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Ask HN: Self-hosted alternate to GCP/AWS?
Are there Open Source tooling for running your own network with automatic provisioning benefits of the giant clouds?

I would love to be able to plug'n'plug my spare (and distributed) linux machines into a company cloud and have them be available for ready provisioning/unprovisioning automatically (including e.g. auto detection of RAM, SSD, GPUs). Lets say I have about $8k worth of used but decent devices with enough specs for many of our companies current usage of VMs, and might be able to reduce our cloud bill by $5k to $electricity+extra work cost a month. I listened to the DHH "Leaving the Cloud" podcast and it's inspired me. Realistically we probably won't do databases since the value of the cloud is a bit higher there than for webservers. We don't have spikes in demand that cloud would help with either.

I had a look at OpenStack but they don't seem to support this - surely big companies find a benefit in this for some data privacy focused applications - are there any good tools?

In a dream there is a command line to join the network like

selfhostedcloudprovisioner --key='mypem.key'

and I could just start using the machine to launch a virtual machine (not just SSH tunneling) from another machine and network with it, to run a webserver, database, join kuberenetes pod, whatever.
Yeah, I am a protectionist, for sure. Especially for industries like power generation or semiconductors that impact many other industries, and especially if the nation is in danger of losing that industry entirely, such that the skills necessary to compete in it in the future can be lost.
I think it is obvious to anyone following the technology trajectory that solar is the dominant energy source of the future. No other energy source is on a similar path to become cheaper so quickly.

We won't even focus on storing much of it but just build more and more.
I've been slowly going through Divine Proportions: Rational Trigonometry to Universal Geometry, by Norman J. Wildberger.

Wildberger is a mathematician, and a finitist. This means that he doesn't believe in infinity in the modern mathematical sense (I'm sure he won't dispute that the integers are unbound, for example). Which means he does not believe that Real numbers are properly defined either, or that limits are really a thing.

So he put his money where is mouth is and invented a branch of trigonometry that only uses rational numbers, by replacing length and angle with square distance (which he calls "quadrance") and the square of the sine (which he calls "spread").

All of the above is just what motivated him, what's interesting is that the resulting maths itself is all correct and quite nice to go through. It basically boils down to saying "hey, it's called trigonometry for a reason, so maybe it makes more sense to make actual triangles the fundamental unit, not circles," and working your way from there.

Personally I'm kind of curious if his approach might be more practical for computer implementations too, since all number representations on computers are either rational numbers or approximations of other numbers via rational numbers.
Of course it's in SF cos the people there don't spend enough time on computers already.
Don't worry, more technology something-something will solve it
I' ve seen quite a few posts like https://users.rust-lang.org/t/a-performance-problem-compared... , https://discourse.julialang.org/t/why-is-julia-faster-than-c... ... And many are from average programmers writing Cpp/Rust vs Julia, this is really good news for scientists/engineerers who need quick experiments.
Eh, I could definitely see the artists losing.

The most obvious scenario that comes to mind for me is, imagine an independent artists launching their (book/film/album/etc) and the same day someone with more resources and experience takes the work and markets it better than the OG author ever could on their own.
Up to a point, but the "sometimes" makes it difficult to say anything definite. There's no shortage of stories where immediate intervention has made things worse, such as a burning train being stopped in a tunnel.

Furthermore, this sort of counterfactual or "if only" analysis can be used to direct attention away from what matters, as was done in the hounding of the SS Californian's captain during the inquiry into the sinking of the Titanic.

Here, one cannot fault the passenger for first getting himself and his family out of the compartment, and he correctly determined that the train manager's "follow the rules" response was inadequate in the circumstances - in fact, the inquiry might have considered the incongruity of having an emergency brake available for any passenger to use at any time, while restricting its use by train crew.

RCA quite properly focuses on the causes of the event, which would have been of equal significance even if the train had been halted in time, and which would continue to present objective risks unless addressed.
That’s not hard to do

There are always things computers do way better than humans. That’s why they have been created in the first place!

Anyway, what will the new CAPTCHAs consist of? If the answer is “nothing”, then that’s the age of AGIs

The CAPTCHA can ask humans to do a non-trivial research task, like look up the latest news and give an opinion, or actually appear on camera etc.
The criticism for commercial fusion is very similar.

Most noise you hear in the news is about something generating more heat than power is put into the plasma. But that's a very misleading thing for commercial power generation because not all the power spent on heating the plasma actually goes into the plasma, not all the power that comes out of the plasma can be turned into power, and there's other things that also require power for the whole thing to work.
Honestly I've mostly stopped shopping online entirely. B&M stores have limited space, which means they have to choose what to stock, so they do the work of selecting decent products for me. When I do shop online, I don't use any of the flea markets (Amazon, Newegg, Walmart, etc).
Presumably you’re not reading Jurassic Park as a self-help book, but if you are, then yes, you’re probably a dinosaur.
Why do you think it would be “obvious”? What if health issues did go up but were never attributed to cell phone usage till now?
There are still plenty of good captcha approaches left, they're just more invasive.

Things like "please type your credit card number here and pay a 1 cent fee".

Or "send us a selfie with your passport".

Or "Get 5 friends to vouch for you".

Or "please log into a government website and oauth this app"

Or "please log in with a gmail account that is at least 5 years old".
They were never gone... this is such a bad article.

> Louis, on the other hand, had always placed New Age spirituality and far-out health ideas at the centre of his life.

Surprise! Someone who already believed in faith healing decided to believe in faith healing.
They have a paragraph addressing that point, if you read on:

> It'll be difficult to power a grid with 100% wind and solar so that's all you hear. But on the flip side, it'd be quite straightforward to power the grid using 90% renewables using the existing plants for the last hard 10%. It'd be both cheaper & cleaner! Why the heck aren't we celebrating that?
Actually the current anti-encryption laws going through in the UK are pretty anti-Big Tech. One of the main motivations is they don't think Big Tech is "thinking of the children" and it should be their responsibility to do that.
> When it is genuinely green, it is obtained through electrolysis, a process that is only 70% to 80% efficient. That's not bad compared to internal combustion engines (ICEs), but fuel cell detractors use that to bash them anyway. Scientists at Tel Aviv University plan to kill that argument with a method that is over 90% efficient in generating green hydrogen.

This is highly disingenuous. The problem isn't just that electrolysis isn't 100% efficient. It's that the electrolysis and the compression and the transmission and the distribution and the fuel cell all have efficiency problems, and are all much more expensive that the alternative (straight electric).
100% agree that you can easily pay an engineer's salary with the economy of scale savings from using spartan parts. I was simply marveling at how cheap the fully-packaged, high-schooler-can-use-it, definitely-works-for-your-application default ARM has become :)
Datomic Local
Lazyness. Stars.
The software industry has enough disasters of its own that we don't need parallels from other industries to learn. That actually makes it look like there are super non-obvious things that we could apply to software when it fact it's all pretty mundane.
https://inbox.video

I've just deployed the other day with a very basic design, but basic functionality tested - a way to charge people to send you messages. Trying to onboard first users now

https://www.peoplecast.io/

Internal company podcast platform
The hierarchy always looks nice on the whiteboard but always breaks down as soon as you start to write it out in code.
i'm not denying that, but how much time have you invested into it and how much time do you think the average person can afford to? how much extra time do you spend for each cup compared to a regular semiautomatic machine? do you have the one that heats the brew head, because if so, that's not a 100$ machine, it's a 500$ one ( https://flairespresso.com/flair-58-first-look/ ). if not, how much extra time you add to preheat it?

how hard is for someone else from your household to do a shot with your machine?

by a very simple technique (measuring the time to run a very specific weight of output coffee) you can do great espresso on a semiautomatic machine. doing that on a manual one is much harder, but not impossible.

the sum of all of these small details is what makes the difference in pricing. what i dissagree is to put an equal sign between a cheap espresso machine and a prosumer one (like Lelit Bianca for example). don't get me wrong, i think flair makes awesome manual machines, i've sunk in the espresso rabbit hole a few years ago and i'm still not out of it :), but we have to see that these machines are for people who have this as a hobby and really love doing it.
> i'm not talking about GUI but rather the camera/picture processing.

That's usually done by the browser when using WebRTC (except for postprocessing, e.g. background blur), not the application (using WASM or JavaScript).

Some browsers do this in hardware, others don't – just like some native videoconferencing applications are horrible CPU hogs, and others are quite efficient.
It is an article that nicely illustrates that it is at least 50 years away. We shouldn't pin any hopes to it or (for me at least) fund research on it any more than 10% of the funding we provide for solar research.
> I wouldn't be surprised if they can't actually trademark that.

I think the same. The could probably trademark "ChatGPT", but not "GPT" alone.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37142065
You can have social convention without the debt. The social convention in the US is to have debt.
This petition, and the Mozilla blog post someone linked to upthread, are designed to make it look like Mozilla did everything they could prior to capitulating.

Of course it's dumb. They should just say they won't do it. Presumably their desire to continue operating in France is a lot stronger than their dedication to the principles involved and that is why they are taking this approach.
I wish this were true but my purchasing experiences tell me otherwise. There's a lot of awful products with a high volume of good reviews. To the point where for common household products, the decision of the Walmart or Target purchaser is usually better than me picking between a dozen generic Chinese products with 4.5 stars. And it's easier!
I just noticed this today and think it is great. Now there is even less reason to browse Youtube videos unintentionally. I don't see why they even allow you to turn watch history off if they want the website to rely on it.

Not complaining though. This is nice.
Not yet updated for Debian 12, though you could upgrade it manually after installing
There will be no follow-up species besides those we evolve into and/or create. We're going to inherit the observable universe to ourselves. Even if we go through a couple of apocalypses on the road to it, it's really hard to imagine a scenario where ALL humans die, so it's much more economic to rebuild a civilization from remaining humans than evolve intelligence again.
sorry, I meant the 8 comments here on HN. (there are quite a few more now)
But if you look at the statistics of human-driven cars getting stuck in wet concrete this is actually 34.7% better /s
Often much less in practice: 2G transmission was up to 2W, but 2G has been phased out in many countries. 3G I'm not very knowledgeable but IIRC was up to 800 mW (common case). LTE/4G is 200 mW maximum for sure. 5G is the same except for mmWaves, but that I don't know very well and it's not used much (not at all in Europe, where I live).

There are more powerful band classes, but for fixed wireless access. So for phone use on a modern network, you should now be most of the time at 200 mW max transmit power (same as WiFi BTW).
Many of us are worried just about going on vacation. Will I come home to an empty safe home after a two week trip abroad? Because it isn’t guaranteed anymore.
I don't think ITER will ever be completed.

They have delayed the announcement of the delay, but it's expected to be another 5+ years.

It's the most complicated machine ever built, with each part built by a different firm in a different country for political reasons.
The first vacuum vessel sector installed was corroded. Korea used steel that didn't meet the specifications. 8 more sectors from four different nations to go, each one could bring its own 5 year delay. Or maybe they don't find any issues on the inspections but only find a leak after the whole machine has been assembled.
Despite the factual claim headline, this article is entirely a single anecdote
I thought that also the sci part was not very good. You really need to suspend that disbelief. I was disappointed, especially by the final part of the book.

In contrast, Exhalation by Chiang, which I read in the same period, was an excellent book, with much less reliance on unknown physics/technology, and more what-if and near-future social exploration. It had one mind-blowing story that'll stay with me because of its sheer audacity: can we be alone if the Bible is 100% right?
Actually not sure that most people drive at all, especially in Germany.

Germany is definitely a car country and, outside a handful of large cities, rather rural.
Your statement, that after all these years since the smartphones have been invented, you'd like to hear something about smartphones radiation, very much like, pardon, just speaks for itself. You don't want to very much hear about smartphone radiation. Because if you did want, you would've already read something about it.
Would be good for some context about what happens if they don't comply.
They're very loaded terms for sure; see https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Is%E2%80%93ought_problem#Natur... and https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Appeal_to_nature for example. I couldn't find a poignant link for "civilized", but that too has Connotations - that there's uncivil societies that commit uncivil behaviour like idk, monogamy.
"Hydrogen storage would still be a problem unless the gas was transformed into synthetic fuel. Hopefully, another scientific breakthrough could address that as soon as possible. We also have another idea floating around that may help solve that."

This statement at the end of the article leads me to believe any widespread distribution of hydrogen is at least 10 years off. It'll be interesting to see if Toyota is vindicated after all! Realistically speaking, this seems like a good solution for long range trucks.
You can right click on the address bar and check the option "Always show full URLs" if you want to see the protocol still.

They're making these changes for the average user who doesn't know the difference and who can't tell if a site is secure or not based on the protocol part (or who misinterpret what it means in terms of security vs trustworthiness). The padlock is no longer green in Chrome and will be going away next month too. The states will just be secure (no warnings) or not secure (displaying a warning). It shouldn't be something people have to think about in this day and age unless there is a problem (e.g. cert expired, cert mismatch, not encrypted at all) as sites should just be secure by default.
Good. The purpose of college in the US is not to educate but to create a market for student debt tied to non-dischargeable high interest federal loans, predatory pricing for books, materials, housing, etc, all for degrees with very little value in a job market being cannibalized by automation, outsourcing and AI. It's a racket, and newer generations are only right not to participate.
We don’t need a new Twitter
I did, but only on certain batch of servers that stayed in storage for few years before being put to use. On ones that stay powered all the time, pretty much never
Definitely, RAG programs often grab lots of unneeded context and sometimes miss crucial context. Improving this would be huge imo, for example in something like cursor.
In many countries university is free. An investment incurred by society.
Energy is (1/2)(mass)(speed)^2. That ^2 term is important.
> USPS has always done right by me, probably because I avoid living in or near big cities.

Tangential comment: It amazes me the number of places in the US that won't ship via USPS. In rural places it's literally the only game in town. Same thing goes with places that won't ship to PO boxes. Some places don't have mail delivery, every home gets a PO box. Oh and that messes with address validation on a lot of forms, because most places look up whether or not a house is in USPS's database.

Shipping and address validation are a few of those rare things, like names, where software folks shouldn't even bother validating.
... and the first net gain result and headline just so happened to coincide with the renewal of their gov grant.
Great headline!
The only difference between existing superconductors used for tokamaks and a RT version would be the energy cost of cooling the magnets to keep them below the critical temperature. Cooling does take a significant amount of energy, but I don't think that just getting rid of that would mean fusion produces enough energy compared to the cost of building the plant to compensate.

And of course, a room temperature superconductor can have better or worse qualities than existing conductors in other ways. If it were much heavier, or required more expensive raw materials, or had lower critical current, it could in favt be worse than the existing solutions (the extra construction costs could offset the extra energy output).
Exactly. Mozilla is one of the worst tech companies pretending to do good. Tech wasn't always like this. In the 00s, everyone was for free speech. Mozilla wasn't like this either. Hate to say it, but once the tech elite ( or more like the money elite controlling tech ) started talking about minority, lgbt and women's 'rights', they all started censoring, deplatforming, oppressing. Of course to fight 'hate speech' - whatever that means. It's like someone or some group flipped a switch and everyone from business to politics started singing a different tune.

Once again, everything we accuse china of, we are. China has a single party controlled media right? How is it that one day, every commercial and media suddenly became so 'diverse'? Not saying it's a good thing or a bad thing. Just asking who flipped the switch?
Youtube consistently forgets that I watched a video just a few days ago (no red line on the bottom of the thumbnail), and will suggest it over and over until you manually go to click on the ignore. Even recently they had a “suggest new” button on top near the “interests” buttons that would appear there, but I haven’t seen it for several weeks or maybe longer.

Youtube will also randomly switch a video I’m watching to 480p even though I pay for premium.

Their suggestion algorithm is also pretty bad to me, although maybe it works for some people.
My home computer emulators (mostly integer bit-twiddling code written in portable C) have similar performance between native and WASM with -O3 (within 10..25% of each other) - so yeah, WASM absolutely is in the same performance ballpark for 'regular' C code that doesn't use platform- and compiler-specific language extensions.

Link: https://floooh.github.io/tiny8bit/
No that would be far far worse test than having 2 equivalent batteries, and discharging one of them. First, it is easier to measure differences than absolute values (by eye, but even with precise equipment), second it automatically cancels out the affects of temperature, humidity, pressure etc. (Okay, you know that these things doesn't matter in this experiment, still.)
The possibility of non-ionizing radiation having a significant biological effect beyond simple heating used to be dismissed… but that came from not knowing much about molecular biology.

Electric fields can rotate charged molecules, e.g. switching proteins between states which can alter signaling cascades, open ion channels, etc. This provides a pretty well understood mechanism for negative effects.
America's abusive, expensive, and inefficient healthcare system has created a total vacuum of trust amongst the populace. Everyone who wasn't born rich has their own healthcare horror stories. The vacuum is thus filled with conspiracy theories and hucksters.

I am vaccinated and encourage others to do so, but it's completely understandable why so many people were suspicious when the government suddenly wanted to give them some healthcare for free.
I've taken notes in plenty of interviews (and make sure to call it out ahead of time) but taking notes verbatim sounds absolutely terrible for both sides. A good interview is a conversation, and it's incredibly hard to do that if you're trying to transcribe the other half.
Amazon's Consumer Devices Chief, David Limp, Steps Down Amid Smart Home Setbacks
As previously said, search engines index and provide links. I’ll add that it constitutes fair use because a search engine isn’t itself a replacement for the articles that it indexes.

But ChatGPT is actually providing an alternative that obviates the original articles themselves.
Hell, Ubuntu builds it's "stable" release from Debian's testing.

Maybe just call it "next" instead of testing ?
Indeed but people who are confidently wrong in good faith so to speak don't make up science paper titles.