skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve been running a 4 node rpi cluster at home for about a year and a half now. Originally it was purely for the fun and interest of standing-up a tangible (kubernetes) cluster (like others have said, VMs just aren’t the same thing...). Now I use it all the time to run things on my home network I don’t want to pollute my real computers with. e.g. IoT services like MQTT and a heap of one-off weekend experiments etc. I also use it as a kind of reverse proxy from the outside internet to whichever computer I need to hit internally - just deploy a new nginx pod and simple reverse proxy config, and traefik and some other microservices I have running will go ahead and create lets encrypt certs and create my dns records for me. Oh and I also have some arduino/hardware sensors hooked up to the GPIO pins on different nodes as well. Taint a node to say it has X sensor attached, and k8s runs the pods that need that sensor on the correct node... need to move things around? Just change the node taints then scale down/up the pods and everything is running again. Although that’s probably not a normal use case (I do a fair bit of electronics hacking in my spare time).
a few thoughts:

- how much of society is related to driving up or enforcing overcoming these avoidant reflexes

- the negative feeling is often due to a social obligation that may be distorded. You could renegotiate smaller chunks or different terms.. the idea is that in a different context you might approach it with lot more will.

ps: my current gig is in a national office and I could very well rebrand it as land-of-the-procrastinator. It's an endemic disease where nobody wanted to do things (the way they were asked), any newcomer will be dragged down, ensure a good status-low.
There is a kind of retro-future feel to this, like a 90's Sega game with incredible sprite interpolation.
Simple SQL in Python
Not sure the UK tech industry is a disaster, I left the UK for France following the Brexit result and it has really opened my eyes to how good it was in the UK.
One thing I don't quite understand: Why not combine the testing with the using? As in pretty much everyone who wants to, can apply for the vaccine testing, but they then are gonna be monitored.

Based on my current understanding, they pretty much cherry pick the testers, so they only have a small group.
Feel free to explain a plausible scenario where Amazon wins an all-out fight with the unions, then.
Briar, is at F-Droid.
Also they basically removed the tablet mode - here I am with a 10 inch tablet and no tab bar, no back button on address bar & no keyboard shortcuts, perfect! :P

More things the dropped in lates "stable" Firefox for Android:
- save as PDF
- print support (!!)
- downloade manager
- full URL display
- about:config (!!!)
- extensions (other than 9 extensions they carefully cherry-picked)
No idea. I haven't experienced that either and I use amazon.de a lot.

I've had one item sold by Amazon as new that was clearly a fraud return, though, i.e. the item inside the product package was switched for a different model.
Same here. I guess in a way by not mentioning her a lot in public he was protecting her from only becoming known as "Richard Feynman's sister". That way you leave the room for the other person to emerge on her own terms.
Ask HN: What does enterprise-grade mean?
I am hearing term "enterprise-grade" a lot, but its unclear what precisely it means. Or even in commonly understood colloquial terms.

Is it only marketing moniker when you want to move/expand into enterprise?
From a development and architecture point of view, what difference you have experienced - building consumer grade and enterprise grade?
I would disagree with your last statement.

I have a lot of friends from Belarus, and at least from IT sector, they are really eager to continue protests simply cause they are scarred what can happen if current government will stay
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24127343
While the concept is good the presentation of it is very.. not to my taste. From what I remember, it relates a lot back to Willink's military background. After you read a lot of it you realize a lot is common sense.
> I have just left the UK, several Europeans I know, working in tech, are doing the same. Not data backed, just personal experience. Maybe this is going to be even tougher than expected. Hopefully not.

Out of interest, where did you end up?

Ireland looks tempting to me, given I currently work as a contractor (and the tax law isn't too hostile) and it's not _too_ far away.
Nihilist Cipher
I recently saw a graph that shocked me. Basically the UKs per capita GDP has been constant since 2008 ! If you smooth out the ups and downs it’s just gone sideways.

The UK is a nation that is stagnating and this one two punch could be what pushes it into a decline.

Brexit has become something of a religious movement. Things will magically get better after brexit but first you need suffer for your past sins before you get to the promised land. It’s not at all clear how this will happen but the less possible it looks the stronger the faithful become.

People like me who try to dissuade people from Brexit try to paint a picture of doom and chaos. The UK will be “fine” but it will fall in the League of Nations to the influence of an Italy or a Spain and in the long term this can be hard to swallow for people used to the glories of empire.

This is also one of the most egregious cases of the older generation screwing over the futures of a younger generation by taking away huge opportunities from them. The enormity of this will take a decade to sink in. You’re going to see a lot of pissed off zoomers in 10 years who’ll work to reverse all of this anyway.
I am disabled with Anxiety and Mood Disorder and chronic fatigue/depression. Typical "Bipolar" presentation. It runs in my family on my mothers side. We also have a history of early (45 years old) heart disease.

So I knew this was mitochondrial but it was revealed when I received my genome. We have issues with our electron transport chain; Complex I (ND1 and ND4) and Complex III (MT-CYB).

So diet and lifestyle was crucial in getting me off all of my meds, and I was on a lot. High dose riboflavin was a huge help.

Getting complex I to work well helps with the heart since it increases NAD. Also getting enough ubiquinone from diet helps. I get it mostly from seafood like Salmon and Liver. I might try and take a CoQ10 supplement soon. But the fact that we make it endogenously makes me think it is not needed. Statins will stop the production of CoQ10 by lowering FPPP production which is why they fail to help people with Heart Disease.

Balancing the flow and the oxidative stress from the mitochondrial electron transport chain is crucial.
That's always a good answer, but I'm not sure how one would go about 'learning' soft skills. Perhaps simply focusing on them is enough to improve.
Intel Progress on Their “MOS” Modified Linux Kernel Running Lightweight Kernels
I wrote "may" on purpose. I also pointed out that France is notable.
I don't think I've ever seen this combination of "very much cares about code quality" and "slow coder". Most of the clean code fanatics I've seen (and I include myself), are also very quick to deliver features - whereas developers who simply try to complete the feature in the shortest possible time, usually end up taking longer, because their quickly written code is buggy, then hard to read, and so hard to debug and fix.

It's not usually a choice between, leaving the code as it is (and just adding a bit of functionality), or refactoring to make it better. It's usually a choice between making it worse, or making it better. So the developers who aren't Fred, are making things worse. I try to make refactoring and keeping the code clean part of every team members' job description. It's often hard to get the business to schedule time for this sort of thing, so it should just get built into the time for each task. As for automating tasks which could be automated - seriously, if you have developers who are not doing this, then they are the problem, not Fred.
Personalization/Focus.
>which HN billed as some sort of nefarious tracker

Because it was.
One really dangerous thing about it is that once you send something it just won't disappear.

What happens on the Internet stays on the Internet and all that, but no reason to write everything in stone - especially in times and places where governments thinks it is a good idea to cut Internet.
I mean you gotta give credit to Brave and BAT for at least trying to shake up the ad revenue model that makes the web a tracking nightmare.
There's no substitute for a hardwired camera-on indicator light.

Otherwise politicians are going to keep showering on camera during meetings, instead of showering off-camera during meetings, like they're supposed to.
The article isn't clear about this, but when they say "China hires" are they getting hired in Taiwan or moving to mainland China? What kind of package makes it appealing to cross the Strait?
Exactly, and don't get me wrong, I do keep honey bees, but they aren't in danger in most countries. The Danish beekeeping association reported on a survey two or three years ago that showed little impact on honey bee from farming. The native bees aren't doing nearly as well.

A large portion of my garden is just stuff I don't touch, or where I planted bee friendly plants. There are hundreds of bees living under our side walk, but only the part in front of a single house on the street, mine. The neighbors a obsessed with keeping weed and insects way, so the their part of the side walk is sprayed relentlessly. Funny enough they don't care to shovel snow in the winter.
Intel Publishes 18 New Security Advisories for 52 Vulnerabilities
Very informative! I remember using Mozilla alongside Netscape with the entire suite for editing etc. versus Frontpage.

And when Phoenix/Firebird came out how it was very basic but a slimmed down version of Mozilla.

It seemed they lost their way and just became the old Mozilla browser but with lots of features nobody wanted (Pocket??) and a tonne of other things I have no idea why they got involved in. Perhaps they just employed developers who liked writing new things.
I don't know how it is in Brazil but in Europe and the US offices frequently go out of business that have dozens if not hundreds tiny desktop computers in their bankruptcy auctions. They've got i5 cpu's 4-8gb of ram and 128gb SSD's and go for (much) less than a hundred bucks. Stack 3 of them and you have a kubernetes cluster that you could carry in one hand and I think outperforms the 7 raspberry Pi 3's.

Servethehome has a series of articles about the machines, though they're focusing on the slightly higher end ones.
The "Chandler" of the gaming world.
That still assumes that YAML actually is good for configuration icw logic
>Or do those nanometers not translate?

It really Depends:

Smaller means, smaller package, more transistors/sq and less power-consumption. But if you can afford to build a bigger chip to have the same transistor count, and you are ok with the higher power-consumption you have in theory the same performance, sometimes you don't even want 'too' small transistors, an example is radiation-hardening.
> I've found it's worse when my wife is home, I guess it's an urge to keep up appearances, even if she doesn't really care? But when she's out of town I think I get more done just because I chunk time for work and play more effectively.

I've got exactly the same. I know she doesn't care, but the urge keep appearances is still there. I tend to schedule checking out videogames for those times when she takes our daughter to visit her parents - even though she would be fine with me taking a break to play games, I would feel guilty about not spending time with them instead.

Guilt is a funny thing.
According to the feature tracker mentioned elsewhere, the game is 27% complete, far from "bump it over the line".

I guess you could postpone 60% of the outstanding features, get the game released and then work on add-ons with those features.
Most of "Quantum" has been just solid engineering work on Gecko. Servo tech, in the form of Stylo, helped a bit, WebRender will help a bit more but has been mostly developed in the context of Gecko for years. "Servo is the only reason I've been using Firefox again" is not accurate at all.
The only downside to this that's springing to mind, is when you plug in older hardware.

Sometimes manufacturers go out of business or no longer provide downloads for older models.
Well, sounds interesting. I've heard some people use old smartphones as cheap webcams & LTE modems.
After the UK voted for Brexit I became interested in what treaties and trade deals are and how they are made. It turns out to be much more complex than I had imagined. The amount of legal and diplomatic work that the UK is facing is unfathomable. I can't see any scenario where this is not going to be extremely expensive.
Private OpenVPN definitely didn't work for the last 3 days, on any port.
An NGO has execs with salaries >1M???

How is that still an NGO?
So to follow your logic further, would you have any problem with charging black women and asian men more than everybody else too, as fewer people are looking for them, and they are more willing to buy a product designed to get them more matches?

It's literally the same thing but with age. Just how much do you think we can squeeze out of 30+ black women eh?

The practice is despicable. I'm not saying you're advocating for the above, but if the approach is to just extract the maximum because you can extract the maximum, which is the logic you're advocating, this is an expected result.
china will be to the US what intel was to fairchild ?
I know it's common, but shouldn't it be illegal?
I'm curious to know what value your friend is offering to justify taking the cut. It sounds to me like you're putting in 95% of the effort for 60% of the return.

If your work is good quality, it's almost certainly worth much more than $9 an hour. I would seriously consider:

- negotiating with your friend to reduce his share - as long as it's still profitable to him, he should be willing to move a little.

- trying to find some other freelancing work opportunities so that you don't feel pressured to accept your friend's terms.
> Firefox is faster than it was, but it's still the slowest browser.

Please let's not present this as fact only to later find out it might be OS X specific.
> you only get men who has plenty of options and is still looking

plus people that are ranked on a single dimension, so you only get the same kind of polished person that is liked by the majority.

Now if Tinder would offer some sort of selection by categories like activities, tastes etc, that's a feature I would happily pay for. Other apps already have that.
I don't take statements like bigoted "oh I don't hate gay people, I just don't think they should have the right to marry who they love" doublespeak seriously.
It has nothing to do with the failed US "education" system. But it has everything to do with the people who do not control anything having pushed a relentless campaign against out-group competition using psychological manipulation and abuse. It is a war on Europeans that has been waged for centuries even.

They are in control of us and our lives the world over and they are our masters and we are their slaves. We also have no means for changing that as we slide ever deeper into their control through a kind of new aristocratic feudalism, where you are not allowed to even look at, let alone question the lord, queen, king, emperor … or you will swiftly be dealt with through immense violence that will shock others around you to subjugate themselves. They are now also using the African as their enforcer, as a type of mercenary in this war, that is motivated by promises of spoils and plunder for serving their masters.

As a German, you will be well aware of that fact that you are not allowed to even think, let alone question your lords that command you to believe what they authorize you to believe and any deviation from that will result in your being made an example of in front of your fellow peasants, lest they too think they can question their masters.
> "Hongxin offered some amazing packages, as high as two to 2.5 times TSMC's total annual salary and bonuses for those people," said a source familiar with the matter.
I think we're probably extending the analogy too far, but I'll play along.

We don't craft programs out of machine code any more. We use high-level languages. So that's where we're not growing our own trees any more. I think the rest of your analogy agrees with me: even junior carpenters need to know how to build an end table by actually building them rather than buying them from Target.

It's a judgement call, I'll agree. But only allowing your junior devs to write glue code for imported dependencies means that's all they know how to do. They'll get the idea that that's all coding is - find the right dependency and write some glue code, and you're done.

I've seen this attitude so much recently, especially in startup product development, and it's actually dangerous. No-one audits their dependecies, they just read the description, import it and try to work out how to make it do the thing. If it works, who cares if it's huge, or has 34539473 other dependencies, or has been taken over by a malicious maintainer? Velocity, right? Get it into production and on to the next feature.

This is going to end badly.
I used the first version and remember it being like a stripped-down version of Firefox at the time. It was the same codebase but with most of the useful UI ripped out.
Why not write some original lyrics that Genius would own the copyright to, wait for google to scrape them, and then sue over that?
Thanks for the feedback! I'm working in on it.
The Red Hat Flatpak runtime for desktop containers
>High-throughput, large-state stream processing. For example, tracking GPS locations of millions of users, inferring their velocity vectors.

It baffles me they're so casual about it ...
Can it run Crysis?
For instance, we choose Riak+LevelDB some 8 years ago as our data store. It doesn't support SQL but it's fast and easily scalable. And free. I'm not sure if we could achieve the same speed and fault tolerance with any SQL solution available at that point. So the deal is, you give up your time invested in learning SQL and get some advantages in return. This is reasonable.

But if it's only about language, no additional perks, then it just isn't worth investing your time.

If continue the parallel with programming languages, there are tons of C-killers nobody knows about. I think, roughly every third programmer in the world tried to write more ergonomical C at some point in their live. And there is Rust. Which is not about ergonomics really but about memory safety combined with comparable performance. No more buffer overflows, no more Heartbleed. People see what they are trading their time on Earth for and the language is getting traction because of that.

This is, of course, only my personal opinion but languages are just thin interfaces over technologies.
I prefer PDFs on the web for serious reading. They have the least probability of having disruptive background processes and jarring graphics. It’s a pleasure when I’m alerted to a lawsuit dropping on Twitter, and I can find the actual pdf.

I couldn’t disagree more with most of the assertions in this article.
Well.. 'recession' is defined as two consecutive quarterly contractions in GDP. The argument (and I'm not taking a view) is that this is not a good measure for a year like this; that the consumer demand is there, but that the supply is artificially reduced or extinguished (in some sectors more than others).

A proponent of this argument would say it's meaningless - or at least not helpful - to worry about two (or more) quarters of contraction, only to have them followed by stupendous 'growth' once everything's OK and the hibernating demand has somewhere to go.

Someone more critical of it might say Well yes, 'or more', for how long can we hibernate?
"the team that was doing the best job furthering the organization’s mission" is the Gecko team. That team is still largely there.

Servo is/was cool, and some cool stuff that originated in Servo made it into Gecko, but make no mistake that Gecko and Gecko developers contribute far more to the open Web than Servo ever did.
I wanted to be typist who types fast without seeing the keyboard (remembering the layout was point. Also, feeling of keyboard as another part of body was joy).

So,back in March,i finally decided to start Touch typing. First thing was about layout. I read that QWERTY is not good layout (it was not made for computer era), so i searched alternatives. I finally settled with Dvorak.

First rule to learn touch typing is that you should never ever look at the keyboard. Gist of Article too says the same. One advantage for me was that even if i looked at my keyboard, keyboard layout was different, so it was not much use.

So,i started learning touch typing. I used gtypist and typingclub to practice. Some keys were tricky to remember. I used relative positioning to help me sometimes too. References were needed sometimes. So,i printed layout and kept it to refer if i felt it was necessary.

So,after typing for a month,i learned touch typing. I think that rather than taping your keyboard, make determination not to see keyboard. You could also choose better layout if it could matter with your typing.
You will probably see it appear everywhere in 10 years when the patent expires.

https://patents.google.com/patent/US8213745B2/en
I also found that blank keycaps improved my typing ability when I built an Ergodox clone. I agree that the blank keycaps played a role in reducing my desire to look at the keyboard, but I think the columnar layout of the Ergodox played a much bigger role in encouraging proper form. When each finger's keys are in a proper column it becomes more important to use the right finger to press a given key, IMO.
It costs more
That's exactly right, at least up to the last sentence.
We're slowly getting there.
I also highly recommend ML, not for the experience (though it may certainly come in useful) but because it's surprisingly entertaining.

Last year I had a lot of fun playing with GPT-2 on Google Colab (you can run it yourself on a decent GPU tho). My friend and I were trying to generate the funniest possible output to make each other laugh -- as an aside, this might be the only category where GPT-2 beats GPT-3 hands down :)

Python is also a joy in its own right. xkcd said about Python "programming is fun again!" and that has certainly been my experience.
Very cool! Is it possible to mix apis in a single project with Jet Beam Runner? This would make it easier to port Beam projects to Jet, as the migration could be progressive.
Ginni Rometty ( IBM )
Heh you sound like Richard Stallman, it's rumored he also doesn't use a browser.

As an aside, I've seen mirrors of Stack Overflow pop up when I use DuckDuckGo to search. Google seems to filter these out.
> TSMC was uncomfortable when QXIC began operating a research and development base not far from the Taiwanese company's most advanced 5-nanometer plant in south Taiwan, one of the people familiar with the matter told Nikkei.
The absent student: How Covid-19 will change college
"I do so like green eggs and ham. Thank you. Thank you, Sam-I-Am."

At this point, the character has realized that his quite firm refusal is having no effect. Growing weary of being ignored, he makes a show of capitulation and eats, exclaiming faux appreciation to Sam for his efforts.

After this episode, he never eats green eggs nor ham again. In adulthood, he would often think back to this moment with regret for having failed to stand up for himself.