skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have already started doing it: less travel, less dining out (or take out), and generally spending less money. More work is to be done on household energy consumption and water consumption, but that's coming.
So it's a natural phenomenon?
I added some screenshots in readme
Flash is dead–but South Africa didn’t get the memo
Rocket builder Astra to go public via SPAC at $2.1B valuation
How do you imagine killing nature? We could not do that even if we declared is a as sole goal of the humanity.
"Computers?"
Yes, there have been lots of stories about nature "bouncing back" during lockdowns.

> all the types of social, economic, industrial and urbanization activity suddenly shut off, nature takes the advantages and showed improvement in the quality of air, cleaner rivers, less noise pollution, undisturbed and calm wildlife

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00489...

Of course, "dampening our impact" has also set our economies back decades, caused untold misery, and has been particularly hard on the most vulnerable members of our society, which is an indication of the price we'd have to pay to help nature bounce back in this way.
I think you've probably answered the question there; there are a lot of hosts on my LAN. X works great.
See section entitled "Witness K Trial"[0]

[0]:https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Collaery
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Google is not a monopoly in the App Store market, but even if it were - how are you going to stop it? Google's property is it's property - it is entitled to do as it pleases. At what point in libertarian ideology is the government supposed to step in? And when it does: and do what? (while still being plausibly a libertarian movement).
Would have loved to use Hetzner, sadly they rejected a picture of my ID card/passport (with some details blacked out) a few years ago when i tried registering and verifying my identity, i don't think there was any process for appealing to have someone else look at it again, thus my account ended up being blocked. Of course, this is just 1 data point and i'm sure that the experience of other people is more positive in general!

That said, the prices actually look pretty competetive and are indeed cheaper than Scaleway's offerings. However, Scaleway also recently came out with more cost effective instances, called Stardust (though the specifications are somewhat limited): https://blog.scaleway.com/a-star-is-born-as-scaleway-launche...

Personally, i use Time4VPS for my VPSes, which is a somewhat small daughter company of a larger Lithuanian telecom (Interneto vizija). Affiliate link, if anyone is interested in having a look: https://www.time4vps.com/?affid=5294

I've been using them for a few years, the uptimes and the performance both are generally pretty good, can even self-host an e-mail server and the few IPv4 addresses i've had from them haven't been blacklisted anywhere. However, they don't directly compete with SaaS or PaaS like AWS's or Scaleway's managed offerings.
Really love this. I try to keep my contracting work time tracking as simple as possible, but I really hate using the spreadsheet I use now. Going to give this a shot!
Iron Arachne: https://gitlab.com/ironarachne/iron-arachne-js

https://ironarachne.com

Playing with procedural content generation for games is a ton of fun, and I've learned a great deal so far in the three iterations of this.
> more than most developed countries

Basically this article is about someone's exercise to persuade themselves a lie is true. Keep squinting, keep finding ways to tilt the numbers, until, like a word you've read over and over they become nonsense and then pronounce yourself satisfied that you've proved Up is Down and Black is White. Congratulations I guess, to Kirkegaard? A Wall Street firm sends an exec on a $10M tour of Europe for "wellness" and that's now welfare expenditure, but there's tax charged on the food an unemployed steel worker in Liverpool buys so his unemployment cheque doesn't really count as welfare after all.

I look forward to a study showing that the US has really good paid leave compared to the rest of the world, so long as you denominate it in dollars not hours so that a marketing exec's six months "gardening leave" to prevent them stealing accounts outweighs Amazon warehouses with zero paid holiday...
>But internet knows NOTHING.

She prefer to keep herself private. Those in the community would know. So it isn't exactly Internet knows nothing.
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Disclaimer: I use both at work and prefer clojure.

Common Lisp is huge, which is fine. In some concepts it is closer to traditional languages (mutable data structures, multiple inheritance OO, tools to write low-level efficient code). It is more extendable than clojure (reader macros, symbol macros, CLOS and MOP). With quicklisp you can find most of the libraries you might need.

Clojure is much more different from traditional languages. It puts immutable maps and vectors up front and expects you to work with data directly. Why is that preferable is hard to explain in a short post, if you're interested about the ideas I'd recommend watching Rich Hickey's talks like Value of Values[1].

> neither of these languages can help me much in finding a new job

I don't know about CL but there are clojure shops hiring. Depending on your employer if the JVM is being used you might get a chance to use clojure as well (or CL through ABCL for that matter). It's also used by some shops for the frontend. And for your own work you can often choose what to use. Both can be used as a scripting language (clojure through babashka[2]).

> CL sounds like the logical choice because of SLIME

I'm not sure what you mean.

> Clojure sounds like the choice to avoid because of the JVM and the fact that I already know Go that plays in the same domain...

I don't get the JVM hate. Sure, every platform has its issues, but the JVM is a highly tuned virtual machine that has decades of development behind it. It is cross platform. It is used for high performance projects as well. It has libraries for everything.

[1] http://infoq.com/presentations/Value-Values
[2] https://github.com/babashka/babashka
NuGet package repository is down
The thing is though for many workloads (I'd even say most) applications get I/O constrained way quicker than CPU, so scaling CPU will not give you the boost that you expect on AWS and the other big cloud providers.

Keep in mind that PCIe4 NVMes can do 5-7GB/sec (gigabytes - not gigabits) read and write, with up to 500K IOPS.

Compare that to RDS on AWS which charges a comical $0.10 per IOPS-month, so just for IO it would be $50k/month (and for many DBs IOPS are more important than CPU) to meet the performance of one NVMe SSD, which can be bought retail for probably $200.

I don't think I've ever seen such ridiculous pricing. I do understand AWS can be more expensive, but it is just outrageous margin for IO performance (and external bandwidth, but that's a whole other story!).
Why are you so angry?

Aqua- and Hydroponics have been successfully used to grow food for a very long time now.

If you have any evidence of food grown this way lacking any nutrients, please provide it.
Received the first email in April telling, technical support would end in July and servers pulled out by December. No detail or technical documentation on why they had to do it and just pointed their customers to the migration document.

What about those customers who had spent extensive resources on optimising their work for ARM, when they forced a x86 migration?

A cloud provider can do better than just 3 months notice. Naturally it was not just me who was unhappy[1].

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22866216
I'm in no way a person who run some cluster on bare metal servers, but managing them are not any different than cloud compute instance. Only extra thing you need is to have some monitoring for SMART status of your drive.

> I am much more comfortable working on a compiler than setting up a server in a way that it doesn't get pwned

99% of the time all you need is to have firewall up, password login off and unattended upgrades enabled. It's will literally never get pwned then.
This is awesome. My next print is gonna be a model of the mountains that surround my house
Ah yes, the Dutch and Belgian tomatoes: they're atrocious. I'm from Eastern Europe, and our local variety of tomatoes is way tastier. Or any other variety for that matter.
Yes: it's Myanma, so it's the Myanma government.
Sounds like you care quite a bit. Although perhaps here you're defining success as monetary as opposed to adding reliable knowledge.
Also just realized you wrote it in Go. I’ve been slowly trying to pick up Go myself and digging through your source could help.
Did he die? Because it says 'last updated 2018'.
The enlightened caveman, after whacking some other poor guy upside the head with a big club: "My hope is to use this food I took from you to develop new medical technologies to fix your shattered skull. This is more of a loan than a grant."
What about the people that suffer the consequences but that do not have prosperity? What about the people that come after you?

I think this cartoon sums it up quite aptly:
https://www.newyorker.com/cartoon/a16995
> The only copy/paste behavioral difference I've noticed on Wayland is that I lose the copied data if I close the source program.

This is because sway by default does not provide a "clipboard manager" component. It has been the case for a long time that the clipboard is only actually populated when you paste, copying merely stores a reference. This is so you can copy/paste multi gigabyte files without running out of memory. A clipboard manager component solves this issue by intelligently saving your clipboard as applications come and go.
I wouldn't agree. I often connect to my GF's Macbook to help her out with a code or something like that. You can't watch a video but it is phenomenal to work together on the same thing because it's very easy to connect and has a phenomenal audio link that it feels like you are in the same room. There's almost nothing to mess up, unlike the 3rd party conferencing and desktop sharing software that every time someone is not getting the sound/can't share the desktop/can't unmute the mic.

BTW where I live currently, 4Mbps upstream is considered good and the remote desktop works fine on this connection.
Nature will survive. Plants might not, humans definitely won't, but given the extremes at which we've found life on Earth it's obvious something will, even if it's just bacterial colonies in hydrothermal vents deep under the ocean.

Life... uh.. finds a way.
I genuinely do not understand this 'smashed avocado' thing. I get told I love them once every few months, and was recently told I wouldn't get a home loan because of them. I've never had one, yet it seems to be a derisive term that has appeared out of nowhere.
> When I spoke to Satya the other day, there was a bit of that,” Morrison said while rubbing his hands together and referring to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.

I'll bet there is.

Nothing like an incompetent governor willing to give you the keys to the castle if you bend knee and kiss a$$ for a few days first.

There's probably a reasonable case for other players to get a piece of a pie that is pretty much entirely owned by google here, and they'd be stupid not to take it, especially as it positions them to challenge google in more lucrative markets in the future.

To be fair, this sucks for Australians and Australian businesses, and they'll suffer for it; but, it is what it is. You speak with your votes; if you vote a$$ hats into power, don't complain when they do this kind of stuff.

You reap what you sow.
I think that's wildly optimistic; more like 0.00002%

That would still be around 140K people on a population of 7 Billion, which probably is still on the high side. If you do 1000X better, it's still close to meaningless. But if it makes you feel better, of course go for it.

The better advice is to just use your phone as a phone and not install any crap on it that you don't need. Use a PC with a reasonably uncompromised browser like Firefox or Chromium. Even with the default settings, that will keep you out of a heap of trouble and there probably are about 100M Firefox users or so (1.4% of the world population, not so bad).
https://myhikes.org

It's a platform for hikers, backpackers, and outdoor enthusiasts to share trail information via GPX files for interactive maps and elevation charts, notes, trail features, points-of-interest, and pictures.

After 6 years and almost 800 individual trails written and tracked (of my own), it seems like this project is a total waste of time some days. Other days it's super exciting to see traffic and knowing folks are out exploring something new. I also never thought anyone would pay money to support the site, so no complaints.

It's also a great way to stay in shape.
My 3840x2160 external monitor has a pixel density of approx. 275 ppi. IIRC it cost approx. $300, not exactly prohibitive.
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Any comments and contributions from the community are welcomed!
> Are you going to patch it to decade old binaries? How are you going to handle that Wordperfect from 1998?

The same way Apple handles a PowerPC-compiled application from 1998.

By incrementing to a new major version number, and stating in
the changelog that users are free to keep running the older
version if their software won't be patched.

Does Wayland provide a better solution than that? No, and in
addition it also breaks a lot of newer applications. We don't
need to do a lot of math to figure out more people would miss
Xorg than Wordperfect.
I don't think any other species has upset the ecological balance to such an extent that it becomes unlivable for them
It is interesting that Spanish Flu was first observed in the US, and could have been called the Kansas Flu, if it was not for wartime censorship.
Thanks for the hint, I'll check it out. I'm using v4l2loopback already for feeding OBS output to Teams/Zoom so I'm familiar with the process.
The most impactful thing you could do is refrain from reproducing, but that's generally not a popular suggestion.
Also there is more forest than before.
I mean, one of the interesting changes that's soon happening is the transition from ICE to electric cars. I think the core issue is the concept of cars themselves. Storing them all over the road (they are everywhere!), people using them for very short journeys, their accessibility/cheapness to practically anyone and how much our society relies on them each and every day, even at the cost of the beloved hedgehogs which are being squished day in, day out (or badgers/roadkill I see frequently, they just can't compete with our death machines).

Electric cars will rapidly slow the pace of life down; with them taking longer to charge, adaptions will be required since you can't fill them in in 2 minutes like an ICE car.

Yet, I am not convinced shifting the burden to electricity completely solves the equation; the demand for battery production and development, the depletion of the batteries and mining for lithium itself is just shifting the problem elsewhere.

Humans need to drive less, consume less and expect less. Yet the global economy is based on consumption; as I write this comment on my computer consuming internet/electricity, buying food (relying on transport for that!) etc etc.

8 billion humans is not compatible with "nature", we've overtaken nature. Our species must be limited to a maximum population and the rest be culled; we did it with the minks due to Covid-19.

Then again, suggesting we cull humans is seen as barbaric but cutting the heads off billions of chickens is okay, apparently, so people can drive to McDonald's and get their 5 nuggets because "capitalism". McDonald's should be illegal if we are to take nature seriously, yet no human wants to make sacrifices "for the greater good".

Maybe we deserve to be the chickens for once.
Uh, yes. No other animal species pontificates about living in harmony with nature, or preserving the balance, or anything of the sort. They're all fighting tooth and nail to survive and, if successful, outcompete.

We're only exceptional in that we're so successful, and that we sometimes contemplate deliberately limiting our growth.
In unit tests, we use configurable timeouts and/or mock time (dependency injection usually). This lets us keep tests fast.

In integration tests, we black box test our service from the edges. Docker Compose ftw. We validate logs and other output such as metric endpoints. If we read from a queue, we run that queue; same with all our dependencies. Sometimes we will use fake services with mock/default responses if running the dependency is too onerous.

System testing. We run a smaller clone of production as a staging environment. Automated tests kick off customer actions (say, using an API or submitting a file for processing) and monitors logs and sinks (customer webhooks, user notification, emails, files generated, etc). These test suites exercise the entire system from the customer point of view.

Production. Metrics, metrics, and logs (and alerts). Deployment dashboards of metrics and error logs, slo/sli graphs, and automatic rollback on some metric violations. We usually canary a single node, the do a multi-tier roll out.

When a bug shows up, we determine which level of testing makes the most sense and add a test case to prevent future regression. New alerts may be set up.
This is so incredibly bad faith based. I have used wayland on my main computer for the last 3 years and the amount of GNOME-centricness is entirely choice based, there are lots of other options. There are items on those lists that have been long fixed, it's just that X tools don't work on wayland. One has to employ wayland tools. This is like saying "I can't use x86 assembler for arm processors therefore arm is useless". A new technology requires new tools (a different assembler in this example). Some tools are already present in wayland world (like redshift replacement) and some still have to be developed. Instead of whining the author could perhaps contribute to that effort and make wayland a better place.
This isn't 3d graphics as we know them today. Instead, this is scaling and moving 2d sprites to create the impression of depth. The basic idea is similar to how racing arcade games worked in the late 80s/early 90s before rendering polygonal models became possible.
Well, if any government was serious about this, they could easily create new rules for corporations to follow - given that corporations are by the cause of destroying nature.

Instead, corporations are 'socialising' the cost of their actions. As if the consumers have any real options, when doing a daily shop, buying a phone, etc. Consumers are being 'guilted' for the actions of another.

Governments are beholden to corporations - it is governments job to put the costs on to citizens, while allowing corporations to act as they want.

I wish people would stop saying 'we' or 'our' as if corporate action to increase their profit is my fault. As if government is not complicit in the shifting the expense and costs on to those who they purport to represent but have no power to change the direction of discussion and law-making.

The solution is a/ not to fall for this shallow tactic where you are personally held liable for the actions of another, and b/ not to look to the government to help manage this situation.

Despite what you are told, you are not a citizen of a country - you are an autonomous individual. An accident of birth does not mean you need to support the tyrannical structure you find. It is illegal to use your legal name - it says so on your birth certificate. To do so is to be in dishonour, and in dishonour you are manipulated by the system.
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> I asked you to name even one thing sway did better and you tell me about the nature of the legacy code base.

OK, let me rephrase it: a feature it has over i3 is a higher probability of running on the platform provided by most distros in 5 years' time.

> No user on earth cares any more than they care about the sharpness of the blades used to grind the sausage they ate for breakfast.

Indeed. But if you're choosing a sausage you wanna have for breakfast for the next few years, you might choose better than the one made from the animal that people fear might go extinct.

> I'm not sure why you imagine that nvidia is obligated to support Linux in the fashion you would prefer.

Oh not the fashion I prefer. The fashion the Linux developers prefer. Most other providers of hardware seem to. What makes Nvidia special?

> X11s future departure seems like a thin justification seeing as it's future seems pretty secure for the next decade.

Perhaps. You may well be proven right, but I wouldn't bet that X11 is able to attract sufficient manpower to keep up going forward. Time will tell.

I'm not trying to convert you. I'm trying to give one argument why Sway might offer something that i3 doesn't.
The song is "Ampun Bang Jago".
There are TVs with more than 100ms of latency, and there are strategies using state rollback and replay that can further reduce the impact of the latency besides. Latency isn't Stadia's hardest problem.
> The report proposes recognising nature as an asset and reconsidering our measures of economic prosperity.
It is expected to set the agenda on government policy going forward.

LOL. That would be great, but, expected by whom?

And why now, from Boris Johnson's government, after hundreds of years of monarchs and governments choosing prosperity over nature at any cost?

The article doesn't say.