skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good question and I have an answer for you. It depends on your risk tolerance and resiliency.

If you compare it to a single machine with multiple tenants and no replication, it doesn't make sense. But that comes with risks and given the OPs question in the context of a k8s cluster (which for HA is a minimum of 5 servers), I figured they are prioritizing time savings over money.

Losing customer data, downtime, and data breaches can kill some companies before they even take off.

If your particular business is not sensitive to that than you can run your own database. Or better yet, if you're a content business you may not even need a database at all.

But even so, if you run your own DB you need to worry about backups and such so it may even still be worth the money. And if you are going for High Availability (HA), running a properly replicated cluster can be time consuming.

The cost of a t3.medium RDS instance on AWS for instance is $0.068 / hour compared to a t3.medium instance on EC2 is $0.0416 per hour. That is an extra $19 per month. For my use case, paying an extra $19 a month is well worth the savings in time and the piece of mind I have knowing my backups are running and if the server crashes I can recover quickly. But you must consider use cases and your's might be different.
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Thanks! I'm still using an old iPhone SE (2016) as my daily driver, but sooner or later iOS support is going to drop and I'll have to find a decent upgrade path. Considering my size, headphone jack, and fingerprint reader preferences, I think the Pixel 4a is the only device that seems viable to me on the market today... hopefully I'll still be able to pick one up in a year or two and slap GrapheneOS on it.
You're right that the intent is not to make the reporting more neutral, but you are missing the point -- the reporting is not neutral to begin with.

Take an example from the tool:
- The SUV crashed into the woman.
vs
- The driver crashed into the woman.

It is not that one of these statements is "neutral" while the other one is biased. In both cases, the author is making a choice of emphasis.

What Vision Zero advocates is that the former's emphasis is the wrong one, and that ascribing more agency (not necessarily blame, but agency) to drivers is the right emphasis to take. But no one is saying that that the choice of words is not subjective either way.
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You mean "all browsers are WebKit". Safari is Apple's browser that uses WebKit.
Is it not more like being anti Pfizer?
As someone who has had shingles in my left eye for the last 4 years, I can tell you it's not something to mess around with. I didn't get the vaccine because everyone kept telling me to get it when I turned 60. Unfortunately, it decided to come out when I was 57.

I'm still on steroid eyedrops and take 2g of antiviral medicine every day to keep it somewhat in check.
Anytime I’m in a discussion about nuclear energy (or I guess energy) France is always my example of well managed. Few major incidents (that I’m aware of, and this seems to confirm unless I’m missing something), and less waste than the US despite using significantly more.

Sure the waste is long lasting but it can also be isolated (especially somewhere like the US), whereas byproducts from coal and the smoke from it has worldwide effects. Especially with androgenic climate change being so obvious at this point, it feels like a no brainer
At 27 my grandad had 0 qualifications, a house, a wife, and 3 kids supported on a sergeant's salary.

At 27 I just finished postgrad professional qualifications and share a 2 bed flat with 2 friends. I lose 65% of my income to taxes and rent and have 10sqft personal space.

Avg house prices are 9x salary vs 4.5x in the 70s, so it takes a long time to save up to get started.

Let's talk solutions.
1) Govt needs to stop propping up housing market
2) Govt needs to relax planning and allow more houses to get built
3) NIMBYs must be stopped
4) Workers deserve fairer wages
5) To do that, boomers need to pay more of their costs
6) More social housing

source: https://nitter.net/TypeForVictory/status/1443850540614668299...
Scaled multiple self-hosted products up to tens of millions of hits / month. Scaled several for clients up as far as the hundreds of billions of hits per month. (Yes, hundreds of billions.) Never seen a kubernetes deployment that was (A) necessary or (B) simpler than some alternative.

Unless you're doing something very slow / processor-intensive, you'll probably never even need an autoscaler before you can afford to hire an expert to do it for you. You'd be surprised how far you can get with a small VM running your whole stack.
Yes they will work, however to get notifications when the apps are closed you would need to have to some form of Google Play Services. I suggest MicroG if you are intending to do this since it seems to be the least invasive.

In my personal case though, I would still not use MicroG, and would just leave the app open until I am done using it. This is easier on Android because apps are not suspended in the same manner iOS apps are.
you’re getting hung up on technical details, when behavior dominates how effective masks are in practice. it’s like crowing about a 500hp engine in your car that you use to haul the kids to soccer practice. it just doesn’t matter.

if the message were inverted—wear masks at home, around friends, and in social situations rather than in public—perhaps masks might have made a bit of a difference. but that wasn’t the message, and as a result masks haven’t made much difference at all (other than the ulterior purpose of instilling fear and control). most of the effect attributed to masking was a misattribution away from simple distancing.
So is the goal just to fuel our current patterns of consumption and development with fusion, or nuclear, or whatever?
So the whole baroque arhitecture is there to 'remove performance costs'? That's an even worse reason to use TS than avoiding prop type bugs.
Oh certainly.

I have a pretty good relationship with that manager, actually, and that's more or less the framework we use to sort of compromise. He gets his buzzwords and I get to get my work done.

I enjoy learning new things, don't get me wrong, but sometimes a CRUD app is just a CRUD app and trying to shoehorn other stuff into it makes it more of a pain in the long run.

I guess I just wanted to illustrate that this isn't only an IC issue; management can engage in MDD too.
Society? People who want their fellow citizens to work toward greater goods collectively?
jlink usage won't make any significant difference typically. What does make a difference is (App)CDS though, as available in newer Java versions. Memory-mapping a file with the class metadata from previous runs can easily shave off a second or more from time-to-first-response [1], depending on number and size of classes required for that.

[1] https://www.morling.dev/blog/smaller-faster-starting-contain...
What? No. The vaccine makes the death complications less likely. You might still get Covid after being vaccinated, but you probably won’t get the full vascular infection if you were vaccinated beforehand. That’s all I mean.
So we can't give people nice things unless we can give everyone nice things?
The program just needs to flag if this info is missing.
are alternatives really cheaper when you need to build more to compensate for the moments when the sun doesn't shine and the wind doesn't blow?
Don’t be obtuse.

A person collapses into the street and is struck by oncoming traffic - no one is to blame. It is an accident.
I'm guessing you are referring to David Fravor[1] when you say "the one about UFO's".

I dunno. I'm a skeptic by nature (not just of UFO's, etc., but of almost everything) and I watched that episode and thought it was good. Fravor seemed like a sharp, knowledgeable, down-to-earth guy who was simply stating what he experienced... and went to great lengths to be clear that he wasn't necessarily positing that what he saw was caused by Little Green Men from Mars.

FWIW, I don't believe that intelligent aliens are visiting Earth, although I do believe that it's likely that there (is|was|will be) intelligent life elsewhere in our universe at some point in time. Given that bias, I didn't find anything particularly objectionable in the Fravor episode. But perspectives vary, of course...

[1]: https://lexfridman.com/david-fravor/
I started writing this web app during first lockdown as an experimental port of a internal desktop app we were using at my company. I was curious about the performance that could be achieved by a pure web app solution. It turned out to be quite capable so I decided to move forward.

Basically this is a handy tool to plot and edit time series, typically obtained from measurements or produced by simulations.

One of the main feature is the built in expression parser that can be used to combine time series and which is reasonably fast thanks to JIT webassembly compilation.
Does it support extensions? I can't go anywhere without uBlock Origin :D
Being 27 in 1960 vs. 27 in 2021
At 27 my grandad had 0 qualifications, a house, a wife, and 3 kids supported on a sergeant's salary.

At 27 I just finished postgrad professional qualifications and share a 2 bed flat with 2 friends. I lose 65% of my income to taxes and rent and have 10sqft personal space.

Source: https://nitter.net/TypeForVictory/status/1443850540614668299#m
I'm coding since I'm a kid (around 5, and I'm now nearing 50), mainly C/C++ with the occasional whatever other language you encounter in a normal coder life.

I had lost it a few years ago. Gdb fatigue, tried higher-level languages (js, java, etc.) but it didn't click. And then I discovered rust nearing its 1.0 release. That was it.

After introducing it at work and being really pleased with the result, I changed jobs and now use it less, but even when coding in C/C++ I'm happier now.

Learning rust has made me a better C coder, it has made me interested in building stuff again, I'm even back doing side projects (although I have a family so I have to spare my time).

There are many new shiny stuff, find the one that clicks with you. Or find something else (a friend of mine is now a paragliding instructor), life is short.
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If cheap commercial fusion became a reality, no.

We would use far more energy.
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no one is asking for 100% nuclear. Sure, when sun shines solar makes sense. But it can't satisfy all the needs all the time. Look at California - we are closing our nuclear and buying more electricity from Utah where it is generated using coal and gas. You can't outsource climate change.
Of course anecdotal here too, but it seems highly unlikely that that's a typical android user perspective. Even among fellow nerds that argument is not that overwhelming, and they are a tiny group of people.
It also helps serve the needs of millions of websites. This is like the mileage of a freight train: you have to look at how many tons it carries in that distance compared to alternatives. That's 2KW for easy true randomness. They have to get it some way, and this is probably the most efficient option for their purposes.
I can almost guarantee that over a period of years you'll see significantly less downtime that can be attributed to Heroku than you would on VMs that you manage. Even if that isn't the case, if Heroku are responsible for it then you can mostly just kick back and let them fix it, rather than spending 24 hours without sleep migrating VMs between providers.

The context here is also that of a single entrepreneur building a business. At that point in the lifecycle of a product downtime really isn't that big of a deal, customers tend to be pretty understanding so long as you recover.
Or maybe France just built their plants there to put them close to the alluvial resources and close to consumers (between Paris, Germany, Rhine and Rhone valleys), rather than a for reddit-tier conspiracy theory idea.

Edit: and the map a sibling comment provided showed that most French nuclear power plants aren't even close to the Eastern border, but rather spread out over the national territory
i didn't dismiss or justify anything. my comment was a simple observation of fact. calm down you two.
How many of these inputs can be generated by JSON-generating libraries?

How many of these inputs can be generated by JSON-generating libraries on accident? 1? 2?

How many of these inputs can lead to exploitable vulnerabilities? 1 (duplicated keys handling inconsistencies)?
Quite. I watched a debate between Scott Horton and Bill Kristol.

Watching Kristol remain steadfast in his position despite all evidence is pretty amazing. Horton wasn’t perfect either but at last he had evidence on his side.
I recently started using Apple Maps in my car using CarPlay and just pleasantly surprised with some nice features as showing STOP and SIGNAL signs on the map so I know when to stop way beforehand in my mind rather than straining my eyes to look for those signs when I get closer to them. Makes a huge difference when you are tired and can not focus 100% when driving.
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You're judging to quickly without looking at all parameters.

The cost of nuclear power has only been rising and the price per kWh is much higher compared to wind or solar.

Building cost and time has never been correctly estimated for new plants. Just ask France, UK and Finland. Which resulted in going way over budget.

All of this while prices for solar and wind are lowering... Obviously you can't rely solely on wind and solar but at the moment it would make more sense to invest in those solutions compared to nuclear, for some countries.
Regardless of what software you put on the phone it is a tracking device. It has gps, audio, cameras, and web browsers that are all vulnerable to being hacked or used for tracking. I signed into gmail via the Bromite browser on my Pixe3a. I immediately received an email from google about my new Pixel device. They now know what device I use, what browser etc.

I don't care how locked down and FOSS you make your smart phone it's not going to be as secure as a dumb phone. There's a reason criminals don't use smart phones.
In terms of the NIF's broader goal, as opposed to the specific goals for their ICF work, the NIF is meant to keep nuclear physicists fresh on research relevant to nuclear weapons design in the aftermath of the end of the Cold War and Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Ignition_Facility#NIF...
"Never trust a hippie"

~ Johnny Rotten

As a one-time hippie, I'm with Rotten on that. Very few hippes retained their principles. Lots of them had trust-funds. Lots of them are here on HN (sorry chaps; I don't mean to imply that you're all money-grubbing wretches, happy to have swapped your principles for a San Francisco developer's salary!)
The vaccine hesitancy will impact vaccines for HPV, measles, HEP B, etc. etc. for generations.
> Most people are not stupid, if provided with all available information as well as clear statements regarding the reliability of that information and just a clear message saying "hey this is new and we have no idea, we are making our best guess" people will make decent choices

Citation needed
> What is the goal of NIF?

Nuclear weapons, more specifically stockpile stewardship (what happens as weapons age) and verification of weapons codes/simulation software (can we make new weapons without full-scale testing).

Everything else is gravy. There's a reason it's at one of the weapons labs (vs. the unclassified work done at most other national laboratories).
Re: spec, not if the spec is implementation (and project's values) defined. I mean -- the Rust project has a ridiculous # of tests which define language behavior without having an ISO standard. Yes, implementation defined behavior in C is usually a place where C compiler engineers trade safety for speed. Yes, that's usually a bad trade. However, I'd look at this situation re: Rust vs. C in a different way though -- the Rust project's values are why defining a standard is less important.

I think a spec is often a red herring because a bunch of folks living in the slum of C, when asked if they would all like to move into Rust's nice 3 bedroom by the park, instead always seem to ask: Wouldn't it be better to form a committee about building us a cathedral? Ada might be better. Someone should try it, but until then I'll take Rust.
There have been reports for months that Apple is on the cusp of releasing new 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pro models.

The new MacBooks would be the latest step in Apple’s transition away from Intel chips, replacing them with an Arm-based processor called the M1X that Apple designs itself. The new chip could boost performance compared to the M1 chip that debuted last year.

Other anticipated features include the return of fan-favorite MacBook features like magnetic MagSafe charging, an HDMI port, and an SD card slot.

The maligned OLED touch bar, mercifully, could be on the way out.
Setting up your own proxy that covers pretty much everything (maven/npm/nuget/pypi/gems/docker/etc.) is not difficult and takes only a few hours of work. I went for sonatype nexus, but many (most?) cases can even be covered with nginx caching proxy.
They are also running 4th generation thorium molten salt reactors prototypes and thinking of having a commercial viable design in 2030. From what I gathered the waste is not that suitable for nuclear weapon usage. So those Reactors could be exported to SCO/BRI/global south countries.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02459-w
Holding out for new battery stuff when we should have acted yesterday scares me.

Confusing the new marginal cost of renewables with the cost of them playing all roles in power demand is similar to the sort of myopic thinking that got us into this mess in the first place --- reliability is also an externality. If that's too harsh an analogy, comparing going all-window/solar to just-in-time supply chains might be better.
What exactly do you think the winds are carrying that would motivate them to place nuclear reactors based on that pattern?
The government policy for a reduction to 50% is not based on issues with nuclear power itself. As far as I have seen, there are mainly 2 reasons mentioned in the public debate: i) a concern about the disposal of nuclear wastes and the long-term cost of their storage, and ii) the desire to follow other countries' policies, with a focus on wind, water and sunlight, rather than leading the way with the cheapest and most modern solution for electricity production.

The decision was written in the law in 2015 [1,2], with a statement that renewable electricity (wind, water) should reach 40% of the production, which implies that nuclear power should not account for 70% in the future.

Overall, I believe this is not a bad idea because i) renewable electricity is bound to get better thanks to worldwide research, and ii) it is smart not to put all your eggs in the same basket.

[1] https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/codes/article_lc/LEGIARTI0000... (in French)

[2] https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loi_relative_%C3%A0_la_transit... (in French)
Nuclear is always touted as such a good idea on this site, but I want to take the opposite stance.

- Nuclear power has inherit risks that are not present in other forms of modern energy generation. You can claim that todays designs are 99.9999999% safe, but there is no such thing as 100%. If humans build it, it will fail, and a single catastrophic nuclear plant failure isn’t acceptable.

- Nuclear waste is difficult to deal with. Our current strategies include finding a secret underground cave, and hoping no one accidentally stumbles onto it. Not to mention we have no plan for dealing with widespread use of nuclear power and the waste that would produce.

- Nuclear plants take ages to build, and are insanely expensive. These costs make it impractical for a city to invest in. They also require massive amounts of concrete (bad for the environment, locally and globally) and absurd amounts of space.

- Nuclear is centralized, and vulnerable to attack. In a national defense situation, nuclear power plants are large, easily identifiable, delicate targets that can take an entire area’s grid offline with a single hit to a cooling tower. The damage doesn’t even need to be severe, just enough to warrant a shutdown and inspection.

Compared to other readily available green power sources, I cannot fathom why nuclear is preferred to a safe, distributed, clean grid of solar panels.

Maybe one day when humanity is a space faring race we could look to nuclear to support us then, but using nuclear on earth today is a bad decision.

edit:
A large number of replies seem to think I am pro-shutdown of plants or pro-coal, but that was never stated. My argument is against further investment into nuclear when there are other more known technologies available, like solar and wind.
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>are at the same time are not willing to take the idea of "God" seriously;

I can't speak for anyone else, but the Abrahamic[0] (and most other, but you appear to be referencing monotheistic ones) religions are based on "evidence" that is demonstrably false.

The simulation hypothesis, just like your "Old-time religion" isn't falsifiable and, as such, can't be addressed in empirical terms.

That said, given advanced/sensitive enough measurements[1] (which are unlikely to ever be viable), there are at least a few potential experiments that could falsify the simulation hypothesis.

Abrahamic religions, OTOH, make claims that are, based on already collected data, demonstrably false.

That's why I don't reject the simulation hypothesis out of hand (although I don't take it all that seriously either), while I do reject the claims of Abrahamic (and most other) religions.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abrahamic_religions

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27259212 (an, admittedly poorly formed, hypothesis, but something potentially measurable)

Edit: Added link to "poorly formed hypothesis."
> the relationship to the sun god is perhaps a matter of faith to some, but obviously false

How do you know it's false? Are you in touch with the sun god? How do you know there is only one sun god and you are in touch with the right one?
All the CI/CD build agents with no cache and so on. This is a general problem for all tech. For the web, cache is cheap but as far as I know there is no equal way to cache builds as cheap.

I think there needs to be a redesign in how dependencies work in most programming languages. Deterministic builds have been such a game changer and I think that CPU vs bandwidth may be the next big area to explore when it comes to compiling code.
> https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E-2xk8AWEAAWfaw?format=png&name=...

* Since 1/1/2021

On 1/15/2021, 0.12% of the Ohio population were fully vaccinated [1]

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/us-states-vaccinations
For those who actually want to see a map, showing that "how France conveniently placed many of their nuclear power plants close to their eastern border" is non-sense:

https://www.irsn.fr/FR/connaissances/Installations_nucleaire...
Part of this is due to China's new expansion of their nuclear arsenal: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-57995185
This basically. If you become a contractor you can double your yearly pay keeping the same conditions.
Which ones are those that are also effective enough?
Not sure why this is downvoted. Fission works, and it works well. The waste problem is massively overstated and also, aside from NIMBY politics, solved.