skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does running an idle k3s cluster really require adding a heatsink to the rpi?

I would have thought this would generate very little load, and a major temp increase might indicate a bug in k3s?

Is there a bunch of cpu-intensive work an idle cluster needs to do?
Isn't that exactly what GDPR is?
I too find it surprising but only for competitive reasons: do you want Disney/Hulu and HBO etc to know how you do it?
This doesn't paint the entire picture.

One way to motivate people is to make sure they understand the 'why' behind the work.

A step in making them understand the 'why' is talking about the broader context (which the article is about).
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Are they dead/broken or market optimizing power delivery?

Spinning a few down to nothing can be better for a farm total life time efficiency. You might make more money curtailing output because it is easy to turn off a wind turbine, compared to reacting with an inflexible baseload plant.
Isn't literally everything inferior to what COULD exist?
Yeah I think it does more harm than good for sure.
I suspect that if netflix went to the ISPs to cache their data, the ISPs would be more than happy to charge them for it like to do with other content networks. In this case, netflix is assuming that the volume of netflix traffic at the ISP will drive the ISP to request on network caching. Netflix is happy to provide this, but is not willing to pay the ISP for the privilege.

Does netflix care about how much traffic they are directly serving vs how much is hitting caching servers? Are they playing chicken with the ISPs hoping the ISPs will blink first and put caching servers servers onsite for free?
I find wrapped code much harder to read, unless it's indented properly. The wrapping breaks the flow.
Well 2ft of 3ft is no longer 6%, that's a material difference that matters if you want to buy there.

What I would consider is what it would cost to raise the land by that 2ft. I think that's so little by comparison to what the land costs that you can practically discount the effect of climate change on your decision.

People hated on all of my comments in this entire thread, but at the end of the day I put my faith in the math and I think they're all wrong and I'm right.
Yes, the Raptor Computing POWER systems are almost entirely open. The CPU is entirely open, save the die mask.

It's worrying that these vulnerabilities are not disclosed in a way that lets people take control of their devices.

That the ME is so tightly integrated seems mainly to be for cost savings. There is also an argument for increased security, as now your attacker must be able to work with a decapped highly integrated CPU.

Intel did at one point do what you were suggesting -- if you look at the sandsifter project the author found a family of devices that had a parallel execution unit that was dispatched instructions with a "secret" prefix that had full access to memory. This could still exist in newer processors but be better hidden, it would certainly make a lot of one might want to do with the ME a lot easier.
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Hey, this is pretty cool. Just checking it out. It would be nice if you didn't need to request Full Dropbox permission to only a specific folder or something. I think DropBox supports that these days. This way we don't have to give you cart-blanche to everything. Thanks.

Edited: too many spelling and grammar errors at first pass.
Recycling robots raise millions from top venture firms
There is no such social contract.
I don't know about you, but when I search for "python string replace" I'd expect the first result to be the Python 3 documentation for 'string'.

Instead, I get (in order):

1. GeeksforGeeks

2. Tutorialspoint

3. W3Schools

4. Programiz

5. Stack overflow

6. And then, finally, the official documentation... For python 2.7.

How does this happen? Are these sites just paying Google a bunch for the rankings?
I've been following this project a little bit and am very impressed with the tenacity of its author. I'm a quite happy GitHub user, but I do want this project to move forward and succeed so I'll be looking into moving over at least some of my private company repos, and I signed up for the $100 / year subscription.

I couldn't find a way to add company details however, which is a crucial detail when expensing this sort of thing. Turns out you can add these details when you download invoices, in a freeform textbox. So if anyone's thinking of signing up and billing their company, make sure to add relevant details in this box before downloading your invoice! It'd be nice if you could just save this with the account so that when this eventually renews I can just be emailed an invoice with the relevant details added. Another nice to have would be the ability to assign a separate billing e-mail address.

Anyway, looking forward to making good use of this!
You're not alone. It's a really satisfying practice, and for me it's almost part of the recipe. I've learned not to 'chip in' too much when others are cooking a meal though.

(I've just realized that's basically what I'd say about TDD too)
This program isn't "taxpayer funded". It's funded specifically by taxing tech companies, as is literally stated right below the headline in the article.
If You Could See Every Satellite, What Would the Sky Look Like? 360/VR
I'm in the same situation, and have given up. There's a shop around the corner that will print PDFs at a nominal cost.

Inkjets are especially bad. they print heads used to be in the cartridge, so thay got changed regularly; now they're fixed and the cartridge is only ink, and little-used printers get clogged printheads. I've enquired repeatedly about old-school inkjets with whole-assembly cartridges, no luck.

If you really want your own printer, your only option is Laser.
> I wonder what caused it ?

I guess money caused it. When you have a market-cap of $900+ billion you’re not going to keep up with promises made back when you were “only” a $90 billion company or a $9 billion company. I remember the pre/IPO days when each index update was followed almost religiously on webmasterworld.com and where an user called Googleguy (supposedly Matt Cutts) was implicitly promising all the website owners in there that Google was our friend, that they were never going to become a portal and that they would never steal anyone’s content.
> Prosecutors commonly reduce the charge to get a guilty plea in a plea bargain.

No, commonly, they pile on every charge they can think of and come up with some ridiculous sentence for a small crime, then offer to reduce it to something reasonable in exchange for a guilty plea.
I write both client-side and server-side code.

In server-side, almost all code is atomic, very functional and is very easy to cover with tests, on different levels. I start with several unit tests before implementation and then add a new test for any bug.

The client, however, is a completely different story. It's a thick game client, and through my career I honestly tried adopting TDD for it - but the domain itself is very unwelcoming to this approach. The tests were very brittle, with a ton of time spend to set them up, and didn't catch any significant bugs. In the end, I abandoned trying to write tests for it altogether - at least I'll be able to write my own, functional and test-driven game engine, to begin with.
Phone calls from pro-Russian rebels revealed in Flight MH17 investigation
A recommendation to stay away from Samsung laser printers, their division was sold off to HP a few years ago and the Samsung wireless setup and connection has been maddening and completely unreliable.
Did any of the 50 posts promote the novels? No. The posts which promote the novels only make up a small fraction of what is contained in the blog. Most of the blog is about tech, culture, and physics.
Does this mean you can test large neural networks with smaller ones?
Actually I created a Droplet with 6 cores
Personally I find being asked to engage in introspection like "reflect on a time when you were motivated at your job" pretty demotivating. I'm terrible at it, and it's a huge timesink with negative associations to things like interviews and having to write up annual performance review text.
In the early days of VR, I did the equivalent of this test. The software to stitch stills was much more robust than the the nascent versions of software handling video. As an experiment, I ran the video through the video software, and then did the export to image sequence and had the stills software apply the same settings to the image sequence. When the image sequence was converted back to video, you could see how the stills software made different decisions for each frame resulting in a very psychedelic video. With more tweaking the trippy effect was reduced but not eliminated, and the video software was updated to become much more robust (and impressive).

As a primarily video guy, I always laugh to myself (sometimes not to myself) at the amount of effort photo editors spend on a single image. I remind them that the video world has to do that same level of work, except x24 per second multiplied by number of seconds. Photoshop is cool, but Nuke is mindblowing
It is a straw man because you are obviously dragging this into the realm of defending against malicious intent from Google, which clearly does not apply here. The near-monopolist argument by which you attempt to construct a "right" to demand anything more than omission of malicious behavior does not hold water: Google does not have a monopoly (or a near-monopoly) on the browser market, there are Firefox and Edge, of which both are fit for use in enterprise environments, regularly patched and compatible with practically any website out there, including even those from Google.
The valid set of articles for discussion on HN are not limited to "content that can be obtained without paying for it"

The point is that it's an interesting article. It's not hard to search for the keywords in the title and find some other news outlet covering it, albeit in less comprehensive detail, or look for comments that reiterate the salient details.
I can’t speak to the comparison but as someone who was skeptical of the pihole-on-rpi setup I am now a believer. I can’t live without it now.

I should definitely do some benchmarks though. There are occasional times where I feel like DNS lookups take significantly longer than normal but that’s once in a blue moon.
>I don't see any such overall shift occurring. What I do see is a positive evolution that deprioritizes victimless crimes such as doing drugs which preserves our resources so they can be focused on crimes with victims.

I agree with regard to public opinion but the people who set policy keep trying to sneak policies that decriminalize petty crime with a victim into policies that are portrayed as reducing victimless crime.

Anecdotal example:

A local to me DA with political ambitions released a list (not sure if it was a proposed list or final list) of crimes he wasn't gonna prosecute. The list was mostly sensible but it included things like "theft under $250" which is insane because without the risk of prosecution the ROI on petty theft becomes positive and you are basically encouraging it. Predictably, there was widespread backlash against this (proposed?) policy. I think this kind of thing is what the GP is talking about.
Thanks! Url changed from https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-google-interferes-with-its-....
If you want less liquidity, more extreme volatility, and less buyin, sure. But what you just described (absent a central bank; like Tether) is much how dictators have tried to stabilize devaluing currencies.

Derivatives/forex and black markets would develop quickly in any major currency that did this.

AKA, nobody would logically accept your transaction until the time period or count ends, otherwise, there is a significant likelihood of them being wrong.
Not always before, but always eventually and usually once I’m done with “exploration”. Testing done right should be a time saver in the long run! I think many people are turned off by testing and especially unit testing because it ends up being difficult and maintenance is more of a pain than it’s worth. There are many good strategies to make it easier that in my experience have yet to be well adopted:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=URSWYvyc42M
https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/boundaries
Just calling it like I see it.
I feel like it's implied by the question itself? "Which answer [singular] is the [definite article] correct answer"

But you may be right. I detest word puzzles for exactly this type of ambiguity.

Same goes for implication vs. equality. Why "should" 5 being true contradict 6 being correct? Just because 5 happens to be true doesn't necessarily mean it is "the" "correct" answer. The "real" answer depends on an interpretation of the English-language formulation that most people will apply, but not all.
IIRC the consensus is that a Harvard undergrad education is high-quality, but not exceptional. The experience (including the networking, and the access to people and opportunities it grants) is what drives people to its gates.

If you want an exceptional education, with access to the hardest courses available, you go to MIT.
Any similar recommendations for color laser printer?
Why hackathons are essentially useless
~35 watts isn't actually all that much heat load, and that's what you get from the likes of a business-class Core i5 at the loads routing packets would put on it (i.e. basically idle). Something like Atom or AMD Bobcat is <15 watts.

Another thing to keep in mind if you're worried about power/heat is that 3.5" spinning rust can pull >5 watts per spindle. I've seen 15K drives pull close to 20. But an SSD is close to nothing and so are most 2.5" laptop spindles.
> Nit: I've always heard this called synchronous, since in this style work is performed immediately, rather than queued up to wait for execution at a scheduled time.

I referred to meetings as synchronous because they acquire a lock on everyone's time, at a specifically scheduled time on their calendar.

I refer to Slack and e-mail communication as asynchronous because you're not explicitly locking other people's calendars, but those other people are expected to read and respond to the notifications all throughout the day.

If you never know when the next important "@here" conversation is going to pop up in one of your Slack channels, the only way to have a seat at the table is to be always on, always connected.
Some reasons can be: easier to setup, can be used on devices when on the go, get encryption by default with DoH.

Most routers are not powerful enough to efficiently run blocklists and analytics locally.
https://web.archive.org/web/20191115161514/https://kakaroto....

archive.is is nice, but the Wayback Machine makes URLs which are a lot more transparent.
I find 15-minute, daily "sync meetings" to be an invaluable tool in coordinating the efforts of an organization with many moving parts.

The meeting chair (senior engineer) goes around the room and we all have the same list of items to report on each day. It helps avoid duplication of effort and also increases coordination in pursuit of objectives.
Related: Julian Assange's judge and her husband's links to the British military establishment exposed by WikiLeaks

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2019-11-14-julian-as...
Which means it also has to be less in some places, and those places would be slightly more attractive. So use that projected tidal value if you want when weighing your decision. Factor in stronger storms if you want as well.

Ocean front property is so expensive that if you do that and add the cost of raising your construction on stilts and/or raising the land to compensate, it barely makes a difference.
The problem are external APIs returning whatever they want no matter what they should return. The world is messy.

Example, I just had to write this

return urllib.request
.urlopen(url, timeout=60)
.read()
.decode("utf-8", errors="backslashreplace")

(probably not valid code because of the newlines but you'll forgive me)
Then I use that string in a regexp, etc.

This is the only language where I have to explicitly deal with encodings at such low level. I don't feel like I want to use it for my pet projects.
They're specifically scoping things to search results.

The supposedly blacklisted sites like Gateway Pundit are still in Google's search results. They're just not deemed news outlets included in the News tab.

Same reason my small business doesn't show up in the Finance tab. I'm not blacklisted, I'm just not eligible for inclusion.
Sounds circular. Maybe you need to be motivated to think about what drives you. Catch 22.
Sounds exactly like what I would say if my life's work revolved around the idea that AI boils down to how many neurons we can simulate
One alternative is to run a webcrawler that stores the index in a series of SQLite database files, either by topic or by site, or any other criteria. Then users could download sets of those SQLite databases and run queries on them. Not really completely distributed, but hides some information in the noise of "search sets" and mirrors, and individual queries are run on local. You could mirror the main repository and just run searches on your own server/local. You could also swap the database files with P2P, etc.
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That's a great point.

I typically don't like using remote resources for stuff that I can do locally. But for iffy pdfs, it's a good tradeoff.

Edit: Nice to see the PDF capability added :)
Artificially slicing up functions does not make the code fit in my brain, it just means that I have to load in more functions in order to have the required context.
https://www.inbrief.co.uk/court-proceedings/bail/ a bit of an explainer. I'm not too sure what the circumstances are, but there is no professional bail loan industry and the only famous case I can think of is .. Julian Assange, who jumped bail. https://www.theguardian.com/media/2012/oct/08/julian-assange...
That reminds me of Stallman browsing the web with wget and cat hahaha.
Does Occupy Democrats show up?
Many do, but only use it when convenient.

For instance, Fitbit used "no recipt => potential fake" to flake on the warranty for my $300 watch. They absolutely do keep and track serial numbers because actual fakes get detected and kicked out of the fitbit app, but the fact that this database isn't public still lets them use fakes as scapegoats when convenient. Best of both worlds!
Yes, and this is exactly the problem with Slack: it tries to shoehorn both modes into a single mechanism.

Asynchronous communications must be structured fundamentally differently from synchronous ones in order to be effective. Trying to merge them into a single mechanism is a horrible mistake.
I would think just the opposite. If you believe that this life is all there is and you don’t have an afterlife to look forward to, you would value life even more.

Off topic: to all of the people who are downvoting the parent post: Just because you say something in a post, doesn’t mean that you believe it. For example, I often take the devil’s advocate position. If you can’t argue both sides of an issue, you don’t truly understand it.
Wait why would duckduckgo be more accurate because a random site called learntherisk.org is present. This is just confirmation bias.
They seem to be aware of this. Amazon Transparency, if successful, will banish fakes. In its essence it's about provable origin of each item, back to the owner of the brand.
If they were referencing organic search doesn't that hold true? They are blacklisting separate curated services such as google news. Either way if they lied about it of course that is bad, transparency is the way to gain public trust. I'm not sure if it was violated by that hearing in particular, but if they aren't blacklisting organic results I don't really see an issue.
This reminds me of the people who are/were working on building weapons, they are/were not aware of the context of their work, for example they were building small pieces of large weapons but not knowing the full plan.
I interned for a major defense contractor on a top secret contract. I did not have a security clearance, nor did several of my coworkers, and we had no idea what it was we were doing, at all. My job consisted of "Do this task" with absolutely no rhyme or reason to it. I hated that job passionately and definitely agree with the author that contextualizing your work matters.
> M.E.

> VNC

> IPsec tunnel

This being the state of enterprise, no wonder every Fortune listed company is getting their doors blown off.
Isn’t this libel to some extent?
It's not really something netflix even came up with. I know I saw Akamai boxes in ISP datacenters way before netflix got into streaming
I prefer the first one if the functions are well named. Especially if there is any potential for A, B or C to be reused by another part of code. Even with no reuse potential function names are more likely to be kept up to date than comments.
Some people also just downvote because they don't like something, although it is right.
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

--Antoine de Saint Exupery
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Seems like an interesting opportunity for a new bank — be the bank for porn, cannabis, etc.
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> Or that people think that playing video games is for the lazy?

This part. My earlier post meant to say that I can't tell if you think those people are correct (which is wrong) or if you think those people are wrong (but are still citing them?)
What about municipal PDs is troublesome to you?
Correct. Banks in Canada are already de-platforming customers suspected of using Bitcoin:
https://www.reddit.com/r/BitcoinCA/comments/89gsdk/td_canada...
https://www.reddit.com/r/BitcoinCA/comments/9ckikr/rbc_froze...
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/bmo-blocks-cryptocurrency-purcha...
Google almost made 100k chest X-rays public
Why is my Ubuntu 18.04 distribution asking me to upgrade to Pop _OS 19.10?
Do you have kids? I always had the same opinion until I had my daughter, and then all of a sudden there is a 2 year old who needs supervision and it becomes easier to clean up after bed time.
I have similar situation. Epson WF-1000. Also has a battery so it can work without a power cord for awhile which is nice to have. Does a fine job for what it is. Also wireless and has print from iPhone capability.
This article is pretty bad at actually conveying information. It’s nominally about trusts in South Dakota, but first there’s a story for many paragraphs about the history of some unrelated laws that make a few random South Dakotans look bad.

So the main thing these South Dakota trusts actually do isn’t evading taxes, it’s just lasting an indefinite amount of time, being private, and not putting many restrictions on what you can do with the money. None of those seem that bad to me.

Way down at the end of the article, it even mentions that many other states have now copied the South Dakota trust rules, so there’s nothing particularly unique about them nowadays, and South Dakota changing their laws probably wouldn’t have any effect. Well okay, that kind of defeats the whole point of the article though, which was that South Dakota was doing something bad.

The one interesting thing to me is that when cracking down on offshore accounts, the US created some international standards that the US states don’t have to follow themselves. In a sense that was a protectionist move, which I didn’t realize before.
People don't like hearing dissent, or people who disagree with them. My tone is a reaction to the hostility I'm experiencing as a result of that friction.

Most forums have some kind of backstop that prevents the vindictive from causing too much harm. This forum has a vindictive moderator. He needs to go.