skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd say that running infrastructure in the cloud still requires the same deep understanding of what's going on under the hood as running your on-prem infra. A lot of annoying things are taken out: some stuff patches automatically, some other things have an easier updating procedure (and obviously the "physical" aspect is taken care of).. but you still only get the basic elements for a proper infrastructure. Your servers need an environment set up, you need to build a network, add load balancing and replication, monitoring etc. etc..

You can provision some of these things from cloud providers, but your infra is going to go to shit unless you actually understand what they're really providing you and how to use it. If the only thing you can do is upload a docker image to a cloud provider and click the "create server" button, then that's not really infra work at all. It's like Wix for sysadmins.
> I learned my lesson to not talk about such things because their egoes were too fragile.

At my university in the early 90s I went the white hat route and had tons of fun. I managed to convince the computing center folks to give me a student job in the Unix group, and then spent the next three years hacking their systems and getting a pat on the back when I did it.
Can a biologist fix a radio?–Or, what I learned while studying apoptosis (2002) [pdf]
Oh interesting! I lived nearby as a child and I remember these boats, but I didn't know they had been revived.

In case anyone visits, this is upstream:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fontaine_de_Vaucluse_(spring)
The govt lying about be willing to keep this secret? Or google sharing trade secret info with the DMV and then having someone try to out it? I'm trying to track the "evil" here.

The irony on HN is that virtually every OTHER self driving car mfg / provider is taking far FAR more risks than google if you follow the space.
The English-speaking media is way behind on the general sentiment regarding Bitcoin in El Salvador.

Most Salvadorans I know are enthusiastic about Bitcoin. Any opposition fizzled once those who had no experience or were confused by it saw no change to their daily lives when it became available.

The politics of El Salvador have changed pretty drastically in the past few years with the election of Nayib Bukele and the subsequent dominance of his Nuevas Ideas party in the assembly. The traditional left (FMLN) and right (ARENA) parties were completely voted out.

My guess is that Bukele's plan with Bitcoin is more political--he's inviting a new class of crypto-rich that he can play off against the influence of what remains of "las catorce familias," i.e. the remains of the entrenched oligarchy that allied itself with the neoliberals. From the point of view of political economy, the adoption of Bitcoin is a smart move in the current situation, where the USD only benefits the old power structures that control imports and services, and where a move back to the colón is no longer feasible after the decimation of the export agro-economy (coffee, sugar, corn).

An analogy I hear often from Salvadorans is that El Salvador could become a Latin American Singapore, with Nayib Bukele as a kind of Lee Kuan Yew.
You could look up activation events on the website, I don't think we guarantee anything relating to order other than that. Generally the order in which they're activated shouldn't matter in practice.
Nice work! I informed the author of the XDA article about it, though I'm not sure he'll be able to update the piece.
If one can, I urge visiting one of these camps. You'll see many such photos on display. But for me it took feeling the brutal heat of the surrounding desert in Manzanar. There is no shade, no AC. In the summer, it gets up to 110º. In the winter, it barely breaks 40º. In every photo you'll see a cloud of fine dust on the ground. It hurts.

And the US jailed more than 120,000 Japanese Americans there.

For those who cannot visit, it's worth seeing how inhospitable the location is: https://goo.gl/maps/wz7NTbhMMYTid4b26
I'm glad it's improved. I moved jobs a couple years ago, and since then, have only used Python for a few small personal projects. When I left, there were still some very rough edges around some very popular (and some not so popular) libraries.

And, as I said, I do prefer the str/bytes split over the unicode/str split, but I also wasn't doing a lot of raw byte manipulation. I agree that it was harder to do with the old str than bytes. I was mostly doing string operations on the grapheme cluster level, and then writing everything out as UTF-8, so I didn't see as much of the benefit.
Endlessly debating who is the most to blame is also a great way to make sure that all our problems go up in smoke. Or, at least, all the problems of some of us. (Just ask the residents of Lytton, British Columbia.)
As an American, I know I'm miserable because I have realized that I'm going to have to choose between a giant douche and a turd sandwich in all elections for the rest of my life, with any alternatives being disqualified for being a "socialist" or a "conspiracy theorist".
No company is going to touch Virtualbox without a 10ft barge pole. The licensing is so easy to get wrong and before you know it you’re writing a cheque to Oracle’s legal department
What does FAANG have to do with this?

Don't FANNG people obsess over bloat because they're trying to reach billions of customers? It might not seem that way since their pages are bigger but I'd be surprised if they were happy to leave 10s of millions of customers on the table.
I think it has to reproduce to qualify.
Personally I like for the dev to do little commits that document each change to a file and then when the branch is merged in you do a squash merge and each commit msg becomes a bullet point.
Reasons privacy coins haven't taken off
Android 12 has a mechanism to allow an app that installed an application to update it in the background, but the client needs to be updated to support it.

F-Droid hasn't yet, see issue here [1] - some of the other F-Droid clients, like Droid-ify have [2].

[1] https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroidclient/-/issues/1836

[2] https://github.com/Iamlooker/Droid-ify/pull/159
Bitcoin Mining Offered as Solution to Texas Power Grid Problem
I used to do that with emails to vendors or the occasional end-user. Also learned a key tip that you either remove the "to" line or write those emails in a text editor first. They you can't accidentally send the nasty first email!
Windows security bloatware can still bring a system to its knees with an SSD.
Yes, thank god for through hole parts, otherwise I don't think I ever would have made it this far. VLSI is killing poor kids' ability to get started with electronics.

What did you do your soldering with?

My first soldering iron(s) were simply screwdrivers in the stove :)

I even recycled the solder but it took a while to understand that you need flux as well as solder to make a good joint.
FBI file here also for hacking in middle school... later added onto for messing around making tesla coils and mixing up rocket fuel.
These days, anything crypto/"web3"/blockchain related will have spam/scam shills in the comment threads. Besides that, famous tech people's tweets, like Elon Musk's, are a good camping spot for those accounts. Lots of eyeballs on those threads.
> During the 2020 riots, there were definitely some people trying to make the point, “we have no ownership of our own neighborhoods.”

Another reason why riots are not helpful is that it's impossible to know whether someone is breaking a window to make a statement about police violence, institutional racism, capitalist oppression, or because nobody can stop them from breaking a window right now. It's not an eloquent means of expression, and the message will never be received as the author intended.
Natural immunity, for the most part, is quite good and useful. The problem is the cost of getting it - you have to survive the disease... I'm immune to all of the major childhood diseases, but I recall spending a few of my early school years getting sick. Somehow, I even got pneumonia and an ulcer, so I guess elementary school can be stressful?!
This is an important point. My customers don't love outages (who does?) but I've had them and it doesn't really hurt that badly. My products aren't that critical. They're understanding as long as you communicate.
Then is it an accurate simulation without the uncertainty?
Well, kinda? For example: smoking. You cook it for a long time at a low heat, but that's more about heating it up slowly as opposed to bringing it to a temperature and holding it there. And ultimately you (well, you're supposed to) gauge its doneness by its temperature; smokers still follow the "the vessel is hotter than your target heat" rule.
Of course -- you're still writing code to delete a key in Elasticache within your lambda. You're writing yaml code for deployments. Hence the "in the future" portion of this slide.

The scale-to-X and scale-to-zero features of Lambda, along with the guaranteed interface to your lambda with predictable input and output requirements, is incredibly empowering for an engineering team. I can absolutely guarantee that we have spent far, far, far less time maintaining our infrastructure than what we would need to be doing if we had a big-buncha-EC2 setup.

Imagine that the environment issues get taken care of, because Amazon has teams and teams and teams of engineers who are working on just that. Cloudflare has the zero-cold-start isolates. All these platforms are heavily invested in making your development and deployment experience as easy as it can be. Concentrate on writing your code, and you'll reap the benefits.
What is your definition of equivalent? Because I see the French Revolution and it’s Central European offshoots, the Russian revolution, the various Latin American and Asian communist revolutions all very equivalent; they all totally upended and and destroyed an existing culture and whole civilizations. If communistic elements and characteristics are involved, such a situation is equivalent to the Chinese communist “cultural” revolution of destruction by definition. You’re miss-classifying the vector as the cause. One may argue scale, but not equivalency.
The kind binary is decoupled from the node images that make up your cluster. V1.23.3 published 3 days ago

https://hub.docker.com/r/kindest/node/tags

You can also provide any kubeadm config options you want, as kind bootstraps with upstream kubeadm
Everyone I visit in central europe/scandinavia asks me to bring Reese's cups with me.
Yeah. We run servers into the ground where I work. We have around 20 of them. Average age is around 11 years old. Oldest is around 18.
> Fun playgrounds without neutered climbing structures.

This is not a global thing though. While they replaced sand with woods chips or "smarter" materials that make it less painful to fall, the playground in my town are definitely more interesting that the one I got to play with growing up. They tend to rely less on pure strength and more on agility which is definitely better in my opinion.
Even worse is when Google's own search results include ads that direct to malware sites (like https://imgur.com/a/Lk85lST ). Google, when will you start following the best practices in the advertising industry like Ad Standards Council?
Swing also seems to be heavily inspired by AppKit.

Although leaving out messaging and leaving in both int and Integer are weird choices if their language was supposedly inspired by Smalltalk/ObjC.
This one does not even make sense - 100 megs for a binary for centralized metrics? Who would even notice next to the OS and metrics storage.

By design you should not install prometheus on every server you monitor - it's designed to scrape metrics

Its a database, webui with support for email, webhooks, slack, pagerduty, aws api and many others. 100megs does not sound like a lot for all Pormetheus provides
It's not just a few spam like tweets at the bottom of threads though. If you look at tweets by Elon Musk for example there will be loads, as replies at the top of the threads.

Pretty weird how multiple people refuse to believe something can be a problem even though they can't see it.
Yeah I thought it was accepted it likely emerged around vents and spread upwards slowly. Iirc the earth was hit with a ton more radiation back then as the ozone layer was created when creatures moved up and evolved to use the suns light as an energy source (photosynthesis.)

I’m also a layman so this could be outdated or potentially wrong
It is partly for this reason that I’m funding an invite-only community shell/pubnix system.
Yes, every American President has been polarizing. Even Ford.

But the graphs show the change starting around the Trump epoch.
As a native speaker it appears to me that your audience is being a little uncharitable (they being, ironically, intellectually ungenerous toward you).
I too noticed that Dragon is trash (2.2/5 rating on the Chrome Webstore, yikes) I've been working on one that's purpose-built for the web. Most software today is moving towards the web, so that's where we narrowly focus. It works everywhere (including HN, Reddit, YouTube, Gmail... even Duolingo)

You can DL it here: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/lipsurf-voice-cont...
A person I know studied in East Germany in the early 80s via a very limited exchange program. After the wall came down, she requested her Stasi file.

It was fascinating what was in the file - lots of misunderstandings and misinterpretations. For example, she was upset when the Challenger exploded, and this mystified the Stasi informers who had previously identified her as a pacifist (in their minds, the Shuttle was 100% military).

Similarly, she was trying to research what happened to a relative who had remained in Germany in the late 30s, and whether she had died of natural causes or been sent to the camps. The Stasi file was filled with speculations on the details of this "sleeper agent" with whom she was trying to establish contact.

All this to say that from the mindset of a spy, everything is spy-craft. Everyone's world-view shapes their interpretation of events and reality itself. Was the shuttle a military venture? Partly. Was it also a tool for science? Yup. But the functionaries who looked at her data in the heat of the cold war certainly couldn't see those distinctions.

For what it's worth, she was able to get her Stasi file, but has never been able to get a copy of her FBI file.
Watergate and high inflation?
> (On a side note, they seem to have left off Richard Stallman. Isn't he just as key as Linus Torvalds? )

Yes.

Quite surprised why Richard Stallman is absent given that he is the one that (kind of) started it all in the first place.
I have a static IP address / gigabit thru centurylink
Can you elaborate more? That sounds quite interesting!
They're talking about "capital investments" and only talking about process failures on the user side. Nothing will change.
My brother is currently working in the field. It brings him good money. Now, really good money. His work is 100% clean per se (infrastructure for mining).

I don't feel any moral grounds to say anything to him, he does it for engineering and fun and really actualizes himself. He is my older brother finally creating something meaningful for people and having rightful rewards. He is hidden in the moral waves, harvesting something he can, surfing in the sunshine. I don't know how to think about this.
I think there's a minimum character count for mute to work. My mute list includes "NFT" and "NFTs" and yet plenty of tweets get through. However, other mute words that are longer and not acronyms, will be filtered out as requested.
If that is a natural element just like fire spreading, then it is also natural to put down riots just as if they were fires. When a fire burns down a building you stop it, so the same should go for riots.

So basically you made the case for "there are no just riots, they are all mindless violence". If they could behave then they could be just, but if you argue that they can't behave then they can't be just and should be stopped.

Note there are many examples of protests being violent in targeted ways that don't harm innocents, so I disagree with you here. There are just riots, but what we saw in USA wasn't that. Its just that when that happens it isn't called a riot, its just called a violent protest or something like that.
Techonomic activity could be earthquakes in silicon valley.
Above or below a certain latitude, sunlight cannot give you enough vitamin D during certain parts of the year.
Yeah but it is very much not in space time.
This is exactly why I ditched Podman.

I really wanted to use it badly, but lacking an alternative to Docker Compose or compatibility with it in 2022 is unacceptable. Yes, there is technically a way you can orchestrate containers through configuration, and I don't remember what it was called, but I found it both difficult to use and learn. It's crazy to me that people wanted to develop an alternative to Docker... without a way to just configure and network containers with YAML or JSON.
No, but those who valued Twitter for that mission may not anymore.
This video by a game dev does a decent job explaining why transferring assets won't work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKzup7XDyq8&t=3s

It's in the context of games, but virtual worlds have similar dynamics.
What's the stuff that "would have been preserved" by the Classical world but was not preserved by the monasteries, and the existing tradition in general? Religious texts? We actually got their most esoteric and intellectually interesting stuff, in the form of Classical philosophy.

We may have lost much of the mass culture that was closely linked to pagan religion, but we can get the gist of it from what Christianity and other later religions managed to pick up - and even that was soon after transformed and improved in refinement beyond all recognition. The stuff simply wasn't as interesting as we sometimes suppose.
Deep sea fishing is a very big and active sport. Maintaining and fueling deep sea recreational vessels required is also pretty expensive. Could add up quick, especially if you consider boat sales. There is also licenses and tags for the boat. I've been on one and the gas costs alone are hundreds of dollars a day for one boat.

Apparently the rule of thumb is %10 of the boats value for the cost per year on maintenance, https://www.unitedyacht.com/Yacht-News/how-much-does-it-cost....
OK you go first big cat! :)
By that definition all encryption would be end-to-end encryption, making the term useless.

The person sending the message and their intended recipient(s) are the "ends" in end-to-end encryption. The server is not an "end".

Incidentally, the client software is also not the "end": If the system includes a component designed to forward any data about the otherwise-encrypted content of the messages to someone who is not the sender or their intended recipient (unless at the direction of someone who is an intended party to the conversation) then the system does not implement end-to-end encryption. For example, Apple's iMessage app does this with their mandatory client-side scanning misfeature.
Mobile app case here:

The app fetches its base configuration first from a known URL, before even loading anything except for the most essential parts.

This is where we can disable the most basic level of operations or do an emergency shutdown of the client (backend broken or front end exploit found for example)

Second level is a version-specific configuration, which can be used to disable all major features of the application.

Then there is a system that allows for A-B -testing of features on a client, which can also be used to completely turn off features. It's mostly used to slowly roll out features on the client that might stress the backend in unexpected ways if enabled in one go.

The A-B tests are either moved to the second level config feature flags, or permanently turned on or off in a subsequent release.
Maybe this whole VC fund cycle driven model of pumping and dumping/exiting companies is not ideal after all.
Maybe you should have put this qualified opinion in your original post, since you seemed to imply that you knew that parasites always led to worse outcomes.
"Leopards are eating my face!" says Elon, apparently lacking the self-awareness necessary to realize that he's largely responsible for the crypto spammers and NFT craze in the first place.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1371549960030842893

He seems to not realize the impact of having 70M followers. It's not a WhatsApp group chat, Elon.
Boiling something is more about pulling water out than it is finishing the food. But it's definitely one of the corner cases - for the reason you mention: the temperature increases are small.

But temperature for boiled things is still important - see candy for example. The temperature directly indicates the amount of water left in the mixture.

All that said, resting is a distinct step from heating that is often required for a food to end up as you expect it to. IWO, yeah, food isn't always ready to eat after heating.
> Recognizing that involves telling a lot of people that they need to switch from driving cars to using transit, biking, etc.

The issue here is latency, availability, and comfort. Cars are great for these three. Can transit compete?

> and there are a lot of people who don't want to hear that, especially if most of their personal net worth is equity in a building which is too far away at anything less than freeway speeds

If you offer them a better investment, they will. But then, you will have to convince people who put most of their personal net worth into tiny cramped downtown condos that it’s ok for them to lose it due to the massive amount of housing you plan to build.
> Anybody who complained or criticized were branded as not being team players or being old-school

truly being a team player would be to realise the team identity does not include the company but is instead built around professional identity as fellow bit-gardening day labourers who exchange their time and energy providing engineering and operations services to the owners of the company in exchange for money -- then banding together collectively (perhaps starting a union?) to increase negotiating power to obtain better pay and working conditions

if anyone has a particularly pithy response to "you build it, you run it" along the lines of "if you'll pay both of my invoices for performing both jobs, OK", i'd love to hear it
NIR is lean C89 with bits of c99/c11 and that alone is enough to favor it instead of anything else requiring a massive compiler able to understand without a flinch the insanely (usage of this word is fair) complex c++ syntax (c++11 c++14 c++17 c++20, etc).
As an AMD hardware user, I am sad that Lisa L. did not get the memo about c++ toxicity, neither Gabe from Valve, because even if ACO (the glue between AMD GPU isa and NIR) is far less worse than llvm, it still requires such c++ compiler. At least it is moving in the "right"(TM) direction. I wish ACO was like NIR, lean C89 with bits of c99/c11, that to keep the door open of reasonably working alternative C compilers.
Vietnam, plus economic stagnation, plus inflation. Plus a lot of social tension caused by Vietnam, changing mores, the economy no longer growing like it did post-WWII...
Jack Dorsey is a cypherpunk libertarian, of course Twitter doesn't care.
Ask HN: Best database to store time series for analysis?
As the title says, which is the best database as a basis for a time series analysis system and why would you recommend it?
No, but basically this would apply to like little services that might run on docker locally on my mac. Say you have a Dockerfile that uses pip to install some stuff and run a python script. There are a few tools on github I use that are configured like this. To run it without docker, I would write up a simple launch agent plist file that calls up another script that just initializes a conda environment with the dependencies and runs the python. this might not be applicable to all docker use cases, though, but it works well enough for me.