skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you were here it would be obvious

"Here?" I don't know what you think you're saying; but you should not assume that you know me; who or where I am. Yeah there are lots of cars in London; there are even more people.

I see also you're throwing out random numbers (50% according to who? ) that even if true, don't directly relate to or contradict what I said - "households" are not "people", "people" are not the same stat as "poor people", car owners are not evenly distributed, and IDK why "Flatshare people" are something subhuman that you scorn and exclude from counts.
"I didn't know Oracle cloud offered a decent free tier"

It's more than their free tier[1]. There are a number of nice things in OCI. For example: Redundant control plane hosts for their non-"free tier" k8s clusters are free. The equivalent of AWS's cross-AZ traffic is free (as opposed to $0.02/GB at AWS); a huge win for certain use cases. They're using a open, platform agnostic "specification" (the Fn Project[2]) for serverless cloud functions, which is wonderful for local dev and test. Terraform is tier 1 with OCI; from documentation through support Terraform is the reference "infrastructure as code" solution on OCI, always comprehensive and robust. Oracle Linux is pretty good; better than Amazon Linux has been, although with AL2023 Amazon is starting to close the gap. OCI instance shapes are very flexible. Overall costs are lower; Oracle is aggressively competing on price. Instance live migration (à la KVM live migrate) is a thing at OCI, so Oracle can live migrate running instances to isolate failing hardware.

I could go on.

Yes, I'd say OCI isn't as stable as AWS. Anecdotally: I get occasional "event notification" in my inbox; perhaps 4 in roughly 2 years, which is fewer (1) than I've seen from AWS in the same time. All but 1 was tangential, didn't actually impact anything that matters, and were quickly resolved. I actually received the OCI notice in my email today before it popped up on HN, which is "different" than how it usually goes with AWS.

[1] My experience is limited to AWS and OCI.
[2] https://fnproject.io/

p.s. I appreciate that Oracle has earned the hate it receives from most, and I too have been a victim in my prehistoric past. OCI is, however, different; it's a pay-as-you-go platform that provides Oracle with no customer-abuse opportunities given the strength of the competitors, and my experience with it has been entirely cromulent.
I don’t mind Reddit committing suicide because the volunteer moderation system is absolute, total, complete garbage. There are subreddits where mods have programmed any DMs to be reported to Reddit, that’s how unpopular they are, yet they continue to own subreddits representing companies who should care more about such things. One example is CardinalMember on the Robinhood subreddit.

Then there’s the issue of getting permanent “zero tolerance” bans for comments less than racism or other discrimination or hate speech. Honestly I kind of appreciate where Elon Musk is coming from lifting bans on people like Donald Trump… of course in typical human fashion, he bans people on Twitter for MUCH less than hate speech- like tracking his private jet or being critical of his thoughts or actions. Unfortunately, I have yet to observe anyone with authority who A) advocates for free speech and B) doesn’t restrict it when it’s content they don’t like.
We should stop doing things like this.
The people don't want to be not homeless.
An opinion piece from a department of state employee about a former CIA agent holding a press conference to tell the public that there are impossibly advanced sci fi orbs zipping around the sky.

I wonder what real thing happened today that this is a smokescreen for?
You don't seem to understand that there is nothing preventing mediocre applicants from asking for more money than better applicants. How much a person asks to be paid may or may not have anything to do with their actual ability to deliver results. And in fact, what has been empirically shown is that applicants who ask for and receive outsized compensation are actually worse performers on average.
> ...advances in rare-earth barium copper oxide (REBCO) magnets that have demonstrated large-scale magnetic fields as high as 20 Tesla that could potentially yield 90% efficiency in a magnetohydrodynamic drive, which is worth pursuing. Now that the glass ceiling in high magnetic field generation has been broken...

> There are multiple potential approaches to the MHD system including conductive and inductive approaches. The conductive approach involves a conductive current between a pair of electrodes within a magnetic field. The inductive approach uses a time-varying magnetic field and electric current.

IANAEE (Electrical Engineer)...but having a time-varying ~20 Tesla magnetic field in a drive system seems a bit at odd with their (presumed) requirement of stealth.
> California have 50% of the homeless and 12% of the population? Are people being bussed in,

Yes. States are known to literally ship out their homeless problem to other states and also do so figuratively by criminalization and persecution to drive the homeless out.

If you are less aggressive at those things, or provide better services, the net flow of homeless people is going to be in to your state, all other things being equal.

This isn’t, of course, the whole of the problem. Housing supply issues and income inequality issues produced by the fact that California has some very successful industries that reward a narrow set of people very well also play a big role, and these are self-inflicted policy problems [0] (both not adequately increasing housing supply, and not leveraging narrow prosperity better for the general good.)

[0] Not simple policy problems to resolve, the housing one for political reasons, the improving distribution without killing the prosperity you are trying to improve the distribution of one is actually tricky in policy.
Yeah, all the people saying this was a 'cold', what about all the dead? What do you mean we overreacted, or it was fake, or a conspiracy? Look at all the dead, how do you ignore that.
> why should they get it for free?

They shouldn't get it for free. They should be required to be in recovery programs and have jobs. Create state or federal jobs for them if necessary.
As someone with graduate level math experience and many friends in mathematics grad school, I know what you mean, but it definitely depends on your idea of fun.

You have to enjoy bashing your head against a problem for a dozen hours. Or to be more precise, you have to enjoy the feeling of solving such a hard problem sufficiently much to find math fun.
I don't self-host, with a few exceptions. Generally speaking, my value proposition is app feature development, not managing the operational complexity of self-hosted software.

For personal projects, I either try to leverage a free tier (if available) or just not use that software, because very few of my projects make any money, and most of what I do is just for fun/learning, anyway.

For projects that make me money, I would absolutely pay $5 or whatever for the basic tier, and as traffic/revenue goes up, I'd happily pay for more. That hasn't happened yet for me, but I would if I made any money ;)
Press tends to avoid referring to primary sources directly.
Intact historical buildings and artifacts are rare, because something like this is the expected outcome. People are careless and incompetent, except by accident.

Restoring a major historical building is always a one-off project. You follow the best practices, and the chance of a catastrophic outcome may be 10%, 1%, or 0.1%. You can't tell those scenarios apart in advance, because they all look very similar. Success is overwhelmingly likely. If a catastrophe occurs, the reason is often obvious in retrospect, and you will take that into account in the next project. But it clearly wasn't obvious in advance.
Homelessness affects a ton of people, but I'm also including who live in subsidized housing (and otherwise might be homeless).

It could be a family with kids, who need a subsidy to live in a big-enough place, or an old person living off a tiny pension. etc
If I'm understanding the GP correctly, they're asserting that any "real expert" would have anticipated being exploited on iPhone and would never have used iPhone.

I can see this point of view, but I feel expertise is more about skill in acquiring information and updating beliefs. In my view, real experts can be blatantly wrong, even about foundational facts, if they have an exceptional ability to update those beliefs.
There are some housing near my house that was simply repurposed motels. Seems to work, I don't notice any people just hanging around. Seems to work better than the standard homeless shelters we have here, that are pretty restrictive and they force the homeless to leave during the day and return at night.
Can you point to a source that shows that news was reporting that it was an accident within hours, and not stating that there is no appearance of foul play/terrorism.

"This doesn't appear to be a terrorist attack" is a normal thing to say in a city and country where terrorist attacks are somewhat common.
i aced linear algebra even though i didn't attend many classes because i always watched strang's lectures.
I'm all for net new housing. And I think we should green-light new residential projects faster. But telling currently homeless people to _wait_ for new projects to be planned and built, when there's already a glut of vacant condos struggling to sell seems cruel. I'm not saying the city needs to bid aggressively -- but when the market slows down, why not get a deal?
My “throwaway” account has more karma than yours.
> Well, I'm glad someone is because everyone else seems to be worse off as a result

Fortunately mass incarceration and just doing nothing aren't the only two options.
> note: I used GPT-4 to boilerplate the essay with my talking points then heavily edited it. Call it plagarism, I consider it "reducing the amount of time I have to spend writing a formal essay for my bullet points so I can spend that time instead with the visiting friends I have in town". I use compilers every day to cheat on turning mental abstractions into assembly, which is kind of what I consider essays to be, so it's not a huge ethics issue for me but feel free to interpret it differently. I'm perfectly capable of writing an essay from scratch too, it's just, slower.

just give me the bulletpoints
Are _you_ saying that it's unfair, or are you speaking for the working class?
WordPress, when updated consistently and used responsibility, has no worse security than most other PHP CMSs and frameworks.

WordPress has developed a bad reputation because of bad plugin authorship and bad theme authorship. If you are installing reputable plugins, keeping core up to date, and maintaining the standard best practices for hosting a PHP app, you're going to be fine.

Source: Industry experience working for enterprise clients in healthcare.
Where are you gonna build? It's illegal to build pretty much anything in CA cities with high homelessness
I know it’s fun to jump to aliens…

…but c’mon, people. Occam’s Razor time. There are a lot of options to exhaust before to we get to extraterrestrial intelligence. Just because we can’t explain this doesn’t mean its aliens. It’s a hell of a leap, bordering on religious faith, to credit this to some alien species crossing the vast lightyears of space and time to bounce around some metal spheres.
Wouldn't it be too obvious without a need of a meeting if it were mylar balloons?
What if the self-hosting installation was a simple one-click installation on a DigitalOcean server? It would probably cost 10x or 100x less than a SaaS and also you have full control over the server and data.
This form of error is much more common in native speakers than non native (though potentially these days autocorrect is more to blame than anything).
"economic elites and organized interest groups play a substantial part in affecting public policy, but the general public has little or no independent influence."

https://www.vox.com/2014/4/18/5624310/martin-gilens-testing-...
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> They don't, and in 10-20 years corporate leaders will bemoan the shortage of high-skilled experienced people that they created through their own decisions. Of course, they won't take any responsibility or change their approach, though.

It's a free rider/prisoner's dilemma problem.

If everyone cooperates then we all come out ahead. If you all cooperate while I defect then I end up even better (I don't have to train anyone). But if we all defect then we're fucked.

It used to be that there was entry level work that needed to be done by humans and so you didn't have this problem. If the entry level work can be done by AI then you need something else. Either government coordination and incentives to hire humans (this is the kind of things gov't is good at). Or people stay in education for longer/education becomes different.
+1 for BetterSnapTool. I've had it for years, one of the first things I install on any new Mac. It's always "just worked" for me, zero issues.
Yeah, we have the same problem. I made a custom firewall rule and a python script that watches the windows logs for multiple failed logins to combat this and it seems to work pretty well but there's always new ips.
There are things besides individual citizens and corporations that could, in theory, own and rent housing.
The site isn't down. It's censored. Look at the link address.
I understand nobody rushed the vaccine tests any more because nobody could produce it on the amount necessary. The tests were run faster than normal, and "coincidentally" all finished at about the same time the manufacturers could supply it.
Djokovic: 'Incredibly efficient nanotechnology' is the biggest secret of career
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Would it work with instructor-xl or similar which is designed for embeddings and retrieval? On device for privacy is key.
This is bogus data, they took the officially reported numbers -- which were insane because they reported 'covid deaths' without taking into account comorbidities --, and quadrupled them for 'reasons'.

> So much death and suffering and bereavement and sorrow the scale of which I have never witnessed in my entire life and I still read comments like these. Baffling!

You should be ashamed of yourself for this hyperbole, you people have ruined many young people's lives for nothing, the least you could do is apologize. And this habit of constantly looking for numbers that are always wrong and feeding into your taste for impending doom is the greatest setback to science and the rational spirit I have ever witnessed in my entire life.
Why do the unhoused have to be housed in high cost SF? The nice thing about doing this as a country is that they can place people not in their highest cost cities.
When military aviation says it "observed" something, you can safely assume it means they observed something on multiple spectrums (eg. visible light, infrared, radar, etc) and even by multiple aircraft.

We're not dumb, we're trained in observation and identification, and we see (visible light|single-spectrum) anomalies all the time and those get dismissed as whatever.

On the other side of the coin, we often do see stuff like Mylar balloons and other odd, but un-shocking aerial phenomena, so it's important to keep investigations scientifically-rigorous.

If you click on some of the report links in the article, they lead to some reports about the "sphere in translucent cube" UAPs, along with many reports about what are clearly off-the-shelf and customized drones (eg. DJI and custom builds and the like).

There's definitely something odd going on, but I feel like the news media is really trying to trump it up for clicks.
A conversational NPC that can subtly tell you hints without spoiling the game would be terrific for gameplay.
I didn't quite speak clearly and so let me try to clarify. It's the opinion presented as opinion containing opinion presented as fact :).

In examples:

- "summer is the best season" is an opinion

- "summer has the highest temperatures" is a fact

- "summer is the best time to have romantic encounters" is an opinion

- "summer is the best season because romantic encounters truly only happen in the summer" is a weird amalgamation. It clearly presents an opinion, and says that opinion is based on a true fact, but in fact, the true fact the opinion relies on is not a fact at all, but merely another opinion.
Yeah there’s an extension called Temporary containers that does exactly that (^:
> Trying to avoid being a jerk.

There are lists updated in real time by white hats, sharing exact IP of machines known to be engaging in bad behavior. You can, if you want, update your servers in real-time from these lists and then act accordingly: drop the traffic, reject the trafic, serve a "your IP address is participating in brute forcing attempts" page, etc.

FWIW some ISPs may be monitoring these looking for IPs on their subnets and acting accordingly.

It's not about "being a jerk". It's about giving attackers the middle finger.
No problem, it has been my experience, and I try and pay it forward when I can. I'd have appreciated knowing this back when I was first starting out, but it wouldn't have changed much in terms of outcome.

As a young adult you don't often really have much experience dealing with duplicitous or deceitful people and processes.

Incidentally, I don't really go into it but there's almost as many if not more problems with getting a degree compared to certifications but it is the favored solution for the job market since you don't have people invalidating it (through deprecation) and its a one time fixed cost (after completion).

Without getting into detail, many core transfer requirements at the course level often don't provide any means for a student to control basic academic outcomes in bottlenecked courses and there's no effective due process to correct issues. You are at the professor's mercy and a lot of them simply don't want to teach but they still want to be paid for it. Its a form of fraud, but not one you can really go after them for without it costing more than the personal benefit.

That 4 year degree that is advertised may as well be a never-year degree if you are unable to somehow get around these arbitrary, unadvertised, but widespread impediments. Trying at another college or getting another teacher often isn't sufficient as these are widespread systemic issues. I've gone far afield while I was trying to get an engineering degree (early on), short of going to school outside the US , what you see with these things is what you get.

I've personally been slogging along for most of my young adult through mid-life trying to put myself through college for a degree while working. It may happen that I get a degree in business or underwater basket-weaving by the time I'm supposed to retire if I get a lucky break.

In the meantime I make a decent living by referral since the vast majority of most advertised positions are junk; and I'm a bit of a miracle worker, my reputations gotten around locally and my work pretty much speaks for itself; I've more than a few systems that are still running a decade after deployment with no major issues. Ransomware incidents have happened occasionally, but they've largely been inconsequential to the businesses involved as a result of preventative measures and policy recommendations.

Those junk positions are usually some data miner, or broker seeking to either elicit, obtain or sell your personal or proprietary information they get from you to someone with no real position being available. They've monetized the interview process and advertise year round, same positions.

I've had more than a few instances in what I initially thought were good-faith interviews, where I've had to end the interview prematurely because it became clear they were more interested in trying to solicit proprietary information that they were not entitled to. Sometimes you just have to walk away, any place that tries to do shady stuff during the interview process isn't a place I want to work and you are interviewing them just as much as they are interviewing you.
Guess it got brute forced
> the Khronos group

I still wake up at night, sweating, thinking about my time learning OpenGL in university. The docs were a nightmare back then
https://www.shodan.io/ is still up, if that's what you mean.
Sure constantly changing your CEO is not good.

But being in a Disney situation where your CEO (Iger) wanted out and choose a poor replacement for himself. (Note: Iger choose a poor replacement not the board, they're useless). And now Disney stock is at the same value in 2023 as they were in 2015.

If the Disney board actually had a plan on who a replacement CEO should be they wouldn't be in this problem.
> That right there could have changed the vector of this whole thing.

Keep in mind the disease was already all over the world when it was discovered.
What jobs do you imagine these people will be compelled to do?
> In principle, wouldn't it be possible for an artificial system to be intelligent and react to its environment without having any feeling or experience about it

I don't know that we can answer the question. We don't even know if that awareness is parasitical or a necessary result of the required feedback we have in our brains to make us autonomous and adaptable. I hope for it being required.
I don't think so. The main ingredient ethanol is already plenty combustible enough.

The article describes the additional toxins as simply that -- poisonous toxins that you don't want to put in your hands or dump down creeks. Not any indication that they're more flammable than ethanol.
So you suppose the US military being too incompetent to discern balloons for what they are?

I find it rather surprising, the US population throwing insane amounts of money at their military while simultaneously judging them to be imbeciles.

Modern radar is of course perfectly capable of seeing a balloon for what it is. Pilots circling around them in unceasing awe is pure fantasy.
You'll Find Red Hat, Debian, and Ubuntu all over - depending on the needs/wants of the shop. General familiarity is good, but there's no harm in specializing.

Just realize that outside of package management (and some quirks that allows), Linux is Linux.

Distributions are all made of roughly the same pieces, they vary slightly in how/where they place them

For example, the things here tend to hold true - being one of many standards:

https://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_3.0/fhs/index.html