skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What if I want to make my app as vulnerable to outage and overload as possible?

> - concentrate the app in as few machines as possible

Well, sorta. Distributing an application across multiple machines only reduces downtime if the machines are independent of each other.

I've seen bad architectures where wider distribution leads to more outages, not fewer. I even consulted for a company who had their services in two data centers for redundancy, but they put different services in each one, so a failure in either data center would effectively bring down their entire stack.
Publicly, many of them do.

A formal declaration of independence would force Beijing to either resume war with Taiwan or lose face domestically.

Pretending that your homeland isn't technically a real country is a small price to pay to prevent insane Mainlander nationalists from launching a flurry of DF-41s into the heart of Taipei.
Yeah we are still upgrading, migrating it progressively is still a chore
Replying to myself because the two replies apparently missed the distinction between the entity doing the "coercion" (Assange/CIA) and the entity doing the spying (the agent, or Manning in this case). Nobody prosecutes the CIA/GRU/PRC for coercing others to spy.
I put solar panels on my last house. You know what impact it had? Zero. Why? Because renewable energy sources are more costly, less efficient, and have a greater environmental impact over the full lifecycle than Natural Gas Plants [1]. If we replaced all power generators with Natural Gas plants (which Europe is doing because they already realized this fact), you could realize the carbon savings and generate the power that will be needed for future electrification demands.

[1] https://www.eia.gov/totalenergy/data/browser/index.php?tbl=T...
How do you know what they're having is nightmares?
I didn't mean to agree. I disagree with the article.

As for the way you use autocomplete -- I would say it's not that uncommon for me to use autocomplete to "fish" for stuff when I'm not sure what I want. Especially if I'm working with something unfamiliar. I'll frequently just type the dot and then scroll through suggestions.
Correct archive.is link -

https://archive.is/rQikT
I'd absolutely give her this one. This is the relevant line from LinkedIn:

> Investigating the effects of human genetic variation on the efficacy of adeno-associated virus (AAV) variants in order to engineer gene therapy viral vectors targeting diverse patient populations.

So this is professional work at a prestigious institute on (a) viruses, (b) engineering of viruses, and (c) deeper understanding of the dynamics of transmission of these viruses in humans. Further, adenovirus is one that can be engineered to be combined with pieces of SARS-CoV-2 to do interesting things in humans, as I can personally attest, having had the J&J vaccine.

It's hard to imagine a set of credentials better suited to analyzing origins of Covid. There are a lot of grifters out there, "epistemological trespassers" if you will, but Dr. Chan's is a voice that deserves being listened to.
We use a VPS from them for the mail server (mailcow) at our company. Pretty solid and cheap.
America forgot how to make proper pie. Can we remember before it’s too late?
> the "arbitration" mechanism would be useless in almost all relevant circumstances and is not a serious suggestion

Not really. Industry arbitration venues exist. So if you want to distribute through such and such channel, or want to buy certain components, part of the agreement is agreeing to certain rules including binding arbitration at certain venues.

It’s silly. But not unworkable for most kinds of IP.
They released them at time of production. During the campaign. Input > Output? To hallucinate into that a partisan-ship, is intellectual dishonest.
US should be handing out green cards to TSMC workers and their families.
> And that, kids, is why we hire college grads, and not drug dealers...

C'mon, you had a decent point going until you went for the lazy punchdown. Do you know any drug dealers personally? My guess is no, because I have met drug dealers who absolutely wipe the floors with most of the tenured corporate sales professionals I've met in my life, in terms of raw sales acumen (leaving ethics and society aside for a moment). I'm not the only one who notices this.
It probably is time. This civilization is on the verge of being the next Atlantis. Materialism is thoroughly penetrated all aspects of our lives and we've become wholly dependent on electrification which can be completed knocked out with a kerrington event at any time and it will be all gone, no quick recovery possible.
It's an interesting piece of natural history and discussion. It talks about some of the things that made smartness possible, including big brains and roaming around. However it doesn't seem to address the question of what actually made us smart.

My answer would be: our genes, and later on our culture too, began to optimise for meme transmission and storage. This process snowballed and we went further down that route than any other species.
For the most part I agree, but if you ask "suppose I want [a conjunction of deprecated outcomes]" then it is possible that something tending towards one of these deprecations may protect against another. For example, hiding information so that it is not queryable may make testing and certain modifications more difficult, but encourage heavy coupling, which in turn makes a program hard to reason about and therefore also inscrutable - and thus, one further step removed, harder to test and modify.
I wish Wikipedia allowed unlimited forks of each topic.

Imagine if a FOSS software project somehow banned all forks and forced all developers to compromise on every little thing.
Going cashless is extremely common for customers in Sweden. They would get so few customers (everyone would just go to the next grocery store), and the aggravation it would cause from customers who haven't heard the news and can't pay probably just makes it not worth it to have them open. Take the loss, fix the issue, reopen all the stores when it's done.
Try $20k plus a re-roof at $10k. And that is for a small 1200sqft 3 bed/1 bath house that has full south-southwest exposure.
Nevada leads nation in Covid cases as 300,000 descend on Vegas
Just because the normal process isn’t parallelized like it was done for these vaccines, plus natural exposure to the pathogen usually takes a very long time to play out. As this vaccine researcher at children’s hospital of Pennsylvania notes, all reactions to vaccines that have ever been recorded were within 2 months of application. https://www.chop.edu/news/long-term-side-effects-covid-19-va...
yeah, "beauty" isn't the only quality of good art. What you're thinking of "art" is just interior decorating.
>Technically we still own the hardware
Nope, signed firmware updates and no way to downgrade after the fact means the manufacturer ultimately has more control over "your" hardware than you do. You still "own" it in a legal sense, but not in the sense that it's completely under your control and only does what you think it does.

I think a way to override that forced signed firmware crap should be mandated by law, but things are going the other way. If flashing unsigned firmware voided the warranty and made goatse show up at boot or whatever to warn about possibly unwanted modification that would be fine. Not having that option at all is bad for making full use of the hardware, bad for privacy and bad for security.
>1. Require cash.

They'd have to make that very clear at the entrance to the store. This is just a guess, but I think most Swedes don't carry enough cash to even pay for groceries when they go shopping. I haven't had any paper money in years, just a few coins.
Sounds like a config/version issue. Give Pop_OS (or any recent distro) a try.

Don't install any packages or drivers manually, and only use recommended default versions (ie- no specialty repos).

I can attribute 90% of the issues I've ever had on Linux to unnecessary feature-chasing. The other 10% are distro bugs that got missed because I installed from RC and upgraded to release.

If you want to test which, just redownload the latest version of your distro, live boot, and try playing a game with vanilla packages. If it works, it's not the distro.
The right image is not in sRGB, it's in Display P3. The difference in reds is pretty subtle, so most likely if Paint.NET is showing a dramatic difference, it's misinterpreting the color space of the PNG image.
KMS emulator
Mushroms made us smart
The payment terminals should work in non-integrated mode. Every restaurant does this.

Could even do offline simple verification of payment with the debit/credit happening at a later time.
It’s due to how the browser app renders color.
What did ancient languages sound like?
I interpreted it as brainstorming ways to actively sabotage success. "Solutions" that appears superficially plausible, but undermine the outcome in real world situations.

So for the dust filter, maybe selecting a material that's only rated for high temperatures in short bursts. Or one that needs frequent, labor-intensive replacements in that dangerous environment. Or test that your filter survives at high temperatures, and test the filtration efficacy, but forget to test the efficacy at high temperatures.
Enough people rely on debit cards nowadays that only work online that it would still cause significant disruption. Enough that it's probably not worth keeping the stores open until it can be fixed.
I assume the cop paid the performance royalty?
I agree with your main point. But want to clarify that Proton/Valve is NOT an emulator. As such the games people play on Linux run at the same speed/performance than in Windows.

Proton is based in Wine I Not An Emulator. Which basically is a set of "library that is cross platform by design" . Its doesn't add the additional emulation layer .

The problem currently is not the technology: AFAIK Unreal,Unity and other libraries already offer builds for different architectures.

The problem is operational: Having to maintain/support/operate an additional architecture.
The three ingredients of a great online community (according to IN THE HEIGHTS)
How would a random hiring manager know who to hire?

There are surely people out there who know security, but how does someone who doesn’t know security choose the right people to hire?

The very software that was the vector of this attack is produced by a company claiming to improve security.
I've also heard this exact same thing from my Databases professor about Oracle and their products.
How California's PG&E is fighting its wildfire problem
Hmmm. No. The payback is 20 years, which is the length of the panel life, and the limit on time the utilities have to pay you for the energy. After that, they get the energy from you for free.
That's kinda the case with Copilot, or I'd just type:

// Unify relativity with quantum mechanics.

I'm trying to say Copilot is not a fundamental shift to programming. It's what programming already is, and we already have IDEs assisting us with refactoring and second-guessing our intent with autocomplete (which in some IDEs is powered by AI now, as well).

Programming is like working in a team. You try to communicate with your teammates, and then everyone does what they can according to their skills, and how they understood the task.

The shift to higher-level communication in programming is inevitable, will it look like Copilot, I don't know.
Bitcoin mining difficulty drops after hashrate collapse in China
Silicon Ear by Sam Kidel (2018)
Since Windows 10, MS is getting its inspiration from Android and iOS... I'd be scared to touch Windows 11.
If you are at war with your technology, your codebase will look like a battlefield. React and Redux require a functional, reactive mental model. If you approach it with an imperative mindset, you'll get a mess of a codebase.

Unfortunately the popularity of React means it is used by people who know neither Javascript nor FP very well. And the popularity of Redux is even worse.

In my opinion people should stay away from Redux until they know and understand intuitively why it is necessary. Until then, use the useState and useReducer hooks, then maybe something like "Zustand". When you start using Redux, use Redux Toolkit.
Is there a way to automatically strip or make unrecognizable (potentially copyrighted) music from live video while leaving speech intact?
LTSC does work fine though, at least for all games I tried and it's supported until 2029.
Question is how long you'll be able to get drivers and when games stop working on it. Dunno about other software, I only use Windows are a game console OS in a VM.
Early humans used running for hunting, see persistence hunting.

Animals who hunt for food still need strategy. They hunt together, with few animals upwind pushing prey into a trap of waiting animals downwind. Predicting where prey will be while running is also very useful.
It’s less about doubled setups and more about downtime procedures that don’t have to be perfect but get you by to stay functioning at some level.
The main page is not snappy at all, on my phone when I click on a link on the top bar it takes at least 2 seconds before it changes the page
There have been almost no new broad "performance-oriented" instruction sets introduced since the Haswell era, all the way to the Zen 3 era (e.g. SIMD/vector) for compilers to target. At least not any instructions that the vast majority of software is going to see magical huge improvements from and are wide spread enough to justify it (though specific software may benefit greatly from some specific tuning; pext/pdep and AVX-512 for instance.)

The microarchitectures have improved significantly though, which does matter. For instance, Haswell-era AVX2 implementations were significantly poorer than the modern ones in, say, Tiger Lake or Zen 3. The newer ones have completely different power usage and per-core performance characteristics for AVX code; even if you could run AVX2 on older processors, it might not have actually been a good idea if the cumulative slowdowns they cause impacts the whole system (because the chips had to downclock the whole system so they wouldn't brownout). So it's not just a matter of instruction sets, but their individual performance characteristics.

And also, it is not just CPUs that have improved. If anything, the biggest improvements have been in storage devices across the stack, which now have significantly better performance and parallelism, and the bandwidth has improved too (many more PCIe lanes). I can read gigabytes a second from a single NVMe drive; millions of IOPS a second, which is vastly better than you could 7 years ago on a consumer-level budget. Modern machines do not just crunch scalar code in isolation, and neither did older ones; we could just arbitrage CPU cycles more often than we can now in an era where a lot of the performance "cliffs" have been dealt with. Isolating things to just look at how fast the CPU can retire instructions is a good metric for CPU designers, but it's a very incomplete view when viewing the system as a whole as an application developer.
A Million Chances to Fail
I don't understand the importance of encryption in BitTorrent. Correct me if I'm wrong but sharing parties have no way of verifying each other's identity so the whole exchange is vurnable to MitM attacks. Also, file integrity is solved by the torrent metadata you add to the client.

I guess it makes it more costly to monitor content as the evil party has to involve itself instead of just monitoring.
Fire in Gulf of Mexico after gas pipeline rupture [video]
David Patterson is not disputing that there's decades left of transistor shrinking, he's just saying that the statement of "transistor count doubling every 2 years" doesn't hold up empirically.

David Patterson is saying he considers Moore's Law is dead because the current state of say, "transistor count doubling every three years" doesn't match the Moore's Law exact statement.

In other words, he is simply being very pedantic about his definition. I can see where he's coming from with that argument.
Home Is Where the Gym Is
Clockrate is not a bottleneck on how fast your computer is. It's just a synchronization primitive.

Think about it like the tempo of a song. The entire orchestra needs to play in sync with the tempo, but how many notes you play relative to the tempo is still up to each player. You can play multiple notes per "tempo tick".
This is the kind of stuff I'm talking about. Maybe the design space didn't win, but it would be really fun to explore.
Yeah. Money can't make you happy, but debt can make you miserable.
I don’t believe i’ve had to use terminal once when troubleshooting something on mac. Granted my overall experience has been more of a ”it just works” with macs than with Linuxes.
I wish that the USA would take advantage of where we have advantages: agriculture, the creative entertainment industry, and our rich cultural differences. To the last point: when I travel around the US, I feel like I am in different countries with different politics and cultures. I hope we learn to support and appreciate other subcultures.

Except for top performers and people inheriting great wealth, Americans really need to adjust their expectations of what their material life will be. Happily, I see this in young people who aren’t buying into materialism and prefer life style, travel, etc. and realize that living within their means is better than long term debt.
Thanks for the examples. I'll pay closer attention. I've definitely noticed the long delay while taking screenshots, but because this is my first mac I thought it was just the usual delay or something
No, I am talking about exactly that story.

From the Nature article you link to:

> The sequences were associated with a paper in which researchers used nanopore-sequencing technology to detect SARS-CoV-2 genetic material in samples from people. That study was published in the journal Small in June 2020, having been posted on bioRxiv in March of that year.

> the sequences Bloom recovered were not hidden: they are described in detail, with enough sequence information to know their evolutionary relationship to other early SARS-CoV-2 sequences, in the Small paper.
In physics, perfect clocks, can only perfectly synchronized for a moment of time, from an arbitrary observation point. They will always drift apart, because no two points in the universe have the exact same stress energy tensor across time.

Clocks have improved to the point where a 2 centimeter difference in height in the same room results in an observable difference in time. If you take into effect the gravity of the Sun and Moon, no two points on earth experience the same amount of gravity over time.

Now, if you have a logical clock, you might be able to pull consistency out of this, but the real world doesn't work that way, unless you lower the observation quanta to hours, minutes, seconds, on Earth only, and use UTC which isn't consistent across time.
>Would you rather have a government agency assign credit scores? The abuses would be rampant.

Do you think the abuses are any less rampant when power is privatized? The main problem that would be solved by a government institution is a pathway for transparency and citizen recourse against questionable practices. It's admittedly not a lot of transparency or accountability but it can be far more than currently exists.

People talk about government corruption and sure, there's lots of it, but there's just as much if not more private corruption hidden behind privacy protection veils. At the very least, there is some degree of transparency with the government and we can in theory hold them accountable with explicit rights granted to us (more-so than private institutions).

I cannot hold these private institutions that have gamed the system so far they're beyond my grasp accountable for their actions. Ill start a credit rating agency tomorrow and compete with Equifax, Transunion, and Experian so through market forces of competition I can fix these problems! Consumers and market forces will fix these problems! Yea, right, give me a break.

This whole government bad, private good, anti-communism/socialism/whatever argument has grown tiring because we're at a point now where you can chuck private institutions in the same gutter of corruption as different systems of government. We played that fiddle and gave private institutions the benefit and here we are, with rampant corruption in concentrated pockets of business as well, governing our daily lives with little oversight or means of recourse beyond avoiding the system or hoping some competitor can actually change things.

Privatization works well when you can actually hold institutions accountable, when there are competitors that actually compete and give consumers the option to vote with their wallets. When that doesn't exist, it's far worse than a US government agency managing it. It might be cheaper but there's probably a good undesirable reason it's cheaper than a public institution that isn't related to poor management and basic optimization practices to improve efficiency. Those efficiency gains probably exist because the institution is doing something it shouldn't be doing, focusing on profit margins over implications on the consumer.
The hardware will be finished. But the food we eat (the software) will keep changing.
How Indian Americans Came to Love the Spelling Bee
Opera did.
> True but at least the US doesn't have the draft anymore

Unfortunately it does. Hasn't been called up since the Vietnam War but the system is still in place and people are still required to register.

https://www.sss.gov/
Running is important, but running is not prefered if you can quietly and easily kill animals. e.g. You catch fish with a trident, instead of running fish along the river.
I thought it was originally used to distribute Linux ISO files on release day when FTP servers were drowned in requests. I remember it was a Slashdot thread where people were for the first time trying it and being amazed at the speeds.
There is one thing where engineering and organisation building differ though, even at the high-level: available sources and trusted guides, and iteration speed.

For something that is such a common problem, that basically every company has to solve, there is astonishingly little factual guidance out there on how to scale an organisation and what scale requires what type of infrastructure. And all entrepreneurs have to reinvent the wheel to a large extend.

There is this saying that farming is one of the hardest jobs, because you only have 30-40 tries to get the perfect harvest. But being an entrepreneur cuts it to 6-8 tries to get the organization right.
Because imperative programming in Javascript, even with OOP principles and patterns, generally leads to even more complexity and messiness.

FP is now almost the norm in frontend engineering. Certainly in the React world. Immutability and side-effect-awareness is highly valued.
I like how it references the Gulag Archipelago which two links to buy it, a pseudo-historical book. For no reason. Except for that a certain controversial person likes to talk about it a lot.

Of course 3 articles back they reference Jordan Peterson.
Good idea, and the answer is, in theory at least, yes. You can effectively subtract the copyrighted music from the audio track.