skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The things that tend to be "cheap" on campuses:

Power (especially if there is some kind of significant scientific facility on premise), space (especially in reused buildings), manpower (undergrads, grad students, post docs, professional post graduates), running old/reused hardware, etc...

You can get away with those at large research universities. Some of that you can get away with at national lab sorts of places (not going to find as much free/cheap labor, surplus hardware). If you start going down in scale/prestige, etc... none of that holds true.

Running a bunch of hardware from the surplus store in a closet somewhere with Lasko fans taped to the door is cheap. To some extent, the university system encourages such subsidies.

In any case, once you get to actually building a datacenter, if you have to factor in power, if you have a 4 hardware refresh cycle, professional staffing, etc... unless you are in one of those low CoL college towns - cloud is probably more more than 1.5 to 3x more expensive for compute (spot, etc...). Storage on prem is much cheaper - erasure coded storage systems are cheap to buy and run, and everybody wants their own high performance file system.

One continuing cloud obstacle though - researchers don't want to spend their time figuring out how to get their code friendly to preemptible VMs - which is the cost effective way to run on cloud.

Another real issue with sticking to on-prem HPC is talent acquisition and staff development. When you don't care about those things so much, it's easy to say it's cheap to run on-prem, but often the pay is crap for the required expertise, and ignoring cloud doesn't help your staff either.
Costs are rising by ~50% every cycle give or take.

Exponential growth is exponential growth.

They'll exceed the GDP of the United States in a few cycles.

The question becomes, when costs hit the ceiling that Apple is willing to pay, will TSMC still be able to front up with the good stuff and deliver the growth.
What stops me editing more (usually it's a grammatical/formatting error I want to fix, or where I think a link to another page is warranted) is IP blocks. I'm logged in! Why do you care what my IP is! I have a (small) track record but most importantly it's all going against my name and if I'm doing bad things you can just block me!

I understand anon IP blocks, of course. But not logged-in ones. Especially when (afaict) all of Mullvad's (London at least) IPs are blocked.
This is called the Streisand Effect.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
This tells me that you misunderstood Satoshi's motivations completely, filling in your own ones instead. His goal was to create uncontrollable and indestructible money, not "save the world" or create "morally just money for puritan purposes". And he did do just that.
It’s almost as if Lufthansa are admitting they are a terrible airline with awful practices like silently cancelling the return leg of flights if you don’t make the outbound. This happened to me on the way back from Germany, I can’t imagine they still do this but I found them extremely unhelpful and this sort of behaviour reinforces my feeling they think you’re lucky to be travelling with them.
Why would you stop? I highly doubt they’ll invest in the means to actually stop it across every airport.
Look at the actual cases, though. You had to be really aggro to get the permaban instead of just getting walked off the flight with a warning. IMHO, they were not aggressive enough.
A sampler is good.

In general I've found a good rule of thumb with people is: Flight or "flight".
Or minikube.

But would it work for large products with possibly 1000 services? I have never worked on those but would like to know if there are products where one cluster per developer is too costly and unweildy.

OR

Is there a case for products that are better served by monolithic codebases that are developed without going to docker-compose or minikube at all.
As someone who’s been using f.lux and refining sleep hygiene for over a decade, if this helps you please take it:

- Chewable Vit. D3 can help, especially if taken in enough dose (studies showed minimal downside from “overdoses” of 100,000IU for months, so I’m comfortable recommending 5000-7000IU as a starting does), and at the right time (after ingesting it takes about an hour for your body to bring that all in to your bloodstream, so I like to take it around 8AM. A bit earlier if I’m trying to wake up extra early, and a bit later if I forget. The latest I’ve taken it is 12pm since afternoon sun is normal and healthy)

- Lamps for seasonal affective disorder can be a bit of a crap-shoot since there are no regulations around the term. If you get one and it barely (or doesn’t) help, it might not be any good. Things that are important here: the spectrum of light output, and the lumens. If there are any sharp peaks in the wavelength it might be as helpful as an LCD monitor on full brightness.
For a true test of whether the concept itself helps, you can use halogen worklights short-term. With those there are concerns of heat and UV radiation, but they provide very bright full-spectrum light. If those work, it would probably be worth shopping around for the higher-end SAD lights.
> This is specifically because of the transmission function. Lufthansa claims that the transmission function needs to be turned off during flight when in checked luggage, just as is required for cell phones, laptops, etc.

Can anyone confirm/deny whether Airtags can interfere with aircraft navigation and communication systems?
It also made a large amount of money for those who knew how to walk the fine line between profitability and adoption.
Apple's initial price for the SE/30 in the US was $4369, but price came down rapidly in the first year, ultimately costing less than a Mac II with greyscale card and monochrome monitor by the end of 1989. But that was 30 years ago. Today, there seems to be a Mac mafia buying up the lower priced auctions and then jacking up prices of these ancient machines on turnaround, but you can still find an untouched SE/30 within spitting distance of the cost of a Classic II. They're both attractive machines in the compact format, but I wouldn't accept a Classic II for free, where I'd be tempted to buy certain particular SE/30 models, depending on condition, for few to several hundreds of dollars.
Zelle is also covered by federal regulation (Reg E). Banks just would very much like you to ignore that.
Is a postdoc hacking a cluster something you have seen before? I am genuinely curious because I worked on a cluster owned by my university as an undergrad and everyone was kind of assumed to be trusted. If you had shell access on the main node you could run any job you wanted on the cluster. You could enhance security I just wonder about this threat model, that's an interesting one. I am sure it happens to be clear.
Because as we all know, it is the job of all humans to slave away until they can no longer stand.

I think as a society we can strive for better than "work till you die". There sees to be a lot of people out there who don't see any objective beyond making a profit, I feel sad for them, and hope that some day they can stop and smell the roses.
Isn't that what IPFS aims to be?

https://ipfs.io/
[Banned]

[After shocked expression]

"I had no idea"
Maybe you've never been around severely mentally ill folks, but I have and there is no doubt they exist. No doubt at all.

Trying to skirt that by pointing to a blurry line at the border of "sanity" does these folks a great disservice I think. They deserve better care than they are getting now.
It is extremely relevant for ML.

I am familiarizing myself with recurrent neural networks and getting them trained online is a pain - I get NaNs all the time except for very small learning rates that actually prevent my networks to learn anything.

The deeper network is, the more pronounced accumulation of errors in online training is. Add 20-30 fully connected (not highway or residual) layers before softmax and you'll see wonders there, you won't be able to have anything stable.
The dirty secret is that companies secretly like their employees to work from home. It's a lot cheaper for them, as environmental costs (refreshments, heating, cooling, floor space, etc, etc, even silly little things like toilet paper) are borne by the workers instead of the company.
Well, not for IDEs, but web-based developer tools.
> Legally, we do assign fault for negligence. If absentmindedly leave your kitchen tap open with the drain stopped and then go on vacation, your flood insurance is probably not going to pay for repairs, even if you didn't deserve to have your house destroyed.

This is not generally true. Insurers are forbidden to pay out claims for intentional bad acts, or fraud, but ordinary negligence is usually covered:

> The good thing is your homeowner's policy usually covers you and your family's negligent behavior no matter where it happens.

https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/does-my-homeowners-i...
No comprendo.
Yes, but there is a lot garbage and harmful stuff included… it adds too much noise.

Take all the good stuff from those religions texts and create a new book using plain language.
No, I can access my remote credit union account through most credit unions through shared branching. It's more convenient than banks which have less cooperation.
If they want to defeat tracking, they can enforce their baggage employees not to bring iPhones to work. Of course eventually on the plane, the luggage will be like ten feet below hundreds of people who might have an iPhone!
Uh, no, that's even worse thing to give to the for-profit companies as indentifier.

Now they have country-unique ID of a person that will never change so it can be linked to a person regardless of where that person logs in
It sounds to me like it should be possible to use a 4x4 grid but add a single bit to express whether the letter is shifted up or down by 1px. Then your characters are 4x4 but occupying a 5x4 space.
Any idea how this would be enforced?
This isn't really about any supposedly "required" narrative; that's just noise on your part.

The fact is that this article is deeply flawed from the very beginning. The media reports he cites are about more frequent and stronger hurricanes. He then pulls a Lucy-yanks-football-away, and pretends that the issue is about how expensive hurricanes are, and that they are more expensive because more property has been built in their path.

But this was not the original claim.

This is just bullshit from someone desperate to discredit climate science.

It gets worse from there. Further down, he characterizes looking at post-1980 data as "cherry-picking", which is laughable.

This guy moves the goalposts so often that I'm surprised he can even find new locations to move them to.
Ransomware attack delays patient care at hospitals across the U.S.
> no executive today thinks long-term

100% agree. 101% even.
In any field of any kind except probably silicon, 100% growth in a decade would be marvelous. I don't think anyone could call it a plateau.

> Furthermore, much of the purported single thread performance is taken from a small set of benchmark tests, and so chip makers just optimize them for those tests

"Single thread" is a notoriously difficult benchmark to quantify. Instruction queue depth, floating vs integer, branching vs linear, there are so many variables.

Passmark is fine. Workload simulation is state of the art.
> at least not while airlines are still constantly losing luggage

Does that actually happen to people still? I thought it was just a 90s meme. I get a push notification every time they move my bag anywhere. 'Accepted into the system', 'loaded onto the plane', 'unloaded off the plane', 'popped out at the carousel'. Seems pretty bullet proof these days.
Government also lies about historical intensity of forest fires as well. I didn't just learn this from a forester I know, he picked up and showed me a forestry textbox from 1930s and it talked about 3million acre fires that occurred a lot in the 1800s. You just think fires are more intense because more people live near and around forest and we hear about it via tv and social media due to structures being burned down and insurance rates going up. This is similar to how people thought gun violence and kidnapping was at an all time high in the early 2000s when in fact it was very relatively low but it was always reported in the news.
go the route of Sequent?
World’s largest crypto exchange hacked with possible losses of $500M
Is it really a “weird inquiry” for someone to wonder why their bags aren’t being delivered?

If the bags aren’t being delivered, that’s troublesome for the owner of the bags. And a version of “troublesome” I find more sympathy for compared to the burden on poor ol’ massive airline companies having to listen to their customers when they lose their property.
In theory yes, but in practice it could easily cost you more to deal with the airline and it might well be that you don’t have the receipts anymore.

With another European airline I recently waited exactly one day less than the three weeks required for them to deliver a child seat. That’s almost three weeks of not having one to safely transport my child, no support or compensation. Since I was returning to my country of residence the credit card company also didn’t refund.
Are they going to scan bags for AirTags now?
Ok, but what do you do when it goes wrong every single time you've tried it? That's what happens at work, so I gave up and use merge+squash on gitlab.
EPA proposes deeming leaded (aviation) fuel a danger to public health
I put an airtag on the inside pocket of my luggage, and am having no luck scanning it from the outside. It seems unlikely this will work. I can still find it with my iphone though.
Thanks for the post, for adding it to HN, and for providing an archive link right off the starting line.

Also thanks for posting the comment because now I get to help correct a typo: “This Mac is uncharging ...“
IBM touched the personal computer market in 1981, and here we are.
I do love Perl and JS for the same reasons: You can write something and be sure it will keep working. It is not customary to introduce breaking changes.
That twitter link talks about other complex effects, so let's focus on the PBS video. I'll have to find out more about the research, but just from the video things don't make sense.

If a young forest is a net carbon source, they question remains: where does that carbon come from? Was there carbon stored in the soil that is released? If not, the carbon balance doesn't make any sense. As with anything, change in mass over time equals flow rate in minus flow rate out. If biomass increases, stored carbon increases as well, so flow rate in is larger than flow rate out. That means we have a carbon sink.

I don't understand the research results for mature forests either. How can they be a carbon sink when the amount of biomass is constant?

Something doesn't add up. It could be my understanding of things. I'm going to try and find some time to delve deeper in the research.

Edit: it looks like the video mainly talks about disturbed forests, where trees are planted again to regrow the forest. It's not explicitly mentioned though, just silently assumed, and that creates lots of unnecessary confusion and misunderstanding. A disturbed forest likely still has relatively large amounts of biomass in the soil, that get released. That is not what I call a young forest though, which is what we were talking about here. A young forest doesn't have a lot of pre-existing biomass.
Chances are, there is someone around. An airline worker with an iPhone in their pocket, etc. I’ve put AirTags in my luggage since they came out and it’s fun to see how often their location gets pinged.
Not studying biology in greater depth before traveling the world.
Under FAA rules (what I’m familiar with, EU/DE/ICAO is probably similar), the air carrier can determine which portable electronic devices to allow.

The law (it’s short): https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/14/91.21

An advisory circular relating to it: https://www.faa.gov/documentLibrary/media/Advisory_Circular/...

This allows an air carrier to approve anything they’re confident won’t cause an issue but not approve AirTags.
> like silently cancelling the return leg of flights if you don’t make the outbound

I don't know about the "silently" part, but this is standard practice for most (all?) airlines.
Lol, its always fun when people get this idea.

On a more serious note, it drives me crazy when people move and immediately start trying to change things (most often, things that made the place unique).

A good example is in east Austin people in a luxury apartment started complaining about a car show that had been there long before the apartment complex ever existed. Not to say all the complaints aren’t valid but it just boggles my mind people have such entitlement.
A forward-thinking airline would not ban airtags and the like — they would REQUIRE them. Then offload some of the tracking to the customers.

This is obviously simply the airline trying to cut down on bad social media posts, as it is a lot less dramatic to post "I flew from Frankfurt to New York, and two days later where is my bag?" instead of "I flew from Frankfurt to New York, and two days later why is my bag in Hong Kong?

And with the ban, what are they going to do, refuse to load any bag that scans as an NFC? Send it but charge extra to collect it? Kick you off the plane? What happens when you have other luggage items that require it?

It also seems like this could be easily defeated with a feature that would put the AirTag to sleep for X hours after put in the luggage (set X to long enough to get to the airport and in the air, but shorter than when you are supposed to arrive).
Your point was that because you weren't familiar with the information that it wasn't prevalent. Most people would admit that they didn't know that and respond with, "Thanks I didn't know that until know."

At this point it's pretty clear that you're arguing in bad faith. I've read enough Satre to understand what's going on here. Thanks.
That's funny, a good portion of the article is about the unsafety of destructuring...
Oh I thought of an other one. In Clojure "objects" are actually maps, which can have non-string keys as well. That means you can destructure maps which have non-string (or, technically, keyword) keys as well:

(defn foo [{a 1
b 2 :as bar}]
[bar a b])

(foo {1 "hi" 2 "world" 3 "!"}) ;; => [{1 "hi", 2 "world", 3 "!"} "hi" "world"]

In JS of course you can have Maps with non-string keys, but destructuring doesn't work on them. Plus you have other issues like arrays in JS having equality defined by reference rather than value, making maps less useful overall.
The White House Just Unveiled a New AI Bill of Rights
Yeah but security scanners don't have NFC readers built into them, and even if they did, the range is too short to be useful the way scanners are built.
Lithuanian banking systems BankingLab hack
I have just been notified by simplex.com that I'm the victim of a cyber-attack.

"We wish to warn you that the following pieces of data have been leaked by the cybercriminal: name, surname, date of birth, your address, the country you live in, your citizenship, the type and number of the document you provided to use to verify your identity."
Not sure what would be the motive for the airline to hide that the bag is lost. If it's not waiting for you at the baggage claim, you know it is lost, airtag or no airtag. Also not sure what good it does to the user either, to know in which particular hall of which particular terminal the luggage is right now.

Much more useful outside of airports.
luckily this happens all the time since people often forget. i know i do.
It always was for load that doesn't allow for autoscaling to save you money; the savings were always from convenience of not having to do ops and pay for ops.

Then again a part of ops cost you save is paid again in dev salary that have to deal with AWS stuff instead of just throwing a blob of binaries and letting ops worry about the rest.
My brother often jokes that MBAs are the reason the world has gone to garbage, they're always "optimizing" everything to get the 10% return they had burned into their heads. Anything less is insufferable.
The government doesn't need copies of my communications living on their servers.
Indeed and I expect there's no end of high-level Apple employees flying SFO -> FRA
How would attendants even know to hassle someone. Yes, there are some people who pay attention to the announcement and some others who want to preserve their battery. But, yeah, I'm guessing well south of 50% turn on airline mode at least in the US--and I'd probably be a bit surprised if Europe were that different. Certainly no one makes a show of caring all that much these days as they did when turning off cellphones was such a big deal at takeoff.
I think the suggestions of docker are overly specific.

The industry gold standard for any given software application that will be deployed to the cloud is:

- Define infrastructure as code (terraform, AWS CDK, etc.)

- Have automated mechanisms in place to deploy self contained pre-production and production environments of the above infrastructure

- Allow developers to create a “personal” deployment of the above, similar to a pre-production environment but with any changes the developer wishes to make as part of development. This should be as simple as running a few commands.

Some harnessing that allows for completely local development of portions (or all of, depending on the software application) of the above can also be desirable, to speed up development.
They are just tired of people with lost luggage making their staff go find it… there is absolutely zero risk, the amount of energy involved is minuscule.
Meh, bittersweet is worse - Harder to remove, more prolific, and it kills large trees. Knotweed and honeysuckle are comparatively easy to contain, except they camoflauge bittersweet very well
2012 MacBook Pro gang! Mines 10GB RAM though. Had to switch to neovim from VSCode and it's still sorta snappy for my normal workflow, just can't open tons of apps at the same time. Also I avoid any electron-based apps
> She says that strict adherence to the FSF’s Respects Your Freedom program means that you’ll be using only obsolete and probably broken hardware.

Old, like from a time when it respected your freedom more?

I don't like the insinuation here, which is that we have lost; if you want the shiny new hardware, just shut up and fork over your freedom.

Just because you put up a white flag and surrendered doesn't mean that those who haven't are fighting the "previous war".

If Stallman is "fighting a war that’s no longer going on", why can't you have your freedoms respected on new hardware?

> If you’re particularly masochistic, here’s the start of the thread on Emacs-Devel.

Here we see completely cringe-inducing, uncivil exchanges such as:

RMS> Is it possible to do this with call-process
or by running a shell command [instead of the do-applescript function]?

H. Melman> I think so, though I have to figure out the right
incantation to get stdout returned as a string. I might be
nice if call-process' DESTINATION arg had an option for this.

A. Schwab> See shell-command-to-string for how to do that.

It's like not being able to look away from a trainwreck, these uncouth, unconstructive GNU diatribes.
They cannot ban all of us.
Don't bother us, we're trying to help you.