skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's also the fact that much modern tech tends to be very locked-down, discourages tinkering/creativity, and is built to push ads/subscriptions/in-app-purchases.

But there's rarely a 'wow' factor to new tech any more. Everything is incremental improvement and the era of huge leaps forward is well behind us. The step up from a C64 to an Amiga, or a SNES to a Playstation, or an early iPhone from a feature phone, or Win3.1 to Win9x - those were serious upgrades.

But going from a PS5 Pro to PS5, an iPhone 8 to an iPhone 13, 1080p to 4K, an i7 to a 5-generations-newer i7, or a GTX1080 to an RTX3080 - they're nice incremental steps, but not revolutionary leaps forwards.
I love the idea of paying for hosted bridges but I'm not willing to switch my main ID to one they own. (And I don't want to have two accounts because that sort of defeats the the whole point.) If they would allow accessing the bridges with an arbitrary matrix account I would have been paying months ago.
Human brain compresses working memories into low-res ‘summaries’
For the record…

China also harvests organs of their prison population (including Xinjiang).

- https://youtu.be/RH0F75tpD_A

- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/17/china-is-harve...

Either way instead of this US vs China debate, the real HN conversation should be how do we hack the humanity psyche to stop our societal need to oppress minorities?
Fold 'N Fly Paper Airplane Designs
This is how I feel. Safari can still do a lot and I hope they continue to make it more private (no reason to believe they won't).

But on Mac I stick with Safari not only because of the reasons you stated, but also because of iCloud (yes I know this breaks privacy but I trust Apple... mostly).

I use Brave though on my Windows PC but I may switch too DDG, or at least give it a shot.
You have to read to the last line where he points out the takeaway for managers:

"Life is always right;it's the architect that is wrong" -Le Corbusier

Ergo, make sure employees retain some control.
NotGitBleed – Git repo supply chain/credential stuffing attack
Web3 is the new Web 2.0
> Its also racist to make people held accountable for their ancestors.

That's incorrect. It's collectivist. Racism is a specific subset of collectivism.

German isn't a race, despite what Hitler & Co wanted to believe.
What do you believe to be incorrect in what I quoted?
This poll also tells that most americans quickly forget anything and everything, even if it's supposedly a threat to survival of human kind, unless the mass media talks about the 'grave dangers' 24/7. I'm glad to admit that americans aren't that easy to distract from real issues.
Without the media portrayal, at the time I thought OWS was a broken movement with no goals and no hope of changing anything. That's having gone there and having friends that stayed.

It was a bunch of people against something vague but with no real agenda. Soon enough it changed from anger at wall st to anger at the cops saying they couldn't camp there. Nothing was accomplished.
I did not know you could backslash-escape asterisks (TIL! thanks!), so I prepended it with 4 spaces to make a code block.
Here's more of that context that paints a better picture.

> First, it’s important to note that Enzymit’s use of cloud computing mainly entailed computationally intensive calculations for protein design. We do not have (yet) any public-facing applications that need to scale across multiple geographical zones and handle millions of requests per minute. Our primary use case is running CPU and GPU heavy analyses, and for that use case, we have found the IaaS/public cloud solution to be far from cost-effective in the long term.
DoXray is Hiring Front end Developer (remote/hybrid Croatia, Zagreb)
We are seeking an experienced Frontend Developer who will be responsible for designing and building frontend of user interfaces for our suite of products that together form our AI Platform. We are building an AI Platform composed of many inter-connected tools, services and products. One of the key user-facing products is the Annotation Tool (a tool analogous to prodigy or Label Studio). Hence, initially, the primary development focus will be extending its capabilities by adding more features required for an active learning system. In parallel, the development focus will be on designing frontends for our current and new internal tools and services that compose other parts of the AI Platform (e.g., for including visualizations of different metrics, data artifacts tracking, etc.), and help them to become user-facing products.

The person will work within a cross-functional team closely collaborating with Machine Learning, Annotation, Infrastructure, and Application teams.

More details are available on https://doxray.com/frontend-developer/
How's the routing performance on that switch? I'm really struggling finding a device to fit my needs ( routing, 6-8 ports, Ethernet, at least two 2.5/5/10G).
This reminds me of D.A.R.E. talking about whippets in grade school. The speaker went on about "When you do whippets, you don't *actually* get high, your brain just *thinks* you're high..."
Different AOL versions had different exploits, too. For some versions, if you sent a single IM with a font size of 9999999999999999999999999999999999999... It would lock up their whole machine and they'd soon drop offline.
If running without blobs is your priority, various Allwinner or Rockchip SoCs would be much better choice. (they run with upstream kernel, and aren't GPU with ARM core added as an afterthought)
Life is unfair and there is nothing we can do about it.
The VPU isn’t a VLIW at all, it’s an interesting RISC.

Arm GPUs are also licensable by anybody, they were x86 phones with them back when those were still a thing.
Consciousness is a purely physical process
Delete the post and repost it and I'll vote it up.
The part about workers reacring really bad to forced rearragements reminds me of a time, when company removed flowers from my desk. Somehow this hurted more than bad micromanager and problematic coworkers.
Edit : Everyone could have flowers and they were given by the company earlier. Just mine dissapeared.
Box is adding free whiteboarding tool for collaborating on visual content
Nah exponents have higher precedence than signs, it gets annoying otherwise.
It's an observation of human behavior, not a rule, and noticing it makes it easier for us to do something about it.
The fact that there was an outcry big enough to merit this is sad. HN and sites like it are saturated with people trying to turn the tides of a world with better worker protections. Some of it is because people making startups genuinely think they will "do better than those guys" which is never true at scale.
The reason that the job market is such a mess in the US is that it is dehumanizing from beginning to end, from interview to exit and at both of those stages there isn't really any benefit to trying to speak your mind.
Companies will do whatever makes them profit. If a car kills X people it has to outweigh Y in legal costs before a Z amount will be spent on a recall. You can be friendly and enjoy the comrodery of your fellow employees but at the end of the day make no mistake they are not invested in you and will replace you the moment you are dead or inefficient to their KPIs. Take care of yourself, take care of your family and friends but do not make the mistake of confusing those with your bosses or managers because I promise they won't get those mixed up when it comes your well being.

Exit interviews are a trap...because everything you say and do at your company has little landmines built into it because they are constantly trying to use humans like cogs in a clock and when you wear out you are no longer helpful to the clock maker or the people who use the clock everyday...then you get removed from the clock and replaced quickly.
Of course it's not a cure all as there are other causes, but adequate hydration and electrolyte balance can help a lot! My experience is the same, if I have a headache it is almost always dehydration or lack of electrolytes.
Sadly, mine last only a day now, so I switched to the "Bangle.js 2" which I ordered during the Kickstarter. I believe it's based on the SMA-Q3 but with a reverse-engineered firmware (Espruino) and apps are all JavaScript-based.

https://hackaday.io/project/175577-hackable-nrf52840-smart-w...

https://www.espruino.com/Bangle.js2
I can only speak for the last 15 years or so, but any time I rented virtual or dedicated servers the experience was basically the same as ordering a book from Amazon: you create an account, select what you want and how you want to pay, the next day you have an email with IP and credentials.

Of course since then things have improved and you can now expect your sever to be provisioned within minutes, along with a nice dashboard to manage it. It's a bit more involved if you want to build your own server and put it in colocation somewhere, mostly because that involves being physically present.
Covid will remain an endemic crisis always looming as you rightly point out with the events in Shanghai. Vaccines and multiple boosters won't stop infections and hospitalizations. At this point, if you are alive we have to assume you have developed some immune response to some variant of COVID. Am more disturbed about the overwhelming lack of research on natural immunity and other possible treatments. Vaccine over-reliance is akin to taking a shot in the dark.
The point is that some party insisting that they have some legal contract giving them permission to do something does not mean that contract is legitimate or voluntary.

The remainder of the comment illustrates some very obvious examples of this from the past.
I should've specified whether it was 1956 dollars or 2022 dollars. "Real" means inflation-adjusted. I was thinking of 2022 dollars, so you can't have the automobile.

Were we doing it the other way around, $1000 1956 dollars is only $10,700 2022 dollars. You might be able to get a car for $1k in 1956, but it's going to be strictly worse than a 2022 car--the two things aren't comparable. Which is a large part of my point.
It was Neopets, for me
I broadly agree with the statement that owning an OS in general is toil that applies any of these IaaS/VPS/BM scenarios.

Owning a BM server different toil - server parts fail, the network it attaches to needs control and it fails too, firmware needs updating more regularly than ever, DC space needs managing over time etc. For a small number of machines maybe this is NBD. For thousands of machines this is just grunt work which while automated, still needs change management and control - rebooting the whole fleet in the middle of the day definitely opens doors in your career.

Doing everything you did in the DC in the Cloud is absolutely the worst way to adopt Cloud. Owning an OS is a non-goal, you’ve gotta climb to a higher abstraction - workloads, and quit caring about machines. This is where most companies fail.
This means that any marketer, manager, or anyone can master this activity. Creative and create, implement your ideas, and even sell them without complicated schemes and code. This is how inqoob was conceived. And I believe it turned out that way.

If you want to try the beta version - write me, and I'll send you the link.
> A post about Chinese torture camps makes an impression that torture camps are exclusively a Chinese thing.

Yes, to an audience who have read nothing else on the topic. The people here for this discussion are - by definition - people who read about and/or discuss these topics.

As a discussion thread for a news story (and not, say a textbook for an introduction to world powers and their deeds), discussing tangentially-related events draws diminishing returns.

"Torture camps are bad" is an essay you could ask a high-schooler to write. It's neither news nor informative.

"We are obtaining new evidence that the government of China is running torture camps" manages to be both news and informative.

"US government runs torture camps" is neither news (has something changed?) nor informative (it's been well known for years).

Publishing a comparative treatment of national misdeeds might also manage to be informative; statistical modeling of the harms done by various governments, for instance.
> A ec2 instance or other vps requires the exact same maintenance as a bare metal server. They are essentially the same except one is virtualised and the other isn’t.

Ani. If the hardware you’re running on is dying. In ec2 you stop it and start it. It’s on new hardware. If you run bare metal you’re screwed.

Disk is dying ? Don’t matter cos your data exists multiple times over in AWS elastic storage. With bare metal you got to shut down and replace.

The cost of managing hardware is gone with ec2.

Software on the other hand yes that is the same amount of effort.
"Abstammung" nach Article 3 Paragraph 3 des Grundgesetzes: https://dejure.org/gesetze/GG/3.html

Find a better translation if you don't like "racism". IMHO anything inheritance-based qualifies as racism.
My impression is that there's a lot of Kubernetes jobs because all those unnecessary scaling tools come with additional maintenance work. So if you use new & messy technology, you just need more people. My boring deployments (Nginx+Ruby+PostgreSQL on Debian) can be maintained for multiple projects by just one employee, because there isn't that much to do apart from updating Ansible scripts and running them. But on the Ruby side, stuff gets deprecated/broken all the time, so we need much more manpower to maintain it. And Docker/Kubernetes (where everything depends on access to random GitHub URLs) is even a lot more fragile than that.

EDIT: I was considering doing this myself recently, so maybe you'll like the idea, too: Just walk physically to all the mom&dad shops in your area and ask them if they want a free website, if they allow you to put Google text ads on the side. If you have time, you can build those websites and super cheaply host them themselves, and it'll certainly help those shops get their feet wet in the digital age. Plus you build up some ad/link inventory which you can monetize later. The reason why I considered doing it is because I'm 100% sure that people will tell you a lot of technical stuff that they need solved, if you're there and willing to listen. And those small shops are going to need small cloud-free solutions.
I mean, I don't think colordrops/gkaly is defending Greenwald in good faith either.
If each person's Dunbar number is 150, then most Americans do not know someone who died.
> They generally go from depots 10-20 miles outside of the city to into the city and deliver to a bunch of stores and business, and then back to the depot, where they can charge while waiting for the next load. That sort of work is perfect for electric trucks.

Yes, 10-20 is not long haul.

So you're not really addressing my point.
> I think the more PaaS like services such as Heroku, Lambda, Fargate, Google Cloud Run do better realise the less maintenance story but not cloud generally.

Completely agree here. Running an EC2 Spot instance + ebs volumes for 730 hours a month is a total waste of money, but running RDS behind fargate and ECS with an ALB is likely to save you time and money by month 2.
Yes, we are actively evaluating possibilities for add-on support. However, you do not need ublock origin here for privacy protection. Our tracker blocker is powered by our best-in-class Tracker Radar data set (https://github.com/duckduckgo/tracker-radar) which is based on monthly crawls of the web looking for third-party trackers and uncovering the latest tracking techniques. Many academics and companies (including Apple) are now relying on this same data set for research and tracking protection. Similarly our Smarter Encryption (HTTPS upgrading -- https://github.com/duckduckgo/smarter-encryption) is also based on regular web crawls and is many times more comprehensive then anything else out there.
You never leave your property and live a happy life in solitude there until you die of boredom or starvation. Everybody is happy to not have to interact with you anymore.

Now stop bringing up absurd examples. Just living in a state exposes you to state violence, e.g. for not obeying the (tax) law.

If you wanted a realistic example of non-violent society, there are only few, mostly small remote tribes in deep jungle. Not surprisingly, those are very collectivist societies. The standard response to repeated badly non-conforming behavior in such societies is eviction from the community. Yes, that can be done non-violently.
The middle ground between the places trying to be mini-googles and places running their own server under a desk has been squeezed pretty hard by SaaS/PaaS stuff - you either run your small business entirely on other people's services and sweat OR you have a big enough budget to have the faux-SRE experience.

In my experience only owners who had enough momentum from previous businesses with that setup or who just maintained a fairly small pool of revenue (and so didn't change.)

Also the economy went through a lot of M&A because its hard in the middle, failures are catastrophic, and paying some guy who will probably take you to beer lunches to host your stuff makes you look smart to all the other up and coming CEOs.
I didn't downvote you, but I did consider it because your answer doesn't add anything to the discussion.
Tech is just tech. It's what you can do with tech that makes it either cool or not.

In the past, there seemed to be so many cool possibilities. That coolness infected the tech itself, so the tech looked cool too. But now a lot of those possibilities have been explored already. It's not the Wild West anymore, we've got plenty of interstate highways and railways crossing that space, and we've witnessed the not-cool parts as well.

Fortunately, this also helps us see where we might still find coolness. Just do something cool, regardless of tech. Who cares if your cool project doesn't involve any new tech? Who cares which frontend framework is the best when you're building a tree house for your kids, roasting a steak, whipping up a sexy cocktail, putting up a simple HTML form to help neighbors in need, saving the Earth, exploring the seas, the mountains, and the outer space? There's always more coolness out there. :)
No, I agree. That's a good clarification. The thing is, most Xbox exclusives end up available on Windows... but still not Linux (unless Wine/Proton gets them working right.)

There are games that are... halfway there. For example, Grounded[0] is a really cool game my wife and I play together. Works great on our Windows PCs. It looks like it'll work in Linux, mostly. But there are issues reported, so you may get lucky, you may not, you may have to spend time experimenting to get it to work.

We just installed it and played it. So you're still paying a "price" to choose a different OS that is less of a focus for game developers. (Don't mistake my observations for a preference; it scares me a bit to be tied to Windows after witnessing the train wreck that is Windows 11. I'm on 10 and hope to stay on it as long as I can, with my fingers crossed that Linux approaches parity with Windows in time for me to bail.)

[0] https://www.protondb.com/app/962130
which, in my eyes, is a conservative view. Why even try to change the system if it just corrupts itself again? wink wink The Atlantic is a "liberal" rag because they talk about the culture wars... but changing the system? Oh, impossible. We'll just hang here on the cross, unable to change our fate. Those meanie conservatives just won't go to heaven, the meek will inherit the earth!

Nothing about this story seems odd to you? The focus on American cultural events, big corporations, billionaires? Literally none of those things matters, even if it is popular here to identify with them. A better article would just be a chart of the gini coefficient over the last sixty years.
For me it was realizing that the "cost savings" my employers were providing their customers came solely from the staffing costs they were able to eliminate by laying off their workers and extracting more productivity from their remaining workers with our technology. My fat salary comes at the cost of several others'.
> There are a few services that seem almost deliberately bad though.

The UK's Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency takes this to an extreme by not offering online versions of some key services, such as re-applying for a driving license after a medical suspension. If your re-application involves a fee, you have to send them a (paper) cheque or postal order. I do understand that a postal order is a valid form of payment, even in the year 2022 (it can be used by people without a bank account), but not to offer credit card payment or bank transfer is amazing.
The last time I had a headache (and a quite bad one at that) was two weeks ago when I went cold turkey on coffee.
DuckDuckGo for Mac (the subject of this post) does not use privacy grades of any kind. We will be moving away for them on all platforms soon, and they were never used for search rankings, just for transparency. On using our app more generally, please see my comment here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31002089

As to what is going on with privacy grades more generally, we never felt comfortable rating a site an A if we couldn't assess their privacy policy, since they could be doing very nefarious things (e.g., selling your data). We tried to work with groups to get more assessments on more sites, but never found a scalable way to do this. We even licensed various ML analysis algorithms for privacy policies, but always found significant issues with them. In the end, I think this stems from the fact that privacy policies themselves are too vague.
>Occupy just taught the politicians how to do things under the radar.

Was it under the radar though? It seems like as many people know about it, but that this time the target and reasoning for the loans was just more liked by the general public.
> I don't get this. Why did you reserve '-h' for highlight in the first example ?

Well, for the most part i wanted to show that:

cli -help

might actually be interpreted as 4 short arguments (grouped with -), instead 1 long argument (--), these are the same if you go by GNU conventions:

cli -h -e -l -p
cli -help

Thus using -help like you're offering doesn't make sense whether -h is for "help" or for "highlighting" (example of a fictional action that the CLI might support) or anything else. In practice you won't see many software packages reserving -h for anything but help, but -elp would be a stupid example.

To understand this better, consider the following in a case where the file you want to process is literally called "help" with no extension (which is valid):

cli <ARGUMENTS> <FILE_TO_PROCESS>
1) cli -h -e -l -p help # uses 4 arguments on a file called "help"
2) cli -help help # uses those same 4 arguments on a file called "help"
3) cli help # processes a file called "help" with no arguments
4) cli -h # invokes whatever is under -h, be it help/highlight or anything else
5) cli --help # the help argument, if present
6) cli --highlight help # the highlight argument, if present, on a file called "help"

With what you're offering, options 1, 2 and 3 probably wouldn't do what you expect them to, unless you reject GNU semantics.
Maybe never having lived a significant amount of time amongst NYC lit types ;)

Another author mentioned in the same breath: Renata Adler & Speedboat. And perhaps, Don DeLillo's White Noise.

William Gaddis' "Literature of Failure" course syllabus (Bard College, 1979)

https://www.reddit.com/r/Gaddis/comments/fai45d/william_gadd...
If I recall correctly, the primary method of "punting" was to send an instant message with a bunch of unclosed HTML tags, which the client's renderer wouldn't be able to handle and would crash the AOL application.