skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Back in the day (~10 years ago?) when the company I worked for was looking at replacing our internal custom provisioning and desired state configuration tooling it was Ansible that won out. We were running a mixed fleet of Windows and Linux hosts - the company was an ISP and shared hoster.

At that point in time both Puppet and Chef needed agents to be installed on your servers and we really didn't want to have to manage another background service running on hundreds to thousands of boxes. Ansible didn't have this requirement.

Also Windows support was pretty sketchy on Chef and Puppet back then, to the point of being almost studiously ignored, Ansible provided remote PowerShell support. And that was primarily the deciding factor.
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I agree that offsets based on sequestration, as you mention, are a completely legitimate tool. I mentioned that briefly in the post, but didn't dwell on it as the post was getting too long already.

The deep problem with the more common "avoided emissions" credits is not that they're low quality (e.g. "protecting" a forest that might just burn down) -- though some are indeed low quality. The deep problem is that if I pay you to halt your emissions, who is going to pay me to halt mine? That's the shell game aspect. We start out with two emitters, we halt one, we never do anything about the other. One emitter is "done" because they're no longer emitting, and the other emitter is "done" because they've purchased an offset. The model is broken at its core.
Wow! I didn't know about Woodpecker, this is amazing!
The rittenhouse bit is entirely irrelevant. The sex offender you're discussing is on video, from multiple angles, attacking him. He's also on video acting like an unhinged lunatic prior to the altercation. (He's a white dude at a BLM protest shouting the N word at another white person... uh ok).

You can't threaten to kill someone then violently attack them and expect them not to defend themselves.

If you're this woefully uninformed about the rittenhouse situation, have you considered that your sources of information are misleading you?
Apple Notes' OCR is about as good as Evernote's, and the bulk migration worked fine for me.

And Apple Notes will name a new scanned-document note with the first words of the OCR'ed text, which I don't think Evernote ever got around to.
> If Omicron is really like a cold/flu then no it's not worth it, but do we know this for sure?

Well... look at the rest of the world.

I caught Delta when it burned through the American South last September. Omicron overtook Delta in January 2022 in the US, and since then the US has seen ~25m confirmed cases.

If you don't know the effects of Omicron "for sure" with a sample size of 25,000,000 cases... when will you?

FWIW, while Omicron is statistically significantly milder than previous variants, I don't think it's "like a cold/flu". I also don't think it's anywhere near bad enough to justify locking down a city.

When I had Delta, I had about three days where I was miserable and basically useless followed by a week of being very tired and another week or so of feeling like I was recovering from the flu. I'm 38, overweight, a non-smoker, and the only relevant medical condition I have is obstructive sleep apnea.

If I had to characterize my experience in "like the flu" terms, I would say that Delta was about 2-3x as bad as the worst flu I've ever had. There were three mornings where I woke up feeling like I couldn't breathe. That was scary, but a few minutes in a hot shower was sufficient to break it up enough that I didn't feel like I needed medical attention.

About a week after those initial intense symptoms, I was testing negative and had no respiratory issues but was still very tired overall. I called my doctor and asked for an inhaled steroid to speed things along a bit so I could be productive. Other than that, and guaifenesin that I took when my symptoms began, there was no need for medical intervention at all.

Everything I read tells me that Omicron's symptoms are substantially less pronounced than Delta's.
I think the Chess example is also interesting in that it demonstrates why zugzwang is a consequence of chess strategy, even though it appears arbitrary at first glance.

Imagine Chess would allow players to pass. Then black could pass to try and wait for the pawn to reach h7. But of course then white could simply also pass instead of moving the pawn. The "optimal" strategy for both players would be to endlessly pass back to the other player, as any actual move would put themselves at a disadvantage. So even with passing allowed, there is no way the black player could actually take the pawn. Instead, the game would simply lock-up.

I believe this is a general strategy: In any situation where passing would give an advantage, the other player could immediately undo the advantage by passing as well.

So in effect, Chess always has zugzwang, by the way the game works - codifying it as an explicit rule is just a convenience.
The cited source - a socialist magazine that got started with features on Castro, Mao, and Guevara - may, perhaps, be slightly biased in its interpretative lens.
The current Govt stance is 'Make in India', meaning if a foreign company needs to sell a product they need to manufacture it in the country. If it is imported and then sold in the internal market, they straight put a high amount of import tax (can go above 100%).

That is why Musk is having problem selling his imported Tesla's at a cheaper rate even if it is a eco-friendly product.

Approximately, imported iphone 12 currently will be around $1000 and the one made in the country can go as low as $700 to match the international price.
My apologies that this discussion got heated and turned into a slug fest. Caste is a sensitive topic for me as I've personally seen it's ugly manifestations in several occasions. You seem like a well-read man albeit with a one-sided view (dare I say, with a western gaze) so I'll try to explain my points in a amicable way:

- Toxic empathy: Toxic empathy is when a person over-identifies with someone else's feelings and directly takes them on as their own. There is an active group of upper caste (Savarna) activists trying to milk the lower castes' lived experiences and making it about them. I was pointing to that hypocrisy.

- I can assure you that Savarna is not a casteist slur, it is a real word used in the Dalit lexicon. It is akin to calling a White person "Caucasian". It was used by Babasaheb and other dalit pioneers and it is a staple word in Ambedkarite literature. I implore you to read real dalit voices from India like Dhasal, Hansda Shekar, Daya Pawar to get a real picture.

- I also find your claim that Indian women or Indian Muslims or Indian Dalits don't have any such stories. (sorry paraphrasing). I have seen first-hand what strides India has taken post 90s and downtrodden peoples kids have climbed up the rungs and are doing great. India is definitely not a wonderland like the Nordics or USA, and has a long way to go, but it is definitely not the case of only Upper castes are progressing and women, muslims and dalits are shunned at the bottom of the society.

India is going through a flux and the casteism is definitely a bane to our society, but we can not eliminate it if we do not understand how it manifests. Peace out, Atta Deep Bhava.

P.S. These are the 3 links I shared after a cursory Google search

- https://www.thebetterindia.com/267994/dalit-entrepreneurs-ov...

- https://www.thebetterindia.com/278570/assam-woman-builds-tai...

- https://www.thebetterindia.com/138014/shattering-barriers-hy...

P.P.S: I also find it sad that Indians drag caste into any discussion about India, but you never see them attributing "White male privilege" in discussions like this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30987472 or this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30985684
(I know Whataboutism and all but you get the gist)
Indeed! Leaf blowers are a complete menace to any semblance of peace and quiet.
I'm not so sure. When he was cryogenically preserved he moved his cryptocurrency to funds/charities/families but the Satoshi accounts were not touched. I bet he knew who Satoshi was, but seems weird to me that he'd not have donated from all of his accounts when he knew he was going to die as he seems to me to be quite altruistic (I'm on a mailing list he used to be quite active in and went through the archives recently out of interest to see his initial comments on bitcoin).

Saying this there's always an off-chance he stored his mnemonic in memory and in a hundred years he could be the richest person in the world, so there's a financial incentive to work on cryogenics to bring him back with a big medical bill lol. That'd be some pretty awesome sci-fi.
I don't know about that. I do think that if, say, Google operated a spectrum of 1,000 self-driving algorithms, and knew that some were safer than others, a judge would take a very dim view to knowingly deploying less safe cars than others. And even from a business standpoint, it wouldn't be good business to have less safe (aka, higher liability) cars on the road.
That seems an odd nit to pick - the choice of optics is intimately connected to the size of the sensor; plus it's not even right.

The size of the circle-of-confusion depends also on the degree of enlargement and viewing distance in the final product - i.e. what looks sharp when viewed at arm's length on a phone with a Retina display can look not-sharp when cropped and enlarged to 20x30 and seen up close.
Right. Well, a blank sign leaves the viewer free to imagine any implied message they want, whereas protesting informers is pretty specific.

Not to say it's risk free, of course.
I'm not commenting on this story and here's why (it's a copy of my feedback to that web site):

"I have not yet read this article because it's too difficult to read. Even the text I'm entering into this comment box is almost illegible. I have to doublely check to see what I've written.

Presumably the reason you've chosen a gray text which to me on my smartphone looks to have no more than 20% saturation together with a fine spindle like font is that it looks artistic on your hi-res, high dynamic range monitor but it's essentially illegible on my smartphone (1080x1920px). I'm not the only one who is complaining, many have whinged about very feint essentially illegible text on the web - it's a common complaint yet illegible websites like yours still persist. Presumably, I could copy and paste the text into a text editor to read it but then I'd lose the images. It's messy and I shouldn't have to do it.

That said, the images of the slide rule are quite readable.

BTW, I'm not some casual narky reader who's being critical for the sake of it. I am a regular slide rule user. In fact, I'm looking at my two slide rules on my desk now - one's a Hemmi Darmstadt No 130 and the other is a Faber Castell No 2/83 N. The Hemmi was from my student days (before calculators), and the F/Castell is about 60 years old and belonged to my father who was an engineer. Both rules are still highly usable."
I hate smartphones mostly because of this (although there are more reasons), and I wish I could stop using them altogether, but there are too many people out there who only communicate using text applications (WhatsApp and Telegram, mostly. Which are about the only things I've installed aside from Firefox, which I also use only rarely). So in the end it's basically a choice of eschewing your social life or eschewing your privacy, at least partially. I've managed to convince a grand total of 0 people to use other means of communication such as email. There are also some services that I use (and some that I'm forced to use as part of my job, although these go to the company phone) that just plain refuse to offer a web interface and I can only use them as a fucking app. Who knows which data might it gather.

Windows users are also suffering a similar problem because of the smartphonisation of the desktop (side note, I hate that people still use that meme about "one version of Windows is bad and the next one is good". W10 still has most of the problems of W8, and some of them are even worse. I don't think we're ever going to get a "good" Windows ever again). We need to choose between being able to run old, trusty software or being actually in control of our computer (in terms of privacy, updates and so on). Then again I suspect that I have only a few months left of personal Windows usage.
Perforce is "Git for people who don't want to merge a 200MB binary FBX asset". Their core value proposition is more like SVN or Microsoft's Version Control in that people check out a file and then only they are allowed to modify it until they check it back in. That way, merges can be avoided.

And yes, it's very popular in the games industry, because even Git+LFS is very painful if you have merge conflicts.
"When the mainspring is overwound, the mechanism will begin to drill holes in the floor of the cargo hold..."
actually that is the problem. no they can't 'easily' add a new flag (or they would have). it doesn't fix the problem of being broken by default and any fundamental change in behavior will lead to problems as well.

the point is the language is broken fundamentally and because its syntax sugar there isn't anything you can do realistically. a function call can be replaced, deprecated, and then removed and all of that can be automated and be non-disruptive over a few releases.
The Importance of a Liberal Education
>can usually be audited by a developer on a weekend

why are devs expected to do this on a weekend and not just as part of the work week? are we coming from the perspective of the dev working on a side project?
I remember when Bitcoin was only for nerds. Seems to have gone into the complete opposite demographic, interesting and strange.
I am implying that the majority of economists conclude you should tax carbon in some form. I am in the minority of non-economists who agree with that consensus.
You do realize that people aren't trying to make heavy vehicles, but that weight is imposed by physical and economic constraints. EV manufacturers try very hard to minimize weight. But anyway, it makes no sense to criticize EVs in a vacuum--tell us all about your miracle solution! Are we going to treat every urban community like a dense metropolis? Or are we going to close down urban communities and force everyone into fewer concrete jungles? And how much do you reckon your solution will cost?
Every time I eat ackee[0] I wonder how this toxic fruit turned into something edible.

If you eat it raw you might die and will be very sick.

If you roast or boil it you still might die and still be very sick.

No, intrepid reader, you have to boil it at least twice to remove the toxins. And I'm curious to find out who was curious enough to keep going after boiling the first time and failing.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blighia_sapida
The latter, eg the choice to use the word "narcissism" in place of more charitable or reasonable explanations, is more what I was critiquing. Using narcissism frequently with respect to explaining men's behavior rather than exploring reasonable options is something I see more and more lately and needs some soft corrections.
If you want to teach your kid to learn English, and they came back to you and said "Dad/mum, I finished reading the entire internet but I still don't understand English fully", would you say "OK son, now go and stare at the Twitter firehouse until you grok perfect English" ?

It's clear that these models have orders of magnitude too much data already.

It somewhat reminds me of the proposals for larger and larger colliders in the hopes of seeing new physics that is always one collider in the future.
That’s 8T Saudi riyals, which is a little over 2T USD. Apple is bigger at 2.7T.
Data Center licenses start at 500 users, so they did effectively kill self-hosting for small and mid-sized organizations that don't need 500 seats on their Jira license.
I think the former is more likely to be true.

If 100% of the money went back, you'd get back equal (or more) what you paid, if you are responsible for the average (or less of the same) of CO2 production per citizen.

Since there are many more poor people than there are rich people which are responsible for disproportional much more emission, the people below the average are the majority

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/feb/04/carbon-f...

Only paying back 90% generates a small shift into the other direction though
Do we know anything at all about the creators of this device, other than that they were Greek? Where was it made? What kind of tools did they use to do the machining? How large was the workshop or factory where it was manufactured? Who was the target customer, how much did it cost?

Since we have only one device like this and it was found under rare circumstances (shipwreck), it seems like you could do a Bayesian analysis to get a rough order of magnitude estimate of how many of these were built.
My favorite article on this topic is "Escaping science's paradox" by Stuart Buck[1]. I'm, in particular, interested by the idea (at least within the United States) of "red teaming" science. This would involve having an independent agency funding attempts to replicate (and to find/publish flaws in) NSF- or NIH-funded projects, and publishing those. Ideally, the history of replication for authors' papers could then be part of the criteria for receiving funding for more novel research in the future.

Obviously, there's a few fields where this might not work (you can't just create a second Large Hadron Collider for validation), but in areas from sociology to organic chemistry to environmental science, I think there's a lot of promise in that method for helping to re-align incentives around producing solid, replicable research.

[1] https://www.worksinprogress.co/issue/escaping-sciences-parad...
It's not computationally impossible; it's a hard problem that nobody has solved because they haven't found the niche to monetize it.

A user only has a tiny screen relative to the size of the backing data. The hard part is efficiently fetching the data to populate that screen. But it's not unsolvable; just tricky. Approaches like building realtime indexes speculatively based on likely next user query could help.

Google Sheets actually works a bit like this already, as it's backed by an online datastore.
I look around and see lots of people buying pickup trucks and SUVs with 4L+ engines for casual use, 3k+ sq ft houses for 3 or 4 people, and flying to Hawaii for vacation. None of it seems forced.

The world rewards the companies that give them what the world wants.
None, ever. I never subscribe to newsletters. I hate spam.
I subscribed to newsletters in the past to only regret my decision because it was used to funnel spam/ads and annoy me with meaningless updates.

I would appreciate a common spec where packages could ping new releases, something like rss I could then subscribe to and get new release notifications with a changelog.

But mail is something where I don't want spam. Email is for important messages and invoices. I'm trying to keep that space clean.
Sure, that makes sense, but not for cassava!

The article even says that the natives had no idea why they were getting sick! How did they connect the "can't use legs" to the cassava they ate?

Again, I realize that it must have been the way you describe, but it's still amazing.
To be clear, I wasn't defending it - I was just saying that they'd probably try to claim that rather than consent. I agree that they'd likely fail if it actually came to a court case.
During that period last year when the vaccine started to be widely available but still a little tricky to schedule the city shut down my nearest free testing location. The next nearest was "in-car" and wouldn't test me on foot or bike, citing liability. The next next nearest was a 40 minute bus ride away, obviously a very reasonable choice when you suspect you have covid.

I feel like this potentially illustrates several american social pathologies but probably best to stick to the car one for now.
From many people's viewpoints, it is not very well thought out to subsidize the use of 3-ton single occupancy vehicles that require massive amounts of energy to manufacture and massive amounts of energy to move. At the very least there should be far higher licensing taxes, congestion charges, road wear taxes, enormous gas taxes, etc.
> “Children; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. They no longer rise when elders enter the room, they contradict their parents and tyrannize their teachers. Children are now tyrants.”

~ Socrates
I feel this will happen at the end of the adoption curve, should we reach it. Media will begin to shame legacy drivers and accidents will become newsworthy curiosities. Sort of like the last known cases of a pathogen that becomes eradicated.
Adding on - neighbor 1 may start at 11, then ride until 1 or so. The other neighbor sees #1, then decides to go out, then they edge. We'll get loud engines within 50 feet of the house from 11a-4p with very little break. and they love it. This is their relaxation, fun time, 'day off work', etc. We've tried to move but are essentially priced out of any housing that would offer much of a difference (anywhere else we can afford is roughly same issues with nearness to neighbors). Had land at one point to build, but covid made that way too expensive. We're .... sort of trapped for the time being. Should have moved 4-5 years ago. :/
Perforce is owned by two private equity companies. The ownership is split 50-50 between Clearlake Capital and Francisco Partners. It looks like PEs invest in Perforce and use them to acquire smaller companies in the dev tools area. Perforce owns Selenium and RogueWave Software. I wouldn't be surprised if they become a public company at some point so the PE can cash on their investment.
I use Emacs but don't enjoy the latency of using a remote Emacs session or locally using tramp. Recently my solution is to edit locally, then whenever I need to run the codebase on the remote machine I wrap the run command in a script with two rsync commands. First (using rsync) it will sync the remote codebase with any local changes. Then when the remote command completes, any relevant result files I want to analyze locally after are synced back to the local machine (using rsync). Rsync is very flexible and has lots of options such as ignore filters.
One of the factors that influence depth-of-field is focal length. To get the same field-of-view with a small sensor / film area, the focal length needs to be smaller too, and hence the depth-of-field will be larger.

So yes, practically speaking, a camera with a much larger sensor / film area does allow you to take pictures with a much more narrow depth-of-field.
Honestly, I think it is the last gasp of a failing class because the physical world is reasserting itself strongly and yakking is not a solution strategy but only one to claim some spoils or position. I would argue, the recent attack on Ukraine actually ended that kind of confusion between reality and language.
This is the full paragraph for context:

> Eventually two of his friends join in, all jockeying to be the first to “orange pill” me—the phrase Bitcoin enthusiasts use for when someone joins their ranks. (Someone mistakenly calls it “red-pilling,” which refers to being indoctrinated into misogynistic, incel-adjacent beliefs, and the man in the jacket laughs and says, “We could do that too.”) When I ask why there are so few women in the crypto space, they cite Jordan Peterson—the controversial psychologist who is speaking at the conference the next day—and claim women aren’t discriminated against in tech, they just choose not to pursue math- and science-focused careers.

I think it's a good piece.