skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(10 days later...for the record): Turns out choral covers of pop songs are more common than I'd remembered. It's just that the most relevant search term is popchoir/pop choir, which wasn't obvious to me until I noticed it used in several video titles in sequence. These tend to be performed by less formal community choirs, which makes sense. And though many have mic setups, the point about choirs being difficult to record still applies.

The interesting bit is that many European languages have converged on the same juxtaposition of the lexemes <pop><choir>, with the former consistently being a loanword from English. That is, there are lots of search results to be found by translating literally to terms like popchor (German), popkoor (Dutch), поп-хор (several Slavic languages), or popcoro (several Romance languages), plus hyphen and space variations.
Visualizations inline in text documents have been a staple of any written media, since... the beginning?
Yes, exactly. Like, I’ve been in his shoes and would never take credit away from my team like that.
My short hot take on DevOps and infrastructure as code: "Infrastructure as code has it backwards"

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Take the development of programming as an analogy:

* Punched cards

* Programming in assembler

* Goto

* Callable procedures

* Proper functions

* Compiled languages (There used to be companies just selling a big C compiler)

* Interpreters/JIT compilation/...

* ...

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And here's a similar progression:

* Servers in your basement

* Some server rented where you login via SSH

* Docker/Kubernetes/Clusters in the cloud

* Lambdas and other serverless solutions

* ...

As a sibling comment pointed out: We're still in the stone ages. Somewhere between punch cards and proper functions.

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To rephrase it in reversal: "Infrastructure as code has it backwards"

Right now, we manually partition our code, then provision infrastructure and then push our code to this infrastructure.

Instead, we should take a high level language that compiles to the cloud:

Just write your business logic and the the compiler figures out what clusters/services/event-buses/databases/etc to use; It will automatically partition the code, package, build, provision, push, update. And there's even room for something like JIT: Based on the load parts of your logic get, the compiler could switch databases. Also: Automated data migrations based on your code updates. But I guess we'll end up with a big distributed virtual machine that scales infinitely and completely hides the existence of servers.

There's already some glimpses of this future: No-code, the magic pulumi does with lambdas, several language projects that get rid of the file system and just store the AST in a DB, smart contracts where you pay for single computation steps...

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But back to the question: Kubernetes/AWS/etc is a lot of work because it's not really THE SOLUTION.
Two-fold Motivation: Diagnosed as pre-diabetic, reducing global warming

Recently learned that saturated animal fat is linked to a depletion of insulin producing beta cells in the pancreas (thus causing type II diabetes). For some reason everyone talks about sugar as the bad guy, but animal fat plays a big part.

This and of course, the huge cost of meat on our environment.
Container adoption by workload is still pretty low. Most workloads are difficult to containerize because they're commercial off the shelf software (cots), Windows based, etc. You need good people who can make the best of these situations and automate what they can with configuration management, image bakeries, CI/CD pipelines, infra as code, and reverse engineering or bending that legacy app to run in a container.
The manager may be making a deliberate decision to under-staff the shop in order to keep costs down, regardless of whether they have a "We're Hiring!" sign out front.
Indeed. In Cologne, which has quite a beer-brewing tradition, there are even humongous deep and large cellars, where they stored ice and cooled the beer barrels for later sale. Some of them are as large as a basketball court and today they make nice party locations - there is no way the sound gets to the surface, so you can make any noise without aggravating neighbors :)
It's compatibility with other browsers that would be broken; Firefox can't install extensions with "manifest_version": 3 in their manifest.json yet without a flag.
Also because they are just outright missing the point of the post they were replying to. Yes, deploying thing on kubernetes is pretty simple. Deploying kubernetes itself is definitely not very simple.
I've been following machine translation for the past 8 years or so just as a consumer and I still haven't found anything that provides out-of-the-box good results, everything requires still heavy manual editing/complete rewrites of sentences.

Source Text:

俺は34歳住所不定無職。
人生を後悔している真っ最中の小太りブサメンのナイスガイだ。
つい三時間ほど前までは住所不定ではない、ただの引きこもりベテランニートだったのだが、気付いたら親が死んでおり、引きこもっていて親族会議に出席しなかった俺はいないものとして扱われ、兄弟たちの奸計にハマり、見事に家を追い出された。

Machine Translation:

I am 34 years old Address indefinite job.
A fat musamen's nice guy in the middle of regret over life.
It wasn't address indefinite until about three hours ago, it was just a withdrawal veteran neat, but when I realized it, my parents were dead, I was withdrawn and I didn't attend a relatives meeting, Hama to the brothers、I was kicked out of the house.

Still unintelligible. Along with Google Translate and other services. I don't know what it will take to get decent translations but it still seems far off.
Most of the reproducibility issues in chemistry happen in biochem in my experience(meanwhile it gets the most funding). That said, synthetic chemistry is also a problem area. Usually in synthetic chemistry it's not that the work can't be entirely reproduced, but rather that yields are fudged. That's mostly because PIs say "you can't graduate until this reaction yields 99%.". So after someone has written four papers, taught classes at minimum wage for 7 years, they fudge a 95% to a 99%. It's not okay, but neither is the way academia is structured. Super glad my discipline was elsewhere, but I saw colleagues suffer from this stuff...
All that I can say is that more than half of my department quit soon after Bologna.

The decade of the big scam was terrible for doing science also. The trust between politicians and scientists was destroyed deliberately by the first. Covid was just the last nail in the coffin.
You'd weep if you see an actual deployment yaml. What documentation provides is something minimal, and that's very long for something minimal.

Also, self-healing can create interesting problems which are fun to trace, debug and understand.
Used to be good for finding good interesting active threads, but if certain articles reach the front page, it’s going to be mostly disingenuous arguments and flame bait for a bit.
It seems like "older folks" in tech is like older folks in the NFL. Around 30. You can get pretty grizzled / salty pretty fast with bad environments.
We’ve moved a small-scale business to Kubernetes and it made our lives much easier.

Anywhere I’ve worked business always prioritizes high availability and close to zero downtime. No one sees a random delivered feature. But if a node fails at night - everybody knows it. Clients first of all.

We’ve achieved it all almost out of the box with EKS. Setup with Fargate nodes was literally a one-liner of eksctl.

Multiple environments are separated with namespaces. Leader elections between replicas are also easy. Lens is a very simple to use k8s IDE.

If you know what you’re doing with Kubernetes (don’t use EC2 for nodes, they fail randomly), it’s a breeze.
I suppose the "as a reflection of reality" is the catch in that phrase.

Is π built into the fabric of that which is absolute? Which statements are we able to make about axioms that hold outside of our reference frame?
When I first came across machine learning it reminded me of control theory. And sure enough if you search around you get to articles like this [1] saying that neural networks were very much inspired by control theory. The bit of control theory that I was taught way back was about analog systems. I have no idea if the electronic circuit mentioned at the end is even like a classical control system but it does feel a bit like something coming around full circle.

[1] https://scriptedonachip.com/ml-control
I mean, obviously it was designed to reduce human work. A tool that adds work wouldn't be very useful, would it?
Encord tackles growing problem of unlabeled data
This is what the article says "We include R&D, technology development, fissile fuel, financing cost, decommissioning and the back-end cycle."
Yeah, the extension mostly adds an easy button and keyboard shortcut to inject roughly those styles: https://gitlab.com/vincenttunru/obfuscate/-/blob/main/src/ob...
So - I love thoughtful criticism.

My ego doesn’t, but I generally find it very valuable.

This letter is honestly not thoughtful criticism.

It reads like a group of academics and specialists annoyed they were too early to profit from a technology they spent a lot of time thinking about esoterically and avoids specificity in…well… any meaningful way.

It also makes no effort to segment the space.

If a critical letter created by supposedly credible experts in a field can’t spare a paragraph to delineate between DeFi, NFTs, L1’s, smart contracts, stablecoins, and whatever else is bothering them then I think it’s fair to assume they don’t know the difference.

And if they don’t know the difference then why are we even reading this letter?

It’s a waste of our time (and theirs) to try and unpack what is pretty clearly frustration at the fact that the effective application of basic research is all that matters for adoption.

I think (at its core) everything crypto is a novel economic incentive layer wrapped in a technology package.

This creates the opportunity for blazingly fast user feedback loops and incentive alignment that wasn’t possible before (for better or worse).

Taken from that perspective, this letter misses basically everything interesting about the potential of Crypto.

So.

Read it. Form your own opinion. And move on with your day.

Gm everyone
Kubernetes is, amongst other things, a technical solution to the billing problem. Composable resources with unit costs permit organizations to charge profitably for such resources. There are also some advantages for organizations who need to purchase such resources, giving some clarity to the process.
I'd pay good money if you or someone were to attempt an objective assessment of whether the next company I plan to work at "is a business run by balanced functional adults".
I second this. You're likely to make mistakes. Wedding planners sometimes get relationship discounts on certain days things, the same way that tour agencies do, so they might not even be that expensive.

It was enough effort to learn that I tried to set up a wedding planning company after my wedding, only to find that everyone does that and it's not too profitable.

Come to think of it, it would make a good app. There's all kinds of baby shower and gift apps, I'd be surprised if there wasn't a good cheap wedding planner service.
This snippet

'If there are particularly exceptional contributors ... I will review and approve those exceptions directly'
You have quite a big typo, very visible, above the fold, in one of the biggest piece of content. It's a funny one, but a bit weird for a language-related product! (Quck -> Quick)

https://imgur.com/a/VuQzNll
Netflix’s password sharing crackdown is already a mess
I don't think the software industry has quite got its head around the idea yet that it is possible for our field to produce a technology that is as harmful as tetraethyl lead.

We kid ourselves that the worst thing software can do is a Therac-25-style bug. So long as it's 'just software', though, with no hardware interfaces plugged into actual living people, how badly can we possibly screw up?

That sense that 'well, at least we're not the tobacco or petroleum industry', puts a real limit on the degree to which software people are willing to engage with the ethics of what they do.
Elon Musk’s Boring Co. Pitched Texas on Tunnels for Cars, People and Water
Thank you for the link.
I am afraid I am not equipped to understand this paper. What is your opinion on the choice of the Y-combinator rather than the Ω-combinator?
"Given how badly common tools mangle unambiguously correct CSV data, how many variations there are which make “unambiguously correct CSV data” a somewhat small proportion of what is out there, and how many tools not only expect but require mis-formatted data and/or output it, it is scary how much the format is relied upon in major industries."

In a nutshell, CSV isn't a format. It's a family of formats, and it's not even a well-specified family of formats.

At least in semi-technical circles, I've had some success in using this to push back against CSV suggestions and get them to use better things. I'm sure that in non-technical circles I'd have zero success with this, though. It sure ain't a magic talisman you can use.

JSON isn't exactly a rigidly specified format, but it's got a lot less flex in it and I've not had as much trouble with it. Biggest problem I have is just getting people using dynamic scripting languages to please output either a string or a number, but don't just output "whatever the scripting language happened to decide based on what code paths I happened to run" when you don't even realize your code ends up casting it back and forth without you knowing and what comes out is effectively random from my point of view.
> at the extreme end of the scale would be a park bench, tree, light pole

Or a truck. Apparently someone in my town is obsessed with cataloguing all the trucks owned / parked in the area.
Luxury goods like Rolex watches are kind of a bad example because manufacturers intentionally produce less than they could in order to create artificial scarcity.
If you are on AWS you should check out ECS Fargate (serverless). It is really really good. Probably one of their more polished products.

If you want to stay on the Kubernetes route check out k3s. Super easy to setup and usable for small production workloads
If you _only_ want to keep textual notes--self hosted cloud style--then here's a minimalist web note solution. Just a few (Python) CGI's plus 6k HTML/CSS/JS:

http://sources.vsta.org:7100/notepad/index

When less is more.
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At the time, I was very much immersed in the tech community and being able to build and create interesting, meaningful technologies appealed to me. Hence, I felt comfortable making the move. But, most of my friends went away to college while I remained working from home. I have started travelling recently and have met some amazing people but I still feel somewhat disconnected.
When compared to a Linode VPS box that you provision and setup with Ansible yes, it's much more work (and much more cryptic at that) but also Kubernetes covers for a lot of failure scenarios that a simple Linux box would not be able to cope with while adding many other benefits.

The question is: do _you_ need this added complexity? That humble VPS can scale _a lot_ too.
> the pod networking implementation (a whole virtual IP space!!)

That part, at least, can be made simple: https://john-millikin.com/stateless-kubernetes-overlay-netwo...

> DNS, loadbalancing, persistent volumes, monitoring, etc etc

None of that is part of Kubernetes, and you'll need it (or not) regardless of how you choose to handle process scheduling.

There's a sort of common idea that a "Kubernetes cluster" is an entire self-contained PaaS, and that (for example) monitoring in Kubernetes is somehow fundamentally different from what came before. It's easy to fall into the trap of creating an internal clone of Heroku, but Kubernetes itself doesn't require you to do so and it can be a lot faster to just run Nagios (etc).
Interoperability is great, but I think we need more than that. We need a user's bill of rights that applies to all online accounts. We need legitimate appeals processes where companies can be forced to justify their decisions to block access to accounts.

This goes beyond social media. Consumers are being asked to "buy" content that is associated with a single account that can be banned at will. "Free" email accounts are a critical part of many people's online identity.

We need regulation that protects users from capricious bans and forces companies to be able to justify their decisions to ban and face consequences when they get it wrong. I'd be fine if such regulations also included consequences for users who abuse the appeals process.
Optimizing for money is a guaranteed flight risk for any employer. High attrition is something to avoid at smaller companies as it greatly effects morale
While not infused with borax and sulfates(that I'm aware of) Martin guitars is doing treatments to their VTS line to speed up the aging process to create the sound of vintage guitars on a brand new one.

http://onemanz.com/guitar/articles-2/torrefication/
Oh yes absolutely.

I wasn't clear enough in my comment, I was suggesting you can make a branch in your project repository for chrome. Make the change only there until Firefox supports MV3.
If you don't/can't allow location, the results page is just a url with latitude and longitude so you can edit it to any location you want. For example:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Nearby#/coord/40.68918...
> NNs are just very complex math equations

So is the equation modeling your brain.

> This internal language, if I'm not mistaken, is exactly what the encoder and decoder parts of the neural networks do.

The entire ANN is also a model for a language, with the “higher” parts defining what terms are legal and the “lower” defining how terms are constructed. Roughly.

> I'm in awe of what the latest neural networks can produce, but I'm wary to call it “reasoning” or “deciding”.

What do you believe you do, besides develop an internal language in response to data in which you then make decisions?

The process of ANN evaluation is the same as fitting terms in a type theory and producing an outcome based on that term. We call that “reasoning” in most cases.

I don’t care if submarines “swim”; I care they propel themselves through the water.

> calling this intelligence is, in my opinion, muddying the waters of how far away we are from actual AI

Goldfish show mild intelligence because they can learn mazes; ants farm; bees communicate the location of food via dance; etc.

I think you’re the one muddying the waters by placing some special status on human like intelligence without recognizing the spectrum of natural intelligence and that neural networks legitimately fit on that spectrum.
My questions are not rhetorical, so you could answer them. Money has to come from somewhere. If your answer is subsidies, then decide either to increase taxation or to cut funding to something else. I believe it is wrong to force people to subsidies academics producing nothing. You cannot tell me that a History PhD studying the life of a 15th century Pope provides much value to society.

That things worked in a certain way for centuries means nothing. Humanities academics are easy to hire, they are many, many PhD graduates, and very few open positions. Also, they make more money in academia than they make in industry. With not money outside options, it is easy to fill those roles.

I'm not suggesting cutting all funding, I think they do provide value in society. However, they shouldn't be demanding salaries that they cannot produce themselves. The fact that Business School professors (as an example, the same could be said by CS professors) make a lot more, doesn't mean that Humanities professor should make the same.

Also, having governments fund most of their budget has many risks. It is very hard for it not to become political and a tool for those in power.
We don't have use a password manager for most users, but for those with access to many and varied accounts (like IT and anyone dealing with social media) we use VaultWarden, which is a FOSS re-implementation of BitWarden. We don't do any browser or AD integration though.
Never has questioning the status quo in a workplace not ended me in an "Apocalypse Now" type of situation. Best of luck.
How do GitHub and Gitlab get away with this? Have they been given permission by Conservancy? Or are they in violation?
I think the selling point here is getting k8s' benefits using other tools would result in more work than k8s
I can relate to this, have had similar periods as well. It always seems to get better just to get worse again.

Haven't figured out the cause either, maybe it's some mild burnout? Maybe it's depression? Maybe it's some kind of mild bipolar disorder with quick cycles? Maybe it's just who I am? Maybe it's something I do/don't do, something I eat? Maybe it's the company changing?

I don't know so many possible explanations I guess
Or they are a terrible (micro) manager who measures performance by how much ‘busy work’ people are doing.
A Myth on Campus: No, Education Is Not Erotic
that means quicker than quick :)
From Google to Apple
You know what’s cool? A billion hours (2017)
Coming back from Vacouver, I might be cynical but this is symbolic if anything.

I work in downtown and got to see junkies shooting up in broad daylight, the cops weren't arresting them for possession, they just walked by like everyone else.

These drugs have been unofficially decrimininalized for years in BC. This doesn't change anything.

> The fear of being criminalized has led many people to hide their addiction and use drugs alone.

They have literal camps of homeless near Chinatown/Gastown with pockets everywhere else. They don't seem to be shy about their substance abuse.
You can run VMware Cloud in AWS to get this, but it's not as useful as it sounds: you can't have the pair of fault tolerant instances across regions or even AZs. You still need another plan for recovering from region or AZ failures, and if you need that, why not just also use that plan for intra-AZ failures instead of shelling out for VMware?
Just because a business can raise wages and attract employees doesn’t mean there’s not a labor shortage. Many people who take a newly higher-paying job leave another job. If both jobs raised their wages, that person will still just choose the better paying one.

A lot of why this is happening to service industry employees is because they were forced to look for new jobs when laid off, and found that other industries already offered a way better overall experience.
I wonder what kind of speedup can we expect from neuromorphic computing within the next 5-10 years?
I live in a rural region and we do actually have fast internet and cell phones.

Not FTTH, but good coax.

Lots of banks too.

(Not supporting the other posters argument, just wondering where you get your information about rural areas)