skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Peak power is roughly equivalent to that of Pinatubo apparently. The main difference is the duration, which was much longer for Pinatubo.
Because it didn't look good at the day, even if it was state of the art.
Soundcloud has amazing recommendations, which is the best feature of the platform in my view. It's so easy to find great music that's related to tracks you already like. I have found literally thousands of new tracks from its 'Station' feature.
How many minutes of active work, though? Presumably OPs 13 minute wait time involves about 30 seconds of work and 12 1/2 minutes of doing whatever they feel like.

(in any case let’s be honest, you’re both optimising for very different parameters. Which is fine!)
Large-scale hack targets cryptocurrency YouTubers like Floyd Mayweather
There are several carriers in the building that offer $200/mo/Gbps or cheaper; HE has pretty competitive additional bandwidth as well.

(And yeah, 42U.)
Thanks! I had the same thought as the OP and this is just the counter-example I needed.
Yes. The power and Internet are always the expensive parts of any colo. That is probably about 4-10 servers depending on how you spec them.
> ... which means that if 12.1-RELEASE came out at the end of 2019 and 13.0-RELEASE came out in April of 2021, you had all of 16 months to make investments in the 12 branch before it was hopelessly passe and all queries regarding it would be answered with:

So basically the same as Debian and Ubuntu LTS? Debian releases every ~2 years with 5 years of Security+LTS support, which is the same as Ubuntu (LTS):

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian_version_history#Release...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu#Releases

From "Changes to the FreeBSD Support Model":

- Resolving our arbitrary (and unofficial) 5-year branch lifetime
guarantee. The support policy is that the stable/X branch will be
supported for 5 years (minimum) from the point X.0-RELEASE is released.
We now guarantee a 5-year lifetime on the branch, regardless of how many
releases are built from the branch. Additionally, a "last minute"
release from the stable/X branch does not constitute expanding the support
lifetime for the branch as a whole for an additional two years.

[…]

- A new stable/ branch release will not occur before two years after the
X.0-RELEASE from the prior branch. This limits the number of
simultaneous supported branches, which will greatly reduce the overall
number of branches that must be maintained and build-tested for
Security Advisories and Errata Notices, reducing turnaround time.

* https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-announce/2015-Fe...

* https://www.freebsd.org/security/
Do you mean early retirement or starting your own business?
Shouldn't it be: "The speed of Python code constrains its use cases"?
Anyone have any idea why the dataset doesn't include any the lighthouses along the Oregon coast? It has ones in California and Washington, but nothing for Oregon. Strange.
I find the language/ecosystem-specific idioms really interesting from a historical perspective. I feel like it makes for great reading if one wants to know the common problems involved in building packages for a given framework. I spent some time fixing some packages on Darwin for the most recent release, and I was surprised by how many of those were stdenv-based. I don't really write C/C++, so I don't end up using the stdenv builders myself.

At some point, one of my fixes used an "old" idiom; it was valid, but it had fallen out of use. It was just the first example I found for what I thought would fix the package, and it turned out to be correct, but the new idiom was cleaner and clearer. Nevertheless, they took my fix with the old idiom, so it will continue to propagate for what is likely the same reason. Some of this is just a result of the size and scope of the work going on, especially around release regression time.

In a separate personal example, I went down a very deep rabbit hole of trying to figure out why I couldn't use a shell as a base for a derivation that was essentially just packaged code used as a payload for an external system. It turns out that shell derivations are special things and can't be used directly for standard derivations. My eventual solution, using them indirectly, seemed hinky and didn't incrementally cache well, but it worked.

I agree very much with the problems you've described, but I am a bit more bullish on the potential of the larger ecosystem to outgrow at least some of those problems. I think flakes are the key to enabling better decoupling from nixpkgs. One could rewrite a saner stdlib as a flake, which could then get pulled back into nixpkgs as a flake input. There are promising tools like devshell and flox that are making a serious attempt at unlocking broader adoption through ease of use.
can you elaborate? If you have things to sell and you have the copyright or license to sell these things, how would that be scamming people or moving the goal post of this conversation? who cares if the consumer can't tell the difference, if you personally don't want to scam people with plagiarized work (or scam in the sense of simply making money in that fraudulent way) then you still wouldn't have done that.

do you have a different foundational belief than even that? are you of the belief that anything in the NFT format (a set of software methods with a getImage() method) is a scam?
Even polys have a problem with "cheating". At least all the ones I know (and have talked about this sort of stuff with).

They're open to sex outside of a monogamous couple, but instigating that without consent of all existing partners in the relationship is still problematic. They either have open pre agreed consent to sleep with anybody and everybody, or there's an agreed consent negotiation process on a case by case basis. Sleeping with other people without consent of the partner(s) is still cheating.

(I'll also note that "developing feelings" isn't a problem, at least not for me. You have feelings, and you have intellect, and feeling do not drive behaviour, intellect does. I have deep and lustful feelings for Kate Bush. My girlfriend knows this. She totally understands why and how I'm so head over heels in love with her (or, more realistically, in love with her public persona). Those feelings in no way diminish my feelings for my girlfriend, and even given the opportunity to act on those feelings I would not. In that vanishingly small chance I ever got to meet Kate socially, I'd do my very best to kindle a friendship with her. But I would not leave my girlfriend to "take a shot at her", or cheat on may girlfriend with her no matter how much opportunity I had to do so.)
Not just own, but you can't even license the use of copyrighted works because even if you were somehow licensed the automatons will take over and you'll get flagged off the internet anyway.

We've gone from copyright as a mechanism for sharing works and licensing others to a situation where there are the in-group, the big media corporations who are allowed to license and remix content, and a sub-class who essentially are not.
> Hurricane Electric charges only $400/mo for a full rack in their Fremont datacenter, along with 1Gbps of bandwidth, and 12A of usable power.

Wonder what if Netflix turns around, and blue oceans [0] its video delivery infrastructure [1][2], like Cloudflare did for text/html. We do know that video has all but eaten up the attention that text/html once had on the Internet [3]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Ocean_Strategy#Concept

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28584738

[2] https://openconnect.netflix.com/en/

[3] https://www.wired.com/2010/08/ff-webrip/
Wouldn't that still be binary, just using different symbols?
They're participants in society but not the scientific community. They're not even part of a study. What makes their opinions on the science worth entertaining? Do you think John and Jane Q Public should be involved in network architecture because they have phones? Or civil engineering of bridges because sometimes they drive over one? I cannot find th logic in these arguments.
Neil Young Demands Spotify Remove Music over ‘False Information About Vaccines’
This is not a computer science question. It's a math challenge. We simply rely on computers to do the math faster. I challenge any math person to solve this problem and/or provide a proof. Given that their equations will ultimately be so complex they will fail.

For example, just say 1/3. Easy right? 0.333333334 Wrong. It's impossible for a human or a computer to say the answer. NOT a CS issue. We can't combine random and ultimately repeating numbers. Each time you reduce a number via square root you will eventually reach an infinite response and thus it's impossible to solve, let alone with a binary computer system.

I would love the very first quantum computer to do 1/3. Just use up all the CPU and energy it has in a problem it can't solve. Forever in time.

Look not at the computer as the failure scenario but math in general. At some point you stop and round. When that happens, an error is introduced when you extend the answer beyond the rounding point. At some point you will fine an infinite answer and/or answers. I can write you a computer program to write a single infinite answer. Combining two of them produces the same infinite process.

Here is a better answer. Can we shift the base in a way that allows us to answer random questions like these?
But Pfizer data shows that only 3 topups a year and they'll go from having %0.00009 chance of health issues to %0.000089.
Relevant real Microsoft patent on the IS NOT OPERATOR:

https://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2...
Kharkov, Odessa, Nikolayev, Sumy, Kherson, Dnepropetrovsk, Donetsk, Lugansk, Mariupol, Krivoi Rog, Elizavetgrad (aka "Kropivnitsky"), Aleksandrovskaya (aka "Zaporizhzhia") - most of the cities in the East and the South were founded by the Russians by direct order from the Tsars starting from 1600's. We can dig deeper and find out that in 1897, 78% of Kiev the capital's population was non-Ukrainian, so no, this is not some Soviet invention.

If anything, Stalin and Kruschev gifted Lvov (1940), Ivano-Frankovsk (1940), the entire Crimea (1954), Uzhgorod (1945), etc etc to Ukraine, so some thanks to the Soviets should be in order.
As others have mentioned, programmable keyboards will give you this — I have a keyboard powered by QMK, and I programmed it such that lshift + rshift = caps
This speaks more to the issues regarding the "made of many little pieces without coordination" spelled out in the linked post than to using simple scripts for service management. Also the idea that you would have pid files scattered all over instead of /var/run seems like the sort of chaos linux spawns.

The *BSD rc systems are robust and rely on a framework that abstracts stuff out, you're never going to be digging in there for a pid file's location.
Also, Mozilla should stop removing features, buttons and preference items based on bullshit metrics that majority of the power users don't even keep enabled, thus skewing the studies completely.
Ask HN: Trading research breakthrough for a permanent job?
Hello, HN.

First some context. I finished my PhD 5 years ago, and have had three postdocs since then in three separate fields within the physical sciences (I can't give more detail here as I am afraid of uniquely identifying myself). I have been publishing first author papers at a rate of about 2 per year. I am particularly good at using ideas from one field to solve problems in another, which is why changing fields each postdoc has been a path of least resistance.

Recently, I have solved a problem which feels significantly more important than what I have done in the past. It is one of those instances where you can use auto differentiation infrastructure to solve a problem which doesn't really look like machine learning. People in my lab are excited about it, but there does not seem to be any way for me to leverage this excitement into any sort of long term contract. All that is on offer is that the lab PIs want to write a proposal, which doesn't even mention my name, and then if that proposal gets funded, they will rehire me to work on the project (although, there are no guarantees that they will not hire someone else instead, which is a serious concern when multiple PIs are competing to hire someone). As a result of my field hopping, trying to become a PI myself isn't really an option.

Is there any mechanism for applying for private sector research jobs where I can bring a project with a prototype along and be like "let me develop this for you, and you can hire me as an employee", kind of like a proposal / job application combination? I am getting a little old to keep doing postdocs, so job security is becoming more of a priority for me.

Anyway, not expecting much from posting this, I just thought I would try.
No we’re kind of a lean shop so we don’t do much tech blogging - it’s something we’re thinking of doing soon though.

As for CoW, we just turn it off on the postgres config and rely strictly on ZFS. We also turned off checksumming and compression in postgres and use Zstd:3 on the file system. Beyond that we just followed your run of the mill tuning guide you’d find on Google.
>basically non existent in western culture after the 15th century

>basically over by the 17th century

It went from 15th century to 17th century? I like that you are admitting you dont know basic European history and based on your factually deficient response, you still have a lot to catch up on.

I will leave you to do that.
Your video doesn't work either but the GIF worked fine. I get MIME type not found for yours.

Also the video is full of very fine scale noise. Something that won't compress by HEVC very well at all. You want a lossless compression method (or a very high perceptive index on HEVC).
I actually think a competent engineer making $100k plus can become rich, maybe not filthy rich. If said engineer were to max out roth/401k for 30 years, they would most likely retire with few million dollars.

As an engineer you also might decide to join a SV based company and make $200k+
or you can become self-employed and deposit $56k into your 401k.

In reality anyone making $100k+ plus and living in M-LCOL area can become quite rich when comparing to other places in the world. That is if you are not buying/leasing new cars all the time and living humbly.
If what I say isn't true, why have national-level Republicans worked so hard to get a very ideological SCOTUS? I mean, McConnell holding an open seat after Scalia's death for months, and then ramming Coney Barrett through in just weeks makes me very skeptical that a conservative SCOTUS wasn't important.

Sure, the US has built-in geographic divisions, and the states do voting very differently. Yes, a few states (southern, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama) will outlaw abortion given half a chance, but the rest of the issues I noted are hot-button for some small fraction of some states, but are pretty popular in the rest of the states. If Republicans somehow got national legislation to repress marijuana again, for example, they would lose a lot of regions leading to loss of national dominance.
Sounds like the Nazi references in regards to restrictions might not be too far off.
Except that CCS in US is not the same things as CCS in Europe.
It’s not a realistic scenario. Not relevant to policy or judicial rulings.
People have come to realize a few important things:

- Omicron is comparable to a really bad cold for most people

- The vaccines reduce the risk of death for only a very short time, then the effect wears off, and they have unknown long-term sequelae

- Living like it's 2020 is not sustainable
it’s showing 0 requests per second now
This also is why some HDR TVs/Monitors can still have 8 bit panels - the 10 bit color signal is accepted and then dithered by the TV, and low light/low saturation scenes still look a lot better even though the actual display hardware is not really better (at least in terms of color depth).
Interesting... does that mean that all secure systems are running on Cisco networking?

As said, they do have STIGs and CIS documents for JunOS but I guess they don't run any Juniper in the US secure networking despite of having certifications.
> Regardless, in those cases I’d still expect a competitive market to reach some price convergence, holding all other factors constant...

This is the crux of the problem, of course. There is no convergence because the only factor isn't that the SF engineer is competing against engineers worldwide. The price you have to pay is the minimum to prevent someone from doing the other thing. And so, even if Google is the only one in the Bay to offer higher to work there, you need to pay as much (in some terms, not just monetarily) as Google to get an SF engineer.

That makes sense to me. Local large employers can have an effect on local hiring costs, even for employers not stationed there.

It's not Baumol's Cost Disease, but there is an analogous mechanism there.
Is this true? When I was a kid using the internet to learn to code on the 2000s people seemed a lot meaner in general than they are now. It was hard to ask a question on a forum without being made to feel like an idiot.
The scroll bars are missing, too.
Show HN: Social network that looks and works more like a forum
Hey.Café is a social network built around communities called cafés. Has lots of formatting options on posts similar to Markdown. It's also really really fast.
This is cancel culture in action - powerful celebrity DEMANDS that an opinion he disagrees with is taken down, or else he'll throw a tantrum and nobody can listen to his music anymore. Really pathetic, and I'm glad I wasn't a Neil Young fan before this.
> So you're imagining that a bunch of people trying to break into security work will do work for free in hopes of gaining potential employers'/clients' trust?

We're talking about open source software. People are already doing this sort of free work. You run into them when you start a bug bounty program, or once you've created at least one open source package with a nontrivial userbase.

The way you're wording this sounds precariously like I'm creating some barrier to entry to extract free labor out of people. Quite the opposite: I'm suggesting a mechanism for taking the free work people are already doing in the open source security space, and using it to build rapport with the market a security researcher is trying to break into.

If you're wondering how I would know about the motivations about someone trying to build a customer base out of free labor performed for open source software, take a look at... virtually everything publicly shared on paragonie.com. I'm speaking from experience. ;)

> And you're imagining that this ecosystem of attestations will be seeded by a bunch of people looking to gain the community's trust?

Not just people. Companies too! (I think most of us view them as separate things still?)

> So who audits the auditors?

The same people who make these kinds of decisions today, albeit far less formally than what I'm envisioning.

For the PHP ecosystem, you have the big players (WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, Magento) and frameworks (CodeIgniter, Symfony, Laravel, etc.) with dedicated security teams that field vulnerability reports from the larger community.

Beyond them, you have this large, distributed, ad hoc emergent network of security experts that have a loose consensus on whether or not a self-proclaimed security expert is credible. It's messy and uncoordinated and decentralized, and very imperfect.

> And how long do you expect it to take to get a critical mass of people reviewing code who have gained the community's trust to be reviewing enough packages to solve open source supply chain security?

I don't have a time estimate on hand, due to how this will need to unfold. I don't expect to have "[solved] open source supply chain security" in any immediate sense. Going from "improved state of affairs" to "solved problem" is a long tail.

Marginally, improving the security of the open source supply chain is trivial: Any effort expended is more than is currently being done today. That's the dx part of the equation.

What I predict is as follows:

1. Highly impactful codebases (i.e. a dependency of lots of projects), which are in the hot path for many dependency graphs, will end up being covered by third-party reviewers.

2. A lot of niche codebases will be covered because of community interest or due to extant social relationships.

3. A large swath of what remains will remain uncovered by third-party review despite being open source.

Today, the software in category 3 is an unknown unknown. With Gossamer, it will become a known unknown. This is a meaningful step towards "solved problem", even if it doesn't prima facie solve it immediately.
I think it's possible to avoid using symlinks and just use plain folders to represent tags only. By using a special naming strategy on the folders themselves, it would be possible to have a set of scripts for "tagging" files and operating on them. Tagging would be equivalent to just moving the files into the relevant nested tag directories.

No duplicate files or symlinks necessary.. Can make scripts like tagcd and tagls to make it work.
Sometimes, no matter how hard you try, you can't create a simple enough explanation for people with no frame of reference to understand what's happening. Medicine is not a good place to let groupthink decide anything.
>Wouldn’t it be great for FreeBSD to be the first OS to have a release that was actually, truly finished?

I don't mean this in a rude or dismissive way but these comments make me want to pull my hair out. Deciding your software has a fixed scope and is finished doesn't stop the wheels of progress from turning. Worst case, the rest of the world will decide the scope you chose was crap, for reasons beyond your control, and then your project is dead. I get that it is an engineer's fantasy to build a theoretically "perfect" system but such a thing can't exist in practice. I think you'd have a better chance of proving P=NP or something.
90% of US has a poor diet, and 25% don’t exercise
> The complaint was that refusing is not as easy as accepting all cookies.

How many other websites violate this rule and are allowed to get away with it for 4 years now (GDPR went into effect in 2018)? How many businesses are based on denying users their privacy rights? TrustArc's entire business is to provide an obnoxious, non-compliant consent popup as a service.

The Google ruling is a welcome development but doesn't invalidate the fact that enforcement is still very much lacking.
Abstractions get leaky when underlying assumptions fail to hold. As an example, comparing insurance rates and coverage from different companies via AI is of limited utility if you ignore counter party risks where the companies fail to keep their end of the contract. Of course you can add that or any specific thing I bring up to the model, but you can’t include everything because the model is always simpler than reality.

The desire for AI decisions to be explainable forces them to use even simpler which makes this worse.
of course - mine is a Dreamland Intelliheat Heat Pad, about £35.

I wear a pair of those thin disposable hotel slippers (did I mention I’m northern) to help diffuse the heat a bit, because on the highest setting it’s just a bit too warm with just socks on, but it probably wouldn’t cut through regular slippers.

It’s also great to stick at the foot of the bed an hour before you turn in - much prefer just my feet being warm rather than the whole bed as you’d find with a full electric blanket.

Highly recommended.