skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Children and animals don't drive cars. If we forget for a moment that they are not at all important and assumed a level playing field the child would need to give up playing outside so that mostly unfit people only have to walk the bare minimum distance to maximize commerce. Animals would have to accept thick lines of asphalt that one may not walk on with death by car as the chosen punishment. Then surely it is a deal that is good for everyone?

Not that I have any proposals. It's just funny in a dark and morbid way.

The ME ME ME context has more comedy in it. Those roads one looks at as "things for me!" but to a much greater extend they are things for others. Others will come blast their fumes and noise into your neighborhood. Murder your cat, your dog and your kids. But also a parade of suits who got it in their head to serve and enforce a rule set created for you to obey. What is the tax man to do if he cant extremely conveniently get to your house? Is your lawn mowed to spec? That your kids are fine doesn't mean they are yours to keep and neither is your home.

Roads are the great enabler for more and more rules and regulations by designs you only have influence on in theory.

I sometimes wonder what it would be like to live at the top of some hard to climb mountain surrounded by forest swamps and/or oceans. Surely you could still contribute to society? That your pull requests come in a bit less frequently hardly makes you unproductive.

the MPAA might not care if you are brewing your own liquor and the building inspector might not care you are growing opium, mescaline cacti, shrooms and like licking the psychedelic toads. But all combined they make a formidable army fit to examine every inch of your life. Are those real nikes, is that a stolen rolex? Do you wear a helmet riding that bicycle?

The mailman - the bringer of bad news, over the road.

And in the end your road is perfect for tanks and marching armies coming to murder you.
Eh, we live in an age when a few dozen well placed missiles can kill millions and destroy entire countries, not just their electrical grid. A few retaliatory strikes later and an entire region is gone, if not the world as a whole.

That doesn't sound like a very useful way to make decisions about anything except maybe missile defense and second strike capabilities. Anything can be destroyed with sufficient violence.
I was working for a company that wrote device drivers for OEMs during the Windows XP era.

XP X64 was no big deal, and OEMs often requested 64-bit drivers, but I'm not convinced there was ever any significant install base of actual 64-bit-using end users. Not until Windows 7.
"the memo proposed that Amazon should create and foster partnerships with local nonprofits and community organizations that company officials hoped would “provide political cover for local policymakers, neutralize organized labors’ attempts to grow their coalition of third-party validators and spokespeople, and provide a platform for Amazon spokespeople and allies to speak of the true economic and social impact of Amazon in Southern California.”

It's an isolate and destroy campaign. Hiring students and ex-inmates (who will both probably tolerate more exploitation than average employees without speaking up), does not impact Amazon's bottom line nearly as much as unionized workers would. If enough people wind up thinking Amazon provides a net benefit to the communities it operates in then it will help silence those who want unions, tax reforms, or just less corporate welfare.

The teamsters don't look bad so much as they appear to have been badly outplayed by a smart opponent.
Any reason why a bunch of comments say the same thing?

I could hazard a guess that younger readers don’t read other peoples’ handwriting much?

I didn’t even notice it was a problem, but I am middle-aged (I actually like personal writing and I dislike the industrial repetitiveness of fonts. I especially dislike fonts for comics designed to look handwritten but that lack human variability).
So many options and alternatives from all of them, yet the Raspberry Pi has by far the most software support, technical support, documentation and hardware compatibility and updates compared to the alternatives.

From the rest of the other boards it is just one kernel release (if you're lucky, 3 releases) and they have moved on to the latest SBC and dropped support and releases. The Raspberry Pi Foundation still continues to support older boards.

It just seems that with the many Raspberry Pi users, the documentation and the ecosystem built around it seems to be its success rather than the technical specs.
What’s your policy on porn? I know of a lot of people whose main rendering bottleneck is, ah, fluid simulation.

Are you still also a crypto mining operation, as per the “rentaflop miner” link in the “product” section of your footer?
Ok, let’s agree that K8s is overkill.

What commodity tool should I be replacing it with that gives me:

* super for heterogenous workloads (web servers, big batch loads, streaming workloads)

* autoscaling the workloads

* autoscaling the cluster

* auto-restarting workloads

* basically automatic networking

* the ability to have all that without the need to setup separate infrastructure, and to have the orchestrator move workloads around to optimise machine use

* the ability to hire people with experience in it already

* ability to run stateful workloads, and have disks managed and moved for you

* the ability to do all that by just providing a config

* the ability to do all that without having to let people have actual access to the machines/OS

* per container/workload topology constraints and requirements, that are network and data centre aware, without having to write any code

* have access to a wide range of tooling and docs

* be able to drop in workloads that automatically handle log collection, etc. without needing to configure each deployment.

* ability to swap out Network ingress/reverse proxy without having to redeploy or reconfigure your applications.

* ability to drop in any number of tools to do traffic shadowing, mirroring, splits, etc without reconfiguring or redeploying your applications

* ability to do all this without your devs needing to be networking experts.

* not locked to a specific cloud provider

I’m sure there’s tools out there that cover different subsets of those features, there’s probably tools that do all of them and more. K8s isn’t perfect, but it gives you an awful lot for some reasonable tradeoffs. Sure, if you’re deploying a single web-server/app, you shouldn’t bother with all this; and data centre level stuff probably has tools that make these features look like a cute picnic, but many devs I’ve worked with haven’t the capacity, ability or desire to figure that out.

> If you’re on a cloud provider? You’ve already got secure, restartable, restorable, on-demand-growable, discoverable, fail-over-able, imaginary machines a zillion times more robust

Sure, but you’ve still got to figure out how you want to setup, monitor, configure all of that, then stitch it together and maintain it, and also not get in the way of your main application development. To me, that’s what K8s gives me: I rely on the cloud provider to give me good machines, good networking, good storage primitives, and to heal/replace them when they fail, and K8s gives me a way to use all of that nicely, without needing to build and maintain it myself, and without my applications needing to know everything.
Oh no, is Linus switching over to the dark side? (using an Apple laptop)
Exactly, they could have just refused this guy bail and nobody on hacker news would have ever heard of it or cared if they did. But mention the word encryption and the world is falling down.
Sounds kind of vaguely appealing. But the devil's in the details. Has there ever been a democracy anywhere on earth, ever? If there was, what happened to it, and how can that be avoided? If not, then what will this democracy mean in daily terms (apart from technical ones)?

I'm all ears.
Even in the US the case law around self-incrimination due to forced password disclosure does not seem to be settled. There have been multiple cases were judges have considered passwords foregone conclusions, e.g. [1]

[1] https://www.reuters.com/business/legal/us-supreme-court-nixe...
If you'd like to get early access, check out our site (https://rentaflop.com) and join the waitlist.

Show HN is for things that can be tried by HN users and signups can't be Show HNs. Take a look at

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
I'm curious why you would choose copper over PEX. It seems like PEX is really the best choice available these days in terms of near infinite lifespan, easy to work with, and affordable.
I doubt the self sufficiency yielded by global nuclear proliferation would offset how target-rich the world would become, come inevitable war.

I'd rather the answer be a push for more advances in passive safety and planning that treats military attack as an eventuality.
I would not describe the raspberry pi as plentiful right now, especially if you want the 4gb/8gb variants. Mine was recently destroyed and I can't get a replacement
While this is technically true, I think a developed-ish nation might blow up your electric facilities before it would destroy a city.
Didn’t he use an Air for many years?
> It may come as a surprise to people in NYC that, in fact, most people don't live in NYC.

What's the point of this? People in NYC overwhelmingly use public transit; they're a logical group to sample from. Correspondingly, it makes no sense to ask people who don't use public transit how they feel about it.

"Most people who utilize public transit" is a mixture of demographics, with overlap: there are a millions of Americans who live in dense urban areas and choose to take public transit because it's faster, cheaper, and more convenient than owning a care. There are also millions of Americans who are economically disenfranchised and rely on ailing bus networks to get to work. The two overlap, but the latter is much larger outside of major cities.

In brief: the US's failure to design and allocate public transit systems (a problem that's been more or less solved in every other country in the world) taints any objective measurement of public transit perception as a whole. If you look at the places where it's even done half right (like NYC), perception is extremely positive.
Do NOT trade caffeine addiction for nicotine addiction. I’ve been addicted to and quit both cold turkey and quitting nicotine (smoking) was insanely hard. In fact so hard that I’ll never go for a nicotine product again. I’ve been off of it for over 10 years now. Quitting caffeine (coffee) is pretty easy, you might feel not so great for a day or a week depending on how addicted you are but that’s about it. It’s even easier if you reduce your caffeine intake over a few days, you’ll barely have withdrawal issues. Nicotine on the other hand causes insane cravings that take weeks or months to subside and it can take 6-12 months for you to no longer care about it at all if someone say smokes a cigarette next to you.
That's not what I said. I said that right now not everyone can avoid car ownership and the goal should be to change that. I'm saying the goal should be to make it possible for nobody to need a car. I'm objecting to the 10% number, which seems arbitrary to me.
Nice. But both yours and Peter Gyurov's work seem to have issue on Mobile with click?

Screenshots for your site and Peter Gyurov's site on iPhone Chrome:
1. https://i.imgur.com/BHZ6XVQ.png
2. https://i.imgur.com/oPP5bcs.png
I don't agree. The complexity isn't wildly different for complicated scenarios. Scenarios falling between the simplest and complicated absolutely benefit from running on a managed Kubernetes. Rolling your own Kubernetes is useful only at scales where you can't wrangle the complexity of self-service operations for developers, and even then it's still very questionable unless your headcount is astounding.

I would have agreed with you three years ago, but today there's a ton of surprisingly good off the shelf solutions, you can get very, very far in a brief amount of time with a single engineer. A ton of the functionality exposed by Kubernetes is absolutely necessary at any scale and very difficult to do yourself. "Don't let any process on this host talk to this port except these ones" is something that is so much easier in K8s than anything else I've ever encountered.
Whose health? Any actual data?
This sounds like a quote from Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash.
They're just that good. Real page turners.
As a younger and less experienced computer user, I remember buying 64 bit XP for my first self-built desktop, because it seemed like it had to be roughly 2x better than 32 bit. Imagine my surprise when iTunes failed to install: Apple had no supported install path for 64 bit XP. I had to do shenanigans with the installer file to trick it into thinking I was on 32 bit.
A profitability calculator on your website would help. The page here: https://portal.rentaflop.com/blog/hosting seems to imply that you are taking a cut from the regular ETH miner embedded with the rentaflop worker. You mind want to rephrase so that it's clear that:

- Your are offering a miner software which will occasionally work on blender renders which are more profitable to the miner than regular ETH mining.

- That your miner does not take a cut of the ETH mining part of the equation.

The idea is pretty cool though! The timing is simply unfortunate as there is a significant increase in (probably rightful) crypto skepticism right now.

Best of luck!
Was this quite common in period?

Despite the many hours sat in front of a machine running XP, I don't remember but I would like to know.
Ok yes my bad forgot to post the limits. At least used to be lake fish two times in week tops.
These are so good. DALL-E never ceases to amaze me.
Technically not all of these are malformed (sometimes the document is well-formed ISO PDF but the software won't accept it), but this corpora has a dump of all PDFs that were reported problematic in many software including Ghostscript, PDF.js (Mozilla) and PDFium (Chromium): https://www.pdfa.org/a-new-stressful-pdf-corpus/

(note that the majority of them are relatively-harmless rendering issues but some PDFs here have caused crashes or even RCEs and process takeovers for certain malicious PDFs)
Do you have a comparison to the sheepit render farm?

https://www.sheepit-renderfarm.com/home
I always figured we'd have antigravity before we discovered a weight-loss drug that actually works without any debilitating side effects, but here we are, science found the GLP-1 pathway in their efforts to discover a new diabetes therapy and suddenly real, no BS weight loss drugs are a thing that exists, with many competitors popping up in only two years. We're already at the second-generation of these drugs!

Point is that progress always seems hopelessly stalled for what feels like forever and then one day the clouds open up, and the sun shines through. That's how it goes.
The US had an entire national project around using nukes for excavation and construction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Plowshare
I worked at a company for 3 months in 1998 and the AS/400 there crashed once. It required IBM personnel to come and fix it. So, I like the narrow scope of the machine and certain concepts in the OS, but “rock solid” might as well be an urban legend.
Yes, folks who add their hardware to the rentaflop network get 90% of the money earned through their rendering. Many of our hardware owners are cryptocurrency miners, so they'll make more money by completing rendering tasks with us. Did you know rendering jobs are worth ~10x more than mining Ethereum?
Nitpick: cursive[1] is joined letters. The article comic used handwritten letters (block or print).

[1] https://www.cpr.org/2017/06/01/cursive-isnt-dead-yet-not-if-...
In theory, a union is merely an organization of like-minded people much like the workmans' guilds of the medieval era. In practice, a union is a country club operating as an extension of state power. It is highly liable to create perverse incentives. There is no such thing as worker power in and of itself so long as the government dictates the terms of unionization.

> Amazon is trying to crush workers rights

What workers' rights are being violated when Amazon decides who may or may not be a future employee at an Amazon warehouse? That's what an employer should do. Amazon is not obligated to hire union-friendly workers.
I've enjoyed sensory deprivation tanks like this, but to be perfectly honest, I feel like I can let my mind wander the same way when I wake up an hour before my alarm goes off and manage to resist picking up my phone.
The primary benefit of moving to 64-bit is the increase in the maximum allocatable random-access memory (RAM). 32-bit editions of Windows XP are limited to a total of 4 gigabytes.

That's the official statement, but there's a PAE patch which will enable up to 64GB of RAM. (There are also claims of a "128GB" PAE patch, but that is physically impossible as x86 never had a 37-bit addressing mode.)
Yeah, a scenario where everyone's "default setting" is trying to ban everything they consider "immoral" sounds pretty terrible.
Current thinking is not to mark the place. Why attract attention to it?
Any future civilization capable of finding that it's interesting and digging down through a mile or more of hard rock and concrete probably knows about radioactivity.
https://www.bobvila.com/articles/pex-vs-copper/

> It’s tough to beat copper pipes for longevity, which on average last 50 to 70 years, compared to PEX, which has an expected lifespan of 30 to 50 years. PEX’s life expectancy can be shortened by the use of extremely hot household water (180 degrees Fahrenheit or higher) or if the water in the home contains high levels of chlorine.

> Copper’s life can be shortened by highly acidic water. When installed under typical conditions (i.e., your home is connected to a municipal water system), copper can be expected to outlast PEX by about 20 years. If you’re on a private well, have your water tested prior to retrofitting your water supply system. Local County Extension Offices can test well water to determine whether it’s high in acid or chlorine.

I’m a buy it for life sort of person, and will pay a premium for longevity. Future myself or others will thank me (buying or building something that will outlive me? Plant trees whose shade I’ll never sit in and all that jazz)
Has anyone experimented with having a "dumb phone" and taking that with them
just in-case people need to contact them or for emergencies?

Lately, I've had a few times when I accidentally left my phone at home and after an hour or so realized how much fun I've had without it.
I don't think that's quite a fair comparison.

Option A: Con, landfill space.

Option B: Pro, energy generation to burn. Con, energy cost of capturing carbon. Con, storage space of captured carbon.
Why the Myth of the Miserable Lottery Winner Just Won’t Die
> Ukraine does not quality as "a large scale conflict" in any measure.

That is incorrect. Large scale != global or world war. It's a moot point though.
Copper price seems pretty nominal. Nonsensical article. Shrug.
> Hydroelectric dams typically cause even more damage when they fail, but I rarely see people worrying about whether using them for power will lead to war-time issues. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dam_failure

I believe the reason people worry less about hydroelectric dam failures is because, if they fail, they do not leave behind a contaminated area. Besides, it's just water; many people are used to floods caused by heavy rain, and the danger feels similar. In fact, hydroelectric dams can even help prevent (or contain) flooding, so it's the opposite of causing damage in that case. Of course, we're not talking about tailings dams, which do leave behind a trail of contamination when they fail.

(An interesting case is the failure of a tailings dam many years ago which flooded the Rio Doce with pollution, with that flood being mostly stopped by a hydroelectric dam downriver. The hydroelectric dam contained the damage instead of causing it.)
It's only "super interesting" to those who study astroturfing and other forms of manipulative public relations.
Right at the bottom:

"This article series is designed as an Oxford-style debate. As such, participants are required to argue pro and con positions, even when that opinion may differ from their own. The views expressed in this debate do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the participants, The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, or the American Society for Nutrition."
> How do we communicate to civilisations in the future what we did in that mountain?

The more dangerous stuff burns itself out quickly (short half-life), and the longer-lasting stuff is not very dangerous given the type of radiation it is and can be blocked quite easily

So, probably bury it deep enough with little external sign that it's actually there, and if it is actually discovered it won't be that big of a deal:

> The main concern associated with spent nuclear fuel – radioactivity – diminishes with time.

> About 40 years after it's done making power, the heat and radioactivity of the fuel bundle will have fallen by over 99%.

* https://twitter.com/MadiHilly/status/1550148416881180674

> About three containers are needed to store the quantity of fuel that is removed each 12-24 months; the space taken up by even a 60 year plant life is less than is needed for a Wal-Mart even without any efforts to efficiently stack the containers.

* https://atomicinsights.com/time-for-plan-b-yucca-mountain-pr...
Some one is wrong https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1417508112
Negative numbers would be hard to parse. Is Linux-5.19 version -5.19, the negative, or 5.19, the positive?
They should recruit on Mars. I hear they have some good Botanists there.
What do you mean by "subsidized driving"? Care to give examples? I am not getting anything for driving, instead I pay taxes in registration and in fuel.

>Okay, that’s still 20 trips a day before you’re at AAA’s _average_ cost of owning a car.

It might be so if they amortized TOC but when you already own a car the additional cost of travel per mile is much cheaper than buses charged 15 years ago or so.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32300046
My Favorite Controlled Substance Is Daycare
Though people might know the risks, they often aren't the ones taking the risks. Much of the risk people take is externalized and the opportunity costs ignored.
I'm just leaving this here as future inspiration: http://press.stripe.com
Politicians definitely don't push invasive laws out of ignorance. They do that if they're able to get away with it.
It might help the US develop more nuclear weapons faster…
The conditions of his arrest sound ridiculous in the first place.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jun/24/i-neve...

https://www.queenslandjudgments.com.au/caselaw/qdc/2020/331

He was charged for "interfering with a railway" because of a tripod suspended over a rail line? It sounds like he was basically pissed off some powerful coal people, got thrown in jail for that, and now his phone is police property..

Coming from a country thats not all that democratic in the first place, i think its important to at least understand that the appearance of "due process" e.g being charged with something or having a bail condition imposed does not by itself mean anything.. even Russia makes up some official charge before arresting someone.
Has Vox ever once published a single article that was positive or at least neutral about Amazon? Why do we allow such insanely biased media? Do people read Vox and think they're receiving an accurate depiction of reality?

It's just hit piece after hit piece after hit piece. I guess you could try to argue that across hundreds of thousands / millions of employees and thousands of products the company never ever does anything worth praising or even worth neutral reporting, and every single thing the company does is evil, but I think we know that isn't remotely true.