skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For historical context:

When IBM and others did this in the past, the decision basically outsourced the environmental pain to other countries, because those chemicals were going to be made by someone somewhere.

A more advanced discussion on the topic might be along the lines of:

“if we know that this material will be produced somewhere in the world, is it not best to put our brightest minds on how to most effectively deal with the waste stream? The added costs of mitigation should equal additional tariffs on the same product in countries that ignore environmental impact.”

This is one of the observed failures of globalization: the government incentivized manufacturing to make other places suffer forgetting that we all share the same planets, and that the wealthy/educated countries should be leading the way on how to ‘best’ manufacture and deal with waste streams.
The pandemic has made it more challenging. I've worked remotely for over eight years and managed teams for 4 of those years. Engagement feedback has dramatically shifted, with people feeling disconnected and needing more social interaction. Before the pandemic, people leveraged their local social networks and didn't need work to be their source of community.

One of the rituals on my team that has stuck for years is an hour block every two weeks for the team to simply talk. No plan, no forced games or activities, only conversation. It gives us a chance to learn about each other freely. No discussion (within reason) is off the table; we talk about anything from food to astrophysics.

Unstructured conversation has been the only thing that consistently keeps people excited that it's on the calendar. It's a chance for everyone to see the authentic side of their teammates and learn who they are.
WBA OpenRoaming promises seamless access for municipal Wi-Fi
DoT is worthless since it's so easy to block at the network level, so I'm not counting Android. And doesn't Windows 10 only support it if you're in the insider program?
There is a great Mark Ruffalo film based on the true story of DuPont dumping these chemicals in West Virginia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Waters_(2019_film)
ADA is also very hot in those markets
I had a look at your post history, and obviously, I don't agree with your ideas about COVID - but I'm curious, what got you so emotionally engaged?

I've had some relatives die, I've spent large portions of the pandemic cooped up inside with kids, I've missed funerals, etc - and I think earlier in the pandemic, I was probably about as emotionally engaged as you are, except, in the other direction. Now, I don't really have much of an opinion about it. Why do you continue to care?
I'm sure it would be possible, but I would assume controlling fish tailing tractor trailers in snow would be on the harder end of the spectrum of automating truck driver problems. It is a hard problem and there is a lot more risk to human life than automating a taxi in a city. Even if they perform better than real life drivers, it seems like we are trending towards requiring perfection and we might be a long way out to a scalable solution.
I definitely read the title as "buff redditor"
The goat has to be sacrificed at an Equinox gym for that to work, duh. Why do you think they call it spring equinox?
That sounds like way too far in the other direction at both places. Stuff like drinks and printers are basically noise compared to engineering payroll when you're paying people $250k a year.

The lesson should be buy whatever the hell people want, just stop buying people until you need them. They're the expensive bit.

3 great devs can do about the same work as like 30 average ones. People massively underestimate communication overhead. As soon as you lose the 'startup feel', you lose the speed, and it's gone for good. The transition is probably inevitable, but there's a threshold of revenue you have to reach before you make it. If you don't reach it, you're cactus.

150 devs and 50 sales people to generate $600k yearly revenue is laughable.
There's a lot of interesting content that flies under the HN hivemind's radar... or simply was posted from a wrong time zone.

The internet never sleeps, but the content aggregator sites don't acknowledge it. I wish they treated submissions posted in the last 24 hours as equally fresh.
An Update to Raspberry Pi OS Bullseye
The humanoid robot will arrive right on time. Just as soon as Musk completes the new semi, the new roadster, the Cybertruck, the '25k' Tesla, Full Self Driving and his new battery plants.

Why ANYONE believes the huckster, I have no idea.
No, you don't. I have only one choice of ISP, Comcast. Comcast sniffs all DNS traffic to this day. Their DNS is hard-coded into their routers. I know they sniff because I have gotten DMCA notices while using a VPN. I had to spend quite some time setting things up to my VPN provider's recommendations to be able to use their DNS. I haven't received a DCMA notice since.

And yes, I know a cheap router can easily fix this problem. I just haven't had the time..
I read everything. Hckrnews is IMO the best source for news and current events, and because of my job, I am constantly scouring for news, and new ideas. Generally I read all first, then go through new.
I still don't understand how come Deutsch's theory is supposedly more promising than Wolfram's.
Thanks, looks like you're right. That's some counterintuitive UX right there, requiring the user to scroll several pages just to see a mid-thread comment. Wonder why they don't just put the replies immediately below the tweet they're replying to.
A lot of emulators are basically vanity projects written by one person, so it can become super personal. Criticism can feel like an attack.

My friend wrote an NES emulator decades ago and he fit this model. Got into flamewars on Zophar's Domain and such lol
The "lightweight thread" alternative would probably make the Ajax call blocking, so you could just launch a thread that waits for it to finish, then continues on with the rest of its instructions. The "callback hell" wouldn't exist in the first place.

This is exactly what Golang did, and in my honest opinion, it's a breeze of fresh air in the modern mess of processes/threads/asyncawaitcoroutines and all their combinations.
Looks like I'll need to give it a try. Since I have the ultimate, most likely non-canon, US sourcebook already!
My annoyance with this is, you can pretty much run a "Blade Runner" TTRPG with any suitable system. You barely need to do any prep: we know there's guns, space ships, FTL, extremely good computers, etc. Thats like half the existing OOTB sci-fi settings. Pick one with the desired crunch and take a few minutes to skin it (no pun intended).
> This war simmered, starting with 50 years of broken promises about the Eastern border of NATO.

The mythical promises (which, even if the stories about them were completely true, were neither made to Russia nor made in a form that any future government beyond the one they were made to had any reasonable basis to rely on nor made in a form that could be reasonably held against any future leadership beyond the actual individuals that made them) happened in 1989-1990. So, even ignoring that the only entity that could arguably rely on them was gone within two years and the only people they could be held against were out of power within three, it's not possible for there to have been 50 years of them. Also, Russia was actively seeking eastward expansion of NATO (specifically, to include Russia) starting before celebrations of its declaration of independence from and leading role in destroying the USSR had quieted down in 1991, and for nearly a decade afterward.

> The Eastern Ukrainians, aka, The LPR and DPR, have been shelled by the Western Ukrainians for the last 6 years or so

That's not accurate.

The Russia puppet pseudo-states, created through force of Russian sponsored Nazi mercenaries like Wagner and Nazi militias like Sparta (which individually is much larger than Azov that Russia likes to talk about so much, which was part of the response against their Russia-instigated aggression), have held, since 2014, a small fraction of their claimed territory in Eastern Ukraine and been shelling Eastern Ukrainians outside of the territory they hold and abusing those opposed to Russian aggression within it for the last six years. That's expanded, as well as the scale of abuse, with Russia’s open direct invasion recently.
I think a "rising" page like Reddit has will be a happy medium for many folks between browsing the FP and new pages.
Was Bluray technologically superior and more expensive? I don't remember that being the case, but it may have been. I think the ubiquity of the PS3 was the decider for that generation, so I guess, if it was more expensive, it's a decent example.
had anyone done a nearest neighbor lookup / cosine similarity from the output of a styleGAN to the training set? I can never quite wrap my head around how much is being hallucinated vs merely regurgitated.
It is thought that the biggest challenge for using a wheel for serious applications was getting the axle right. This is not an issue for toys.

https://interestingengineering.com/the-history-and-evolution...
Yeah, the KDE Free Qt arrangement is pretty unique and makes it significantly less likely that there will be a rapid dropoff in Qt open source. This became important because the modern Qt company is awful.

That said, I still think the direction of Qt has kind of sucked. QtWidgets is mostly stagnating, and Qt Quick is not really appealing to me…
Comcast does it to this day.
I would love an stb single header style version of this. I had to build this recently and it was a fucking nightmare.
Didn't the UK run into a problem a decade-ish ago where the group compiling the list of porn sites to block by default included the websites for their rival political parties? I just tried searching for references, but I can't find anything with details. I can't speak with certainty and it sounds like it was just a grunt being a jerk, but still a risk with these types of restrictions.
> sigma denotes "significance", not standard deviation.

Nitpick: this is still a standard deviation in some (potentially very contrived and nonlinear) coordinate system. (As a simple example, a log-normal distribution might have a mean of 1 and a standard deviation effectively of multiplying or dividing by 2. Edit: also, multidimensional stuff might have to be shoehorned into a polar coordinate system.) But in practice you'd never bother to construct such a coordinate system, so that's more a mathematical artifact than anything useful.
It's also a pattern to commodify things that used to be basic knowledge for any systems administrator. That is both good and bad; new generations of computer people don't know how their systems work or how to actually do certain things, on the other hand, it makes it more accessible to more people.
Can't you still play around with the DNS resolution on the Pi-hole itself even if it is using DoH on the far end?
Zipfian distribution.

After scanning/browsing the first 2-3 pages, there's no point in looking any further. Might as well look at new.
I would almost certainly buy it if it had Python support. I code in SublimeText all day, and sometimes want another project open in something I can command+tab to, so I've got several secondary editors, none of which I particularly like. I despise VSCode because it feels like Windows XP, Nova has some quirks that I just can't get past, TextMate is currently my preferred secondary, but it's so far behind everything else. I really like the look of the minimap on Zas, very clever.
> If an external supplier sees you building an alternative to get off their product, they will sabotage your efforts by artificially dropping their prices below cost, tanking your efforts.

US owned / domestic oil companies can still do this. I don't see what independence gets us here. Unless we go the communist route and nationalize oil production, which clearly will never happen in the US.
I've never used those. Can you write and release the code for anyone to modify/install and run on their iPhones without Apples approval?

Because if so, that's great.
> US and Canadian "no encryption" campaign

What is that?
In vacuum.
My bad. I forgot that one of the many issues I have with the EU includes the fact that it is also Big Telco's little bitch, and they only institute block-level policies when it suits Deutsche Telekom/Vodafone/Telefonica.
Sharing aspects of your personal life should come naturally and never be forced. I think the role that leadership/management has to play here is to lead by example. A healthy work environment acknowledges that everyone has lives outside of work and encourages people to keep work and life in balance. As a manager, if I share details about my personal life it encourages others on the team to do the same. The opposite extreme is where leadership never shares anything and creates a dehumanizing environment where work and delivering results takes precedence.
Reproducible Builds in March 2022
>And if I was an intelligence agency trying place spies, Cloudflare would be among the first tech companies I'd target.

This seems like a threat model swap in the conversation. The subject threat model here is (1) defending against companies stealing and selling my data. You swapped in the threat of (2) state level agencies spying on you through these companies.

The problem is that #2 seems to be an intractable problem. (but not so much because of an infiltrated DNS provider, more like cable taps and infiltrated hardware manufacturers)

#1 seems to be a more solvable problem (albeit at increasing levels of complexity). When you bring #2 into the conversation, it defocuses on the solution to #1 and gets to a point where we all throw up our hands and admit helplessness and defeat.

I see this happen often and I think every conversation should be clearly grounded in the threat model that is being addressed.
yes this is precisely how I connect all my computers. I use a VPS as a relay solely for its public static IP. Then every device I own uses that relay to connect via wireguard. It's been a magical experience having 16 bits of private address space populated with vms, r-pis, pcs, phones, etc.
This is because Le Monde is not GDPR compliant.
Sure… so 100 years? 2000? Take your pick. AI Vision is developing ridiculously fast.
There's a very simple argument for hygiene and convention: The halting problem should make code unreadable, it doesn't largely because of hygiene and the shared knowledge formed by programmer culture. These things restrict the language to something that's just Turing complete and much easier to read.

There is a such thing as legitimately unreadable code, I've had to deal with it. Usually it's abusing things like the blurry line between objects and hashmaps in languages like js and Ruby.
Five years ago I worked on implementing a custom Bluetooth interface to act simultaneously as a Central and Peripheral for a smartwatch. The first several months of the work was spent reading the massive documentation and reading the driver source code and spec sheet and example programs from the chip vendor and getting the development environment set up. Some work has absolutely no real observable measurable output.
Looks very nice, well done! Should be fun to play with the team.
I read research papers often and I found reading it together with other peers quite helpful when I did research.

So I recently created a small tool to read research papers together with other people with annotations and comments.

https://www.scholars.io
What I see a lot at airports is: people traveling with ALL of the following:

- mobile phone

- iPad

- Laptop

So each time another smaller device gets invented people just _add_ it instead of the smaller devices replacing the bigger ones. So despite all the technical integration, the weight of people's hand luggage (gadgets + adaptors) actually goes up, not down!
As I said, if most queries are read-only it's really simple. Streaming replication works very well out of the box, just make sure you keep enough WAL segments on master so that slaves can catch up after some downtime.

I have a 1-1 relationship between application servers and databases. The application queries replication delay and marks itself as unhealthy and reports an error if the delay is too high. You can also do that via postgres (max_replication_delay), but I found this way to allow for more graceful failovers.

With streaming replication, servers are completely identical, so you can easily provision a new server. Failover is done by just one command on a slave. I don't have automatic failover as I only needed to use that once in several years (and that was on purpose), I'd rather accept downtime than having an unwanted failover.

With that setup you can always failover and can scale read operations really well. There are solutions for postgres if you need more complicated setups, but I never looked into them.

If you're in Europe, it's really cheap to get a dedicated machine from Hetzner with a few TB of NVMe. Just pay the extra money for 10gbit link, otherwise replication will take forever. But there are also some decent providers in the US, it's just more expensive. But with Hetzner, a two machine setup will be <$500 per month for really beefy servers.

I'd just be careful with using block storage, I often found that to be a bottleneck with database servers. Local storage is almost always much faster.

But in the end it depends on your use case. In the end, your database will usually go down because of a bug in the application or some misconfiguration. Both can happen on any service. It's really so rare these days to lose a server without notice. And Postgres is really stable, I've never seen it crash.
emacs :^)
You are definitely beginning to 'get it'.
Interestingly (someone told me) that those artifacts and the videos especially can remind one of psychedelic hallucinogens.

There seems to be some shockingly similar transformations, patterns and artifacts with other, related projects as well, including color patterns, movement, things melting or merging into each other etc.

There is a ton of computation happening in the visual cortex. If disturbing it, connecting different things or "seeing behind the curtain" matches some of these visual computing projects then I think we're onto something.
Something that I find incredible, but have seen no one contradicting yet, is how when ISPs have started to roll residential IPv6 by default some years ago, they first had no firewall on IPv6 and/or later it was disabled by default (so only few % of users would enable it at best). (Not sure if the situation has changed ?)

Now, IPv6 (when properly implemented, which is another failure mode) comes with much better safety out of the box (like not being able to scan all the suffixes in a reasonable amount of time to find computers on the local network to target), but I'm still impressed that now we seemingly have hundreds of millions of personal computers "directly" connected to the Internet with at best only the OS firewall as protection (when one exists), and it hasn't resulted in major hacking issues ! (yet.)
I imagine that "best practices" will evolve a lot over the next few years
Nicely done. The Super Search and Multi-Find features look very interesting.
Beanie babies aren’t scarce and can only be produced by a single company.
Emacs with evil-mode is a pretty good Vim, with the added benefit of the whole Emacs ecosystem.
On a tangent, wondering "but what about thx?": TIL that THX is orthogonal to the compression/transport format and is about measuring and adjusting the movie theatre audio to better and "well enough" match the recording studio characteristics.
> We haven’t already done that because we didn’t really expect this much attention within hours of releasing.

Sorry about that, I posted it here only a minute after you posted it in r/rust and I didn't expect it to blow up!
No.. with windows I never have to care about MS because I don't use a package repo, all the apps I use (many open source) , are supported directly by the dev without a middle man.
Id love to get into some TTRPG, but I live in the middle of a tiny village, in a tiny country, where i dont yet speak the language.

As an RPG novice (only ever played CRPGs, cards and boardgames) is there somewhere I can go online to learn the ropes and participate? More than happy to pay for the experience.
This particular trend has a long way yet to metastasize. It violates rule 34 at least. The list of "This X does not exist" is counted in the teens and we will see lots more of it.
I've been using vsts via a webpage using codespaces on my ipad combined with copilot. It's pretty amazing.
You can't expect everyone to have perfect judgement on the first go. They admitted a mistake openly, and they're simply asking for that to be reflected in a top comment. Otherwise what's the point of admitting a mistake if few people notice it's been amended?
Honestly this was me until I met my gf. Alleviated a lot of the social pressure from being single.
> At the start, everyone has shaken zero hands, so you all start at an even number. Let’s say Anna and Byron take the initiative and shake each other’s hands. Now they are at one handshake each.

> Caitlin needs to join in, so she shakes Byron’s hand, giving her one handshake, an odd number. But now Byron has two handshakes, and so he’s back to an even number.

The first blunder of the game. Byron was already in a winning position and was under no obligation to shake a hand, but he has allowed Caitlin to capitalise on his stupidity.
how I see UBI: we are moving to a very automated society that will have most things produced by machines. The only work available probably will be for people who knows to to make and maintain the machines and people who work in things that machines still can do, specially service workers.

So most people will not be able to do any job, or jobs that pay enough for them to survive, so, I can't se where UBI would work without inflation, since productivity would be high.

The thing is, if you look around, most people in the world problably already do a job that could be done by a very simple script, specially office work.

My first job, I got 12 people fired from financial sector in a university because the only thing they did all day was counting checks and money manually.
> We recently introduced doing some planning every 8 weeks; plan is fly to the home office, spend a week having those spontaneous in person conversations

You plan to have everyone fly somewhere for a week, every 8 weeks?! Wow. Really glad I'm not on that team.
> Axiom have struggled with how to brand their experience.

"From ISS to OSS, the future oligarch space station"
> That said when I want to run a public server I just rent a VPS and run it on that

I have a setup similar to the OP and there's a really good reason for it: cost. For $2k in hardware (one time) and a VPS + electricity at $20/mo, I can run a 64 core, 192Gb, 24TB server. Let's call that $4400 over the course of 10 years. You would burn through that budget in roughly 1 month to get the same specs on AWS.

Obviously I'm neglecting the impact and cost of network, if it's a hobby you can just reuse your existing connection but you can always buy a dedicated line (and adjust the cost calculation accordingly)

In terms of security, you can mitigate the surface area by running a reverse proxy on the VPS. I've got nginx on the front line which does TLS then proxy_passes to my basement server at its wireguard IP address. So it's strictly limited to http, no direct database or ssh access.

I don't know if I'd ever run a "real" website this way but it's great for hobbies and side projects.
Just counting https://www.ouruboroi.com/

"...what was doubled is reduced by the amount of the predecessor."