skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I volunteered to walk dogs for a shelter I learned they offered training and support to deal with compassion fatigue. I appreciated that.

My spouse and I had our dog euthanized last year because we did the calculations/justifications and the costs and risks of surgery (likely cancer and organ failure, per the ultrasound) didn't justify keeping our family member alive for perhaps a few more months. The experience changed my perspective about pet ownership/stewardship in general: unless I really need an animal companion or a working animal (e.g. herding), I will never own another pet. I find it a luxury I can do without. I've had three dogs die in my lap now, and that's enough.

Visiting his grave in the back pasture on walks with my young daughter has opened up regular conversations about death, though, which I see as an upside. She was there wfor the funeral and touched his cold ear before we buried him. She asks a lot of questions and often wants the story of our dead dog's later life and eventual death, and after some consideration and kind words to the memory of our dog (I add no religious spin, just that his "spark of life" is gone and his body is being digested by other living beings underground, a fate for myself which I am absolutely fine with), because it feels good to say these kind words even though I am not under the illusion he's listening, we carry on walking.
People often say kubernetes is complex, or overkill for tasks.

But let's say you have many computers and want to put them to work. Suddenly, kubernetes becomes the simplest of all options.

> Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.

- Einstein
So I get passing off if-then statements, mechanical turk/human intervention, or ChatGPT API calls as "AI".

But is there a problem saying that a product that incorporates machine learning techniques is powered by AI? I ask because I'm starting to see people separate "ML" from "AI". Where ML is basically everything pre-generative AI (recommendation systems, computer vision, machine translation) and AI is generative AI. Where as I've always viewed ML as a subcategory of "soft" AI. Is there a generally accepted difference between ML and AI?
I think you’re confused here. The $50 group (Group C) is the control group. That sum was chosen because it was assumed it wouldn’t actually meaningfully change their lives, and therefore we can use their response as a baseline for how to judge Group A and Group B. This would imply that universal basic income makes 20% of people feel like they’re doing better (placebo effect), and 6% of people actually do better.
You need to do both by changing the building codes/zoning laws/public infrastructure best practice documents (think the things used to guide road design, etc). Then all greenfield construction ends up looking much more like the awesome Netherlands and every time anything is built, or public infrastructure is renewed in a brownfield area it is brought up to the standard. It didn't take that many decades for the Netherlands to go from terrible to awesome using this method.
> you are not in the middle class, you are living in poverty.

I agree with you, certain areas in US are very expensive and FAANG salary may not be enough to fit middle class definition.

> we just proved that pretty much everybody in tech can work remote, with no effect on the profitability of the companies

Which companies? Some companies(FAANG and ecosystem) benefited from COVID because of significant market shifts online and this is not relevant to remote job, but I am not sure about many other companies. Also, another impact on revenue was fiscal policies (0 rates), and there can be cooldown soon too.
The one of the database you use. They all have their idiosyncrasies you’ll have to learn once you actually use them.
$10k means very different things to people of different socioeconomic statuses, but the new owner took a rinsing to keep this dog alive - german shepherd puppies from almost all breeders cost less than $5k.

Likely the vet simply knew someone with deep enough pockets who loves dogs and was willing to take one for a well above market fee. It doesn't seem unethical to me that person only wants to save dogs they own.
I'm curious - why? Can you send some resources about that? Do you know if there is an alternative law I could support my claims with in UK or EU?
"Lightweight Kubernetes" and then a graph involving 2 different nodes with 10+ services running on them.

Nomad seems to be a truly "lightweight Kubernetes" and for the small amount of time I've been using it, it seems to do it's job really well and it's easy to understand all the moving pieces without spending countless of hours reading docs and source code.

Although, it's hard to recommend Nomad for future uses as it sadly stopped being FOSS :/
Doesn't really explain it. Usually projects are cliques where your contributions will be ignored unless you know somebody on the inside. The only thing the article says is "In the next few hours, they heard from Emilio Cobos Álvarez, who refined Zhu's approach and helped get the commit into the code base." What's the story there?
SimSIMD: Up to 200x faster SciPy vector distances with AVX-512 and SVE
Loving K3S so far, I've got a "homelab" of 4 RPis running it and so far it has been pretty seamless experience.
> It's not perfect but for a cross-platform app development library I've not seen anything better. Happy to be enlightened with alternatives.

Unironically, FreePascal/Lazarus had a decent shot at this with LCL: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazarus_Component_Library

It could target Win32, GTK and Qt all at compile time (even Android and OS X but that never got developed all that far AFAIK), depending what runs on your target platform, while you get common components and RAD at design time. I haven't seen anything like it since and sadly the language and ecosystem are mostly dead, which is a shame, because the idea was brilliant and it actually worked (and is still used in some software, like CudaText and PeaZip I think).

Aside from that, something like MAUI could be worth a look: https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/apps/maui
k3s is a single binary + a lot of unnecessary api's trimmed. In general a better entrypoint for someone new to k8s imo.
This is very nice.
Well, you're the one talking about a friend who takes many lives into his hands by doing this, so it's not about "loud exhausts." It's about someone who thinks so little of his own and others' lives that he'd be doing 200mph on a crowded public highway. Pretty much the definition os "reckless indifference to human life."

>> Story: a buddy of mine had a gsxr 1000 and would purposely screw with cops on the freeway and as soon as they’d light up he’d be gone and doing 200mph within a few seconds, fitting between cars easily. Within 30-60 seconds a bike can be damn near a mile away from a cop car. Radioing ahead won’t help if you don’t know where they went and they were never running a plate to run… most cops know it’s pointless to chase and often immediately call it off.
Interestingly, SUSE now owns Rancher [0], so k3s has been backed by a large company for some time now. I've never tried k3s, but I have always thought it's probably the most loved-by-its-users version of Kubernetes.

[0] https://www.suse.com/news/suse-completes-rancher-acquisition...
I grew up on a farm. We lost a couple sheep. We had at least 3 different dogs over the time I lived there. We had a swarm of cats that came and went. We had a baby goat that died from tetanus, that was rough to watch. At least most of the chickens that died were because we butchered them.

Animals die. It sucks, but way less than a human dying.

Maybe life would be easier for vets if their customers had a more temporal view of their animals.
Could someone please explain the difference between K0s[1] and K3s? They seem to both target the same minimalist K8s segment.

[1]https://k0sproject.io/
Sure just promise to not doxx me when you get my real name. Hah
So all of those can be used to host a highly available multi physical node cluster?
California Right to Repair Signed into Law
Exactly this! People think they are spending $25/month and getting full coverage in case something happens, but the reality is that if you have a fairly healthy pet, you're just better off self-insuring and putting that money into an interest bearing account instead.

The insurance companies have done all the math and are counting on you making an emotional decision.
That doesn't make a ton of sense. Zoning is controlled at a very local level (NY and CA had recent controversies with state attempting to claim that power.) My town is zoned for small single fam homes so people who want that kind of life come here. The town next door is clearly zoned for higher density, so has more apartments and townhouses. A different type of people live there. If you want more density, you go another town over and now you're in Queens, and you can keep going until you're in Manhattan with one of the highest densities in the world.

Seems like zoning reflects people's desires and provides a diversity of lifestyles which is good. If a community/development wanted to be more walkable, they can make the zoning call on a very local level.
Show HN: Near-future spy thriller about semiconductors
My new novel launches today.

Foundry is a near-future thriller about two spies locked in a room with a gun leveraging the secrets of semiconductor manufacturing to refactor 21st century geopolitics.

Very on-theme for HN. Would love to hear what you think.
Secret from the 'Mona Lisa' about how Leonardo painted the masterpiece
Human authorship is legally protected and the other is not, whether that’s an AI or a bunch of monkeys on typewriters.
There's not any common reason I can think of to go ipv6 on the backend. KISS --if there's enough IPs in a private v4 range, use them.

If you need/want to serve v6 clients, put a v6 load balancer in front. You're likely going to need that lb anyway.
How to legally pirate every font
Turning Actors Inside-Out
You think you should dictate the price of someone else’s labor, and that is less predatory or somehow better than someone being able to price their own labor?
At least in theory, HDCP keys can be revoced.

Manufacturing non-compliant devices could become extremely risky.
Is it just me or is RIAA arguing that voices are copyrightable?
I would put that date a little closer in time actually. And I actually have a precise date. I think that labor was unfathomably cheap until July 6th 1935, when the National Labor Relation act was enacted.

Both the tunnel and the canal (under USA supervision) didn’t start construction until 1904.

But that said, by far the majority of the deaths during the construction of the Panama Canal were under French supervision, in the 1880s. This effort failed primarily because of the heavy toll on human lives. While people did die under the Americans, and while labor conditions were horrendous, it was nowhere near on the same caliber as the decades prior. Further indicating that you cannot just disregard human lives completely and still get the job done (you could only do that to an extend; until July 6th 1935 that is).
Anyone running K3S on Hetzner's new ARM64 servers?
I live quite far from Stockholm and commute there by train. My office is just outside of the zone.

Most people I know at work own a car, but no one drives to work. Why would they?

Seems like people driving in downtown Stockholm are the kind of people that can afford EVs anyway. (Of course, disabled people etc. But they are also covered by the new rules.)
The Lonely Journey of Open-Source Maintainers
I always prefer to spell it kUbernEats.
Haven't encoded anything with iTunes/Music's mp3 encoder in years, ever since AAC came out.

What's amusing is that speakers may have been optimizing themselves for LAME, since it's pretty much the dominant encoder.
NASA's Psyche metal asteroid mission launches this week
It's similar in a way, but I like that it aims to be more social than a little free library, or the communal bookshelves I've had in various apartment buildings I've lived in.

Personally, I'd be interested to find people in my neighborhood who are also into Murakami (Ryu or Haruki) and wouldn't mind donating time to a library/social space. Stuff like this can bring a neighborhood together.
Nitpick:

It’s not the sensor size they matters (larger sensors actually have more noise: that’s why phone photos can look as good as they do). Stop and think for a second: where does the extra light captured by a larger sensor come from?

What actually matters is the physical aperture of the lens. What a large sensor forces you to do is use a larger physical aperture to get the same focal ratio (“f-stop”) and field of view. That’s how you get more light. (the larger physical aperture and constant focal ratio implies a longer focal length, so the math works out)

If you do the math, the larger physical aperture more than compensates for the extra noise of the larger sensor (signal to noise of the system scales as sqrt(sensor_dimension)), so camera systems with larger sensors and the same focal ratio have better noise figures. But it’s not directly due to the sensor.

You can compensate for a lot of that effect by simply installing a lens with a larger focal ratio on a small sensor. That’s because it turns out to be easier to have a high focal ratio when the lens is small: the shorter focal length (for a given field of view) requires a smaller radius of curvature, so controlling chromatic aberration and circle of confusion is easier at higher focal ratios.
Origami-Inspired Screw-Based Propulsion on Mobile Ground Robots
In summary, programming in a staticly compiled language is really about giving your compiler hints as to what you want to happen. Sometimes it listens, sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes you can force it with some kind words, and sometimes you need to use beat it into submission.
2D Transistors, 3D Chips, and More Mad Stuff
On the contrary, the casual lies inherent to marketing - to capitalism - are absolutely something which should disgust you. That casual dishonesty is endemic, or that it elides complexity which may escape the average intelligence - these are not reasons to accept it. Marketing is disgusting.
In the US, Canada, and Australia, it's Trupanion. It doesn't cover routine wellness costs (exams, shots, teeth cleanings). But it covers virtually everything else at 90% with a $250 deductible. No annual limits or lifetime limits. For my cats it costs $30 per month (each).
W.r.t birdwatching, you should get a nest cam and birdhouse, the videos of birds building nests and laying eggs are equal parts amazing and adorable.

I've taken up drumming, it's quite nice. I've also taken up going to various seminars that are interesting to me and connecting with people there, but it's not a hobby per se.
Sweet is only unhealthy nowadays because of the sheer quantities of sugar we can consume as of he past 60 years. Before then, sweet stuff was a luxury. Hell, I've even heard that modern fruits are too sweet for zoo animals as we've bred them to have more sugar.
I agree—if I could use Racket (first choice) or Common Lisp (second choice) and make use of the breadth of libraries available to Python, I'd be a very happy camper. Being niche, and what being niche implies about shared lift, is what keeps me from reaching for Racket all the time.
It says there are no personnel costs. It also says bookshelf owners are also involved in library operations, including being at the library to assist visitors.
For a well-bred GSD, probably. Waits for puppies can be years, and cost thousands anyway. Paying a bit more in vet bills instead probably seems reasonable to the right owner.
Yeah, a threat to their business model.
The way I see it, if some typesetting system thinks one space looks better than two and renders two as one anyway, or if the difference is otherwise imperceptible, then there's still no reason for me to stop using two. It's pure muscle memory and if people can't tell the difference then I'm not going to stop.
Yes, I think I am lamenting the "exceptional outcomes that are taken off the board" - I like your phrasing. The engineer in this story is an exceptional outcome that benefited millions of people through his exceptionality. Making him more "average" would help nobody and hurt all.
This is addicting. You've got a winner here. Are you going to package it into an app?
Most (all?) modern technology is built atop things that came before. Many texts like this one are still useful (although I can't speak to this specific book).

To understand a TCP connection, e.g., I imagine a book from the 1980s would be perfectly fine.
I think in the future, zuck is hoping it's the metaverse.

Currently, for me, it's been hiking trails, quiet cafes, and bookstores where I can be in public, but generally avoid large crowds and if there are interactions they're most likely one on one.
Yea, but wedding photogs are businesspeople, who respond to customer expectations. If they show up with “non professional” equipment, they tend not to get referrals, in spite of whatever photo quality they deliver.
Ekimov already retired. I think it's also not acceptable to write "unemployed" or "None" as your affiliation as a nobel laureate...

Nanocrystals Technology Inc seems to have less than a handful of employees and doesn't have an official website.
https://www.newyorkbids.us/new-york-contractors/contractor-5...
> C with 2 plusses

I read it as "C with two pulses"... Which is how I feel about C++ - unnecessarily complicated.
I think the use case was running on a cheap server that actually doesn't have ipv4 connectivity
> But a significant portion of the population expects to pay what they would pay for insurance-covered human surgery, eg a couple hundred dollars at most.

Time travelled from the 1990s, or one of the few who’s never had normal middle-class health insurance in the last decade.

I haven’t had a plan that wouldn’t put us into at least high-four-figures if anyone gets actually-sick, since the ‘00s. Not even the best-available plans to me at any time (which I’ve noticed tend to make little or no economic sense, if you run the numbers) would keep it in the hundreds. Mid-thousands at best (and the higher premium just makes it break-even anyway)

[EDIT] Example: a recent tonsillectomy cost us $2,500 or so. We have middling-leaning-good insurance. It's not some ultra-high-deductible thing. Everything went great, no complications, out of the hospital like an hour after waking from surgery. I don't know how people who make median wages afford kids, with medical & housing costs the way they are. A specialist copay for a 30 minute routine check-up visit (fucking prescription med control rules are a cash-cow for doctors, what a joke) of which ten minutes was with a doctor, was $95 out of pocket the other day, for which we received nothing we actually needed aside from checking a bureaucratic box. Surgery of any kind being in the hundreds is fantasy-land from where I sit. Usually I'm shocked at how cheap veterinarian bills are without insurance. They're usually much cheaper than the same thing on a human with insurance.
Because the majority of sites run on/behind:

- AWS

- Cloudflare

- Azure

- GCP

- Great Firewall of China

Maybe there was some truth about "the world market for maybe five computers", after all...
FIRE was mostly a good-times fantasy

most claims of net worth I read from bloggers were actually projections...

on top of mostly "projected" wealth, you have the ridiculous assumptions about cost of living

I assume 95% of FIRE bloggers got the year of backpacking alone in Thailand out of their systems, realized they were spending 5x as fast as they projected, and just quietly went back to work

why did this movement even assume it was everyone's dream to live like a pauper, let your resume rot, and disconnect from all social circles that revolve around work? is backpacking in Thailand really that awesome?
It's a learning curve, but it is consistent, reliable, and standardized.

Kubernetes has become an interface, independent of implementation.

It's much like how POSIX is a standard and there are many implementations.

And yes, POSIX has a learning curve too, but I'd rather learn that than anything proprietary, or non standard/rapidly changing.
Framework Laptop 13 (AMD) review: buy this one – if you can
Great comment. I've had an interest in suicide prevention for many years and I think you're right on the mark.

I'm in the US military which has a suicide rate much higher than the general population[1], so prevention is a high priority, and hence my interest. A common thread is clearly that military service members are people who are willing to kill, and think differently about killing and death, and often have access to guns (most often personally owned, because they're gun enthusiasts, not because the military issues guns).

[1] My understanding is that after you adjust for demographics, because most service members are young males, the rate actually isn't higher, but the reality is what it is: we lose more people from suicide every year than combat operations.
It's a real flavor that also became an overblown marketing term.
'The Dark Side Of The Force Is A Pathway To Many Abilities Some Consider To Be Unnatural'
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There is however value in anonymity. In some situations there are things that should be said or explored that could cause bad consequences for the sayer - women's rights discussed by an Iranian or Saudi for example.
This isn't news, it's a press release, complete with CEO glamour shot.
Tesla V4 superchargers starting to roll out in the US
Target isn't really a Third Space in this context. Starbucks is.
The answer to "why businesses that don't develop technology are called 'tech' businesses" is: Valuation.

If DTC pet supplies wasn't "tech" it would never get funded.
> CardDAV server support has effectively been deprecated, making it difficult to synchronize contacts. My new hosting provider doesn't seem to host CardDAV

Have you considered a notebook?

>In general, I've been maintaining a few WordPress-native sites since about 2018

Wordpress has a lot of vulns and needs updated reguarly, have you considered using a static site? there are frameworks that generate stativc sites

>I had had an email list, but apparently sending via SMTP is no longer natively run through the CRM anymore without a paid service or self-hosting?

How did you have an email list if you only have about five people coming to you a day?

>I'm not presently getting paid to do what I love (i.e., not paid to do tech work), so I'd like some perspective.

I don't love tech, I chanced down a very weird path due to being the sysadmin to abusive parents who eventually developed cognitive issues because they spike their glucose like a football.

it sounds like you use a lot of resources and want to pay the bare minimum, but aren't exactly a thought leader -- is there something you bring to the table you aren't mentioning, like being an underground comedian, a poet, an "influences" in that more organic way?

if not, it might be less about walled gardens and more about you're not good for business - you use a lot, pay a little, and don't have the connections to justify it.

(just my two cents, as i do my morning email and restrain the urge to curse out loud at the browser warnings one gets when you try to do everything over onionland and your enemies want to track you across the web)
May I hazard a guess that you love somewhere on the San Andreas fault?