skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You know many people go out to roads that there aren’t many people on, right? They went out and did this because they knew people wouldn’t be out there. Thus why they did this when everyone was locked up inside… it lowered risk for everyone.
The cave paintings they left behind suggest otherwise.
they paid more than double then what they bought it for. Interest at 11% over 30 years is larger than the principle.
Ok I’ll concede to your expertise however I still fail to see how the rigid rotors on the S-97/Defiant are not related to the X-Wing at all.
In my (very limited) experience, small companies that separate out SRE and devops are a bad smell when it comes to type of work. It ends up being something like:

Devops: Someone who is oncall for fixing all pipelines and making sure everyone has access/credentials for various services (AWS, git, etc). Maybe if they have time they can start to teraform things.

SRE: Someone who is just oncall for everything and doesn't have time to improve things

On the other hand when a job listing is not specific but mentions SRE/Devops, they seem to be looking for someone who can build new systems to make things better, rather than just keeping the lights on.
Block Element is the goto where reader view fails.

For a great many sites, I remove headers, footers, sidebars, etc.
SMS doesn't do group messaging or messages over 160 characters.

I have a group of friends and we never were able to agree upon another chat protocol, so we have a group SMS chat that exchanges a a few hundred messages a week; it stared around COVID as we weren't getting together in person.

Anyone who wants to send a message where one of these is true must either use MMS, or convince everyone to sign up for some other messaging service if the people involved are not all either on an iPhone or Android:

- Includes a picture
- Includes a contact
- Longer than 160 characters
- More than one recipient
Yes and of course because of that everyone is respecting the law, especially companies when they're not at any risk if they don't. /s

Yes I'm a bit pessimistic about this. Let's all hope I'm wrong.
See the True Cost of Your Cheap Chicken
I use brave browser for the fone, it works very well.
And for youtube, I use the youtube vanced app which blocks ads by default.
I was in Times Square last night and yeah, for sure, it would be way better without advertising.

But we definitely should keep the guy that was wearing a mask that looked like it was from the Lion King musical, shirtless, ripped, doing bicep curls with resistance bands, blasting DMX at midnight. I'm here for that.
Honestly I'm very concerned that my expensive bike will become a brick in the future if Peloton goes out of business.
Potentially a dumb question but is it a bad idea to just use port forward 22 and use a (free) dns service? Can then ssh with a key as normal no?
They think they are helping by switching to English. I’ve never had anyone refuse after politely asking to switch back because I’m learning.
NASA says Starlink Gen2 may cause problems for Hubble and asteroid detection
There is no "manifesto" to "overthrow" the Canadian government. All the truckers want is an end to the mandates. They have no other demands of Trudeau except to stop imposing authority on their health. Once he ends the mandates, they'll go back to work. Where are you getting this about manifestos and overthrow? Sounds like you've had a slice of conspiracy pie yourself!
To your credit I agree that it takes a particular type of person to be very thoughtful about ads but not have any thought whatsoever on their morality but rather in their utility.

How anyone can look around with even the foggiest of eyes at the current incentive structures around ads and say “this is providing a moral and helpful service” is a bit beyond me.
That doesn’t surprise me. I think our biggest issue is not knowing it well enough and not being able to find people that know it.

At that point it doesn’t matter how good the tech is.
What was the first time you were disappointed by a toy as a child? When you opened the box, starting playing with it, and found that it didn't live up to your expectations. Were those expectations based on a reasonable evaluation of the toy, or were they based on the excited cheers that played over tv commercials for the toy? Who deliberately cultivated unrealistic expectations, profiting from your disappointment?

How much time do you spend researching a product today before buying it? There's definitely a process of seeking out reviews, going to many different sites, comparing and weighing results. How much of your time is spent wondering if a review is from a buyer, or from the seller? How long does it take to evaluate the search results, finding out which ones are truthful and which ones are carefully curated blogspam with active SEO? How much is your time worth, and whose fault is it for having spread that misinformation?
btw I think you meant to say "worth noting" instead if "worth nothing" ;)
It grinds my gears that "tamale" is on this list. The singular of tamales, in Spanish, is "tamal". God forbid English speakers have to remember to drop one syllable.
> Like at a previous job we had e-mail servers running in every AWS region our product ran partly because of egress fees. If we had run them in 1 (or a couple) regions we could have used a lot fewer machines due to demand smoothing and sharing things like Redis clusters.

Were you either sending a huge amount of email or was this something related to the internal traffic needed to generate each message? I've definitely seen this in other contexts but am impressed to see email driving that (and, of course, preventing use of SES).

Note that I said “more typical” — I would define “cutting corners” as something like having a production service running with only one instance but once I go greater than one I'd be investing in automation anyway for reliability, and that would have included things like health checks & automatic rebuilds. It sounds like your business was pretty aggressive in region usage and I'd be curious what was driving that many regions.

> That's one example but there's a whole category of "avoid getting extorted" problems that arise because of AWS's predatory pricing.

Don't take anything I'm saying as defense of their egress pricing. My point was just that cloud pricing is very visible and that can lead many places to focus on that without accurately assessing what they're currently paying for their own infrastructure.
It's not really one of Lenin's

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2020/07/13/decades-weeks/
>if we assume that the market would have converged on the correct price in the absence of advertising

>the value of money is well known and non-negotiable

I wouldn't start with these assumptions since prices fluctuate on their own for somewhat unpredictable reasons. Just because advertising is immoral in some ideal world, doesn't mean it's immoral in a real one.
That's not even the most fundamental issue with LN though, it's not a fully thought out system. As LN node count increases the routing complexity increases exponentially, which is the classic problem of routing issues on large graphs that literally every networked system has. The internet solves this with some degree of human intervention to tip the scales to particular routes, which is something that the LN inherently can't (and shouldn't) do. There is some amount of optimization that could take place using common graph routing algorithms like OLSR or others but those represent foundational changes to the protocol which historically LN is allergic to for whatever reason and wouldn't entirely solve the problem in any case.

Simply put - it can't scale to that kind of throughput for a combination of cultural and technical reasons.
Peloton is far from the only expensive product being shipped coast to coast. You let someone else do the work for you. I'm going on a whim and guessing that a Tesla being delivered to your door, is not delivered by a full time Tesla employee

And to double down on that - starting 2 days ago, Everyone receiving a Peloton will receive it from a non-employee
I think it would start with "not having to work to live" and from there cascade into lots of time spent building personal projects and playing Scrabble with my parents. What would yours be?
>It's technology

No it was a living human being that I asked the question to, not a piece of technology.
Because the "server" and "client" names would be reversed.
You can get cheap houses in the US if you’re willing to live outside select cities. If you’re an IT guy with potentially little impact on your salary.

That being said, we’re in this weird regime where interest rates set the market price of homes (since people can only afford $x/month no matter the interest rate with no wiggle room)
If you take the time to sit on your hands its on you, but I can find no shortage of tasks at home, I could literally be doing chores constantly and still have things to do. I would go off and do stuff like wipe out the sink or take out the compost if I really had no prep work in front of me but something on the stove.
Agreed. Anybody who's into an obscure music genre can attest to how hard it is to find such music, let alone finding good ones.
EA chickens, abandons Sims update for Russia because it has lesbian wedding ad?
Let me hijack your explanation starting from this point:

D = (x₁-1)² + (x₂² + … + xₙ²)

Since all the xₙ² sum to 1, as the dimensionality grows (∑xₙ²→1 as n→∞) each individual xₙ will converge towards 0. Since x₁ is almost 0, therefore the (x₁-1)² term will be almost 1.

Since we know that ∑xₙ²=1, and that x₁² is almost 0, then we also know that ∑xₙ² - x₁² is almost 1, which is the 2nd half of the above expression for D. So the average distance converges to "almost 1 + almost 1", which "almost 2", which is the diameter.
Lots of things have been reduced in size / quality which is approximately the same as raising prices.
Way back when but assume this is still the case, there were positions in the CIA (in DC, i.e. not agents) where you officially worked for someone like the Navy and weren't supposed to tell people you worked for the CIA. I was offered such a position but didn't take it.
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It's not even reading between the lines. I ace my behavioral and/or conceptual sections. Then I fail the code screen for being too slow. I know they want fast people - they all do. That just leaves people like me in a shitty position, questioning what I should do with my professional life since the first 10 years have been a waste.
The genetic data is clear that interbreeding took place, and neanderthals contribute a few % of modern human DNA in many Eurasian populations. The lack of surviving neanderthal y chromosomes could be suggestive of genocide though, but it's also possible that the neanderthal y chromosome lineages in humans disappeared due to subsequent expansions by newer lineages in human populations.

For an example of non-genocide, look at African bushmen. While their relations with other humans aren't always great, African bushmen populations haven't really experienced any genocidal decline. But if/when they fully interbreed with other humans and get incorporated into the gene pool (after evolving as a separate branch from mainline homo sapiens for over a hundred thousand years), their genes will be an even smaller fraction of the human gene pool than the neanderthal genes.
This reads like it's in a vacume and assumes the business requirements were comunicated, they were clear, and and static. None of which is reality. Additionally things get updadated and need con rant maintenance. Gone are the days of writing code and letting it run untouched for years.

Tech debt usually occurs when the people implementing it aren't aligned with the with the stakeholders.
Back in the days of "classic" ASP pages, the usual model at the shop I worked in was that whenever we needed to add a page to the site we would copy a working page and then modify it. Sure it duplicated a lot of common code, but it wasn't without its advantages. You could be pretty certain that your page would not break anything else, and that later changes to a page would also be self-contained. It did suck when a change needed to be made to many pages, but if you knew about cygwin and grep, sed, and awk, those could often be automated.
Relevant backstory: there seems to be no backstory whatsoever, and this is why absolutely everyone is puzzled. Sims games have had same-sex marriage for quite some time, not to mention millions of mods that add a lot more alternative dimensions to that. The game is rated as adult-only. None of the usual suspects (politicians, so-called independent parental organizations, etc.) had Sims on their radars. This seems to be a reaction to something that hasn't happened at all.

I suppose that either some local manager is really focused on corporate and government ass-licking. or that someone stateside has only read about Russia on Wikipedia and in the news, and really believes that so-called gay propaganda laws have any real importance here, and require actual compliance.

But hey, we have a great example of saccharine corporate non-informational press release that makes no sense and tells you nothing.
The 80's stock market was a pimer for this kind of culture. The era of excess led people to normalize bad behavior, enthusiastic marketing of assets, and a culture of greed at any cost. Within markets where products are essential, it creates chaos, and to the lay person, it creates a false impression that success is tangible, and that because it's backed by celebrities and corporations that it is all credible.

We're hurling towards an era of false economy, the results are likely to be harsh if we allow it to continue without being reigned in. The celebrities that back scams, as well as corps need to be held accountable because the main problem that it's growing in popularity is all of the glossy polish on the lies of phony payouts.
I installed SmartTubeNext last week and it feels like a burden has been lifted from my everyday life. There's genuinely not enough praise that can be given for it; it's arguably the perfect YouTube app for your TV.
It’s a core argument in Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari.
You're describing credit, not currency. You can access credit to fund daily transactions without touching the principle of your investments. That's what a credit card does.
Two years ago I might have asked how it was possible that a Nazi supporter could literally be married to a Jew and hold the same beliefs.

After seeing people dying of COVID with their family accusing the doctors of killing them while blaming it on a nonexistent illness, I no longer wonder, now I'm just sad for humanity

Make it mandatory to teach critical thinking and basic science literacy in high school ASAP
Forget the Office–Salesforce Is Making a Wellness Retreat for Workers
lol, oops. Not a freudian slip. Edited, thank you.
Many of the top games in this list do not require photorealistic graphics: https://store.steampowered.com/stats/
> This whole book is rational.

But like, it literally _is not_. Most obviously an entire chapter is dedicated to how arming the general population is the best way of securing your noble estate, and that is objectively a bad idea for petty dictatorships. There's a reason the British governors of America outlawed guns, and why the US Constitution enshrined the right (and why the slave states did not afford blacks this right[1]).

Even the intro uses a flawed metaphor to explain its qualifications: he claims its easier for a painter to paint a mountain from the valley, because you can see the whole thing. But, as anyone living near the Italian Alps can point out, the mountain is often obscured by foothills, and if you want to see many examples of a mountain peak, climb to the top of one and look around.

He recommends sending your own troops into battle first, and avoiding alliances because they diminish your reputation. Taking that advice is a great way to lose your principality entirely. Without your own garrison, neighbors and mercanaries will have far greater leverage over you, and without alliances you will be at the mercy of those who do have them.

He advises a ruler be feared but somehow not hated or despised. If it were possible to achieve that, his examples laughably do not -- appointing a bastard to govern a city and then parading his head on a pike when that goes badly is not something the burghers will praise, any more than appointing a shitty middle manager who abuses staff and firing them six months later would. Everyone knows you picked the guy, and his failures rub off on you.

If readers today cannot pick this out, then perhaps it is because too much of the context is lost. We no longer live in the era of kings and cannons.

> what actually happens in the real world

I don't think you need to read a book to learn how sociopaths behave, and I don't think the sociopaths themselves need Machiavelli's help on being more sociopathic, and we shouldn't be handing them carte blanch to hang themselves with (nor does Machiavelli do so).

The rest of society deals in what Smith calls "man's desire to be loved and be lovely." We want to earn the respect and admiration of those around us, and we want to believe those are earned honorably, even when we think _everyone else_ is a bastard. Hence bankers arent greedy, they're just "efficiently allocating capital to its highest social value" and earning a small prize in the process. Machiavelli's chief advice of hypocrisy runs counter to this, and the stories we tell ourselves.

[1]: https://www.npr.org/2021/06/02/1002107670/historian-uncovers...
> philosophically, is there really a way we can claim that advertising makes you want things in a way that's wrong

In Buddhism, all wanting is "dukkha"--quite literally, suffering, dissatisfaction. Advertising is about as anti-Buddhist as you could possibly be. IMHO advertising is creating a fundamental source of dissatisfaction in order to reap a monetary reward. It is, at its base, a soulless and cruel thing.
> I'd be interested to hear exactly what default configuration violates GDPR

https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/42438/do-default-apa...

It would appear public IP addresses are PII. Apache (and most web servers) log those by default.

A case can be made, on a site-by-site basis, that those are necessary for providing the functionality of the site. But that's a hard case to make if the logs are never actually read, and then if they're collected for that purpose, timely deletion is important (and unless your host also configures log rotation and disposal, timely deletion isn't happening).

I'm pretty sure all of this has to be declared in a privacy declaration anyway, even if they are collected for site operations purposes and deleted in a timely fashion. With all these constraints, probably safer to run in a privacy-configured Docker in one of the big Cloud hosts than to stand up one's own apache install.
I don't think this argument works. The acceptable price for a good is not actually clear cut. "True" market value is an equilibrium price between supply and demand. Both the supply and the demand will fluctuate and change over time, with many underlying factors influencing the aggregate number. The acceptable price is also different for different buyers, and in different regions. Advertising is just one of the factors that may affect demand alongside many others.

Additionally, you can argue there are many buyer's counterparts to advertising. At its most simple, the buyer has many tools to find items they want, i.e. search engines, etc. Additionally the buyer in many cases can inform the seller of an offer (generally below their desired pricing) and the seller can choose to accept or not. In some marketplaces, the buyer can effectively put out a request-to-buy, e.g. an open offer that many potential sellers can see and one may choose to fulfill.
Sure, let's whitewash the current administration's total failure and rebrand as a success.
Getting and using a local copy of CyberChef (https://github.com/gchq/CyberChef) covers much more useful tools than this currently. Though this one looks a tad prettier.
No, HSTS doesn't pin the cert, it just says that TLS must be used. A custom root certificate will fulfill that requirement.

Cert pinning isn't used by browsers in general.
From what I understand, it says that more parameters are good. This wasn't obvious before this paper: you can fit a polynomial instead of a neutral net, but adding parameters wouldn't help with robustness in that case: the polynomial would become more and more jagged.
This isn't rent seeking, it's called sales. You may not like it, but it's how the world works and what puts food on our tables.

The problem I see with vendor lock-in is when, after you're locked, the service provider exploit this to change their terms (price and/or else) in a disproportionate and unjustifiable way against your initial interests in the service.

This never happened with AWS, to my knowledge (please correct if I'm wrong). Everyone knew the price when they subscribed. Little changed afterwards. AWS was able to meet a demand with quality enough products in an acceptable price to whoever decided to buy.

This is a commercial transaction. They're tremendously successful at marketing, sales and delivering, and that's OK. They don't have to be ashamed of that, there's nothing immoral or "rent-seeking" here. They're providing a service and selling it honestly, with transparent and predictable prices.

Lock-in exploitation happened with GCP at least once, that I know, with App Engine. And their service was doomed after that, as developers reacted against their practice and they weren't able to grow past a tiny fraction of the market.
Really?

I followed the instructions in their docs and that's what was recommended.

https://fly.io/docs/reference/postgres/#connecting-to-postgr...

Also, wouldn't I need to install Wireguard anyway to use fly proxy?
Nobody is 'gatekeeping' anything. Words have meanings, and have existed for a long time. Their meaning is well understood at exec, management and engineering levels and don't need to be redefined. You seem to assume that I'm writing about technology lock-in, which I am not. I am writing about the ability to use a different vendor. Not about runtime cost or integration.

Known runtime cost is part of normal OPEX. Having to reverse engineer something because your MRI vendor won't give you the specs to write drivers for the 64-bit PCI-X acquisition card is vendor lock-in. If you need more examples, just ask around in any organisation of reasonable size. And no, we are not talking about individual people here (just in case you were making that assumption - it's hard for me to detect that in your writings).

If you want to change the meaning of what vendor lock-in means (it already has a definition, which I have written down a few times for your ease of not having to look it up yourself), good luck trying that out in your own context.

Just for the sake of completeness, here is a random paper that explains it in extra detail: https://personal.utdallas.edu/~liebowit/paths.html you could have found that relatively easily, even Wikipedia refers to it making it highly discoverable. If you don't like papers that are published by the author, feel free to request a copy at the Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization. If an explanation, reference or paper isn't good enough for you, why bother posting at all?

Perhaps the simplest distinction might be: you keep talking about OPEX while vendor lock-in is vendor-controlled CAPEX to 'get out'.