skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I bought an used one (HP Ultirum 6250), you should be able to get it under $1000, closer to $500, but I recommend getting it with the controller so that you know there are no issues. Note that these controllers are made to be mounted inside heavily ventilated rack case, so if you are putting it inside desktop PC I suggest making sure some fan blows on it.

It's discouraging that it's so complicated which made me back out of the purchase a few times, but it was well worth it.
Humans aren't required to use clean room design. Using copyrighted materials as inspiration/reference is not uncommon or illegal.
obviously anyone broadcasting their off-grid lifestyle is not off-grid. the people that are off-grid do not broadcast their off-grid-ness.
I have two laptops, one with mint/x11/cinnamon that is working well, quite happy with. Another with fedora/wayland/kde and am mostly happy, although synergy/barrier doesn’t support wayland(may not be possible) which is a big problem on my desk. :-/
a bunch of hackers against a billion dollar industry

What if this framing was holding us back the whole time?
I can see that being a very large gap if it is not easy to see if your files are actually backed up or not. That kind of surprises me a little bit that back blaze doesn't have that but again it's been many years since I've used them and I only did briefly.

That is one of the features that is very easy to see in spider oak. The UI opens to a dashboard that tells you the number of items and bytes that are outstanding and waiting to be uploaded. One other thing about spider oak is there's not an automatic retention like I believe you said 30 days you have to plug in the hard drives to keep them refreshed. In spider oak I've had systems that have been offline for years and the backup is still retained until I manually go delete that system to have its data purged. One of the other features I do like about them is their hive that allows you to synchronize between systems as well. So depending on your requirements you can back up things to their cloud for redundancy and maybe things that are of a lower priority you can simply have it synchronized between various systems.

The One singular feature that sold me on spider oak as opposed to every other provider I looked at was their Linux support. How they don't really treat Linux or even a Windows servers as different from any other thing you're backing up. You purchase your amount of cloud data and they don't care.

Just doing a little more looking at my spider oak and their UI I feel can be a little bit slow at times especially navigating large amounts of files but I did double check this and nothing gets automatically purged from their system based on time. Even files that are deleted from your local system simply go into their deleted items bucket and they are there in perpetuity until you manually go purge it to free up space.
I moved two startups to Debian Stable.

Ubuntu Snap wasn't the only reason, but one of them.
True... It is explained better in the white paper linked in the article. Did you read this part?
When Oracle bought Sun, there were a number of open-source projects they started fencing off and developing in a less community-oriented way. Usually, I think they didn't even actually change the licenses.

In every case I can remember, the community-centric forks outpaced or altogether outlived them. Hudson is dead. OpenOffice is basically irrelevant. Oracle ZFS sees little interest and is not what anyone thinks of when they hear 'ZFS'. But Jenkins, LibreOffice, and OpenZFS are all going strong many years later.

This could end up being a really good thing for Terraform users, would-be contributors, and Terraform itself as a technology. I wonder if any Terraform maintainers from HashiCorp itself will jump ship to work on it full time as OpenTF. A similar phenomenon ended up being a decisive factor with the post-Oracle forks of Sun software IIRC.
We're planning to stay 100% backwards compatible, and in the early stages we definitely want for it to be easy for people to migrate back and forth between both tools - even have teams with different engineers using different tools.

DSL changes are honestly the thing we'd like to limit the most, but as long as they're backwards compatible, the RFC process will welcome them, and they will be discussed and considered!

The important thing is for features to be opt-in. You should be able to limit yourself to a feature-set that is Terraform-compatible, if you want. If you want to use additional features on top of that, then that will be an option as well - we definitely want to innovate.
Yeah but probably an industry we can live without
People like to key on proc macros specifically as scary, but this is basically true of any dependency you take. In fact, run time dependencies will often have _higher_ levels of privilege (e.g. access to production data sets). If you can't trust the dependency at build time, you sure as hell shouldn't trust it at run time.

I think the right thing happened here - the community audited for malicious crates, and action was taken to remove them. I do wish crates.io would be more aggressive about proactively removing instances of typo-squatting, though.
I would rather be the subject of behavioral advertising and keep privately encrypted comms than the other way around, but apparently the EU has other ideas.
Must be why Mr. Bezos is bald.
Thanks so much, It's great to hear that! I have spent many hours working on this project for people to have the feeling of functionality and detail. My goal is to recreate everything an OS can do as much as is possible within a browser, and to the same pixel level detail as seen in Windows 10. It's a never ending project that I really enjoy working on. Thanks for checking out my video also, I plan to make another one shortly as that is a year old and I have added quite a bit of new stuff since then.
There's also this community wisdom, echoed in the article, that python can't be made fast because the runtime extensible language semantics get in the way. Somehow that is known to be true despite javascript having the same properties and very fast implementations, and people are still holding onto it as truth after Mojo starts talking about statically compiling the static parts of the program. Also the self and lisp implementations that came before.

Python and JavaScript DO NOT have the same properties. It's harder to make Python run faster than to make JavaScript run faster, in general.

This is a VERY common misconception. Reasons here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20953221

You can make Python A LOT faster if you change the semantics so it's not Python, but instead a language that looks like Python with different behavior.

I did that with 4000 lines of code on top of MyPy's typed AST, in Oils: https://www.oilshell.org/blog/2022/05/mycpp.html

It's faster than v8, SpiderMonkey, and basically any Python compiler. Because you just cheat and change the semantics so they're fast. We run exactly 1 program.

The real problem is running arbitrary code, and that's again harder for Python than JavaScript, and it takes closer to 1M lines of code, not 4000.

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This is sort of what Mojo has done, which is another thing that seems to be widely misunderstood. They did NOT write a compiler for arbitrary Python code.

They stated they WOULD achieve full compatibility with Python, but that hasn't been done yet.

They wrote a fast compiler for a language with Python-like syntax, but different semantics. (But not even that, because it's fn and struct rather than def and class).

And then they made a runtime bridge from that language to the stock CPython interpreter, similar to how Swift has some CPython integration for machine learning. It's better to think of static Mojo as a Swift-like language with Python syntax.

It's NOT Python -- the syntax is not what matters; the semantics are what matter.

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My initial impressions, based on knowledge of Python, but before Mojo was released:

https://lobste.rs/s/nppf8y/mojo_is_much_better_objective_c_w...

https://lobste.rs/s/qbcjsl/mojo_future_ai_programming#c_a5vg...
> except the destruction of the entire eu online advertising industry

Yes, but what are the negative effects?
Well, it would be a net positive for society if the advertising industry disappeared, so at least this move is not short-sighted at all.
Yes. Worse than that, they changed to a license that prevents companies to use their product freely - if they chose some "cloud protection license" that simply handicaps possible competitors to their commercial offwrings, this fork would probably not happen, or at least it wouldn't have such momentum.
Better title suggestion : EU's effort to defend user privacy from social media network manipulators
1. it's using "semantic" search. so if the embeddings understand that "inline subquery" and "lateral joins" are more closely related than say cross joins or something then that doc segment will get returned.

2. the use cases for this would be you want shorter answers then a collection of document snippets and or you had follow up questions that might not be in the same document. and/or you prefer conversing with a chatobot over reading lots of extra text.

3. you can attach a source column to the embeddings and snippet in the vector database.

Here's an explanation of pgvector using supabase

https://supabase.com/docs/guides/database/extensions/pgvecto...

it's basically just a special kind of index to use on an embeddings column.
A typical miniature or molded case low-voltage (under 1000V) circuit breaker will have arc chutes to extinguish the arc. [0]

Higher power low-voltage circuit breakers as well medium and high voltage breakers can use oil [3], (compressed) air [1], gas [4], and vacuum [2] to extinguish the arc flash.

SF-6 is used for high voltage applications while vacuum and air are common for medium voltage gear installed indoors, oil breakers are used in outdoor installations at utility substations and similar installations.

[0] https://wiraelectrical.com/what-is-an-arc-chute/

[1] https://www.se.com/us/en/faqs/FA360729/

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_interrupter

[3] https://www.electricaltechnology.org/2021/08/ocb-oil-circuit...

[4] https://www.electricaltechnology.org/2021/08/sf6-sulphur-hex...
never in my life have I read a more positive landing page about drilling your own well.

this guy has me convinced that i can drill my own well.

i don't need to drill my own well, but if i ever do, i am sure that i can do it, now.
The top comment only quoted part of the sentence... This is what they snipped out:

as an option in the Ubuntu installer

So yeah they'll probably be using systemd-cryptenroll under the hood, but just make it more accessible for end users.
> LLM mental health treatment can’t come soon enough.

If you think LLMs perform at a level that they can help resolve the mental health crisis in the US, you are very much a part of that problem. They can’t even always produce functional code without heavy steering, let alone negotiate the fraught domain of psychological and psychiatric health.

Foisting people in crisis off on unpredictable text generation engines is IMO a textbook example of the fundamentally anti-social character of American society that produces so many of the mental health problems that this country faces.
So 30 years for HPE when stored in appropriate himidity/temperature range.
As with Sun in the old days, good luck actually collaborating as in a healthy open source project but the license doesn't specify there should be a community around anything so it's all good.

Hashicorp doesn't have RH's moat at all.
i mentioned the destruction of the eu advertising market. as a consequence tech in europe remains unfunded and therefore nonexistent (because the silicon valley machine literally runs on advertising money)
that's what I thought too! But what is your reaction to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37262584
I ain’t changing the license for mine(so it will stay the same license)
It's not "online advertising", it's just behavioral. There's nothing preventing corporations from advertising the old-fashioned way, like they did on TV, radio, newspapers, etc.

Online != behavioral
How much force do you think the state should be allowed to use to stop shoplifting?
Musk Demands ‘Sub 10-Micron Accuracy’ for Tesla Cybertruck Build Quality
There Are No U.S. ‘Climate Havens’ from Heat and Disaster Risk
Did you planted potatoes? Wouldn't chicken eat the bugs?
Interesting that at the end they had to pitch how their own first party game expansion is better than a existing mod.
Zuilp is pretty new
A CLA is not required for that. A copyright assignment is. A CLA is not necessarily a copyright assignment, and a copyright assignment is not necessarily a CLA.
Small study suggests many more people have long Covid than previously believed
Thanks. I’ll be honest, I’m avoiding giving 404media any clicks and was responding solely to the commentary here.

The last thing I want to do is contribute traffic to vapid outrage-bait Vice/Motherboard-style journalism, and HN has been spammed with their articles for days now.
That's great to hear it inspired you! It is indeed a fun challenge but can be time consuming and it requires passion to keep going. I have become a bit obsessed with it over the last few years.

A few people have forked my project and are attempting to make things from it. I think it's cool they are doing that but I am happy to keep it as my side project.
The only warning in that picture is the skull. The majority of people on this planet have no idea what the other signs mean.
you didnt have to wait long
> But you can only know that by having a large sample of very “stable” (have few genetic irregularities) gene samples compared to a large pool of samples from people with very narrow and pronounced gene irregularities, right?

No- A "gene" isn't an A/G/C/T- it's a sequence of 1000-1000000 base pairs. Each gene has a well-defined start/stop sequence called a start/stop codon. When people have genetic differences, one (an SNP- single nucleotide polymorph) of the tens of thousands of base pairs in that gene is different. Even for genes that are entirely "missing" in some people, they're really just different in a way that makes them nonfunctional.

Does that make it obvious how sequencing all those genes is useful, even if everyone has different genes? It tells us 99.999% of how proteins are coded, even if individual variation is the other .001%.
> And, as always with the certificate authorities, a thousand murderous theocracies, advertising companies, and international spy organizations are allowed to impersonate you by design.

Certificate transparency has been required by chrome for new certificates (and sites that opted in) since 2018, and all older certificates expired by 2021 (because certificates have a maximum allowable lifetime). So this was dubious even at time of writing, and outright false today, for a large majority of users.

> Let's Encrypt isn't free to run, either. Their 2019 operating budget is 3.6 million U.S. dollars. Most of that is donated by… guess who? Your competitors.

Let's Encrypt has something like 80 sponsors listed. The vast majority of them are not, actually, competing with you. Even if some of them are, the nature of a non-profit funded by a wide range of sponsors just makes it a terrible way to attack someone.
What we've done to the planet is perhaps less a consequence intelligence, more a consequence of multi-polar traps. Though it's in our collective self-interest to protect the planet, it's in our individual self interest to ignore the problem / prepare so that our own children can "weather the storm".

It kinda depends on how much you care about people across the world and future generations.

But yeah, if humans were more intelligent, we probably would have sorted all this out by coming up with better coordination mechanisms, and by overcoming our tribal tendencies more effectively.
Qualifications:

* Over the age of 25

* Lived in MA for at least a year

* Do not have a degree already
I would really like to see the end of aging and by that I mean the end of age related disease, dying from ALS or Alzheimer's disease (which both are by and large age related diseases) is not nice. My mom has ALS and it is tough.

I don't see much other hope in curing these diseases tbh, it feels like the research is going nowhere so I am somewhat excited about longevity research and glad that someone is pursuing it. If I didn't become a software developer, I would like to work in that field
All news are propaganda.
Email Authentication: A Developer's Guide
I've also been a happy Ubuntu user for a long time, but with the direction Canonical is going, it's become pretty evident that sooner or later I'm gonna have to move on.

I recently gave the new Debian a try on my laptop, and I've been happy with it so far. I've also been pleasantly surprised that it's noticeably snappier than Ubuntu for some reason.

My main machine is still running Ubuntu, but when the time comes to reinstall or upgrade, especially if the snap situation becomes even worse, I will probably switch to Debian entirely.
I can’t say I have left because of snaps, but I sure am close. When they work, they are great. If you have to debug or diagnose something? Forget it.
all advertising was (and is) always behavioral
+1

Ventile is an exception to the "rule" that "cotton kills" (in the cold).

Especially great is for staying dry is double layered ventile, which is now free of flourine chemistry for extra waterproofing (older iterations used PFAS as an extra waterproofing coating.)

The cotton breathes, it's more durable than gore-tex or off-brand knockoffs (stressed PTFE), and it doesn't make annoying "swish swish" noises either, which is helpful for bird watchers and other folks that want to move quietly in nature.

There are two major disadvantages: cost and weight. A ventile garment is many times the price of a similar ptfe garment, especially now that the original gore-tex patents have expired. And it's also many times the weight.

However, let's be honest, if you can afford ventile, you probably can drop 3 pounds of fat through the additional time you will spend outside, lengthen your healthspan and lifetime, and use the garment long enough to pay for the several "waterproof" ptfe garments you would have gone through in the same time.
Being the Debian-based distro that's willing to bundle proprietary drivers. For someone like me who doesn't want to deal with driver issues, Ubuntu generally* just works out of the box.

* Looking at you, Nvidia
cyberpunk in the 90s was a lived experience, particularly so in Eastern Europe. I read Neuromancer, watched johnny mnemonic and blade runner on pirated VHS tapes, and armitage and bubble gum crysis on pirate tv[0]. there were old grandmas selling cd releases from RAZOR 1911 and PARADOX all over the place. "ooh, little munchkin, you're into 3d modeling? here's a new cd I got lightwave 3d, 3d studio max and Maya, cracked[1], $3". there were dozens if not hundreds of BBSes, and your local friendly FIDO point administrator. there were several large markets where you would buy computer parts grand bazaar style[2], so you buy an AMD K6 (in a box? dude, it's back of the truck OEM in an anti-static bag, better pray it works when you bring it home) that runs at 166 mhz or whatever and overclock it to a whopping 300 mhz, which necessarily implies that your desktop box was in a constant state of messing around with. no amount of LEDs and glass covers of a modern gaming rig will give you the same feeling as a boring 90s beige box did, because inside the beige box you had a 3dfx voodoo 6 months after it got released, and it's the first time consumer grade 3 acceleration is within your personal reach. of course some Finn in the demoscene has already made a back of a napkin C program, that you can compile in your pirated copy of Visual Studio, that shows you how to draw a shaded rectangle using your voodoo. everybody was on the same page: scene releases, demos, themes, background pictures, music, bbs styles, nicknames and scene group names were all incorporating cyberpunk aesthetic and contributing the aesthetic at the same time. reality was providing cyberpunk, and cyberpunk authors were providing the way for us to see the reality.

[0]you had to buy a descrambler to watch it
[1]she would never explicitly say it was cracked, because of course everything was cracked
[2]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjDHhdx_tGY
I assume by "fragment" they mean "contig"[0]. This statement only has meaning if this particular contig is:
a) found at WIV
b) not found in the wild (to our knowledge, which we would expect to be incomplete)
c) unlikely to have evolved in the wild from SARS-CoV-1 over the past 10 years.

My reading of this sentence indicates they're saying a), but they don't mention b) or c). A good biologist wouldn't bother mentioning this type of thing unless they had good evidence for b) and c), but the sources are uncited and there's no details here. So I really wouldn't take anything away from this.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contig
> I've not commented on whether it's good or bad. I'm commenting about the apparent surprise at their behavior.

I assure you that I am not surprised.

I am angry, though.
the depth of the water table is fairly well known throughout the world, and it is not like a series of underwater rivers which are easily missed; the water table is called a "table" because it is very large and very flat.

if you are within 100 miles of a natural body of water, or in a flood plain, or anywhere that it rains semi-regularly, drilling will get you to a source of water.

there's no magic or divination involved.
What do you mean "no reason"?

The reason is that the user's data privacy rights come first. If interests collide, privacy must come out on top. I'm curious on how you could have missed this ideological position that powers those regulations after years of headlines after headlines about the topic.
Thanks so much, I am happy to hear you checked them out and liked them. I still work on it nearly daily in my nights so I am thinking of restarting my weekend live streams as I did them every week in 2021.
China was #1 with a bullet. Probably Russia next. Some other non-“western”-aligned Asian states if just blocking as much of China as you could manage didn’t do the trick. Basically exactly the countries you’d expect.

Africa, South America, and the rest of the (in a broad sense) “global south” weren’t online enough to be a major source of trouble, back then, so those weren’t often blocked AFAIK.
The fact that drug makers can hawk pills on TV telling you how much you need glockinflexadusal or whatever schizophrenic word-salad name they've come up with for your sporadic knee twinge and show you how you can be young and beautiful and imminently desirable again

(sometimes people who take this pill start pooping and never stop pooping again for the rest of their lives which are thankfully rather short, and on a few occasions people have immediately burst into flames and started screaming in pain but their bodies refuse to die for some reason)

You should ask your doctor if girexamusib is right for you. *images of children wearing white clothing and running through wheat fields and blowing dandelion puff seeds into a beautiful sunset play while the tranquil music of heavens elevator plays softly in the background*

is incredibly terrible for all of the worst reasons.
> so this isn't just opportunity cost, it's externality cost.

Everything has externalities, even the "renewables" (which are not, by definition, because nothing is renewable) - if you want to have an adult conversation you need to talk in terms of pros and cons across multiple dimensions.
I'm sure some organization can write a "DCO" which says the exact same thing. Ultimately what matters isn't the title of the document but the content. There are plenty of CLAs that just ask for the bare minimum for the project to be able to function (see ones from any of the organizations I mentioned).
Thanks, can you share more details? E.g. are there more reviews, more paperwork required, etc?