skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> e.g. know when/why to setup a load balancer, or blob storage, or network storage, or domain routing

When it comes to performance and cost, I've been able to basically get a $100/mo OVH dedicated server and do everything I need on that.

I obviously understand why somebody might need blob storage, load balancers, etc.

I just haven't ran into the use case I guess? I once worked on a project where like 80 people during peak hours needed to do some relatively "write heavy" stuff to an API (1 row per scan of a barcode per like 500 orders a day for an e-commerce site)

I'm guessing that's not a good use case for k8s?
> You can probably draw a linear relationship between the amount of employee protection in the laws of a country and its unemployment rate, especially among younger people.

You can not draw a linear relationship between those. Top unemployment rates over the last 10 years: Greece, Turkey, Spain, Costa Rica, Poland, Slovak Republic... [0]

One thing you're ignoring is that countries with strong employee protection also tend have a strong social safety net where unemployed people have a backstop, they haven't lost their healthcare and assistance, so being unemployed isn't the peril it is somewhere that employee protections are basically nil.

Correlation is not causality, strong tenant protections allow people to live in places longer term, which is seen as desirable to forming neighborhoods and bonds among neighbors, which in turn makes it a more desirable place to live. Homelessness in a specific place has a diverse number of factors that play into it, including geographic factors, from ambient air temperature, housing prices, employment availability, social services available, etc etc etc. You can't draw a line from rent control to homelessness unless those are the only two graphs you're looking at.

[0] https://data.oecd.org/unemp/unemployment-rate.htm#indicator-...
Welcome to America. Nothing is elegantly designed but it somehow mostly works pretty well and occasionally fails spectacularly.
Not in my office. No one met that description.
Wonder how many of them were part of the Great Resignation which led to the drop in labor supply in some industries previously.

For tech specifically, wonder if the mass layoffs, coupled with a tech contingent of these returning retirees, will lead to a labor glut that will make getting hired much more difficult.
You can make stuff up with statistics. I for one am a FIRE early retiree, and have no desire to return to work regardless of remote or not. Perhaps I'm just not motivated...
JPLeRouzic's point about indiscriminate expression is significant though.

The tiny lipid bubbles used to introduce the (recent mRNA-)vaccines should introduce foreign nucleic acids (RNA,DNA) just on the basis of there being a cell membrane to merge into, whereas virions ('virus particles'), attenuated strain or not, would typically (always?) co-opt some receptor or other trans-membrane molecule, other than the membrane phospholipids, to aid their introduction of foreign nucleic acids.

In other words, the virions are at least somewhat restricted/targeted in what cell types they enter, and in many cases even the susceptible cells can in principle affect their level of susceptibility by regulating how much of those co-opted molecules are created, or allowed to be transported to the surface. (Innate immune response includes cells generally becoming more wary about how they transport materials and metabolize molecules we might describe as carrying information)

So it's a prefectly good description, in my opinion, that

> [for these] mRNA vaccines, all cells produce the antigen (the spike protein) so they are indiscriminately killed by T-cells.

although there are indeed aspects which are similar with live vaccines.
For the targets of hate campaigns, even a few thousand nutjobs on the Internet is way more than enough to ruin their quality of life. People have been driven to suicide because of that.

The worst thing are the stalkers that don't leave it at comments on Twitter but cross into real world intimidation (e.g. invasive photos, ordering pizzas, ...) to outright violence - you never know when they are gonna hit.
Nice. I just sort of assumed early on my comments were training some future AI, and I hope that in some small way I have been able to moderate some of its stupider urges.

A version where you can turn knobs of flavored contributors would be pretty funny. I know my comment style is easily identifiable and reproducable, and it encodes a certain type of logical conjugation, albeit biased with some principles and trigger topics, and I think there is enough material on HN that there may be such a thing as a distinct, motohagiographic lens. :)
> They got hired for leadership roles.

Mark Zuckerberg is the founder and CEO of Meta, and owns 55% of the voting shares.
I was going to make a snarky comment about how when comparing the present to the past the past has the advantage because you can just ignore all of the garbage that wasn't worth remembering but then I thought, that would actually be a pretty neat (if not particularly practical) experiment. Setup two theatres in the same area, have one just be a regular theater and the other be a theater that only features all of the movies that would have been in the theaters exactly 45 years ago and see how they compare.
SJ said at the time, don't tell me how it works, tell me what it does, and he changed the world.
Supreme Court Seems Wary of Limiting Protections for Social Media Platforms
This really isn't damning at all. Egg supply was hit hard by the bird flu, while demand didn't change. In order to keep the shelves stocked prices necessarily must go up, but the suppliers costs didn't change. Surprise surprise, charging more for your product leads to increased profits. Egg demand is quite inelastic, so reducing quantity demanded by just 10% could easily force prices to double as we have seen, which would explain the large profits. If prices hadn't increased you wouldn't be able to buy eggs. Is that really better? There simply are not enough eggs to satisfy demand at last years prices.

The fancy egg prices weren't affected as much because those chickens live in better conditions and are therefore less likely to fall victim to a flu outbreak.
Google Offers Rare Look at Restricted Areas Near Korean Peninsula’s DMZ
Warp: The Terminal for the 21st Century
It was actually based on minor success in Helsinki University. In 1970s there was real Finglish speaking female professor explaining the issues. Those ads become more obnoxious only later promising "Love and Romance".
Try FDroid instead of Play Store. FDroid has a clean version of 2048. And Shattered Pixel is pretty good too; a well polished touch-based graphical roguelike, free on FDroid without any ads or IAPs.
I'm not sure that lines up with the result. If costs go up, profit as a percentage should stay stable. Why would their profit go up 10 fold???

That is what makes it gouging. The profit margin was greatly increased through potential collusion and/or unfair pricing for what they correctly perceive as an inelastic good.
Because your Warsaw coworkers are making the exact same profits for that exact same employer, yet paid much less.

Seeing SV people whine about this is quite offensive, and a little bit racist.
> Men are still attracted biologically to what will give them the most chances to procreate: young, healthy women.

Speak for yourself. I'm gay as hell, and comfortable with the fact my bloodline ends with me.
> Plenty of people run their etcd on their control plane. If you are indeed a startup you might even consider not having dedicated control plane nodes. The idea of side-cars taking up another 100% more resources is perposterous, absurd.

I run my personal blog using k8s on a single-node "cluster" with a low-end VPS server [0]. So when I hear how hard and expensive it is to host k8s I die inside a little. This actually lets me save money, because when I find a better/cheaper server I just migrate: I copy my data files, install k8s, apply my yaml, and I'm done with the migration of my 20+ hosted services in less than an hour.

[0]: Yes, this is obviously an overkill, I wanted to have some personal playground for k8s. And I like how clean my server is thanks to containerising everything.
I think you mistake your current context with opportunity. It's absolutely true that you can do what you can now thanks to the crypto economy. That doesn't stand for the proposition that the crypto economy presents any sort of business opportunity. It actually suggests the opposite, imo. If the only opportunity in crypto is for the severely unbanked, then there isn't much opportunity in crypto.
Wow, this is very exciting! What would you recommend to someone wanting to contribute to the project? I'm a 19 year old developer who would love to learn more about game engine development and 3D graphics programming. I'm familiar with Rust.
> Ephemeral, weakly bonding, "childish."

> ever any value in long term monogamous relationships

rhetorical question ? I wonder if a large group of young people just do not know what true 'contentment' feels like. To truly be at peace. To feel like everything is just right. To be relieved of all insecurities in that one moment, and just take in something for all that is.

None of my most cherished memories are ones of peak happiness or gratification. They are all moments of gratitude. Something that let me understand how content I felt. I didn't need, I didn't want, I had no desires. Everything was simple, and everything was there for that moment. The moments were, like all others : ephemeral. But the memories and the nostalgic feeling of security that it left behind sticks around for a long long time.

That to me separates sexual gratification from being in a long term monogamous relationship. The contentment that comes with time. To know that there is someone who accepts you in your entirety. Not because you were born soul-mates, but because each person has expressed an explicit intention to do so by committing the most important currency of them all : Time. And as you invest more time, the belief in the commitment strengthens, as does the contentment it produces.
The cost of childcare services per child has a fairly hard floor on it. Working class families tend to have more kids in the US. Thus, the total expenses of childcare approx nets out around the same for a working class family as for an upper-middle class family.

But the "higher class" family has a lot of extra income to be earned by having two parents working vs one. So its often bad economics for a poorer family to work two jobs and pay for regulated childcare. And good economics for a rich one.

And this is how it works out in reality too. I checked a bunch of census stats, and the percentage of children in childcare facilities in the US rises steadily with family income. (interestingly enough, the percentage of children watched by their grandparents also rises steadily with family income too)
Except we are right now screaming that the phone companies should be responsible for eliminating spam from the phone system! That exact moderation should not cause them to lose their common carrier status, and that moderation should be expected, and that moderation should not cause them to be responsible if someone uses their phone network to call in a bomb threat.

All section 230 does is make clear that if you don't have people signing off on each and every bit of content on your platform, but respond with a good effort to reports of illegal content, then you will not be held responsible for someone using your platform as a way to do illegal things.

If all these weird people that misunderstand this get what they want, it doesn't mean youtube recommends their conservative creators more, what it means is that youtube stops doing any personalized recommendations, and all you are going to see on youtube is Logan Paul, Mr Beast, and the other mega creators that little children love.
There's a good breakdown of the situation and arguments here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzNo5lZCq5M).

The tl;dr is that it may not be possible to split a hair as thin as the difference between an automated recommendation algorithm and automated (or manual) moderation (if the system chooses not to put your tweets in the Trending Topics, are we refraining from up-signalling you or down-signalling you? Is "signal" on a continuous real number line or two separate number lines?).

If the Court rules narrowly against Google, it'll be a major change to the function of much of the Internet (we can expect companies to respond to the new liability by switching off their recommendation systems completely), but the fundamental way-of-life we know today will continue. If the Court rules broadly against Google, it functionally kills S230 and opens the entire Internet up to massive liability lawsuits in a way that may end online fora for all but the "judgment proof" of the world.

Not even HN would likely be able to afford to operate if anyone posting a controversial idea slips through the moderation cracks and gets seen. The site would have to go to moderate-all-by-default, not post-and-then-moderate.
Similar to a few other people, programming was my plan B. I had been hacking around with stuff since I was 12, but I was never really interested in joining the industry, at least not immediately.

But my plan A fizzled out and left me with no plan (in reality, it’s probably better that A failed), so I quickly hobbled together plan B. I regret making this my career, and I hate how I did it, so now I’m desperately searching for plan C before it’s too late, but it’s not looking so great atm. I thought I found one, but a poor timing with a layoff have jeopardized that.
I think a better analogy would be with the tobacco industry. Both are controlled by huge multinationals, heavily connected with the advertising industry, and have a lot of influence and power in developing countries.
Why is it Facebook’s fault that they chose to operate their platform a certain way?

Probably because we generally associate responsibility with choice.

Are users also responsible for their own choice to create and respond to engagement-optimized posts? Sure, but that’s an orthogonal concern to Facebook’s own choice and the responsibility they bear for it.
No different than Google in those respects, Apple basically works for the CCP, Amazon doesn’t let people pee, the list goes on. They’re all trash ethically.
Facebook optimizes for engagement, and maximizing engagement means making people scared, sad, or mad. Facebook emotionally manipulates its users to stay on Facebook as long as possible so they can show the user as many ads as possible. It was not like this 15 years ago.

It’s not just the medium.
No but as others said, you can buy stock or buy up buildings in the high priced cities. In the 60s, no one wanted to live in the cities and all residential properties were cheap. For example, the Boston South End was very cheap until about the late 80s.
There's still hope for binary.

0 * 0 = 0, 0 * 1 = 0, 1 * 1 = 1.

Done!
Or even better, remote work.
Articles like this always sound the same: That standard tool is too complex - you should roll your own home-brewed solution with no docs instead!

No thank you. Standardization brings its own simplification, even if the one standard is more "complex" than a hodgepodge of non-standard tools.

"If you add Kubernetes to this setup you will need to make your machines double the size". What? No.

"Kubernetes is not stable". This article is ridiculous.
I didn't say it was the sole/only objective that must be pursued without any regard to anything else, which seems to be the straw man that that NYT article is arguing against.

But yes, a board of a for-profit corporation must pursue profits to their full reasonable capability. If they neglect that duty, they will be sued and replaced. This is, for example, why Twitter had no choice but to sell to Elon. Because that was most profitable to shareholders. Otherwise the board would have been taken to court and lost. That is fiduciary duty to profits.

The idea that it's a "fake rule" is also something people love to repeat. But that isn't true. A publicly traded corporation simply cannot choose to forgo profits for all time and invest in customer service instead, for example. There absolutely is a fiduciary duty to make decisions that are ultimately profitable. (But that obviously goes along with flexibility to e.g. invest more to defer profits, invest in nice offices to attract better employees, etc.)
Ask HN: Proliferation of “Prompt Engineering”
What do you think about the phrase "prompt engineering"?

Does issue with phrasing demonstrate arbitrary gatekeeping?
Error 1009 Ray ID: 79d979963965c208 • 2023-02-22 17:34:51 UTC

Access denied

What happened?

The owner of this website (www.paychex.com) has banned the country or region your IP address is in (SI) from accessing this website.

Oh joy...
OpenAndroidInstaller: GUI for installing alternative Android distributions
I won't use anything journaled on SSDs.

What happens? I don't know... fsck would run automatically on reboot, fix the errros and recover part of the last file written in /lost+found/

But why would a server abruptly shut down 1000 times?? I already said btrfs is good enough for desktops and other interactive/supervised systems. And data loss on servers is recovered from backups, not journals!
More context:

I'm gravitating to data rather than straight-up Python because I assume a dev needs to have multiple languages under their belt. I think with my background in using and hacking around data sources it's a much lower bar for me to learn AWS, SQL, and whatever other tools are used by data engineers than to pick up a second dev language.

I should note that though losing a salary is never pleasant, my partner and I will be able to get by without dipping into savings. So though not ideal, should I fail the PIP I would have some leeway to take formal classes and retrain for a few months. And the only jobs in my actual PhD field available in my location are sales. I'm not ready for that move :p
You always start with 1 in startup
The reality is that most people, EVEN technical people, don't actually understand the Internet. The only people I consistently have conversed with who understand the Internet are technology advocates that have a deep background in Internet networking. Even on HN, most people believe many things about how the Internet works, at the networking layer, at the application layer, and socioculturally, that are not true, and provably not true, but widely believed. A true headline would be "Hardly anyone who isn't at least a double CCIE with ~15 years of experience in web policy understands the Internet."

Most technical people don't understand DNS, and it's one of the most basic and core technologies to how the Internet works today. The courts definitely don't understand DNS. The vast majority don't understand BGP, and it's literally the basis for how Internet networking works. Many don't understand the Web as a tech stack, outside possibly the basics of website design. Even people who develop web applications don't understand the Web as a tech stack.

It's actually a major concern for me, because the promise that future generations would be "digital natives" with deep technology understanding didn't come to fruition. The knowledge of how all of this infrastructure actually works is dying off, and very few people are interested in learning it, and the entire global economy is now built on the Internet in a myriad of ways. Reminds me of https://xkcd.com/2347/ except extrapolate from open source software to literally all essential technologies the world runs on.
ChatGPT Reliance Considered Harmful
that's already the case if the have iphones...
> How long until WaPo is categorized as relevant as the grocery store checkout isle tabloids?

This is why it helps to also own a grocery store.
Google knowingly promoted extremist videos? Or did they take them down when made aware?
The headline says "price gouging", but I can't find the term in the body of the article.

The claim actually assessed seems to be "record-breaking increases in the price of eggs [are caused] by price collusion among the nation’s top egg producers."

Collusion and price gouging are pretty different concepts as far as I know. It's somewhat hard to apply the 'price gouging' concept here -- a central example of price gouging would be to charge high prices for fuel or accommodations after a hurricane. It's easy to see the appeal of the concept (people are in a lurch and have few options to trade off with, making it very painful) in the natural disaster example, but that isn't the usual case with eggs.
Thank you for extracting the actual numbers. Constructing underpowered surveys with loaded questions is a common tactic for pushing narratives like this. The headline confirms a lot of people’s beliefs that economic conditions are forcing people out of retirement and that remote work is the way of the future, but it really just a survey of a couple dozen people who are “considering” and “wanting” something, which ultimately has little bearing on what people actually choose to do.

These underpowered survey tactics are most frequently used in “__% of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck” headlines. That’s why all of those headlines have drastically different numbers, some as high as 70-80% (which is obviously untrue). It really just means that someone was able to get a few random people on the phone to answer some questions in the middle of the day, which isn’t representative of the population at all.
It does happen and if you aren't feeling it, it's just not for you.

I had done a similar thing but I'd put up most of the money, at least for the equipment, but upon seeing the work ethic of my other business partners, I am no longer interested in even being partners anymore. It's more of a "put your money where your mouth is" situation as it was supposed to be a division of everyone working together, but ended up that I essentially provided everything for everyone, and that was not the way I wanted it to go at all.

For me personally, however, I've got to just cut my losses and sell off whatever equipment I bought. There was no legal contracts or anything in place.

Did you agree to a certain 3-way profit if any? If so, then just have them buy you out. Depending on the time and work you've already put into the company, as well as the ideas, probably just name your price, draw up the legal contracts, so that you are ultimately settling on a buyout price.
Funny as someone who 'quantum leaped' forward five years (aka prison) Google Maps is about the only thing that seems to be way and not intentionally turned to garbage like Amazon/Spotify. Why can't I report I've already read a book on Audible (I have already read everything it's recommending me)? Why can't I rate what I liked/didn't to get better recommendations? Why can't I sort by price (I got a $5 credit)? When can't I sort by running time descending?

I went back to good old Pandora and it's been so nice to have an algorithm that feeds me something I actually want.
Any explanation here?

From what I can find, eggs are considered one of the super foods by most people.
Someone is playing fast and loose with the word "profit".

The claimed amounts are gross profits - which do not account for majority of a company's overhead expenses, such as personnel, insurance, compliance, etc... ie. the things that increased in cost the most during covid.

Net Profit would be far more interesting, but even there we would expect an increase if prices were raised due to costs. It just won't be as sensational as the number currently being tossed around.

Not to mention we're comparing data to 2021, which had most things shut down. A better comparison would be to compare to 2019...
And some nice fat corporate profits. The lady down at the corner might not be as illegal as you think. Many jurisdictions allow for at-home day care, usually capped at a certain number of kids per caregiver, and it's much lower than the head-count at the corporate ones.