skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Imo, it's basically all about having software-defined infrastructure. If that's worth it to you, use k8s. If you don't mind just ssh'ing to a box and running docker, or using puppet/ansible or something, that's fine too.

I personally like using k8s at work because our dev team is 2000+ people and there's great support for using it in our tooling.

I wrote my own thing at home that's basically just a declarative "put this docker container on this host with these options" manager and it's WAY better QOL than when I was using helm and Digital Oceans managed k8s, which is great $ value btw. But Jesus was helm such a pain and at times I was spending more time reading helm and k8s docs than working on my own project.

That's my main gripe with k8s. Unlike docker, it is a HuGE surface area to learn, so it takes a lot for that to be worth it.
> 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.

This is fabulous, thank you. Very compelling.

There are giant Neolithic carvings of mushrooms in Thrace. But apart from these small scatterings of ambiguous evidence—almost nothing supports the idea that psychoactive mushrooms were known to the Greeks. Which is just, well, odd.

https://www.ancient-origins.net/history-ancient-traditions/m...
I recommend checking out Linus's WAN-Show videos, they discuss it there with more context and nuance, something which the shorter cut videos can't do that well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mN3QFw2BEcw&t=3587s [timestamp: 59:47]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MAlgKdsdvg&t=1820s [timestamp: 30:20]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0boUNc1JOg&t=3148s [timestamp: 52:28]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9PcNrhiMUc&t=2292s [timestamp: 38:12]
This is a proposed email spam mitigation, not an SMS spam mitigation.
> Either that, or the ability to use a car as a battery.

Not sure if it fits the bill for you, but the new Ford F-150 lightning can supply 9.6kw of continuous power:

> With the ability to offload 9.6 kilowatts of power, Ford Intelligent Backup Power keeps the lights on during an outage while providing security by powering home appliances, security systems and more

Ref: https://media.ford.com/content/fordmedia/fna/us/en/news/2021...
Woman Discovers Tiddlywink Stuck in Nose for 37 Years After Covid-19 Test
I grew up in highly religious (calvinist) farming country, then did grad school in highly religious (mostly baptist) west Texas , and since then have had many highly religious coworkers (a variety of denominations). I say this to give context to the next paragraph.

It is my sincere and honest belief that for an awful lot of churchgoing people their disagreement with Westboro Baptist is not the content of the message but rather how they go about spreading it.
DB LSM tree: Summarising the different implementations of tiered compaction
Not true at all for me, noticeable improvements in speech recognition and it is easy to get low cpu and accurate speech recognition with a framework like wav2letter. 2013 phones hardly even had speech recognition, 2 years after Siri was released.

I do think we have to guard against our cognitive biases that often stop us from noticing gradual but continuous improvements.
That's what old people said about the internet in the 90s. "So silly personal diaries and porn? Humanity could be aiming a little higher."

But young nerds loved it and understood that it would take over the world. A very similar thing is going on with AI and crypto these days.
There’s a lot of ways to die or become severely injured while skiing. I imagine that alone weeds out people who need warning labels on blenders.
An investment (i.e. a security or a commodity) or whatever you would use a real currency for, outside of crime. The argument I get back most for this is "how do people pay for porn", but I'm pretty sure people are paying for porn as we're furiously typing at each other this very moment, so it seems like a non-issue.
I think tiling WMs in particular are somewhat overplayed. They’re amazing tools for a certain class of users with a particular workflow and set of tendencies, but they get awkward for most users outside of that set.

As a multi-OS user of 20+ years and developer of 15+ years they’ve never worked well for me. A more traditional floating WM with light optional tiling functions (think Aero Snap or Moom/Magnet/etc on macOS) has been more productive for me. With tiling I always end up with some windows being oddly sized and unusable, or half my windows being in floating mode which defeats much of the point of a tiling WM.
The must-fix-everything part of me might suggest getting them to contract the work out to you but your price will need to be a lot higher than your salary to cover insurance, benefits you currently get, cover for when you want to holiday, etc etc etc.

But some roles have to have built in slack to cover emergent situations. In your example, to be available in-hours to do clean up a spillage or unblock a drain. Something that would impact other workers. Actually filling your timetable with work would diminish that slack-insurance.

There's no easy answer for working less in that situation, especially if you're already the only janitor on site at a time.
It would be nice if Congress would make laws that force large tech companies to offer arbitration when they disable an account that has more than a nominal amount of assets attached.

I hate to advocate for more laws and regulations, but these companies have gotten too big to operate without oversight. Losing your ability to log into Netflix would be a bummer, but losing your ability to access your work files, medical records and everything else you need to live your life (eg: Google Drive, Apple iCloud) is just too big of an impact on a persons life to happen without transparency.
I'm not sure on the legal particulars, but it was mentioned when I worked at JP Morgan Chase. I think most of it revolved around vendor management and vendor relations. It wasn't just AWS--for such a big business, a single provider anywhere represented a lot of risk

In those cases, it wasn't "This app needs to be AWS/GCP active/active". It usually meant: if you're building out core functionality to use AWS, you should build out on one of GCP, Azure, etc, too so there's an alternative available. The long term strategy was always to just stick things where they were cheapest to run (on prem, AWS, etc)

(So the same thing came up with physical equipment like Dell and HP servers)

From the business side, there was also concern about Amazon becoming a competitor in the Fintech space but that wasn't regulatory related
As someone working in the field, Materials Scientists are at the point where they have heard a description of what a computer is and they are trying to invent possible uses for one from scratch.
Coming from a developing country, few people believe me when I told my US friends that I actually had a black and white television at home when small and I skipped landline phones directly for the mobile revolution. I guess every generation gets tired with too much tech after a while, although it becomes trickier where tech literacy is important for your day to day job. I am not that old but personally already trying to minimize my 'unnecessary' tech use on a day to day basis.
How is the sound? We have a NG generator at the school (in the basement) and you can’t hear it there buried as it is underground but ima residential setting these can be very loud, no?
PineNote E Ink tablet and PinePhone Pro developer versions now shipping
An LTE-M pi-hat would be awesome! Usually the biggest challenge for projects like this is to find cheap and available modems that can actually be used with reasonable GSM carriers.
> How come nobody is smart enough to invent a cryptocoin that has resource consumption several orders of magnitude lower than the current ones?

You should read about Proof of Stake which does reduce resource consumption by several orders of magnitude compared to large PoW chains.

Proof of Stake blockchains aren’t the environmental concern that Proof of Work blockchains are.
The Irish DPC seems truly out of line. Highlights:

> noyb is making the complaint under Austrian law — reporting the Irish regulator to the Austrian Office for the Prosecution of Corruption after the DPC sought to use what noyb terms “procedural blackmail” to try to gag it and prevent it from publishing documents related to GDPR complaints against Facebook.

> The regulator has also demanded noyb remove documents it has previously made public — related to the DPC’s draft decision of a GDPR complaint against Facebook — again without clarifying what legal basis it has to make such a demand.

Or just business as usual?

> noyb has previously accused the DPC of holding secret meetings with Facebook around the time it came up with the claimed consent bypass and just as the GDPR was about come into application — implying the regulator was seeking to support Facebook in finding a workaround for EU law.

> The not-for-profit also warned last month that if Facebook’s relabelling “trick” (i.e., switching a claim of “consent” to a claim of “contract”) were to be accepted by EU regulators it would undermine the whole of the GDPR — making the much lauded data protection regime trivially easy for data-mining giants to bypass.

By the way, NOYB are a non-profit. You can support them here: https://noyb.eu/en
I am guessing they meant "Intel networking hw" (typing this on an Ryzen 7 Asus running Ubuntu too). But that's obviously too simple, it would be better advice to just say "find someone on the 'net who describes installing and using the distro you are considering on the machine you are considering".

Though really I haven't had any serious hardware problems under Linux for years (but I have a small stable of machines I am not changing all the time).
people are the bottleneck
Good resource. I have actually been watching those as they came out. It still gives me a bitter taste on the challenge videos. Most probably the reason for it is that linus was being frustrated at the time of filming the episodes but was calmer and more thoughtful while doing the wan shows.
Right now there is a popular YouTube channel talking about Linux on the desktop. The timing is related to that. It’s not an in general thing
Not really. Team X uses Java? Someone on the team takes 1 hour to create YamlPlus.java, submits to the monorepo. Now team X + all the other 100(0) teams that use Java have access to a yaml+ parser. Same with Golang, JS, Python, C++, cli check, presubmit check, and we are running out of supported languages.

The argument that no incremental change is ever possible because it has to update every related legacy usage is a recipe for organizational paralysis.
And one more resource with the history of many civilizations:
https://www.youtube.com/c/FallofCivilizationsPodcast

I especially enjoyed https://youtu.be/d2lJUOv0hLA, as I had no idea the first cities were already so advanced and lasted for so many centuries.

EDIT: fixed youtube link.
Do you mean they were resistant to change, skeptical or have they finally found a reason to embrace new techniques due to proven success by their younger or more adventurous peers ?
Does that LOC count include dependencies?
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Discourse?

https://www.discourse.org
Looks nice, particularly the piano roll.

Do any Free DAWs have Ableton-like VST "hiding"? I can't leave Ableton because of how insane window management gets on complex projects when 10 different VSTs are all fighting for screen space. Even the screenshots for this app look chaotic from all of the VSTs covering the screen at the same time.
As I get older I find myself agreeing with this a bit more, but do not think it is the sole reason.
It's Time to Regulate the Metaverse
I currently have these problems with Linux:

1. Command line argument expansion is limited, so at some point you need tools like xargs which is far from perfect. This is strange on machines with gigabytes of memory.

2. Running "su - user" does not forward X. Messing with xauth is an unnecessary nuisance.

3. The unix tradition of piping commands is great. Extensions like Gstreamer are essentially using pipes but they use their own kind, which is awkward.

4. A modern linux desktop system uses a bunch of services, which are glued together like a microservices architecture. This has its problems; see any thread on microservices on HN.
To Deny “Lab Leak” Theory, the NYT and WPost Use Dubious and Conflicted Sources
>>You have to look at it from the company’s point of view.

No we actually do not, and should not.

They are offering the product to the market, it is incumbent on them to fix the problem not just toss their hands up and say "Well it is too hard / expensive for us to solve so consumers just have to deal"

This is similar to my complaint over the concept of "Identity theft" no one identity is ever stolen, no companies fail to implement proper fraud controls then shift the liability to the victim to "prove" their "identity was stolen", that is the exact opposite of how the burden should work

Coming back around to the Apple situation, this is a result of allowing unconscionable contracts (aka severely one-sided and unfair) to permeate the digital goods world. The fact that Apple can terminate a contract in full, with one sided review with out having to notify the other party of the exact clause of the contract they alleged the other party violated, no recourse or notice to correct, no appeal or attempts to remedy, etc would not fly in most contract situations, the fact we allow it with "terms of service" is ridiculous
I think it probably goes on more than people outside of local government realize. I only worked for the City of New Orleans for two years, but in that time we had delegations from governments in Japan and Israel visit our office to talk about our open data infrastructure and performance tracking.
I want the version of Google Assistant / Alexa / Siri that actually works.

I'm possibly being uncharitable - the speech recognition is fine but to me they feel like talking to a mannequin, "there's nobody home" so to speak.

Being able to actually outsource big chunks of my executive function to a reliable assistant that can plan with me, gives timely prompts and never forgets would be life changing.

State of the art UX for this is still calendar and notes apps, want it to be Jarvis.
So your default is to treat others like shit?

Not treating someone like shit isn't the result of generosity, it's the result of not being an arsehole.
I always felt that anyone who successfully creates a useful Quantum computer has low incentive to make it public. It will be a strategic advantage for the country and the people at top will decide whether to suppress it for non strategic use or not.
How does technology or lack therof explain 2000 crucifixions?

I don't think anyone is claiming a genetic evolution. It has been a memetic evolution.
One of my favorite DFW stories is Good Old Neon in Oblivion.
I made something similar a few years back with a Pi 1 and a GSM "hat".

It came with a C SDK so I had to write AT commands to communicate directly with the modem and it worked great until I didn't need it anymore.

Its purpose was to text me when my power or internet connection went down at home then I could respond with commands such as to shutdown the servers etc.

When power/network came back it would text me the new address so I wouldnt need an outside service for DDNS.

The biggest challenge with the whole setup was finding a SIM from a provider who would let me top it up once per year and maybe send half a dozen texts in that time without deactivating the SIM, for a reasonable price.
> a misinformation generator

a great misinformation generator, the best, it can even tell tales about unicorns, what's not to like?

do you know what was the best attempt at text generation before GPT? it was LSTM word salad - this kind of text[1]:

> Once upon a time there were a man and noble princess!’ being so good- natured, and that morning, when he awoke, he found it in his hand it to the palace. The young wild hut a lived, on the bridge of two days…

vs GPT-2:

> In a shocking finding, scientist discovered a herd of unicorns living in a remote, previously unexplored valley, in the Andes Mountains. Even more surprising to the researchers was the fact that the unicorns spoke perfect English.

[1] https://towardsdatascience.com/text-generation-gpt-2-lstm-ma...

vs GPT-3:

> A robot wrote this entire article. Are you scared yet, human?

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/sep/08/robot-...
I cannot remember the last time someone got prosecuted or sued for libel for falsely accusing a business of something. It happens numerous times every day. I would be willing to bet nothing happens to this person if their claim turns out to be false.
"1177 B.C. The Year Civilization Collapsed" by Cline is also good. Focusing on the "sea peoples" is almost a distraction. The real story is about the world of city-states and trading relationships in 2000 B.C. and the sudden collapse, across the Eastern Med, of those same states resulting in several hundred year dark ages.
NoiseCraft: Browser-Based Visual Programming Language for Sound and Music
A relationship between "Mycenaean" and mushrooms is very unlikely.

"Mycenaean" comes from a feminine name, which in the older pronunciation before the 1st millennium BC would have been "Mukaanaa".

The Greek name of the mushroom, in the older pronunciation would have been either "mukeet" or "mukaat", which is likely to be derived from a word meaning "mud".

While the feminine name "Mukaanaa" starts with "muk", like mushroom, it is not formed according to the usual Greek rules for word derivation and there are also many other Greek words starting with "muk".

There was indeed someone (Solmsen) who, in 1912, proposed seriously this etymology, but others (e.g. Krahe) presented counterarguments that this etymology cannot be true, which were considered much more convincing.
There's a special kind of grumpy old techno-luddite, and I am describing myself here, who says "Ha! You actually fell for all that e-book and digital downloads trickery, buying DIGITAL-ONLY products with no way to be sure that you really truly own them or have them? You TRUSTED THE CLOUD? Then you get what they deserve when they all disappear, I've been bracing for the day that happens ever since the whole thing started."

and since 1998 have only bought actual tangible physical books with pages that turn, video games on physical disc, and movies only on VHS and DVD and BluRay. ((But yeah, I have a STEAM library. Nobody's perfect.))
Nothing Disneyland about it though. Mostly just super boring...
Amazon is bypassing supply chain chaos with chartered ships and long-haul planes
Yeah it's probably not pure luck but instead complete adaptation to the particular environment.

Now you talk of aliens breathing and eating meat which can be conceived but... what of a pure liquid helium planet ? The intelligence there might be completely different, with reproduction cycles we cant imagine and energy transformation that may not even require eating other life form like us.
Some dongles can be hackable so the RPi is not a necessary requirement.
Somewhat related
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_integrator
> I think the intel is better value. What are those graviton instances with better value (given that they are probably much slower than Intel)?

Intel instances are significantly more expensive when considering the cost for performance. In fact it's not even close [0].

[0] https://www.anandtech.com/show/15578/cloud-clash-amazon-grav...
> the idea that an ID card is somehow anti-democratic is ridiculous

I don't think anyone invoked the spectre of 'democracy'.

A common fear of ID cards is that, once everyone is supposed to own one, some government comes along and decrees that you must carry one at all times. Then the police are given powers to arrest anyone not carrying ID; and finally, to stop and search anyone on the suspicion that they are not carrying ID.

Those fears are not "hysterical".

Also: the novel 1981 was written about a future UK.
Stating publicly that your first response to overproduction is to pull external foundry contracts as opposed to alternative strategies such as accepting lower profit margin to gain market share seems like a great way to sour external foundry contract negotiations.
I’m currently reading the book, Design of Everyday Things. Suggestions in this post go directly against the teachings of successful product designers.

I would LOVE for gnu Linux distros to have an amazing experience that delights people. First, people need to stop blaming the users who struggle with things. That includes telling them to learn some technical incantations or criticizing them when they don’t. That’s just covering up user experience issues in a design that needs work
I was part of the initial 3D graphics research community during the 80's. We've seen a few paradigm shifts in my career: 3d going mainstream, the graphical UI going mainstream, the web being separate from the Internet, mobiles overtaking the desktop as the dominate computer people use, and social media overtaking broadcast news as where people get their opinions. I'd say we are in the midst of the next paradigm shift now, and that is scientific computing with DL/ML being applied to any field the data and will is available. The fruits are gonna be profound.
What sorts of things do you have in mind?

I've used the app Magic, which is sort of like an on-demand personal assistant. They're real people, but I'm imagining the sorts of requests I made being done by an AI.

"Get me a list of cool concerts around Valentine's Day, near my city, along with links to music by the bands involved. Buy me the tickets for the one I pick and then update my calendar and send my wife an invite. Get me an Airbnb near the venue if the concert is more than 30m from my house and schedule rideshares. Finally, give me a list of casual restaurants with vegetarian options within 20m walking distance of the venue, otherwise schedule rideshares to the restaurants I pick."

"Every night at 10pm, review my task list and make sure I completed 70% of what I committed to for the day. If I attached proofs, review those and make sure they are legit. Otherwise, request more information if it's unclear whether I met my commitment. If I don't respond with enough information, donate $50 to the Republican National Committee with my credit card and write a tweet about my failure on my Twitter account."
> B. caapi contains several alkaloids that act as MAOIs, which are required for DMT to be orally active

What boggles my mind is how shamans found a way to make it orally active. They would have to experiment heavily with various plants, sometimes to their own detriment. This would entail consuming poisonous plants by accident all so they can find a psychoactive brew.
I've used Sixfab before. https://sixfab.com/product/raspberry-pi-cellular-iot-kit-lte...
Gource is nice for version control visualizations if anyone is interested in generating video for their particular repos.
China moon rover to investigate cube-shaped 'mystery house' object
Right! But they were developed while the author was working for Badoo/Bumble.

You can't develop something "inspired by" your day job, while working the day job in parallel, and then claim it isn't related to the day job.
OMG that is such genius. Chilling. Love it.
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I hope that is the case as it has the potential for improving Quality of life for the humanity as a whole.
I think it’s reached a critical point where everyone feels they need to have an opinion on it.
Does anyone know of an inexpensive plan in the US to use with a setup similar to this that sends dozens of text messages/month?
You’re commenting on a website, so no, you did not :)