skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is amazing, can't wait to setup my DevOps processes to be triggered by Abbot commands. Winner winner.

Can I use Abbot along with Terraform on ECS? Would love to setup some deploy scripts
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>"Before Wanamaker invented the price tag, most buying was done by haggling."

[...]

>"Born in Philadelphia in 1838, John Wanamaker pioneered the concept of the department store. In 1861 Wanamaker and his brother-in-law, Nathan Brown, opened Oak Hall, a men's clothing store. In 1876, intending to open a central market like London's Royal Exchange or Paris' Les Halles, he converted an abandoned Pennsylvania Railroad depot into a multipurpose clothing and specialties store called Wanamaker's. Catering to an upscale market, he promised all-wool clothing and quality goods with a money-back-guarantee."

PDS: Observation: If one lived in an age of history where haggling was predominant (that is, no fixed prices), and where one was running a store with multiple clerks who were there to accept customer returns, and one wanted to offer a money-back guarantee to one's customers -- then this process could easily be abused by the customers -- by first haggling to buy a good at a low price, then waiting a couple of days and returning it, and lying that they had paid a higher negotiated price for it when they purchased it.

A known, agreed-to-by-all final selling fixed-price (that is, the Price Tag!) -- puts an end to all of that!

In other words, IF John Wanamaker was the first guy in American history to offer a return policy on goods sold -- then this return policy would have necessitated the use of a price tag -- so that returns could be processed quickly and efficiently by store clerks -- who weren't there at the time of the sale!

Also, the exact date in American history on which the first price tag was introduced -- would be of interest to Legal Scholars; students of the Law.

Why?

Because this date is probably at least 100 or so years after the Constitution is signed, and it will mark the period of time that people moved from haggling over price -- to using a fixed-price system.

Haggling is another word for "Negotiating".

Negotiation -- is an important aspect of Law -- because if you have two parties, and they differ in some viewpoint (all legal cases basically amount to a difference in viewpoint! <g>), then negotiations, if performed correctly, allow the two parties to "meet in the middle" (settle).

This popular knowledge of negotiation -- would have been the case in all of antiquity with respect to buying and selling with no fixed price system in place; that is, with no price tags...

Negotiation (when done correctly -- there are rules to it!) forms the backbone of "The Principle Of Honor", AKA "The Honor Principle", AKA "Honor".

Anyway, Price Tags -- while they greatly simplify commerce -- lead to the broad societal forgetfulness of haggling, AKA, negotiation -- an important cornerstone and (human) understanding in Law...
once you recognize it, you may start to catch it in use in applications all over the place. if you ever use xilinx tools, ECAD, etc, you will see reams of tcl handling builds and project definitions
Any chance it'll use subpixel smoothing one day? Grayscale smoothing makes me want to tear my eyes out. It's the main thing that prevents me from ever switching.
"Aware" is probably overly anthropomorphized language there. What they mean to say is that all these things have become parameterized within the model.
Click-bait headline.

"One weird trick boots potato and rice yields by 50 percent!"
Giraffes and Bunnies – why profanity Filters are hard
I think they sold the rights to Unicomp, who still make repro clicky keyboards like that.
The counterfactual has never seemed epistemologically satisfying to me, because of the way the influence spreads. If I had in fact flicked the light switch, what is taking up the empty space where my body would have been? What happens at the power plant which is now generating a bit more current than it was before?

Implicitly there's this idea that every counterfactual can be contained and localized, but that runs counter to my understanding. Change one thing and you change the entire universe. That's true even classically -- even before you bring in quantum physics and its problems with counterfactuals.

Perhaps counterfactuals are a good model of the psychology of causation. And in fact, I suspect that psychology is as deep as causation runs; it doesn't in fact have a direct physical or epistemic analogue. All of which is fine and important, but I feel like it diminishes the value of the effort put into it. It's not studying VLTIMATE TRVTH, just a quirk of how brains think about stuff. And that would mean you need to use a very different toolset to work on it.
are there any startup opportunities / products built for farmers that can generate revenue?
We use Notion a lot at our tiny startup. Over the past few months we have created atleast 20 "templates" to do a variety of tasks. Still need to commercialize them, but we built them to use ourselves.

They work awesome and being able to manage all information (various types) in a single place is proving to be incredibly effective!
High performance unauthenticated remote code execution
Wow the deep fake version is WAY better.
Parallelism doesn't require IO, merely https://hackage.haskell.org/package/parallel-3.2.2.0/docs/Co... or https://hackage.haskell.org/package/monad-par-0.3.5/docs/Con...
nmap not only comes with ncat, but with nping, which I used to find incredibly useful for troubleshooting when I was a network engineer. Especially with load balancing, wccp, and other things that change routes based on port. I think it was based on a program called hping, but I haven't really followed that world in a while.
I really wonder what causes the long hours ? market dynamics running prices to the ground until the guys cant squeeze any more minute from a day ? or just too much tradition in organization forcing them to spend more time than necessary in the fields ?
This is true! Most money can be made where no one is looking that closely :) but of course there is a larger risk for smaller companies and single, rather developing countries (expect for maybe the US which is hard to hit hard without also affecting any other market)
How is giving up on achieving something a win for users?
Metabadger: Prevent SSRF Attacks on AWS EC2 via Automatic Upgrades to IMDSv2
True, trying to solve a puzzle that might or might not have a solution doesn't sound that fun. I guess this is what researches do all day.
> ...they bought a piece of land and were there pretty much every weekend.

That's not farming for a living. That is a hobby. Big difference.
Eliot here, I work with Vincent on PhotoRoom. Our current focus is shipping an incredible app on the web and on mobile, but we'll tackle video very soon!
yeah, these are all features of working on the development team of a project. involving every developer who wants to work on a bounty at that level would be an insane amount of management overhead.

It makes sense if you're vetting people beforehand to make sure that giving them this level of access and communication is worth the effort, but that's what a job interview is.
I want to love Matrix, but it still hasn't got a real native macOS client (not qt, not electron, native one made with Cocoa). It's really a shame. Though I do see its potential as a protocol, and the nice part is that it's federated.
Searching for a better persistent cache
The nipple mouse? You can't be serious.
Apache Cassandra 4.0 Released after 3 years
This is true but it's true of all software.

But it's not, is it? We're not talking about minor bugs here, we're talking about anomalous behaviour or unusual interpretations of the specs. Safari is far worse than any other major browser in that respect now that IE has largely faded away.
The Art of Failing Fast with Option and Either
Sadly, I don't see change happening.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.oregonlive.com/news/2020/02...
I have not used this (yet), but there are a lot of problems with Home Assistant, with the main advantage being that it has all the integrations already written and it works for most things almost all the time.

Issues with Home Assistant as a developer of integrations:

- internal inconsistent politics slow adding new developers

- documentation is in sparse in many cases

Issues with Home Assistant as an administrator:

- The JSON database periodically corrupts itself

- The two "core" and App Daemon components can't live in the same system, must use Python venvs

Issues with Home Assistant as a user:

- There are two ways to configure integrations: via config file and via DB, which is really obtuse and difficult to version control, also sometimes the same integration is configured twice, once in each method, and sometimes parts of the integration are split

- Scripts in Home Assistant are linear steps, no branching. This is useful only in basic scenarios. There are three main ways of dealing with this with various trade-offs, and two of them are just moving the logic out of Home Assistant (python scripts, which run in a "safe" environment, and App Daemon which is unconstrained, but much heavier), with the third being using the templating system that's bolted onto the configuration system to generate dynamic conditional resolutions.

- If there is an error in your script (because, e.g., a device is offline temporarily) the script will abort instead of continuing, which means for example if your air purifier stops working due to the cloud, your local A/C stops getting set - this is not resilient

- The dashboard config (Lovelace) can be configured by the UI or config file (see above about integrations), but again it cannot be very dynamic in either scenario since the templating system cannot produce all possible configuration results, so for Lovelace's UI to be dynamic you need to write another tool to read the Home Assistant config and generate the resulting config (App Daemon can't directly do it)

- Upgrading between versions of Home Assistant generally breaks things and you have to spend time fixing them

That's most of the big issues that I can think of right now.
> I am observing the reality of what is, and what is likely to happen.

Your supporting arguments include counterfeiting and soon to be dead politicians as reasons why Amazon will fail but are reality based observations about what's likely to happen?

Also if you don't think Amazon/Bezos has any political sway then you're not paying attention to what's been happening with Pentagon or NASA contracts.
How to set up Tegola vector tile server on Ubuntu 20.04 for OpenStreetMap
Eh, for me it takes less time than brushing my teeth.

Then again under lockdown it's more like once or twice a week than daily. I suppose that counts against my argument though, if it was so easy why don't I still do it daily?
Semantic search using text embeddings. With Open Distro for Elasticsearch you can store your text embeddings and then perform a nearest-neighbor search[1] to find most similar documents using cosine similarity[2]. Elasticsearch (vanilla) will get this feature with 8.0.

If migrating to ES makes you groan you can use a managed service like Pinecone[3] (disclaimer: I work there) just for storing and searching through text embeddings in-memory through an API while keeping the rest of your data in PG.

[1] Nearest-neighbor searches in Open Distro: https://opendistro.github.io/for-elasticsearch-docs/docs/knn...

[2] More on how semantic similarity is measured: https://www.pinecone.io/learn/semantic-search/

[3] https://www.pinecone.io
> I get that you’re disappointed Safari doesn’t support the same stuff, the same way as Chrome.

In some cases, yes, but in others, no. For example, Safari still clings to their proprietary image formats. That means I need two versions of each image: something legacy or proprietary for Safari users (PNG, JPEG, HEIF) and something to appease the Google Gods (WebP) so I don't get blasted by Core Web Vitals. It's the IE PNG and SVG issues all over again. (Yes, I'm aware that Safari keeps claiming they've added WebP support--it's broken and has been broken since its inception.)

It's this proprietary, "we're going to do things our way and ignore the conventions" that annoys me. Chrome does it, too, but at least Chrome users have the ability to choose another browser; no such luck on iOS. WebP has been around for a long time now as an unencumbered format; there's no reason to continue avoiding it other than those sweet, sweet royalties that Apple wants to collect on HEIF.

> If you want to use the new shiny, do so, but accept what you’re doing carries the risks it has and work that into your strategy.

No, I don't want to use the new shiny; I want to eliminate the old bloat--all the compatibility code required to achieve the same experience across a variety of browsers while simultaneously appeasing search engines.

I don't want to be forced to use Apple's proprietary image and video formats to achieve decent performance in Safari--formats that other browsers often can't reasonably support. I don't want to be forced to do things the "Apple way" and rely on JS when I could be using CSS that works in all other browsers.

This is the same path that IE took. Right now they're at the IE7 stage: you can get roughly the same effect that you can with other browsers, but you have to go about it differently. At the same time, they're starting to lag behind. IE7 really exemplified this lag: it took them far too long to add tabs. Proper PNG support was in a similar boat but took even longer.

> Some of your users could be on Lynx

My sites would work better in Lynx if I didn't have to spend so much time making them work in Safari--but they do work in Lynx; they're just less-than-pretty because, guess what, Safari lacks support for the CSS that I need to accommodate semantic HTML.

> on that browser which comes with Haiku

It can't be that important if nobody even knows what it's called.

> on a shitty phone from 8 years ago.

Phones from 8 years ago run sites a lot better when they don't have to download redundant code and JS polyfills to achieve what could've been done with pure CSS. Although, if they don't support TLSv1.2, they're not going to be able to connect to some of my sites anyway; tough cookies. (They'll still be able to access my static websites, where enforcing modern encryption is less of a concern.)
Great story, thanks for sharing

It reminds me of the famous Victor Frankyl quote:

“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”

Our ability to take the high road, pause, and choose to be nice is uniquely human. Even if we’re not “feeling” it inside, or even if the other person hasn’t been that nice towards us.

We can choose to be happy. We can choose to be kind towards others. We also, largely, suck at both. But the choice is definitely ours to make.
Farming is hard work. Commercial farmers in my area pull 18+ hour days during harvest time. I don't think articles about farming quite capture just how labor-intensive farming is, how little sleep you get, and the overly hot/wet/dry conditions you have to work through during harvest.
I remember when coursera, stanford et al came.. I had subscription boulimia .. I only finished 50% of the one I attended.
Wow the ads on there completely obscure content without any way to get them to go away. Halves of paragraphs entirely unreadable on mobile Chrome.
Thank you for your inputs! I'll look into that :)
With the recent changes in social norms, I'm just not sure where the line of appropriateness is anymore. Unfortunately I think a lot of people are just going to avoid giving genuine/non-creepy compliments to the opposite gender because of that, which is a shame. Thank god I'm not dating any more!
Essentially every encryption scheme in history has been broken. It's a bit silly to think that "well designed modern" makes it safe. The others were all well designed and modern at one time, too. The only scheme that's truly unbreakable is a one-time pad and that's... well... not really practically useable.

Personally, that's not a risk that I would care about (especially in the context of an Echo Dot or even an iPhone), but deleting the keys will not be better than inaccessible forever.
Do you have any science on that? A friend mentioned this to me, so I looked it up, and I could find no evidence (from reputable sources) that it's true. There does appear to be an increase in ED in younger men in recent years, and also a decrease in sperm count, but not one of the sources I found mentioned anything about porn usage being related.
> e.g. discovering clean & especially cheaply salable energy sources quickly enough

In our case, it's also a matter of actually using what we discover vs continue using petroleum
Freestyle has some more information, and a step wedge test file you can print to help calibrate. https://www.freestylephoto.biz/alternative-process/making-di...
A big difference between farming and WFH discourse is that if you own the farm, your labor is all to your benefit and controlled by you (even if circumstances can demand a lot). Office work is dictated by bosses that control you. Your labor and reward are alienated from you. Strict separation is a good idea because that shit is toxic.
There's an impedance mismatch here, common in both artistic and technical activities though not universal:

The artist/ technician does an activity - for which they need to be duly compensated or else they're going to have to do this for a few hours once in a while as a hobby, since they work in the Mill for sixty hours per week. This activity has some product you can capture, maybe it's a painting, a poem, a noise, an algorithm, a mathematical proof...

The audience would like to benefit from copies of that product. And we live in the 21st century so we can digitally copy many of the above things essentially for free. The audience would gladly pay even though copying itself is free, but... how much?

Unfortunately there is no relationship between how much time you spent making the Product and either how many people want copies of it, or how much they're willing to pay for them.

So you can't build something that matches these two things together. Patreon matches the reality for creators. Trudy and Doug write a comic every week †. They would like money, Patreon subscribers like me give them a few grand, and they continue to write comics. Would I like a comic about Grier, or indeed, about Oglaf himself? Too bad, here is a comic about... pirates? This model suits a lot of creators very well, and after all the idea is to support creators.

In contrast some of the print-on-demand or PDF-download RPG sites are closer to the audience's model. If I'm willing to pay $5 for a roleplaying game that's kinda like "Starship Troopers" I could buy 3:16. I don't care what else Gregor has done, or what he's working on now, but 3:16 might be interesting, it's less than $5 I can pick that up.

If you, as an artist/ technician, have bursts of interest and can't handle commitment, then that's great, Patreon isn't for you, when you make something put it on a per-product site and I hope you have some other source of income when inspiration doesn't strike.

My sister makes actual things, she's an embroiderer (and a lecturer, but we're talking about how to get paid for the art side of things). So, that's simpler, if you want a thing, she can make it, and that'll cost you money. So long as you don't waste her time specifying a thing and then not wanting it once you find out it's expensive, this is cool. Photographs of embroidery exist, but clearly a JPEG of a sixty foot wall hanging is not, in fact, a wall hanging, there's no mistaking the two.

† Oglaf: https://oglaf.com/
about duplicates - google has this thing called grants https://bughunters.google.com/about/rules/5479188746993664 that pay people for doing security research, even if they don't find any bugs. we agree that doing security research is valuable even if no bugs are fixed.

about having access to private bugs, we don't want to share vulnerabilities with others without the researcher's permission, but the original researcher can make bugs public on the new website, you can see some of them here https://bughunters.google.com/report/reports
Large cars kill US pedestrians, don't make drivers safer
It's just the "noble savage" fetish for the 21st century.

How did they all survive without mental breakdowns and Harvard Business Review articles praising strict Work-Life Balance?

They didn't. They beat the shit out of their wives and children. They got pulled out of school to help their parents work the farm. They didn't get to have a comfortable retirement. They spent the last decades of their life in chronic pain. There is no way in hell this dude has ever had a real conversation with an old person who grew up farming.
I've been making my own, purely as a pipe-dream to have some hope of walking again, it's not easy but I'm hoping it'll be a better fit than consumer ones, and probably cheaper.

I feel like we've made leaps and bounds in prosthetics this past decade but orthotics and exoskeletons haven't been following the trend for some reason. As an engineer I imagine there are some significant design constraints that make it hard but seeing what we're capable of doing in any other industry I can't help but feel the problem has to be something other than purely technical limitations.
The price is also a big issue, 10k for the cheapest exoskeletons, 150k for the one in this article.
I'm sure this is one aspect of it. They surely don't want "foreign decadence" to influence their youth --which is part of losing control over narrative.

It's kind of typical socialist thinking that you can have forever revolutionary songs and chants, forever reconstruction and forever community activism (for the party of course). Obviously, that can work in tightly controlled environments such as North Korea, and it looks like they are taking some of that social control back so they can better dictate what they population should do (for its own good as they see it, obviously).
Hope there is no situation where another planet comes into existence and there scientists discover that there was a planet named "Earth" like we read now.
supercruise is geofenced to laser mapped highways (over 250,000 miles already mapped), so it knows exactly where to safely pull over.

GM was just showing off supercruise while towing: https://www.thedrive.com/new-cars/41643/super-cruise-hands-f...

Autopilot could add any and all of these things, but right now supercruise is the best L2 system available.
The amount of dirty pages the kernel keeps in RAM is configurable through sysctl. If the buffer is full any further write blocks the process. If you have less free RAM than the allowed dirty page buffer what you said is correct though.

There is a new patch[1] that allows to set a soft and hard minimum of RAM reserved for clean pages. This fixes the problem almost completely even under the heaviest loads.

cgroups like a silbling post mentioned can also help by setting soft limits for heavy background tasks like compile jobs. Setting a soft limit will give them as much RAM as is available, or swap them out completely when things are heavily contented, effectively pausing the processes. It requires some setting up though, so it's not a solution for all cases, but it can make sense even without the thrashing problem.

[1]: https://github.com/hakavlad/le9-patch
But he doesn't care about your opinion. As you can see he's not a great team player :D
Yes, of course it would also require them to be communicating to completely avoid the delay between each car being able to start moving. But I still believe that even only having information from its own sensors a self-driving car could safely begin accelerating sooner than a human driver since the largest buffer zone it really needs is just the braking distance. Slow human reaction time is removed from the equation.
Misterhouse: An open source home automation program written in Perl