skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Serverless is just buzzword for a container on a virtual machine on a server. The Cloud is just a buzzword for a company with a data centre selling virtual servers from other big servers.

> You’re either so new to this stuff to have no experience to remember the days before cloud

I do, and it was much more peaceful.

Everything you can do on "in the cloud" you can do in colocation. Which in the long-run is cheaper, more secure* and it's yours! Including the data.

There are caveats, network, component failure. Investment in to these and you can have a pretty king setup.

The cloud enabled magnitude of email spam, brute-forcing, botnets, security vulnerabilities and much more. Operators are lazy don't want to combat it. Providers are bias, then again you can say that about any business.

People flock to the cloud like it's the greatest thing, when all your buying in to is a expensive price-plan for a company who will happily knock you off their service if you somehow brush up the wrong way and then charge you for a closed account.

I do laugh when something goes wrong for FANG. Partly, I'm cynical and want to see the world burn, but it's also these companies exploit their userbase, their staff and the environments resources. When Facebook locked themselves out of their own offices due to the BGP issue, now that's funny.

My colocation costs are:

$5000 covers for a three-year 1Gbit 2u server racking space in two different DCs. Where I have full-control, as many services as I desire, allowed to host what I desire and where the internet space is actually mine. It may be a small cube of internet but I know it's my network, my traffic.

Cloud is whitewash for me, I won't buy in to it. It has it purposes and if your happy with it, fine. But for me Colo for life.
> prove that no such n-tuples exist for n>4.

It depends on how you define "such" n-tuples. The octonions (n = 8) aren't associative, but they have all the other relevant properties.
Everyone is responsible for everything that is unacceptable, but it doesn't really help to try to enforce that.

Scoping to a reasonable level, publishers' primary job is to review and filter information for quality, safety, and fitness for mass consumption. Assange and WikiLeaks explicitly do not do that. At best, they are a distributor.
I know people with long covid and people with CFS, and while there may be some overlapping symptoms that are common, they are decidedly different in most people.
Thanks, this was a really insightful comment (as someone who spent years of my life getting a graduate philosophy degree, before doing something more 'useful'). I think the concept of utility is clearly, uh, useful, and the reason that it's aversive to people is that they tend to bundle it up with a lot of the (sociologically, not logically) related views, which tend to be more problematic.

Hedonic utilitarianism in particular turns a lot of people off, and partly for good reason. I'm deeply ambivalent about it, and I think the surrounding debates, and the assumed primacy of moral intuition in applied cases, are far harder and more open questions than most people reckon. But I can still see how examples like utility monsters, or gang rape being morally superior to garden-variety rape because there are more people to enjoy it, might make people feel like it's really on the wrong path.
> That's not how it works.

That's exactly how it works

> I'd say that's like Luddites

Of course you'd say that. Because you have no arguments beyond flawed analogies.

> Is it so far fetched that autonomous networks technology can also help obviate the need to trust intermediaries

Yes. It is extremely far-fetched.
I haven't read anything recently on this subject. I read most of his books years ago as they were published. Castaneda's works always left me feeling curious about how everything was put together in the universe and how it was all supposed to work. I am a geophysicist by training so I have a good exposure to science - enough to know that there is a lot more to learn. I haven't delved deeply into any lucid dreaming or similar subject matter. I wish I could be more help.
The former. 3:30 am is like 8:30 pm. Local hour is about six hours behind regional.
If this UE5 demo is using Nanite, then it really may well just be modeled geometry.

Nanite really blurs the line between geometry and texture - in a sense it’s a shader that uses triangle mesh data as if it were a texture source.

This siggraph session will expand your mind: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eviSykqSUUw
Animation is the next frontier.

In this demo, most still frames could often easily be confused with a still frame from one of the films. Blown away, there. You're so right about the lighting, models and textures being virtually indistinguishable.

However - in motion, the effect is completely broken - only every few seconds - but enough to push it into uncanny valley territory.

I notice Nirobi (? sic, the Jada-Pinkett Smith's character) in the backseat seemed to be the most offensive in terms of unnatural animation.

I'm guessing - I'm hoping - ML models could be of tremendous use in terms of improving animation in video games? The problem is always that it is too unnaturally smooth. People just don't move like that.

Just as we got texture detail to the point of perfection of the unnatural - pores on the face, etc - we need to get animation to the perfection of the unnatural.

Even freaking same with the camera. After getting used to VR, the weirdly static, linear, unnatural camera movements in regular console games have aged like milk. Not sure why we are still treating cameras in 3D like it's 2001.
LOL. I've been waiting almost 9 years on a 120 day Speedy Trial. While you are 100% technically correct (minus COVID extensions), the defense team will need a bunch of extensions to go through everything and file motions. And that is where the delays will come from - the prosecutor and judge will make sure any motions take years to process and he'll languish in jail for infinity.

He won't get a bond either because of all the stuff that happened with the Bolivian Embassy.
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I love how people are able to rationalise things while turning a blind eye to something way more obvious. Africans are the least poisoned demographic obviously.
Yep. It's ironically very unscientific.
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The two aspects that slerp() addresses over lerp() + normalize() are 1) it can deal with pole-to-pole interpolation 2) It always takes the shortest path.

In practice, the former is often provably never going to happen, and the later doesn't actually matter from a qualitative standpoint: Quaternion interpolation will always look a bit weird over large angles, especially if there's a roll component to one of the orientations.

As far as having a constant interpolation speed: again, this is rarely perceptible, and truly linear transitions from one orientation to another looks janky so some amount of filtering happens anyways (an ease-in-ease-out for example).

But yeah, for very large interpolations, it can create a slight authoring/runtime skew. My rule of thumb used to be: use slerp() when the orientations can be at least 120 degrees apart, or when lerp() yields weird results. However, it's really rare to be interpolating over such a large orientation change, you almost always have a few keyframes or dead-reckoning syncs in between.

Again: This might be an outdated perspective though.
This isn't equivalent to picketing. It's more like sabotage.
This is what I'm talking about, folks!
When i started to take medication before my med doctor changed them to the current one, i was terrified about side-effects and i pushed and pushed my desire to start them. But then one day i said "Enough. I can't continue living like this. I prefer the side-effects over this shit" and i started taking them, but sadly they didn't work.
Hackaday is amazing. Reading that site as a kid put me on track for my career today. Can’t thank them enough.
This is great. I've long thought that every line of code developed with govt. money should be open sourced, and that a country that got serious about this would likely get a lot more people interested in working for them.
The reason you heard of Wikileaks and Assange isn't for golf. It is for publishing journalism and in particular journalism containing a vast number of journalistic scoops. So many that it catapulted him to international fame.

If you believed wikileaks and Assange were famous for golfing or hacking or leaking or baking pie I have sympathy because the smears on what they did and do have been as relentless as they have been obviously false, (one example that won't go away: "he's a leaker who never actually leaked anything but instead published leaks like the New York Times does which makes him a leaker").

Now you know better. He's a worlds famous journalist and publisher. Without publishing and journalism you don't know him from a bar of soap.

Another, separate point worth making. You don't have to like /him/ and support /him/ to support his rights which are also every person engaging in journalisms rights and also /your/ rights. You don't have to hate a government or a nation to oppose when it overreaches. This is a pretty big overreach.
Wow - you weren't kidding - the rust port is total trash. What is even going on there?
My main take-away from this is that political philosophy must not spend much time with actual data if this is the level of numeric discourse. The models they use for very complicated decisions like the one described seem just crashingly unsubtle from this.
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Why would it not rely on both ? Why would any security measure not have an additional security measure ? In my opinion there is no such thing as a “good security measure”. There are only security measures that haven’t been broken yet.
Darwin College Lecture Series: Decoding the Heavens: The Antikythera Mechanism by Jo Marchant

"There are quite a few mentions of devices that sound a bit like the Antikythera mechanism"

https://youtu.be/Iv-zWbxm2lY?t=2695

Jo Marchant is an award-winning science journalist and author of several popular science books including Decoding the Heavens: Solving the mystery of the world’s first computer and the New York Times bestseller Cure: A journey into the science of mind over body (both shortlisted for the Royal Society science books prize). She has a PhD in genetics, and has worked as a senior editor at New Scientist and at Nature.
Unlike a saxophone, the parts of a string instrument that you touch are entirely modern, especially given modern violin technique involving a chin rest. The strings are of course modern, the fingerboard gets worn out and replaced a lot during the lifetime, the neck will have been reshaped (and when that happens the soundpost, nut and bridge will have been replaced) and the chin rest is entirely not original[1]. The playing feel of the instrument is largely down to the shape of the neck and how the instrument is set up (type of strings, bridge and nut height, position of the soundpost relative to the bridge).

[1] Up until the romantic period, violins and violas were played sitting lower down on the neck rather than clamped under the chin. See this contemporary illustration of Mozart playing for example https://baroquebows.com/wp-content/uploads/Mozart.jpg - no chin rest.
I'm not sure technocratic means what you think it means:

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/technocr...

i.e it's a net positive to have a technocratic state, deferring decision making to those with the technical skills to do it.
I'm guessing much of the OpenBSD trailing performance on many benchmarks is due to both memory allocation and filesystem performance. malloc has a lot of security features out-of-the-box; turning them off (don't do that at home) might improve the speed.

But basically these are not benchmarks but conversation topics. A "real" benchmark runs your own code, not someone else's.

As an interesting topic, the LAME result went from 9.94 seconds (OpenBSD 6.4, 2018, Intel Core i9-7980XE) to 18.476 seconds (OpenBSD 7.0, 2021, Intel Core i9 10980XE). So many things changed over those 7 releases....
>If picketing IRL factories is allowed, what would the law be on DDOS of an online business by union members?

I'm pretty sure union/striking isn't a valid excuse to violate laws, and that "picketing IRL factories" doesn't violate any laws (ie. they do in on the sidewalk/public roads).
My HP-11c, one of the Hewlett-Packard calculators, which I have used regularly since 1986

[1] https://www.hpmuseum.org/hp11c.htm
1. Actual throughput in our ports is up over previous levels. Its demand that has increased, a combination of redistribution downwards (through better wages, government benefits) and pent up savings. There's already evidence savings are depleted for lower income households (as evidenced by increased credit card balances).
2. Perhaps you could explain why container owners have no incentive to increase their business volume.
3. The US systematically undershot its 2% inflation target for years. It acted more like an upper bound. Its good that its gone over. Just now we've overshot. But we've overshot by a fair margin. So I think they'll pull back as soon as any perceived softness of the real economy has gone away.
Cryptoals is awesome.

Recommend both for experienced and novice techies.

Loads of fun!
Yes, this exactly. Billion dollar companies contribute to open source because the model is a net economic driver. I can tap into decades long and billions of dollars of man hours of effort to offer systems admin consultation and earn a living deploying and managing open source software for people, or incorporate that into almost any business, or participate in hackathons that riff on the bleeding edge of ai or security or art. The only barrier to entry is ability and willingness to learn, and things like moocs and YouTube and Khan Academy have expanded the "open source" ethos into almost every real world endeavor.

Crypto is a nascent space that similarly enables people to bypass all the gatekeeping and institutional cruft in finance. It just turns out that a lot of the gatekeeping in finance is structurally important and intentional, so it may be a couple decades before any particular cryptocurrency is comparably robust and secure as well trusted fiat currencies like the usd or euro. A trustless and mature financial system that doesn't have the pitfalls of credit bureaus and arbitrary government policy chaos, that opens up microloans and honest banking for literally anyone, that gives opportunity to invest and trade and participate even at low levels of wealth - those are socially good things, in my view.
I love when the twitter fact check bots come to chip in here.
Election fraud is exceedingly rare and saying otherwise is extremely dangerous to our democracy.
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He did significant help in showing a major war crime that was covered up. That is, without doubt, more important.

As a journalist, you sometimes have to jump a fence - that is generally, and legally, accepted. Else writing 'do not view or publish' on your crime diary would be sufficient to conceal it.
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All of which are college towns to some degree. (Or at least have large universities.)

There are a fair number of smaller cities in the Northeast US with walkable cores. I worked in downtown Nashua for about eight years at one point though I didn't go in all the time. A number of those cores are even rather gentrified with nice restaurants, a park or two, newer housing, and so forth.

Here's the thing though. It's a fairly consistent pattern. The gentrified area is usually pretty small. Things are distinctly less nice when you get out of that area. And you probably need to get in a car to do anything beyond the most basic shopping.

Beyond the Northeast, somewhere like Raleigh NC is the same pattern.
Going back to the land of the free!

USA the country with the most jailed in the world

It is baffling how they keep lecturing the world
Is there any evidence that it is psychosomatic? My understanding is that CFS (and long covid which indeed appears to be similar) affects a wide range of people, most often after some kind of viral infection that is very much physical in nature. And furthermore that the most successful treatment programs tend to focus on careful regulating exercise and diet which again seems to be largely physical.

Just because the underlying biological mechanism isn't understood doesn't mean that there isn't one. To me CFS seems like a case of a disease neglected by medical science because it's dismissed as being psychosomatic.
Too bad this probably doesn’t work for matte (non-glare) displays.
A PS5 and a PC of the same specs is comparable in price. Also a PS5 is currently 1000-1200 depending on bundle. The I/O bit with ps5 is interesting for loadtimes and open world games, though it is getting tougher to buy a PC without nvme. The current xbox looks interesting, but MS is basically pushing 'also release on PC'. Like I said I have owned many generations of consoles. However, this gen I am finding it tough to justify also getting one in addition to my PC. Even the PS4 before it I bought only because of one silly unique game that was not on PC but on every console. Something like the n64 when it came out vs the PC it was a no brainer and 'here take my money'. I am not getting that with this gen of consoles. If you want a console over a PC go for it, seriously. I personally am finding the distinction hard to justify with the current gen of consoles.
Not sure if it is a myth, but hadn't we forgotten to build Saturn V engines?
I think this speaks to the failure of utilitarianism, at least in my mind - notions of "utility" are rooted in subjectivity and subject to chaotic forces in the future. Utilitarianism still remains useful as an ethical and executive framework, but one must be easily preempted by other ethical concerns as in the article, as well as aware of the inherent uncertainty in future outcomes.
> When inflation is due to printing money, the only thing that can be done is to sit back and wait for it to work it's way through the system.

Source? This doesn’t seem right to me at all.
Computational modeling revives 19th century theory of grass leaf formation
https://www.calculatedriskblog.com/

https://econbrowser.com/
Age is the biggest issue. Women & Men are roughly equally obese >65: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db106.htm

It could be more related to smoking in older people?

> Generally, men tend to use all tobacco products at higher rates than women. In 2015, 16.7 percent of adult males and 13.6 percent of adult females smoked cigarettes.

https://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/research-reports/toba...
I can't remember the details exactly but there was a case in Germany in which a coordinated online and offline protest against Lufthansa was carried out, the online component being a denial of service attack on the airline's website. Lufthansa attempted to charge those response and the court dropped all charges - seeing it as a legitimate form of protest.
There are tons of hand-crafted features in the 'random' datasets. The utility of these same features (edges, corners, gradients, etc) where 'discovered' over time by previous generations of CV researchers. Saying "training neural nets on known useful training data leads to decent performance" is not interesting or surprising.
As I've said, "long covid" is an overloaded term right now.

I'm also not going to be drawing conclusions from "I know some people X" and "other people Y." Hopefully the scientists studying this don't do that either.
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> Do reporters usually help people break the law?

Truthfully that question is hard to answer, you must be specific - do you mean reporters helping people jaywalk? Source the law that this Australian citizen ran afoul of. Greenwald provided protection and services to Snowden where the case for espionage is much stronger, we do not consider him a criminal however.
Well, I'd argue that inflation has been kept too low, placing burdens on debt-holders and lowering growth, which in my view contributed to the decimation of the middle class.
The cynic in me says that the EU wouldn’t have been able to do much about this anyway, the impression I get from episodes like the Greek debt crisis is that the EU as a political establishment has a similar strain of the disease Westminster has: the idea it’s healthy and natural for a powerful socio-political clique to piss in the eyes of the plebs and tell them it’s raining regardless of the humanitarian consequences. This paternalistic, hierarchical view of society is the source of so much banal evil in the world I think.

The cure in my opinion is to break these cliques up by getting a far wider diversity of human experience into politics, my local MP is a former physics teacher for instance and I have nothing but respect for her especially compared to the line-up of the corrupt on the front benches. We can’t expect the cadre of ex-Etonians who’ve had every advantage society has to offer to even understand the plight of the ordinary person much less empathise and use their power to do something about it.
I don’t know how I feel about this. As a developer, I say good, I’m glad this impacts them. Many distributions cut apart and really break many aspects of Python such as breaking out pip and one off packages like virtual environment, often removing them from the standard library.

On the other hand, python’s packaging system is such a mess, I’m not sure the alternative / replacement is actually better. I wish the ecosystem could do better here and had an easy way for people who want to help improve this to do so.
If you are Home Secretary your job is basically to be a humungeous authoritarian piece of shit, because if something happens due to the country's security being breached in whatever manner, your head is on the chopping block.
Agreed. But apparently we're on the wrong side of the narrative. The simple fact is, we don't have leadership able to tell consumers that they've done too good job (to the point of ruining their own health), that the (over) consumption economy has failed them. This is why (in the USA) we hear very little about areas not overrun (e.g., many African countries).

I am by no means a Covid denier, but the bottom line is: Covid is more of a symptom (of broader health and healthcare issues) than it is a Black Plague-esque disease. Since the majoriry rules, and illness has been normalized there will be few in power willing to speak truth.
Found it! It's called "Stress Relief": https://www.ghacks.net/2011/01/11/stress-relief-destroy-your...
The person took it down after reading about Computer Fraud and Abuse Act lol.
The Fed had to choose between inflation and recession. They chose inflation, and made the right choice.
I'm extremely ill informed about these things, so is anyone able to explain why Gentoo actually needs to package Python libs? Or are they talking about Python itself? Over the years I've found distribution packages like `python3-pycurl` etc. to be more of a hinderance than a help when I want to run Python on linux.