skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm still bummed about the discontinuation of the H2. Every alternative that I've been able to find with comparable specs is at least twice as expensive.
> What does distributions have to do with need for containers?

A lot (but not everything).

It's important to recognise where the "stable API/ABI boundaries" are. In Linux, the stable boundary is the kernel. Userspace is unstable. There are many distributions, with many small and big differences. Different C runtimes, different folder structures, different configs, modules, etc...

In Windows, the stable boundary is the Win32, COM, and .NET APIs, which are in user space. The kernel boundary is not stable[1] however, which also matters.

Even Linus Torvalds has trouble distributing his hobby dive-computer software to Linux![2] He has no issues with MacOS and Windows, because they have stable APIs and distribution mechanisms. With Linux, the kernel is stable, but essentially nothing else is. If you want to distribute software to everyone, then this is a complex problem with many moving parts that you have to manage yourself.

Containers sidestep this by packaging up the distribution along with the software being deployed. This works because the kernel ABI is stable.

[1] In the Windows world you don't really need to package up the "Windows distribution" because there is only one: Microsoft Windows. Conversely, Windows containers aren't truly portable because the Windows kernel ABI isn't stable. However Microsoft changed this with Windows 11 and Server 2022, the kernel ABI is now "stable", or at least sufficiently stable for Server Core containers to be portable for 5+ years as-is.

[2] He's complaining about "desktop applications", but the exact same rant would apply to server software also. This one talk made me understand containers and why they're so important in the Linux world: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pzl1B7nB9Kc
Many of our early hardware providers (hosts) are crypto miners, as they often have many graphics cards. As a result, we pay our hosts in crypto in order to attract them to our network. We understand your concern about crypto mining, so we've added the option to disable the background crypto miner that runs when there aren't render jobs happening. It's also on our roadmap to offer payments to hosts in USD so that hardware owners who aren't interested in crypto can still participate.
Using PAE is slow.
1. The fossil fuel industry still has no solution to the 'CO2 problem'

2. The continuous emission of this gas poses an unacceptable risk to people and the environment.

3. There are many compounds more dangerous than plutonium, which we happily use in day-to-day life: botulinum, ricin, hydrazine.

4. A runaway greenhouse effect is hazardous for tens of thousands of years, if not permanent. This clearly is unprecedented and poses a huge threat to our future generations.

5. Many known geological repositories of carbon-based compounds (permafrost, bogs) are unstable; given the right triggers, the captured methane might emerge and threaten future generations.

6. Nobody knows the true cost of climate change. The costs are so high that fossil fuel use can never be economic.

Yet we make fossil fuel use economic to the tune of 6 trillion dollar in subsidies per year. So please, stop using your "facts" to delay action against fossil fuel use.
I think, largely by not locking them out of the platform.
> Given the cynical application of laws and their moderating charter exceptions in places like Australia and Canada over the last few years, I could forsee a new republican movement emerging in commonwealth countries

How exactly would that lead to increased republican sentiments? It is not as if the queen is making these elected governments act in this way.
There are many juicy targets like that, whether it's power plants or airports or dams or bridges or whatever. We don't typically worry about hardening them against smart munitions. If you're in a hot war with an adversary like that you're pretty screwed regardless.

There's just no practical way to harden all of it against attack. And a tiny chance of some hypothetical future war isn't a good reason to choose a technology (combusting fossil fuels) that's gonna kill your own citizens every year, guaranteed. Why do your hypothetical future enemy's job for them?
The Problem with Facebook
which this thing obviously doesn’t have the hardware for

Not really, it is a software problem. iPad Air with M1 processor is gimped for programming work by the OS. The hardware is as good, if not better, than many medium entry laptops.

The real problem is that Apple markets the iPad Air as a laptop replacement which is not if you are a developer.
This won't work for us employers as they need your location to know how much to tax you.
Well, I think that's the beauty of science, right here :)
I wish my stupid smart phone had a dumb phone mode.
Nice to see more board with Gowin FPGA's.
I'm sure they are now seeing more use thanks to severe shortages of Xilinx and Intel parts in the same class. Even Lattice iCE40 has bad availability.

Having a FOSS toolchain (yosys+nextpnr from what I recall) supporting it also helps a bunch.

While the for the Tang Nano 9K is not cracy cheap ~19eur for the board and 9.5eur shipping is not horrible.
Hard to get a devboard with anything modern at that pricepoint with the same amount of LUT's.
So, setting aside that this article is actually low-key pretty positive for Amazon, let's assume you were correct in your read. You're asking why we allow "insanely biased" media? There's a whole amendment--the first one--about that.

Heck, we don't take off the air people spouting replacement theory and backdoor-cheering the attempted overthrow of the duly elected government, and we're supposed to not allow media that throws a few bricks at one of the richest companies in the world?
Don't Make Me Think.

When I see this I think about the animations, spotting small UX oddities that go against convention.

I can't remember a thing about the books though.

And that is why Amazon don't present their books like this!

Keep going though, but you have to have things like text at an agreed minimum font size and you have to make the interface accessible. Only if you have thought through those parts and got solutions can you dare to do anything new these days online.

I sound critical but I like seeing things like this far more than Amazon's web pages, it is just theirs get my money.
Most of the comments here are missing the point of the article.

Yes, Docker containers != VMs. That's the point: An old-school VM had all the components needed to run one instance of a service; this might include the core app itself, along with "support processes", like a reverse proxy for TLS termination, and maybe some other services. By design, you cannot run all of those in a single docker container.

The point of the article is to say that Kubernetes pods ~= VMs: A pod has all the components required for a single instance of a service, each one in its own docker container, but with increased access to other containers in the pod (just as processes have increased access to other processes in the same VM). So if you're coming from a VM deployment world, when you see "pod" think "vm", and when you see "sidecar" think "support process".
Stardew valley: how many sprinklers do you need for this area? How many gold bars do you need for the sprinklers? How many days do you need to be in the mines for those gold bars?

And so on. You'll have them doing algebra by grade 3.
The Inspiration Behind Mattel’s Handheld D&D Game
Would we be so generous to allow the same kind of debate on any science-related topic.
Earthship Biotecture
The effort is massive and the experience to do so at scale is very rare.
It's one thing to spend a fraction of $1B backing a startup that says it has a new small modular design that will finally turn around the economics, and have a big upside.

It's a far far more difficult thing to risk $10B on a reactor that may or may not actually ever complete construction, and has no potential for growth in value.

People never seem to cite which regulations they want to change. The NRC allowed the AP1000 at Vogtle and Summer to be constructed under a new regulatory regime at the request of industry, but the industry still seemed to mess up their construction process. And France at Flamanville has also had terrible construction problems despite having different and friendly regulatory processes.

My main problem with the nuclear industry is that it continually fails to focus on what would actually deliver nuclear, and just complains about everybody else instead of improving process or becoming accountable for results.
Meet The Fed
We've tried sheepit. Love the project, especially as you can do free rendering on it. One of the drawbacks of sheepit is that you must provide your own hardware to render others' projects prior to being permitted to render your own projects. Rentaflop, while it costs money, doesn't have this limitation and is faster while being significantly cheaper (~50% less) than most other cloud render farms.
If the chain breaks or comes off the crank you no longer have any breaks. That is a serious deficiency. I have had the chain come off on several occasions, and it can be common on a badly tuned bike.
Hand breaks all the way.
The 2CV was inexpensive and indestructible. It was perfect for 3rd world nations that the French had colonized. The 4 wheel independent suspension could go over worse potholes on unpaved roads than you have ever seen. And if something did break, you could either fix it with a coat hanger or find a nearby shade tree mechanic with enough experience to get the job done. I fell in love with it back in the '60's and wanted to bring one back to the states. Of course, it would never pass a safety inspection. The nearest thing I could find was a beetle.
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>Although doing very little to no studying and getting good grades in high school was possible, it's a lot harder to make it work in college. The coursework is more challenging and the topics go into a lot more depth, so winging it will be a challenge and frankly, isn't worth it.

Even if you find yourself in a course where good grades are easy, you'll still get more out of the course by putting forth effort. Professors have lots of their own reasons for not making grading very stringent, but you needn't let it stop you from caring about a subject.
Questionable Advice: Is There a Path Back from CTO to Engineer?
Both could be right. The original article states animal products and does not specifically say red meat like your article. It’s like an apples to multiple other fruit comparison.

It’s also not just about the animal meat (protein), fats are important as well.
Don't beat yourself up, I was thinking it was going to be about DIY antitank grenade launchers.
Here's the real reason nuclear power did not succeed in the US (I can't speak of other countries). It was opposed by the Democrats, and the Republicans, although some in favor of it, decided they don't want to spend whatever political capital they had on this. Now both Democrats and Republicans are pro nuclear power.

You may not like it, but nuclear power is having a comeback.
I use Checkly. Any idea how this compares?
How did the experience change you in the long term
I think GP was talking about CO2 (affect millions already, will still be present in a thousand years)
And perhaps I should add I know they earn ~Grad SE salaries, and actually he was trying to segue into SE, (self-studying in down-time, good on him) so it was presumably not merely a 'living wage' (the new minimum) 'gig'.
If you want a legible way to build a game in Javascript (and so much more!) check out "Eloquent Javascript". Chapter 16: Project: A Platform Game

https://eloquentjavascript.net/16_game.html
How do you think they did it before computers?
Curious what people think about the ethics of this study?

The researchers describe running an experiment on the public without opt-in consent. They also describe allowing an algorithm to do the editing. That raises questions about the kind of edits the algorithm made, how the edits influenced case outcomes, and if/how the research team will clean up Wikipedia now that they’ve concluded the study.

Are there professional guidelines that suggest how experiments like this should be conducted? Do any regulations exist to protect people who get exposed to information as a result of an experiment like this?
> It is not as if the queen is making these elected governments act in this way.

Not to mention the same class making these gross oversteps of government authority would be the ones to write any republican constitution.
Gorsuch I'll give you as, while intensely conservative, probably pretty honest about it, but Alito is a whole-cloth mythmaker on his own in the vein of a Scalia. He's about as much of a "textualist" as Thomas is, and both will search for any wild port in a storm (see Dobbs itself for plenty of them) to get to the point he wanted to get to.
Thanks everyone, I knew about rule 34, but I never remembered its number.
In this case, it's not tangential, the CONTENT is unreadable.
From a programming perspective, the scripting language is at about the level of assembly. Expressions like A*B+C*D have to be manually decomposed into add/multiply instructions with temp variables. To call a "subroutine", arguments are passed through global variables. Many of the inputs to the builtin commands have to be fixed constants, ie. you're very limited in where variables can appear.
I’m a little late to seeing your reply (my apologies) but the easiest point of reference (and where I’m drawing my prognostications from) is of course “Simulacra and Simulation”
So 1984 was right: "slavery is freedom". I'm too lazy to find thr exact quote, but I remember the reasoning in the book was similar: slavery is the freedom from the need of making decisions, assess risk amd bear consequences of your actions, so slaves must be freer than the free men.
People do care. The criminal justice system is a common topic on HN.
Why Study the History of Mathematics/Science?
If we say that four percent has to be unemployed, who would you choose to be unemployed in the rat race that is life? Just to turn the discussion into something productive.
The materials that people most want to vitrify (fission products) mostly decay in 500 years in which case it's not such a big concern that the glass lasts for much more than 1000 years.

If you are storing plutonium on the other hand (as exists in spent fuel rods) the half-life is 24,000 years and the problem is much worse. On the other hand, plutonium is a good fuel and can be consumed instead of thrown out.
iOS has it, it’s called focus mode. But good luck actually having the resolve to stay in it. (Plus the app drawer kinda defeats the idea again).
> And in one famous case, injected by a secret agent using an umbrella

I think you're mixing up the Litvinenko murder, which used polonium in a beverage, and Makenko, who got injected with poision with the tip of an umbrella.
I see what you're saying. I think the moral thing here is to beat them at their own game. Presumably any ex-cons hired by Amazon can be brought on board as union members just as well as anyone else.
>Has Vox ever once published a single article that was positive or at least neutral about Amazon?

Why does this matter.

>Why do we allow such insanely biased media?

Great question. You might want to start with all American media and their biases towards, for example, the military industrial complex over the last 70+ years. Why do we allow such insanely biased media?

>Do people read Vox and think they're receiving an accurate depiction of reality?

No, my guess is people read articles on Vox they find of interest, and don't base their depictions of reality on one outlet of news media, which sounds unhealthy. Do you do that?
> Hypervisors just seem like particularly impoverished microkernels to me.

Or, "Microkernels done right":

https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/hotos05/final_papers/ful...

> At the last HotOS, Mendel Rosenblum gave an ‘outrageous’ opinion that the academic obsession with microkernels during the past two decades produced many publications but little impact. He argued that virtual machine monitors (VMMs) had had considerably more practical uptake, despite—or perhaps due to—being principally developed by industry.

> In this paper, we investigate this claim in light of our experiences in developing the Xen [1] virtual machine monitor. We argue that modern VMMs present a practical platform which allows the development and deployment of innovative systems research: in essence, VMMs are microkernels done right.

(Edited to add relevant paragraphs from the abstract.)
Ask HN: If you used your work stack for a game, what would be weird about it?
So the consequences should be government theft? This is the same hollow ‘tough in crime’ emotion that causes the problem to begin with.
Nice project. I can relate in that I have my own personal hobby project that I have been working on for years and I would like to get many more users trying it out.

Mine is a new kind of data management system that can manage unstructured, structured, and semi-structured data. Think of it as a file system, database, and NoSql system all rolled into one. It is currently in open beta at https://didgets.com/

You say you have 'finished it'. Software is never finished, but if you have checked off all the feature items from your design, then close enough for now. With my project, the TODO list is still extremely long. It can do many things already, but I seem to put two more items on the list every time I cross one off.

It seems that every solo, multi-year project goes through the phases you describe (burn out, depression, questioning your sanity, etc.) and mine is no exception. It still feels very self-fulfilling every time I get a major piece working or I blow away the alternative in a speed test.
Kate Reid, former Formula One aerodynamicist, engineered the perfect croissant
Interesting, I've seen my friend post a video not long ago with a 2CV in shot, that was in Paris.

You'd think France as the Western Europe would focus more on safety and emissions (apparently French are very climate conscious).
I like your attitude. If more people gave a little, it would be a fundamentally different world.

Just a shot in the dark, but maybe pitch it to the EFF?

https://www.eff.org/cases
> what do socially conservative practices like [...] prohibition on fornication [...] serve?

Women and men who have had only 1 sexual partner are happier in their marriages:

https://ifstudies.org/blog/does-sexual-history-affect-marita...

There's also the big benefit of essentially eliminating STDs.

In my view, a lot of it comes down to what does sex mean? To me, sex says "I love you so much I want our love to overflow into new life. I love you so much I want to raise a child with you." Raising a child within a marriage is generally much better than raising a child outside of a marriage.

> restriction on contraception

One big problem with contraception is that it's not reliable. The pill has a 7% failure rate on average, and condoms have a 12% failure rate on average. People use contraception thinking it will prevent a pregnancy, but they're wrong.

> benefit of a socially powerful elite

I don't really understand how a prohibition on fornication benefits a powerful elite. The elites in the media industry seem to be promoting fornication in movies, TV shows, books, videogames, etc. I think elite men often want to use their position to have sex with a lot of women, which would be easier if women are ok with fornication. Also they won't be regarded as hypocrites if they say what they're doing is ok. Take for example Aziz Ansari. A woman accused him of some bad sexual thing. Much of the media defended Aziz saying it was just awkward sex, and that's not unethical. If Aziz had been publicly against fornication though, the media wouldn't have defended him.
Do you think it's worse than using an application which runs untrusted remote code by design? A static webserver is incomparibly more secure and less of an attack surface than simply running a modern browser with JS enabled.
Bing has way better results for this search at least:

https://www.bing.com/search?q=lithium+iron+sulfate+batteries
A lot of people will go out of their way to help you, but they won't go out of their way to find someone to help; you have to make the first move so they know you're someone worth investing in.

If you fill your mind and waking moments with YouTube videos or tweets or podcasts, you won't have time to digest all the stuff you're trying to learn. If limiting that consumption is hard for you, then allocate a window when you catch up on news and waste time, and don't expand it. I recommend keeping your mind uncluttered in the morning, if possible.
Illegally placed concrete blocks have taken over public parking in Seattle
Refusing him bail for a non-violent crime would be insane
> Imagine Windows 2000 never complaining about being out of memory.

Just put a huge swap file on it.
K8s can actually run VMs as well (kube-virt) so you can theoretically align on a common platform for both VMs and Containers. In practice most people just use their cloud provider's implementation of K8s. It's complex but if I had to run on bare-metal I'd probably look in that direction vs playing for an equally complex proprietary solution.
No, most people don't even know it existed.
This seems a little late to be posted.

Visual Studio 2022 came out in November 2021.
> it's pretty clear [NZ has] a "so sue me," approach to legislation and governance

NEw Zealander here: I honestly don’t understand what you are talking about. The culture of “sue”ing doesn’t really exist here. I wouldn’t guess there was a lot in common between NZ and Ozzie: we laugh or cry about what happens over in Oz. No idea about Canada.
In some respects, vulnerability to attack is a feature, not a flaw for promoting peace and collaboration instead of violence. A country with nuclear reactors is less likely to piss neighbors off enough to lead to an invasion. If invasion occurs, everyone will be extra careful. A country with nuclear reactors is less likely to be bombed to shit by other countries due to the reactor's radioactivity inventory potentially containing other countries as well as the country in question - ie. don't spoil the prize.
I love Australia but their government is shit
Yeah, he mentions this is his third Apple machine. He doesn't have anything against the hardware as far as I'm aware - just wants Linux to run on it.
Visual Studio 2022 was released in November 2021, and still supports Visual Basic.
This thing is still operating the ERP of many brick and mortar french businesses. A few software companies have the guys able to maintain it, so they are well off, charging big bucks for every maintenance operation.
As a developer I have been asked a few times to build websites that feed on flat files exported from AS400 (don't bother asking about APIs). It was a pain every single time.
Copper pipes react badly if they are in contact with steel, such as a nail driven into the wrong place. It doesn't have to puncture the pipe. It's an electrochemical reaction that can destroy the wall of the pipe. (Learned this the hard way. Not a fan of pipes breaking in the ceiling...)
Currently, the only limitation we have on what users can render is that it must be legal. The rendering, for instance, must not incorporate real images of child pornography.

To answer your second question, rentaflop miner is our product for hardware providers (hosts). It has an optionally-enabled feature allowing it to mine cryptocurrency when it's not processing any rendering jobs, but it's primary purpose is to provide rendering to our network.
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And the opposing view from the same issue: https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/article/112/4/926/5901948