jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I agree that people sometimes mismanage services, in that they might assign too many to a single host, or not make them redundant. I don't know if that's so much to do with a "full blown OS" versus just having a lot of hardware and not knowing what to do with it. The reverse is also terrible, when they spin up a new hypervisor-driven VM for every single puny network service.

The simplified model you're talking about is cloud computing. It doesn't matter if your hosts are virtual or not, the point is having an abstraction layer that manages resources for you so the client application doesn't have to care.

Virt comes into play when you're tailoring your servers to your application. Example: Are you really i/o bound? A thousand 1Us with 4 disks each will deliver more iops than a couple dozen beefy VM host machines, and possibly [read: probably] cheaper than a high-performance SAN. Or, do your services just need segregated resources? LXC (or openvz) will provide that regardless of your hardware, so that may be a good fit too.

The adage 'the right tool for the job' refers not to the most expensive tool, or newest, or the most flexible, or the most anything. It's just the tool that fits right. Could you use a crescent wrench to remove lug nuts from your car? Probably. But it's not the right tool.
You missed the sentence before that one - By the next year, prices plummeted and most people paid below or at the asking price.
The search space of biological organisms been well explored. It's unlikely that one will develop which is vastly more dangerous than the ones which already exist. The same cannot be said for robots/AI.
The tricky part with Android adoption, is that it's so tightly coupled with manufacturer adoption. Can we intelligently say that someone buying the Motorola Droid X is choosing Android? or are they choosing Motorola? (or are they choosing Verizon?)

Geeks seem to ignore this point; likely because we'd been making fun of feature-phones for years before the smartphones hit. But those phones were well-liked by a great many people and had non-trivial brand loyalty.
I think you can specify a default editor in the googlecl config file: http://code.google.com/p/googlecl/wiki/ConfigurationOptions

You can also specify document-type specific editors ;)

The beauty of googlecl is that, since it's a command line tool, you could always fall back on using a bash alias / bash function, if all else fails.
Has anyone tested how much of a performance benefit is this likely to give? It seems that it would benefit you most if you have a slow page composition layer but generate a lot of static includes like js and css. Arguably in that case you should be using ajax to retrieve the slower bits, or server side caching instead. But maybe i am missing a use case or some measurements that show it is more generally applicable.
Nope, SNES. http://gear.ign.com/articles/116/1161572p1.html
They point out in the post that they cant justify the costs of using something like urban airship right now, based on the initial 'revenue' per sale. Theyre looking into maybe a subscription service:

"Hopefully we can get the price per user down enough that it can just be a free
feature for everyone. If not we may have to resort
to a nominal yearly subscription fee for the service."
Having just finished a few of Robinson's books, your comment reminded me of (I believe) "Red Mars" in which there was a part where the first settlers returned to their camp from exploring Mars and remarked (rather sadly) how dirty and terrible looking their encampment was, in contrast with the beauty of unspoiled mars. They compared it to scientific outposts on Antarctica.
This might explain the growth in distros that expect the user to install and configure his own packages with minimal changes from upstream.

Such include Void and Arch.

As an anecdote, it took me a while to tweak my Void installation to be just right, but I've had no surprises like that. The distro offers you the choice of any or no network manager, any DNS resolver, ALSA or Pulse, etc and assumes nothing. The guidebook specifies how to configure your choice of these packages too.

It's unfortunate to see well-known distros go this way, but there are others who keep user choice alive.
"Advice" section has an unfinished sentence ('you')
Why wouldn't automatically starting a simple local recursive resolver be a better fallback than consuming a public one?
I believe lawyer salaries (at least in the US) have a bi-modal distribution. [1]

Edit: What I mean to say is, the good lawyers make the same good money, the vast majority of lawyers do not.

[1] https://www.nalp.org/salarydistrib
Not sure if a typo or an intentional omission. Isn't G a "engineers-first" company?
Have three graphics tablets, while they are FAR superior for art work they are not at all better for rotation. In fact I use blender on Mac and regularly use the trackpad to zoom and rotate because it's far more precise. Similar for 2D drawing, my favorite 2D environment is the iPad Pro and Apple Pencil. I still rotate with two finger gestures.
I live in the UK and we have BSL (British Sign Language).

It’s absolutely bonkers that two fairly different sign languages exist for the same base spoken language.

That said, BSL uses a lot of facial cues, not just hands and arms, to allow for a range expression. Eg puffing out your cheeks to accentuate certain words.
Unless the market conditions are such that workers cannot move from one place of employment to the other due to collusion between capitalists or if the economy is such that it's impossible to switch jobs.

Let's be honest, job mobility even in market economies is a difficult affair for everyone but highly qualified professionals. The fact that IT workers can get a new job in a month is not indicative of the economy at large.
I also like the Pictos icon set, it has a set done in @font-face (in addition to standard PNG/vector sets).

http://pictos.drewwilson.com
As someone who runs a hosting company -- yes I fully investigate with the information given. Just please try to give as much as possible and make it easy for me to easily pinpoint things.

Oh, and please don't come with a snooty attitude, it's not pleasant to work with.
What you're doing has a high chance of leading to mild malnutrition, but shouldn't be sustained. You're also losing weight too fast. You should be aiming for no more than a kilo (roughly 2 pounds) a week.

You should (as a general rule) eat when you're hungry, but eat slowly and eat less. After 15 minutes your body's satiation response kicks in and you won't be hungry.

Generally for a male in his 20s - 30s less than 1200 calories a day borders on starvation, for inactive people you can get away with 1000. Active people need at least 1500 while dieting, possibly more.
I would love to subscribe to RSS feed but there aren't any :(
It won't work in areas of low density - the convenience and per-transaction cost would be lost. But in dense cities with an ability to deliver in an hour/day to/from your door, it could be very nice. I would get rid of quite a bit of my stuff that I never use, but I keep around in case I buy a desk, or move, etc.
I'm not convinced this is a bad thing, given only the information in your comment.
What exactly is preventing the government from ordering DDG to store queries and the IP addresses that make them?
The last time I needed an SVG I gave up and just typed it out in Vim.
The problem is that these titles/descriptions are very vague when it comes to explaining exactly what a person does, and people often view these types of vagueness to be confusing and sometimes unreliable. Other examples: Chief Heart Officer, Cloud Architect, etc.
> The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense. ―Tom Clancy

Sometimes making sense is the whole point of a story. It turns the random events around us into a narrative which is plausible. How well the causal relations in a story map to reality is a different questions. It goes from Einstein "riding on light beams" over "atoms are like the solar system" to religious beliefs like a flying spaghetti monster.
This app lets you turn your unused phone into a security camera. It has AI event detection (person, face, animal) and smart alerts, but the smart functionality runs offline. No footage is sent to our server. Actually we don't have a server. You don't need to sign up or create a profile. Notification is sent through Apple's server (we currently have only iOS app).

We are doing beta program (free). We'd love to hear your feedback, and especially learn about your use case.
> I think about this a lot. I don't think it's a coincidence that most of the countries lauded for their economic equity or environmental leadership are also largely homogenous societies.

It's no accident. The easier it is to divide the workers against themselves, the easier it is for capital to come in and rob them all blind.

HN loves criticizing "wokeness" but it's good to understand these divisions and how they have been used against us historically to maintain economic power structures that exist to benefit wealthy property owners.

The issue is that you can't put a bandaid on this and call it a day. You won't solve anything by appointing more minorities. Until people get wise to the real game being played by capital, we'll continue to fight among ourselves for scraps based on cultural identity.
Yikes.
It won't be long before there's serious economic incentive to exclusively browsing the web by just running curl with TOR.
Thanks for the link. This is the first Google product launch I can remember where I have immediately liked the interface.
Businesses simply don't work that way. They must minimize their costs, otherwise their competitors will and they'll be out of business. It's impossible to justify donating money without good reason.

For small business owners the reason might be to donate out of the good of their hearts, but as soon as companies have more owners (ie. just about every large business) that reason disappears.

Other reasons that can still work are publicity, advertising, support contracts, future continuity, custom development etc. Unless the team can find a win-win solution that gives businesses something that they want that they can't otherwise get for free, this situation will continue.
The map: http://map.web2summit.com/
In Germany, linking to illegal material can be considered a crime itself, for example linking to pirated software/media.

http://www.webtvwire.com/linking-law-expert-dr-stephan-ott-t...

IANAL but I suspect the OP feels the same laws could be applied here.
Hey thanks for the link and your thoughtful response.
This was The Edge's "secret weapon" before they moved to all-digital equipment: http://www.ehx.com/products/deluxe-memory-man

Still one of the best analog stomp boxes on the market.
Also note that translation is a very different task than parsing, or part-of-speech tagging, for example. Summarization and translation are both open research topics in NLP from what I understand, and aren't really 'solved' in any language.
If you believe that then short some of these companies. I agree the game can be a little rigged but there is still massive opportunity to invest well on the open market.
This 'ownership' system is a pattern which is used informally in C, C++, and other languages with manual garbage collection—the idea that you have a bit of your program responsible for allocating and freeing memory, and another bit which merely uses it. Rust takes this pattern and has the compiler enforce it.

I suppose in some ways it makes programming more difficult, but it's also going to make low-level programming safer by virtue of the fact that certain invalid programs are no longer possible to express. Rust is one of very few languages which can offer that.

(Also, having used Rust a fair amount, I don't think it's actually that difficult once you're used to it. I can think of much more complicated programming features that have been present in popular languages for decades!)
The SSD? 15 minutes not including how long it takes for you to order a replacement SSD on eBay and a pentalibe screwdriver.
Sounds like GA Training is going to be an emerging business model. ;)
I read about (and have interviewed a few) "developers who can't develop". Is this phenomenon unique to the software industry, since it has no formal licensing boards and the technology changes so rapidly? I can't imagine doctors who don't know medicine or lawyers who don't know the law.

The lesson is that interviewers must give coding questions even to "senior" developers. See, for example, the "FizzBuzz" interview question:

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/02/why-cant-programmer...
An article written two days before the big FBI shutdown.
Be sure to check out the judges list - some pretty notable folks from the edu side (Joel Klein, Wendy Kopp) and the tech side (Fred Wilson, Anil Dash) of things.
Of course when Google bought Android it looked like a Blackberry, so I'd be dubious of that last point...
I always thought that what Apple does best is taking a cumbersome consumer device and making it simple. E.g. iPhone replaced 4 or more devices with one (phone, iPod, internet+mail client and GPS, at the very least, and that happened before the AppStore opened). I really don't think that people at Apple sit around the table and think in terms of vertically integrated models, platforms, monetizing and all that other high-level stuff. I bet they think about user experience and do what needs to be done to achieve it. Integration models, platforms, partners, etc. come in next, they are secondary in the big schema of things.

From the user perspective, people need simple access to the following types of content:
* real-time (think ESPN, Speed Channel and breaking news)
* near real-time content (talk shows, nightly news, first-run TV shows)
* archived content (moves on DVDs)

The archived content problem is solved by Netflix. The near-real-time problem is solved by Hulu (some networks, like HBO and Showtime are not there yet but will be once paid subscription becomes relevantly popular). The real-time problem is not solved -- flash-based players on news sites do not count. Apple might be able to to the third one, the way the newspapers are now published on the iPod.

In my view the opportunity is to bring all 3 types of content into one box, under one UI and wrap it into the nice user experience. Add IP-only delivery and a-la-carte subscription (e.g. I want monthly pass to 3 shows from Showtime and one show from HBO, but not the whole network), and users will ditch their $150/month settop boxes in droves.
https://digitalik.net/btc/sf_model explains this (you may want to zoom in).
Where I live that office has to be a "proper office" in a sense, where you could have clients stopping by. Not just working from a room next to your exercise bike and laundry. Here the tax law is mostly written with hair stylists and others in mind, using a room for customers with its own entrance.
See also: Google and the non-kernel part of AOSP (it is just a snapshot of the current source at the time, not the in-between releases).
Does your closing down suggestion only apply to Twitter or also other social media platforms? What would the effect be?
It will be the same treatment as Alex Jones, he will be barred from pretty much anything mainstream
>... but I think it's more likely than not that we hit bottom yesterday...

At the very least, he set the new bar. The next "Trump" will be worse.
I'm old enough to remember 1999 too. I think there was a lot of economic fear in our industry then. Outsourcing was big and people predicted most software would be written in Asia. The dot-com stocks crashed. People called tech a bubble.

And if you were, like me, starting your career back then with Enron in the backdrop, it's easy to get pretty cynical. It's left many people, for nearly a decade now, expecting the next crash. But it takes optimism to make money I think.

I think tesla is frothy. I've sold some and bought other things with the gains. But I'm going to hold because I'm going to make a bet that the better tech and team wins.
I don't know what there is to do other than to be aware that the combination of your name and number (and maybe some other details) are not private, so there's no reason to trust anyone just because they know those things.

As far as seeing what was leaked, you could find the data yourself (but I'm uncomfortable giving instruction on how to get it). It would be nice if it was possible to extend the tool to be able to send the information for a number to the number (because that's the only way I can think of that demonstrates ownership of the data) but that can't be done for free and it therefore seems too complicated to set up.
This problem/issue is nearly identical to the Red Ring of Death: overheating of a BGA-packaged Nvidia chip.
I generally find the Cloudflare blog posts interesting and entertaining but this one seems more suitable for a personal blog.
Alternative paper:
https://ourfiniteworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Tverbe...
AMD implemented HIP, which is nearly CUDA (if not identical). There is an implementation for Intel too though it is third-party:

https://github.com/cpc/hipcl
In the context of tech, KSA has a massive amount of wealth that they’re trying to diversify into other sectors to avoid civil unrest over the next 50 years when oil usage is decreased.

So, don’t take VC money funded by KSA?

It’s not that simple. You may never know where the money you’re accepting is coming from.

While I find the actions of MBS and the assassination to be morally reprehensible, you should be aware that the US has a storied history of extrajudicial assassinations. Further, dissidents who have spoken out against the government in the form of leaking of classified information are routinely jailed for 20 years, which is IMO akin to a death sentence.
This is the equivalent of stock crashes being blamed on what the media has dubbed “fat fingers” of a trader
Question: Why is hiring an editor and proofreader not an option? It’s a well trodden path to making sure your written text is readable used by professional writers.
The JS Temporal type is basically a clone of it, there’s a C# implementation, and rust’s chrono is very similar (but without the problematic parts).
To first point. Bit more complicated imo. The venue would have to tier pricing (which many do via vip) to not exclude the m people who won't pay $100. But does require more effort on venue part.
What a good look... one of the people at the highest tier of a company blaming someone at the lowest tier.

Are we all this blind?
They dropped GCN2/3 support before ROCm was even anywhere near production ready but the biggest issue is the lack of cross platform as you mentioned you can’t even use it in Windows containers and also that they never even attempted to support APUs.

Intel not only has better OpenCL support but will come out out of the gate with OneAPI that will support all Intel GPUs this means productivity applications could use it wether it’s for a laptop or for a future productivity workstation with an Intel discrete GPU.

It’s pretty much impossible to buy a laptop with an AMD GPU and run ROCm on it, even the discrete cards are not officially supported and since the ROCm binaries are hardware specific without official support things tend to be even more broken than what they are now.

I really can’t understand how AMD could cock it up so badly.
Coming from a comedian who job is one of the least effected by immigration. Its hard to be a comedian if you don't grow up in the country (No Canadian comics don't count).
I often like to test new concepts by applying them to (realistic) extremes, and seeing how they play out.

So take a small town, high in the Arctic Circle, which experiences 30 minutes of darkness around the Summer Solstice. 00 Monday (June 21) would correlate roughly with 12.15am; 50 Monday (sunset) would be 11.45pm. 75 Monday would come 15 minutes after sunset; though 25 Monday ('noon') would be 12pm midday, 10 Monday would actually be 4.56am. In fairness, when I'm up then I do like my caffeine.

Fast forward to December 21 (Winter solstice). The town now has 4 hours of sunlight, roughly corresponding so 00 Monday is 10am and 50 Monday is 2pm. 75 Monday is midnight, but there are now 10 hours between 50 and 75 where there used to be 15 minutes. 10 Monday equates with 10.48am, a fine time for a coffee meeting (even though it's my third meeting of the day), but bearing little resemblence to 4.56am except they match the same proportional distance between dawn and noon.

Thise living in Singapore near the Equator can't understand the fuss, since barely nothing has changed.
Krita has a few unique features. I love the tiling mode to help you draw seamless textures. I love all the brushes out of the box. I do not love the performance on Windows. Maybe Linux is better but both 2.8 and the new beta if you start drawing with big brushes on a big canvas, even with a late model computer setup, it bogs really bad. Now you could argue that a 4K image is gonna take performance. BUT it's the first preset document with like 3-4 brushstrokes and it's starting to lag bad. I would consider my experience with the windows version Alpha at best due to performance issues.

If you like graphics and want to do something to save money on a lot of licenses - look at replacing illustrator with Xara on Windows or Affinity Designer on Mac. Or try to roll back to an earlier Photoshop like CS2. I really really want to love Krita and I'll give it a shot on Linux when I get the chance but sheesh, any classroom wanting to adopt it en masse is definitely trading one evil for another.

I have no desire to buy photoshop cc at this moment in time, I like to purchase licenses. I'll stick with CS6 as absolutely long as possible. But educational pricing on Adobe software has always been pretty good. Time spent in school is impermanent so it fits pretty well with the CC model.
It would be great to get things like this out of the hands of arbitrary-law-makers (aka regulators).
So... "use what are effectively time zones, just not labeled or standardized in any way"?

That's a pretty poor solution.
I didn't mean to imply they're below me, but I do stand by the idea that those kinds of conversations are only a shadow of the real big picture.

But I definitely raise a glass to preferring Interstellar over What the Bleep. :) Here, here.
You got four down votes but also a lot of flags. You won't see the number of flags you got like you do the down votes.

Precision and accuracy aren't always possible within the constraints of a discussion. One has to learn to operate without them.

But I'll indulge you one more time. "Racist" is a highly charged word. It should be reserved for those who truly deserve the label, i.e. Nazis and modern white supremacists. Unfortunately marginalizing just those people doesn't solve the problem. There's plenty of subtle behaviors and attitudes that don't quite reach the level of the white supremacist but still contributes to an overall lower opinion of black Americans than of white Americans.

This phenomenon needs to be studied and understood, because it's a big problem and contributes to generational poverty. A workplace that one wouldn't call overtly racist can still have their black employees make less than their white employees for the same work. The phrase that the social justice movement has decided on to call this phenomenon is institutionalized racism. It's racism, but no one person or group of people is the culprit, instead it survives because people don't care enough to examine how or why they make certain decisions.