skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are two sides here, the "war on drugs" and harmful drug addictions. In one case your system gets fucked, in the other the system fucks you.

Freedom was supposed to be complete liberty as long as with your actions you aren't directly limiting the freedom of others, or so I was taught. In practice things couldn't be farther from the truth.

I'm sure we could all have our own take on what a thriving society is. But I don't see this specific issue being all that relevant to that topic. To me this is about, a few, very few, entities waking up to the fact that you cannot assert that much control to enforce adherence of the population to a "one true way" of living. Doesn't work, it's absurd, and in the end you're only allowing the connected/elite to get of scot-free for breaking the law.

> An analog can be seen in places

(with my own completion) Portugal[0]. There was also a report for Netherlands how drug use among young people saw a decrease through the years since it has been decriminalized; but I couldn't Google it easy now.

Anyway, I want to take your comment in good faith, but as a minty-fresh account on this website I'm skeptic because often when privacy, drug, [insert non government friendly] topics are discussed/presented, new accounts pop up pushing ideas that prop the current status quo, or dismiss the topic.

[0] https://transformdrugs.org/blog/drug-decriminalisation-in-po...
Distributed services with go was incredible. Really made me think any software abstractions more. Also I kept getting motivated to dive into things deeper like RAFT consensus, etc
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20067712
Implementing non-stop protocol compatibility in LLDB
Decriminalition is not legalization. Those drugs will still be illegal to produce and distribute.
DevOps is basically the "tool smith" from Mythical Man Month's surgical team isomorphism. Any sufficiently large (>10) team of engineers will benefit immensely from a specialist focused on improving internal developer efficiency.
>Everyone can’t be part of the 1%

So no one should be a part of it. I mean, no one should be let to sit on their ass and get rent. That's a good deal.
Dynamic Trends of Open Source Search Engine
interesting, thanks for the information, I'll give that a go.
In a vacuum, the ability to pick up multiple jobs and do different things would be a net gain to individuals, yes. Plenty of people would like to do different things throughout the week rather than having to change jobs for a change of pace. This also assumes it's an opt-in, so if you like working on the same thing 40h a week, you can continue to do so.

Problem being, things today are indicating what is happening is not for the good of employees, but for the good of employers. Which brings with it a whole other slew of issues which disenfranchises the worker class. Which historically is a really bad idea if one's goal is to maintain a peaceful, functional society.

It's why the question of "should X be able to make a livable wage" is one which has to be answered very carefully, as this question is slowly slipping into the territory of "should people who spend most their lives doing what others want be able to afford living". That's how revolutions start.
And you would be correct (and I am saying this as a programmer). Truth is, it's extremely easy for us the Homo Sapiens to become very set in our ways. :|

I'm 42 and I've had colleagues at 28 year old that already act like they belong to a council of elders. Made me super sad... they are way too young for that!
The OP's extension doesn't seem to blur things, but actually transform them into solid lines which would be impossible to reverse, the only information that is left is the relative length of the words.
I think another obligation of a society that truly wants to tackle this is to help provide a life that is “better” than addiction, so to speak. Addictive drug use is frequently a symptom of a deeper root issue (long-term pain, physical abuse, homelessness, etc) and functions as a means of escape, so the solution is often much more holistic than just getting someone off drugs.
Thanks for these advices! I wasn’t overusing, it was a short-term prescription from my clinic, and it did its job pretty well.
It's a good point: tools made by giants for giants, such as Kubernetes, Bazel, etc, may not make sense for a smaller operation.

But what would you suggest in lieu of Kubernetes? What would save work for a shop which is not yet a giant but has already overgrown the capabilities of 2-3 manually managed boxes / instances?

I can think of several options. Management by Ansible / Saltstack / Chef can easily become a rabbit hole comparable to maintaining K8s's YAML. In your experience, does Nomad save SRE work at smaller scales? Does Terraform? CloudFormation?
Good examples. We still struggle with all of them as a society. Porn is arguably more impactful than all of them with it's ability to destroy marriages.
I lost count of the number of "I", "me", "my" in your comment.

> My life would be exactly the same without any of his products.

And what about the lives of people who'll come after you, generations after you? Well he does care. And if you think that he runs his businesses for the money, then you're in for a big surprise when I tell you, there are far far far easier ways to make lots of money with someone of his skills and intelligence, than trying to compete in two industries, one monopolized by a few with a mind shatteringly high barrier to entry, and the other saturated by established players that have optimized their cost over a century and reduced their margins to bare minimum to stay competitive.

> while my life (and everyone else here as well) would not be possible without the products from traditional "boring" companies that nobody cares about anymore

Wait 50 years. Then Tesla will be traditional, boring and the one that one's life would not be possible without.
I prefer smaller companies. Almost all of the smaller companies I've worked for either grew, or grew and got acquired and become big companies. Big companies are full of bureaucratic nonsense and friction. I would start looking for another small company. Doing that tends to reinvigorate me.
The US tried this once, created some pretty powerful criminals and gave them a lasting legacy.
Nagyvary has made different claims about the "secret of Stradivari" over the last thirty? forty? years, and they're all authoritative, and none of them explain why Stradivari's instruments are so valued. I'm confident that the real secret of Stradivari is a lot of things, all working together, that he learned by being an excellent craftsman with a good ear and analytical mind, and by being trained by the greatest violin maker before Stradivari, Nicolo Amati, who was likewise trained by previous great makers of his own family.

There's no one change that, applied indiscriminately to an instrument, will reliably improve it. There are lots of things that work together to make a great instrument, and a great maker knows how to balance them.

(Side note: I'm also confident that there are instruments being made today that will equal Stradivari's given time enough. In my own experience, one viola made by Michael Darnton of Chicago was markedly better than any of the old Italian instruments I've played, though they were not of the first rank. That was an instrument fit for any use, and if I could have afforded it, I would never have let it go.)
But the spectrum is an illusion. It’s not like humans are just chimpanzees (or ants or cats) with more compute.

Put differently, if you took an ant or cat or chimpanzee and made it compute more data infinitely faster, you wouldn’t get AGI.

Humans can do something fundamentally unique. They are universal explainers. They can take on board any explanation and use it for creative thought instantly. They do not need to be trained in the sense that neural nets do.

Creating new ideas, making and using explanations, and critiquing our own thoughts is what makes humans special.

You can’t explain something to a goldfish and have it change its behavior. A goldfish isn’t thinking “what if I go right after the third left in the maze”.

Credit to David Deutsch for these ideas.
The URL usually contains the original title. In this case it is ".. varnish"
I had to look at that spec for a while but I got it. Of course I'm out of training. More than that, there is the self selection bias: the main reason for I'm using dynamically typed languages is that they don't have type declarations so I'm never happy to see static typing get close to them. BTW I definitely lean towards strong typing, so 1 + "1" is an error (Ruby) and not 11 or "11" (Perl and JS.)
Headline said Australia, so I expected it to be deadly.
>According to https://gis.cdc.gov/Cancer/USCS/#/Trends/ the rate is still going down. Literally the first place I looked and their graph goes to 2018.

2006, 1.5 million new cancer cases.

2017, 1.7 million new cancer cases.

The data certainly exists. I wasn't inferring that it doesn't exist.

Obviously this is all cancers and us centric. Obviously there's some hiding of facts here as well. Not apples to apples comparison to the subject at hand.

Please also don't take me as arguing for the return of tobacco or encouraging tobacco use at all.

The point I am making... we now know what causes cancer and it's beyond controversial. To the point that public health would rather people have cancer. Let that sink in.
> There's a feature where you can even share the login to a site on it, but they can't view the password - only lastpass can fill it up.

Is there anything that stops someone from letting LastPass fill the field, then use the browser tools to change the form field from `password` to `text`?
Revolutionary at the time - but have there have been any new breakthrough strategies/algorithms for search in the last decade?
Can't really agree with that. For me, LastPass is a huge annoyance (it wants to fill in passwords on pages that these passwords definitely don't belong to, and it prompts you to save passwords over and over again with no "don't save passwords on this page" checkbox), and its UI is not really good either (e.g. the floating "+" icon in the vault - if you want to create a new folder you have to hover over it, for other items, you have to click it. Also, neither of these functions is available in the context menu - huh?!). And don't get me started about the "feature" of letting users use passwords, but not see them - security by obscurity anyone?
That link just shows all cancer. If you start here: https://www.cdc.gov/cancer/lung/statistics/index.htm Then click the graph on the right, you can see the trend line for LUNG cancer specifically.

Spoilers: the per capita lung cancer incidence is going down for all of the 21st century. It is actually improving faster the most recent decade than the previous. What has changed is the total number of new lung cancer cases is slightly increasing.

This is easily explained by an increasingly elderly population, which makes up over 80% of lung cancer sufferers: https://www.lung.org/lung-health-diseases/lung-disease-looku...
> The next thought should be: why doesn't neo-liberal capitalism fix this problem?

You are the vehicle by which neo-liberal capitalism fixes the problem. By leaving academia to work for a firm directly, you are responding to a price signal sent by the industry, relaying that price signal to the academic labs.

You might object, this is slower than most price signals! That's because the university environment is somewhat insulated from the ordinary pressures of capitalism (and thus better able to exploit young research programmers).
Can second this I love Zotero. I only use it for research papers, e-books, and notes about them and I don't use it for personal notes or saving snipits of websites and such but I could see it also working well for that.
I'd rather use Safari than other browsers in my MacBook, but I can't use uBlock Origin so I use Firefox.

PS: I read the title as Safari now having more than 18 users and I thought it was a joke. :|
> I say this backfired because the employees ended up getting fired

Did they struggle to find new work because of this termination, and/or had to accept much worse conditions? If not, this didn't really backfire
When I directed the local univeristy basketball team's pep band for a time we had a blind musician. All he needed was a recording of his part done on any instrument (which took me under 5 minutes to prepare per song) to participate fully. He was even able to take auditory cues for things like signaling an early cutoff. I don't remember him carrying over once.
Other have said it, but you should probably take some time off. And by that I mean, actually take time off without checking email or slack, or quickly helping put out a fire. I worked for a high growth start-up and I'd always end up checking in on something or answering some questions during my time off and it just negated any benefit from taking the time off.

Also, you mention not having motivation to work on personal tech projects, and I can relate to that. I don't have a good answer except that you don't have to do any of those projects now, and it's probably better for you to find a non-tech related hobby like cooking. You'll use a different part of your brain, while also creating something and solving the occasional problem.

Also, and I say this to most people who are struggling with work, but therapy is a great outlet to help you explore the pressures of work and strategies to deal with them. When I worked at a start-up, half the reason I was in therapy was to have a neutral outlet for venting my work frustrations that wasn't my significant other. It's not for everyone, but I highly recommend giving it a shot, especially if you have insurance since there's no real downsize except for the hour or so the session takes (especially now that a lot of therapists are doing virtual visits).
Transoceanic submarine cables for earthquake detection
How to Troubleshoot Applications on Kubernetes
> small- or medium-sized businesses, which might have 50,000 VMs or fewer

Holy shit, is this considered small to medium enterprise now?
I protect my FB account with a Yubikey. While getting hacked is unlikely, I still protect it, since I cherish my account and all the friends and memories are stored there. It’s a little bit of my ‘digital life’ that if hacked would be devastating for me. Unfortunately I have to participate in FB because my social life would be shit if I didn’t have an account with them. Also I couldn’t have the ambient awareness that comes with the family group chat.
Nice idea! And Google Tasks, please.

That would be a relief to finally make a link between Google Keep and Google Tasks, something long overdue!
Evolution as a system does not improve, no. Evolution was superseded by self-improving (human thought-based) systems.

A gecko born did not self-improve. The species average offspring improved externally via natural selection.
Transfer to who? All the people who know how to put the assets to good use... are already employed by TomTom.

As long as the company provides value to shareholders and customers, why wind it down? Not everything had to be about growth, growth, growth.
Are you talking about soldering on the mainboard, or replacing broken parts? It's hard for me to imagine that 30% of customers want to attempt to solder new parts onto their laptop mainboard, which is what I think this discussion is about. There's more discussion upthread, but work that requires board schematics also requires exceptional tooling, expertise, and time, and is therefore also quite expensive ($250-$425 was the number quoted upthread).
You make a claim that there's no way to pay them according to their value. But there's several ways I can say that this is not true. First, a waitress is often a little bit of a salesperson so yes, she can up her skills to be more valuable. Second, the food or the goods being transported can be more or less valuable. A trucker might haul packing peanuts vs. iPhones. Restaurants can be more expensive or have higher margins. Third, we know it's possible to pay people a living wage because almost every other developed countries does it.
Science Is Getting Harder
Even easier: let LastPass fill in the password in Chrome, save it with the browser's function, view it in the browser settings.
Variations of this exact argument happen in every single comment thread relating to AI. It's almost comical.

"The NN [decides/thinks/understands]..."

"NNs are just programs doing statistical computations, they don't [decide/think/understand/"

"Your brain is doing the same thing."

"Human thought is not the same as a Python program doing linear algebra on a static set of numbers."

And really, I can't agree or disagree with either premise because I have two very strong but very conflicting intuitions:
1) human thought and consciousness is qualitatively different from a Python program doing statistics.
2) the current picture of physics leaves no room for such a qualitative difference to exist - the character of the thoughts (qualia) must be illusory or epiphenomenal in some sense
Scale, we are using so much more IT infra now. Old sysadmin ways don’t scale well.
If your emacs freezes, you can often recover it by sending the USR2 signal. When it receives this signal, Emacs will drop in the debugger.
That’s a bit out of date. K8s can do 5,000 nodes and 300k VMs within its performance envelope: https://kubernetes.io/docs/setup/best-practices/cluster-larg...
You could also use a "redacted" font like https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Redacted+Script.
Seen before :-)

https://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/susan/joke/cpp.htm

Warning to bashers...it's a fake interview...
It's not a few years away, you're just confounding different messages. It's past the point of no return for 1C and for getting extreme weather. NOW what's not that far away is 1.5C.
I don't work at TechnologyOne, but I'm somewhat glad to know that it's slow everywhere and not just for us!
> I'm in awe of what the latest neural networks can produce, but I'm wary to call it “reasoning” or “deciding”.

I think humans find it quite difficult to talk about the behaviour of complex entities without using language that projects human-like agency onto those entities. I suspect its the way that our brains work.
> I just don't purchase any digital assets from them anymore.

I never "purchase" (aka: rent) digital assets from anyone, unless I'm buying DRM-unencumbered open format media. I argue that any restriction outside of copyright and patent is not a sale. It is a form of a rental masquerading as a sale.

I too have been bitten by shitty hardware remotely crippled, and bad software that was force-converted to cloud crap. Never again.

If that means I stay firmly in the piracy school of though, so be it. I'm not going to be taken advantage of again.
Yeah excel silently mangling csv files has always infuriated me

Just gave this program a try and it lets me save changes without removing any of the double quotes, yay!
This misses the "computation" (being shifted from one layer to another) aspect though.

Universe being mathematically consistent and being simulated are completely orthogonal concepts.
> all 3 major clouds offer "canned" k8s services that you can set up in a ridiculously short amount of time with Terraform and your CI platform of choice

I don't agree. I spun up a Kubernetes cluster in Azure, which was indeed easy. But then I had to figure out how to write the correct deployment scripts to deploy my docker containers to it, and how to configure all the security stuff. After more than a week of trying to figure it out, I decided to ditch the whole solution and go for Azure Container Instances instead. It was too much for me to learn about all the concepts of Kubernetes, how you configure them, how to make it work for solutions that are not as simple as the example on the website, and how to navigate through the various different methods of deploying stuff.

Maybe I'm just too dumb. But I wasn't going to invest a month of my time into doing something that should be simple enough for an average developer to accomplish.
> reduce cold latency

You don't even really need to do this, as you can tell k8s how to check if the pod is healthy, what a reasonable timeframe for becoming healthy is, etc. I've got some services which can take up to 10 seconds before they're actually ready to serve workloads and k8s can scale those services up and down without too much issue. Its definitely nice to reduce cold latency, but I wouldn't say you need to do it.
I'm not sure how useful this might be to anyone anymore.

Google still uses it for the base ranking. But, the results are then run through a variety of add-on ML pipelines, like Vince (authority/brand power), Panda (inbound link quality), Penguin (content quality), and many others that target other attributes (page layout, ad placement, etc). Then there's also more granular weightings for things like "power within a niche", where a new page might do well for plumbing (because of other existing pages on the site), but wouldn't automatically have any authority for medical topics.
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I said cost not price.

You manage to pick the highest margin product with the biggest variation of pricing inside a commodity market to compare using two data point within a short period.

https://thememoryguy.com/dram-prices-hit-historic-low/
> Your comment reads as: “be grateful to work for Elon” which is ridiculous.

Your grand kids will understand.

> An automotive manufacturer who is anti union in 2022? Wtf

Perhaps you should do some research into the current state of "unions" and their members' satisfaction.
Not to sound trite but I feel like your continued pressing of this issue evokes the entire "Do you even lift, bro?" meme. There are PaaS that can get you up in 3 clicks, but now you are in bed with k8s which is critical for the infrastructure. I think it's quite necessary to definitely understand the inside-and-out of such a vital component for my infra.
The tactic of using criminalization and legal threats to solve the problem of drug addiction has been thoroughly, inarguably disproven to work. Decriminalization allows that incredible amount of money being spent towards prosecuting people who need Help, and instead frees that up to spend it towards something that will actually improve the situation, which is treating this as the public health issue that it is.

BC can take that exact same money that it's currently spending to lock people up, and instead spend it on public health solutions that have been shown time and time again to improve outcomes and make significant progress towards this issue. From an outcome-based policy perspective, this is an obvious choice.
Can anyone explain why the PageRank patent was valuable when an alternative (Prof Jon Kleinberg's Hypertext Induced Topic Search or HITS algo) was published at the same time and available for use?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HITS_algorithm
"First boot" protocols are often the simplest possible - and it may be the case that XMODEM is slightly "more available" in that realm than ZMODEM (often these boot protocols simply ignore checksums, etc on the client device to reduce code size needed).
You're conflating multiple issues. Banning drugs doesn't stop their usage, nor does legalizing them, so the negative health effects of drugs are irrelevant. Funding criminals is only a problem because they are illegal. Addicts stealing is less of an issue and getting them help is easier in a system where users aren't criminals.
Modern C# is a decent language.

But legacy projects are still everywhere, and not only are they frustrating because outdated language version, but Microsoft is actively removing downloads for old .NET versions I need to maintain those legacy projects.