skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is odd to me as well. The value of PaaS scales with developers. But Heroku et al target small shops.

If you have 100 dev teams, infra experience is a lot of “overhead.” If you have 5, you just make sure some of the devs know how to strace and tcpdump and can collab in an incident. Frankly, building infrastructure is easy. Maintaining it is the hard part. Preventative maintenance, security, recovering from incidents are all much harder than figuring out enough for it to run.

It was a brilliant idea. Let devs be devs. But the price has always been so high that, at scale, it wasn’t far off the HR cost.

We’ve gone 180 on that with k8s. Now you have to understand a datacenter with different vocabulary to effectively leverage it. You see low adoption at “I have an app” because it’s more complicated than it’s worth. Higher adoption above that. But almost 0 adoption at I need 100+ clusters. And 90% of what I see assumes to exist in a single cluster as if etcd never hangs itself.

We’ve built all of these abstractions, but ultimately you have to understand the thing below them (ie Linux and VMs) when performance sucks or something goes boom.

I don’t know how someone walks in and learns it all at once vs my life of learning with the growing system from Unix on physicals to now.

It’s like my life with Java. Most devs don’t understand where to start troubleshooting performance or the JVM, despite rich tooling (magical APM, JFRs, etc).
Multi-language websites and blogs. I made an internal tool to manage them and turn it into a SaaS last here:
https://www.polyblog.io
>The article strictly points out the need for a shared concurrency models required in the functioning of a online game thats massively parrelled across both clients and various individual 'servers'.

Uh, no. The servers are essentially independent. Each server have maybe few thousand clients at once.

The data most clients change is independent of eachother. Hell *you don't need to store most of them*.

All you need to store is basically some world state data (nobody GAF that non-boss monster just respawns after server restart ,no need to store that data in the database) and player possesion

>Unique, hash based, 'stacked' items that are non-fungible with a decentralized shared state across clients.... yes, technically that's 'Just a database' but a highly complex one.

Uh, no.

<server-id>:<item-id>:<account-id> + a server signature to signify it was actually generated by that server.

Any change of ownership within a server is server changing account ID item belongs to + signing the transaction and resulting record. Alert on fraud if someone has same <server-id>:<item-id> pair.

You reduce the problem space to "do I trust the other server" which is much easier to solve. And even if you say allow malicious server with tons of accounts having cheated in items transfer to yours.... each item has that server's ID so you can trivially fix it by removing them from yours.

All that would need to be tracked above that are account transfers.
> YouTube locks 4K playback behind Premium subscriptions

... and HD behind compression.
Composite OS is an interesting research micro kernel. It has great resources to help you to dig into it and its underlying principles!

About page:
https://composite.seas.gwu.edu/

GitHub:
https://github.com/gwsystems/composite
Yeah. I really enjoyed my time as a data scientist when I was fluent in R and the tidyverse stuff (in particular ggplot and dplyr). It felt like a super power. People were consistently amazed at how quickly I could visualise brand new data.
On twentieth of a century !!
Same thing here. Only hobby exposure, but the topic I could fill the most hours with.

Minerals and jewels perhaps, although it has been a while. Was a hobby by me as a child to collect them. Partially motivated by the belief they would be valuable (they were not).

Greek mythology was fascinating to me as a child, although I have forgotten most of it again. Still could maybe fill an hour.

Perhaps also painting and modeling, but this would only be very shallow knowledge. There is quite a bit of formal knowledge about typography for example that really helps you design a aesthetically pleasing layout, but I didn't get to it yet.

U-boat design and their sensors. Don't know why, but I always found them fascinating. Crazy to actually use them, but fascinating. A bit of an exception because I usually find military tech to be utterly boring.

Software too of course, although I think it is a difficult topic to present. Howtos for simple electronics and in general actors/sensors would be my choice.

Aikido could certainly fill another hour. Really liked it but sadly gave it up shortly after I finished my studies. Not a good topic for a purely theoretical treatise.

Basics of sailing and different types of rigging.

And fish. Also how to cook them.
Lightning had a good 10-year run. Let’s not forget that it was released a full 2 years before USB-C, and one of the first to being reversible connectors to the masses.

Also, here is the final report commissioned by the EU: “Impact Assessment Study to Assess Unbundling of Chargers (July 2021)” [0].

[0] https://op.europa.eu/o/opportal-service/download-handler?ide...
There seems to be more than one common factor here...
Why do people think it is a good thing to have this enforced by law is beyond me.

I don't see any win besides a minor convenience. A lightning cable weighs almost nothing and it's not a big deal to have one around.

As to lightning port limitations, I question whether usb-c will give average iPhone users any other advantage other than charging their phone. What are people gonna do with it other than charge their phones or transfer files?

Feels like there's nothing to celebrate here. Just the EU using its influence to exert control over things that don't matter at all.
Nuclear war update – October 2022
What most people fail to realize is that fundamentally, most principle investigators, the people who actually run the research world, are primarily fundraisers. Their day-to-day job is a mix of grant and proposal writing, relationship building/organizational meetings, and checking in on their postdocs, candidates, and lab techs.

Your main goal, as a PI, is to keep your lab running, and thus research flowing, by any means possible. For some PIs, this means milking every drop of available talent and time out of your doctoral candidates, and is the most common cause of the horror stories you hear about people leaving academia. On the other end of the extreme, they can embed themselves so deeply in fundraising with private or public capital that their lab staff don't see them for more than 15-30 minutes a week, because they are essentially living their lives hopping from sales meeting to sales meeting.

This wouldn't be a problem if the job of the PI was explicitly meant to be that of a salesman, but the actual role of a PI is to define the research being done. They draft the hypotheses, the expected impact, etc, because that is their intended role, but in reality these will always be constructed in a way that makes it easier for the PI to solicit funding.

It's impossible for the attention economy to not play into the research funding loop then, because every set of eyeballs is another potential revenue source for future research, or a tool to justify growing the footprint of your lab. I wouldn't go so far as to call the superstructure corrupting of science though, not in those words. I'd say it forces science to be mission focused, where the mission is a subtle negotiation between the people funding the research and the people performing it, and often times the person with the capital lands much closer to their ideal.
Health care organizations urge protection for physicians and patients
yep. Another post of mine in this thread is pointing out that the less people do of this type of work, the more valuable it becomes because the work is necessary.

Things are cyclical, and as it becomes obvious that sort of work has become more valuable, more people will start doing it.
Clauser and Aspect did their experiments in the early 1970s and 1980s. That's a crazy long wait!
Hi mate, that's a good remark. I appreciate it. The reason I didn't mention problems in the development world, is because I came from one, and I know that money, or rather large sums of it would help my country. Politicians would steel it, just like they've been doing. I talking strictly about my country, which is located in Subsaharan Africa (West).

But, I do know that we would benefit a lot from having cure for Cancer, AIDS and other diseases.

Other issues such as poverty, clean water, electricity, at least in my country they are solvable by having people in charge who actually want to solve them. Again, I am talking about my country.
Okay? What makes you think this would stop them from just running some GPU in the corner and generating a bunch of expensive items to peddle ? They'd have all the access to make it look legit ?
Actually, that’s built in via iCloud. I view my photo library in the browser.
> On the other hand I'm not sure I like the idea of government mandating electrical connectors on devices, which could stifle innovation, or be very shortsighted in the typical government-rules-on-tech way (eg "banning encryption").

How can free sharing of ideas stifle innovation?
I love watching the WASM space evolve and get use cases like that. I feel it could become an easier Docker for people wanting to try programming with little fuss.
>underlying argument of the piece, which is that PM has a good memory

frankly your first post did nothing to indicate you knew that was what the underlying argument of the piece was about, secondly unless you dispute the text you wrote is somehow falsified I'm not sure how my response could be described as arguing a straw man? You wrote something, I quoted it, I pointed out that the first few minutes of reading described a feat of memory you did not address.

If anything I'd say you were arguing a straw man by only focusing on the musical arguments for McCartney's memory made in the article; the article makes several arguments for things McCartney has remembered being out of the ordinary that were not musical, you dismissed his having a phenomenal memory by essentially saying all trained musicians remember music. Which has hardly any bearing on the arguments in the article.

I agree that the article's examples are not well supported, or from my viewpoint based on more supposition than someone should make when trying to establish something as freakish. But whether they were well supported or not you just didn't address them at all!
In that there's a nozzle that material comes out of? Nope. That's just a sprayer, still nothing to do with "3d technology".
I can’t believe I missed that.

I still don’t think the proof part is necessary even with the potential for internal employee tampering. With sufficient system authorization and security auditing catching someone tampering would be enough than wasting all that compute resource to prevent it for such a rare case.

Cool story though. I really like UO back in the day.
using it on my notebook with native encryption and I'm quite happy - there are some things missing / work in progress for quite a while - unfortunately it looks like it's not a priority at the moment for the current sponsors or there is a lack of time - not a criticism of zfs but I'd love to see these features merged sometimes in the future:

- no overlayfs yet (https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/pull/9414) - the docker zfs driver is very slow and buggy - best to create a sparse zvol with ext4/xfs/btrfs and use this for /var/lib/docker

- no directio yet (https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/pull/10018) - not sure if this is so useful beyond specialized databases that utilize that.

- no idmapped mounts yet (https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/pull/13671) - this would be useful for lxc/lxd

- async dmu (https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/pull/12166) - complicated patchset would transform a lot of operations into callbacks and probably increase performance for a lot of workloads.

- namespace delegation was recently merged: https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/commit/4ed5e25074ffec266df385... with idmapped mounts it should be possible to have zfs datasets / snapshots inside a unprivileged lxc-container which could be super cool for lightweight container things.

caveats:

- no swap on zvol at the moment (https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/issues/7734) - this is some hairy memory allocation problem beneath it and I don't really use swap - just something to be aware off.

- arc vs. pagecache / performance (https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/issues/13736) - zfs is usally very fast but there are some edge-cases where it's not at the moment.
Don't mind Facebook, just putting its own browser in its Android app
This. I'm actually optimistic (I know, Unpopular Opinion) about the future for a bunch of reasons, but one of them is the increased transparency that we now have on our institutions.

It used to be that the media controlled how much of what went on that we saw, and the media was part of an establishment that valued the status quo and "stability" so didn't report on some things.

Now, the blinders are off and we're seeing what was always there.

For Science, this means that the institutions that were set up by a bunch of rich men who could afford to spend their time satisfying their curiosity, are now visibly falling apart. Because we can see this, we can change it to something better. The pressure to kill off the journal system is growing. The various crises that the article mentions, etc. This is all good, in the long term.
I'd certainly much rather type-c than lightning or, god forbid, micro usb, but it also has its own issues. Issues that one would hope would be solved by the usb-d, and so on. The problem with this law is that it makes it much more difficult to start using future usb standards.

The EU addressed this by saying that they'll keep up with technology as it moves, but one thing that technology is famous for, and the EU is infamous for, is the speed at which it moves. 5 years is a blink of an eye in politics, and a lifetime in tech.

Thats not to say we'll never see another USB version, I just worry this will considerably slow things down.

It seems to me the more future-proof way to do this would be to force companies to use an open-standard. We'd still be stuck with the dreaded micro-usb, and possibly lightning if apple let everyone else use it too, but it solves the proprietary issue without locking us in for another ~10 years of just type-c
My experience is that anyone that says predictably generating art is easy using AI is either lying, never done it, or exclusively copying prompts others have posted.

Beyond that, lots of people are unable to even explain how prompts are parsed or per token explain how it impacts what is generated. For example, do commas matter?

“Prompt engineering” is real, still unclear to me though what the future for it looks like, since easy to see via comparable things like Google search operators that the general public has little interest in learning command parameters.
Cloud66
Shame... who is interested in shame? "Ist der Ruf erst ruiniert, lebt es sich ganz ungeniert" ("once the reputation is ruined, life is unabashed")
There was an app called hapn where you had to cross paths with the people it showed you.
Cgroups from Arch Wiki
Generally, children don't have gender affirming surgery at all, as there really isn't any need. Mostly, you tend to have puberty blockers at best, something that's relatively benign and reversible, and from what I'm aware its not given out lightly just for shits and giggles. It's life altering, but in a good way generally.

So it took me a fair bit of time to actually read what children's boston rather than just accept what you said as true, minutes of my life I won't get back. Enjoy!

>>The center currently offers vaginoplasty, metoidioplasty, phalloplasty, chest reconstruction, breast augmentation, facial harmonization and other gender affirmation surgeries to eligible patients. We are guided by the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) standards and other criteria to surgically treat people who are stable in their gender identity and have documentation of persistent gender dysphoria. You do not need to be a GeMS patient to have surgery at the center. All genital surgeries are only performed on patients age 18 and older.
Native port of Digital Research's seminal 1977 operating system CP/M to the 6502
That is a lovely way of putting it. (I wish they'd never mentioned 'Free Will' since people get hung up on that)

Always keep in mind that Bell himself was quite a fan of Bohm's theory, which is the canonical hidden variable theory really. The question becomes one of characterising that 'strangeness': is it the violation of locality ('that part of the universe accessible to them'), is violating outcome independence palatable, but not parameter independence (this was Shimony's idea originally)? Lots of curious stuff.
Research team shines light on how the brain stores positive and negative memory
I'm very interested to see how they are going to differenciate an if-clause from an actualy AI algorythm...

On the other hand I do believe that there should be limits for healthcare AI. We can not discriminate against the few to protect the many here. These are in fact, live and death situations we could be talking about.
Exactly. The sane use-case for UML is as a visual aid to help one human to communicate something they know about some code to another human being. It's a visual summary of something. For this purpose "boxes and circles with lines and arrows between them, and text in or next to them" is fine. We don't even need different arrowheads to differentiate "owns"/"consists of"/"inherits from" - a piece of text next to the arrow that says "inherits" is fine (if actually needed and not obvious from the context). Heck, different arrows can mean "inherits from", "displays data from" and "sends a network request to" all within the same diagram, and most humans will pick up on that just fine

It seems some people wanted to turn this into a visual programming language instead, and thus kept adding details to the specification to make that possible. But it's not a very good visual programming language. Compare to something like Scratch, or Bubble or Unity ShaderGraph or Unreal Blueprints for examples of what actually usable (though still far from perfect) visual programming could look like.

The problem is, by adding all this detailed specification, they actually made UML worse as a product, because it actually makes it harder to use for the first use case, sketching, because suddenly the receiver has to have all this existing knowledge of the protocol to receive what's being communicated. Thankfully most people ignore all that and just stick with boxes and arrows and text, and it works just fine.
I would worry a little about going above 90% space usage. ZFS slows down fairly dramatically when it starts running out of contiguous space and there is no defragmentation tool.

On the other hand it's not that hard to export and re-import a ZFS file system from a workstation or laptop to defragment manually - it's harder to do that with a NAS with lots of drives when you don't have a second set of drives just hanging around.
I am thoroughly confused, because I did read your comments, apparently somehow differently than you read them.

You wrote:

> Had that been the case and probably we would never had the phase of JIT everywhere, followed by doing websites in scripting languages, to come full circle back to AOT compilation and first tier support for systems programing.

And then:

> Regarding ActiveX [the previous AOT compiled web thing], ever heard of this thing called WebAssembly?

You seem to be saying that WebAssembly is an AOT compilation thing that we're coming full circle to, and we're telling you it's not.
Well, good question. The world is quite big, I cannot tell for sure whether we don't have good researchers. Regarding equipment, is it a money-problem or innovation-problem?
Building delight in your design system
Thanks for letting me know. I tried with Private Window but it's giving me "Enable Third-Party Cookies". I'll have to test on a Normal Window with plugins disabled.
That's the most dystopian sh*t I've seen here in a while.
My spouse and I passed each other all the time because we lived in the same neighborhood. I almost had the courage to approach her. Ironically, we ended up meeting through a dating website!
What are the advantages of it on a laptop. Do you have more than one drive in it?

I honestly use ext4 for everything based on ignorance and familiarity.
I have heard in the past one Premium viewer is about the same revenue for a creator as 6 non-premium viewers.
I used to have something similar to this, as a teenager. I pretty quickly realized I was drawing arbitrary lines delineating things that I found cool as being better than things other people found cool, treating other people's interests as somehow more embarrassing than my own even though I was a textbook cargo-pants-wearing wannabe-hacker nerd. Between that and my struggle with depression, I ended up deciding that it's more important to enjoy things than to look cool.

Anyway, to answer your question: I'm not sure there's any personality traits I would call "embarrassing". There are some I would call harmful, sure, and there are some that are associated with being socially inept or less cool, but I don't think there's a category of personality traits that are just embarrassing.

To your specific example: Being enthusiastic about things isn't embarrassing; it invites others to share that enthusiasm, either because of a shared interest or simply because watching someone be enthusiastic about something is enjoyable.
Giant impact could have formed the Moon more rapidly, reveal new simulations
Isn’t Wikipedia a classic example of what the internet was like before it became hyper commercialised?

Yes, there were monetised sites and products during that period. But it didn’t feel quite as hyper monetisation & growth focused as it is today.

It was certainly before the social media giants of today conquered online communities & blogs.
I learned C# and landed my first coding job thanks to it too
I'm eager to watch how Apple spins this as a voluntary decision in their product announcement. To see the specific wording they pick for how the timing is a coincidence and they really just care about their customers' best interests.
Quick searches say the length of the frontline in Ukraine is ~2400km. Even if only 1/3 of that has any army on it, that's still 800km and I am not sure a "few tactical nukes will wipe clean a front line" that long.
Man 3D-Prints Guns for New York Buyback Event, Makes $21,000
Sure, but companies that only talk and don't do should die out by natural selection. Why isn't this happening?
This is beautiful! I've often had the same thought when meeting new people—"What's the closest we've been before now?", "Have we looked at each other as strangers before?", etc.

A similar one I'd love to know is what's the furthest apart I've seen the same bird?