skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've tried both podman and lxd with success but I'm curious, what do you use a tool like that for, mostly?

Not to seem like a hypeman for Kubernetes and similar tools, but I actually seem to only ever use containers combined with something like Kubernetes or Docker Swarm. What do you do that you want to do specifically on one machine? Hosting something? Automation à la CI/CD?

Again, I am actually asking for good use cases without orchestration platforms, I am just curious.
> But I don't understand why a perfectly replicated painting by an art student is worth less than the aged original

I would suggest that this is because you place no value on the act of creation, the creative genius that pulls the artifact out of thin air into the material world. The view you are describing is purely utilitarian.

The counterfeiter is stealing that creative value, without which the artifact they are manufacturing isn’t possible.
It's not either or. Both can be done in parallel.
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Hello all,

I saw that many people have lost their job due to the current economic situation and I have seen many people posting status and updates on Twitter, Reddit and LinkedIn about their job search struggle.

I have been thinking very hard on how I can possibly help them find a job.

So I thought of building a platform where profiles of few randomly selected job seekers (2-10) is featured daily to help them find the job quickly.

My mission is to help 3000+ people find a job in 2020.

Here's the link. https://www.jobroz.com.
A million consumer miles is very different from 3000 endurance racing miles. It's not a coincidence Porsche is the most successful Le Mans team of all time and their cars can be absolutely beat on at the track without missing a step.

The FIA rules around 'refuelling' are incredibly strict and right now replacing batteries in the pit would be highly illegal. The rules can change of course, but with 400+ V and tons of mass that has to be slung around there is no way the FIA would take it lightly. When a couple extra seconds in the pit can make or break a race teams will always try to cut corners, so the FIA takes pit safety extremely seriously.

There is a reason formula-e used 2 cars rather than battery swapping when they didn't have the legs to complete a single race.
All the people above complaining about how Apple didn’t help them. I had the exact opposite experience. They started doing it and 3 days later I had a completely new pair. Work great and was no problem whatsoever.
This is how Apple News+ works.

There’s no voucher, it’s just a monthly fee, but I have no doubt that which paywalled stories you click on determine where your monthly fee goes.
"This method also has the benefit of removing the need to have riot-ready police pre-emptively deployed to zones where everyone is keeping things calm."

Let's take a moment to determine how likely it is that the cops will stop sending small battalions of riot police into situations where they are highly unnecessary. As protests have gotten smaller in many cities, police have started sending riot police that outnumber the protestors. They have shown no interest in measured responses.

It would be nice if the police used data to reduce their use of force, but that appears to be antithetical to their way of thinking.
That’s obviously not just about cost. Human beings have schedules and lives of their own. They must eat, drink, shit, fuck, and watch Netflix. I cannot keep a human being in my closet to serve me anytime I want. I’d be willing to pay a premium for a mindless servant that’s available nearly 100% of time.
>If the item is $4.00, then after tax it is $4.56, which rounds down to $4.55.

Everybody who lived the transition to the Euro knows that this is not what will happen. Prices will be always rounded up.
There are other use-cases. For example, you can crypto-shred an unlimited amount of data just by deleting the key associated with it.

You can also set up workflows such as your client owning the encryption key that encrypts data held by you and they can revoke it at any time. Slack has a similar system and I was asked by a large financial institution about the same. I expect to see this more in future.
I agree that we need an actual, real, global solution. But where will it come from? It's not like some benevolent aliens will write up a grand plan and hand it down to us. No. The final solution will consist of a myriad of sub solutions and measures. And improving data center efficiency will be a (albite a small one) part of it. So it's nice to have it (and other parts) at hand ready. You know, just in case the next congress gets serious about tackling the climate crisis.
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This is flat wrong. You can cause it to run an arbitrary binary by setting the BROWSER environment variable, as they demonstrate in the article. They chained it with perl environment variable vulnerability listed earlier to achieve execution.
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Navy Times says it had about a 1 million gallons on board.
https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2020/07/12/amphibio...
Well I would call that about 0% of the impact of the COVID lockdowns so I think we will adapt and overcome.
Happy to answer any questions you might have! :)
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>A second hand kindle is also close to zero emissions.

Some (many?) buyers gets the latest Kindle only because they can resell the old one at a good price to second-hand buyers. Can we hold first buyers responsible for all the emissions when others partake in the product life that require new products to be created in the first place?
Sorry to have to break the news to you, but the quote is from a work of fiction.
> It's not line count, it's the dot product of line count and conceptual clarity.

In my experience, in practice, beyond a very small multiple of the minimum required line count, line count and conceptual clarity for perfoming any given task are inversely related.

Also, neither of those are vector quantities, so I'm not sure what you are trying to get at with “dot product”.
That's probably because there's an agent running on the default image. (Yes, duh, but if you disable that then they don't have "root".)

Of course the question is basically moot, because unless they have some sort of third party append-only log of actions they perform on the hypervisors, how would anyone ever know? Yes, AMD this and Intel that, but since Google is building their own computers, and since it's close to impossible to verify that you are in fact running in the secure enclave ... then you should assume you aren't.

Naturally, if you come up with a structure where you can incentivize Google to remain honest (eg. somehow make it evident to the world if they access or tamper with your stuff), then it becomes safe to delegate running VMs to them.

Again, of course, the same problem comes up if you try to do it in-house. How do you verify the security staff at your data center is honest? CCTV? Who watches the watchers?
So your answer to zenos paradox is to never start?
EFF’s new database reveals what tech local police are using to spy on you
> Both dishonorably discharged, which has consequences in later life not unakin to a felony conviction, and also renders post-separation benefits null and void

Those sound like penalties due to their negligence, not due to the manslaughter.

If you design a building negligently, it collapses and nobody dies: You lose your job, never work in the industry again, and face civil lawsuits for damages (there goes your pension).

If you design a building negligently, it collapses and people die: All of the above, plus a severe criminal conviction.

If you fly a plane negligently and damage public infrastructure, I sincerely hope you would be dishonorably discharged.

So, one could argue they faced little consequence for the deaths they caused, despite having a higher level of responsibility.

(Whether the actual consequences of an action vs the possible consequences of an action should decide the punishment is a whoooole other topic)
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This is decent -- any idea if & when you'll start supporting Mailerlite?
Grant was my childhood hero, and one of a few people who inspired me to pursue robotics. RIP Grant. 2020 fucking sucks.
Is there something special that happens when a legit remote cloud user logs in that doesn't happen when a rogue remote Google admin logs in? Something that prevents a modified web client from stealing the creds during a user's web console session?
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> We have a huge problem at the moment where people think they're achieving something by personally cutting their co2 emissions by a few kg per year.

I used to think that. Now I believe that my behavior influences other people’s behavior, and that when people make these individual behavior changes they are precursors to those individuals also doing things like getting more politically involved with environmental causes, etc.

Small changes preclude bigger ones when it comes to human behavior (I think?).

Basically the individual actions can help shift social norms and that is important, is what I now believe.
“Paper” cash is actually linen. You can wash it with hot water no problem
Google Meet adds zoombombing protection for education customers
Vinyl-like super SSDs could make hard disk drives obsolete
I've been wondering about this! I tried multiple cards and even a privacy.com card and they all appeared to go through but never charged my card.
i run my whole office on 4g (amsterdam, europe). it works super nicely. in fact often better than my wifi at home...

4g is everywhere in NL. it just works great whereever you are. so i really wonder where the immediate need for 5g is.
Right. And now that this is a realistic and regular worry for normal businesses doing normal things the value proposition of the cloud is looking worse.
Actually, working at home, away from food trucks and sandwich shops, has led to me losing some weight. I do wear a mask on errands, but there is plenty of space on the streets around my house, allowing me to run without getting too close to others out for a walk or run.
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Interesting move. Sadly kids nowadays (at least in Poland, where I live) don't like reading books and tend to skip even very important titles. This may be a good way to bring some interest in the history via a genuinely entertaining medium.
This seems like a marketing piece light on technical details. For instance

>flowtrackd is then able to determine if a packet is part of a new connection, an open one, a connection that is closing, one that is closed, or if it’s an out of state packet.

How?
Secret Service Creates Cyber Fraud Task Forces
It still is. DJ mixes
Ask HN: What parts of your life have you automated?
The data is transparently encrypted and decrypted specifically within the processor. The OS kernel on the host machine doesn't have access to the unencrypted contents of the guest VM's memory.

> I don't understand, and couldn't get any information from the article either.

See this wiki article for more info on this class of technology: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_in_use
Sueball locked, loaded and pointed at LinkedIn over iOS privacy naughtiness
It surely doesn't help that we have leaders that continue to promote fossil fuels or unsustainable exploitation of rainforests, etc. Also unhelpful is rampant capitalism where environmental costs are not part of the equation when making profits.

But in this same system we are nearing a tipping point where renewables are the better choice for the bottom line. And that is progress.
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Israeli court dismisses Amnesty bid to block spyware firm NSO
correctness isn't what's relevant in (geo)politics. What matters is being able to influence others and get your interests across. And on that front being a hypocrite matters, both domestically as well as internationally.

Listing off fallacies is great in internet discussions, but it's not how the world works. To be honest it's also not really how internet discussions work any more because everyone's grown sick of it.
Getting close to 100 years old, and after a Noble prize in 2019, he's currently working at a new battery technology. Amazing.
There is a definite resemblance to Duckietown[1], a robotics class/competition done developed at MIT.

[1] https://www.duckietown.org/
The idea that a communist movement could have existed without KGB interference is equally absurd.

Communists in the USSR (and backed by the USSR) stole property on a vast scale and murdered or enslaved people by the millions. The CIA did many bad things but it is very hard to out-do the USSR on evil acts.

West vs East Germany was as good an experiment as anyone is likely to ever see. It was capitalism vs communism head-to-head. The communists had to build a wall to keep their enslaved population from escaping from a secret police controlled hellscape to what was (in comparison) a capitalist utopia.

The US is a fundamentally mercantile country that found out the hard way (through two world wars) that non-interference doesn't work. It very reluctantly adopted the role of world police.

In many ways it resembles the problems all policing forces face, which is that people tend to focus on the mistakes rather than the successes.

The people that spend time railing against US policing failures spend no time trumpeting its great many successes.

It's always easy to point the finger. It's much harder to explain how one would have done a better job solving such complex problems.
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"Paper" money is actually a cloth composite, which can be washed.
Yes it is. It will get soggy, but once it dries it will be perfectly fine. It's mostly cotton, isn't it?
Keep in mind that in your examples, those 'someones' are Musk, Chance, and the US/China ambassadors. Not exactly no bodies. For better or worse, Twitter has become an official communication channel for many, and is news.
What do you consider very important titles?
The US has certainly lost a lot of moral standing, and yes it makes it harder to criticize others, and it strengthens autocratic hands abroad to be able to point to the US' failures.

That said, the parent poster isn't the US government, but a private citizen raising a valid criticism of another country. So why can't it stand on its own, without a big show of self-criticism first? Can we not criticize others until our own house is in order? Once that happens, the discussion turns into an argument over moral equivalence or lack thereof -- ie. "the US' crimes are just as bad as China's!" versus "No these things are of completely different degrees!".

This line of argument quickly becomes tiring and, I think it completely muddles the original point, which is often what is intended when hurling "what about...!" into the discussion.
You've picked a remarkably poor example to make your point. My Airpods (not the Pro, intentionally) are easily one of the best consumer electronics purchases I've made in the last decade. And it has little to do with not having to wrap the cord up. It's that they're so light and unobtrusive that I can wear them for hours at a time, whether I'm listening to something or not.
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I only use Twitter for porn.
> Both dishonorably discharged, which has consequences in later life not unakin to a felony conviction

A DD has consequences more akin to a previous for-cause termination than a felony conviction. It does remove the advantages being a veteran gives you over everyone else, at the same time, which together might be similar in magnitude to a felony conviction, though.
Hundreds of hyperpartisan sites are masquerading as local news
Sage 300. 32-bit software still exists. Macros are written in VB6.
>The company she works for, 51Talk, charges learners an average of 45 yuan ($6.36) per 25-minute session. Yet teachers receive on average only 130 pesos ($2.53) per hour. English, a legacy of U.S. imperialism in the country, may have made the Philippines one of Asia’s largest providers of proficient speakers, but it is certainly not showering online language teachers with riches.

People work jobs that make them money, they work jobs that give them the most money. If she didn't want to do that job, she would choose another better paying one.

>“Learners” on Duolingo are actually just performing the free labor—or even paying for the privilege—of helping the company improve its proprietary algorithms.

Learners don't benefit at all from learning a language, they're just cogs in a wheel, in fact learning languages hurts them and wastes useful calories that could be better used like thinking about what to wear or the regretful thing they forgot but remember now.

I fail to see the danger of combining translations and language learning together.
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You can access memory within a VM, not outside of a VM. Host machine with a hypervisor is not within a VM instance, so it will not be able to read your VM memory. The memory is encrypted all the time, but when the instruction has to be executed on CPU, memory controllers (only and only have access to the keys of this VM) decrypt the instruction to execute it on cpu in clear. For FHE, cpu instructions are executed on AES encrypted blocks, and will take significant time, so not very practical today. Does it make sense?
You're complaining about straw men while simultaneously arguing that Apple customers have Stockholm syndrome when only a small fraction of them have issues. Right.

Not your analogy, but it's a terrible one. If 10 customers buy a product, and 1 has an issue, and that 1 chooses to repeatedly buy and also have repeated issues, that 1 person may have Stockholm syndrome (I mean it's still a childish argument, but sure, why not?). I fail to see why the other 9 would. I'm personally in the 9. I've had phones replaced easy peasy. I've had them replace a keyboard without a receipt. I could have found the thing in an alley for all they know.

Are there problems with the AirPod Pros? Yeah, probably. I don't have them, but I've had my share of issues with their other products. "Keyboard gate", etc.

As for the price tags, their products clearly have enough of an design or feature edge somewhere that people are willing to pay. Some people either don't have that money, or aren't willing to pay. That's it. Otherwise, we'd all be driving cheap econoboxes, because they all get the driving task down pretty well.
How do those type of people explain safe sex? I hope it’s not the “sheep” defense...
I don't like this technology. If it works as claimed, it could be used for almost unbreakable DRM.
> Patriotism used to serve that role in the US

I used to think so, but as I read more about the founding fathers I’m beginning to think they had all the same personality conflicts we have today. Maybe there’s a case that with today’s media our current reps are more accountable to their constituents, but (superficially at least) most would interpret that as a good thing
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Rt measures the "acceleration" of the infection. When you're down to a fairly flat ~150 cases per day then by definition Rt is going to be around 1. Also note that the reported daily case totals include backdated tests and when sorted by date, you'll see a steady decline and MA is pretty much flat now (see page 2 & 4 of [0]).

A state that was reporting 10 cases a day consistently would have an Rt of 1.0, if they reported 11, then the Rt would be 1.1. Similarly, VT which has an Rt of 1.07 despite only reporting 5 new cases yesterday as they are bouncing around in the single digits to low teens -- seems like it's basically noise now affecting the Rt there at this point.

It is going to be quite difficult to get it to zero in MA without closing the state borders. Logan Airport had 203,328 passengers through it in May 2020 [1], that's an average of 6777/day, at a 2% positivity rate that could be 135 cases a day right there (not including tens of thousands of people driving into the state, although our neighbors are in similar situations to MA rate-wise).

It's worth noting that MA has recently opened up testing to anyone who wants it so we're likely picking up more asymptomatic cases now. At this point contact-tracing is going to be key although they've had to lay off [2] many of the tracers due to lack of work for them.

The state continues to do well, we've had restaurants open (indoor and outdoor dining) for several weeks now, gyms have been open for a week (except Boston opened gyms yesterday) and 4th July was 10 days ago. The state tested 17K protestors [3] in June and only found a 2.5% positive rate (which was the same as the state-wide rate at the time).

We'll see, but I'm hopeful and will continue to do my part; distancing & masks in public.

[0] https://www.mass.gov/doc/covid-19-dashboard-july-13-2020/dow...

[1] http://www.massport.com/media/4100/0520-avstats-airport-traf...

[2] https://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/2020/06/29/covid-contact...

[3] https://www.masslive.com/coronavirus/2020/06/after-black-liv...
The web UI is bad, but tools like chamber (https://github.com/segmentio/chamber) are excellent, so there's no need to deal with the web UI.
It is educational in the sense that literature is, putting yourself in someone else's shoes. That's what the humanities do at their best. IMHO it's an excellent example of a novelistic game for just that reason.
But you can already tell what house you're in with triangulation, and even the room.
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The US penny is perhaps the most illustrative example of why I am wary that the US government can do ANYTHING efficiently.

The continued existence of the penny is absolutely ludicrous. Here we have something that has almost zero economic value to everyone involved. It costs more to mint them than they're worth. It likely costs more to even transport or count them than they're worth. It is almost entirely just economic drag on every transaction that involves them. Yet somehow, we can't find the political will to _just_ _stop_ _making_ them. Momentum truly is the most powerful force in politics.

It's sad, because it doesn't have to be this way. I am in favor of socialized health care. I could even be convinced that some amount of UBI may be a good idea. I am in favor of a strong social safety net. But the fact that this country can't even figure out how to stop making a coin that is worthless tells me that it is probably asking a little too much to expect that the federal government can competently manage anything as complex as healthcare or the livelihoods of millions.
Devolver Digital really takes the cake with their Devolver Direct and Devolverland Expo showing us how to stand out as an indie game publisher amidst the noise!

What do you think? Was it too over the top?
As far as I know, the whitepaper is all you will find publicly.
It does mention the tweak (on page 4), only if you want the details and don't trust the third-party papers, you will have to reverse-engineer that yourself =]
Being from that part of CA, we had classes and field trips about Ishi almost every year through primary school. Such a sad story.
Delta loses $2.8B and cuts flights
I went through 6 of the very first iPhones. I could walk into the store, show them the problem and they’d hand me a replacement that I’d have restored from backup by the time I walked out. Process took about half an hour each time and was pleasant. I’ve been an Apple customer since and largely had the same experience.

Just yesterday they replaced my wife’s watch by fedex within 48 hours. No hassles.