skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As I said, there are apps that need a Posix interface although my contention is the vast majority of them are "lift and shift" from customer data centers into the cloud. Sure, they exist. But from a cost, efficiency, and easy of supporting cross-data center reliability and robustness, the Posix file system interface was designed in the 1970's, and it shows.

If you have an app which needs a NoSQL interface, then you can do much better by using a cloud-native NoSQL service, as opposed to using Cassandra on your VM and then hoping you can get cross-zone reliability by using something like a Regional Persistent Disk. And sure, you could use Cassandra on top of cifs/smbfs or nfs, but the results will be disappointing. These are 20th century tools, and it shows.

If customers want Posix because they don't want to update their application to use Spanner, or Big Table, or GCS, they certainly have every right to make that choice. But they will get worse price/performance/reliability as a result. You keep talking about ossification and people refusing to refactor the storage stack. Well, I'd like to submit to you that being wedded to a "posix file system" as the one true storage interface is another form of ossification. Storage stacks that feature NoSQL, relational database, and object storage WITHOUT an underlying Posix file systems might be a much more radical, and ultimately, the "proper stack refactoring". A "modern containerized cloud workload" is better off using Cloud Spanner, Cloud BigTable, or Cloud Storage, depending on the application and use case. Why stick with a 1970's posix file system with all of its limitations? (And I say this as an ext4 maintainer who knows about all of the warts and limitations of the Posix file interface.)

Of course, for customers who insist on a Posix file system, they can use GCE PD or Amazon EBS for local file systems, or they can use GCE Cloud Filestore or Amazon EFS if they want an NFS solution. But it will not be as cost effective, or performant as other cloud native alternatives.

Finally, just because you are using "oss lib/software" does not mean that you need "Posix-complaint storage". Especially inside Google, while those internal customers do exist, they are a super-tiny minority. Most internal teams use a much smarter approach, even if that means that an adaption layer is needed between some particular piece of OSS software and a more modern, scalable storage infrastructure. (And for many OSS libraries, they don't need a Posix-complaint interface at all!)

Posix-complaint means sticking with an interface invented 50 years ago, with technological assumptions which may not be true today. Sometimes you might need to fall back to Posix for legacy software --- but we're talking about "modern containerized cloud workloads", remember?
It's easier to talk somebody down from an insane point of view that is meaningless, than one that fits within the index card of allowable opinion yet is nonetheless very dangerous.
Ask HN: Tracking activity on GitHub – where commits come from
I know github (the site, not enterprise) does not support looking at the IP addresses of commits. However, there is a timestamp associated with each commit and a GMT offset. Is that GMT offset accurate to the timezone where a commit is generated? Or relative to the person doing the commit?

Are there other ways of finding out where commits originate?

The use case here is trying to figure out if a contractor is outsourcing the work to other / cheaper labor.
My point was I have not experienced an uptick in spam calls, and I thought y’all might find that interesting.
Borrowing money to buy stocks is cheaper than repatriating their foreign cash. They’re hoping the U.S. will offer another tax holiday for companies hoping to bring that money home.
https://www.toomey.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/toomey...
True, though sometimes it works out.

Found a diary hidden in attic and after some research was able to track down the owner and return it; they were happy and enjoyed getting it back.
Interestingly, Apple has such an enormous cash hoard (tens of billions, iirc?) that they could one day announce that they will no longer prioritize growth since it doesn’t make sense at their size… and merely dedicate to a reasonable dividend instead. Bam, suddenly their stock price soars even more, finance folks hail the move, and other companies rush to mimic it (to lesser success).
The wonderful book Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind by Shunryu Suzuki contains a page which is blank except for a drawing of a fly in one corner. Nowhere else in the book is it mentioned or any explanation provided. Having practiced Zen for 10 years, I have an idea that might explain it. But on the surface, it is completely strange and inexplicable.
Two ideas: 1. If you can borrow at 2 or 3%, it might be worth it to keep cash-on-hand so you can jump on unexpected opportunities that may arrive in the future. 2. Paying dividends makes stock price go down. So it's basically equivalent to deciding to sell a small percentage of shares on behalf of each of your investors. Which is why fewer companies are worrying about dividends
> if I'm an investor, then i want that the company is making me more tomorrow than today.

That is a very common sentiment, but badly misguided. What you should want as an investor is a good return on your investment. You can't eat customer satisfaction, but you can eat profits and profits can be produced by satisfying customers.

In fact, the only thing that should matter to you as a rational investor is the price of the investment relative to the profits you expect the company to make in the future. There is a price at which even a rapidly growing company will no longer produce a good return relative to alternatives, and there is a price at which a company that is profitable but not growing will produce a good return. That is what should matter, not growth per se.

The reason people are attracted to growth is that growing companies are priced with a risk premium that produces outsized investments in some cases. But survivorship bias makes investing in a growing company appear more attractive than it actually is. In the long run, the market incorporates all information into the price and regresses to the mean.

And growth has all kinds of unpleasant externalities too. It really should not be pursued for its own sake.
It's not weird to borrow money essentially for free, it's actually prudent. This may change if/when interest rates rise, but until then it's more optimal to borrow.
You can meet interesting people anywhere. You don't have to share a niche. Perhaps they may introduce you to one of their niches that you find interesting.
This is so cool! Congrats on the launch!
Natural resources should be owned by the government and rented to the highest bidder.

It's kinda crazy that we do this with wireless spectrum but not with resources like water, oil, gas, etc.

Even land should probably work like this. Rather than a property tax, you pay a yearly rent on the land, afterall the US gov is spending quite a bit to protect it from forceful seizure by other nations.
Various emulators, for one.
Good auctioneers make sure that there is a buyer for specific things like that. I'm surprised that there wasn't a used book buyer in the crowd. Though maybe his guy didn't show up.
I disagree 100% on this.

Growth is what happens when there is technological change.

In certain circles there's this idea that technological growth requires more damage to people and the environment, but that's exactly wrong, and the past decades have shown it to be a competent fallacious assumption.

We need dramatic, massive growth of new technologies to supplant the damaging ones. Confusingly, some people refer to this as "degrowth", but that's why growth/degrowth is a barren framework for analyzing the world. Because growth is not one thing, it's a high-dimensional direction of many many different attributes.
Our lab works on changing this. I think it might still take some years for a full solution, but so far we are successful with NNs for small datasets with meta-learning (https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.01848) and large datasets with regularisation (https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.11189). The first is very new, but the second is also cited in this paper, but they didn’t run it as a baseline.
Oh no, I'm totally serious, I love jquery to this day, and yeah it was incredible when it came out
Moved to the correct thread now. Thanks for watching out for a fellow user!
> A half-dozen Meta executives have ditched the company’s California headquarters so far this year, taking advantage of Mark Zuckerberg’s loose attitude toward remote work even as the company faces threats on several fronts.

Hmm hmm...

> London is the top destination for departing Meta executives

*spits coffee* London? We talking one of these small rural towns named London or THE London?

> Instagram chief Adam Mosseri, Meta chief marketing officer Alex Schultz and global affairs president Nick Clegg have all either moved already or plan to move to England this year.

Ok. Why London? I would have thought a lower tax jurisdiction, but the UK has European taxes. It's also in an economic crisis and a government crisis, and Brexit makes trade with them more difficult, which hurts the economic climate. I repeat. Why London?
Am deeply chagrinned I didn't know about Marta. Thank you!

Seamless archive support FTW.

Also: Marta's config DSL syntax is the closest to The Correct Answer™ I've seen so far. Further confirming author Zhulanow's good taste and technical accumen. https://marta.sh/images/features/config.png

Downloading now. Thanks again.
I honestly think this is just developers being developers. Why? Because it's cool. It's not more than that
Very good points. Here's the link.

https://transcripts.cnn.com/show/fzgps/date/2022-07-31/segme...

LIU: Nobody can control TSMC by force. If you take a military force or invasion you will render TSMC's factory non-operable because this is such a sophisticated manufacturing facility. It depends on the real time [correlation] with the outside world, with Europe, with Japan, with the U.S., from materials to chemicals to spare parts to engineering software diagnosis. And it's everybody's effort to maybe this factory operable. So if you take it over by force you can no longer make it operable.
What!?

So nobody here can think of any possible scenario where bypassing a server-side check for 'Account X can access Feature Y' could directly lead to a security issue?

This is absolutely 100% a vulnerability - insomuch as that CloudFlare should have an explicit policy that ALL account features are enabled / verified server-side, not client side.

Think of all the spam that would have happened, had this been discovered on underground black-hat forums.
I don't think that's the best advice. There is no hard line between business, product, and technical concerns. There's a lot of gray area.

If you want to be great at your job, then understanding the context of business and product decisions will let you make more nuanced technical decisions that support where the business is heading, not just where it's at today. If your manager, and PM, and business POCs that you work with are all excellent, then maybe you can get this context from them. But chances are that at least some of the people around you are fairly mediocre, and part of being great at your job is making things happen in spite less than ideal circumstances.

Maybe what I would consider being great at the job is what you would consider unhealthy hustle culture, and that's fine. If you want to just get by and not be exceptional in the role, that's much easier. But in that case, why even focus on technical excellence? You can get by with less.

Basically, if you're gonna slack off, then you might as well slack off across the board. If you want to be excellent, then be excellent across the board.
I've also found that closeness can happen by just spending time with someone.

For example.
- A weekly lunch with a colleague.

- Meeting a group of friends for a fun activity.
Yeah. But, fortunately, it's a dynamic system! Learn to ignore the headlines that are written this way, because the noise is high.

Some folks have to use ad blockers to avoid seeing ads, while others train themselves to just ignore ads entirely. Personally, I don't even see them most of the time. If you're in the latter camp, training yourself to ignore headlines like these doesn't seem much harder!
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"Poison pill" is the wrong phrase here. That has a different meaning.

TikTok is not a social network. It's a short-form Youtube competitor. It's an entertainment system.

China has WeChat, which is much closer to Facebook in style. It's mobile-first, which turned out to be a good decision. It handles messaging, shopping, ads, banking... It's a closed replacement for the Web. TikTok is mostly push, for timepass (a useful term from India), and WeChat is mostly pull, for doing stuff. Users have both, and they don't compete much.

Facebook is trying to be both, and is now doing both badly.
this removes far more then multistage docker build ever would, do you need bash dash or passwd or many other binaries and files in image that are in by default no you dont only way to do anything simular to what docker-slim does is with scratch image which doesnt work if you dont copy everything you need in
I never met any person who has not claimed in a professional set to be swamped with work. It's unwise to seem not busy. There is no signal here, just socially acceptable noise.
I doubt a librarian would tell you who checks out what books.
It's definitely in the Botez sister's contract. They make a point of referring to lichess indirectly as "the other site" or such.
I like to read self-help. I think it can actually change your life.

The problem is finding actual good self-help. Most stuff is garbage or dives too deep into a specific topic.

One of my favorite authors is Orison Swett Marden (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orison_Swett_Marden) who writes well-rounded self-help and founded a magazine ironically called "Success". There's also Samuel Smiles who wrote the original title called "Self-Help".

If you go back in time far enough, you will come to the conclusion that most self-help stems back to certain influences at the time. You can go as far back as to the tao te ching, meditations, or even the bible. Not much of this stuff changes, but is repackaged with modern examples of successful people into bestsellers.
Dividends are subject to double taxation and typically avoided. In lieu of dividends, you now see more stock repurchase plans.
Yup, 'Burp' refers to the free version of 'Burp Suite'. I don't use Burp Suite anymore though. Some months ago I started using mitmproxy (https://github.com/mitmproxy/mitmproxy) due to it's Python scripting API. I have never looked back since then.
I am a pasty Scots-Irish hillbilly from a long line of same. I lived on the equator for years, and have also lived elsewhere in the tropics. At all times, I have enjoyed a variety of outdoor activities and performed a variety of outdoor tasks. I have applied sunscreen perhaps twice as an adult? I wear a hat when I think I need to, a shirt when I think I need to, and I stand in the shade when it makes sense. I've gotten a mild sunburn maybe a half dozen times.

In my late forties, I conclude that the leathery oldsters who insist on the sunscreen advice were crazy about sunbathing. Don't be like that, but rubbing random cheaply-acquired chemical potions over one's skin on a regular basis also doesn't seem wise. The portion of the spectrum that gives us skin cancer is not the one that causes sunburns. The primary defense against covid infection is vitamin D. Humans lived outside for tens of millennia. This week a bunch of this sunscreen crap has been recalled for containing benzene. Good grief.
I'm at the point where the news is too much and I instead read it like Netflix caption:

"In this episode of the 117th season of the United States Congress, the D's stick it to manufacturing during the annual Lobbying Hunger Games. Meanwhile, the economy slips into recession and new war rumors surface in the world's manufacturing capital of China."
I was also inundated with this song late in highschool. It was one of the songs that made it from whatever illicit file-sharing system into my personal library as "Baz Luhrman - Everybody's Free (to wear sunscreen)." I also remember the discovery process of learning that he didn't write the words. Learning that he didn't speak the text either. Learning that it was speech given to a graduating class. And learning that it wasn't a speech to a graduating class, but a column written.

We still have a library full of mislabeled music like that.

I'm in my early 40s, "Be kind to your knees, you'll miss them when they're gone" comes to mind not infrequently.
The version number was really important to me when I recently had to roll back my Kindle app so that I could actually buy books in it. It seriously pisses me off that Google gradually makes my phone more and more unusable.
IME it's pretty common to find stuff like this (photos, receipts, napkins, etc.) used as impromptu bookmark and "swallowed" at some point so not obvious it's there.
The misattribution to Vonnegut was indeed pervasive, and stupid.

You have to be a maladjusted no-lifer to get your jollies from "pranks" like that.
Well, the whole point of Beta program is to limit the participation and thus the exposure of attack vectors, and reduce the impact during the testing phase.
AKA innovation tokens
> Meta point

Meta porn
That's kind of depressing really. It's like paying someone for google search terms. I remember when the internet was full of sites filled with interesting and effective google search terms (called "dorks") but nobody was charging $2 for each one, they were just sharing something cool with the world and helping everyone use the tool more effectively.
Seems very good and a good alternative to Gogs, Gitea and perhaps others.
Any thoughts about who is using it (enterprise, open source projects, .., others)?
You may phrase it that way, yes!
Although it's pretty strange to say that chat support is "calls without phones"
You really never know how people will respond to having their past thrust at them like this. Or how they'll respond to strange phone calls.

I've bought many books over the years that had prior owner's names marked inside somewhere. On a few occasions I've bothered to try and identify/find the person in question. Once or twice I was successful, but I never bothered contacting them just to say "Hey, I bought this book you used to own". Well, except for one time.

I was on an Inductive Logic Programming / Prolog kick, and bought several used books on the subject. Something like two or three had all been owned by the same previous owner. I looked him up and found out that he was an academic and appeared to still be working, so I thought "what the heck" and sent him a note just to say "Hey, funny story, I bought these books and <blah, blah, blah>."

Not sure what I expected, if anything, in return, but the response I did get was quite chilly. It was something along the lines of "Oh, I donated those to a place that was supposed to be sending them to Africa" or something like that. There was definitely no sense that this individual was happy to hear from the new owner of his old books, or was interested in discussing the subject.

Which is fine. Like I said, I had no idea what to expect, and certainly would have had no right to expect any particular response. But it just goes to show... you are correct in saying

"You really never know how people will respond to having their past thrust at them like this. Or how they'll respond to strange phone calls." (or strange emails in this case)
I was just writing a comment about this. I am in my early 40s and that line comes to my mind all the time.
Have these books on my list. I feel you would recommend them?
This will probably never happen, but what I want is: 1) only two personal devices (Apple Watch and small iPhone) that both contain my digital life, use biometrics to securely identify me, etc. 2) larger "environmental" devices from many manufacturers like wall displays, beautiful furniture that has magically appearing keyboards, mice as needed, perfect car integration, etc.

The large environmental devices would be 100% securely sharable and be in private homes, hotels, offices, metro stations, etc. With either my Watch or iPhone, no matter where I am, if I need to, I would have my work life, entertainment life, etc. at my fingertips.

iPadOS 16 beta has StageManager that is sort-of OK for providing a more general desktop environment. I would expect my Watch or iPhone to trigger whatever I need in my environment.

I get so tired of being "sys admin" for my digital devices. I want to spend as close to zero time doing this as possible. Similarly, my Dad is having his 101 year old birthday next month and although he has always been very good with computers, it is frustrating trying to help him remotely. So:

In addition to what I mentioned above, I would like to have VR/AR for quick telepresence to help him and other family members who might be 100s of miles away physically.
Suit yourself, but you don't have to be rude. I'd love to hear your take given your confidence to judge my opinions.
Sixty bucks in a Percy Jackson Lightning Thief book. I mean, was it stolen? Was it signaling? What was it?
I want this story to continue, and for each of the five twenties that you spend, some increasingly elaborate and unlikely good thing happens.
No but they might try and contact them for you (context dependent).
With semi-supervised learning a small amount of labeled data, can produce considerable improvement in accuracy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semi-supervised_learning

https://towardsdatascience.com/semi-supervised-learning-how-...
The big issue with AR is that many people prefer to use eyeglasses instead of contact lenses. Many also wear sunglasses outdoors. I don't see a big AR breakthrough coming until someone figures out how to combine AR with the other functionality people expect from their glasses.
Only if you don’t follow its advice!
It probably wouldn't produce good code though :D
> There was a pretty huge market of shareware (or open source on linux) for this.

Maybe I'm just _too_ into the linux lifestyle, but as a full time linux user (outside of work where they have me use a macbook), I just use the terminal as my file manager. `ls`, `cp`, `mv`, `rm`, and then a utility installed to have a CLI command for putting things in the trash instead of permanently deleting is pretty much all I need.
The US grid is ready for 100% renewables, says DOE
If you have 2 quarters of negative growth, that means that the economy is producing less stuff for at least 6 months, and increasingly less. That means that there's less for people to buy/consume/use. That's likely to mean that "everything else is not good".
Imposing that option on people negates its usefulness. Which option would you recommend to your elderly relatives? Accept robocalls from international scammers or receive updates from their doctors office?

You might as well ban robocalls for legitimate uses too, since legitimate users won't be able to rely on it anymore.
As is often forgotten on HN, a company is nothing but a bunch of people, each with their own incentives and political dominions to defend.

We like to think of a company as one entity and assign to it some sort of anthropomorphic aspect, but that's just a dumbed-down simplification our minds like to make to make dealing with the world easier.

Especially for a company as large as Google, were political infighting between product verticals are a documented problem.

In that regard, it is not ironic at all, there is no such thing as consistency in such a large human organization. Hell, even the army is not capable of doing this properly.