skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This, exactly. A PGE power line probably sparked the deadly Paradise fire, and I've repeadly see people blaming them for the deaths with metaphorical pitch forks in hand, completely ignoring the far more complex reasons for people being unable to get away from that fire safely.
Don't worry, as evidenced by recent posts eg [1] k8s has already entered the trough of disillusionment in its hype cycle for some time now, though Stockholm's is particularly strong on this one given its labyrinthic complexity.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27903720
Yep, sorry. Made more sense to remove the browser category, so I've done that now.
I recently had occasion to re-implement the R-tree structure [1] which I based on the original code by Guttman. There, each set of child nodes were stored in a (hard-coded 1k) page of memory, but there was a macro which allowed n sets of child-nodes in a page, but that value was set to 1. I assumed that this was an experiment which turned out to not work, hence the hard-coded 1 to disable it. As the code was nearing completion I experimented with values other than 1, and found a 3-fold increase in speed for a value of n=8 (IIRC) against a 4k memory page. It's always worth testing your assumptions :-)

[1] http://soliton.vm.bytemark.co.uk/pub/jjg/en/code/librtree/
The article uses degrees celsius, foot, watt, nanometer, square foot, kilo electron-volt, miles per hour, teslas ...
Dreamhost does Ruby and Python on their shared hosting.
Yeah, spanning a cluster from DC to Edge is probably not a good idea, but also generally not what I've seen suggested.
Looking forward to this being decoupled from snapd eventually. Until then, not the fientist hope I'd touch this when any alternative exists where snapd can be avoided
I prefer upvotes/downvotes to likes, but there's an issue with "I downvote because I disagree" instead of "I downvote because the content is of poor quality".

I also 100% agree that groupthink can be an issue, it's almost like the highlighted notes on kindle--I feel like once they reach a critical mass, people start highlighting the same text without really thinking about it.

So, the ideal, for me is to allow for up/downvotes but not display them on the screen (like in certain Mastodon setups).
Plain k8s has a fearsome reputation as being complex to deploy, which I don't think is quite deserved. It isn't totally straightforward, but the documentation does tend to make it sound a bit worse than it actually is.

I run a couple of small clusters and my Ansible script for installing them is pretty much:

* Set up the base system. Set up firewall. Add k8s repo. Keep back kubelet & kubeadm.
* Install and configure docker.
* On one node, run kubeadm init. Capture the output.
* Install flannel networking.
* On the other nodes, run the join command that is printed out by kubeadm init.

Running in a multi-master setup requires an extra argument to kubeadm init. There are a couple of other bits of faffing about to get metrics working, but the documentation covers that pretty clearly.

I'm definitely not knocking k3s/microk8s, they're a great and quick way to experiment with Kubernetes (and so is GKE).
Does anyone know of an opencv which can be used to calibrate calibrate using something like this?
Maybe they should train their networks on memes and make it do the opposite ;-).
Wordpress sites is more like painting and writing.

And physics engines and distributed databases and creating Wireguard is software engineering.

I think there are hundreds of times more people doing the former, than the later
> I prefer to follow daily impulses instead of waiting for the motivation to tackle the Most Important Thing.

What about folks who could almost endlessly procrastinate and never get the urge to work on something? Personally, i think that having a fair bit of discipline and forcing yourself to do the necessary things is needed in most pursuits.

Of course, i agree with TODO lists not always being good, but in my case it's mostly because i haven't found that many fast and functional solutions for organizing my tasks. Some of the ones that are almost suitable:

- OpenProject ( https://www.openproject.org/ )
- Kanboard ( https://kanboard.org/ )
I used to think that I am not an ideas person and it turns out that I do have enough ideas for side projects. I just reject most of my ideas as 'that would not work as a product'.
Then, I just started tinkering with an existing product and add some what if features to it and reduce it to a prototype ignoring it will work at all... That seems to get me started on new things... ymmv...
Taxed like a hotel? Taxed on the business and also the tourism taxes on the guests' stay?

Maybe also an infrastructure tax, based on the increased traffic to the area.

Enforcement of civility, maybe the option to, in-lue of a local rules enforcer to attempt to de-escalate before calling the police the option to pay additional taxes and have the noise and nuisance ordinances (which should exist and have teeth, unlike everywhere I've lived) enforced by those officers?
Ask HN: Best way to learn Smalltalk?
I have been going through SICP to learn lisp, and am wishing a similar path for smalltalk/pharo. Any suggestions?
The clinical studies clearly show that the benefit from getting the vaccine outweighs the possible risks. Otherwise the regulatory agencies would not have approved them.

Why don't you simply look up the reports from the approval agency of your choice if you want to know the details?
> Malicious AI would almost certainly affect the moon or mars more heavily than earth, since on earth you can survive without high tech solutions

They do have the benefit of being air gapped, though.
Ask HN: What does an office you would want to go back to look like?
Hey HN!

It's now clear that the transition to a hybrid workplace is happening and there's no return from it.

I was wondering, what would an office environment have to offer for you to actually prefer working from there rather than stay home?
Nice exposition. It does not mention the fact that this can also be used as a proof for the question whether an infinite plane can be tiled with a certain set of wang-tiles is undecidable. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang_tile#Domino_problem : "In 1966, Berger solved the domino problem in the negative. He proved that no algorithm for the problem can exist, by showing how to translate any Turing machine into a set of Wang tiles that tiles the plane if and only if the Turing machine does not halt. The undecidability of the halting problem (the problem of testing whether a Turing machine eventually halts) then implies the undecidability of Wang's tiling problem."
How is persistent storage handled on microk8s (or k3s)?
A rotating gallery of total strangers out to have fun every day (including party), with absolutely no care for repercussions since they're only temporarily there, I wonder what could go wrong for locals?!

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/greater-internet-fuckwad-theo...
What can you do with No-code/Low-code tools
Agreed, it's not like he would all of sudden have time or resources to solve the aforementioned issues so what would be the use.

Either use your expertise and skills to make as much meaningful impact you can or just take the time off and enjoy what you have left. Both are fine to me.
It looks great! However, is this legal?
So Russia bad and must be killed with fire?
> Facebook is essential in their country to have a chance getting elected; especially so if (due to your policy stances) you rely on the younger portions of the electorate for your votes

This is why we are all doomed
There won't be any profits if they actually go ahead and fix it. You'd have to claw it back from prior shareholders who benefited from that unethical behaviour.
An open-source alternative to Retool is Budibase - https://www.budibase.com/

Edit: It was apparently already on there.
The Unix Command Language (1974) [pdf]
Makes more sense to put down fiber with the power cables. Why would you want to it on poles?
I guess it depends. A counter example would be the kind of grassroots organization Mozemo from Croatia whose candidate recently was elected the mayor of Zagreb, and they hold almost the majority in the city hall (which is difficult for a single party as there are many parties).They also did well in multiple cities. I checked their Twitter a while back, and they only had about 6k followers. On Facebook, they have 50k likes, but this is in general not a lot since they were a major regional story. I wouldn't be surprised if half of those likes came from outside the country. I don't think their good result is really powered by social media.

So I don't think communicating with voters is a solved problem, and I don't think Facebook / social media is the only channel you have. It's important maybe, but I'm not sure if it's definitely "essential".
I think many people would take issue with the first two points raised:

1. External debt

Sure Haiti finished paying France a decade before its economy began to diverge with the Dominican Republic. But what could it have been spending this on for the over a hundred years it was repaying this sum? If the Dominican Republic didn't have such a (frankly ridiculously unfair) debt, is it possible it was able to make some investments in infrastructure, for example, that Haiti wouldn't have been?

2. Land mismanagement

The idea that Haitians deforested their part of the island, causing themselves environmental (and therefore economic) problems is is a fairly common myth. It seems that overall the forests are relatively sustainably managed and Haiti has a level of forestation you'd expect: https://www.vice.com/en/article/43qy9n/one-of-the-most-repea...
https://archive.ph/O7sgl
> people with metal detectors may find some clothing pins (not sure of the correct english word) or something. These people may also not be eager to tell you where they found it

And often just sell it straight on black market.
Wait, who is eating the marshmallow ... and what is the marshmallow in this analogy?
Ways to undo your Git mistakes
Herd Immunity Is Impossible. Now What?
The amount of false-positives with WinDef is insane, it's pretty much like any desktop link to as shared drive is considered malware right of the bat without even inspecting it.

Let alone documents with macros...

Having said that, I wouldn't want to be one of those having to implement detection logics because the malware jungle is so creative that it's pretty much an impossible job they have to do.
Twitter has a new target of the two minutes of hate every day. I doubt this will add anything but white noise to an already terminally cancerous platform.
I was curious what Julia decided to use for string concatenation (+ method would be the least surprising option for me since it's common for the most of source code in use, even while the string concatenation is non commutative).

I was surprised to find Julia uses the multiplication method for string concatenation. For me it feels as wrong as using bitshift operators for I/O but maybe I'm missing something.
>In reality, fires are part of the lifecycle of forests

Let's be absolutely clear that this is only true for a limited number of forests. The evidence for this is the existence of very old trees.

Unfortunately many forests will become increasingly susceptible to fire as dry seasons are extending in many areas due to climate change.
>Is this still the case of idiot-managers doing decisions like "nobody was fired for buying IBM" (and now SAP, salesforce,

Enterprise software like SAP and Salesforce are gigantic comprehensive business process management tools for Fortune 1000 companies that can't be replicated by stitching together open source projects.

Even tech companies with expert domain knowledge of software programming like Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, Google, etc all buy SAP licenses to use. Google recently switched from Oracle Financials to SAP. None of those tech companies are strangers to the open source ecosystem and yet they pay millions every year in SAP licenses.

Yes, a small business might be able to use an open source accounting package instead of paying $150 for Intuit QuickBooks. In contrast, no free software has the same scope and integration of SAP to save $millions.

Analogous situation with GIMP vs Photoshop. Why do so many pay for Photoshop when GIMP is free? Because as great as GIMP is... it is still missing many features that Photoshop has had for years. CMYK color support, layer effects, latest algorithmic filters, action macros without requiring script programming, etc.

This is the problem with most of these "open source alternatives to $TOOLS$" type of lists: they usually don't tell you what critical features are missing that prevent them from being realistic substitutes.
I remember once watching a documentary on a roving band of chimpanzees, and thinking how human they looked. I was shocked when they attacked another band of chimpanzees and killed them all. However, I quickly overcame my shock. They were quite human indeed...
I'm a relative beginner to development and have found no issues with WSL2 so far. Any pitfalls to be aware of?
"At 13:15, Chenge followed by an adult female, Roxy, climbed up the tree. Roxy moved toward Greta and took the body. She then began to consume the hands and internal organs of the gorilla infant. Between 13:16 and 14:00, Roxy allowed Chenge, Littlegrey, Onome, Orian, and Queliba to access small amounts of meat, no begging behaviour was observed between individuals. A final gorilla chest beat was heard at 13:46 in a North-East direction of the observers."

That's pretty gruesome.
I had never heard of slime mold time mold dot com until today, so I read back through the author's theories and I'm not convinced there's anything here.

His initial premise, that the cause of obesity is a mystery, doesn't seem to be that well-researched. Most importantly, he does not really poke holes in the basic premise that the cause is linked to increased availability of food in general coupled with more people living sedentary lifestyles. He even mentions that average daily caloric intake has gone up c. 400 kcal since the turn of the 20th century. Which, for someone with a maintenance-level diet, would cause a 35-45 lb. annual weight gain.

The antibiotic theory here doesn't seem to address the possibility of wealth and industrialization as a confounding variable. In fact, he doesn't seem to seriously address confounding variables anywhere in his analysis.

I don't assert that antibiotics in the food supply should not be considered harmful, but his vague hand-waving in the direction of a culprit for some great unknown mystery seems thin at best. I'd love to hear some competing takes.
I think this author is not being very scientific. E.g. in part 2 he dismisses carbs as a cause of obesity, and he begins by citing a trial involving 16 people.

"A study from 2003 examined low-fat diets in 16 overweight people. Naturally, this low-fat diet was high in carbohydrates. When patients started the low-fat diet and were told to eat as much as they wanted, they actually ate 291 calories less per day."

I think it is important to note that obesity skyrockets from 1980 on. The exact year the USDA began mandating a high carb diet.
https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a4d5666bff200...

I recommend listening to Garry Taub instead. He is a physicist. Nutrition scientists are literally not allowed to deviate from the official dietary fat causes obesity/lipid hypothesis. So it requires outsiders to get at the truth here.

Why We Get Fat: https://youtu.be/qKuDamgGkZQ

Big Fat Fiasco:
https://youtu.be/exi7O1li_wA

Big Fat Nutrition Policy:
https://youtu.be/hzQAHITIUhg

Edit:
Carbs are sugar strung together. They are quickly chopped up and metabolized, raising your blood sugar level. To maintain homeostasis the liver responds with a squirt of Insulin. Insulin signals to your fat cells to start storing the excess sugar, which would otherwise poison you by hyperglycemia.
In a normal high fat/ low carb diet, you feel full after eating, and your blood sugar returns to normal. At this point your fat cells can release those sugars back to the blood stream (to prevent hypOglycemia). But with a low fat diet your body doesn't get enough vitamins and minerals (most of which are fat soluble and removed, or made indigestiable without fat) so you stay hungry. You are forced to eat more of this high sugar food, which keeps your blood sugar high and prevents your fat cells from completing the second part of the fat/glucose cycle. So your fat cells swell and divide, making you bigger, and the bigger you are, the more nutrients your body demands. The obesity epidemic began in 1980 when the USDA began dictating a high carb diet.

There are dozens of trials involving 10s of thousands of people going back 70 years that show a clear trend of carbs causing obesity in the West. I say West because it also clear that there is a genetic component involved in the carbs/fat cycle or insuline response. Which may explain why one isolated community can consume a lot of carbs from root veg and stay lean.
well, the Github link is broken. For viewers, it should point to:

https://github.com/Budibase/budibase
I kinda like that I only have upvote button currently here since I haven't hit the karma threshold. I do feel like the HN crowed doesn't downvote comments unless its spam or way out of the current topic. It happens but not like reddit where it acts like a disagree button.
Twitter's current "chronological" feed is only chronological in that the posts that appear in it are ordered by creation date, but it doesn't include all posts from the people you follow.

This was one of the reasons why I finally stopped using Twitter.
Canonical is just one of several players in this area. There's also k3s and k0s, for example.

I suppose it might depend on what you count as "edge", but we're using kubernetes to distribute a complex product to customers onprem. The product has multiple databases, services, transient processes, scheduled jobs, and machine learning. It needs to be able to run on a single machine or a cluster depending on customer requirements. It needs to support whatever Linux variant the customer allows. Using Kubernetes solves a lot of problems for us.
Be mindful that it's not exactly the number or size of the fire they are optimizing for, but the cost.

And I guess some smaller fires might cost a lot, if they are near rich people's estates.
It's certainly cheaper to have a couple of sysadmins, but then again, it depends on how valuable is the stuff you're dealing with. Small web agency? Probably not. Supporting dozens of journalists (like my org)? Absolutely.

There are also trade-offs. A few sysadmins can't host emails against hostile (sometimes state-sponsored) parties like Google can. We can't roll out a better messaging service than Signal. We could roll out our own VPN, but if the goal is getting lost in the noise, you want a popular VPN, not routing journalists' traffic through unique IPs.

On the other hand, just Nextcloud and GitLab (two fairly common services) require about 10h/month if you don't want to be major versions behind or miss security patches in minor versions.
Understandably, it was difficult to adapt to the change: "It is difficult to change your mindset in a chess game with a different start. But if we can change our minds in the game, we can surely help people change their minds in real life."
Now with Windows installer. This could make life a lot easier in many dev environments.
Works great at Hacker news. I rarely come across anti-scientific, illogical nonsense.
> Democracy is fragile enough (our country saw its top politician buy up all the top newspapers), without the political process being strongly influenced by a private company in a foreign power block

This is more important a point than just Facebook; it's all media consolidation. British newspapers have been afflicted by this for years.

The Telegraph and Spectator are famously owned by Sark tax exiles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_and_Frederick_Barclay

Rupert Murdoch owns the Daily Mail, the Sun, Fox news, Sky news, and before it was destroyed by its level of criminality exceeding acceptable levels, the News Of The World. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_International_phone_hacki...

The Independent is owned by Baron Lebedev: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evgeny_Lebedev , son of the Russian oligarch and former KGB agent Alexander Lebedev, and a Saudi oligarch https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-40762906 (apparently not connected with the Saudi royal family)
An hour to upgrade a 20 node cluster doesn't seem unreasonable for me - when you are doing a graceful upgrade that includes moving workloads between nodes. I don't know anything about rke. Might be interesting but it seems different enough from upstream Kubernetes that you have to learn new things. Seems to me a bit similar to Openshift 4 where the cluster manages the underlying machines.
Yikes, my bad. Have listed RudderStack as open-source now. :)
It's really not that hard. You are wrongly assuming these regulations are complex and hard to implement. They are really not.
making it open-source and submit pull-requests will be awesome, and sort of making sense with the purpose of the website
That's a great idea- will add.
For now if you have a recommendation, let me know here!
If you use English rather than American, you have "light grey" which is less ambiguous.
> The alternatives to Kubernetes are even more complex. Kubernetes takes a few weeks to learn.

Learning Heroku and starting using it takes maybe an hour. It's more expensive and you won't have as much control as with Kubernetes, but we used it in production for years for fairly big microservice based project without problems.
I'm no accountant, but if you go bankrupt as a result of an activity then the activity likely doesn't count as profitable. Cash flow positive, yes. Profitable, no.

Profitability and bankruptcy sit in a mild opposition to each other.
Yes and no. Yes, mortality is low generally, but grows exponentially with age, so pretty high for older people (1-10+ %).

And you don't have to choose death as your trial end point, you can take something else that is clinically meaningful, e.g. duration of stay in the hospital (not an expert).

What seems to make things difficult with Covid (according to a German virologist working on treatment options) is that we more and more believe Covid is a conglomerate of several different "sub-diseases" (can't remember the correct medical term), i.e. the virus can trigger qualitatively different physiological reactions in different people, and it's not clear at all why.
HN has moderators. Twitter doesn't, other than their own malgorithm.
What the f*** did I just read?
If I was one of the researchers, I would be very worried about having been associated with this encounter, the next time I see some gorilla.
Money is literally created every day. It's exceedingly easy in fact.
Added Umbraco. Let me know if you have other suggestions!
> that doesn't take seconds to compile a single long-ish expression with floating point arithmetic

Or some complex Combine chains just hang forever and not compile at all with no indication what the problem is. Yet they keep adding language features that clearly the compiler can't deal with.
Even though Pharo has evolved a lot from the original smalltalk, the main ideas remain the same. And nowadays the most active development is done by the pharo team. They not only build the software but also tons of high quality content.

I recommend starting with the Pharo Mooc. [1] And then deep dive on their books [2].

From there you can read old classic smalltalk books, such as Kent Back's "Smalltalk Best Practices" and Chamond Liu'a
"Smalltalk, Object and Design".

[1] https://mooc.pharo.org
[2] https://books.pharo.org
> the community's most pressing concerns

Why should they care about a small, very vocal and aggressive minority that doesn't want to use systemd anyway?