. This outlook of fear & doubt & skepticism I think does a huge disservice. A can do, jump in, eager attitude, at many levels of scale, is a huge boon, and it will build skills & familiarity you will almost certainly be able to continue to use & enjoy for a long time. Trying to do less is harder, much harder, than doing the right/good/better job: you will endlessly hunt for solutions, for better ways, and there will be fields of possibilities you must select from, must build & assemble yourself. Be thankful.

Be thankful you have something integrative, be thankful you have common cloud software you can enjoy that is cross-vendor, be thankful there's so many different concerns that are managed under this tend.

The build/deploy pipeline is still a bit rough, and you'll have to pick/build it out. Kubernetes manifests are a bit big in size, true, but it's really not a problem, it really is there for basically good purpose & some refactoring wouldn't really change what it is. There's some things that could be better. But getting started is surprisingly easy, surprisingly not heavy. There's a weird emotional war going on, it's easy to be convinced to be scared, to join in with reactionary behaviors, but I really have seen nothing nearly so well composed, nothing that fits together so many different pieces well, and Kubernetes makes it fantastically easy imo to throw up a couple containers & have them just run, behind a load balancer, talking to a database, which coverages a huge amount of our use cases.
This case isn't a question of morality - Francesca Viola has openly admitted to spreading the false conspiracies and the other comments. She also appealed to her position of authority at the university in her own comments.

She's claiming that Benton misattributed the Islamophobe comment "Scum. Deport them. They hate us. Get rid of them.” to her, despite it being from the same disqus account.

If you want to drag morality into it to take the moral high ground, at what point does making bad faith arguments in civil court cross the line too?
>the us government was able to chase back bitcoin payments made to hackers

because they left it on a US exchange. They were not able to chase up the affiliate fee, which should give your pause to think about exactly how it can be reclaimed.

> bitcoin in it self is not an asset, just like paper money by itself is worthless.

I dunno man, i can give a paper $20 bill to a bartender and they give me beer. paper seems not to be worthless by itself.

> i'm not sure if it's as permissionless as you think. you would still need an internet connection, which in most cases require identification to setup. regular people aren't gonna implement the software themselves, so they have to get it from somewhere. the most widely distributed bitcoin wallets are not permissionless.

It is permissionless, in that nobody needs to grant permission to download/compile an open source product and use it.
You have to have permission from your parents to be alive i guess...

> if you're trading bitcoin through an exchange (i.e 99% of the users), it's not anonymous.

Yes, and with the travel rules going in worldwide it will be even less. However, what the powers that be do not understand is that it is PERMISSIONLESS. Once the funds are in the UTXO, they can be spent anywhere, including non-KYC destinations, or even lightning channels. The industry wants to push the narrative that KYC-exchange -> ??? -> KYC-exchange implies ??? is the same beneficial owner. It isn't, and someone is in for a rude shock when their case falls apart due to bad assumptions.
Ultimately, any regulation is a bandaid on a broken arm. The technology exists and is unstoppable.
I'm very glad to see this line of reasoning being the top comment.

A change in UI must generally be so good, as to completely overshadow the costs of change. Hence, most changes will NOT pass that high bar, and are thus bad changes.

Unless some UI/UX feature you're considering received overwhelming support from your users (both regular and power-users), it's probably not worth doing and you should be directing your efforts anywhere else.
> the us government was able to chase back bitcoin payments made to hackers

"chase back", but not forcibly, cryptographically seized. The blockchain is transparent. So yes, transactions can be traced. But there's a billion dollar bounty out there if you know how to crack private keys.

> bitcoin in it self is not an asset, just like paper money by itself is worthless.

Anything is only worth what someone is willing to pay. Anything is an asset. Some assets are utilized as money better than others (gold, bitcoin, fiat vs apples, paintings).

> i'm not sure if it's as permissionless as you think.

Most people already have internet connections. App stores are not permissionless, but there are many other ways to load software onto a device.

> if you're trading bitcoin through an exchange (i.e 99% of the users), it's not anonymous.

If you're trading Bitcoin through an exchange, then you're not using Bitcoin the network. You would be "trading bitcoin through an exchange". There are also p2p services like localbitcoins and bisq.
> I know everyone wants to be upset at the "swatter"

I feel sorry for everyone of the people in the discord channel.

Well before they “swatted” this guy an entire group of people whose lives are so devoid of meaning, opportunity, and hope they had organized to take social media handles to resell for a few thousand dollars (maybe a couple hundred per person once split amount the group).

Those focusing on the militarization of the police don’t appear any more sympathetic to the deceased than those responsible. This group was intent on ruining lives, and they successfully achieved that long before swatting him which resulted in his death. Swatting is just 1 of the tools this group used, if it didn’t exist they’d have used the next tool at their disposal, just look at the testimony from the other victims.
Whats your monthly spend? I used to work for an org with 50K monthly spend none cared at AWS about us. Now I work for a big org with very serious spend and it's night and day we can get access to eng. quickly we have regular meetings with PMs and get our requests for AWS features put onto roadmap etc.
Anyone know what the fastest-loading password manager might be?
This is a great list and the conclusion is very fair. I think maybe what it is is that both these concepts and various limitations and tradeoffs had already been broadly socialized by the time I came into the industry. So it's not that I don't see the paper's influence, it's more that I was never able to find anything to latch onto from the primary source which I hadn't already internalized based on its synthesis in various tools and techniques that I learned in different ways.
> Musk, for all his flaws, started an actual rocket company with new and frankly insane tech.

there's nothing that spacex has done that's "new tech". VTVL rockets were worked out in the 60s and the 90s

spacex does a good job of making it seem like what they're doing is new, though.
> > and his coworkers discover he said this.

> how and why?

My post specifically mentions how social media makes this difficult, so that's one way. Rumor is another, but that has existed for as long as we've had workplaces and has not had the same effects, so I presume most people are worried about, again, social media.

> as long as “Frank” has a proven record of successfully working with women, what exactly is the problem?

Feelings are not always rational, knowing he holds those opinions will make many people viscerally uncomfortable and they will act on it. Whether you think they should react that way, people do, moralizing the issue doesn't solve it. If you disagree with that, I don't think it's a difference we can resolve here.

I also think whether Frank has had a proven record of successfully working with women isn't something we can know, and I think others share this view. For example if Frank is in a hiring position he may have passed on female candidates because of his views, or he may not have. No one can verify the details. Frank knows we can't verify the details. Frank may only be acting on his views when he's confident no one can credibly accuse him.

This all sounds overwrought, but people really do get caught in these game theory thought experiment quagmires wondering whether Frank or someone like him have or will hurt someone and decide "I don't want to deal with this person". Which leads back to the social dysfunction I described above.
It’s not just about raw numbers though, you need to consider the experimental design, which looks really tight in this case.

It’s a repeated measures study and from the looks of it all subjects spent time in each of the four treatments + control, so it’s direct comparisons of the same people in each condition. They used three separate measures. Accounting for all that, they are working with something like 540 data points, and the fact it’s the same people in each set is a nice little feature for direct comparisons rather than a limitation. They even double blinded everything. All of that has to count for something.
Linters will also complain about importing stuff that's not listed in a module's __all__, so it's overall good API hygiene to have one.
I vehemently disagree. Handing out cash to the poor isn’t fixing the problem. It will make matters worse (inflation).

It’s almost unbelievable that investing in education and apprenticeship is considered a negative thing but giving straight up cash from Billionaires is popular.

Homelessness and poverty needs to be tackled by getting these people jobs.