skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But we absolutely need to drag Google people into public hearings and such

We have dragged Google into public hearings. The problem is that the purpose of these hearings has always been to collect soundbytes rather than to try to define a relationship between internet services, the people, and the government.
I've not seen one place that has escaped this problem though.

Something is either old and nobody feels like fixing it or something doesn't fit into the current constraints of the platform featureset. So they build something on their own, probably undocumented and without consulting the supposed DevOps team, but still using parts of the platform that have not been declared an API. But when you want to exercise the freedom you supposedly built with your platform, all these edge cases fall back on you and inhibit change. "We can't change the ingress controller, we rely on this implicit behavior of it" "You can't change how database credentials are provisioned, we pulled these from the Cloud SQL console and comitted them to git". And facilitating any change as soon as you can cover the use-case is a fight with stakeholders and POs that I usually have no nerve for. "Why do we need to do anything??? It works?". And then you get blamed when it breaks. I love this job.
99.99% of the world isn't using terminals.
Also no mention that the Fed enabled these malinvestments by keeping interest rates artificially low for decades.
Easy money is probably the most exciting thing on planet earth. And probably always has been.
Going to Mars will cost between $100B and $10T (the latter includes building a city). There's no way that Musk can do this on his own without government assistance.
> I dare you to show that scene at a liberal college and notice how few laughs you get.

Did you see the recent video where the white guy dressed up in a poncho, big hat, and fake mustache and carried around maracas? He asked a bunch of white kids on a college campus if they thought his outfit was offensive to Mexicans, and they all said yes.

Then he went to the Mexican part of town and asked actual Mexicans, and they all said it was funny or that they liked that he was trying to honor their culture. Not one of them was offended.

So perhaps it would be good to ask a Chinese person if this joke offends them.
And/or become burnt out and develop a severe ‘learned helpness’ complex. It depends on the environment they’re in, and if they have the tools and support to be able to fix issues.

Many companies, they don’t.
My stories on the FT app:

* Ukraine says Kherson counter-offensive against Russia has begun

* Inside Liz Truss's not so special relationship with the US

* Ukraine war updates: White House says Russia has "pulled resources" in response to Ukraine offensive

* EU to unveil emergency measures to curb soaring energy prices

* Nasa cancels launch of moon mission after engine trouble

* US justice department says it has reviewed Trump's Mar-a-Lago documents

--ad break--

* Crypto and climate change: can web3 help get us to net zero?

* Is $110mn man Jake Freeman lucky gambler or conviction investor?

Then it goes into their "Explore" functionality, billed as, "Take a break from the news with our recommended stories for you":

* ECB chief economist sees benefits of raising rates in "smaller increments"

* Honda and LG to build $4.4bn US battery plant

* Olaf Scholz outlines new EU vision with call for European air defense scheme

* Investors increase bets against euro as energy crisis intensifies

...and so on.

So no, this being here is not "useless".
It's not explicitly described. "The break" (imo) is giving enough time to planning at the beginning, and actually dealing with the review & retro items. The length of the sprint can be shortened so that there is more learning and planning. Sprints are cancelled if the goal becomes obsolete.
JFR can also run in production without any meaningful overhead, it is a very important goal of it.

But dynamically changing new “trace”points with a running prod instance is indeed a new functionality it seems.
One deploy per commit for a product with large team sounds insane - we'd easily have 50 commits a day for some hosted components. Even deploying this often to the non-prod environments is problematic (it takes a fair bit longer than 1/50th a day for a start!), but doing that to your customer-facing production sites sounds bonkers - what class of problems is there that that's the best way to prevent them?
Thank you!
After reading the article I was left unsatisfied, but couldn't put my finger on it. I was somewhere around thinking that we hadn't yet established why 4th and 5th intervals were particularly special and so I couldn't see why the conclusion worked.

You nailed it.
We're talking about long time periods, but my sense is that the real return of bonds (blue line) has slowed, while the real returns of equities (red line) has not.

If nothing else, it seems like bonds increasingly require investors to take on long duration risk (and more interest rate sensitivity) in order to realize positive real returns, while short-duration bonds barely or do not even keep up with inflation anymore: https://totalrealreturns.com/s/VFISX,VFITX,VUSTX for a duration comparison on Treasuries.
it was used as a tool to grow weak unfree men to work that way for a lord or king. Freeman still existed outside of the sick bodies throughout the millenia.

there were powerful men controlling the wheat & peseants growing & eating it.
> I've found myself struggling to decide on what do I want to see in the final app and what I do not; what features might be needed by other users and what features might be an overkill.

It's tricky. You can't accept all the features otherwise you just have a mess. At the same time you need to also add/supports features that a lot of people want but _you_ personally don't need if you want the tool to be used by more than 1 person. For example with SSG I don't use themes, I just write my own templates for every site. Despite that I still added it to Zola because most people want themes. Some people will not be happy when you say no to some features they want but hey, it's open-source they can always fork it.
They have been offshoring for decades with middling success.
>If you want to see it here, why don't you seek it out and share with the community?

I would but anything positive about China is billed as CCP propaganda here.
I question its practical value overall, but at least telemetry must be opt-in and explicitly stated.
Is my Doppelgänger an enantiomorph?
Check out Philosopher Elizabeth Anderson and her work on workplace democracy for more on how modern corporations are like dictatorships and at least certainly anti-democratic. Her New Yorker profile is very good, for an intro.
I do this on IRC to prevent people from using characters that clients will interpret. It's not safer, but it prevents a ton of password support issues.
Redefining words like “murder” to include killing animals for food requires some pretty impressive mental gymnastics too.

But I don’t find either one hard to imagine.
Sounds like a well-established pattern.
I am referring to a specific movement within the US.
> If any of what they claim about "grounding" was true, the doctors would notice it a long time ago and they would be wiring patients to ground potential for decades already.

I'm not sure if this is how medicine works. There are many practices that 'should be obvious' as health promoting but weren't put into place clinically until recently. For example, bright, early morning sunlight for alleviating depression and anxiety; or using infrared light for reducing local inflammation and reducing pain.

We've been able to use electromagnetism to our advantage for hundreds of years, but only within the last decade or so these two use cases which look incredibly obvious in retrospect have become common place. So I don't think doctors are always 'quick to notice'. However, I think most of your latter points are correct.
The article describes how to store a picture in “decentralized” storage.
You’re not running img2img in a “decentralized cloud”.
Some of us even share the same birthday.
And yet the page at the end of the link is on GitHub. Hmm ...
the HPC crowd are not able to add GPUs, that I know of.. deepLearning group of algorithms do kick butt for lots of kinds of problems+data .. though I will advocate that dl is NOT the only game in town, despite what you often read here
? How is dang so certain he (has) the correct position on anything, if he can't consider other points of view? How can he understand others actions if he will not listen to their attempts to explain their motivations?

He doesn't do any of that, he just states some basic, "Stop doing <value judgement about user's behavior>." No discussion, no insight gathering, nothing.

He's a garbage moderator. You can literally observe it in his comment history [0]. His most recent comment (at time of writing)[1] exemplifies this perfectly:

> You don't have to agree with anyone's views but this style of argument is deathly to the curious conversation we want here.

No, it is not. This is simply wrong, and "this style" is dismissive and rude. But that's not up for debate, as dang has decreed it so. The only reason he writes anything at all here is to explain why the person is, to him, wrong. Zero attempt whatsoever to understand an alternative perspective.

Awful, terrible moderation skills.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=dang

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32640951
My main complaint is that after all these years, Microsoft's management still seems not to have a clear picture what they want it for, althought it seems to have replaced Visual Basic in feature love for newer .NET versions.
Thanks for qualifying.

After reading that article that in various places calls out...

- "The plus is widely taken as a symbol to represent self-identifying members of the community who are not included in the LGBTQIA acronym"

- "The plus in LGBTQIA+ not only represents other sexual labels and identifiers, but
also the experiences of those within the community."

besides the quote you already mentioned which includes the weasely "Some say", I personally don't really see as a strong of a consensus as your first comment suggests, but appreciate the perspective.
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Great explanation, thank you! I did not know the difference.

Guess then the point is that there is not one single scalar "quality" and things are not one-dimensional.
I love chess/checkers variants.

Here's a fun one that was invented(though probably not the first) by someone at my chess club. They called it ludo chess. Normal chess rules, except: two pieces can stack on the same square, and subsequently move together with the combined power of both pieces. You can also just move one of them, splitting the stack.

We've had a lot of fun playing this at our club over a few beers. One of my favourite strategies is sticking your king on a knight so it can jump out of mating nets. And carrying a pawn with your rook to create a dangerous passed pawn within a couple moves.
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No work of fiction only has heroes and reasonable people.
The harmful part comes from assumptions based on it.

Systems like CVS or Subversion indeed store diffs of file conceptually and storage wise. This has notable co sequences: when doing operations on a large span of revisions all takes long as a bunch of diffs have to be applied in sequence. This then leads to reluctance of small commits for the wrong reasons.

Wrong assumptions about the workings leading to wrong decisions is harmful.
Yes, I inserted the imprint in both projects after you told me it's somehow hard to find.
Their comment feels like astro-turfing. I see it on reddit pretty often when anything CCP roles around
No there is no tempo given.
Business productivity software is usually much more slow-changing than consumer software, precisely for this reason. They know customers' training guides need to be rewritten so changes become a big deal.

This is one of the reasons business productivity software becomes unwieldy after a while -- it's fine to add buttons and menus, you just can't change existing ones or what they do. So then version 5 will finally introduce the massive, desperately needed UI refactor after ten years, while plenty of clients just stay on version 4. (An example of this is the Blackbird CMS -- old Blackbird vs new Blackbird.)
Which is what they’re saying.

Because they do both jobs, folks understand both sides, and work together to make things work better end to end for them and for customers.

Alternatives include siloed dev teams that throw shitty software that crashes in production all the time to an overworked ops team that takes all the blame.

And overworked ops teams that have gone pager-blind and only care if a VP yells at them, so ignore all but the most major issues - after they already happened.
Both researches show benefits but the nber one somehow twists it into a different narrative. I understand why hackernews users hate uber, but shouldn’t professional economists try to be unbiased?
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I'm currently reading and it feels like I'm learning a lot but at the same time it shows that a lot has changed since then.

I would love similar book but relevsnt for the current systems...
Show HN: API access to electricity grid data in US
Chinese people know about 'STDs' - they just don't put them in programming.

I'm sure they all know about Taiwan as well.

So mostly it's just keeping programming in terms of what they define as 'civil' - and - with the added element of pulling 'political censorship'.

It's about large audiences and averages not about the knowledge of a specific thing.
Well that and sane people just disable password auth. fail2ban is a 90s sysadmin solution to a nonexistent problem.
Floods could cost global economy $5.6T by 2050
With respect to founders, there were a lot of well-known founders (read: founders that found success) that were quite young - as the article points out. In my experience, most founders are in their 40's. I've always written this off because it takes a lot of connections and knowledge to build a successful company. Even navigating the disruptor field takes some life experience, patience, and awareness. I think young founders tend to succeed in the disruption space and the list of things to be disrupted easily shrinks with every giving year. At the end of the day, I don't think it's too worrisome.

With respect to engineers the opposite is true. I've heard at, many but not all, companies I've worked for obvious biases for age. There's a borderline obsession with youthfulness, at times, in engineering that is disturbing. Usually the form these conversations take is, "this candidate has too much experience for Senior". Let's be real, Senior is the first tenured level at many companies. Nobody has too much experience for Senior, especially thrown on top of the fact that levels mean nothing across companies. It's a better signal for what pay and benefits a prospective employee may desire or be comfortable with.
Hi Daniel,

Congratulations on the launch!

I received an email from HN user telling me about this post because a while back I was running 'HN to Kindle' service[0] and since Amazon enabled 2FA for bulk emails even for approved email ids I lost motivation to run it further and instead made the core application open-source[1].

Since you're sending HN item individually, I'm not sure whether you'll face the 2FA block but do monitor whether your users are getting your emails delivered by connecting with them.

Your website's presentation is way better than mine, Perhaps because you've put JS to good use. Feel free to use my code to implement other features like classification according to chosen topics if you'd like it.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20220216140431/https://hntokindl...

[1] https://github.com/abishekmuthian/hntoebook
You would be attempting to measure very weak, probably DC, currents. Something that could clamp on wouldn’t be sensitive enough.
> such a bland, un-subversive show ... is so heavily censored

American censorship is honestly no better, it's just that the show was written with the specifics of American censorship in mind.
Keep in mind that this is government censorship; as opposed to private services performing the censorship to meet the desires of their users.

I really don't have a problem with services offering edited, family-friendly versions of media as long as its disclosed and there's a way to see the original.
A difference is that in a market driven economy it may turn out to be a losing strategy (fingers crossed).
More importantly, humans are inspectable. You can ask a human why they did something one way. You can put them on a stand and ask them whether they had knowledge of X, why they didn't do alternative Y, how they arrived at formulation Z.

All this goes out the window with AI, we have to judge the entire model as a whole, and even though we see DALL-E etc spit out watermarks we can't call it a liar or a thief. "This part overfits but the whole model is transformative, we think" say the authors.
Your comment is addressing how to make it less likely that your phone, the physical property, will be stolen. The original question seemed to be asking how to prevent digital damage from occurring, assuming the physical device will eventually become lost or stolen somehow.

While my original comment was a bit flippant and terse, it points to the main thing you can do - minimize the activities on a device that you routinely take out of the house and generally want to remain unlocked for easy use. The "normal user" answer is still to obtain multiple devices, rather than bundling everything onto that phone. For one, it's easy and cheap to buy an old tablet (~$100) for "mobile apps" where having the functionality in your pocket is an outright liability (eg banking, do you really want a mugger to be able to view your account balances?). Second, a "normal user" should still have a laptop with a keyboard they can use at home, to sidestep the extractive "mobile" ecosystem all together. A used one can easily be had for $400 and won't turn into ewaste in three short years, placing it well within the budget of most "normal users".
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Western/American cultural messaging is very deeply baked into the popular media. What is necessarily aligned with, and un-subversive to, Western values may not be so for other sets of values.

In short, "bland", "un-subversive", "sensitive" are culturally relative terms.
Just to be clear, you're suggesting we cut the program but retain the payroll taxes that fund it, right?

that's the problem with mixing social security and medicare in with the rest of the "general budget items"... it's specifically built to be a self-funding program and people have been paying taxes for decades (regardless of whether you think the government has mismanaged it) with the expectation of receiving the benefit.

(note that nowhere here have I said "lockbox", I am firmly aware that it's a "pay as you go" concern at the end of the day, and it's irrelevant to this point, which regards the human factor.)

In contrast, let's say the military is not specifically funded with any specific tax that was intended to go towards that program. It's just something we spend money on. That's what a general budget item is, and that's where the general budget largely gets spent. Medicare/social security are handled differently.
Disclaimer: I'm the Cofounder / CEO at Exafunction

That's a great point. We'll be addressing this in an upcoming post as well.

We've served workloads that run entirely on spot GPUs where it makes sense since a small number of spot GPUs can make up for a large amount of spot CPU capacity. The best of all worlds is if you can manage both spot and on-demand instances (with a preference towards spot instances). Also, for latency sensitive workloads, running on spot instances or CPUs sometimes is not an option.

I could definitely see cases where it makes sense to run on spot CPUs though.
Yup, until eventually it becomes unusable due to the sheer weight of cruft.

Then, switch to new vendor or the next major version.

Software Lifecycle for reals baby!
> plays off of the stereotype that Chinese people eat dogs and cats

So... you support government censorship of jokes that somebody, somewhere might be offended by?
I know this isn't technically youtube's fault, but pretty much every video I watch has a 30 second sponsor segment (Hello Fresh anyone?).

There's Nebula for some creators and Patreon for others, but not everyone has an ad free way to watch them. Also Patreon can really begin to add up.

And yeah there's that extension that can skip sponsored segments but that's blocking ads, not paying to avoid them.
Eating animals is kind of what our species has been doing for millenia.

The mental gymnastics are required to rationalize the act of eating meat and murder being the same thing.
Making criminals pay restitution to their victims: Yes.

Making criminals pay for their prison accommodations after they get out: No.
> Not to mention all the attempts to criminalize buying of sex, which is basically an ultraconservative position multiplied by -1.

What country/party has this position?

As a naive European, that sounds like you might be talking about the left in the USA that is still far to the right of the European idea of "left".

(Posting from Switzerland, where not only is sex work legal, it's regulated and taxed)
Population management is a bit different. And while, yes whales are a tragedy, the paper in question is trying to make a point that running out of fixed resources will lead to economic collapse. Whales are an example of a resource that collapsed with little felt economic pain.

Also, whales in particular are an interesting example, because the vast majority of them were slaughtered completely unnecessarily by the Soviet Union just to fulfill arbitrary production quotas: https://psmag.com/social-justice/the-senseless-environment-c...
I understand the consequences of access to telecom infrastructure. Is there a "human mind infrastructure" being compromised here?

I intend that in all seriousness; I'm sorry I can't find a way to phrase it that doesn't sound fatuous. There seems to be some access to which we're ok when American companies do it and not when Chinese ones do. And I couuld understand that, but just what asset are we hardening?
I don't find BBT funny. The censored sex-related stuff is in there for its shock effect, anyway.
I think the + just signifies that the movement is willing to include groups that aren't explicitly mentioned because

1) the acronym can only get so long because it becomes alphabet soup.

2) the default posture is to ally with groups that haven't been included yet.
This is a false dichotomy though. Your comment makes it sound like the only options are to keep using the same tech stack for 30 years or to "race" to adopt the "newest fad". What about switching from a moribund 30 year old technology to a mature 5-10 year old technology every now and then, based on an assessment of the very real drawbacks of living in the past. Security is one of the biggest problems with outdated software that many people are only too happy to ignore.
Little offtopic:

"One of the things I've learned from this is that targeted blocking of only a few IPs is disproportionately effective at stopping brute force"

This is very much true also for other types of attacks/scan/etc.

Are you blocking Azure/OVH range on firewall ?