skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One city government around here threw away over 100 HP thin clients. They run on about 10-20W. I plan on making a nice cluster out of them.

The point I was trying to make, which doesn't seem to come across, is that spending $ on new equipment is a shortcut. A quick fix. Spending just a bit of time seeking out the sources of e-waste in your community, in the right technical hands, can pay off big.

You don't have to feed the beast. It doesn't take much vision to see that the action of paying $ into a system that happily externalizes all damage is part of the problem and directly contributes to the ecological and socialogical degradation we are all hopefully observing.

You can get all you need for hardware for free if you spend the time to seek it out and at the same time, you are helping clean up the mess.

We developers, many of us have been around from the time that 16K was a lot of memory, a 40MB hard drive could hold all you had, and 1 MHz was fast enough to play with almost any of the ideas in computer science. This is still true for many many tasks. I would argue that learning algorithmic complexity (big O) can be easier when you don't have a massive amount of compute that blasts through O(2^n) in about the same time as O(n) for many data sets. Try that on an apple II. A ten year old computer can have 16G of ram and run dual cores over 2GHz. You can learn a heck of alot of computer science with one of those machines. No need to feed the beast.
Infantilization of women in tech, by women in tech
Is anyone else bothered by the prevalence of infantilizing activities that are being labeled as pro-woman-in-tech activism?

I just received an invitation to something called FairyGodBoss, which had not crossed my radar but seems relatively well established.

I've also seen women's groups that are ostensibly about helping to increase gender diversity that host activities involving legos and arts & crafts.

Am I the only woman that finds this infantilization incredibly obnoxious? I have a visceral aversion to it.

Or maybe this isn't related to gender, but is a generational thing? As someone in their 30s am I just too old to "get it"?

It bothers me because I feel like it's an important issue that's being dumbed down. Or at least repelling people who would prefer to take it more seriously.
My 2nd colonoscopy, I requested we skip the normal sedation.

During the procedure, there were a few instances of painful bloating, like perhaps the worst gas you've ever felt, as the doctor uses air pressure to expand the intestines for a clearer view and navigation around corners. But the pain receded in seconds each time, and the whole inspection takes maybe 10 minutes.

It was really interesting to see what the doctor saw, fully alert, and be able to leave immediately afterward without a ride.

For those who are curious, not squeamish, and don't mind a little transitory discomfort during a professional procedure, consider less or no sedation.
Beta version of software often ignore users that may have visual or motoric impairment. Plus much of the web is hositle to disabled folks already (like youtube not having closed captions on many popular videos) it's not a good argument against flutter imo.
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This is a horrible misunderstanding of decentralisation in the context of git.

Git was designed to be distributed in the sense that people work on a local copies of their code which they then reintroduce into the project.

Projects themselves are not supposed to be decentralised, there is supposed to be a single point of truth which represents the collaborative effort of everyone working on it. And that's what needs to be hosted somewhere, and everyone needs to agree on it. What even would be the point of any kind of version control if you have hundreds of competing top level codebases?
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You aren’t wrong, but we need to be careful when applying typical market economics to the labor market. It has its own field of study specifically because some of these relationships/intersections breakdown in the employee-employer relationship.

A classic example is the lack of perfect information in the labor market like you see in a commodities market. A more specific example is the wage-fixing scandal that hit tech companies [1]. In this case, the companies used their market power and unified to lower worker wages and stop them from crossing the street for more pay.

[1] https://www.cnet.com/news/google-adobe-apple-intel-settle-wa...
and the people that survive in the denser environments will - by nature - be more fit to acquire goods and resources

so its unlikely that everyone in their remote prepper bunker will remain competitive just because we have video phone in the 21st century
His undergraduate and graduate results were mediocre. He had good high school results, but not in college.
I would counter that those systems are as good as they need to be. Google and Facebook have realized advertisers are dumb. So why waste a ton of people time optimizing past what moves the revenue needle?

Where I'd expect to see interesting developments (hopefully published openly) is in sentiment analysis / disinformation identification, as companies begin to see it as an existential threat to the unregulated nature of their businesses and fund accordingly.
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> Nature will never grow as much food as our farming system

Permaculture is considered as "farming" or "nature"? I think it corresponds more to the latter. And it's extremely productive
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A good business will ALWAYS try to diversify their acquisition channels. I've analyzed/interviewed 400+ founders and what channels they use to get to (paying) customers [1] and this is a pattern I've noticed across successful founders.

Google Shopping is just 1 channel through which you could get customers. Since you're in Africa, my guess is that SEO is WAY easier than US/Canada, so that's a viable channel. Lack of ebay/amazons in Africa is an opportunity, because you don't have them dominating the top 10 SERPs. I could go on and on and on...

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I also don't think that politicians will suffer the most. Some people already know that social websites are full of fake videos, pictures and quotes from politicians. The others who don't know that already, could be more economically tricked, for example use a picture of a politician, place some outrageous quote next to him/her with Comic Sans, and some will believe that, too.
So what are you referring to with that sentence?
Twilio wants to be an end-to-end 'customer engagement platform' so this is a super strong acquisition; in one go they've bought a huge chunk of the marketing automation eco-system, which pushes them really far up the customer value chain.

From a personal perspective it'll be interesting to see how much this pulls/pushes Twilio into the ad-tech space.

Segment's 'Customer Data Platform' really found its legs in the marketing space, but they've recently made a very big push to a 'we can do everything your DMP does and 100x more' which was making pretty big waves in the sell side of ad-tech. One of the reasons I think it's so successful is their developer experience is about a million times better than their competitors.

If Twilio does continue this push up through marketing into ad-tech I'd be very long on them eating a nice chunk of that market.
Because VCRs were deemed to be a tool used primarily for fair use in the Betamax case. The analysis that made VCRs possible (and DVRs, for a while) wouldn't hold up today.

In a nutshell: When Betamax and VHS VCRs came out, tv shows generally aired once, did not repeat, and were not available for purchase on an individual basis. Recording the show to watch later (aka, "time shifting") was the only means some people had to watch an episode.

And importantly: because the episode was not otherwise available (i.e., it wasn't sold or rebroadcast) there was no financial harm to the content owner for copies being made.

DVRs like Tivo relied on this logic as well. And it worked, until the studios caught on and began making film and TV content available for purchase on an individual basis, and offering the content for transitory consumption (aka streaming). By doing so, they eliminated the "time-shifting" rationale of the Betamax case (by offering downloadable copies, albeit at a higher fee, they've also addressed the "connectivity shifting" rationale techies keep bringing up). And indeed, that is why Tivo and other companies stopped selling standalone DVRs in the U.S. and Europe a few years ago. (All of the DVRs you can find today in the U.S. are offered by cable companies or the subscription service providers (Hulu, Youtube TV, etc.) pursuant to streaming and time-shifted viewing licenses they have with the studios.)

Thus, even if the Betamax case was still binding precedent (it hasn't been since the DMCA), it wouldn't apply today.
Trees are evil. (OMG so many downvotes!)
I own a number of pieces of property in Whitefish Montana, where I decamped to the second my children were released from school for COVID reasons in March (we split time between TX and MT). Given what I felt were going to be significant economic disruptions due to unemployment and drops in income, I prepared myself with the understanding that our little resort town was going to be facing some hard times. Usually, small resort towns tend to take it on the chin when the economy turns.

Boy was I wrong.

Once the initial shock of lifestyle changes happened due to COVID, people FLOODED the area and any piece of real estate not bolted down was flying off the shelves and bought for cash unseen. I sold a small lot in the Whitefish City limits for a significant capital gain, after buying it for what I thought then was at the top of the market in 2019. I've been offered cash for home-run-knock-it-out-of-the-park prices for my retirement home property that are simply unfathomable. The only reason why I don't sell is because I treat this property like I do my two labrador retrievers - everything has a price, but I'm not interested in selling. :)

There is a lot of angst in Whitefish over the changes - all the building and influx of money really helps the local economy, but the quality of life (traffic, etc) is suffering. It's the age old dichotomy for a small Montana popular town.
>"Socket Takeover enables Zero Downtime Restarts for Proxygen by spinning up an updated instance in parallel that takes over the listening sockets, whereas the old instance goes into graceful draining phase. The new instance assumes the responsibility of serving the new connections and responding to health-check probes from the L4LB Katran. Old connections are served by the older instance until the end of draining period, after which other mechanism (e.g.,Downstream Connection Reuse) kicks in."

Great idea!

Now, that being said, this idea, or rather, this specific solution to this specific problem -- is actually a subset of a much broader problem in Computer Science, and that is:

How to move any OS component (up to and including running programs that may have many files, locks, sockets and other shared OS objects open) to another OS on another machine,

without causing any problems!

That is, how to move such entities robustly.

There are various ideas in this field (of which the above paper/article is one) -- but due to the complexities involved, there are no easy answers (at least, not as far as moving whole running programs with many shared OS objects go).

At least one, and probably several experimental OS's have been created in the past which attempt to do this -- but they aren't mainstream, and without doing more research, I'm not sure how robust (which is always a subjective term!) they were...

But, it's a fascinating area of Computer Science, to be sure.

Anyway, great idea and great article in this area!
> At least Alex Jones is thinking for himself

Conspiracy theories are fun and all until stuff like this happens:

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/this-sandy-hook-f...

And the then claimed that actually, he was literally psychotic when he was saying that stuff and blamed "mass group think":

https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/30/us/alex-jones-psychosis-sandy...
I think you are absolutely right. And that's why I think cookies are definitely not dead yet :)
Cookie warnings are designed to be hard to opt-out in order to increase tracking opt-in... So that's why Ninja Cookie is good for user's privacy and web experience.
As far as I'm aware, nearly all tractors much larger than a lawn mower now use diesel, not gasoline/ethanol. This wasn't always the case, but I understand it to be true particularly since the later half of the 20th century. So for the most part biodiesel, not ethanol, is the relevant biofuel for powering large farm equipment. Their larger trucks burn diesel too, though their pickup trucks and other small road vehicles are often gas/ethanol burners.
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If they're based in the EU then the GDPR applies no matter where their customers are.

They can block people in the EU all they want, it won't make a difference.
What does this do that ublock origin doesn't? The FAQ explains the difference is that this extension makes 'clearer' your opposition to being tracked.

I see there is a premium version planned but no indication of what additional features it might support.
Unfortunately permaculture usually isn't that productive with a few exeptions
I am sceptical, but I wish you all the best. I hope you'll be successful like this dude who got Spotify playlist export back on - it was epic.
This looks like bad user experience to me.
From what I can see you can both delete your presentations, and delete your account.
If there was warning saying all your presentations will be made public if you do not delete them, with a checkbox to acknowledge the warning, rather than agree to it a condition no one would be getting upset.
Obviously they could improve it further by giving you the option to choose what to delete / keep and the option to cancel the subscription and delete the whole account in one go.
There docs say you must cancel the subscription before deleting you account or you will continue to be charged, which is just awful.
1) You can hook this up to a TV.

2) Webcam isn't strictly necessary: You'll be able to "see" your teacher, type in chat, virtually raise your hand, etc.

3) This enables more advanced STEM (The "T" portion, really) not because it's a desktop but because of the built-in 40-pin connector opening it up to the massive catalog of projects that exist for the Pi platform already.

4) Perfect is the enemy of the good: You're complaining this isn't a perfect solution for those lacking resources. It's not. But it is significantly better than nothing, or a phone with a 5" screen and no keyboard.
> Our English masks this because anciently it seems never to have had such a high-low division

What an odd assertion. There's a massive difference between "proper English" and how it's commonly spoken. Reading something like Trainspotting makes that evidently clear if you happen not to chat with ordinary people regularly.
Children. She had a sick child who needed constant medical care and had expenses.

Being poor might also be a reason for said ‘inertia’. One has to run faster to stay in the same place..chasing someone to retrieve what was stolen from you is unlikely.

[..] Mileva moved back to Zurich with her two sons on 29 July 1914. In 1919, she agreed to divorce, with a clause stating that if Albert ever received the Nobel Prize, she would get the money. When she did, she bought two small apartment buildings and lived poorly from their income. Her son, Eduard stayed frequently in a sanatorium. He later developed schizophrenia and was eventually internalised. Due to these medical expenses, Mileva struggled financially all her life and eventually lost both buildings. She survived by giving private lessons and on the alimony Albert sent, albeit irregularly.[..]
Curious for an update on Centrifuge.
Let's apply this scenario to a non-Tesla car. And instead of a jailbreak, you decide to do your own brake job on your car.

"And after you do your own brake job on your Honda and cause an injury accident, who's to know? Just say you didn't, and it was Honda's defect."

This applies to any kind of thing you do to your own car. There's always some chance that something can go wrong and cause a huge wreck. There's always a part that can go bad, and there's always going to be someone who lies to cover up or blames the manufacturer.

You could drive your wheel into a curb, damage your suspension, and then have it fall off a week later and crash into oncoming traffic. And still blame the manufacturer for it.

The point is, you don't need to modify a car, or jailbreak it, or anything for these lawsuits to happen.
Never understand these kind of extensions. This way you still don't know what the site trying to do with the cookies.
A Pinebook is probably the closest you can get to a Pi-book, and it already exists.
> “well we have video of him doing this”. The fact that deepfakes will exist will erode confidence in even those things that are true

That's good. Courts should not have high confidence in any single bit of evidence. It can all be manufactured. And long before now. It's just (too) hard to manufacture, not be detected, and get larger number of people required to "go along" with it, when you have manufacture multiple collaborating pieces.
I've never seen uBlock Origin block the cookie and GDPR consent popups though.
To make people think. Trees are a common symbolic representation of a female principle (hollows!). Why on earth would people deforest land in the first place.
Effective Skeleton Screens
The $70 doesnt include a monitor. But many figital TVs will suffice.
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One of the reasons this is interesting to me is that we quickly hit one of MLflow's limitations[0] in our machine learning platform[1]. Users collaborate in near real-time on notebooks, schedule long-running notebooks, and we automatically detect user's models and then save them so they don't have to. They can then deploy them in one click. However, MLflow has trouble with models requiring high-dimensional inputs, which is most non toy models I've seen.

The usual "solution" is to write custom wrapping code for this because it only supports 2D DataFrames, which is unacceptable for us because that would mean users would have to do it, so we'll take care of this too.

- [0]: https://github.com/mlflow/mlflow/issues/3570

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You said it. Heck, my 2012 macbook pro retina (15) is still usable as a daily driver .
That analogy doesn't even make sense.

Also, nobody is arguing that people are "being forced" to use google services, feel free to quote a single person here that said that.
People would still be perfectly capable of selling advertisements that worked similarly to the way ads worked before everything was online - a magazine/newspaper/tv show/etc says "our audience size is roughly X, our audience demographics are Y, here's what our ad rates are".

Modern hyper-invasive ads that follow you around the net, build up a profile based on everywhere you go, and occasionally try to install unpleasant software payloads, would have trouble surviving. Can you truly make a case that this would be a bad thing?
I'm just repeating what I read. I assume it has to do with a combination of rivers and coastline compared to total land area. Africa is huge compared to the coastline, for instance.
It kind of boils down to whether a battle is reaction-based or turned-based (the 'shooter' part) for me. The idea of first-person open world is still lovely, but it doesn't mean that everything has to require adrenaline and concentration and reflexes. For example, Fallout. Then some try to retain a classic feel with a top-down like Baldur's Gate 2 and D:OS and could one day be first-person.