skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I managed to deploy a whole system at google that had the ability take down all of google globally by DoS'ing the network, and ran it casually (IE, starting and stopping it when I felt like it, at the capacity I felt like, with the binary versions I wanted) for 3 years.

In retrospect, this was absolutely crazy! The actual visible outcomes were: 1 cluster drained due to heat rising so fast the alerting thought there was a fire, 1 page to an engineer in the middle of the night (sorry discovery-service) and a whole bunch of complaints about CPU stealing that weren't my fault.

Those were the good old days.
> I’m glad to see a reporter following up.

Me too.
This is a good question! So a standard property tax is a tax on the value of the building and the tax on the land.

The landlord has to pay the tax whether they're renting it out or not, but what kind of tax you're assessing affects how much they can charge in rent to their tenant.

When you tax something, the cost typically gets "passed on" because you are changing the marginal profitability of that thing, and this causes the supply to decrease, which drives up the price.

We can make more buildings. But we can't make more land (locations).

So theory has long held that a tax on the value of land (also known as a site value tax) cannot be passed on to tenants, because it's not like someone says "well the cost of holding land went up this week Charlie, better make slightly less land this quarter." Though they can and absolutely do in fact do that with regards to, say, housing construction (and gasoline, and cigarettes, and sirloin steaks, and plush dolls, and anything else you might want to tax).

And this is exactly the empirical effect that the referenced research paper (and many more like it) find in practice. If you assign a split-rate property tax which taxes two things: land, and improvements (buildings, essentially) at different rates, and you have a natural experiment where you randomly vary the tax rate on the improvements and the tax rate on the land, you will find that the price of the property goes down proportionately to the tax rate on land (full capitalization of land taxes), but that doesn't happen with the portion of the tax rate that falls on buildings.

See this for more on the underlying theory:
https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/your-book-review-progr...

If you want more sources on the empirical findings I'm happy to provide that to.
If your running that big of a shop, I would call your channel partner/support group and bitch until they figure out whats failing. The usual expected failure modes for SSD's should be that they go into read only mode. If that isn't happening its either a firmware bug (probably) or a controller/vr failure which could be a process/heat/etc type of failure.

Particularly for "enterprise" equipment the expectations isn't that it fails, but that the failures are more graceful and understood.

So complain... that is why your paying the "enterprise" tax.
You are absolutely beating a dead horse, sorry. This argument gets made repeatedly every time that report gets mentioned and... frankly I'm sick of going through it every time. Nitpicking against a result you don't like without presenting contrary data is just useless pontification. It proves nothing, and has no value but supporting your own priors vs. inconvenient evidence. Find some data.

I mean... there are two million of these cars on the street now, and all but a tiny handful of early Roadsters and S's have full featured autopilot. If there was a significant safety signal in all that data somewhere it would be very clear against the noise background now, and it isn't.
Mitigation against security vulnerabilities? Bug fixes? New features?

This question is intentionally missing the point.

If you think an internet-connected computer used for modern workloads can be treated like a lawn mower and doesn't need any updates over its usable life, you're dreaming.
Out of genuine curiosity, what keeps you at Google for 15 years despite perceived increase in complexity to getting things done? I'm wondering whether the answer is like "there's a lot of complexity, but I like the work I do more" or "I like the people more" or some other reason.
I was unaware of that and will update accordingly.

I own a Lemur and the power connection was one of my complaints, but that does still mean you can only power it from one side. The XPS13 and the Framework can be powered on either side.
I think that can be disabled, or encryption key exported for backup.

Anyway, it is stupid argument. It is like saying car does not need spare tire, because wheels are welded to save 10 ounces on bolts.
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Can I use it to actually watch 4k Netflix content like on Windows? FWIW, I have a modern Intel CPU, IIRC that's required too for their DRM..
Not many, and are we passing judgement on pre-crime at this point?

Yes we are.

Sometimes we need to, say armed people fleeing a scene. They could harm, kidnap others. Fair enough.

Many times we do not need to, and by percentages the killing of people by the police speak to a general failure to properly assess these dynamics.

Earlier, I wrote about doctrine, escalation of force to compliance. It is up thread.

Essentially, police are killing people for failure to comply, not a respectable assessment of their potential hazard otherwise.

When we changed the doctrine, we created these ugly scenarios.

When we revise doctrine, we will improve on all we see right now.

Our society can do much better.

We need to change the doctrine and invest in far superior training and screening. Nations that do that do not generally report the ugly we do.

Secondly, we need to examine why crimes are happening, and that will lead us to a better economic policy, and far fewer and less toxic crime incidents to face.

All of that leads to happier overall people, less crime, less policing, less death.

Fact is, when we really put the screws to people, they will act. They will feel they have to. They will feel less obligation to care too.

Often, how much we may care as people gets directly linked to how we are cared for. For far too many, it is a damn rough place to live. They act accordingly.
The “validity” of the Bible is an ill-posed concept. It’s neither valid nor invalid.

It’s pretty poor as a history, but a treasure as a historical document.

Understood literally, it’s bizarre, contradictory and rambling. Read in cultural and historical context it’s an enlightening (if not _inspired_ ) look at mankind’s place in the cosmos and how one should live knowing that you will die.
> Or... maybe HN is composed of different people with different viewpoints.

A useful concept for people to remember as it applies everywhere. Particularly as we get drawn into tribal politics, it would be better for people to remember that the opposition is not uniform and consists of many different viewpoints. For someone who wants to be divisive, it is trivial to cherry pick examples of bad behavior ("hypocritical") by pretending that those you disagree with must all share exactly the same priorities and opinions.
You can promote yourself without being disingenuous.
You can say the same thing about mythology from other cultures (Greek, Roman, Norse, Egyptian, Chinese, Arthurian and hundreds more). Ultimately human imagination works the same way worldwide.
what's the comment here? sharing random link (use reddit.com not old, ppl who use that can do on own) without any insight isn't so helpful
> Arrogance in particular is something that often ebbs with age.

I would argue that arrogance ebbs with experiencing or observing failure just enough times.

Failures and their lessons usually correlate with age. However, it is not unusual to find people with enough age and nous yet lacking the graciousness you expect from experts/mentors.
The _real_ one though, not the fake bullshit union they're dealing with now.
Agree, it's painful, and it really takes me out of the larger point they are trying to make

A workflow should be be

User creates an SSH key pair, the private key never leaving the computer
User sends public key to authoriser
Authoriser pushes public key to Git (presumably an email + key touple?)
Wait for the build job to finish (not sure what this does)
Build process sends the email saying "You can now use your key"

Same with say a wireguard key. Or an SSL certificate.

I think the larger point is that you just have step by step instructions, and thus dont need to catch edge cases, but it also makes it harder to avoid skipping a step, which seems reasonable (I do this myself in some areas)
Mojang can control their Minecraft, one of the strengths of Minecraft is that everyone can have their own.
Thinking of how the MNT Reform designed their battery solution[0], I wonder if it's possible to build a "battery enclosure" where you can just drop in a bunch of LiFePo4 cells, so you can just purchase commodity batteries. It seems super wasteful to buy a complete new battery every time because it's just the cells inside that lose energy capacity...

[0] https://mntre.com/reform2/handbook/parts.html#battery-packs
Being from Southern Ohio, I've always considered Pennsylvania to be Midwest. Maybe it's because the cultural difference between Eastern Ohio and Pennsylvania is much less marked than the difference between Southern Ohio and Kentucky.
I read this article the other day, and tried it out. It works, but it's definitely for the enthusiast. I think the stuff outlined in the OP accurately describe what needs to change for this to get to mass market.

I DO think it looks like we are going to get there though. the delta of improvement on the issues that are holding us back seems quite high.

It feels like we are roughly in the Commodore 64-era of things with VR, if we use the PC as our metaphor. Definitely still for the enthusiast, but only a couple iterations away from something truly mass market in it's usefulness.
I have found that the biggest thing that can be done is to ask your people over and over again. And then also genuinely care about the situation and make it your goal to communicate to others that the problem exists.
> fake "I quit" texts

Yeah, if I was a gambling man, I'd wager that at least 50% of the posts are fake, with the most upvoted posts the ones most likely to be fake, because they're too perfect.

> a fundamental misunderstanding of capitalism

No, they understand capitalism. And because they understand it, they hate it.

Capitalism prioritizes absolutely one thing and one thing only: Profit. Corporations will typically only do the "right thing" as much as they have to in order to preserve profits.

It is easy to find replacements for workers in the service industry, so it is more profitable to treat them like shit and replace them when they get sick of it and quit than to treat them well with a living wage and paid sick days.

> failing to understand value generation

By "value generation", do you mean the utterly wrong belief that your wage is in any way determined by the revenue you generate?
Knowing outlines of how online harassment happens, I'm confident it would do far more harm than help in this context. Weaponized autism is real.
Thanks, proper documentation will come really soon.

All configurations are stored in motor.yml file which is automatically generated in root directory.

There might be two ways handling configurations:
1. Use git to create commits with new configurations in motor.yml and deploy/pull that git repo on the production host in order to update the configs.

2. rake motor:sync to sync configurations directly to production app host via API.

There a bit of info about configurations sync between environment here:

https://github.com/motor-admin/motor-admin-rails#configurati...
Come on, the "entire rest of the domestic auto industry's smart cruise control features. Combined." constitutes what, 20k vehicles or something like that? It's just in the last few months that we've seen lanekeeping features start to land in volume models, and even then they tend to be extremely heavily geofenced. It's very hard to kill someone when no one has your product and you won't let them use it.

Who's being misleading here?
An important thing you may not be aware of is that Bitcoin’s “dilution schedule”, so to speak, is fixed in advance. 88% of “shares” have been issued. This is, in fact, a critical advantage Bitcoin has over a ton of shitcoins - fixed dilution schedule, and no pre-mine/creator subsidy.
Wine runs MS Office great and if you're going to pay for Office, might want to pay Codeweavers to get commercial support for running it as well.
When I started having meetings in Workrooms I was shocked by how much less fatiguing it was than a standard VC, even with the Quest hanging off my face.

I also regularly sim race (1-2 hour races on iRacing) in VR and that's a much better experience as it's 3D than just starting at a screen - VR feels like it's reached that critical mass moment where it's not going to fade away as a fad.
You will own nothing and you will be happy
> software which eventually runs on the customer's computer

I gather then that you're not a fan of SaaS. True, one can cynically explain the rise of SaaS as rent seeking. But there's undeniably value in selling whatever functionality your software provides without burdening the customer with having to run it on their own computer(s). And when we do that, it's our responsibility to make the service reliable, which is what a lot of these tools are trying to do.
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I highly suggest you return them since the upkeep is very expensive. The repairs for screens is ridiculous, the batteries are horrible (the x220 has more longevity since the bios is DRM free), the cards are on a whitelist (only approved ones allowed). It is so bad I have some that are in disrepair until I can find parts for them again. The x240 to x270 will have modern parts that are cheap, the batteries internal and external are under $30, the screen aren't almost/more than the price of the same laptop. The TN screens on the x230 may not break, but you won't be happy using them, and to modify it with modern parts needs an expensive $60 screen adapter, and you can't control the backlight. The x250 is the best since there is no wifi whitelist, unofficial screens are fine in linux, the trackpad is good by default, and the battery market is so good sometimes they give you 2 6 cells instead of one, whereas the x230 ones are now going for $80.
Does anyone know how the site searchea YouTube for videos with certain words? Or is it crawled?
This might be right (though to my knowledge, it's not what they claim to be doing). To originate a loan, Tether would simply issue and lend their coin (Tether), specifically ignoring dollar backing. Can you provide a discussion of them doing this?
Yeah right.
But they keep a few copies in selected data centers, just in case.
I think they call them “golden handcuffs”.
>But another part of me isn't okay with a world in which the vast majority of people do nothing (or do something that doesn't really produce value) while forcing higher-income people (like many of us, myself included) to fund that lifestyle.

You're talking about the owner class here, right? Not the working class?
No ban, just huge property taxes for non-primary residences.
also just recently submitted a few weeks ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28966865
> Seems reasonable in the context of going to court with a mega-corp landlord, though.

The mega-corp landlords are much more savvy when it comes to dealing with grifters and con artists, to the point that they will usually avoid taking them on as tenants (e.g. via extensive background checks). Small-time landlords are getting savvier, but not at the same speed.

> Which is increasingly common.

And given the above, they will be probably become the norm in a decade or so.
Terraria, Factorio, Satisfactory and Oxygen Not Included are all really great.
Would you care to finish reading the sentence you're quoting the first part of?

> As far as personal feelings are concerned, of course we would prefer if people so antithetical to our values did not use and benefit from our labour, *but the reality of working on free software is that you give up the possibility of choosing who can and cannot use it from the get-go*, so in a practical sense *the only issue we can take with something like Truth Social is if they don’t even comply with the free software license* we release our work under.
Braintree created a tool for doing something similar: https://medium.com/braintree-product-technology/https-medium...
I'm referring to design.
The West Country accent is something special!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahznvtDunEw
For me it's a trade-off between Google and Microsoft.

Nobody would ever confuse me for a Microsoft fan-boy, but I personally feel more comfortable with sharing telemetry data (which both Google and Microsoft collect) with a software and services company than an advertising company.

More than 80% of Google's revenue comes from advertising (source cited below).

The majority of Microsoft's revenue comes from cloud services, Office, and Windows.

But I understand Microsoft has a trust gap with many folks, based on their anti-OSS activity of the late 90's and early 00's, and I'm glad we are all free to choose.

The only major browser (by market share) that is truly open-source is still Mozilla Firefox.

source: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/18/how-does-google-make-money-a...

source: https://www.geekwire.com/2020/filing-shows-microsoft-really-...
Congratulations, you've just made the situation worse by rushing to what you think a solution is, rather than seeing that the actual problem is.
The changes happened hours after the Tweets, after the crisis had been ongoing for months.

Unless you think Ryan had amazing ability to time his virality, I think the obviously probable answer is that the mayor responded to a viral tweet.
I'm incredulous that having a screen strapped half an inch from your eyes for 8+ hours is desirable. I have an Oculus Rift, my face is sweaty/red in a couple of hours and there is an indent around my eyes. I'm sure newer tech can be much better, especially with airflow and an AR set that lets in natural light. We're not there yet, though.
I don't use Twitter, I don't have an account, but sometimes (news) articles link to tweets. And when I click on them and see the replies I have to actively remind myself that it is not an accurate representation of the population.

As Hannah Arendt wrote in her notebook "Amor mundi - warum ist es so schwer, die Welt zu lieben?"
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Rachel said something similar “My own ‘solution’ to it after far too much thrashing was just to say ‘we cannot get all N types of quota in the same place so we are at the mercy of whatever happens to be available, and if that dries up, we stop running’. Granted, this was for some internal stuff that was seven or eight levels removed from anything that anyone on the outside might ever see, but still, it was stupid and made me feel so dirty. I'm sure my non-solution probably bit someone later. Sorry, whoever.” — https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2021/10/30/5tb/
I wrote the initial version of Toxiproxy back in 2014, but Jacob Wirth took it way beyond during his internship at Shopify. It came out of a need for writing integration tests for resiliency work we did at Shopify back then. [1] We didn't want someone to suddenly re-introduce a hard dependency on e.g. Redis on Shopify's storefronts. The initial prototype was a shell script that used lsof(1) and gdb(1) to close the file descriptor of the various connections. But, besides being dodgy, we needed to also simulate latency and make sure it worked on everyone's MacOS laptop's (otherwise e.g. tc(1) would have been intriguing). I wrote a little bit more of the history of Toxiproxy on Twitter. [2] It's stable and has proxied everything in dev and CI at Shopify for over half a decade.

[1]: https://shopify.engineering/building-and-testing-resilient-r...

[2]: https://twitter.com/Sirupsen/status/1455622640727728137
If you are going through writing the do-nothing script anyway why not do a do-something script and remove the error prone human out of the loop, it also can serve as documentation and if you are disciplined enough to never make a change other then trough the automation you can have the benefit of source controlling it and have documentation with historical context
"What is Facebook doing wrong? They're allowing people to share content"

I don't have a dog in that fight, I am reffering to them spying on people who have enevr even signed up tp facebook, enabling electoral fraud in Uk and conspiring with Google to manipulate the ad market. All of those activities are illegal and well documented.
This makes my point that those sleeping drivers when they had to chose between

1 marketing message" Autopilot works and stupid politics forces us to release it with this tons of boilerplate warnings and having to pay attention"

2 the actual disclaimers the car will show you

this drivers chose to believe 1, this is obvious that marketing is undermining the reality, so IMO Elon and his marketing should be criminally responsible for undermining their own official message.
Grim Dawn -- if you're into Diablo or Path of Exile like ARPG's

It's hands-down one of the best games I've ever played. What makes it so unique is how in-depth the builds and play styles can be. Endless combinations and replayability.

It's an "M x N" combinatorial thing.

There's something like ~10 classes, with 3 "skill trees" each.

You can (and should) choose a second class after first few levels.

Now you've got (10 ^ 2) class combinations, with 3 skill trees for each that you can freely use.

Then there's a whole thing with types of damage (fire, poison, lightning, etc) and you can tailor builds around this, with both skills and equipment bonuses.

On top of it all, it's moddable. So people have released mods to add Diablo classes into it, plus the classes from another game by the same publisher (Titan Quest).

Can play solo, or co-op (LAN or online)

I can't do the game justice with a single text comment tbh. Just have to try it, if it's your kind of game.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/219990/Grim_Dawn/

Buy the entire set though if you really want to experience it, not just the base game.
> Complexity-related Learned Helplessness

I've gotten used to just accepting that every job I have will involve a code base that uses up way too much memory to run in a debugger and doesn't have (or allow for) unit tests.
I think the breach of privacy is giving an almost trillion dollar corporation free training data via my face and name combination.

I don’t mind an individual knowing this information, but I’d rather that individual not hand that data over to a megacorp that has a million other unknown uses for it.
Yup. If you lived in tribes the 10 commandments would be a pretty solid set of rules to make sure you don't all kill each other.
I'm so glad I can see this again. I forgot how much I missed this.