skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i think this could go a step further and inject visual subject matter into iconic memory for incorporation into a dream trope.
Market bubbles are a thing. For a while there everyone was convinced that small plush toys were going to help them retire.

Yes, bubbles are a thing, but Bitcoin appears to be something different. It's passed ever test and attack. It's now being taken seriously by mainstream financial professionals, CEOs of publicly traded companies and Wall Street.

These facts themselves can't prove that Bitcoin is not a bubble but it does mean if you buy into that line of thinking, then encryption and math have to be suspect as well, since Bitcoin's functioning relies on them.

Also, Bitcoin has been the best performing asset of the past 10 years in which most people didn't take it seriously: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-12-31/bitcoin-s...
> if your guess is completely wrong, will it still converge in no worse than O(log(N))?

No, but there's a simple but powerful technique you can use to ensure this from the outside. See if you can figure it out. (If you don't, look up introsort.)
>A pod has no idea where its scheduled!

I would argue this is a good thing. All of the this automatic routing and failovers should be transparent to business logic developers. You shouldn't need to include K8s apis inside your main container.
Alacritty 0.6.0: A GPU-accelerated terminal emulator written in Rust
Shameless plug for an essay [0] I wrote a while back comparing looms and computers (which also has some of the best other videos I could find on looms, for those who want to learn more about them specifically). Wish I had seen this video back then, thanks for sharing! I find this comparison so fascinating to contemplate.

[0]: https://tworingsoft.com/blog/2017/08/29/looms-and-computers....
Not a new one either - I remember them having repeated problem with the status dashboard on outages for a while.
Be honest now, there's no way you can honestly claim that Element is a good UI/UX. I'd love it to be the other way around but it's just plain and simply bad. At least on all MacOS combos I've tried - native client as well as web app (Chrome/FF/Safari). And Android. Oh and fuck not being to have different notification schemes for desktop/mobile. I end up having mobile notifications turned off altogether.

So many inconsistencies in the UI. Almost non-existent keyboard navigation. Typing notifications and read receipts on by default (supposed to be a privacy focused chat). Handling unread messages. Lack of threads. I could go on...
Late 80s to early 90s before Linux existed there weren't many ways to run unix on x86 hardware of the time. I remember desperately searching for solutions so I could have unix at home and not always rely on the university SunOS/HP-UX/AIX machines.

SCO was one player in this space. I can't remember the other one I was considering.. In the end they were all too expensive for poor-student-me so didn't use any of them and kept using the lab SunOS boxes via 2400bps dialup from home until Linux appeared on the scene.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Cruz_Operation
Why can't they just allow automated user agents? I should be able to scrape websites if I want to. Why do user agents have to be browsers?
Ask HN: Can the ARM Macs/PCs end the web as we know it?
It seems that the new macs are able to run mobile apps, and it won't take long until android does the same on windows pcs.

Is there a chance that in 10 years everybody is using native mobile apps on desktops?

Chuckling...
> Thinking things were better off not existing or better off dying of organ failure instead of being eaten doesn’t always make sense to me.

Would you rather live a long life and then die of organ failure, or get eaten when you're three years old?

Most people value getting to live longer. So, if we apply our own principles to other animals, there's value in letting animals live longer rather than killing and eating them.
Past comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20718315
At least the internet of shit has security, though
Yeah, it’s a pity that the most memorable moment of this legend is that hand goal.
I think that's actually the problem. I'm used to domains that are very precise being used to host junk content. Most popular sites aren't so narrowly focused and/or have some brand-name-like domain.
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That song is awesome. Great story.
You can view the 0.6.0 release notes here: https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/releases/tag/v0.6.0
It’s all the tracking cookies between web entities you didn’t know have a relationship that’s the issue. Being logged in to facebook and then visiting pornhub is enough for facebook to know what porn you watch.
I agree it is highly speculative, but anyone who is interested in the topic could make a name for themselves by respectfully qualifying/disproving this theory with a statistical analysis of the probability of this signal coming from the exoplanets in that area, and profiling what a qualifying candidate exoplanet would look like.

Or alternatively just provide the statistics on what the chance is that the signal was errant/natural in cause
Here's a great writeup by an OpenSMTPD developer: https://poolp.org/posts/2019-09-14/setting-up-a-mail-server-...
I actually heard the details on a cloud-related podcast, but I found a transcript of the episode here: https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/aws-morning-brief/whit...

The relevant bit:

>[customers] were texting with their account managers, because the account managers had no access to any internal systems. Reportedly, the corporate VPN was not working. My thesis is... everything was single-tracking through a corporate VPN that itself was subject to this disruption... their traditional tweets have been done through an enterprise social media client called Sprinklr
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I've worked with five Jira based teams and it is uniformly horrible
A little late, but I don't see (ctrl-F reptile) anyone who noted the odd statement that male chicks have no economic purpose, but are processed into "reptile food". Does that imply reptile food has no economic value? Do the reptiles eat as much if there are no male chicks culled?
You could have 99% of the Bitcoin hashrate and start mining blocks that give you double the reward, but every other miner and node on the network would just ignore you because you aren't following the rules.
I think people who have this viewpoint are largely ignorant of the amount of tracking data that comes out of a mac or iphone, even in first party apps, that you cannot turn off at all.

This is not an isolated incident, and their own OS services are explicitly whitelisted to bypass firewalls and VPNs in Big Sur.

There’s telemetry in most Apple apps, now, and you can’t disable it or opt out, or even block or VPN it in some cases. I encourage you to read their disclosures when you first launch Maps or TV or App Store. Every keystroke in the systemwide search box hits the network by default, too.
This doesn't mix well with the ad-based compensation model.

Sadly, there still doesn't seem to be much in the way of micropayment infrastructure.
If you don't get the non-existant relation between Sev2s and the public dashboard, then that says a lot about your qualification to post about AWS on HN.
Something else important w/r/t keeping originals: Who could have foreseen that our new imaging technology would allow us to read the otherwise-unreadable original text of palimpsests, or the insides of scrolls too brittle to unroll?

What other discoveries might be unpredictable right now? For example, some new development might tell us two things were made in the same place and time, leading to discovery by inference, or something.

Originals might prove valuable in ways not yet known.
Parser combinators showed me what an expressive language (in particular Haskell) can do to let you write code as you intend, so that maintainable code is enjoyable to read, write, and reason about.

I have heard that some people first “get” Haskell because of parser combinators.
Just one data point: I gave webcamoid on macOS a try a few weeks ago. When I finally understood how to configure it, it worked for about 5 seconds before the stream froze. I think I only tried on Signal.
It’s funny how the dame people who said Trump stole the election in 2016 with the help of the Russians also claim this election was clean. Did Trump and Putin have a falling out? Why didnt they help Trump if he was their puppet? Poor sensitive libs struggle with that logic, crying to big government with their downvote of hate. Silence him! His word’s are difficult to refute!
The Free Software Foundation has always been about free software first. You seem to be describing the EFF more than the FSF

>after they release video conferencing, like the rest of the open source world after seeing zoom’s explosive growth?

They've considered real-time video and voice chat a high priority project since at least 2008, it's not like they've just taken an interest. They had an internal need to set up a system, and are offering the system to others who may need it
I work at Cloudflare. We offer protection for the "complex setups" you describe with BYO ASN, IP packet filtering + forwarding, and GRE (or PNI) for traffic return. And we're very good at it.

https://www.cloudflare.com/case-studies/wikimedia-foundation is an example deployment covering Wikimedia's datacenters.
> So far as I know, entropy is pretty unique in that there isn't, and will never be an instrument that gives the number of bits in a baseball.

Nonsense. Black Hole entropy is measurable in exactly the same way - put it on a scale, get mass in kilograms, from mass compute radius and area - voila, you've got an entropy
>they're selling them on USDT-USD markets.

My hypothesis is they get dripfed onto these markets so as not to spook them. Or just transferred off to collateralize other trades - hey it's free money to them, why not set up another trade elsewhere while they are in?

It is not safe to assume anything based off market price action. You seem to be assuming there is some essential relationship between volume traded and price. These are market prices, they can be totally irrational, especially if there is some fake news (Tether is fully backed) behind them.
I'm from Bangladesh and he is as big a deal for us.
> It says nothing about the provability of mathematical formulae, since math isn't a formal system.

Ok, I might accept that math isn't a formal system, but what do you think a proof is?
It should be fairly easy to set up two open wordpress blogs, one with the captcha and one without.

After a few months you check how much spam arrived at either and get your number?
> I have actually met medical doctors who believed in homeopathy. My point isn't that they wouldn't exist if things were taught properly.

What...is your point then?
Can’t argue with this. They gouge absurdly on storage and memory.
What about medical research and testing? Per individual animal, that seems generally much worse, although I don't know how the global scale/numbers compare and how to morally weigh quantity of suffering vs. quality.
Oh would you people please stop pretending like we understand this pandemic perfectly and all it will take is masks and 6ft of space to make it disappear. It’s ALL speculation, no one has the perfect solution, they’re just opinions. Stop confusing multiple opinions as fact.
Kin Tribes and the Dark Side of Identity
How once-elusive laser weapons suddenly became a reality
I think I'd rather recommend Diana Wynne Jones' The Tough Guide To Fantasyland. On one hand, it's more conventional modern genre fantasy derivative of post-Tolkien writers. On the other, it's an actual survival guide, like the OP.
Electricity is a lot cheaper than my time.
And disinformation is what ever the tyrant says it is. If it’s wrong, prove it dont silence it.
> for many companies its a formal warning that you need to shape up or you're going to be let go.

Patently incorrect. A PIP is management telling you that you need to seek alternative employment, now.

Joking/sarcasm aside: I’ve never seen or heard someone who is placed on a PIP successfully “exit” the PIP. They exit the company or they’re exited from the company. PIPs seem to mark the start of the “we are building formal documentation to fire you” phase of losing a job.
Why do you believe the right of bad-faith actors to load disinformation into the minds of the gullible is more important than the right of uninvolved third parties to live?

It's one thing to spread disinformation that leads people to harm themselves (for example, by encouraging them to drink laundry detergent or bleach). It's quite another to spread disinformation that harms third parties. Third parties have no say in what disinformation the gullible choose to consume but they will be subject to the consequences of the gullible believing what they've been told.

Every polity that has something resembling a right to freedom of speech imposes limits on that speech when it can harm others. Libel, slander, and incitement are not generally tolerated. Restricting the spread of disinformation that increases the impact of a deadly pandemic is no different.

I do agree, however, that the final arbiter of what speech is acceptable should not rest with Youtube or any other private entity. This is a question for elected governments and the judiciary.
OK, so what's your point? The outcome of this is still a worse situation for everyone involved in the end.
He he then some smartass says "No it really has 1TB of RAM"
Updated it in end. By the way I am not in anyways related to hcaptcha. Just sharing it because they don't seem to be the saint that everyone else is believing them here.
...merely, a[n] is not necessarily the nth charater.

Up to you to make sense of the data in singles, pairs, fours, and before that to declare the buffer as the appropriate multiplier plus 1.
The linked video and Kickstarter look more like a Farnsworth Hirsch inertial confinement reactor. Fusion reactions do occur in them, but a cold gas cloud forms at the center because of collisions with the physical electrode. What starts as a group of colliding and circulating beams quickly transforms into beam on target. The result is that ions only have a few chances to fuse before they lose too much energy.

My understanding of the Polywell is that it uses a trapped cloud of electrons to form the central cathode, which can help keep deuterium ions hot by reducing grid collisions.

The downfall I see is that you are still trying to "squeeze jelly with rubber bands".

The Brillouin limit describes the maximum steady state density possible in a non-neutral plasma.

In my device, the average density is well below this limit, but is briefly very very high. The goal is to have smooth and steady cyclotron trajectories most of the time, but all these trajectories intersect at the same point simultaneously.
Can you provide an alternative that doesn’t involve my contact form getting spammed to hell with crap?
khal looks quite cool. Does anyone have some experience with it?
I just ublock-element the "this site has cookies" notification, lol
The Pi can be powered from the same data port so that it only needs one cable. If you're comparing this project to an off-the-shelf USB webcam, also consider that a Raspberry Pi makes for a very hackable base (for example, I'm planning on wiring up an LED ring to it sometime soon).
Good.

I would like to hope this shows companies that they should always host in-house; rather than using cloud services if their product is to be going to be internet enabled.

If it can run on AWS, it can run on a baremetal server.
Chances your dentist’s office ram Dentrix on SCO at one point.

They have (hopefully) all moved to Windows by now.
It was also simple, comparatively nicely packaged Unix. You could pop it on a PC and it would run.
An electron wrapper?
AWS is big. Amazon is even bigger. Disgruntled people are the ones who often cry the loudest. Just because there may be teams who act like this, doesn't mean that is the case in general.

You don't hear a lot of people praising AWS, the same way you don't hear a lot of people saying how great it is to have an iPhone. If I am happy, I have little incentive to post about it, since that should be the default state.

But the matter of fact is simple. If you end up in a team like this, switch and raise complaints afterwards. Nothing stops you from it. There is no "toxic engineering culture" at AWS. The problem is that AWS makes you into an owner and that includes owning your career. That means if you feel something is wrong, YOU are expected to act. No one will do it for you. And there are plenty of mechanism for you to act.

This is the greatest benefit of working at Amazon but its also the downfall of people who are not able to own things.
Just tried the demo and found it somewhat confusing

"enter your name and your favourite vegetable" is to lure bots into responding?

When "I am human", I am asked to select boats and fail because I didn't tick the images with ships.

I would not like to add a Captcha that appears to be smart Alec, has a tendency to trigger the same in the respondents or, worse, makes customers feel stupid. reCaptcha somehow seems better at avoiding this.
https://www.hcaptcha.com/ has a "Try it out" section on the homepage you can repeatedly solve for examples.
> Torvalds: "My personal hope would be more cores. Even in a laptop, I don't care about 20-hour battery life (and I wouldn't get it building kernels anyway). I'd rather plug it in a bit more often, and have 8 big cores."

+1
What happened to Slacks and Atlassian's partnership? Atlassian essentially surrendered Hipchat to Slack's dominance (I think this was before Microsoft Teams).

Salesforce also has Heroku. Someone mentioned Salesforce owning Tableau. There hasn't been much going on between Slack and Atlassian, if we could see a cohesive integration going on there's definitely a chance they could become dominant within this ecosystem but for now it seems all so fragmented still.
lp0 on fire
The two goals are greatly symbolic of Maradona. There's the genius and there's the deeply flawed human.
I'm glad Adobe is at least willing to facilitate this sort of licensing for the Player runtime, I assumed they would want to bury this platform entirely.
I suspect that meaningful progress in physics is going to face two hurdles for a couple of decades:

* Society has to catch up with what we have discovered over the past century. The physics that most people learn is primarily classical mechanics plus a bit of electricity and magnetism. There is some discussion of other aspects of physics, but it tends to be limited to discussion. You need some degree of mathematical understanding in order for physics to have a meaningful impact. The mathematical basis is important since it gives the ability to test the validity of physical models. This ability to verify or falsify a model is fundamental to science. High level discussions of a topic usually ignore the mathematics, which means they are asking students to accept something based upon authority. That is problematic since it is far too easy to choose an authority based upon criteria other than verifiable truths when one doesn't have the tools to verify what is being said.

* Technology also has to play catch-up. Physics has always been an expensive field since it pushes the boundaries of engineering. The precision instruments of past centuries may appear as quaint as a (quality) modern ruler, but they were pushing the limits of the times. That being said, there is a difference in scale. Pushing the boundaries of physics may have taken the resources of a nation in the recent past and wealthy benefactors in the more distant past. Some of the more recent experiments, though admittedly exceptional, take an international effort.

I don't really think that physics is coming to an end. I do think that some areas of physics will stagnate until humanity catches up with it.
ya i agree.
You are 100% right, this is fake and garbage. The circles DO move.
This looks fantastic, but is something I’ll probably never use.

Still a great job!
That's what CheerpX does.
I've always been under the impression that the norms in Silicon Valley are often different from the rest of the country, so that's not surprising. My experience is limited to the North-East/East-Coast though, so it's possible that this is a more regional thing, or possibly even specific to the industries I work in.

It's possible that state-level laws come into play here too. For example the fact that non-competes are not enforceable in California, where they are generally enforceable on the East-Coast could be a factor in the kind of relationships companies favor.
Hey Matei, this is a great post. We are working on a new approach to topology aware routing that we hope will be a bit simpler and more automatic. Here's the KEP we're working on - still very much prealpha and open to feedback/ideas: https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/blob/master/keps/....
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Ask HN: Resources for a basic understanding of release/operations engineering?
I've been a software engineer at a large company for a bit now, and I've almost completely stayed in the worlds of coding and project planning. Outside of a few critical incidents when I happened to be on-call, I've not had to step into the world of actually configuring and deploying our applications and services, and then maintaining the live instances and servers they live on.

What general-purpose resources (e.g. books, wikis, guides, etc) would you recommend to learn what actually goes into releasing and maintaining server-based applications and services? I know there's a ton of software and solutions in this space that probably vary wildly in terms of usage, so I'm less looking for a "How to Kubernetes with AWS" and more "What are Kubernetes and AWS even for and why would I need them", for example.
I don't know a single enterprise application that isn't a "nightmare to work with". This is not an issue with the code/architecture but the level of complexity to operate at the scale that SFDC does.

> It reeks of different services consolidated via acquisition (or one-off services kitbashed together), and adding slack to the mix will just add yet another variation to the existing APIs.

That's not how this usually works. Heroku is still running just fine and isn't a messy bunch of APIs since they were acquired. SFDC will likely just sell Slack into their enterprise clients and let it be.
I think having an EBNF like syntax would be nice. It’s verbose, but (IMO) fairly unambiguous. A side effect would be the ability to define variables (I.e. terms) within the expression
The Golden Handcuffs Were Inside of You the Whole Time
>Not the first to open source (predated by the BSD and MIT licenses)

Though the early versions of both the BSD and MIT license predate the GPL, they were inspired by the FSF and the license used for things like Emacs.
Robert Gordon makes a similar claim in his works, that the pace of technological discovery has slowed down. He has a lot of numbers to back his claim up.

I think we have invested a lot of time and energy in social solutions rather than technical solutions compare to the mid-20th century. The biggest example of this is the worldwide adoption of English as a lingua franca. It's not high tech for sure, but it's a sea change in human civilization that has had many positive effects for hundreds of millions of people, and that number will only grow.

Now does this effort conflict with science and technology? I don't know, but it seems like since the 1960s we have focused more of our efforts on global convergence rather than pushing frontiers.
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