skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think I'd prefer to find a different line of business, if it were me.

It's almost every line of business. You probably need a mildly active twitter/facebook/instagram presence if you have a nice nail salon, or toy store. Anything not in a huge popular franchise.

edit: this sentiment puts me in mind of a watch or shoe repair shop guy in the 1960s who refuses to install a telephone because he wouldn't want customers who think that they could just loudly barge into whatever he was doing at will. Telephone culture brings a sense of unearned entitlement that attracts bad people. But you miss out on business worth far more than the irritation without a telephone. Keep the telephone outside the actual shop and hire someone else to answer it. They used to call answering machines "phone butlers."
Can you elaborate? As an outsider I don’t know if you mean FreeBSD has ZFS or OBSD
Breaking and Fixing Apple AirDrop
Tailscale: MagicDNS General Availability
I'd think increasing demand would hurt everyone's bottom line, since non-assisted renters have competition with assisted renters for the same set of properties.

Is there any data on how rental assistance impacts market rental prices?
That was the second original computer game I got in my life. Or perhaps the first, because I got two on at the same time: Pirates!, and Sub battle simulator.

I loved both, but I have very fond memories of Pirates! I must have played it for an unhealthy number of hours. I even remember going to a neighborhood photocopier to make copies of the map, because I wanted to make different notes on it depending on which historical period I chose to start the game in.

Not much to add to what you said, but thanks for bringing back those memories!
Still waiting for you to explain global share. Still waiting for you to realize your time scales are 30 years off.

I'll always be waiting. Best of luck!
There are different types of features you can monetize with open core. The article talks about monetizing features that allow you to run it as a SaaS and the problems with that. At GitLab we opted to make those open: "The open source codebase will have all the features that are essential to running a large 'forge' with public and private repositories" https://about.gitlab.com/company/stewardship/#promises Instead we monetize features that managers and executives care more about https://about.gitlab.com/company/pricing/#buyer-based-open-c... This prevents the perverse incentives mentioned in the article.
Sure, if a Google researcher applies for and gets access to dbGaP through NCBI, they will get a secret key to decrypt the private parts of the data. But that wouldn't make any sense since this is many many terabytes of data and typically you'd want to convert it to a format that is optimized for data processing.

But that wasn't the point. The point was to have copies of the data preloaded into Google Cloud, preformatted for high performance data processing by a wide range of researchers. One of the highlights of my career was working directly with Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat on mapreduces that turned FASTQ and BAM files into sstables.
There is probably some fallacy to explain this. My intuition tells me that if you have meaningless job (or you feel as if) you tend to make big deal out of small decisions, assert your territory of control/reign etc.

This leads to what you described. I guess it also offers an easy cop out for them if the button will be placed in the worst possible way. "Since Jerry was also on the call and I always thought he has final say."
similarly, NYC decided to pay McKinsey $4mm to answer the question of whether large, stinky festering piles of trashbags would be better in containers.
see: "The Big DevOps Misunderstanding"

[01] https://linkedrecords.com/the-big-devops-misunderstanding-84...
What we need is 2 JWST that can compensate for each other.

Why build one when you can have two at twice the price?
what's your definition of spam? Are lots of links inherently spam?
The most valuable information for the average HN reader, especially younger colleagues who have only been in the workforce for the last decade, is that the ~70% gross margins of the hyperscalers, and by extension the $300k+ salaries for early career software developers, has been fueled by a temporary era of low central bank interest rates and an excess of VC capital. This era is almost certainly coming to a close. We should all be planning accordingly with respect to personal finance and especially be smart about getting locked into high mortgage payments.
this tool may be special, it may have been irradiated and or have fission/fusion derived isotopoic content, may also have detectable radionuclides contaminant.

you can work backwards and determine the core components of a detonation.

or you can make very precise wave guides or very spherical objects to make your own detonation.
In watching Canadian parliamentary proceedings over the last few years, there have been many an amusing moment where I've realized most of the people constructing proposals, debating issues, or doing interviews, are always either out to deliberately screw us, are actually just not very intelligent, or are somewhat brazenly out of touch and think they're really going to nail it this time. In years prior, I would have assumed that parliamentarians are doing some sort of complicated work that's reserved for those few brilliant and lucky individuals who make their way to the top power positions. But alas, only some are brilliant, maybe about as many as in the general population.
I've rarely had a hard time understanding code that was written for a purpose rather than importing a library. Except in rare cases (like dates, big APIs) a library is often unnecessary cruft. Should I go pull a fat logger when all I need to do is send data over TCP to rsyslog? As long as I consider all of my use cases, and properly defend the cases I wont use I can write faster, often times more understandable, code. An example of a great, but often unnecessary library, is Pandas. I've seen Pandas imported for trivial CSV work, simple data manipulation, etc just because it was "familiar" rather than the right tool. Pandas is so, so, so heavy that if you're not using it completely for data science oriented work you are probably wasting your time...people seem to not understand this distinction.

I've had people cut juniors/data scientists/etc loose on a "be-all-end-all" framework and ended up with the worst code I've ever seen. Edges so sharp just looking at them will cut you. I've seen code that imports trivial things like line counting! I've even been on the response team for a security incident involving several internal packages that imported the wrong thing from the package managers! I've had to re-write important library functions for a package that was imported and deprecated, and the author just went to do something else. Libraries are great, but they are not a fire-and-forget tool. When you use them, you must use them sparingly, correctly, and securely. Importantly, you need to pray a library will be maintained over the life of your software.

"Documentation and community support" is worth absolutely, positively, nothing if the usage of the library enabled the writing of poor code. Hire better developers, and create strong coding standards at your company. Let software engineers do what they do best and choose the right place to include a library after evaluating all options. Experience level matters. Late seniors and staff+ understand the difference. New seniors, TLs, and of course braindead management love to bring in the universe on every project.
> The problem is most engineers don’t want to do operations work.

There's your problem. You have people who build stuff without caring where and how it runs. Recipe for disaster.
Don't forget TERREG. Every website needs to have a person on-call 24/7 to answer potential requests from law enforcement anywhere in the EU to remove stuff they don't like. https://wikimedia.brussels/antiterrorists-in-a-bike-shed-pol...
I too think he is backed into a corner but if his money falls through maybe he can wiggle out.

In some of the texts I read it was clear they intend to put trump back on the platform. I am guessing they will try to turn it into some sort of "free speech" aka right wing conservative crap fest.

Which is sad I have really curated my twitter feed to some good technical things like pixel art, shaders, and generative art. I imagine those people will eventually leave once enough crazies get enabled to spout hate 24x7.
So Twitter would be treated like PBS?

I'd love the see the faces of those 'free speech absolutists' if that ended up happening. If they thought Twitter censors too much now...
It's not disingenuous it's just not related to those issues. You can talk about the government having a sense of decorum without addressing policy issues.

The fact is that Johnson was ousted by his own party, as was Truss. That would never happen in the US because it's party before everything.
So a symbol i.e. "DevOps" gets corrupted. What do you do? Make a new symbol, like the author is suggesting? Or try to reclaim the term? This happens time and again and I find the question fascinating.

FWIW, "Platform Engineering" used to be something different than what the author is suggesting.
Sounds very much like a lot of predictive analytics places like walmart do. Walmart has spent hundreds of millions on solving the problem of getting stuff into stores just before it's needed, and some of their work on weather modeling, yearly holiday predictive impact, etc is very interesting, and just a bit scary.

Walmart likely had data on which states were covid baby boom states and which ones were baby bust states well before any of the rest of us had even a sliver of an idea how fertility would play out during the lockdowns.
That is great insight. Yes auto based on data is usually what works for most. I get that the crowd here would like manual... will need to consider that. The more regular users Swurl gets, the better we can figure out the needs.
> OpenStack has been around for 10+ years and mostly just provided slide-ware value and maybe some strategic negotiating leverage and insurance of various forms.

There isn't much competition in the market and most of it is closed source, proprietary stuff - OpenStack in contrast is open source and made to fit the needs of CERN (they run 320.000 nodes). That maybe also explains the choice of Python and the sorry state of its documentation - scientists have ample time to deal with bullshit, corporate does not.

[1] https://www.openstack.org/videos/summits/berlin-2018/towards...
Is there any state that has laws to prevent NIMBYism?
Formal Methods of Software Design: Full Course by Eric Hehner
I think I'd take my chances with the sidewalk than risk a startups new self cleaning censor. Literally a shit storm
I basically stopped tweeting in May. I sent like 2 or 3 this summer. Since then I've started getting a bunch of crypto spam DMs.

Though maybe they're looking for dead accounts to phish and break into?
I'm in Metro Atlanta. Near me we have: Walmart, Target (our local Target has full grocery), 3 wholesale clubs [Costco, BJs, Sams Club], Aldi, Ingles, 2 local chains (largest is Food Depot which is all over the region), Piggly Wiggly, Kroger, Publix, and Asian and Hispanic supermarkets. Elsewhere in the metro area there is Lidl, Trader Joe's, Whole Foods, and probably others I'm not thinking of.
I remember already being able to use certain stackexchanges with kiwix before, as well as the arch wiki, wikipedia without images, and some other great resources. It is nice to see that they actually pay attention to this use-case and I look forward to updated workflows with kiwix or similar in the future. Latency is way better that way, even with good and stable internet. OpenZIM[1] is also useful in turning any page for use with kiwix.

I also have great memories from a University exam where we were allowed to have laptops that were not connected to the internet.

[1] https://wiki.openzim.org/wiki/OpenZIM
Please never vote.
If the objective of using a VPN is to dodge GCHQ or NSA, then that person is likely not properly accounting for the capability of those organizations. I imagine those two have the ability to tap just about any traffic irrespective of the parent organization's infrastructure. Would Mullvad be wise to consider this in their expansion efforts? Sure, but I have to assume that the vast majority of their market is not in the habit of getting on the NSA's target list. I use Mullvad because they have sound business practices, good performance, and don't conduct the same invasive privacy practices that I'm trying to stymie across the web.
> So what your saying is that if you use twitter in a certain way, bots won't affect you luch.

No, I'm saying that I doubt spam has much of an effect on the experience of most Twitter users. Email spam is probably much worse for most people.

[EDIT:]

1. I never mentioned ad blocking, so I'm not sure why 2 replies mentioned it. I mentioned blocking trends.

2. Even if you have trends, even if you have the algorithmic timeline, I think the replies greatly overestimate the effect of bots and spam on those. You don't see bot spam in the algorithmic timeline either. I also think "outrage culture" is mostly human culture, and we have plenty of genuine outrage even without any bots.

3. Even if you think (which I don't) that bots greatly affect the timeline and the trends, deemphasizing bot-like accounts in the timeline and trends is an alternative to suspending accounts. There's much less harm in algorithm adjustment than there is an account suspension, because false positive suspensions are very harmful to the account holder.
Yes, if you are just trying to replace vSphere/ESXi Proxmox is pretty good on that scale. Openstack is great if you are trying to run a internal Digital Ocean style service.
I like to use FreeBSD for general appliances, OpenBSD for security-hardened appliances.
No - he’s expressing an opinion; “I think…”.
Could it have been trained on work of people like you?
The world produces and transports anhydrous ammonia in the millions of tons annually. There is plenty of experience with it. Its hazards are well known and well compensated for.
I lightheartedly object to C# being mentioned in the same breath as the rest. I've been writing Windows Forms applications for 21 years. Most C# applications have fewer than 10 dependencies, and they tend not to have their own transitive dependencies. It's bliss. We just really don't have the same level of problems in this ecosystem.
Been very interested in OpenBSD for a while. Planning on installing it onto PCEngines' APU + antenna and using it as a router. Following this guide: https://openbsdrouterguide.net/ .
Perhaps worth adding that right now, according to polls, a large majority of UK folks are labour-aligned, a complete U-turn compared with how they voted in the 2019 general election.

The current prime minister was voted into position by just 0.2% of the population (conservative party members only - unlike the USA, very few people are registered members of any party in the UK). That was not just a vote for a person, it was a vote for their radical change of policy direction as well, which they set out before the vote.

Yet another prime minister voted in by 0.2% of the population who are particularly unrepresentive, to enact policies diametrically opposed to the formal manifesto pledges at the last general election, is about as far as you can get from what the people appear to want.
These are controlled access datasets for a reason- although anonymized, they really do contain a fair amount of PII and NCBI is exceptionally concerned about the potential for abuse. Generally, in terms of weighing the balance between this being "publicly funded, therefore publically accessible" and "publicly funded, available to credentialled researchers through an application process", the NIH has concluded that yes, they can limit access to the data.

For what it's worth I've mentioned elsewhere I no longer work directly with human genomics data because it's such a political hot potato you can't really do any good research.
The rural places you lived in probably genuinely didn't have as much extreme poverty. I'm familiar with some of the types of places you probably mean.

I was thinking of the rural South, where maintaining some degree of radical poverty even in the face of all kinds of modern development has been a strange national sport of sorts for hundreds of years. The OP seemed to be pitting southern red state rural vs northern cities based on their list.

$2000 is a lot for plenty of poor people. And it's not even that easy to get a reliable car at that price anymore, you know. I'm glad it's hard for you to imagine that, but having to constantly either deal with the lack of a car (which usually means being unable to get to work, and thus earn money to feed the car...) or struggle to keep a car (worrying about a surprise bill) is a huge, huge pain for the poor.
The account in question posted 76 tweets in under 30 mins.

Have you posted with this level of frequency, from different IPs? You may not need to worry if you have not.
Looking from the outside, I think US political discourse IS far more hostile.

Britain won't accept things like Politicians being harassed, or one politician calling for other politicians to be harassed (and that's before we even get to anything Trump related).

And the amount of references I see to "civil war" when wandering across anything relating to US politics (i.e. not zero) is disturbing.
Labour has nobody to blame but themselves. They walked the exact same path that democrats did in the US—abandoning their working class base in favor of college educated liberals. The error in that approach became clearer more quickly for them because they don’t have (as much) the added overlay of racial sectarianism to keep working class minorities voting for them.
I'd say the worst
> Borrowing money to pay for tax cuts for the rich... Unbelievable.

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> What do our human brains do?

It depend on the task. If we are to edit a movie then we cut and paste different parts from large amount of raw material until something new is created. If we do this too work we don't own we call it a remix.

Law is always about the context. Web scraping is OK. Scraping youtube is not. There is no technical explanation to distinguish the two.

I would very much like to see an AI that uses youtube videos as the training set. It could co-sing with people, co-edit movies and music videos, and even generate video game assets from just scraping videos of people playing video games. All very unlikely to ever occur.
What if it is, but you can’t tell any more, because you don’t know how the world looked without it?
Stephen Fry's address at Oxford University (2015) [video]
Napkin-math: Techniques and numbers for estimating system's performance
The ironic stuff is some of the best services within OpenStack. Its a hard problem and it works surprisingly well.
TLDR: Intel manages to top AMD even if it's on a different (larger) process node.
>This looks like spam to me, I would have banned it too.

Why? Is a list of episodes inherently spam? What definition are you using?

I certainly wouldn't have banned this account
It totally depends on what you want to do/how you want to use your PC. For a 'general use' PC I'd suggest FreeBSD. There are more ports for newer programs that will offer more choices. NetBSD and OpenBSD also have their strengths, and EACH ONE can be used as a daily-driver. It just depends what you need/use.

IMHO:

FreeBSD = general purpose

(Open|Net)BSD = more specialized
and oh boy do they charge for managing a Openstack, a 8 Node support contract from Redhat was north of 80k/yr on top of telling me that Openstack is dead, have you tried Openshift :V
I've been writing Windows Forms applications for 21 years. It's still officially supported and maintained on the latest .NET. I don't think it will ever die. Microsoft invents new libraries but they deprecate nothing.
Minimal gains? RTX 4090 is almost double the performance of 3090.
This is utter nonsense. Unlike Russia, NATO isn't invading members in order to force them to join. Countries are begging NATO to let them in so that they have some measure of protection against Russia. NATO is not some "supremacist idea" of who gets to use military force, it is a reaction to Russian aggression. Ukraine did not seek to join NATO due to the US asking it to, it sought to join NATO to defend against Russia after overthrowing Putin's puppet in 2014. Quit your bullshit.
I think we agree. I would consider the construction workers to be laborers. They're adding value. Profiteering would be collecting profit without adding value i.e. engineers and the licensing board in this case.
He has a degree from Oxford. Which you left out to make your side look better.

I think it's time to look in the mirror and see that your preconceptions and biases are making you overlook reality. Like.. obvious reality. Reality that's so obvious it's in Wikipedia info boxes.
Which policy was on point? Borrowing to fund tax cuts for the rich?
> Everyone cares so much about what the homeless and drug users might do

Yeah, because it's a huge problem when you have a homeless junkie causing problems where you live.

> And [the concerns] were unfounded. ... I've literally watched a drug user argue with one

You're not helping your argument here.
> All arguments from leftists are just "we want to win"

The argument is that the party is being eviscerated in opinion polling, they’ve lost the support of the public and that since they're effectively doomed they're free to do what we know they love to do - attempt to secure themselves a role in the private sector for after the election. Given that this it the Conservative party, it's not exactly a secret that they'll try their best to gut the state in order to do so.

And the idea that Labour in 2022 is “leftist” is laughable. The party threw an election and enacted a campaign to remove members it considered left-wing (“trot hunting”). They’re not the left, they’re just probably not going to actively fuck up the country quite as severely as the Conservatives seem hellbent on doing
Yes, exactly. Even architecture astronauts are well intentioned, and if you understand the conditions under which they worked then it is quite easy to follow what they've done. It only becomes difficult when that context is lost.

So hopefully they've encoded that context in tests. Worst case, if you never learned how to read code, you can throw the implementation away and the intention will remain validatable. But if you don't have the business end of the code documented... Good luck!