skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"If you choose the cheapest Linode server like I did it doesn't come with much"

Storage - the biggest issue with rolling your own cloud. For some reason storage cost is usually the killer in these scenarios.
As to FaaS, I don't see the problem with CGIs

I'm sympathetic to this view point, but a few problems:

(1) Startup time. FastCGI solves that, but it's a more complicated protocol that requires language support, unlike CGI.

(2) Language support and (web) framework support. Python's FastCGI support is kinda crappy; you'll probably see worse in other languages. Although I noticed Rust has some FastCGI bindings, so I guess people are still using it?

(3) Container support. This is probably the biggest one. All the hosting providers that I know of that support CGI or FastCGI don't give you root (for good reason), and they also don't support rootless containers (good reason 10 years ago, maybe not a good reason now)

So if shared hosting starts installing "bubblewrap" rootless containers on their machines, then we could build our own "serverless" FastCGI. But we can't really do it now.

I use FastCGI on Dreamhost, and I just tried it on NearlyFreeSpeech, and neither is quite adequate. It's funny how small a distance there is though.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25488958

https://lobste.rs/s/9o4zsx/back_70s_with_serverless#c_9hxzjs
An Approx Nearest Neighbor Algorithm: How PyNNDescent Works
I'd doubt a lot of people who knew about the BBC Micro would know who made it. Acorn was obscure as the company wasn't front and center of the BBC initiative.
Hollow Knight is a masterpiece (perhaps the best Metroid-like ever made), but it scratches a very different itch than Lode Runner.
Exactly. Take a look at the "ENERGY STAR ® Power and Performance Data Sheet" for Dell "office" desktops. Many are around 10 watts for idle.
That may be your experience, but sadly the average person likes the average content. It might be simply because they want to see and hear what's popular.
Whatever happened to Steve Moraff? (2010)
>I'm not sure tax dollars should be used to maintain fiber optic lines to residences.

Do you feel the same way about sewer lines? Water pipes? How about roads?
ah, okay. Yes, I missed that. So the point of nftables then is just to avoid sending REJECT messages, so it makes it harder to determine what port wireguard is operating on?
Determining the Architecture of Qt Embedded Systems: Getting Started
I ran up a $400 bill one month in the early 90’s when I was in high school using a BBS in San Diego from my parents’ house in Escondido (roughly 30 miles away). Despite being in the same area code at the time, the rates were obscene and I believe higher than it would have been interstate.
The damage will be beyond a balance sheet
That isn't an actual quote from the article. The article series quite clearly explains that these people are economic losers because they trade their time (just like the clueless and some sociopaths) for a paycheck but have neither the higher floor of the clueless or the higher ceiling of the sociopaths.
Who told you assistant profs can’t recruit PhD students?
> A NN shares as much with the brain, as a decision tree does with a forest: nothing at all.

A more accurate statement might be "A NN shares as much with a human brain as a decision tree does with an actual tree: The architecture of the first sometimes appears similar to gross oversimplification of the architecture of the second." Tree:forest is a change in scale not present in NN:brain, and while NN can sometimes look like a very simplified drawing of actual neurons, a decision tree can also look like a very simplified drawing of an actual tree.
I'd say Gottfried W. Leibniz is the true author, as it's all comes down to calculus. The particular implementation for "neural nets" is just a special case of function minimization by taking derivatives.
I think the main issue I have with drugs is when they have the possibility of harming others.
I don't mean to say all drugs and all doses have this effect. There are drugs and doses that can cause someone to go crazy and hurt people or damage property.

In the other hand, you also have a feeling of this person not being a productive member of society. My tax dollars go to fixing this persons' mistakes. I wouldn't complain if my tax dollars went to properly rehabilitating these people though.
I liked that language. It does help paint "organization's" picture - underline defining traits of each position in scope of said "organization".
Interesting! I used a piece of (financial services) software that used Transputers in the 1990. Today the equivalent software would run on GPUs.

Do you know how commercially successful Xmos is?
>Army strengthens future tech with muscle-bound robots

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-12/uarl-asf1217...
>File a formal complaint with your state attorney general.

Not a bad idea. But since I don't actually use the services I'm not getting, I'll likely just vote with my wallet instead.
Realtime Viewing of Launceston City (Tasmania, AU) in 3D with Godot
The responsibility is ours. The net downside of such a spill is so extreme that essentially any non-military action necessary to effect a successful extraction of the oil is likely to be worthwhile.
I mean if we want to get pedantic I'm pretty sure Shannon used "backpropagation" for machine learning before either was called such.

Feedback for the purpose of regulating the state of a machine in response to input dates to antiquity, if we're really getting absurd. The formal definition is also debatable, I think Maxwell has the strongest claim.
I think it's clear even by your tone you recognize those aren't great leaders. Are you saying you feel they are -successful- leaders? More so than the kind ones? I think most would view Obama as a more successful leader than Trump; certainly, he won re-election easily.
>Instead of saying "anyone is allowed to dig up the road, bury cables and let the customers choose the provider with the best service" we often allow only one or two cable providers and add some special rules to make them treat their hostage customers better.

Wouldn't installing conduit be a still-better option for consumers? Also, the government-granted ISP monopoly approach prohibits would-be providers that don't need to use cable.

Anyway, your dichotomy ignores the historical reality: local politicians subsidized builds by promising providers they didn't have to worry about competition, subsidies extracted from the future captured customers, subsidies that are in fact the very things people complain about now.
Hope he's got his head on a swivel.
The Mac download results in Finder reporting:

“Nv2-Mac” will damage your computer. You should move it to the Trash.
New Tesla update increases new Model 3 range, fully using the new 82 kWh battery
PCS disappearing when Lode Runner didn't can be explained simply: it played a bad pinball, and it was itself a kind of clone.

The thing PCS did is just one step in a lineage of pinball simulation software, starting with the Atari "Video Pinball" games and progressing through to today's games from Zen(Pinball FX) and Farsight(Pinball Arcade), as well as open source solutions like Visual Pinball. The construction feature was really novel and I used it too as a kid, but it doesn't really exist as a "game design" - it's software first, kind of like flight simulators. Early flight sims aren't very well remembered, although they can have a retro aesthetic appeal. [0]

Lode Runner, on the other hand, is still Lode Runner in all its forms. It isn't a simulation of anything - the game pieces have a concrete, Chess-like logic to them. It's hard to improve upon just by adding "stuff" as the 1994 version did. And the game is easy enough to clone that many people, myself included, played people's clones of it.

[0] https://youtu.be/BEkDRa--YaY
Google Pinpoint – Journalist Tool to Search through all documents
Remember when front month oil futures went negative? This is why.

We pumped too much oil and there is nowhere for it go. Eventually infrastructure fails
Also birds (and insects/bats/pterosaurs) flight is a lot more energy efficient than any plane. Today's deep learning is essentially brute force, burning thousands of watts for anything more complicated which a single human brain can often do in ~15Watts.

The advanced models like GPT-3 are burning millions of watts in the cloud but they're not that much better than what a brain can do (and in many ways worse, as in often requiring supervised learning)

That's the key point. The algorithms need to become more energy efficient to make significant leaps, thus become more like brains.
Sorry, missed the edit window. Shapley values don't care about whether Bezos is irreplaceable either. They look at the value of Amazon with or without him, not with him or a replacement. The broader point still stands, but the details might warrant further scrutiny.
What Can You Put in a CSS Variable?
Facebook deletes page of protesting Indian farmers
Not at the time, no. All the computers in the office were named after asterix characters, but that’s probably relatively common.

Kinder eggs came out with a bunch of asterix-themed toys inside, and there was a frenzy of kinder-egg-eating to get your character to sit on top of your workstation.

We eventually got an SGI Indy, and that one was called getafix, because it was “magical”, in the Jobs sense before Steve made it a thing.
I don't think it's true. There are no mentions about it in old fairy tales and it would certainly be a common enough theme.
A bit off topic and nitpicking, but aren't all bank accounts 'online' now? The original article in Ars Technica has a better title.
Use it for about 10 years although I try new WMs out of curiosity every year. But IceWM is unbeatable, it does everything and is extremely lightweight. I wanted my own skin and drawn it. I wanted compositing (transparency) I just run compton on top of IceWM. I needed better tray icon for free memory and coded an applet in C in a hour or so. Other WMs even those that claim being fast and lightweight feel sluggish and bloated to me. With IceWM you never wait for anything to load or start it's just instantaneous everywhere.

IceWM has five config files for: startup, menu, keyboard, preferences, taskbar they are very straight forward, only the preferences one needs learning because it has hundreds of options of which I only use a dozen or so tbf. One thing I would like it to have is grouping of multiple firefox windows under one tabbar entry, hope they will add it.
And anyone who doesn't know can give you just as much information. If you don't substantiate the rumor, it remains an unsubstantiated rumor.
It’s unfortunate that the author has disavowed Apple for its charger practices from the 20th century. While still far from perfect, Apple has progressed on its chargers, and with USB-C now, a durable charger is no longer a necessity (I charge my laptop by plugging it in my display).
It could also simply be the writers being inconsistent with their own character, or maybe having a guest writer or director for that specific episode.

To add to the previous comment, Michael was also well known for making bad choices that did damage to his own life.
As mentioned in the article Nvidia has selected RISC-V to use in their graphics cards after careful evaluation of alternatives. RISC-V beat all the alternatives. A lot of other accelerator card makers are reaching the same conclusions. You can google and find many white papers detailing how RISC-V is getting incorporated into accelerators/coprocessors with great success.
What I find most hilarious about hn is the total lack of sense of humour. Sigh.
So, a king could move into a checkmate, even if it wasn’t in check at the start of the turn. Seems fine to me, but I think it would be funnier if a king in check could stay put, with the player in check betting that the opponent’s next move will end the check.

There also is the possibility of simultaneous checkmate.

Another edge case is pawns taking pieces. Could a pawn move diagonally into a square being vacated by the piece standing there? Could two pawns simultaneously not take out each other (say by the simultaneous moves d4×e5 and e5×d4)?
> This guy seems to be operating on the assumption that MEN are to blame for pornography's status as a social pariah

It's called the patriarchy for a reason. I don't know about you, but the priests I see ranting about pornography, the politicians I see talking about regulating it, the police who harass sex workers, people running groups like nofap, so on and so on, are men.

Yes of course women also contribute to it. But when I read the article, I didn't so much see it as blaming men, as explaining how the current social system is organized, and how that relates to gender. This is the point of the critical study of gender (AKA Women's Studies), not laying blame, but describing the system and how to confront it.

Not understanding that, treating it like someone is trying to blame an entire gender, rather than simply explaining how we got here, is why people make jokes about fragile masculinity and snowflakes on the right.
Of 18,000 backdoored servers, hackers followed up on only a few dozen
How many other SolarWinds are there? This company was allowed to install code on highly secure computers, but did not themselves have high levels of security. The practice of allowing random companies with poor security practices to install code is what lead to this breach. Any company that is allowed to do so must have 3rd party security auditing on a continuous basis.
> Why did it take this long? Why would no one else have the courage to address sex work?

OnlyFans isn't the only tech attempt to “address sex work”, it's basically a hybrid of the premium user content with centralized content infrastructure model of many recorded-video sites with the patronage / p2p subscription model of Patreon, etc. It may (or may not) be revolutionary in effect, but it's a stepwise change in model building on other recent stepwise changes.

It's not something that came out of nowhere after a long period of no innovation.
Haha! What?? How can I use that to make the title better?
At their scale, they're almost certainly running entire racks' worth of servers entirely dedicated to just transcoding video and only able to access input and output files.

(quite likely, those are all actually virtual through some auto-scaling IaaS magic)
Opinions as Positions in 1-D
Also try xscavenger: https://www.linuxmotors.com/linux/scavenger/index.html

This is an old-school clone, written using the old ways (direct calls to Xlib for display). An SDL port exists if that tickles your fancy more.

(Note that game clones technically violate copyright, per Atari v. Philips and Tetris Holdings v. Xio, but the rightsholders to Lode Runner don't seem terribly interested in defending their IP against cloners.)
AirPods Max Teardown
> I have absolutely no problems with pornography and if my own daughter decided this was the industry she wanted to enter I would help jumpstart her career anyway I could just as I would any career she chose.

> My wife and I are very free spirits and the previous HN discussions on Pornhub / NYT article made me feel like I was taking crazy pills and living in 1850’s Victorian England. The pearl clutching was so intense I was very worried the pearls would break from pressure!

Maybe because almost no man of any quality whatsoever would want to raise a daughter to be a whore, used and abused in all degrading possible ways. Funny that.

There is nothing "free" or "progressive" or any 2020 buzzword that would make this argument anything other than disgusting. As if raising your daughter to be used in gangbangs and things like that is anything other than pure form of degeneracy and the absolute lowest of the low.

Some people think that just because they are capable of doing the god awful nasty things that no sane man or woman would do, that they are somehow "progressive" as if that takes some special skill or something...

What skill do women need to have in porn? Fake tits, fake lips, fake asses in some cases, fake everything.. they just get paid a lot of money because there are not enough insane people that want to do it.

Fathers talking about daughters being literal whores. Jumpstarting... What is happening with this world..
> Facial tattoos are a traditional practice for many ethnic groups. Many modern practitioners feel that they're reclaiming a practice that was persecuted under American Puritanism.

I'm curious about this: is there any record of actual Puritans persecuting someone explicitly for having a facial tattoo? (It is true, of course, that Puritans in England and the colonies did not have a modern perspective about the separation of church and state and persecuted minorities like the Quakers. A revulsion to their sense of justice is also pretty understandable, but justice was pretty rough back then, too.)
Also the part where they keep lying there starving and dying, but by springtime the survivors can be observed lying in the sun. And the story makes it sound like a yearly occurrence.

Either the starvation wasn't quite as deadly, or new people kept moving to that strip of land, only to end up dying in winter.
I'm well aware of these "benefits" you speak of, but it was still a crap format for video. If you were satisfied with VHS, then I'm happy for you. However, VHS was the absolute worst video format. It was the penultimate example of how end users did not compare about quality. Early YouTube also demonstrated this. Laser Discs required flipping over. VCDs required a second disc. First gen DVDs were DVD-10s which required flipping over (until they eventually got DVD-9s working).

Even with VCD being half the resolution of the SD image, it was still a much better image than VHS could ever do.
I think you're right if you're only putting 1 sex worker and 1 porn addict on the scale, but I would imagine that for every sex worker there could be 100 porn addicts watching them, the math gets more tricky.
Indeed, I find the alternative naming proposed on the DaedTech blog a lot better: opportunists/idealists/pragmatists. Giving up on financial ambition and simply enjoying life is a pragmatic choice for many if not most people.
Interestingly when I researched the Acorn Atom (very simple 6502-based home computer from the early 80's) for an emulator, I found a very active Dutch community which helped me out with some questions I had. But AFAIK the Netherlands seemed to be the only '8-bit Acorn enclave' outside the UK, in other European countries Acorn only became somewhat popular with the Archimedes 3000 which was marketed as an "Amiga killer".
> doesn't help their future career aspirations

only if you confuse causation. If most black dudes have poorer career prospects, it doesn't mean it's only because they are black, there are a load of other correlating factors.

If women as a group did worse as a group because some do porn, you wouldn't say "Don't be a woman", you'd be more specific: "If you are a woman, don't do porn".
Open the page, read the first 25 words, and come back when you still have questions.
Definitely still a thing! I've picked up recently, there's a couple of websites where you can play for free. I've played in playdiplomacy.com.
Agreed, it just comes across as callous and inhumane to abstract the suffering of our fellow humans and other sentient beings out as merely a business cost.

A sadly common motif through, particularly on HN.
I just run my own router behind AT&T's router. Everything in the home connects to my own router. The loss of bandwidth is minimal, if any.

Are there any benefits to what you're doing over just doing that?

Edit: In my case, bandwidth drops from 970mbps at the ATT gateway to 930mbps at the internal router (2nd NAT). Latecy drop is higher, from 3-4ms at the ATT gateway to about 9-11ms, but most likely that is due to the Moca 2.5 that I've had to run between ATT and my internal router.
I should point out that I'm considering the 2X to be the total operational costs to the employer for having an employee. In other words, if I am billing a client $X per hour then my expectation is that my salary will never be more than $X/2 per hour.

As kasey_junk points out, an employee will have federal income tax, social security and medicare payments as well as health insurance premiums removed from their paychecks. Some employers also offer additional insurance policies such as short term disability, long term disability, and life insurance. Those are optional and would be additional deductions from the employee's paycheck.
> Early flight sims aren't very well remembered

Are you kidding me? Everyone who was into computers back in the 80s remembers the chunky look of MFS/Sublogic Flight Simulator 1.0 through 4.0. When Chuck Yeager died, more than one Hackernews remarked of how they discovered him through Chuck Yeager's Advanced Flight Trainer back in the day.
If anyone was as curious as me to see pics, here's a condition report from 2019.

https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/energysource/onboard-t...
My city used to be divided up like a pie. Calling from one pie slice to another would incur a fee. Near the center of the city the slices came together so calling someone across the street could incur a fee.
Being a mob hit-man will attract haters too.

If the moneys good, would you disregard that?
What about all their "gas" stations? Tesla is the only one with a large recharging infrastructure that is already in place.

Comparisons that try to make Tesla seem like an ordinary car manufacturer are probably quite a bit off.
It isn't meat-based, it's in the world.

It's a distinction in kind, not degree. You're presuming that we are just bleak repositories of trillions of sentences stiched together: we arent a meat version of any ML program; not GPT or any other.

We do not learn the meaning of "Green", or "Tree" nor any basic concept via examples in language.

An infinite amount of complexity considering an infinite amount of text cannot refer to the world; it has never been in it.

We aren't statistical patterns in trillions of books. You already presume that GPT is something that it isn't when you presume it is even capable of communicating anything.
So the Web is 30 years old today and FFmpeg is 20 years old today? Did the creator of FFmpeg purposefully start it on the 10 year anniversary of the WWW?
What do you mean by "tackle"? He removed himself from what he considered a bad influence, and he's writing about it publicly. I'm not sure what you expect? A 22 year old to single-handedly take down an extremely powerful institution that's almost 300 years old and has a $25 billion endowment?
At the risk of being pedantic, for this being such a nice project, you couldn't bother to spell out 'your' in the title?
That probably means that the binary isn't signed. You can either remove the quarantine attr with xattr in terminal or open system preferences -> security and click "allow" for that app, and then try again. macOS has the stance that binaries off the internet are less safe when not signed.