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Show HN: Reproducible development environments using starlark, without Nix
Hi all, I'm the maintainer of https://github.com/kubeflow and https://github.com/tensorchord/envd.

I've been part of the kubeflow community for ~5 years. One of the hardest issues I have faced is keeping our development environments in sync. We are often eager to do something speedily on the cloud or debug independently on the MacBooks.

This is where envd comes in. It's a command-line utility that helps you create and manage development environments locally, or in the cloud.

I can't wait to see what you create with envd. Looking forward to your feedback and contributions to our project.

Happy coding!
Hi, I'm the developer of go-ap, thank you for your interest.

Which parts of it are giving you trouble? I'm always open to answer questions to the project's mailing list: https://lists.sr.ht/~mariusor/activitypub-go

There is a rather hidden wiki that has some more information than strictly the comments in the code: https://man.sr.ht/~mariusor/go-activitypub/

If you are looking for examples, there is a reference server at https://github.com/go-ap/fedbox

Outside of that, any submission for documentation from your part would be greatly appreciated, like you already said, if you work with the specification for a long time it's sometimes difficult to put yourself in the shoes of someone new. I would greatly appreciate such a perspective.
It's not even AI generated faces!

They claim that they face swapped real interviews of participants with actors instead of just having the actors perform the piece....
Of course not. But it is really hard to turn a profit reselling a product you purchased at retail.
I wish that DA had added some references to the studies that support less incarceration. It just doesn't make sense to me, he admits that Manhattan is the worst burrough for crime, then states that it is over incarcerating. How does one determine that?

Also he mentions social programs as an alternative to incarceration, but are these programs actually available? The crime rate suggests they are not, so reducing incarceration may be counterproductive until they are better established.
So how is UK which is far less exposed to the war, and Russian gas and oil, doing so much worse than its continental neighbors which are way more exposed to all
Of those?

The answer is Brexit. Brexit wasn’t mildly negative. Brexit has been catastrophic.

https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/working-paper/2019/the-impac...

The Bank of England estimates that Brexit has knocked off 2-5% of UK’s productivity across the board and that’s only one of the 3 impacts they’ve discovered (including an 11% drop in investment).
I agree. But I can't imagine what that would look like. Arbitrary
discontinuation of service is a tangible harm. But how could one
possibly compel a provider to do otherwise?

You'd have to do something like construe the provision of service as
an implied contract to continuity in the same way that T&Cs assert
that usage of a system implies acceptance of some rules.
Huh, that's very unusual. Swapping the CEO.

Incidentally Gary Rever was the one outside director who came on the board with Chalopin during the takeover. Perlman and Olveira joined the following year.
Benchmarks disagree with you. Ruby is 6x slower than Java/Rust/Scala for a basic web server.

https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r21&tes...

There is a reason Twitter switched from Ruby to Scala during their fail-whale era.
Yes but it was kept alive in Islam, as was most of the historical deep-time knowledge (and developed)

And while I don't disagree some things were lost, some other things were made. Industrial processes have their roots in the 'dark ages' experimentation in dye, and new modes of production, in the new social structures which replaced the Roman systems, in the consequences of the black death (which came later) on economics of labour and labour migration. It has aspects of "let a hundred flowers blossom" which is of course destructive of some things, but gives birth to others (I know this is a contentious analogy)

It was during this time the Rus (vikings basically) went down the rivers from northern europe to the byzantine empire.

It was during this time Visigothic culture exploded in Spain and southern France, and new laws and social constructs emerged.

Rome tended to aggregate capital into the center. When there was no center, capital distributed. A flood of enterprise emerged, because there was no longer a central taxing authority stuck on an old model. That said, a lot of it was wasted, and lost. The existence of "hoardes" implies people strategising burying value in a field and running away was a better bet than admitting it existed.

Transmigration was happening. The Silk road, spices, all kinds of things flowed. The portugese were on the brink of discovering the grand banks. Iceland was meshed with Orkey and Denmark in trade and religion.

Monks went from Ireland into the north of Britain (and beyond) and swept down, meeting Monks coming up by more orthodox routes from the south.
If Amazon is commingling inventory and Fulfilled By Amazon, it's not a bazaar, it is the fence.
MIT

https://github.com/chatternet/chatternet-client-http/blob/ma...
>and it will largely be a government policy failure.

You mean feature.

If you tell voters in no uncertain terms what will happen if they piss on the electric fence and they piss on it then it's safe to assume they wanted the results. Make no mistake, people were told certain policy would lead to businesses leaving these areas resulting in <thing> deserts. Voters voted for it anyway.
The article is missing any discussion of why this should be. You wouldn't expect epigenetic changes to simply be the direct result of, say, lack of food. Instead, it would seem like this must be a "deliberate" adaptive response, to prepare for what is likely to be a life of hardship. It might cause faster aging, but if so, one would expect that it also has some other effects that improve earlier survival and reproduction in a harsh environment.
Ordered this two days ago on Amazon and it arrived just an hour ago to my door step. Very happy!

Does Amazon keep a certain level of stock across in counties the globe? If so how is the stock quantity calculated per country and city? Or are they printed on demand?

Thanks Fab! Added to the bookshelf along with your Doom and Wolfenstein books. Can’t wait for the next.
squints I can't tell if this is trolling or not

Anyway, you're right, all code should be written in haiku form, to maximize creativity and succinctness, plus keeping methods short! True elite coders ensure variable names are always a prime number of characters
Read my comment again.

This press release only makes any sense if they intend to preemptively combat investigations which show that these are actors and not the people that they claim.
Still no standalone ActivityPub client anywhere. Strange.
...which means if Amazon wants to avoid criminal behavior, they could ban such objects and not hurt legit sellers.

But if Amazon doesn't care, this system is not enough to convict a criminal.
One area I find interesting is ergonomic computer keyboards. My daily driver is a Kyria (https://docs.splitkb.com/hc/en-us) running 20cN choc switches. That's one you make and customise yourself, but there are quite a few companies that make their own designs for sale (e.g. https://shop.keyboard.io). These would be of about the scale you mention.
Do you have a source for this?

Multiple people died over the course of the efficacy study for the BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine, and yet they completed the study: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmoa2034577

In general, what you claim would seem both surprising and impractical to me. There are many studies on very seriously ill groups, where the death of a large portion of participants is expected.
Yeah I was going to say. I don’t get many upvotes for my pro-labor and anti-capitalist posts. Which end up being most of my comments these days. Though I’m not usually as upfront.
Because scent-languages would presumably be composed of several dozen (if not several thousand) scent components. Detection by artificial means is a hard problem, even in limited and highly lucrative domains (truffles, explosives, etc), which is why we still mostly use dogs/animals. Synthesis would require manufacturing stocks of all the various smell components, then aerosolizing them in the right combinations.

Audio, by contrast, has one variable--air pressure--to control with respect to time.
So rent seeking doesn't work because a long time ago one subpopulation banned it and it didn't work for the population as a whole? That's ridiculous. It's like saying prohibition in the US didn't work because booze was legal in Canada.
for the World Cup and most other leagues, the platonic ideal of speed/freshness, information density, and legibility, is https://plaintextsports.com .
It has a great World Cup presentation which can display by group or by date https://plaintextsports.com/world-cup/2022/schedule . The page sizes are something like 3 magnitudes smaller than ESPN.com, especially great for when you're actually at the game and the network is bogged down in the arena.
somebody turned the lights off ? Or is it just me, not beeing able to find the switch ?
Agreed. That's the conclusion I drew from my experience. It was painful to watch.

It is how I learned how people rationalize their world and the things they experience into some kind of logical end they deserve.

I would never say mindset is what makes a person poor.
In the uk the unions argue safety is unachievable with automation. I would imagine the unions hold even more power in the USA and would argue along similar lines.
> The contributions they paid were drastically lower than what current generation pays

It doesn't work like that. At the time they paid, their contributions were significant. Inflation and the destruction of the economy through privatization do not change the fact that their money did its impact when it was impactful.

Its just a loan. At the time it was borrowed by the society, that money meant something. Today it wouldnt. But at the time, it did. They are entitled to getting that money back.

The criticism that can be raised against them is not receiving their own money back. Its them having voted for profiteering sociopaths one after another and having destroyed the society for the current generations.
Alameda was proven to be a fraud? By whom? Is there a chance they broke fiduciary duties and let themselves get wildly over leveraged, even criminally so, but that they had legitimate aspects of their business? How would anyone know that at this point?

Most of the commentary seems to be more conspiratorial (and certainly more fun) than anything.

I mean, Enron was pretty cut and dry. Dog and pony show, cook the books and team up with one of the big public auditors.

This story, within just a few days, had people making all sorts of complex interconnections amongst a whole fleet of co-conspirators.
Can you imagine

You log into your Tumblr dashboard

All your friends on Mastodon making posts, your favorite bloggers on Write.as/WriteFreely instances, your favorite artists and photographers on Pixelfed

Mingling with the people you follow on Tumblr. And it's all neatly tied together through ActivityPub.

This was the original promise of the tumbleblogs Tumblr was inspired by. https://kottke.org/05/10/tumblelogs

I see people worry that it'll be quickly blocked the moment it steps on to the Fediverse. The matt in Automattic lived through the same decades of web and internet we all did. I hope he has the good sense to slow walk it and make sure Tumblr is a good citizen of the Fediverse rather than flipping a switch one day to open the floodgates.
Some societies do better than others though. It’s perfectly reasonable to set the bar at least that high.
So to block counterfiets and fencing, we need a verifiable chain of custody.
You don't. You need to slice your model first (and right there you have hundreds of tunables). Its a bit like using CUPS to control a CNC machine - the machine's definition of "printing" is quite different from CUPS
They should rename it Fenced By Amazon
I like it. However all the dates and times are in american format that I don't use.
... what does that mean?

It sounds like you are saying "there are no standalone SMTP clients", after which we would all start listing software that speaks SMTP.
It’s cool that you’re wishing a product fails in a way that could kill people
What these people really want is a curated forum so they can browse the threads that interest them and they don't have to see any posts in a thread about a topic that triggers them. It is fundamentally incompatible with the desire to consume social media in an infinite timeline style...
How did you learn what to say to start calls and meetings with a positive tone without coming off as if you weren’t taking things seriously enough?
Who knew complex large polyploid genome assembly (i.e. sugar cane) was just a matter of python scripting?
CRISPR tools found in thousands of viruses could boost gene editing
Amazing that a corpo can get away with "lack of assistance" when it is participating in a crime syndicate. Imagine if you or I tried that.
Why is flipping the switch bad in this context? Isn’t that actually what the protocol needs, a major visible platform adopting it with open arms all at once?
Only if this is one of the required textbooks:

http://www.realworlddivorce.com/
It says the correct time for me too.

I'm not that close to Qatar, and I suspect not that close to you either.
Thanks for the effort!

I still don't get it.

What does "the aim to be 'fully sandboxed'" mean in the light of "support [of] standard I/O, file I/O, filesystem manipulation, memory management, time, string, environment variables, program startup etc."?

What are "secure systemcalls"? What does this mean on the technical level?

How is the simple FS access filter (something you get form std. Unix FS access rights since 50 years) something special here, or even considered "fully sandboxed"?

(I get the broader idea of capabilities. But I would see this only as a minor implementation detail in the current state).
What is the real liability to apprehend when someone is attempting to steal a large amount of merch?
My first experience with AWS was around 2013 when I accidentally left a (cheap) ec2 instance running for months after I was done experimenting with it. Support refunded me no questions asked. Fast forward 2 years and that experience was an important factor in my decision to run servers costing 6 figures annually with AWS over their competition.
Restricted to some areas.

I live in the kind of city that most HNers would sneer at (we're kind of known for being rough) and it's not like described.
The message absolutely depended on time. But that's because the virus mutated, and the vaccine went from preventing illness and lowering spread rates to only preventing severe illness.
Why is ActivityPub better than RSS?
This is indeed a far better resource.
And yet the bump in property crime is coincident with noticeable recent slackening off, especially on property crime. I'm all for exploring what works, but not prosecuting shoplifters goes in the failed experiment bucket at this point IMO.
I’ll go for the opposing view, the compact spacing is great and looks great on iPhone :)
> have their posts go viral into the feeds of tens of millions of (unwilling) users, it doesn't replace what makes Twitter valuable.

Excluding or severely limiting virality is the essential criterion for any Twitter replacement.

That said, though I like and use Mastodon (as I do Linux), it is just not going to get Twitter-scale mass adoption. It is not, and believing to the contrary is just obvious delusion.

Maybe post.news will. It's worth a try. But if it doesn't attenuate virality, it won't improve on Twitter enough to be worth the trouble.
Willful negligence, and creating a public nuisance.
Just printed one and it works perfect with PETG. PLA was more brittle and I can see it would break easier for people.
I am fairly sure that trafficking in stolen goods is only a crime if the person knew, or if a reasonable person should have known, that the goods were stolen.
Just like the Keating Five. These politicians should be vilified.
Isn’t there a difference between “I think your conclusion is wrong, here’s another possible scenario where this could happen,” and “I think your conclusion is wrong, and here’s a legitimate scenario that I totally agree with that could explain why this happens”? They didn’t say it was right, just that there are other motivations for why people do these things.
The first is a superset of the second - if it’s impossible to reach the position whatsoever then it cannot happen even with coordination.
The US is not a continent, let alone "an entire fucking" one. Sorry mate.
I'm deeply reminded of MindMaze, which shipped with old versions of Microsoft Encarta in the 90s. While I'm sure the questions were canned and not programmatically generated, it behooved you to go read up on the subjects that it was being asked about, using none other than Encarta itself.
Like 80% of dead comments I see here are actually very valuable and reasoned.
Not implementing server-level blocklists is almost a guaranteed method of getting your instances added to federated blocklists. I see that this is not ActivityPub compliant, so presumably this would only federate with other Chatternet instances? If that's the case, I recommend hurrying to implement a solid product vision, because otherwise "no deplatforming" is your primary sell, and the people who are buying are perceived as folks who have been deplatformed already. It's a hard problem right now to get some people to separate "free speech" and "hate speech" in social media, and until that's got a solution I'm not sure a slightly-different protocol will move the needle.
What would the United States get out of this?

Nothing.
UK but live in Australia (it’s not used here either as far as I know).

I think the UK equivalent is probably Draw as in “this is the draw for the World Cup”.

Bracket in the UK is something used to hold up shelving.
I often use my instant pot instead of a pot on the stove because I don't have much counter space next to my stove. It's much more convenient to chop stuff up on my big counter and toss it into the instant pot that's right there instead of going back and forth between the counter and the stove.
> "Conflict is essential to human life..."

This is great. Can you give a citation?
It's not really comparable, because ActivityPub describes a two way communication channel between entities, while RSS is just one way.

ActivityPub is similar/comparable to email but built for social networks interactions.
Show HN: Among Us Ejection Web
A little web app I made for fun.
I’m trying to make sense of what this. It seems the answer may be on the project’s GitHub page reference in the rear, but that just 404’s.

https://chatternet.github.io/
Sometimes consumers sell something they decided not to use. Either directly to another consumer, or to an aggregator who can turn a profit on the consumer's loss by obtaining lots of previously retail bought goods.

It's sunk cost fallacy to just think "I must use this thing if I can only sell it at a loss."
Seriously, how far can they take it? Some of these people could lose 99% of their wealth, and then 99% of what was left over, and still have tens of millions of dollars. These abject displays of cruelty are really pushing the limits.
Or just a database of serial numbers.
Because Amazon Basics is the bottom of the barrel. Their cables do not last. You can buy Anker cables for around the same price. Their batteries are also terrible. It’s not like Costco’s Kirkland signature.
How would moderation work here? Like, what prevents me from being literally inundated with people trying to sell me scamcoins, or viagra, or nudes, or whatever the latest thing is.

You say "Self-moderating: a user has enough control over what they receive to reject spam content", but it's unclear what that means. Are you telling me I'm going to have to keep saying "I don't want to hear from ViagraSupplier1493956" every time ViagraSupplier1493957 makes a new account? Won't they just automate creating new accounts so I continuously have to reject them?

Or is this an opt in system? That's not what the word "reject" means to me, but it's the other "simple" alternative that I could imagine this describing. If so, is there literally way for a new user to onboard to this network except to convince people to start "listening" to them via side channels (like asking friends on other social media to follow them)? That's basically how things like substack work... I'm not sure I see it scaling.

I think it was one of the reddit founders who recently made the point that content moderation is fundamentally about increasing signal to noise ratio, and frankly I can't think of a harder problem. When you're trying to pitch a decentralized social network to me, it's literally the first question I have.

PS. The readme links to "https://chatternet.github.io/", but that doesn't exist.
NixOS uses a cache that works like this; it's source-based like Gentoo but for packages in cache it will download the cache rather than rebuilding. (it will rebuild if you configure the package in such a way to invalidate the cache, or install a package not in cache)

Besides the global cache for the whole distro, you can also set up caches for other software. For example, if you build your projects with Nix, you can have a cache for your projects (so that new contributors won't need to recompile everything from scratch). That's the premise behind https://www.cachix.org/

The only difference is that Nix caches aren't fine grained like ccache and sccache
Mac OS should be in caps
> Good boots don't cost 1.5 months of a worker's salary.

Now. But in the past it was plausible. See this list of assorted wages and prices for items in the mid-19th century in the US [1].

Boots were around $25. There were many jobs that paid low enough that $25 would be in the neighborhood of 1.5 months worth of pay.

[1] http://anotherandrosphereblog.blogspot.com/2013/03/how-much-...
What is more effective and humane? Is it about removing the poverty that drives that kind of theft, or were you thinking of something more direct?
Is it made in Java?
You can make a small but moderate side income reselling clearance LEGO on eBay. Even with the Walmart sticker still on it, no theft involved.
That is mostly because there are very few servers that support the client to server portion of the ActivityPub specification.

I am working on such a server, and I have built a custom client for it, but it's just a web application.
Security and Usability issues with most Web3 wallets
It's also in archive.org [0] with better quality and several formats for download.

[0] https://archive.org/details/ProgrammingPearls2ndEditionJonBe...
The return policy was the reason I started buying stuff (besides books) from Amazon in the first place. Initially it was just computer components where alternatives commonly had restocking fees and shipping costs for returns.

I think Amazon is going back to being a place where you only get certain things when you know exactly what you're looking for.
they're fundamentally different things. Activitypub is a protocol for multidirectional sharing of content, RSS is for unidirectional publisher/consumer distribution. there's no reason an ActivityPub instance couldn't also provide RSS feeds of their content.
Plausible deniability and more lawyers than God helps.
What are the alternatives? Is Bare Metal with OpenStack or K8s any more resilient to administrative DoS? Do we simply not care about this problem because the businesses being suspended are small fish?