skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Morgue data hint at Covid’s true toll in Africa
It matters because it makes their product worse. I’m a customer so I’m impacted by using a crappier database that has higher costs and worse performance.
People joining boot camps are often later in life than your typical college student and time is at a greater premium.
Closed source for security reasons?

Do you mean it would not be secure if people were able to see the source?
Microsoft could easily fork and maintain mysql if oracle did anything wonky. And they could use MySQL without paying any licensing fees due to its OSS license.
Cash-only businesses are dodging taxes not money handling fees.
Putting this here after reading the title.

https://youtu.be/SXKlJuO07eM
Bah. The article doesn't appear to answer my long-standing question which is : where exactly do the photons come from? It says black bodies emit photons, but...how exactly? It says maybe its emission spectrum photons which aren't black body radiation. I have a slightly better idea where those photons come from: an electron changes energy state in an atom and as a side-effect a photon is released. Still don't really know where the photon came from though..
Microcenter is probably the closest thing left to that niche now. They have pretty decent 3D printing and DIY electronics sections.
Damn, that sucks. How painful.

Honestly tempted to ditch docker-compose in favour of just a bunch of LXC/LCD containers in place. Sure, I mightn't have all the nice networking but damn each container getting internet-routable IPv6 address is just damn nice.
>"Not for lack of trying"

Trying does not count. Actual results do.

Siege of the Leningrad had lasted 900 days with the body count of 1.5 million people. Judging by the way things going in Ukraine this whole Putin's war should be over pretty soon and not to his liking.
Maybe look at Hackettstown, NJ. It’s a college town in the NYC exurbs, but it’s at the tail end of a commuter rail line that can get you to NYC (with one transfer either to another train, subway, or ferry).
Tracking solar systems can deliver 5-hours of generation. Solar and wind is for super cheap bulk energy. Solar is delivering the cheapest energy in history. Then we use a portfolio of other resources for balancing - grid interconnections; short and long-duration storage including pumped hydro; load flex; and bio-fuel, electro-fuel, and natural gas generators very occasionally.
Says the guy who went to the UN saying cement mixers were mobile weapons facilities.

Now both are gone. RIP.
It’s not a horrible database, but it’s just expensive and pretty much never a better choice than Postgres or other OSS dbs.

There are certainly some very niche use cases where you need it, but there’s a reason why tech stacks don’t use sqlserver. I think there are better ways to handle durable transactions and redundancy than using sql enterprise with sql‘s replication.
Monadic computations are very much in the spirit of Haskell. I don't think the Haskell community view the ST monad as a hack. It's one of many tools in the box of any Haskell programmer.
One problem with "self-hosting" is you're usually still hosting in the cloud – say, on a DigitalOcean droplet or something. That means you're spending $5-10 every month or whatever, plus you're still vulnerable to some amount of cloud-provider fickleness (though much less than a SaaS provider).

Much better would be a physical device in your own home.

Lately I've been dreaming about a home wifi router that doubles as a personal server, with a few TB of storage, with tailscale-type networking for remote administration and a nice App store for self-hosted apps (FOSS or otherwise).

Not a company I am going to start, just one that I hope someone does.
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There is nothing[0] suspicious[1] about[2] Wasmer.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28772863

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/o1838v/the_web...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24904829
You probably shouldn't write comments like this on posts from your employer; it's an HN thing, people are very alert to conflicts of interest here. It's fine to comment on them, to add your own spin or opinion or whatever, but you should be careful about cheerleading comments.
The contracts that the record labels offer to streaming platforms are (or were a decade ago when I was in the business) set up to strictly control the prices seen by end users but I'm sure their lawyers believe they can do this without running afoul of competition laws. Even if the effect is price fixing...
> If you are using go between 1.12 to 1.15 within containers, you likely want to set GODEBUG=madvdontneed=1. :-)

This setting is default in Go 1.16+, which was published about 1 year ago. They don't mention what version they're using. The last several releases have landed some pretty significant improvements as I recall, maybe this is a good excuse to upgrade the Go release you use to compile your app.
Lots of people commenting here about how easy it must be to shard mysql at GitHub scale...
Check out Synology NASes (and now they make a router too). Basically exactly what you describe.
> Now the payment card companies decide they want 30% of all transactions. You think that would be reasonable?

Careful there. Someone might pipe up and say this is what cryptocurrency was designed to resolve.
Yep. The post makes it sound like they abandoned the application because of the goodness of their hearts, but really it was obviously going to be rejected because they had no response to the straightforward questions by the USPTO.
I think perhaps you are still viewing this issue from the point of view of the worker?
AWS Graviton vs. M1 vs. M1 Pro Node.js Benchmarks
It's hard to escape the feeling that Wasmer is trying to hijack Webassembly for their own commercial advantage.

Bytecode alliance is a non profit organisation whose members involve some of the tech giants involved in promoting WASM development. Bytecode alliance have developed their own open runtime.

It's not obvious why we need a seperate WASM runtime developed by Wasmer, or why they would be good stewards for a "Webassembly foundation". Their recent efforts with the closed source Webassembly Package Manager reek of trying to copy the npm business model: take commercial advantage of a non-commercial programming language.

If Wasmer want to be trusted they need to stop acting like they are official stewards of Webassembly. Focus more on building good WASM products than on pretending to be leaders.

You can even see (unattributed) supportive comments from Wasmer employees in this comments section. It just feels off.
oh dear, he's never seen Hackers
> It has clean and logical abstractions, and consistency.

Sorry, but an actual layperson would already be lost upon reaching the word "abstraction".
Your intuition is right that storage is important for renewables -- fortunately grid scale batteries exist and are increasingly popular! At the end of 2020, 34% of solar projects under development were being co-located with battery storage in the US. [1]

If you're curious, Bloomberg has a nice summary [2] where they talk about how much more battery storage the world will need in a future that relies heavily on renewables (it's a lot -- see page 4 specifically).

[1] https://eta-publications.lbl.gov/sites/default/files/2021.04...
[2] https://assets.bbhub.io/professional/sites/24/NEO-Executive-...
Absolutely! The same way that Lisp is a poor substitute for C and C++. All languages/systems/libraries/frameworks have things they are good at and things they are bad at. Which is why we don’t all use one language/library/framework/… for everything.
He is with Jod now.
The link provided is a non-final action (Feb 26, 2020) that can be rebated with further evidence, as stated by both the description of the reply (NON-FINAL ACTION WRITTEN) and the text:

> Although applicant’s mark has been refused registration, applicant may respond to the refusal by submitting evidence and arguments in support of registration. If applicant responds to the refusal, applicant must also respond to the requirements set forth below

As mentioned in the article, Wasmer could have still tried to submit further evidence and arguments in support of registration, but instead we left the process to expire, leading to the ABANDONMENT of the trademark.

Hope this makes things more clear!
Both parties didn't want a full scale invasion during the 90s, so sanctioning was seen as an alternative.
Maybe he’s getting framed
I imagine they meant the corporate victims. That is two separate pieces of evidence that they have some tie to Brazil: the recruits, and the selected corporate victims.
1Blocker is pretty good, especially if you use iOS (syncs rules, etc). Not free, though. Worth it to turn off annoyances IMHO.
I am both kinds of athiest (nastika and nirisvara). So, in that sense, I am not religious.

Theravedas do not believe in any conversion ceremony unless you are going to be a monk. I have no intention of becoming a monk, as Buddha taught about six-directional duties of a man, and he himself confirmed that thousands of people attained Nirvana while being in a family (was it to Batsagotta? My memory eludes me).

And I am not sure I deserve your compliments. I drink occasionally (intoxicating drinks were forbidden by the Buddha), and I keep eating meat and fish.

I reached the conclusion of absolute nothingness and human beings being not more than complex biological machines with Science only, and no Buddhism.

I started with Buddhism to figure out what to do with the knowledge.

So far, I am very glad, and I am finding what I was looking for and beyond.

I was completely blown away by the ehipassika (come and see) philosophy, lack of blind faith, and the inherent logical structure of Buddha's teaching.

I remain deeply impressed by the same.
+1

The things he has moved to SaaS sounds like it's, simple, public low volume stuff. My only concern is what happens if the free provider just disappears, but reading between the lines it sounds he's got that covered. His web site is in git, he has a local copy of his git repositories and he backs it up to S3. Personally I've always used SaaS for stuff like that.

Much harder is personal private stuff like email / contacts / calendar / photos. Stuff you want kept private, you don't want to loose ever and must be online 24/7. In utopia the back end would be redundant store with copies stored at multiple vendors, so you don't care if one dies. And the front end is yet another SaaS provider that uses the back ends. If they disappear you just move to another one, pointing them to your back ends.

In the real world you use Google or a competitor to do all jobs, they make it hard to export / import your data to other providers, they mine your data, they will make it available to governments and law enforcement agencies and possibly lawyers on request without telling you, and if they get the shits with you it disappears and you loose everything.

In todays world that what SaaS delivers to most people, and it's reads like a deal with the devil.
Doesn't https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/201cthe-printer-story201... suggest otherwise?
Cloudflare blocks readers running Tor or VPNs and GitHub has been down every day this week. I don't think your plan is bullet proof.
Fine if you can make do with static sites but that's hardly a common use case. Most of us who use a VPS are hosting Nginx with a reverse proxy to Rails, Django, Express or Laravel + PostgreSQL or MySQL where the memory costs are a fraction of the equivalent cloud offering. I tried Github pages once, rather than Netlify, and pulled my hair out trying to get HTTPS working with a personal domain. Last I checked it's still not possible.
I did the following, and seeing others who did not I don’t know how they manage when older.

Have kids, while you are young. Your body will be able to do all the fun things along side them without worry about a bad back or something else.

Don’t worry about career progression, worry instead about adding value to yourself that transcends (think education, various employment and domain knowledge in various industries).

Have work life balance, which maybe means working at places (think public services or health care) so you can spend time doing the things you enjoy, which very well may be moonlighting on tech that is 100% your IP (to each their own)

Get a house, they never get cheaper overtime.

Then when you are in your mid 40’s and your kids are moving out you can quickly catch up in no time at all, because remember, you have been building skills and a network that are now in bat shit crazy demand.
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I see it like this :

Once there were a lot of free tera byte image hosting services. And then after some market ups and downs, most of them either closed down, asked for subscription fee or hugely restricted what can be done.

Free static hosting services might not remain such for long. At the very least, they might introduce terms or condition you might not like. Then it will be harder for you to shift to another service, compared to switching your VPS server.

Also I count my time spent on managing the servers as free. For me it's experimenting what else can be done, gaining experience and overall enjoyable time spent.

That might not be true for everyone.
An Introduction to Generics in Go 1.18
Best option is to set an email notification at the official resellers and immediately purchase when notified. For the time being, you won’t have more than 15 minutes to complete your purchase.

If you are US-based, you’ll want to create accounts at the sellers and verify them ahead of time, as vendors are implementing measures to prevent fraud and bots. Adafruit also requires your account to have 2FA active.
Wow; I love this idea. Thanks for writing it! Also, I love how pluggable it is!
Compute likely is a rough function of business revenue though.
Fossil is faultless for a team size of one. I've been using it for nearly a decade, doing totally non-optimal things like using versions released years apart on different OSs with the same database. I also ctrl-c it when I spot a typo in a commit message and check in binaries. Never missed a beat.

As headcount goes up I think the inability to locally rewrite history into easily reviewable patches would be sorely missed. So it's git for team stuff and fossil for my own.
Rich did a talk about this back in 2013: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhkdyCPYgLs
Well, if nothing else you’ve tricked a few pro-Kremlin HN users into revealing themselves!
You can't draw great conclusions from the Ukraine videos
which is odd because Rogan made most of his money from Youtube which is also Google, youtube was his biggest promotional tool. So I imagine you don't watch youtube either?
Not in Argentina. The P2P market is big enough that you don't need to worry about finding buyers/sellers. Also, "dark alley", here? Not even close. We've been doing this for several years now (used to be only USD), it's a well oiled machine.
I wouldn't force anyone into war, even the children of politicians.
I have friends from "poor" countries and they see paying full price like paying 20% on tips.

For some it's acceptable, and for others it's not.
About the language part: I'm a native speaker of Portuguese. Their posts on Reddit[1], requesting paid insiders on some mobile networks, are very clearly machine translated. When they started out, hacking the Ministry of Health here in Brazil, the defacing text had a wrong plural, and was written in a way that a native speaker never would.

https://camas.github.io/reddit-search/#{%22author%22:%22okla...
A very insightful read. I enjoyed it.

One exception stands out to me though. In technology when one competitor is able to achieve something in secrecy, and then only reveals its existence by demonstration.

For example, during WW2 America possessed high quality fuel refining techniques. This enabled American planes to have capabilities that German planes could not duplicate. Americans could make a 27L engine like the V1650 Merlin with the same output as a German 41L engine like the BMW 139. And then even when they captured a V1650 they couldn't reproduce the results due to their technical debt (that's an ironic statement to describe Germany during that time but fuel was never really their wheelhouse).

From a pre-globalized, pre-information age German perspective the proof that this was possible could only be in the pudding. What about when you are confronted with something that you cannot explain and cannot reproduce. Then you would have no choice but to iterate your methodology and understanding and, in many ways, become the expert you never wanted to be. By cooking enough times you eventually learn how thin a "thinly sliced onion" should be.
Perhaps you're imagining VR as an alternative to real life, but it's actually just an alternative to gaming on a monitor. I don't expect it to be comparable to life, I just expect it to be better than gaming on my monitor, and even then only for really particular games. You wouldn't play an RTS in VR, or even FPS games like Counter-Strike, since the actual gameplay of CS is mouse precision, reflexes and playspace awareness.

So VR is a niche even within the gaming community and will never replace the monitor except for some circumstances. But it does enable unique experiences that no other platform can.

Where VR excels is in visual immersion, intuitive interaction and spatial awareness. So it excel in games like racing and flight simulators, space sims, and in things like puzzle games where manipulating things with your hands adds a new dimension to the game.
> I would surely prefer as much as possible of my monetary contribution ending up with Spotify and the musicians

If you care about the musicians you should probably be using Tidal and not Spotify.
Why? All you have to do is add a prefix to both the docker daemon and individual networks configured by compose. I do it and it's painless, never hit a bug. Just ensure the prefixes are at least /112.
The link for "Myst" on Steam that
jrmg gave is to a more modern 3D remake than realMyst. This remake can also be played in VR.

Indeed: Cyan created a whole lot of variants/remakes of Myst.
Low to mid-tier support agents are being targeted directly. Sometimes they get phished (yes people will give you MFA codes and authorize push notifications if asked), sometimes they get social engineered, and sometimes they just solicit and pay them. Not just speaking of LAPSUS$ here.
When given the choice, I will always subscribe/pay/book directly with the company rather than use a 3rd party. If something goes wrong it's always easier to only need to deal with one company rather than two. Plus I'm choosing to start a relationship with a company that I give money to and thus want them to be able to use all of that money towards making the service and experience the best possible, rather than have them be handicapped by fees coming right off the top.
A long hold out! Works for most use cases. If you are doing any big data processing that doesn't neatly fit in a predefined resource plan then you are still doing all the SSHing etc. You might even be buying your own physical beefy computer to throw in the closet and SSH into from elsewhere.

I wonder how long the likes of Netlify and Vercel will last though, before they too introduce onerous conditions.
This is the same Microsoft that reboots laptops in the middle of teams calls to do hour long update cycles. >99% is implausibly good.
Well, there is Cloudflare Tunnel if you need to expose something (ssh, database, http services, etc) to the internet without maintaining a vps to act as a tunnel/reverse proxy yourself.
TIL about being able to hack the diagrams from console. Thank you very much! I've been using diagrams.net recently and have had some frustrations with the graphical editor that I almost wished I were using plantuml
>>I watched Richard Feynman's explanation and feel like I learned something!

I don't know the link to the video on YouTube, but there was one interview where they were discussing why Math appears hard to so many people. Basically people look at solving Math problem like an elaborate heuristic needed to be memorised to solve the problem.

He proceeds to explain that's for people who don't understand what they are doing.

To understand anything at all, is to start with basic assumptions/axioms and logical rules of manipulating them and moving forward from there.
Open-source code is obviously easier to exploit than closed source one.
But that doesn't imply necessarily the existence of security bugs.

For example, we might be using a dependency that is vulnerable to exploits or have an exploit in our own code that opens a security breach (hopefully not!).

As an open-source maintainer I like to open projects for which the code-quality is high, and this implies doing a deep and thorough review of the codebase before open-sourcing.
Container Optimized OS is quite literally “We let the Chromium OS folks make a server OS.”

https://cloud.google.com/container-optimized-os/
IIRC (from high school chemistry?) electrons go into higher energy levels due to the release of chemical energy, then emit photons as they fall back to lower energy levels (the energy of the photon being the delta between the energy levels). Is that accurate/am I missing anything?
Oh this is fantastic! Thank you… could be a good outlet for him to chat too, many of his friends have already passed.
We had magpies living in a large tree in our front yard. Never bothered us, but we did see them swooping the occasional passer-by.

One time we saw them breaking small twigs off the tree and dropping them on our cat, who was sitting on our front deck. She was very confused.
> Also where are you regurgitating this bit from and why? - “During war empathy with the attacker is critical to hunting them, but sympathy is a handicap.”

That idea shows up in Ender's Game and some of the player sequels (the Bean books) - understanding your opponent and how he/she/it thinks is presented as a devastating, effective tool for warfare.

The biggest fight I've ever been involved in was pushing another kid off his bike into the snow when he picked on my sister, so I have no clue if the idea is even remotely true.
Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction (2nd Edition)
Open-source code is not in fact easier to exploit than closed-source code is. Security and openness are mostly orthogonal.
Not liking it is pretty different to it not being here though. I think people expect VR to be something more than it is, but it is just some sensors tracking your body and a screen strapped to your face. That enables some unique experiences, but it's no braindance.
I do not give a flying fuck about Russian propaganda. Or any propaganda for that matter. It is pretty easy to see through. I am much more concerned about the reality. And the reality is simple. The guy with the biggest dick and whomever he has decided to like do what they want and go unpunished and I do not see it changing.

So I have no doubts that the R should an will be fixed and for good reasons. I am also pretty sure that X, Y and Z would continue do what they do and laugh all the way to the bank.
If someone says it’s complicated, then yes it’s complicated. It may not be complicated for you, but by definition someone finding it complicated makes it complicated.
That's 16 seconds to update the display. I am familiar with the Kindle etc but this seems very long. I guess it doesn't matter too much for ambient display projects like this.

I found this example video of the display update process: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mr6Lt0gKjsI&t=22m43s