skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, Firefox can act as a WebView implementation on any Android phone. Apps don't need to ship this.
Seems like there continues to be more to this story. Still doesn't change my opinion that that is likely the source of the outbreak. I will adjust my priors as more information becomes available. It does complicate things quite a bit - would be great to know how much funding the US portion is vs the Chinese.
I mentioned it in another comment, but LaCinetek is extremely good if it's available for you.

The catalog is based on the recommendations of famous directors, and you end up with a lot of very high quality movies.
Just calculate digits of pi in base pi, it's 1.0 exactly.
Loudspeakers in trains and airports are typically constant voltage systems. This allows for long cable runs with minimal power loss, but there's a separate transformer at each speaker which introduces a lot of distortion.
Agree for raw "syntax highlighting" styling output, disagree for styling the output such as here where the gradient represents additional information/context. Especially since it takes the terminal background configuration into consideration when making that choice.
all of those people are weak and it was their time to die
IMO marriage has some similarities with a startup. This is one of them.

Disclaimer: I've never been married. I might, later in life.
While I agree, some people will never learn and grow regardless. "Touching the hot stove" doesn't work at national policy scale imho. It's like asking sea creatures to evolve fast enough to be able to exist at the rate of acidification due to CO2 saturation. It just ain't gonna happen. Poor decisions will catch up faster than folks are going to learn.
> We need distance and live-and-let-live in society. It's not a family.

Get rid of social media. Problem solved.
It's putting too many people in proximity who otherwise should and would not be. The end result is always an angry mob.
That's a fine take too. But, the US media has a national bias which portrays TikTok as some elaborate data collection spy network that reports to a smokefilled, windowless command centre with hissing Chinese communist party members keeping notes every time a teenager posts a "put a finger down" video.

Both Facebook and Tiktok do the same (abusive ?) workarounds to whatever limitations are imposed by Google or Apple, but Facebook generally passes without comment in the mainstream media.

Edit: Put a finger down Hackernews Edition. Put a finger down if you get downvoted for simply having a different point of view...
I miss Tom Mahood. I wonder if he's still around. Last update was on Sept 4, 2019.

He has a number of popular articles and stories about search and rescue. One that comes to mind is the search for missing Germans in Death Valley [0].

[0] https://www.otherhand.org/home-page/search-and-rescue/the-hu...
I like living in cities so it’s never been a problem to find an employer where I want to live. You can also choose a combination of employer and workplace that gives you the commute you want.

I’ve never had a problem with running an errand or even just taking off and going for a walk in the middle of the day while working in an office. I get that there are places where that’s a problem, but I don’t know, don’t work there I guess? You don’t have to just immediately acquiesce and accept whatever demands the first company who offers you a job wants.
Tires conglomerate, that started a communications company. Nokia tires are pretty good.
After seeing 1Password's automatic form filling behavior in action almost a decade ago I decided not to use it just in case of this sort of thing.

I'm happy to use for storing my passwords and maybe logging in but that's about it.
That sounds interesting, are there specific episodes you could suggest which dig into that topic?
I attended a webinar from a famous e-commerce platform. They mentioned that they no longer have QA and make use of CI/CD pipelines (edit: canary deployment, feature flags, etc.) to move fast and break things.

I assumed that everyone else no longer has QA and just pushes emergency fixes in a JIT fashion. I also assumed that our company is traditional and backwards for still having QA.
Matrix multiplication inches closer to mythic goal
The interesting conclusion of all this is that if everything looks like a file, then it doesn't matter what OS it runs on. A /dev/screen can be on your local Plan 9, on a remote Windows or on your Linux VPS; as long as it respects the protocol it doesn't matter. Plan 9 is the host of all this experiment but its findings can be (and have been) imported in other places.
Heroku has pipelines, with Github integration that makes CI/CD a breeze too
>Glasses for instance are not "natural" but I don't see many people arguing that we should only let those with 20/20 vision survive.

I agree with you. Glasses and vaccine are great achievements of human civilization but I raised questions about freedom, biology and moral.

I'm not against vaccination I took many of them as a child and I have glasses which help and enhance me significantly but I'm not for mandatory vaccination or COVID passports that my European Union wants to enforce and I'm not for European Union limiting my human rights. We are going back to the days of Hitler where it was more important who you are "biologically" than looking at the fact that we are all humans and that we all have equal rights.
This is due to arms control treaties. The ICBM bases and other critical infrastructures can't be hidden, because the other side needs to be able to verify with their own eyes that you're complying with your part of the treaty, and vice-versa.
Also - i did do a check on Josh Rogin and it does seem he has done some underhanded reporting practices in the past. Not saying that discredits him completely but does muddy his work. Thanks for bringing that to my attention.

That said - it doesn't yet change my priors about the likely source of outbreak which seems most plausibly at WIV.
The proof itself would be super-interesting, pointing to lots of new areas of mathematical inquiry. It's a bit like the old logic problem of not being able to prove something doesn't exist, in order to be able to do so, you need to look literally everywhere and show that it's not there.

A proof of P!=NP would tell us two things. First, that there's something inherently different about NP-complete problems, and the proof would tell us exactly what.

Second, it would tell us how to figure that out, inevitably with an entirely new toolset for classifying problems. It would reverberate all over the computational complexity space and probably even give us new ideas for number theory.
What is the audience you're trying to target here? My project is already doing what you're attempting to demo here deploying a RKE2 cluster in AWS GovCloud and SC2S using terraform and installing applications into it using flux, all happening in Gitlab, but we are very much not doing this as a replacement for Heroku. Heroku doesn't exist and isn't even a possibility where we deploy. I don't imagine the one-man team trying to share a passion project with friends on the Internet really has the same concerns and cares about something like this.

For what it's worth, I kind of hate that we're using Gitlab for this, but as far as fully-integrated DevSecOps solutions that include VCS, binary artifact repositories, and pipeline orchestration all in one, there's Gitlab and there's Azure DevOps and that's it. No one else offers this, so here we are. My complain is more that, as much as I also hate Jenkins because the no database everything is configured via text files scales terrible, especially over NFS, and security is non-existent, but going from Groovy DSL to embedded bash scripts in a heredoc that is part of a yaml list object is a significant downgrade in pipeline developer experience and quality control as a vehicle for pipeline as code.

I really, really wish you guys hadn't gone with yaml-defined tasks as a pipeline scripting language. As bad as Jenkins is for every other reason, they really got the pipeline DSL correct.
IMO this comment is underappreciated, I wish I could upvote it more. I favorite-ed it at least :)
The person you're responding to doesn't seem to place moral considerations high on his list, in general.
Edit: I misread the pricing page, see the reply below. Keeping my post for archival purposes.

One problem with Element is that there's no "individual $5/mo" plan or a "you and your buddies pool your pocket change every month to keep a server up" plan. And the free hosts all have bad performance which leads to a bad experience.

The minimum plan is $20/mo for 10 users. That's a bit steep for a group of kids to pool their money for, compared to old-school Teamspeak hosting.

And I don't know of any company that I can pay for personal Matrix hosting, or any company that offers a Discord Nitro equivalent, where I can pay a few bucks a month and get this or that extra perk. Where is the Fastmail of Matrix?

Also, the UX of Element flat-out sucks. It's like those "we have X at home" memes.
Rarely editorialize? The entire magazine is opinion.

The Economist doesn't interview anybody, doesn't cultivate any sources, or ever break any stories. It mostly reads like recent university graduates cosplaying William F Buckley.

Perhaps it just 'feels' like it doesn't editorialize because their writers are all nameless and faceless and share the same ideology, so there is never a difference of opinion. Problem with the economy/society/military? Just deregulate and privatize!
>> They can't be removed because they are on the read-only system image

My question is: WHY are they part of the read-only system image?

Is Google TV, YouTube Music, or Android Auto essential to making the phone work?

If not, why can't I delete them? It seems like monopoly power in action to me.
They’re not though. I work in an office now and my commute is a 15 minute walk. If I need to go do something during the day I do, nobody complains. These jobs exist, you can find them.
Why not? You have thousands of pilots, not each and every one is an expert in interpreting the data they see. For example the "gimbal" video is probably out there because they wanted to teach pilots how this effect looks in real life.

Also it's possible some of the videos are showing unknown military aircraft or systems that the pilots are not aware of.
Similar experience on Firefox mobile
If they lose the war they lose many pilots and many F16s anyways, don't they?
It's hardly a surprise that someone who believes strongly in personal freedom might fight to defend it for (what are supposedly) liberal societies, especially given that several very large wars of the 20th century (hot and cold) are often described as fights for freedom, and usual for the freedom of of others and of all.

This is basically the default position of every liberal (not in the misapplied American parlance) for at least 150 years now and surely far longer.

“War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth a war, is much worse. When a people are used as mere human instruments for firing cannon or thrusting bayonets, in the service and for the selfish purposes of a master, such war degrades a people. A war to protect other human beings against tyrannical injustice; a war to give victory to their own ideas of right and good, and which is their own war, carried on for an honest purpose by their free choice, — is often the means of their regeneration. A man who has nothing which he is willing to fight for, nothing which he cares more about than he does about his personal safety, is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever-renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other.”

John Stuart Mill, 1862

https://www.bartleby.com/73/1934.html
I'm reading Gad Saad's The Parasitic Mind at the moment. His metaphor of how parasitic ideas can take hold within a group and then take control of the host seems to be on display here.
that’s barely freedom of choice. a robber pulling a gun on you and saying your money or your life isn’t what any reasonable person interprets as free will. free will would be not going to jail or being banned from society if you chose not to take the vaccine.
It‘s just some ajax logic: Put something in a form, an ajax request will be made an the response is inserted into the dom.

The title is pure clickbait, it‘s nothing more than a simple ajax call. The type of logic you‘ve done 10 years ago with a little bit of jquery.
The only thing that evolves faster than this virus are the conspiracy theory memes[1] that the internet collectively weaves from circumstantial evidence where more and more compelling narratives become more and more widely shared. I'd wager that 100% of pandemics, regardless of origin, will have some compelling conspiracy attached to them. Compelling conspiracy theories is what the internet manufactures, particularly in the absence of direct evidence of anything.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme
He lied to the public, repeatedly, in a very obvious way. He was also in that segment being fed softball questions by Aaron Bell, Conservative MP which were probably arranged in advance.

I therefore don't in any way trust his self-assessment of his own department's work and the 'vaccine task force' he set up, which incidentally hired some of his associates, who were paid very well, for example the PR firm:

https://www.ft.com/content/6159d5b7-171c-49ed-b318-144efcc4c...

A director of the public relations firm paid £670,000 to advise the head of the UK government's coronavirus vaccine task force is a longstanding business associate of Dominic Cummings.
OVH flames scorched cloud customers with data centre fire simulation lab pledge
The best steelmanning I can give to this author is that she's talking about a narrow phenomenon of more interest to her than to other people.

This isn't about climate change, but about climate anxiety. The former is an environmental problem; the latter is a psychological one. The two are related in that a solution to climate change also alleviates climate anxiety. As a psychological problem it's more acute and immediate, and therefore capable of attracting more news attention, potentially drawing news attention away from other pressing matters.

But... I feel like nobody cares about climate anxiety except her. Googling the phrase turns up 140,000 hits -- compared to 77,000,000 for "black lives matter". That's a crude metric, though it's also enhanced by the way the first page of results is a scattering of news articles stretched over the past several years.

It's a thing, but it doesn't really appear to be sucking the oxygen out of the room. Maybe it could -- it's true that reporters could be easily drawn to young white college students who really, really care about the environment and are suffering that they can't fix it. It makes a good news story -- occasionally. But I really don't think it has taken focus off of other problems.

So I'm not entirely sure what this is about -- aside from the cynical observation that she is the one who published a book about Climate Anxiety a year ago, whose sales are surely flagging now.
Interesting hypothesis, why not take the bus down to your local high school and test it out?
If China didn't have any covering up beyond low/middle-level CCP members that wanted to save face... they would be heavily incentivized to allow a thorough investigation. This would let them save face across the world: "Thorough WHO/UN Investigation Shows China Largely Followed Proper Pandemic Procedures"

Of course, they don't allow a thorough investigation and thus are trying to hide something.
This reminds me of a cool tech demo about "enchanced tool" for video editing I saw in January - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bl9wqNe5J8U from descript.com (no affiliation).
"Develop the technology to travel light years through space, and craft to fly through an alien planet's atmosphere (more dense/less dense/hotter/cooler), and then... flash a few lights, disappear, bend over a bit of corn, and bother a farmer in the middle of nowhere?"

On the flip side, if you want to interact with a baby animal you've never experienced before and has never experienced you, I don't image one would go in firing on all cinders banging pots and showing off.
Google's Search Monopoly Harms People
It's not specifically a knitting club problem, is it?

The corollary is that it's not realistic to expect hobby knitters to solve a set of radioactively toxic political problems. Not even locally.
Author here.

This post doesn't live up to its title, I'm sorry about that.

The title should have been 'We are building a better Heroku FOR PRODUCTION APPS' (we'll add the 'for production apps' to the title)

It should have emphasized the _building_ part, we're just starting. The current 5 minute production app doesn't hold a candle to Heroku at the moment.

It should have made it clear the goals is to improve the speed with which you can configure a production app, not a development app. Development apps on Heroku are already close to perfect. The examples in this post are contrived since it talks about a development app, as rightly called out by Heroku people https://twitter.com/johnbeynon/status/1374306499426652161

It should have gone into why hyper clouds might be preferable https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/5-minute-production-app/deploy...

It should have talked about state, we made a small improvement in https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/-/merge_request... but we should have done the planned work in https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/-/issues/11137 and made one post out of it.
> You still have a buyer and seller even if the prices are stupid.

First of all, this is broadly untrue. It's really only true for a certain set of meme stocks, but that's because the market allows for fun stupidity. But just because the market allows for fun stupidity, doesn't mean the mechanism doesn't work wherever there is an absence of fun stupidity.

Also, the status quo is arguably not a "market", at least as the efficient-market hypothesis defines it. Fed monetary policy basically breaks the usual flight-to-safety mechanism by providing no other alternative than to park capital in equities due to inflation and low interest rates (QE, basically). Additionally, Fed bailouts of junk bonds essentially removes all downside risk associated with risky assets while preserving the outsized reward; effectively guaranteeing stupid prices for certain assets.
Likewise, not everyone has the privilege of dragging politics into every facet of their lives. Many people like me were bullied by groups when they were younger. And these supposed "anti-hate" mobs look an awful lot like those bullies.
Definitely check out The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, which is on YouTube and linked to in the article. Once you go back far enough, a lot of great films are in the public domain and you can find them on YouTube, Daily Motion, etc. Streaming services probably don't find much value in them for that reason.
Again, I don't think this is likely, but here's an angle to argue for the cover up.

The US used to be a much more religious country that it is today. The existence of aliens has a lot of implications for religion. It could be that when the cover up started, the people in power didn't want to deal with those implications and especially didn't want a lot of disaffected formerly religious people (don't forget that part of religion is control over the populace). So they covered it up. Once the cover up starts it has momentum and I can see it continuing past the time the original reason is relevant.
> to convince the recruiters.

The employer is the one with a skills need. Arguably, I'm in need of resources. However, coding shops are a dime a dozen. I know I can build and ship software. I've proven it to get where I am today. I'm not too interested in proving it to someone who will forget my name in a week. I've also proven I can lazily apply to places, ignore interviews with this coding challenge mess, and pay attention to the shops that actually talk to me about my strengths and their needs before anyone opens a CLI.

So, is there a STEM shortage? If yes, then the recruiters and companies are the ones hurt by the 'convince the recruiters' mindset. If there isn't, then I'm hurt by being less competitive. Who knows what the future will look like, but despite all the language and shenanigans to the contrary, I know my company needs me more than I need it.
Gibraltar's also basically at 100%.
Pretty much guaranteed between microcode hacks, spectre through browser, and supply chain attack vectors.

How do you design a system that assumes everything in a stack is compromised?
I would say it is filled with not made out of. The emptiness of space is not made out of particles.
Film has such a huge library of "great movies", I have over 700 films logged on letterboxd, with a pretty decent spread of years/countries and I would say I still know basically nothing about film. I can fire up Criterion Channel or MUBI and watch brilliant movies no one ever talks about. It is a real shame Criterion Channel isn't more popular...if you like movies you are doing a disservice to yourself not picking it up. If only Netflix embraced the library style dream instead of shilling their own over produced crap.

Great to see Fitzcaraldo on here, a film that usually gets talked a lot about, or you see a lot of "Watch the documentary, it is better", but rarely gets the praise it deserves as film itself. Knowing nothing about this film, and watching it for the fist time was an amazing and unforgettable experience.

Also great to see Last Year at Marienbad on here, for which Robbe-Grillet wrote the entire thing but rarely gets credited. If you like Last Year check out some of Robbe-Grillet's other films...not for everyone, but among my most favorite. His "The Erotic Dream Machine: Interviews with Alain Robbe-Grillet" offers some of the greatest insights about film and film as art.
No one is holding people down and injecting them with a vaccine. Everyone has the right to refuse. But society also has a right (and an obligation) to ensure that externalities are costed appropriately. You refusing a vaccine is a choice, but it also negatively affects others around you.

Whether its in the form of tax penalties, barred admission from public services, vaccination "passport" campaigns, or what have you, there needs to be a cost to associated with the damage your personal decision does to our society. If refusing a vaccine is truly that important to you, you are welcome to pay the cost. But I suspect many anti-vaxxers are simply societal freeloaders whose "principles" will melt away when they actually cost them something.
> Note that we never left the browser, there is no CLI involved.

This is not a positive thing, generally. Web-based deployments configurations are difficult to replicate and understand.

> The documentation says to create a new AWS IAM role with credentials for automation.

From experience, this step can take a large amount of time if you don't want to just say "grant all". But create a new account for this project and it's fine.

But overall this seems pretty cool if you want a quick start with a bunch of setup to get you started with a cloud app. Seems more customizable / controllable than Heroku.
Alternatively, people in Oklahoma and people in New York don't want the same things, don't share the same values and should be free to choose to self-govern in different ways.

"Right to Travel", as in the right to move and relocate between states, is a well-established legal doctrine. Go live where it suits you. Don't force other people to live how it suits you.