skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see asking question as an ultimate offensive tactics. Because in Russian culture, at the very least, answering with a question is unpolite, very close to show rudeness.

So with Russians, at the very least, you cannot be non-threatening if you are the one asking questions.

I also had the privilege to be a team lead for some short period of time. What I found being one is that simple propaganda tactic works quite well - if you tell the same thing several times, almost literally word-for-word the same, people start to show understanding. This is almost miraculous, getting from blank stare to collaboration in three repeats of the simplest problem explanation.

What all that means to me is that I cannot be non-agressive or non-authoritharian inflicting change in people's minds. That's a deduction for me, at the very least. May be someone can be non-agressive changing people's mind, but even Jesus bore that proverbial sword.
> Even if you can manage more uptime on your own than through the cloud (which I doubt)

Getting higher uptime is super easy for smallish inhouse deployments.

You just don't install any updates and let the server run, trusting your VPN to shield you from possible security issues.

The maintenance burden is the reason why people often prefer the cloud services, not the uptime. Because maintaining the instance with updates, reading all patch notes and steps for migration, keep every health metric monitored and respond quickly on issues without getting stuck googling for possible reasons is quite a bit of work and quickly forces you to employ n+1 people.
Really nice presentation. I think the bottleneck here is that developers creates tool for other developers to simplify their job and few decades later we end up with lots of handy and easy to use tools that just mask the real toughness of the problem. You can see it easily in web development with tools like React or even the CSS which is (IMHO) full of nasty hacks.
Both options exist, but both are actually trade offs in all 3 segments (near-mid-far field).
Intraocular ones have been existing and evolving in the market for a long time now, but really none are perfect.
If your job or lifestyle dictates a good visual acuity at a certain distance don't go with these options.
>This doesn't mean that any country can prosecute foreign people with arbitrary laws at their leisure, though. Most extradition agreements would require that the offense be a crime in both countries, for example.

Ok but Anne Sacoolas ran over and killed a kid (definitely a crime here) and she wasn't extradited.

While Julian Assange exposed a US war crime and is extradited because US espionage law literally counts that as spying. Not a crime in the UK.

It really does appear that "at their leisure" is precisely how it works. There's the exercise of raw power with a thin veneer of false legal pretext on top designed to manufacture consent and convince those susceptible to the just world fallacy.
> nvidia has enough of my money already, thx

Wednesday was RSU vesting day. Your purchase is appreciated. <3
>>The standard piano key mapping is the elephant in the room here. Where is the experimentation corresponding to the thriving QMK keyboard rabbit hole?

There has been some experimentation with Isomorphic keyboards on and off over last 150 years. But like with QWERTY, the legacy of what grouchy old white Austrian males left us with in the 18th century is hard to shed :O

(I've started fully nerding out about learning music late in life, and it's been a mix of enlightenment and frustration. The clefs & notation system, the piano keyboard, they're all seemingly designed to beat any sense of intuition and understanding out of you, and have you memorize by rote things that you could have otherwise just understood. )
What difference does it make if he’s a journalist, an astronaut, or a haberdasher? Shouldn’t the law apply equally regardless of your profession and level of celebrity?
Why is it that rust has so many good ORMs and go hardly has any production grade ORMs ? Lack of generics ?
For those out of the loop: this is a reference to the Log4j RCE story that's also currently on the HN frontpage.

Amazon uses a lot of Java, so the two stories might be actually connected somehow.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29504755
Which may not be good for your uptime: https://youtu.be/tDacjrSCeq4
All of those failure cases you mention have mitigations. Dealing with banks? Not so much.

And I'd go so far as to call what the majority of Americans prefer wrt. key management a result of inertia due to a few centuries of having always done it that way. That's not necessarily surprising, a lot of this is new and doesn't have a good "real world" analogue to tie back to.
"If only we could all flee when faced with consequences for breaking laws that we disagree with."

These who can flee the overreach of foregin countries trying to enforce their unjust laws on them, do so.

"versus damaging to the diplomatic relations and ability to conduct diplomacy with much of the rest of the world."

Yeah, if a country commits horrible warcrimes then most of the world will not want to deal with them. It was not assange who was responsible for this but the US itself. One would not accuse a rape victim of ruining the reputation of their abuser.

"Oh, goodness. Thanks for adding to taking the time to provide your perspective and add to the discussion."

Pray tell. If it is zero then you can just say so, and if you did try to expose warcrimes I will take it back.
Huh. I went out of my way to buy a 2in1 touchscreen laptop despite not using the 2in1 feature precisely because I know the manufacturer has designed the hinges and casing to be stronger for that use case, so that it doesn’t break easily.

Avoid random Chinese Celeron based 2in1 and you should be fine.
That's a good question and I am not 100% sure where I would personally/morally draw the line. I think the conversation would be much different if all that were released was the evidence of what people consider to be a war crime. However, there was a lot more than that released than just that. Whether A (benefit to society) is greater than B (risk/damage) is always a hard distinction to make and up for significant discussion/analysis.
> The very first versions of Lisp were less functional than Common Lisp: imperative, mutable data, mostly only dynamic scoping for variables, no lexical scope, first class data type of functions unclear, ...

Hmm, perhaps I’m misremembering — I know very little about the history of Lisp. I was thinking specifically about the very beginning of the language, where it could be used to define ‘eval’ and nothing much else.
Funny, I was thinking of a Logan Roy quote: “Life's not knights on horseback. It's a number on a piece of paper. It's a fight for a knife in the mud.”
Primitive iron smelting was done with charcoal, I believe. Correct me if I'm wrong.
A journalist is /any/ citizen engaging in journalism. ANY. As soon as you have to "qualify" to be a "journalist" and can't be an "activist" What you have is state controlled media.

Indiscriminate publishing. So you think the vetting done in partnership with the Washington Post and the New York Times was not journalism and the employees of the NYT and WaPo who are now not journalists should be prosecuted along side him?
That's pretty radical.
Another key point of this: Selecting your downtime. If you own your own stuff, your major changes and maintenance are done at times favorable for your business. AWS or Azure configuration fat-fingers happen when best for their business, not yours.
I think it might be helpful to consider what happened to the dinosaurs. The same could happen to us if we fail to evolve in time...

Asteroid hits. Wipes out almost all life. A million years later, the biomass around us will have all been converted to a black ooze (oil), covered by millennia of rock, sediment, and tectonic plates. Eventually future civilized beings who plunder the Earth for our biomass that has been converted to oil and coal discover uncanny hard-to-explain remnants of a past civilization of, get this, bipedal animals.
Will read, thanks.

Graeber's book Debt rewired my brain. (I was also greatly influenced by Kevin Phillips' Wealth and Democracy, back in the day.)

IMHO, the advocates of MMT (modern monetary theory) don't dare nearly enough.

My current worldview:

"Governmental spending is a loan that we repay thru taxes."
those poor cats.
IPv6 address randomisation fixes that, and it's enabled by default on most IPv6 stacks.
This is particularly true with modern fully solid state hardware. Uptimes of decades are likely possible if you don't mess with anything.

We run some bare metal servers. They just never go down. Solid continuous pings for years as monitored from elsewhere on the Internet. That's because they're just boxes on a rack somewhere running an OS and some steady-state services (ZeroTier roots). Simplicity is more robust than complexity.

SaaS is definitely about the pain of managing and upgrading software, but it's also about OPEX vs CAPEX. Many companies will pay more for things to put them in the OPEX column for various entirely synthetic accounting, investor relations, and tax reasons.

I do wonder if the pendulum there will swing back though since if you price out cloud vs. physical hardware the market has become extremely distorted. Many companies spend enough on AWS to buy an entire rack of hardware at a different data center every month and pay 2-3 employees to manage it. That hardware would be up to 100X as fast and powerful as what they rent at AWS and bandwidth would be almost free. That's a really distorted market. The amortized costs should not be this different.
>But it's hilarious to see people indulging in byzantine "World scale" resilient systems that depend on a single vendor.

As far as I can tell, there really hasn't been an AWS outage where you couldn't have avoided issues with multi-region and some careful selection of which products you're using. Which isn't much different from what you would have to do with your own infrastructure.
Wha? We host everything on our hardware (which is nothing special) and haven't had any downtime in this year (yet). And we're just another run of the mill dev shop, very far from "superstars" who work on these (supposedly extremely stable) platforms.
I can't confirm any of this. I've had 0 keyboard issues or screen issues.

Asus, windows 7 and 10.

Laptop is 7 years old.

My biggest surprise is how often I use the touch screen. I'm typically a mouse and keyboard guy, but when I'm on an airplane it's sooo easy to tap.

Didn't know Apple doesn't offer touch screens, kind of shocked given how Essential they are to me.
> At any rate, I'm amazed that one would find pinch-zoom awkward on a trackpad, yet find it perfectly natural to lift their hands off the keyboard area altogether and reach up to paw at the screen.

To be clear, that's two different people, my wife and I. We do file jointly though :-)
Thanks. I know nothing of Japanese so this was confusing to me.

I'm thinking about it, and I guess there's "politeness levels" in English, but probably not as much so, and usually in a form of passive aggresisveness.

That's fascinating. So the "style" of language they use has a huge impact on the message, possibly more so than the actual words? Very McLuhanesque :)
IEEE Spectrum is still fairly decent.

MIT Technology Review is ok, it never grabs me and makes me want to read it frequently though.
If your non-cloud uptime is even 50% more then the uptime cloud offers, then you’re throughout the year, up longer then others.
> ...expansion absolutely does work on the first word

As was already pointed out, you are right. It does not work to match executables in the $PATH, which is what I was, for some reason, trying to communicate badly.
Seriously. This is just a shoot 'em up with nice graphics.
What? Saddam was executed.
I guess the definition of "computer" you have is "stored program machine", but a lot of other machines were called computers back then.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15108965

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1i-dnAH9Y4
I use XFCE because of it's stabilty.
For tiling: I came across the tool xpytile (search on github for it). It almost perfectly fits my needs. Since it's written in Python I could pretty easily tweak it or even add new features. Very helpful is the concurrent auto-resizing of windows which are placed side by side.
Tiny Gated Manual Shifter Lets You Bang Through Your Bike’s Gears
Good explanation but he didn’t say how to quote. Single, double, double quotes surrounded by single, etc. Quoting is quite confusing and rarely taught, you just kind of learn by accident and trial and error.
The UK has recently agreed with the industry to phase out 2G by 2033, as mentioned in another comment here.

I imagine there will be a fair bit of industrial equipment and smart meters needing replaced as a result!
Criticisms of Amazon do need to overcome a fundamental problem.

Unfortunately, it's not this problem..or at least, that's not the biggest problem.

Criticizing Amazon because of the policies held in Team X is like saying 'The U.S. talks way too fast' after visiting New York (caveat, long time New Yorker here). Each state is different in the US. In the same way, each team is different in Amazon: the Whispersync team is much different than the Amazon FedCloud team, and both are much different than the fulfillment team.

Perhaps because it has grown so fast, and been so innovative, the company is not homogenous. So when you criticize policies..please criticize specific policies, and specific teams.

I do not work for Amazon, am not a shareholder, but I do have several friends that work there, on different teams.

Edited to add some thoughts on stack ranking...

I have been at a company that did formal stack ranking. I was never in the lower tiers..but I hated it, because I saw all the stress and drama caused by it. It pit team members against each other and disincentivized team mates helping each other. Stack ranking is also the reason I didn't sign on with one particular company (not Amazon).

I've also been at other companies that did what amounts to unofficial stack ranking: manager has a pool of $Xk to divide amongst pay raises on the team and must justify it by some kind of metrics.

Neither are good for teams, for the people at your company. What isn't good for the people at your company is not good for your company. People are what any company is made on. Innovation, hard-charging business, can cover this to some extent for a while (perhaps a long while), but it always takes a toll in the end.

Perhaps the best compensation structure I've seen (on paper) is at Fog Creek Software (now Glitch), in an article that's now 20 years old:

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/08/30/fog-creek-compensa...

I'm curious to see if Glitch uses that, how it worked in practice, and what the thoughts are about it now - 20 years later.
Saddam's selling in Euro's had nothing to do with anything, and yes, there were obviously people who wanted to complete the overthrow of Saddam, which points to the obvious issue that Iraq2 was a continuation of Iraq1.

Your comments about Libya are not relevant and add nothing to the argument. There was an uprising, eventually it became violent, Qaddaffi ordered an incursion into E. Libya in which he publicly declared the intention of massacre, which practically forced the hand of observing parties. We could be on one wide or the other, there were no good outcomes.

Your speculation about Assad is fabricated, and historical assertions equally so.

1) The US did not 'occupy' any part of Syria.

2) Your claims about Assad's inability to sell Oil in other denominations due to his lack of control of Oil Fields is clearly disproven by the fact that he controls those areas right now, at this time. By your logic, he should be warring against the Petro dollar?

The conflict in Syria has nothing to do with the Petrodollar.

"Even the French will go to war to prop up the sphere of influence of their currency.[6]"

Despite the obvious flaw in your premise in that the French do not have a currency , your claim is not remotely substantiated by the link you provided.

You do understand that providing links to irrelevant information doesn't help your case?

Stop with the fictional conspiracy fantasies and reading as evidence bits of information that have little or nothing to do with the situation.
Just to nitpick on your logic a little. Your first two statements might be true without the statement that he is a world famous journalist is. Trump is world famous, and he's a golfer. But he's not a world famous golfer, at least not in the usual sense of the word.
And that is still better than dictatorship, ask Venezuela.

Attack individuals, not democracy.
You are right, for some reason I was focused on the combined search-through-$PATH and glob expansion at the same time.
"Implications of testicular ACE2 and the renin–angiotensin system for SARS-CoV-2 on testis function", https://www.nature.com/articles/s41585-021-00542-5
Reareading science fiction, Vurt - Jeff Noon, Snow Crash Etc...
If your system integrates with any external systems or APIs, it's likely they have downtime when one of the cloud giants are down, so sometimes being up is not so relevant. If your system is up but everything you depend on is down, how useful is that?

For (almost) entirely self-contained systems it can still be useful, of course. But everything wants to be interconnected to everything these days...
Health risks in children with SARS-CoV-2 infection
> That's usually a good thing.

For any individual company able to offload the blame, that's great. It's not so great if half the countries' doorbells, robot cleaners, various home streaming service setups, the baby camera, the fridge, the smart TV and your phone stop working... All at the same time.

In my opinion, the 'downtime' really should be measured in $NUM_SERVICES_STOPPED X $TIME, instead of just $TIME. And in this case I think any long time Amazon outage is orders of magnitudes worse than your regular old slow IT company outage.
We use Tailwind at my work and I personally find hopping into the template of a file I've never been in before super easy with it. With normal CSS I've usually got an HTML file and a CSS file side-by-side in my IDE, and I'm cross-referencing awkwardly-named classes in the template with a stylesheet. Sometimes these styles might be coming from a local, dedicated stylesheet, sometimes they might be coming from a global stylesheet that I might end up needing to grep through the project for in order to find where these styles are coming from.

With Tailwind, I see a <div>, and I see all the styles on it, right within the template. I don't need to follow class names, or cross-reference between files, it's just there, where I'm already looking.
People believe on what they choose to believe no matter how presentable and detailed the factual information presented in front of them.
I Accidentally Hacked a Peruvian Crime Ring
An our on premise linux server recently reached an uptime of 1000 days. Yes, days.
The sad part is how few people even know what he published, especially juxtaposed with his sacrifice. If I go talk to the average person about Snowden or Assange they know little to nothing about what they revealed.
Libertarianism != anarchism. It does NOT reject the state's monopoly on violence. It argues it should be used sparingly

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/06/enforci...
> are you denying he released the truth

Yes, 100%. I think the documents he released were all authentic, but that’s a great distance from either being “the truth” or being in service of “the truth”. The majority of propaganda is factual while attempting to subvert "the truth".
Video of this guy from Wired:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SEBBj2BIBm8
That is true. But hope a drive by ddos doesn't pick you that day!
Poe's Law. Also... phew! :)
95% of science is doing stuff that doesn’t work. Replication - independent replication - is not a wasted effort.
> utility scales of different persons are comparable.

but a decision is only made by one person, so only that person's utility function matters. A different person, using their own utility function, would come to a different conclusion and make a different choice.

So while there's no universal utility function, it doesn't matter as long as the decision maker's utility function exists (and it does, by tautological argument). In the article, the utility values of 80 and 40 for the boys are the outcome of the parent's utility function. The boys don't get a choice, and so their utility functions don't matter.
Previously on HN:
https://hn.algolia.com/?q=Antikythera+mechanism

I am curious, is this device as fascinating to the average person as it is to the average HN'er? I suspect not, but I don't really understand why. I myself have read quite a few articles/posts and watched a few videos about it. Every time I re-encounter it, I get sucked back in.

See also:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baghdad_Battery

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_fire
AgainstTheWest, the hacking group wreaking havoc on Chinese gov and companies
There's no point in killing him. He's done his damage; punishing him by letting him rot in prison is worse.
Yes. Being stuck at that point would be the problem.
Pre-Trump, I used to joke that American foreign policy was determined by oil companies and defense contractors. Then Mike Pompeo became Secretary of State, and it wasn't funny anymore. Well, it hadn't been funny since Trump; Pompeo took over, of course, from former ExxonMobile CEO Rex Tillerson, who headed the Department of State for the first Trump year.

Given Pompeo's business history, I think it's fair to understand everything he says with the knowledge that he's an avatar of the American military-industrial complex [0]. With that lens in place, of course WikiLeaks is "hostile", have you seen Collateral Murder?!

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Pompeo#Early_career
Show HN: I released a song as an interactive web app – The Alienation Dance
Mount Athos, the “Autonomous Monastic State” of Greece (2016)
I wouldn't say spark is terrible, but it is a sort of a "reverse bicycle". If you put a spark codebase down for a week or two and pick it back up, it feels like you're learning everything all over again.
> If you mix too many low- and high-level (abstract) features you get something like C++

you say that as if it were a bad thing!
You don’t need to build your own data center to host outside AWS.

You can fully manage your hardware and software fleet while still paying a host to provide data center service, and networking too.
For all humans and under all circumstances?

I wonder how a headline of 'Covid vaccine causes myocarditis' would be regarded on HN.
I realize how much I miss the #dislikes for videos like these. The title sounds clickbaity and #dislikes would confirm that. I guess it is not clickbait given that it's on hackernews and by the BBC, but if this context was missing...
> When I wrote "air into space", I didn't mean it reached escape velocity. Rather, it no longer acted as a pressure cover to the blast. The air have gone up a few hundred km and returned to earth.

Fair enough!

That is...a lot of bombs, wow.
will this work for cataracts patients?
It's about pushing boundaries. Creative people see a boundary - they want to push it. Up until very recently it was about "how much polygons and textures you can put on screen". Now it's about "how real can you make it". Once we routinely get to the other side of uncannny valley and everything is real enough, we will see another boundary and creative people will push that instead.