skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hm. Controversial opinion is a good way to describe it.

The thing is: Docker or Podman is just the runtime coordinated and controlled by Kubernetes or Nomad in our case. Nomad practically already supports a hypothetical WASM runtime or offers simple hooks into this: You have e.g. a java driver in Nomad, which downloads a fat jar from an artifact store, cgroups it as far as I know and launches it with one of the available JVMs. There's a bunch of these drivers, even down to IIS pools.

Some generic WASM runtime would slot right in there.

However, we don't use them. Once you use them, you're again coupling the application runtime to OS updates and management. Staying in the Java example, currently teams are entirely free to use whatever Java version they want. If they want to update multiple times per year to the latest versions - entirely feasible for tight services with low technical debt and good tests - they can do so. As soon as the JVM becomes part of the OS configuration again through the Java driver, us as in infra-ops are immediately blocking all Java updates across the entire infrastructure again. And on top of that, we have a team providing base Java images with a jvm baked in, so most nomad workers pull the JVM layer once after it's released and then the layer is cached locally forever until no application needs it anymore. So it's not much more storage-expensive than putting the JVM on the disk directly.

But that's the smaller part of the problem. Nomad isn't just the driver runtime. I can tell Nomad to run 5 instances of an application and to spread them across AWS regions, or VSphere HVs / Racks as well as possible. And Nomad will implement and maintain this, almost regardless of what the infrastructure does. I can drain workers and shift applications around without really knowing them, since this management is configured in the jobs.

Again - this decoupling of OS and infrastructure management and application management makes a container orchestration valuable at a larger scale. The runtime below it is an important detail, but it's a detail for average REST service deployments. A WASM runtime may slot in as being faster and more cost efficient or it may not. Who knows.
Is that true? I don't know about the other services, but YouTube has this to say in their terms of service:

> You retain ownership rights in your Content.

https://www.youtube.com/t/terms
The Fall and Rise of Publishing Market Segmentation (2013)
Funny thing is, as many people know here, NASA Signed a support agreement with Rocky. I cannot help but read things to that.
Thoughts on the Lost Submersible
From the article it seems like this ROV doesn't have sonar, and can only search visually at a short distance. They claim a distance of around 20 feet. I'm surprised they could find a debris field so fast with such a small range of observation.
People act as if their precious app is the only one a user is going to run and has the right to hog all the memory and CPU.
I can see that happening in the future, in a few decades, tiny modular runtimes with low overhead that start in a few milliseconds, probably an entirely new paradigm of backend development to go along with it. Hard to imagine that now of course so everyone will just laugh, just like everyone laughed at docker.
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I agree, the shift from Java's state machines or "command" system to Lua's coroutines does seem to make the code more intuitive and readable for beginners . Lua's in-built coroutine functionality can be a game-changer for FIRST teams dealing with the complexity of autonomous code 1. It would be fascinating to see how this technique could be applied to other areas of programming where tasks need to be paused and resumed. It's a testament to the versatility of coroutines.
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Ukraine's troops long planned their move on Russian forces - then came the flood
Skype was also clearly not designed for the kinds of uses that fit with how larger groups operate. All your text chat was in one mega chat for the group and that group was also bound to a single call. Splitting up conversations, whether voice or text, required creating a new group.
I don't think its only static linking that is the source of this practice right?
’been happy with Pair Domains (pairdomains.com) for years. Bland UI. TOTP based 2FA. Mail forwarding (but unclear if they support SRS, assume not) and domain management. Occasional popup prompts to try weebly on your domains but easily dismissable. No other upsells that I can recall.
I wouldn't say it's totally irrelevant...it translates to slow dev builds, slow dev startup, etc. Especially considering SvelteKit may be ~150 mb, but npm i is a couple seconds and npm run dev is basically instant. I'm biased because I'm allergic to React and anything JSX touches, including NextJS, so in all honesty I wouldn't use it if it was 1kb.
I am not debating from a satanic cult leader because I have no need to do so.

Hotez IS seeking legitimacy from Rogan and DOES have a need to do so. That's why he appeared on his show and why he tweeted at him.

Understand how this game is played. The small player challenges the bigger player. When Popeye's came out with a chicken sandwich, they challenged Chick Fil-A, not the other way around.

Agree or not, eleven million people listen to Rogan's show because they see him as balanced, respectful, and inquisitive. The same is not true for Hotez.
By same logic why use containers ? You can just ship VM images.

It's basically the same thing as using a language runtime vs using a generic container for Lambda, except WASM would be lower level (you would need to ship language runtime on top of WASM but that's probably order of magnitude less overhead than a container)

Containers feel like a clever hack to get existing apps packaged up and reduce the overhead of VMs, but I'd much rather deploy runtime/app code only.
The issue isn’t “OMG, they’re using a toy to control a submarine!!!” These controllers have decades of R&D put into them and are designed for years of use and abuse. To me, the issue is that they aren’t designed for safety critical applications where redundancy in design becomes important. If your Xbox controller breaks while you’re playing call of duty, no big deal. Just order one from Amazon and you can play again tomorrow. If you’re at the bottom of an ocean trench, you’re in trouble unless you brought a backup with you.
Yes agree, SvelteKit is the better comparison.
https://immersiveweb.dev
There is no one Albanian intonation. If you think that the standard pronunciation used on Albanian television sounds like Romanian, or like Oltenian-dialect Romanian, then OK. But in general the Albanian language is extremely fractured dialectally – it is quite common in the region to go over a mountain pass and find that the people on that side speak markedly different, yet it is a distance of only a few km. I personally see very little in common in intonation between an Albanian speaker from, say, Gjirokastër and one from Kukës or Prishtina, and I suspect you might agree too if you checked out representatives of all these varieties on YouTube.

As I said elsewhere in this thread, Thracian has been conclusively shown to represent a different branch of Indo-European than Albanian, so the idea of “Thracian/Dacian” playing a role in similarities between Albanian and Romanian is very out of date.
Interesting blog. The article is a good reminder of common introspections on money. I like the points on freedom: "freedom-as-leisure (vacations)", "freedom in work", and "freedom in attention". TLDR: what is wealth _really_? probably it's freedom in attention. But there is some baseline survival threshold to get to, and that's much lower than people may realize.

Anyway, some constructive feedback if the author comes across this discussion:

1) The post is sooooooo long. I appreciate long-form content - I love Atlantic articles - so it doesn't have to be a 30 second TikTok clip, I just think it can be tightened up. A lot.

2) The illustrations lack their own context enough to be understood on their own. It's mildly annoying to look at them and have no clue what they express unless you read the before and after paragraphs. Consider adding enough context for them be self-contained.

That said, I appreciate your labor and signed up for your newsletter!
Huh I'm always skeptical of anything that goes viral on twitter, usually theyre marketing campaigns looking at individual youtube videos most dont even have ~25k views. Personally, this looks like a lazy attempt at fake advertising when nigeria does not even have a large twitter presence. As most nigerian are not even online. Nor are they at the level of educational attainment to find anything of remote value from these lectures. The responses in this post as well point towards fraudulent and fake responses in the hopes of generating likely funding for a technology sector in a region that isn't ready for one.
The title is a bit hyperbolic but I enjoyed the sentiments nonetheless.

I definitely remember as a kid learning Lua scripting because of video games. Just going over forum posts trying to make my own games or break other games.

Definitely gave me the basis to rocket ahead when I took a formal CS class.
> so you're not required to have for example JRE or a .NET runtime installed

These days you are not required to have a JRE or .NET runtime installed. At least on the JRE side, it can be embedded in the executable - I assume .NET has something similar.

There has to be more to it than that, though. Perhaps it is the "easy" part you mentioned - I have no idea what's involved in building a greenfield java bytecode interpreter, for example.
What on Earth did I just read? It sounds like startup nonsense applied to a super high stakes domain. Foolishness.
A thirst to deeply understand the systems around one is irreplaceable. Curiosity and an openness to seeing what is there instead of loading some fast model on top of the problem.
> In 2017 the biologist and complexity scientist Chris Kempes and his colleagues pointed out that when the process of RNA translation takes an amino acid and attaches it to a chain of other amino acids (making or “computing” a protein inside cells) the energy involved is within a factor of 10 of the Landauer limit—which is an absolutely tiny 10-20 joules at room temperature.

Neat. It's nice to know that mathematicians and physicists have biology envy.

> Humans are an example of a biology whose external machine structures now take on, and create, much of its computational needs. We’re already a blended system, and that could be the most common type of life across the cosmos, and the type of life we’re most likely to eventually detect.

This analogy I do not buy. Even mathematicians with biology envy focus less on biology and more on math. We are not "blended", we are creatures that use inorganic tools, like any other form of life.
How did that happen, if you don't mind me asking?
> people with higher intelligence scores are less likely to trust their System 1 gut reaction and more likely to involve their System 2 deliberate, logical processes

Amusingly, I mistrust my attention and visual ~memory so much that I reasoned I would find the "easier" task just as hard unless it was literally like 1 vs 3 dots, or unless it stayed up so long that I could count (maybe harder, since I'd likely get more annoyed at myself for missing questions I believed to be easier). I ignored this option because I was fairly sure it'd just mostly waste 200 points.

I went back after completing to check out this option and don't feel like it made the task noticeably easier (to me).
feel horrible about this too . the 19 year old especially.
It seems to me a lot of subs also said they were closing for 2 days, but never re-opened. I understand that logic, but because the subreddits have stayed close there is no way for that community to indicate if they support the ongoing protest. There's a big difference between voting 'yes' to closing for 48 hours vs permanently.
I think WebAssembly might play a role there. https://twitter.com/mattrickard/status/1410714002456383490
they sell you version 5. you redistribute the 5 source code. they refuse to sell you version 6, therefore not making you eligible to receive the version 6 source.

refusing to sell you version 6 isnt a restriction on what you can do with 5. it is terminating the relationship going forward.
I have a bridge to sell you... Unfortunately, it is likely those medicines will drive the next wave of chronic disease.
Multicursor editing, left/right modifiers, and tap/hold keys aren't "needs", they're methods/tools used to accomplish needs. The need is to make a specific edit on a file.

I respect those features, and I respect Helix as a great forward-thinking editor. I will just have to revisit it in the future once it's more configurable.
I just finished training a neural network to play a trick taking card game and just the neural network is 4,250 times the size of the ROM for Video Chess and the executable including the UI is even bigger.

True story: One time I was at a party and my parents introduced me to some friends of theirs and they said their son worked on graphics drivers. I said I couldn't handle low-level work like that. My parents glared at me and told me I was being rude. Once I figured out the disconnect I explained that low-level means closer to the CPU and it's much more complicated - not that it's less desirable work.
In my experience short term and long term memory recall speed and accuracy are strongly correlated. It's unlikely someone will be able to swiftly traverse a large long term memory graph, in a manner that would allow you to derive deep insights not just recalling a single piece of information, but have a poor short term memory.

However I do believe long term memory is more robust so if you're in a mentally compromised state, such as having a headache, it will be less affected. So if you have to work through a hard problem on a deadline but have a headache, you can rely on heuristics stored in long term memory rather than deriving everything in short term memory.
Canon tried to do this with their ODD system, and they got kinda close, but it is possible to extract the key from a given camera, and forge signatures.

Their verification system also seems to include a smartcard or SD card-like thing (which might be doing something special, or might just be DRM)
Compensation: The Great Levelling
If they aren't manipulative, if I actually want what they are selling, why are they inserting themselves into my attention instead of waiting for me to look for them in a catalog?

The entire industry is a blight on the human condition. We only permit it because we're a society that glorifies exploitation and predation in the name of almighty mammon.

If everyone in advertising and marketing died in their sleep tonight the world would be a markedly better place tomorrow.
Ah, I see he's got the 'Elon Musk school of thought' in regards to cutting corners in vehicles carrying people's lives and seeing safety regulations as a nuisance hindering his "visionary progress" that these pesky gray-beard engineers just can't grasp.

Fucking idiot CEO, took 4 innocent people with him. Aero, naval, automotive, all have a a history written in blood, and all those rules and regulations aren't to hinder innovation but to save lives based on what we've learned from all the people who lost their lives in the past.
Objective comparison is always so tricky with Stable Diffusion. They should show off large batches, at the very least.

I think Stability is ostensibly showing that the images are closer to the prompt (and the left wolf in particular has some distortion around the eyes).
The parent you responded to mentioned that "Advertising in public places is privatizing the commons", and perhaps this is an objective way to look at it.

Why should one profit-seeking entity get to put a billboard in the middle of everyone's scenic view without paying everyone?

And if one billboard can be put there, what's to stop there being ten, or a thousand, and then there's no more view?

A lot of problems in the world are due to profits being made at the expense of the commons. This happens with everything from resource extraction and pollution of the environment, to telemarketing which aggravates most people, to outrage driven media and social networks polluting peoples minds.
The parent commenter may have been referring to California's three-prong test that's been in the news a lot recently around things like Uber. https://www.labor.ca.gov/employmentstatus/abctest/

There's a lot of fuzziness in that particular test around how it's interpreted as "A worker who is subject, either as a matter of contractual right or in actual practice, to the type and degree of control a business typically exercises over employees would be considered an employee."

But there's also an exceptions for "Single Engagement Events" that would cover most things like handyman or home contractors. https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/exempt-job-categorie...

But in California, once you engage someone in a recurring manner with hours and work that quacks like a full time job, then you need to look into it (there's a ton of special cases and other exceptions too).
Can you imagine how much engagement the platform gets as a result of his work?

Just saying, it's never fair to try and say any one party in this arrangement is just leeching off another.

Reddit provides a platform, Users provide the community, and third-party app developers make interaction between the other two easier. Third-party apps aren't even able to engage with certain reddit content because the API never exposed it, but people still choose them; That says a lot about how they feel about the official app, and the real value that third-party devs provide.

What's crazy to me is that Reddit could have easily achieved their goals by just investing in developing a really good native app that people want to use, thereby monetizing them while also building goodwill! This whole thing could be achieved and make them look -better-. But they are making stupid short-term decisions to be able to IPO and they chose the stick over the carrot.
Thank you. After having gone through more of this - and receiving more long-form input - I am with you that this is, almost certainly, not "selling of customer data."

Thanks for your comments, I appreciate it. Now is the part when I would want to go back and edit all my comments here (and on Twitter), but cannot thanks to the append-only nature. I can delete: but then e.g. this post points to nowhere and the context is lost. I deleted the orginal tweet given it's clear it has incorrect information / missing information, replaced with: https://twitter.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1671959124337217536?...

Some longer form thoughts, and also input from someone who is quite well versed in privacy: https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/google-domains-to-shut-do...
But they're not. Let's say you download RHEL 10.0 someday. You download RHEL 10.0 source code. Some of which is GPL'ed. You rebuild and call it Acme Linux 10.0.

Red Hat says "bye, enjoy distributing that, no more RHEL for you." You still get to distribute what you already have. That's what the GPL entitles you to - it does not entitle you to a business relationship with Red Hat, ever. But your ability to distribute that source is preserved.

Red Hat releases 10.1. They do not have to distribute that to you, nor give you source code, you're no longer a customer.

Whether this is in line with the spirit of the GPL or not is another story. But at least as I understand it, it does not violate the GPL.
I worked at an aquarium for a while, and IIRC one of the exhibits discussed how a device equivalent to an average home stereo placed in the water in Japan could be easily heard on the coast of California.
This is not true according to Innateness or Nativism in Cognition.

According to this theory we have a built-in faculty for things like language (Chomsky) and how to interact with the world. We haven’t bootstrapped ourselves; that would mean that the Blank Slate theory is true.

Could a human tribe who was raised on a different planet (with completely alien concepts) survive? That’s unclear. Maybe we have evolved to only be able to learn Earth-concepts.
I don't understand what you have to gain from lying about this interaction elsewhere. Why is the truth so impossible for you to bear? The community repeatedly asked (and STILL is asking) in Discord and Reddit for capable moderators to take over. No one has stepped up. It's fine. That's how communities work. You alone do not get to dictate what a group does. I wish you could communicate what your real deal is because it's not the "hijacking" of a community (which isn't even yours???). Perhaps stop trying to make this all about you. How sad.
An Engineer... not those who want to larp, but one that answers the Calling to the bottom of their soul; does not work for you. They work for the Public, and humanity as a whole to try to create the machines/processes/structures/tools that allow us to thrive in spite of a universe that by all means is out to kill us.

Dissent is obligatory in doing your job. If you do not protest, if you do not fight for every inch of assurance you calculate as being necessary, literally no one else in the room will.

This whole affair sickens me. It reeks of corner cutting, complacency, and unjustifiable risk taking.
> On the contrary, I see Reddit as being extremely difficult to replace, precisely because of those 17 years of investment by users. Reddit is a gold mine of information related to any topic you can imagine, and that information won't magically migrate to another platform without serious network traction by a large user base.

It doesn't have to. An archive won't save Reddit if the action wants to move elsewhere.

If a particular topical community gets going somewhere else, the most popular information will quickly get recreated just through its normal operation.
Legislation.

What is there to keep a food company from lying about the ingredients in their products? How could you stop it, unless you have a personal chemistry lab? You stop it by having people who constantly watch how you do business, and if you do it in a harmful way men with guns will come and shut down your business and take a lot of money out of your vault. If it was exceptionally harmful or you resisted or if you tried to start up again, the men with guns will come take you and place you in a concrete room against your will.
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Nothing a hands LORA can't fix.
Yes, because I'm not a company.

It's the same reason why if I pay my nephew $5 to mow my lawn, I'm not violating minimum wage laws.

The law in the United states is that employers may not tell contractors how to do their job or else they'll be considered employees. I'm not an employer.
"wherever you want" is not the same thing as an entire county/municipality banning alcohol. And we kinda already did this rodeo in the 20s and the experiment with prohibition was soundly rejected.
Do they archive nsfw too?

Edit: I checked, and Archive.org seems to be snapshotting once per quarter or less. Not a realistic strategy for any sub with even modest traffic.
They lost contact about 1¾ hours into the voyage, while it's expected to take 3 hours to get down to the Titanic wreck. From that, it sounds like they would be somewhere midway down.