skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've seen a lot of numbers, how about we go with Wiki's $156 and cut the difference?

And it doesn't matter what the rest of the economy was doing if we've converted it to today's numbers. The argument you were making was that government was intrinsically bloated, but from my view these private orgs are barely keeping up with 1960s .gov.
I made a brilliant programming-language startup. HN banned me.
> Unfortunately the person who actually called in the swat was a British minor so not sure how the law can be applied there.

The US prosecutes foreigners for crimes committed against Americans, overseas.

Him being a minor might prevent extradition, but the US has also sent agents to kidnap foreigners, in countries the US has an extradition treaty with, and drag them back to the US for trial when it was concerned that extradition wouldn't work, and the US courts have ruled that that is 100% acceptable.
I would assume that's not entirely a fair comparison, though. Intel's 3D acceleration hardware only ever appears in Intel-manufactured chipsets, which only ever contain Intel-manufactured CPUs.

AMD, on the other hand, also supplies Radeon GPUs for use with Intel CPUs. For example, that's the setup in the computer on which I'm typing this.

So I have a hard time seeing anything nefarious there. The one is obviously a business necessity, while the other would obviously be silly. Perhaps that changes with the new Xe GPUs?
depends on whether he's also selling legal windows at an inflated price and then called the cops when you didn't bite.

But probably, yes.
New platforms often look like toys. They have limited features, are not always faster, and are usually more expensive. This makes them easy to dismiss.

People often analyze Bitcoin's price volatility, the way it is manipulated in unregulated trade. They then assert that this asset must be as valueless and useless as the patterns it trades under. Bitcoin the asset is no longer separable from the hustlers profiting from it. Bitcoin, the network, the platform, the technology, somehow becomes the scam.
The sad part is the current state of water affairs is so far from this. Discounted commerical water rates (liable to change when your local representative gets a donation from industry), unclear water usage by individuals (how many folks really know how much water they use when?) of tiered pricing, shaming as a mechanism to reduce water usage, etc. It's asinine that we have such an unclear, complicated systems. No wonder even motivated individuals have such a hard time decreasing water usage.
This really depends on how many boxes you have.
This was the funniest point in that comment to me.

Read the intended way, it's borderline wrong.

Read as "remember when people assumed security without knowing" is basically most of computing the further back in time you go.
> garabage tech

I know this was a typo, but it feels like an unintentional portmanteau of "garbage" and "garage" which seems to fit particularly well. I hope you don't go back to edit this!

Also: Borrowing!
If we're still talking about the Wire, it had quite a bit to say about the District Attorny's office as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAZZdL1qhk8
My main contention is that it's possible to construct a physical apparatus using visually observable non-quantum macro objects (like pairs of bar magnets) that pass through such filters with the same correlations shown by the blue line in the graph above. Such correlations would apparently violate Bells theorem, even though the objects were obeying classical laws of motion.

And it's certainly conceivable that passing through a slit could change the orientation of a wave, whether mechanical wave...

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSrnPB4...

or the wavefunction of a photon...

https://cronodon.com/images/Single_slit_diffraction_1.jpg
How about the charger talks to your oven, dryer, and other appliances so that you don’t need to budget the sum of everything in terms of amperage. Instead, your car can pause charging while your clothes are drying.

This kind of stuff will only happen if standard protocols are agreed upon.
If you make less money than the parent does, and live in the same country, than you essentially are taking their money, through their higher tax burden that pays for services (like roads and public schools and firefighters) that you almost certainly use or benefit from.

And that's a good thing! But I think higher earners should have more money taken than is currently the case. Wealth and income inequality are largely a result of luck and opportunity, not raw talent. An equitable society should find ways to mitigate those effects, which have only gotten worse in recent decades, not better.
Different strokes for different blokes, I guess.
> The evolvers sometimes break the bomber-scanner-paper stereotype. They just don't scale well to normal sized cores.

That's interesting that you're familiar with how it scales to different cores; I've never played around with the core parameters that much./

In fact, it's been about 12 years since I last played around with CoreWars, so I'm not up on the newest theories.

It would be interesting to see how a genetic algorithm fares against current ML strategies. I'm completely in the dark as to how AlphaGo/AlphaZero work, I only know classifiers/SSD/autoencoders. Would be fun to learn with this environment tho.
My theory: no sane programmer wants to be locked-in by the vendor of a programming language.

Hence, all successful programming languages are open and free.
You're mixing together useful complexity with useless complexity.

Plus at the very least, I'd be very careful about putting type systems into the same basket as Kubernetes. One is a basic language feature used offline and before deploying. The other is a highly complex interwoven web of tools that might take your systems offline if used incorrectly.

Without Kubernetes, you need Debian and it's Apache and MySQL packages. It's called a LAMP stack and for many production deployments, that's good enough. Because without all that "cloud magic", a $50 per month sever running a bare metal OS is beyond overpowered for most web apps, so you can skip all the scaling exercises. And with a redundant PSU and a redundant network port, 99.99% uptime is achievable. A feat so difficult, I'd like to mention, that Amazon Web Services or Heruko rarely manage to...

Complexity has high costs. Just because you don't see Kubernetes' complexity now, doesn't mean you won't pay for it through reduced performance, increased bug surface, increased downtime, or additional configuration nightmares.
> However, why is it my responsibility to participate in their business model?

It’s not your responsibility, you can simply not visit their site if you don’t wish to participate.

> Can we fund them with taxes (in a non-dystopian way that keeps political interference out of the equation)?

How can this possibly work?
The warmer air over land rises up, cooling in the process. But then water in it condenses and gives up heat, that supports the upward flow. So it's kind of runaway process. Eventually when there's too much water condensed, then it overcomes the upward flow and rains down.

How it happens, and whether it happens at all, whether the rain won't evaporate in midair etc. depends on variety of conditions.
> Refusing to reveal all the parts that were AI generated

I don't disagree but I think he's genuinely saying at some point he wants to have that documentary ethics panel.

I think it's far more interesting to wait a bit (after it's out on streaming/blu-ray/etc) and see if anyone can figure it out. I think he's actually INVITING that kind of discussion and analysis by giving everyone exactly the information they would need to do so.

A) here's a voiceover which was done by AI
B) obviously here's a lot of legitimate samples
C) here's how I did it
D) there are two other fakes, go find them.

I think it's a really good discussion to have.
PC clones killed IBM in the PC market, which matches how I remember it

> Both Microsoft and Intel made a fortune selling IBM’s competitors the same products they sold to IBM. Rivals figured out that IBM had set the de facto technical standards for PCs, so they developed compatible versions they could bring to market more quickly and sell for less.
If I take it less seriously than intended, it's a joke.
DeFi Protocol Risks: The Paradox of DeFi
I loathe the days that window managers and apps decide to steal multiple pixels vertically for useless appearance "improvements". Thank you for making less content visible on my screen.
You have to do those things WITH Kubernetes.

It doesn’t configure itself.

I focused on fixing Kubernetes problems at my last job (usually networking). How is that supporting the business (hint: it didn’t so management forced us off Kubernetes)

No piece of software is a panacea and shilling for project that’s intended to remind people Google exists, is not really putting time on anything useful either
I suspect the middle-term role of AI in diagnosis and treatment is as a low-cost consult. The pressure point for docs to use the AI will be legal. During a malpractice case, if there is no documentary evidence the doctor(s) used the standard-of-care AI system during diagnosis and treatment, and the AI system would have recommended an improved diagnosis and treatment with the same patient information, it will not go well for the hospital/clinic/doctor. AI will be a CYA (Cover Your A*s) in their day-to-day work that would hopefully cheaply and effectively save lives while keeping human doctors in the loop. Sort of like chess engines evaluating positions during tournaments…except you’re allowed to cheat and use them in the game itself.

The problem then becomes taking a good history, using imaging and tests effectively, and charting all relevant observations. AI and IT can help here too. With the same CYA motivation…

The real problem today seems to be that docs need amanuensis-es. Entering the medical data even in electronic records systems seems to be a real challenge to docs. No data…not much an AI can do.
That's a lot of stuff to worry about and get right vs. just paying $XX a month for someone else to deal with it.
Instead, you can now admin a Rube Goldberg machine of Helm charts, which run a pile Docker containers which are each their own microcosm of outdated packages and security vulnerabilities.
I think the argument there is that it's only simple because the complexity of k8s has been taken away. I don't think anybody has claimed deploying to a k8s cluster is overly complex; running it well, handling upgrades, those are huge time sinks that need the requisite expertise.

Much like Multics was "simple" for the users, but not for the sysadmins.
Voice passthrough would be really useful

My Sony WH-1000XM3s have the "ambient sound" option too. It's good for hearing voices, but it also pipes through background noises like fan noise

When I need a mix of noise cancelling and hearing, I usually just turn ANC off. The headphones' physical design already blocks out a lot of background noises without blocking out voices much
> These billionaires pay their workers minimum wage every day.

My nephew works at an Amazon warehouse. Makes like 15 bucks an hour for the first 40, and then 20 more at double the rate (his choice to take the extra hours). He's very happy, and nothing suggests he feels taken advantage of.
As someone who has worked on large-scale refactorings at Google they usually do happen as the author describes:

1. Add the new interface (& deprecate the old one)

2. Migrate callers over (this can take a long time)

3. Remove the old interface.

Even then, you risk breakages because in some cases the deprecation relies on creating a list of approved existing callers, and new callers might be checked in while you're generating that list. (In that case you would ask the new callers to fix-forward by adding themselves to the list.)

This three step process has to happen because step 2 takes a long time for widely-used interfaces, and automatic refactorings cannot handle all cases.

The only time you can consolidate all three into one commit is if the refactoring is so trivial that automatic tooling can handle every case (in which case, does the cost of code churn & code review really justify the change?) or the number of usages are small enough that a person can manually make all the changes the automatic fixer can't handle before much churn happens.
Where did I say I don't blame them too?

I shouldn't have to say this explicitly but yes, accepting bribes and giving bribes are both bad.
Absolutely. Sounds like great material for a novel.
Probably not, but I mean... who knows?

Minor alterations in human behavior over time eventually venerating our feline friends?
Every billionaire is a policy failure.

Anyone with over $100M should have it confiscated and redistributed to those in greatest need and to provide for the common good. That's the moral thing to do. These jerks own the government and rig the system in their favor, against the interests of average people and climate survivability.
The best you can do (without doing crazy introspection) is to set `__all__` in `mymod`. It still requires listing everything you want to be exported from `mymod`, but at least you only need to do it once.

Docs:
https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/modules.html#importing-fr...
American Muslims are 26% white, versus an overall American percentage of between 61% and 77% depending on who you count. Pretending there's nothing to do with ethnicity is hard to sustain.
Azure, Windows Server, SQL Server, Exchange, MS office, Dynamics, anything else in the enterprise suite where C# is a good integrator.
Jonathan Blow has also been vocal on that regard.
what unauthorised use?
I see you have further built conclusions on-top of an incorrect assumption about my OP.

> The only reason this would be unfair is if you pre-suppose that, more than 50% of the time, the "most qualified" person is a man

I actually think discriminatory promotions is pretty unfair. Just because you think it's justified doesn't make it "fair". You can tell it is because of the term "discriminatory".
I agree about ambient authority etc., but I'm typing this in a sandbox which doesn't allow access to .bashrc. (I'm sure it's not perfect.)
I think that's correct. There is less acceptance of free speech if it's "alt-right" than if the speech is coming from the "alt-left". I agree.

It's frightful to see that defending the 1A on principle is seen as an endorsement of objectionable views.
Sure. Information sovereignty was pioneered on a national scale by China's Great Firewall, upon which Bill Clinton famously commented, “There’s no question China has been trying to crack down on the internet. Good luck! That’s sort of like trying to nail Jell-O to the wall.”

A Russian GFW would make Pomerantsev's job--spreading anti-Kremlin disinformation to benefit NATO's geopolitical goals in the region--very very difficult. He would have to work harder for fewer results. Like the Mongol raider, this is bad for his job security and quality of life.
Not the person you asked but: absolutely yeah.

Coding and other such mental work is very tough for me unless a lot of factors line up. But I can stay focused on physical tasks even if I'm feeling like garbage - even something like tennis that's both mental+physical.

edit: Are you talking about sudden "cold turkey" quitting + the subsequent withdrawal? The answer to that is hell no -- if I try anything that foolish I'm really in for some hurt. Luckily as others have noted, there's no need to experience withdrawal if you taper dosage down over a week or two.
So you have a version of Kubernetes that is as easy to use as Dropbox? Where do I sign up for the beta?
Less developed for a reason.

There are a significant amount of people who are basically milking the rest of the society with their power and doing so without any consequence. This is what entrenched corruption looks like.

There are no need to specifically break any laws that others are not breaking already, there just have to be so many that compliance is impossible and enforcement selective. When the gray area expand so significantly, you get the power broker rich as they enjoy competitive advantage.
Other comments have covered cases like departments having money left over in their quarterly budgets, or companies looking to spend in a particular quarter for earnings/tax deduction reasons, or reducing currency risk by hedging forex prices. But the biggest use by far that I've seen for this is government/public orgs that are prevented by outdated laws/auditing regulations/processes from using pay-as-you-go models. They are forced by their accounting department/government grant to treat infra expenses as capex and have zero budget to expense them as opex (this model assumes an on-prem physical plant for an IT department). Previously AWS had a way to get around part of that with reserved instances, this solution is more comprehensive.
If you're on an iPhone, I don't blame you, because Apple won't allow Firefox with add-ons. If you're using Android, you really should use Firefox with uBlock Origin.
Settlement within an hour? For cents (vs $10 for wires)? Without permission of 3rd parties? To regions that are not connected to the international banking system? No.

Bitcoin is better for international money transfers than WU or your local bank. I can't believe this is even a talking point in 2021.
I have been having this issue as well with the exporting of data and it looks like it was just solved below. Thanks!

The crazy thing is how happy lots of companies seems to be to giving slack access to all of their communication and API access to all of their other tools. And I’m very excited for when the tool that connects all these tools, which matrix should be, can be owned by the people using it rather than the company providing the service.
Yes they do. There is too much software to be written. A person with adequate knowledge of higher abstractions can produce just fine code.

Yes, if there is a nasty issue that needs to be debugged, understanding the lower layers is super helpful, but even without that knowledge you can figure out what's going on if you have general problem-solving abilities. I certainly have figured out a ton of issues in the internals of tools that I don't know much about.

Get off your high horse.
Hit me up if you're looking for a like minded friend, my github and LinkedIn are the same as my username.
(author here) The post isn't claiming that you should be doing something differently right now.

It's claiming that there's something better that isn't discovered. Probably 10 years in the future.

I will be really surprised if anyone really thinks that Kubernetes and even AWS is going to be the state of the art in 2031.

(Good recent blog post and line of research I like about compositional cloud programming, from a totally different angle: https://medium.com/riselab/the-state-of-the-serverless-art-7...)

FWIW I worked with Borg for 8 years on many applications (and at Google for over a decade), so this isn't coming from nowhere. The author of the post I quoted worked with it even more: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25243159

I was never an SRE, but I have written and deployed code to every data center at Google, as well as helping dozens of people like data scientists and machine learning researchers use it, etc. It's hard to use.

I gave this post a modest title since I'm not doing anything about this right now, but I'm glad @genericlemon24 gave it some more visibility :)
Well the guy he’s giving it to is always clamoring for higher taxes on everybody else, so obviously he thinks that’s the best place for the money. We’ll see what he does with it.
I really love how kubernetes decouples compute resources from actual servers. It works pretty well and handles all kinds of sys-ops-y things automatically. It really cuts down on work for big deployments.

actually, it has shown me what sorts of dev-ops work is completely unneeded.
Zombie Fires
Russia is just one example of a "turning inwards" Dark Ages.

China tried walling themselves off from the world and xenophobia for 2000 years, but they lost the technological advantage.

If anyone believes they can "go it alone," then they should look at North Korea.
In the USA a title company that validates the ownership provides a title insurance for exactly this case. If the true owner of the house is determined (typically in court) not to be the one the title company claims, then the title insurance pays the damages to the injured party. Or at least this is the theory.
What you say is true but they're just passing those subsidies on to their customers (the majority of the US). And they're still paying a significant amount contrary to the very popular belief, even if it's not proportional to the consumption which I agree with you on.

Amazon e-commerce is not all that profitable. Most of Amazon's value comes from AWS.
In the real cases where distress calls are made to the police, which must far, far outnumber "swattings", it's often the case that all the available "evidence" is contained in the phone call, which may itself be made under duress and with limited time. The police cannot reasonable dispatch a detective to look into the circumstances of a distress call.

Nobody busted down the doors here; in fact, in no US swatting fatality have the police ever busted doors down.

"First do no harm" is not a universal norm. It applies to medicine because so much of what happens in medicine is in some sense elective; there is an option not to intervene. No such option exists in distress call situations.

I don't think axiomatic reasoning is going to solve the problem of swatting. It's also noteworthy that, even in this case, it wasn't just the police who were tricked into intervening; the swatters got a strange man to break into the victim's house by spoofing messages on Grindr.
It doesn't help that most of it is completely abstract and intangible. You can immediately spot the difference between a skyscraper and a chair, but not many can tell the difference between a e2e encrypted chat app and a support chat app. It's an 'app' but they are about as different between a chair and a skyscraper in architecture and systems.
It may be more common in Appalachia.
That argument is equivalent with the argument “Ignaz Semmelweis was rejected by his peers and eventually placed in a psychiatric ward, and he was a genius. I’m rejected by my peers and placed in a psychiatric ward, therefore, I must also be a genius.”

Most technology that is rejected is rejected for good reasons, but few remember those technologies. In a few years Bitcoin will only be remembered in footnotes like the tulip bulb craze.
I actually prefers pens than pencils but with different reasons. With pencils you are tempted to erase things. However, it is an illusion; Eraser does not really erase things, ending up in a dirty paper. It also takes much more time. With pens, erasing is effortless and does not require additional decision to make: Just strikethrough it. Then throw it away when you feel you want to start over.
This is nice but seems like window dressing. They should be investigating and cracking down on the pervasive use of license agreements even for the silliest things. Try and buy a car without a license agreement.
I am not surprised at all, and this is very common nowadays.
For sure, there are a lot of misguided attempts at equality out there, like what Hollywood does these days with setting up female characters as infallible and white male characters as inept. This is not how representation should work, and you can't have strong characters without flaws, fears and actual challenges to overcome.
Why do they need to move water there into the desert for their crops when they are growing crops here in America? https://gulfif.org/arizona-arabia-alfalfa-lessons-from-the-g... So they may not have a Mississippi river, but they are using the Colorado.
West Texas is still in Texas.