skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Note that new features apparently come unencrypted, even in otherwise encrypted rooms.

I checked that. While reactions are not encrypted indeed, a very recent feature - polls which are available in labs on Element Android - is encrypted.
I know how to setup a basic VPS with firewalls, nginx, etc, but I'm scared to death to do that for a production environment available online.
Tank man stood up to China, he may not have accomplished anything, but we remember him and what he did had value.

So standing up to the EU in and of itself it plenty.
The graph pretty ridiculously changes the graph from the source to remove labeling of individual years. In the original source the graph is steady up to 2018. Even then it looks like the source lacks data for both 2019 and 2020.

All in all this is pretty low quality post.
Ah, yes, in the USA. I don't mind safer things to land on, but each generation over the last 20 years is less fun/scary. Slides were shorter, nothing to climb to give any hint of accomplishment, nothing to cause even the slightest fear.

Seems like the age of entertain kids in play structure dropped from 12 to 3 during the last 20 years.
We have some idea, just nothing very solid.

There are lots of different parasitic worms -- maybe of more species than we have mammals -- and lots of places they infest, to lots of different degrees. That outcomes in certain places where worms are a problem seem better with vermicidal treatment suggests the net effect of, anyway, heavy infestations seen in, anyway, those places is negative.

I see a recent report that "long COVID" looks like a result of COVID stimulating expression of ancient retroviral genes long after the primary COVID infection has been suppressed.

COVID keeps on giving.
The Biggest Mistake I See Engineers Make
Please don't scream at me, but is there such a thing as a "sysadmin-in-a-box" software? Something that sets up a "preferred" default environment for you? I am not techie so something that has a security protocol already dialed in, best practices containerized? Or is this not a thing yet?
Who would have guessed having local, low latency, high iops drives would be better than VM using iSCSI-attached drive for storage, right? ;-)
Actually, ARM1 was a much more efficient design for the masses.

The Motorola 68000 oddly had 68,000 transistors, while ARM1 had 25,000. Both had a 24-bit address bus.

It was introduced much later (1985, versus 1979 for 68000) despite using fewer transistors.
I spent way too long trying to work out how a USB memory stick being absent would prevent system usage, and why that would be a thing.

Time for coffee.
https://wtfhappenedin1971.com
I’ve found this to be an unsuccessful approach in practice.

Performance is a complex, many-faceted thing. It has hidden costs that are hard to quantify.

Customers leave in disgust because the site is slow.

No amount of “throwing more cores at it” will help if there’s a single threaded bottleneck somewhere.

Superlinear algorithms will get progressively worse, easily outpacing processor speed improvements. Notably this is a recent thing — single threaded throughout was improving exponentially for decades so many admins internalised the concept that simply moving an app with a “merely quadratic” scaling problem to new hardware will always fix the problem. Now… this does nothing.

I’ve turned up at many sites as a consultant at eyewatering daily rates to fix slow apps. Invariably they were missing trivial things like database indexes or caching. Not Redis or anything fancy like that! Just cache control headers on static content.

Invariably, doing the right thing from the beginning would have been cheaper.

Listen to Casey explain it: https://youtu.be/pgoetgxecw8

You need to have efficiency in your heart and soul or you can’t honestly call yourself an engineer.

Learn your craft properly so you can do more with less — including less developer time!
I've seen non-offensive stuff marked as potentially offensive and assumed it was just that the account makes offensive posts often enough that the default assumption is that the tweets are offensive.
Here's what the bare metal server didn't come with:

API access for managing configuration, version updates/rollbacks, and ACL.

A solution for unlimited scheduled snapshots without affecting performance.

Close to immediate replacement of identical setup within seconds of failure.

API-managed VPC/VPN built in.

No underlying OS management.

(Probably forgot a few...) I get that going bare metal is a good solution for some, but comparing costs this way without a lot of caveats is meaningless.
Seattle is pretty mild compared to most of the northeast. Seattle, and heck, even Ketchikan, have milder winters than Minneapolis. My experience in Seattle is fairly similar to my experience in Lausanne, except the latter was further south and had a bit more snow.
sure, as you can use a monkey wrench for all your nuts. it's not going to be as pleasant, and it's going to ruin the nuts eventually.
I followed a lot of academics that turned into spambots around 2020. I'm not sure if they were hacked or just transformed like locust, but they started exclusively spamming covid and anti-trump articles from US media.
Why was Obama so polarizing? From the other side of the pond he looked like a garden variety politician from whom you could expect… well, the expected.

I know that there is an accusation from the US left that all of the right’s obstruction and hostility was just barely concealed racism, but I assume that many in the GOP are not just frothing racists and do have some thought out issue with his actions.

How was Obama more polarizing than, say, Bill Clinton? I remember W being polarizing because he came off as a mouth breather, but Obama just seemed so bland.
The start of this “study”.
CenturyLink provides me gigabit internet on a business connection. I get traffic spikes of ~100/rps and it's no problem. Could probably easily handle another order of magnitude or two. Local blackouts are mitigated with a UPS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uninterruptible_power_supply

To be fair, I'm not 100% off the cloud. Backups are on an hourly snapshot thru Restic https://restic.net/ and stored in Google Cloud Storage off-prem in case of catastrophes. Also, my Postgres database is hosted in Cloud SQL because frankly I'm not feeling experienced enough to try hosting a database myself right now.

It's really not as unrealistic as most people seem to think. People have been building online businesses for years without the cloud. Believing it's suddenly not possible is just their marketing going to work for them making them new customers imo.
Every developer makes a rollback-worthy mistake every x changes. This means your probability of having a clean release is (1-1/x)^NumDevs EDIT - Assuming everyone submits 1 change/release.

Let's give it 1/100 bad code change, and 100 devs. The probability of a clean push is:

(1-1/100)^100 = 0.36. That's worse than a coin flip.

for 10 devs = 0.90. Still not great, one push in 10 will be bad.

When you're trying to push daily (or even more frequently), this will kill the team's velocity. It's even worse when there are interleaving changes making rollback and re-release impossible before the next release. Rollback and freeze is a problem when you're trying to meet deadlines (either marketing or regulatory).

Feature flags allow the code to go in and each change to be rolled back independently. This lets the rest of the team to make progress while the bug is debugged.

Short release pipelines could be a solution, but they're aren't necessarily sufficient.
Time to recovery when there isn't a feature flag is also problem.

For example, some bugs take days/weeks to reveal themselves (think month end), so a "30 min build and full push" is not enough of a guarantee. Time to recovery needs to consider the time to find the change and roll it back, including dealing with any interleaving changes that happened in the meantime.
Gave you the opportunity to make that joke for free, the least you could have done was write it in GoogleLang ;)
You can just look at how Signal has responded to court orders for information, and the FBI's documentation for what it can obtain from different providers. Through legal process (or, because Wire is hosted overseas, without it, using CNE), the FBI can obtain the entire Wire social graph.
I think most of us just want to quit hearing about NFTs. Give it a break.
The favorite replacement that I have found for docker desktop is to run docker-ce in lima vm [1]. It’s only a couple of commands to get up and running with their docker example [2]. Basically:

brew install lima

limactl start docker.yaml

lima is built on qemu, which is always a solid choice for virtualization. It also supports M1 Macs, and even Intel on Arm emulation (at a pretty hefty performance cost).

One of nice features of lima is that it automatically forwards ports from the host vm to guest, so when you start up a container listening on port 5432, for example, you can access it at localhost:5432. This works nicely in particular for local development while using a VPN client, which I have found has a tendency to interfere with local network traffic (if split tunneling is disabled).

lima is used under the hood in rancher desktop, which is another great option if you would prefer to have a gui. But I have settled on lima as I prefer the CLI for scripted installations, and also find it to be more customizable.

I have also seen colima mentioned in the comments, which appears to wrap lima with some prebuilt configurations. I don’t really think this is necessary, and seems like something that could just as easily be done with a gist, but if you are looking for the absolute quickest way to get up and running with docker (and optionally kubernetes) on lima, then this could be it.

[1] https://github.com/lima-vm/lima

[2] https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/blob/master/examples/docker....
>contract law. done.

That doesn't answer my question. Which was:

>Please explain how such narrow circumstances apply in this case? Or, absent those circumstances, under what legal framework would government restrictions on speech apply even to government-funded research? Please do explain. I'd be fascinated to hear it.

Are you advocating that all government-funded research should (or already does) have NDAs associated with them?

That's news to me. Please provide some documentation for your claim.

Yes, Congress has implemented laws that are within the narrow exceptions to the the bar on restriction of speech. How does that apply in this specific case?

What you are claiming/proposing is not the law of the land. What changes to the law/constitution are you proposing?

I await your response with (hopefully) some actual exposition. Based on your previous writings in this thread, I won't hold my breath.
> I mean that such a universe could be so different from ours that the idea of 'species' may not even be sensible.

Alright. I've heard people say they think our universe is being simulated because that's what we would do. For those who think that, the host universe is at least somewhat similar to us.

> Unspecified. Perhaps gross approximations are used unless an attempt is made to observe (internally or externally) more detail.

But if gross approximations are true, that reveals information about the host doesn't it? If they resort to approximations because they don't have enough resources, that tells us they must really want to do this for some reason. Did they want to create our simulation for fun? Out of desperation? Are we made for research purposes? All those questions point to something human-like in my opinion, and thus "species".
Wow, I hadn't thought of that use case. I agree Python's toolchain is just not easy to work with.
The Great Resignation Has Morphed into the Great Sabbatical
We used to cook up a stew or a joint in a casserole dish with a lid (like a dutch oven), and put it in a haybox for the day so we had a hot hearty meal at the end of a day outdoors.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_oven
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haybox

But I've just found this and it looks excellent! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_cooking
South Park hit the nail on the head with this whole NFT thing. "If you just believe in NFTs, and I believe in NFTs, then they believe in NFTs, and we make all kinds of fucking money!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8f-BQFo7lw

It's just another thing the man is trying to push on us to make more money.
The real polarization occurred when Bush Sr. made a deal with Democrats to raise taxes and cut spending. That was the last time there was significant bipartisanship on domestic policy. When Clinton ran he went to the right because liberal Democrats had fared poorly in the previous 3 Presidential elections. As a result Republicans moved further right and pretty much since then Republican strategy has been to move to the right of whatever a Democratic President wants. For instance, Obamacare is essentially the same plan the Heritage Foundation concocted in 1994 in response to Clinton’s healthcare plan. Romney enacted that plan in Massachusetts.

After 3 decades of “libtards” and other epitaphs (of both parties) hurled at any member of an opposing political party the country is irrevocably entrenched polarization. Only a true crisis or truly hard times will alleviate this mess we are in.
Title is mislabeled. It's not "tesla investors", it's "tesla shortsellers". People lump these two groups together as if they are the same. There are also those who buy 1 share in the company and then pretend that what they say is for the benefit of Tesla even though they also simultaneously hold large short positions.
Why are people still using Google for search? I frequently hear complaints that Google's search results have become worse and worse over the past several years. DuckDuckGo isn't perfect, but I generally get good results from it, and they claim to respect your privacy.

I've also recently been trying out Kagi (invite-only beta, will eventually be a paid search engine), and I've so far been extremely happy with their search results. I'm a bit uncomfortable with it; since it requires a login, they can easily tie search history to you even if you use private browsing or a VPN. (They claim they don't do this, but I'd rather not have to trust.)
"Exterior design and heavy marketing is their sales strategy" this is old, boring and not even true.
Seems confirmed by a follow-up: "Some work was actually done a couple of weeks after I reported it: they removed the rusted beam. Obviously, that wasn't sufficient, though."

https://twitter.com/gpk320/status/1487099756644114435
While there is no one event, the population collapsed, the security situation deteriorated, material conditions became dramatically worse and literacy rates plunged through the 5th and 6th centuries. Mass death and poverty combined with a collapse governmental capacity is more than just a "terminal decline" in my book.
I feel like over last several years something started happening with our media that makes it appear more sensationalized (at least to me), add the multiplying factor of the internet and you have a recipe for unhappy people.
This is stretching the definition of what "to make legal something" means, because ... [1]

It should be "to make something legal" or it requires "legal tender" to be something lexical and precisely not a sum of its parts, in which case they are not making the thing, they are just giving it a new name, which is not new at all and it is loaded with connotation that invites equating the denotated items to a group.

Thus the problem rests on what legal tender really is. Should it be a sum of parts in origin, states have all the right to interpret what's legal. The way it's written it is nearly useless and there isn't really any precedent either unless to show that the meaning, not the word, has changed.

Blueberries, as are implied by a sibling comment, are not comparable, because, I suppose, they are perrishable. So that's only an argumentum ad absurdum.

Or in other words, you can't make a number illegal.

[1] one could quibble about flat adverbs
I would like to take time to debunk that whole article, but let's just focus on the article [1] I shared and to debunk his argumentation for the preprint article [2].

To begin with, you have to understand that the vitamin D3 supplement we take is usually cholecalciferol, which is metabolised by our body over a period of weeks into calcifediol. The key takeaway is that the usual supplement takes weeks to be effective.

The RCT in article [1] is so strong because it supplements calcifediol at hospital intake, meaning the supplementation is immediately effective. So you can see that as a proxy for having supplemented with normal vitamin D for a couple of weeks prior.

In article [2], the one he is promoting, cholecalciferol (normal vitamin D) is supplemented. This means it is unlikely that it will have a significant effect during the first weeks of admission.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7456194/

[2] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.11.16.20232397v...
Who do you expect to actually work on this? Billion dollar companies can't get voice controls right. FOSS DEs struggle with keyboard/mouse input, let alone voice.
Boom Supersonic Selects Greensboro, NC for First Supersonic Airline Mfg Facility
"If socialist countries don’t become totally destitute, it’s because they manage not to mess up capitalism completely."

or lucky enough to have a goose laying golden eggs. i.e. the North Sea
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Sea_oil
same with sites that sound similar to "stackoverflow" but aren't stack overflow. These sites are usually just scraped stackoverflow questions and answers with a ton of garbage heaped on top.
>You act as if I haven't read the constitution.

That's a result of your statements.
Looks like you need to meet some better Windows admins. Being a moron is operating system agnostic.
Google-induced mail migration malaise
Tinfoil hat mode: what if Google is intentionally degrading service to allow a little more competition and ultimately avoid regulation?
I'm thinking of it like Amazon's mechanical turk.. where you become enslaved to do work and solve tasks in a virtual world for fractions of pennies in the form of credits you can't pay your rent with. Zero point one star.
Subjective terms like "clean", "ugly" really hurt our field. OTOH the following attributes are objective and verifiable:

- the code complies with coding conventions in force

- it is correct

- it is not inefficient

I would really love coworkers stick to these three criteria during reviews.
Two things are often vastly underappreciated in books/courses on DS: Data wrangling and use of the shell command line. This book does both, in an engaging manner. Chapter on parallel comp. is a nice bonus. Highly recommended for the budding data scientist, and for quite a few of the experienced ones.
There are many photos of Russian children in a circle around a sunlamp with only bottom underwear on.
Caution: you may end up with your packets blackholing on the way for unknown reasons after temporary loss of connectivity.

I think it might have something to do with the NAT forgetting about my UDP "connection", but haven't found the culprit yet.
Why do startups hire so many people?
I love Apache, do not love Nginx and won't be looking at Caddy (it's written in Golang). Apache (even Nginx) are easy to set up reverse proxy and can simultaneously serve static content and serve as the https certificate main, as well as a few dozen other things like load balancing and rate limiting, etc.
My understanding is that stable coins are the crypto equivalent of fractional reserve banking, allowing the crypto supply to expand with imaginary crypto in these reserves and stable coins.

Of course the government is coming for them! And as a user of crypto, I'm all for it.

Crypto is just adapting and becoming traditional banking, one scheme at a time.

I'm glad the feds are going to go to war and keep crypto crypto.
Don't exaggerate your daily dose. Its difficult to overdose, requires multiple exaggerated daily intakes for several months, but some individuals have managed to achieve dangerous levels.

"Vitamin D toxicity"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_D_toxicity
The topic of appearance of a classical objects in the quantum world is far from settled. My favorite hypothesis is that when an object is entangled with too many particles in the Universe that sort of cancels interference patterns leading to classical world. This avoids the need for multi-world or similar hypothesis.
> To MLK ? Really ???

I think that was meant to the quoter of MLK, MLK lived 50 years ago so he has no understanding of the events happening today. So it is the person bringing up the quote who stands by its validity for todays events.
I had to rent a car when I went to IKEA in Switzerland. It wasn't that bad, and seemed like a pretty standard thing to do.

The US doesn't really have urban area car rentals, you'd have to get to the airport first.
Just out of curiousity but what did you get out of it? I mean if they get to pick it, get the responsibility of AWS on you, but do you also get to get paid those money after saving them money? I mean the way I see it, is that 16k/month don't only pay for the hardware, but also to keep headaches away and to have someone to blame
If your networking / presenting / communication skills are anything like this Show HN post, I don't think it will matter how interesting your things or your creds are ...
Prometheus is rather efficient, but it's focus is a little different than yours. Its designed to for large scale collection of metrics, scraped from many remote endpoints

You can run it locally but the "prometheus" way for iot env would be a central prometheus server that scrapes the iot devices running a prometheus exporter, which tend to be very light weight
I think it's a mistake to assume that there are only "frothing racists" or "normal people" - the spectrum is a lot broader and has a broad impact (on politics, and elsewhere), as well as 2nd order effects.
What I am seeing here is no real answer if you're in the situation where you are interested in sex and your partner is not other than seek gratification outside the relationship.

You can say how you feel and they are free to say that they're not in the mood. The article has a lot of empathy for the low-libido person who might be made to feel bad because they have a low libido but there is no acknowledgement of the extreme distress a high libido might have because they have a high libido and be told that they are defective, entitled, an evil male phenotype, etc.

You can be in a situation like that and be completely committed to your partner and desirous of giving them love in all the ways they are able to receive it, not think people are disposable and not want to leave yet see their need for security to be a bottomless pit like any addiction and the center of controlling behavior that society seems to valorize.
I usually provide this as an intro:

http://www.linuxcommand.org/tlcl.php/

From there picking up configuration management should be pretty straightforward.
What services would you be paying “several hundred a month” for - in what currency? In US dollars my personal cloud services don’t run more than $20 a month.