skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This seems to be quite a contradiction. If it's so easy to just write from scratch, then why would it be scary to depend on?

It's easy to write an implementation specific to your existing project's development environment and workflow correctly.

It's hard to write a generic version that works in any environment. It's hard to write a version that lets you build a company and make money.

It's scary to depend on this generic version because it's too generic, and it's built by a for-profit company now who wants to upsell you to some "testcontainer cloud" crap, which doesn't exactly incentivize them to make the OSS version perfect.

For example, we were already using bazel, so writing a version using bazel to create a correct bare rootfs for a dependency + using runc to execute it in tests resulted in something with a roughly 3ms warm startup time that fulfilled all our needs, and cached correctly (since bazel has good caching).

A junior engineer, starry-eyed at test-containers, switched some code over to it, and the warm startup time went up by 1000x from 3ms to 3s, as did the flake-rate, and docker's caching is far worse than bazel's so the several minute cold-starts also happened even more often.

> Testcontainers is exactly the sort of thing open source is great for; it's something where everyone gets to benefit from the wisdom and battle-testing of everyone else.

You get to have a mismatched mess of solutions to everyone's problems, including solution's to problems you don't have. You get code of the quality of the average OSS programmer which, while higher than the average programmer, is still pretty crap.

Free Software is great when it's run by a small group of smart opinionated people. As soon as you try to build a company around that OSS and, god forbid, hire some enterprise sales people and product managers, it quickly becomes worse at the actual small developer problem than what even a mediocre developer could hack out in an hour.

Depending on testcontainers is fine, but if you know what you're doing, writing something purpose-built is fine too, and probably gives you something much nicer in the end.
You pay to be a part of a union so it must have some kind of value to the customers (the workers) otherwise no one would pay and there wouldn't be high union membership.

If workers felt that a good attitude and honing their skills would get them paid more than being a part of a union they wouldn't join.
> I always saw unions as a
bureaucratic/political layer that sits on top of workers, collecting money without contributing.

I think you’ve confused unions with management.
It depends on the person i guess. Fiber tends to be pulverized and exits the stomach fast, leaving ppl hungry soon after, at least for me. Or it's not satiating, so either you still crave calorie dense food or get hungry soon after. It's called volume eating, and the results are mixed. Some complain that it messes up satiety signals. It if were that effective there would not need to be huge Reddit subs devoted to discussing it: ppl would just stuff-up on fruits and vegetables, feel satisfied, lose weight ,and that would be the end of it.
> I always saw unions as

That's possibly a function of the unions you've directly encountered, or some personal bias of your own.

> I also don't think that people should all get the same pay

See, you already have something in common with all the unions I've ever encountered.

If somebody brings something tangibly extra to a job then they deserve a better job title and pay bracket. Unions support this- higher pay for leading hands, for skill levels, for having first aid certification, etc.
A transcontinental flight ranges from low five figures for a long range business jet to upper five/lower six figures for a widebody jetliner. Those are machines purpose built for the job of moving people transcontinental distances. They benefit from decades of heritage building tens of thousands of units leading to extremely aggressive cost optimization. I just can't see Starship getting the cost per flight down into the hundreds of thousands of dollars range. Not to mention the boring (but important) constraint of trying to insure a team of valuable athletes flying around in a rocket with way less of a safety record than conventional air travel.

That said, having a sports team arrive in town by literally descending from the heavens on a burning rocket sounds badass. Unfortunately I can't really see it happening, but I'd be happy to be proven wrong.
> If there was a real market that people could enter, competitive pressure would force them to be cheap. If the market was, hypothetically, choked by regulation then they'd be in a great position to charge absurd prices.

This is a fabrication - a free market with large capital investment requirement tends towards a monopoly. Economists call These places natural monopolies.

We had them in oil and in railways before regulation.

This doesn’t happen in food because anyone can grow a cucumber in their yard. But that’s not gonna cut it for surgeries.

And on top of that you get charlatans, snake oil salesmen, homeopathy, treating people with magnets.
Most of it is usually just images. Sometimes designers release them as SVG, but the image is embedded into the file, sort of like a rar in a zip file.

Modern design doesn't really care for size either. There's a reason we did flat design in the past - we'd have fine control over how to stretch a button. Now we have things like glows, animations, 3D stuff, which doesn't compress well at all. As engineers, we've had to push against one glowing effect which add 2 MB.

There's also SDKs for everything, and these SDKs tend to add 10-20 MB here and there.
> I always saw unions as a bureaucratic/political layer that sits on top of workers, collecting money without contributing.

Their contribution is bargaining. Actors in Hollywood have agents for that, but if you're a worker earning an average salary, you can't afford that. So you pool your resources together for that.

> I also don't think that people should all get the same pay or collectively bargain. Some people work harder, invest more in their skills, bring a better attitude, etc. They should get paid more.

Have you ever worked in an assembly line on a plant?
It's not just about pay. Collective action is the source of basic things you almost certainly take for granted, like 40-hour work weeks, workplaces with exits that aren't locked shut, and being able to protest at all without literally being gunned down by the Pinkertons.
Do you also believe that monopolies are great, by any chance?
Most people in Belgium learn English through that before school.

Why wouldn't swedes?
I know of someone who was paralyzed after a lumbar puncture. Eek times 10. Something to avoid if at all possible.
> I always saw [____] as a bureaucratic/political layer that sits on top of workers, collecting money without contributing.

Also, middle management.

I see unions as providing a necessary counterbalance to employers, who tend to have vastly more power than employees.

The fairest deals are struck between two parties with equal power.
Forgive the question... but... why can't 'test' containers be 'prod' containers?
> Minify every third variable randomly.

So, Go?
It's not necessarily a whim, and maybe is a sunk costs fallacy.

The 600M wouldn't mark down to zero if they decided to shut it down.
> It isn't. If you want to dress sustainably, you should be primarily buying second-hand clothes (and ideally ones that are made from textiles that survive years of wear and wash). Fast-fashion is an ecological disaster, both in terms of the sheer volume of low-quality material produced and its byproducts (e.g. dye discharges in water from factories).

Well, clothes that survive years of wear and wash are not so easy to be found. And sustainable clothes that you can buy at your local shops are incredibly expensive and the resulting quality is still meh.

Fast fashion is on the rise since people don't want to spend big money on clothes that are almost comparable to the ones sold by fast fashion stores, but just with a big label on it.

IMHO the big blame isn't on consumers or on fast fashion stores, but on the competition, that lowered their quality, raised their prices and expected to make profit from this strategy.

To close the circle, people buy cheap things, including clothes, because their purchasing power hasn't scaled up like inflation, but in many countries the purchasing power has dropped (example: Italy, where salaries are stuck to the 1990 levels)
afaik it includes more than citizens such as Permanent Residents (Green card).

but i cant find a definitive place that says who's eligible
In general, I don't think people should have a moral right to decide where and how the data that they made public is used, or to decide if it can get scraped or not.

And, in general, I take the fact that you published something on the Internet as a tacit moral consentment for the rest of the world to use it how they want.

This comes with a couple of big asterisks, because (1) Copyright law exists, and I generally try to not break the law, even if I don't agree with it. But the discussion in this thread is mostly separate from copyright: for instance, I don't think a court would see someone scraping and redistributing data from someone's LinkedIn profile as a copyright infringement case.

And (2) because I think that in some specific cases, using published data can be morally wrong, but not as a general rule.
The ruling class colludes and bargains any and every way they please. Among l other things, it's hypocritical to suggest that labors shouldn't be allowed to do the same.
A bit, but I don't necessarily mean open source either. My main point is that people call Steam "open" but they in fact do not allow you to make whatever the hell you want. They are infamously vague about what they do or don't allow and devs constantly have trouble contacting them when they have issues, be it getting a game on the store, enabling steam features, keys, abusive users, etc.

Given all that this doesn't feel like a plea to let people publish their games. Just a thinly veiled port begging.
Why not go for GitHub hosting then?
Agreed. that I think why some here prefer the more stripped down but more actively operated products is that, in contemporary versions of Apple (or similar) products is that the surface level simplicity of those products comes in exchange with a far more complex business model of DRM, product ecosystems, subscriptions, IOT nonsense etc.

Ironically Apple's appeal used to be the buy it and forget it product, where Toyota today remains one of the last champions of the buy it and forget it practice.

by similar, I mean firms that take a page of Apple's book with sleek, consumer friendly design and decidedly consumer unfriendly business (Peloton etc).
I’ve never understood The concept of competition in insurance. Fundamentally it’s about pooling funds to average out risk. We had this nonsensical system where we socially subsidize the most expensive (Medicare) and privatize lower risk. It literally makes no sense. Alternatively is we simply pooled assets and introduced competition into care delivery, health maintenance, and care quality
I expect that the system would be more efficient and effective.
I heard man purses are a thing there. But I think OP meant a salesperson will not solicit you in a store if you don't have a nice accessory.

Which sounds like an awesome side effect.
You appear to have confused payer profit margins with the 80 – 85% minimum medical loss ratio imposed by the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare). Medical insurance is a low margin business and industry profits have never been anywhere near 20%.

https://www.cms.gov/marketplace/private-health-insurance/med...

For the past quarter, the UnitedHealthcare business unit of UnitedHealth Group had a profit margin of 6.6%.

https://www.sec.gov/ixviewer/ix.html?doc=/Archives/edgar/dat...

The business is still highly competitive, and payers have limited ability to raise premiums due to push back from employers.
Appreciate the feedback! It works on mac with Apple Silicon only. I'll put some system requirements on the website.
I understand what the person I was replying to wants. I was replying to their point that they don’t understand that other people don’t want the same, when they do but they just value other forms of simplicity.

And how does being on Debian meaningfully change your scenario? You’ve just shifted the issue elsewhere to something that you are subjectively more familiar with and subjectively more willing to debug.

Let’s be real. Most people aren’t going to do that. The year of Linux on the desktop would have come by now (and let’s not trot out the steamdeck which hides that away)
Tesla makes the exact same car that Apple would have made (simple sleek style, proprietary port, proprietary UI etc), so we already have the Apple car.

Apple has the cash, just buy Tesla, fire Elon and make it so only the iPhone can be the phone key for the car; and voila, the Tesla Model 3 Performance becomes the Apple iCar 3 Pro Max.
I was one of those ppl who thought the BMI was wrong, and as I approached normal weight I was surprised at just how much fat I had lost or had been carrying. No, I did not have a Hugh Jackman physique after losing that weight. Exceptions to the BMI are few and far in-between. The vast majority of ppl are not powerlifters, bodybuilders, or have abnormally thick skeletons.
no this doesn't use ollama, just based on llama.cpp.
If there is a line to order, then supply is not keeping up with demand. (That said I, like you, would be loathe to visit any place whose prices fluctuated wildly.)
Steam =/= steam deck. And even then it's not really playing native Linux games if you argue Linux. Its just emulating (in layman's terms, I know what WINE stands for) where most devs actually make their games for.

Microsoft doesn't seem to care (or it's legally dangerous to care). Nintendo does.
BlackHat: How Yandex is aggregating user data [video]
It doesn't need a second OS - just a few "accidental" vulnerabilities in the baseband itself (and keeping the source closed to make them harder to find). Free plausible deniability.
Bill Beaty's site was the one that opened my eyes to these misunderstandings: http://www.amasci.com/wing/airfoil.html

If the diagram shows lift but doesn't show the air being directed downward after leaving the tailing edge of the wing, I basically stop reading. That's the whole thing.
> I also don't think that people should all get the same pay or collectively bargain. Some people work harder, invest more in their skills, bring a better attitude, etc. They should get paid more.

It would be nice if fair pay magically happened. But the reality is that most employers will pay you as little as they can get away with, regardless of how hard you work, how much you invested in your skills, or how good your attitude.

Most people are much smaller than the company they work for, are not expert negotiators, and don't have agents working on their behalf. They're overwhelmingly likely to get paid closer to what they deserve with a union than without one. Yes, sometimes there will be free riders (and that's part of why e.g. legal closed shop rules are important), but that applies to virtually everything you can do to try and improve your life.
Those ideas certainly inspired me. GoboLinux is the first project I saw that showed me that on Linux you actually can do whatever you want.
The point of a union is to represent its members. Not all unions are good, but good unions should and do advocate for better working conditions and compensation for their members.

It’s fine to not agree with this but it’s also important to recognize that, in many industries, employees have no leverage to individually bargain for more pay. Corporate policy or a monopoly on a job market means a business won’t have financial incentive to pay any more than the minimum they can to maintain enough of a workforce to remain profitable.

Add to that a general desire for public companies to prioritize short term stock gains over long term growth and we end up with a common operating state that can be pretty harsh for the average participant of the US economy.

Generally, if a manufacturing job is the only available job in town, you take it, move (if you can afford to), or go hungry.
Someone should get fired for choosing IBM in this case
> lack of free market. Oligopolies are part of the problem

Free market produces Oligopolies, monopolies, cartels and collusion. They are perfectly absolutely natural formations. FAANH Companies form anti-poaching agreements, now they suddenly all have layoffs at the same time, you think that’s a coincidence? Even drug cartels divide up territories instead of ‘competing’.
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It’s actually quite hard. It starts with being able to detect a hot key at all. It’s also not the case that heat is symmetric with size, in fact in an inverted index single entries can be very hot. Then it’s not about simply shuffling data (which isn’t simple as you outline - you need to salt the keys and they shuffle randomly, otherwise you don’t get uniformity), then you need to create cumulatively eventually consistent write replicas to balance write load while answering queries online in a strongly consistent way. Add to this any dynamic change in the index like this requires consistent online behavior (I.e., ingestion and queries don’t stop because you need to rebalance), and the hot keys are necessarily “large” in volume so back pressure can be enormous and queue draining itself can be expensive. Add to it you need stateful elastic infrastructure.

There are definitely products that offer these characteristics. S3 and dynamodb both do, even if you can’t see it. But it took many years of very intensive engineering to get it to work, and they have total control over the infrastructure and runtime behind an opaque api. Elastic search and Splunk are general purpose software packages that are installed by customers, and their data models are much more complex than objects or tables.
Anansi: Add simple tags to Python strings to make them pretty
>Your argument is that it's "more secure" for it to be in the hands of a profit-seeking corporation than in the hands that are holding the device.

Yes. The identity a company like Apple is known and trusted. The person holding a device is not a known identity. This is unrelated to not having sudo though. Take for example the ping command. There is no reason why the user must have access to an account that has ultimate control over the device to use ping. ping should be possible to be used by a normal user. This could be implemented with a ping daemon that run with a dedicated user that has the capability to use raw sockets, and then normal users have a ping client that talks to such daemon. You can come up with everything someone would need root for and define a more secure way to offer that functionality to the user.
Future switching costs to a new plant are non trivial as well
Speed. Drawing thousands of objects (such as the blades of grass or air molecules) with 2D canvas will be very slow. WebGL allows all drawing to be offloaded to the GPU, which can draw thousands of objects in parallel given a single CPU command. 2D canvas also doesn't provide any 3D primitives (as the name would suggest), while WebGL natively supports rasterizing 3D triangles with perspective correct texture mapping and z-buffering.

The downside of WebGL is its complexity, but there are many libraries to help with that.
Why are you downvoted? That is the solution. Every package manager has this feature. One can list the files owned by any package on any Linux system, doesn't matter if it's Arch Linux or Termux.
Administrative expenses on the payer side are 7.5% of total US healthcare spending. Even under a single payer system, that number would decrease only slightly.

https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/u-s-spe...
Do you burn more calories exercising in the cold? a little (2019)