skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Steam and other game distribution systems also have an extensive network of edge caches around the world, and Linux distros have had local mirrors since forever.

It’s also pretty common for people running large LAN parties to run a local Steam cache so that when everyone in the building decides to download a game on the list of tournaments it’s coming over the local network rather than downloading hundreds of copies from the Internet.
> The point is that the Raspberry Pi -- any version -- has always been underpowered and overhyped.

This sort of comment is extremely short-sighted and totally oblivious to . A raspberry pi was always, from the very first day, an inexpensive (even expendable) ubiquitous computing platform aimed at being the infrastructure for educational projects.

Do you want to toy around with a robot? You spend 20 or 30€, a few actuators, perhaps a camera, slap in some python code, and you're good to go.

Do you want to toy around with LEDs to make them blink? You spend 20 or 30€, add a few LEDs, slap some python code and you're good to go.

Do you want to toy around with distributed systems? You spend 60 or 80€ on three or four RPIs, plug them into a router and you're good to go.

Do you want to toy around with wifi mesh networks? You spend 60 or 80€ on three or four RPIs, configure them, and you're good to go.

Do you want to toy around with a media center? You spend 20 or 30€ on a RPI, configure it, and you're good to go.

What´s the common denominator? Enough pocket money to get your hands on a RPI, and you do not care that it gets blown up because you can get another one just as easily.

Raspberri Pis flatten the learning curve to the point where kids in middleschool can go at it without any concern. It's just a computer running linux that does not have to deal with arcane devkits or resource constraints.

Do you know what would cost to do the same thing prior to Raspberry Pi creating this whole sector? Between 300 and 500€ for a single devboard with similar spects.
You’re on the right path. The thing about “making the world better” is that it isn’t getting better, no matter what we do. However, you can still make your own world better, and an important part of that is money. Not just for yourself, but for your descendants as well.
Are we entering in to a new realm where a DMCA (or DMCA-like) request can be filed to remove content from the training data for an AI (and likely cause it to require retraining)?
Money is the end goal, but status[1], pleasure and upgrading my skills are necessary side goals. “From a million dollars, everything is your passion” (Joel on Software).

[1] Moderate status, I have humor telling everyone “I’m a CEO” (like Zuckerberg), given I only have 2 employees and had none for long.

I abhorre companies who pretend their IT will change humanity. Participating to the economy is already a great satisfaction for me, because the sum of our work built a civilization. In fact, I have ads in my office with the stupid phrases of competitors: “We advance humanity”, “Building the future since 125 years” etc.

I’ve built a product on the Atlassian Marketplace and it was a great place to innovate. Perhaps it still is, but Atlassian deprecates frameworks as soon as your stack is up, and their new Forge thingy is too locked down to build any smart app.
I decided to leave my job as a CEO of a midsized company to build my own business. Although I always wanted to create my own innovative product, I decided to swim with the wales - big software vendors - to add (and catch) some value there. The reason: quick profits. That plan worked out quite well. However, money is like pure water. You need it to be alive and if you're having none you want all of it. But if you're having a steady inflow that's big enough, one day you won't want to go the extra mile for another glass. You want Pepsi instead! Okay, just kidding, you want Coke most likely... However, you'll be better of working on something that fascinates you instead of just going for the money. Maybe you're good in starting things up but you hate to keep them going. Why not concentrate on the first part then? Build & sell. Maybe you hate customer development and just want to get a high income managing stuff and doing politics. Apply for a job at an enterprise then. Do it like a scientist: formulate a hypothesis about what really makes you happy and what system you have in place to realize that happiness. Collect evidence, optimize the system. Maybe read "Business Model You" and "Design The Life That You Love". At least I'm doing that now to figure out what the next years of my life should be about. Not just money I guess. Money often comes at the intersection of chance and excellence. And excellence often comes from something aligned to your talents & interests.
This is actually pretty amazing.

One could commute to and from work and it would be arguably greener than solar or wind.
Idk where you live, but here in Florida that "dystopia" sounds like a bit of an improvement.
From https://fly.io/docs/reference/architecture/,

> MicroVMs provide strong hardware-virtualization-based security and workload isolation, this allows us to safely run applications from different customers on shared hardware.
> What about dismantling the parts of society that allow for such rapid transmission of contagion and not simply pausing these or those parts?

Look, I'm in favor of more countermeasures but I'm not willing to talk of permanently ending nightlife and the traditional British pub. Or live music. Or church services. Or football crowds, despite the thousands of cases from the Euros.
This applies to 99% of businesses started by tech professionals too. There is nothing nobler or kinder about tech businesses. All those "mission statements" are just pure fluff for PR purposes.
Speak for yourself. You didn't have family threatened by the BLM riots, nor property damage - all egged on by both the media and the left.
What about power plants? IIRC a sudden loss of electricity demand can lead to massive damage (specifically to the turbines and generators).
Do you think this can be done as a solo dev/founder, or do you eventually need more than 1 person (and when does that "eventually" occur in your experience)?

Also do you have thoughts on bootstrapping your SaaS versus getting funding for additional hires?
I upvoted because I found it amusing.

> How much can the Bit-Heater mining [sic]? per day? and per year?

> Per the currect [sic] bitcoin price($6,400) [...] $1,095 per year.

It is a red flag that the hash rate is missing from the specs. But let's estimate today's income.

The current BTC price is roughly $31k (up 4.84x vs. $6.4k). [1]

But how worse did the mining difficulty get? Depending on when the specs were written, the difficulty could have been 1.12T at the end of 2017 to 16.55T in April 2020. [2]

Right now the difficulty is 14.36T. Thus it increased between 0.67 and 12.82 times since the article was written.

new income = old_income * price_increase / difficulty_increase.

Current income worst case: about 38% of the advertised income, or $413/yr.

> How much do I need to pay for the electrical power?

> $730 per year.

Worst case scenario, this device offsets only 56% of your resistive heating costs, after shelling out $3500 for it. If you were using a resistive heater year-round, that is.

But chances are you were not; as such, the device might produce a negative ROI. If you run it for the Bitcoin it produces instead of the heat, chances are the Bitcoin mined does not cover the costs of the electricity.

[1] https://www.coinwarz.com/prices/bitcoin/chart

[2] https://www.coinwarz.com/mining/bitcoin/difficulty-chart
Unless... we were already defeated and live in a simulation. There was a movie about it not so long ago... :)
I worked in the Commercial and Govt Systems group at Kodak in the mid 90s and took a class on image compression from two guys who were part of the team that figured out how to mathematically correct the early, flawed Hubble images. Was really cool!
So as quick rundown:

- Microsoft released June 8 update claiming to fix a printer security bug
- A security researcher believes that was their previously reported printer bug, releases a write up and PoC.
- Between June 9 and June 21, PrintNightmare was a known issue with no fix.
- An unsupported ACL mitigation started doing the rounds on social media. People quickly found out it broke a lot of stuff, and there have been plenty of reddit posts about random things not working. I had to revert this mitigation just to get last week's Exchange update to aply
- A June 21 out of band update came out claiming to fix the issue, but the situation was complicated enough that people started building flow charts trying to decide what is/isn't vulnerable[0]
- Microsoft ships a July 13 update wherein this is finally properly patched, provided some registry keys are left at default
- The documentation originally published incorrect registry keys, causing confusion about whether people were vulnerable
- It's identified several printer vendors, and even the Samba team, have recommended the "bad" options that make this update not work
- A new print spooler privesc comes out yesterday

It's been an incredible mess for an organisation to stay on top of and now I've got vulnerability assessments telling me I should be disabling print spoolers when every user ever expects to be able to print.

[0] https://twitter.com/StanHacked/status/1410922404252168196
> Where are the calls for abandoning economic concerns?

I'm sorry, but you're completely off your rocker if you think economic concerns are a social construct and can just be abandoned. We are born into the world in a natural state of cold, hunger, and exposure, and someone has to labor to provide food, warmth, and shelter, and that comes through voluntary exchange (economy) or literal slavery, which is why every society that has done away with markets has turned into a slave state

Your calls for abandoning economic concerns are on the lunatic fringe where they belong
Canada should donate their Pfizer and Moderna shots instead. Canada is more capable of dealing with any resulting blood clot issues than lower to poor income countries.
Censorship is just another way to wield power. It has nothing to do what people should or shouldn't see. It's about controlling the population. This is associated with dopamine hit each time authoritarian enacts another restriction and they just want more and more as tolerance builds. It's a slippery slope that will end up badly if we don't stop them early in their tracks.
Once the withdrawals get really bad, it's when the army goes on the streets.
In my years of working with Go in multiple teams that was never really a problem and I haven't even thought about that once so far.
The actual text: http://www.marshallfoundation.org/library/wp-content/uploads...
Jen Psaki said herself that the government will flag posts for Facebook. So, yes, it's effectively the government.
It sounds the same as the iMac temperature sensor that only worked properly with Apple drives. You can ignore it.
> btw: Ikigai doesn’t say anything about that

Sorry, I was misled by the Venn diagrams people make.
> This is the problem. What you thought was misinformation is only really a few studies away from being flipped around.

The big tech companies are destroying the value and credibility of our information ecosystems, by treating the first draft of history and science like it's the last. The day after an event [0], elite opinion becomes "information" and anything that contradicts that is "misinformation."

[0] I meant this as a slightly comical overstatement, but in many cases it's quite literal.
What you are describing is just another manipulation of words by media that has caught you and others. Most scientists believe the virus had a lab in origin, and couldn’t have been natural, but whether that is due to a lab leak is completely speculation based on the fact it likely has a lab origin.
Yes, of course. Money is the goal of the business because the business isn't the goal of life.

I've always approached work as a way to maximize my free time, meaning I want to extract the maximum value from as little work as possible. The goal being to spend the rest of the time doing the fun stuff.

SaaS is a great way to deal with this because once the product is built you can ramp down your involvement in it to nearly zero. Other gigs I've had, when I stop doing work, they stop sending me money. SaaS doesn't have that problem. I can answer a few emails in the morning then if the sun is shining I can head off and do whatever I like with the day. Problem solved.

So yes, the business is all about extracting the most money for the least effort. Because I have more important things to do.
How do you make sure fiat is backed by the necessary amount of real assets?

Without a concrete safeguard, we would eventually fall back into the debasement scenario again.

I believe this is the problem bitcoin is attempting to solve. The asset/value is inseparable from the monetary network which makes it easily auditable.
It can be both. There is no mission without money.
I don't think it sounds like that at all, from what the article says. Rather it sounds like he didn't want the skills he had spent years practising and learning to be potentially subject to cheap replication by technology. That would turn something that used to be a skill learned through effort into a commodity, at least as far as film goes.

I can easily see how that would seem like a bad deal for the actor. It could also feel like it devalues the skills themselves.

That's orthogonal to the applicability of those skills in the UFC or whatever.
I think that link is out of date? There is a different list here: https://fly.io/docs/reference/regions/
The actual document in pdf format seems to be here: http://www.marshallfoundation.org/library/wp-content/uploads...
The Covid ‘Birthday Effect’ Crossed Political Boundaries
The Matrix Reloaded was ok. It's Revolutions that was actively awful.
Linux is pretty perfect. Definitely superior to other OS.

Could be that the popularity caused tons of support and unrelated to FOSS. Or maybe leadership.

Gimp has always sucked.
Making what irrelevant?

The 'implications' for 'human emotions' is vague enough to be analogous to simply 'fear of change'.

Focusing on the process and not the outcome has been common advice since the Tao Te Ching. It's not easy, but that's not due to tech.
I am not aure about the US but here in Germany most experts didn't say it was a conspiracy theory, but that those who claim this is the truth lack the data to back it up.

I could also argue that there is a invisible unicorn orbiting the solar aystem. As long as there is no real proof for it we have to accept that it is just a theory. And the more facts align with my theory the more motivation there should be to check my theory by trying to disproove it.

SARS-1/MERS was prooven to stem from bats in the same region, so assuming that instead of a lab leak theory was more in line with known/knowable facts than a lab leak theory. When the facts changes theories change, that is science.
Being more reliant on Russian gas supplies because you turned off you nuclear plants made you more proud?
I have switched my daily laptop to KDE neon since 5.12. Am I happy? Well 100%.

I have been using Linux on and off since I think Ubuntu 8 or 10 days so a long time but this full time experience has been much better.

I can do bash and am not scared of terminal. That is nice.

I always read planet.KDE.org and its a fun place.

KDE now with steamdeck means more people are going to get exposure to KDE which is always a good thing
That text is as important now as it was then. And it can easily be used everyone, with slight adaptions, by replacing France and the US with other nations.
Elixir protocols vs. Clojure multimethods
Thanks for this comment. I'll be more specific:

Financial and/or debt economy concerns.

Long live the gift economy and all it concerns.
Interesting.

I always had the impression, the US citizens and french citizen where buddies. Because of the independence war and the statue and everything.
The issue is airport express won’t detect it. Do I actually need to set it up as a main wifi router to do so?
If you read my comment carefully, I say exactly that. We know it's not healthy, but we also know that there are no crazy long-term effects if you keep it moderate.

My comment is specifically about people saying alcohol is bad but then smoking weed all day or taking LSD and other drugs and think it's good for them.
I've never heard of this. I'm reading the original right now -- it's amazing.
Consciousness and the Laws of Physics
There is a Port of the Linux kernel for M1, so it shouldn't take much longer for distros to be available
https://github.com/corellium/linux-m1
Book Scanning Robot
Agreed. I think if money is the primary goal, getting a job at a FAANG is a more certain path. Freedom or agency is my biggest motivation.
For me the magic of Full Throttle was how it gave me a glimpse into a world so different/badass/cooler than my own. Here I am, a timid 7-year-old suburban boy, watching a biker pop a wheelie and oh shit the front wheel fell off...

The critiques of the gameplay are totally fair. That minigame where you duel on the bikes was so frustrating.
Bulletproof React
I take rat poison as medicine--warfarin, just in much smaller doses than the rats get.
For that matter, the most toxic substance known to man, botulism toxin, is being promoted for various medical and cosmetic uses.
I had plenty of gripes about my brother when I was growing up. Those gripes were trivial but real and talking about them is far healthier than not.

I miss him terribly now.
No they do not. Most believe it jumped from a wild animal to humans a short while before the outbreak in Wuhan.
That happened due to the ongoing breakdown in the alliance between the US and Western European imperialist blocks.

Sadly, it wasn’t due to some principled stance against US economic warfare.
Oh, I totally and wholeheartedly agree.

But once we’ve said that, and agreed on it, what do you suggest we do?

In the meantime, I’m glad to have found a working, although imperfect & cumbersome, solution.
> I abhorre companies who pretend their IT will change humanity

I mean technically they're right, in that their IT might change humanity by 0.000000000000000000002% (if it can be measured at all)...
How to Create a Pitch Deck Narrative
Thanks for the anecdata. I've come to a similar conclusion myself about weed.

My official saying is, "because it works for me doesn't mean it will work for you."

Additionally, alcohol absolutely feels like it destroys my body. Like, two drinks kills my productivity the next day, guaranteed.
LLAAS: licence laundering as a service
Other SBCs are starting to catch up now that there are opensource drivers for ARM GPUs. Once all the drivers are in place the raspberry pis is actually an evolutionary dead end because of its video core based architecture. They'll have to redo the RPi 5 SoC entirely and probably get rid of 32bit raspbian.
I'm guessing such a book exists in south korea at the moment? I've heard that there's a lot of tension between the US army and the locals. One soldier even raped some local girl back in 2011.

The problem is that people in the army are not the most educated people, and thus they're not the best ambassadors when abroad.
> loss of coins means it will likely be massively deflationary

Friendly note that money supply is only correlated to whether a currency is inflationary or deflationary. Over the past weeks, for instance, Bitcoin has been inflationary--its purchasing power dropped.
> 2. Do colos commonly accept self-built kit like this?

My (UK) colo agreement says:

In exercising the rights granted in this Agreement, the Customer agrees to maintain the Apparatus to a standard which ensures that at all times it is safe and complies with all applicable health and safety standards.

So I guess it depends on how you interpret those kinds of provisions. Personally I wouldn't choose to risk installing a homebrew design, because the colo provider would likely attempt to hold me liable for consequential losses if it started a fire.
> Making what irrelevant?

why try to make your body into a super-efficient machine if robots are out of your league, can one exist if he's doomed to be beaten ? maybe it will cause a healthy shift in focus and appreciation about what we try to do (people may still try to reach their full potential even if it will stop being best absolute performance, but only best 'human' performance').
In my experience, people who quit subsequently taking extreme / absolutist negative positions (I assume it is something for people who actually did have a problem to help them quit?) is much more predictable than concluding that anyone who smokes a joint with friends is certainly a substance abuser or that it is impossible except in theory to be productive or creative if you ever use weed.

I rarely smoke weed, maybe a few times a year (typically as a joint on a summer day after lunch with friends, actually) and I can say I am much more likely to sit around and watch Netflix sober.

I live in the Netherlands, so maybe things are more relaxed around here. I rarely if ever run into someone throwing their life away to it.
wormable generally means that from one infected computer you can infect another computer with no human interaction.

In general, not much is wormable across the internet anymore due to most devices being behind NAT. Within many companies, there are very few firewalls, so with a wormable exploit any attacker who is running malware on one computer would be able to infect most/all other computers.
Money is a good motivator but can’t be the only one, in
my opinion. Because you need something to keep you going even when there is no money coming in yet, or it stops flowing (e.g. you lose a large client).
For my teams it's always been a cultural thing. Whenever something comes up, someone (at first, probably you!) has to ask: "would a runbook have helped here?". If so, give the person time to write a quality runbook. Also when things change, you have to remember to update your runbooks.

Also wanted to mention something which I always harp on when runbooks come up: the best runbook is no runbook. They're necessary for some break-the-glass things, but if the answer to "would a runbook have helped here?" is "yes", then the immediate follow-up question should be "should it be automated?". If the answer is "yes" then build it into your system, with tests and everything, and if that's not feasible then write a script for it and check it into VCS somewhere.
No, it's been happening for years. If "too few" people have run a particular program, Windows decides it's not trustworthy. You can choose to run it anyway, or wait for Microsoft to make it "trusted" (for niche programs the latter doesn't always happen).
GitHub’s Commercial AI Tool Was Built from Open Source Code
>The counter-terrorism system they've conceived is worth learning about.

I have learned about it, from multiple sources.

> They basically erred on the side of "too much surveillance, but alive" over "bomb them all 'til they're dead."

So literally a false dichotomy…?

> Given the near complete absence of terror in the region over the last few years, I'd say it worked to some end.

Compared to when?
Is Tesla liable for an FSD accident?
>Please then tell me what is the one true religion? :)

I dunno. I'm inclined towards none of the ones I know a little about being true since they really like to ask you to 'trust me bro, feel it in your heart' instead of just giving you good reasons to believe them.

Newton gave us far better arguments for universal gravitation than most people do for their religions, and he was ultimately wrong/incomplete.

>Humans are not logical systems.

Yes, that is a bug in the humanity system. Generally we try to diminish its effects when truth-judging (or maybe probable-truth-approximation-judging if you care about your epistemology). Recognizing this bug is useful to try and diminish its effect.