skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is no punishment.

If you're holding a gold bar for me and you lose it, you owe me a gold bar.

If you're holding a photo of my drivers licence and you lose it, nothing happens.
Note that there are other cluster operating systems which make different tradeoffs than Kubernetes. Some of these are true Single System Image (SSI), but even something as comparatively simple as Plan9 is closer to the SSI end of the scale than the less hands-on, more 'declarative'-focused k8s.
It actually is mysterious though. Not mentioning the mystery would be click-repellent.
That was true before embedded servo tracks (why the author mentions you cant bulk erase LTO tapes), its not been true for ~20 years unless one was using DLT, DAT, etc.
> but their ability to punish people is incomparably greater and isn't subject to the same restraint as the government's.

If Facebook/Google/Amazon/Cloudflare deny your their services you can still always find a new provider (see Gab).
If the government shuts you down, you need to emigrate to start back up.

Sure, its a PIA to re-setup a service meant for AWS not on AWS but that's really the core of AWS's offering. Big Tech is not the grocery store, you will live without twitter, you will not live without food.

The power a corperation has is governed by the Charter that was (now implicitly) granted by the State they're incorperated in. If you think they have too much power in their Charter complain to that state.
Spotify cares about music? Then why is it displaying front and center podcast shows that I have zero interest in above and ahead of the music that I go to Spotify for?

It's fine that they've decided to pivot to being a podcast company with a sideline in music - apparently that's where the money is, and it's a free market. But if they're going to take a political position by signing exclusive contracts with and heavily promoting podcast hosts, they've lost all claim to be a neutral party, and can't expect artists - and customers - to remain with them.
> The only "solution" is to create ghettos

There's a list of reasonable things they haven't tried yet.
If clickbait gets people reading science why do we care?
Treating people like people is done less and less these days which doesn't help matters nor does the idea that everything workers do has to be turned into a metric that has to meet ever increasing values while those at the top of the company are not put in near the same situation.
> how often are you actually writing an implementation vs. calling a method from a graph library?

Every time. Because of several reasons: 1. Transforming the graph (which is usually not explicitly represented, but rather the result of navigating entities using some existing API) to the representation required by the graph library is more complex than just implementing the search and the cycle check yourself (it's usually just insertion into a set and checking if the element was already contained). 2. Often there are additional actions you want to take during the traversal, and diagnostics you want to output, which is either impossible or difficult/convoluted to integrate with a graph library. 3. Dependencies incur maintenance cost and should not be added lightly. Adding a graph library just for a simple topological sort is usually not a good trade-off.

Knowing how topological sort is implemented is necessary to make the right design decision here. Otherwise you end up adding a big dependency and convoluted glue code just because you didn't realize how straightforward and maintenance-friendly a custom implementation tailored to the present use-case could be.

Or, in other cases, you may end up implementing a custom algorithm without realizing that it actually corresponds closely to an existing graph algorithm (which would help you double-check your implementation or replace it with an existing library).
Crypto winter? Investors fear Bitcoin has further to drop
It depends on the market and your skillset. You can test the market right now by polishing up your CV & profile (LinkedIn is actually a good source of leads), getting in touch with some recruiters and seeing if you can get some offers, and adjust your rates & risk tolerance based on this.

At least in the UK, the contract market seems quite good for this early in the year, and usually peaks around summer. YMMV.

It obviously depends on your situation and whether you have any responsibilities; my opinion would probably be different if I had a family, but in my case I have little to lose even if things go sour. I won't be able to do this forever so I make the most out of it while I can still afford the risk.
> One day she asks me, “You know why nobody knows who I am?”

> No, I say, thinking back to a year previous — before the plague, before our phone calls, before I finally found Susan, when her name still meant nothing to me.

> “Because I never got caught,” she says. “All the best hackers, all the best phreakers in the world, we don’t know who they are because they never got arrested. And they never went to prison. This is why you don’t know who the best ones in the world are. This is the truth. Think about it.”

And it's that kind of arrogance and survivorship bias that gets you thinking you're better than you are. She was lucky she was not caught, or the others were unlucky they did get caught. The people around her that she considered as her fellow peers got caught after all.

> I went looking for the great lost female hacker of the 1980s. I should have known that she didn’t want to be found.

But then she _WAS_ found for the purpose of writing this article. So if not getting caught is the measure of being a good hacker... And she'll be incredibly easy to track down now.

> Kevin Mitnick publicly maintains that he had nothing to do with the destruction of the US Leasing files. In his autobiography, he characterizes Susan as a “wannabe hacker” who took revenge on him and Lewis using a backdoor into the US Leasing system that he had created.

I'm inclined to agree with Mitnick. There are numerous examples in this article alone of her acting in a vengeful manner, e.g.:

> But when one of her exasperated targets called her a small-brained little twerp, Susan got mad. In retribution, she called the phone company and, posing as the woman, had her phone number changed.

And really how likely is this to actually be true:

> She claims to be one of only three women to have slept with all four Beatles, securing the trickiest, Paul McCartney, through an elaborate pretext that involved having his wife Linda whisked away in a limo for a staged photoshoot.

It reads like the wishful thinking of somebody who had bigger dreams than their own reality, clinically delusional. Some of these things I could let go, but there is too much "it happened, trust me". Bare in mind that the _ENTIRE_ point of social hacking is to spin a lie so good that you believe it yourself.
If we're going to change Facebook to M for Meta then we should change Google to A for Alphabet. Then the acronym is MAAAN.
>But giving power to a handful of rich people and asking them to make monetary policy is an oligarchy and it's not a good idea.

Oh geez, we should probably stop doing that then.
There are two possible ways I’d frame that, personally:

1. There are two separate movements. I’d argue that people who want reform are not remotely related to people who don’t want to work.

2. Every movement will always have extreme factions that don’t necessarily align with the primary goals of the majority.

We saw plenty of #2 with Recent social movements.
I wonder if the life-extension (longevity) researchers have studied tortoises, probably?

But not mammals and "cold blooded" (ectothermic) so they are probably too different to be helpful.
https://www.dolphinproject.com/campaigns/save-japan-dolphins...

The Taiji Dolphin hunt is cruel - close to or at par with the Faroese cruelty.

Dolphins trust humans. The Taiji fishermen hunt and Capture them for money.
McDonald's Japan to limit fries to small size amid potato shortage
"Conclusions Men are significantly more susceptible to myocarditis than women. Young men are especially at risk for acquiring myocarditis, while women are affected most commonly at the postmenopausal age. The proportion of hospital admissions caused by myocarditis has an inverse, logarithmic association with age."

from : https://heart.bmj.com/content/99/22/1681
I dunno what you mean, unmoderated repositories was the deign goal of NPM.

When NPM launched, and to this day, I was among the people voicing preference for the philosophy that goes into maintaining (e.g.) the Debian repositories. But some people want a package source with no gating mechanisms.

Of course there are many options for how and when to gate that lay somewhere between debian's approach and a fully unmoderated one. But when that case was made, I was informed we were old fogies out of touch with the modern pace of development. So as far as I can tell these "fiascos" as you call them are NPM operating exactly as intended.
I would be astonished if what you say is true
We've spent trillions on all kinds of naive nonsense. What's the worst that could happen, people get a month off and the line goes up thanks to all the stimulus? Oh, the horror.

Mindless cynicism is not the virtuous alternative to optimism. We can do nothing and watch as our health care system continues to collapse or do something. Maybe this isn't it, but you haven't offered a better idea.

It's easy to tear people down for standing up to make a suggestion.
There should be some industry-subsidized program where upon (a) it’s free to 4th-7th graders and available for pickup at local stores using a thumbprint; (b) it should have free packet connectivity to Internet, perhaps through something like Sidewalk, the FindMy network and the piggyback WiFi networks that cable coNpanies [sic] have started installing into the neighbor’s “WiFi routers” to support their new CLEC+ mobile service; (c) if a youth spends enough time working on one in certain ways (perhaps a minimum of two hours per day on average in Emacs/Mu/VIM or certain types of nCurses variants of Jupytr, Mathematica, VisiCalc, SQLiteStudio, etc… as verified by signals emitted to the Cloud from the ROM/BSP), then they receive eligibility to go pickup a progression of “snap-on” upgrades (7” LCD, storage, 5GUW, etc), eventually (after thousands of hours) leading to a “snap-on” compatible rPi400 as they’re getting ready for high school. Yeah, it’s pretty anemic compared to where we really should be as a society right now, but it’s a lot more realistic than giving out locked-down $300 iPads equipped with MDM and supporting infrastructure to 4th graders that starve during the Summer (when school lunches are closed).
>there are very few regulations that can effectively capture the intent of the rules instead of "tick boxes" that might or might not mean very much.

>set mandatory qualifications for IT workers/devs to ensure a base-level of security/understanding

What is it about this regulation that prevents it becoming a useless box for IT pros to check?
Sounds dangerously close to "life's not fair, keep your mouth closed and do nothing about it".
I'm wondering what would be the best way to store archival data?

A disk image plus compressed, encrypted then forward-corrected `btrfs-send` snapshots sounds quite efficient to me. Take your hourly, etc snapshots to a regular disk, write monthly ones to the tape until fills up, then take another tape and repeat. The downside is that you need to replay multiple diffs.

Or would it be a good idea to make more frequent writes? I'm not sure what best practices are when it comes to tape and backup.
I prefer my space alien fried.
Sometimes, rewriting in another language works
What evidence do you have that Rogan does not believe the things he is saying?
Believe me, fox didn't have to spin anything. It's the softest interview I've seen, and that mod absolutely blew it.
I think what really happened was that r/antiwork started out as being more of a philosophical sub for people who wanted to explore the utopian but unrealistic vision of people not having to work at all. Then, later, it grew to host this larger movement of frustrated workers needing reform. The mod Doreen I believe originally founded the sub, but now is not a good representative of the larger movement. Fox News is of course happy to take advantage of that, to make the movement look bad
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This is a class in the Robotics program at University of Michigan, which has a long and deep history in control theory and related topics. The detail you're missing is that the control theory classes are for both Robotics students and general EE's, ME's, Aerospace Engineers, etc, so they're not going to get combined with this. The thing this lets people avoid is the EE linear systems theory class, which broadly covers the same topics, probably along with the EE intro to probability class, since that's more for full on signal processing or stochastic control. It fits in nicely with the other curriculum components, just not as a general purpose math for robotics for a non-program student.
Symbols for Legacy Computing Supplement [pdf]
Doing maths properly with a computer... can become very quickly very tough.
See the various and connected numerical analysis topics on wikipedia.
Quick question, if I forced you to stand in a groin-kicking machine that will:

A) Once in every.. I dunno, 200 times (0.5%) it kicks you so hard that, without protection you're 100% going to die

B) Once every 10 times (10%) it kicks you so hard you're sent to the hospital

C) Just to spitball, let's say 3 out of 10 times it will kick you hard enough that you're out of commission for a couple days but able to recover without hospitalization

D) 3 out of 10 times it will lightly kick you where you hurt a bit but it's just a minor inconvenience

E) The rest of the time it will let you leave without being kicked.

Ok, so you're strapped into this machine. Now, before I turn it on, I offer you a cup (protection). 70%-80% of the time this cup will offer you complete protection against whatever the machine throws at you. But remember that it's still 100% effective when the machine does nothing, so we only need to look at the 70.5% of the time the machine will actually kick you.

So with 70%-80% protection call it 75% effective, we drop our percentages for each scenario:

A) 0.5% -> 0.125%
B) 10% -> 2.5%
C) 30% -> 7.5%
D) 30% -> 7.5%

This is just doing the simple math. The vaccines drastically lower the chance of severe COVID compared to no vaccine at a higher rate than their overall effectiveness.

So again, you going in there wearing the cup or no? Because that's the choice you have when it comes to getting vaccinated.
Does it forget?
> Then why is it displaying front and center podcast shows that I have zero interest in above and ahead of the music that I go to Spotify for?

Tangent, but this is actually obnoxious. I never seem to get the “new releases for you” on my home screen anymore, but every-time I open the app I see I slew of podcasts I don’t give a damn about despite me slipping through maybe one podcast episode in my entire account history.
In a country like India, dont expect class action lawsuits.

Because of FBs incompetence, users got poorer and carriers got richer.
The lack of oxygen isn't really a problem. At 30-40k feet you will likely pass out, but a few hours will not kill a healthy person. The cold certainly might, but there is enough air for basic breathing needs. Those drop-down oxygen masks on aircraft are really not necessary. If you remain calm you will probably be fine. If you panic then you will pass out and wake up once the plane descends to denser air. I'd be far more afraid of being crushed or snapped in half by the hydraulic gear.

There is thinking that those oxygen masks should be removed from planes. They have likely never saved a life, but they have caused at least one crash after the oxygen generators ignited.
A package has more right to travel than a human. Period.
I am also interested in some long-term archiving: in particular, .ISOs of various Blu-Ray, DVD, and CD media releases.

Still, aside from it being prohibitively expensive (LTO-8 seems like something of a floor given the size of Blu-Rays), tape backups seem to be a hard area to get into. I did some crappy little DLTs in the 1990s but nothing since, so "what software?" and the like questions are all new to me. And this would be with just a single drive, not even a library.
But that's different than "drive will produce tapes that it can read, but other drives don't"? Because sure, drives can fail and need service/replacement, but that's less insidious than a drive producing tapes that are silently unusable in other drives.
Absolutely not. We're in a period on the internet right now that has Chrome based browsers with a market share like ie6 had back in the day.

The primary reason I use Firefox is because it's a completely different engine and I think diversity in browsers is important to the health of the web as a whole.
In ex-Yugoslavia, due to large numbers of people guest-working in Germany, we ended up de-facto pinned to Deutschmarks.

One of my favorite memories is watching the news where Ante Marković announced the denomination of the dinar, where they basically ran out of room on the bills for all the zeros and so just declared that henceforth they would print "new dinars" which are same as "old dinars" but without the trailing 4 zeros. Marković waved one of those bills in front of the parliament, started laughing with joy, and there was applause. [1]

[1] https://youtu.be/G3dSOfoQiaY

Of course what I didn't understand at the time is that they also officially pegged the exchange rate to the German Mark, which made the currency convertible and stabilized the inflation rate. Now I see that deleting the zeros was mostly showmanship (though it helped lessen the confusion).
A coup is via a military or other governmental power structure. When it is citizens, it is an insurrection.

You and I both agree Trump did not have his cabinet members attempt to dissolve Congress or such.

You might have the belief that Trump coaxed citizens into raiding a Congressional building. That would be "formenting insurrection".

> It's at least very arguable that there are ongoing, truly widespread, state-level efforts among his supporters to secure politicised control over the administration of future elections.

No, it's not. At most he has some loud and frothy followers demanding "recounts", which they got and were still disappointed with.

If you actually dislike Trump, do not repeat the mistakes of 2016. Don't paint him up as some master Hitler who is one step away from being dictator for life. Don't bring him up in every topic and let him live rent free. The media did that and he got a better PR campaign then he could have ever bought.

He's just not that smart, nor are most of his followers actually that dedicated. Even "insurrection", while accurate, gives the Jan 6th stunt too much credit.
The problem with most black-box declarative interfaces is that you often do care about how things will happen. The real-world limitations often leak through the declarative interface, because you have to care about things like performance, or do things that don't quite fit into the opinionated declarative interface, or have other weird constraints that the authors didn't think of.

And then you're in a world of pain, where you have to not only know how to do what you want, but then also how the system will map from declarative->imperative, and then how to massage your declarative input so that it does the right imperative thing. And your teammates too. And you've all got to think about it every time you change the code or upgrade.

I've run into this problem in nearly every declarative system I've ever used (examples: SQL, Prometheus, infrastructure-as-code frameworks, dependency injection frameworks, ORMs, k8s, and so on).

Neither approach is "better". They have tradeoffs.
Odd how the author doesn't even touch on the causes of Argentina's persistent inflation. Rather, it's presented as though it came from nowhere, and the only real story is how people deal with it.
Hard to give a yes/no answer.

At one point in my career, I did the grind and it helped me land at FAANG.

Now I can land good jobs without doing the grind, but that's because I'm at a level where I could easily solve most problems without prep. (The key is to make sure you're being challenged and growing in your current role)

Further I can see myself doing it again in the future to hone my skills again as interviews continue to evolve.
It wasn't my goal to argue nomenclature, but a disease is: "a disorder of structure or function in a human, animal, or plant, especially one that produces specific signs or symptoms or that affects a specific location and is not simply a direct result of physical injury." or "a particular quality, habit, or disposition regarded as adversely affecting a person or group of people." (Oxford Languages)
By this definition it makes sense to me to call obesity a disease.
For what it's worth, I was trying to convey that obesity is far more complicated than many consider - the official definition may imply that you can just "lower BMI" and solve the problem. I also see immense value in understanding obesity as a disease in order to de-stigmatize it - you wouldn't tell someone with high blood pressure to "just relax", or imply they aren't trying hard enough to cure it - which is what a lot of the public stigma around weight related disease is effectively doing.
Also, BMI when combined with waist circumference can help to correct issues with BMI to better understand your individual risk:
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/obesity/in-de...
https://www.barbellmedicine.com/blog/how-to-measure-your-wai...
"As travel technology changed, the romantic notion of a stowaway took a hit. "
not really sure what the romantic notion was about.

The article definitely reminded me that What We Do in the Shadows is literally one of the finest pieces of entertainment the world has witnessed.
I wonder which modern information would be actually useful a thousand years ago. Things like electricity, cumbustion engine etc wouldn't be very useful, but perhaps something steam-powered?

One low-hanging fruit would be sterilization and hand-washing for medical operations, at least.
I was hoping to get an answer to your question as well, but I've only used Guix, so I can't really tell.

Guix grafts are used to distribute updates, and they're quite easy to use, that's all I can say.
> She's in this thread right now, why not ask her?

Because this is Hacker News. We can't summon her with @SexyCyborg or /u/SexyCyborg like we can on Reddit. Heck, you won't even be notified of my reply, and will have to actively check out your threads.

I understand how this policy may reduce heated arguments, but it makes it harder to connect with people, and I've never managed to have an actual conversation spanning several days here.
Because the level of "unlike"-ness exists on a spectrum, so the headline can be technically correct while implying a position on the spectrum much farther than it actually is.
Part of me says "of course we learn, look at how many bad practices are at least significantly less common than they were in the olden days". It's quite rare you come across a decently run tech company or team that doesn't use version control, or makes changes live in production without a testing environment, or doesn't use automated tests at all, or doesn't have a deploy process at all beyond 'use FTP'.

10-20 years ago that wasn't really the case, and such practices were much rarer even in more tech savvy teams and organisations.

Same with web development related stuff. People aren't using tables for layout anymore, nor are things like accessibility some sort of completely ignored concept that no one takes seriously. And people do actually use CSS for layout purposes rather than font tags and spacer images and whatever else the days of Geocities style web development had in store.

So it's definitely advanced in many areas.