skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure; because it is a monolith, it makes things simpler by having just the one backend container to scale. So it's a matter of making more instances of it available (via # of pod replicas in your k8s cluster) for increasing availability.

You can start using k8s right away, and just have 3 replicas running to start. As you scale, just up the number of replicas (and nodes as you need them) as you go.

Your real bottleneck becomes the database at that point (in addition to any blocking 3rd party APIs you may be using), which I would not host in k8s but use a managed service such as AWS RDS. This bottleneck will make itself apparent later on, depending on your application and the scale you reach. But you should definitely have the resources to cross that bridge once you, if ever, reach it, because you should be dealing with a large number of customers at that point.
People who think there are no new great minds are looking for society to hand them socially approved "great minds." The thing about great minds is that your mind has to be at least not entirely eclipsed by them to recognize their greatness.
Does this remind anyone of Google+? They had tremendous fake "engagement" forcing people to sign in to Google+ to use youtube, docs, etc. Google is going back to their old playbook. Hope someone is getting a very nice promotion from this.
Airbnb CEO Chesky Books His Own Trips
Tanks without infantry support are basically just targets. Especially in urban environments, the Turkish army showed that quite impressively in Syria (?) by loosing a couple of Leopard 2s.
https://archive.ph/tvKzW
AsahiLinux's Introduction to Apple Silicon
It's unclear for me from the landing page hero section what the product is/does or what problem does it solve:

"PRIVACY-BY-DESIGN

Time-to-data: from months to minutes

Organizations that use Sarus outperform their peers at execution speed for machine learning and analytics while being more secure
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None of those people are geniuses.
> I am surprised Ukrainians do not use remotely controlled mines.

They do use mines, not sure if remote controlled. E.g. https://twitter.com/nashaniva/status/1503762953148919809
Researcher uses Dirty Pipe exploit to fully root a Pixel 6 Pro and Samsung S22
https://archive.ph/tvKzW since the original URL doesn't load right now.
>you're perhaps conflating innovation and "Einsteins" (read: genius) a bit too much

you're right to step over this, my point was directed at broad intellectual progress rather than Einsteins. That's because there is no such thing as Einsteins. We only had one. And then we had Ramanujan, and Turing, and von Neumann [...].

Point being: you can only find out about general and special relativity once. After that, every following genius would have to make a dent of the same proportions relative to the now-already-made discoveries. We're just too far down the line to detect that level of genius. I'm 100% convinced that there are at least 20 people on the planet right now who have the same intellectual depth and potential for breakthroughs as Einstein (or any of the above, honestly) did. We just won't be able to contrast them to the rest of the population as we used to be able to, simply because almost everyone who works for Google is ridiculously intelligent and educated.

>This is exceedingly hyperbolic and I can't imagine you actually think this is true.

Yes, it was hyperbole, to illustrate that of the things that we really put resources into, everything was solved or we at least made significant progress. Excuse the wording.

>Ah, yes! Advertising technology!

Wether you like it or not, it's a significant step. Modulating content to maximize the attention-reach of your audience is scientifically significant. Again, that we use this for bullshit is a side-effect of your broken and time-local culture, it doesn't invalidate the progress we made along the way.
Until the lethal weapons are turned on those (countries, groups, people) who develop them. Kind of like gun owners are more likely to be harmed (or harm others) by their own guns, notwithstanding the arguments about personal protection used to justify such ownership.

This has already happened with groups the US has armed in the past. The US itself has been the bad guy sometimes.

There is no proper resolution to this struggle, and people who are guided by their conscience should not be attacked for having a "cute philosophy" that relies on "rough men standing ready to do violence on their behalf."
Yep, I even need to confirm via my bank (online or app) to enable a card with Apple Pay (per-device as well, it's not just added to my Apple ID and then allowed everywhere).

I'm in the EU though, I'm not sure what it's like in the US.
Yes: https://tsunami.gov/?p=PHEB/2022/03/16/22075004/1/WEPA40

Also, from Japan: https://www.jma.go.jp/bosai/map.html#5/38.411/143.174/&elem=...

It looks like the tsunami's arrival will be before high tide, so at least they have that going for them...
Mutually exclusive? Flywheel or something needed? I don't think it would need one...
You only need to adjust one generator to change the frequency, since Ukraine grid is in balance simply adding or removing additional power will alter the frequency.

Controlling the voltage at the point of synchronization is probably done with tap changers on transformers but would be more complicated to ensure that power flows over the transmission line once it is connected are as desired.
Last time I worked with a product that had translations, we very quickly centered on needing to just translate the whole phrase. And we were only doing a couple "boring" European languages.
They've certainly given this some thought:

> We are but one very small company in a universe of many hundreds of companies using AI software for drug discovery and de novo design. How many of them have even considered repurposing, or misuse, possibilities? Most will work on small molecules, and many of the companies are very well funded and likely using the global chemistry network to make their AI-designed molecules. How many people have the know-how to find the pockets of chemical space that can be filled with molecules predicted to be orders of magnitude more toxic than VX?
We are acting pretty helpless because the bully has nuclear weapons.
This sort of exists but there is no network element as you’ve described. These are called off-route mines. They’re far cheaper than guided missiles but you need to accurately predict where the target will be. You’d also need to be much closer than you’d typically be with a rocket or missile.

Also see IEDs with EFPs, but I wouldn’t want to have a cell phone emitting on a battlefield.
If you install NoScript and then enable javascript on only the Home Depot domains (as opposed to the ~17 or so surveillance domains), the site works much better. No great, of course. But much better.

FWIW McMaster and Digikey are themselves the exceptions. I've never seen a good parametric search engine anywhere else - they all compensate by leaning on product popularity (read: profitability), and you can never be sure it's actually surfaced all of the relevant results. I usually end up searching by one or two basic keywords, then linearly iterating through a few pages of results.
Two years of Covid-19: What's next for the pandemic?
Why use an app if a wire does the same job and doesn't need 5G? Just ask the Iraqi insurgents, it works quite well. And why do you think the Ukrainians are doing that? It seems they holding themselves quite well so far.
Climate Politics for the Real World
Way to go, you just set fire to a Sinclair and a Commodore, you monster.
"~/testfile" looks suspiciously like a file mounted on a filesystem. What happens if you bypass the filesystem?
The flaw in this logic is somewhat related to law enforcement, in that if your military is min/maxed for defense, someone who wants to do you harm only has to be right once in order to actually do you harm. Looking at nuclear weapons and missile defense (ignoring the existence of dirty bombs etc.), your opponent needs to only be right once for one of your cities and hundreds of thousands of civilians to be gone. And likewise, if you've focused on defense you're likely wholly unprepared for any sort of retaliation.

The Swiss approach what with literally bunkering in the mountains and everything is interesting, but the logistics for larger countries would be exponentially harder (and most lack the geographic help). "Fostering world-wide political transformation" is so pie in the sky it's honestly not worth serious discussion. It's fanciful.

Someone will always be willing to make weapons for the bullies because a lot of people don't view them as bullies in the first place. Ask people in Iraq, or Chechnya, or Ireland, or Pakistan, or Taiwan, who the bullies are, and you'll get wildly different answers that will cover approximately 90% of the worldwide population.
Flat UI Colors 2
I like to joke that the world would be very different if we had Platos lecture notes and Aristotle’s dialogues (which were famous in antiquity)
and how do you verify the signature?

public key infrastructure has always stumbled over issues of authenticity, more than just indexing.
I think so. The dev team are modeling clients and client needs. I think it helps from being open world. Maybe it isn't the ultimate format but it's an interesting idea.
You have been able to include the results of sql queries in excel for decades.
Centre Approved Corbevax for 12-14 Year Olds Without Ntagi Clearance
ChromeOS is Linux
What are you complaining about? That people need to apply for the certification rather than having it be an automated process?
Here is how it would work in theory (not including the scalability question of working with heavy DICOM files and huge DNN). I'm assuming your data is made of records composed by an image and some information about the image or the patient.

The system will generate a fake dataset with the exact same structure and schema (the information on patients is realistic, the images look reasonable and importantly has the right encoding, size, etc.). The purpose of this fake data is for the vendor to adjust their algorithm to be able to consume your data as it is. The vendor builds up the preprocessing on the fake data and then submit their data job to the API (say a preprocessing function to be applied on each record and a Tensorflow model to be fitted on the data, or just to measure the performance on the data). The preprocessing code runs on the original records, the model would be trained or validated against the real data. In the end they can prove the value of their model without having to get their hands on the real data.
But then you have to either put it there shortly before an enemy vehicle will pass it, or you have to somehow make sure no friendly vehicles will ever pass it.
libmill - Go-style concurrency in C
That's a good way to look at it, I think. It is fair to the article's intent. But there are two counterpoints to this line of thought:

1. Even if everything now is mostly engineering rather than science, the difficulty in such feats has to be taken into consideration. Anything from a nuclear bomb to the Moon landing was much more interesting from an engineering rather than a scientific perspective. So, perhaps we have directed our geniuses to implementing change in the world, rather than writing essays or doing other abstract work.

2. To go from 1985 desktop computers to modern phones, a lot of scientific work had to be done. To pick one example, the AI research we are developing in order to perform face recognition, semantic search, translation, and so on is simply revolutionary. Just because we cannot pinpoint a single genius behind any of these achievements, we should not underestimate how significant they were.
Until you encounter tanks supported by helicopters and infantry.
Of course they are. Among the "evil intent" they would reduce is any desire to rebel against your government, so you bet all big intelligence agencies are looking into it, for instance. Science fiction wrote about this decades ago.

Fortunately, there's a lot of considerations involved in deployment of anything. It's easier said than done to get something of a medical nature into a population surreptitiously, because it's hard to get a certain dose into one person without someone else getting not enough and yet someone else getting way too much. You'd have to come up with a way of delivering a medical dose in a controlled fashion and lie about it or something, you couldn't just sneak it into the food/water reliably.

Further, just because someone can name the exact complicated effect they'd like doesn't mean there's a drug that corresponds to it. Serenity, already mentioned, is a bit of silly example in my opinion because such a large effect should have been found during testing. But it does no good to pacify the population such that they'd never dream of so much as peacefully voting out the current leaders if the end result is that nobody would ever dream of so much as having enough ambition to show up to their jobs and you end up conquered by the next country over without them even trying, simply because they economically run circles around you. Or any number of other possible second-order effects. In a nutshell, it's dangerous to try to undercut evolution just to stay in power if not everywhere decides to do so equally, because you'll be evolved right out along with the society you putative rule. Evolution is alive and well and anyone who thinks it's asleep and they can screw around without consequences is liable to get a lethal wakeup call.
Flight Without Formulae by A.C. Kermode and Thrust for Flight by W. Thomson are two of my favorite books on flight mechanics and propulsion. Books that I thoroughly recommend for anyone to read before reading Anderson. Both are in the same vein: no formulae. I wish we had a book for software like that. Software without code.
I'm surprised this sort of thing isn't done far more widely (and better).

Can anyone comment on reasons why it's not more widespread? Especially in social media, where provenance is nonexistent.
Clojure's EDN is pretty decent for this.

ingy and I came up with p3rl.org/JSONY as a "JSON with less ceremony" compromise that I often find useful (it has a PEG grammar that's a superset of JSON so pretty easy to re-implement elsewhere)
I would rather than policymakers hear about the destructive potential of this technology before, and not after, an actual bad actor uses it.
It's worth noting that this is exactly what GDPR is meant to stop. Specifically, if they take your data they need consent and they need to be upfront about what they're going to use that data for. So if they say "Hey, would you like us to store this data for auto-complete" and then take it and use it to create a google pay account, then they don't have consent and can be fined.
Someone's promotion is probably tied to increasing a related metric.
While I hope it is a small quake compared to the 2011 earthquake, the main 2011 earthquake came 2 days after a 7.1 foreshock quake:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_earthquakes_in_Japan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_T%C5%8Dhoku_earthquake_an...
The Last Time Congress Amended § 230 (Of the Communications Decency Act)
I worked in defense too, might go back. When I get calls I'm like "I don't do work for the Saudi's or the DEA" and half the time the recruiter is like "Uh, I said this job is for Raytheon."

"Yeah, but who's their client?"
Back in the day, a recruiter built relationships with both client and candidate pool, made sure the folks presented were good candidates for the job, and made sure the process moved forward smoothly, so ghosting would be bad for business. Now, the vast majority of 'recruiters' (esp those on the big job sites) are just spammers with a nicer job title and somewhat more paperwork to process: got an email someone wants 'python programmer', search the big job sites and internal database for resumes and bulk send them to the hiring manager. They don't even have to call to set up the interview...there's a website for that. There's no relationship, so who cares it you piss on them.

My ex was a technical recruiter for 20+ years at a number of marquee tech firms, and it was sad to see her job go from well respected matchmaker between client and candidate making sure there was a good fit to 'run the search, blast the email, go to next request in the queue'. Which as collateral damage meant she was no more useful to the firm than a fresh out of college new hire making a fraction as much. You can imagine how that ended.
There is an excellent website for beginners chessexpert.io
The store location selector forgets all the time which you had selected last. What's best is it appears to try to infer location from ip address, so when you are in a home Depot on a mobile, it picks a different store from the one you are standing in.
Yes it can, using the sqlite odbc driver.
I'm using a Freestyle (still) and it's a pretty great keyboard. I was very surprised to discover it uses membrane switches; they've got a great feel. I only wish I could (easily) replace the cable connecting the halves and move them a bit farther apart.
It's been tried, sort of.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_hostage_crisis_chemical...
The smart phone doesn't even belong in the same category as the others you listed. The digital computer certainly does but it's been 80 years since that occurred. The smartphone is simply a refinement of that basic technological leap. Practically everything people are listing here falls in the category of refinement of existing technology rather than a completely novel form of technology. That is the scary and correct assertion of the article, we've almost completely stopped discovering or inventing novel technology or at least the rate of discovery has slowed to the point where 100 years of our present progress is equal to 10 years of the previous.
> Although state governments have the right to set their own path and policies, the public should decide whether life expectancy should be part of the experiment.

Do not state governments represent "the public"? And how is devolution of power to the states (and then counties, and then cities) an "experiment"?
Right, I’m wondering from a legal perspective if they do
YKK zippers: Why so many designers use them
The best feature of PHP has always been that it's "serverless", or in more historical terms, stateless. The application itself doesn't have to worry about keeping a server running or making sure it doesn't leak memory or crash. Blast radius is limited to a single HTTP request, just like in AWS Lambda.

The downside is that the PHP service environment does't provide much of a runtime framework, so the PHP application itself needs to perform a huge amount of bootstrapping on every request (this builds up over time as you add stuff to the application). Comparing this to AWS Lambda with e.g. Node.js, Lambda can keep a lot of stuff pre-initialized in memory, and usually just directly execute a handler function. Also things like URL request mapping are externalized to a separate API Gateway. There used to be a lot of tweaking and running separate caching modules needed to make PHP bootstrap fast enough.

I've always been sad that AWS hasn't developed a fully supported PHP backend for Lambda. Combined with a lightweight HTTP gateway, it could be a nice way to keep running legacy apps like WordPress in modern serverless environments, without worrying about server costs and maintenance. You can do it yourself with Lambda layers, but there will be all kinds of small mystery timeouts and problems you have to deal with.
This is presumably based on the same reporting requirements that are stipulated in section 85 of GDPR: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A...
> Everyone I know wakes up whatever time that their work tells them to.

Or whatever time that their toddler(s) tell them to ;)
> they haven’t offered any features since to make switching worthwhile.

Ish. The main advantage of newer clients were simplicity and nimbleness: Azureus/Vuze was a bit heavy on memory, at a time when this mattered more than today. After the Vuze renaming, it also went down a dark ad-filled path that did it no favours, to be honest. So a lot of people moved away.
GCC: Gcobol
This is addressed early on in the article. Maybe one of the problems with lack of genius is that we don't actually read anymore.

Ponder that! Spengler began writing Decline of the West in 1914. Tolstoy was only four years dead when Spengler started his book; Marx was only 30 years deceased. But Spengler could state, with the full expectation that his audience would not question him, that these men belonged in global pantheon of humanity’s greatest figures.
Isn't Fusion 360 similar? I don't think it's Electron, but it definitely doesn't feel native. Despite its jankiness, it works and is free for hobbyists.
That's begging the question. What constitutes 100% of desires, in a fully mature economy?

Who, 200 years ago, even knew how badly they wanted an OLED television? You don't even know what you might want in the economy of 2122 and succeed or fail at satisfying.
> The flaw in that logic is that, if it weren't for the people who develop lethal weapons for the bullies, we wouldn't have to fear the bullies.

You can't uninvent weapons, and you can't prevent the bullies from making their own weapons.

The problem with an impenetrable defensive shield is that it gives your potential enemies the heebie-jeebies (technical geopolitical term) that, now that you have the shield, you can attack them without fear of reprisal. If the enemy thinks you're working on a credible shield (or even a shield you think is credible) their best option is to attack now before you, emboldened by your sense of invulnerability, attack them.
Of course teenagers can get themselves to school. The problem is with younger kids. They will basically have to go to daycare before school, making their day even longer.
Yeah I've wondered the same thing. I don't have the statistics in front of me but I'm pretty sure that the unvaccinated are on average poorer, browner and more working class than the vaccinated. Which is to say that the same people who don't trust the jabs are generally the same people who have longstanding reasons to distrust a wider society that's weighted against them.

It's easy for me, as an affluent middle-class white guy, to say "shut up and do what you're told because the experts know best" - but on some level I really can't blame people from less advantaged demographics for being so distrustful of the "experts". After all, it's not like the governments and corporations pushing these vaccines have always worked in the working class's favour in the past.

To be clear, I believe that the vaccines are safe and effective and that everyone should get jabbed. But I can't help but feel like all this demonisation of the unvaccinated is driven at least partly by good old fashioned snobbery and class hatred. "How dare these lower class inferiors not do as we say? Why can't they be smart and sensible like us, the wealthy enlightened?"
Srilankan Crisis
Something like that's already been thought of: Alessandro Forin's eMIPS project a few years back developed a prototype processor with a small FPGA fabric directly embedded into the processor that allows for creating custom instructions per application, e.g. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/255563459_A_Framewo... among others. I don't think anything ever came of the idea; I imagine there's sharp limits on how much can fit into a CPU while still having decent performance.

> "The ability to modify the data paths in a set of general purpose processor components (e.g. register banks, caches, integer ALU, float ALU, vector ALU, pipeline lookahead, etc) for specific applications by modifying the microcode would be a real leap forward."

The latency and die cost of the connectivity for being able to rewire a "sea of execution units" is going to kill clock speed and performance.