skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I posted this interview partly because the recent bump in interest in his site and its attendant uptime problems has apparently spurred him to update its provisioning. As he points out, this is a side project by a non-IT professional created years ago, and he's had to get up to speed on the latest best practices in a hurry. From the interview:

> It’s taken up a lot of my time the last week to figure out how to fix the site to give access to those who want it. I’ve spent a couple of days rebuilding the server from the bottom. I’m sitting around looking up best practices for server maintenance and talking to people on forums to learn more. I’m pretty computer-savvy for a historian, but I’m still having trouble parsing things written for full-time engineers.

I always have a lot of admiration for non-experts who wade in and learn enough in a short time to build a site that can draw and support a global audience.
After looking into it I don't get the outrage about it - it's a bog standard setting in the power settings. Here on my german phone it's called "Verarbeitungsgeschwindigkeit" (Processing Speed) under advanced power options. You can choose between optimized (standard), high and maximum. So sure, you can't disable the "Game Optimizing Service" app, and its set to optimized/throttled by default, but you can easily just set it to maximum (ie. disable throttling).

I'd argue for 90% of customers slight throttling and better battery life is a good thing.
128GT/s in PCIE G4 is only 125Gb/s. Marvell has serial interfaces that do this today for Ethernet. Since PCIE is a multilane technology these lanes are quite low speed by comparison. Many folks who have these interfaces don’t have the expertise to produce the interface and actually purchase the IP from a 3rd party.

Regarding pitch I’m not sure what your comment is based on but it’s doubtful you’re correct since pitch tends to be limited by the XTALK considerations not by fabrication. Since we are all using the same fabs we can all achieve the same minimum pitch supported by the ecosystem. Having said that even the pitch at these speeds is measured in microns and has been for a long time.

I think what you probably mean is that Marvell’s devices use a lot of DSP and FEC for use in Ethernet. This is because those interfaces are much higher speed and include impairment compensation for both electrical and optical channels. The DSP and FEC add latency which in compute applications would be problematic.
> However, I am pretty sure that (while it wasn't always this way) right-wing illiberalism is largely a response to left-wing illiberalism for the last decade or so. The left sets the precedent and the right responds in kind, often with years of delay (although I think the lag time is decreasing quickly).

I strongly disagree with you there. Plenty of the right-wing illiberalism is a direct response to left-wing liberalism, e.g.

* LGBT rights

* Obama being president (including the birther lie, the muslim lie, and general racial reactionary behavior)

* Planned Parenthood

All of these things "swelled the ranks" of increasingly far-right groups long before BLM or "woke" hysteria. The majority of Republicans to this day think that Obama was a Muslim, I don't see how your mental framework explains this.

I do think the two sides feed on one another, in general. I just don't think that broadly blaming the left for the existence of the illiberal right makes any sense at all.
Viverse – Open, Secure Metaverse for Any Device User
Since your most doesn't sound like my most, I suspect that what you make of HN is probably an uncommon (or even unique) artifact.

Maybe the place to start is with RSS modulo grep/sed/awk.
Things may have changed, but the last few times I looked, it was breathtakingly hard to a) identify if /when selinux is what's screwing you, then b) get selinux to stop it.

I really wanted an audit mode that could also say "this command will unlock the specific thing I just blocked".

That was a few years ago. Since then, I've turned off selinux whenever I'm getting screwed by some opaque process, stuff starts working, and closing it back down while leaving what I need open remains impossible black magic.
don't be so hard on yourself friend
Might as well not use git then
I would like to know more, I have worked in Cannabis (built out one of the few type 7 extraction labs in California... my neighbor and friend is the DA for the DCC in California, and I have close contact with some of the largest outdoor growers in the state...

I'd be interested in hearing more and figuring out how to work more on this topic.
For the UK see my comment here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30558089
Russian News Agency TASS is down
None of your examples are stealing, I am agreeing with you. Ad blocking is not stealing.

Replacing ads that would pay the publisher, but now instead pay somebody else is stealing.
Yeah I'm not sure I would want to offer unlimited hours to multiple clients.
Just look at the butterfly keyboard or removing all the ports but usb-c.
We have a year or so old policy that established rotation and special characters. Because that ia what hired security company recommend.
> More people are dying with Covid now than were dying most of the previous two years, minus 4 peaks of various waves.

I'm not disagreeing with your point, however IIRC this is heavily concentrated among unvaccinated individuals, and I believe that Apple/Google/etc employees are overwhelmingly vaccinated. I would be shocked if these companies didn't have accommodation processes in place for individuals who are still at high risk.

I'm not disagreeing with your overall point, but there's no guarantee that the same trends/statistics exist in this sub-population.
Some of this has got to be the fact that macromedia flash originally was more targeted to artists and it was dead simple to create nice 2d animations. AKA it wasn't a programming environment so much as an artistic tool. The current version (adobe animate) doesn't seem nearly as popular despite the fact that it can apparently target html/canvas. Part of that just might be fragmentation, with wick editor, opentoonz, there isn't a single tool everyone talks about. Although I'm not sure if those tools can legitimately "grow" into programming tools the way flash and now animate can. (aka the artist draws up a bunch of stuff and then needs to learn some programming or have a programmer to come along and fix the donate button so it actually takes money like was possible with flash).

OTOH, I used to know a bunch of artistic types that had pirated copies and would sit around and create flash animations for their bands/etc. Now those people just do video editing and post things to youtube/etc, or spend time editing photos for facebook/etc. There isn't a hypercard/programming aspect anymore buried under their tooling.

edit: actually it looks like wick can do the hypercard/flash programming too, which is sorta cool.
I've been IF for several years now (for whatever good it's done me!), sometimes very strictly and sometimes casually, and I've noticed no correlation whatsoever to my tinnitus. I do buy that anything that really reduces inflammation or anything like that could help, because my tinnitus is definitely correlated to ear congestion and sinus inflammation (but it's always there at some level no matter what).

Basically, my understanding is that the human body is, for basic evolutionary reasons, really efficient at dealing with glutamate.
Well, one actual way to actually ‘win’ a guerilla war would be a war of complete
extermination, which for everyone’s sake I hope he would not only not consider, but his soldiers would not be willing to execute.

It’s only thing to pull the string on an artillery piece you think is nominally pointed at an enemy, it’s another to round up men, women, and children and machine gun them into a ditch over and over - especially when you’re stated goal is ‘denazification’.
Windows Package Manager 1.2
I was planning to write a little toy WYSIWYG editor for basic html formatting in the near future (mostly for fun). Any general advice before jumping into it?
I'm a bit worried for that analog-matrix-multiplication-for-AI company. I vaguely remember reading somewhere that the past half century is littered with companies whose value proposition was "our specialized thing does 10x better than digital transistors" and then they predictably just got steamrolled by Moore's law. And although Dennard scaling ended two decades ago, the flops-per-watt and flops-per-second of AI-specialized chips like TPUs has been improving substantially recently [1][2].

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensor_Processing_Unit#Third_g...

2: https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.04305
> invades Iran

The difference between Ukraine and all the other countries invaded in the last 50 or so years is that Ukraine is a real democracy and liberal, modern society.

Iran, Syria, Iraq, etc... are not the same as Ukraine.
Thanks - yup sourcing the hydrogen will probably be tricky for the next couple years but Im guessing it will take a bit of time for you guys to scale up so hopefully you grow at the same speed of the green hydrogen market.

Is the core innovation for your company around the bioreactor structure or the chemistry? I.e. are there other chemical reactions that you are looking at building on?
Can confirm. We do something like this (2 days in, 3 days remote). We have one mandatory day and then each team has a designated day where their whole team is present. I never minded going into the office anyway because I live in a fairly small apartment, so it's nice to have dedicated space away from home. The only downside I've experienced so far is that the all-teams day can be very chaotic, with more disruptions than ever before because everyone tries to plan everything that is more than a little involved for that day.
Ask HN: Can we talk about this now?
Alternative title: Intelligence-funded public services behind veils of startup mystique

The understanding came to me while pondering Imgur's business model. The only ethical problem I have is the abstraction placed over the public's expectations of neutrality in national projects. With how money is managed in times when people expect to fight for survival it becomes too easy to overlook what we are fighting for.

But, something more distressing is going on as a result of the necessary misdirection and resource constrain. Those who voiced their opinion by applying their gifts in civilian social networking enterprises instead of military intelligence are suffering from diffusion of effort as their projects are being dual-used for the intelligence effort. Work meant to bring people together was re-fashioned into something that drives them apart until strife brings them to the edge of disaster. It is an old story. Once the engineers realize that their plowshares were swords, they will be disillusioned. The population is facing deinstitutionalization, which is the fever cramps that the Soviet block fell into when they realized they no longer had a system. This is a bad time for the system builders to be incapacitated by existential doubt.
> The morals of US actions in the middle east are debatable but there is one massive objective difference between them and Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The US went through all the procedure and protocol to make it legal under international law.

No, they didn't, in some of the most notable cases (particularly Iraq 2003.) They made some gestures in the direction of seeking that, did a whip count and knew it would not receive the required support, and went and invaded anyway.
I think comparing going to a music festival for entertainment to using business resources (time and money) for a conference that presumably provides business value is a bit apples to oranges.
It's more of a "no true unicorn" than a "no true Scotsman." I cannot think of a single act of international aggression that was truly justified, in the high-minded sense of "international law," only ones which had assent from the allies of the aggressor as well as non-allied states they were able to pressure into going along with it.
This is pretty funny to me. I just built https://gloutir.com, essentially a micro agency that's just ... myself.

I realized working for large agencies that I'm already the person doing all the work, so why not get compensated accordingly? It was also amazing to me the amount of outsourcing that happens at an agency, most of them really don't have inhouse designers or developers (regardless of their massive size).
”Putin is not afraid to use nukes so just attack him already, what are you waiting for?”
To me this proves that a grandmaster in chess is not by default a grandmaster in strategy.
If you have been watching, this has literally changed in the last two weeks (also, compare those prices to MSRP). It's not a coincidence that this is happening at the same time that Ethereum moving to proof of stake has become real to people.
The CDC excess deaths count shows the Omicron peak was about the same as any prior peak. Note that the CDC excess deaths data has a tendency to rise until it is at least 12 weeks old, due to state bureaucracy, as explained on their page.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm
James Clerk Maxwell: the greatest physicist you've never heard of
they have a history of keeping features in free going.

Correct.
Russia’s isolation: Inside the mind of ‘paranoid’ Putin [video]
Correct on both counts; you can, and it hurts performance / resource use. There's also intermediate options like gvisor. In practice, the performance issues mean that most people don't bother.
Not really a fair comparison unless we can somehow only count non-autopilot accidents that happen in places where autopilot actually works.
And when it arrived at the point user themselves are confusing about "wait, is it end at 33 or 34?". They Will Write It Down On Post It. And you end up get the worst security situation you can get normally.
I never quite understood why PDFs are considered to be fixed baked references.

Plenty of software can edit pdfs. I have used affinity designer in past to fix up issues in PDFs received from designers.

Seems like this can be better addressed by versioning and audit logs or checksums.
And it's worth noting that this footage shows an event that we watched live in 2001. The idea that any of it could have been faked in realtime across all TV networks is beyond science fiction.
Saddam had a lot of enemies internally and externally. We are talking about shia groups and Kurds inside his country and prominent Arab countries like Saudi Arabia and Egypt. Remember that Saddam invaded a small country before. Ukraine and it’s president is well beloved by everyone except Russia and Belarus.

Of course you can have the position that all invasions are equally bad, but that is not how things are in reality.
Oh, man. Where were you 15 years ago?

Around 2007, when there was this wave of "37signals job board clones" and I was still living in Brazil, my friend and I started a job board focused on the Brazilian market (job4dev.com). It was free to post as long as the name of the company was provided and the contact was direct with someone from the team. No agencies and no clueless recruiters allowed.

At first, there was very little traction. We were doing most submissions ourselves. After a few months it started to pick some audience (a few thousand unique users/day). We did all the "Web 2.0" things from the time: auto-classification and filtering by tags, integration with social networks, a company wiki, etc.

Our site was featured on some tech magazine as one of the best sites for tech jobs. We had a couple of "repeat customers", companies that were posting regularly on the site and were giving excellent feedback. The one thing that we "forgot" to do: sales and marketing. By 2008 I was moving to the US, right before the big crash, so I was focused on finding any kind of job which could sponsor a visa. My friend on the other hand was more focused on his day job, and he was just too afraid to go to companies that were facing a recession to ask "maybe you'd be interested in some paid features"?

I continued moonlighting on job4dev for some years, but because I was in the US and because much bigger companies started cornering this market, it became mostly a hobby project for me.

All of this to say: guess what was one the things that I did start to prototype?

Yes, it was "OkCupid for Jobs".

The algorithm is actually simple to implement. I didn't take it further because I pitched the idea to some and and no one "(in Brazil) knew of OkCupid, and few seemed to care about using "algorithmic compatibility matching". Credentials/Education Level/Networking were the most important filters.

Anyway, after a while I left the US to move to Germany, and put aside job4dev for good. The idea of "OkCupid for jobs" still seems to me a good one, and I still wonder why it wasn't picked up by someone more competent than me.
> My point is that if it were designed from the ground up with the hard security boundary in mind, would we have ended up with containers in the first place? If not, is there any realistic way to go from where we are to where we should be?

Yes, because systems that are designed with these kinds of security boundaries in mind already look like containers -- they're a natural match to actual capability-based systems like, for example, plan9's.

The problem here stems entirely from trying to keep these globally-overriding capabilities like CAP_SYS_ADMIN and CAP_DAC_OVERRIDE while also allowing users to create their own namespaces. All these CVEs weren't things as long as only root could create new userns', and now that normal users can all these areas where things weren't checked are coming out of the woodwork.

But a ground up capability-based system avoids this kind of problem by simply making it impossible to elevate to a privilege level like 'root' on POSIX systems, and so namespacing within those systems is incredibly natural to the point that it didn't really get a name (containers) until one was needed for linux' cognitive dissonance around the idea.
3/10 bait
I saw the number 1 on that list, the famous 'Gatting ball', live. You could tell that something odd had happened because Gatting was obviously bowled and yet didn't immediately walk off, and also that there was a loud 'ooh' from the spectators behind Warne's arm. But it wasn't until we saw the instant replay on the big screen that it was clear just how impressive that ball had been.

Plus it inspired the song 'Jiggery Pokery' by The Duckworth Lewis Method, which is another reason to remember it fondly.
Sounds like you own a horse more than a car. If I have to plan my day around waking my horse up, feeding it breakfast, stopping so it can rest at a supercharger, arranging my bathroom breaks to suit its needs ... I would rather own a car.

I'm at work right now. I have not seen green grass since early November. It's currently -12c. Predictions for next week are lows below -20c. We had a good two months below -30, with a couple weeks touching below -40 in the mornings. Last year I had to drive to work once at -47c. My tiny Honda lives outside in the elements but always starts without complaint. It gets me to work each morning without fail. (Fyi,-40c is the same temp as -40f. -12c is about +10f)
Same, but it wasn't this unbearable in the beginning. I think it's partly me thinking there's no way he understands such wide ranging subjects at such great depths without significant research and prep for the video, which contradicts how casually and confidently he's presenting everything. I'm used to expecting a more scripted presentation in these cases, which it probably is, but it doesn't sound like it.
Any consumer-grade "smart" product (whether TV or home automation) now phones home (even though it can run entirely locally on the LAN), requires an account and collects data and the (often mandatory) mobile app will typically include various advertising malware such as the Facebook SDK, analytics, etc that spy on you.

The primary objective is "growth and engagement" aka an ad delivery mechanism (or data collection mechanism for more ads down the line). The functionality of the product (if any) is merely a necessary evil (from the manufacturer's point of view) to convince the mark to buy & "engage" with the device. If they could get people to "engage" with it without any functionality they'd definitely do that instead.
Likely vaccination rate.
Please never do this -- not least of which because each person who does it will end up with now completely divergent histories and repos from each other.

There are various tools to properly filter history, e.g. `git-filter-repo`, but the short answer is as the grandparent commenter said, things get hairy, you need to rewrite history and coordinate. It's not a situation you should hope to get yourself into...
AFAIK all mycelium helps root systems, from the symbiotic relation, but in indoor, hydro type grows it might be harder.

What would be interesting is the combination of vertical mushroom grows and vertical hydro culture.

Imagine a tube/tower of mycelium, but also allowing the cannabis to grw out of the tube/tower... and having the root systems intertwined, but the problem therein is that the diff in the mycelium being perennial as opposed to the cannabis being annual...
sounds terrible.
Not a slav. I must comment tho on the website aesthetic. I was thrown back to the 90s as soon as I clicked the link.
The admin does pay, but you can also setup the group where it charges members automatically. I changed my group from free to paid to cover what I was paying. My understanding is members have to review and agree before they are charged, but I'm sure people do it without thinking sometimes. People probably also join groups without knowing they are paid. Keep in mind this is just anecdata from my experience.
I disagree with this. Some VR content is definitely bad, and not worth using the headset for, no doubt about that, but when the content is done well, it is significantly better than watching a movie imo.

The 3d effect is significantly better, and with actual volumetric content that you can move around in, the experience is totally different. I think there is definitely room for quality VR content along with "regular" movies, since they are both just different experiences.
It is not banning Russian citizens from flight. It is banning any aircraft with a Russian connection from flight.
Probably the strongest argument is that annexing Ukraine only moves the Russian border toward NATO rather than maintaining a buffer, and that's the best case scenario.

The second strongest is that Ukraine could never join NATO as long as it had a territorial dispute, so Russia had a cheap option to prevent that which was working just fine.
> If the company isn’t competitive and can’t pay their negotiated rates - they file for bankruptcy.

That's hardly the only scenario. Sometimes they're chasing more profits.

> When has a union ever protected workers when a company was in distress? The auto industry? The airline industry? Flight controllers in the 80s?

Auto is a good example. In the last recession, UAW made significant compromises to keep the industry afloat. https://newrepublic.com/article/155088/gm-uaw-workers-strike When the industry bounced back, they struck to ensure those concessions were rewarded: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_General_Motors_strike

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_John_Deere_strike is another recent example of unions winning significant concessions after a company threatened to offshore.
You kind of missed the key to the whole thing here, though, which is that users are able to create userns' now by default. This is really important to understanding this and the last few container escape CVEs.

The article doesn't do much better on that front, but it is in there at least.