skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What do you think the net effect of deploying a new container image is? At some point the server goes down and a new copy is loaded.

You could always disable opcaching and then you wouldn't even have to restart the server to deploy a new PHP instance.
That was the plan all along.
Is there some succinct explanation for why Murray's reporting facilitated 'jigsaw identification' while other reports did not?

I don't want a link to a 50 page court ruling, I want someone to explain it in a couple of sentences. Something like:

Murray did not name Victim X but he specified the occupation of their spouse, the department they worked in, and their level of seniority. Given this information, a simple query of public records would be sufficient to identify this individual.
Great story. I think a lot of people would have a similar story if they cared to analyze their success a little more critically and be willing to give a little more credit to luck rather than their own efforts.
They may be a factor driving the prices up, but the locals being able to keep up through borrowing is why the prices stick.
> Free software has an insurmountable design, development, and discovery problem.

Someone in the 80s probably wrote that free software has an insurmountable tooling, compiler, and operating system problem.

The surmountable hurdle is for key free software developers to learn enough about design and discovery to honor and encourage the very few people who currently show up to do that work. If they made the experts feel like rock stars I'm sure more would turn up to do work for free.

I offer as evidence the number of free software devs who work on free software tooling, compilers, and operating systems as evidence of this.
It´s not bitterness. It´s a reality. In fact I worked as a manager for quite a time. Most managers are status seekers, and the freedom remote personnel has devalues their status, and they don´t like that at all.
I suspect @danso is just mentioning the -- breathlessly repeated by the italian press -- allegations that Amanda purchased condoms, had sex and -- omg -- had a vibrator.
Vaccine hesitancy is largely irrational, however polio and COVID-19 are hardly comparable. Polio has a 2 - 5% infection fatality rate for children and young adults, whereas the COVID-19 IFR for the same age group is close to 0. We're talking about multiple orders of magnitude difference in relative risk.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burd...
It's cool but the "r" in that font is distracting.
> I'll agree with the author partly on software such as rustic/duplicacy - they are not a good solution for long-term archiving, nor are they marketed as such.

I self host a Nextcloud server and I run duplicity each night to back this up to an offsite location. I use incremental backups because I have a data cap. From there each month I duplicate the most recent versions of the Duplicity directory onto a cold hard drive at the same location.

I was surprised to see a couple people in this thread say to not rely on Duplicity for this. What could I be doing better?
I thought the m4 files simply were the config files. This was something like redhad 3.x or 4.x? It was all m4 files to define the start menu contents and the dock and everything else.

I was new enough at the time that I guess those could have just been a front end to the actual config files without understanding that.

I just remember spending a lot of time fiddling with m4 files to get my fvwm and fvwm95 desktop just the way I wanted it.

It's nothing I chose, it's just the way it was already in the distribution.

edit... out of curiosity I've now googled "fvwm m4" and confirmed my memory. I was sort of mostly or half right. m4 is not strictly "the" config format, but it is a compile-time built-in feature that is generally always used, and old redhat in particular had a confusing setup.
The Olympics is really my favorite sporting event. Although, I think I have a problem with that silver medal. Because when you think about it, you win the gold - you feel good, you win the bronze - you think, "Well, at least I got something". But when you win that silver it's like, "Congratulations, you almost won. Of all the losers you came in first of that group. You're the number one loser. No one lost ahead of you!"

- Jerry Seinfeld
I think OP's intuition is probably wrong and that "1 in Y" is more effective than "X%".

That being said, it is tricky to move the adjustment between the numerator and denominator, and there are cases where this choice can be key -- "25 miles per gallon" is indeed a far worse metric to use than "4 gallons per 100 miles".
I was as big a fan of B and B as anybody back in the day, but it's been so long I can't imagine a reboot can capture the zeitgeist. It'll be another in a long line of disappointing grave digging, I suspect.
I guess it’s another word with multiple meanings, depending on whether you buy into suit-speak or not.
One size doesn't fit all - and that's exactly the issue with office work. After years in IT business I know exactly what are my "peak" hours/time and when it's better not to do anything work-wise and just focus on something else. Forcing me to work specific schedule in a specific office setup is no go for me. Plus other things like being able to exercise instead of my commute, eat healthy, use my equipment and tools I prefer, being able to refocus when I need and take advantage of my biological peak/down hours/time made me super efficient and productive.
> Can you call it Itanic if it was around for more than a decade because of how well it sold

It didn't sell well, though. At all.

> and how many supercomputers chose to use it?

Here's a chart of supercomputer architecture by year: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Processor_families_i...

Itanium showed up around 2001, peaked in 2003 at about 100 systems, and was nearly gone by 2007.

However good it might have been hypothetically -- and I contend that it wasn't -- it was a market disaster.
The key for me was this: If it could be explained logically, the Buddha would have done that. What could be true that is not a logical conclusion? What could be true before logic and axioms?

YMMV
What is the charge of a tetraquark? Is it neutral?
In addition to what others noted, you are vulnerable to ransomware, as someone in control of your computer can delete everything.
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There are plenty of consumer protections that have nothing to do with safety. Many countries have origin labelling requirements for a lot of goods, and they rarely were predicated on safety. Misrepresentation doesn't have to physically harm people to be bad.
Pretty much.

The whole idea that people will divest from profitable industries is foolish. Some will virtue signal and cash in, some will divest, and where there is money to be made, others will profit. The demand for oil will be satisfied regardless.

The real solution is to capture the externalized costs properly with a global carbon tax enforced via trade agreements and let the market sort it out.
I was talking about the appeal to supreme court which is only 9 pages long [1] and yes I read it.

I am specifically talking about page 3 point 4

> [4] The applicant describes himself as a “journalist in new media”. Whatever that may
> involve, it is relevant to distinguish his position from that of the mainstream press, which is
> regulated, and subject to codes of practice and ethics in a way in which those writing as the
> applicant does are not.

Specifically how being new media is different is one aspect. The traditional media in U.K. following code of ethics is quite laughable with the history of tabloids abuses and news of the world kind of incidents

The other point is so called "jigsawing clause" is very vague because it is not explicit on how much lee way there is for interpretation. Think about it, depending on how much you already know, any information or reporting about some event can be used to glean who the person behind is it. There has to be well defined rules for something like this as it can otherwise be used prosecute any reporter/journalist at a whim .
As compared to say "Not naming someone" is clear unambiguous rule to follow

[1] https://www.scotcourts.gov.uk/docs/default-source/cos-genera...
Wasn't basically everyone an employee of one "company" in communist countries?
There is a quite interesting Amanda Knox documentary that she was very much involved in making on Netflix. If you want the, "saga" its worth a watch.
Based on a podcast I heard this week FDA approval also looks at quality assurance of mass manufacturing, storage, supply chains, etc. It’s not just about efficacy and safety of the formulation, itself, but whether they can be assured at scale. It takes time to check all those boxes.
@Finger_Fudge I can see your comments, but they're marked [dead]
Yeah, there's a reason Amazon is on or near the top of those "which institutions do you trust most?" polls. Regardless of what you think about the company's practices/dominance/anything else, there is a lot to love about consistency.
Superconductors pretty notoriously need to be kept cold, which adds another difficulty of cooling the antimatter without touching it
> x86 compiler performance has been good enough for a long, long time.

> NP-hard problems on a large scale just to get passable performance.

First, it is hard to refute a claim, or find meaning in it, when you start using terms like "passable" and "good enough".

Second, I think this overstates the need for optimal scheduling because Itanium SPEC performance was "passable" out of the gate.
Cardano risks 60%-90% drop, warns trader with ADA painting a classic Bear
A lot of the sneering in these comments focuses on a strawman web developer, making bloated sites with looming frameworks that expect every browser to behave like Chrome and are too lazy to write native code for every platform under the sun.

I've had enough of these junk takes. Let's talk about a real world scenario.

I've been writing a simple web app in vanilla JS, that relies on some well established browser standards to accomplish the following goals that I think we can all get behind:

1. How do I make the UI look nice?

2. How do I make it usable and accessible, especially to people who rely on browser focus to use a website?

3. How do I make it behave consistently across Safari/Firefox/Chrome?

4. How do I make it run as fast as possible?

I've worked hard to reach these goals in tandem, and for the most part, things are working (you can see for yourself at https://rezmason.github.io/wireworld-player/ ). The UI is built from standard form elements, there's no buttons made of <div/>s; screenshots taken in the different browsers very closely match; it runs very fast, though that's a WIP; and most importantly, every browser properly handled element focus.

Or so I thought.

Last week I realized non-Safari browsers set the focus on whatever element is clicked. Combined with Safari's lack of support for focus-visible, this causes the same user interactions in and out of Safari to result in completely different browser focus states, while still having identical display states.

In my opinion this is a worst case scenario for accessibility and usability. I hope we can all agree that any GUI ambiguity that can hide a bug for two weeks can equally derail the experience of a site visitor. But this ambiguity is the default, and I don't think it can be resolved without a workaround written in JavaScript. As the article above points out, these Safari quirks are long-standing open issues.

But my main point is this: by developing and testing my app in Safari first, I wound up making a worse user experience for my visitors. My choice of browser was an obstacle to half of my goals. I'm not shooting for the moon, here— my project is pretty barebones. It's just DOM and 2D canvas drawing in a single thread, for Pete's sake. (For now, anyway.) But it would be better executed if I'd primarily tested it in Firefox and Chrome, or if Safari was better stewarded.
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This is likely what he is referring to: http://math.andrej.com/2007/09/28/seemingly-impossible-funct...

In particular, you can search compact infinite spaces by only considering a finite number of steps: "What is going on here is that computable functionals are continuous, which amounts to saying that finite amounts of the output depend only on finite amounts of the input. But the Cantor space is compact, and in analysis and topology there is a theorem that says that continuous functions defined on a compact space are uniformly continuous. In this context, this amounts to the existence of a single `n` such that for all inputs it is enough to look at depth `n` to get the answer (which in this case is always finite, because it is an integer). I’ll explain all this in another post. Here I will illustrate this by running the program in some examples."

This is the follow-up post mentioned in the quote: http://math.andrej.com/2008/11/21/a-haskell-monad-for-infini...
This article gives me no idea how they disrupted cable. This reads like a thirty something forced to write about the fortieth anniversary of MTV, which a quick search of the author shows is (probably) accurate.
In this case, however, there is evidently prior research using humans judging the faces that shows similar results. There definitely are all kinds of biases that could creep in from using facial recognition software, but a well designed study will attempt to quantify and control for those biases.

I definitely agree that the idea that software eliminates bias is laughable. Swaps it for another, hopefully less extreme set of biases doesn’t draw as many clicks, though.
Needs more homer mowing the lawn in a moomoo.
The author seems to have forgotten to include any mention of how these shows "disrupted cable".

Expanding the boundaries of acceptable taste in broadcasting wasn't a disruption, it was the linear continuation of a trend, following the footsteps of All in the Family, Married With Children, the Simpsons, and dozens of other shows that slightly broadened the goalposts for acceptable themes in broadcast comedy.
The variable font is awesome too. Love that one can control the parameters to one's will.
I think the relevant topology on the space of binary streams is the Cantor space.[0] It's compact, and can be seen as a subspace of the real line.[1] The fact that it's compact is equivalent to a principle called the fan theorem, which is simply true in classical mathematics, but which different schools of constructive mathematics don't agree on.[2]

[0]: https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/Cantor+space

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantor_set

[2]: https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/fan+theorem
I do pretty much what he does, but use rsync - I rsync up my laptop twice daily to a ZFS fileserver, that fileserver is backed up to the cloud and rsync'ed to a networked hard drive located on the opposite side of the house from the fileserver. Every once in a while I swap out that hard drive with another one, so I have 2 copies of most of the data, with the most up to date data in the cloud.

I used to use rsync to make incremental backups, but now I count on the cloud backup to keep versions.

I use encfs to encrypt the backups (despite its security weaknesses, it's "good enough" to keep my data safe if a hard drive is lost/stolen).

I don't worry about this:

Not only does encryption during data recovery make everything much more difficult, but should you pass away, your family members might not have the skills required to access the data.

If I die, the only thing my family will care about is the pictures that are on a google photo album, no one is going to care about the RAW source images on the hard drive, no one is going to want to look at the mail archive from my job 10 years ago. My wife is certainly not going to maintain a DLNA server to watch videos that I ripped from disks, she's just going to load the original blu-ray/DVD. And not even I ever play any of the CD's that I spent hours ripping to MP3's - I just stream music from Spotify.
We need to unpack what makes someone “unreliable” because we’ve found every single contractor runs late, ghosts some leads, misses some scopes, etc. The root cause is that it’s a complex job to manage and they may not excel at those small business tasks, despite having excellent craftsmanship.

We simplify their job. Normally they would have to field leads, visit homes to scope jobs, find suppliers who can deliver the right parts, figure out a price, convince customers to choose them, and then balance that with their other projects. Instead, we send them fully scoped jobs, parts pre-ordered and ready for pick up, customers already scheduled, and more. We do a lot behind the scenes to take that burden off their shoulders, and let them focus on doing great work.
No, most “communist” countries (and I use the term loosely because really they were just state capitalist) owned many different companies, rather than being part of one mega government corporation.
They could sell it at a loss, but make up for it in volume!
Letting the property remain empty is a guarantee of no income. Why would that be preferable to a risk? If the property is truly investment, it would still make sense to rent it or sell it. Both are good for the market.

On the other hand, I own my house and I’m very hesitant to rent out any space in it due to forfeiting control. I haven’t done much reading, but I think there may be some exceptions that make it easier to evict if someone is sharing your space vs renting an entire unit. That’s a different story but I don’t imagine this type of case having a significant impact on the market
In a world where all software is JITted (Java gang rise up), the fixedness of a VLIW ISA doesn't matter, because you always compile specifically for the target machine anyway. What you describe sounds like applying that strength of JITting to AOT-compiled code.

Vaguely related ideas from the distant past are ANDF:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architecture_Neutral_Distribut...

And TaOS's VP Code:

https://sites.google.com/site/dicknewsite/home/computing/byt...
Aluminum, glass, plastic and cardboard.
Terrible what happened to her but truth is she is a public figure and has not avoided the limelight either. (Not that that matters with my argument but will mention). She is fair game for any creative pursuit (song, movie, book, news article, blog post) and nobody owes her any courtesy to reach out they can if they want.

Imagine if you wrote randomly to Amanda Knox vs. some other non well known person. Generally you would not expect to get a reply from Amanda (who probably has all sorts or randos and non randos (ie random person) reaching out) but a well written letter to a non famous (or notorious) person you'd probably get a reply.

Nobody owes her anything just like she is not obligated to anyone as similar to the rest of us. She doesn't get any special courtesy because of what happened to her just another regular person at this point.

This reminds me of how a good looking man or women often is. They reject people all the time but when they get rejected they get all indignant that they were not treated with respect.
I'm a digital nomad, and I decided I wanted to store all of my data as securely as possible without relying on Google/Amazon/Microsoft/Apple. Here's my setup, in case anyone finds it useful.

I store all of my data in Nextcloud hosted on a VPS. It's virtually impossible to guarantee the security of data on a running VPS, so my sensitive data is also encrypted with Cryptomator, so I don't have to trust my VPS host (but I also chose my VPS host carefully with data privacy and security as my main criteria). My host makes daily backups of the VPS off-site, and I also backup my Nextcloud data directory daily to Tardigrade/Storj DCS via their s3 API using Restic. An advantage of Storj DCS is that it's geographically distributed, so you're insulated from natural disasters. I also sync all of my Nextcloud data to both of my laptops, and use Restic to make another backup snapshot on an external USB SSD once a month. My Docker configs for Nextcloud are stored on GitHub, but I wouldn't have trouble recreating them if I somehow lost them.

For my own personal risk model, I think my sensitive data is pretty well protected from third parties, and I think all of my data is reliably backed up accounting for multiple types of failure. My biggest vulnerability is probably my password manager, where all of my encryption keys and passwords are stored.

If anyone has any suggestions on how I can improve my setup, or any potential problems you see, I'd love it if you share!
You can't have a fraction of a person. The probability of having .65 out of 100 people working for Amazon is zero, no matter which 100 people you select. 1 out of 153 can at least happen.
I'd be curious what our modern food storage : population ratio is.

I expect a lot lower than when yearly famines were a frequent occurrence.
Fun fact: in the most general case, energy is not a conserved quantity.

https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2010/02/22/energy-...
We had some software break earlier this week because our Ansible role installs Python 3.8.10 as `python` but the system had 3.8.6 installed as `python3`. This meant that when we ran `/usr/bin/env python` it used the non-system python which wasn't picking up packages from /usr/lib/python3.8/dist-packages or wherever Ubuntu packages are installed.

The default `pip` and `pip3` commands, however, used the system python and did read those directories, meaning that it kept insisting the given package was installed. It was a frustrating amount of digging around that could have been avoided in myriad ways, one of which being containers (though for a 30-line python script, docker seems like overkill).
Like I commented before, this is final stage of crony climatism: crony capitalists figured out they can skip the whole illusion of separation between them and useful idiots, and recruit the fools to work for them.

Climatists' role is to pressure governments to spend more on dealing with climate "crisis", and make sure those businesses who cooperate get lucky in terms of handouts, incentives and programs.

Crony capitalists' role is to milk enough money from the Fed and incidentally invest in the stock and bonds - just like the Pelosis.
ARM holdings is owned by a Japanese fund and being sold to a US corporation.

European salaries are paltry in comparison to US and the businesses are either stagnant (Bosch) or dying off except for a few successful ones that are being sold off to either Chinese conglomerates (Volvo) or USA/Japan (ARM holdings)
For sure, but they may also use simple projection or just current levels already, as negative feedbacks are already accounted for. These will start breaking from 2030 however, so we might see further acceleration until equalization is reached.

Any serious measure can use uncertainty and other measures in combination.

Economy tends to undershoot existential risks, so think bailouts until the supply-lines break down. We already saw the world flirting with this just from the Corona-situation.

Mitigations tend to be reactive, rather than proactive, and may overshoot for individual random events compared to overall preparedness.

Such complex models will come with flaws. The concern is however that scientists find few significant redeeming factors overall. The concern is that the older models are too conservative even.
Physicists See Light Echoing from Behind a Black Hole for the First Time
Depends on how you set it up, but with a lot of container orchestration these days, you create a new image then point your load balancer at that instead, giving you a clean blue/green deploy without downtime.
If it was surrounded by a cold mass that it could radiate photons to across a vacuum, its equilibrium temperature would be that of its container.