skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article makes no mention of the Cloudflare's enterprise networking tools, and its VPN. Cloudflare is basically in a position to run the internet for most people to buy into it - I have their VPN on my phone and computer, which gets my fast access inside their network. By fronting so many of the world's websites, a lot (maybe a majority?) of my traffic actually flows inside Cloudflare.

Now with Workers, R2, Durable Objects, the server side can move to Cloudflare too. If it makes sense to move servers on the network where the clients are, then this is where they should go.
I know there was a lot of pressure on Cloudflare to drop hosting for 8chan. And it took a long time for Cloudflare to budge.

In general, I could imagine there being pressure on those grounds against using Cloudflare.
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It's giving people the pressure to obtain other means of survival, as we've seen, when the restaurants closed, the people in hospitality were able to have time to learn other things and changed careers, so that right now the whole industry can't find enough people. Good thing, so I am not sure what is your point, to have a sector which can only survive by exploiting workers because there is nothing else? There is something else, as we're seeing

And as far as I'm seeing, their bargaining power is only going up, workers can survive without their bosses, it's the bosses that get richer by thieving wealth from their workers
Let me clarify that I'm not talking about countries and people, I'm talking about language. For example, English language puts "please" every time you are telling someone to do something, in my language (Italian here), you don't do that. If you are not a good English speaker (like me), you suddenly become someone who gives commands to other people in a rude way.
Facebook is extraordinarily aggressive at obstructing the techniques needed to build an alternative FOSS frontend, including web scraping and HTML parsing. Examples:

- Obfuscating HTML element classes, text, and structures to circumvent ad blocking, while disrupting screen readers at the same time: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-46508234

- Preventing university researchers from obtaining data on Facebook's political ads through web scraping: https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-seeks-shutdown-of-nyu-... and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24874602

- Sending a cease and desist letter to the developer of the Unfollow Everything extension, and banning him from Facebook: https://www.techspot.com/news/91650-facebook-bans-sends-ceas... and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28801908
Mod/OP: The link leads to a person’s profile page on GitLab. Please update it to this link for the README on Usbimager:

https://gitlab.com/bztsrc/usbimager/-/blob/master/README.md
I don't understand how this simplify scheduling.

If I need a meeting at N:30 for example, it may be in the afternoon for me, but it could be at night for another coworker, and in the morning for another one.

Therefore, I still need to know their time zones to schedule the meeting at a time where everybody is available.

https://xkcd.com/927/
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(Author of Hashbackup)

B2 pricing is 0.5 cents/GB/mo, R2 is 1.5 cents/GB/mo.
B2 egress is 1 cents/GB/mo with 1GB/day free, R2 is free.

If your cloud storage is for backups, B2 is likely to be less expensive because backups are rarely downloaded and their 1GB/day of free egress is enough to do backup maintenance to optimize storage.

Cloudflare's CDN can proxy a B2 bucket to get free egress and maybe faster downloads (haven't needed it myself):

https://help.backblaze.com/hc/en-us/articles/217666928-Using...

I'm a big fan of B2 because:

- they have low pricing
- they have simple pricing
- they don't use gimmicks: minimum storage time, minimum file size, minimum payment per month, etc.

HashBackup was one of the first B2 integrations and I've never had problems with it.
Because software copyright was and is a bad idea, and courts (especially the 9th Circuit) have generally carved out exceptions for compatibility-related copying in the software domain that absolutely would not apply to other copyrightable work that ships with the software. You absolutely can legally reimplement a computer program such as a game engine, but doing so to the story, assets, level design, or what have you would just be ordinary copyright infringement. As a result most game reimplementations either do not ship with any art, or ship with an entirely separate custom-made campaign to demonstrate the capabilities of the reimplemented game engine.
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Google cloud has a managed nat gateway.
That assumes everyone has a realistic view of their contribution. I've definitely worked with "10x" engineers, and also "0.1x" engineers, and a good share of the latter would be really offended if the pay was fair and they found out they are massively "underpaid". Some 0.1x engineers I worked with were literally playing fantasy baseball at work, those would be fine, but many (including confirmed ones whose messes I cleaned up) had outsized view of their contribution, and they would be very unhappy under pay transparency. Whereas I think the "10x" engineers would not be much happier knowing they are "overpaid" compared to most. So, this system benefits no one... it only works if workers are mostly interchangeable.
I mean competition overall is a great thing. Personally I wouldn't bemoan disruption of Google et al by Cloudflare.

That said, I remember when I was rooting for Google against Microsoft and Amazom against Walmart. Before my time people rooted for Microsoft against IBM.

Sometimes we want things to become a little more timeless like Linux or HTML where it is democratized and much freer and slower to chamge.
> Of course Oktoberfest sucks for the locals

I don't care much about 2 weeks of drunkards. The problem is that the hotel supply is excessive as it's scaled to the peak demand times Oktoberfest and Bauma (construction fair) - the average occupancy is only 50% (https://www.welt.de/regionales/bayern/article172019924/Exper...).

Assuming a total of ~85k hotel rooms, that is room to house 40.000 people!
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The SEO impact is negligible at best unless you have it set up to specifically block crawlers (or you just forget about crawlers when configuring rules).
Not the first feature to fall in that category. I do not think it's that big for the industry overall. Cloudflare is better at PR / more visible than Akamai.

It might be interesting for markets where Akamai is not really competing (low budget?). S3 compatible API also is a plus.
And that' a war crime, specifically "crime against peace". A really cut and dry case of war criminal. Too bad he didn't face trial and spend any time in prison.
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Looks like the writer was an ex politico writer. Maybe he got sacked after the buyout and has an ax to grind
The UK also have average speed zone cameras where the average speed is calculated across a long stretch of road, in Denmark I've only seen fixed speed cameras.
I could answer your question a thousand different ways but, to be concise, go to akamai.com and find me the pricing of any service they sell.
> A big part of Microsofts success is to copy competitors (often badly) and be good enough for IT managers to buy worse-of-breed products in a “best-of-suite” offering.

This gets put out a lot but for Microsoft Office, this wasn't the case. By the time Office came out, Microsoft had pretty close to best of breed. By the mid-1990's, Word on its own was at least as good as, if not better than, WordPerfect. Lotus AmiPro was in 3rd place. Also, by the mid-1990's Excel was at the top in terms of spreadsheets.

I think the thing that made them able to succeed was the experience with Excel and Word for Mac. By writing these, they learned a lot of lessons on how best to allow software to take advantage of a GUI. Then when Windows took off, they could apply these lessons that competitors who had mainly focused on their DOS based user interfaces did not learn.
Maybe at some point there were crawlers that assigned spam reputation on a per-IP basis, but so much of the internet these days goes through Cloudflare and other CDNs with shared IP ranges that it would be insane to keep this practice up.
UN inspectors had been in Iraq for years looking for signs of WMDs or their development. They never found them [0], so the US got rid of the inspectors and used fabricated 'evidence' from an Iraqi defector as proof of WMDs.

[0] https://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2004/03/18_blix...
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You mitigate this by taking boxes out of your response pool, deploying, then putting them back in. I generally do 50% deploys at a time.

Solves this issue elegantly.
https://gitlab.com/bztsrc/usbimager should be ok too

Also, for the "site":

https://gitlab.com/bztsrc/usbimager
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Having googled a bit, "five percent of the world's electricity used in crushing rocks in all mining" looks plausible.
You can't self host? Piping server data to a remote untrusted server doesn't seem appealing. Unless I am missed something?
> getting angry at your manager is shooting the messenger

Well, a manager being (only) messenger (in this situation) is one of the traits of bad manager, isn't it?
Yes, the Allies comitted war crimes in WWII, i don't see how that matters for modern war criminals. Conspiracy against peace is a real war crime, including in the US.
Were you advocating an endpoint + DB or different apps directly writing into a shared DB? The latter is not really a good idea for numerous reasons. Kafka a - potentially overkill - replacement for REST or whatever, not for your DB.
I've always found it so weird that a piece of trash like Etcher could become so popular
If someone would call me a "daft cow" i would laugh my ass off. If you find that hurtful, you probably had bad parents that didnt learn you how to take insults or criticism. Why even care what others say? Do you really really really need that validation?

Anyway, you can block people or just stop using facebook. Stop whining, you're not a baby anymore.
I actually think that if one country can seriously prove out modern GenIV reactors everybody will adopt them.

There is a serious chance you can power most of the global population by building reactors and putting them on ships. Most people live on the coast.

The most scary place is actually Indonesia, they literally have 100s of coal plants in development. Gigantic population and nothing other then coal. Thankfully the government there is actually aware of the problem and they are working with a nuclear reactor company called Thorcon.

https://thorconpower.com/project/

This is a bit fishy because Indonesia doesn't actually have a regulator that is internationally accepted, but they are trying to build that at the same time. I am skeptical but its a great effort.

In Canada you have Terrestrial Energy and Moltex Energy doing amazing things. Terrestrial Energy is furthest along.

In the US you Kairos Power that seems active, and thankfully the regulator is starting to open up.
> My father, who barely knows how to operate a computer, has been using it for years without the need for support.

How's this working with regard to discoverability? Asking out of general curiosity; I haven't supported anybody else with a Linux desktop in years, and I'm fine with Gnome for my own workflow and habits, but I've always wondered if the lack of always-visible app launchers or an obvious menu in stock Gnome wouldn't be an issue for those who don't already know what and where to look.

> No forced updates/reboots. I only run a system upgrade every year or so, which also is a one button operation whitout any problems.

If these are the only updates run on that computer, wouldn't that leave e.g. browsers unpatched for quite long periods of time?
The examples are not wrong, you're just not understanding them.

> It doesn't compile because foo is not constexpr.

Well obviously. That's not the question here. The question is, explain to me exactly what guarantee the declaring bar() as 'constexpr' achieved for anyone? It clearly didn't prevent its author from calling a non constexpr function, and it clearly didn't signal to its users that it is usable from a constexpr context either. The user had to go inspect each one of its callees manually to see if they could all be evaluated at compile time in reality, which is exactly what you just did with foo(). Which is pretty damn hard (as in, Turing-undecidably-hard) when things are templates and you have ADL on top of that. And which the presence of constexpr on bar() didn't help you one bit with.

The declaration of bar() told you exactly nothing by having constexpr in it. It made no difference whatsoever for itself, nor for main(). It just added clutter.
> What did they know that Colin Powell did not?

Rhetorical question?

WRT Iraq, it was public knowledge that:

a) Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11, indeed Iraq and al Qaeda were idealogical opponents.

b) Iraq had no "weapons of mass destruction"; cite Hans Blix, others.

c) Iraqi leader Hussein had completely capitulated, meaning GWB had effectively won without firing a single shot.

d) Bush Admin and their sources were lying and didn't care that every one knew they were lying.

WRT Afghanistan, I don't readily recall what intelligence failures were publicly known at the time. Complicity of Pakistan's ISI. Allowing bin Laden to escape. The tar pit of dealing with Taliban, the misc war lords of the Northern Alliance.

Many objected to Bush Admin's focus on Iraq at the expense of the Afghanistan effort.

Many more objected to Bush Admin's violation of the Powell Doctrine, in both Afghanistan and Iraq.

Many pointed out the advocates for invading Iraq, mostly the neo-cons (aka chickenhawks), simply wanted war, regime change, and so forth. They'd said as much for over a decade. They seized the crisis of 9/11 to enact their plans. It was all very audacious and unapologetic.
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Yup. That's what Kafka excels at and where it scales to throughput way beyond Postgres.

But there are many many projects where Kafka is used for low value event sourcing stuff where a SQL DB could be easier.
So it's a hash cracking tool? How does it compare to Hashcat? Any notable distinguishing features?
For Nitter there's https://twitit.gq/, which tracks the uptime of a bunch of instances and redirects you to a healthy one. Very cool, wish there was something like it for Invidious.
I’d be onboard with a Rust rewrite of Windows. Go for it! It’s the least memory-safe OS with most problems and the widest desktop deployment. Do the Rust folks do rewrites of closed source?
Iraq and Afghanistan are trending higher than Iran, Egypt and Jordan.
OK. So just to get your point straight, you believe that we should remove all "illegal use of firearms" from violence and murder statistics so we reflect the harm and damage to people that you deem to be worthy of life?

Is there ever collateral damage from a breadwinner, say, getting gunned down? Does that mean that gangster's children don't deserve life at all? Is there something special about their bloodline that makes you more likely to discount their life altogether? Let's get down to brass tacks.
Not disagreeing with you, but even if benchmarks are unfair, these reports are still a good illustration of progress. Unless there are some drawbacks to these optimizations, there should be no negative side-effects.

AFAIK as I know, these changes shouldn't negatively impact tasks that are not making any use of these features. So, even if improvements are not directly proportional to what is being reported, they're still real.
I think for many some of the appeal of Ubuntu is in Ubuntu LTS, which gets more attention than the Debian alternative.

Have a look at the Ubuntu LTS page: https://ubuntu.com/download/desktop

And then look at the Debian equivalent: https://www.debian.org/lts/

(though the differences are perhaps because the latter is comparatively more unofficial)

But hey, many people prefer more stable distros with somewhat long life times, so that's a valid preference nonetheless.

Disclaimer: mostly a Debian user, i dread having to migrate from 10 to 11, but hey, at least i can use Ansible for all of my servers this time around.
You don't have to tell me I have been nuclear advocate for decades.

I fucking disgusted by Switerland (where I live) making nuclear research illegal.
I don't think they were blaming the lack fo tourists on anything - just saying that it was nice to have fewer of them
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Holding gender critical beliefs isn't at all similar to racism.

With racism, the racists are denying other people's humanity, based on race. That ideology centres around the notion of a group of humans being somehow subhuman.

This isn't the case with 'terfs' - they're not denying or diminishing anyone's humanity, they're simply saying that whether you're a woman or a man is determined by your biological sex, rather than a proclaimed gender identity.
> Doesn't a forum need things like user login?

I was only talking about the HTML, not the backend server code. Still, you could look on https://awesome.ipfs.io/apps for ideas.
Yes, we shouldn't allow people to have the wrong opinions.

If these people use Dave as the beacon for anti-trans opinions, the person who created a trust fund for the daughter of trans person who killed herself, maybe they aren't that good at anti-trans, just saying.
I doubt that software will look anything remotely like what we have now, so I don't think I can agree about all of the layers of abstraction. If I were to hazard a guess, I'd say that software will be described by high-level specifications and compiled to running code subject to a separable executable specification (defining things like resource limits, allocation behaviours, latency requirements, etc).

Superoptimizers and machine learning will be used to ensure the final code conforms to all required specifications, so people generally won't be dealing with lots of abstraction layers in the way they do now.
Scuba diver discovers 900-year-old Crusader sword in Israel
The Trump style ban didn’t have anything to do with walkability or scale or urban design. It only required federal buildings to have specific kinds of glued-on decorations. Not sure how you got to street planning from there.

In any case, architectural style and city planning are orthogonal. You can have nice walkable, cozy streets with “modern” buildings - there are lots of examples of this in Japan, Taiwan, and other parts of East Asia. And you certainly can have sprawling, hostile streets with neo-historical buildings - lots of examples in the US.

The biggest culprit preventing more walkable human-scaled streets in new cities tends to be governments and policy-makers, not architects. Decisions about zoning, land rights, transit investment, and even building codes, have a far bigger impact on the built environment than any architect does.
Well, I'm pretty techy, but it was easy to use.
And why does he have to move elsewhere if he is promoted? Can't he remain where he is, with a new title and more money?

Even if he has to move to a different section of the company if promoted, I'm sure there a plan can be put in place to hire and train a replacement.

We're all speculating in the dark here, but from what has been written, it certainly seems that this person has given the company a lot and deserves to be compensated.
One of the largest coal plants in Europe, the Bełchatów power plant in Poland, is estimated to produce 1.75kg(!!!!) of CO2 for every kWh of electricity produced[0].

If you charge your electric car from that power plant, it's literally better(CO2 wise) to just drive a modern diesel. It's insane how bad that power plant is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be%C5%82chat%C3%B3w_Power_Stat...

Edit: and of course, it's currently being expanded, because Polish government is incapable of resisting the miner unions in this country.
> capacity of the human brain won't be able to deal with all of the layers upon layers of abstractions that will have accumulated

That's already the case though.

Maybe we need to take a step back and design an elegantly simple, unambiguous, auditable/analyzable infrastructure, one that's more robust against becoming too complicated in the future. "Structural minimalism", to complement minimalism in user interfaces becoming more and more popular in the recent years.
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> You’re mining two million tonnes of rock to make 20,000 tonnes of lithium carbonate.

1% by weight. Oof. Iron ores are more in the 20% range.
That is true. But most of the time when I see it used, it's "it will eventually crash just wait and see.... wait for it.... wait for it ..."
People wishing to dismiss this should look up Wang Huning. It is (as far as I can tell as a non-Chinese person relying on translations and secondary sources), a good summary of his thought.

My trouble with this view, and its Western equivalents, is that viewing religion (religio, that which binds) as something “good for the commoners,” while true in its own way, is also a religion’s undoing. When the primary perceived value of a religion becomes its visible benefits, it is not long before it becomes possible to dismiss it as a mere instrument of power, rather than a transcendent reality. As a Christian, I have no problem recognizing that this has happened to Christianity numerous times in its history, and we are suffering a particularly severe bout of it today in the West. Renewal requires reconnection (religio) with the infinite, and cannot be achieved by political will alone.
Feature request: different controls for those without a QWERTY keyboard.
I remember someone explaining that aphantasia was a thing,
And my shock realising I had it and that most people had a completely different experience of the world.

Wiki on it of anyone is curious:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphantasia?wprov=sfla1
If you're annoyed with public instances of nitter, libreddit, invidious: they're super easy to set up with a bit of caddy & docker and don't require much in terms of compute or maintenance.

I find reddit & twitter much more usable on nitter & libreddit, so Privacy Redirect is one of my default extensions, with my own instances configured.
"Maybe it is the decade-and-a-half that I've been studying the energy situation in some detail?"

OK but you can not expect everybody else to take your personal experience at face value.

The average windpark may be smaller, but companies producing panels and rotators presumably are quite big.

A lot of money has already been invested by governments, and much, much more is to come. I don't think the individual costs of nuclear power plants proves anything one way or another.
For a solo entrepreneur I would argue it’s more important to be fairly good at everything than e.g. really good at programming and having no understanding of other things like sales and marketing. Instead of perfecting your Haskell skills, you’re far better off learning the basics of how to construct a good sales funnel, even if it’s not a natural fit for you. Some knowledge is a lot better than none.
TL;DR. Is there an executive summary?
I actually love the approach to tear down everything after each request.

It makes reasoning about the system much easier.
Crime agaist peace, even the US Army field manual states it's a war crime, for civilians nd miligary people alike.
Like an Organic Transit ELF or a Better Bikes PEBL?

ELF: https://organictransit.com/
PEBL: https://www.better.bike/
My experience mirrors yours. Its current duty is playing videos and music for my exercise bike but boy was I happy to rid myself of it as a daily driver. Too bad, because Linux worked great on it for me.