skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Kubernetes is already insanely complicated. In practice minor version differences of anything in the stack leads to issues. I get why it all exists but at some point I have to ask, are containers really that much better than an rpm/deb and private corporate repo? Every container is a effectively a chroot. Add to that the lack of easy debugging you’d get from simple packages and daemons. I get that doesn’t work for “cloud” scale or whatever, but i think the excitement over this stuff is overblown.
> white males

This is HN not twitter.
Bob, 35 years old, is an excellent cook (but not a great businessman). He takes out an SBA loan to start a restaurant (failure rate for restaurants: very, very high). The restaurant goes belly up. Bob is allowed to file bankruptcy and walk away from the debt.

Jim, 50 years old, watches "house-flipping" shows on cable TV and decides that he wants to be a real estate baron. He starts flipping houses using VA/FHA loans. The real estate market tanks. Jim is allowed to file bankruptcy and walk away from the debt.

Dave, 18 years old, isn't a very good student, but every authority figure in his life (parents, teachers, ministers, you name it) tells him he HAS to have a college education. He takes out government loans to get one in a field with easy classes but low employability. But unlike Bob and Jim, Dave isn't allowed to file bankruptcy and walk away from the debt.

Can you justify Dave being held to a higher standard than Bob and Jim?

I've asked this question many times, but have never seen a convincing answer.
Oh I know, I agree with you :) I'm vegan. I was speaking more generally about how the idea of needing to eat animals to survive is what makes it ethical, but that is VERY rarely ever the case
Exactly! And I can't believe people are downvoting you. If we replace "dog" with "human" it would get upvoted. This is called "speciesism".
what is the special hardware/setup that achieves mid-single digit number of microseconds latency for deep learning inference you referred to?
You don't understand how industry works. If it works, you don't replace it, you get it fixed when it breaks. Nobody is going to willingly risk their factory, plant, etc. on some new supposedly better hardware. They'll keep what works going for 100+ years if they can.

It is totally logical for them to do so. The "security" threat can be band-aided over with a new firewall at the internet access. Replacing any component of the control system introduces an element of risk. Downtime is horrendously expensive, and can ruin a business. Only a fool would do anything to introduce the risk of downtime in the name of "efficiency".
The article mentions they want to have these reactors unguarded and running without a human present. It seems dangerous to me, but at least for the security portion, I could imagine some kind of physical barriers and camera setup that would allow it. As for having no maintenance person there, I think it's a bit more risky.
That would be fantastic! Imagine if it could catch common errors before you make them. So many things in loops and tests that we mess up all the time. My favorite is to confuse iterating through an array vs an object in JS. I'd love to have Gazoo step in and say, "Don't you mean, this, David?"
I’m gonna have to disagree - coding can and does take significant amounts of time even when I know exactly what problem I am solving.

I admit that at many organizations there are so many other factors and bottlenecks, but it’s not uncommon that I find myself 8+ hours deep into a coding task that I had expected would be much shorter.

On the other hand, usually that’s due to refactoring or otherwise not being satisfied with the quality of my initial solution, so copilot probably wouldn’t help…
> I'd say the CPSU is dead, but some of its members who liked power more than communism shifted with the political winds.

What is communism? Peace in the world, and utopia for workers?

Or more like mafia-serfdom-militarist system, where actual proletariat are put lowest of the low, and abused by everybody on the party ladder, and what USSR actually was for most of its history?

The CPSU never, ever cared for one, and even lowest tiers in the party were fully aware of this.

In this, it's true that the communist party of the soviet union never ever been the dictionary definition of communism (which they themselve defined) It was a cynical kratocratic cult without any morals.
im not sure who said it, but theres a quote that said something like "in 150 years the world will not remember microsoft or any of these tech companies but they will remember the legacy of bill gates's philanthropy."

5 years of lost tech advancement means nothing to history.
I have been playing with this quite a lot over the past few weeks and posting my results on Reddit. https://www.reddit.com/user/corysama/submitted/?sort=new

There is a small community on Reddit doing the same. They are spread across a few subs, so I put together an aggregate https://www.reddit.com/user/corysama/m/gan_art/top/?sort=top...

You can play with it for free using Google Colab notebooks given only a Google account. But, the most popular notebook is in Spanish https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1go6YwMFe5MX6XM9tv-c... and so are it's instructions https://tuscriaturas.miraheze.org/wiki/Ayuda:Generar_im%C3%A... You can ask the AI in Google Translate to help you ask the AI in the notebook to make some art.

Addressing some concerns brought up here:

Yes. It feels more like exploring than painting. Often it feels like watching a small child draw and trying to steer what is drawn. Like when I tried to ask for storm clouds made out of lava https://www.reddit.com/r/bigsleep/comments/o033x1/playing_wi... the AI was like "No, Dad! Lava stays on the Ground!"

But, I still believe that "It is Art". (As much as I and everyone else hate that whole debate.) I think of "Can a computer make Art?" the same as "Can a brush make a painting?" Unless you are finger painting, you don't make the image. The brush does. But, without you, the brush out be inert. Or, at least undirected.

With the GAN, random noise inputs get random noise outputs. Finding interesting results is a lot of work. Much like finding an interesting sculpture within a block of stone. "Interesting (to humans)" being the key word that brings the humanity into the process.
Ooh. Thanks danaris! I thought I'd already tried AdGuard in the past... but I may be mistaken. Will install today and give it a spin.

Ah cool: The Adguard website says that they've just added M1 support. I think M1 support was probably part of the issue when I was last trying the available blockers.
The many nonprofits supporting this space are largely locked out. If you want to do a financial eligibility screening for anything - you are either in hoop jump hell to get access to IRS data OR you use a service that makes it damn easy to cross check.

Luckily - in some cases you can send folks to go talk to someone at a child support agency or they do part of eligibility screening - but many of those folks never come back because they get gobbled up by the hassle factor over there (already disorganized / not stable in their situations).

I've become convinced that some of the eligibility screening hoopjumping is just to save money by making it damn difficult to get through the paperwork - even if you are actually poor (which is often obvious). I remember when some programs went to QUARTERLY eligibility verification on services delivered quarterly - so every visit practically was a re-screen on eligibility (the overhead of this is monumental).

So the desire / demand for private solutions to all this is there for sure. Some folks just do front-ends for systems like IRS transcript requests!
Yes, given a somewhat vague mission any smart person can find an intersection between the mission and a project. I myself have done this all to many times.

The real test is if you START with the mission, will you get to the project? In this case no, there's no way to go from a mission to advance an open internet and web to developing a new systems level programming language. You can only get there with motivated thinking.
Good call, to be honest we haven't had many requests for AWS Codebuild / CodePipeline. Outside of Github, most of our requests are for Azure Devops, Bitbucket and Gitlab. I'll bring it up with the team and see when/how we can implement them.
Guess you didn't see his second video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnHgdqU-1ws
I wonder if its not more similar to electronic music producers. They no longer have to learn how to play instruments and can focus on composing so maybe artists that learn these tools can compose art in a similar way.
The convenient and typical response of the moral busybody. Naturally, they're just "the voice of reason" against "harmful conspiracy theories" and "blatant propaganda".

The moral busybody having polar opposite political views doesn't factor in at all, right.?
DDoS is the least of it. The US regularly commits cyber warfare against NATO allies, because they know they can without major consequences.

They injected malware into belgium’s core telecommunication infrastructure: https://theintercept.com/2014/12/13/belgacom-hack-gchq-insid...

They spied on angela merkel’s calls and texts: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/the-us-reportedly-spied...
No one. They were using an example to demonstrate why you can't compare these numbers. There is missing data.
That some scientists accurately predicted climate change long ago is obvious. Some of them also predicted an ice age. Now, with hindsight, we know who was right.

As the article points out, at that time, they missed data that we now have. So how certain they were about their predictions, and how did alternative scenarios compare? If we are only talking about science, it does not really matter. The important thing is that we know better today.

However, the context here is that people want to hold "big oil" accountable. This is not science anymore, it is a trial. And personally, I don't really like the idea. I mean, oil companies followed the law, and they didn't hide their activities. They only downplayed the research results that they paid for, but what do you expect? They don't pay researchers to destroy their business. No need to bring out the past, tax them for what they are doing now.
> using a variety of different apps

One is hardly a "variety of different apps".
Consulting on email migration does sound like it should be a core competency for an enterprise tech consulting company…
What would be an exemplary use case for this? Like, when do you ever have images in front of you that are shuffled in this way?
National origin isn't even a relevant interview question. Regardless of the legal issues you shouldn't ask because it's a total waste of time.
1) Write a project heavily using Copilot (hell, automate it and write thousands of them, why not?)

2) AGPL all that code.

3) Search for large chunks of code very similar to yours, but written after yours, licensed more liberally than AGPL. Ideally in libraries used by major companies.

4) Point the offenders to your repos and offer a "convenient" paid dual-license to make the offenders' code legal for closed-source use, so they don't have to open source their entire product.

5) Profit?
I see or hear all of those objections regularly. Facebook, Twitter, Conservative or Republican politicians. Literally on this very thread there are people claiming global warming isn't real.
Nah, don't forget Target's SAP migration
This might even have an application for real documents. There are police cases where some suspects have tried to destroy evidence. Manually reconstructing the original takes a lot of effort. I expect that the CIA and NSA already have software for it, but I have never heard of it being used in a police case.
Same as google..

https://www.google.com/maps/search/google,+dublin/@53.340165...
> No, its because Apple is seen as a status symbol, has good brand reputation and locks users in the walled garden.

Or, you know, maybe, just
maybe, people actually, genuinely enjoy using these devices.
In the case of his Beeb project, the 'interpreter' you speak of here is in fact a fairly full featured emulator. Although yes, the z-machine (Zork) is an interpreter of sorts.

But all of his other games - including the clones of arcade games - aren't emulators nor interpreters. They're just games, written from scratch (pun unintended), from the ground up, in pure Scratch.

After all, his day job is in fact games dev - and with 25+ years experience (I worked with him mid-90s), one could say he's a veteran in that field.

In reality, it depends on the what the game actually is, as to whether it is harder to implement than an emulator or an interpreter. e.g. I strongly suspect that Battleships was much easier to implement than the Beeb emulator was.
Medicine is absolutely a field full of bullshit papers that misuses methods and statistics. You'd think they would be better than psychology but not really, they are often even worse at math and statistics than the psychology papers. You'd have to go to biology papers to get reliable rigor, they do a lot on vaccines.
There will be a VSCode extension for that.
Yes, and we control their reproductive needs by shaming them for wanted to hump a leg every now and then, or keeping an opposite sex companion away from them, keeping them in isolation, never giving them the ability to have sex, a natural part of their species. Or we perform surgery on them to not have babies.

Or we let them breed, but we pick their partners and then take their babies. If we did this to humans there would be outrage right?
Scientists identify long-sought marker for Covid vaccine success
> It really isn't that hard

Then why is almost every vegan so malnourished?

> It is evidence based

I doubt it. Nutrition “science” right now has abysmally low evidentiary standards. We don’t have a scientific (i.e. experimental) basis for making strong low-level nutritional predictions beyond “if you don’t get any of this you will die eventually”. Basically the only thing you can do right now is make sweeping observations (“what is the apparent health of populations on this diet?”) and a-priori reasoning (“what is my prior on the evolutionary optimization criteria affecting my metabolic system?”).

> I've been doing the ETL lifestyle now for 16 years now, and feel great on it!

I’ve been eating keto/carnivore for two years now and I feel great (so not looking to improve on that front). I also don’t have any health problems associated with nutritional deficiency (in fact I am in perfect health, and I wasn’t when I ate the S.A.D.), and I don’t have to put in any special effort to maintain that state of affairs.
In my testing of Copilot, the content filters only work on input, not output.

Attempting to generate text from code containing "genocide" just has Copilot refuse to run. But you can still coerce Copilot to return offensive output given certain innocuous prompts.
Ultimately what I've found myself craving is org-mode without the tie to emacs. I gave it a good try for 6 months but found myself fighting emacs too much, I didn't have the bandwidth to do job, relax and learn lisp+emacs.

Currently I have a bookstack[0] instance on my VPS which I'm trying to cultivate as more well structured long form knowledge .

Also giving Joplin a try to see if an offline solution might be better.

[0]: https://www.bookstackapp.com/
Highly misleading title. Content was interesting, but they never said this was "better for moving water". Rather, they said this was better for heat and gas exchange with water...
Yes, which is why I have a rule setup to forward to Instapaper.
The ease of creation of app passwords and protocol-level controls really are fantastic in Fastmail. I hope it never goes away.
I was an intern at IBM from 2010-2015, and then an full time engineer for a short while before moving on.

I agree completely that the change in leadership marked an inability to really bring WATSON to market, and some other products too.

While I was an intern, I sat next to ExtremeBlue interns and team members working on Watson. The technology was awesome and they were working like mad. Sleeping under the desk. By 2015 the push had stopped and everyone knew it was a failure to launch.
Absolutely. Then no. :)

I wish I had a 4000 lasers plaid-mode FDM printer able to work in titanium, PLA, ASA, styrofoam, carbon nanotubes, steel, copper, wood, concrete, borosilicate, and EPDM at micrometers.
It would be nice if there were a way to automate the "remembering what that one function is called and what order the parameters are in" portion of my job.

IME the best thing for this is looking at the method listing in the docs for the classes I'm using. E.g. for Ruby, it's usually looking at the methods in Enumerable, Enumerator, Array, or Hash. Or I'll drop a binding.pry into the function, run it, and then type ls to see what's in scope.
According to whom? There is a pretty strict definition of means of production, as it was labeled by Marx & Engels, and 'bureaucracy' as a concept isn't it.

Adding on to this: there is no rough equivalent to Lenin capturing the railroads in the USA, at all. The bourgeoise have controlled the means of production from 1776 til now.

Who owns amazon fulfillment centers? Who owns media companies? Who owns airlines? If it ain't the workers, then nobody has seized the means of production.
And... it just got unflagged and is back on the front page. Thank you!
Proposed Blockchain Platforms Enable Large-Scale DNN Training on Smart Contracts
This can be mitigated (at least to some extent) if database vendors forced requirement of passwords (at least semi strong) during installation, no? Is there a reason why I should be allowed to access a database (even if it is local, on my laptop) without a password?
The Salesforce DevSecOps Imperative
There is a popular saying in the vegan community:

"Why love one but not the other?"
When I say “visibly malnourished”, I mean you can look at them and see they are malnourished. Why would you ask for a source? Just use your eyes.
How would this affect future debt? I would expect it's just raising the risk of default and as a consequence the interest that lenders ask.

TANSTAAFL maybe, but more likely the lunch is going to get paid by the future... which is kind of like a loan that no one out there can cancel.
A very good read, and indeed "mise-en-place" is a skill / philosophy / system which can greatly assist knowledge workers if they apply it. Most chefs learn how when they apprentice under a master chef, and adopt or copy what they do. These skills are seldom learned by reading a book or from an essay, because they need to become habits to be effective.0p
Almost everything is actually language agnostic or transferable. So it's a big question.
Agree completely , the leadership was selling the farm piece by piece.
Grills & hoods and hot rows feel eerily similar, down to the din.
Similar to articles that read "Americans believe X" and natter on about all the panic that we should feel over this problem, then cite their source as a Twitter thread. Yes, someone said that, amd someone retweeted it. But it's disingenous - or, to put it bluntly, lying - to categorize "Amazon delivery companies" or "Americans" from a couple statistical outliers. Get to at least 5% before you call it a trend.

Edit: Unless you want to write an article citing the parent comment and myself titled "Internet Commenters Demand Less Clickbait and Better Statistics in Headlines"
“Right wing character assassinations” ha! That wiki description is light on him. Due some diligence and visit his blog linked on the wiki page. 15 minutes should tell you plenty enough, from his own words, about the type of vile person that started InfoGalactic. It’s far more biased than wiki, and is meant to spread literal far right propaganda. It is not a reasonable devil’s advocate other-side take.

Examples: hates Jews, black people, basically any nonwhite. Wants America to deport everyone immigrated post-1960 and to reinstate a Christian theocracy, even though he lives in Italy. Wanted Trump to overturn election and become dictator to bring in this theocracy.
I agree we have eaten animals for thousands of years, and large parts of our culture revolve around eating animals. But its sort of a fallacy to use that to explain why we _should_ do it it, or why it's morally permissable. There are loads of things we did for a long time that we stopped doing because they were bad. Simply put, just because we've done it forever doesn't mean we should anymore, as things have changed.

> so unfathomably ignorant in the context of the global human condition

How so? I'm not saying there aren't other issues, I'm just saying that this is _also_ bad. I'm curious what you meant, because I think you and I actually probably agree on a lot of stuff.
Will one be able to embed a Hetchr ATOM into Hetchr in the future?
Thanks for your detailed look at it. Im glad you got something working, but I agree its not great it was so confusing at first. Youre right that its a DAG, like how many flowchart tools represent the data.

> grouping mechanism

This would be cool. I want to nail down the basics before adding more features. For most of my use cases I havent found it to be a show stopper, but once it can support larger graphs it will be required.

> the layout I choose also encodes information

Thats true however Im trying to make a tool optimized for speed. Manually adjusting layout doesnt help with that. It should feel more like editing a text doc where everything is done from the keyboard. However, I could see adding layout adjustment as a final step in producing some visualization you want to share.

Thanks again. And please reply here with a project, or email/tweet me (bio).
Exception to this rule was NeXT purchasing Apple for negative $400 million.

Most of the NeXT senior staff (jabs, avi, etc) Went on to take over roles at Apple. They also brought in all the NeXT technology and threw out Apples' Nextstep/Openstep->Mac OSX
One of the most unfortunate things in the past 6 years is that support of Julian Assange and Wikileaks became a partisan issue purely because they exposed corruption in your favorite political party.

It's hard to put a finger on just how much the current form of western democracy differs from the 18th century ideal of western democracy. Let this concretize it: Global western "democracy" conspires to put the single most hard-hitting journalist of the past decade in jail indefinitely on fictitious charges and virtually nobody cares. Where are the protests? Where is the outrage? Do most Americans even know who Julian Assange is?

"Fascism" gets thrown around a lot and I know it feels a bit overplayed, and I'm not saying we're there yet, but when most people are apathetic and the remainder form their opinion based entirely on their political faction, it's hard for me to believe that fascism isn't inevitable. After all, what is fascism about if it's not 'party firmly over principle'?
> this is the opposite of Jobs philosophy.

Frankly, I think that the design changes Apple has been making are very much in line with how Jobs would have done things.

Would he have made it exactly the same? No, certainly not; he was a different person who was very opinionated, so there would be differences—but the direction of the changes would, I think, be very similar.

However, I think it's also pretty irrelevant, given that Jobs himself explicitly said "Don't try to do things the way I would do them. Just do the right things." (Paraphrased from memory.)
And do you think that scummy and often fraudulent weight loss pill ads are going to solve that problem?

We are dealing with COVID by methods that have been tested for efficacy with significant scientific rigor. If the same rigor were applied to products shilled by weight loss ads, I don't think anyone would have an issue with them.

It's not, though. Nobody goes to jail if their weight loss pills don't work, or put people in the hospital, or are just placebo sugar capsules.