skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That shows lack of understanding in purpose and use of the tree rings and it is not relevant to the topic. What I read from your statements is just that you don't understand how the past climates are scientifically reconstructed, and want to express the doubt in the results of all the work of all the scientist that agree (which is effectively all of them, minus the ones directly or indirectly funded by fossil fuel companies or motivated by political relations, if you have other impression, it's distorted by the intentional activity of said companies and political groups).

But we don't configure the current modeling systems at all using the "prehistoric" reconstructions, the models and the currently measured values are much more precise. The "prehistoric" reconstructions only give you something to compare the orders of magnitudes.

And comparing that, the warming is unprecedented. Which is not surprising giving that the humanity managed to extract and burn more then the half of all readily available oil from the Earth's crust in just 100 years.

That very oil in the crust is however a result of more than 4 billion of years of the Earth's existence.

If you’re reading this in some country like US, given that the average US car weights around 2 tonnes, your existence alone is probably responsible for the CO2 mass equivalent to the weight of 7–10 cars every year, and to the volume of CO2 which corresponds to the volume of more than 3000 cars.

And the CO2, even if it's invisible for us, is actually "black" for something important: it's blocking the part of the spectrum that would allow the Earth surface to cool off. That's how small concentrations of it, compared to some other stuff in the air, produce such a big effect.

The physics is simple and undeniable, and it's known that there will be always more problems caused by the growth of CO2 in the atmosphere which increases the surface temperature of the Earth.
Eh... the author doesn't know how to compare solid angles.

Anyway, I wonder what happens when VR manufacturers increase FOV to the point where the distortion from the traditional perspective transform (homogeneous linear transform) becomes impractical due to distortion towards the edges (example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICalcusF_pg).

You need >120 FOV for an immersive experience, but current graphics pipelines are built on the assumption that straight lines in world space map to straight lines in screen space, so you can't do proper curvilinear wide-angle perspective with the existing triangle rasterizer architecture.
Given the limited set of geographic options, it might be worth showing a dropdown or something instead of a search box!

I really do like the concept though - whenever I travel I do try to eat the regional specialties
I suspect it's about recreating the ecosystems rather than just planting trees and irrigating i.e. multi-decade process

Geoff Lawton's permaculture work on 'Greening the Desert" is well worth a watch e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yI9wMtTvWps

(plenty more videos around if you search)
Yes, but that is the definition of a nice.

Also I suspect that Java cards use a stripped down version of Java.
I suspect that's because it's fueled more by people than pure algo, as in take into account what other people with this book have in their library etc.
I'm assuming they just went back to B&M groceries.
Well, alright. But can replace the word "organisations" and "charity" with "corporations" and "company" and explain why this logic of scandals and corruption waiting to happen no longer holds? Because I sure can't.
Several e-commerce and logistics companies avoid using AWS/anything amazon for the simple reason of not giving more dollars to their competitor. I have seen this in my current and last company with this as stated reason.
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China and North Korea are democracies, even if they effectively have one party.

Would USA's effectively having a two party system be better definition of democracy?

Meanwhile, most other democracies have multi-party systems.
I am starting to be concerned that the ability to use DNS to block tracking, malware, and advertisements is only going to prove temporary.

There appears to be more effort generally to secure and encrypt the entire DNS system. This is really good and should be applauded and supported. But it will come with a downside... once we reach a future in which DNS records are encrypted end to end, and DNS records are only valid when signed by certain keys, and authenticated NXDOMAIN records... then things like Pi-Hole start to become more difficult as for security of DNS we'll have lost the convenience of changing the answers.
Probably because people don't have the expertise to understand the weight and the consequences of that refeurandaum?

There's a reason we have delegates making decisions for us. People generally don't know the weight and consequences of decisions. We saw this with so many posts of what is the European Union originating out of UK in the days before and after the refeurandaum.
No, that would make things too easy to understand.
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Uber and Lyft are fighting their what they created https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/10/16/uber-lyft-responsible...
Plus the browser back button is hacked. Can't comeback to hacker news
Arguably that disconnect is intentional (not for the employees, but for the companies under the Alphabet umbrella themselves)
IQ tests are illegal: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griggs_v._Duke_Power_Co.

I see the parallel you’re drawing but in this instance it’s important not to. IQ is divisive precisely by being made synonymous to performance in every other task requiring abstraction.
Do we really need deep discussions explaining why people have different preferences in life?

I'm sure there are people who wonder why the OP doesn't enjoy spending time shopping for clothes.

Most supermarkets in America do not have nice cafes.

Most people go to a cafe if they want to go to a cafe, they don't go to a supermarket.

Many people have to drag kids along and keep them under control when grocery shopping.

It is a repetitive task.

For most people there is no creativity or joy in it.

Most people do not live within walking distance of their supermarket.

Most people wouldn't walk there anyway, since they are shopping for a family of three or four.

Most people don't see it as a break from other things, they see it as one more thing that has to be fit into a busy weekend (or even worse, an evening after work).

And many more.

Really the entire subthread reads like yuppie single men wondering why other people don't have the same preferences they do and being completely unable to figure it out.
I had to divert a bunch of devices (Samsung TV, Switch, etc.) around the pi-hole because it was easier than trying to figure out what they needed whitelisting.
Alphabet is only a holding. I wouldn't expect many people to work for Alphabet directly.
Another problem that plays into this is that the US prison system isn't built with "correction" in mind but punishment. So while an ex-con may have been punished, there is no assumption that they've actually changed as a person. Punishment is seen as a deterrent, not a correctional measure.
Haha. Great line. Forevermore I shall refer to it as the yPhone. Cheers!
Sounds like Ken Macleod's babbages. See The Cassini Division, etc.
Does anyone on HN can explain this question to me: is there a real obstacle that prevents one to build a general-purpose digital computer using pure macroscopic mechanical components? Historically, we had several types of special-purpose mechanical computers, but a general-purpose mechanical computer was never built.

Was it because the mechanical parts are too prohibitively rigid/inflexible/heavy/expensive for a computer? Or, a real barrier for mechanical computers doesn't really exist, and we didn't have it simply because it was not economically worthwhile to build one after electronic computers were feasible?
It may not be smart but at least it's refreshingly honest.
Thank you. I was thinking that maybe swarm mode would be simpler to set up and maintain.

Just to give more context, our use case is spawning Jupyter notebook in containers using JupyterHub and DockerSpawner so that each data scientist gets a personal ready-to-use environment to work with. With 4 data scientists we're beginning to reach the limits of the largest instance provided by our cloud provider and we're expecting to have more users soon. Actually our current cloud provider has just released a managed k8s service so that might be the way to go.
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A typical circuit for this is a micro-controller.

We already have micro-controller designs with zero leakage current at standby(with fast wakeup), which is practically zero-leakage:

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6690972

I wonder why aren't they being commercialized though.
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This is the situation we're in. We're beginning to reach the limits of what can be handled on a single instance, mostly regarding memory.
The top item for "Australia" is Vegemite and it includes this:

> Oh, and ask any Aussie to sing you the Vegemite song - you’re guaranteed they’ll know what you mean

If you ask me to sing a song about Vegemite I'll tell you to fuck off back to whatever ass backwards country you came from that thinks every person in a country eats the same foods.
I think the days of the small SPI flash chip are numbered.

A a few hundreds of megabytes of flash will soon cost less than the plastic and manufacturing costs of the chip itself. At that point, manufacturers will be putting in 128megabyte flash chips simply because 16 megabyte flash chips cost more.

The only place that argument won't apply is in microcontrollers where the flash is on the same die as the CPU.
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...and where a 40MB binary is called "small".

And it has to run on every node even if the worker nodes are just running workloads.
> system to vote them out and elect a new form of government should the ultimate worst come to play

Has anything changed after Snowden revelations? New form of government?
The fact that this comment was downvoted is ... interesting.
Nope but it solves problems you have to fix yourself otherwise anyway:

- Rolling update? Build it yourself or get it with k8s
- Infrastructure as code? Do it somehow yourself with ansible, awx or other setup OR just use k8s
- Running different workloads on a bunch of hardware with resource scheduler -> some trickery or x different kind of vms

I like it very much and i hope and guess that the k8s way will take over a lot. And since i'm working with k8s i really wanna have it at home. k3s sounds like a very good way forward.

If you have a good working little setup, you don't need to replace it with k8s.
In my experience, the device side is much tougher. I've had 2 cables fail but even after about 3000 operations (that's about estimated 5 operations per day for 2 years in my case), the device connector still feels new with a fresh cable.
What do you mean by more managed services?
Hahaha. Their premise is that price controls might

>Forcing top public schools like the University of Texas or the University of Michigan to cut their budgets might weaken their ability to hire top professors and provide supportive living environments for students, thus reducing education quality.

Are they kidding? Luxury living environments don't make an education. And professors' salaries are the last thing universities spend money on these days.

Just to put it in context, a tenure track math professor could be getting $60K. They'd be the privileged elite, since most of the instructors are adjuncts who work for food.

(Source: ask people in academia, but really, public schools publish salary data, at least in TX)

Price controls are exactly what we need. There's no way the universities will be paying their professors less than they already do. But perhaps some of those admin expenses would stop growing exponentially.

EDIT: some numbers for y'all:

https://salaries.texastribune.org/university-of-texas-at-aus...

Top guys make over $100K (still way less than a tech salary), but look at new hires and smallet schools. And TX is a relatively rich state.
The map is kind of misleading. It shows Kerala one of the greenest States in India as as the least green while states like Rajastan where you can find hardly any greenary is marked as most green.

Edit: I know it shows the % increase in greenary. What I meant is the "greenary" shown in the map actually has almost no correlation with the greenery in the real world. Looking the map and expecting Rajastan to be a green area would be a bad idea.
> If anyone has any suggestions on a better way of doing this without shelling out $20 a month for an ELB, please open an Issue!

kubehost was designed for this purpose on GKE: https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/kubehost
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Can it be considered cheap if the cluster is also small? The overhead of the control plane+networking can be quite big, and can easily use more resources than what a m1.small has to offer.
Do you work at Amazon, so you know this is how it works? Or are you projecting how you imagine it works?

Because if I'm an Amazon dev I'm 100% not just showing a 45 year old woman who buys a TV the same "other people bought" as a 25 year old man. I'd definitely run the same ML on each section, because the whole point is to understand the closeness of connections between personal traits and purchases, and it is impossible for a human to outperform in that task.
The only correct answer for a quintessentially Swedish dish is Kebab Pizza.
As I said I was making up numbers. Given enough plants they will eventually sequester all the CO2 (if we let them). This effect would make that slightly more efficient, that's all. However the actual amount of plant matter sequestering the CO2, and what those plants are and how efficiently they work to do so, are likely to be a much more significant factors. Whatever those factors are though, we're talking about extremely long periods of time.
> this wiki full of ad

Wow, you weren't kidding. This is genuinely the first non-pornographic website in years that has ads which are so aggressive that they make it past my uBlock Origin.
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Skirmish and proxy wars can be carried out without turning to the nuclear option. For instance Vietnam was in part a proxy war between the US and China -- both nuclear powers at the time. Even outright war might not result in the nuclear option if it looks unlikely to threaten a nation's sovereignty.

There is asymmetric warfare. Imagine a scenario where a large unit of e.g. terrorists attack a city. Imagine what just 100 armed and armor wearing individuals could do. This would likely result in a military response and the skill/capability of the military is largely going to determine the outcome and 'efficiency' there.

Finally there is also the issue that nuclear deterrence may not always be a thing. Anti-missile technology is constantly improving and we could develop even more efficient means of developing any sort of concentrated nuclear threat. If and when we reach this time, the world's geopolitical equilibrium would radically shift overnight and trying to play catch-up from that point would be unlikely to be effective.
> Also there is privacy angle, I don't think nobody wants pinging their location all the time, maybe some QR code/ beacon solutions can help, but I am not much optimistic there too.

Maybe you could have something like K-anonymity? You discretize your location into chunks of maybe 100x100 m, take the hash of the chunk ID, and request results for all chunks whose hash starts with the same 4 or 5 digits as your chunk's hash.

Would probably require some more thinking since a consecutive series of requests for adjacent chunks could be used to uncover which particular chunks you were interested in.
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People are still quick to build and add to new projects. Now it’s more likely to be something related to Kubernetes or serverless, and those people are seen as hype chasers not pioneers. Like I’m guessing people were in the past too.
> If EV's do take off

EV's have already taken off. It's only a matter of time before the fossil fuelled car business is just a niche product.
Well if you want a nice cheap, small cluster, with HA, and wide community support, and a container model so you have to trust the applications less. What else are you going to use? What else is going to provide a nice easy to use HA raspberry pi that's $100 ish?
What a great plan! Not improving public transportation. Not taxing people who own private cars. Taxing cars who serve dozens passengers a day! Guess what, if these people weren't using Uber, each of them would be driving their own car.
I'm running a three node cluster on Hetzner Cloud for less than $10 a month. Comprehensive guide and automated provisioning available here: https://github.com/hobby-kube/guide
Europe is more like 20 different markets than it is one big market though. Internationalization only matters if you're targeting all of those markets at once.
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I was in the UK recently and got fish and chips from a local chippy at the seaside thinking, well, I should try something local outside of the fancy seafood chowder at the restaurants lining the bay. I was horrified that vinegar was not used but some fake invention called "non-brewed condiment" I'd never heard of before. Apparently this is normal now?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-brewed_condiment
Your university has a more paranoid or more competent IT department than mine did.
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It has an reward based approach which is hard to shake off once the streaks build up.
In my case it's a single bare metal server with KVM guests and ansible.

Docker is on my long term list (maybe) but the current system is fast, stable and requires little intervention so docker would have to offer a massive change not a step change to make it worth it.

I always default to things I know until the benefits are clear and it's worked out well so far.
Check out 360 degree Panorama formats, especially "Cubic" [1]. A similar approach was used back in 1992, in CAVE [2], using 6 virtual cameras.

[1] https://wiki.panotools.org/Panorama_formats#Cubic
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_automatic_virtual_environ...
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A lot less, mostly because:

- the docker containers are often based on the same distributions

- the distribution keeps received security updates that are often neglected by the docker ecosystem

- the distribution is designed to give maximum control to system engineers: not to install (or remove) any package that is not required

- applications are packaged using dynamic linking and without vendored dependencies as much as possible. Vulnerabilities in dependencies are patched once and for all system-wide

- some distributions do peer review and have a very high entry bar to become a member
But non-brewed condiment is traditional for a proper fish & chips ;)
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Why would the property owners rather have the units sit empty than rent them out at market rates?
But doesn't that apply to basically anything in life ?

Everything is about will + tools + problem solving skills. From building a house to fixing a bicycle, building a shelf, fixing an old SLR, &c. I'd even argue that building/fixing material things is more rewarding than programming in general.

The only difference is that current society chose to reward average developers much more than average workers in other industries (good pay, flexible working hours, free snack, job security, &c.). But to me the average developer is not more important than the average trashman or electrician, quite the opposite.

A lot of tech workers are not much more than assembly line workers from back in days, spitting out barely maintainable code found on stack overflow, using tools they understand only on a superficial level (framework, DBs, &c.).

Again, familiarity is not knowledge. We have to stop romanticising our profession as if it was some kind of holy grail, for most people it's just a (good) way to bring money home. Most developers are not revolutionising anything, most are not working on anything meaningful, most are easily replaceable, most don't care that much about what they do, just like everywhere else.
To me as a Swede, it was interesting to see so many cognates with Swedish. Often, I could have chosen a downright Swedish word if I wanted to. "beck" for the running body of water smaller than a river for instance.
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If you do do this then please don't use keyboard language as the language. Use ui/display language instead. Looking at you, Microsoft.
Humans also make mistakes that are fatal for others, and we have been thinking about that for millennia.

Humans also subvert things in order to make more money.

Maybe not complete replacement, but where AI does most of the thinking, shows "This is what I found, and this is what I used, to decide this." and humans have the final approval on whether to go ahead with whatever it decided.

If someone has a disagreement, it would be submitted to the AI and make it re-evaluate everything while weighing it against the disagreement.
Besides the fact that these are great exercises, often enough they also demonstrate solutions that are now possible thanks to Rust.

e.g. ripgrep is faster and makes better use of available hardware (concurrency, SIMD) than grep – thanks to Rust.
I think Eclipse Che is something you should consider. Heavy, but considering that as a teacher you have to reset environments very often (after the kids screwed up), I think a container based runtime platform is sweet.
I've been laughing myself of for some minutes, not because the project is uninteresting (I'll be testing it next week on ARM, probably), but because I've decided to call this "Kubernetres" (Being 'TRES' three in Spanish)
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You know this is going to trigger a lot of people [1].

- Jam Roly Poly is something you'd eat at school. I don't think I've ever seen it on a restaurant menu.

- Mince pies are generally only available in the months leading up to Christmas.

- Eccles cake is rarely eaten nowadays, apart from in certain regions.

You're also missing chicken tikka masala which is regularly voted a national dish. Also roast dinners.

[1] https://what.toeat.in/uk/
Nonetheless the single thread pool in .net core seems to scale really well.
Nightclubs are one thing. I said "a" reason, not "the" reason. People don't go to the expense and trouble of living in cities because they have the bare essentials of keeping yourself alive. That is available in any town.

People move to the city because of things to do which includes nightclubs, restaurants, museums, theater, sports venues, cultural events, etc.

If all you want is a bunch of houses and roads connecting them and basic public services, you can get that for a fraction of the price in the suburbs.