skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think you understood what I was suggesting here, I'm referring to the load balancing system not auto scaling. Imagine a cluster with two nodes, that gets three requests. A round robin load balancer will distribute the first and third to node 1, and the second to node 2. However, if request 1 requires a lot of work for some reason (either it's an intrinsically complicated request or triggers gc or something), that means node 1 ends up heavily loaded and node 2 is underutilized. A smarter load balancer could notice that node 1 is still busy, and redirect request 3 to the node that has capacity available at the instant it comes in.

Given large enough numbers of small requests, it should all average out in the long run, but that requires over provisioning by enough that servers can still handle their "fair share" of requests even while running GC or otherwise dealing with unusually difficult requests. Realtime smarter load balancing should require less overhead.
I love HN articles about going down the rabbit hole. This one did not disappoint. At the end, though, I started to wonder about legal issues with altering downloaded code behavior. Cybersecurity laws are so clumsily written that the kind of alterations to Booking.com code described here seem likely to fall afoul of one or more such laws not to mention the site terms of usage.

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> but removed it initially for unknown reasons

Just an FYI, they gave their reasons in comment #84 of the thread you linked.
In case you missed it, there is a global climate emergency on planet Earth. Governments and agencies are letting it happen. So you can argue that they are doing their jobs and solving the problem as it's their job, but it's also possible that they're not doing it. And do you think Elon Musk will throw away millions in investments because of birds?
Both in terms of money and time.
Well, they're the ones doing the advocacy so I won't armchair quarterback but my reaction to the thing when language like that is used without corresponding numbers is that it's a cry-wolf fearmongering scenario.

Perhaps the general public is different. I think not, but we shall see.
All they say is "we acknowledge it uses Box2D and we'd be happy to discuss it with the creator later". There's no follow-up, which I'm curious about too since one of the questions raised was whether Rovio would consider supporting the project.
Relevant documentary about Angry Birds and its journey to a much higher valuation, and now down to $1B: https://youtu.be/VEVLHtzFle4
The teachers can only teach what the admins allow and only discipline in the way the admins allow. They don't have many degrees of freedom.
These practices are illegal and they have been fined for it before.
The Fourier transform is almost, but not quite it's own inverse when dealing with reals, so they'd be very similar to the results here.
Wow, the amazon links for the mangas still work and some sections have been updated to include reference to the live action netflix monstrosity (which I sincerely enjoyed). Way to go Emily!
Perhaps, but the fact that this article was so effectively suppressed on HN makes me wonder how what other dissenting opinions and claims of malfeasance the Musk fan boys have suppressed.

I didn't know there even were significant concerns (even if possibly wrong) until I happened to see this article before it was flagged for removal. What else is being whitewashed?
For the most part there seems to be no connection at all. This is a new and interesting tool that anyone can go use in whatever way they see for to improve their creative or productive process. I used it this week to teach me some of the fine points of double entry bookkeeping for a project without having to go seek out an accounting course.

There does seems to be a small number of AI maximalists who think the Singularity is going to create a kind of digital god. I rather expect they will be disappointed.
> not allowed to link the guestbook via HTTPS (SSL) unless they have a premium account.

Uhh...

> you are using a non-default setting or plugin that is causing HTTP links to be upgraded to HTTPS. This is not a standard way of surfing the web. Please change your settings or try with another browser. You will otherwise have problem accessing 20% of all websites.

the unencrypted conspiracy continues?... the decryptinati?! /s
That would be why the FAA has a rule that there must always be at least two people in the cockpit if the door is closed. In the US when a pilot needs the rest room a flight attended will take the pilots place (and usually leave the door open while watching it at that).

As the other person commented: instances of pilot suicides like this occurred outside the US, not under FAA justification.
Thunder only sounds for a few moments though. I doubt the engines will cut out after a few moments.
Seems hard to determine if a page has personal content. The archiving should probably only be done on clients that don’t have credentials
Oh, remastered elastomania is on steam. Happy days
I've been saying this for years and years. [1] The FSF / GNU folks are only preaching to the choir and don't really have any positive solutions.

They're happy to tell you what not to do, what software not to use (and what software they won't use) but that's it.

Their communications are calibrated for true believers only. They rely heavily on the reader/audience 1) agreeing with a fairly extreme position relative to the mainstream, and 2) the idea that the FSF/GNU has a position of authority/trust with the audience.

What's annoying is that I agree with them on the idea that deprecating JPEG-XL is counter to user interests and that Google has too much power. But they could've led with IceCat and made a more pragmatic case that might resonate with a larger audience. Hilariously, though, "building binary packages for Windows and MacOS currently requires nonfree software, so we no longer distribute binary packages for those platforms."

So... if you're already happy to be an Orthodox Free Software True Believer then you have an alternative. If you aren't, well, too damn bad. If you're a budding free software fan but happen to have a macOS machine or Windows machine your parents supplied, too bad. If you'd like to make a work computer slightly more free, too bad. Etc.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20100703110224/http://www.linux-...
[2] https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/
Go ahead and prep your downvote, but please stop re-inventing pgp. _loud sigh_.

There’s something to be said to have the same pgp key sign a contributor license agreement, that pgp key signs the commits, that pgp signs the release artifacts, same key with an ssh subkey accesses build servers. Using key base we can see what keys control related Social media and emails.

Honestly the _only_ thing missing of an immutable chain for releases hashes.

Now get off my lawn.
> it resulted in a few (private, moneyed) corporations deciding not to sell some music that the government had mandated be labeled (which, to be clear, is a wide power the

So you think it is okay that the government trampled on the free speech rights of rappers who were talking about police corruption and there experience years before the internet became ubiquitous where anyone could get it out?

> Imagine it was Rupert Murdoch and Fox World with an armor, always taste no and the duly-elected Democratic government trying impotently to reign them in

And the government only tried to “rein them in” by punishing them after they spoke out.

> when it comes to the FAANGs, what we're seeing is patterns of abuse that need to be reigned in.

Well the difference is that no corporation has ever stopped me because I “looked suspicious” because I was walking through my own neighborhood that I looked like I didn’t belong. Nor does it have qualified immunity to get away with doing almost anything. I have agency to not be under the auspices of any corporation - especially a search engine. I don’t have that power under the government. There is no balance on government power except not to give it anymore than absolutely necessary.

I’ve never had to worry about my son being harassed by any corporation just for driving down the street.

And do you think the government is just going to be happy with surveiling employees?
What is the view on Girl Scouts selling cookies? Or Boy Scouts selling popcorn?
Can archive box aggregate content "bookmarked" in different places?

I want a tool that will pull saved items on Reddit, favorite posts on HN, etc. in addition to bookmarks posted to pinboard.in to a single place. In many ways, the share functionality in iOS allows me to get all URLs into a single place, but this doesn't help on desktop.

I know this isn't necessarily and easy task, if APIs aren't available. I'd be OK with a client component or browser extension, if it was open source and self-hostable.
Electric utilities industry created one of the ‘largest’ propaganda campaigns
Thats awesome. as a desktop?
I’m really interested in this for fun, but it’s still way over my head. And this is someone who has been using typescript daily for years. Would love to read something more long form that builds up to this.
I feel like I've been thinking about something similar for over a decade as well lol. Great take on it, esp the labeling at each level.
The poor have no purchasing power and healthy foods have low margins (as the article mentions; grocer margins are typically 1-3%). You’re either stuck with a food bank, a coop, or folks buying low quality food from corner convenience stores and gas stations (ie Dollar General’s rural MO).

Median income and economic demographic info for zip codes where these stores are closing is publicly available.

Capitalism isn’t always the solution, and not all solutions require a profitable business. Most roads are not toll roads, for example.
huh? we have LN2 temperature superconductors. In this clip I show flux pinning in YBCO, cooled by LN2 on my dining room table: http://nt4tn.net/random/superconductor.mp4

There are many limits in current HTS-- like it's hard to build coils out of brittle ceramics-- so having alternatives would be very useful, so perhaps that's what you meant?
Thunder is around 120dB but that only lasts for a short amount of time. A rocket launch will produce continuous high-intensity noise, which is far more damaging.

Animals also have ways to prepare for a storm, such as retreating to a nest or other safe space as the storm comes. A rocket launch usually occurs during good weather and has no clear advanced warning, so there's no chance for mitigation.

So I don't think the comparison to thunder is apt.
Originally the actual software was called the wiki-wiki-web
> Metrics and Data

When I taught, we considered all the standardized testing as weighing your cows more often to increase their weight.
Just reminiscing of what the web was before we destroyed it with ad based monetization and responsive design.
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I am with Nicholas Taleb. Past returns are no guarantee. And in any case...

“They will envy you for your success, your wealth, for your intelligence, for your looks, for your status - but rarely for your wisdom.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
I didn’t conclude that you were suggesting that we could—-quite the opposite, I posted both the original comment and yours to make the distinction. Your comment was responding to the notion that the world can run on renewables. You didn’t make the claim that it could, you made the claim that we would need to decrease consumption so it could.

So the answer is “no” at current consumption and current renewable capacity. Further consumption will only increase, so to get to a 100% renewable place, we need to account for capacity increase and build that into the equation. We cannot make moving to renewables dependent of something that will not happen.
I am well aware. The fraction of this is also peanuts compared to the drive purchase price.
I really love how the kennedy space center one looks. But looking at the apollo launch video that links from it it doesn’t appear to be enough (or at least not enough it doesn’t instantly turn into steam).
Firefox has built-in reader view, and whatever the Chrome equivalent is.
From my understanding, recently, "getting enough food" has been the biggest worry for children in Afghanistan, not whether they're doing some work or not.
It was "suppressed" because it's malodorous garbage.
The attribution there seems to be optimized for people who (1) recognize ANW as Alfred North Whitehead but (2) didn't already recognize the quotation as his. I suspect that's a pretty small set.
The ability to discriminate is built into our DNA. It is hard to resist the urge for many who brought up with the knowledge of cast discrimination.
Unfortunately, the caste is ascribed with no fault of the individual and can't be changed.

A bill aimed at preventing discrimination against any group is likely to be passed without much opposition in California. It is always better to take preventive measures to reduce the number of victims of discrimination, even if the discrimination is not yet widespread.

When the bill is passed, it is unclear whether it will have a retroactive application.
Caste discrimination is real and is definitely hurting people and companies. Few of my coworkers say it exists in the US and then as example tell story about managers, executives, etc.

The tricky problem is that caste system is part of Vedas based religions - but caste system even predates Vedas (did not research it - only from friends).
You should learn about the time value of money. Money today is more valuable than in 50 years so you can't simply ignore the high upfront cost because it makes nuclear impossible on any open market.

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/03/082703.asp
Sounds like a nasty employer, but at-will employment is the standard code:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At-will_employment
Practice... getting used to. And in some cases better receivers than the one on someones private roof used to capture the transmissions for the stream.
I wonder if someone who just have seen google ad sense back then accurately predicted where it's gonna lead.
do you know why they are offering half instead of double?

because they can

the game has changed
Can someone explain what Sidekiq actually does?
I guess we just care a little bit less about this little slice of our planet when we’re at the brink of launching the largest rocket ever into space.
Seriously. This seems way easier to implement at the state level. I don’t want to have to run around updating my income to every service provider.

Increase or decrease taxes at the state level, not at each point of payment.
Why the clickbait'esque title, of course it can, with enough engineering hours applied.
It's more complicated than that. Many companies that aren't mainly in tech end up having strange ideas of what competitive pay is for FTEs, thanks to HR, but managers can spend capital project money with far fewer limitations. This leads to places where the contractors are very well paid, but there's no way to convert them to FTEs, just because the offers are never high enough. Add to that the fact that raises in those places are rarely competitive with the market, and you can see crazy situations where a contractor is doing so much better than an FTE that has been in the company for 5 years.

I've also seen layoffs where only full time employees get hit, while the contractors, just don't get hit. Just this month, I've just seen a 20% cut in FTEs , followed by the remaining employees having to spend a lot of time interviewing contractors to replace them. And the contractors are not going to be on-call, so support rotations shrink.

So yes, there are places where the long term contractor is the least desirable position available, but it's really hard to generalize.
Batch processing predates HPC. It goes back to mainframes - it’s just that HPC had a common lineage there. Like you said, it’s an unattended job that runs.

That’s what it’s getting at- setting up routines for unattended execution in batch.

BTW Chris Ré did stuff with UW Madison /HTCondor and definitely knows what batch computing is
Interesting. Possibly site operator can make it more mobile friendly?

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Mobiles,_tablets_and_r...
This does not work, that's the issue, try to run it.
>Households earning less than $28,000 a year would pay a fixed charge of $15 a month

So… can I just find a poor person and pay their electric bill for them in exchange for them letting me run some crypto miners in their house?
China unveils electromagnetic gun for riot control
As a developer, the best thing to say about Angry Birds is, that is put box2d on my map. I extensively used box2d within the LibGDX framework.

And yes, there is a story around not giving credit to the inventor of box2d:
https://techcrunch.com/2011/02/28/creator-of-angry-birds-phy...
You imply, you don't need a nanny.

The same is often claimed by children, obviously mostly when not yet true.
The reality of the matter is determined by observable outcomes, not by self-declarations.

If, as in this case, the objective outcome is not indicative of successfull self-determination, a nanny is in order.
"taking cars into the air as a way to free the world of traffic"

you mean now your cars will also be in front of and above my balcony?

Only a too-rich-not-to-be-delusional person can think that way
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It's (mostly) a good argument, and it needs making. I'm glad he did this. But I would still allow the project. I do not like Musk, but I like even less the tendency for projects to get delayed or cancelled because of infinite environmental impact studies. Especially when, as in this case, the impact is limited in time and space. I'm glad NASA acquired vast tracts of land in S Florida 60 years ago when no-one lived there. Holding SpaceX to a standard that high seems to speak less of an interest in safety and more of an interest in ending SpaceX.

This is not an easy argument to make. Our biosphere is a precious gift from deep history, and we are fools to waste it. Elon Musk bought Twitter and became a cringe right troll, which makes it hard to defend him. But the damage to nature here is limited in time and space, and Musk's personality is irrelevant. When I weigh my own sentiments here, the annoyance at not letting things get built far, far outweighs these other concerns.

As an aside, part of the argument that isn't good: to hold SpaceX to the same standard as NASA in 1960's Florida. A government agency. Florida was basically an uninhabited jungle then compared to today. This argument is "no more rockets, ever" in sheep's clothing, because those conditions will never exist again.
This looks awesome!

I used booking.com a lot a few months ago and was just constantly amazed at how dumb all these “nudges” are. My favorite was a warning on a hotel listing saying “only 1 room at this price left on booking.com”. Turned out the hotel was completely empty! The hotel has only one of their smallest size room, so _necessarily_ when the hotel is empty there is only one of the cheapest rooms left. But still they try to make you feel anxious!
I don’t see how pgp and sigstore are equivalent
So then why isn't Greenpeace more active in the US than in Germany?
Yeah, incorrect (or more likely misunderstood) rounding is not a smoking gun, and is a pretty silly thing to try and use to "catch" somebody. I've actually regularly seen administrators with nothing to add to a discussion call numbers into question because they can't understand how rounded values may not add up exactly to a column total. For that reason, it's relatively common practice in consulting reports to fudge the numbers so the rounded values do add to the colum totals (there are a few other fudges like this to make numbers easier to understand). It's only actually dishonest or material if you then try and explain your conclusions based on the 0.01 you tweaked.
When I taught in the San Bernardino City Unified School District there were more administrator staff than teachers.

Ah, still the case: https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/districtsearch/district_detail.asp?I...
Nothing. The version of AI that we have is completely different. I have no idea what the future holds, but right now, singularity is pure fiction. Very poor fiction.

Ps. Specifically Lex should do better because he can clearly tell the difference. I have heard lots of BS in TV and discussions on that front from ppl who knows a lot about some topics but clearly can’t understand how ChatPGt3 works and they talk about “consciousnesses”. ChatGPT3 poses very interesting questions already, no need to discuss SCI-FI scenarios that don’t hold water when we have something so intriguing to play with.
As far as I can tell, the defence companies we’re talking about were not public back then?
From personal experience I know a 266 MHz (single core) PC from c. 1997 can run 3D games with somewhat comparable graphics just fine (MechWarrior 2, the PC version of FF7) at low SVGA resolutions (640x480 - 800x600).

The Pico3D is 1/2 the performance (133 MHz if you use only one core for rendering), but 1/8 as many pixels (240x240 display).

Definitely a cool project, but based on specs it's actually not that surprising this is possible.
Well, it depends on your connection speed and whether your browser supports gzip compression (which hopefully most browsers should at this point).
Might somehow Cheney & Rumsfeld count as "sketchy social media influencers" ?

Inquiring minds want to know.
Reddit mobile site does this when you tap a post. It drives me nuts. Then you have to hit back, which refreshes Reddit and brings you back to the top. I think it’s intentionally designed to get people to switch to the app.
Which is a (apologies for the insult) brain-dead claim.

The US is practically impossible to invade, even if it did not have a massive navy. The only ways into the US are Eastern Ocean, Bigger Western Ocean, Economically dependent southern nation and Economically dependent northern nation.

Then you look at US army bases, and realize that China's nearest feasibly supply-line for such an invasion would have to be in Western Africa [1] or the Solomon Islands [2].

> US defense is weaker

Even if the net-size of the US forces are smaller, the US has a significantly stronger Navy. China doesn't even come close. For all my complaining about highways, they do allow the US to mobilize land-forces to any geographical location on continental USA near instantaneously. Hell, I doubt China's ability get out of the South China Sea with American bases surrounding it in a maritime war, let alone reach another continent.

[1] https://twitter.com/thinking_panda/status/139073240788038042...

[2] https://www.economist.com/sites/default/files/images/print-e...
Why would you take a contract position for half the money? That defeats the point.

Though I guess if you work in the US there’s not much difference in the first place because firing even permanent employees seems really easy.