skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're trying to talk about system reliability as a whole, while the others are talking about reliability of individual decisions or event handling.

It's like the difference between talking about all-causes mortality versus the reliability of a bullet proof vest. Some don't buy that the vest is more reliable when we are not being shot.
I'm sure the distinction between teleoperated machine and autonomous robot will be very important to the family killed by this machine the next time the Oakland police do a no-knock raid on the wrong house.

Whatever kind of machine this is at the end of the day it's a force multiplier. That's why it is used. It lets law enforcement leverage more force against people and it allows them to do so with further impunity.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdokBQW7Suc

It's always disconcerting when people don't see a problem with that.

How much force projection should law enforcement have anyways?

How much is too much? Is it subjective or objective?

What are the checks and balances on this kind of equipment?
Good points about the more rounded origins of hacker culture. I had
read most of Arthur C Clarke by 9 years old and already had complex
misgivings and ambivalence about "technology".

> obliterated by the frenzied influx during the dotcom gold rush.

Something changed in mid 1990s, something that was more than just the
commercialisation and Eternal September. Perhaps it was millenial
angst but a certain darkness and nihilism crept in as if William
Gibson stopped trying to imagine future dystopias because the future
had "caught up" and we were living in it. I think that's when things
actually stopped progressing. After that, everything that had been
written as a warning became a blueprint.

> Since then, "the victors write the history books", including
formative influences on children's thinking.

80s and 90s media moguls only owned the channels, and there was
cursory regulation. When you own all the platforms, and devices that
people use, and shape the content they see from school-age onwards it
is no longer "media" but total mind control.

> It's encouraging if we manage to collectively scrape our way back
from that

It may not be "back", but it may be somewhere better than here. Each
generation finds it's own voice. I have some optimism in the kids
since 2000 - it's like they're born knowing "The cake is a
lie". They're just not quite sure yet what to do about it.
I had never heard about her until a few months ago, and now I hear about her over and over. Strange.
I usually don't comment at all on HN crypto threads, it's never been a productive use of time. I slipped on this one, totally on me.
Maybe in a perfect world.
> Crypto ATMs have 7%-15% fees with no KYC up to 1k USD and have grown about 5x-10x in the last 5 years in the USA.

FWIW, "Crypto ATM" is sort of a misnomer.

AFAIK, no crypto ATM in the USA allows you to sell cryptocurrencies and pull out cash. You can only buy them, which as far as I'm concerned, is the easy part.
> There is no word in English dictionary with HH (°°°° °°°°).

Beachhead
Just as another perspective here:

I've also seen employees fighting to avoid paying back optional signing bonus that were given under the condition of staying for a couple of years...not attached to training at all.

It's difficult to separate "I don't think I should have to pay back anything, period" from "I don't think I should have to pay for training".

The training case can be made sure, but when somebody accepts some form of benefit with the explicit terms: if you leave before X you have to pay it back, I don't see the issue if the terms were clear.

EDIT: Now I'm curious about the down votes? Where is the issue with an expectation that people follow through with signed agreements?
Gains can be reported to the IRS without revealing their source.
The fees increase with demand, but throughput does not. Bitcoin's current incarnation cannot scale. If it is cheap to transact now, it is only because the demand for its use as an actual currency has been reduced since the last fee explosion.

If everyone in the world tried to use bitcoin as a replacement for bank transfers, etc. then the fees would be astronomical
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> On a personal level I try to help because another's happiness becomes mine.

There you go, so you help others to feel happiness yourself. In which case, its not purely altruistic.
Pretty sure RK3399 is on mainline kernel nowadays isn't?
I don't think Kanye West saying that he suffers from bipolar disorder is a rumor.
Of course, all of that is true. I'm only saying that people seem to believe it is inherent to crypto.
> it would be nice to use ClickHouse as a Prometheus backend

Well... that's already possible and it works great! As you might know https://qryn.dev turns ClickHouse into a powerful Prometheus *remote_write* backend and the GO/cloud version supports full PromQL queries off ClickHouse transparently (the JS/Node version transpiles to LogQL instead) and from a performance point of view its well on par with Prometheus, Mimir and Victoriametrics in our internal benchmarks (including Clickhouse as part of the resource set) with millions of inserts/s and broad client compatibility. Same for Logs (LogQL) and Traces (Tempo)

Disclaimer: I work on qryn
Anecdotally, there areas of my town (and adjacent towns) with a Kroger-owned store across the street from an Albertson's-owned store. I expect this merger will quickly result in the overlapping stores to be closed, those jobs to be lost and for the large empty retail space to negatively impact other adjacent businesses.

This merger feels like it'll be bad for consumers and bad for the local economy of markets with overlap.
Having personally struggled with serious depression and feelings of victimhood, I actually disagree.

I can confidently say that it is a lot easier to go through life not feeling like a victim.

It takes extra work and introspection to change states, but it is far easier in the long run.
They can always tell their employees they're not allowed to do something, and punish the ones that do. I think it's an important distinction though that whatever they tell their employees, the app isn't doing anything wrong in a legal sense. So still legal, possible, and difficult.
Sorry, I didn't watch the video, but couldn't that be avoided by churning a few times?
Wouldn't it be much more accurate to say that both Wireless Set Number 10 and the nascent radar technology in the early 1940s independently took advantage of the recent (<1 year?) invention of the cavity magnetron?
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C-Phrase is available under the free tier on AWS.
The video gives exact instructions on how to launch.

Please give it a try and give us some feedback.
https://www.littler.com/publication-press/publication/new-yo...

"The New York City Council has approved, by a vote of 43-3, a bill that would make it unlawful for most businesses to refuse to accept payments in cash, with limited exceptions."

It was supposed to go into effect November, 2020. I don't know if COVID concerns about handling cash meant that businesses were formally or tacitly allowed to require cards since they could be touchless (tap) or close to it (wipe down the hard plastic keys).
If I was AA I would absolutely want to block this.

One example: Seems like it sends information about the whereabouts of all the American Airlines staff via an unauthorised third party.
Free speech advocacy was trendy with the left when the right held more institutional power. Now it's embraced (at least as a slogan) by the right. In much the same way I don't trust Apple to give a damn about software freedom, but they backed Webkit and clang for their own self interested reasons. I accept that being "on the side of free expression" means that I will need to shift political allegiances now and then as power consolidation shifts. Along the way the tools for enabling and preserving free speech get better and better though. Long live the anti-establishment wingnut right... until they win, then I'll be hanging with Jimmy Dore.
From your other comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33228497:

> There is so much use for blockchain especially as infrastructure for society and in 10 years from now we will not even be thinking about it.

So you do seem to think that 10 years matter and that it's the time left before it becomes part of our lives, but still it's unclear what's supposed to change in the meantime and why this hasn't happened yet. There's just as much money lost on a regular basis (maybe even more now that projects are bigger), it's still mostly a speculation platform, no real infra in sight and mostly "ideas" that don't pass a basic business plan analysis or simply the question: "wouldn't it be better to implement this idea, but without a blockchain?".

Bitcoin has changed very little since its inception. The first 10 years haven't fundamentally changed its adoption, there's no reason to think that 10 more would do much more. "Just believe in it" is not very enticing for a technology.
I had this same misgiving when Dallas PD used a robot to carry a bomb towards a hostile rooftop sniper.

I think it will usually be justified as being in the imminent defense of others / the public. The sniper was actively threatening to continue shooting people.

Perhaps they’d say the hypothetical guy shooting at a robot is endangering others via any stray bullets. And perhaps sometimes that would be correct.
This specific robot is just going to discourage de-escalation for suspects barricaded with guns; easier to send the shotgun robot in after such a person.
overall this is real but, how should people of conscience act? Maybe you are annoyed with their privileges, more than your respect for conscience feelings on their part?

The ages-old solution here is to act collectively, through a group voice, lessening the individual differences. Many religious groups through the generations serve exactly this function.
I think the main thing that would help there wouldn't be to force any particular platform to allow all speech, but to make it so anyone who wanted to set up such a site or platform could do so without fear of being bullied off the internet by an angry mob or moral puritanism. Web hosting services, firewall services like Cloudflare, payment processers like Visa and Mastercard and internet providers should be regulated as utilities like water and electric companies are.

If that was done, then there would be far less issues here. Those who want free speech focused platforms could create them, and those who didn't want to use them wouldn't have to. The problem at the moment is that not only is there no place for free speech online, but any attempts at creating one can be bullied off the internet by an angry mob on social media because of companies and PR.
Millions of people believe the Covid vaccine was designed to kill them, or that the Clintons eat fetuses in pizzerias. Millions more are absolutely certain a Jewish secret cabal runs the world. Are they "insane", or just dumb?

Kanye West is pushing conspiracies a little further, into the domestic realm.

What's upsetting is that when ordinary John Does promote conspiracy theories they are shunned, but when it's a successful artist we try to find them excuses.
> arguably, the most popular rapper/hip hop artist of all time

is he ranked that somewhere?

if so, i'm definitely getting old and out of touch with pop culture, and i'm from the Chicago area so grew up with everything available on the radio.
The weird thing about CoPilot to me is that all the examples seem like bad examples: I don’t want my team writing new functions to count the bits in an int; I want them to call the function to count the bits. The real potential of CoPilot would be if GitHub uses it to design libraries for various languages that do the things people keep wanting done. Imagine if instead of autocompleting the body of `std::size_t count_bits(int)`, it would suggest “Try `#include <GitHubLib/BitTwiddling.h>` and call `GitHubLib::count_bits`.”
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He is still on this bit? Madness. “The end of history” was just a brief period of Pax Americana in the 90’s. Then there was the war on terror, the Arab spring, the rise of China, and now the destabilization of Russia and the rise of India. History is still going strong.
I just assume anyone that brings up such topics regularly is a narcissist and ignore them.
This is nothing, it failed to produce blocks for -days- before

There are anomalous blocktimes throughout the entire history. Long times, short times, even negative times.

Press play here for an order tabular list of all anomalous block times outside of a normal deviation: https://blockchainsql.io/wkeno3
At least for driving, into Mexico, there is no real check. For anything. You merely drive through at speed while border guards glance into the cars. You don't actually speak to anyone unless they flag you. I think the U.S. is the only one of the three that would really care.
The issue is they take over and then they hurt the very people trying to be helped.

When I was young, hearing that someone was raped immediately brought to mind an understanding of the heinousness of the crime.

Today I assume it's not true and start asking questions. Do I like having that mindset? No, I obviously don't want anyone to be raped, men and women included.

But at some point I have to protect _MYSELF_ from manipulation, and these people manipulate entirely too often. And the people who are truly hurt by this are the ones who truly need help.

I mean hell, when I see a statistic about rape my first question is to see the questions asked in the poll. Because it turns out, many of the respondents THEMSELVES wouldn't consider their response to imply rape, but it gets labelled as such for the statistics.
I had a tech lead who vehemently agreed with the parent commenter (retry from the top), but I ended up learning different lessons.

* Differentiate retryable and non-retryable errors. If the service can't return success because the DB it queries is borked, it should send a non-retryable error. Then it won't get overwhelmed by retries from upstream.

* Retry configuration should have sane defaults. Even "retry once" is too often; many services aren't overprovisioned for 100% increase in traffic. What ended up working here for us was having the retry module collect req/sec statistics, then only allowing 20% of that number in retries/second. Individual requests can be retried twice. That was small enough to not push over any services, but enough retries to compensate for garden-variety unavailability.

* Services shouldn't serve requests first-come-first-served under load. When SHTF, fairness means everyone has to suffer long delays, often much longer than rpc timeout. Instead, serve them in an unfair order - the most recent requests to come in are the most likely to have a caller still interested in them. Answer those!

* Use headless services in kubernetes. By exposing the replicaset to the client, the client can load balance itself more intelligently. Retries should go to different replicas than the failing request. Furthermore, you can perform request hedging to different replicas than the lagging request.

* Define a degraded form of your in-memory object-graph. If a feature is optional to the core business flow, it shouldn't take down your whole product. This one is a lot more involved. We needed custom monitoring for degraded responses, in-memory collection and storage of "guesses" to substitute for degraded portions of the object graph, as well as some other work I can't think of right now. This does enable an organization to compartmentalize better, having faster, less fearful deploys of newer initiatives.
Counterpoint: https://brandur.org/soft-deletion

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32156009
Was I not a citizen until I was first able to vote for federal representation at the age of 25 after moving out of my hometown of DC?
I don't mean the insurance company. That's obvious. I mean how does the owner cover itself.
> Maybe we should not allow toxic behavior at all

Moderation[0] is not censorship. It just means having a productive conversation and debate without name-calling, slurs, and other malfeasance. "Trash" is not a harmful word, but inciting violence against an ethnic group definitely is harmful. There's also historical baggage attached to ethnic groups such as the Jews who were persecuted in an actual war and genocide. "Men" is too generic.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moderation
It's now 8.5:1.
Sorry when I said 'I think it's cool what they're doing' I was referring to the app makers. The wording was a little ambiguous-- fixed.
If we're talking Macs being serviced directly with Apple I don't see how doing anything is necessary. Anything more than backing up your system (in case Apple needs to wipe it) is a waste of your own time.

Whatever Apple employee is performing service on your machine doesn't have the time or possibly even the ability to do much of anything with your system. Apple's going to be using automated diagnostic tools and has a general interest in getting your repair done as quickly as possible.

That Apple employee is being watched by cameras and monitoring tools while they do their job and they're not going to sacrifice their performance metrics or potentially get fired/prosecuted over a desire to rummage through your system. Put yourself in their shoes: if you were repairing 20 laptops per day as your job, how much would you care about fucking around on any of those particular systems? File this one under "the cashier doesn't care that you're buying condoms."

If Apple did something with your stuff it could be very detectable, and Apple is a massive lawsuit target. They have every motivation to be extremely careful about how they handle data. They also handle repairs for business customers.

If you've really got some sensitive data, you still don't need to be talking about nuke scripts and other time-wasting complexities. Skip all that and just do a local Time Machine backup, wipe the system, then send it in for repair. Then when you get it back you restore the whole thing as a single piece. But honestly I've never bothered with that.
For another point of view, I recommend this article from the New Yorker:

https://www.newyorker.com/science/elements/california-studen...
It was to look impressive tbh. I love these units.

The LEDs, iirc, were tied to the processors being active or accessing memory or something. I forget exactly what. It wasn’t really for information purposes but for looking impressive.

And impressive it is. There’s one at a museum in GA that is wired up to randomly blink the LEDs and it’s the best thing ever lol
I’ve seen plenty of weird conversations in the workforce like leaders living in an alternate reality than direct reports to hawk their views, yet never felt motivated to call them mentally ill. I don’t judge how people feel they need to speak to relate to anybody, especially under the influence of alcohol as Kanye was in that segment.
As always, this is written by someone who admits to never having learned to reason abstractly about algebraic objects, because it is hard.

Quoting from the OP:

> The traditional arithmetic I learned in the early grades made sense to me because I could relate it back to real-world things. Later, when I was learning how to design, finding the area of a circle proved essential to practical tasks such as sizing hydraulic and pneumatic cylinders. I could do trigonometry by visualizing, for example, the cables on a suspension bridge. But algebra: no.

For a different perspective, I recommend reading instead Susan Rigetti (nee Fowler)'s posts about overcoming challenges to learn Math and Physics. She says she had to solve what felt like "millions of exercises" to become familiar with many abstract concepts, until they finally clicked for her and she was able to reason about them. In her words: "Solving problems is the only way to understand mathematics. There's no way around it."

https://www.susanrigetti.com/math

https://www.susanrigetti.com/physics

https://www.susanjfowler.com/blog/2016/8/26/from-the-fledgli...
So what you see in the US political landscape is that there are people who, at least by global standards and even by domestic standards, have incredible privilege who love nothing more than to adopt an oppression aesthetic (eg the Great Replacement [1]).

We also have seen the stratospheric rise of narcisism.

I've wondered if this is a new phenomenon. If so, why now? If not, why was it seemingly less prevalent historically?

Things like "hyper-individualism as a virtue", a core tenet of many modern American cultures, raiise the question: is this because of narcisism or the cause of it? Culturally we seem to celebrate what are (literally) psychopathic behaviors (eg CEOs of large companies).

But here's another thought: maybe the attraction of a sense of oppression is closely related to the human need for a sense of purpose, to be part of something. Organized religion in the West is in decline but it usually provided this structure. It's scary for many to think that everything is just random and when you die, that's it. There's a certain comfort and structure in being part of soemthing, even if that something is (or is construed as) oppression.

I believe this is a strong motivator for the resilience of conspiracy theories.

As for weaponizing victimhood, here's a good rule to live by: from a narcissist, every accusation is a confession. It tends to work in reverse too, meaning if you find someone making really hpocritical and logically inconsistent statements or accusations, which they themselves don't abide by or are guilty of, it tends to be fairly strong evidence of narcissism.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Replacement
You say that getting paid isn't interesting to you but your goal is to make money without being salaried. Consider that you won't be able to achieve your goal or help people in the way you want if you don't charge them money.

Do you _have to be_ interested in charging money/getting paid in order to do the actions required?

Where is the greatest point of friction? Is the issue that you're not interested in having sales conversations? Is it not being interested in the tedious aspects of running a business? Is it because receiving compensation makes it less fun for you?

What does it look like for you to be interested in something? Can you think of something else in your life that you do regularly but that you aren't interested in? How do you make that work?

Exploring these questions deeply may help you find clarity on what the exact issue is. I'd recommend making a daily habit of journaling with these questions. Pay attention to what other questions come up as you write and explore those too.
The problem is that blockchains cost more and add significant performance reliability problems without adding trust. You could solve this problem using PKI with orders of magnitude lower computational and storage cost, and that'd remove the requirement to have an always-on network service.

However, that's still missing the point that this is fundamentally a problem about humans in the real world and the technology can't magically change that. The problems with supply chain authenticity aren't a question of record keeping but whether those records are accurate. If my inspector is being paid off, he'll do the same thing for the blockchain record that he was doing with paper. If things are being tampered with in shipping, the same people will do the same things and you'll have the same dodgy goods arriving at their destination except they'd now have valid but inaccurate blockchain records.

As usual, the blockchain solution isn't adding anything except creating a market for the people selling it. It doesn't solve the real problems and if you spend time tackling those, you won't derive any benefit from diverting more your revenue to some VC's yacht fund.