skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You missed where I wrote "for no reason".

I'm happy to talk about energy efficiency in the micro (dishwashers) or the macro (shipping), but we have to first agree that crypto has no legitimate use cases and is just waste, so we can dispense with this whataboutism that's currently in vogue in crypto threads.
> Can someone elaborate on why Nomad should be avoided?

The answer is, as always, it depends on your use-case. I'm not personally not a huge fan of Nomad for reasons I won't go into because a) they're irrelevant because opinions, and b) they're probably outdated. However, to say "it isn't much better" is very vague and extremely subjective. I don't really know what OP means with it, but consider the following things I know about Nomad vs Kubernetes:

Kubernetes has many more features that you or your users don't have to deal with (in terms of setup). Obviously that brings in complexity that Nomad may not have to deal with. This also means that some features may need to be supplemented using other software, which otherwise means learning those other software and having different interfaces to manage it. Kubernetes on the other hand, provides all of these features using the same interface. Obviously this also means with Nomad you can add some of these features as you need them over time, instead of having it all at the beginning regardless of whether or not you need them. Some features I can think of: secrets management*, load balancing, config management, service discovery.

Kubernetes has a much bigger community, many more tools you can just plug and play. The relatively recent phenomenon that is Kubernetes Operators is just awesome and makes running software a breeze. Software that otherwise requires a lot of knowledge to run.

Kubernetes only does Linux containers, compared to Nomad that has support for just about any thing you can throw at it (Java, containers, plain binaries), and it has first class Windows support (via Windows executables). Last I checked Windows support for Kubernetes was still in its infancy.

In terms of support, with K8s you will need to get a third-party to give you support, whereas with Nomad you can get support directly from Hashicorp.

Nomad requires a Consul cluster, at least last time I looked this up, though as I understand this, HC was working on this in the past year or so, so this may not be accurate any more. Kubernetes uses etcd internally, which itself takes some understanding.

Lastly, Nomad will likely lead to vendor lock-in. Kubernetes can run just about everywhere including on-prem, all major cloud providers, and even at the edge (see KubeEdge). Chick-fil-A famously runs Kubernetes on Intel NUCs in all their stores. I'm assuming there is nothing stopping a Nomad cluster being run at the edge, but I suppose it's not been proven yet.

* note: secrets management is a bit of an overstatement for Kubernetes. By default it is base64 encoded "secrets", and the only thing preventing one from accessing the secrets is ACLs, but if you have access to the underlying etcd cluster, it's game over. If you want proper secrets management (i.e. encryption at rest and/or in transit), you'll need to integrate it with something else such Hashicorp Vault (the most advanced option), or Mozilla SOPS.
A bang-bang controller can have hysteresis or not, it's as simple as turning off in a higher temperature than the one it turns on and putting a low-pass filter (a capacitor if you do it in hardware) after the temperature sensor.

The simplest possible implementation of an electronic thermostat would be able to switch thousands of times per second, and this is completely useless for controlling anything mechanical. When you are making real controllers, you always need some extra complexity, but you don't need a lot of it to make a good one.
I have the feeling that more and more exponential tech advancements are taking place right in front of our eyes. But that the public is somehow actively looking away.

Take a look at self driving. Watch some videos from 5 years ago and from last month.

Take a look at GPT-3. I am pretty sure a lot of articles are already written by NNs these days. Put into the name of any stock into Google News and you will see a flood of articles "Why XYZ has risen/tanked today" and "Should you invest $100k into XYZ?" which probably are written by AI with some human curation. Nothing like this existed a few years ago.

Look at how "money of the people" is now a thing via crypto. Money that can be digitally transferred and not be printed by a government. This was just a dream 10 years ago.

And have you looked into DAOs? These are virtul autonomous organizations, straight out of a science fiction book. But they are provably real now.

I think that these topics are always downvoted on HN is an example of "actively looking away". Change is scary.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Texas+February+2021+power+outage&t...

Must not read the news much, but there are all sorts of things that cause people to be without power especially weather related. However, since you're claiming that the Dutch never loose power for more than minutes at a time, perhaps we all should consider relocating.
But even this is circular. ENS is useful if Ethereum is useful.

I am interested in this space, but I do share this criticism that so many of the things touted as evidence of it being useful are fundamentally circular. Take the first three things from the parent comment: Aave, Compound, Yearn. None of these make sense if there is no value in the cryptocurrencies they allow you to lend, borrow, and invest. But then they can't themselves be evidence that there is value. It's circular. Same thing with Gnosis Safe; it's only useful to have a multisig controlling crypto assets if those assets have value.

I think the current thought is that NFTs are what does / will bring inherent value or value connected to the rest of the world in some way onto the blockchain, and then everything else derives its value from there. This seems like a tenuous and somewhat shaky foundation to build so much hype atop, but it's at least a theory of the case that makes more sense to me than the circular "ethereum is valuable because of Uniswap and Aave".
It's solid oak. Just the material would retail for around £20-30.

The price is outrageous compared to something from Jysk (Danish version of Ikea), and I wouldn't buy it, but it is within the general price range of Danish designer furniture.

Example, £200 for a 150cm oak shelf: https://www.bolia.com/da-dk/produkter/04-008-11_15934774/
Is that supposed to be a reasonable question? Why isn't anyone smart enough to invent a battery with several orders of magnitude better storage capacity than the current ones?
Earth has multiple governments. Most governments are highly centralized. No oxymoron.

Autonomy is the ease with which people are free to move between those governments.

I suspect people view the web as decentralized because they cannot divorce their thinking from concepts like content is king and a client/server model.
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I don't buy it.

The premise is that the Linux desktop developers were just just follow these concepts or to follow that strategy, Linux would all of a sudden achieve desktop supremacy.

There's no such thing as an 'intuitive interface'. It's been claimed that "The only intuitive interface is the nipple", but as many a parent knows, not even the nipple is intuitive enough by itself and every baby needs guidance.

Every desktop has idiosyncrasies. Windows' UI sucks in many, many use cases. This hasn't stopped it from continuing to be dominant in the Desktop area. The reason is ... guidance.

Everyone can wreck their computer by doing stupid shit and ignoring all the warnings thrown in their face. They will not read it and complain if something breaks.

With Windows (and to some degree OS X) this is not so much of a problem. You can just call that one friend that "knows computers" and after some begging and crying, you'll get help. Or you can bring your bricked computer to the next support store and they'll try to fix it.

(Almost) every elderly person above a certain age is lost when it comes to computers. Most people alive cannot be trusted to install an application - not on Windows, not on Linux and not even on OS X (well, maybe on OS X nowadays, because you cannot install unsigned software these days) because all that software might be compromised. Every time you let a software on to your system, you can potentially brick it. And then you need a solid understanding of what's going on.

For most people, computers are black boxes whose internal state is a mystery that is far too complex to be explored. They have no interest in exploring these mysteries. They have work to do; forms to fill, letters to write. And these people need the aforementioned informal support they can turn to whenever they need to diverge from the well-trodden paths. It doesn't depend on the operating system, but on the surrounding support system.

The Linux as a Desktop operating system is simply lacking the market share to boast such an informal support system.

That's all.
It depends a lot on who's playing. For me it's entertainment, and yes... it may be a time waste? but sometimes I need it. Why should we work every single hour we are awake?

I've found positive outcomes from playing the game as well, beyond gaming: for example it helped me realize that you can have a lot of things (in game: build materials) but it doesn't mean anything if you don't use them (in game: build something!). It also helped me reconnect with old friends (we play together in our server, hop into a voice channel sometimes and we also share unrelated stuff outside the game). I know it helped some people get through the pandemic.

It's also a good motivation for kids (and grown-ups!) to learn basic server administration, plugin development, community moderation, and some people also like to fiddle with textures as well.

The game is a creativity source, very much like Lego bricks. The things you do in-game may not have much value, but I'd say it yields great results in the players :)
What I don't get is that Goldeneye came out the following year was way more impressive in everyway but it's quake and quake 2 that's remembered as ground breaking. I had an N64 and was convinced by hype to get a 3dfx card for my pc. To be honest it was a bit of a let down.
I'm not sure exactly why, but it may have to do with certain cultural taboos. For instance, skeletons are considered bad luck in Chinese culture: https://magicuntapped.com/index.php/features/item/66-no-skel...
Hadn't heard of Wundergraph, I will keep it in mind if we encounter issues with Postgraphile. Thanks!

Regarding your solution, it seems to be the same that Hasura is working towards. It's a perfectly fine solution if you have a few types that happen to clash in their basic names (we have that too, e.g. for "products.suppliers" vs "services.suppliers").

For multi-tenant solutions, i.e. where all data sources are identical but they refer to different customers' data, separated by user/schema/database/instance, namespacing works but it's not _great_.

It means that the client code needs to get the tenant's namespace from somewhere (probably a claim in the authn system), and then manually interpolate it in all the graphql queries. It's not a security flaw (if you screw up and query spacex_users from a different tenant, you'll just get a 404 - I hope!), but it's going to play awkwardly with most developer tooling, having to always work with interpolated strings.

More importantly, if you use namespace for tenants, now you can't also use them to solve simple name overlaps, unless you split each tenant over multiple APIs.

If you want to improve your multitenant story, here's what we did with Postgraphile (which is a straight adaptation of what our .NET backend does): when the backend starts up, it initializes one identical GraphQL source per tenant. Then looks up each tenant's authorization URL. When a request comes in, the backend validates the auth token, and it uses the signed authorization URL to determine which GraphQL source should run the query.

In this way the clients don't need to worry about tenancy or namespaces at all, there might be a single tenant for all they know. The same request that a developer tests with his login under TestCompany will also run for every other customer, but the auth token and the auth token alone determines which data source it gets run against.

As you can see, this approach isn't a replacement for ad-hoc namespacing. It's meant specifically for the scenario where the same identical schema exists in multiple data sources.
That is not true, there are a lot of police/government owned CCTVs in public places in the UK. They even had some initiatives, were some of those had speakers attached so the person monitoring the camera calls out "unwanted" behaviour.

I would say ignoring the fact that the US and UK have set up and are running (well the UK is really just tagging along) in the biggest worldwide surveillance operation on the planet is the intellectual dishonesty.

Also I never said that the existence of a camera indicates surveillance, that's a straw man. However, the existence of automatic licence plate tracking is definitely an indication of surveillance. The wikipedia article on UK mass surveillance is quite enlightening.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_surveillance_in_the_Unite...
I have a similar project but it just serves a single wiki via http and doesn't support WebDAV or authentication, and it's in Rust rather than Go. https://github.com/steinuil/twkwk
Lot of work going on in this area at the moment.

I still

apt update; apt upgrade

And look for config in /etc

Linux is a community, sharing space is important to me.
Several years ago, I had a problem dealing with Verizon at the store level and customer service so I contacted the office of their CEO and was able to get my problem resolved. His secretary sent me a new phone out of their office stock.
My main concern is that FDA needs to update its approval processes for new techniques with time especially in cases where people do not have an alternative. I am more skeptical of any new tech being accessible to global population though, it will come down in price only with time, so I am not sure if I can personally afford something cutting edge the way a billionare or multi-millionare can.
I always laughed when I saw people wearing “Hollister”, the brand name of my grandpa’s colostomy supplies, which got burned into my retinas as a mildly traumatized neurodiverse 4-yr-old in the early 70s.
Very nice, though installing Node.js, cloning the TiddlyWiki repo and then (inside the 'editions' folder) doing ...

node ..\tiddlywiki.js "my new wiki" --init server

cd "my new wiki"

node ..\..\tiddlywiki.js --listen

... is also not THAT difficult :-)

Or alternatively, an AutoHotkey shortcut, which fixes the anachronistic ctrl+s shortcut of the browser (anachronistic = doesn't remember save action for this url)
Can anyone tell me when Kubernetes should be used and when it shouldn’t?

I’ve been learning about it along with terraform and other devops tools, but Im still not clear how to identify whether it’s the right tool for the job.
I always found they had missed a chance regarding biomes. Giant trees, whos tops basically look like hillside if you walk towards them unknowingly..
Even in that situation it is still worth asking what order of magnitude the performance difference will be. If a junior engineer codes up the slower one, should they rewrite it or is it not worth the time?

I just don’t understand why environmentalists sometimes get so indignant when asked about the effect size of the interventions they call for. There’s a million low effort lifestyle chances that would be better for the environment, it is a totally fair question to ask if we want to maximize impact
I would challenge that Bitcoin + Lightning + Stablecoins are well on their way to fulfilling the promise.

All three of Bitcoin / Lightning / Stablecoins offer “Decentralized trustable currencies” as well as a unique type of immutable, censorship-resistant, unreversible, fast-finality payments over the internet. These are net new novel currently and payment innovations that have never existed before.

Bitcoin and Stablecoins combined as a currency are a truly great asset class. Other altcoins (including Ethereum) are not trying to be a real reserve currency for the internet. They are speculative investments in new technologies.

Bitcoin is special. Bitcoin fixes problems we didn’t realize we had.
We would then first need to define what "real reason" means
Most of that comment is kind of goofy but the etymology isn't absurd. Per https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Paus.+2.16.3&f... :

So the prediction of the god to Acrisius found its fulfillment, nor was his fate prevented by his precautions against his daughter and grandson. Perseus, ashamed because of the gossip about the homicide, on his return to Argos induced Megapenthes, the son of Proetus, to make an exchange of kingdoms; taking over himself that of Megapenthes, he founded Mycenae. For on its site the cap （myces） fell from his scabbard, and he regarded this as a sign to found a city. I have also heard the following account. He was thirsty, and the thought occurred to him to pick up a mushroom （myces） from the ground. Drinking with joy water that flowed from it, he gave to the place the name of Mycenae.
IMO, the Java edition doesn't really need additional development, though. It's absolutely nice to have, but the reason (for me) to play the Java version is the community.
Or more like open terrain generator for spigot, it's so much better than stock minecraft it's laughable.

https://i.imgur.com/YtDraMh.jpg
You are jumping between claims. As you've acknowledged Ethereum will switch to PoS where your climate change claims are incorrect (as they already are when talking about crypto as a whole).

Your seperate PoS concerns of centralization (whether valid or not) at most make it as 'evil' as any other centralized service.
Like any complex system failure the best theories in my opinion for the causes of collapse aren’t “this one thing did it” but several unrelated causes happening at once. Weather, warfare, a somewhat fragile interdependent system of trade, the somewhere between migrant, pirate, and raider sea peoples, and plain old state failure happening together.
Fair, I was mostly responding to this line.

> Most growth is incremental and we hype every single Lab output with rarely seeing commercial breakthroughs.
Because in America we can have everything. There is no limit to comfort and quality of life. Our standard of living can be quite high and very affordable. This setup was only 20k installed, a pittance. While this setup is robust, it is not unusual for people to have 10 -15 kw NatGas generators as backup just in case there is an unforeseen interruption to their power (some kind of accident or calamity). It's why America is a wonderful place to live, you can have everything, what you see and hear in the media about how awful it is here is fake news.

-Canadian expat.
Eh, ok fair. I was thinking like, percentage of consumers with legitimate complaints vs those with scams. I think that's relevant to the overarching discussion of "believe victims", but I agree at the complaint department the common denominator doesn't matter.
Cryptic crosswords sound like fun. Unfortunately, at least in the Guardian's and the Independent's[*], words cross only every second letter. That, in addition to the cryptic clues, makes them too difficult for me.

[*] Those are the ones Forkyz (crossword Android app) provides.
Mycenaeans get their name from Mycenae, but i doubt they ever called themselves mycenean. There are various theories about the use of mushrooms in the Eleusinian and the Dionysian mysteries among others.
Price being volatile != Price being manipulated.

Please provide evidence that the ~13% drop in value recently was caused by market manipulation, or retract your statement.
> I sometimes wonder how 'humanoid' any potential intelligent alien species must be

Great question. I enjoyed Andy Weir's take on this in his most recent book Project Hail Mary. If anyone hasn't read it yet and they're intrigued, I would suggest picking it up without finding out any more about it.
This is all very mild compared to what you’d have in a nice hotel or a restaurant.

> I imagine this kind of thing is normal (?) in households of very rich people, even when they aren't sex traffickers.

This is normal in the service industry, rich people have service staff.
Yeah sure

> Gas fees can be hundreds of dollars to interact with a DAO

It's not "hundreds of dollars" to withdraw tokens from a savings account. More like $50. That's still way too much, but I don't pull money out of my savings account often enough for it to matter. It will get better over time.

> There are not banks hacked where people lose all of their money.

Not in the US, but there are other countries that exist.
None of the DeFi platforms I have ever used have been hacked, but I'm glad for the possibility! It gives me more options in terms of risk vs. reward.

> People lose passwords all the time.

Yep this one is bad, but there are ways to improve it (social key recovery etc) that people are working on.
On the other hand, I've spent a ton of time on the phone with banks trying to get access to my own accounts every time I move. I've never had that problem with DeFi because they don't KYC.

> Coin prices are absurdly volatile.

Doesn't matter at all, I'm talking about stablecoins. I only really use fiat backed stablecoins, so there's almost no principle risk.

Also from this point I think it's pretty clear you don't understand how people use DeFi. Nobody is holding strait unleveraged BTC in a DeFi platform. You would just hold BTC directly, in which case the cost to withdraw would be ~$3 right now.

> Can you make a serious case that DAOs are better

For me they are infinitely more convenient. I've spent at least 10 hours this year on the phone with banks and financial institutions. I've spent 0 minutes trying to get access to my defi accounts. I use a trezor for cold storage.

The rates are better because I'm willing to tolerate more risk (and I think that smart contract and collateral risk for certain platforms is currently mispriced).

> which _specific_ projects are better

Compound, other savings platforms (I don't want to name them).
Centralized exchange savings products are mostly made possible by DeFi, and these are also better products than traditional banks for people like me. Including Coinbase, Binance, even OKEx.
I'm convinced this is a massive step in humanity's evolution.

While yes, there remains some underground slavery, and it is indeed terrible.

The world uniting and deciding to end this terrible practice is a hugely positive step for our species.
This reminds me of the beginning of "The Da Vinci Code".
Read the Lanham Act instead of a blog post https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/lanham_act

The real answer is 'it depends,' there is no pat hard and fast answer about the obligation to enforce a trademark. Also it becomes more ambiguous because trademark cancellation proceedings are quite expensive in terms of time and legal fees. You can do a lot of naughty things and get away with it if the prospect of fighting you in a cancellation proceeding becomes too daunting and expensive. The possible workaround is to get a declaratory judgment invalidating the trademark but that is not necessarily something achievable in most situations.
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It's also what I figured out when I was a kid.
I totally get the fun and satisfaction of doing it yourself, but if you have any interest in an off-the-shelf WiFi trap I’ve had a pretty good experience with these: https://www.victorpest.com/smart-kill-electronic-mouse-trap-...
Do you think that the ratio of legitimate uses to criminal use is higher or lower for crypto vs fiat?
I guess you mean the names. Names are almost never descriptive, barbarr, are they?