skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, exactly! I actually did read the whole forum when I found out about them, and that's where I got the idea actually. Not that I went much further than what was discussed, but it definitely planted a seed on my mind...

Re: Vocabulary

Something like that sounds reasonable. I would just maybe add some sort of SET operations logic that you could use to build more complex stuff.

Thus I would be able to delegate to someone a Macaroon that has admin access to all of Project P EXCEPT (or MINUS) access to Project P's children in list L. Or maybe delegate with access to any object in List (L1 AND L2). Sort of like a SQL query (to an extent).

At least that was the use case I needed back then, i.e. How to secure an API in a hierarchical way, such that certain user roles can access only certain children of a certain parent node.
This Is the Most Detailed Map of the Universe to Date
This report is on the US DoE and Lawrence Livermore National Labs "energy flow" Sankey diagrams, released annually. This is a modelling estimate of provisioned (rather than passive) energy generation, distribution, and utilisation. It doesn't address end-use efficiency, particularly in electrical, heating, and cooling appications.

For similar worldwide usage patterns, see the IEA's (International Energy Associaton) Sankey chart:
https://www.iea.org/sankey/

David Roberts makes a large point about decreasing efficiency of US energy use since the 1970s. This may be somewhat misleading as the chart is based on overall statistics (fuel imports and production, power-plant generation statistics) and engineering models of processes, rather than direct measurements. As models change, estimates of wasted energy may also increase.

I'd pay more attention to the input side, and overall usage, where the story becomes more interesting. In particular, renewable sources such as wind and solar are now being broken out individually, a major change from earlier years (though this has been happening in recent years as I recall). If you look at overall energy usage trends (not immediately apparent from the Sankey diagrams), what's most telling particularly since the 1970s is how the current usage of energy is declining relative to earlier projections. This is mostly good news.

If you're interested in making sense of the numbers, or converting them to different forms, I highly recommend the GNU units utility. This is a units-aware console calculator, with some very useful and underappreciated capabilities, including the ability to conver between, say BTUs and the equivalent solar panel area you'd need to provide the same energy:

You have: 100 quadrillion btu / (1 kW/meter^2 * 0.2 * .3 * 365 days)
You want: km^2 *
55759.336
/ 1.7934216e-05

That is: the solar-cell equivalent of 100 Quads of energy would require 55,760 square kilometers of solar panels, a region about 236 km on a side.

This is available on Linux, OSX (via homebrew), and Windows (via Cygwin). Note that OSX includes the BSD Units utility, which does not have the additional definitions provided by the GNU utility.

You can convert quads to TJ, or millions of barrels of oil, or tonnes of coal. You can compute the size of a tank or scuttle, in cubic kilometers, required to deliver this energy. You can estimate how many solar panels, or windmills, or hydro plants, would be necessary to provide the same energy. You can estimate cropland and biofuel equivalents (this ... doesn't look promising given present energy use).

More mash-notes on GNU Units here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/1x9u0f/gnu_uni...
Intel AMT firmware vulnerability is between nightmarish and apocalyptic
First try legitimate physical exercise, lifestyle changes, counseling.
Half joking.

No, jeans don't need to be washed after every time. Nor do sweaters or jackets. Underwear, t-shirts and socks are different. This is my rule anyway
I don't think it's so clear cut that blue is left is liberal and red is right is conservative (or whatever permutation you want).

If you asked a retired Evangelical Christian whether HRC was a radical, what with her gay-love and abortions-for-all banner (I kid), I think they'd agree. But of course, they would've spotted that the "left" have signalled a stronger willingness to go in that direction and have cemented their position over the last 8 years under Obama. Does 8 years make you the establishment?

And of course Obama had helped push forward a trade policy concocted as early as the Reagan era. Does 30 years make you the establishment?

That just touches upon just two surface level ideas that fragment a person's perspective about these candidates and parties. Painting HRC as the maintainer and Trump the liberal is with too broad a brush.
Yeah, it doesn't matter how good your headphones are when some asshole sneaks up behind you and taps you on the shoulder to ask you some inane question that he could have sent in an email.
Plenty of people seem to be fine with foreign governments interfering with US elections. What is OK with people is a mystery that only continues to deepen.
could you move out of state?
> Is there no shame?

No.

I'm quite sure men in the smoke filled rooms are right now bellowing "This is OUR TIME! Bwa-ha-ha-ha!"
It's also the corps with money: Pay for preferred treatment and raise the barrier to entry for any competitor. Given how Microsoft reacted when they saw their greatest enemy as "some kid in their garage brewing the next killer app", that's a very real concern.
> That is literally the definition of hypocrisy; the behavior of people who do things that they tell other people not to do

Except I'm not saying that at all.

I said it's fine to use unwrap() or expect() if you want script-like default behavior (a developer-centric error message and a quick exit with a bad return code) and if you want something more than that, then use something better than unwrap() or expect().

There's no hypocrisy here. I think anyone should follow that advice. Me, you, a newb to Rust, a Rust veteran, anyone. Same advice.
Almost always a small fraction of the code that I read in the process of finding out how exactly to add an enhancement to existing code. Read, think how the problem fits in, read more, maybe code some little experiments to see how part of the problem will be interfaced, read more, etc. More skimming than perusing, if it's part of the codebase that you're familiar with.

Number of issues closed: Depends on what I'm doing. Short little maintenance things can take less time, and you can clear a bunch in a day. Some individual features will take weeks or months to code, depending on how deeply new changes need to infiltrate into old code, the size of the change, how much work you depend on other teams to do to provide ancillary features to support your work, etc.

My team's more of a "fulfill the requirements; do it right" than a "move fast and break things", because our products are backup applications. I suspect that this changes the tempo of the work, compared to how other teams might function.
Name an innovator who didn't spend any time improving, maintaining, or cleaning up their work? Name an innovator who only ever innovated? Pure innovation.
"on the whole we advance civilization..."

something about this sentence reeks. I'm struggling to say what it is in less than 20000 words though.
The Collapse of the Cod Fishery of the Grand Banks

http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/watkins/grandbanks.htm

"The Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) formulated a mathematical model of the cod fish population which they used to calculate the maximum sustainable yield (MSY). The U.S. government had a similar concept which was called optimal yield. ...

In 1989 the DFO advised that the total allowable catch (TAC) of codfish should be 125,000 tons. The Canadian Minister of Fisheries thought this figure was too low and arbitrarily increased it to 235,000 tons. In the course of DFO management the TAC was often set by negotiation between the DFO, the fishing industry and politicians. The DFO, using their defective model, was setting setting the TAC too high. The politicians responding to pressure from the industry increased the TAC from the already too high figures. The net result was that in the last years of codfishing on the Grand Banks the catch was about 60 percent of the population instead of 16 percent. The collapse was catastrophic.

In January of 1992 the DFO was advising that the TAC should be 185,000 tons. By June of 1992 the DFO was advising that the cod fishing should be stopped."

25 years later, the cod haven't recovered to healthy levels. In 1989 the industry representatives probably thought that getting politicians to discount the scientists' advice was a victory.
I don't think I've ever seen regulatory capture being advocated before.
This sentence scares me. Although it makes total sense. It seems the only people who are supposed to have a say in this administration are from industry. Nobody else matters.
Crohns, ALS, Celiac, and early Parkinsons are also diagnosed based on "fallible subjective judgements", but don't have cheering sections on message boards suggesting that they're not grounded in science.
I'm going to do this tonight and send it to you.
I do not claim that it is only a problem with lassiez-faire. Governments are of course capable of the same manipulation. I only claim that lassiez-faire does not solve the problem either, and indeed may be worse since the people believe they are free and are thus more complacent.
I wonder why people care whether or not somebody else really needs them.

For arguments sake, let's say they don't. Suppose they can just man up and learn to deal with their first world problems. What do you lose by them taking something to make that easier?

Do you normally fix all of your other problems in the most difficult way?

We all seek ways to get an edge, if not against others, then at least to reclaim some of our own time and well-being.

From their perspective, there are 3 kinds of people. There's the positive, motivated guy who can't wait to get out of bed and go make his mark on the world. Then, there is the similar character who has to take SSRIs or whatever to keep that going. Then there is the lethargic person who has to fight every day to pretend to give a shit, can't keep relationships together, doesn't get promotions, and doesn't feel motivated to learn new skills or hobbies.

The last person doesn't really have the option of being person #1, but they may have a choice between being #2 or #3. Since all three of them end up in the ground after a few more decades anyway, why does it matter to others how they get there? Maybe the last 10 years or so of their life will cause them complications due to longterm use. It's hard to view that as a bad trade for folks who were miserable and/or suicidal for the first 50.
Very nice. I like that there is an option to set the inactivity threshold.

My method is considerably more primitive but works well enough. It's disturbing how long this process can take after a few npm installs.

function nmpurge --description 'Recursively delete all node_modules folders' --argument target
if test -z "$target"
echo "Specify a directory to clean"
return 1
end

find "$target" -name "node_modules" -type d -prune -exec rm -rf '{}' +
end
Ask HN: Experiences with Image, Video and Doc processing services
For my web-app, I need to upload images, videos, audio and documents. Given the plethora of services out there, I am looking to hear other people's experiences with these services, or workflow?

Here is where I'm at so far:

1. Images: Just upload original hi-res, and use Imgix/Cloudinaryfor on-the-fly processing and delivering responsive images. Any experiences of Imgix vs Cloudinary?

2. Audio & Video: Use Transloadit to convert to formats so that it can be loaded on web and mobile, across browsers. Any experiences with Transloadit or any other similar services?

3. Documents: Use CloudConvert to convert documents to PDF and compress. Any experiences with CloudConvert or any other similar services?

Any general advice on uploading and processing these kind of files are also much appreciated!
The US is the only superpower because of two reasons:

1 - The Atlantic
2 - The Pacific

Those two present enormous competitive barriers in a fight.
> 2. Commercial license

Not sure if this is what you were referring to, but the article notes

"With Fuchsia, Google would not only be dumping the Linux kernel, but also the GPL: the OS is licensed under a mix of BSD 3 clause, MIT, and Apache 2.0. "
> you basically start to build some kind of meta framework on top of that DSL.

Exactly. That's why I almost always start with Rails. There are very little projects with a tiny numer of urls. Furthermore I get some scaffolded code for free and the integration with an ORM, a test framework, templating, db migrations.

I started with Sinatra sometimes and switched to Rails after I realized that I was adding most of the components and structures of a Rails application. It was not worth doing it by hand instead of using a proven tool.
in principle yes, but implementation details matter. layoffs when accompanied by humane severance packages is ethical. this rarely happens.
Will it be available if the domain (ipfs.io) stops resolving, gets seised or is blocked?
No, ideally anyone with similar roles should be able to work from home.

You also say to the complaining employee that you monitor all of your employees and ensure that they are being productive (any good manager should be doing this.) and that their productivity is none of their concern. Then you ask them if they are holding up the project, and how, and then you go from there.

It's just poor management. Managers are mostly incompetent, or if they are, they are afraid of backlash and unable to lead.
They are also prescribed frequently because many people's first line of psychiatric care is their primary care physician, who is rarely trained in diagnosis or treatment of mental health issues, but is prepared to write a script.

Serious psychiatrists combine multiple approaches; for instance, many are trained behaviorists. Additionally, psychiatrists are more careful about the scripts they write: you might find it hard to get much tuning and medication fitting done with your P.C.P., but a psychiatrist might carefully ramp you up and, later, down and off of a specific drug.
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Game theory wise though, this is a sound statement. Science and scientists have shown that they are beholden to the powers of self-interest.

Public choice theory[0] goes a long way.. not sure if this is an improvement, but the lack of progress on actually addressing climate change, instead of just debating is, is peculiar.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_choice
Why don't you try being constructive instead of nitpicking and reaching straight for the edge cases? Like, try offering more moderated but credible alternatives to achieve the implicit end of having governance be informed by science.
See the plot that I linked in the post above.
Distributed storage still works alright when everyone doing the hosting just has puny home-network connections (see: BitTorrent.) Trustworthy distributed computation is a lot harder if you want to include residential users; you end up having to do highly-redundant work to ensure correctness, like Folding@Home does.

I've considered a strategy like this where the host is "distributed" across thousands of commodity VPS providers, though. There would need to be VPS providers in the country in question for such a thing to work, which isn't always the case.
There is a checkbox for International people. This could still potentially affect everyone outside of the US.
Not by default, anyway

https://www.namecheap.com/support/knowledgebase/article.aspx...
Big advertisers don't want to give money to indipendent content creators, because they are a lot of people and much more difficult to control since they own themselves and are not owned by corporations.

Think about the reaction pewdiepie had after being dropped by disney. If he was a tv star it would have meant the end of his career. Instead it was just a big "meh" and moving on.

Tv networks are easy to control. Networks are often owned indirectly/in part by the very same people who ask for the ad space.

It is not about the value of the ad, it's about not giving too much power to normal people and risk too much decentralization. Having so much voices it's bad, globalist billionaires and corporations risk losing an amount of control over population they don't want to lose, also because they often crave total domination, both in politics and in the markets.

I know this could be difficult to understand, because many of us are sane people and don't crave that kind of power. It's difficult to put ourselves in the shoes of the people with the very big money, but they really do think in term of having absolute power and control (in fact they did get there).

They think "okay, those people have an audience, they make people I can easily control lose the audience, I need a solution", and they do it immediately. Instead it's difficult to us to imagine being so big and rich, and yet feeling treatened by some kids on youtube. It looks crazy to us, but that's really how they think.
Yet that's how corps and billionaires often thinks, because they have a complete different mindset from normal people.

Of course I could be completely wrong, it's just an opinion, no math involved so can't really prove it. Use your gut.
I'd beg to differ on the point of Pro-Video editors and musicians seeing as I've contracted for a few TV shows and am a hobbyist musician etc. It was a mediocre choice, if not poor choice:

Generally a TV Show workflow (since FCP X killed its user base) an Avid centric base. Editors grab all their footage off a central server to edit the down converts (1080p). SSD is great for a boot drive but you'll need hefty internal storage. Now you need to buy an expensive external solution. Also for same goes for Digital Musicians or recording, although the storage demands are quite a bit less.

The dual GPU setup was under-utilized and the consumer grade cards are far better for render assistance bang-for-buck. So much so that it was better just to upgrade GPUs with gaming cards. Notably, the Fire GLs are underperfomers for After Effects. Also Musicians get almost zero benefit from dual GPUs. It's unnecessary cost.

Since in Hollywood TV, you are contract you, you bring your own hardware. When USB 3.0 took off, most of my editor friends just grabbed USB 3.0 cards and popped them into the computers. Mixing guys tended to have a lot invested in PCIe audio interfaces for ProTools. A few friends had MPEG4 encoder accelerators which were great for quick encodes for dailies. I'm not sure what fantasy world Apple was in that small size of the Mac Pro 2013 mattered but post-guys set up shop for weeks at a time, and its easier to cart one heavy tower followed by monitors than a small computer with a box of dongles and misc items.

The friends I still keep in touch with in LA mostly have switched to Windows instead of going for the Mac Pro 2013. More bang for the book (time is money) and more performant. Anyhow, other than that I agree. just rerelease the 2012 with new innards and call it a day.
> As said before, it needs to be used/useful to many normal people
FlagTimes – a better system clock (OS X)
Those are mighty strong assertions from someone with a sample size of 1.
I'm very fond of public choice theory but you need to offer something better than simply pointing to its existence after opening with the claim that all scientists are self-serving, which has the primary effect of foreclosing discussion before it even gets started.
Awesome, I love videos like this.
https://blog.cloudflare.com/kernel-bypass/

For an example among many. Basically network data should magically appear in bulk, whereas in Linux it's almost one packet at a time.

As you move to 10G, thus start to eat a lot of cpu.
Doesnt this still make it potentially available in case some malicious/unmalicious coder leaves some console debugging out?
> It's for real world distributed systems.

The same can be said of Heroku, yet Dokku exists. The same can be said of Docker, yet plenty of hobbyists use it for their projects.

> It's not worth bothering to make a single machine setup.

Sure it is. Say you're a web developer and you use MySQL, PHP and Apache on Kubernetes in prod. Why would you go to the effort of setting those up individually on your machine when you could just put your prod manifest on Kubernetes on your workstation?

There's nothing about Kubernetes (aside from poor documentation) that prevents it from being used on a single host. Actually, according to its own documentation (https://kubernetes.io/docs/getting-started-guides/scratch/), it consists of:

- Docker/Rkt

- Kubelet

- Kube-proxy

- Etcd

- Apiserver

- Controller

- Scheduler

The bottom 6 are actually written in Go and can be run from a single binary.

There's no reason Kubernetes should be hard to set up. There's no reason it can't run on a single node. There's no reason you need a cloud. There's no reason you need a "supported" operating system.
IoT – Wohoo, First LoRa Packet Received
Nope. People who are more bullish about Uber than I rate their chance of being first-to-market with driverless car technology at higher than 10%, for example.
What if the token was encrypted or altered in a way simple find replace wouldnt work?
I'd rather suspect incompetence. This form is getting some serious publicity, several workers of magnitude outside the normal traffic patterns I would imagine.
However, Alan Moore and David Lloyd did not choose that V wears Guy Fawkes mask by coincidence.
No worries, thanks for writing it! A lot easier to follow than https://kubernetes.io/docs/getting-started-guides/scratch/#b..., which I was looking at previously.
Total electrical energy use in transportation is minuscule.

All energy other than petroleum, natural gas, and biofuels, is 3%.

https://www.eia.gov/Energyexplained/?page=us_energy_transpor...
That's a good link, but midterms are 18 months away. What do you mean they 'happen first'? Do you mean they have to take place so impeachment proceedings become possible? I disagree with that contention.
What did you end up using ? Have you heard of Layer?
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First, you have to convince them that science is a good thing. I have a friend, who literally believes that scientists are either evil people, who's primary goal is to gain power over others by outsmarting them, or, willfully ignorant tools of a predatory political / economic system. To him, big-S Scientists represent a threat to his way of life.

I reminded him that many of my own family members, people that he trusts, work in scientific endeavors; a marine biologist, for example, who has dedicated his life to the wellbeing of the various Pacific salmon species, for the sake of our food supply and forest health. He just lumped me into the second category, insisting that salmon are only managed for profit. That the funding for wild salmon research was being redirected towards improving the yield of fish farms, to the detriment of both the forests of western Canada, and to the detriment of the families and communities that live off of the wild salmon fisheries.

We don't talk much anymore. In order to convince people like this to support science, instead of attacking it, we must convince them of two things: that "real, working" scientists have a conscience, and that they have the power to follow their conscience without losing their status as real, working, scientists.
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