skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmm, I don't know. It occupies a strange spot in the demand curve, doesn't it? Below C1M, you use commodity hardware. Above C100M, you're forced to use distributed systems, since no single machine can possibly handle the load.

But if you're in a startup, like many HN users, you have to fulfill Investor Storytime. In this consensual hallucination, everyone pretends the company can hockey stick at any minute. In this environment, you can't have hard limits. If the investors ask "What if traffic goes up by 1,000x?" you can't say "We die", because then you become unemployed.

So this thing is purely for companies with predictable loads... stable, established companies. Enterprises! Resume poison! Nobody in this economy would be so foolish as to admit experience with enterprise software, IBM z series(!), lest ye be cursed forevermore with its taint. Throw salt over your left shoulder, spit three times... A good HN user only uses cloud autoscaling, serverless, Lambda, anything to stay out of bank IT shops, where you're paid $70k a year and get outsourced at the drop of a hat.

I now understand why OP died with a mere 22 votes. Better I should forget the acronym "SSI" entirely, lest it contaminate me, become fallen... I clear my mind, think of web scale, BigTable...
I have probably watched all of his talk more than a dozen times. The way he articulate his ideas, something that current Apple is missing. Tim Cook tries very hard to put those message forward, but for some reason he is just not very good at it. ( To me at least ) It doesn't feel sincere. You could feel Steve actually cares.

Mac OSX has been living a secret double life for the past 5 years. - Cant believe it has been 15 years since those words. Apple is about to make another transition. And Mac will reach new height, taking even more market shares.

It is sad Steve never gets to see this. Apple now has 1B iPhone user, 100M Mac Users, 200M+ iPad users, and a fast growing Apple Watch user base.

I know this may sound wired, but I miss him.
There are companies renting robot labor by the hour(or per work done). It often comes out cheaper than hiring a person.
Is there still a way to get that fixed by Apple?
I had no idea, that explains so much! I was wondering how these open source numerical systems were building fortran code "so well", as in not a huge operational burden. My understanding is that the OSS fortran compilers are used for dev/debug, but when it comes to production, commercial Fortran compilers for your platform vendor offer much better performance.
Disable CSS or use reader mode.
Ah, you'd be talking about DTUs! Those are fun. Blended measures of CPU, IO and some other Magic(TM) factor. Impossible to predict how your workload maps to DTUs until you try it and see.
Just grab a regular Bluetooth earphones then. Those $20 ones may seem to be too good to be true, but they work and sound great, and you can replace them on a whim if they do die.

Source: owns a cheapass Soundpeat.
I think at this point, if there was a robot capable of doing this, it would also drive my kid to school,walk the dog,and even do the dishes on its spare time. Instead we get a tall clothe hanger on a motorised base.
Add this to your lists http://khpg.org/en/index.php?id=1594308593
That isn't necessarily a bad frame for "what a cool robot should do" ideas.
It will still be a base. Awesome thing about legs is they can step way out of the equilibrium point thus creating a huge leverage for e.g. pulling or holding heavy things.
Interesting point - did Google delay robotics by 4 years.

How many other areas are also effected by this 4 year lock-in period...
Apple wouldn't let me return (for store credit) or exchange a gift I received without a gift receipt despite me being able to provide the purchaser and the location of the purchase.

The item was brand new and still sealed.
Design is either lacking or ugly (industrial) not suited for most homes.
I have lived six years at my current location in Germany and have not had a power cut, except for a burned fuse in my apartment.
Well I have a broken Apple Pencil and now way to repair it or at least more cheaply replace it. The nearest Apple store is hours away (and another few hours of queuing up waiting for temperature measurements of all customers) and sending it in is not allowed.They did tell on the phone in a roundabout way they would replace it for about half the cost.
It just goes to show you the latent "value" of having a FAANG position on your resume. People are always looking for shortcuts to making value judgments about people/ideas, and this is another one of those shortcuts.
Been using DokuWiki for personal worklog and team notes for ten years. Love it.
"beyond they they want reliability and ease of integration with things like stock control"

This is the key point. For any B2C company of a decent size, they want a system that will remain up during Black Friday and other promotional spikes, without having to pay for those servers during the rest of the year.

That type of reliability and auto scaling is not something that comes cheaply in regards of hiring IT people in-house if you are building it yourself.

Thus, the total cost of ownership compared to instead paying someone else for it on a PAAS basis doesn't make sense today for most companies.

Better focus your internal IT resources on what differentiates you towards your customers, which is the store front-end UX.
Or even better - SI Kelvin scale
You have got to love him as Sulu

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_Continues

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt2732442/mediaviewer/rm1680690432

Edit. The episodes are free, at https://www.startrekcontinues.com
At least there's some consumer protection laws there.

I had an issue with my 2017 MBP where the speakers would conk out; I've had it fixed under warranty / recall, but because Apple sucks when it comes to repairability they had to replace the whole top cover, keyboard, touchpad, the works.
Maybe via bluetooth? I'd imagine that would be the easiest way.
So daycare, not education?
~161km.
You don't seem to understand what exponential growth rate is like, just look at last 20 years of growth and the difference that was overcome by both China and India against US.
I saw some demo where a guy in Germany remotely operated a large excavator on the other side of the world. I think there will be more of these in the future.
Isn't Wix just a website generator? Sort of like Online Dreamweaver?
You sure as hell better be satisfied when you're paying quarter of a grand for an earphone.
Yea, lets just give up on the whole personal responsibility and free speech/movement thing... gov's mandating medical procedures is always just fine. Line up. Right?

Anyway.... why rely on a (no kidding) fake study?

Data please. Excess deaths and treatment protocol preferably.

Which professional published best case death estimate did we not beat?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23407130

There is a country that banned the fake masks. Plenty of US states have ~95% fake mask use... MI is easily >99% in stores. Yet the overall excess death rate is -much- higher in the authortarian states.

Guess what's not enven -mentioed- in the latest DOE guidance for COVID-19 transmission:

Dept. of Energy: "What every American and community can do now to decrease the spread of the coronavirus"
https://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2020/03/f72/COVID_19...

Why not answer? --Why not use the masks forever?--

Speaking of inexpensive treatments that are actually effective: https://www.ijidonline.com/article/S1201-9712(20)30534-8/ful...

Or... ya know... concerned people could use a real mask for viruses. Nah... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23730633
Usually the most expensive parts of a robot is sheer number and compounding effects of various components and requirements...

A motor may cost $5 but driver costs another $5 and cables costs another and you have to stack it against one another and if it has to support its own weights the motor must be better and if motor is better the driver etc etc and those keep snowballing.
Trump isn't a troll, he has no sense of whimsy and he obviously cares way too much. The whole point of old-school trolling is to wind up the rubes over some trivial nonsense for your own amusement.

Incidentally, PHP is a fantastic language and Haskell is hot garbage.
Sounds like said code reviews were getting outright toxic and vile; referencing Hitler was probably not the main issue there.
For anyone in the space, how substantial is the "research robot" market? What's realistic, hundreds of units, thousands?
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Is this able to support more than 50 requests per second? Are there any benchmarks on performance overhead of the underlying web server/routing that is handling the requests?
Fine, they can go to Nepal.
How old is your kid? Justin Guitar is good for anyone who is self motivated. I think guitar is tough for young children, and has a higher initial learning curve than piano. My kid is 6 and I'm just teaching him simple tunes on one or two strings for now.
Oh, you worked in Windows. I get it now ;)
Or you get a robot instead of sucking it up.
The "problem" is the oversaturation with good enough or listenable stuff, meaning that careful curation by people doesn't have the social impact it had. Curators are middlemen and become obsolete similar to traditional media in aggregation theory.

A reaction or evolution from that is that many who were curators or DJ's get into music production, which means that they hang out in music studios of some kind, forming different social connections (e.g. with musicians). It creates a social divide between the people who just consume from algorithms and those who create.

>You'll see this same thing in so many different places.

Because it's an inherent feat of technology. Groups also form because different people bring different things to the table. One might be into music, the other one into cooking etc.

But cooking isn't enough, it has to be keto & vegan. People move up one level which changes the composition of their social circle.

>People will say "It's not the same now. Back then it was like X". Most commonly, it's more like X than it is different, but the person saying it has changed.

I wish it were like that because I'm a tech geek myself, but thinking more deeply about the topic and the composition of groups has changed my mind. The divide created by technology is real imo because it isolates groups.
Oh, the latency...
Have a few of these on LinkedIn. "Ex Google Engineer" as a title for more than two years,while trying to bootstrap his own niche product/platform.
I don't think they will unseat Shopify in the small to lower mid segment. For the higher mid and enterprise segment though, they do offer much better APIs for building a completely custom store front-end than Shopify does, and there they are also starting to become competitive with pure enterprise vendors like Elastic Path and commercetools in a way which Shopify so far is not.
Why are you equating low cost with exploitation? Why focus on the immigrants when my post _clearly_ mentioned local or immigrants? It is also very disingenuous for you to remark about my location. Clearly, Hacker News is US/Silicon Valley centric. My comment was pointing out that Silicon Valley engineers need to get their heads out of their asses and look at the unemployment not only in the US but rest of the world.

Caregiving is a great job for those who don't have a job. More importantly, SV seems to be forgetting the human component of care giving. A robot _cannot_ possibly take the place of an actual human. It's just not the same.
> I agree. And it's such an easy target. Everybody hate schools.

This is not true. I dont hate schools. My kids dont hate schools. My friends did not hated schools and my kids friends dont hate schools. There are people, both adults and kids who hate school, of course. And then there are very crappy schools. Speaking to my collegues, they dont hate schools and only two hated school as a kid. And even these do like their kids schools, but they took more care about what is going on there (like they put more effort into selection of school).

But I think that people HN are heavily biased against the schools, the way no other forum or social group I encountered is.
I guess you can believe whatever you want, but it's equally possible that the author is trying to (accurately) emphasize to his readership that Scott Alexander isn't a member of the alt-right/scientific racism segment of the self-proclaimed Rationalist community.
I wonder how much it really saves.

Unless there is some sort of bone oddity in the joint, the wings are not locked in place. The bird must still self-support via muscles.

Try it. The relatively bird-like way is like a gymnast on a pair of rings, arms horizontal. Doing things upside-down, consider standing with outreached arms holding heavy objects. It'd be half your body weight at the arm midpoints, which due to leverage is roughly like a quarter of body weight in each hand.

Even without any flapping, that is going to consume lots of energy.
The telescoping arm is cute, and provides benefits for reaching into constrained spaces like a washing machine, but in the first clones it would likely be replaced with the standard "cylindrical" (e.g. industrial robot style) arm.
Hard to imagine that they could have gotten a patent on "robot arm on Segway". The elevator part though?
glibc's gconv?
> LXD is actually a cool technology.

It is a pretty nifty idea but like all things made by Canonical it is basically digitized garbage.

I tried to get LXC running on fedora some months, wondering why there are no official packages and then I very quickly noticed why. LXD uses the old Ubuntu trick of calling sysv style init scripts from systemd unit files without so much as a "|| exit 1" [1][2] - and I don't have time for that bullshit.

If you want vastly superior quality try podman with --rootfs or virt-install. At least those are not made by people with a disdain for error checking.

[1]: https://github.com/lxc/lxc/blob/master/config/init/systemd/l...
[2]: https://github.com/lxc/lxc/blob/master/config/init/common/lx...
Surely you are missing the point on purpose aren't you? Authorization happens through secrets because it is trivial to spoof anything that is not a secret. If you have a party where only known celebrities are allowed to attend then I can just send a double. That same logic applies to two independent servers and creating a server that is mirroring another is much easier than finding a double. The only way to distinguish between a fake and the original is by looking at things the original doesn't share publicly because the double cannot replicate things it doesn't know. Ok, I hope this explanation was good enough to make you understand that authorization should be based on secrets because they cannot be replicated while kept secret.

So "if your database is accessible by everyone" then it must be because the secret is accessible to everyone. However, this is where you start to contradict yourself. You suggested that delivery of the secret is not a problem because "3/ your production DB shouldn't be accessible directly with the password, otherwise you have a bigger problem". As we have established, anything that isn't a secret can be replicated and therefore should never be relied upon. If you store passwords to your database in the source code it's likely that you are also storing other secrets such AWS keys or the password for the firewall dashboard in an accessible repository. Now an attacker is behind your firewall and can access the database anyway.

I don't understand why you seem to defend storing passwords in source code by arguing about an irrelevant detail. Even if you are completely uninterested in securing your application you would still store the passwords outside of the source code simply for convenience. When you have a production, staging and development environment then each environment will need a different password. The logical conclusion would be to make the password configurable just for this alone. 90% of the features that something like Vault provides are actually more about convenience and password management than actually increasing security. Most of the security benefits come from the fact that it encourages responsible handling of passwords, not from the fact that the software itself is more secure.
> crimeflare

Please don't do that here. It's childish and detracts from the actual content of your post.
Meh... This anecdotally suggests that hydro is less safe than predicted (vis a vis climate change). There's plenty of similar catastrophes related to nuclear.

Comparing apples to oranges and all that.

Evacuating 38mil is impressive, no less.
> 1. Most adults are literate — When kids have questions about letters or words while they are teaching themselves to read they have a huge supply of adults and older children to get help from.

I had first grader during corona lock down and I can tell you that ability to read/write does not imply ability to help the kid to learn to read and write. This part about kids learning to read by themselves and by asking question of adults around of, frankly, complete nonsense for wast majority of kids.
This is a "new retro style" computer which boots to basic.

disclaimer: I have no connection at all with this project.

Home page:

http://geoffg.net/maximite.html

Specifications:

http://geoffg.net/CMM2_Description.html

Video reviews:

A review by cTrix: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzrX72aB7zg

A review by the 8-bit guy: https://youtu.be/IA7REQxohV4

Data sheet of the CPU:
https://au.mouser.com/datasheet/2/389/dm00387108-1799185.pdf
Exactly. I like my current job at $COMPANY, but I also know that they have a pretty negative procedure for raises and promotions, even though you do exceptional job. So, is anybody hiring? :)

They prefer to bring in/hire more candidates from other countries and pay them less than what current employees ask for them, because it is cheaper.
> LXD is nothing like Kubernetes which is why it never took off

I assume this is hyperbole, but for anyone who is unfamiliar with either system this statement isn't right -- Kubernetes does a lot of things, but first and foremost it is a container orchestration solution. LXD is also that. Literally from the kubernetes website:

> Kubernetes (K8s) is an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications

And from LXD:

> LXD is a next generation system container manager. It offers a user experience similar to virtual machines but using Linux containers instead.

> The core of LXD is a privileged daemon which exposes a REST API over a local unix socket as well as over the network (if enabled).

> Clients, such as the command line tool provided with LXD itself then do everything through that REST API. It means that whether you're talking to your local host or a remote server, everything works the same way.

If you strip kubernetes down to it's essentials, it is a group of one or more machines running kubelet, with one or more running kube-apiserver. The workloads you run on kubernetes are containerized 99% of the time, with RuntimeClass[0] (and previous to that untrusted runtime support) existing as an option to facilitate VMs and other runtimes that can run a container-ish process.

> While is does some things impressively, there is little need for it at this point with KubeVirt and other virtualization on Kubernetes solutions.

This is also not true -- KubeVirt is just one way to do virtualization on Kubernetes, and there are situations where it may not be optimal. Competition is also a good thing -- If you waited for Kubernetes to get easy/proper support for runtimes with user namespacing, you would have been waiting a long time, whereas the LXD ecosystem has had this for a long time.

The Pokemon Go team actually ran kubernetes on LXD for this reason[1], and gained value from it.

[0]: https://kubernetes.io/blog/2018/10/10/kubernetes-v1.12-intro...

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQslklE5dKs&t=56s
I don't blame them, it can end up costing a lot of the available bandwidth, and it's a finite resource.
Great man and an inspiration through Mythbusters. RIP Grant.
There’s more to stock prices than the number of people buying your product. GP’s point is profitability also matters and repairs cut into that.
Stop thinking of the US as a monolith, we have a shared language and history and some amount of shared culture but we're stratified socially, politically, and geographically.

There are plenty of places in Europe you can write the same comments about individually, just as there are places in the US where little of them hold water.
FWIW, you can easily use all but two of the addresses in a /8 if you set your subnet mask to 255.0.0.0. MIT used to run their public IPs this way. The entire campus was one huge switched network. You could get any IP in their /8 and take it anywhere on campus.
Apple’s re-cycling program has always been corporate green-washing. It’s far greener to make the maximum possible use of your very resource intensive products. That would eat into Apple’s profits however, so they go out of their way to make it as difficult as possible.

Re-use beats re-cycling every time: Next time Apple crows about their “Green” recycling program ask how many of those devices are put back into use.
Bandwidth is not that expensive. Cloud providers have brainwashed people that basic egress should be 10c/gb or more. In reality, volume pricing and sustained use drops that massively.

Cloudflare has managed to build a massive business on the back of giving away a lot more bandwidth.
Does Syncthing work over the internet, or would you still need to set up a direct line with your colleague?
This is good to place these biased, overwhelmingly positive results.
> and also would randomly not go to sleep just stay on and slowly cook itself in a whatever case you put it in

This happens to my MBP every other month. With a classic Windows laptop you always have some sort of LEDs that indicate the state of power/charging when it is closed - with a MBP, nothing.
Good point, I shouldn't say "always" when I don't mean always always. It's been a major driving force for the BRD, that is for Germany post WWII.
Ah, that's a great idea, thank you! And good luck to you, too!
Live-in caregivers are not going to increase the chances of infection. Other types of caregivers may.
Reading the wiki for Constraint Satisfaction Problems (CSP) brought back good memories of the time I decided to use Knuth’s Dancing Links and Algorithm X (DLX)[1] to solve sudoku (which apparently can be modeled as a CSP as well) for my Object Oriented class when I was still an Undergrad at University. I really wish I would have generalized my Algorithm X program (like Knuth did) to solve any of the possible exact cover constraint problems, but a lot of what was going on in his paper was unclear to me at the time and I didn’t see that he solved it more generally until later. It was really quite fun to finally see the program working and it was surprising how quick the program ran given that DLX is basically a brute force search backtracking algorithm.

I don’t know much of CSPs to know whether Knuth’s Dancing Links or his DLX was used all that often for them. I’m guessing an exact cover problem is one such CSP, but it seems that CSPs also use backtracking which it seemed to me that Dancing Links and sparse matrices were a good combo for that. Anyone have thoughts or inputs or corrections on whether what I said is correct about CSPs?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knuth%27s_Algorithm_X
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> LXD is the "kubernetes" part

No, LXD is not 'the "kubernetes" part'. There is no ' the "kubernetes" part' in the steaming pile of shit that LXD is.

EDIT: Also, please cite the claim that LXD/LXC supports rootless containers. Can't find anything substantial to back it up.
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It's just a collection of anecdotes.