skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, the read-write disk partition also holds my files.

No docs I'm afraid and I set it up too long ago to remember the exact details. I used overlayroot, there are some really good resources on google to set it up like this. If I remember correctly it's just a matter of setting the overlayroot.conf file to:

overlayroot_cfgdisk="disabled"
overlayroot="tmpfs:swap=1,recurse=0"

And then a grub option to mount the base in read-only:

linux /boot/vmlinuz-5.3.0-51-generic root=UUID=... ro $vt_handoff

Then you add your mounts in fstab for persistent stuff.

I think this blog post describes it well: https://spin.atomicobject.com/2015/03/10/protecting-ubuntu-r...

For modifications to the base, installing or modifying software, etc I have a grub option to disable the overlay system and mount the base partition in read-write so it can be used normally. So I reboot into this option, do my changes, then reboot immediately in overlay mode.

linux /boot/vmlinuz-5.3.0-51-generic root=UUID=... rw overlayroot=disabled $vt_handoff

It took me about a month to get used to it, sometimes I'd apt-get something then the next day I'd facepalm after realizing I had done it in overlay-mode and had to do it all over again. I haven't lost any personal files though, it's pretty easy to remember to avoid saving them to your home and instead go to the persistent partition.
Incredible!

I have the flip side story:

We had spent almost 6 figures on factory experiments and needed to get some customer feedback from Europe at the behest of marketing.

Being mischievous and predicting the response, I actually asked marketing if they could purchase our engineering team a pelican case to protect the marketing samples ($300 cost).

They said it wasn’t in their budget to support, so we used bubble wrap.
>> implying that living users could train a digital replacement in the event of their death.

I've seen this so many times in science fiction that I am disappointed that MS can claim IP over such a scheme. It is like, after centuries of writers writing about it, applying for a patent on "flying machines". I understand that patent law may in fact protect such things, broad concepts that innumerable people have dreamt about for decades, but it shouldn't. At most it should grant monopoly to a specific implementation rather than sequester the entire field.

On the other hand, let MS have it. All that science fiction points to such schemes going either going horribly wrong or being sad and pathetic. Let MS keep shooting that same foot.
> the south was fairly wealthy antebellum.

Not so much when you properly account for the enslaved population. It's just not sensible to only count free citizens, that's clearly a misleading impression.
systemd-boot measures the bootloader, initramfs, kernel and kernel-params state into the PCR registers of your TPM. SecureBoot state is also measured.

You can configure through systemd-enroll to configure the TPM to only unlock the cryptokey if those measurements are consistent.

If somebody changes your systemd binary in the initramfs; this causes the TPM PCR register to change; and will cause the system to not be able to decrypt the stage-2 rootfs
For the "visit project" link, it messes up the format on mobile. I'd suggest just using the icon and dropping the text on small screens, and possibly moving it from the bottom of the card to the top right.
They probably have tons of images, but none give more information than this one. No sense in flooding people with information overload when it provides no extra value.

Clearly they went through multiple camera feeds to get the images they displayed.

They may hide the exact location, since that likely irrelevant and may even disclose information they chose to keep non-public, deciding it doesn't add to the chance someone in remote states need to identify a neighbor, but may add help in prosecution once someone is located.
Their numbers seem to be going up as well: https://nomadlist.com/open
By example, you'll note that I haven't called the comparison to ISIS dishonest. I could go in that direction, but instead I'd call it inaccurate. I've no way of reading the mind of the poster, so instead of burdening them with my presumptions of dishonesty, I try (and sometimes fail) to engage with good faith.

From this point it isn't hard to understand how high emotions seem to be running. It isn't uncommon for otherwise rational people to project irrational ideas onto a discussion. This is especially common when emotions are running high. The tribal instinct seems to be one of our most base emotions.

The distinction is that I don't presume malice. Instead, as trite as it may sound, I try to work from a place of compassion.

Simply blaming the other side (RE: Trump & Friends) appears to be part of the problem here. The anti-Trump partisans appear just as emotionally irrational in my view.

Perhaps I am privileged in that I don't identify with either side, or approve of their policies. I will say that it is hard not to have sympathy when I see someone irrationally attacked.

The mob mentality is palatable. I think it was George Carlin who made a famous observation about the intelligence of the 'average' person, then concluded that half of the people are somewhere below that.
Understanding the Birthday Paradox
Based on his shoe usage, brand choices, etc, I'm guessing he's more stylish than average and clothing is a hobby of sorts (he might not call it that, but it is).

FWIW, like the author, I spend a small fortune on clothing/shoes, but I tend to wear items until they're threadbare. A few items here and there end up donated, but largely by the time I'm done with something, it goes into a rag pile for cleaning bicycles.
Patent != Plans
Amazon doesn't need to use a proprietary license, the product they have built around Elasticsearch is itself proprietary. They have produced and are selling Elasticsearch-as-a-service for their AWS environment.
A story about pivots
Can't you put the bridges on a pi, like described at the website?
Patents aren't a claim on the idea itself, but on a specific implementation. There are many, many ways that sci-fi has conceived of this working. Any patent has to articulate a method for achieving it, and the patent only covers that particular method.

That said, if a sci-fi novel were to go into great technical detail about how to train a chatbot to emulate the way a dead loved one communicates, and Microsoft were to copy that method exactly, it's possible that the novel could be treated as prior art.
Except that if the competitor (Bing, DDG) fell under the same regulation, they can’t offer to pay anything and avoid the regulation. The media organizations make their claim (likely enormous, because they are not adapting to the new reality of online news) and it goes to arbitration and they get TOLD what to pay.

I’m pretty sure Google has offered to pay something to media organizations and to do deals with media organizations for their content - but they aren’t interested in an arbitration process that is going to stick them with a mùuch bigger bill, and they don’t want to change the business model they have where they index links and offer search results for free (well, for ad views…).
Should they be able to deduct the incurred costs of SEO from this?
And if you don't want to buy Dell, you can get a SuperMicro server that has about 2x the specs for half the price ($102k).

https://www.siliconmechanics.com/system/a+-ultra-superserver...

2U

128-Core

307TB NVME

4 TB RAM

-------

= $102k
I can see why they would do it, but I think it is sick and twisted. We already have a loneliness epidemic among the population. We already are shirking our responsibility by building robots to talk to our elders and we already spend too much time looking at screens. It would be better to go and befriend an older person, give them real face to face time with a person and a new friendship, than to talk to an AI replay of something that once was. I think it will lead to more turning inward, more isolation, and less human contact. None of those things are healthy or good. Sure it might help a few people, but I think it will hurt far more; including the young people who miss out on the stories & friendship of those who've lived through so much.
see the self hosting options
Because they have basically no information to run on and they need to keep some of those normally low value cards close to their chest in order to vet potential tipsters for validity.
Explains the joke:

It starts off with normal support, goes towards outlandish support, then concerning support, then ethically-questionable “support”, and after every one, Scott's written “I am humbled by [pronoun] support”.
That is the worst offender. Keyboard is the best way of quickly navigating, but no, no keyboard shortcuts anywhere any more, and definitely no underlines on buttons so you can alt+key to them...
The bloat of abstraction is a small price to pay for the deathmarch of progress. When you look at the ever growing chasm that software needs to fill, it all makes sense.

Consider how the most modern computer most of us could even write an emulator for is over 40 years old. Abstraction is the only way we have a hope of meeting hardware where it has progressed.

Just compare the best game anyone could build with z80 assembly vs. Unreal Engine / Unity. It's easy to pick on a 12MB calculator app, but don't let that rob you of being truly humbled by what can be built today.
I used the exact same stack (gitolite+cgit) in the early stages of a previous startup, and code reviews were the big missing part that made us move to something more full featured (for us, gitlab).

It's pretty easy to trigger ci runs via git hooks, and once you're used to it, checking their results in jenkins instead of in the git repository UI makes no difference. But code reviews really need a dedicated interface.
Yes, information has positive value.

Maybe what I said about journalism is best applied to “news media”. Journalists also do in-depth book-length work that’s less time-indexed and more atemporal.

Have you seen the news segment in Wikipedia’s homepage? It directly leads you to a rabbit hole of information rather than build a narrative of any kind.

Right now everybody knows not to speak to journalists — it’s a vampiric activity that will prey on your real life in ways you have no control over.

I see all the upsides you see (I did say “struggle to find positive value”, not “know definitively there’s none) but the net result of journalists at work is dubious at best. Even a daily news cycle is more about maintaining narrative threads than exploring issues in depth, let alone the 24 x 7 x {style and audience} x {degrees of meta} x {filter bubbles} news space that floods current discourse.
That's a very weak idea and unhelpful. Many companies pay excellently and aren't even connected to advertising.

If you are/become a leader, this mentality can seriously hurt your org. Pay for the talent you want to attract and keep. Pay generously for performance.
I have no idea what their legal expenses were, but they explicitly said it covered all their patents. The link I posted mentions Android as something that would be covered.
It’s bad leadership to organize a cartel to improve your pay.

It’s bad, because good leaders are supposed to take sacrifices for those they are protecting. Our system doesn’t necessarily promote good leaders though.
How is HAProxy any easier then nginx when it comes to proxying fcgi work?
looks like its almost twice the size of a UUID at 30 bytes in this case with a short prefix, I'm assuming your storing this as a ascii string? That's a lot of extra bytes from some convenience when viewing logs or raw data etc.

UUID's stored properly in binary form are only 16 bytes which can still be a concern over an 8 or 4 byte integer when you have a lot of them all over the place in a large db. (larger index more memory use).
there is no different usage. Look it up
Wifiman.com – Ubiquiti’s New Wireless Speed Testing Site
In fact first VTOL designs existed almost 15 years earlier in Germany
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focke-Wulf_Triebfl%C3%BCgel

Also vertical Start was already tested with real designs:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bachem_Ba_349
even when it ended badly
Who do you think you are screwing by cutting off your opportunities at the root? :)

As the other reply pointed out, you are cutting yourself (a) out of the conversation (b) out of finding out what your actual range is.

Here's a dirty secret for you - very often the recruiters don't share the range because the range is broad, they may fill the role with a mid-level or a super-senior at 2x the comp. If they tell you the range, it's likely a more cookie cutter mid-level role and you don't even get to learn where you could land (or what your level doesn't hit and maybe you want to work toward)
Which is surprising as I assumed not many people would be travelling at the moment.
No one needs six pairs of the same type of shoe IMO. But I’ve noticed if you wear only one pair they are more prone to developing odor than if you rotate them with a second pair, so there’s maybe a practical reason for more than one. Not to mention our culture sometimes(unfortunately!) looks down on people that don’t vary their outfit, maybe because lack of variety is a signal that it can’t be afforded, so it’s a marker of status.
Just to be clear - I am not advocating that, just I am thinking out loud what not-right-in-the-head politicians (as they usually are) could do to get that way. The easiest way is to apply the same framework to a different thing and then hope it will come to an equilibrium by itself eventually.
For that you would also need a good chunk of propaganda in the tune of drugs are bad, just say no, saying phones from China are bad and then subsidise companies who are manufacturing in the west and heavily tax stuff with Chinese origin and so on. I am talking about about decade worth of slow transformation.
Fortunately for China they are so corrupt just like our politicians, that any attempt to do this could be thwarted with money under the table. They managed to do this with drugs because you had no cartels and any organisation selling or manufacturing drugs wouldn't have enough money to influence the government (and ironically they got so rich because of essentially tax free high margin product that they pay for "war on drugs" to continue). Try that with Apple that essentially can do whatever they like.
Unless it’s direct injection, yes. It sits there for a little bit mixing up with the air. Also the hot valve vaporizes the fuel a bit more.

In direct injected engines, the injector shoots on the piston.
> Deindexing just news but permitting other searches certainly was floated as one of a few possibilities.

From what I've read, they're even running a 1% of users test for it. Certainly makes it seem as though they're being a bit misleading by threatening to pull search altogether.
> 1. There is no memory. If you close the window, to copy the password, you have to re-search for the account to find the username.

Recently summarized the issue plus previous reports in here: https://community.bitwarden.com/t/unsaved-changes-are-lost-w...

I'd used LastPass before and believe their solution is plan obvious, it just works. So that's what I suggested Bitwarden to do: opening up a new tab with all the extension UI for data entry, instead of depending on the volatile state of a pop-up window.

EDIT: I misread and thought the issue was with the data entry! but now I understand that parent meant manually copying username & password from the extension to a website. While I never do that (autofill seems to work fine for me), the same proposed solution still applies, I guess.
Most Soviet computers were shoddy copies of Western models. DEC even left Easter eggs in Cyrillic on their silicon to Russian reverse-engineers:

https://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/creatures/pages/russians.html
The patented method will be "digital information --> into computer --> result. Or "social media information --> computer->result". Or it will be "trained by person still alive --> computer --> result". Patent law tends to overreach in new/novel fields.
Show HN: MeetingBar is a macOS menu bar app for your meetings
The original undead AI construct is possibly Dixie Flatline in Neuromancer.
Many times that text was written by a random commenter though, and commenters are almost never paid.
Something can be not a solution to a problem, but contribute to making your life easier. This is that.

There are certainly applications that have type-ambiguous IDs which work just fine too. Not all engineers make the same decisions; that's ok.
FYI there is a typo in the CTAs. It should be "Request Availability" instead of "Request Availibility". I'd fix that because it doesn't look very professional. Otherwise the concept is nice, makes a lot of sense.
For those interested, here's (IMO) a good explanation on why completely random UUIDs hurt performance, and can lead to database fragmentation issues down the road (on MySQL):

https://www.percona.com/blog/2019/11/22/uuids-are-popular-bu...

It's part of what Timeflake aims to solve, but there's plenty alternatives too depending on your exact requirements.
My daily wardrobe features a rotation of 15 T-shirts, paired with another rotation of longsleeves for cold seasons, all in plain generic colors to make it easy to match.

My accounting data says I got those shirts in August 2018. I have worn one of these 15 T-shirts everyday since then (with very few exceptions, e.g. when formal wear was called for). Let's round that to 2.5 years, i.e. 912 days, i.e. about 60 wears per shirt. I'm not seeing any significant degradation on these shirts, so I can easily see myself wearing these at least another 3 years, which would be over 130 wears per shirt.

For reference, this is the model I'm wearing right now: http://www.gildan.se/en/o61001-en-grey
Most people will already have a phone and a phone plan but missing coverage in many places. Starlink makes it pretty cheap and easy for network operators to place solar/wind powered cell towers without need to dig wired connections or make microwave chains. That can seriously speed up the rollout to improve coverage. And users don't have to do anything.
Which is a pretty safe assumption, considering just generating
those 128bits 50 million times a millisecond results in over 20
million TB of data in a year. I think it's safe to say this is
not a common scenario.
It's what happens in "Black Mirror". I'd hate for any 5 minutes of that series to be prophetic.
Same here, lockdown saves clothes. And also means I'm wearing less formal clothes, somehow business dressing norms feel different via video call than in the client's office. At least with our banking clients which were always the most formally dressed once pre-lockdown.
Belts I own today:
1 - black leather (only worn with suits)

2 - casual brown leather (jeans, slacks, etc)

1 - nice brown leather (suits, jeans+blazer, etc)

1 - nylon (hiking pants)

I currently have 14 pairs of shoes, but about half of those really should be thrown away and I just keep around for wearing on rainy days or in the garden.
This site is where the term came from: https://www.indiehackers.com/

People define it differently, but generally I think of indie hackers as people, usually technical, who are building or are aiming to build smaller tech businesses. They generally either bootstrap or raise small amounts of money. A lot of indie hackers are would be happy with a business that makes 5-10k USD per month per founder
Seems like this point is not understood very well by many.
Ordered keys can create hot spots on insert and read, this can be good or bad depending on backend.
I purpose the phrase “deceased loved ones” is an editorial spin on the technology that missing Microsoft’s goal. If the goal is to revive a dead mother as a chatbot we can say that has a high probability of landing in the uncanny valley. Perhaps it’s just to train cooperate chatbots to have celebrity personalities, and dead personalities sell for cheaper than live ones do.
You can automatically add hooks to new repositories using gitolite.
I loled at "Candied walnuts"
I've not worked with Salesforce for a long time, but it used to have the worst language I've ever used. Some sort of crazy Java/SQL hybrid. And the dev tool for it was written in Adobe Air.

Is it still like that or have they moved on?
ASETNIOP: the full functionality of a keyboard using only ten keys
This is how Scott writes when he's describing something he disagrees with but doesn't want to get into just now because he's making a point about something else.

It's tacit disapproval, but not quite strong enough that people will go off on a tangent about it in the comments (though they still do).
Wayne Gretzky: "I skate to where the puck is going, not where it has been.”

Intel Acquires Artificial Intelligence Chipmaker Habana Labs [1]:

> Intel estimates the total addressable market (TAM) for AI silicon by 2024 will be greater than $25 billion, and within that, AI silicon in the data center is expected to be greater than $10 billion in the same timeframe.

Amazon EC2 instances powered by Habana Gaudi [2]:

> Up to 40% better price performance for deep learning models

Matrix CPU math is another plausible future; Intel, AMD, and/or ARM are positioned to drive such an ISA extension. Accelerators, coprocessors, FPGAs, and CPU ISA extensions all seem to be in play; it is too early to pick winners in this nascent market.

[1] https://newsroom.intel.com/news-releases/intel-ai-acquisitio...

[2] https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/habana-gaudi/
This was quite literally an episode of Black Mirror ("Be Right Back" - S2E1)

If you haven't tried Microsoft's voice synthesis service, it's incredible so maybe they'll have something here in 10 years.

(Scroll down to the demo box) - https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/cognitive-service...
That's interesting, could you expand on this line a little more:

"Our primary work is in remote work for non-desktop people and educational/video space plus a live ecommerce"
> they could have limited posts from new users

They did have restrictions on new users. People accused them of suppressing leftists by doing this.

> But Parler _didn't even try_ any of these less drastic measures.

Prior to the riot their failure was no greater than that of Facebook. Parler (but not Facebook) was forced offline almost immediately after it before being given any meaningful opportunity to do anything different in response.

It's also not obvious that their existing measures wouldn't have been as effective as alternatives once their user base stabilized and the backlog was cleared.
I don't think this is a fair critique: they have a pragmatic goal of running a business while being as unrestrictive as possible.

With their Apache choice a pragmatic balance was met where developers could use/modify it as they please or use a managed solution from EC or even a managed solution from another company. The ecosystem thrives and their company can thrive.

But a managed solution from AWS ends being materially new and different: AWS is able to undercut them on every front, and people end up viewing AWS ElasticSearch as the canonical ElasticSearch.

Maybe trademark infringement aside, Amazon didn't break the law but they created an unprecedented situation that changed the effective balance of power which changed whether Apache was achieving their EC's goals or not.
Although many people might be dreaming about it and hoping to do so with no real followthrough (myself unfortunately likely included)!
I think the killer app for differential dataflow would be an easy to set up realtime database like Firebase, but with much richer real-time queries and materialized views.

Materialize (built on differential dataflow) is cool but doesn't have the complete package of a persisted database.
Hm. GDPR disagrees.