skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not speaking for the FKS case, but in general for the platform: when you associate an app with a volume, your app is anchored to the hardware the volume is on (people used to use tiny volumes as a way to express hard-locked region affinity when we were still using Nomad). So if your Fly Machine crashes, it's going to come back on the same physical as the volume lives on.

We back up volumes to off-net block storage, and, under the hood, we can seamlessly migrate a volume to another physical (the way we do it is interesting, and we should write it up, but it's still also an important part of our work sample hiring process, which is why we haven't). So your app could move from one physical to another; the data would come with it.

On the other hand: Fly Volumes are attached storage. They're not a SAN system like EBS, they're not backed onto a 50-9s storage engine like S3. If a physical server throws a rod, you can lose data. This is why, for instance, if you boot up a Fly Postgres cluster here and ask us to do it with only one instance, we'll print a big red warning. (When you run a multi-node Postgres cluster, or use LiteFS Cloud with SQLite, you'd doing at the application layer what a more reliable storage layer would do at the block layer).
Right. Though, the virtual-kublets can be running on the same machine actually. They just need to be configured to have different node names.

The press release states that your k8s API is actually running on a single machine with k3s and a virtual-kubelet. So, I’m not sure if it’s one “cluster” per region, or one “cluster” with multiple virtual-kubelets for regions.

Either way, your FKS cluster control-plane would sit in a single region.
This goes beyond adblock; Google/FB can/have easily overridden that. What we need is regulation, like there is for TV, radio and magazines.
Another good use is making hydrogen for ammonia.
> Payroll is done with ACH, not wire transfer

For large payrolls, it would be done over wire (between the employer and payroll processor). The employer has leverage and wants to keep the float.
This is the right take, despite how some might will want to frame it as 'reviewers are dummies'.
The fallacy here is that we don't need a Moon base to make a Mars base in terms of infrastructure.

It won't make sense to launch a mission from the Moon to Mars until the Moon has Earth-equivalent industry, and refueling a rocket at the Moon is questionable as the fuel required to go directly from Earth to Mars isn't much higher than putting something in orbit around the Moon.

We can maybe gain some knowledge from a modern attempt at a Moon base that we can apply to Mars, but then what planetoid did we explore to gain knowledge in order to land on the Moon?

If we want to go to Mars, we go to Mars, if we want to go to the Moon, we go to the Moon.
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Sounds like he was bang on right?
Inflation has been very low since the 1990s. The worry after the 2008 bank crisis was deflation. I suspect our recent blip in inflation which has now largely passed is a result of the covid supply shock.

https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/inflation-cpi (click max)
Art is a word that humans made up to categorize a form of human expression.

Whatever art is, it is because of the value that humans have chosen to ascribe to it, which they do for countless reasons. Many of those reasons are simply not present in AI output, and AI will bring new reasons that will be compelling for some, but entirely uninteresting for others.

Clinging to an abstract three letter word as the ultimate definition of something nearly undefinable ignores both the richness of the form and the sociological factors that make the word hold any meaning.

Again, I’m not saying that artists won’t do great things with AI. I’m saying that the work done with AI will not hold the same kind of value that is intrinsic to other forms. Some people won’t care about the underlying process and it sounds like you may be in that category. Some people will continue to care, and I’d count myself in that category.

Many people point out that Photography is to Painting what AI is to Photography. And while I think the analogy is a bit stretched, the primary reason this comparison comes up is because photography is thought of as a “lesser skilled” method of producing images. And I think that’s a fair assessment. It is not debatable that producing a photorealistic or highly skilled representation of a scene with a paintbrush requires far more skill and far more effort than operating a camera, especially in the 2020s. If your enjoyment of a thing comes from appreciating a particular kind of process, e.g. you are fascinated by and enjoy the output of skilled painters, not just for the result, but for the entire process, then AI (or Photography) isn’t going to hold your interest.

Coffee is coffee. But there sure is a large spectrum of possible ways to experience coffee. Many people are happy with the Folgers instant stuff. Connoisseurs have a palate that knows that there’s more to coffee than caffeine and brown water, but not everyone is a connoisseur and some people are more interested in the utility of coffee (caffeine/energy).

That isn’t to say that instant coffee is not coffee, and people are welcome to enjoy it if they can. But it sure isn’t the same as a cup of recently roasted, freshly ground single origin beans carefully brewed at a temperature calibrated to the properties of the bean and roast. Foljers will wake me up. That carefully brewed cup will wake me up and produce a highly pleasurable taste experience that can alter my emotional state in a positive direction.

My point is that nuance abounds, and trying to reduce something like art of all things to a one dimensional description seems not very useful.
Detecting a fall is pretty hard, especially if the device is tumbling rather than accelerating in a particular axis. So congratulations on that.
...and hired away the CTO of a Masimo sister company (whose name was referenced in several Apple patents) as well as Masimo's Chief Medical Officer.

https://www.macrumors.com/2023/04/18/apple-masimo-legal-batt...
I love this. I've seen a lot of similar "use HTML as HTML" type things recently (probably a lot coming from the HATEOAS crowd).

I'm not a web developer, and I really don't understand how we've ended up in this state where:

- web starts as a means to share documents, HTML is built around that

- eventually people want to build general applications (a la google docs) so they build tools that let you build non-document things by pretending they're documents

- everyone thinks those tools are great and starts using them

- 90% of the web is still documents, but now its all built in frameworks where you build a non-document by pretending its a document, even though in actuality, we're normally just building a document in the first place.

The whole thing is a batshit crazy mess and I don't understand how as a global engineering culture we view it as anything other than completely insane.
You should check out Solace's multi-protocol broker (free version: https://solace.com/downloads/) with support for MQTT, AMQP, SMF, REST, Websocket

It supports integration with OAuth, LDAP, Radius, ,...
Benchmarking CRuby, MJIT, YJIT, JRuby and TruffleRuby (2022)
Also ex-Adobe, worked directly with regulatory compliance in my role there. Adobe is a huge company with a diverse set of dev team cultures, but is a monoculture in regards to legal and regulatory compliance. They do not fuck around. (They're also very serious about security post-2013.)
I think many people would rather get upset about some miniscule detection in a random place than take a hard look at their own home where their highest exposure is.
C++ and Java, which have many implementations, also have proprietary distributions, see Apple’s fork of Clang, Microsoft’s MSVC, Azul VM, Jamaica VM, ...

And some of them are pretty nice. Life is good.
what are the differences with just talking with the chat on bard?
Has someone tried this with a compressed gas powered cannon yet?

Edit: Also, does the app check for the sudden deceleration spike when it hits the ground so you can't, say, add some kind of parachute?
The country that will acquire is also important in this equation. Russians were blocked from buying Oregon steel for example. Japan is more like a protectorate of the US than a fully independent country post WW2, with specific articles of the constitution that block army sizes, specific military equipment, agreements for maintenance of permanent US bases and troops in the country etc. Even when recently they decided to re-interpret these articles this was done only with the express permission of the US.
Ask HN: Google domains to Squarespace – What do I need to do? Support = useless
Hey folks,

I have a bunch of domains on Google Domains. A few months ago they had an announcement that Squarespace would be the domain managers going forward.

However, I have received no email or any other information on what I need to do on my end.

I reached out to Google via support, but as expected (shocker) they have not gotten back to me yet.

What do I need to do on my end in this case?

Do I need to make a squarespace account and do it manually?

Or will they all be seamlessly transferred?

Please if someone knows, let me know.
https://archive.is/P2GeG

TL;DR: the blood oxygen sensor is patent encumbered somehow.
The diagram on https://virtual-kubelet.io/docs/architecture/ makes me wonder whether it's possible to have a k8s cluster where the nodes are all virtual kubelets backed by different cloud providers (and then perhaps schedule loads preferentially with selectors)
In my state at least, licensing requirements are already lax enough that my 94 year old relative has no problem maintaining (and, using) a valid license.
Nikola seems to have a working semi now ready for production.

https://youtu.be/LUA7Il252Ng?si=XqpeFw9-qpfPo2Tk
Portland was part of the claim. So it at least disproves the claim for Portland.
I thought this app was dead. I used to use it years ago when it first came out-it was a great way to consume your news. Then the advertisers and paywalls came in and ruined it.
It depends on what you mean by "system language." For me, this category mainly includes languages that provide fine-grained control over memory management (C, C++, Zig, Rust, ...), so I personally wouldn't include OCaml.
> met with them, and then decided they'd rather do it themselves

..., headhunted Masimo engineers, and hired them to reimplement a pulse-ox device.

> Masimo and Apple began their relationship in 2013, when Apple discussed potentially integrating Masimo’s sensing technology into future Apple products. Internally, Apple executives debated the idea of buying Masimo and making its chief executive a vice president, according to documents made public at a later trial. But Apple ultimately decided against it because “acquisitions of this size aren’t our style,” an email reads.

> Instead of buying Masimo, Apple ended up hiring Masimo engineers and began working on the technology itself, Masimo later said.

https://www.wsj.com/tech/apple-to-halt-watch-sales-as-it-pre...
https://www.moderndescartes.com/essays/factobattery/ I looked at a variety of these ideas and most of them are bad. Desalination is another one I looked at quickly (did not add it to the blog post), but I recall it being at least 10-100x more expensive than just buying batteries.
> permanently staffing the regulatory force sounds very reasonable

There are permanent staff. There are also legions of industry experts contracted on a case by case basis. Full staff on standby would mean having, on retainer, experts in every industry where a merger might happen.
Have you taken a Greyhound across the country? I have.

Put it this way: the boomers with clout are probably not accustomed to being around the folks that take the bus cross country. You meet people and hear stories that you wouldn't in other contexts. Whether that makes you uncomfortable or not is in you, but it's different than what I suspect most of us are used to.
This doesn't let you turn off the recommendations algorithm. A huge chunk of Youtube videos are essentially ads. No dice.
Nothing is changing for anybody who doesn't care about K8s. If you're not a K8s person, or you are and you don't like K8s much, you shouldn't ever touch FKS.
This isn't even about ancient cultures, it's about valuing the product that comes from a persons work. Valuing their time and labor, valuing the craft itself.

Compared to a "tribal wood carving designed by GPT" a real world piece of wood is, well, real. The novelty of everything wears off eventually so it won't matter if GPT could still show you nearly infinite carving designs. Without that being turned into actual physical objects by people, they are disposable bytes of data with no real meaning.
100% agree. I thought similarly with Plaid and Visa. It feels like it will stifle competition because it's now harder to get funding. Back when Facebook and Google were making so many acquisitions, it seemed like money was just flowing. Bad for competition. Good for incumbents.
Show HN: Auto-Pilot-Computer – Let GPT4 vision operate your computer
Exactly what I was just thinking, had no idea it was still alive. Twitter took its place for me but now even that has been ruined.
I hope cell providers get the option to bundle a secure messaging service that's compatible with all of their customer's devices.

Right now a Verizon iPhone customer can't securely send a message to a Verizon Android customer without forcing their customer to download a third-party app and agree to its terms, and the carrier has no recourse to change that on their iOS devices they are selling to their customers.

Vaguely reminds me a little bit of the web browser antitrust days. Regulators will catch up soon. At least Apple is planning to adopt RCS finally, even though they missed their chance to be part of the formation of the standard.

Edit: Or Apple could release iMessage for Android and for web.
Always look forward to reading the fly.io blog write-ups. As much as people hate it, K8s has become the defacto operating system for the cloud so it makes sense to support it.
Is there an automated process to take the OCR'd text from a PDF and make an EPUB like this or does it take a lot of manual adjustment?
When an author refuses to address reasonable questions by the reviewers, what should you expect? There were legitimate questions and concerns about potential alternative explanations for the increase in accuracy raised by the reviewers, and the authors didn't play ball.
Thanks for the links! Seems my pessimism got the better of me. I'll look a bit more into it.
"I have seen it. Nobody I know posts on Facebook anymore"

Interesting thought. I just dropped meta in my investment account since I needed the money for a trade. They had a good run, unfortunately I bought before the dip because of metaverse.
Is that what we did here? You get that this is just a `flyctl` feature and some Dockerfiles, right? You could have built FKS yourself by forking `flyctl`.
> If they're not budging, make the "no" final. So two months initial, six months max, would be good numbers

Have you been proximate to a merger?
I'd argue it's doing exactly what it's supposed to.

> Should that be a story that might in any way be considered "pulp" (involving war, horror, fantasy or science fiction themes, for example) it would be judged a failure.

There's nothing creative about being given an assignment and jumping straight to topics you're familiar with. Where is the challenge? What do you learn? This is why all fanfiction is terrible-- there are no constraints, not even adherence to canon. Making two straight characters plow each other and go about their business as usual isn't creativity, it's pornography.

Creativity comes from being given a medium and a direction and being told to shape something from it within constraints. It's no different from art class and being given a block of grey clay. Rounding the edges off of it and saying "look, I made something we both recognize as a ball" isn't a creative endeavor. It's laziness. Had you hollowed it out, you'd have a container. You couldn't have at least made a lantern?

The point of these dumbass writing exercises is to subvert them. That's where you sharpen your creative edge. "What the fuck is a Yellow Door, anyway? A portal to an outhouse? What happens if someone falls into it? Do they swim through a literal poop chute and surface in the bog of eternal stench known as Scatlanta? What if that city was built inside the lower intestine of a colossal organism? What if it were at risk of being wiped out by a tidal wave of diarrhea? How would we evacuate an entire city through a single Yellow Door?" (pun intended)

Anytime you think you're done, always be asking what else can you do with this. It's how you find new ways to repurpose garbage to make...art.

Start with utter contempt for the subject and chisel away at the obscenity until something palatable surfaces. Now we get to the actual story: a disaster story, exploring the impossible logistics of evacuating a city ahead of a cataclysmic event. If everyone must evacuate through the Door, who deserves to go through first? Would a mercenary band of thugs (the Rear Admirals?) seize it and charge a toll? Are the people even worth saving, or would they bring disease with them and decimate their next host? Should we evacuate the people-- or route the tidal wave itself through the door instead? Would make for a hell of a geyser.

This entire world was fleshed out from a thought exercise equating the assignment to literal shit.

Prisoners (and the poor) are the most creative of any demographic. They aren't given materials, only constraints. They'll make weapons out of mundane objects, paint with their own blood and feces, turn plumbing into communications networks, distill alcohol, braid fabric into rope, invent languages and encryption/obfuscation methods, etc. Constraints don't stop them. They're what drive creativity.

Creativity can't be taught, only channeled.
That's when I remember shit starting to get ridiculously astroturfed with everything related to the 2016 election, it's also when I remember YouTube starting to crack down on any videos it seemed not ad-friendly.

But I don't think there's that much of a watershed date, more like a slow march that accelerated during the Trump era and then went into overdrive after 2020.
I’m about as anti-consolidation as someone can be, but I’m not about to blame a CEO for selling when you’re offered a price way above any realistic valuation. I put this at the feet of Adobe and regulators, not the guy taking the biggest payday opportunity possible for his employees and shareholders.
At this point, gccrs is quite immature, so you can simply ignore it. If we get to the point where its quality is good enough, this will change, but the likelihood is that any problems found will result in improvements to documentation (if something is underspecified). There could also be optimization bugs in LLVM that aren't present in GCC, so we could find bugs in rustc that aren't in gccrs at some point, but I think that will only be significant if gccrs greatly improves.

For now, anyone who finds that “crate foo works fine on rustc but doesn’t on gccrs” can just report a bug to gccrs.
> New research shows that hybrid energy grids that rely on a mix of renewable and fossil fuel energy are up to the task, so long as the timing of freshwater production is right. In some situations, it may even be more financially and energy efficient to put that generated energy toward desalination rather than store it in batteries for use later.

And this is why I remain skeptical of renewables as base load energy. The only carbon free base load energy tech remains nuclear which is also perfectly capable of performing desal during off-peak times.
i'm interested in the answer to this question as well and did a bunch of searching a while back to no avail. maybe the world is waiting for us to start?
I am not a Musk fan at all, in fact I despise Musk 4.0, but what he accomplished prior to losing his mind is undeniable. He founded SpaceX, which absolutely accelerated our access to space by 20-40 years. Half of the satellites in orbit belong to SpaceX. SpaceX put more mass into orbit last year than all other countries combined.

He accelerated the adoption of electric vehicles by at least ten years. If the worst of climate change predictions turn out to be true, this could make him one of the most beneficial humans of our time... that's assuming that his naive geopolitical angling doesn't kill us all, and that his brain implants don't turn us into corporate zombies.

My point is, there is much about him to criticize, but he has delivered a lot in the past.
Thanks for the feedback. I agree that risk management is a part of project management. What I, perhaps unclearly, was communicating is that people and organizations can often conflate the two. A project is not managed if all you've focused on are the risks. They are related, but distinct things.

Let's take your example and apply it to my post. Imagine I need a new water heater. I found a contractor/company to come and install it. Should I assume the installation company will bear all the risks associated with a potentially problematic installation? No, I will carry some risk. Ideally, I would argue homeowners should familiarize themselves with the basics of correct water heater products and installation because if it fails outside of the installer's (or manufacturer's) warranty period the homeowner is liable for repairs. It's a stretch of an example because homeowners often share risk with insurers, but I think my point is clear - one should not confuse project management _with_ risk management.
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I know. Whoever wrote it was someone I’d like to buy a drink for. It’s hilarious.
All of their rounds have added up to $333M; most of that is in the past 3-5 years; the early investment rounds were very tiny. $500M on $333M isn't the home run that the investors were looking for, but maybe in today's environment may be the best they can hope for. That said, they may not want to set that precedent.
Why should one use kubernetes? Or rather, at what point of an apps growth cycle does k8s become appropriate?
Lol. Almost like making drinking water and water that can be used to grow food is a better use of energy than boiling a small ocean of water on math designed to create artificial scarcity :)
There's a shift though, just the last couple of years. Today all browsers support native modals with the dialog element, accordions with details/summary, everything but Firefox supports popovers (dropdowns, tooltips, menus, etc) in plain HTML.

I'd honestly love to be a beginner again learning modern HTML and CSS today, it's not bad at all.
Thanks for this. I went through the article again and it doesn't even hint at that usage. I suppose it's a bit like "America" coming to mean just one country.
Eh, this is probably true. It was fun in the days when it was all about getting acquired by Google or Facebook, but I guess this spurred a lot of unsustainable businesses. If you were making revenue you were seen as dumb. "Lol, why would you charge money? Doesn't you know how to build a business?"