skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> i'm mostly comparing to low-end on-prem hardware

Running your own servers properly is a considerable undertaking. If you're just playing around, that's a different matter. Power-management equipment alone would cost more than what you'd spend on AWS. Even if you somehow got all your hardware for free, the time spent setting up would cost far more than AWS are asking.

> $74 isn't a lot; but then, it's still much more expensive than something like a raspberry pi 4 with a USB SSD

Serious cloud computing instances are backed by server-grade hardware, with automatic recovery systems to help cope with hardware failures if they do occur, in a dedicated facility with measures in place for everything from burglary to fire to power outages to network outages. The major cloud providers can offer all this for a few pounds/dollars a month due to economies of scale.

If it's your intent to just play around, a Raspberry Pi might be a fine choice, but a Raspberry Pi plugged into the wall isn't close to a proper server setup.

> the network isn't that relevant when going this low, since you won't be serving anything substantial out of it

Firstly, that's not necessarily true. If you're running something like an SFTP/FTPS server, you might make good use of the connection speed, despite only using a lightweight VM. Even if you're hosting a proper Web 2.0 site, an efficient architecture goes a long way. HackerNews and StackOverflow use famously few servers, for instance.

Secondly, a lot of ISPs are hostile to web hosting from home connections, so a Raspberry Pi might not be an option even if you're only hosting a 'toy' site.

Thirdly, it's not just performance, it's also reliability. AWS invest in redundancy and robustness. A home/small office connection isn't in the same league.

> getting into the cloud without using any cloud-native features isn't money well spent

If you can get a serious virtual/physical server for a better price elsewhere, that might be worth considering, sure. GitHub does this - they're hosted with a company called Carpathia, rather than with one of the major cloud providers. [0] The 'cloudy features' of a platform like EC2 are powerful though, features like automatic recovery from hardware failure, the ability to easily change the hardware spec of your instance with just a reboot of downtime, the ability to easily transform your virtual HDD into a virtual SSD, etc.

[0] https://github.com/holman/ama/issues/553
This one strikes painfully close to home! I grew up on an old colonial street in a major Latin American city. Beautiful street "paved" with cobblestones.

Somehow the cobblestones managed to look both randomly placed and have some "lines" that gave it a very orderly look. The cobblestones were placed in some substrate that allowed moss to grow between them.

At some point about 10 years ago, the city decided to tear up a giant trench in the middle of the street to replace some sewage. When they were done, they covered the trench with concrete and then re-placed the stones they had removed onto the concrete.

It looks nothing like it used to. Just messy. I think that if someone who didn't grow up there were to see it, they would think it was a perfectly charming street, but really it lost so, so much.

I asked around and apparently nobody knows how to lay cobblestones anymore. There was a certain art to how they were placed and the substrate selected: dirt, then sand (what kind? how coarse?) then stones, then something else. This ensured that they would never wash away even in the torrential rains we get here every year.

Placing cobblestones seems like an easy thing to do. Just rocks on dirt, right? But how do you ensure they never move, they never wash away, they don't get covered in dirt or greenery.

The craziest thing is that the street had remained basically pristine for what was probably 100+ years, but the new stones on concrete are already falling out.
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I am following the rules in my very blue state. ADDED: (And, in fact, going beyond them as I'll pull up a neck gaiter on a trail if I'm approaching although distanced from people wearing masks--to increase their comfort level.) I also mostly avoid busier recreation areas and have only done outdoor dining a couple of times. But, yes, I think that so long as people are following what seem to be fairly conservative government guidelines, those who don't agree with the government's assessment should stay home rather than expect people en masse to behave in ways that go beyond state mandates and recommendations.
You can build a O(n log n) multiplication with FFT based convolutions.

The trick is to only put as many bits into each number as are guaranteed not to overflow. So if the convolution is n long and you put B bits in to each "digit" then the output needs to be able to hold log(n)+2*B bits.

So if your convolution is done with double precision with 56 bits of precision and n = 1 million, log(n) = 20 so you put (56 -20)/2 = 18 bits into each "digit". You do your convolution, and ripple the carries at the end.

This is the way Prime95 does its maths, though it uses a IBDWT which through a bit of extra maths magic halves the length of the FFT needed. While it is rippling the carries at the end it checks to see if each number is pretty nearly an integer - if it isn't them something has gone wrong and it blows up with "FATAL ERROR: Rounding was 0.5, expected less than 0.4".
Were it my team, this would get bounced with a request for a link to the bug-report/documentation in cJSON that necessitates this wart and at least a FIXME flag so that we periodically re-visit the 'why does cJSON still not correctly estimate its memory and if it can't then why the hell is it not returning the minimum safe value rather than a guess?' unsightly hack in our beautiful code.
The pressing concern for me: what does this mean for non-Windows operating systems running on Pluton-equipped systems? Will there be a possibility for non-Windows software to use Pluton's features?
"Theft" is a poor usage of language in this context. These are contract violations, as described.
Option 4:

* Code up a unit test that replicates end of buffer scenarios and verifies that X bytes is enough and X-1 bytes fails.
This has been around forever. It's still gorgeous, but the jpeg artifacts and compression demanded at the time definitely show.

Someone should change the title to (2004).
Reading your comment, it's unclear how far you're keeping from others. The only information is that other people don't feel safe given your distance and lack of mask.

It's analogous to you feeling like you're a safe driver but having passengers asking you to slow down. If you're not judging the danger to others commensurately to them, it seems like the onus should be on you to adjust your behavior.

Also, as others pointed out, this study's idea of "crowded spaces" might not align with your idea of it. If someone with COVID-19 passed me on an average-sized trail path or sidewalk breathing heavily while running, I wouldn't feel safe and I doubt many other reasonable people would either. It's not an issue of outside air vs. inside air as it is whether you end up breathing the same air as others, and you might not be a great judge of when that is or how it applies to this study.

Also, if you're interested in backing up your actions with studies, you should note that "social distancing" meaning 6ft distance which I'm assuming you're referring to has been debunked by MIT and Oxford studies.

Figuring out exactly what's safe and not is not clear cut, which is why simple rules like "wear a mask outside" is so important, because we clearly can't all be trusted to make good judgment calls.
I've been running a homelab cluster on Kubic for about a month. My favourite part is definitely waking up in the morning to a new kernel version or patch k8s upgrade.
Call me sceptical, but I hope m$ is not pulling Apple tricks to lock computers to their OS. Is this open source? Will consumer be able to audit it down to the silicon level?
I found the second half of that far more interesting (and refreshing given todays climate).
There seems to be a debate about whether it's okay for Nintendo to use this code without giving him a free Switch or something like that.

To me it looks like a confusion about whether "okay" means "legal" or "ethical" or "cool".

It's possible for something to be legal and ethical and still not courteous or gracious, and this falls into that category.
The OP's comment resonates with my experience: I'm a Kiwi who's had family members immigrate, as well as talked to many friends and individuals who are trying to immigrate. It's definitely an immigrant-friendly culture (more so now than several years back), but that's not quite the same thing as "easy to immigrate to". Many of my acquaintances (from India, South Africa, and the EU) have found it very hard to find work here, extremely time-consuming and tiring to get through the visa process, and some have had to return home. I'm not saying it should be super-easy, and maybe it is easier than some other countries (I don't really know), but it's definitely not "easy" for most people I've talked with.
> You could also say that the rules that govern the supply and demand of labor are not quite the same as the rules that govern supply and demand of goods, and people’s general failure to realize this results in the Bamoult effect being surprising.

I wouldn’t say that because I disagree there is any difference in the application of supply and demand curves between labor and goods. If anything, Baumol’s effect clearly demonstrates that price (wages) is set by supply and demand just like goods, and it’s entirely unsurprising.

As you reduce the supply of laborers for labor type A because those laborers have better options, then the price for labor type A rises. That’s what Baumol says. That’s what supply and demand says. I fail to see the significance.
> Almost everything commercially successful is run by tyrants.

Sounds like you're simply defining a tyrant as someone who runs a profitable company.
Yeah, I should trust Byclicing.com as the source of science. Okay, maybe it's a whitepaper, but much of our defenses are based on realistic model. I'd rather trust a model than a sports magazine promoting bicycling.
Yeah and include something interesting or useful to the user. My stomach does its job and doesn't need to report every detail to the brain. In a similar way, I find that most e-mails are explaining to me internal digestion at work and I'd rather have something I can eat/consume.
I sometimes think of him looking and the shrapnel marks on the building of the V&A museum in London.

More here: https://www.wrsonline.co.uk/big-ben-rocket-strikes/1944-v2-r...
For what it’s worth, unless you’re somehow able to dedicate a PCI-E lane to a USB port, the USB spec will be what limits you. I switched a Pi4 to boot from an older, spare USB SATA SSD a few weeks ago, and it’s reporting 1566MB/924MB on the same hdparm tests as the article (about a 10% drop-off).
I also enjoy Terence Tao's explanation [0]:

> I remember as a graduate student that Ingrid Daubechies frequently referred to convolution by a bump function as "blurring" - its effect on images is similar to what a short-sighted person experiences when taking off his or her glasses (and, indeed, if one works through the geometric optics, convolution is not a bad first approximation for this effect). I found this to be very helpful, not just for understanding convolution per se, but as a lesson that one should try to use physical intuition to model mathematical concepts whenever one can.

> More generally, if one thinks of functions as fuzzy versions of points, then convolution is the fuzzy version of addition (or sometimes multiplication, depending on the context). The probabilistic interpretation is one example of this (where the fuzz is a a probability distribution), but one can also have signed, complex-valued, or vector-valued fuzz, of course.

[0] https://mathoverflow.net/questions/5892/what-is-convolution-...
There is an entire class of migraine medications that is based on triptan-class of drugs. They target similar receptors as psilocybin without the psychoactive effects. I've been using triptans for almost a decade to treat migraines.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triptan
Just installed TikTok to peruse this genre. To my surprise, better content than Instagram & others for the subject
Great story.

After you pointed out the NBD protocol I went and looked it up. Wish I'd learned about it a couple years ago!

Found this gem on the libguestfs readme:

> Well-documented, simple plugin API with a stable ABI guarantee. Lets you export “unconventional” block devices easily.

I really want to know what they think "unconventional" block devices are. Could lead to some interesting projects!
I thought it was creative backgrounds for Zoom.
UNIX did not pioneer what other mainframes did since 1961, just some UNIX fans think it did.

Luckily there are papers and documentation from the work going outside Bell Labs.
Hello,
I'm Kyle, founder of drawing navigator (www.drawnav.com), design engineer, programmer, and maybe even something interesting one day.

After working as an engineer for almost a decade I picked up on a persistent problem while working with old blueprints. Old drawings were incredibly difficult to find, sometimes impossible, even if they were scanned in.

I tend to use existing data to build up the underlying drawing hierarchy and be able to find whatever I'm looking for without hunting for hours. Slowly patching together the functionality to automatically generate the database from scanned prints.

I have been using this software alone for quite a while before I decided to see if anyone else thought it was useful in the same way that I do.

Here to discuss any questions or comments anyone has.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixon_shock

In 1971, the US abruptly stopped backstopping Europe's Bretton Woods system that kept Europe's currencies stable, making them convertible with US dollars and gold.

(I'm not an expect in this area, I just sort-of-recently read "And the Weak Suffer What They Must?" by Yannis Varoufakis, and hopefully I'm remembering it more-or-less correctly.)

https://www.amazon.com/Weak-Suffer-What-They-Must/dp/1568585...
Thanks, never realized it's an ad, but so wonderfully done!
That's a lot older and I personally just watched that in the last week when archive.org added flash animations. https://gizmodo.com/internet-archive-brings-flash-games-and-...
The Medium Unlimited browser addon works pretty well: https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/medium-unlimited...
If you're alone and no one is within 10+ yards of you, who is going to be infected? I agree with your concerns. I simply don't see the need for the unnecessary. We need a steady state of vigilance. Fear inflation only leads to fatigue. That's not helpful.
I want something like AdBlocker extensions but for replacing algorithms of these social media platforms. It can be community driven so I can select “give me scientifically proven posts” algorithm or “non political stuff” algorithm.
How is that different from all the products that send customer information to the US?
I have a “normal” SATA SSD plugged in, and it’s running within 10% of the hdparm benchmark in the article (it’s not a 1:1 comparison since it’s an older SSD, cheap adapter, and I have two other HDDs plugged in via USB for bulk storage). At that speed, with those other variables, I think it’s the USB port that’s the bottleneck.
Looks suspiciously like an alignment issue, with driver expecting something somewhere to be aligned to 4/8 bytes or be a multiple of dword/qword?
Yes, I'm familiar with that graph. There's a similar one for college tuition in the U.S.; interesting that both are industries where costs have been growing at more than GDP year over year.

However, the point between comparing countries still holds. If you use older data, you'll see that the U.S. had even more disproportionate R&D funding
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No one has to try hard for that anymore, everyone understands that to be a fact.

Someone would have to try hard to make a case that that is not the case.
That's not a good way to prevent them from catching on fire, though. Discharging lithium batteries that quickly is almost a guaranteed way to set them on fire.
I think there's a way with the more advanced routers to intercept all outgoing DNS queries and redirect them.
>Wars are fought now primarily with information, not violence.

Only in the safe western countries, where wars have not been fought for 70+ years anyway.

In the rest of the world wars are still fought with violence, including violence by said western countries...

This idea is like the similar one that today's currency is ideas and information, not industry -- when the industrial production is bigger than ever and our dependency on it bigger than ever, it's just (similarly) hidden (outsourced) in China and the developing world.
Apple music doesn't either..
Deezer doesn't want to implement.
Even then, IoT devices are going on their own 'guest' network that none of my own devices are on.
I think the package managers themselves, with unprivileged operation, immutable profiles, atomic upgrades and rollbacks, "guix pack", etc are the main value propositions.

The OS thing is mostly a side effect.
> As a silver lining, you'll probably get to use a slightly-less-terrible web interface.

I can’t find anything on that god-awful website, and it must be by design, I guess they want me to give up and buy whatever is in front of me, but I refuse, it’s just too easy to open another tab and find whatever Amazon is trying to flog, cheaper elsewhere and at least here in the UK, next day delivery is becoming standard.
> Why does the West think the world is their snow globe to ogle?

> I have a hard time feeling like this can approach anything resembling honest debate if we’re going to point at the behavior of ephemeral, external objects and ignore how we individually organize our daily life.

How can these two sentences coexist in the same message? If you argue in favour of focusing exclusively on our personal daily lives rather than on amorphous imaginary entities (fine), then how can you write in an adjacent sentence about "the West", which "thinks"? And what's wrong with watching the world from afar, as if it were a snow globe, anyway?
Based on nothing other than my assumptions, I would say users who block ads skew younger, and younger people skew left.
What tools do you use for that?
How do you interpret his description of his heroes as white and his villians as black? Even for the man and the year, it seems odd if we interpret this as racially "white" and "black"; for one thing, few of his villians were black. Does he mean something else, like "black and white" suggesting good and evil without shades of grey (moral complications)?
I’ve never used jailbreak on an iOS device. But I’ve been staying on iOS 13 to avoid the contact tracing. Phone is old anyway so I might try this.
One step in this description is not really needed. One can do diskdup from SD card to SSD right from inside the same Pi booted originally for SD card.
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But that's just it!

You're willing to give him the benefit of the doubt because you're a fan of his work and his ideologies in other spaces. Which makes sense, I dig it.

For myself, I'd rather not expend the mental gymnastics. If RMS had ever wanted to set the record straight, he could have. If he isn't willing to clarify, personally I'm uninterested in attempting to do it for him, and inclined to assume this (like his other writing) is direct and unambiguous.

(Edit, to add:) And to reinforce my previous point: sometimes the damage one's words do can't easily be undone, and treating everything like it's a philosophical debate and not someone telling us who they are may reinforce that harm.
AWACS E-3 is based on the Boeing 707. The KC-130 is based on the Lockheed C-130 and has turboprops. SAMs aren’t picky though.
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That still doesn't help with direct IP communication. You'd have to block all traffic except services you want to interact with. That probably means never getting a firmware update or at least uploading some telemetry when you allow a connection back to the mothership for a firmware update.

There's no winning with IoT.
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Minecraft on 40mW. Very cool.
The patient would have to not know what the real drug was. And then maybe they list hallucinations as a possible side affect. But then it can't really be a double blind because an hour in the care giver would know if they had the placebo or not
Not really. Twitch has been sending in-m3u8-playlist ad segments to clients like Streamlink for long a while now.

Streamlink's workaround is to avoid playing pre-roll ads by sniffing for SCTE35 segments in the playlist.

However, you can't just seamlessly skip ads. Twitch's servers won't send you the next segments of the actual stream until an appropriate amount of time has passed. What's an adblocker to do in that case? Show a blank screen?

If Twitch wanted to squash adblocking entirely, they could so easily do it.
I did this as a kid. I was 11 years old and hired by a country club to clean restrooms and the grounds around the swimming pool during the summer. I had to be in and out before the first guests arrived because I wasn't a member. They decided to pay me $1.85 an hour when the minimum wage was $3.35 or so at the time, but I had no bargaining power because I was legally under age. Our timesheets were paper and the club had no surveillance, so I gave myself 1.5 hours of work every day because I was a quick worker (the person I alternated with took more time anyway) and they were assholes.
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My first computer was a Timex 2068, I was born long before IBM even cared about home computers, if you want to go down that route.
I freaked out as a kid after playing River Raid on the Atari for hours.
Link requires google account, anyone have a synopsis?
I can only comment on the technical details I know of, not the business objectives of the parties involved.

From a technical standpoint, Azure Sphere's OS was built on Linux. As far as I know, there isn't anything Windows specific to Pluton. Pluton was a separate (heavily-modified) ARM M4 core which we interfaced with from the main A7 core via a secure mailbox channel, which was again OS agnostic.
Love the architectural lineage there, thanks for sharing.
I'm feeling inspired to build some "hidden" crannies for my kids and thus bragging rights for their friends when they come round to play (when people can meet in houses IRL).
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> echoes come in reverse

I don't think it's true, cannot even imagine how it's possible, especially for long signals, like the whole song.

Any links to read about.