skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"You're looking at it through the individual lens again."

The entire point of this thread - that individuals shouldn't fear these things. Fear is at the individual level.

"we rightly fear the consequences of an accident without a restraint."

Why would we be afraid of a moot scenario? If you have and use a seat belt, then this isn't a scenario to fear. Even then, the occurrence of an accident when being careful is low enough that there is not fear when driving down the road. If there was substantial fear, then we wouldn't drive (like people I know who have a panic attack when driving).

"if you grossly underestimate all the cumulative risks associated with climate change."

They have yet to be fully disclosed/known and materialize. It's reasonable to not be afraid of something that does not yet exist.

"Simply handwaving away the death toll from insect-borne infection because they don't affect you personally doesn't make them any less real."

It's not hand waving. There are mitigating steps to be taken. It's certainly nothing to be afraid of for many people. Again, the component of the comment we are discussing.

"Drought, wildfires, floods, hurricanes, tornados and blizzards are all correlated with increasing thermal energy in Earth's atmosphere. Something we should rationally fear and actively work to mitigate."

It's not rational to fear something that doesn't affect you. These things do not affect all areas. You can work to mitigate things without being afraid of them. I'm not afraid of those events as they largely don't affect my area, and I take steps to mitigate any damage from the ones rest do occur.
Thermporter – a modest proposal to rename the heat pump
Yes, it's especially apparent when most of the spam is coming from names that are only a few unicode characters away like El0n Musk. Ridiculous that twitter can't flag that kind of thing.
Be sure to read the follow-up (https://web.stanford.edu/~learnest/cyclops/bash1.htm) about the challenges the author faced in trying to help move forward a reasonably safe standard for bicycle helmets.
> Actual data says that Covid patients in ICU take up between 8% to 20ish% of admissions.

Yes, and actual data says this is a problem, because we don't have the capacity to handle a sustained 15% increase in ICU use. That is simply not a thing we have the capacity to handle.

> Maybe they shouldn't fire medical professionals who got immunity through COVID infection instead of the vaccine.

The less than 1% of people who fall into this category are probably not the issue. 1% more nurses isn't going to address 15% more patients.

> <a bunch of non quantitative opinion based unprovable emotional gish gallop stuff I didn't read.>

You really should have, because none of it was "emotional" and most of it was quantitative, so this makes you look rather silly. Like c'mon, you've lied about how full hospitals are in California, when confronted on that you claim I'm "gish galloping" with emotional nonsense that's just true[0] factual content about how we handle and have handled hospital capacity and why your (completely conjectured!) conclusion was wrong.

[0]: https://revcycleintelligence.com/news/40-hospitals-in-ny-for...
I work in IT Operations of a big IT house. 100% local gov customers. We fully manage around 5000 pet servers. ~30 sysadmins and some of us do architecture designing also. There's also a separate networking team of about 10 network specialists.

Senior sysadmins are really hard to come by today, not to mention someone who wants to do architecture also.

My hunch is that the 5000 onprem pet servers are not going away any day soon, because a massive amount of it is legacy systems that take a long time to migrate to cloud, if ever. Also the work stress is just ridiculous. So much stuff to do, even with automation. Only reason I still do this is that I like the "old school" tech stack vs. cloud IaaS/PaaS alternatives.
> -"As a practical goal, you should be able to recreate your host with a single Bash script."

I disagree with this. A single bash script configuring an entire hosts can be overly complex and very difficult to follow. As someone who has created complex bash scripts, this will become very time consuming and prevent you from making many changes without significant efforts. I'd suggest familiarizing yourself with tools like cloud-init and Ansible.
> how does one voxel communicate to the neighboring voxel what to update without passage through ‘stuff in between’ that doesn’t exist? Heh

That kind of reminds me of the 'aether' that was once hypothesized as a medium of transmission for light and radio waves [0].

Also, voxel's communicating sounds an awful lot like a higher-dimensioned cellular automata.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aether_theories
I expect that there are users, who are not themselves developers, who are using either apps or scripts which rely on the system-installed Python 2. They likely aren't aware that they're using Python, and they may not even know what Python is. It could be one line in one shell script block in one automator action that a coworker put together five years ago.

It's okay for that stuff to break. (I wish Apple would put more effort than they do into making it break less often, but that's neither here nor there.) But, it should break in a major release, when the user is prepared for things to break. It should not break in an update that was installed automatically overnight.
Google used to offer that, paid sabbatical. But people tended to never come back which made it counterproductive as a retention benefit, and it went away.
I've never seen anyone demonize or shame having pet servers, if anything people on tech news sites write about their pet servers constantly (understandably, it's fun!) Just like you're not going to make all your furniture by hand when you start a business but instead just buy whatever works from Ikea, likewise you make a more conscious decision to build or buy (as TFA touched on) based on the constraints of the business. And sometimes a business, for compliance reasons for example, may choose to keep their servers in-house, in which case you could potentially be a sysadmin.
Agreed. I will make sure others can build this. It is built on top of UserLAnd, but the build process does have a couple of extra steps.
I'm not a fan of the teleological angle I'm seeing here. The universe doesn't serve a purpose, it's not doing a "job", any level of complexity is needless.

Putting that misgiving aside, I think I get what you're saying (correct me if I'm wrong): the question is whether the "simpler" or at least more naive classical rules of physics could be the foundation for a world that looks and feels exactly like ours, e.g. one that forms a substance that has the precise properties of water, one that can support a stable form of DNA with which to assemble living beings, and so on.

The answer to that depends on how far exactly you are willing to depart from perfect fidelity. To put it another way: what is exactly the set of invariants that you aim to preserve from QM to classical? Do you need them to be exactly the same? Probably not feasible. Do you want water to behave exactly the same? I would tend to say it couldn't. Do you want it to have stars? To be able to evolve humanoids? To be able to evolve life? These are all interesting questions on their own, but they may all have separate answers.
> will make me incompatible with everyone else's machine.

Any time someone says this, I think of [this comment][0].

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/2c3cuu/a_quick_tour_of...
Nice, and improvement on frequent "vim for beginners" texts. One vi(m) text that takes things further is "The Vi/Ex Editor" by Walter Alan Zintz (originally published in UnixWorld Online), atm at https://www.ele.uri.edu/faculty/vetter/Other-stuff/vi/009-in.... Love the intro, heart warming indeed :-) https://www.ele.uri.edu/faculty/vetter/Other-stuff/vi/009.pa.... A rich repository of related material is e.g. https://blog.sanctum.geek.nz/series/unix-as-ide/.
It's not that it wouldn't block IR from the star. It's that they would radiate waste heat as IR.
Amazingly good quality and also in links submitted elsewhere in this topic
>but this misinformation about the effectiveness of COVID vaccines is getting out of hand.

Nothing I stated is misinformation. The the current vaccines are not effective at preventing the spread of omicron. So to say that the best approach, if you are already vaccinated, is to just get virus, is not a stretch. The same can apply to any future, (weak), variants as well.
No no no! You see velocity of money has decreased and productive output has increased. People don't like to spend the new money. Therefore inflation is low, do not be fooled by the Austrian tricksters suggesting otherwise.
Do you have a static IP?

I have a homelab too but getting “enterprise grade” service from comcast seems to be my biggest barrier to scaling without leaning on aws.
Quitting Dgraph Labs
It seems to be mentioned, unless I misunderstand what you mean. The second-last section in the article begins with this:

> If you really need to do some CPU intensive work, it’s now possible to offload some of the workload to a language server. This allows you to implement the bulk of your extension in another language (for instance, writing Rust code and compiling it down to WASM).

The section above also mentions tree-sitter.
https://www.fool.com/investing/2018/02/21/what-is-a-class-a-...
The "if there is any truth to it" remark was unnecessary. The author was very well known on the net when it was a much smaller place (the old Usenet days), and implying that he made it up is, to say the least, impolite.

His Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Earnest
> this is sadly utterly terrifying and i have no idea what to do about it.

IMHO, accounts need to have non-trivial value, to all users. Social pressure will do much of the rest.

The problem with Gab, Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, even HN and such is that accounts are free and do not meaningfully increase in value with time and activity. This allows bad actors to thwart social pressure by simply switching accounts at their leisure.

It also doesn't help that there _usually_ exists few barriers to access to online communities; people tend to have a romantic view of being open and welcoming, and social networks have an incentive to keep access generally open as it increases user retention.
"1883" stars a bleached blonde woman :-)
App Engine is hosting for programmers that do not want to deal with administrating servers.
For me it's really perfect, and there's nothing quite like it.
Why is that strange? Up until a decades ago, the ACLU fought for both communists[1] and nazis[2]. If you're fighting for software freedom (ie. the narrative of freeing people from the oppression of google/apple app stores), it makes sense for your position to be "software freedom for everyone", not "software freedom for everyone, except nazis because fuck them".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_Liberties_Union...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_Liberties_Union...
If you want to move beyond standard floats, this paper could be good starting point: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3385412.3386037

Right now 0.1+0.2-0.3 results = 2.775557562 \cdot 10^{-17}, which depending on your viewpoint is either expected or unexpected. Also (0.1+0.2)-0.3 is simplified to 0.1+0.2-0.3 for display, but results a different value = 5.551115123 \cdot 10^{-17}
Frustratingly, Tesla cars (or at least the Model 3) make this impossible, as there's no handle to pull that unlatches the door.
> Rent to AWS actually drives demand up quite a lot since the bills are huge and very few people understand what is under the hood and how it can be optimized.

A few years ago I participated in a Splunk deployment and the cloud solution utterly dwarfed an in-house enterprise solution, in regards to cost. Even in the event that cost was irrelevant, certain sectors (financial institution(s)) are going to have a difficult time pivoting to a cloud-based solution and relinquishing control over the underlying infrastructure.
> The weight limit was 26 tons, not 2 tons.

85% of PATransit busses are from the 1996 acquisition (Cummins ISL, ISB, IS9; Voith 864; Allison D) those busses weigh either 24 or 25 tons. Their other busses (except the 28x airport flyer) are heavier. Other than the flyers, SEPTA's lightest bus is 24 tons. Some of them, like the XE40 or the X12, are significantly heavier. About 1/5 of PATransit's fleet is over-weight for this bridge without a single person on board.

26 tons is so little of a load that nobody should ever have been sending a bus over it.

The 2 tons is for the human load, above and beyond the weight of the vehicle. The vehicle already accounts for 24 of the 26 tons, bare minimum by definition.

If it was an XE40, it was two tons over load without even a driver.

That is to say, "there's more weight here than just the human beings. You should also consider the bus itself."

I did spell this out, but it was in a different comment tree. I thought I had here too. Sorry; I could have been clearer.

Someone in a different thread pointed out that it was a three axle bus. I've been making this case based on two-axle busses being too heavy. PATransit's lightest three-axle bus is MAN SG 220 GAWR, just shy of 30 tons curb weight, which is nearly 4 tons over limit.

Look, if you're from Pittsburgh, the last thing you want to do is stand up for PennDOT.

But looking at the numbers, to me, this really looks like "too big bus," not "bridge go boom"

Not all infrastructure failures are the fault of the infrastructure. Many, maybe even most, but not all. It's important to differentiate.
I think the distinction is "programming" refers to just dictating some code from scratch. "editing code" refers to changing code that is already written.

For the former ("programming"), there are many commands that can be used to rapidly output code. For example, a user can say "funky hello world" to get something like

function helloWorld() {

}

But if you're trying to edit code that already exists, it can be a challenge to do so without a mouse and keyboard, in part because you need to do a lot of navigation.

I personally believe Cursorless solves that problem better than a keyboard and mouse, but I have to imagine I'm a bit biased on that point :)
When I was first learning (and consequently perving on everyone else’s vimrcs), I noticed a meme where many people use comma for leader. I followed suit but later learned from Practical Vim that this is a bad idea because comma already has an important function.

(Discovering what that function is and why it’s important is left as an exercise for the reader).
I find it hilarious that their solution to Docker (which is supposed to be virtualization-light: containers) bloatedness is to use a full-fledged virtual machine.

Something's gone deeply wrong somewhere.
That is a simplistic answer.

In a CD setup without feature flash, commit equals deploy equals launch.
With feature flags, commit equals deploy. Launch is controlled by feature flags.

For a more mundane analogy, would you rather have a stove that allows cold or burning only, or one with every possible nuance of warm in between?
relevant, and worth rereading: https://jacquesmattheij.com/if-you-have-nothing-to-hide/
Well good thing no bad person has ever posted on Facebook.. or Twitter.. or Instagram.. or written a manifesto and sent it via USPS.

Facebook has literally been used to livestream rape and murder!

And your own source says Gab turned everything over to the FBI. What, exactly, is the fault here? Them not having a time machine?
It was the golden age of computing. Today’s best in class documentation (Stripe!?) doesn’t come close to average documentation in those days.
Does it have a backup schedule (and did you prove your restore process works)? Is it replicated to another physically-offsite location? Do you have to manage your own security keys? Load balancing? Multi region availability? How do you admin it remotely? Firewalled? Notifications of emergency situations like low disk space, downages, over-utilization of bandwidth, memory leakage, SMART warnings, etc.? What's your version upgrade strategy? What's your OS upgrade strategy? Failover? IPv6? VPN access? DMZ?

Basically, I think cloud provides a loooooot of details that you have to now take on yourself if you self-host (at least if you want to do it "legitimately and professionally" as a reliable service). It's not clearly a win-win.

That all said, I recently canceled my cloud9 dev account at amazon because the resources I needed were getting too expensive, and am self-hosting my new dev env in a VM and accessing it from anywhere via Tailscale, so that's been nice.
The point of a stable and recognizable pseudonym is not to garner personal or professional benefits it’s to facilitate ongoing conversation. You’ve antisocially opted out of that. No one cares to read a throwaway’s post history.
indeed there may: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vindiciae_contra_tyrannos
No, it means that macOS and its third party software aren't one in the same thing.

Is faker.js a macOS vulnerability because there were people using Macs who installed npm and then installed faker.js? This isn't a theoretical question—whenever you install something, you need to consider where it's coming from and whether they can be trusted.
That was the 88110. The 88120 never saw the light of day.
Hey, you actually have a few options, notably, doing nothing!

Comcast doesn't actually change your public IP address between DHCP renewals and thus it's effectively static. The only time that it'll change is when the modem is powered off for an amount of time, or the upstream DOCSIS concentrator is powered off for maintenance or otherwise.
Many orders of magnitude. How many? I do not know, I don't think anybody does.

But photons resulting from the same event but with different energies arrive at detectors an appreciable distance away to all intents and purposes simultaneously, something that would not happen if spacetime were discrete at a level close to the Planck length. So it would have to be quite a big difference for an effect not to show up as a difference in time-of-flight.
A lot of it is lack of awareness of things like Caddy or any other tools that simplify the process.

I did not know about it until I googled it right now. I have spent days/even two weeks figuring out how to set up Nginx and for all I know I did it terribly wrong. I paired it with other tools that I do not even remember. But I would be starting from scratch again if I needed to set another one up.

So a lot might come down to that. I was on a team that transitioned from a owned server to cloud as one day one of the test servers went down and after a week of trying, nobody knew how to fix it. We realized at that point that if a server caused a production error, we were utterly screwed as someone who had left set it up and nobody had a clue where to begin fixing it beyond reading endless tutorials and whatever came up in Google searches.

The server infrastructure was cobbled together in the first place and for a period was theoretically maintained by people who didn't even know the names of all the parts.

At least with cloud, there is an answer of sorts that can be had from the support team.
Also creating their own SoC that outperforms others in the space.
Out of curiosity, have you tried tools like Pulumi? I've never used it but as a longtime Ansible user it's something that has my interest.
So... the headline invokes an inappropriate image. The author attracted the attention of the FBI in 1942, when "cryptography" meant wartime codebreaking, and his amateur cypher got lost and then found and turned in by a genuinely concerned citizen.

I mean, OK. Sure, it's bad that kids interested in math get caught up in this. But come on, it was the middle of the biggest war in history and real spies were indeed doing real work with codes like that. This says nothing about modern enforcement regimes, nor should it.
looooooooooooool i love this
Not that I disagree about something being deeply wrong, but VM's your only option. Docker is more or less hardcoded to Linux, so you need a Linux kernel somewhere. Docker Desktop just runs a light one for you that you don't worry about managing much.
Relying on bash is a recipe for non-portability.
I use kubernetes for pushing stuff to AWS EKS, and it is great. The problem I found with minikube and other Kubernetes based "alternatives" to Docker Desktop (including podman) is that they are not compatible with Docker Compose. There are a * a lot * of "solved problems" via docker-compose.yml files, and all of my past companies have used it. I've tried some docker-compose to k8s migration tools, but the amount of crap files they generate was not feasible for me.
> Prosecutors had floated the idea of a deferred prosecution agreement, which would have allowed him to return to work and apply for government grants in the future. In return... he would have to admit to having some ties to China, none of them a violation of the law.

I'm a little confused as well. It reads to me as if they offered him a deal to get out of this by saying what they eventually found out anyway.
It just goes to show that patents are stupid at the end of the day. From a harm-reduction standpoint, they do way, way more harm in the form of astronomically high drug prices, core pieces of technology being off limits even though almost anyone could have invented them, etc., etc., than they help. Patents, like intellectual property, are an imaginary legal construct, and if you want to compete in a global economy, you have to assume others aren't going to buy into your imaginary concept, particularly when it comes to opposing global powers.

A lot of knock-off technology is actually _created_ by people reverse-engineering things _from_ the patent as well, which they then mass-produce in a jurisdiction that doesn't respect U.S. intellectual property (AKA China where most things are mass-produced).

The real system of protection in place for protecting secret formulae is simple and more effective -- don't show it to the wrong people, and don't outsource your factories.
My dad fought in the Korean war. He had a camera, and took lots of color slides. I wonder why every documentary I see on the KW is all in black+white.

Another oddity. My family visited Berlin in 1969, and took several pictures of the Wall in its heyday. All with color slide film. Yet, if you look in the souvenir shops in Berlin today, all the photos of the Wall are black+white.
Approved for what, the course or the license ? If you mean the course I can confirm that I just started it and no "approval" was required other than the accepting the usual terms and conditions.
The new flood of cryptocurrency and NFT scams has really made my Twitter spam problem worse. Meanwhile Twitter is endorsing NFTs with UI features.
That’s correct. My dad owned a darkroom business/photoshop for years and we had a nice home darkroom. Kodachrome could only be developed by Kodak and I think one independent business that bought the necessary equipment from Kodak as they were winding down Kodachrome:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwayne%27s_Photo

Kodak simplified the Kodachrome development process over the years, but it was never viable to do at home.

Honestly, anything but B&W and E6 was a PITA to do at home. Even the color negative process (C-41) was annoying at home due to the extra chemicals and temperatures required.

https://www.reframingphotography.com/content/processing-imag...
Lesson learned: "We traced the glasses to your son from the prescription by examining the files of all optometrists in the San Diego area." - if you want your possessions found, you can either attach a note with your home address or an AirTag... or simply something _so_ sketchy that an intelligence agency delivers your stuff together with an awesome story.
Sega leaves the Japanese arcade venue business for good
Assumes the receiver of the description knows what an ox and tusks looks like.