skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
spending $4B for ironsource ads and $1B for weta authoring stuff was expensive and took lots of their more indie-friendly choices off the table. maybe the ipo path they took made these things inevitable. anyways, their choices are behind them now. godot and elsewhere are where the parade will move on to
I'd rather you expound what what part you don't agree with, because what that link tells us is that the DoJ didn't consider that severe enough to push for a ban on the product.
I for one would pay for such a thing. I hate spending hours tinkering with network/firewall rules. It's dull as hell and a huge time sink to get everything right. And I have three decades of Linux knowledge. How is man-on-the-street supposed to do any of this stuff? :(
Are you sure? Dirty pages have to reside somewhere, so they are actually stuck in RAM until successfully written RAM. Linux will lie with straight face that dd to my 8gb pendrive finished successfully in a few seconds, so there may be non-trivial amounts of RAM involved here.

I don't know enough of Linux internals to know if the writeback cache and read cache are the same object in the kernel, but they feel similar.

Of course the real response is that without write cache (effectively adding fsync to every write) any modern linux system will grind to absolute halt and doing anything would be a challenge. So contray to GP's post, it's not reasonable to complain about it's existence.
Series mode seems to mean Zero Surge or maybe one of their rather sketchy-looking competitors. If these devices were so great, I would expect to see a real standard and certification for them. And this seems a bit dubious to me:

> Unlike most surge protectors, Zero Surge products do not rely on the ground circuit for effective surge protection, so you can use them even in ungrounded outlets.

So let’s see… they apparently pass ground straight through (as they should for safety!), and they’re some sort of filter on hot and/or neutral. (I found a sketch online suggesting that they are, in fact, just an inductor on the hot wire.). So suppose a surge happens and, by some miracle, the surge is just a voltage spike on hot relative to everything else, then, into a resistive load, current and hence voltage will be limited. But the load might not he resistive! Into a switched-off MOSFET or similar, the current needed to damage something is really quite low, and the only way this seems like it will work is if there’s enough capacitance somewhere to make the filter work. If there is any filtering on neutral, though, or if ground is contaminated, then I could imagine arcing between the protected circuit and ground.

In any case, this all seems silly. If the service entrance is protected, a hot-only surge seems pretty unlikely. (Your house’s neutral and ground wiring is not that great, and surges can couple inductively from nearby lightning strikes or even result from failures inside the house.)

I’ll stick with conventional surge protectors.

(I do own a Zero Surge that I bought to test as an EMI filter. I had such bad EMI on one circuit that it made a computer buzz very audibly — this was caused by cheap LEDs dimmed by a mediocre TRIAC. The result: the Zero Surge buzzed even louder than the power supply!)
Start with a big planet. Orbit a gas giant, burn most of it for fuel to get up to sufficient speed that your relativistic mass exceeds that of what is left (and to stop yourself zooming off in the meantime) and then pull the remainder along with you.
A convention is still the right way, regardless of how hard it is. Sorry but you can’t just say, “this is old and obsolete and it’s hard to change it so let’s make an end run around it.” Doing so just invites bad actors to make those end runs favor themselves.
Amazon product Q&A has a lot of "I don't know" answers. Unlike just about everywhere else on the internet.
I haven't. I should've probably mentioned I'm in Europe. That most likely excludes them for me.

I've had a look at their page, they don't have the fittings I get (gu10, E27 - probably these are not used in the US) and no European resellers as far as I can find (and no 4500K option, but that's a minor thing).
How feasible is it to migrate 150 CentOS 7 VMs to Containers on Nutanix?
The company I work for currently has about ~ 150 CentOS 7 VMs running on Nutanix AHV. Running all sorts of things from simple Apache and Nginx deployments, to things like Jira and Confluence, and Nagios monitoring with a Master + Slave setup, Gitlab, and a few other bits and bobs.

I've been playing with Podman a bit lately and getting a feel for it, but I don't really have a strong knowledge of containers yet besides deploying them, destroying them, and basically using them like VMs and adding persistent storage and "stuff like that" (I'm really a novice to the whole Containers/Kubernetes/whatever thing).

But... CentOS 7 is getting perilously close to EOL and my seniors are talking about migration candidates such as Rocky, Alma, RHEL, Debian, Ubuntu, SUSE - They haven't decided on anything concrete yet.

But assuming its Alma for example... How complex would it be to run these types of workloads as containers, and how difficult would be the process of going from VM > Container from a Nutanix cluster running AHV to say... A Nutanix host running lots of containers and a few VMs? Is it a good move? Does it make more sense from an infrastructure perspective?

From what I understand, instead of assigning more RAM or CPU like we do to a VM when its required for XYZ reason (or deemed required), we could instead scale up the number of containers to achieve similar results. Is that right?

Sorry if this isn't clear. Just looking for guidance and trying to get a better idea.

Thanks!
This was solved in broadcast a long time ago, I'd imagine similar could be done for videos delivered to web browsers, but you'd still be able to detect the insertion then I guess, so it wouldn't be very useful (unless its WideVine/HDCP or similar so it couldn't easily be seen, but eh)
That should be the solution for everything but unfortunately I'm dealing with containers that advertise their IP via Bonjour (or whatever the new thing is). But since they run in a container they get their 172.19.0.0/24 IP, so they broadcast the wrong one.

Then there is the issue of certain devices only accepting things like HomeKit via a barcode and/or discovery, and not via IP addresses.

If I could just do IP addresses it would be so much more easy to cordon off things. IPs can talk across networks with ease, no hacks required, but at least I control it.

Inside of a network it's very hard to selectively allow / deny traffic.
In the pro column: Capital is cracking the whip, that means less opportunities for rewards for the rank and file. This is a great time to take a break and save energy for a time where efforts are more likely to be rewarded.
we've been using pgvector at the 100M scale without any major problems so far, but I guess it depends on your specific use case. we've also been using elastic search dense vector fields which also seems to scale well, but of course its pricey but we already have it in our infra so works well.
Whilst it might be in the T&Cs somewhere, it’s the not-good variety of surprise that a company should really try to avoid.

I don’t have Alexa devices on my network, and I’m glad. I do have other vendor smart things, and I’d absolutely expect a notification if they were going to be poking around at my other devices to send information off to a company for their benefit.

Poor play, Amazon
>Or use an alternative frontend, or download the videos first?

If they're going to roll out anti-adblock code, what makes you think they won't be going after unofficial third party clients?
Actually, I was just speculating, as I haven't (until very recently) explored what is now the Legends universe. Thank you!
And if you were defining a stairway, a spear is much better than a sword. Stand at the top, poke down.
> I think we both agree that small indie studios will not be returning no matter what promises are made

One thing I agree on: more often than not, behind an interesting piece of art lies an interesting personality.

To advance the conversation based on some substantive facts, based on my conversations with creators of large free to play Unity games, all were already using IronSource and were not impacted by the changes anyway. As a game developer who publishes himself, I do not plan to migrate away from Unity, and I wasn't really impacted either. I can't speak for the 30 or so studios who posted pleas to revert the changes, but based on what happened, I believe they got what they wanted. So if their decision-making is rational / based on facts, I don't think they're migrating either.

This is all to say that when you have no budget, so you value your time at zero and you have no visual art you didn't author yourself, it's easy to put 100% of the personality into the product, and make that The Thing. There are people I know who turned 20,000 followers on a TikTok about games into a $1m check for a game studio! This is a viable strategy, it is uniquely suited to people to have opinions about game engines. But my facts-informed opinion is that this isn't representative of most game developers, and that they are actually really happy with Unity and relieved that the pricing changes found a middle ground that is less emotionally charged.
When you found that page originally you must have either got there from a POST from another page, or a prior page set a cookie which this page gobbled.
> Debit card transactions are charged at the official rate of about 31 pounds to the dollar whereas on the black market a dollar sells for around 40 or 41 pounds. Egypt has kept its currency fixed against the dollar since March despite a widening gap with the black market rate.

As a foreigner, it may make sense to short the Egyptian pound versus a stronger currency like the USD and potentially get rich in the same way George Soros when he bet against the British pound in 1992 which was propped up by the Bank of England then.

Usually when there’s a currency arbitrage opportunity, locals will circularly exploit the currency arbitrage (potentially by exchanging pounds with an Egyptian bank for 10% more USD or perhaps another way) until the government spends more of it’s foreign reserves than it feels comfortable spending and simply can’t hold down the peg any longer.
Imagine the feeling of being underwater on 3 houses, especially if your physiology is prone to panic attacks.
Big fan of Payload, which I used (1.x) when I updated my personal website/blog (in my profile) at the start of the year.

It was super easy to implement comments with replies and optional email notifications.
Redirect Twitter to Nitter Automatically with HTTPS Everywhere (2020)
This is a really good tip. Although ripping them apart is the last thing I'd like to do when I buy a new set of lights I might have to start doing that.
They are still using something like a vector DB when it is appropriate. It's just a very simple version built in to the system.
You're right, but now I'm disappointed that this didn't make it into Monty Python and the Holy Grail!
No mention of his “exit package” or “golden parachute”. Dude is going to be sitting pretty and then fuck over the next company.

I’m surprised the board actually did something and held him accountable. It’s a small step but this is a stain that won’t be washed off.
Maybe we should start naming every single person born as of now-ish, Zefram Cochrane, just to be safe...
SEC insiders join company profiting from rule they wrote
Management assholes not spending the money to fix it properly, they'd rather take the profits instead. This is a disease that should be eradicated with jail and massive fines.
Alls I'm saying is that House might be distinctly grumpy because he's still not sleeping well..
The Wikipedia article listed on the website was deleted as "non-notable". Here's an archive of it though:
https://web.archive.org/web/20170708075915/https://en.wikipe...
It is if you have friends in the central bank. In Venezuela the official rate was like 10x the black market rate at one point so if you had the connections you could go say 60000 bolivars -> (official rate) 10000 USD -> (black market rate) 600000 bolivars -> (official rate) 100000 USD.

The massive profitability of this scam resulted in a number of Miami condo sales.

Reading the article:

> A substantial number of debit card holders had been using cards to make bulk purchases, often in the United Arab Emirates, of gold, mobile telephones and other products to take advantage of the Egyptian pound's low official exchange rate.

Looks like a similar arbitrage was going on here. I predict they will introduce more capital controls to stop bleeding forex reserves, which won't work and then they will eventually be forced to float the currency, resulting in massive inflation that will stabilize in a year or two. Or they'll just continue on like Argentina and let their economy languish because they refuse to recognize economic reality.
Thank you. Here [1] is the source for one, which states "An arbitration award is a payment for damages and does not necessarily reflect that the physician's medical competence is below the standard of care. The Medical Board reviews all such reported arbitration awards and action is taken only if it is determined that a violation of the Medical Practice Act occurred. The Medical Board is prohibited by law from releasing a copy of the arbitration award report or any other information concerning the award." I am still unsure if that means the award was in the doctor's or patient's favor, and because the report is secret, it may not be possible to find out, but please let me know if you know how I could find out.

I also want to mention that patients are forced into arbitration via the contract for service they initially sign [2] that many don't read (whether due their inability to understand it or time constraints on needing immediate care and limited availability of doctors). However, I think it's a shady practice that hurts patients [3] and it would be worth keeping the data showing doctors taking advantage of it regardless. The main excerpt from the article supporting my thoughts is "Doctors’ attorneys are more likely to develop relationships with the arbitrators, they say, who, in turn, may give the plaintiff only a token award to get continued business from doctors."

[1] https://search.dca.ca.gov/details/8002/G/77959/9df8d122bd5b5...

[2] https://law.justia.com/codes/california/2007/ccp/1295.html

[3] https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-apr-24-he-22804...
this comes off as video game logic. 'well I lost, may as well hit the reset button'.

Except when you are going to die, even if the extra odds seems pointless, you do it. much like WW2 tankers putting sand bags on their tank.
The workaround for many to many relationships isn’t too hard.

What you have to do is create another table containing unique values of items sold, and then make 1:many relationships from that table to the other two.
You can easily make the unique value table by copying and pasting all of the items sold into a single column on a new sheet, highlight them all, and then Data -> Drop Duplicates.
It’s a little annoying, but not hard.
People who do electrical work are much underpaid when compared to software engineers. If you are one of those usd 300k FAANG interns you probably dont understand that lots of smart engineers rot doing difficult jobs.

Drive to analyze a broken electrical box at customer. Analyze what is wrong. Read the schematics. Repair it (without getting fried). 15 minute repair. 2 hour drive. Zero glory, just a shitty job.

Or exchange something that was manufactured wrong and test it. Climb to a wind turbine, open the box. Exchange a component. Test it. Climb to another 50 towers to fix same problem.

Testing short batches of custom products. The testers are paid more when compared to blue collars, but still earn shit. Also everyone assumes that they are "factory workers" while they program their elecronic testers in C++. Paid a fraction of what the FAANG intern earns.

Life is unfair to many many people. Looking at your post and above - it feels like you are some guys in IT who dont know how hard it is in other areas.

Other alternative are bookkeepers, who run books for multiple small customers. Get easy to impossible questions about tax law - all day every day. From your 200+ clients to whom you provide advice by phone. For which they dont want to pay.

A team of few accountants tries to book invoices and fill taxes from their clients, while being bombared by questions. Often super tough questions. Literally 0/10 experience for a knowledge worker. Every day.
I still find using a mouse with my left hand a bit awkward, but using a touchpad is just fine
I would be way too impatient to write code like this. It is hard for me to imagine how anyone could do this. I guess I do not really get this, it almost feels to me like people want to be hipsterish a bit. But of course I am likely wrong.
Fortunately I am not tempted by that particular bale of hay, but I do have 316 pdf files on my desktop. (Mostly about type theory.)
Tell HN: Twitter forces you to log in to unsubscribe from emails
I haven't used it for ages but my promotions tab is full of random tweets they send me.

I hit unsubscribe and was taken to the login screen.

This isn't legal, right? I swear there was some law..
I don't understand how their cash burn rate is so high that a billion in revenue isn't enough to stay in the black. What are they spending so much money on?
Remember when UIs were customisable to the point that you could choose any colour for all the elements?

Now it's "you can have any colour you want, as long as it's light or dark", and all of a sudden "dark mode" is heralded as something revolutionary and new.

CSS3 even deprecated the "system colors" feature that was meant to allow the same degree of UI customisation we had before for websites too.

It's nothing but a really sad regression in empowerment, the continuing trend of treating users like cattle.
The new iPhone ships with a USB 2.0 cable, it does data transfer, just not at USB 3 speeds
It's the size, frequency and diversity that is unique to Toronto on top of the job market and cultural centres.

So all those cities have the same things but in much smaller quantities and generally missing out on larger events which Toronto is never skipped for.

I don't live in Toronto and haven't for more than short stints in nearly 25 years. Toronto is a great city. Vancouver is a beautiful boring sprawl and it's got some great things within a short drive. Montreal has a good cultural scene but fails on the job market. All the rest of the cities are too small to compare.

Other parts of Canada aren't terrible and definitly make more sense than Toronto for a lot of people. But Toronto has a combination of things that no other city in Canada compares to and to deny that is to be delusional.
You can always just download more RAM. https://www.downloadmoreram.com
"THEY sent A SLAMHOUND on Turner's trail in New Delhi, slotted it to his pheromones and the color of his hair. It caught up with him on a street called Chandni Chauk and came scrambling for his rented BMW through a forest of bare brown legs and pedicab tires. Its core was a kilogram of recrystallized hexogene and flaked TNT. He didn't see it coming. The last he saw of India was the pink stucco facade of a place called the Khush-Oil Hotel."
Unironically, yes. I guess this is why I'm an engineer, and not a PM.
Webcontainers is so awesome, also super easy to build with!
You have the burden of proof the wrong way around.

The earliest occurrence of this hypothesis was propounded by Theodore Andrea Cook in 1903. That was not the Victorian Era, but was later. Cook was not a historian, but a sports writer and art critic. The book was _Spirals in Nature and Art_. And this hypothesis is a half-paragraph aside, with words like "would" and "probable", given with zero supporting evidence, and clearly one (as xe wrote "I think") that Cook originated.

The burden of proof is to prove that that is true, not to blithely assume that it is true and demand that there be evidence to prove it false.

Especially since Theodore Andrea Cook held that "right-handed spirals are more common in staircases". By "right-handed spiral", Cook actually meant anti-clockwise staircases (as can be seen from figure 29 in the book). Not even Cook believed the premise that has given rise to this 120-year-old myth. Cook wrote that anti-clockwise staircases were "more common" despite the fact that clockwise ones would have been better for this reason, a reason that xe invented from whole cloth without any support from how helical staircases even featured in any siege of any castle in history.

120 years of uncritical out of context repetition and augmentation later, here we are; with people demanding that the burden of proof lies with those who challenge something that was never proven in the first place, not expertly held, and not even held true by its own originator.
Okay... Winter minima is an important metric cited by "climate scientists" (and reporters) far and wide. Summer minima is less interesting for a whole bunch of technical reasons that I'm probably not qualified to explain.
The postcode address file is for places you can deliver mail, whereas TV licensing is interested in places that might have a TV. There must be some cases where there's no overlap.
This is why IoT devices on my network get their own subnet and they are blocked from communicating with anything but what I allow them to communicate with, including the Internet.

Also I want to make it clear, it shouldn't have to be this way. Devices should be transparent about how they function, but sadly they are not.
So it's the variance of finds by violence-related bone/burial evidence, across time. I worry that confounding practices (ritual dismemberment) and the rise and fall of cremation (eg of your enemies, to deny them a resting place, or of your heroes to ensure their swift arrival in heaven) would be an issue.

I can't find references to cremation in the article. I guess, if you consider it equally likely to distribute across the regions at a given time, it can be ignored.

I struggled with the idea of paleology 'holotypes' and definitions of dinosoria at uni, years ago. The field basically relies on an archetype being the most likely find. It's all you've got. But, as the numbers of finds rise, you get outbreaks of sub-speciation, and then re-unification in the light of changes in the interpretation of evidence.

I think the same thing is going to happen here: If ritualised disposal of weapons means you find aggregations of weapons across time, it doesn't necessarily mean higher or lower rates of community violence because the ritual may outweigh the use value of the edge. Bone evidence on the other hand is pretty unequivocal, but it then becomes material if people were slaughtered for their land and posessions, or taken away as slaves: Is the rise of slave economies not a consideration?

So this is a quantitative study which is going to be weighed up against other forms of evidence. It's going to swing back and forward.
Already have been for a long time.
This is the same in Poland (the country I moved to), but who can find receipts for light bulbs bought 6 months ago... I do keep them now (especially for more expensive ones like these Led floodlights). In fact that's how I got through so many of them. I bought them, a couple failed few months later, I'd take them back to the shop, they would just give me new ones in exchange. I'd install these, and they would break again in few months, rinse and repeat. I got so tired of having to swap them up high on a ladder I started fixing them myself and regulating the power supply for lower power (they have a brick style PSU).
This is the norm in tech, theres a lot of people who do tech only to make money, the amount of people i've personally met who are all about crypto is very high.