skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> > Flakes [...] facilitates the maintenance of 'out-of-tree' (read: not in Nixpkgs) Nix packages.

> Yes, aka a Nix package spec.

Right... one of things that flakes can be used to distribute is roughly comparable to an RPM spec. That is not the same thing as being an RPM spec. A BitTorrent magnet link used to distribute an MP3 file is not itself an MP3 file, either.

> > But flakes can also be (and are) used to ship Nixlang libraries, end user configurations, IaC for clusters or fleets of servers, overlays of packages to be composed with an end user's copy of Nixpkgs, etc.

> Yes, just like DEB / RPM packages.

There is a sense in which flakes and RPMs can (sort of) be used to achieve the same things here, but not remotely in a way 'just like' each other. A flake.nix file is not an archive, and an RPM is not a configuration file format for something like Puppet. The latter point is so obvious that I have to assume you're being deliberately obtuse here.

> > A flake doesn't have to contain any packages at all. And when it does contain a package, the package is always defined with reference to some other package collection that it pulls its dependencies from (almost always Nixpkgs)

> Yes, what DEB / RPM call meta-packages.

No. RPM and DEB metapackages are 'abuses' of an archive format for either (a) just distributing install-time hooks and activating triggers or (b) forcing the installation of actual packages through the normal mechanisms of declaring dependencies on them.

Nix has no equivalent to (a) because 'installation' doesn't mean the same thing with Nix and hooks and triggers are owned by Nix profile managers rather than packages.

If Nix has anything equivalent to (b) in the RPM and DEB worlds, it's this¹ which has nothing to do with flakes and is certainly not equivalent to a flake with no packages declared. In fact, any flake used to distribute such a buildEnv-based metapackage would have to declare it as a package.

A flake without any packages declared is not an archive of a Nix package whose data is empty but whose metadata is present.

Idk what to tell you. Clearly you are trying to somehow 'demystify' Nix terms by equating their referents to things that are familiar to you and others, but your desire for succinctness here pushes you to elide basic differences— not just with respect to Nix but with respect to source-based package management in general. Just like with two natural languages, it's simply not the case that every term here has a 1:1 translation.

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1: https://nixos.wiki/wiki/FAQ#How_can_I_manage_software_with_n...
What does it mean to not have facial recognition on a drone? Does it mean no apply facial recognition (anywhere, definitely not on the drone) on video feeds obtained from a drone? How does one separate those videos out so they can be processed using ML at all?

A lot of crime can be tracked more easily if we know who is doing it, like shoplifting. It might not be practical to arrest every shoplifter, but facial recognition lets us keep track of how often someone is shoplifting, and maybe it makes sense to arrest someone who has stolen more than N dollars of stuff. Likewise for petty crime on the streets.
Good thing no one "pursues" those "for its own sake" then.
The end is inevitable, we should try our best and see what happens, but thinking that the root of issues is over-population is false,
It’s up to the individual. If they want to limit test their HPTA, they can do that.
The id guys took their work computers home to create Commander Keen while they still were employed at Softdisk
and in fact, it's only large companies that can afford to have a person or team to work through the details, keeping smaller companies out of the market and unable to compete.
Interesting!

> If you had taken out a 30-year fixed rate mortgage for $100k when rates were around 1%, you can now prepay it for just $70k, i.e., at around a 30% discount.

Maybe this is a dumb question, but could you finance the prepayment with a new mortgage?
Thank you, it seems that this is not an easy thing to do
I was actually specifically thinking of a MediaWiki instance. In this case there wasn't a codebase to version control so I didn't think of github and gitlab as options but maybe that makes sense. I don't know about tiddlywiki -- does that work for collaboration? It says "personal web notebook" so I sort of assumed it wouldn't have the multi user admin setup that mediawiki does.
I noticed that most autonomous agents although impressive, run into loops quite often (specially for complicated tasks). That got me thinking about directed agents and eventually I created an open source project/experiment called Nuggt. So far it looks like directed agents can complete complicated tasks at a lower price (because it uses GPT3.5 instead of GPT4). What do yall think what are the pros and cons of both "Autonomous" and "Directed" Agents?
MFI may be THE problem. But we will never know because you can’t even plug in non Apple stuff in the phone because they use a proprietary connector.

Once Apple is required to use USB-C and then uses software to block non-MFI connections then the EU will (a) take them to court for trying to undermine the spirit of the legislation (b) if they lose in court pass a new law requiring them to prevent blocking non MFI connections (although they will probably allow them to display scary warning messages).
We pump it up by the megatonne over decades, we spray it outwards for crops or to water animals.

Some travels back down through the soil, most either evaporates or is taken up by plant matter, sweat out, goes to meat, etc. - which results in movement of the water mass to elsewhere on the planet.
Hello,gunapologist99. PropBox fixes that problem. Zero commissions,Really. PropBox is a tech advertising company where sellers buy an advertisement for a flat fee of $995 upfront + a home inspection and a professional photographer with a money back guarantee. Your observations are accurate, gunapologist99, you even got the Capital R and the ® correct. Thank you for your comments. Richard
It's always because they can, but that's a bit reductive. The how and why of "they can" is the interesting part. It's not like companies were less greedy in 2019.
Cheaper. Simpler electronics. Less memory requirement (text mode only stored character codes, with the font in the ROM). Not all computers did graphics.
I've used both Ecto and the Django ORM and I have to say that the Django ORM feels a lot more intuitive and seems to be incredibly powerful. Now granted I don't have more than a few months of experience working with each, so maybe there is some elegance to Ecto that I don't grok.
Unless you’re on some crazy fast ester, that should not happen at all. The injection forms a depot in your muscle that gradually puts testosterone into your bloodstream. Your actual blood testosterone levels should not vary dramatically from day to day with regular injections
Okay, I know. thank you, friend
wtf is "Album Archive"?
I listened to that podcast back then, and I don't think that's quite true. He actually backed down a bit. Going from memory, while he did reiterate more hours = more accomplished, he also agreed that how many hours of productive work you can do in a week varies between people (I think the way he stated it was that most people will burn out doing crazy hours, so he admitted it's not sustainable). He said it's lesson he'd learnt at some point but because he's immune to burn out and has an insane work ethic it's something he didn't understand back when he pushed John Romero out of id for not working hard enough.
"Just drunken modin'!" "Just drunken CEOin'!"
To add another data point from someone who used to use the site regularly but still occasionally checks in once and a while, I have noticed a significant degradation in quality for the main feed and random outages/errors seem to crop up a lot more frequently. But aside from our respective pieces of anecdotal evidence, we’ve seen how pathetically they’ve been recently handling scaling and technical issues with high traffic events like the Desantis campaign announcement.
EC2 Application Backup and Recovery
As a new user to AWS, how can I ensure an effective (cost, resilient) approach to application backup and recovery when running on ec2 instances? Can anyone comment on the components beyond just instance volumes should I consider backing up for seamless application recovery? Looking for insights to build a robust backup strategy!
My email is in my profile.

Happy to send you some suggestions!
Thanks for replying. So if I understand before this correctly before this event you could use a google domain with gmail without having to sign up to google workspaces?
I don't understand this perspective, but I hear it often.

The way I see it productivity should always be measured against the actual result and how long it took, not a mere impression based on how much of that time was spent in front of the keyboard.

I'm willing to bet John Carmack has thrown away the vast majority of the code he's ever written. Everything I've read about him seems to indicate he's a "hands on"/"external thinker" kinda guy which would be why he was so dedicated to keeping track of his time according to this story. Not everyone has that need. It actually sounds exhausting and pitiable.

Was it really productivity being witnessed, or just a man desperate to get back to his computer so he can play around with the code some more? Some of us do most of our problem solving when we're away from the computer living our lives. Sometimes I don't have an answer until the pressure is off and the clock says 5PM. A tide of relaxation often drags in the answer that was just past my reach 15 minutes earlier.

Writing code is not typing. It's thinking. We all do it differently. I prefer a beer and a nap. All that really matters is that you don't stop thinking about the problem.
There are many ways to recharge the ground water. One is filling up dedicated basins periodically and letting the water trickle down. These basins are managed regularly to allow the water to percolate. Rivers also help with ground water recharge but only within their watersheds and routes. Also, Newsom in California recently issued an executive order to use flood water from recent rains for ground water recharge. https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Refilling-...
I know speaking in abstract or on a high level is difficult, but I believe whenever we speak of the actions of the government of China and aligned businesses as ‘China’ we strengthen a narrative that they use of clash of civilisations, that legitimises them as ‘China’ and anyone in China opposed to them as ‘foreign backed subversives’
It’s possible it’s just about corralling everyone onto the official app where they can better ID users and utilize first-party adtech data.

If so, then this is simply a dumb and bad move.
youre just jealous i got a conspiracy theory and you dont :P
Also Huawei’s ownership structure is notoriously opaque
It would kinda suck if you lived years hating your life for the future and then some stuff happened that would thwart those plans. Life is risky and nobody is guaranteed a death in old age, and no insurance can give your younger self a happier life, so consider living for the moment from time to time.
TFA says it's a quarter of an inch.
OTOH these crazy shows can spark interest in finding and reading ancient texts.
This is not helpful.

Why not suggest a more appropriate workflow without the chastising or denigration? C'mon, you can be supportive.
This is uncharitable to the point of seeming like a deliberate misread.

The bathroom anecdote is just a memorable illustration of Carmack's mindset: only work counts as work. Neither Carmack nor the author thinks you should avoid the bathroom or feel bad about pissing.

This is a self-aware blog post of a guy who worked with John Carmack and was able to use that to honestly assess his own productivity, and the amount of time he wasn't focused.
If only it were so simple. The article directly describes where the benzene comes from.
I too got the email and was confused. I thought all my photos went from Picasa to google photos… I actually thought the email might be someone trying phish me.

Google seems to really need a change to management. I’m not sure what’s going on over there.
It's amazing goal orientation isn't fundamental
topics are inherently divisive ... you can find someone to argue with you about the need to breathe ... especially bots
That's funny, because I actually find Huy Fong too sweet.

I've switched to Texas Pete brand. They are very similar, and I can't describe why I like it better exactly. More 'peppery' and less sweet, if that makes any sense.
John Gruber also does this a lot. Compared iPhones to luxury goods like an Hermes bag, or even locked down consoles like Playstationd and XBoxes and wonders why, for example, Apple should be prevented from locking down their App Store but Sony and Microsoft are not.

But it’s absolutely not a legitimate comparison. An Hermes bag, or a game console are very specialized devices. A smartphone is almost a necessity to live a modern life these days.

Especially if you step out of the U.S. to more developing countries, where many people don’t own computers, or have email addresses. Everything they do, from basic transactions, to government IDs, to receiving govt benefits, etc happens on the phone.

It’s absolutely legitimate for consumers to have different expectations for such essential computing devices, and for governments to step in when the providers of these devices are acting against their citizens’ interests.
C++ move semantics was added to the existing standard library and class syntax in a way that avoided breaking old code. The language added "move constructor" conventions and the like, rather than making more drastic internal changes.

So moving from a std::string variable means it's still a valid object, only its internal state is now owned by someone else, and the std::string is required to now be in an "empty" (but still valid) state. Most of the "moving" is actually handled by extra code in std::string rather than the core language having rules for how the underlying bytes are moved around, because the core language wasn't changed that much.
Except the incentive of not paying to watch movies.
There was nothing stopping Patrick from clearing out his other accounts, spending his line of credit on hookers and blow, and returning to Japan before the bank started knocking on his door.
The weird thing is that the semi-monthly number comes out to $5160. I have no idea where $4600 came from.

$10320/mo lets you have slightly more than $400/mo of fun while still saving quite a bit of money.

(I also take exception to $300/mo for utilities and $200/mo misc for someone trying to run their way up the Google ladder. We’re talking about people who are pretty serious about technology and who live in California where utility prices are nuts.)
I sometimes joke that my investors in my first two software companies were Visa and Mastercard (i.e. I was actually loaned money from two large American banks) and by exit they made ~$20k in interest payments.

I’m annoyed that signature loans have almost disappeared for small businesses, but the amount of credit extended to small businesses is not small. (Particularly if one does not exclude small real estate businesses from the definition of small business.)
Going from man to very man.
How much would we have to do to get exactly 24 hour days?
You are just reiterating what the AAT David Hatcher Childress claimed “The public needs scientists and the scientists need the public. However, many times the lay person is the better source of information”. That we should all believe everything we receive from the WhatsApp university - after all, it has been researched by the lay man!
2 trillion tons = 1/3 of 1 billionth of the mass of the earth. the distance from the ground to the surface is around 5 millionths of the radius of earth (like 100ft)

So you're talking about a change in angular momentum that is on the order of 10^(-20) times the angular momentum of earth (mr^2 \omega).

A change in the pole of earths rotation by 31 inches (10^(-7) times the radius of earch) corresponds to a change in angular momentum on the order of 10^(-14). So we seem to be off by 7 orders of magnitude.

I call bullshit.
I don't know, but one reason might be history. Modern insurance companies are pretty recent. Before the 1920's, there were mutual-aid societies. Commodities trading is ancient.

But they also do different things:

You need insurance companies for one-off risks. Someone has to go see the house and say, "yep, it burned down." Also, we don't let people bet on other people's houses burning down for good reason.

Other risks are more impersonal, like "what if this company I bought a bond from goes bankrupt" or "what if the price of corn drops in half" or "what if the price of oil doubles." There are lots of people and companies who might want to hedge against those, not just the owner of the property.
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Except the marked did not do that on its own.

The EU gave the industry an ultimatum in 2009: Adopt a common charger voluntarily or we'll regulate to force you to do so. Almost all manufacturers did, first with micro-USB before moving over to USB-C.

Eventually, because Apple decided not to play well with others, they had to follow through and regulate.
Not really. A lot of us are ok with it, especially if we live in high property crime areas. Something had to be done, and it doesn’t seem like policing is working very well, so why not try technology instead?
I listed my Denver townhouse in prime golden triangle location 2 blocks from all of the happening bars & clubs off Broadway.

https://propbox.co/homes/100001/details
At its core, Microsoft is a business software company: they live and die by big businesses being willing to pay for their software and services. Meanwhile, google lives and dies by advertising. They’ve attempted to diversify into other revenue streams, but nothing else can compete.
You're right, but all EU states are members of WIPO, and their governments can't take away protection of foreign-owned IP without violating their international obligations.
Neuro-fuzzy
>Arbitrage and it's various squishier more stochastic cousins are the vehicle by which information flows through markets.

>This works a lot like a game of telephone where changes in one market venue propagate through related instruments to other venues crossing space, species, and even time.

Hell yeah I'm not sure where I fall on accepting this way of thinking about things, but the line of poetics/skeuomorphics/analogy is very cool to me.

>Economic wreckage is the result, at least, but also imagine what would happen if corn farmers produced only half the crop that their buyers would have liked to purchase.

This is kind of my sticking point because on direction of that risk is like an actual hazard to my biology and the other is the consequence of allocating food by market. Not saying it's 'wrong' per se, but it does stand out that we're resolving market problems with like market^2
Just one correction. You should only run Takeout once and then delete all your Google accounts and never look back.
Can we feed it with gyro data from a phone? It seems straightforward to run a background app recording gyro data while we record a video.
I wonder if this is how animals "feel" earthquakes before seismographs do...
Tell me you don’t have family responsibilities without telling me …
> Without them we wouldn’t have McNuggets.

youtube.com/watch?v=uG3uea-Hvy4
Thanks! That’s around 4% of the sea level rise since 1950. Crazy!
Website seems clean although relatively bog standard. Dislike the not-so-subtle emotional play by stating your "advanced" age. Let the product stand on its own.
Others have provided excellent answers. There's one thing I'd like to add. In order for the financial markets to provide more utility, a financial transaction tax needs to be introduced. It will indirectly kill unproductive or counterproductive financial activity such as high frequency trading.
We have nest cams and doorbell cams. We get very clear pictures of the person stealing packages off of our porch, but local rules (where I live) don’t allow us to apply facial recognition to those pictures to stop the madness.
I sometimes use the Libby web app to look for upcoming non-fiction books at the public library, using filters "nonfiction" and "coming soon". There's usually a blurb to describe the book, but no in-depth review. I'm curious for better options, too.
> That lists just about everything even if an app just got merged 1:1 into another app

Isn't that part of the meme? Why does Google have so many similar products that it's possible to merge them 1:1?
If it's densely concentrated, it can be spread out. If it's concentrated enough, it's still a source of usable energy.
Yea, isn't coal ash way worst regardless of how "green" they capture the emissions. They always seem to leek into other water sources and do way more.

How did we get this way?
This is literally the definition of p-hacking, and no, it is not a good thing.
The US once had a similar plan. In addition to Yucca Mountain, there was to be an east coast depository, somewhere in a hard-rock mountain. Vermont was suggested.

There are many hard rock mountains in the world where the geology hasn't done much in millions of years. This really isn't that hard to do.
You're right, it was 10 days, not quite weeks. It's not important but here are some of the miscommunications and apologies:

November 18: "The cloud server which hosts one of our database, db141, experienced a disk issue. As a result, a small number of wikis hosted on db141 are unavailable. [...] While cloud14 has been reinstalled, we will have to send the affected disks to professional data recovery. The earliest ETA for having wikis restored is potentially early next week. [...] Our number #1 goal is to restore the data on the disks affected so that wikis are restored versus using a backup which could be various days old"

November 24: An update to the situation was embedded in an unnecessary meeting on Discord: "Our Miraheze Meeting is starting now! Join us while we talk about everything Miraheze, such as recent policy proposals and we'll be providing an update on the db141 issue We'll answer any questions you have and will listen to any comments or concerns."

November 28: "I understand the frustration, and we have not yet given up hope on data recovery, so you can still wait if that is your choice. But I also don't want to give people any false hope. It is not looking super great for data recovery. I won't completely rule it out yet, and I can't say anything definitively. Venues will be opened shortly for requesting that wikis be recreated from scratch (with images at least still intact) if that is your wish [...] in the recent Miraheze Meeting it has been brought up that our communication has been less than ideal, and some feel some questions have been dodged and/or ignored. I have gone back and looked at our responses to some questions, and I can see how this could be assumed [...] I would like to clear one thing up now. Something that seems to keep being brought up is that we sent the drives to a data recovery service. This was not true [...] Owen currently has the drives and has for a few days. They are not at a data recovery service. This was due to some internal miscommunication within SRE, and is something that is being addressed [...] Once again we apologise for this miscommunication and we are working to resolve our internal communication problems [...] Indeed, over the last few days, it would appear that information was not properly being relayed within our own team which led to some breakdowns in communication. Clearly, different members had different insights and views on certain topics. This has led to a strain in communications and we are working to rectify that."

I don't think it was ever explained how the data was recovered.
Tech stack: Python, Flask, Selenium, Cloud Run.

It's fun to create this project. I can expand onto other order food services. Let me know what else you need it?