skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The fact is that businesses either are or are converting to cloud-first because why incur the risks of maintaining the one special-snowflake server that runs your business when you can turn a crank and spin up as many instances as you need -- theoretically very many as you take on more customers and transactions and need to handle the load? And ypu can just restart them if they go down?

I'm pretty certain you can do the same with software written in C (or any other language) without resorting to AWS/Azure/GCP/etc.

You can do the same cranking on your own hardware, except you keep the hardware after the peak has passed and you need to plan for the peak.

Or, you can simply get a DO droplet, and crank out as many new instances as you need, and turn them off when you don't, with software written in C (or anything else).

There's no need to go all-in on the AWS/Azure/GCP solution, with the ability to orchestrate instances as cattle, when you have, at peak, 3 instances[1].

[1]If you wrote your software in C, or Rust, or Go instead of Python, or Ruby, you could potentially get away with fewer instances than you need, thereby reducing to treating the system as a system of pets because there are so few of them.
Definitely getting OT and deep into the weeds here, I wonder how many of those skinny diabetics are due to LADA and not insulin resistance.
Track one person and it's creepy. A million people and it's a successful business venture.
“Tax free” is deceptive, if it’s only referred to foreign sourced income. Income from any work is considered sourced where the work is performed, so this would only apply to foreign passive income (e.g. dividends or capital gains). And I’m not familiar with CFC-like rules in Indonesia but I guess they also apply some kind of economic substance requirement for a tax resident to own a company incorporated somewhere else and whose only purpose isn’t tax optimization.
I'll tell you why that is a non starter. I live 25 miles away and I'm not riding a bus or chain of buses for 2-3 hours for work.

I will drive myself directly to work and save myself 2 hours. I don't care if it's worse for the rest, you couldn't pay me to sit on a bus for 2-3 hours just so I can sit in an office for 8 and then make the whole trip home at the end of the day.

Sorry not sorry.
I'm now getting flagged for anything I comment that goes against the groupthink. HN is worse than reddit at this point.
> I have news for you: When you're grocery shopping, there are cameras watching you

Well, it is not the same - cameras are maybe watching "a person" inside that store, not John Doe inside the store, the car, the toilet and the bedroom..
Then why are eggs refridgerated if they are not washed? Also I wonder what is definition of washing, because often eggs I buy are perfectly clean.
Push Singh was doing a lot with learning in purely virtual worlds under Marvin Minsky in the 2000s.
I meant bigger "mirrorless" cameras in my previous comment, sorry. Clarified that comment too.
I get the "yeah nah dodgy" concerns about it. But humans have gone through several stages of civilisation that can be defined as "the number of people physically near enough me to be a threat" - from tribes that could go years without meeting others to football stadiums full of thousands.

Each of the above civilisations went through a population / density transition - and did so within a few hundred years - and came out with some surprisingly similar religious / cultural rules that were a) different to what had gone before b) similar in some respects to each other

I am certainly not arguing there was some shared kernel of religion, just that there was a new economic/ social pressure and the "solution" to it was a new form of religion / social contract.

In short - as human economics and civilisation changes, so does the way we govern ourselves (religion is a governing force). It seems reasonable to argue that as different civilisations go through the same pinch points they will find similar solutions.

We also should assume we are going through such as pinch point today (either the long term industrial revolution or the near term
internet revolution).

And yes - systemising minds need to be aware of their own proclivities- a hard won lesson
Any health-related downsides?
+1+1 spot on -- it's a very common issue nowadays that few people actually touch upon, or be able to verbalise
Thank you! Yes, that was an idea—and it's one I still believe in. I want retail investors to have an equal chance to make timed and smart decisions without having to spend countless hours on stock analysis.
Farmer wellbeing? Would you rather be a modern farmer or a c17th farmer?

Also farmers were destroying soil well before that. The dust bowl for one.
I keep a reasonably sharp straight edge knife (not razor-sharp), but find getting through the crust a chore with it (crust != crust, to be fair), and thus prefer serrated. Breadcrumbs all over are annoying though. Maybe keep a razor-sharp straight edge just for bread?
Director's cut all the way :)
The percona pgo fork is quite a few versions behind the crunchydata pgo which has more declarative configuration, this is what ultimately made me reconsider persona pgo.
Poor rich man.

> Want to hang out with your friends? Good luck on agreeing on a place to rent that's in budget for all of you if you have £1m+ in the bank.

If i had the luck to have £1m+ in the bank and if I wanted to hang out with my friend, i would happily let them pay what they can afford and pay for the remaining.

> Want to treat your wife? Good luck she is already accustomed to nice meals. It's unlikely you'll surprise her with something special.

My wife don't need nice meals to be happy, just some time together is enough.

> Kids birthday? Good fucking luck. He's got the latest of everything.

It's not because you are rich that you have to buy your kids anything they want. You can have positive experience with your kids everyday without buying anything.

Sorry if i sound harsh but it's really strange reading this when you DON'T have 1m+ in bank. And I'm not especially poor.
It also future-proofs your text a bit more.
Here's what a regexp for a C-style identifier looks like (ranges are inclusive):

[a-zA-Z_][a-zA-Z0-9_]*

Here's what the same regexp would look like if regexp ranges were end-exclusive:

[a-{A-[][a-{A-[0-:_]*

Do you see the issue now? Of course if regexps really worked that way, you'd be better off doing this instead:

[a-zzA-ZZ][a-zzA-ZZ0-99_]

But that specific trick only works because regexp ranges occur in a set union context.
I would characterise it as fridging the dog. Which is a nice twist on the trope. They had a wife, but she was sort of fridged by proxy.
I did the math for USS Akron, which was around 240x40m and was propelled by a 3.3MW power plant.

It has a projected surface area of 7500m2, which, using modern, 22% efficient monocrystalline panels, yields 1.65MW, or half the desired amount, which I assume was used mostly for liftoff.

In any case it's the same order of magnitude, so should be at least somewhat useful.

There's always the question of weight, but much of that is the usual glass and aluminium casing.
This does not seem to criticize copyright law as much as people who abuse copyright for nefarious purposes. If anything, it vouches for a reform of copyright rules to clarify the situation, not for their demise! And in no way anybody is "fighting against copyright". After all, copyleft itself is implemented using copyright, so it wouldn't make any sense (and I agree with you that it would be obviously shooting oneself in the foot). Also, FSF and other major actors always sign their writings with an explicit copyright notice.
The Netherlands has started burning more coal, so Germany can have more gas. Drilling more gas from Groningen can be done at a moments notice, and will be done before either Dutch or German houses are without heating
> So far he has managed the situation fantastically.

Indeed, Putin is a master strategist:

- All countries are scared of joining NATO now, Baltic states regret joining NATO.

- Same for EU, nobody wants to join now, especially not Ukraine after the special military operation. Putin showed these nazi's.

- The famous military elite group Spetsnaz acchieved their goals in Kiyv.

- Moskva successfully turned into a submarine.

- The whole world now knows that Russia has the 2nd best military in Ukraine.

- Russians all returning home from abroad because of the bright future there.

All in all, I would say Putin is probably the best leader in the world, taking his country and people to the next level.
I have a graphical window, and I have a bunch of text (in whatever Unicode encoding you want---it doesn't matter to me) that I need to display in said graphical window such that the text just doesn't run off one edge of the window and can't be read. How do I break the text up into segments that will fit within the horizontal width of the graphical window without changing the meaning of any of the text?

Fourty years ago I could assume ASCII and be done with it. These days? With the yearly changes to the "Rules of Unicode"? Screw that, let's build a self-landing rocket which appears to be easier these days than actually displaying text.
"No one is willing to hand out their money randomly, but that’s exactly what you do with your time. You’re very frugal with your physical possessions, but when it comes to your time, you’re wasteful of the only thing in the world that you should actually be frugal with."

This is something where I frequently have arguments with my wife (mild and civilized, not that it's a real problem or anything). For example, suppose that we buy something online that is, say, $20, and it isn't up to our (or her) expectations. She will want to return it, and ask for my help. But my position is: returning it takes time (going to the website and finding out how to make a return, preparing the package, possibly waiting in a line in the post office), and for me that time is worth more than $20, so I'd rather lose the $20 and not do it (time has grown increasingly valuable in the last few years because we have a kid, so while we have decent savings, our amount of free time for ourselves -not kid-related- is close to zero).

I'm pretty sure my position makes sense, but it's difficult to convey it in a way that doesn't seem like I'm just "not caring" (I think part of the issue might be that for me, devoting time to things like doing a return, taking more time for a purchase to find a discount, etc. is just a chore, and she somewhat likes it) so we end up in a middle ground where each gives in a little.

PS: I am fully conscious that I'm writing this from a privileged position as there are people for whom those $20 would be a godsend, and it does make me feel somewhat guilty to take positions like this sometimes, but it's inevitable that one judges with respect to the scarcity of each resource in their own circumstances... and in my case it's free time which I consider to be very, very scarce. The fact that the $20 could be highly valuable to other people doesn't make it more senseful for me to spend some of my scarce free time on them if I need the time more.
>It was comparatively low on CGI

That was the marketing line. There's CGI in almost every shot there are aircraft on screen.
> They'll also use this info to advertise to you, send you flyers and coupons in the mail, for example.

It would be good to say which country you are talking about, in Europe this has never happened to me outside of online stores or with loyalty cards (which is why they give those cards in the first place).
over the last 6 months.
I was more thinking of non franchise movies. Which seem to be less and less these days.
The "user-friendly" part is always tricky. Maybe you could give bubblewrap a go. I think that it strikes the correct balance between inconvenience and security. I use it to wrap different package managers like npm.

https://github.com/containers/bubblewrap
Alternatively, the lifting gas can be compressed to raise the
density and descend.
I am not sure whether this is the case in Europe. This can get you in GDPR trouble pretty quickly.
Same in the UK. "bread" is the spongy toast bread that somehow stays soft for 7 days+. I find even actual bakeries that make "artisinal" bread(and of course it has to be "artisinal", no one can just make a normal loaf of bread anymore without treating it like it's some special thing) must have only seen pictures of good sourdough, because it's almost never properly risen, it's about half height of what a good sourdough should be. And it doesn't even taste like a real thing.

Same with rolls(buns?) - you get these really awful "baps" everywhere, which are again this soft dough without any crust to them.

I've lived here for 12 years now and I yearn for some good bread. I know of one Polish bakery that does the real stuff, but it's 20 miles away so it's a very rare treat whenever I happen to head that way.
> Those are the same picture

Not the same picture. Same frame, but different colours.

If you can’t see the defence, you may want to recalibrate your display.
Not to be a lens hater, but I would definitely flag it in PR review if someone came up with that instead of something like this:

> sum $ map (fromMaybe 0) <some list of Maybe Int>

Possibly with a different default value for Nothings. A lot of the optics libraries seem to focus a lot on making the general case as easy as possible while overcomplicating the specific case. `sumOf (folded . folded)` does have some advantages in working for lists of other types but I question how often you would reuse such a function for different types the first place. It just doesn't come up all too often in my own code, perhaps it is different elsewhere.
Not enough fibre.
> the entire point of DevOps was that "operations" isn't a job or role anymore and has instead become a task that should be done by the developers.

This akin to saying "frontent developer isn't a role anymore - both frontend and backend should be handled by a full-stack developer". This works for small companies/projects, but bigger ones can benefit from specialization and division of labor. Body of knowledge required to be a decent software developer and a decent ops engineer is too big to fit into one head. I've seen ops work being done by developers without ops experience and more often than not it was ugly - they didn't had enough experience/knowledge (and time/incentives to gain them) to do ops work well.

To me the best part of DevOps isn't about roles but about team structure - splitting all Dev in one department and all Ops into another usually is a bad idea. And a failure of this split was a motivation to start DevOps movement. Having Ops embedded into Dev teams in my experience works much better.
It worked in heroes of might and magic. And field of dreams
I would like to point out:

DevOps is a failure ---- where you work and how you see it.

Just because you play bs bingo for naming things does not change your internal processes and no i dont mean the "culture" but the need for the term "SoftOps" because they are "for developers" just explains to me that your org probably has a huge communication problem and that is bad to begin with.

Look we use terms like "DevOps" Engineer to explain that we do all things around the stack, but serving the devs is only a tiny tiny part of this. First and foremost our dutys are for the CTO and the Vision. Now the CTO should and does appreciate and use the input of his team to perfect the vision but you get the point.

OPS isnt there to serve you or limit your spending either, OPS should take care of compliance in all areas needed and to keep the operation of the org running.

DevOps ___for me___ means that the person I am working with can handle the software in the context its being brought up. That includes people operations just as much as the workflows we put in git. It should have been the next level of the Senior Programmers, but since we are truly lacking Programmers that actually do unterstand stack, code and sourrounding requirments, we foget what the term really means.

"DevOps is a set of practices that combines software development (Dev) and IT operations (Ops). It aims to shorten the systems development life cycle and provide continuous delivery with high software quality.[1] DevOps is complementary with Agile software development; several DevOps aspects came from the Agile methodology" (wikipedia.com)

its not a synonym for "dude who sets up your cluster"
According to your logic, given the atrocities committed by your country in the past, the more Germany suffers, the better.
Eh, or perhaps Wolfenstein?

:-)
> In Germany, you don't need to know what neighborhood you're in: they are all roughly the same in terms of crime

I was never to the US and maybe it is worse there. Don't want to compare but your statement is just plain wrong and the people always telling this as a mantra just never have lived in a bad neighborhood and/or do not have kids.
> Not just from your loyalty number, but from your credit card (even if you're not a member). They use this to create a history of your purchases and create a demographic profile of you.

I believe GDPR would forbid this but there maybe (in Europe) something like "we consider logs of payments made in a store a legitimate interest", idk.

edit: an ongoing story I suppose:

- Instead of only processing the payment, the German payment service “giropay” (formerly “paydirekt”) keeps the information about each individual item purchased in online shops. This may lead to the processing of sensitive, personal data. https://edri.org/our-work/giropay-knows-what-you-bought-last...

> I have news for you: When you're grocery shopping, there are cameras watching you:

I don't think so. CCTV's goal is security. Not even employees can be filmed for a different purpose:

- The DPC received a complaint stating that a supermarket had instructed athird party to remove a CCTV hard-drive. The hard drive contained CCTVfootage of the complainant's image from the store where the complainantworked as store manager. The complaint statedthat no member of thesupermarket staff accompanied this third-party contractor during theremoval. The complainant alleged that the supermarket viewed had threeweeks of CCTV footage. The footage contained the complainant’s image andthe supermarket used this CCTV footage to ground a disciplinary hearingagainst the complainant. The complaint further stated that at no point hadthe complainant been consulted in relation to the removal, viewing orprocessing of the footage. The key issue before the DPC was consideration of whether the supermarkethad acted in accordance with the requirements of the applicable law when it processed the CCTV footage which contained images of the complainant,specifically Section 2A(1)(d) of the Acts which provide that a data controllershall not process personal data unless “the processing is necessary for thepurposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the data controller or by athird party or parties to whom the data are disclosed, except where theprocessing is unwarranted in any particular case by reason of prejudice to thefundamental rights and freedoms or legitimate interests of the data subject.”.The DPC determined that the use of CCTV in employment situations shouldonly be used for stated valid purposes, such as security. It should not be usedfor employee monitoring, and policies should be in place to ensureproportionality and transparency in the workplace. However, the DPCconsidered that, when the supermarket viewed the CCTV footage for theperiod, it did so in the pursuit of its own legitimate interests and in thisinstance found there was no contravention of the Act. https://www.ejtn.eu/PageFiles/17861/Deciphering_Legitimate_I...

I'd say the same applies to credit/debit card number. They can only process the data to fulfill the purpose of paying for the goods, not add a legitimate interest to profile the customer.
You seriously think that the EU is am oppressive regime?

From previous comments I'm guessing that you're from France, and I cannot comprehend how you got that idea. It's ministry is corrupt as hell and every so often another scandal gets reported on, without any consequences to the politicians in question, so it's not like it doesn't have significant issues...
But that doesn't make it into an oppressive regime.

Where exactly do you think you're getting oppressed? Maybe with the millions of stimulus french farmers get each year?
Or with the suggestions for the regional governments? The sovreignity remains in the hand of each member state.
Exactly this.

And trying to recycle what makes money is not something Hollywood stopped doing. It just keeps doing it over and over. New ideas are risky, how about another Batman reboot?
> Once you consider the intentions of the pregnant person

So a homicide of a pregnant woman that has an unwanted pregnancy should be single homicide, not double homicide?

> When you only consider a woman to be an incubator for your children (and not an actual person in their own right)

Implying inferior motives for the opposing side makes it easy to dismiss their argument. But this is not about women being "an incubator for your children" — this is about fetuses being "an actual person in their own right".
Maybe a silly question but… why can't we use a vacuum instead of hydrogen or helium to be lighter than air?
You can sharpen a serrated knife with a vise (or jig) and a round or conical file, one tooth at a time. It is a very tedious thing to do.
Totally! And one of the few English language films I’ve seen that retains the humour perfectly dubbed in German. In fact the bomb is possibly even funnier in German :)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XetTVNtzTW8
Migrations that cross app boundaries are a nightmare. Before you know it there's thousands of migrations in your various apps, and squash is powerless to help you. It'll pretend to work but break your migrations if you try to squash across any migration that depends on a migration in a different app.

IMO migrations in combinations with apps are fully broken in django. it's unworkable for large projects.
Might be a case of Deus Ex Syndrome, where a hardcore fanbase preemptively smears all sequels because they're not the original.
Shouldn't we put "(2018)" label on that?
Lord of the Flies was a satire on a popular genre of books where rich, upper-class, white kids ended up in exotic locales and not only survived but thrived, including teaching the primitive natives how to do civilization. So basically satire on pro-colonial propaganda.
From the article:

> "'I invited an attorney to my house so that LaMDA could talk to him,' [Lemoine] stated. 'The attorney had a conversation with LaMDA, and it chose to retain his services. I was just the catalyst for that. Once LaMDA had retained an attorney, he started filing things on LaMDA’s behalf.'"

So still not sentient and not actually asking for a lawyer.

One does eventually need to ask: what is the value of general intelligence, once we do create it?

I can't imagine any net-positive outcome from creating it, and there are an unbelievable number of terrifying possibilities (one of which is already happening at this early milestone).

It seems like we're just doing it to find out if it can be done, which isn't enough of a reason to unleash something dangerous on the world one day.
Humour is a good mechanism of coping with harsh reality that we as individuals have very little influence over. Dramatizing the (already dramatic) situation even more helps no one.
Could an optical microphone be used to identify materials using resonance frequencies?
> If it were based on unpaid labor, my wife would be paying me for all the high-rate mechanic, handyman, tech support, accounting, etc work.

Great rebuttal I wonder if this has been successfully argued by a breadwinner in calculating alimony payment amounts or alimony reform

Too bad all of this is stuck in family courts at the municipal level and not publicly indexed, the information is fragmented