skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're working with decades-long development timelines, it isn't the worst idea to use a modernized version of proven technology.

Let SpaceX et al. take the technology risk, and support them via contracts.

But it's an improvement on the prior approach to instead put space eggs in two baskets: {lower risk, conservative technology choices} + {higher risk, cutting edge technology choices}
Hadn't thought of it that way, my bad, thanks for the clarification!
I'm an idiot, you're right. There, it's on record. I claim under-caffeination. Still, the basic point still stands, even if my numbers need to be divided by 8. Desktops use more memory because, as users, we demand fancy true-color graphics, high resolutions, and anti-aliasing that we didn't have in the Windows 9x era.
Giving up privacy is indeed a tragedy and inevitable and it's a consequence of many processes (including generated responses and bots but also the democratic process's reliance on news outlets and the fact spreading news got a lot easier with the internet and figured it out).

However - once we do a ton of stuff (other than reliable news though that is a nice side effects) is unlocked. If you can verify who someone is easily - elections and government processes can be a lot more transparent and reach consensus a lot more easily. Medicine can gather a lot of reliable (opt-in) data and become better and more efficient, fraud is easier to detect etc.

I am and have been for about 2-3 years sad for the upcoming loss of privacy and it is truly a tragedy and seems inevitable.
Yep, they injects ads
It's odd to suggest that Chinese games have eclipsed Japanese games in global mass-marketability. The complete and exhaustive list of games developed in China with global mass-market appeal: Genshin Impact. Meanwhile, in Japan's corner: gestures broadly at half the gaming industry. Are you including games like LoL or PUBG that were merely purchased by Chinese companies after becoming popular?
wowsie
thanks for sharing.

your post makes me want to make the switch from the platforms i am using for myself and clients to yours :)

i'll definitely try it out very soon
What’s the motivation for someone to proxy mirror a site?

Does copied content even rank in Google? How are they driving the traffic to it?
Why isn't unity on the list?

Edit: they used fedora, I see it now.
> Once it reloaded, I found it nicer to read, than a Twitter thread, but if I want to publish something, I would not find that tolerable.

This is perfect example of "it should've been just a blog post". Kinda shame Mastodon repeats same Twitter failures, instead of just giving an option for long format content. I mean, it is nicer than Twitter formatting-wise but that's a low bar
Author here, thanks for your thoughts.

I agree with you, just the existence of Mastodon/Discourse/others isn't sufficient. The onboarding and home/local/federated timelines of Mastodon can be a bit confusing at first, which does take some time to get used to. Just not being the other guys is the first of many necessary steps to being better.

And yes, scientists can't be entirely insulated from the wider public. Ideas that only stay in academia don't make the same impact that they need to in the wider world. Similarly, academics need to hear from the wider world to learn what problems are important and how their work can impact people. There need to be forums for interacting with large public audiences.
Open-source intelligence has shaped the Russia-Ukraine war
If the desktop environment is consuming all the RAM to eek out a bit of extra performance, then it's not available for the applications to do the same.
Yes, any level of bend-insensitive fiber has a better bend radius than cat6a. a3/b3 is much better.

Cat6a min bend radius is about an inch.

g.657a3/b3=~0.2 inch

g.657a2/b2=~0.39 inch

g.675a1/b1=~0.59 inch

as for connectors, not anymore.
They have simple ones that are just mechanical crimp.

IE you cleave it, crimp it, and that's done.

0.15-0.25db loss, which is fine for a home run.

also, LC connectors/etc are small enough that you can just fish them (they are less than half the size of a cat connector), or disassemble them and re-assemble.

I have a fusion splicer, but i just fish completed cables with the connector covered.

Also, these days you can get a reasonable fusion splicer on amazon for ~750 bucks that is 0.025db average loss.

There are less and less reasons to run cat these days.

QSFPTEK just emailed me this morning offering me multimode 100G-SR4 optics (100M, so same as ethernet) for 35 bucks a piece.

They are regularly only 50 bucks a piece now anyway.

100G is obviously crazy for anyone's home need, but the point is the speed at which things like it are becoming cheaper is really high right now.
Yes, fiberglass won't stick well to polypropilene.

It is however possible to do this kind of repair with fiberglass if you drill a few holes just over and under the crack.

The resin will get into the holes and keep the inner and outer fiberglass layers together, besides acting as a sort of nails transmitting the forces applied to the basket to the outer fiberglass layers.

But unless you are familiar with fiberglass and have the materials from another project, it makes little sense, you can have the same result (with the same technique of drilling a few holes) using metal epoxy putty, the kind that you cut a piece from a stick and knead/mix in your hands.
I think we're losing the topic here.

The way that qemu allocates memory is that generally it allocates 100% of the memory you've given to the VM (sans virtio balloon, which the VM doesn't really know about and will accidentally use for filesystem caches).

This makes qemu-kvm look like a program that uses a lot of memory, and linux (as a host) doesn't know what's happening inside and is not doing anything smart with free memory inside a VM.

This is true with many caveats, such as KSM (kernel-shared-memory), and the nature of virtio ballooning. This is the foundation of how it's working, which is what my parent comment was asking.
Why on earth would anyone keep “money” in a mattress that their government will not accept for payment of their debts. Wild logic.
Personally I just block everything and create whitelist rules for what I need to connect to.
Exactly and that's my main beef with these DE comparisons. DEs don't exist in a vacuum but depend on which bistro they run on, and how well they're integrated in that particular distro as this affects stability and resources consumption.

I suspect if we were to tests all these DEs on Arch or OpenSUSE, some of these results would look completely different, at least for the major "gass-guzzers" like GNOME and KDE, so IMHO, the jury is still out on them.

Still, I appreciate that the author has gone through this effort for these tests.
The myth lives on. According to Wikipedia:

> Multiple individuals have staked a claim to being the inventor of the USB flash drive. On April 5, 1999, Amir Ban, Dov Moran, and Oron Ogdan of M-Systems, an Israeli company, filed a patent application entitled "Architecture for a Universal Serial Bus-Based PC Flash Disk".
You don't get heavy propaganda vibes when reading Times, The New York times or The Economist?
Perhaps your bubble isn't being "propagandized to death with anti-EV articles", but others are?
My hardware often works literally for over a decade. If being frugal and taking care of your devices is "antiproductive" for you, I'm a little bit concerned but it's up to you anyways.

Maybe you live in a 1st world country and earn $15K monthly and you can replace your laptop every month. Good. I can afford one every few years at best.

Win+V works here in XFCE as well only it shows over 35 recent entries as opposed to maybe 5 in Windows 10.
For the last 10 years, I've been reading manga off a tablet. Recently, my tablet died and for next couple of months I had no way to purchase a replacement, so I decided to give it a go on a phone. Honestly, I did not expect things to turn out so well: landscape orientation, fit to width and pinch zoom do the job most of the time. The only issue I have is with split spread pages, but that's more of the reader and source integration issue - I suspect Mangaplus doesn't annotate pages as spreads like Crunchyroll, so Tachiyomi has no way of knowing what's a spread.
>The creative application of scientific principles to design or develop structures, machines, apparatus, or manufacturing processes, or works utilizing them singly or in combination; or to construct or operate the same with full cognizance of their design; or to forecast their behavior under specific operating conditions; all as respects an intended function, economics of operation and safety to life and property

Fits software eng. just fine
Well, if you want to innovate then, atleast as far as Germany is concerned, you have to lay out the non-standard parts of your contract in clear and simple terms along with pointing out where to read the full text.

If I give you a software copy with non-standard license, courts here won't uphold such licenses if you don't point out it's non-standard and in what ways. Because the consumer can't be expected to read and understand every legal contract they have to sign. They aren't lawyers, after all.
Glad to see memset_explicit for zeroing out sensitive data.
Pure and brilliant counter signaling. His paper is worth reading and he knows it, the font is not there to entice readers. The paper does the enticing. The comics sans signals "This is either the ramblings of a child, or the utterance of genius, and I'm all out of childhood..."
> Maybe write some bad words to the user on random places in the HTML

> Create fake big css files (10MB etc). And repeatedly download that from the adversary's website. This should cost them too much money on proxies.

Be careful when doing things like this, including the shock image option mentioned in other comments, as then it could become an arsehole race with them trying to DoS your site in retribution. Then again, going through more official channels could also get the same reaction, so…

> When you detect proxy, return too big fake HTML files (10GB) etc. That could crash their server if they load the HTML into the memory when parsing.

Make sure you are setup to always compress outgoing content, so that you can send GBs of mostly single-token content with MBs of bandwidth.
I can tell I'm getting older by the number of articles I read that take time to describe 'history' of things that seem obvious since I lived through them, like the explanation of how 3.5" high density 'Floppy disks' held up to 1.44MB. Like... "I know... oh god some people don't know that."
> Meanwhile, small NVMe-based devices in either this thumb-format or SD-format (5 years in the making [1]) are still not very popular, so the prices are high. Or is it the other way around?

Consumer devices don't need storage that fast and those prosumer/pro devices that do either use USB-C SSDs (e.g. Blackmagic's camera lineup [0]), outright SSDs (BlackMagic's fixed-studio equipment [1]) or CFexpress which actually is PCIe under the hood (Nikon, Sony and Panasonic all offer CFexpress support on their recent models of higher priced camera systems). Prices are very high, but that's justifiable IMO - unlike with SD cards or USB sticks where all the low-quality-binned flash chips go, CFexpress flash chips have to be the best of the best of the binning because they couldn't keep up with the performance and endurance that professional equipment demands.

[0] https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/de/products/blackmagicursam...

[1] https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/de/products/blackmagicmulti...
Ask HN: Database Hosting
hi,

im looking for an external hosting provider for my database, im using arangodb. (currently hosting it on a vps, same instance and provider, as my php and js code)

i know if arango oasis, but its quite expensive for small projects.
does anyone know of any alternatives?

thanks!
In the Xorg version of gnome-shell, it was possible to crash the user session by just requesting a drawable surface that's _too big_. I managed to do so with a textbox from seemingly safe python code.
IIRC it included the runtime libraries. In the case of VB you had to install them in addition to your software (and I think they were bigger).

Today you can download the .NET runtime quickly and semi automatically, but back in the day you had to make sure the user had them, so you included them in the bundle anyways...
You can overload their servers as they pass on any URL to you. Just make sure their resource usage is significantly more than yours. Eg. serving a gzipped response that contains millions copies of the same URL to your site. Ideally, make it not fit in their memory. Or, simply large enough to take really long to compute.

Put it under a URL only you know, then start DoS-ing it.

Of course that requires you to be able to serve a prepared gzipped resonse, depends on your stack.
Would you consider an oil painting that exactly duplicated the photograph to be sufficiently different to not be covered by the original artist's copyright?
For those who are looking for general info on nuclear fusion tech, the real engineering youtube recently put out a nice explainer video on how its done and what the various constraints are:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzK0ydOF0oU
>> Assets aren't zero sum because you can produce more cars, etc.

I’d need to exchange other tangible assets (raw materials) and labour to produce the next car, I can’t just make a car, a tangible asset, by declaring a new one exists.

I’m creating more value than the raw materials worth when i assemble them into a car - maybe the idea of value creation is what you’re digging at here and I’m misunderstanding?

In either case it’s zero sum. I have some form of asset or I don’t. The value of an asset is not the price of its raw materials, it’s whatever i can convince someone it’s worth. But valuation is nothing to do with the zero sum notion of transferring ownership of assets.

>> Money is zero sum … excluding central bank money and cash

That’s a contradiction. It’s either zero sum or it’s not.

But besides that it’s missing what zero sum means. The bank issuing a loan has provided you with value in the form of the loan funds but it hasn’t exchanged any tangible asset to provide you that money. It just created an asset from thin air (your loan is its new intangible asset). They can sell your loan to a pension fund but they they won’t own that asset anymore. You won’t have to repay 2 creditors if they sell your loan.

There’s a complication when you spend your loan with a merchant banked by another bank. Your bank will now have to transfer reserves at the central bank from their account to the merchant’s bank’s account at the central bank. If they don’t have enough reserves to cover this transfer, the central bank will create reserves and lend them it at the base rate.

>> Money being backed by debt

It’s not backed by anything, it’s just a promise

>> Of course that means there is no limit to how much money there is in the system

In theory true but in practice people will stop accepting your money if you hyperinflate it
Your Brain is not a Computer (2016)
It seems only inevitable that ChatGPT will be used to exploit children.
> HEIF is an abstract concept like 'binary'

Okay.

> Saying that image is stored in binary doesn't tell much, the same for HEIF.

No, it tells plenty. It's more like saying "beat saber binary". Yeah, maybe it's a picture of Grandma inside, but it's very probably a song.
Why startups are building with the Julia Programming Language
It's definitely in rarefied territory, but that alone does not make it a significant historic first.

The US Interstate Highway System cost $535 billion in 2020 dollars, according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_Highway_System .

The Apollo project cost $165 billion in 2021 dollars, according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_program .
Carmax does a thorough enough inspection at their shop with trained mechanics beforehand.
But CZ seems like such a straight shooter.
Do you put your hand over fire or you need a study to confirm that fire will burn you?
A good old fashioned slash dotting on a self hosted server. Chill dude.
> The investigation began in 2018 and is focused on Binance's compliance with U.S. anti-money laundering laws and sanctions, these people said

If the investigation is five years old, then this isn't as big of a story as it seems on first glance. Not yet, at least.
Sure and there's no real way around that other than community norms to downvote/whatever corrected replies and upvoting the correction. HN makes that a bit hard by locking voting away from so many people but I think it works better than open voting probably.
More possibly, the domain most improved by real-time English chat will be phone scams.
Philosophical zombie is a nice way of putting it, I used the term 'articulate idiot' but yours is much more eloquent.

I'm not sure it is an answerable question though, today or possibly even in the abstract.
If you compare it to the comment history then it’s a remarkable change in tone of voice such that on the balance of reason, the text is now either generated by GPT or it is an accurate mimic of GPT’s typical writing style.
I've tested it in Firefox development mode using Samsung Galaxy S20 as a mobile device and it looked fine.

Google Mobile Tester doesn't report any issues either: https://search.google.com/test/mobile-friendly/result?id=mj_...

And Bing says it's 100% mobile friendly as well: https://www.bing.com/webmaster/tools/mobile-friendliness
> Umm, why is typing something like defer (and documenting what it does) different than typing something like goto (and documenting what it does)?

Because goto is explicitly declaring a control flow where defer causes implicit control flow in code that does not explicity declare it. That's a meaningful difference that the OP was trying to specifically avoid regardless of whether you care about it.
I don't think the claim is that it's literally Photoshopped. It's a painting. It could be a painting of a Photoshopped version of the photo, or the changes could have been made while painting. There isn't any legal basis for distinguishing between digital and physical works here -- a copy is a copy, and a physical copy with alterations is as much a derivative work as a digital copy with alterations.
I'd imagine most people running RAM hungry applications would have enough RAM so that saving single gigabyte is not really relevant
The individual is more important than the community, a good example of why capitalism sucks. "Individual rights should triumph everything" is a capitalist, liberal ideological tool that is used to justify the exploitation and suffering of the vast population of the world. Human _society_ is based around communities, and _communism_ is based around what is better for _everyone_, not about what is best for a single person.

Yeah, you won't become "rich and famous" (as you said) and be able to exploit others with your profits. Big fucking deal.

What you are saying is liberal capitalist ideology condensed: some people have "the right" to become "rich". But not everyone can be rich, being rich requires some people being poor. So if you think about what you are saying for a fraction of a second, you will realize that your ideology (the triumph of the individual who "deserves" to become "rich") requires exploitation and suffering of others.

Communism tries to combat that. Yes, you won't get rich, but at least children won't die of malnutrition. Children not dying > me becoming rich. That's a trade-off Im willing to make.
I guess this was one of those "inventions" which are pretty obvious in hindsight, and I bet more than one party had already though of building a USB drive, it was just a question of the USB interface becoming widespread enough and of flash memory becoming affordable and reliable enough. Actually, flash memory cards with proprietary interfaces were available for some time before the year 2000 given in the article (Compact Flash since 1994, Sony's Memory Stick since 1998), so it was just the question of using USB instead of these interfaces.
That's the point at a holistic level, but in reality it's a shared resource. A DE in particular is never the primary application - it should spend most of its time largely invisible to the user - so using a lot of RAM that actual applications may require would not be my expectation.

> be able to adopt in a constrained system

That's a fair caveat, but in reality no software is perfect & there's often a trade-off here. Being conservative with RAM usage in general (instead of trying to be both greedy & adaptive) is a much more prudent approach. The latter is ideal, but hard to achieve perfectly. Working on being reasonably good at both is going to give you the best quality outcomes.

> I have 8G free, use it away, I don't see the point in having RAM I paid for sitting around unused

That's a nonsensical sentiment. What's the point in using RAM "you paid for" for something useless/wasteful - you're not getting your money's worth whether the RAM is idle or wasted.
dream interpretation is about asking the right questions, not giving the answers. a model could learn to ask good questions (reminds me of ELIZA)
Since then have you had more success with content prediction?
Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/949/
This looks quite interesting. Any chance you will distribute this via AWS Marketplace or easy to setup deployment script?
To be clear "Jan 2006" - is a format string. Current date would yield "Dec 2022", obviously.

R example - it's "Long month, hour, decimal minute", so something like "December 15 35"

So you got Go format style right, and alphabet-style wrong. But Go's format is worse, right?
Well, for starters we could take your comment and compare it to GPT-3 output to see which one makes more sense.
This. Perhaps HN crowd can afford machines with sizeable amounts of RAM but many people in my family still use old hardware. 2G RAM machines are pretty common from Windows 7 era. I often "upgrade" family members unwilling to buy a new computer onto lightweight Linux distros which don't need that much RAM.
>You are at sdf?

Yes ;) for netbsd and plan9/9front (9p.sdf.org)

Got my account ~3 years ago an validated it immediately, it's fast and simple (at least with paypal).

For plan9 you don't need validation just create a new account (same mail-adress if you will and different pw) https://sdf.org/plan9/

>On VM resources... FFS, Alpine could run under 128MB of RAM, enough to do basic configurations.

Yeah Alpine is really nice...and musl ;)
That all sound nice and clean, until it's not.

Two examples from my European Country, where the practice is spread and people believe they are smart but are really not.

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a lot of people did it here, especially in the 80s-90s. Then we started building high speed 4 lanes highways and high speed trains. You know how much the State paid for the land used to build those infrastructures?

EXACTLY!

The nominal values, so basically people got compensated for a tenth of the actual price.

The State also explained publicly that most of the land in straight flat paths, was chosen using their market value. If it's worthless, nobody will protest, on the contrary, they will be happy that someone is buying it for a price.

Some of these people were so stupid that sued the State. Of course the State won and also discovered the fraud, collecting even more money in the form of fines.

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Recently a campaign of subsidies to improve energy efficiency of buildings was launched. The benefits are up to 110% of the total costs. Yep, 110%.

So my parents, who always did everything by the book, and got called foolish by their neighbors for years, got for free a 45k photovoltaic system and the renewal of the shed, while most of the requests were rejected because various irregularities were in place. Which again did the government a tool to investigate who committed a fraud in the past and fine them.

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Personal advice: unless you're Bezos level rich, don't try to outmsart the government. Chances are your children will have to pay for your assholeness.