skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not surprised - I really do understand all of this and know how the game works and kinda even know how to play it, just .. I'm really reluctant to do it.
If I did it would be a bit like in the famous quote from Groucho Marx : "I Don’t Want to Belong to Any Club That Will Accept Me as a Member"

The thing is that I was just really trying only to point out what a shitty system we have all developed together (we as a society) through this kind of tactics.
I suspect that You are looking at this only through the point of view of individual that is optimizing their own outcomes (the individual being yourself probably). But I try to look at this from a bit more systemic point of view. And what I see from up there isn't pretty.

Of course for me this isn't only purely theoretical thing - what really buggers me are the logical consequences of this system.
For example I really do not want to work for someone that becomes by boss only
because he can play social game (and maintain proper relationships with key persons in company). But the thing is, that in this system, almost always this kind of person wins.
>What’s wild here is that Schmooey was a really good Guitar Hero player! This wasn’t a case of some kid sitting alone in his room faking his way to the top through video alone. Schmooey had been an active member of the community, and had even attended live events and played alongside fellow players like CarneyJared (whose exploits we featured last year).

In many competitive sports, the top players will all plateau at nearly the same level of performance. Distinguishing competitors any further becomes impossible, with what is effectively random chance deciding (honest) winners. The search for an "edge" - some split-second advantage to go from being effectively tied at #2 with 30 other competitors to being consistently #1 - leads competitors to do one of two things:

- Embrace superstition

- Cheat

Schmooey's actions are explainable purely as a way for an otherwise amazing competitor to get their "edge" by cheating "just a little". The same mechanics are why many sports not only have problems with doping[0], but organized doping rings that expend lots of time and energy on figuring out how to beat anti-doping tests. The face of sport is great athletes either making themselves very slightly superhuman with damaging drug abuse, or, if they can, lying about their performance to make it look like they did the former.

[0] For the record, doping is not purely a physical athletics problem; e-sports have already been roiled by allegations of Adderall abuse.
> They could send you a bill and ask you to fix it, but many people wouldn't know where to look to find mistakes.

The overwhelming majority of people do not have complicated taxes. That is the exception and as others have pointed out, they could hire an accountant just like they do today.

Having the IRS mail out your bill would eliminate the need for most people to purchase accounting software each year, which is exactly what Intuit doesn't want.
If anything, this makes me less interested in moving from Thanos.
I admit that NixOS doesn't make these, advanced-but-useful tasks particularly easy. NixOS's design has only gotten as far as making these tasks possible, which is still an improvement over the state of the art at the time.
Agile Practices for Normal Life – Project Kickoff
I’d liken the latter to having a company credit card account. Regardless, in the bank case there’s a high chance adjacent / connected accounts would be frozen (at least for a time) because money laundering tends to happen in rings.

I see your point, though.
It works in the digital world because it comes from the physical: I owned a powertool that sat unused for 5+ years because I thought I didn't have an application for it

Was shown how to use it effectively, and improved my efficiency by more than double on the task it's good for
"Anecdotally when I've taken SSRIs in the past they worked very quickly, what took 2-4 weeks was the side effects to set in."

What worked very quickly was probably the placebo effect.
Even LPPFusion has done it, with a tiny budget and a reactor the size of a coffee can.
I was not talking about costs to the data center operator. I was talking about what the cloud customers pay. If you're insinuating that 40% of cloud service pricing is electricity, surely that must be a cloud service operating at a major loss because only a small fraction of a cloud service cost is the data center cost.
Oh, I didn't know that context. That's awful.
There are also PaaS providers in Germany, such as Fortrabbit for PHP, which do a great job. Competes with some parts of AWS.
I use the Logitech G600, which has some drawbacks (seemingly no driver support on macOS/Apple Silicon being the big one), but is ridiculously comfortable in my hand, more than precise enough, and looks professional enough (if you turn the LEDs off). It is an MMO mouse with macro buttons on the side, but I honestly don’t even use them and still love the mouse. I keep a small stash of them for when Logitech inevitably and finally discontinues it.
While I absolute believe that Intuit and others are responsible for the lack of (1) free, highly functional e-filing and (2) response filing, the complexity in the US tax code is beyond their purview and precedes their existence.
Oh forgot to mention. It only works if you have custom view that's set to show 3 weeks :(

Someone needs to make a chrome extension to shift Google Cal 1 week at a time. Cause the engineers at google sure aren't gonna do it :(
Google is it's own judge, jury and executioner on it's platform and they rule with an Iron fist.

If you fall out of favour with them you're screwed. They know they have a monopoly on their platform and it's their house their rules.

Remember this when making any business decisions about using their products
> We need legislation forcing companies to manually review algorithmic decisions that impact people's lives

It's not hard to argue that all algorithmic decisions impact people's lives though, Facebook for example, prioritizes certain friends' posts over others... it doesn't seem like a stretch to say this could actually impact who you're close to.
The algorithm banned our first company account. Nothing could get them to respond, including the appeal form.

We want to switch now to professional and can’t despite fulfilling all the criteria they tell you need.

I would like to see legislation forcing detailed explanations of bans though.
An entire company shouldn't get wiped off the map because one contractor has been misbehaving on another gig.
I agree with both sides. Facebook is right that TikTok is Chinese government spyware. TikTok is right that Facebook is human-farming advertising spyware.
My 9 year old watches TikTok, and I've got mixed feelings. My kid is really into videos of other kids telling jokes, making slime, doing puzzles, etc. Frankly I think that's better than the vapid dreck on Disney--and infinitely better than social media, which would just stoke the tweener social drama. (We allow TikTok but not any form of social media.) Obviously there is less age-appropriate content on there too. But the algorithm is pretty good about not surfacing that material unless you're looking for it.
In this scenario you would have access to due process. There are very specific rules when banks make decisions about credit worthiness, and for the part involving authorities you’d have access to a well developed legal system where you have rights.
>If you were to replace all inbound/outbound subway connection of Manhattan with bridges and car traffic you would need 49 bridges the size of Manhattan bridge as a replacement.

dont take me as attacking nyc and/or their subway. I'm certain at some grand time in the future all cities have a subway with rapid transport.
We pay equal salaries, wherever you work
You miss that all the Ariane 4s were launched with the same flaw: any of them would have blown up for the same reason, if their vibration had peaked a bit beyond expected amplitude.
Hough?
> At the end of the day you can't force Google or Apple to have your products on their shop.

Correct. AdSense worked the exact same way on YouTube. They are just doing the same thing with apps on their platform so really nothing has changed here.

These companies can do business with whoever they want to. You can criticise them, scream at them, protest, etc but they will never change, unless you split them all up.
Over a decade later: bitcoin failed to deliver on any of its promises; exchanges have become the new banks; better cryptocurrencies fail to displace bitcoin due to its immense popularity.
I guess living a reasonably long life is one of the prerequisites of getting a Turing Award.
(Except in the US, the law is very biased toward allowing people to say stuff on matters of public interest, and the legal liability from the complaint appears to be limited to paying a lawyer to make it to, and file for summary judgement. https://anti-slapp.org/virginia)
As far as I'm aware it only came from his personal accounts.
Yep. Our entire stack is primarily based on Python. Rewriting microservices in a faster language seems tempting in theory but in practise there are so many hurdles that sometimes, in medium term, micro-optimizations really pay off.
I have Discord and Telegram groups for my blogs. I think most people that reach it bounce after seeing how loooong and hard to parse (at first glance) my posts are, but there's three or five people who AFAIK are reading me.

Ima just go ahead and spam it: https://asemic-horizon.com -- I don't think it's for the median HN dude/tte, but this forum is a meeting of diverse minds...
Figma vs. Balsamiq?
One-Third of U.S. Netflix Subscribers Share Their Passwords, Survey Finds
I love this idea. You don’t need to be at the top 1% of a field to do cool innovate stuff, just be good at two or three different fields and see what happens when you combine them. Currently going down this rabbit hole with computational archaeology and having a whale of a time :)
> Abstraction in general is usually said to be something which helps readers understand code without delving into the details.

I agree with this. And to me, this means a good abstraction is necessary to be ambiguous. For example, number is an abstraction. But a type that is int32 is not an abstraction. In fact, we are not using a meta-layer that allow ambiguity is the reason that most abstractions force readers to be concerned with details in order to understand code.

Math abstractions are good and rigorous. That is because math is never concerned with reality. As soon as you deal with reality, math is ambiguous from start to end. For example, what is one? Math throw away all the physical details, that is what allows it to be useful -- one can understand math without ever concerned with physical details.

The current popular programming language are not suitable for abstractions. Our natural language are good for abstractions. But I think we probably can have something in-between, like what we come up with math.
...lots (most?) of the actual work that needs to be do is "grinding" or "working against tons of hard/impossibly to remove friction": you'll never achieve any kind of flow doing this kind of work!

So the productivity multiplier advice is this: learn to cope and be productive at doing the kinds of work where flow is impossible/unfeasible!

(This way you'll not be already tired and behind when you get to the work for which "flow" is possible...)
He never mentions that his source "Adam" was actually the Ubiquiti insider who was extorting them at the time. I mean, the hacker used Krebs to further his extortion attempt and Krebs has never addressed it here or anywhere else.
So this is where I start to lose my mind..

The text previously didn't say lifetime license. That was added because another Lunar user, which was also a previous Apple engineer, didn't understand the model.

And after a long discussion, his advice was I would definitely add Lifetime license to make it clearer.

Hmm, I went to the website, clicked "buy lunar pro", got the pop-up that says "lifetime license + 1 year of free updates" without any further explanation.

There really isn't much space to write more in the Paddle checkout popup, nor would people read more from my experience.

I've explained the model in more detail here: https://lunar.fyi/pro

I may be doing something wrong, but if after a year I still can't figure out what, I'll just leave it as it is.

I think I'm gonna go pet a dog or something because this doesn't feel like what I want to do for the rest of my life.
This is actually what makes handling the distributed system in a single computer easier – everything crashing together makes it an easier problem.

E.g. you have multiple CPU cachelines, caching different values of a main memory location. And there are different cache coherence protocols to keep them sane. But cache coherence protocols never need to worry about the failure mode when one cacheline is temporarily unavailable but the others are.

So yes, there's a distributed system in each multi-core computer, but it's a distributed system with an easier failure mode.

If you like more analogies between CPU caches and distributed systems, https://blog.the-pans.com/cpp-memory-model-as-a-distributed-... :p
Same experience, recently got my first AMD CPU (5700G) and found the fan pretty bad noise-wise. Replacing it with fairly cheap retail made it completely silent, to the point I actually have problems noticing whether the PC is on (before POST).

This actually surprised me, because I never had such problems with stock Intel coolers. The CPU itself is amazing, though.
Ideally a peripheral crashing should not crash the whole system.
It's a minor argument for something that tends to come up. It's come up a few times on HN some studies that show sperm quality is much lower in obese men, and that there are more obese men. There also tend to be small effect sizes that suggest within the healthy weight bin, sperm quality has dropped a small amount over time. But its naive to think that this means it still isn't a weight effect.

The bin argument is basically saying that if the entire population gets fatter, you would expect the average weight within a bin to go up, even if some people move into the next. This depends somewhat on the shape of the curve, and the bins. But on a whole it's simply saying that the average weight of people between X lbs and Y lbs is higher than it was before.

Really what it's saying is that the bins obfuscate what could be better analyzed as a continuous variable effect. The bins are arbitrary and misleading. People can fall within the same bin at t1 and t2 but be fatter at t2.

> I think obesity is a huge factor, maybe 80%. But I don't know why you feel so strongly that every other explanation is completely false.

The evidence and effect size is simply extremely strong, and the prevalence of obesity is very high. I estimate obesity to account for more than 90% of the sperm effect and diet to account for more than 90% of the obesity effect.

I'm not opposed to the idea that plastics might have some small single digit effect size. Nor am I opposed to the idea that we might see an inflection point where more plastics start being significantly worse. But for now, it seems to be a tiny, unimportant part of the story.
These fkers need to be brought down with much bigger lawsuits and regulations. They can't continue to operate like this.

We can't have app distribution in these people's hands (both Apple and Google) unless they change fundamentally.
I suppose it depends on whether we're simply stuck at too high a resolution of measurability due to Heisenberg uncertainty - either subatomic behaviour has a legitimate statistical factor, or we simply can't look low enough to see the deterministic factors (yet?)

This is straying into territory I can only hypothesise in though - for all I know the latter option may have already been ruled out. Does this dilemma map onto hidden variables vs Copenhagen interpretation?

My primary point of reference for these things is philosophical as I have an only-slightly-above-pop level of understanding of QM and am leaning more on second order cybernetics and epistemology to reason about observer-system interaction.
Can't immediately tell if this works for deploying with Docker Compose. It's my main sticking point with Dokku[0], which I've been finding quite pleasant to work with otherwise.

[0] https://dokku.com/
It's both (over-automation and secondary sanctions).

The secondary sanctions exist because it's near-trivial to automatically create dozens of proxy accounts for a bad actor to launder reputation through. So in addition to direct fraud detection, Google has had to automate secondary "Is this account probably the same bad actor" detection.

That system, like any such system (including human review), has false-positivies where two accounts are believed to be the same owner when they are not. But the automation-with-insufficient-human-review problem is specifically Google's mistake, and there's room for improvement.
This is actually the real solution IMO. Instead of playing whack-a-mole with endless stream of various abuses across all the bad business practices they do, these giants should not be able to exist in their current size and scope.

The fact Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Disney, Verizon, and others [1], etc are even allowed to exist in their current forms is absolutely bonkers to me. The outsized roles
and influence they have on the economy and their individual markets just highlights that the government is incompetent or willfully corrupt.

[1]: Just a random selection of giants I can think of in a split second. But there are tons of other companies that dominate other less-sexy markets that should absolutely broken up.
Find your way to your local Twitter ad rep. They may be able to facilitate transfer of an inactive handle. It obviously helps if you are buying or intend to buy ads on Twitter.
Also, to prevent an automated ban (or at least immediate manual review).
How did a hacker steal over $600M from a crypto gaming blockchain?
You hit most of mine!

I'd add formal logic and argumentation and logical fallacies.
PRISM isn't mass surveillance. Snowden's slides clearly show it is a way for the NSA to ingest data from FBI wiretaps [1], which are targeted, which is why the only lawsuit brought against it was dropped. High school dropout Snowden and useful idiot Greenwald were too stupid to understand the slides they released and were called out about it immediately on Twitter. The New York Times [2][3] and CNET [4] subsequently correctly described the program, and WaPo retracted its original description. Now, Snowden never talks about PRISM out of embarrassment, only the phone metadata program.

XKeystore is simply the database that stores data collected outside the US, and Tempora is not even a US program, so clearly neither can violate the 4th Amendment, which is why no lawsuits were brought against either program.

> Handing out warrants that allow authorities to collect call logs of millions of Americans is blatantly Unconstitutional.

Obviously not. The program was limited to collecting millions of call logs instead of all call logs after the leaks, and that was considered so obviously constitutional that nobody sued. [5]

[1] https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/DqqNh3fnfGCY1Zmk41LsSnjgUBg=...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/08/technology/tech-companies...

[3] http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/06/07/us/comparing-t...

[4] https://www.cnet.com/news/no-evidence-of-nsas-direct-access-...

[5] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-cyber-surveillance/sp...
>figure out the right questions to ask to get to the solution they needed

This is how Jon Bentley starts his classic Programming Pearls

"What are you doing...and why?"[0] is almost always the best place to start when tackling requests from customers

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[0] my review/reference in relation to this exact problem, of asking the right question
Call the district office and see if you can get a meeting with the district manager to talk about the issue.

Then go to district events that your rep will be at, get the district manager to introduce you to the rep.

That's way better than calling the same phone line all the wackos call
The thing we are missing still is the distributed OS. Kubernetes only exists because of the missing abstractions in Linux to be able to do computation, discovery, message passing/IO, instrumentation over multiple nodes. If you could do ps -A and see all processes on all nodes, or run a program and have it automatically execute on a random node, or if (grumble grumble) Systemd unit files would schedule a minimum of X processes on N nodes, most of the K8s ecosystem would become redundant. A lot of other components like unified AuthZ for linux already exist, as well as networking (WireGuard anyone?).
Yeah, no. Companies that care about costs absolutely track what they’re spending and where. I’ve seen plenty of merely questionable expenses a fraction of this caught and called out at very large companies.
What is "unhealthy" about telling public TikTok is a danger?
I'd be willing to bet that there was no one developer or team who was given a task such as, "run our audit AI on accounts and permanently blacklist them forever if that's what the algorithm wants"

It was more likely years worth of minor changes that got it into this state. Teams adding different algorithmic checks for various things, where the output is just setting a flag on the account. And other teams adding account termination logic for certain flags or a certain number/combination of flags, not knowing exactly how the flags are set. Though maybe that would be the bad task. I'm just spitballing.
Differentiate between nationality and locational/timezone requirements please :)
Java apps have been "cloud ready" in a sense for about 20 years. JavaEE had a "WAR" or web archive file format that packaged an entire app up into a single file that could be deployed in an "Web Application Server". IBM wanted web servers to be mainframes, but for webapps. You could even deploy multiple apps in a single JVM, because the server would load each app in a separate classloader, meaning the apps were internally isolated from each other. The JVM even had an attempt at a cgroups like concept, called a Security Manager (that was abandoned, thank goodness), long before cgroups existed. Think WAR file = docker container.

Now, a lot of complicated bits were inherited that didn't need to be there when they brought over the mainframe thinking into Java apps, but the WAR format was actually something kind of cool they got right.

We in particular, take that WAR format, turn it into an executable, and we have a program that can execute on any hardware on any person's computer, with no pre-reqs except a JVM being installed. We test the _exact_ war file on a ARM RPI , developed on a Mac m1 or x86, and CI on a Linux x86.

Alright what does this mean? Lets take a look at another language...say a PHP application.... which may require extension Unix utilities of certain versions installed on the host system. You may need a certain version of PCRE grep, a certain version of curl, etc. This theme carries over to multiple languages, your python or ruby implementation may not support the latest version of libressl, or it might not even support your ABI at all. Docker solves these problems gracefully, by providing a fully configured virtual operating system tuned for running exactly one app.

The JVM... well doesn't need that, if written properly. Generally all the libs it uses are written in Java, they include all of their dependencies already, apps can be isolated with classloader boundaries (if that's your thing), you can download a single file and launch it if you use the "one-jar" technique.

So yeah, Docker loses a lot of it's luster with Java. It's not that you _cant_ use it, but it you can solve all the problems it does otherwise. Long rambling explanation but there you go.