skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure cherrypicking postgres since it has more experience as "on-prem". Try and replicate s3 type of service for me or something like sns - even without fancy stuff.
"It's way simpler but you'd only get a yesterday's copy in case of problem."

I have a restic backup running on that plan instead of rsync, which means I get true backups. The nice thing about that it is that this can be integrated into any "docker compose" pipeline that you like. I'm generally not as hot on Docker as a lot of people but it does do a nice job of containing household services into a text file that can be easily checked into source control, and easily backed up, as long as it can be run in docker.

It's a pity that Sandstorm started before Docker was a practical option for most people. There's probably some room for a Sandstorm 2.0 that "just" uses Docker and provides some grease around setting up this stuff on a system from a top-level configuration file or something. It would go from a massive project in which you have to "port" everything to something some hobbyists could set up. It wouldn't be as integrated, but it would work.
https://i.reddit.com is the old mobile layout, and it still works fine for basic browsing and commenting.
Considering the number of supercomputers that have been constructed since the days of ENIAC, I don't think we'll be running out of scientific computing problems any time soon. And if we somehow do manage to run out of computing problems, then I guess we've already succeeded.
Extreme reliability and ability to handle massive amounts of power.
That’s handled by the package manager.
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I'll agree in general with the sentiments of the author, but for a lot of people it isn't practical, because things are already gigantic, overcomplicated, etc, and it's out of your hands. So instead:

Be prepared to run _any part_ of the system locally, like databases, message queue thingies, web applications & services, etc. This gives you lots of flexibility and control you wouldn't have otherwise. The up-front work can be painful, but it pays off over time.

Know how to proxy missing parts: For example, have a local nginx server proxying requests to a shared server that can handle some things.

Set up integration tests that actually bang on running applications (over, say, HTTP) instead of testing little blocks of code. Even if these only run on-demand (full runs may take hours, require overnight scheduling, bleagh) they'll be super-handy.

Ultra-distributed systems are a nightmare, but you do what you gotta do. In the end you'll end up being your own "devops" engineer and know your architecture better.

Edit: A lot of people think of "mocks" as unit-testing types of things, but "mocking" an entire web server is often the way to get out of an integration-testing pinch, especially when some production-only remote thing interferes with the critical path you're on.
Hmm, you are at least talking about a tech startup on a big tech company.

I've seen many attempts of hosting (incubating?) a startup in a traditional company like a financial institution. That's what really isn't possible.
I agree that the problem of storing data securely is a problem that you have whether you want it to or not, but I was mostly lamenting that Nextcloud does preciously little to help help you to solve this problem, as it suffers from the same problem itself (possibly worse because now you've got a data durability problem with more moving parts).
You reminded me my dad something similar for the toilets - living close to Lake Ontario. :)
If your algorithm is well parallelized, sure! Even a mobile GPU would likely be much faster in things such as image processing or other general purpose shaders than trying to run those on the CPU (which especially on mobile is likely not to be very performant).

If you wanted to try, you can clone the repository (make sure to be in the dev branch!) and then run the Benchmark project, which will show you some baseline difference in speed between the CPU and the GPU for some example algorithms. Let me know how it goes!
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It's not that negligible. At current reward of 6.25BTC, that means that the rate at which new BTC are being minted, as a percentage of total BTC supply, is about 3 times the (admittedly unusually low) current US inflation rate.

You're right, though, it will become negligible at some point in the not-too-distant future. I think, though, that that may not be all that relevant. The arguments about BTC and money printing seem to be more moral than pragmatic, so I'm not sure you can really draw a line and say, "Below this mark, printing money is A-OK. Above this mark, printing money is the end of the world," because trying to move to that style of argument would be moving the goalpost right out of the stadium. It was never about the actual pragmatics of inflationary currency policy.

By analogy, I'm not sure a lot of dyed-in-the-wool gold bugs would respond to the hypothetical opening of a massive new gold mine by saying, "An increase in the production rate? That, I just cannot do," and walking away from gold. If, on the other hand, the mine were opening in their own country, and being operated by the government, which planned to carefully release gold onto the market at a slow rate, then you might see a lot of protesting. That would actually be better for price stability, but price stability was never actually the point.
Big mechanical squishers squishing olives.
there is a state parameter? so If I want to have a cookie that passes stuff, I can just store my stuff inside a cookie and pass the stuff inside the state param, there are so many possibilites via openid (which is super easy), I do not know how saml2 works, which might be different tough.
Excel via Office online is a bit funky for me.
Stop looking for the perfect advice/best method/non-existing silver bullet and just do it.
There was apparently a drop in natgas pressure. To some degree this was unavoidable because usage went up, but it did take us a while to stop exports out of Texas. Knowing that it's coming, we could probably also pick which plants to idle rather than just seeing which ones go offline on their own.
Personally, I love NextCloud as a contacts/calendar storage. I have an instance from a cloud provider, I use DAVx5 [1] to sync with my Android phone, and I set up a CalDAV account on my MacOS, so I can see nextCloud calendars on Calendar.app. Sadly, NextCloud's CardDAV doen not seem to work on macOS, but that's a relatively minor issue.

[1]: https://www.davx5.com/
Running app locally -- yes, there's nothing wrong with that.
Running 25 different apps that compose "the platform" only to be able to develop something -- sounds overkill to me.
While your point is correct, I live in NY and true, it's heartening to see that someone is looking out for obvs fraud. But it's really annoying that I can't (straightforwardly) open an account at most crypto exchanges, and I'm banned from investing according to my choosing and to my knowledge.

If I decide to hedge inflation with some obscure or even mainstream "coin" that should be my choice why should gov be able to deny that right?
I don't think that's really true. There are plenty of cases where we can decide collectively as a society that a thing is valuable or not-valuable and intentionally set a particular price for it. As an obvious example, no one would argue that hospitals in Texas should have been paying the "market rate" for electricity last week, and conversely, it would have been a scandal if someone had been mining bitcoin on the Texas grid, no matter what price they were paying per kWh.

A similar thing happens with water, where people are asked not to use their sprinklers during a dry spell. They can _afford_ to buy a lot of water at the market rate, and raising the price might not even change that (besides being super unfair to someone else who then might struggle to afford even enough water to drink).

So yeah, I think it's fair for us to say as a society that turning electricity into heat in the form of bitcoin mining is a gigantic and unacceptable waste of a resource that we'd like to use for other things.
There are other use cases for containers besides third party cookie isolation. If you want to have two separate sessions for a site, you'd still need containers.
Facebook is creating an opportunity for someone else by requiring Facebook logins. I anticipate that many owners of the oculus will jump ship if a viable alternative is presented.
Ive had pretty good results with scaling down real world data and using it to run tests against it.

Postgres performance will be different to prod, yes. That's all part of the realism - cost trade off. All models are wrong, some are useful.

The point is that diving headfirst into making matchstick model unit tests is dumb when you could build something to test against at reasonable cost which is a lot more representative of reality.

IMO this is an obvious point if you adopt a cost/benefit approach to development but it's often impossible to see for the dogmatists.
Stainless steel for most things (can't make eggs/pancakes though, they'll stick). Preheat the pan before using. After cooking, warm up some water in it and scrap away the stuck bits with a wooden spoon (or make a pan sauce).

Cast Iron or High-Carbon steel for steaks, eggs/pancakes, stir-fries (wok). You will have to maintain a non-stick seasoning and that has a learning curve, most people don't get it right at first. Make sure to always dry them as they can rust.

You can look at enamel or copper if you have the $$$.
Most economic models are very nice in the steady state. If you get any sort of irrational actor or unaccounted variable in the model the model usually goes weird. The whole thing is at least s 20 dimensional graph just for the data. Never mind the hundreds of other things that feed it each of those systems some of which are impossible to model. It is a challenging problem but not really 'dialed in' and able to make decent predictions more than a few moments out. It is usually very good on explaining what happened but usually very ham fisted on predictions. Every once and awhile someone's model will 'get it right' at that point they go on book tours and predict the next disaster which may or may not happen. (source: degree in econ)
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I've been using Firefox as my main browser for a long time and over the past couple of years I noticed an uptick in websites that wouldn't work lest I used Chromium. For instance last week I had to use a crappy HSBC website that wouldn't let me login in Firefox (it would just hang) while it worked in Chromium.

It's still very minor and I can't even come up with a 2nd example off the top of my head but it does definitely happen from time to time.

If anything these few cases only makes me value Firefox even more, I don't want to enable the Chrome monopoly.
Coworkers of a family friend and my uncle died from it, even though their jobs could be done remotely (my uncle's a sysadmin ffs)

Our oldest daughter's friend didn't get it despite it putting her 3 siblings and 2 parents on their ass for over a month.

My wife and I suspect it played a role in her father's death. This occurred soon after nursing home shutdowns in the state and he had been dead of "heart failure" far longer than they had said in the initial phone call. They were fairly evasive when asked follow up questions about what had occurred and my wife and mother in law had gotten influenza (and hospitalized from it in my mil's case) from the same nursing home. He was in there recovering from a physical injury but had been dealing with health issues for a few months already, so who knows. The important thing was that my wife had her first viewing of her dead father completely alone, followed up by a "funeral" of immediate family members. Oh yea, and this all happened soon after his birthday that she wasn't able to celebrate with him due to the lockdown.

I feel like focusing on total deaths, death rate, etc. sometimes misses the point and allows those who rebel against any measures taken a rhetorical out. I don't like being sick, I don't like my family being sick. We've had our entire family wiped out from things like the flu and gastroenteritis. It sucked and it was an absolutely miserable experience. So even if I was fully guaranteed that no one would die (which is unlikely given what happened previously with my mother in law who is currently living with us) I would do what I could to avoid coming down with it.
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In Quboo, developers and teams can climb the leader board by following the good practices that you want to promote.

Out of the box integrations:

- Sonarqube: You can promote removing technical debt, getting rid of security vulnerabilities, or writing unit tests for legacy code.
- Slack: Colleagues can reward each other with some points just by reacting with certain emoji to their message. Kudos for completing some paperwork or boring stuff.

Custom integrations:

- Zapier: Create your own game in this automation tool. For example grant some points for finishing a task in Trello.
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Well this is timely.

Just this morning, I’ve been extending a Firebase app I developed for a very large enterprise customer, and I’ve been constantly reminded of some of the things the author speaks about as I tried to recreate the FaaS environment locally.

Not only did I waste valuable time setting everything up locally when the same would’ve been trivial in an old-school web framework; I now have an explosion of environment permutations and smells in my code, and I don’t completely trust that local and prod will behave the same so I will have to do extra testing.

Despite Firebase coming a long way - some of these local emulation facilities plainly didn’t exist or barely worked a couple of years ago - there is no way I would choose it for a new project. The only module that has genuinely saved me time is auth; none of the rest have made me happier or more efficient than a web framework. Even for prototyping (the reason why I picked Firebase initially) I would still pick Django or Express or whatever else over this. (And I haven’t even delved into the big elephant in the room, which is lock-in.)

Regarding costs and scalability there are a gazillion (fairly easy) things I could’ve done to achieve a similar cost range bringing my own stack.

FaaS and the like may have their particular use cases but for anything that has even the slightest potential to turn into a full-blown app I’d go for a good old monolith every time.
That there'll be a lot of people with varying levels of grief, loss, and trauma. This may have some long-term impacts on psychological health that we should be prepared to mitigate.
I think blockchain or cryptocoin is also acceptable.
The fundamental reason for all of Texas' problems is that energy usage is NOT usually higher in the winter here. It is, by far, normally higher when it's 105+ degrees F outside. But, extreme weather events are likely to be more common in the future than in the past, so we need to get ready for weather events that would have been unexpected previously.
> Total Cookie Protection makes a limited exception for cross-site cookies when they are needed for non-tracking purposes, such as those used by popular third-party login providers.

Would be great to have some more details about it: in particular, how do I turn it off if I prefer to add any exceptions manually.

Edit 1: Mozilla Hacks blog [1] has a bit more but still doesn't answer the question:

> In order to resolve these compatibility issues of State Partitioning, we allow the state to be unpartitioned in certain cases. When unpartitioning is taking effect, we will stop using double-keying and revert the ordinary (first-party) key.

What are these "certain cases?"

Edit 2: Reading on, there's this bit about storage access grants heuristics [2] linked from the blog. But is that really it, or is there a hardcoded whitelist as well? If so, it'd be great to see it.

This bit in particular is ambiguous in how it's supposed to work exactly (who's "we" here):

> If we discover that an origin is abusing this heuristic to gain tracking access, that origin will have the additional requirement that it must have received user interaction as a first party within the past 30 days.

1. https://hacks.mozilla.org/2021/02/introducing-state-partitio...

2. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox/Pri...
ComputeSharp can run code on the CPU as well, through the DX12 WARP device (https://docs.microsoft.com/windows/win32/direct3darticles/di...). It's obviously not super performant compared to properly optimized code for the GPU, but it offers an easy to use fallback solution for devices that don't have a compatible GPU at least. ComputeSharp will just automatically pick that device if it can't find a suitable GPU to use, and it's also possible to just explicitly use that one instead if eg. you wanted to run some tests or something else.
Is this really an issue? If the attacker has XSS on your site you're already screwed because they can manipulate the DOM to simulate user actions.
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Why are you comparing AMD desktop processors with laptop processors on power efficiency? That's incredibly contrived.

Compare the 5900HS with the M1, which is a 35W SoC, just like the M1, and much, much faster than any Rzyen 3.
They’re moving the goalposts.

The issue was that they didn’t have the money at some point, but they continued operating as if they did. I’d be even more concerned if they think this is okay now. Tether isn’t useful if they’re only backed at time of issue.

They also printed the majority of Tethers after this 2019 lawsuit.
You mean kinda like smoking pot on camera?

And risk? What risk? With crypto, there is no risk because the market is "unregulated". There are dozens (probably hundreds, maybe thousands) of "pump and dump" crypto scams operating openly on the internet. Here is one.

https://bigpumpsignal.net/

https://t.me/bigpumpsignal
The author calls it a heat pump, and I'm not saying he's wrong, but when people think of heat pumps, they either think of a system that has some amount of piping buried in the ground or it has a unit that sites outside (and is generally reversible so it provides air conditioning in the summer) such as what is shown int his image: https://www.alliedmarketresearch.com/assets/sampleimages/hea...

And it looks like the unit he has (assuming I've found the right one) uses a heat pump for producing hot water, but for heating the home it would often be paired with an external heat pump: https://www.nilanuk.com/domestic-solutions/compact-p/
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I've worked on detecting sleep stages from accelerometer data and it should work in theory (loss of muscle tone) but it doesn't in practice (still there are muscle twitches).

You need more modalities like heart rate, and a very sensitive heart rate monitor (the one in my Xiaomi/Amazfit is nowhere near the quality needed).

On the other hand, you can make quite good guesses based on the recurring pattern of REM sleep (in healthy subjects). Because REM sleep is quite prevalent in the later stages, your accuracy when guessing will be quite high.
Look for “expeller pressed” on seed oils (canola, etc).

Now I see why they’re advertising the method of extraction...
Yes, Prime Minister:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GSKwf4AIlI
We need to stop trying to shoehorn the state into places where it doesn't fit or belong.
Letters from House members to cable providers [pdf]
If you have 25 apps to run locally, chances are that your system is over-engineered.
no the strangest thing isn't how it was out in the open - that's precisely how to get away with fraud...the message and the reality aren't the same but the message is pumped into echo chamber
Well the apartments, for whatever reason, seem to have done worse in terms of power and water. That seems odd to me, but that's what I'm seeing in Austin anyway. Regardless, Texas is definitely urbanizing, and a much higher % live in apartments now than several decades ago (because house prices keep going up).
My days in the US Air Force were in mid eighties, we had punch cards. Seriously numbers of them fed to a Sperry 1100/60, later Unisys. VK runs, personnel, would comprise four to six boxes of cards. Storage on the system was a small disk set but mostly comprised of autoloading tapes. It was the various groups we served on base that brought us cards which we loaded and returned.

This did result in my learning Turbo Pascal and Turbo C to a limited degree. Sometime in 88 we got a program which allowed maintain card images in simple ASCII format on regular DOS diskettes. The Sperry provided program could take an hour provided no errors to read that diskette and upload it. Through Turbo Pascal I was able to get it down to less than ten minutes for the largest amount with error recovery.

I don't know when the USAF stopped using cards but they were there in the early nineties but mostly in diskette formats and not physical cards. The comm center was special to me as it still had a Burroughs system noteworthy for the fact it was the first system they built that did not use tubes. You could boot it from switches but I never saw that done, I did see it booted from paper tape though.

On a side note, my father worked for IBM until the nineties when he retired, pretty sure he worked on this beast in the article. I will have to find out what he remembers of those days
Yes, and this even applies to vertebrates and can sometimes work in reverse. I was part of a team of research divers that did fish counts in California. This was in the early 00's so in several instances genetic research found that seemingly identical fish were different species depending on region. In one case groups of fish that looked quite different turned out to be the same species. Very frustrating when you are putting in so much work underwater!

That whole experience made me very skeptical of citizen-science projects once I knew how much training was required to do good work. While they are a great compliment to professional research they are no replacement (though often funders are treating citizen science as just that).
I think the confusion is that other games on that system used this chip. It was not uncommon for games to ship with extra processors in those days.

So, it wasn't ported to a different system architecture, completely. But it was ported to have a new coprocessor, effectively.

Right? (I'm underlining your point on cartridges having this chip two years later.)