skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you want user to know they are talking to remote machine, but don't want them to care about which exact machine it is, we have a ton of great solutions already: load balancer, connection pools, service mesh, anycast, dynamic dns, etc...

Those resources are complex to program against. An OS should offer a simplified abstraction layer to make them as transparent as possible. And yes, process management is worth having a unified programming model that doesn't force you to keep track of where each process instance is being located - that's essential for massively parallel computing.

Of could this could be done with platforms for massively parallel computing. The point of building an OS would be to put these platforms as close to the metal as possible to improve their efficiency.
Yes, and fortunately they were punished for it.

Election timing shouldn’t be gameable.
That (music) will definitely bring the rightsholders out of the woodwork.
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The person you're responding to is talking about their warehouse workers, though it's possible something similar is happening with their engineers.
GUAC, a great pairing with SLSA (and SBOM)
Not caring about 10%, your numbers, of your revenue is how you become the most valueable company on the planet. Not.
> I wonder why we use the anglicised version for him, but the latin names for most other Romans

We also use classical Latin names for pre-classical Romans who would have written their own names rather differently.
>This area is already well explored just with fake CSAM generated by artists using photoshop, cartoons, etc.

I'm familiar with the research in this area, and that's not something you can say confidently; most work (and by that I mean 2 or 3 papers in total) has gone into investigating the role 'generated' depictions of CSAM play in the collections of hoarders. No psychological study, as far as I'm aware, has conducted an investigation on those who enjoy cartoon material akin to what you might find in a Japanese manga.

In fact, there's some evidence against what you're saying; anthropological research on fans of cartoon material ('lolicons' or 'shotacons') in Japan shows that their communities draw hard lines between '2D' and '3D' not just in this area of sexuality, but in their sexualities as a whole. This sexual inclination toward the 2D world is termed the 2D-complex and is akin to 'digital sexuality' or fictophilia, not pedophilia.

By way of analogy, perhaps BDSM would work as a good counter point to you. Many people (some studies suggest the majority of people) engage in 'rape fantasies' or other such fantasies of illegal or immoral nature, yet although actual depiction of rape is rightly banned by the state, its simulated variants are not, and we are comfortable to acknowledge that sexual desires do not always manifest in real life, and sometimes the thrill of fantasy itself is the attraction. To make it real would, ironically, defeat the whole point.
Yeah, this is my thinking, though I haven't built a proof of concept yet.

Load Cell Weight Pressure Sensors are AUD$5 or so, and I reason a shallow receptacle of sand sitting outdoors, where rain can fall in, and direct sunlight can slowly evaporate the water, should provide a sufficiently accurate analogue for soil moisture.

Certainly I would expect it would be easy enough to calibrate, using different depths of the medium, different types of medium (coir, perhaps), etc. An upside-down plastic pot saucer sitting under the tray would provide sufficient water-proofing for the pressure sensor, I'd expect.
That is not just a problem when it comes to app permissions...
Any detailed instructions for lay people please. I would like to use this, but don't know how to set the app timer you mentioned.
Thanks.
And faster recovery allowing more training volume.
The more "system" you have the more often you'll hear "sorry, but that's just how the system works" and nobody will ever be able to (or want to) do anything about the problem.

And there's a lot of system around here in EU. Applies to healthcare, social care/security and of course police as well.
He never specified he needed uniform randomness.
There's also an excellent resource from AWS themselves:

https://aws.github.io/aws-eks-best-practices/security/docs/
I spend a good amount of time on my tooling (too much? not sure), because fairly small amounts of friction can distract me for quite a while (long compilation, having to copy over files - it's especially bad when the step requires attention). Have it happen often enough and productivity approaches 0.
> Do those different breeds of engineers work in one team or in separate organizational branches?

It doesn’t matter as long as communication is open.

Proper ops is all about reducing the bus factor. Procedures don’t depend on people, they depend on being good at communicating.

If your ops person got hit by a car, I would expect that everything would continue running, I would also expect to find some clear documentation, this is mandatory.
Berlin just doubled the number of public toilets: https://www.themayor.eu/en/a/view/berlin-s-public-toilets-th...
Fascinating biographical article of Satyendra Nath Bose and his early contributions to quantum mechanics. Always love to hear stories behind great scientists / scientific discoveries.

In particular, one thing I learned is that Bose postulated the idea of spin, maybe even before Pauli. Quite impressive!

Author is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partha_Ghose described as "one of India's best known popularizers of modern science."
> Yanukovych ran on pro EU platform

Clearly, Russian spies have infiltrated Washington Post and changed the elections map in the article to match the russian propaganda narrative. /s
Regional execution for ultra-low latency rendering at the edge
I do not, and will not, take any drug prescribed by any doctor.

My thinking is that if I continually take unecessary medications, when I eventually need them they will not work. antibiotics is the exmple here.

Autonomy and self regulation is the key.

Doctors, I am sure, act in good faith.

However, do all doctors have the time and resources to read every piece of research on the drugs they prescribe? No!

Does the big pharma sales representatives sales pitch have more of an impact on selling the efficacy of drugs to the doctors. Yes!

The history of Prozac (SSRI's) and zero evidence to support the chemical imbalance deception is a clear example of the manipulation of big pharma in its drive to earn money at the cost of people's health.

For me, it is the ultimate deception to assume that those wearing white coats are the experts. The use of latin words to obfuscate and hide behind, creates a sense power in those with the knowledge against those who do not.

It is very similar to the tech world where the general public has no idea about the what happens behind the scenes after pressing the "on" button.

I recently had a perforation of my bowel and was extremely ill.
Life threatening as it was I put my trust in the surgeons and they performed a successful hemicolectomy.

Doctors are good, drugs are not.
Authors read books to learn and then go on to reuse the same words and ideas.

That doesn't mean an author that exactly rips off other authors isn't in violation of copyright.
Isn't this sorta just like reader mode? Except more links, keep images and page nav.

I wonder if it's possible to create an extension that would hijack reader mode to keep images, and nav. Then turning on the extension would enable "text only" fidelity.
>No. This war is different.

As the saying goes, "whenever a war starts, the first victim is the truth".

Your position is extremely naive and you need to educate yourself better before making such bold claims.

Specifically, you need to get out of the western media bubble and get exposed to the opposite point of view if you ever want to get an at most vague idea of what is really going on.

Google translate is your friend as it can convert entire web pages to your local dialect.

Once you've done that, start asking yourself what the US would do if some remote foreign power (think Russia or China) was busy slowly converting Mexico or Canada to their side, gaining local political, military and economic influence by replacing local leaders with foreign-funded officials hostile to the US?

Nothing you think?

The truth is that the US has had a very heavy hand in creating the current situation in Ukraine.

If you need to get an idea of the over-arching plans the US has for Russia, take a gander at the CIA-funded plan for the dismantlement of Russia, labeled the "Free Nations of Russia Forum" whose latest instance was held in Prague in July 2022:

This is their goal: https://www.kyivpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/image-2-...

Here's more info on that conference:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Nations_of_Russia_Forum

https://rusconfederation.org/#enversion

https://www.kyivpost.com/article/opinion/op-ed/the-world-wil...

What do you think the US would do if a foreign power financed a conference held in a close-by nation with an openly voiced goal of breaking apart and fragmenting the US in its component states?

You need to open your eyes. However evil Putin may seem to a US citizen subjected to the propaganda of its own state, the reality is nevertheless that the US is a warmongering state ready to fight Putin down to the last Ukrainian and without ever risking a single US life.
> It has always worked towards users' interests,

This is objectively not true. Debian has not worked for users interests in several cases.

One such case I experienced years ago, and the reason I switched to Ubuntu, was while at university with a laptop. I had been using Debian on and off alongside Windows for a long time by that point but then a new version of Debian came out. It might have been Debian 7.

Previously Debian had shipped with the correct Intel drivers/firmware for this laptops (incredibly well supported and common at the time) WiFi chipset.

However in the (then latest) version they refused to ship the driver because "we don't support non-free software". I was left in the situation where I could no longer 1) properly finish setting up the laptop as there was no longer internet access, 2) unable to use the ethernet sockets in the buildings as they were locked down to specific MAC addresses.

It took several days for me to be able to get a USB drive, find another PC I could run the Windows -> ISO program from Microsoft, write it to the USB drive, and then finally reinstall Windows.

I don't care for how dogmatic and Stallman-like they approached this, and I don't care how people try to defend this, it's simply not the case they have always worked for users interests. By removing a previously shipped driver that fucks over a user even being able to use their machine, they are working to harm the users interests.

Ubuntu also doesn't wait a couple of years before shipping new versions of software.

This is why Ubuntu won. It just works. It loads """non-free""" drivers. I heard recently that Debian might finally ship with the type of drivers they used to. Too little too late.
As I say, interest is being useful to someone else, via the loan of capital.

Gambling - I don't do it, but I'd need more specifics to see why gambling is bad in this sense. It's a voluntary pursuit that I think is a bad idea, but that doesn't make it illegal.

Price gouging is still being useful, just at a higher price. Someone could charge me £10 for bread and if that was the cheapest bread available, I'd buy it. If it is excessive and for essential goods, it is increasingly illegal, however. 42 out of 50 states in the US have anti-gouging laws [0], which, as I say, isn't what I'm talking about. I'm talking about legal things.

Underpaying workers - this certainly isn't illegal, unless it's below minimum wage, but also "underpaying" is an arbitrary term. If there's a regulatory/legal/corrupt state environment in which it's hard to create competitors to established businesses, then that's bad because it drives wages down. Otherwise, wages are set by what both the worker and employer sides will bear. And, lest we forget, there is still money coming into the business by it being useful. Customers are paying it for something. The fact that it might make less profit by paying more doesn't undermine that fundamental fact.

As for supporting laws to undermine competitors, that is something people can do, yes. Microsoft, after their app store went nowhere, came out against Apple and Google charging 30% for apps. Probably more of a PR move than a legal one, but businesses trying to influence laws isn't bad, because they have a valid perspective on the world just as we all do, unless it's corruption. Which is (once more, with feeling) illegal, and so out of scope of my comment. And again, unless the laws are there to establish a monopoly incumbent, which is pretty rare, and definitely the fault of the government that passes the laws, the company is still only really in existence because it does something useful enough to its customers that they pay it money.

[0] https://www.law360.com/articles/1362471
That guy was naive, and he's learned a lesson about the world.

Always get it in writing if you decide to do something like this.
Ceasar also founded Florence?? This guy... :)
Superblocks make it possible to separate high-speed and low-speed traffic: cars go in between superblocks while bikes go through them. This makes it way faster and safer to travel by bike, making it a viable method of commuting.

Furthermore, the increased walkability reduces the number of bus stops needed and makes it way easier to construct bus lanes - which can get absolute priority at crossings.

Walkable cities which are open to cars are a contradiction. Cars are absolutely massive and need a disproportionate amount of space. As long as you need to sacrifice half your neighborhood to cars, it is not going to become walkable.
I guess this is more important than I realized. I use a 4K TV too and it's pretty nice (with the exception of the menu bar being annoyingly high).

I used to have a setup that would only allow for 30Hz it and it was super painful.

Also: Glitchy animations are the biggest reason I can't use Windows. macos has some too and I find those pretty bad as well.
Pakistan is a mess.

On one hand, as you say, they're an "ally" with US bases etc. On the other they actively assisted the Taliban. They've been useful in some situations, but have undermined the US in others. It's not clear whether they'd side with the US or China. And they leak nuclear secrets like a sieve. Plus they're basically turning into an Islamic theocracy so the long term does not bode well for the US.
If someone says sexual relations with a 5 year old is bad and if you disagree you're bad, does that also bother you?
IKEA Is Using Driverless Trucks to Move Its Furniture in Texas
Could be this: https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/long-c...

“‘The Rage Would Come Out of Nowhere’: Personality Change Has Emerged as a Symptom of Long Covid”
I just moved to the Netherlands where bikes are aplenty and saw one of these two nights ago. It was not so dramatic as the examples you linked but still very visible. I think this could be a good option for motorcycles.
As Flatcircle states, China has a serious demographics problem, as does Russia. Extremely serious.

A huge number of women have just hit 40-years-old, so they can not longer have children. The one-child policy means there are hardly any children, AND female children were aborted to have a male child, so there is something like 125 males for every female, which exacerbates the problem.

China is far from the cheapest place to manufacture anymore and companies are flyuing out of China because of that and belligerence and supply chains and opaque laws, mandatory technical transfer, and so much more. All this is making land and housing expensive, and poor paying jobs so that they young cannot afford stuff, which is why "laying flat" is such a big deal there now. Why work hard for nothing, no chance of making it?

Same with Russia, for a long time, and this war has killed how many young Russian men in the prime of their life, and also to flee the country, most likely permanently in many cases as they find jobs and settle down in new countries.

Russia and China are in serious trouble demographically. This is why Russia attacked Ukraine, in my opinion. They will even have less manpower in 10 years. And I think this is going to drive China to attack Taiwan - they just won't have the manpower in 10 years, not like they have now...even with 1 billion people.
Somewhat ironic that they don't mention the fact Brexit makes this illegal in a bunch of places.
Apple is not in a dominant market position.
I thought Emad said it cost $600k in GPU time.
The "occupied by ethnic Russians" point is moot by now as Russia thoroughly alienated them or turned their cities to ruins. Yesterday they even had to impose martial law there.

If narrative is unbelievable, can you just follow the actions? Russian actions are these of genocide, and genocides aren't stopped by compromises.
I am no expert but if the whole contact patch hit something slick (oil patch from someone leaking in stop and go traffic) the tyre would first lose grip then immediately gain traction. This is like the definition of a high side anyway. Though I am not sure how rain effects things.
> can the "result" of any thought experiment be surprising, not what you expected?

Isn't all of mathematics just thought experiments? No shortage of surprising results there.
The drama was because POSIX formally offered no way to get the needed semantics without crazy changes. Shells would have had to be made very very slow. And the things made faster were already fast, and not even very important to have fast.

When shells that trace back to v6 Unix depend on a behavior, that being undocumented is a bug in documentation.
Why is everyone recommend to store secrets in files rather than ENV? as I see it both are:

* Accessible to someone inside the pod

* Not Accessible to other pods in the cluster without cluster admin

* Can be retrieved outside EKS from API/ETCD or AWS Secret with enough permission

* Persistent across the pod lifetime (you cannot delete a secret file after use: https://stackoverflow.com/a/54404149/1997873)

Is the only reason left for preferring files is that integrations prefer it as they can easily implement it as init pod? or that they have less chance to appear in ENV dumps in logs?
OK, I went off on a tangent there, but I figured the question I asked wasn't going to get an answer and I started talking about a larger trend I've noticed in this general space. (The other trend being people ignoring and downvoting questions they can't engage with without poking holes in their utopia.)
I have four monitors and it works for me.

Lowest possible CAS, highest possible clock speed.

Nvidia RTX series is necessary for dabbling with AI at acceptable speeds, which seems to be the future. 3090 or 4090 are best due to higher VRAM.

You don't need raid, just get fast nvram SSDs.
> You have to create an account and agree to some stuff and be logged in

So a paywall. I agree it's a annoyingly misleading term for the concept and would be happy to hear better alternatives[0], but I haven't found one yet.

0: like eg "passphrase" instead of "password" or "assuming the conclusion" instead of "begging the question" for their respective concepts
How to make English easier to learn from different starting points
> Russia has long held that Ukraine is simply "southern Russia".

That isn't for Russia to decide. Quoting from the Basic Laws of Human Stupidity by Carlos M. Cipolla:

"Let me resort once again to a banal example. Tom hits Dick on Dick's head and he derives satisfaction from his action. He may pretend that Dick was delighted to be hit on the head. Dick, however, may not share Tom's view. In fact he may regard the blow to his head as an unpleasant event. Whether the blow to Dick's head was a gain or a loss to Dick is up to Dick to decide and not to Tom."

(This was included in the recent printed version, but isn't in the version online at http://harmful.cat-v.org/people/basic-laws-of-human-stupidit... )

It's also worth pointing out that while the regions Russia has had defacto control of for years have high concentrations of Russian-speaking people, many of whom might prefer to be part of Russia rather than Ukraine, Russia did not try to conquer just those regions, they started their invasion with a direct assault on Kyiv. They would have taken the whole country if they could.
Scaleway will increase prices in Dec 2022 due to rising energy costs in Europe
I have a feeling this might not end well for European hosting companies.

I received this email from Scaleway:

Like many companies, rising energy costs are having an impact on our business. The main reason for this increase is due to soaring gas prices (directly linked to the Ukraine conflict) and, in France specifically, to maintenance delays concerning national nuclear reactors. In the spirit of full transparency, we would like to inform you that, over the Q3 2021-Q3 2022 period, we already experienced an 85% increase in our electricity costs, without affecting your invoice. Unfortunately, the current geopolitical situation suggests that energy prices will continue to rise in 2023.

In addition to energy prices, growing inflation is significantly increasing all costs which are essential to the running of our business.
Despite our commitment to offering the best price/performance ratio for our services, we are now forced to increase our prices.

Thus, as of December 1, 2022, we will increase the prices of our offers by an average of 10% for most existing Scaleway solutions (Dedibox and Public Cloud).
We have decided to apply this increase by targeting specific product categories and service ranges. We will communicate the detailed list of pricing changes per product line in the next few days.
Singapore and Hong Kong, but they are probably exceptions for other reasons.
It's nice. I've set it to block HN after 10 minutes and blur YouTube (using it for music) after 1. Especially the blurring is quite effective.
I see what you mean but think that it is not applicable to the current drone situation in Ukraine. It is quite possible to shoot down these drones, it is merely difficult to do so cost effectively with the means they have at the moment. An old-style flak gun coupled to a basic anti-air radar would probably work just fine and is definitely not out of reach for the West to build; the challenge is to get enough of those out in the field quickly enough.

Something like the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flakpanzer_Gepard would be an absolute beast against simple drones, but according to the wiki the Ukrainians only have about 30 of them and they are limited to ~5 km range. They would need a lot more, which would take some time to acquire. Then again you could dispense with the tracked undercarriage for defending static objects like power plants, so just getting the guns would be enough.
> I do feel that many companies will, ironically, use "ethical" as a pretext to not be open.

I mean this isn't even speculative anymore after what happened with - hilariously named - OpenAI
As good an idea as prefers-reduced-data is, I can see the ad trackers’ eyes light up already: “Prefers reduced data? They must not have enough money to pay for a high data cap. Let’s send them an ad for a predatory loan!”
it is anti-competative by denying 3rd parties from provinding more.

Imagine a truck maker who could somehow prevent other truck makers from making a truck that caries more or runs faster or is more fuel efficient. Of course that would be anti-competative.
I think it’s as likely as him being killed right before he reigned in the Federal Reserve with Executive Order 11110. That is, not very likely. It sounds attractive on paper but neither theory has anything more that extremely tenuous circumstantial evidence to support the claim.
> and it broke after a week

Have you monitored its temperature while using it? Did your warranty cover it?