skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's the "Plumber Problem[1]" by John Siracusa where you watch a story and see a problem in your specific domain that leads you to mistrust the whole story.

With the 12 factor nonsense, I see the guidance of "Dump unformatted logs into stdout and make it someone else's problem; they'll hadoop or splunk it and everyone wins." There is no magic splunk that absolve you (the developer) of generating useful data to logs, if you expect useful data out of your logs. You can't reverse "cow -> burger -> sewage" and shouldn't expect some magic hadoop to reverse entropy without a ton of work.

So -- I guess the 12 factor app dictum is fine for some trivial "I rewrote twitter in 80 lines of erlang" app, but in my opinion it is a "if we can land a man on the moon we can land a man on the sun" misstatement of complexity in actually getting things done in the real world.

[1] https://hypercritical.co/2023/08/18/the-plumber-problem
What happened to the remaining 12 satellites to complete 30K? Did they run out of budget?
Want to get started with LLMs? Here's what you need to know
This post caught my eye as I just got my audition tested this morning.
My tinnitus started 2 months ago after I got COVID. It would range from ringing in my hear once a day to non-stop for days.
I've been told there's nothing to do except waiting for it to maybe disappear.
>>hat's not true, the technological innovations of yesterday have brought more wealth, less poverty, and more overall benefit to the entirety of humanity than saying "i don't like these inventors who make new things that make life easier for everyone, lets kill them"

That's sounds like trickle down economics to me - it benefits people in rich countries so it's fine, eventually it will make everyone better, right? A person in a country with no Starlink offering now cannot take clear pictures of the night sky because an American billionare wants to make even more money, but it's fine because "overall benefit to humanity" might be there?

>>more productivity ends up not only making more for everyone but also making plenty of jobs to fill in what has been automated or made more efficient.

I don't see how that applies here at all. I wouldn't have any problem with Starlink(or similar constellations) if they were limited in their impact only to countries they are offered in - but for obvious reasons that's not possible, they impact everyone on Earth equally even if not everyone on Earth can access the service.

>>and your lack of knowing an answer doesn't mean there isn't benefit

Oh but I have an answer - but I don't think the benefits outweight the disadvantages.

If you want to entertain a thought exercise for a second - imagine if an American corporation decided to use technology to increase rainfall everywhere on earth, so that they can increase harvests in US. Only they get the profit from it, but it impacts everyone on Earth. Sure you could argue that it's great, there is more food, there are more jobs being created, surely everyone will benefit at some point, right? But if I live in a country that is impacted by it, then I really don't care about this argument - your benefit doesn't balance itself against the negatives for me.
I think the value of alternate communication systems is not to be underestimated. And bravo for recalling the heartfelt connection between personal freedom and hacker culture! You are certainly "walking the walk!" :)
Base 12 is superior because it is easily fractioned so many ways.
I think there is something to be said for somatic therapy and muscle release therapy around the neck and jaw. Curious, do you also have jaw issues or pain in your neck?
"The Kid" -- here's the scene you're referencing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izqhtBPd4VQ
Kubernetes basically forces you to deploy 12fa, using these guidelines is a pretty good playbook for migrating an existing application as well.
> To call it a reskin is quite a disparagement

No it isn't!

You just outlined all the reasons that a Doom reskin on the Anus is impressive!

> And as others have pointed out, it's that they've chosen a more "amiga-y" artstyle.

That's great! I wasn't replying to that.
On MacOS Loom is extremely buggy and, even when it works, is way worse than MacOS’ built-in screen recording.
The people being threatened disagree with you. They aren't living in a free society. They are forced to protect themselves, both in real life and online.

Personally, I'd be in favor of enforcing existing laws about threats. Make a death threat, go to jail. Law enforcement is pretty bad at that, with the excuse that most death threats turn into action, and it's very difficult to track down an anonymous commenter.

But I'd like to see what would happen if they took the existing laws seriously. Maybe then I'd find it easier to credit the notion of unrestricted free speech that doesn't rise to the level of criminality. I'm not convinced, but I'd at least be able to consider it.

Meantime, "Somebody threatened to kill you and that's your problem until you're actually dead" does not seem like an acceptable situation.
I believe all of them do, which ones were you thinking don't?

It seems common to falsely believe that burying plastic in landfills has less greenhouse gas emissions than recycling it, so I'll assume that's what you are referring to.

> The existing literature on LCA of plastic waste management is vast and the results reported
are generally consistent, showing that recycling generates the lowest GWP and TEU environmental impacts.

LCA: lifecycle analysis

GWP: global warming potential

TEU: Total Energy Use

https://watermark.silverchair.com/140001_1_online.pdf
That's not worth it to me. I did say that I would stop watching YouTube instead. That should be okay as well, right?

Edit: I've also heard that they are starting, or will start, to force Premium users to watch ads.
SDXL is actually pretty good about this, especially with prompt extension.
IIRC, the movie ends with a joke on how those responsible were punished only to reveal that they walked away with the loot.

You almost never see a group punishment, unless you lost as a group against another organization.

So, if all the AI stuff goes bust in a year or two those who benefited from the bubble will keep their benefits. Also, there’s a possibility that it doesn’t go bust and user us into AGI era and win big.
If you want to be careful, you should use a seperate google account for your Youtubing. Problem solved!
The mugger is a Deontologist in this scenario and therefore does not lie. If the utilitarian couldn't trust the mugger's promises, the whole scenario would fall apart as they couldn't trust the mugger's promise to cut off their finger.
Another interesting thread about how these practices have held up or changed over the past decade:

"Twelve-factor app anno 2022"

Article: https://xenitab.github.io/blog/2022/02/23/12factor/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31225921
In my experience, sourcing config from env variables seems like the best thing to do because you can completely ignore where the app is running in favor of injecting whatever you want in any environment of your choosing and your app no longer needs to care about that. The implication is that business logic must not include the content of your config or where it is sourced from. It must simply use the values in the config. This way my apps could give less of a fart if I run it as a container in kube, in nomad, in local on localhost, in a devcontainer, in a directory with vars loaded using direnv, in vercel/netlify and so on. This also allows incredible flexibility in how that config is sourced as long as you simply dump them into the env vars. Want to load secrets from a .env file on local? Sure. Want to load secrets from Vault on production? Run a simple script to load vault secrets onto the env and run your app.
I grew up with a Tascam 4 track and tascam half track for the master in my parent's small recording studio, where they had recorded local country and western artists in the early 80's. There are so many memories for me in that recording room for me that I cannot escape my nostalgic biases: It was cool as hell.
> I have thought about using Google Meet to record my desktop, I've heard the editor in that is pretty good, and you can stop, start, trim/edit & share in Google Drive or share further with a link.

Surely loom can't be any worse than google chrome
> I actually avoid those apps that generate these sounds because once I listened and heard the REAL silence, I knew if I did it much longer it would drive me bonkers whenever my tinnitus came back.

I was like that when it was a lower volume. When it got louder persistent sound became important (I use rainfall over speakers).

The day it suddenly became shopvac-in-the-room loud, I had to use earbuds and a noise app (beltone's underwater blurbing) at mid-volume to keep my sanity.
You cannot, because:

1. Each commissioner has their own dedicated area and portfolio, so if the problematic law is in some other commissioner's area then your vote is worth nothing.

2. Commissioners are appointed by governments only in theory. In practice the President reserves the right to veto any commissioner they don't like, and give or take their responsibilities them at will. This ability doesn't exist in the treaties but Juncker has admitted he did it all the time [1] and explicitly stated that it renders worthless "populism" and "insubordination" (what people like him call actual democracy).

3. Commissioners are required to take an oath of loyalty to the EU and explicitly promise to ignore any instructions from their governments of citizenship [2], so being able to appoint them - even if it actually worked - would grant national governments no real power.

4. Many of the key policies of the EU are decided by people who aren't appointed by countries anyway, e.g. the ECJ or ECB.

So in practice there are no examples of countries meaningfully impacting EU policy by changing their commissioner, and national parties do not campaign on this basis. Again and again this point must be repeated. The EU is not honest about how it actually works. It is not a democracy. It has never been and never will be. Any mechanism or system that looks superficially democratic will turn out to be subtly broken or unusable on close inspection.

[1] “Nobody knows this, but last time I rejected the candidacies of six of the Commissioners presented to me by national governments. Do remember that governments merely propose commissioners. It is the president of the Commission who accepts them and allocates their responsibilities. Whilst certain countries [sometimes]allow themselves a degree of insubordination, depending on who happens to be in power and the stage of the political cycle they are in”, he was “confident that in a few years’ time, these issues won’t be troubling us anymore” (Juncker)

https://thepeoplesvoice.tv/eu-president-eurosceptics-blocked...

[2] "I do solemnly undertake: to be completely independent in the performance of my duties, in the general interest of the Communities; in the performance of these duties, neither to seek nor to take instructions from any government or from any other body"

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_10_...
Lenire is snake oil

Avoid it
Bay Area restaurants institute penalty for brunch vomiters
> subdivision of the small unit of time

Part of the point is the "second" definition based on a subdivision is no longer the SI second. You are right about the elision, but in the context of the time most people are now eliding System International ("SI") from the beginning rather than "minute" at the end.

"Seconds were once derived by dividing astronomical events into smaller parts, with the International System of Units (SI) at one time defining the second as a fraction of the mean solar day and later relating it to the tropical year. This changed in 1967, when the second was redefined as the duration of 9,192,631,770 energy transitions of the cesium atom."

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/experts-time-divi...
I've been enjoying the reading experience on my Supernote A5x. I'd recommend it if you're looking for something a bit more multifunctional than a dedicated e-reader
Well, if your app log directly to files on disk (extra bonus if it doesn't respect any verbosity setting) or will only works if secrets are hard coded in config files (even if this could be work-arounded at deploy time probably), I for one will do all that I can to avoid your app reaches production.

Yeah, I work in ops^W platform.
> Give an example.

I can give an example. The part about sticky sessions is good generic advice for someone building generic web services, but there are situations where sticky session-like functionality or sharding-like behavior might be a better choice. Anyone adhering literally to the 12-factor guide would get hung up on trying to move that data to redis or memcached:

> Some web systems rely on “sticky sessions” – that is, caching user session data in memory of the app’s process and expecting future requests from the same visitor to be routed to the same process. Sticky sessions are a violation of twelve-factor and should never be used or relied upon. Session state data is a good candidate for a datastore that offers time-expiration, such as Memcached or Redis.

The guide also has a strong preference for languages like Ruby, Perl, and Python. There’s even a quip about how 12-factor prefers languages with a REPL, which in the wrong hands becomes an argument against using Rust or other languages.

People who think the entire world is simple CRUD web apps tend to think that guides like this are completely universal. It’s a good guide for people making common web apps, but it’s not a perfect methodology for every backend service.
Ships with Android 11…DOA if you ask me. Even e-readers need proper software support.
Do you really expect a Googler going to make a statement here? Life is never this easy.
Is there any reason (e.g., patents) for Amazon not to natively support ePubs or do they just want to make sure there's that extra bit of friction in using anything not from their store? (While claiming "support" for ePubs -- just with extra steps.)
This makes me sick to the gut. Every creature and person shares this space and as Illogical or logical this may sound, I don't my "share" of the sky and universe to be polluted. I refuse to allow a company to bombard me with radio frequencies most of which is probably going to be used for nonsensical you/tube/porn, movies etc. I don't want anyone to pollute/do anything to my share of the planet/universe without me having a say in it.
If you click on the rule it links to a page that is what you're asking for. For example: https://12factor.net/backing-services
> Any party that already has high likelihoods of winning the election will be hurt by RCV.

No, it won't. RCV doesn’t hurt duopoly at all. It generally rewards the more centrist subfactions of whatever the two dominant factions would be without it, so if (in the USA) you views are best represented by a blend of the corporate capitalist neoliberal wing of the Democratic and the anti-Trump wing of the Republican Party, RCV is a boon for you.

If your views are not well represented in the current system, they will be even less represented with winner-take-all elections under RCV. For that, you need multiwinner elections producing proportional-ish results, whether party list, STV (the multiwinner system of which RCV/IRV is the single-winner form), MMP, or some other system.
The whole adblock vs adblock detection thing is an arms race. If there's a risk of your account being flagged for using adblock, fewer people would risk it for fear of YouTube updating their detection and catching them.

I don't think it's a good business decision, but there's an angle.
Are you really suggesting that investors run spy networks and that they spy on the IRS?
> Kessler syndrome soon

No, certainly not in LEO. Debris in LEO falls back to Earth in only a few years so even if a shooting war started and shattered every satellite in LEO into a mist of deadly orbital speed bullets, a few years after the war ends LEO would be clear again. All of the other effects of such a large-scale shooting war would be far more concerning to everybody on the ground, space debris would be the least of the concerns for any survivors.
Only 8 pieces from that collision remained in orbit long term. All 8 were trackable and avoidable.
What is the measured evidence that AI is hype right now?
To me, his smile is more like The Joker, Batman 1989, when Jack puts on flesh colored makeup but has that smile as he's talking into the TV camera.

Creeps me out every time I see Newsom smile because I believe he is truly a literal psychopath.
> capital allocating into the hands of those who have created the most value is an efficient economic system

Then let's try it in a different way, "less hateful and jealous"...

What is the net benefit to society of one individual having a net worth approaching $220,000,000,000? Or of ten individuals having a net worth of $1,200,000,000,000?

Explain the "efficiencies" of that with respect to the economic system as a whole.
The are 100,000 flights daily into ‘space’ where they are (gravity) forced to fall back down to earth.

Think of starlink as a far smaller network of planes that are a bit higher but are also slowly falling down to earth.
Twelve factor app: use environment for config

Docker: Don't use environment for config, it's insecure

I like and use many of the patterns of 12 factor, but indeed some of these were written in the context of VPS, where environment is stable, secure and more constant (unlike containers, where environment might end up shipped in one of the layers). In the age of containers, this particular point has been a bit of a struggle for me. Docker secrets don't always play well, and you need to do some gymnastics to make it work.
I seriously doubt it. A disabled user has zero value for Google.

They will probably block video though.
I’m all for government agencies requiring research to be available to everyone, full disclosure I work for one, but I’m pretty against paying the open access ransom to do it. GP seems to have a beef with the DoE, but policy requires all published works that have even one DoE employee on them be licensed perpetually royalty free and transferable to the government, and that works funded by the office of science (and many other sources) be available through free open platforms like OSTI.gov. Why should we waste grant money on the thousand+ dollar fees to the publishing houses rather than making it free through the already existing, already required, and already working channels? Of course, this is for Computer Science and mathematics. I can’t speak for other fields.
Lab tests of 100 mice over a few weeks seem insufficient to get data on safety of something we want to feed to 100 million people for an 80 year lifespan.

Sure - in the lab experiment, the dosage is higher. But plenty of things are dangerous after time, or only for a very tiny fraction of people. Plenty of things might have effects that aren't routinely measured in mice (eg. this additive makes your eyesight worse, or that additive makes you dumber).

What can be done to close this gap?
In the full version there is an unrolled map of the world down the side with the terminator drawn on which solves all those concerns.

Even if those problems were harder to solve its far more valuable to have a single time for your meeting than multiple times (depending on the time zones and savings time of the participants). The pain of organising international meetings was one of the reasons I did this.
My experience is that noise cancellation (and transparency mode) in the AirPod max made my tinnitus much worse over time. Got rid of them. I recovered somewhat from whatever they did to me but not fully.

I had tinnitus from loud music for 20+ years prior to that and was always very careful with sound levels because it sucks.

A friend of mine similarly reported that the in ear Apple headphones caused temporary tinnitus when in noise cancellation mode (including transparency mode) but not when those features were off.

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35023808
But what if you weren't a member and someone published it, are they the bad guy? Can they "un-publish" it?
I don't think they would do this, seems easier to just make the videos not play.

My guess is at some point they show a message like you need to get a youtube premium subscription to keep watching without ads. Same with some news sites now which ask that you subscribe if you are blocking ads.
yes i am comparing that, its a legitimate comparison given the context. and i don't know what "lifestyle expenses" you're referencing, these are companies we're talking about. afaik musk doesn't even own a house

and i'd love to know how much bezos could afford if you could provide that link, it sounds interesting. because how much would be left over for him? out of all the US, with all his wealth, would he buy tacoma and then be broke? because that's a pretty small influence if one of the wealthiest people in the world could only afford a city of 220k. that adds to my original point that the government spends way more. any "power" a billionaire has is truly just a drop in massive bucket.
Just wait until you see the price of an entry level Bugatti or Rolls Royce
Sure, like any other high-level fictional situation you can surely come up with many valid fictional counter-points of your own, but cloud hosting is popular for a reason.

And I think in most cases companies want to focus their employees and efforts on their core business, and if that doesn't include setting up and maintaining hardware in the long-term, then you don't build, you buy.
The federal government considered Crimea part of Russia and does not allow spacex to operate in Russia…
By the way, there is always some form of scarcity even in a Star Trek world that can create stuff out of thin air. Do you want a house on that very scenic spot of the coast? There are only a handful of them. Hope that only two or three families like the place.
The mugger cuts off his own fingers when a different utilitarian doesn't pay him. Given that, and given that he's right back at it after surgery, I don't think it's so clear that he'll "respond to incentives" and stop mugging people if people stop giving in.

After all, one of the premises here is that the mugger is a deontologist. He doesn't care about outcomes.
Yes. Don't tell the emperor that he has no clothes. Instead innovate and introduce a hybrid between his current clothes and old fashion textiles. Who know? In time they may end up covering their junk.
Very nice! Looks like a legit VTT and not a throwaway one. What were some of the hard things about this project that you didn't expect?
Throw desiccant in there if it’s pretty airtight.
I chuckled at this, because 6 GHz was until recently widely used by the satellite industry (C-band) for ground to spacecraft uplinks. They've had to vacate it as the spectrum has been re-allocated for terrestrial use (LTE-A, WiFi 6E, etc.). This is a great thing, too - 4-6 GHz is pretty much ideal for terrestrial use. C-band was wasted in space.

Ka-band (18-30 GHz) used to be the new frontier for satcom - it was what everyone was excited about the last time I worked in the industry (2014). The advances in mm-wave devices over the last decade are mind boggling.
That's silly, it's only like 9.99 on Steam. ;)
> Organizations that insist on using workflows like git send-mail and mailing lists not only drive away a significant number of potential contributors, but they also form a weirdly religious culture that fetishizes needlessly painful process and is incapable of improvement

You could say the same of GitHub. Why do I need an account on your lil site just to get a patch accepted?
If they want to Reddit their user base, they are free to do so. If it happens I'll degoogle forever.

We tech bros can hold on to a grudge forever.
Why would this post be flagged?