skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are libraries and frameworks.

Note that before Java adoption push we had stuff like ATLServer, and the first version of ASP were basically COM libraries being called from VBscript/JScript.

On our case, we were calling C code from TCL scripts, using plugins like mod_tcl.

Nowadays you have stuff like Boost ASIO and Wt.

However I wouldn't plug C or C++ directly into the Internet, rather call them from managed languages, as native libraries, reducing the risk of possible exploits.
I'm building an early stage startup where the application requirements are constant GPU usage, 30TB of VERY fast NVMe storage, 512GB of RAM, LOTS of bandwidth transfer, and roughly 130TB of local storage (dataset for training). There is no combination of abstracted API-driven cloud services that can be pieced together to do what we need to do.

I didn't want to bother dealing with the advanced calculator but the AWS EC2 instance to handle this bespoke application would be $130k/yr with one year upfront and 12 month reservation:

https://calculator.aws/#/estimate?id=b3de412ba6a7748e9acd782...

This doesn't include bandwidth (which AWS has an insane markup on) or nearly enough storage.

Needless to say you can lease the hardware from $VENDOR and host it for years with an all you can eat 10gig port. Oh and the cost is absolutely fixed - no worries about getting that shocking AWS bill we all know of.

With a lease and hosting it's still an operating expense and with Section 179 it's actually preferable from a tax standpoint.

With datacenter remote hands and vendor support you're still not dealing with hardware - you don't have to even step foot in the hosting facility. Ever. If a hardware component fails the vendor dispatches someone and it gets handled (same day). That said hardware failures are (in my experience) exceedingly rare until you get to some significant scale where it's a numbers game.

Because ec2 is OS up anyway from a dev ops standpoint it's pretty much identical.

Let's say you keep it for three years and upgrade. The old hardware is still worth something so you can repurpose, sell, trade, whatever.

Rough math but let's call this approach 1/4 the cost (but likely much less).

At AWS markup you can hire a dedicated full time person to manage just one server and still come out ahead. Want five of them around the world? Now you're saving a TON of money vs different AWS regions.

Even with this when I tell people we deployed our own hardware they look at me like I'm crazy. We have an entire generation in tech from jr devs to the C suite to investors that are terrified of hardware and will pay anything to avoid it.

Because of this they don't even know what hardware, bandwidth, etc actually costs. It's assumed the cost is whatever $BIGCLOUD offers it at. I know this is an extreme case but it probably happens more than most would think.
Release notes can be found on the Obsidian forum[0]. Roadmap is on Trello[1]. You can also learn more via the official Obsidian Discord group.

The app will continue to be developed with Electron, however Electron does provide APIs for things like native menus. Making Obsidian feel native is a high priority currently.

The latest public release (v0.15) contained several improvements towards that goal: multiple window support, native fonts, native scrollbars, native app menus.

Currently in progress is a new default theme I am working on. I previously made Minimal[2] as a community theme, which was designed around the goal of making Obsidian feel native on macOS.

[0] https://forum.obsidian.md/c/announcements/13

[1] https://trello.com/b/Psqfqp7I/obsidian-roadmap

[2] https://minimal.guide
Read up on selectorate theory for a good argument as to why majorities often don't matter. It's a well developed elaboration of the truism that politicians prefer to pick their voters, and it is absolutely employed strategically.
I agree. PKM apps are nothing but an ADD sink for me.
How many people do you know who do the same thing as you?

When Nintendo sold the SNES it wasn’t one person here and another one there playing it. It sold millions and a good percentage of your friends had it.
Well, you will probably think I'm crazy, but for me personally, having a couple of decades of C++ experience, learning Rust turned out to be much easier than learning... Swift. Yes, that famed, ultra-modern, great-as-your-first-programming-language Swift. Except for lifetime annotations and the borrow checker, Rust turned out to be much easier for my brain to parse and memorize than Swift, perhaps due to Rust's consistency and predictability and Swift's horrible language construct bloat.
Wow... That's dystopian at best.
Apple Look Around Launches in Germany
It really just boils down to a fear of death.

I have tried talking to a therapist about this many times and ultimately it comes down to. Fear of missing certain experiences, scientific discoveries, etc. But then logically I tell myself... I won't be alive to fear that?

But then that thought sends me down a spiral on its own.

Like its an illogical fear, the very nature of death you would not have any regrets... since you can't. But... yeah.

It is all kinda of weird.
My wife's feed mainly shows images as that's mostly what her followers post.

People's habits have been switching to use videos (the bubbles) as they disappear. They are using it like SnapChat. It's not the algo that changed.

Your feed is just what your followers have recently posted. When you go to a profile the bubbles (videos) are at the top and the images / perm videos are in their gallery.
> Giving a justification is seen by these people are an excuse to debate.

Yes. This is a bit tautological because 'justification' is a word that connotes normativity, perhaps unlike 'explain' or 'describe'... but justifying yourself to someone else effectively invites them to negotiate your decision because it's a tacit admission that it matters (to you, or perhaps according to a shared social norm) that your decision is one they'd approve of in some sense.

However:

> For another example, trying to turn down something you don't want to do:

> A: "Can you come over and fix my Wi-Fi?" B: "No, my car's in the shop" A: "Oh, that's OK, I can give you a ride" B: "No, I have to go get dinner" A: "Oh, that's OK, I can feed you"

Trying to address someone's express concerns is not debating them. Don't tell somebody a fake story about what you want or why and then get upset when they honor your words!
Eugenics works. We know it does. We use it all day every day. With livestock, with plants, with all sorts of organisms.

We breed for traits. That's eugenics.

The reason we don't practice eugenics with humans is that it removes our agency and tramples our rights. And that's morally abhorrent. We don't need to pretend that it doesn't work. We just need to acknowledge that directing the procreation of other humans is just flat out morally wrong.
> This is of course a lazy theory and would be nearly impossible to test out.

Even this hypothetical theory doesn't explain the early lineage A / lineage B split and is not supported by existing data.
LiteFS, a tool for edge-case data loss, unintended service hangs and data corruption /s

this kind of scheme was explored and naturally selected away in the pre-Internet networking era (whose applied knowledge was mostly lost and unavailable to newer generations after the boomer purge that began in the 2000 market crash) .. this kind of scheme should always be isolated to tightly coupled machines operating over fault tolerant and RELATIVELY high-speed links (like a cluster of boards interconnected via PCIe, fibre or Thunderbolt, each with [controller] ECC memory) not between WAN zones.

But in a tightly-coupled cluster-type environment, better solutions would exist like Redis Cluster (and RediSQL) that could be further upgraded with some kind of shared pagefile.

But for testing near-obsolete non-serverless cloud code against edge-cases, consider building a testbed of 4 or 5 rPis talking to each other over (really) slow LoRA links ..then amp up the RFi, thermal and vibration procedures and add all the code to maintain the data integrity as you monitor for the various failure scenarios.
That's a misquote/misunderstanding of OP's point. The point was rather that the quality of being in anesthesia is likely very similar, if not the same, as the quality of being dead, i.e. no qualia at all (at least, if anesthesia was done properly).
The crimes of religious extremists and witch burners are imposing religious law, imprisonment, and murder. And now you want to claim that someone asking you to change "whitelist" to "allowlist" is equivalent? Give me a break.

Either you agree that language matters and so we should be considerate about how our language affects our thinking, or you think it doesn't matter, in which case it shouldn't bother you when someone wants to update terms to be more accurate or inclusive.
F*k density. I'm for reliability!
You're just describing online interactions. This post was written for people who work in the real world with real people, not online freaks.

There are many other pressures at play that make this a totally appropriate tool to communicate shared values, none of which you've considered in your argument.
"Elite" and "elitism" are totally different concepts.

Disparaging jokes about programming languages are really tired and uninteresting, I was glad to see that the Carbon discord explicitly bans them.
Many 18th century writers of English capitalized nouns the way it's done in German. For example, the US Constitution does this. But it was already going away by then.
And this is more likely than a lab leak?
what's also silly is using qualtrics for a single-question survey that has 5 screens, including the google captcha surveillance tracking injection.
Build quality looks good. For me the purchase cost isn’t off-putting. The thought of not having time to do anything with it is what makes me think it’s a bad purchase.
In the Gaia book, Lovelock talks at length about all these challenges that life on earth has met. All these chances the earth had to become lifeless and barren, or at least barren of intelligent life.

When I read it, I came to a conclusion that's very different from Lovelock's. I saw in it the answer to the Fermi paradox: The world keeps throwing challenges at life, and sooner or later life fails to address them, and dies out. We're only here to talk about it because we are among the lucky few who got this far (the anthropic principle).

It's a pretty depressing conclusion, because we are no more likely to meet the next challenge successfully, just because we lucked out in the past. And there will be a next one, that's essentially the message of the Gaia book, the challenges just keep coming.

I can understand that people prefer instead to delude themselves with magical thinking about a benevolent earth-organism.
> If the system refuses to face truth, you will need to circumvent the system.

That is a terrifying sentence. It can be used to justify anything while denying accountability. There's always the possibility (probability) that you are wrong about what is "the truth."
> The title comes from a message that appears in the game in certain situations.

As I recall this message appears when your pet dies but you weren't able to see it happen. It's definitely a sad feeling when you are a weak character with a strong pet doing most of the fighting.
Hah I just replied the same thing to another comment.

Logically I know that I would not be alive to fear it. But it's the illogical side still afraid of that... fear.
Has anyone managed to get arbitrary code execution on it? Then it might be of use, instead of ewaste
You raise good points. I feel like I should contribute, and I have experience and domain knowledge that would be useful, but up until now I didn't feel that the goals justified the means. But there has been wars all my life, and there will likely be wars after the war in Ukraine is resolved. Am I fine with my work being used in warfare for future wars, where I don't necessarily agree with the use of force? I'm having a hard time figuring out which route would lead to most regret - doing too little, or doing too much.
How do you justify to a new employer a switch at 1 year from a MSP employer???
This may be a case where a CAPTCHA test may be a good alternative to logging in. That could have less tracking potential.
It’s important for COVID reparations.
Huge step in moving away from thermal generators and synchronous condensers for providing these services. The future of utility grid services is solid state. Congrats to Neoen and Tesla.
I take notes in a very similar format to Wikipedia, including the links. Just a lot more concise and with a hierarchy structure
I use QOwnNotes (desktop) Markor (Android) combo. Both are snappy, low frills Markdown editors/viewers/browsers, that let you set a basedir with an arbitrary hierarchy under it.

Flexible and no lock in whatsoever. I use something else to sync the dir and it works like a charm!
Alright not too bad (I'm British, that means "it's good"), the table view is new to me, I've used the board view in the 'classic' Github Projects.

At first I thought, hmm, how Excel-esque, but right away I think it's presenting the data I need quite succinctly. Good idea.
And yet they choose to go after people for $20 worth of weed, coke, MDMA, etc. It's not about cost, it's about police discretion when it comes to the crimes they choose to investigate or the laws they choose to enforce.
There has been a strong push for sites to start making people have accounts so that they can collect first party data for marketing purposes. This is a workaround to allow data slurping to continue in the face of all the various ways people have been working to limit it.

As a result, I don't make accounts on sites anymore unless it's unavoidable. Whether or not its free doesn't enter into it.
I had to go back and dig up a D700 photo.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/perardi/8836490860/in/album-72...

Yup. Image quality holds up!

…OK, that’s not entirely fair. It’s more that the image quality of the absurdly expensive lens I rented for that weekend holds up.

https://www.nikonusa.com/en/nikon-products/product/camera-le...
I think the US created Starlink for military use. It provides world wide coverage and very small latency that helps a lot with UAVs. UAVs that aren't in line of sight need satellite communication. They just allow the public to use part of it, so as to reduce the cost of the system.
There's a difference between being bullied ( and direct pipes) and countries profiting from a bully.

In this case, the bully started a war.
I use my own tool for this: https://github.com/AndrewVos/pj
I respect that. I thought I had that red line as well.
> This is when I pull out “we don’t do that here.” It is a conversation ender. If you are the newcomer and someone who has been around a long time says “we don’t do that here”, it is hard to argue. This sentence doesn’t push my morality on anyone.

False.

That's my conversation ender that I like pulling out.
> It’s amazing how early we knew fossil fuels were destabilizing our biosphere.

For those who don't know, the US government had a pretty complete understanding of the issue in the 60s.

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3227654-PSAC-1965-Re...

https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/sites/default/files/virtuallibr...
Every time I see another person hand write an ampersand, I smile and nod. One of us.
Yeah it doesn’t really make any sense- if you’re gonna charge me almost $100 for a Spotify player I’m gonna need more.

Preferably it should have its own cell modem and built in service plan, and since I already paid $90 for the thing it should really work for free. At least for a few years.
Another lazy rhetorical tactic, Association Fallacy. Not everyone is making all those claims, in fact I only made one: The lab leak is still a better explanation for the origin of COVID.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_fallacy
> Odds are it is easier to resolve performance issues and bottlenecks in your monolith than it is to transition to a new architecture pattern.

I dunno but when I see odds are $X I read unproved and perhaps unprovably, my opinion is $X
The borrow checker and lifetime annotations. It's always the borrow checker and lifetime annotations - otherwise Rust is, IMHO, as readable as (the excellent) Golang.
You need to be really good at time management and have to be able to bullshit to get out of conflicting meetings. One of the reasons I'm a bit scared to do it is the meetings.
You are technically correct for tesla vehicles (though there's some grey area around how Tesla markets things - you can't just handwave away legal liability for a death with "but the fine print!"), but not for self-driving vehicles in general. Waymo taxis, for example, explicitly does not have a driver.

And Tesla has explicitly advertised that this Waymo scenario is where they're headed, so it's a question that's definitely worth thinking about now. "Blame the driver" isn't looking like a tenable position long term.
If you've never seen Dana Meadows videos on complex ecological system
theory [1] you are missing a huge insight into modernity.

When you have massive interlocking systems of convection, atmospheric
thermodynamics, tectonics, ocean currents and winds, all in concert
through feedback loops, regulators, non-linear compression and
expansion functions, multipliers, hysteresis and tipping points, you
don't need to ascribe sentience, evolution or even biology to see the
sum as "living".

Push here. it reacts there.

In the simplest analysis, overpopulation of "too successful" species
leads to pandemics that wipe them out. Hardly a stretched metaphor.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuIoego-xVc
Great content, I loved their post covering the valorant netcode here: https://technology.riotgames.com/news/peeking-valorants-netc...
Except we have been saying the same thing for 20-30 years. And when you actually look at the costs of wind/solar (although maybe solar thermal might be useful, but for various reasons its been abandoned) they aren't as cheap as the cost to install them because they have external costs which never get accounted for. Starting with the fact that the cheapest way to build them is to build a KW of wind/solar and match it with a KW of natural gas.

When you start looking at overbuilding them to supply some kind of energy storage, or to meet even their nameplate capacity 100% of the time on average they suddenly become a lot more expensive. I posted elsewhere (and was downvoted) for posting one of the many studies of how much it actually costs to build a KW of energy using particular technologies in various countries, and it turns out that those numbers, can be summarized as: Nuke plants are expensive because we want them to be, they aren't as expensive in countries (South Korea, China, etc) where random people don't (or cant) sue to stop construction even when the reactors are the exact same technology being proposed in the US/Europe (because they parent company doing the design and construction is frequently US/European)

Followed by, wind farm's aren't cheap, and the prices only go up when you start talking about offshore and on the tops of mountain ranges.

So, its no surprise that people who just want cheap energy will continue to pick carbon sources.

Some people look at this differently, There are fundamental laws around energy density which tend to inform the economics (aka dig a ton a uranium and process it, or dig 10T to extract Neodymium, Lithium, etc and then built something that has 1/1000000th the energy density).

So, one can claim wind/solar are cheaper and getting cheaper, but its like comparing apples to oranges, there is a reason places like TX, which have a world leading level of wind installed, also have some of the dirtiest power around.

Sorta the computer equivalent of building ones datacenter around the raw price/perf of a given CPU/SoC, while ignoring every other variable. Then wondering why the HW ends up costing more per unit perf (cause maybe the motherboards cost more) and why the energy bill is eating your lunch (cause the cores are running at some extreme clock rate, and burning power).

Finally, to summarize, you simply cannot hand wave the largest problem with wind/solar away, which is the fact that they are not on demand dispatchable. To get reliable power of of them easily adds a good 10x cost multiplier or more if your not willing to use a carbon source as a backup. So, basically standing around yelling wind and solar, is the same as asking for more carbon. And using wind+solar+NG is cleaner than just NG along, but it actually costs just as much as Nukes built in countries without regulatory bodies setup to stop the construction of Nuke plants. Despite the fact that even plants built 50 years ago are the safest form of energy production in existence (safer than wind for sure) when measured by deaths per MWh.
Context, for non-Nethack players:

Nethack is one of the original "roguelikes," back when that meant a text-console game based on `rogue`. It's an RPG where your character kills monsters, picks up loot, and descends into the dungeon. If you die, that's it -- you can't just load a save; you have to start all over. It's legendarily unforgiving.

In Nethack, most (all?) roles start with a pet, e.g. a puppy or a kitten. In the early game, your pet is often stronger than you; it follows you, fights monsters, etc. It's useful in many ways beyond fighting: it won't walk over a cursed item, it can "fetch" items from stores without angering the proprietor, and so on. Your pet gains experience and levels up (puppy -> dog -> large dog), and after a certain point you're prompted to give your pet a name.

The message "You have a sad feeling for a moment, then it passes" is displayed when your pet dies while out of sight. It's pretty difficult to keep your pet alive all through the endgame, so much like any real-life pet owner, there will come a time where you have to say goodbye, one way or the other.
Curious what was unique about this war that changed you?

Seems pretty run of the mill proxy/containment/control war to me.

I know a lot of people changed on/after/due to 9/11/01 too, and I understand why or how they changed -- it just never made any sense to me.
Stalinism might had a top down approach to ideology, but what would get you in a gulag is the people around you reporting you to the kgb. This made oppression including linguistic also bottom-up

Newspeak is actually a very similar approach to what’s going on currently because it removes words that allows communicating ideologically problematic concepts.
What’s going on with the entire blacklist/whitelist issues is based on the assumption that removing a word that describes a perceived injustice will remove that injustice from the world. It is an approach that is completely blind to the real meaning a word has taken, and tries to folk etymologically hack a different interpretation. This is why the real insulting words are never these that debated.

Both Newspeak and "rightspeak" think that language creates reality rather than the other way around
> how could they enforce a provision like that in the current globalized economy?

The point of this bill is to begin deconstructing this aspect of the globalized economy.
> massive construction plans that can't fit into a single person's head

They fit great in von Neumann's head. You realize the first nuclear reactor took 18 months to build? Without accidents.

I think you are underestimating just how much brains the Manhattan Project had. Plutonium bomb wasn't even the state-of-the-art when it was dropped, it was just what von Neumann considered Yankees to be capable of pulling off.

The economics of the Manhattan Project were unbelievable. Crazy return on investment for tax dollars, just insanity, like I don't know, 1000-to-1 return in ten years. Nobody knows it exactly, in fact the problem "How many piano tuners are there in Chicago?" comes from the Manhattan Project problem "How many kilotons of TNT did the Trinity Bomb produce?"

They ended WW2, biggest war in History. And you can't respect that?