skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Reduce energy usage to reduce CO2. That means reduce internet calls, and reduce CPU utilization to do the thing.

This is an interesting way of thinking! On one hand, all of my homelab servers now run on old AMD Athlon 200GE CPUs that would otherwise be considered e-waste in the eyes of some, but now run at 35W TDP and are enough for all of my CI/backup/development needs, in addition to being a cheap x86 option.

To me, it feels like drawing 100W from the wall might be a reasonably energy efficient option, since I don't care as much about uptime (servers can sleep every night when I do), redundancy or failover (apart from additional HDDs for data and backups), cooling (they're all passively cooled with heatsinks, slightly warm up the house in the winter) or other things you'd expect in a data center.

That said, this line of reasoning also implies that many languages would go out the window, if we talk about the back end: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/320436353_Energy_ef... (or an article: https://medium.com/codex/what-are-the-greenest-programming-l...)

Python would go out the window. Ruby would go out the window. Same for something like Lua and PHP, maybe even TypeScript in the back end.

You'd essentially have to use C, C++ or Rust. Maybe something like Java, C#, Go or JavaScript for your back end (or some of the other more energy efficient languages, just listed some of the more popular options here).

I think that makes sense at larger scales (hundreds or thousands of instances, or more) instead of your small CRUD app, where you just want to iterate quickly and write code that's simple. Then again, Wirth's law should also not be forgotten about and it's hard for me to reason about the CO2 impact of big tech vs the collective impact of small projects.

And then there's something like comparing how much energy crypto used vs data centers.

Bitcoin: approx. 127 TWh/year (source: https://www.forbes.com/advisor/investing/cryptocurrency/bitc...)

EU data centers: approx. 77 TWh/year (source: https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/energy-effi...)

If nothing else, it's curious to see the numbers.
Use italic characters (https://unicode-search.net/unicode-namesearch.pl?term=ITALIC) ;-)
These are not only text fonts, but continuously-variable fonts, these can be very labor intensive. Are there other open source variable fonts at all?
The Gospel of Jesus
By God's grace I've had the Theophany and the Bridal Chamber experience,

https://mullikine.github.io/posts/thomas-22/

https://mullikine.github.io/posts/gospel-of-philip/

https://mullikine.github.io/posts/syzygy/

You integrate into the Godhead:

https://mullikine.github.io/posts/the-triple-nature-of-god/

Through the image of Christ:

https://mullikine.github.io/posts/the-real-holy-grail/
I recommend reading "The Collapse of Complex Societies" by Joseph Tainter [0].

Complex societies tend to address problems by adding more and more rules and regulations, simply because they have always done so and it has been successful in the past. More importantly, though, it is typically the only tool they have. Essentially these societies are increasingly overfitting their legislature to narrow special cases until it cannot handle anything unexpected anymore. Such a society is highly fragile. I witness this firsthand every day in my own country. Living here feels like lying in a Procrustean bed.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Collapse-Complex-Societies-Studies-Ar...
Starting off by directly referencing a dystopian novel and then outlining a plan towards such a dystopia? They're not even trying to hide it now and have already infected Linux.

If you truly value your computing freedom, stuff like this should seem deeply unsettling and scary. The only way out is to fight strongly against this growing wave of techno-authoritarianism.

Embrace, extend, enslave.
Yeah, when a company is going to crash, it's better not to stay around until the end. Quite often, the last month(s) of work is unpaid.

With all the upheaval at Twitter, I doubt it's going to survive. Well, the name will remain, and as long as servers keep running, some people will keep using it, so as long as Musk can hire enough people to keep the servers running, Twitter might be able to continue in some form, but it will never be the company it once was.
I'm a haematologist who is involved with patients who have CAR-T (I don't do it myself, but do other types of transplant and I look after the patients before and after) and my research area is in the way T cells target cancer.

This study isn't CAR-T. It is more similar to adoptive TIL therapy because it is using the T cell receptor (TCR) to target the cancer's mutations. This has a huge advantage over CAR-T.

At the moment we use CAR-T to target, mostly, B cell cancers. These cancers have CD19 and CD20 on their cell surface, as do most B cells. We can safely target these cells because it turns out your B cells aren't critical for life. Think of it like an amputation. Your B cells went rogue, you wipe them out.

The problem is this doesn't translate to other cancers, which don't have an obvious cell protein you can target specific to a group of cells you can do without.

All cancer cells have mutations, and all cells in the human body have to display a sample of its proteins on its cell surface. This way our immune system regularly identifies cancer and removes it. Cancers that get established have somehow leveraged local immunosuppression to hold off the immune system, and so the immune system and cancer become a stalemate, or worse the cancer takes off and kills the person.

If we can target the mutations of the cancer, then we can get at the heart of the cancer itself.

You might ask why the cancer just doesn't display it's antigens on the surface. If a cell does this it gets removed by NK cells (natural killers) - our body's fail safe.

What I find interesting is that I didn't think we were close to predicting what TCRs can bind to to a peptide on MHC on the cell surface. I'm going to need to look at the article to findout how they did this. I suspect they used a library of known TCR-antigen interactions.
Fun fact: I thought I was exaggerating. I didn’t know about this plant. Reality surpasses fiction again. Thank you for contextualizing my comment.
I've been using Metaphor for a few weeks now and have almost entirely switched from Google and other search engines. Keyword based search simply doesn't come close when it comes to getting the _right_ results. While I have to sift through a few pages of results on Google and then maybe find what I'm looking for, on metaphor, there's almost no SEO spam or Wikipedia-style links dominating the top results. It directs you to sources that are relevant to your search query. I don't know how they did this (probably a lot of very specific and targeted tricks), but Alex and team have created a marvelous product and I'm excited to see where this goes! Congrats on the launch!
Technically, yes, Tor is The Onion Router, but everyone seems to refer to the official Tor Browser as "Tor", and to the Tor software as "onion".

> Be careful when misinforming people like this.

Who died and made you the captain of the truth police?
The point being, if italics were already used to add emphasis and to separate an expression from the rest of the utterance, why was a dedicated tag required to express emphasis?

(The heuristics only apply now, as there are two kinds of emphasis, which introduces some uncertainty of how things should be expressed. Moreover, as type styles have moved to CSS, there's a chance that a screen reader presentation may miss an intended separation of text.)
I think putting this tyranny deep underground would be a great idea.
> I think its more apt to say that YOU got old, and keeping up got hard (it has for me too) because this is how it's always been in Nature.

Modern digital libraries of Alexandria have only ever been burned because of the imposition of artificial scarcity. In contrast, in nature DNA is being copied all over the place. Imperfectly, but at least the parts that matter are being shared widely.

> Just so it's clear these are the people who ushered in the exciting tech era in Silicon Valley in the 90s

Bullshit. Cypherpunks don’t just exist in SV. Any cypherpunk who still cares about their principles would recoil in horror at SV that was there since circa 2015 ( and that’s being generous), let alone now.
It is not, but this is easier because somebody with knowledge about airfare curates the deals for you and sends them to you inbox.
shit man i pray to fucking god for better resutls
> the founder said the company has a policy on certain things, so you can't post anti-this, anti-that, and anti-the other thing things, else they can at least block you from the apps.

How would they block you from doing what you want in your own independently-run instance?

You can fork the software. Or write your own. It doesn't need to be only what "Eugen Rochko & other Mastodon contributors" say it is.

As I understand it, the goal of the federated approach is that if you don't like a server's policies, you can move to another server, or host your own.

> you can just implement the basics of the santa clara principles and be done with it

Meaningfully handling appeals cannot be categorized as "just". Providing clear reasons results in rules-lawyering trolls. This takes continuous effort, which large profitable companies can handle but small groups cannot.

(And even then, articles like "Facebook to pay $52m to content moderators over PTSD" at https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-52642633 show these principles aren't a "solution to their biggest problem".

My quick scan of "The Santa Clara Principles: On Transparency and Accountability in Content Moderation" says it's for companies. It starts "Principle: Companies should ensure ...", and with a focus on large companies ("The Operational Principles set out more granular expectations for the largest or most mature companies"), and its history page references "the human rights responsibilities of companies".

Mastodon instances can and are run by volunteer organizations and individuals. Anyone can set up their own instance, or pay a hosting provider to run an instance.

For them, these principles don't really seem applicable.
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-...
Independently of where one stands politically, we Swedes are lucky that our government can import expensive medical treatments from large evil US corporations that do the work for us.
:unethical move

Would you rather he put up a set of safe spaces in the offices to shield their emotional health from the realities of working at a major company in a capitalist economy ?
Database Review 2021
As always, rather than describing it as right or wrong, consider the trade-offs. For a simple project managed by a small team, Python might be a better solution. There’s a point at which the trade-off changes.
What are the legal implications of using Java / the JVM in a commercial project these days?

We're talking about Oracle here.
Kanban is indeed one way to do just in time. It's useful primarily for the more variable flows. For more regular flows, you can often rely on the average flow rate working out and schedule deliveries in advance.
The cable companies are much much worse than Amazon.
What about safety net or safety belt or... a safe? None of those are infallible either.

"Memory safe language" is a perfectly good term for the moment since most languages fall square into "completely unsafe" or "completely safe with the ability to be unsafe in special circumstances".

I don't know of any that are "fairly safe". Maybe something like Carbon will be like that.
Sure, as soon as we all agree on a single universal, FOSS-friendly, strongly end to end encrypted standard to communicate with.

Oh, wait.
I feel like I could write a blog post about the issues with this Vice article if I were so inclined, but my biggest problem is that it selectively casts social media as trending towards "YouTube, TikTok, Twitch, and an endless number of streaming platforms" because apparently YouTube is a brand new site, Twitch is doing well rather than being in decline, and Discord, being an ad-free chatroom service, obviously doesn't even exist.

Also for an article that says somewhat positive things about Mastodon/Fediverse, the author sure hasn't used it, because the only accounts I can find from them are two non-functional Twitter mirror bots.
I strongly recommend his next book, "The Brain From Inside Out". While Rhythms of the Brain is indeed aimed at neuroscientists, and is pretty heavy reading, Inside Out seems to be from more of a hacker's perspective.

They're good compliments to each other, but I found Inside Out to be a bit more actionable.
> they're just addresses, where nil is a very useful value

It is actually the other way around, having a way to represent “no pointer” is fine. What’s missing is the ability to check at compile time that a pointer is not nil.
In their defense, these fonts aren't meant for code but prose and copy.
Ten years to overnight success...
Agreed. We are in for a period of flux, even if the article is crap.
Octopuses, octopodes, and octopi are all prefectly valid in modern English. There is an argument to be made that we should respect the greek root, but Octopi has been used for so long that it is a modern English word
What I'm curious about is: Will he go to jail? Is he on the run like Do Kwon and the A3C founders are? He's a billionaire with plenty of resources and he must have been aware of the situation and that it'll all come crashing down at some point. Shouldn't he have made "escape plans" ?
That second point is something I think we see a lot in widely-praised successful people. I think this is also what lead George Lucas to make the Star Wars prequels on his own, instead of having others refine his characters, story and dialogue like he did with the originals.

I can't help but think about something I learned in school about the Roman Empire: when generals returned to Rome after a military conquest, they were paraded around the city on a chariot with everybody cheering him. But behind him on the chariot was someone constantly whispering in his ear: "You are only mortal". I think when everybody constantly heaps praise on you, it's tempting to start to believe that you are a god, a genius, or otherwise high above everybody else. Having people around you who keep you grounded is probably good for your sanity.
Beg to differ.

Go is an extremely well designed and balanced language, it is extremely productive while still being easy to maintain and have pretty decent performance.
A cost model for Nim
Russia should just withdraw and stop invading its neighbours.
TLDR: LOL RTFM
YouTube confirms that it has removed the “sort by oldest/newest” option
I find this to be a good approach if done properly. It definitely should be done visually eg. checkout/pricing should contain visual comparison (actual coffee). That should really put things in perspective.
The assumption that things like this necessarily increase support for republicanism is probably misplaced. In Italy and Greece Governments have been effectively overthrown by the EU (or ECB/IMF) in fairly open ways with technocrats put in charge. In both countries support for the EU is running at very high levels despite that. Higher levels in fact that when it happened.

The U.K. monarchy clearly lacks the wherewithal to influence Australian politics today that it possibly had back then and has nothing like the influence (through the Euro) of the ECB on the democratic Governments of Eurozone countries.

The lesson might actually be (ironically if so) that the monarchy would be more resilient to republican opinion if it wielded more power. It is the perceived pointlessness of it that will lead to its decline, not any strength.
There are only two real issues here: How to pull it off technically, and How much to charge for it.

Price is the thing that's going to kill this deal, so we may as well tackle it first. It will cost your customer ~1,000X the monthly price to get this done. That's 5 figures, minimum, and it should be toward that high side of that range.

And we're done. 90% of the time, a ballpark estimate will realign the customer's idea of off-the-shelf vs. custom software, and you'll either never hear from them again or they'll decide that you know what? It turns out we can actually run off your servers after all.

But what about the guy who you couldn't scare away with your $34,000 delivery fee and bump to the $600/month Enterprise Plan (billed annually up front)? Well, now you have 6 weeks after the check clears to figure out how to deliver.

I've done this with both of my SaaS products, and the process is the same. Take the current version of the app and start lopping things off. All the marketing, pricing, billing, etc. goes. Database gets built from schema and lookup tables populated. Kill the customer registration (after using it to create customer #1 for them), but leave the Team stuff in place so that they can add their own logins. Replace the landing page with a redirect to the login screen. Smoke test it a bit then burn it onto the customer's VM of choice.

If they want to purchase updates with new features, make it expensive enough that you can do this whole process again every 6 months. Personally, I've always sold "maintenance only" contracts that guarantee timely fixes for stuff you broke in the last paragraph, with functionality frozen as of the date of purchase.

But yeah, it's actually quite fun doing the implementation of one of these. And a lot less work than you'd expect. Again, though, it's unlikely you'll ever get the chance to do it for the two customers who are interested today because if you price it correctly, you'll scare them away.

Here's looking forward to the one who ends up pulling the trigger!
And here comes Terraformer: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/terraformer
It doesn't import anything, but generates the .tf files for you.

Disclaimer: I have used that, but not for GitHub.
They may not be the best but they are pretty damn good for its class, and yes are the leader in its class.
Fun fact: in manuscripts, italic is represented by a single-stroke underline. An equivalent print representation is spaced text. These forms are sementically identical.

BTW: The <u> element has been rebranded as "Unarticulated Annotation". :-)

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/u

(So traditional emphasis is now both idiomatic and unarticulated.)
We already have remote attestation in Android, and it basically killed a range of reasons why one would ever decide to unlock their bootloader or root the device. Yes, doing this to PCs should be scary.
My problem is more the opposite… once I am focused on something I find there hard to stop. But indeed if I am working on something very boring I struggle to do it for long period of times (mostly because the take doesn’t require any real focus and the mind wanders), luckily for me I don’t often engage in boring tasks.
Reddit now lets you mute subreddits you don’t like
‘Whisper list’ contains 40 politicians never to accept a drink from, MP claims
I guess a starting step would be people with psychiatric ailments or learning disabilities. I knew a couple that had both between them and spent all their time trying desperately to survive while falling for every scheme out there. This was America in the early 90s and they were in their late 40s so surely dead by now, because nobody survives to an old age in the U.S with that kind of weakness.
Ah yes, the test code that you have to write test code for. That's just what I wanted.

I imagine there are some situations where the maintenance cost is better after the upfront investment. Seems like betting against one's self to me.
Apple’s $191B Single-Day Surge Sets Stock-Market Record
ipatool (https://github.com/majd/ipatool) + mremap_encrypted (syscall on Apple Silicon)
I used Vagrant-LXC at my employer.

I wrote a tool to coordinate Vagrant-LXC projects. We had over 20 Microservices that were deployed with Chef or ansible and I used a python script to coordinate the deployment of them locally.

I began writing an open source version on GitHub

https://GitHub.com/samsquire/platform-up

The idea is it detects if it needs to redeploy based on file changes so it's fast to run if there are few changes. You can also deploy your entire infrastructure locally with this approach.

I even had load balancing with haproxy working properly with it at my employer.
FTX looks for $9.4B in rescue funds, Bahamas freezes some assets
Do you have an ActivityPub interface to follow shared posts?
There some strange claims regarding Raindrop.

> Raindrop displays by very-poorly-implemented “relevance” by default at all times (that is, not just in response to a search, where this might make sense if the implementation weren’t so awful), and this default cannot be changed, so I have to click twice every time I load a Raindrop page to switch to reverse-chronological.

When I open Raindrop it always remembers last sort (chronological), so I never have to click sorting button ever again.
It is analogous to a “government shutdown” in the US - the Senate refuses to pass appropriation bills, which will cause the government to run out of money to operate.

While in the US either the House or Senate can do that, in Australia effectively only the Senate can - each “Administration” (we say “government”) gets its power from a majority vote of the House, so if the House votes against the budget, the government must resign. If the Senate does the same, it isn’t forced to.

Another difference relates to the consequences - the monarch’s representative (the Governor-General) can use that as grounds to sack the Prime Minister, appoint a new one, and force a new election, as controversially happened in this case. In the US system there is no constitutional way to have an early election, plus sacking the President is a lot harder (needs an impeachment trial)
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Go is opinionated for sure. And many people think it's the wrong type of direction. Not everyone thinks this, as the poster I replied to likes go. And you do as well. I think that he isn't as respected as other names is because there is a substantial group that feels Go is a step backwards.
>A $100,000 mortgage creates a -$100,000 position on the bank's liabilities list

On a financial statement of a real, 120 year old bank on sec.gov, loans are in the asset section of the "Consolidated Statements of Condition". The deposits are in the liabilities section, and there are no negative numbers in either part.

>and a $100,000 deposit in your bank account.

Is that what happened the last time you applied for a mortgage?
Most CSS best practices are based around semantic naming: you name your elements ".call_to_action" or ".sidebar". HTML5 introduced a lot of semantic elements such as <header> or <article>.

Whereas with Tailwind or HTML < 5 you name you elements based on what they look like. ".font-bold" or "<b>"