skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He seems to just dream things up and then throw money at good engineers until they accomplish them.

By all accounts from those who have worked for him, he is heavily involved and pretty hands on in terms of engineering and design. You can't just be a rich hands on idiot and have the success he has had. Just hiring a team of good engineers takes a certain level of technical insight.
We need a Federal Dept of SSO. There is one (1) foolproof way to tell someone is who they say they are, and it involves opening and staffing a real brick-and-mortar office in every town in America. No tech company will ever do that, and the government already has.
> It's not brain surgery, it doesn't need a decade of schooling.

It's almost like that condescending attitude towards the trades is why so few young people are doing those apprenticeships anymore. That and the shit pay.
I liked the way Howard Zinn (who had his own rather strong biases, of course) made that point in the afterword to A People's History of the United States:

>But there is no such thing as a pure fact, innocent of interpretation. Behind every fact presented to the world—by a teacher, a writer, anyone—is a judgment. The judgment that has been made is that this fact is important, and that other facts, omitted, are not important.
https://archive.ph/7dZgK
Here's an article from 2020 in the NYT[1] talking about it. The article includes this gem:

>Another dispute between officers and residents of the same predominantly black neighborhood over the guidelines led to a man being knocked unconscious.

The resident in question was sitting on his own stoop.

[1]https://web.archive.org/web/20220731150232/https://www.nytim...
Could you comment on the price aspect I thought up? As I understand it is cheap and only the cost per hour is an issue. Obviously the actual program is expensive, but I wanna ignore that for now and focus on the actual performance.

Because I'm at work and can't look through the full 372 page non-public report linked, can you provide some page numbers I could look at? I'm curious what the actual issues are in actual use.

Btw I'm not of the same mindset of the other guy, I'm not gonna call you a "Luddite Reformer" because I saw a YouTube video.

From when I know many of the issues are FUD, but obviously there is real issues and I'd like to better educate myself. But I am just a layman with limited research time.
Information/signal propagation (along with costs incurred by remedial activity) are the most important damn topic in our society today.

Almost every problem out there at some level is an info prop problem, and in cases where it isn't the signal getting lost, it's the remediatory activity being judged as too expensive, and thereby getting the process routed to /dev/null
There has been supra regional integration (not just marginal - noticeably influencing domestic economies and politics too) since the time Roman merchants plied the Indian sea around the first century CE. I recommend reading "Boundless Sea" from Abulafia for more insight. Autocracies starve themselves to death.
Librarian has updated the document to say this issue was resolved and overblown:

STOP EMAILING ME AND CALLING THE LIBRARY ABOUT THIS

This was shared without my permission. This was not supposed to be public. It was meant to be shared internally to Google. It was not an open letter. It went directly to the security team and we had a conversation about it and it’s over. This is from well over a year ago and we no longer are having this issue as often as before due to various improvements.

Please delete this from HN. You are essentially DDOS’ing my work email and the library branch phone number making it very difficult for us to perform our duties as civil servants today.

I do not know how this made it onto HN. Someone must have leaked it. If they need to work that out internally then I’m leaving this here for their reference. But I do not want news reporters or random HN readers contacting me or the Free Library over this.
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You're covered, see gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/1/gopher/clients/mac -- there is a pre-built Rhapsody carl in that folder, intended for Classilla, but of course works generally. It runs on OS X/ppc too.
Exactly my point, why not say it like that?
!!! PSA : I emailed the author of this this morning while on the toilet and got an email back thanking me for my kind words, but ALSO made it very clear that this was meant to be PRIVATE communications between her and Google, and that it was never meant to be posted here or elsewhere, ESPECIALLY with her private contact information exposed and she has very politely asked that people stop sharing this with her PRIVATE INFORMATION for all to see. She said all the incoming communications are essentially DDOSsing her servers at work and make it hard to do her job.

Idk if mods or anyone wants to do anything about that, but yeah we have a case of someone being doxxed here, and even without malicious intent - its causing her issues in her day to day life.
I’m not sure if this was sarcasm, but if not …

It’s a dystopian nightmare, that you would voluntarily request this.
If your state or corporate actor can do this, it is just the beginning.

The idea that they scrape transaction data is unsettling
Why would I leave Kubernetes? It’s the best thing since Microwave and sure as heck way better than Mesos.
for most companies, time zones and the added 200-400ms of audio delay are a big deal.
> try to pin climate chamge on envirenmentalists over nuclear power

Unbuilt plants don't emit carbon. But without nuclear power there was no realistic path to curtailing emissions. Populations won't peacefully accept a reduction in their quality of life. Cutting use is and always was a pipe dream.

When we needed to pivot, in the 80s and 90s, solar and batteries were not yet competitive. They now are. But that's thanks to fundamental breakthroughs in basic research. At this point, ramping up supply chains and industry will take too long for them to forestall 2º. (As was predictable ex ante.) Nuclear + gas would have gotten us to below 2º while easing the transition to wind + solar. Apart from nuclear for baseload at scale, we have coal. It's no shock that everyone who busted their nukes is now burning coal (or importing coal-shaken electrons).

So no, I don't think we can pin blame on the anti-nuke greens. They didn't cause the problem. But they blocked nukes (and in America, gas pipelines) that presented the most realistic path to a future now no longer feasible. For fear of meltdowns (a local problem) and waste (a long-term problem) they put billions of lives at risk in a global and proximate disaster.
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To me, it's surprising that whether or not we're in a recession could be a hot button issue.
> Those microwaves would come in at about $1,200 in today’s dollars. Most of us spend about $50 on one today, granted the quality is probably crap.

The family microwave when I was a kid was a Magnavox Carousel. It was BIG. It had a very simple dial to set the time and power. I despise todays kitchen appliances with membrane keypads and having to hit TIME 2 0 0 COOK

My parents only got rid of that thing recently.
.. while the wound is still open :)
That's not what I mean. Half the world's semi conductors are made at the TSMC complex in Taiwan. If China invaded, we would lose access to those.
I use remote Docker contexts with my home cloud now instead of Kubernetes. I'm actually looking at moving to Docker Swarm. As a single dev mostly satisfying my own needs, it's pretty much all I need. Happy to answer questions.
What kind of change?
Also check your library. I listened to it on Libby.
I've realised I was wrong in my response. The comment you were reacting to did not mention the word diagnose. And I shouldn't have used it in my response.

You seemed to have jumped to a conclusion, used the word diagnose, and you are now trying to argue about the use of that word.
Why was the parent comment banned?
People don't wanna tip the "Alex Jones was right" jar, or something?
Streaming section by section of a frontend sounds like a troubleshooting nightmare. Users expect an interactive experience with a website. That means JavaScript. Anything else is going to be more complex.
I don't think you're being genuine. Even if walking down the street was filled with personal peril (it's not, at least not the persistent peril of driving), you're still discounting the fact that making a mistake while driving can kill other people. How can I accidentally kill someone when walking down the street and spacing out? While driving on the highway, basically any multi-second lapse in judgement can cause fatalities, not just of yourself but of many others. Operating a multi-ton machine at high speed is definitely more cognitively demanding.
There are a lot more than 10 books on that list.
Ha I know so many completely feminine cisgender women that are “nonbinary” now and using the additional “they” pronoun alongside she/her

and that community has left zero ability to criticize or question that, since its a unilateral choice

does that make me Queer or Pansexual for dating/hooking up with a completely feminine cisgender woman who calls herself nonbinary or using they pronouns alongside she/her

I would definitely consider this a fad, even as “allyship” to actually nonbinary or even trans people its borderline offensive to pretend to relate if there are no consequences for doing so for the cisgender person compared to the persons being attacked and invalidated and fearing for their lives

The fad reminds me of high school girls being into “yaoi” which is just manga with gay guys
An interesting question here, on Hacker News.

Why did Paul Graham build Hacker News rather than encourage the use of Digg? It already had submissions of similar types that Hacker News started with. I assume it was because things were missing off Digg that Hacker News built, and the two sites ended up serving different audiences in the end.

Why build something new rather than encourage using existing services?

Because many of us have this entrepreneurial sprit to build, and do it the way we think is a good approach, filling in for gaps on the market. Time and people then decides if it was worth it.

The most obvious answer: TechPays caters for countries not present on eg levels.fyi - see how there are no data points for eg Estonia, Hungary, Belgium etc.

Then, this site is built with an anonymous-first mindset and offers additional context on data points - like whether or not equity is liquid - which I’ve not seen before, and has localization like being able to search for The Randstad in the Netherlands.

While there is data on levels.fyi, I expect this site to get significantly more data for European countries as it’s the main focus of it. Eg it already the has the most data for the Netherlands across any data source online - more than 2,000 entries -, and I have not promoted the site, this came from running in stealth. Same with eg Hungary which just launched but it’s hard to fine any data on this country - and impossible to submit data on most similar sites for it.

https://techpays.com/europe/netherlands
Formalize it into combat sports, with rules, referees, and medical personnel on staff. Or just competitive sports in general. But don't permit physical bullying. Your experiences elide over cases where there was serious harm done to the victim, physical or otherwise, or led to disproportionate retaliation.
There's plenty of people going into trades, what there isn't is enough people doing a particular trade that can handle a massive demand spike caused by an acute political or economic crisis.

You're not going to solve that problem by making people feel warm and fuzzy about learning a trade that will only have that high level of demand for a few months, or a year, or even three years. You are going to solve that problem by treating it like the emergency that it is. But if you don't actually treat it like an emergency, it's not going to get solved.

The attitude I mean to project isn't one of condescension, it's one of 'just get the work done well enough to solve the short-term crisis.' When you're on a ship, and the ship's got a hole in the bottom, you're not going to get to shore if you start lamenting that you don't have a certified first-rate caulker on board. You may have to make do with having the third-rate one take a look at it.
> The developer surely has some crazy esoteric distro on their bring-your-own device

Nope. If you want access to more than just the basic corp resources, you’re doing it from a fully managed and approved OS on a company owned machine or VM.
I use AWS Copilot and find it to be really easy to use and helpful. It is still a pretty young project and as such doesn't really handle all the edge cases, but for the things it supports, it makes using ECS even easier than it already is.
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Proper isolation goes a long way... My house is connected to district heating and isolated to withstand -25C night temperatures. It even isolates against heat in the summer. +30C outside but a cool 22C inside. Thus the cost of heating is very low. It's not rocket science, just make walls thicker and ensure there is no draft through windows.
When determining weaker sections visually, wouldn't you go by "mass" of soldiers? I don't think anybody would count individual soldiers.

In any case, given the technology of the time, if you were beyond engagement range, I don't think you would have been able to pick out individual soldiers by sight regardless of which uniforms they were wearing...

My theory is that vibrant color uniforms were chosen simply to make identification of different formations easier.
Unless people know the price and understand it first hand that global, peaceful cooperation is far superior to domestic production and petty fights.
I've yet to encounter a non-smelly k8s deployment that was started before everyone knew how it works or why it works.

On the other hand, once everyone on the team has experience building such a system from scratch, then deploying k8s and using it somehow becomes straightforward.

It's almost as if we need to learn how a tool works before being able to use it effectively.

Anyways, what we (actually didn't) replace it with:

- Don't let your devs learn about k8s on the job.
- Let them run side-projects on your internal cluster.
- Give them a small allowance to run their stuff on your network and learn how to do that safely.
- Give your devs time to code review each other's internally-hosted side-projects-that-use-k8s.
- Reap the benefits of a team that has learnt the ins and out of k8s without messing up your products.
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This is the ultimate pay-to-win. This man has won Diablo Immortal. Congratulations; he can retire as the undisputed champion.

And congratulations to Blizzard for finding a way to efficiently separate rich idiots from their money like this. Well done.
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Russia is currently making more money from energy exports than they did last year, please explain the logic here...
Recessions are almost always declared months after they occur, not before.
Commanders have wide discretion and it's part of the decentralized command mindset. They can sometimes make such decisions on no more than "I think this pattern looks cooler than that pattern"
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It is a very steep climb and nearly impossible given the status quo, and it's easy to get discouraged, so I understand your sarcasm.

I've spent the past few months studying up on the state of the carbon removal world, and I was encouraged by a couple technologies (there is a lot of cool stuff out there, but there are some which seem more practical than others), which are in the "carbon utilization" bucket—appealing because the CO2 is turned into something with value rather than an abstract credit.

1) using captured carbon to create concrete aggregates as well as in the curing of concrete can make for a stronger material, a carbon sink, and doesn't require much change in behavior
2) turning captured CO2 into carbon fiber more cheaply than the current process could have knock on climate benefits if carbon fiber becomes cheap enough that it enjoys widespread use.

I hope the circular carbon economy pans out because it has the power to stimulate minds. Making something of value out of the air is very "sci fi" and doesn't really ask as much from the populous at large in terms of understanding a pretty complex issue like carbon sequestering.
I programmed a ton of stuff on my calculator for various math classes. The one I was most proud of was a Newton's Method program that would show all the intermediate steps that simulated doing it by hand. That hour of programming saved me a solid 10 minutes in my calculus exam.
From 8:03, we know this is in the Washington D.C. metro area. Can anyone identify the mall from the establishing shot at 8:46?
This is also a failure of government that needs to be fixed; saying this problem exists doesn’t absolve us from fixing it.

Its time to bring this stupid, dystopian nightmare we’ve created to an end.
Thanks! This is a tricky one as you already pointed it out.

I’m voting for simplicity: capturing the number in the point of time, and also capturing whether the equity component has appreciated or depreciated.

My bet is that having the date of the submission plus data on whether this was a new offer plus the indicator of how the equity changed will give a good enough sense for the sake of using this data.
It would make it progressive because those proposals do not lift the benefits cap (most of them don't, at least.) But I do understand what you're saying about the flat percentage of tax taken out per dollar of income.
You’re highlighting the reason the author wrote his article. You’re still misunderstanding the OSI license.

The OSI license is a limitation on redistribution, and in case you missed it, it clearly states “the license shall not require a royalty or other fee”. That clause is fundamentally incompatible with Public Domain. The purpose of that clause was explained in the “rationale” statement; it’s an attempt to preserve and protect the open-sourceness of open source. There is no such protection with public domain. This is exactly what @ssddandrown was talking about, it’s the whole point of the article.

> You even quoted it yourself: "The license shall not restrict".

I did quote it, I think you got confused about which license this is talking about. It’s referring to what the redistributed code’s new license is allowed to do. Public domain code can legally be redistributed under a license that does restrict what others can do with it. OSI Open Source code does not permit redistribution with a restrictive license.
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What is the legality of poisoning publicly accumulated databases?

What is the legality of poisoning non-publicly accumulated databases?

(I understand there are jurisdictional differences, so if you be kind mention in what jurisdictional framework you are writing about for my learning.)