skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The French position (and German) position on Iran makes no sense, it is the equivalent of: pretend the problem doesn't exist, and it won't exist (again, with policy being led by business interests).

We had contracts in Iran and had to break them because US warned of retaliation. We are weaker and had to back off.

The US obsession with Iran (driven by religious organizations), instead of staying with the US, was broadcasted to all countries which had to show their vassal position.

We did not like it, as you can imagine.

> The interests of the US overlap totally with the EU,

in Iran?

> the US has been funding European defence for decades to the tune of tens of trillions but, of course, France and Germany will continue to nuzzle up to Iran, China, and Russia because they waved their chequebook in front of exporters in economically weak regions.

Ah - here you are right. And the normal reaction of the US should have been "since you support our enemy, we are withdrawing from NATO and the money we pour into Europe". But then so many US military companies would loose contracts (less production) so this is obviously not the right thing to do.

The US is a bully, and proud to be one. We do not like to be bullied but are the small child in th eplayground so we suffer in silence, hoping that oone day we will be able to respond (a day that will not come)
> Protip: when someone's wiki page has a 'Controversies' tab it doesn't look good

If wikipedia had existed in the time of Copernicus, Plato, Giordano Bruno, Galileo or Darwin, I do not think they would be without their own large ‘controversies’ section ;)
What confuses _me_ about this is that nothing seems to say what it _is_. It's like there's some giant practical joke I'm not a part of, and the README.md just throws off heatmaps and wants me to watch a 24-minute YouTube video. Is everybody supposed to be a Minecraft expert? Is a simple paragraph of what this is all about (at the very beginning of the file) too much? :-)
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Can’t Apple just provide an option that lets you force “stalking” air tags to beep on command? Seems like doing that could essentially solve this whole class of it’s tracking me but I can’t find it stories.
Yes, it matters a lot. These tools are supposed to be fast. I use them all the time, and if there is a tool that does the same but one takes 1 sec and the other one takes 30 seconds, then of course I am going to pick the faster one.
Your reasoning has nothing at all to do with college, student loans, etc. Anyone that has any debt at all could also benefit from free money. People with no debt could also benefit from free money.

Why should the government give you money to pay off your debt when for less administrative burden they could drop money out of a plane instead? Both would help the economy the same, so you haven't made it clear why people with student loans helping the economy and no one else is the antidote we've been missing.
I'm not sure I'm following. Listing 70k files was a benchmark. It would take you 10x the time to use 'exa | grep' but grep might just filter out the item you're looking for during execution (not certain if grep is reading the pipe as it is output or waits for execution to complete first). exa still needs 7 seconds to check all files. ls only needed a tenth of that
Are they that close now to be often interchangeable? Last I looked, they were as different as Lisp is to C: Mathematica is very strong for symbolic manipulation and discrete simulations and DSLs and can somewhat do numerics, whereas Matlab can get you serious performance in numerics but at the cost of awfully inflexible language.
I've also become a little disillusioned with the 'DevOps means developers create their infra/deploy their applications' mantra too, especially when you see several years of accumulated infrastructure spun up by developers that don't really care about its quality. Then again, having a dedicated ops team can lead to siloing and learned helplessness on the part of devs too. It's a bit cyclic.
> The real reasons this won't happen are political. Loans are a slaver's whip, and financial freedom is a horror that can't be tolerated for those who live below decks and need to be available to work on demand.

Comparing degree-holders who willingly took on loans to slaves, and with such wildly inflammatory rhetoric, is absurdly (and typically) out of touch.

Degree holders are the managerial class. It is essentially a prerequisite to be part of the elite class. Those below the decks in our society are those who never had a chance at higher education. The exact same people who would be paying more taxes to pay for a hand out to the professional class if loans were forgiven.
They can also hurt the other way when the business is sold on the concept, but the MVP implementation is a lot less impressive than the concept.
You are right, I might be attributing things to Windows 95 that really only happened in updates or in Windows 98.
Couldn't they just tell universities to-

1. Forgive all loans, or
2. Never receive any federal funding ever again
Omicron’s Going to Be Worse Than You Probably Think
So this, but instead of starting with Sysadmins with tens of years of unix experience, start with junior developers with 1 year of experience using Docker as a developer and have them read a blog post on how-to set up Kubernetes.
All is forgiven if you can share the trick to not getting AFK kicked? (first.last@gmail.com). I've wanted to bring the OG code back for years.
I made a similar ranty blog post about devops.

I was surprised by the amount of history and misconception that exists around the term.

The term was originally intended as “Agile Systems Administration” but came about at the same time as a talk titled 100 deploys a day.

So people conflated the two, and it didn’t help that the conference was a portmaneau of “Developers, Operations days” to encourage it being a conference for everyone. Eitherway. We’re stuck with it now, and it’s the least meaningful job title I’ve ever known.

If you have to ask “what does x mean to you” then it’s a failed descriptor.

http://blog.dijit.sh/devops-confusion-and-frustration
True and if your goal is to only ever work part time as a 1099 (i.e over employed) then it would be fine to look at it like that

However if your goal is to work to replace your employment you should start out looking at the full picture, and pricing your work accordingly.
It's so odd how people go every day without knowing you can smoke most plants
> Why exactly is it lower effort than a cellular GPS tracker from Amazon? They're around the same size, and roughly the same cost.

Apple is going out of its way to assist in making AirTags discoverable while physically hidden and anonymous.

Some random cellular GPS tracker from Amazon gives the tracking capability, but how does one make it seem threatening while highly discoverable? You'd have to leave it out where physically visible, making the whole charade substantially less convincing.
SA was only around 20% vaxxed when the omicron wave started and everyone with boots on the ground there seems to be saying it’s milder.
This was at a time when there were still many different client applications for internet services such as FTP, Gopher, News, email of which a web browser was just one. It was only later with the emergence of web applications that it became clear the browser itself would become the universal client and actually be a platform in it's own right. Until then Windows being the dominant platform for internet apps looks like a straight forward extension of it's role as the dominant platform for desktop apps generally.

Microsoft moved aggressively to integrate internet client capabilities, mainly web client capabilities, directly into the desktop. This is what lead to many of Microsoft's regulatory problems because doing so integrated Internet Explorer components deeply into the operating system, which was seen as anticompetitive bundling. That issue aside, it also lead to windows long running internet security issues because it meant core operating system services were directly exposed to external networks, with minimal security protections.
Yes because those who still owe money are who it affects. Sure it sucks that people who already paid off their loans can't have them forgiven now but what's done is done. Can't accommodate every single person perfectly.
That’s what GUIs are for, this exact use case.

The sibling with the reference param is a great option as well, if you can remember it.
"tend"
Fauci says Americans should brace for a 'tough few Weeks to Months'
Lisp “Curse” Redemption Arc, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the CONS
There is a similar initiative to turn invasive fish species such as Snakehead fish into "fish donuts". Solves two problems at once. Probably would work as well as fish sausages: https://designawards.core77.com/speculative-design/108041/Ec...
Don’t know why this is being downvoted, this happened to me. Company IPOd and didn’t really know what to value their stock at yet because it was so volatile so they offered me $x with the exact number to be deterred after a few months
Indeed, a Google search is enough to find guides, and I assume most bad actors would be aware of this.
Obscurity is not a good primary line of defense. But there's no reason why-- all else being equal-- it can't be part of a more robust setup. The more obstacles the better: like simply not using standard port #s for services so that it takes more than a quick scan of common ports to find something. Simple, and sure easy to defeat, but it takes you off the list for the lowest having fruit of targets.
Cases have never really mattered directly. Hospitalizations and deaths do.
There are plenty of work opportunities that don’t require vaccination, just as there is work available where you can smoke while on the job. If you choose to smoke you will find it much more difficult to work as a flight attendant than a truck driver for example.
I think there's some merit to the argument that making tracking products widely available has risks and downsides.

For one, there are some important differences between AirTags and a GPS tracker. AirTags don't use GPS (at least, on the tag itself). They're tracked by all the Apple devices around them, and they can use lower power (perhaps even passive) methods. A GPS tracker requires some kind of uplink. A tracker using GPS would need to be larger, and have a shorter battery life for a given size. AirTags are also innocuous to buy and not immediately alarming to see in someone's possession.

The argument that anyone is capable of building a GPS tracker in their living room seems unlikely to me. I think this is far beyond the capabilities of 99.9% of people (although it's a fairly straightforward and very fun project for people interested in Arduino).

All this said, I am mostly in agreement that the arguments against AirTags seem fairly weak. Especially because I assume Apple has a way to easily determine who placed the AirTag, and that they would face serious consequences.
Great to see someone else saying this for a change. "Dev" and "Ops" are different skill sets with some potential overlap, but not 100%. Organizations I've been in have never done the "throw it over the wall" thing, either. Dev and Ops are partners, and treating things any other way is a recipe for failure.
The trouble here is that I can't see actual paper in [2], cigars don't enter into it, and that the study I referenced, and subsequent studies, show that what causes cancer is carcinogens, which are intentionally addrd by Big Tobacco to increase addictiveness. The fact is everyone has cancer, but we're not all sick because we naturally slough off cancer cells. Is anyone particularly aware of cancer rates in Native Americans from the 1300s to the 1940s? Why aren't we? Probably because they were low enough to be noise against the natural occurrences of cancer.

Smoking anything can cause emphysema, and I wasn't ever making a claim that smoking is healthy or safe, so there are some straw man fallacies present in your reply. What I was drawing attention to is that cigarettes are not tobacco, and that due to the intentional infusion of 300+ known carcinogens [1], it is no wonder it kills so many people every year. I don't have any references, but I expect before the chemical revolution in the 1950's, smoking cigarettes didn't kill remotely as many people.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdV_1u-TodY&t=13m25s
Thank you for the information, I will check back Wolfram Alpha, otherwise our case is a bit special as school was a way to slow down her learning speed (otherwise 7, not 11...insane situation, kid brains are rotten in some areas )
I feel like the substance should be permitted, but companies profiting from it's industrialized production should be taxed into oblivion.
Can you share the URL of the job ad?
You're misrepresenting him, and it sounds like you have an ideological stake in this.

> Africans do have Neanderthal DNA, up to 0.3%.

He never claimed or hinted that Africans do not have Neanderthal DNA.

He says "non-African modern humans were discernibly more similar to the Neanderthal sample than Africans were", which is factually accurate, given that there's about a 1.5-2.5% gap in the amount of DNA that's shared, at least according to best current knowledge.

> The post tries very hard to make it look like 'Out of Africa' is wrong

No such thing is insinuated.

He makes it explicit that he's talking about the "total-replacement plank of the old out-of-Africa model", and he spends a while talking about how we're all descended from a single male and single female within Africa, it's only the case that certain populations outside of Africa mixed with other hominids and got up to 5-7% of their DNA from them (Neanderthals and Denisovans), which is far more than what Africans have.
> I don't know how they would know (call all places to see if you also worked there?).

It can be tracked during your background check (using SSN). They will make you sign a form that you authorize them to perform such a check. Fail to sign the form - job offer is rescinded. Again, depends on employer.
I know you're busy, so I don't expect you to do this, but if you're interested I'd like to talk 1:1 with you.

I kinda agree with you on this one, but I don't agree with you on the thread re: diabetes. Some sentiments are harming people, right now, and not being allowed to call them out seems wrong to do. If this was also about the name of the person, I just picked the name that they had on their HN profile.

Either way. Apologies to you for creating more mod-work-load. I'll keep this in mind and I'd like not to get banned either.
If a cigarette was considered an occasional treat rather than a 20x a day ritual, it wouldn’t be a big deal. That’s my present take. I was a long time smoker that eventually quit, more from physical symptoms than anything else.

But an occasional smoke is no biggie. Six cigarettes a year has little affect. Some can’t walk that without relapse, of course. It’s different for everyone.
The concept of using human neural networks instead of artificial neural networks is both terrifying and intriguing.
Boring Crypto (2015) [pdf]
Access keys on frontend is the fault of the frontend developer or culture
MVP is commonly used in agile development in the way the article talks about it. Products in the agile world are often features and not products.
Yes, many enterprise devs I know are completely uninterested in infrastructure.

This is also a great way of scaling teams - keeping a path of least resistance that is secure and compliant while giving observability and conventions.
The embedded-hal project supplies these for a wide variety of controllers, for SAMD specifically, https://github.com/atsamd-rs/atsamd .
audio: https://cr.yp.to/talks/2015.10.05/audio.ogg
that's true, but in my opinion younger generations feel they are European more than anything else.

Even I, in my middle 40s, consider myself European before being Italian.

And I am proud to be from Europe, more than I am proud of my country (which I am not for so many things).
> The term was originally intended as “Agile Systems Administration”

That explains why it's such a terrible idea.
Extinction Clock
That isn't really the point. The essay is about how anti-human it is to force truly independent thinkers into a box where they're allowed to freely make technical contributions but have to steer clear of sociocultural landmines. Although some very adept scientists, like Kolmogorov, have managed in situations like this.

More than once I've gotten the impression that people who criticize Scott for verbosity assume he's blah blah blahing about stuff they already understand, when in reality he's thinking a couple levels deeper than they're accustomed to from a blog.
They should also compare human brain cells with chimp/dog/... brain cells. See if the human ones perform better, which would suggest there is an advantage even at the lowest cellular level.
> Protip: when someone's wiki page has a 'Controversies' tab it doesn't look good)... Not a good look imo.

Is "having a good look" a core part of your epistemology?
Still worth it though, imho - if you have a chance do give it a try. It makes Redux much less verbose and is an ideal abstraction for state management. It never bothered me that much, but forking Redux Toolkit and removing Immer is still an option if you feel strongly about it (should probably be easy).
I requested my data back in March 2020 when they were on HN, never got an answer.

They wanted me to upload a photo ID to verify my identity and I was stupid enough to comply.

One commenter said:

This is a case of 'never click "opt-out" on spam'. Clearview is not to be trusted. One should not go through their process. They are not likely to delete the data, and if they have none, they are likely to create a profile for you.

I should have listened, lesson learned.
Digging the overall message but honestly people who say “I don’t like titles” come off as so pretentious to me. People care about titles by necessity. If you’re in a position to not, you’re lucky, not uniquely cool or smart.
One thing I really hate about a dedicated ops team (DevOps that is independent of devs) is that they have to use just one hammer for all kinds of nails. It's simply impossible for a small team to maintain multiple hammers.

So somehow the tools and workflow are exactly same for an app that has millions of external users and an internal app that only 10 people use. You still have to go through a whole stacks of K8S/docker who-knows-wtf-they-are configurations just to publish a dashboard from an internal IP. It took more than 8 months for my previous team to try to pull it off but it never went through.
Some excellent advice in this thread. One thing that I was fortunate to learn early on, as I've
been working from home for 20 years, that many should consider now that they are as well, is that it's ok to befriend people at work if you like them, but you don't have to be friends with people at work. You have to work with them, and that requires some sort of relationship involving politeness, trust, and honesty, but that's it.

Make friends with people who share your joy in things outside of work. Music interests, food interests, travel, art, comics, robots, crappy television, creating a family, making fun of people with families, whatever. Get a life and make that life with people who aren't paid to be there every day.

When you have a solid group of people who basically don't care what you do for a living, the job will matter far less and the things and relationships you share with those people will continue to matter.

Your job can give some fulfillment, of course by way of some semblance of security and accomplishment. But the long lasting stuff comes from the things you aren't paid to do - because anything you're paid to do is generally done for someone else's happiness. That's what they're paying for.
Beating up on Apple for making something LESS able to be abused and more transparent/understandable just seems disingenuous though?

The difference in level of abuse for something that will actively draw attention to itself after some period of time vs something of the same cost that was previously widely available and was more subtle and would not, is pretty big. And it is in the favor of Apple not being abusive or favoring abuse.
Sure, but has it offended the CCP so far? If not, celebratory posting as if you’ve been censored when you haven’t sort of makes you a poser.
That's a fair point but then why not just tell Taiwan that? why not agree that publicly.

Strategic ambiguity means china is emboldened and that Taiwan cannot rely on any US support whatever secret deals have been made no?
> You build it, you run it

While I do like that definition, it also means that most companies/organisation cannot do DevOps, as software development is often bought as projects, and operations is a recurring cost.
They need to imply it obliquely because their arguments tend to fall apart under scrutiny.
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As someone who has lead a devops team, and still has a devops team reporting to me, I have also struggled with the idea of having a team called devops, since it does go against the devops philosophy of devs owning their software in production.

However, in our case (and probably many others), our devops team is responsible for creating and maintaining the tools and processes that allow the dev teams to manage their systems in production. At a larger organization, it doesn’t make since for each individual dev team to have to create and maintain their own deployment and management systems… that would end up with a lot of duplicated effort and a wide variety of systems that would need to be maintained. Devops creates the tools and procedures, and dev teams use them.

You might say this is just sysops, but I think the key difference is that the dev teams are the ones who are using the production management tools, not the sysops team. Devops is not the ones who are paged if a system has an issue, the dev team who owns it is paged. Devops is only paged if the tool that the dev team is using to handle the issue has issues itself.
> If a random sicko wants to cause someone psychological distress there are a million ways that they can unfortunately do so that don't involve elaborate technology

This doesn't strike me as elaborate at all.

The fact is the largest generation living today is more engaged with the world via their smartphones than their physical surroundings. AirTags seem uniquely well suited to that reality, with Apple delivering notifications on the attackers' behalf and all.
Luckily, I don't work in tech (I do tech work in a non-tech company/non tech team [I'm the only one with any coding or cs skills]), and this right here is why. I work in communications and own the marketing decisions for my department so I generally have strong decision rights when I do UI/UX/design work. Downside is I don't make nearly as much, but I definitely prefer the respect and autonomy.
Fish sticks (fish fingers) are not processed all that much. A crab stick [1] is maybe closer to a sausage in the amount of processing that has been done.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crab_stick