skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Unshared or Private Caches for my app/company to use?
Cache-Control:private only states that shared caches (such as proxy caches) should not cache the response but any private cache can. Now my question is do folks know of any such private caches in use (commerical or open source) as I can sense a lot of webapps today can be made faster with an "unshared" or per user cache e.g cache with user specific keys and cookies such that its purely a per user cache. It sounds like something on the user's machine , correct?
“Breast is best” does not mean or suggest “you shouldn’t have kids if you don’t want to breastfeed” for the simple reason that the second best option can also be a good one. Put differently, breast is best doesn’t imply that formula is bad. Your reasoning is atrocious and simply isn’t justified by anything the WHO could cite in support of “breast is best”.
Question: Is there a way to play with these things at home? Any pointers to DIY stuff?
KDE Connect is one of those unsung features that really should be front and center in Plasma's marketing, and elsewhere, since it is available on more than just Plasma Desktop.
That’s pretty awful, who were the commentators? I didn’t hear that on the BBC / Graham Norton commentary.
The actual title of the post asks the hypothetical questions: "Can we make a black hole? And if we could, what could we do with it?"

From where I'm at, that gives me all the opportunity that I need. I described the type of black hole that I would like to create, gave evidence from the historical record for some of its attributes, and described how it would or should be used.

I'm not sure why you are unable to acknowledge this. OP asked people to think about it. I thought about it and replied. Perhaps you didn't see the same cartoons or are not seeing the utility of the personal instant black hole.
Sure, but Javelins (considered a very reliable weapon), is top-down AND 8kg of tandem charge of 900mm+ penetration.

I think NLAW is ~500mm of penetration and top-down. Its not too hard to make a top-down weapon these days, but it does add weight to the device.

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EDIT: I'm pretty sure that you can't just "drop" a mortar or AT4 warhead reliably either. You'd want to make it into the shape of... well... a bomb. So that the "shape" of the shape-charge points in the correct direction.
Podman Desktop Companion
See https://iongion.github.io/podman-desktop-companion

One step closer to first stable release, it was quite an adventure since the beginning of the year when it all started.

Latest updates since previous release are quite big in functionality and bugs getting fixed:

- Added Network support

- Added Container Image security scanner reporting using trivy

- Added docker engine and docker api support

- Added configurable paths to container engines

- Added full support for LIMA on MacOS and WSL on Windows with relaying

- Added ability to generate `kube` yaml

- Added Pods support

- Faster application due to messaging infrastructure change

Plus many other bugs getting fixed, which I am grateful for being reported by patient, passionate and dedicated users world wide.

If all goes well, next big plans include

- plugin architecture

- more engines supported

- documentation and videos

- container building tool

- project support

- more scanning and intelligence tools
>We lost American manufacturing not because of regulation, but because of trade policies that allowed global corporations to avoid those regulations and profit by outsourcing manufacturing to countries with laxer regulations.

So how is that not losing American manufacturing to regulation? If other countries have laxer and more favorable terms for businesses and those business are succeeding, that's sufficient evidence to demonstrate that regulation stifles manufacturing.

You phrase your statement as though regulations are naturally occurring substances rather than the wishful, bureaucratic, and often violent mandates of government that they are. If the government has enough agency to compose such regulations, it should have enough agency to acknowledge and accept the resulting consequences when businesses vote with their feet and their wallets.
I guess people are withdrawing USDT to USD on bitfinex, so bitfinex needs to redeem USDT? Is there another obvious explanation I’m missing?
I didn't get access denied from Canada.
Really surprised to see the UK in second place. It's true that they normally have zero points.

It was always gonna be Ukraine to win this year.
Oh look a Reason article where "government is bad." What a shock.

Baby formula needs to be closely regulated (see: history around baby formula.) Poor people need to be able to care for their babies (see: babies dying is bad.)

Seems like things went awry here, but the policies in place are all worthwhile in my view. (Limiting the import of baby formula from other countries falls under the need to closely regulate baby formula.)

If anything this is evidence that something so important to human life shouldn't have any for profit organizations involved because those companies can choose to risk not having adequate supply if the upside of that risk is greater profit.
Oh god please don't, it's a terrible idea and recipe for gastric distress.

I've gone too far with protein shakes and felt terrible. I'm a body builder and have used almost all diets as I've bulk and cut. A protein shake only diet is effectively a Protein Sparing Modified Fast (PSMF) - zero carbs, zero fat, but shakes only is just the worst way to do it. Lyle McDonald's "Rapid Fat Loss Diet" is popular PSMF and more sensible. Focus on white fish, lean meats and moderate green vegetable with planned periodic cheat meals. Be in no doubt that it's an extreme crash diet with negative hormonal consequences. If you don't have a compelling reason to crash diet, I wouldn't do it.

The benefits I experienced with a PSMF are similar to keto which is much more sustainable with fat. Once I cut out carbs, my appetite just disappears. Without carbs, I don't get hungry as such, instead I get type of tiredness which indicates I should eat. The desire aspect of eating drops off which prevents overeating.

Doing keto for the first time was brutal for me though. 2-3 weeks of keto-flu - tired and ill feeling. But after adapting it's easy. These days I can snap in and out of keto without noticing any ill effects at all.

After 15+ years of various forms of diet, my main trick for cutting is just to eat less desirable food. Don't buy food I can lose control with. Don't use condiments that make things tasty. That turns out to be easier than portion control with delicious food but it's likely a personal thing.
Ask HN: Can we program a validation that foo happened at a specific past moment?
This challenge has been in the back of my mind for a while and I can't crack it.

There are many scenarios to explore this, but let's say we're a presidential department tasked with recording a meeting in a way that can be later verified. (We could also look at evidence gathering where the person gathering has the legal right and technological ability to do anything. They're fundamentally the same problem)

We can't rely on internet access (that would be too easy because we could just send a request to a server).

We can't rely on standard file metadata because it can be forged.

["Mains hum"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mains_hum) has been helpful for some things, but since the data is public someone could fake it by adding the expected hum later.

The only thing I can think of is to have a reasonably up-to-date blockchain on-device, then add a file's hash as a transaction. I still don't think it could store timestamp in a verifiable way but it would at least tell you the sequence that files were added (which is hopefully the sequence they were taken)

Has anyone actually solved this problem?
Lots of the distros have accessibility teams and they are good places to get involved, for eg here is the Debian team's documentation:

https://wiki.debian.org/accessibility
https://wiki.debian.org/accessibility-devel
any kind of explosive would probably be a good start... might want to check laws first though
Toughen up a little bit, it’s a doll.
> libertarian leaning authoritarians

That seems to be a bit of an oxymoron to me.
In my opinion doctors underestimate the danger of benzos. They also often don't know that there is a black market for benzos (like there is for any other drug). Patients will be able to find benzos if they look for them even if they don't have a prescription.

I had a friend who wanted to stop smoking cannabis and got alprazolam prescribed for that by his doctor (it was in EU). In my opinion it would be better to stick to cannabis than switch to Xanax.

I myself tried talking with my family doctor about my benzo addiction. I was addicted to etizolam, a RC benzo popular at the time. He seemed not to believe me that it was possible to get benzos without a prescription, and told me that I was wrong and couldn't have a benzo addiction.
Great article. Even as an endurance athlete I struggle to lose weight w/o intermittent fasting and I can only do that in the off-season. Knowing your body comp also will help understand what’s going on - get a smart scale.

One metric I find useful is that if you don’t wake hungry you are probably eating too much. Dial back slightly until you wake hungry.
> I do find it interesting that they've published a GPLv3 application in Apple's App Store, though. I recall the App Store and GPLv3 not going together well, though I must admit that I never cared enough to read into the details.

If they're dual licensing it, it would make sense. GPLv3 has stipulations that Apple's App Store platform refuses to meet, making it otherwise incompatible with the license.
The mental image which is working well enough for me is a series of tightly packed bullets with each one digging the hole a little deeper than the last one.

Of course the shaped charge isn't a gun though and the stream of copper doesn't travel for hundreds of meters/yards. If you need to stand off from the target you'd want to mount it as the payload of a rocket and fire towards thine enemies.

EDIT: this is of course a better description:

https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/munitions/bu...

So the rod is traveling so fast that it and the target act like liquids, even though it isn't molten.
Check out The Shangri-La Diet by Seth Roberts for a way to hack your set point with a daily tablespoon of flavorless cooking oil. I'm sure someone on the web has written up the details if you don't want to read the book.
It is extremely unbecoming to lie about who you are on this forum.

Scalability is defined differently depending on context; in this context (a monitoring/time series solution) it is defined as being able to hold a dataset larger than a single machine that scales horizontally.

Downsampling the data or transforming it does not meet that criteria, since that’s no longer the original data.

The way Prometheus “scales” today is a bolt-on passthrough with federation. It’s not designed for it at all, and means that your query will use other nodes as data sources until it runs out of ram evaluating the query. Or not.

The most common method of “scaling” Prometheus is making a tree; you can do that with anything (so it is not inherent to the technology, thus not a defining characteristic, if everything can be defined the same way then nothing can be- the term ceases to have meaning: https://valyala.medium.com/measuring-vertical-scalability-fo...)

I’ll tell you how influx scales: your data is horizontally sharded across nodes, queries are conducted cross shards.

That’s what scalability of the database layer is.

Not fetching data from other nodes and putting it together yourself.

Rehydrating from many datasets is not the storage system scaling: the collector layer doing the hydration is the thing that is scaling.

If you sold me a solution that used Prometheus underneath but was distributed across all nodes, perhaps we could talk.

But scalability is not a nebulous concept.

You should refer to your own docs if you think Prometheus isn’t a database, it certainly contains one: https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/storage/

I should add (and extremely frustratedly): if you’re not lying and you’re a core Prometheus maintainer, you should know this. I’m deeply embarrassed to be telling you this.
Cognitive psychology findings that passed a stringent replicability test (2017)
Pretty sure they focused development resources on projects that made money.
I've heard of doctors taking benzos after drinking. It's a potentially lethal combination, as you can stop breathing in your sleep. However, if you wait until the alcohol has metabolized in your system and becomes a stimulant (when your BAC is about 0.05, or about 4 hrs after moderate drinking), a short-acting benzo in a low dosage can counteract the stimulant effect of alcohol and let you sleep. I have done it before, and works very well, but that's because I have a breathalizer, very low dosage Xanax, and I am responsible with my health. I would never recommend this to anyone, as a wrong calculation can result in death; that's how many hollywood and rock stars have died.
Others already covered the string issue, but broadly you can't have a compacting GC if you need to also have stable C pointers. Can't move the data around to compact it at that point.

In theory this is why JNI has GetPrimitiveArrayElements and GetPrimitiveArrayCritical. The Critical variant could block the GC from running at all for the duration or disable compaction (hence why you also can't make other JNI calls in the interim). In practice the way I've found that's most consistently fast is to actually use the GetArrayRegion methods. You're paying for a copy, but you're often paying for one anyway. So at least you can avoid the release JNI call, and copy to memory you've allocated (and could then also reuse).
Ukraine Wins Eurovision
All design is compromise.

The autoloader is a design decision: it replaces a crew member, so Russian tanks operate with a crew of 3 instead of 4. This makes Russian tanks smaller and lighter. Here's a size comparison of the T-72 with the Abrams: https://preview.redd.it/mtwtamct1t821.jpg?auto=webp&s=101442...

For the massed tank-on-tank actions it was meant for, this is good! Smaller targets are harder to hit, and T-72s were supposed to be fighting gun duels against M60s while crossing West Germany, so all the armor is in the front plate. Lighter tanks are cheaper, so you can build more of them, going from 4 crew to 3 means your limited pool of tankers can operate 33% more vehicles in the field. Classic cold war-era doctrine, hard lessons learned from WW2. https://www.rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/comme... (It makes regular operations like tank maintenance or replacing damaged tracks way harder, but oh well, nobody ever said being Russian was easy)

Separately, there is no particular reason to think Abrams tanks wouldn't be vulnerable to the same weapons, if the Russians had that tank today and were fielding them in the same way they're operating their own tanks. Abrams also has light top armor and no ERA tiles on the roof. An anti-tank grenade dropped by a drone on an Abrams ammo compartment would mission kill it instead of killing the crew, but it would still be out of operation. AFAIK, no Abrams are equipped with Trophy in significant numbers, so it would be just as vulnerable to Javelin or other top attack ATGMs.

Tanks are vulnerable from the air, so you need air supremacy; vulnerable to artillery, so you need counterbattery suppression; vulnerable to man-portable AT weapons, so you need dismounted infantry combined arms; vulnerable to AT mines, so you need demining combat engineers, perimeter security so UKR spec ops can't cross lines and plant them, and military police so enforce civilian curfews. Russia is doing none of this, partly due to incompetence, and partly because they just didn't have a big enough force. (Desert Storm took just a hair under a million troops!)

If Russia had Abrams, but held all else equal, we'd still be seeing hundreds of flaming wrecks on the nightly news.
I really enjoy it when techies show their egos and contempt, without having the full picture. I'm speaking with an EM where I work now, who just insulted my entire team and the rest of the engineering organization, and puffed himself up with his resume (which essentially consists of various CTO/VP/Director level positions one failed or small-time startup after another). I'm half tempted to report him to HR, to be honest, because his pointless antagonism serves no purpose other than to stroke his own ego by deriding his peers and venting his spleen.
For simulating a completely blind user, you could put on a blindfold and try out the software after turning on your desktop's accessibility features. I think there are resources for simulating different kinds of color vision. Also try using your app with one hand. And with no hands but a joystick or other device you use without your hands.
Eat as little as necessary, but not less. Stop thinking about food as of something valuable, and think of it as of pills that keep you alive. Those obsessed with food are craving for comfort: they want to enjoy the taste sensations and the cozy feeling of being full. It's wiser to not seek comfort at all: great if you have it, but don't do something just to please your feelings.
That’s because numpy is based on J which is based on APL
Bernie Sanders, for instance:

https://twitter.com/berniesanders/status/1176481898685710337

The American market is global.
This is also how Nintendo Switch games "emulate" the Wiimote cursor in Wii ports. It's quite functional, even though you have to end up resetting the position of the cursor every 10 minutes or so.
Gonna be interesting to see where 2023 is actually gonna be hosted. I imagine they're not gonna send the production to a war-torn country even if it was away from the active conflict zones, and I'm not sure if I see the situation getting settled before decisions need to be made.
The article is full of concrete accessibility issues found in modern Linux distros, so it is hardly FUD, but a description of reality.
It’s very common throughout hot & humid climates in the US to leave the central air conditioner maintaining set temperatures all day.

How often it’s actually blowing cool dry air out of all the vents depends on the unit/weather/setting/insulation etc.
https://twitter.com/berniesanders/status/1176481898685710337
Yeah… for actual papers “easier to read” is 1000x more important than “easier to write.”
See https://iongion.github.io/podman-desktop-companion and latest release https://github.com/iongion/podman-desktop-companion/releases...
It's next year so it can well be hosted in peaceful Ukraine, perhaps in Moscow.
Posted 20 minutes ago and it looks like the site is already down.

Leibniz' arguments essentially amounts to a 17th century "because I am unable to understand or comprehend another reason, including the nature of the universe, the nature of thinking and thought of an independent agent, and 'because this is a convenient reason'".

Its premised on:

- 1. The ontological argument;

- 2. The cosmological argument;

- 3. The argument from eternal truths and;

- 4. The argument from the pre-established harmony, which is more commonly known as the argument from design.
And they haven't loved wine?

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-41977709
Some dudes on Twitch.
Here's the text:

https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/7/246.16a

It's technically allowed to have some other cost-containment structure than a single-winner contract, but there a bunch of criteria that I don't fully understand that make it sound like it's effectively impossible to actually do.

> "State agencies must support all waiver requests with documentation in the form of a State Plan amendment as required under § 246.4(a)(14)(x) and may submit such requests only in either of the following circumstances:

> ...

> The single-supplier competitive system would be inconsistent with the efficient or effective operation of the program. Examples of justifications FNS will not accept for a waiver, include, but are not limited to: preservation of participant preference for otherwise nutritionally equivalent infant formulas; maintenance of health care professionals' prerogatives to prescribe otherwise nutritionally equivalent infant formulas for non-medical reasons; potential loss of free or otherwise discounted materials to WIC clinics and other health care facilities; potential inability of a manufacturer selected in accordance with applicable State procurement procedures to supply contractually-specified amounts of infant formula; and the possibility of interrupted infant formula supplies to retail outlets as a consequence of entering into a contract with a single manufacturer."

So, you have to able to make a case that a single-winner contract won't work in your case, but you can't use the argument that a single bidder makes the whole system brittle if the single winner becomes unable to produce product. Wild.

I don't see any mention of breach of contract penalties if the supplier can't keep up with demand. Not sure if that means it's left to the discretion of the participating states.

I was wondering what legislation created this regulation, and it looks like it dates back to the Child Nutrition Act of 1966, though perhaps it's been amended since. It looks like the concept of "single source" contracts was there from the beginning.

https://fns-prod.azureedge.us/sites/default/files/CNA_1966_1...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_Nutrition_Act
> This is just a terrible, terrible argument, that leads to a continual ratcheting up and broadening of the definition of "transphobia".

> Transphobia should mean only "fear or hatred of trans people".

> What it comes to mean, however: questioning self-identification, questioning trans women in women's sports, questioning trans women in women's spaces, questioning the use of puberty blockers in young children, among others. With these now defined as transphobia, it is no longer necessary to acknowledge any principled, genuine objections or concerns there, because even raising these topics is transphobic (or TERF) by definition. The sad thing here is, a frank discussion might indeed allow trans women and bio women to come to some accommodation, but insisting that some people are the only ones who can define certain words like transphobia elides those conversations.

> No. Words matter and words belong to us all, not only to those who decide

If you're opposing transgender people's attempts to secure rights that they are attempting to secure, why should you not be labelled as "transphobic" just because you personally feel that they might be able to get some more limited set if rights that you, as a cis person, are willing to give them?

It's like complaining that people are calling you "racist" for supporting segregation even though you personally feel that segregation is best for black people and therefore you aren't opposing equal rights.
Do ethics matter or mean anything if we just start changing them to fit the situation?
“What is dataviz animation good for? A thread with examples.”
I doubt that.

Underrepresented people have this relatively new platform called the internet that helps them find their voice and be heard by other people, sometimes even if just shit posting and doing some variation of "drunk dialing." I'm guessing that's a factor here.
> If you need a fast loop in Python then switch to Cython.

If you need a fast loop do not use Python.

I am a Python hater, but this is unfair. Python is not designed to do fast loops. Crossing the FFI boundary happens very few times compared to iterations of tight loops.

(I have very little experience using FFI, but I am about to - hence keen interest)
S3 promises 99.999999999% durability and 99.99% availability... I'm not sure regular VPS's give any assurance that your data won't be lost. I assume in case of HDD failure it's up to you to restore data.
https://web.archive.org/web/20220514225413/https://timlabs.o...