skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a distributed decentralized database using self-signed certs. Just by itself it requires maintenance: upgrading the software, upgrading the host it runs on, rotating keys, networking, access control, key space maintenance, backup, etc. Here are the docs you need to know to run it: https://etcd.io/docs/v3.4.0/op-guide/ And there's another dozen docs not written there that the admin just sort of finds out over time.

But it's part of other systems too, making the overall thing a system of systems. Interactions between systems of systems are complex and cause unexpected behavior. At some point you will run into an error in K8s that you can't resolve that will require you to debug Etcd. And "Bob" help you if the database gets corrupt or overwritten, or incompatible versions of software screw up what's in the database, etc. (My original analogy was inaccurate... Etcd is more like the engine than just A/C, because if it stops working, everything stops working)

Do you know what happens if an Etcd certificate's SAN field does not include domain names but only IP addresses? The client requests HelloInfo with an empty ServerName so it doesn't trigger a TLS reload on handshake, making it more difficult to replace expired certs. That is a single random quirk in a single component of this software which underpins all of Kubernetes. I cannot sit here and explain every single reason why Etcd is complex; it must suffice to say that the software just is complex, and that this reality means that while it may sometimes be simple for some people to operate, it will definitely not always be simple to operate, and there will come a time that the true cost will emerge.

Now, most people don't need to pay for that high cost of complexity. They can use a SaaS/PaaS product like AWS ECS/Fargate or others, where somebody at some other company is dealing with the cost of complexity for you. All you have to do at that point is run some API calls and everything just works. Not only is it easier, it's immensely cheaper, less time-consuming, and more reliable.

...But you might not even need ECS! There's a lot of work just to get a simple PoC up on Fargate with an NLB, ACM cert, RDS instance, security groups, VPCs, cluster, service, task, etc. Compare that to just spinning up a micro instance and running MariaDB and a Python on it, and the latter you can have done in 20 minutes. If you can avoid complexity and still meet your SLOs, do that.
It's not only about being fast, it's also about being bug free. You inherit all the bugs of all of your software dependencies... That may be the reason why flagship software products such as Twitter or YouTube constantly have pretty glaring bugs.
You mean those journalists who spent decades working for News Corp papers? Michael West did. Anthony Klan did. Anthony Klan is proud of his News Corporation Australia journalist of the year awards.

Seems like News Corp helped them both get started. Why shouldn't News Corp continue to fund others as well?
For me, having practised for around 6 years now, I can sum it up as the acceptance of reality as it is. Some valuable thing in my house breaks? Well, that's just what happens to things. There's very little resistance to what's going on even if it's painful.

There's also a strong sense that the self/world boundary is constructed, and I can see that construction happening in my mind in real-time. This has led to greater empathy and compassion, because of the felt sense that we're all the same 'stuff'.

Besides that, I have access to states of mind I couldn't conceive of before. I no longer feel like I am some kind of entity that lives behind my eyeballs, trapped in a body. I can always 'feel' the awareness of awareness, which isn't limited by my perception. So there's this great open space in which perception occurs, and I can continuously sense that. Having that as an anchor makes me far less reactive, and more calm in the face of challenges.

I can deconstruct my sensory experience in realtime, which basically means whatever the senses are delivering to me, I can recognise what kind of sensing it is. This sounds trivial or tautological, what it means in practice is that nothing really 'sticks'. If a strong emotion comes up, I recognise internal feeling and it just sort of flows out of me. If I'm having a thought or mental image, I recognise it's a thought or a mental image, and it's seen in proportion to the space of awareness, rather than the mind getting stuck into it.

If you're looking at a screen right now, you can sense the proportionality of the device to the room quite intuitively. That same sense of proportionality is given to the contents of the mind-body system with continued mindfulness practice. Everything just happening where it is, rather than somehow being stuck within it.

All that said, the linked article is quite right. Most people do not get to these states of mind without struggle, because we are complex psychological beings with trauma, regret, guilt, shame, and so on, and all of that comes up while sitting, to be seen and digested.
It caused harn because it was stupidly implemented not because it's generally bad.

But btw. many western countries have a shrinking population since years to a degree where that's an problem.

But this also means that the countries which have to take (reasonable) actions include many contribute which often can't afford more reasonable actions :/
Fish farming is a disease disaster that can harm wild populations. This gets discussed a lot in relation to Scottish Salmon, for example.
Mind-Blowing React Testing Libraries in 2020
I have read various times about this thing of Theo being angry at people and so on which I don't understand honestly. I know his replies are usually short and he doesn't like to hold hands to n00bs like us, but I never had the feeling he was angry or insulting people, it was quite the opposite: his mail are on spot, precise and, frankly, honest.

Disclaimer: I've been using OpenBSD since 6.3 (~ 2 years ago), so quite recently, I don't know if he changed attitude at some point.
ZTE's to Launch a smartphone with first under-display camera
I remember reading a post on r/factorio where someone played factorio with their toddler. The toddler had researched like ten things without making a single assembly machine.
I bet the disappearance of big endian systems means a notable amount of bugs sit out there waiting.
You need supplements to grow healthily as a vegetarian. For example, it's difficult to get Omega 3, 6 and 9 from plants. You need supplements for that.

Also you've only been vegetarian a year. Being a vegetarian from birth to death without supplements would be much more difficult to do without major deficiencies.

Also vegetarians today have the option of buying food from all over the world, but that wasn't the case for the vast majority of human history.
The Handmade metaphor masks a key difference between software and physical goods. IIUC, mass-produced physical goods are inferior to their handmade counterparts because of the trade-offs that enable profitable mass production. So we have a strong emotional attachment to handmade things being better, and the Handmade movement plays on that emotional attachment.

But the metaphor breaks down if you think about it. A carpenter making a single piece of furniture can tailor it to the person who will be sitting on it. A cook making a meal for one person can tailor it to their dietary requirements or tastes. But software of any non-trivial scale is rarely written for one person. Even when it's developed according to the ideals of the Handmade movement, it will be mass-distributed.

I actually think that, contrary to our intuition about handmade things, Handmade software tends to have compromises compared to software that builds on well-established components. I won't repeat miki123211's top-level comment [1]. I'll just add here that it's precisely the economics of large-scale software distribution that allow concerns such as internationalization and accessibility to be addressed, while a solo Handmade project will probably not have these important things.

So, while slinging JavaScript code with no regard for performance and packaging it with Electron is certainly not the ideal, I strongly believe that the Handmade approach isn't either. As is so often the case, we need a middle ground.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24186711
Complete Git (Version Control System)
The OpenBSD Foundation tells you how your funds are going to be used, if you instead choose to donate to the project, then you're donating to Theo and it is entirely his discretion how he chooses to spend it on the project. Donations with strings attached are not donations.

https://www.openbsdfoundation.org/activities.html

vs.

https://www.openbsd.org/donations.html
These Were the Habits Marcus Aurelius Practiced Every Day – Ryan Holiday
Crises like these tend to pop bubbles. The "everyone has to be in one of 5 or 6 cities to have a career" bubble is popping.

It's terrible for the inhabitants of these cities as it makes them unaffordable, and it's terrible for everyone else as it makes it impossible for them to accumulate wealth and drains the rest of the country of talent. The only beneficiaries are pre-existing property owners in these cities, and banks to some extent.
The EU required Lithuania to shut the nuclear reactor in question (Ignalina) down because it had an inherently flawed design making it unsafe to continue to operate. There is still an opportunity to use storage and renewables to be a power exporter. The renewables will need to be built regardless.
I use rclone mount option and it works well enough but it is clunky.
How to Start Using Microservices
> The ACCC can ultimately make Google do what it wants and is backed by a government on this matter

Not really. Google could just exit Australia. And who you think that would hurt more, Australia or Google?
Yes. It's section 8.2 onwards of this document:

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
As far as I know, Power ISA implementations still required royalties until a year ago, so it hasn't had much time to mature in the current iteration of its "open" role.
I used Nerves for a hobby project. A "smart" recycling bin which uses a camera to recognise recycling labels and open the lid of the appropriate bin. It was so much fun building it! Hooking a phoenix + LiveView backend was painless and straightforward.

I don't care that it's not the most efficient framework or not suited for industrial stuff, it does drive my creativity and brings me joy.
> Is is crazy to think that a intelligence agencies could kill stories about one of their honeypots?

No, though it's misguided to presume that this factually occurred merely because one is capable of imagining such a scenario.
Dear parents: never let your kids lie, at any age. It might be cute when they're 3 or 4 or 5, but if you don't gently tell them that "we don't tell lies, we always tell the truth" it will become a habit they will carry into adulthood.
Well, yeah, I hear you. But for the past 5 years I have progressed from panic attacks and benzodiazepine dependance... to mostly "nothing" by just "avoiding" the anxiety. I sleep all night, I am much more happy with my work, etc. All of this, just because of taking the "right" decisions, which are mostly avoiding stress, like switching jobs, improving my physical fitness, allowing myself to be lazy etc.

Yeah, it may backfire in the future, but I am not going back there, if I am allowed to choose.
Microsoft’s Surface Duo – Not a product review
American politics is a horrifyingly successful reality TV show. It provides the entertainment and conflict people crave, with the intellectual standards of professional wrestling.

Unfortunately real administration is boring - and should be boring. We want to avoid crises.
That's lower than I expected.
If I were you I would take those examples, wrap them in some html and put them on github.io or somewhere else but with a link at the top of the readme. There is so much stuff around and only so little time...
This is a quite well documented phenomenon:

https://www.mctb.org/mctb2/table-of-contents/part-iv-insight...
I found your argument cogent though without sources to back it up, hard to believe. I do not know why you are being downvoted though.

Would it be possible to include sources around what you are claiming?
> Yes, the gamification will be terrible. So what? Is maximal advertising revenue for monopolies societally important?

I don't really see how gamification being terrible will only cause ad revenue to drop. Surely it will also make the results worse and less relevant to you?

As in, if SEO spam managed to take over the top results of major queries, it doesn't just drop ad revenue but actually makes Search suck, right?
This affects Google search as well.
No kill switch for GPS though.
There isn't an English Government. There is no English Parliament equivalent to those in Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland. We English are (mis)ruled by the UK government, including by MPs from those other nations.
What would PETA look into? They have no authority, and a huge bias wrt moral judgements.

If shortening the lifespan of a squid is inhumane, then what is catching and eating squid by the tonne?
FreeBSD was the system where I really really learned to use UNIX like systems. I had a home server and followed book "How to Build a Server with FreeBSD 7" and that was a helpful guide. Michael Lucas' "Absolute FreeBSD" and his other BSD books are amazing resources. The FreeBSD documentation is also so well written there is little room for 3rd party books. The main reason I don't use BSD (well other than mac OS and iOS which you can argue are a fork of BSD) and go with Linux is because of work and if I do use Linux on a personal station there is just so much more software and more support. I would recommend any Linux user to go give the BSDs a try and see what a well thought out OS looks like.
Currently on course 2/4 in the series and it's great. Every week starts with a reading assignment from the RL book followed by a series of videos (re-)explaining stuff. The videos themselves are very nicely structured, with clear outlook and summary at the start and end of them.
Sutton himself appears in a couple of videos and there are other great guest lectures with interesting insights about applications.

Definitely a recommendation!
The best way to interpret Fahrenheit (for Celsius people) is to think of a scale from 0 to a 100 in terms of human comfort.

0F is really cold.

100F is really hot.

Something towards the middle feels pretty good (50F, 60F.. but really depends on preference in this region).

So, with that in mind, 130F is scorching off the charts, and I wouldn't want to be out there.
Org Mode for Beginners Lesson 6 – How to activate Windows editing shortcuts
I'll just note that robots.txt does not affect indexing. It is used for traffic management and will not hide pages from Google. [1]

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[1] https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/6062608?hl=en
The thing is, most people saying this only pretend to give a damn because it reinforces the belief they already want to have that Asians are barbaric or undeveloped. It's just back-propogation of conclusions. So people are going to be raising eyebrows understandably if you bring this up randomly without knowing your facts.
You can talk about how and historically why some animals were or are eaten in some places in some countries - sure. But that kind of nuanced and historic analysis isn't usually why they're talking about this in the first place.
The Graph That Could have Killed Coggle (a blog on sustainability as a business)
Yeah, I know about how current automatic MT benchmarks don't reflect "user satisfaction" very accurately, and that it's an open problem to get one that is serviceable. However you make it sound like all deep learning solutions to tasks perform well on the task benchmark but poorly on the real-world task the benchmarks try to approximate, whereas that's not true for MT - they are bad at the benchmarks, but outperform non-deep-learning-based translation approaches at the real-world-task.

On the subject of benchmarks, how about speech transcription? I was under the impression that those benchmarks are pretty reliable indicators of "real-world accuracy" (or about as reliable as benchmarks are in general)
It's higher than I expected. This is just the % that admitted to it, too!
I’d appreciate a link describing this more fully if you have one handy.
Curious about the "obscure architectures" part. They do seem to have retired quite a few ports...more than have survived. And I don't see anything really outlandishly rare in what's left of the supported list. Maybe the 88k stuff? https://www.openbsd.org/plat.html

I assume the other odd stuff is probably things that are common in China, like the Landisk and Loongson, perhaps because OpenBSD is popular as a router/firewall OS.
I highly doubt this is actually the case. I don’t doubt it is packed in the i90 corridor and Stevens pass, etc. that was always the case though.
The first part of the first statement is objective. The second part is an interpretation of evidence - but by whom? I'm old enough to remember when masks were not recommended by most public health experts (that is, I was born before March 2020).

I say this with as much neutrality as I can muster - I don't know who to believe about anything. It seems that everyone has an axe to grind, or their livelihood depends on the truth going in one direction, or they just hate the "other side" so much that they'll say anything. Who can you trust? I don't want to become an expert in multiple disciplines just so I can evaluate the daily news. For me, it's an epistemic crisis, and I don't see the way out.
That still carves them out a protected niche in what otherwise was an independent service, that in no other case provides that level of autonomy.

If I were in FAANG's place, I'd tell the AU government to get stuffed by turning every response page into a "Tell your government that this bill is ridiculous and we'll be back when it's repealed. So long and thanks for all the fish."
Yes, every few months. Communication is not always that clear, the same with the roadmap :) Early in the life of Sailfish it was decided that being behind on upstream software versions was not a problem, since in embedded software things are different then with desktop and server. In the past few years many work has been done to amend this situation.

There are some other factors in play. It is a small company which is short on developers and keeping the system Gecko browser updated has proven to not be very easy. Then there is the issue that some software is closed source, which works fine with Qt 5.6 which is LGPL, but with newer Qt versions it is either full GPL or full commercial. This is a business decision and developers don't have much say in this. What I suspect is happening now is that it gets postponed untill it can no longer be postponed, which does save money :) Then there is the issue that untill now Sailfish was tied to Android drivers and thus is using Android kernels. In that sense the Pinephone is an interesting development with mainlined drivers.

So yes, in the community there are some complaints, but in the real world I can understand it the situation from both sides. For my practical usecase, a daily driver with whatsapp, I haven't seen a better linux phone yet. Again, I am really happy with my phone, even though the situation makes it easy to be critical towards it :)

edit: Oh, just to add to this, updates can last a long time for a hardware iteration. The Jolla 1 from 2013 is still getting updates. Ofcourse the Android layer is not updated due to old Android drivers, but the rest of the system is just the same a the newest hardware that is being supported. I hop my Sony Xperia XA2 from 2018 will last me 5 years as well, or hopefully even longer.
Lol, New Zealand has 750 visitors per 1000 residents, and the US has 225 visitors per 1000 residents per year. New Zealand may be small, but they're not remote anymore and haven't been for a long time.

Let's not forget that it isn't just New Zealand that has utterly destroyed the idea that leaders have no influence over infection rates. Most of the entire world has done better than the US. Hell, even India has done better than the US, despite their massive problems with high population density and unsanitary urban living conditions.

No rational person thinks that the US response was appropriate, and no rational person thinks that responsibility belongs anywhere else except our dipshit in chief. But sure, keep making excuses for him.
Do you have any experience/data to back that up?

While, on its face, it seems like a good idea to discourage lying, presenting children with such a binary approach to deception might leave them underprepared for the "bullshit" (marketing, propaganda, etc...) they will encounter in the real world.

EDIT: I'm not a parent and don't want to offer parenting advice. My point is simply that saying "we never lie" seems overly-reductive, versus something more nuanced like "lying is bad." I would worry about creating the expectation that most people don't lie, or even that good people never lie (e.g. white lies).
There are dozens of current film manufacturers (if you include various rebrands and films produced under licence in China and other Asian countries). Among these, the best-known are:

ADOX, Agfaphoto, Bergger, CineStill, FilmFerrania, FOMA, Fujifilm, ILFORD, Kodak, ORWO, Rollei, Shanghai and Ultrafine.

Kodak still produce Portra 100, 400, 800, Ektar 100, Professional T-Max 100, 400, 3200, Tri-X, Pro Image, ColorPlus 200, UltraMax and also motion picture film of course.

As I understand it, Kodak sell about a billion dollars worth of film each year - but still lose money on other parts of their business.

Still, I don't understand the generally pessimistic tone of the blog-post - seems very strange considering the poster was gifted a very valuable and desirable load of film.
new scientist has always stuck me as a science magazine for the alt-right type. full page ads of BMWs on the opening page and some climate change article as well.
The problem isn't so much that the format is hard to follow - it's that it's unclear what things do. Are those comments towards the end necessary? If there was a weird string somewhere containing AppleScript, how would I know that's not something that an updated version of Xcode decided was necessary due to a feature I activated, perhaps as a side effect of using a new UI element?
Zombie standups? Try walking the board
Shanghai's population size is 23-24 million, it is undisputed. They have a plan to limit that to 25 million by 2035.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-shanghai-population...

According to your logic, they are lying about the population size of Shanghai as well? LOL
The time to talk to sales reps is a real problem. I was at a startup, and this was a factor in pretty much all of the software we selected. This was a financial app- we needed messaging of some sort. I called the leaders at that time, Tibco, 29West, etc. They all wanted to schedule meetings 3-5 days in the future to just talk about what we needed. My expectation is that we would have something basically working in 3-5 days. This is before we started haggling over contracts and pricing and all that.

We ended up using ActiveMQ, and literally that evening I had things talking to each other. No contracts, no hassle, just downloaded and got to work.

A bit more on-topic in regards to IBM though- we buy licenses from them directly, and the past few months they have sent kind of bizarre emails saying I could save money if I bought them through a third party partner. I just forwarded the mail to the finance guys, but I can't imagine why IBM would introduce a middle man into our relationship with them and how that additional layer in between could end up saving us money.