skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There’s nothing inherently consumerist or capitalist about drinking alcohol. Making beer for your own consumption is safe, easy, and cheap, which is probably why it’s been drunk since before recorded history. Hard alcohol can be more difficult but entirely possible to do yourself
Some little known fact because they don't advertise the feature: You can re-scale your cloud vps servers up and down (and even switch from shared-core to dedicated cores) and pay by the hour, as long as you don't tick the "rescale storage space" option. I.e. you can start with a shared-cpu VPS for as little as 5€ that has 20 GB storage, and flexible scale it to an 48-core EPYC for just a couple of hours, and after you are done scale it down. If you are okay with slower storage, you can get separate storage from them and and mount via network. You do need to reboot between scaling, though.

I use that for development - I use VSCode with remote extension so the building, running and code indexing happens on the cloud server. Most of the time a small instance is enough, if I need more power I scale it up within seconds, and at the end of the work day (or week) back to a small instance (or shut off).
Hardware acceleration in robotics news. Announcing the RobotPerf™ benchmarks beta release: An industry standard for benchmarking robotic brains, Yocto, ROS 2, and hardware acceleration: A production-grade trio for robotics, Intel adds cost-optimized FPGAs with RISC-V option
Because students and non-billionaires are beggars?

Students pay several tens of thousands of dollars to go to universities these days. That's not remotely begging.
Get rid of the watch then! And everything will be fine again. ;)
Very good advice :) and that's fair, avoidance isn't necessarily hard work.

And, as it turns out I'm perfectly content these days if that didn't come through in my first post.

We're all already so stupid by default... if we really stop and admit it to ourselves, even the smartest among us barely know anything at all. I find that extraordinarily exciting, I'm glad I was born during a hockey stick period of growth in knowledge and technology.
> These provide a strong lock-in effect when customers spend effort to build the complex infrastructure for them in the name of security, even though in reality they hurt security through unnecessary complexity, addressing ambiguity, etc.

How do you hurt security by preventing external access to your internal services?
> For most, it's probably better to live a shorter and more fulfilling life than that of a monk which abstains from all pleasures. But if we're going to drink, it's better to be honest about the impact we're expecting.

Monk didn't really abstain from all the pleasures, in fact they enjoyed drinking and eating well. Ever noticed how many beer brands have a monk on their label ? That's because they were the ones brewing them, sometimes for "religious purposes" [1]

[1] https://lordsofthedrinks.org/2016/02/11/the-all-beer-diet-ge...
I am wondering who will be the first to raise RAM capacity of their hardware offerings dramatically to win the LLM crowd. Seems like the way to win market share.
Wheres the policy saying you cant drink, cant eat bread, cant eat meat, cant smoke?

A study being published saying "this this isn't great for you" is not at all remotely communism.
Eh, the people I know who gave up drinking just replaced it with weed.

Granted, it's anecdotal - and I'm sure there could still be a neo-puritanical culture movement - but as far as I can see it's just people getting tired of the absolute bullshit associated with alcohol.

(The other thing they all got in order with is good sleep, which alcohol seriously destroys)

Edit: Emphasis change.
Home Icons: The Digital Doorway to Familiar Ground
In the vast array of digital symbols, the home icon stands as a beacon of familiarity and navigation. Its widespread use across platforms and devices underlines its importance in guiding users. But what makes this simple representation of a house so pivotal in our interactions with technology?

1. Roots in Real-World Symbolism
The concept of "home" universally signifies comfort, familiarity, and a return to a known environment. Translating this sentiment to the digital space, the home icon serves as a navigational anchor, ensuring users always have a direct route back to a familiar starting point.

2. Visual Universality
The typical design of the home icon, representing a simplified house or domicile, boasts a straightforward appearance. This ensures that regardless of language or cultural differences, its meaning remains universally understood.

3. Consistency in Function
Across applications, websites, and devices, the home icon's function predominantly remains the same: to take users back to the main page or dashboard. Such consistency in action solidifies its role and aids in user familiarity.

4. Evolution with Technology
While the basic function of the home icon remains consistent, its design has seen variations. Depending on platform aesthetics or brand guidelines, the home icon might possess rounded edges, multiple layers, or even 3D elements, all while retaining its core visual cue of a house.

5. Beyond Navigation
In some contexts, the home icon can signify more than just navigation. For instance, in certain apps, it might indicate personal spaces, like profiles or personalized dashboards, linking the idea of "home" with personalization.

6. Adapting to Modern Interpretations
As the line between the physical and digital worlds continues to blur, modern iterations of the home icon might not always represent a traditional house. Icons could depict apartment buildings, domes, or other habitats, reflecting diverse living scenarios.

In essence, the home icon, while seemingly simplistic, encapsulates a multitude of meanings and functions. Acting as both a guide and a symbol of comfort, it remains a cornerstone of user experience design, helping navigate the vast seas of the digital realm with a touch of homely familiarity.

https://icons8.com/icons/set/home
"Oh look, a comment that slightly deviates from THE RULES of the site? Better jump into the guidelines and copy-paste the relevant passage to prove how vile the poster is. When he reads my comment, he will certainly drown in guilt and despair and refrain from posting something like that again. That will show him!"
I feel like this is something which a government should be developing and funding.

I understand that governments like to make rules and hope that the market responds with something that matches their vision, but as the EU demonstrated this just ends up with websites with user-consent pop-ups. A worse experience for everyone, and bad actors just find a way around it anyway.

Rather than relying on legislation to play whack-a-mole, why not just build something for everyone with tax dollars and open source.
People obviously do not think that drinking is the only thing to do.

But in your example, when exploring a far-away land, a few beers with the locals in some pub can greatly enhance the experience.
It takes all purchases records and joins a corresponding user to each record, but only if it has a specific id. Otherwise it’s still every purchases record. But only one user gets joined. Join condition is not a filter, it is a join condition. Left join will always yield all left-table rows. Right join will always yield all right-table rows. “Where” works on a final result of select+joins (but before group by), so if you want to filter by user id, the condition should go in where.
I think they just can handle being destroyed better because they are kind of used to feeling a bit miserable. It’s not that it isn’t affecting them.
I find it utterly bizarre that the size of a "drink" is quoted here in ounces, so here's a conversion (assuming I have selected the right kind of ounce for my conversion):

12 ounces of beer is ~340ml, about a normal water drinking glass, or about 0.60 pints, or about 0.72 of those weird American pints.

5 ounces of wine is ~142ml, which is slightly more than a small wine glass. Most wine glasses are 125ml, although there are also lots that are 250ml.

1.5 ounces of spirits is ~42.5ml, which is somewhere between a single and a double shot.
I've completely quit alcohol for a few years now. It was pretty sparse for me past 30 and lately my conclusion was even one glass of champagne I can sort of feel the next day.

Don't miss it at all.
> There’s millions of things to do besides drink.

Drugs \o/
Back when I was still smoking I also had the feeling that life without smoking wouldn't be worth living.

I succeeded in quitting and of course it wasn't true. Literally every aspect of my life improved. An addicted mind is an unreliable narrator.
I don't understand why we use vague terms like "moderation" when we could just use numbers. In the UK "in moderation" is 14 units per week, and IIRC it used to be higher.

There was some study posted here many years ago that showed a clear increase risk of cancer starting at 5 units per week, so don't drink more than 2 pints/week (or 1 pint if you like Belgian ales like me :P)
They mean doing the processing that Splunk does is expensive so there simply needs to be less data going into the system (via the pre-processing steps I mentioned) above in order to keep costs sane.

With that said Splunk should offer such a pre-processing product (maybe it does?) which would probably increase their moat even though it reduces revenue somewhat in the near term.
«Forcing a policy» is not communism.
On a positive note, sounds like they are switching away from Windows?

Maybe this will help them so that the whole company cannot be taken down by a single 10 minutes phone call.
It's a great film.

I have the DVD.

The rerelease might have something to do with the actors and writer strikes causing a lack of new releases though.
I am struggling to move to IPv6, from ISP blocking to unhelpful cloud services.

Who is a good provider of ipv6?
Many US states legalized marijuana, and violence in Mexico became significantly worse.
Good luck! Dunno if linode will cut it, my box has 6 cores and 32 gbs of RAM; it's a pretty resource heavy tool... but yeah if you are okay with >10 minute generation times this is a very cost effective solution.
Aw man but I like the drinks, they’re one of my favorite things!
> Not to mention that Freud was a quack who was more prone to speculation than to science, so if traditional psychotherapy is based on his work then it is likely built on sand.

Wow, that’s rich.
Dismissing Freud like this is the most egregious way of conducting a discussion about these topics.
Have you also ever thought that Mindfulness and CBT, while effective, are successful in a capitalistic society because ultimately convince us we can change to accept the fundamentals shortcomings and toxicities and inhumane dysfunctions of capitalism?
Freud’s take on the mind was revolutionary, Mindfulness and CBT have a solid ground but have become a strong weapon in favor of the preservation of the status quo by convincing us we are just wrong in a perfectly fine environment (which in reality is not fine at all).
Yeah, Wuffs can be classified as memory-safe languages in this case and should be endorsed as much as possible. I mean, I said a lot about the limitation of Wuffs in the last conversation, but that's because I believe something like Wuffs should be used more widely, and the current limitation of Wuffs can hinder the progress. We need several angles of attack to make it real, and Wuffs is only one of them.
For the Coq proof assistant, a recent approach to graphical proofs is Actema: https://www.actema.xyz/
Everything about CVEs when I used them screamed “old/legacy stuff” from the processes to the tooling.
If you come stateside, search out Athletic. It's what I and most people I know swear by nowadays.
>In many non-English-speaking cultures, that juxtaposition appears bizarre.

It only scratches the surface of how something very natural in one culture is bizarre or even abhorrent in another.

Promised wives? <F/M>GM? Snokhachestvo? Washing dishes with cow urine? Sure let's just throw some i18n and she'll be right.
Strangely some of my faculties are actually made keener by a mild hangover. I'm more empathetic, have keener hearing, and am in a reflective, more receptive frame of mind.

Unfortunately these effects are inseparable from less desirable ones: guilt, anxiety, upset guts, hypersensitivity to smells, hair-trigger impatience, flop sweat.
To befair, you should consider P( Unpleasant Condition| Drinks ) and compare it to P( Unpleasant Condition| Does Not Drink ). Small increases of probability over many conditions tend to add up.
This is a really nice post and series. I'm curious how you're doing the profiling and then generating the flame graphs e.g. in https://marvinh.dev/blog/speeding-up-javascript-ecosystem/. Is this Chrome's built-in devtools being used or something else?
I'd upvote you a 1000 times if i could. To lazy to mail dang if it's possible to pin it on top.
love the name ... needs a 1980's Commodore BASIC visual :-)
I'm a lifelong teetotaller, but I can attest that the innovation in alcohol free stuff has really been impressive. Obviously I can't compare it to "the real thing", but it's funny to try e.g. the many new alcohol free liquor products and observe that yes, this in fact tastes quite unlike anything else I've tasted.
The article has

The poet is a man who feigns
And feigns so thoroughly, at last
He manages to feign as pain
The pain he really feels

Looks like it's different translations of the first stanza of the Portuguese original, the poem Autopsicografia

O poeta é um fingidor
Finge tão completamente
Que chega a fingir que é dor
A dor que deveras sente.
North Korea's Finest OS
That's extremely slow it's in millisecs for me, how can you even work with that latency? I think it could be a graphics driver issue, I notice VSCode lagging sometimes when I have some WebGL app running next to it.
Not a single test, either here or in adjacent commits.

!?!
Ahh, thank you. But French wasn't the official language of Russia, right?
Yup, telegraf is what keeps me with InfluxDB, even if I couldn't care less about the database or the pain in the ass it is to operate.
If it’s anything like iphone’s continuity thing then I hope it doesn’t suck as much. It’s hard to use and the thing will constantly get turned on and off
> I've lost track of all of the "Private Endpoints", "Private Links", "Service Endpoints", "Private Resolvers" and "Virtual WAN" products they've introduced... all to make IPv4 work at scale.

I'm not sure what you've been reading, but the concept of a private link has absolutely nothing to do with IPv4 vs IPv6. In fact, practically all your remarks don't involve the issue at all.

The most charitable interpretation of your comment is that you're making the mistake of conflating any application involving a virtual network as something caused or involing IPv4.
I still don't get it; let's say I have 100+ signups a day on trial accounts and 200k+ paying clients which almost never receive email from us, but do sometimes (maybe 1-2 times every few months). What are we looking at?
Well well - looks like they have a UK supplier too. Thanks for the recommendation!
See, a lot of people are excited about Android 14, but the S20FE is already on security update-only status... meanwhile the iPhone 13 of the same vintage just got a major OS upgrade.

And next year, when the S20FE won't even have security updates, the 13 will get another major upgrade. And probably another after that.

_

In fact, if you had bought a refurb $500 iPhone when the S20FE was announced (iPhone 11!), you'd still be getting into the new update the S20FE just missed out on.

That is how absurdly abysmal Android support it: you could have gotten a 2 year older phone and actually gained an upgrade cycle.

Also fun fact: the 2 year older iPhone 11 would also be faster than the S20 FE
Find me a substitute activity that can reduce group inhibitions, cause strangers to get along better with each other, and foment fun new spontaneous relationships and I'll consider your proposal for an alcohol free life.
You might find Brewdog beers in the UK, they are good. (In France they are hard to find and unreasonably expensive.)
Emacs' flycheck integrates perfectly with shellcheck.
Passkeys are now generally available on GitHub
Has someone tried using Kagi extensively in non-english languages ? I wonder how well my family would adopt it, and it depends heavily on this
True, nix is also a package manager, and that is the crucial step necessary to actually provide a declarative interface to system state. Without it you can only get the leaky abstraction that is ansible.

To illustrate my point, imagine this playbook:

---
- name: Bring system into some state
hosts: localhost

tasks:
- name: Install hello
ansible.builtin.apt:
name: hello
become: true

Apply it and you get GNU hello installed. Now remove the package installation step, which really is just a glorified "ssh $host < script.sh":

---
- name: Bring system into some state
hosts: localhost

tasks:

Apply that and you will still have hello installed, even though it was removed from the "declared state". This just pretends to be declarative but really isn't, the tasks are still imperative steps.

Not to blame ansible for this, it is just that ansible is build on a foundation that inherently makes declarative system management impossible to begin with and ansible is more or less the best thing you could do given the constraints.
Except this is not how the majority of the population experience or consume alcohol.
While this is probably exactly the spin the AWS sales team head in mind, it conveniently glosses over all the IPv4 related products customers won’t need anymore if they use IPv6, and thus pay a lot less for their simplified network infrastructure.

AWS has no incentive to support IPv6 from a sales perspective.
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capturing by reference is nonsense in 99.9999999% cases
What an inspiring post. I'm like on the Nebula step already - will follow your path though :D
Imagine if your life was just going utterly wrong. You're working hard as you can but you can barely make food or rent, and you're so tired every day that all you can do is just lie there like a dull sack remembering constantly and inescapably mulling at just how wrong everything is in your life. There's no end in sight, no light at the end of the tunnel, your existence is just this until you are broken and thrown out.

Now imagine there's a magic potion that make it feel like it all goes away even if for just a little while.

Does that help explain it?
There's some research that suggests group alcohol consumption increases social cohesion. I can't remember the studies I originally read which suggested this, but a few from a web search:

https://www.psychologicalscience.org/news/releases/moderate-...

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/06/120629211854.h...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5462438/

Whether other psychoactive substances have similar effects I don't know, but it seems reasonable to assume alcohol's somewhat-unique social role reflects its actual impact on group bonds.
I’m pretty confident that this statement is mostly true without sarcasm, and that you are in the minority.
You 'installed' OpenStreetMaps?!
funding, sure, developing? not so much. I rather create a foundation that the government can pitch in some money.
Kagi seems cool, but I haven't felt that google search is so bad that I'd pay ~120/year for search. I think Google's also heard the discontent around search results lately and has been trying to improve - eg. I get relevant Reddit results now without needing to specify that into my query. I personally haven't found cases where the results are so bad I would rather start paying, but would be interested to hear specific examples to open my eyes if people have them.
All that is needed to prevent remote exploits from taking effect is strong input/output sanitization, and firewall. It becomes next to impossible to exploit vulnerable software if you are limited to the characters you can send.

Most web services do this in the network level with load balancers that forward only a single port to the service VM that is otherwise behind NAT to prevent any access to any other program in the VM that is left listening on a port. You can extend this concept to the input and output processing of the service.
Sure its had and not having a theatrical rerelase. It was in cinemas one or two weeks ago.
By making it necessary to use automated tooling and even obtain certifications just to set up everything required for private networking. The complexity of a properly configured service mesh in AWS is staggering, extremely hard for newbies to get right, and easy to fuck up big time down the road. That hurts security.
Huh! That's so interesting.
A google image search for "race track" has 0 people visible in the 17 images above the fold.
...if you are running one service and not really using AWS in any meaningful way other than as a VPS provider.
It's googles fault. They are the ones who make this a viable business model. They pay the ads, and they pollute their search results with this garbage.

100% Google who are destroying this part of the internet.
i wish there's one for color swatches at radix-ui.com and mui.com

love these products.
A CPU implemented in an analog modular synthesizer
Also see:

Github: https://github.com/katef/eurorack-cpu

A thread explaining just the ripple adder: https://twitter.com/thingskatedid/status/1475128017374437380

A video: https://github.com/katef/eurorack-cpu/blob/main/img/cpu-runn...
An asynchronous action should always show immediate feedback (button disabled + a loading spinner or similar). You should not be assuming that the potentially slow operation will be fast.
Self driving cars cause a traffic jam in Austin, TX
It’s really not a headache in and of itself. The technology is beautiful and enables lots of cool things - just look at all the awesome stuff the fly.io team makes it do.

The headache are vendors that still refuse to properly implement IPv6, in 2023.
It depends a great deal on the nature of the negative thought.

For example: spending hours obsessively thinking about death and dying and infinite nothingness isn’t helpful in my opinion.

But avoiding thinking about a mole you might want to get checked out at the doctor is a bad idea.
Yeah, the point at which the terminology changes for me is at the point at which the matter is dissected from the carcass
OK, great.

The thing is though, that people like a little chemical relaxation. After a tough day or just because whatever. I know I do. I'm not a daily drinker, but I enjoy a glass of wine or beer several times a week. More on occasion (probably monthly). I'd go so far as to say it's quite important to my mental health to be able to have a little escape switch like that after a tough day of work, under high pressure to get something delivered.

"Just don't" is not a good answer for me. "Adjust your life so you don't feel like that" only goes so far as well, would probably involve a complete career change, relative poverty (and the associated health outcomes there etc etc.), and quite likely no real reduction in stress.

Most of the west still lives with cannabis prohibition, and god forbid our advanced medical science be used to research potential recreational substances with lesser harm profiles, despite the massive effect on health this could have. That'll never fly politically after decades of demonising anything that can be referred to as 'drugs'.

So what to do?

(I'm not trying to claim it's impossible to be alcohol or drug free, it clearly works well for a lot of people. Though I will say that most people I know who have given it up entirely have done so because of issues with self-control and addiction, either that they saw in themselves or in family)