skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m not convinced that the eye is conclusively better than any camera out there. The human brain is incredible at stitching together visual input into a coherent view of the world. The retina has high resolution but covers an incredibly small field of view; rapid eye movements make it possible to fake a larger effective field of view. And I’m not convinced that the retina’s resolution is actually better than that of high-end camera systems. The eye’s performance in the periphery is decidedly worse than that of a wide-angle camera.

Dynamic range is a challenge for cameras, but we have high-dynamic-range imaging nowadays (both in software, i.e. exposure combining, and hardware). I don’t think the eye is significantly superior here.

Low-light used to be a strength of the human visual system, but I think modern computational imaging systems have caught up (plus, human night vision was really never that good compared with other animals).

So in short: I dispute the idea that cameras don’t have the acuity of the human visual system, nowadays. I’d like to know in which aspects you believe human eyes to still be superior, from an optical point of view. Obviously - the human brain and visual cortex is something that computers are nowhere close to.
Would love to know what you think!?
The author's interpretation seems to be that the spirit of "child-like playfulness" was already the dominating design paradigm at Google, as characterized by Saville in 2010, and the re-design of the logo was done in this spirit. It's pretty plausible, given that this was the first time Google was changing its logo in ten years.

Edit: FWIW, it's not designs that are just flat that the author considers child-like. It's a design vocabulary that uses flat designs, cartoonish characters (e.g. Octocat), addressing users in a child-like manner that's seen as childish. Flatness is just one element of this vocabulary.
From the description they are limiting the number of people in the draw to 10. They won't be cashing in anything by collecting £20 in total...

So it's £7,000 or 10% chance of winning £1 million.
> Master should always be in a deployable state.

+1 to this and squashing commits. I'd even go far as saying trunk based deployment model over trunk based development.

This can be done via Pull requests or short lived branches. I prefer having all the context, discussions and testing added to the pull request. Even setting up environment per pull request. It's much easier to track and get feedback.
>with Article 13 in the EU under proposal

It is not under proposal, it already passed :(

(member states have 2 years to implement it in local regulations)
If your apps run on k8s already, why is it a bad idea to store some simple states in custom resources?
I have two thoughts on this:

- I believe the sophistication and complexity of what makes us feel living forms is still way outside the current science radar and that all that think they're onto an improvement are myopic

- the dig down process of improving the somatic layer (bodies, cells) seems backward to me, our "souls" live on another plane, and doesn't really need much improvements down below. I'd rather see a cultural effort toward.. well culture. Simpler, leaner bonds and sharing.
This is a debated number, with people telling that they don't count anything, but actual "stall" when the system stands still and can't do anything, as disengagement.

And accounts of stalled Waymos in the middle of the road are too frequent to believe them
I guess it was about 6 or 7 months ago. I will bring it up with the team to give it another try.
You mean deregulation? Banks have famously seen less regulations starting in the 1980s
Some practical questions:

a. What does this mean about Google's claim of quantum supremacy? [1]
Does the new paper prove that quantum computers with entangled provers are more versatile than classical computers, because they can work in a larger problem space? Would that also mean that there is definitely such a thing as quantum supremacy, regardless of whether we've achieved it yet?

b. How does this affect CERN? That research institute is a melting pot of physicists, computer scientists, and mathematicians. This proof did not come from CERN, but I feel like CERN has the best resources to apply the proof. Need some entangled particles? Sure, let me just go downstairs to the LHC and pick up a few. Want to play a nonlocal game? Second door on your left. Need the Grid supercomputing network to verify your proof? You've got it. I hope that someone will be able to use this to reassure politicians that CERN is worth funding.

c. Does anyone know whether Tsirelson saw the proof (13 Jan) before he died (21 Jan), and what his reaction was?

I'm also really impressed at how Vidick & Ito, and Natarajan & Wright were working independently, and then joined forces to become a genius team. My gut feeling is that MIP* = RE is the E = MC^2 of quantum computing.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21332768
I'm certain the self-driving cars win. Per Waymo's numbers they already have a much lower accident rate than the average driver.
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Or monetary response..
It's known at the Montey Hall Problem[0] or another variation is The Three Prisoners Problem[1] (IMO [1] is an easier way to conceptualize the probability of different outcomes).

It can be understood that the contestant choosing to switch doors has a probability of winning equivalent to that them being allowed to choose two of the three doors in the first place. By not switching they are choosing one door (1/3) but by switching (since one of the empty doors is removed) they are effectively choosing both the other two doors (2/3).

[0]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Hall_problem

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Prisoners_problem
One for Website + database, the other for monitoring?

I guess backups could just be snapshots or something, depending on how active the database is. ;)
"It's not a bug, it's a feature" of most modern web browsers. A https page that includes content fetched using http is called a "mixed content" page. Radiooooo over https still fetches the songs via http requests, and so many browsers block these requests.
Organic molecules discovered by Curiosity consistent with early life on Mars
Seems like a culture problem created by improper management by Mozilla and Google.

After all when I run apt-get update any of the updates could install malware that could do anything at all.

Instead of programmatically limiting what extensions can do, which seems very difficult to do while preserving useful functionality, they should study what makes the debian packaging system so trustworthy and implement that.
My immediate thought whenever I encounter the no time zone crowd is what units of time do you think make sense?

Once we throw our time zones the concept of a day no longer seems very useful — each season works out to about 2 kilohours or 8 megaseconds.
On Linux, many distributions build Firefox with a magic directory where extensions can be placed without needing a signature, if you have root access.

E.g. this is how Arch builds and installs Tridactyl https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/tree/trunk/...
Manage tasks and projects on Fedora with Taskwarrior
Tldr: use ANTLR instead.
Careful Google, free Kube is GCP's only big-shiny draw and you've just cut that into quarters.
part of the issue is that fair use is something that needs to be proven in court
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I wouldn’t recommend ECS to anyone. It’s technically worse than k8s in every way and tied to a vendor.

For me the biggest issue is speed of deployments. In practice it’s hard to get deploys on ECS under 1 minute. With k8s, 5 seconds is easy.
According to your average SV pitch deck, we are 6-10 months away from reproducing general intelligence. Add in a sprinkling of Pascal's Wager, and your funding is almost guaranteed.
This is repeat spam wrapped in an even harder to parse tweetstorm.

Previous submits:

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=daolf.com
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Your wishlist is already fairly common in most modern cars now, apart from seeing around corners.
Well, from your feedback, the law seem to have had the required effect combining supression of disguised employment, assigning the right responsibility to parties involved and avoiding dilution of said responsibility.
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Yeah, its not quite as easy as swarm - you basically need new configs - but you can use the existing containers.

From experience, this was no more than a few hours work on an app consisting of ~20 services - but I already had kubernetes experience so knew what I was doing.
So let's say you have a small pile of apps that are all <app_server>, <redis>, <jobqueue/workers>, <db>, <frontend>, but not all the same DB, language, etc. They're all low traffic and you want to automate/simplify and containerize them. On developer machines docker compose works great, but you need to deploy in a cloud provider. What are choice do you have other than K8s?
Based on jblake's profile it seems to be guestmanager.com, but I might be wrong.

(Also, for everyone who doesn't know:

- clicking on a username takes you to that users profile

- clicking on the n minutes/hours/days ago take you to a permalink directly to that comment

)
To be clear, I don't necessarily disagree with the idea that cartoons and vivid color schemes are used more prominently in the digital world, but I think the discussion of skeuomorphism vs flat design is mostly besides the point, and is undermining her argument with unconvincing examples.
Allegedly the new democratized Internet allows anyone to publish. Yet, if this is true and the goal is to empower users, why are there so many walls around these walled gardens?

The design elements the author observes are only a symptom of the theme of centralization. The unwashed masses will be given information technology, but only as much as they need.

Where there are walls, there are gates and gatekeepers. It isn't enough to have an infantile design. Condescending 'fact checks' from trusted sources and manually ranked search results are there to keep the children from going astray. After all, you can't be trusted to examine and digest information without some parental guidance.

For severe offenders who peddle wrong-think, deplatforming is an option. Of course those who have been banished from the grace of the walled garden can always set up their own website. Users need only enter the URL.

Again, we've seen the minimization of the address bar as unfriendly and overly complex by Chrome. Better to turn everything into a Google search. Google will help you arrive at the safest destination.
I wonder if the extra sensors are to stop it accelerating into stationary objects like the Tesla does.
Tracking the Dynamics of an Ideal Quantum Measurement
The IP wasn't the problem in the accident, rather the implementation. Simplified, the software was tuned in favor of ignoring obstacles as false positives. By the time the system acknowledged the immediate danger it was too late. No tech, no matter how good the IP, could stand up to being tweaked like this.

And the emergency breaking relied on the human operator but the system was not designed to warn the operator.
> Classic "Renaissance"-style painting styles perfected the human form to the point that there was nothing exciting any more about the form. Nothing stimulating the viewer.

I don't think that follows at all. My favourite cafe has almost perfected my morning Americano, but that's exactly why I enjoy going there. The TV series that provoked the strongest emotional response in me wasn't doing something nonrepresentational, it was doing exactly the list of tropes that you'd expect to provoke that emotion, just executed in a really polished way.

And even - especially - if we talk about pictures, there have been plenty of representational works that left me awestruck by their beauty. Look at, say, Sparth's spaceships (which couldn't possibly be replaced by photographs, even though they're "photorealistic" in some sense). Heck, look at Luis Royo, or the dragons on my college friend's deviantart. Even if you just want to talk about photorealistic oil paintings, take a look at the aeroplanes and board meetings in the China Art Museum and tell me those don't make you feel something. The things that people found beautiful and inspiring and provocative for centuries can still be all those things, and the idea that everything that can be done with representational, conventionally beautiful artwork has been is as absurd as the idea that everything worth doing in fine dining or orchestral music or classical ballet has been done.

Humans are good at pulling meaning out of noise, even when there's no actual meaning there - consider rain dances, or the face of Jesus on a shower curtain. Of course ambiguity has always been a part of art - the famous Mona Lisa smile, or a lot of poetry rests on things that can be taken in different ways by the reader. I'm sure it's possible to look at a random pattern of brush strokes and have a meaningful emotional response - heck, I'm pretty sure I've done it myself. But surely there should be some equivalent of a double-blind test; art that performs no better than a placebo should not be considered as art, just like in any other field. And I'm convinced a lot of modern art would fail that test - e.g. Damien Hirst tells a story of how he tried to deliberately do one of his spin paintings badly, but ended up with one that was indistinguishable from the others. All of the art forms I talked about in the previous paragraph have a better hit rate at provoking interesting emotions and insights than modern art (and I don't think it's just a matter of accessibility - classical ballet takes a fair bit of effort to be able to appreciate it fully). So it seems crazy that the art world is so exclusively, overwhelmingly focused on non-representational, looks-like-random-noise works.

If modern art really was just a scam, what would you expect to be different? What would it take to convince you that there's no there there?
We use k8s at $JOB so I decided to look into it on my own time. A wasted weekend trying to install it and a profanity laden #ragequit later I moved all my stuff over to OpenBSD instead.

Never been happier.

In the case of k8s: ignorance truly is bliss. Keep it simple people.
The costs of running continuous integration at freedesktop.org
Which is why, when you're selling a company for hundreds of millions of dollars in unvested stock, you don't sign a deal where the buyer can fire you for "mere accusations of a potential crime". Uber lost the lawsuit with Google and had to pay a quarter of a billion dollars. I'm sure their contract said something like "if you have materially misrepresented information to us that results in us getting sued for a quarter of a billion dollars, we can fire you".
Full self driving is probably wishful thinking for the next decade at minimum. That said, even just getting to a point where you could use a human+tool combo to reliably shepard a second truck to a depot at the outskirts of a city would have profound logistics implications.
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Heh Heh Heh. I knew someone would take that approach.

Put it this way. Explaining to the customer higher ups why that crap was running on their central billing cluster servers when an outage occurs and the place loses revenue ($mil's).

"Job ending" for the manager in question is a good description. ;)
What are those jurisdictions?
This reminds me of trap streets (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap_street) and makes me wonder if there is a directory of those.
And none of the other criteria fit, so it's a moot point
> clusters should be treated like cattle, not pets

So my understanding that the official k8s way to upgrade your cluster is also to throw it away and start a new one (with some cloud provider proprietary alternatives).

Let's say there is something actually important, stateful, single-source-of-truth in my k8s cluster, like a relational DB that must not lose data. I don't want downtime for readers or writers, and I want at least one synchronous slave at all times (since the data is important). I also don't want to eat non-trivial latency overheads from setting up layers of indirection.

What's the recommended way of doing this?
Haha, some scripts to manage the deployments and rollbacks, plus some other scripts to manage the environment (ansible, terraform.. )..
also some scripts to manage the machines.. log aggregations, cleanup, upgrades... Later add some crons.. some more scripts to manage Dev environments.. and a bit more for having an staging env... That's without using any big cloud provider (add to it firewalls, vpcs, iam.. )

You know, managing some yml files that describes all of this it's so hard and so expensive...
> commuting to some job

That'd be some interview. "Could you tell us about a time when you had to resolve a difficult issue? Say when you nicked IP from Google and had to pay $179M as restitution? And could you then explain why we should trust you within a hundred miles of our IP?"
It is my understanding that contrary to tesla's system, waymo's tech is already fully aware of static objects to avoid.

It is also my understanding that none of their cars in computer driven mode drove full speed into a wall or other static obstacle.
I'm sorry but Kai's Power Tools was not some sort of UI design trendsetter. Outside of very niche programs you didn't see skeuomorphic UIs much at all in the 90s or 00s. MacOS X's Aqua UI was very different from Windows and older MacOS versions. The textures aping iMac design elements are superficial differences, the real distinction was the state changes and representations.

In the early Aqua UI things like buttons and selected menu elements were colored and composited on top of their backgrounds. It was obvious that "Save" was the default action because the button was colored blue in the dialog. Document modal dialogs were attached to and animated out of the document's own window and composited over the contents. Icons bounced in the dock to get attention for dialogs. The dock itself animated to make icons under the cursor larger (Fitt's law improvement) and minimized windows got sucked into the Dock with the genie animation.

While Aqua still used the WIMP paradigm it had a lot of UX differences from older UIs. It used a lot more animation to convey information to the user. Animations told the user their action was registered and was caused something to happen. This was in contrast to Windows where sometimes you might see a hourglass cursor if you clicked something but you usually had to look at your drive activity light to be confident Windows registered you clicking an icon.

With the iPhone, it was up against a bunch of phones whose UIs were designed to be use with a stylus and were doing their damnest to look like a desktop's UI. The iPhone's design language was all about making elements large enough to be used with a fingertip and convey the idea that you were even supposed to touch the screen. When the iPhone was released most people had never owned or used a smartphone or PDA. The most popular phones were non-touch feature phones.

After the iPhone skeuomorphic design was everywhere. Android aped a lot of iPhone UX elements as did webOS, they wanted to convey that elements should be touched and interacted with directly. Android's pre-iPhone UI looked a lot more like Windows Mobile and Blackberry. Apple certainly didn't invent skeuomorphic UIs but the iPhone was the first smartphone to make such it the default design language.
I have been wondering why it stopped working for me half the time about a year and a half ago, and you just now made that click in my head haha, cheers for that.
Out of sheer self-interest: Do you intentionally obscure the source of the file? I'd be interested to save some of these (for non-commercial, strictly private usage).
People who disagree with having the fruits of their labor stolen and given to others (welfare), or prevented from laboring (employment restrictions like the ones for Uber), are well aware that people have different possessions, capabilities, and opportunities. They just don’t think two wrongs make a right or that the ends justify the means. They think the purpose of government should be to secure rights instead of violating them to benefit someone else.
I'm in the same camp. I think a lot of these anti-k8s articles are written by software developers who haven't really been exposed to the world of SRE and mostly think in terms of web servers.

A few years ago I joined a startup where everything (including the db) was running on one, not-backed-up, non-reproducible, VM. In the process of "productionizing" I ran into a lot of open questions: How do we handle deploys with potentially updated system dependencies? Where should we store secrets (not the repo)? How do we manage/deploy cronjobs? How do internal services communicate? All things a dedicated SRE team managed in my previous role.

GKE offered a solution to each of those problems while allowing me to still focus on application development. There's definitely been some growing pains (prematurely trying to run our infra on ephemeral nodes) but for the most part, it's provided a solid foundation without much effort.
But moreover, it's totally unreasonable that anyone would have gone to jail as a result of this, except again, maybe the driver. The driver was literally being paid to monitor the vehicle. How is an argument that high profile executive types were engaging in criminal negligence going to fly, when the bar for legal driving is already that 1 person is in the car nominally paying attention?
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>> Can't we just taka it on good faith that the engineers who do these blog posts have at least a modicum of competence and therefore their solution has some merit

On a technical resource, no. In a technical article, technical points need to be explained. Decisions need to be checked.

Unless your argument is "it cannot be bad because it must have been checked by many people", we are totally in the position to provide any sort of constructive feedback.
> the nuanced error messages which a language like TypeScript has to provide is only feasible by hand-writing the parser.

I wonder if this is relevant to how bad the error messages generally are in Typescript.
One for dev, one for production. Database snapshots and code can be backed up locally.
Judge: "BigMedia, this court finds you made a false copyright claim for Billion Dollar Movie. Per 123 USC 8675309, you must select one item from your catalogue to release to the public domain."

BigMedia: "Your Honour, we select This Cheap Crappy Z-List Movie We Made Just To Serve As Ablative Armour In Disputes Like This."
handy! will look into that!
I've taken over a project containing 6 DB entities. Instead of building a monolith (or normal REST API), the Architects used 7 µServices based on k8s and NoSQL DB. Now simple development tasks take extra time, and anything that affects multiple µServices needs n times the development efforts. I wish they had started with a simple monolith, and refactored to µServices if needed.