skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The membrane time constant of a biological neuron is also about 30 ms, which gives you a fair amount of wiggle room even in the face of lag.

Interesting. I had no idea it was that long. I figured it was on the order of 10s of ns.
Can you help me understand how these changes would be _more_ than EKS?
An oldie but a goodie: https://labs.detectify.com/2014/12/08/hijacking-of-abandoned...
Managing Multiple Multi-Cloud Accounts with Commandeer
spoken like a true financial advisor
> According to the complaints of a survivor, the medical graduate student (24 years old) from Wuhan University, she must stay awake and breathe consciously and actively during the intensive care. She said that if she fell asleep, she might die because she had lost her natural breath

Sounds like something from a horror movie!
Betteridge's law of headlines would say "no" (as would @mbell in this conversation). Curious, the author says "undefined". @mbell FTW!
We're a little bit too locked to GCP to migrate out.... But I'll definitely stop evangelizing GCP to people.

I have now lost faith in you, GCP.
No, it's not. In an acquisition, you acquire the liabilities as well as the assets.
Because boss says no.
For a dev environment, why not host your own hardware? Especially if cost is a concern, it seems like a no brainer.
Well you'd have an eyewitness that you would need to attack, who is potentially armed. I imagine the solution would be comparable to whatever security protocols ATMs have v. bank tellers.
That would be an interesting metric: normalized accident rates for self-driving cars vs octogenarian-driven cars.
A Survey of Istio's Network Security Features
Couldn't agree more. I can't seem to forget this sentence...
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I keep backups of my cloud data whenever possible. Mostly a couple hundred mb for small projects, I have been bitten by the same situation in the past
See that little "?". It's called a question-mark, it indicates the writer is enquiring and not concluding.
Coarse sand might work in place of salt, though there's the risk of the increased abrasiveness wearing out the device faster.
See, the thing is, Waymo controls the data, and certainly knows how good their driving is. If it was clearly better than the average octogenarian driving, wouldn't they be letting us all know that? Wouldn't they be announcing that and writing up white papers and giving presentations at conferences about this? They need to start building the safety case, and it is entirely to their benefit to release this data, if it truly is more reliable than even just the average octogenarian. The fact that they don't, and so far as I can tell only release the minimum data that they are legally obligated to (and marketing-speak like https://waymo.com/safety/ is not the same thing at all), leaves me with an inference that the data is not nearly that rosy.
> Or, more locally, why is the 2nd amendment still a thing? I guess guns are more important than dead children. Indeed, it somehow end up that everything that helps those in power is more important than dead children, while anything that protects the marginalized can be discarded "for the children".

Agreed. Without the 2nd amendment, guns can be discarded "for the children" despite protecting the marginalized.
I don't use Windows at all, so my only use for PowerShell is with VMware's "PowerCLI", a set of modules for managing vSphere environments.
From what I understand, he thought he was the only person who could save Democrats form Sanders winning Primaries.
This entire kerfluffle is a microcosm of so many things wrong with the industry. First, so many people have decided to use k8 for wrong reasons that is mind boggling. Those are mainly customers. Customers are often led into decisions by their own developers who are more interested in learning new things or in making themselves attractive for the next job. Yes sales people from the providers also help make this happen but more often than not the customer walks themselves into walls.

The providers hawk shit like it's magic and overstate their capabilities ad nauseum. Everything is sold like fucking magic. AI has been so fucking overhyped that it is mind numbingly hard to even deal with peers who should know better. Because it involves a whole new class of jackasses who specialize in statistics it is being mass introduced into an ecosystem where programmers with years of experience feel out of their depth and are acting like rubes when they're fed pure crap.

Then there is "I want free or cheap" guy. No sympathy. Go to DO or whatever you think is the magical unicorn out. Or, dig in and put up your own damn control plane. Actually learn what the spaghetti hell of k8 is (all things that try to solve hard distributed problems are some level of spaghetti). 90% of free and cheap guy want to work on the next dick pic app so fuck em.

But most annoying is the degree of almost political like knee jerk behavior by a community filled with people who routinely sneer at the religious or emotional. Same fucking community that fights over shit like this, fight over which language is "better" based on nonsensical criteria and hasn't figured out that the less moving parts the better in a distributed system. Wonder how many tanked elections or other horseshit people in this industry have to pull before folks are like "Hey, all those arrogant fucksteins who want free food and 10 times everyone's salary need to start being accountable for the crap they do."
It depends on the person. Most people would agree that murder is terrible but some people enjoy the process of investigating a murder. It’s so enjoyable, in fact, that a huge genre of novels, film, and television series have spawned from it. People spend large amounts of time creating murder stories for others to enjoy through all these media.

Stop and think about how weird this is for a moment. Imagine a video game or something where you had to find and fix bugs in fictional software. That’s how weird it is.
At high latitudes, it doesn't get light until so late that you will reasonably never wake up in daylight in the winter. But moving the light later would make it more likely that you can get out and actually see some light as opposed to going to work when it's dark and getting out when it's dark again.
I was forced to use Powershell for a project so after years of ignoring I finally learned it. It’s actually not that bad and I have even done some stuff on my Mac with Powershell core.

I just wish they made the language nicer and more consistent. There are so many weird quirks around functions, modules, scope and classes that make life pretty difficult in larger code bases. I would love to see something closer to C# (or even TypeScript) that still can use cmdlets easily. The current Powershell language to me feels like a weird hack but not something well designed. Typescript and C# have demonstrated that MS can design good languages.

This leads me to another complaint. MS is cranking out a lot of useful cmdlets that would also be useful for C# programmers but using them from C# is quite painful.
I have not thought much about robbing trucks before, but I disagree this is the same as a manned truck. I think it's much more like the difference between robbing a house that is empty and a house while the owners are home. Most burglaries happen when nobody is home. Why would trucks be any different?

Besides that, it is (likely) easier to trick an unmanned truck into stopping as OP mentioned. A person would easily recognize what's happening and it would be easier for him to just drive around the obstacle. It's not as easy to create an AI that can "think" around things like that. Besides that, I hear truck drivers are often armed. I would guess that punishment for property crimes is less severe than armed robbery against a person, but I don't actually know.

In the grand scheme of things though, I think this is a negligible concern compared to all of the other problems self-driving trucks have to solve first.
Why not use a cheap noseclip for swimming? Perfectly leak-free. The paper suggests intranasal transmission is what you most want to avoid.

> It may also be expected that the symptoms of the patients infected via facal-oral or conjunctival route will be lighter than those infected intranasally.
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Confuse is not the verb you are looking for. Repel is. You should have expected it would repel some people. Then, if it is an issue or not, that, is up to you to decide.
Doesn't all of this also apply to taxis? Taxis pick up at taxi ranks or off the street. Taxis have regulations set by an organisation. Taxis (in most places) have rules that say they must take the most efficient route. In most places, taxis aren't allowed to refuse a customer based on destination.

Does that mean that a taxi driver is an employee? Of course not.
These are mostly myths, at best they are ignored, at worst, they perpetuate the assumption half the population in Asia would be nourishing themselves badly (since many thousands of years - seems a bit far-fetched, no?).

https://doctor.ndtv.com/living-healthy/8-myths-about-rice-yo...
The same is true (at least in my experience) in America. Over 40 hrs/week means the employer has to pay out extra benefits. This is also why employers do not want you to work over 39 hours if you're not salaried.
I thought the standard advice for Google stuff was "there are always two systems - the undocumented one, and the deprecated one"
I think a certain regularity of work is not a necessity for an employer-worker relationship to be exactly that.

And at a second thought, AFAIK Uber does even expect drivers to perform "regular" work - not "regular" as in "we write 9-to-5 every day into the contract", but "regular" as in "of course you can work as much as you like, BUT if we see you driving too little time for Uber, below a certain threshold that we set at our discretion, don't tell anyone and change as often as we want, our magic algorithm will start disadvantaging you when it comes to handing out rides, oh and actually we aren't acknowledging that this mechanism exists at all, so let's just say this sentence really ended at 'as much as you like'".
It comes down a question of priorities - the money is being spent right now. Is the average American better off if we spend $25 billion dollars next week arming Turkish Jihadists and sending missiles to Ukraine, or spending that money to build up our own country and respond properly to this outbreak before it gets out of control?
Watching Magnets Rust
When I was a kid I would sink with a full breath of air (in a pool). I learned the back float and the dead man's float in swim lessons but I still needed to move some water with my hands to stay on the surface. I enjoyed the fact that swimming in the ocean was easier since I didn't have to exert myself at all to float.

Nowadays my BMI is such that I float in all bodies of water ;)
But the retina is not exposed to the outside world. It's got the rest of the eye between it and the air.
I am not sure how you get to $200/month for an EKS cluster - it is $0.1/hr

https://aws.amazon.com/eks/pricing/
Which languages are supported? I went through a few pages on the site but could not find the information.
> Keep sharpening your knife

> and it will blunt.

With real modern knives this doesn't make sense if you know what you are doing. Either I am missing something or something got lost in translation?
Then you'd face shortages and possibly malicious compliance.
It's not so much about an additional fee (honestly, 0.10$ per hour are nothing) it's more about Googles practice of suddenly charging services, shutting down services as they like, not giving a shit about us customers. Azure and AWS are much more customer friendly here.
This however is frequently violated and widely ignored, as there is no enforcement mechanism, when I teamed, I'd do my 8 hours of sleep, then come up at sit with my co-driver and talk with him about the day ahead as he drove until it was time to stop
Or...if it was important enough to you that losing it hurts, then maybe pay attention to your emails and don't let things expire and pay your shit on time. And of course, a sane person would backup anything important.
We have what is called "ekstravakt" job positions in Norway which could be called "call in only" positions. You get sick leave based on when you would normally work and you get pension, vacation money etc based on how much you earn.

It's not a problem to implement at all, I was the manager for many youths hired as such in a company I worked for 20 years ago.

The hourly wage for the 16-18 year old crowd was about $12-13 before tax and benefits (+12ish% employer tax that the worker never see).
No cheap ones in the Bay Area though :-/
Yep, as a biker I now intentionally try to look at the driver through the windshield to see if their eyes are down on a cell phone. They are scarily more frequent than you would think.
(replying to freedomben): NFS has worked fairly well for persistent file storage that doesn't require high performance for reads/writes (e.g. good for media storage for a website with a CDN fronting a lot of traffic, good for some kinds of other data storage). It would be a terrible solution for things like database storage or other high-performance needs (clustering and separate PVs with high IOPS storage would be better here).
This post has 164 points and 204 comments in 3 hours, and is on the second page?

Do I fundamentally misunderstand how this works?
And people wonder why I think terminal is pretty horrible environment for anything but purely line driven applications. Just the other day my coworker was asking my why on earth do I run gvim instead of vim in terminal; I feel now vindicated. Sure, I haven't hit this issue but I am all the time cognizant of the eldritch horrors that are the terminal emulation layers, which makes me prefer to avoid them. And having tmux sit in the middle doing another emulation layer does definitely not help the feeling.

I just wish there were more almost ncurses like lightweight toolkits that would run natively in graphical environments, because to me they seem pretty rare.
How meta....
Reading HN.
I'll VPN this later, as currently I live inside the EEA.
Though the rise of digital-doppelgangers is one that will be the source of much debate in the years ahead as the technology matures and more so, becomes more accessible.

"451: Unavailable due to legal reasons

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That is a plague upon business, politics.

[EDIT ADD] Seems a few sites are running the same story and for those inside the EEA without VPN access: https://www.arcamax.com/currentnews/newsheadlines/s-2334212-...
>make a joke about "Crazy Joe"

no need for making new jokes, he can just ask voters to google "creepy Biden" and think about the children
There you go again using logic. Besides, I had to at least let the lights work long enough to see if they worked. In the end they did. They're just not friendly for home living aesthetics.
Are you saying you see this difference between the week before and the week after the DST transition? Because obviously there will be more activity outside in the evening in general when DST is observed, because that is in the summer. That would be the case even if there was no DST transition.
I noticed that I have a "decision-quota" that I can spend every day, and sometimes I spend a lot of this energy on trivial tasks.

So I created a small tool a while ago to learn Vue and to help me with this: https://roulettecarnival.com/ , it's not close to be finished but it kinda works. I also use it with my team to make trivial decisions more fun.
Why would I peer with a company that promises unlimited liability governed under foreign law? It wouldn't be good enough to have expertise of the law of 190 countries on staff, there's all the smaller jurisdictions that can come into play. Will I be bound by a local bylaw in oregon county misouri?
>Yes, exactly. Seems better than a blanket ban.

and yet somehow you don't concede that a non-blanket ban should have been the conclusion prior to opening it up to the public?
What does paid time off even look like if you don't have a set schedule, though? Will Uber drivers just get n hours of wage added to their paycheck every month?
You’re almost completely wrong.

Legally, wether you’re an employee or independent contractor matters for everything from the Americans With Disabilities Act through Workers Compensation, not to mention, taxes.

Wether the company offers benefits to hourly employees is largely an internal decision.
Sounds like airplane pilots
This sounds almost like they're trying to replicate "Stories" from other social networks.

- Shows up at the top of one's feed, more prominent.

- Expires after a certain time.
Be fair. Nobody was building one bomber an hour two months after the very first sign of trouble.
This change is pretty huge for non-revenue units & small teams at institutions and SMBs. These smaller teams often seem to run two clusters rather than try to split their production and dev environments within one cluster (I think this is even widely recommended for smaller, less experienced outfits). For many the management fee will probably be a large percentage cost increase for units that are very cost sensitive and require significant re-engineering to avoid for units where engineer hours a scarce resource.

Seems weird, given that GKE is basically the main reason people seem to use Google Cloud. These kinds of users aren't big fish, but I suspect a lot of them are going to run.
The Pandemrix vaccine against the latest pandemic (the swine flu) caused narcolepsy in some individuals -- seemingly with a propensity for affecting young people and possibly related to the choice of adjuvant.

We're in a similar situation now. Early vaccines may have side effects and a forced introduction of a vaccine may increase the risk.
Snapchat has all these problems and people still enjoy the ephemeral nature of them.
Sorry, misread the original post, it would be the same.
Hi Seth - I am a LONG time lurker here on HN, but this news just forced me to create an account.

I am part of a small company which has separated our deployment into a number of sub projects, some of which are: dev, staging, production, ci, etc.

The difference for us will be several hundred dollars per month, and that will make an actual (negative) difference for us. We didn't need a "financially backed SLA" before and we don't need it now.

You asked for a question and here it is:
Why isn't a financially backed SLA a part of a billing negotiation? I mean, there are some really cool features in "Anthos" but I am not picking up a phone to find out how much that is going to cost.

If a really useful feature like "Cloud Run for GKE" is awkwardly placed in the "Anthos" box, then why isn't the SLA part of "Anthos" too?

Free clusters was a huge part of why we selected GCP. If this SLA nonsense isn't made optional, our next project is not landing on GCP.
Porting is unfeasible; Multics relies on hardware features not available. An emulator for the original hardware can be found at: http://ringzero.wikidot.com/ Information about Multics at: https://multicians.org/
Yep, and that is something I have since instituted since taking the reigns. Still... DO could turn this lemon of a situation into lemonade by increasing revenue and preventing unnecessary headache for their customers.
Foam earplugs work but look a little funny.
If you think grad students have it bad, where's your sympathy for low-income college students (Santa Cruz has plenty) trying to qualify for a scholarship, internship or new grad job?

The reductio ad absurdum here is an ER doctor striking and walking out while their patient's chest is wide open, claiming it was the hospital's problem and that they had been warning the hospital for weeks.
You cannot prevent that and it cannot be policed.
> No need to a/b test when there are tens of thousands of universities in the world all doing slightly different things. The cream rises and then is copied.

Why would it be any different in webtech or advertising? Why wouldn't everyone just copy the best vs gathering empirical data?
Using a mix of automated and human drivers (aka, the AI is one half of a team) seems like a great way to go. Consider that there is very little freight that goes longer than 500 mi without either being on a team or on the rail.
America’s Test Kitchen is another service that’s interesting in the context of the article. They aren’t a sexy Instagram brand, but are a service that should thrive in this space. I’m wondering if they’re getting the adjacent bump from all of this.

ATK is a pretty well established brand, it's been around for twenty years more or less as an offshoot of the Cook's Illustrated magazine.
The problem posed was "can my app tag photos with birds". The answer is now yes for all practical purposes.

You italicized the word 'solved' to emphasize that under technical scrutiny it is not true in response to a claim about being pedantic.

100% accuracy on identifying birds is, epistemologically, impossible.
Folks, if you see someone collapse on the street and they're wearing a mask. TAKE THE MASK OFF OF THEM. They're not getting enough oxygen. It is taxing to breath through an N95 mask. Source: I passed out when I put on a surgical mask while my wife was getting an epidural. Not from seeing the needle because I didn't even see the needle, and I don't get squeamish anyway. I have low blood oxygen and it was too hard to breath through the mask.
The risk posture of society in general was very different then. There are a lot of things that were commonly done that would be unthinkable today, most of which have nothing to do with space travel. Letting children play unsupervised, for example.
This "integration" between vim and tmux seems like a misfeature. It is poorly thought out and I'm not surprised it could exhibit such a bug. I don't want tmux sending input to vi based on an unrelated action. Just as I wouldn't expect it to know what program was in the foreground and make lots of assumptions about how it works.