skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The biggest pain point is having to manually use cloudformation to create node pools. This is especially irritating when you just need to roll the Linux version on nodes -- takes half a day to do right. In GKE, it's just a button in the UI (or better, an easy-to-use API), and you can schedule maintenance windows for security updates (which are typically zero downtime anyway, assuming you have the right PodDisruptionBudgets). I think AWS fixed that. I remember when I used it, they said they had some new tool that would handle that, but you had to re-create the cluster from scratch. This was a couple years ago, and is probably decent nowadays.

There are other warts, like certain storage classes being unavailable by default (gp3), the whole ENI thing for Pod IPs, the supported version being way out of date, etc. EKS has always felt like "minimum viable product" to me -- they really want you to use their proprietary stuff like ECS/Fargate, CloudFormation, etc. If you're already on AWS and want Kubernetes, it's just what you need. If you could pick any cloud provider for mainly Kubernetes, it wouldn't be my first choice.

Having used EKS, GKE, and DOKS, I definitely prefer GKE. GKE is very feature-rich, and the API for managing clusters works well. The nodes are also cheaper than AWS. (I use DOKS for my personal stuff and I haven't had any problems, and it is free, but it's missing features like regional clusters that you probably want for things you make money off of.)
The Italian city that beat the plague: Ferrara
There really is an abundance of high quality, and performant open-source applications on Windows. Among the three you've listed, I can also mention Notepad++, JPEGView, MPC-HC, Scoop.sh, and ShareX.
http://jwmason.org/slackwire/alternative-visions-of-inflatio... this one is fresh off the presses and gets deeper into the issues.
Well we know what happened. Europe rose to ascendancy in the 17th and 18th century.
I think it is fair to say he bet on the right horse.
I hadn't heard that. I had seen that controversy but took it as the same issue coming up and more people complaining she wasn't conventionally attractive, rather than the studio 'dulling down' her looks on purpose. TIL.

I guess I totally missed what Aloy looked like during the first game and didn't realize they had changed how she looked.

To be honest, I actually like how she looks now. She looks like you'd expect someone to look like in a post-apocalypse world and looks like someone you'd pass on the street.
> Also I’d rather not grab my mouse to see things.

Use the up and down arrows to navigate to the message you want and hit T to switch to the thread side view. Similarly, you can do the same to find your own messages and use E to edit them.
More likely it's just people being foolish.
They claim not to have known about the harassment and stalking.
Yeah no, it's not the responsibility of men that do nothing wrong to call out other men.

If you said that it's the respinsibility of all black people to call out black criminals for their bad behavior, you'd rightfully get called a racist.

I don't see how this is different.
I'm not sure, the numbers on twitch don't even scratch the number of unique individuals who own consoles / buy games.
... which is pretty convenient for you and guys, because if you look at it that long-term way, nobody can tell that your whole product is a useless scam
For a compelling, if morbid, insight to the petite horrors and tragedies of farming and small-town life, see Wisconsin Death Trip:

a 1973 non-fiction book by Michael Lesy, based on a collection of late 19th century photographs by Jackson County, Wisconsin, photographer Charles Van Schaick – mostly taken in the city of Black River Falls – and local news reports from the same period. It emphasizes the harsh aspects of Midwestern rural life under the pressures of crime, disease, mental illness, and urbanization.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin_Death_Trip
well i'm dumbfounded, I'd honestly thought an exoskeleton would make people like her happier

i never meant to deny your own experience, I was mostly sad about the high cost and limits of a wheel chair.
ShareX + Tesseract seems like an appropriate (and open-source and local) combo
When did the feature appear for you? It hasn't appeared yet in my channel.
You put way too much credit in the intelligence of hate mobs. People attack others for nonsense all the time. And I don't view gender bias as misogyny. Women are biased to believe women and men are biased to believe men, that is just natural. So men accusing women leads to male hate mobs, and women accusing men leads to female hate mobs. Of course male hate mobs are usually more vicious, but the workings are the same.
I've been following this a little. I grew up near the Massachusetts town where this occurred (Its a pretty non-descript suburban town).

So that fact that a big company and high up executives decided to target a very home spun news letter, is just crazy. Its like something went off the rails.

Ars has pretty good coverage.

The harassment was bizarre and threatening: sending roaches and pig masks is just the wierd start:
Sending a book on "how to survive the loss of a spouse" is really dark.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/06/ebay-execs-sent-...

more recent:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/07/lawsuit-ebay-tri...
Yup this is more important - in starcraft you will lose a game you almost completely won if you stop context switching for a few minutes.

On the other hand you can abandon starcraft game at any moment with no consequences and it doesn't last for 50 minutes. If you got toxic teammates in DOTA you are pretty much stuck with them for almost an hour.
Yes, I agree. Horses are exclusively prey animals in a natural setting. A newborn human would have had it's armed "pack" to protect it from predators.
Thanks Ian! That's great feedback, we should absolutely make more YouTube videos (we have a few here, but it's been a little bit since we've released a new one: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLs8WZvPC2qpBFpmzI6Fpa-6NB...).

We also wrote a blog post about how we think about our problem space and value proposition recently: https://blog.ab.bot/archive/2021/07/15/tools-for-inside-the-....

Not quite as succinct as a video, but it might help paint a a more vibrant picture of how we see the world.
What are the safety measures that can be avoided?
This is pretty cool! Let me know if you ever expand membership to the "public ivies".
Expanding on that question, does anyone know of a place where work like this gets discussed? I was unaware of his stuff, which is indeed wonderful, and if there is a way to meet with others who are interested in this kind of thing, and in doing it for ourselves, I'd sure like to be there.
Japan's cherry blossom: as indisputable as climate change evidence gets
I used to be on that. I can't afford it because no insurance

If/when anyone runs into this regarding medications, be aware that even without insurance many pharmacies (at least in chains) have significant lists of medications available at very little or no charge. Companies like GoodRX can also lead to much lower prices, particularly on generics.

Meijer has free antibiotics and prenatal vitamins.

Walmart has a variety of medications for many conditions at $4 for 30 days and $10 for 90, as well as inexpensive insulin options (discussed here on HN within the last month or two - maybe not preferred fastest-acting options, but certainly better than 'rationing hoping I don't die')

Walgreens has a prescription savings club for $20-35/year that has 30-90 day supplies of generics at various price points between $5-15 for 30-day supplies and 10-30 for 90 day supplies

CVS has some kind of system that I didn't create an account to look at but is likely similar.

Costco has a Member Prescription Program and has all their medication prices available on the site, and the pharmacy can be used for prescriptions even without a membership.

Kroger has a prescription savings club linked to GoodRX that has prescriptions at $0/3/6/9, with a membership of $36/72 year individual/family.

None of these plans are going to cover the medications being advertised on TV, but they're going to provide coverage for a lot of long-term proven generics that treat conditions that have been around as long as humans have. They may not be AS effective (or perhaps they just lack marketing budgets), but if they weren't at least SOMEWHAT effective they wouldn't still be around as generics.

And if you've read this far and are interested in other information on keeping medical care less expensive, I highly recommend looking up the Arm and a Leg Show podcast for a lot of useful information.
This now has to be the most gangster rap album of all time!
I'm sure this has already been thought of but is there much value in using capacitors to capture kinetic energy from the exoskeletons natural movement?
Good food (especially dishes that smell amazing) and ice-cream.
I’ve only managed to get more advanced treatment in the UK (still nothing ground breaking) by having private medical cover in addition to the national health care. Thankfully as the national health service covers all the basic care it’s possible to get private cover for around £40 per month.
Well if you want to "control public fear" for political and economic gain, you just adjust the CT value as required to bump up the positive rate or to lower it.

Note that the US CDC is using two different CT values: a higher one for unvaccinated and a lower one for vaccinated. That doesn't make any sense until you start thinking Hobbsian/Hegalian/Machiavellian.

If I was wanting to exploit the situation, this is exactly what I'd do. Instead I have ethics however.
That "if" is doing a lot of heavy lifting.
This was my first thought. Elon is constantly in the news or doing some memorable stunt. Tesla absolutely advertises it's just through Elon.
She also is a C-level and has worked there for 4 months. She has zero insight to this problem.
Sandy Munro tests FSD Beta V9, thinks Tesla should use FLIR screens in its cars
$1k a month seems downright cheap compared to many medical treatments.

Hospital visits in the US average $11.7k for a full stay[1]. Antiviral treatments for Hepatitis C like Harvoni and Sovaldi cost $16k-90k for 12 weeks, though you can go with a generic version for $5k-10k a month.

[1] https://www.debt.org/medical/hospital-surgery-costs/
I would expect the following kind of writers to use that that disclaimer:

* The writer expresses poorly considered opinions, loosely holds them. They won't bother defending them.

* The writer expresses anodyne opinions that might one day become controversial, they won't bother holding onto them when the rest of society moves on from them.

In both cases, I wouldn't bother reading what they had to say. I could open the opinion section of any newspaper to get the same content with twice the conviction.

Nothing wrong with hedging your opinions in-text. But if you're hedging everything you say before you've even bothered to say it, you either have nothing interesting to say or probably censor yourself enough already.
> I'm also absolutely tempted to believe any backlash from this will be minimal to Activision.

Consumer backlash is not the intended means/outcome here. Blizzard is being sued and there is massive organizing within the company. They will likely end up paying out lots of money in compensation to the employees who were wronged, heads will roll, and the toxic culture will end up being cleared out forcibly (like what happened at Uber). Consumer backlash is an orthogonal concern.
Domestically, certainly not post dotcom crash.

Common wisdom was that going to be completely outsourced in "the next decade". Then Google, Facebook and the rise of SV proved all of them wrong.

Internationally? No. In a lot of countries there's no track for ICs, no staff engineers and you are supposed to go into management. Programming is seen as brick-laying. Ironically, that's one of the reasons outsourcing failed so bad...
Where I live, it's tough to escape the Sysco food chain - it seems the economics just don't work out otherwise.

Off topic, I humbly suggest slowing the rate of posting (your own?) articles from this newsletter. See: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I'm not sure what the point of your comment is. People would rather rent in NYC/SF than live in a city where buying a home is affordable.

What exactly are you trying to say with your comment? "People who don't want to live in my city should move here, purchase a home, and increase property values" ?
Reading the title I thought the comparison was between standard library random generators :)

How does this compare to the standard library, for e.g. MT?

Edit: Okay, spoke too soon! In the article base means the standard library.
Indeed. Nor any mention of the busybox netcat.

busybox, a great program, but something about it's netcat will hang at the end of sending data, rather than closing the socket and exiting. Because of that I have to ^C it, and then wonder if it fully sent the last block of data.

For decades now I've used minimal rescue environments and "netcat" to copy data around. A lot of these rescue environments, especially 20 years ago, were pretty minimal. I liked being able to use the RedHat or Fedora install media as rescue, because I always had it handy.

So I fell back to this habit of, I know Python is on this system (RedHat installer), so I made a few versions of a python "netcat" program. A bigger one with more features, in case I was able to "wget" a file. Or smaller "in" and "out" programs that I could comfortably type in by hand.

But I really need to get into the habit of using socat now. I had it in mind that it's hard to remember how to use, so I'd just wget my python version and be done with it. But I need to get in the habit. socat is SO powerful.

Beware, Ubuntu 20.04 has version with a bug in TLS-based "file copy" socat usage. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/socat/+bug/1936407

Simple fix is to just "dpkg -i" the 18.04 or 21.04 .deb file, there don't seem to be any strange dependencies.
Yeah, I agree with that. Tifa had a huge rack, but she was also a fully fleshed out character and not really sexualized outside of being a nebulously romantic interest of Cloud's. Her bust size was reduced in the remake because, and I'm guessing here, they were going for a more realistic look than the superdeformed look of the original and it would have been out of place [0].

The problem is that the backlash was entirely in the form of man-children making this out to be some woke appeasement move because they can't ogle quite as much volume of virtual knockers. And even worse is that, as a culture, we just kind of shake our heads at this and ignore it.

[0] Barret is still ripped as fuck, but his proportions are much better. The Rock actually looks like that.
I can appreciate that you have a different view from mine, but I am feeling like you didn't quite understand what I wrote. That's okay. Your judgement is totally valid, and I hope that as your view evolves, you continue to publish it.
If they could just issue a bunch of NFT's to the album, they could make out more by selling the NFT's.
Are you genuinely curious or do you have an axe to grind? Have you seen anyone accuse such an invention as ableist? This is exactly what new technology is supposed to do: make things possible that were previously difficult or impossible. I don't see how any of the culture wars in vogue have anything to do with it.
"IBM hasn’t dominated the tech industry since the early 1980s. Most founders today weren’t even born when the last antitrust case was opened into it. The share price is up 9x since then, and IBM shipped its highest-ever volume of mainframe computing capacity in…. 2020!"[1]

Never played around with one. But it must be working so reliably well in some specific field ( I am guessing Accounting and Finance ) that those end users, not engineers or IT, but actual people using the system dont want it to be replaced, only upgraded.

[1] https://twitter.com/benedictevans/status/1408469812318195716
Note: across multiple machines.
Which is a reminder: If you are going to do unethical things, make sure you can prove that your bosses ordered it. Otherwise, in addition to being a rat, you will likely twist in the wind.
I think Roblox is as big based on revenue, Unity has a very different development model, but the others seem a lot smaller than Riot/Activision-Blizzard.

My point about the C-Levels is that it is primarily 1 C-level who is being spoken about: The COO. While there was an allegation against the CEO earlier this year, it was found to be unsubstantiated and thrown out because the claimant was proved to have stolen money/scammed Riot and falsified the claim. I am not sure if it's fair to group all of the other executives into the same bucket as the COO.

I can see how the culture is playing a part in it. Riot has softened up on the "need not apply if not a gamer" in the past couple of years, but many of the people who started that are still there. I guess my big question is: Why Riot/Blizzard? Are they the worst companies in California right for sexual harassment and inclusion? These have been the two prominent DFEH cases against tech companies in the past couple of years.
ANY molecular biologist will tell you that it's NOT.

At 30+ cycles, you are generated false positives off of both everyday Common Cold coronavirus, influenza and probably even bacteria. Literally you are amplifying noise and then calling it a positive.
the parent company gave the Diablo 2 remake to another studio inside Activision (i.e. not the Blizzard studio)

so... more of that: fewer and fewer Blizzard IPs developed by "Blizzard"
100 requests per second? That is not too impressive. Yes, I know Python is their tool of choice, but it is probably the wrong tool for the problem at hand.

There are frameworks that can handle over a million requests per second (simple json output) or at least several 10,000 requests per second if DB queries are performed (even though on different hardware, but just compare the scale).

https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r20&hw=...
https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r20&hw=...

I think, if performance is a strong requirement, they were better off with another programming language.
any time someone tells me they've got nothing to hide.

Has anyone ever actually uttered that particular strawman argument to you? I think it may be the second most commonly used one.
I cannot be more direct about this, it is not seamless, or even close to seamless, in general, to work across continents such as you describe.

Maybe you've cracked a nut here, and we'd all benefit from your wisdom, experience, and stories, but that is not the experience most folks have working across continents or cultures.
The Fall of the Ski Civilization
I need to get firewire into a newish system and do the same. Haven't done this since agp video cards were a thing. Guess I'll need to start with that the modern motherboards have available.

I'd love to find an ultra-wide-scsi adapter to pull data from an old 4drive in 1 - setup as well.

Think I've got an old scsi card. not sure it'd match up with the newer motherboard connections though.
So if your comment were heavily upvoted you would've reconsidered your position? Or will any outcome whatsoever just reinforce your existing ideas?
I love team ladder in SC2. Somehow we tend to avoid blaming each other, rather we analyse our team games and see which plays worked well and which didn't. In 1v1 the road to improvement is usually macro, macro, scouting, and macro - in teams it's communication, communication, teamwork, and communication. 60% winrate last season :)

Also arranged teams have a very strong advantage over random teams, you can really punch above your weight if your teammates understand how to support you.
Maybe https://qntm.org/mmacevedo may change your view about how desirable that may be.

At least if we get to that stage, if we survive enough time, if that is feasible, etc, too many ifs.
Thank you! I'm actually going to forward this over to her. This is super helpful.
I tried to take the quiz on mobile, but it just locked the screen so I couldn't scroll. Trying again after requesting the desktop version, it just froze on a spinner. I guess I better get back to work!
I'd suggest you really reflect on what you're saying here. Plenty of languages present unique challenges when it comes to a typing system that was designed essentially to only work with block letters, not just east Asian ones. Suggesting that they simply "fix" their language to make it easier to type is straight up offensive and ignorant.

Arabic script, for example, is always cursive script, which requires a computer to link the characters when typed, which is a similar problem that hangul has, where the character blocks are broken down syllabically. You could create a phonetic alphabet keyboard covering every single possibility, but the issue here is that you have over 11,000 possibilities, which in the end puts you in the same predicament that Hanzi and Kanji are in, where you end up with these amusingly difficult to use typewriters.
> Hydrogen supercars and race cars exist

Yes, there are some prototypes that get close to the performance of a decently-spec'd Tesla Model 3.

> Hydrogen buses are already cheaper to operate than battery buses

There are some serious gymnastics going on with the math in that paper. The paper shows FCEV buses cost 3x the maintenance per mile and cost ~30% more per mile for the fuel. A lot of that price difference rides on the assumption that batteries will never go down in price, which is pretty debatable.
Probably changed post-publication. That's a super common thing now. And why you always need to both use an archiver site and possibly save a local copy.
I wish Slack had a notion of Threadmaster(s) on a channel who could drag other people's messages into and out of threads. Because with people who aren't familiar with Slack or aren't committed to threading, you end up with a split brain between the conversation in the thread and the conversation at the top level. I get that it's hard from a permissioning perspective since anyone can create a public channel, but this should be a solvable problem.
There is also a netcat inside busybox, and the Windows port from frippery.org implements it.

The busybox netcat doesn't set off all the malware alarms on my corporate desktop.

C:\Temp>\bin\busybox64 nc 1.2.3.4 21
220 (vsFTPd 2.0.5)
quit
221 Goodbye.

The Windows port is not very smart compared to the rest of the netcat family (the Linux x86-64 version has more of the common options).

C:\Temp>\bin\busybox64 nc
BusyBox v1.32.0-FRP-3445-g10e14d5eb (2020-04-11 10:50:47 BST) multi-call binary

Usage: nc [-l] [-p PORT] [IPADDR PORT]

Open a pipe to IP:PORT

-l Listen mode, for inbound connects
-p PORT Local port
> I’ve reduced work to hang out with my kids (and I’m not wealthy by first world standards).

Perhaps you have some tips but reducing work is very hard to manage in my experience.

Salaried positions are a crapshoot - many of them like to say they support work-life balance but it rarely turns out that way.

Most employers ( again, IME ) who hire contractors are not looking for anything less than 40 hours/week.

You can set yourself up as a contractor and take the jobs you want, but besides the obvious loss of health insurance and retirement benefits, there's time spent finding customers and the lack of steady pay has its own costs.

I'd love to reduce hours, but I've never found a way to make it work.
On mobile, I don't see the blur on the deep fake. It looks really good. I suspect it would be more obvious on a large screen.
If you are not familiar with it, OAD[0] is a fully open source RTS with an active community of developers that keep making it more and more polished at every release.

[0]: https://play0ad.com/