skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It is very simple. If you move your data off cloud provider X, cloud provider X is losing revenue because you are doing things with your data off their platform.

Right but if this were the case then why does the Bandwidth Alliance allow you to move data at a much lower cost for 2/3 of the major cloud providers? If they _really_ cared so much about not allowing you to do processing with a third party, the Bandwidth Alliance wouldn't exist!

AWS is the sole hold-out here, and I think the way that Cloudflare worded this makes it pretty clear that the Bandwidth Alliance is basically a middle finger to AWS than anything else, but it also seems clear that the cloud companies aren't actively trying to make it costly to do data processing on a third party.

In fact if you want to move off GCP right now, Google will waive all egress fees to do so: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/networking/eliminatin...
I've had good luck with the Lunar app - it manages my Dell and LG monitors on an M2. (No affiliation) https://lunar.fyi
For one, a password manager was in the news recently for a data breach, doesn't help the public perception
If you assume FTL travel will never be developed then distance and time are simple limiting factors. How do you keep a cohesive civilization going when communication takes 200 years? Or even just 20? Here on Earth entirely new languages and cultures arose across distances that wouldn’t even cross a state line when communication was limited to a small handful of travellers and merchants. Any colony further away than 5ly would quickly diverge. I’m pulling that number out of my hat but I’m sure you could figure out the effect of time spent in journey on willingness to travel. Not many people would commit significant chunks of their lives to interstellar business trips. Radio communications won’t solve it either since they’d be out of date and essentially one way if it took decades to get a response. No I think any interstellar colonization effort would immediately create competing civilizations distinct from their homeworld.
Developer of Certisfy here.

I am attempting to bootstrap the trust chain system. If you run a forum,a github hosted project, run a meetup or in general run some sort of organization, I would consider issuing you a "trust anchor" certificate, ie the ability to issue trustworthy certificates, including with potential delegation authority (ie you issue others trust anchor certificates).

Submit requests here:
https://certisfy.com/partnership/onboarding/request/
Many excuses have been used to justify austerity. If this study didn't work, they'd use another. If 99 studies said austerity was bad and 1 study said it was good, I suspect that one would be more likely to get published; in either case it would get used to justify austerity. It seems to me like austerity is the pre-determined conclusion, and then they go looking for reasons.
If someone can in fact regulate their emotions properly, would you even know they’ve been traumatised at some point?
> The position doesn't jive with the way people actually behave.

I mean, that's the unfortunate thing. You have people who have suffered incredible awful events and who feel "invalidated" by the notion that someone who hasn't experienced nearly what they have also receives sympathy and care. It's... a difficult pattern to unwind that exists in a lot of people. My inner amateur sociologist wants to say it's an outgrowth of our increasingly atomized, individualist, and hyper-competitive world that people now, on an instinctual level, internalize that anything of worth including love, support, and care from their community is finite, limited and therefore, important to secure for oneself before the supply runs out; before the people who don't really need it take it all.

And I suppose if that's the case they aren't entirely incorrect, which sucks even more: community resources for people who need them are in short supply in basically every instance. But then that thought seems to carry over to the mere notion of empathy where people want to do this one-ups-man-ship with one another, that "what I dealt with is worse" stuff, or even worse IMO, where "I suffered this horrific shit and I'm fine, you can get over yours." Which frankly... I don't know, if you endured truly horrific things and came out functionally incapable of engaging with empathy with people who haven't, I'm really not certain you came out fine.

> If "It's trauma if you think it is" holds, isn't the optimal solution to start trying to convince people it isn't trauma? No expensive therapy required, just convince them it isn't trauma and suddenly you have one fewer person experiencing trauma.

I mean, sure. And then you can tell ADHD people to just pay attention, then we'll have less ADHD people. If mental illness struggles were this easy, we wouldn't have them.

I just don't see the upside to this. The worst case scenario is that someone receives care they may not strictly need for a brief period of time, until it becomes obvious they don't really need it. If that's our worst outcome, I'm frankly fine with it if it means that everyone gets heard how they need to be.

> The way people behave is only consistent with trauma being a thing that exists independently of belief status.

Well when I say it's isolated to their inner world, I mean it's extremely difficult to get objective, unbiased factual accounts of their trauma. There are things you can do: things like using various medical instruments to measure their physical reactions to stimuli; but that in itself involves the same exposure, if not even more directly than speaking about it. Mental illness is not a broken bone where a doctor may look at the bone and say "yes, that's broken:" It requires a level of subjectivity because the damaged part of the body is invisible and the damage itself is (usually) only observable by the individual whom is injured. It's a uniquely collaborative process between caregiver and patient where the patient must be a part of the diagnostic process.
That said, there are examples of these being implemented in-browser. Not sure how any just use the canvas/webgl vs. the DOM (I know examples that do each).
also seems wrong
? Did you read the original post? On grabby aliens?

This whole discussion is about being 'early'.

Not sure you are making a point.

Edit:
The original post discusses below light speed transportation. 25% speed of light is used in the estimates.

But guess I agree, if no aliens including us, never-ever with infinite time ever develop transportation that can get up to some fraction of light speed. Then maybe no colonization ever happens, and the grabby guys stay in their system.
Lots of stuff on lots of pi’s :

Kodi

Timelapse photo

Camera monitor a mousetrap with motion detection

Various small robot project with my kids.

Pihole

Minecraft server

Various sensors.
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Just added it. Sample size is small, but I think that's offset by it being a twin study.
I use password managers myself, but the 'all my eggs in one basket' dimension is a burden and requires planning.
Of course. And they're not saying they don't have a place.

They're saying why does it matter if it's 50 vs 60 or even 100. It's a wrapper, which should be less lines. That's the whole point. Abstracting things even further and making assumptions.

Of course you can use them. Of course you can remove them after and use the underlying code. But the LOC shouldn't be the important part of it
Exactly, this was pointed out in some other comments further down the thread, too.

I'm surprised how one can get something like this so wrong and, at the same time, claim that CSS is logical (and, supposedly, claim to understand that logic).
Excellent suggestions, these ideas ring true to me. I'm going to start exploring this direction for growing the platform. Thank you very much!
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I've been pretty happy with a monitor acting as a kvm, where the usb output (usb-c or usb-3) can be mapped to a display output.

It's nice for a wfh setup where I have a personal desktop and a work laptop, and I can quickly switch between them just by changing the display output.
With the price of these you could stick a few in there (there would be a weight penalty, they are not exactly zero grams though for their weight the amount of compute is impressive but you then would also need more power).

Depending on what kind of drone you want to build (powered fixed wing, glider, quad, hex or octocopter) that might be more or less of an issue. Given the power draw and weight of an octocopter I don't think it would be much of an issue there but on a quadcopter, especially a very small one that might be prohibitive. But I'd focus on getting it to work before optimizing for size and weight.
Why You Found Crime and Punishment Boring
New Bill Would Require Phonics-Based Reading Instruction in California
I usually do this:

tr -cd "[:alnum:]" < /dev/urandom | fold -w 20 | sed 10q

Then I use an encrypted text file via Emacs to store my passwords
It can’t be the policies or the lack of security of manufacturers.

It must be this educational low encryption open source device that criminals are using.

It’s a witch! Burn the witch!
That was the national average, I suspect there are differences between the institutions themselves as well as between the disciplines. But there definitely is no implied assumption that if you start university that you will graduate.
For me, the most interesting part of that article wasn't related to weight-lifting, but the relatively brief critique on the state of the healthcare system and its inability to provide optimal care for individual patients.

Maybe it's confirmation bias, but I strongly agree with Jake's observations; working in a related field, I'm ever-more struck by the absolute inequality of care offered to people. Of course, obvious societal inequalities (e.g. socioeconomic status, age) have an impact here, but there are less obvious issues which can have quite an impact: one's level of education multiplied by confidence to interact with (rather than just be a passenger within) the system can have a big impact. And there's sheer dumb luck, too - being physically located near a good center, or having a good doctor (many aren't) who specialises in your cancer available to you, or even just having an acquaintance who can support and guide with research and advice, can have a 'Sliding Doors'-like impact on the course of someone's life.

(If anyone knows meaningful work that's being done to address such issues, I'd be very interested to hear...)
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Wouldn't advanced civilizations at least be doing what we've been doing recently, looking at the transit spectroscopy for distant planets to determine whether we think they can support carbon-based life?

Likewise, couldn't they detect changes in the mixture of gases on Earth and deduce that these changes would most likely occur in the presence of evolving life? If we posit that evolution typically leads to intelligence and intelligence leads to civilization, then extraterrestrial intelligence would have deduced that we were going to be coming along at some point. Maybe they could even deduce when that civilization-building life was going to spring up, perhaps within about a ~1M-year window, depending on what information they have and what they can reliably deduce from that information.

So in a way we are already "known." The new information that you can glean from the pyramids is that we've just now hit the inflection point of civilization. Maybe now they're watching to see if we manage to make it past the Great Filter. Or they've already launched their relativistic missiles to snuff us out before we can possibly launch our relativistic missiles at them -- if you're inclined to presume the cosmic prisoner's dilemma motivates being the first to launch.
Dying does sound traumatic.

/s
The myth of men's full-time employment
No. The macropad would be connected to one PC which would be the controller, so you press that regardless which output is selected, maybe this wasn't clear. But this is only needed to trigger - theorietically it could be triggered by a third device (eg RasPi connected to the display(s) via HDMI).

Maybe to add, this is also better than a KVM because it supports any number of display outputs which you can connect between the two devices. It's more practical to use a USB-C dock though.
I guess OP was wrong in that some people really can't figure out what differentiates the first two from the latter. You can change your location even from a country with a weak passport but it won't be easy (like it won't be easy to get accepted into a top-tier university), but you still can't change color of skin no matter how hard you try.
You might want to check the physics on your assertion that a starship could take out a city. It’d have to be designed to do so otherwise it would just vaporize as it entered the atmosphere at the velocity you’d need for that kind of impact.
This. I’m so glad I started using one a couple of months back. Just pick a good master password and be done with it.
I'm always amazed by how many people use it, parents that mail me about their kids 'pianojacq time' :)

There is no tracking on the site so I quite literally have no clue how many people use it and because it also works as a download there are plenty of offline users as well.
Can you point me to the evidence?

And we don't know if they were a wacky cult because the ATF burned everyone to death so no interviews...
The better option for employers is to just get rid of passwords and move to something like FIDO2.
It never seizes to amaze that there's truly no limit to how far a psychopath is willing to go.

They'll gladly let their allies get tortured and murdered if it gives them even a little personal gain.

And the sheeple who applaud it amazes me even more.
Another interesting rule: when margin/padding is a percentage, it is always a percentage of the width, never the height.

This makes sense, CSS layout is computed with logical rules/programming.

I think the “illogical” reputation comes from people not knowing which rules apply. They cannot see how the current layout output was calculated by the given css properties.

This is due to CSS being backwards compatible and constantly adding new ways to do things. But you can choose to use the “good parts” of the language as Douglas Crockford would say (for JS).

Also many people assume CSS would be easy and brush off that it requires a bit of effort and practise to learn the language.

I created an interactive grid explainer here if anyone is interested, I think grid is one of the good parts.

https://cssprinciples.com/3/grid
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People living in high cost areas have chosen that.

It’s kind of like parking. If employees don’t pay for parking then an employer is subsidizing car driving over other options.
Women get paid 70% of what men do. So any woman who wants to be paid the same as a man has a poor understand of economics.
"Many of the performance problems solved during my first few years at GitLab were N+1 query problems."

"Other frameworks have learned from this over the years and provide better alternatives. The usual approach is that instead of being able to arbitrarily query associated data, you have to pass in the data ahead of time. The benefit here is that if you were to forget passing the data in, you'd run into some sort of error rather than the code querying the data for you on a per-row basis, introducing performance problems along the way."

can someone...translate this for me into human? If I want to query for some data I have to ....first pass the data in? Where did I get the data? I can't parse this paragraph at all. Rubyists....
Good point, community wins. Was just asking.

I dismissed fyrox, I was initially interested in their real time scene renderer, but it terribly lags in my environment. I still think it has a nice architecture.
What if girls’ biological differences predispose them towards success in educational institutions? Then we need some sort of specialized education in order to provide the boys more intensive socialization?
Sure? I mean any framework will constrain you to what it provides. These frameworks usually include some set of functionalities:

- an underlying service to listen for http/https requests (eg: "web server")

- easily map inputs to code/services ("routing"); often also providing helper functionality to extract data from paths, map and convert JSON (etc) to domain objects

- some way to inject your data into a return "view" (json, html, xml, ???). Might also include reusable view code snippets (eg: "partials"), and/or some "design pattern" (eg: "layouts") system

- an ORM or other db-layer abstraction

- some background job processing abstraction

That's about all you need; the extent to which the framework simplifies doing those things is akin to the amount of constraints. Everything else is gravy.

Do note that "big" frameworks that provide ALL of that plus more can often be harder to work with since you might be forced to learn more than you need, and it's overwhelming.

There's also the concern of modularity... if I don't like their ORM, can I use my own? How hard is it to add functionality not provided, etc.
Is there data showing the talent in those tech hubs is better than what you can find elsewhere? If not, what are you overpaying for? Landlord revenue?
I lived in Jasper about 15 years ago for about 5 years. Meth is a huge problem on this area and so is metal theft. Many facilities and even homes have their outdoor AC units in cages to prevent theft. Even church vans/busses not parked in garages often have their catalytic converters stolen. It is a sad state of affairs.
I heard that joke told about two ranchers in Texas. I like it a lot.
Starting strength + GOMAD (gallon of milk a day) is responsible for a bunch of memes on 4chans /fit/. Do SS with caution.
I used Javalin for a startup I helped with a few years back. I found It much easier and lightweight to turn up REST endpoints compared to Springboot/etc.

While it may not be as featureful as Springboot, it could generate swagger specs and had the features I needed at the time.
So how is it relevant to a career in tech?
> I always tell these people to just sign up for a password manager and they always resist and say no. I must be missing something obvious.

Maybe they don't want to be relying on a random third-party for all their passwords?

Rather than getting them to sign up for a password manager, what about getting them to install a password manager? I use https://www.passwordstore.org/ - it encrypts your passwords with GPG, and shares the storage via a Git repository for synchronisation between different machines.
There are electromagnetic waves reaching the earth from this galaxy which were emitted anywhere from 80,000 years ago to an instant ago, and everywhen in between. Practically all alien races among the hundreds of billions of solar systems would have to have been electromagnetically silent for a minimum of 80 thousand years for us not to see them.

If you include other galaxies, then they would've had to have been silent since the beginning of time.

Also, non-living matter spontaneously forms into living matter by no known mechanism.

If you're going to believe something religiously, make it something less trivial than muh aliens.
> But just because a car is coming at you in an intersection doesn't mean you can legally enter it.

I would argue you can; if you only have to yield to someone who is unable to enter the intersection for other reasons, you are free to go.

> By convention though, literally every East bound person is going to expect the South bound person to travel at the same time as the North bound one.

Sure; it's worth assuming that the Southbound person has slightly screwed up timing instead of forfeiting what would normally be "their turn".
I like the article and it gave me a few ideas, as I have been struggling with Gemini Advanced for a few days.

My problem probably stems from the fact that I prompt in the same style I have been prompting GPT4 via API and through 3rd party interfaces. GA has consistently tells me it can NOT help which is super frustrating. I mean to say, *$&%#ing up!

I was using it as a pair programmer, and it authored a first run on a python script. The script worked, I made a few changes in VS Code and then pasted in the new code to GA. I asked it to make a change, it responded back with; I am just an AI model, I can not help with that. ARRRGGGHHH! You, GA, wrote the first draft and I changed a variable name and its assignment... What do you mean, "you can't help?"

I love the explanations and the speed of GA so far. There is very little control over parameters which I think will help, so hopefully that is implemented in the near future. The interface as the article states is pretty slick and the colab/replit integration is super cool. I am excited to see this product mature.
I've been noticing it more lately - especially at night if the room is darker. It seems like it has gotten worse lately so I was wondering if there had been some kind of change or I'm just noticing it more.

Mostly am using firefox these days.
I really appreciate the feedback, Bewelge, these ideas are all very helpful to me! I'll be making changes based on each one.

I haven't measured the latency directly. But, I did try this with my sister who lives across the US while also on a phone call with her. When she speaks or plays a note, I hear it through the app sooner than over the phone. So it's at least better than that!
Java is agile, like said by @venkat_s
Another vote for Micronaut. I’ve moved a Vert.x project to it recently. I love it. I will say though there are a lot of footguns and the wide variety of choices e.g. for persistence, views, etc make it hard to figure out the “right” way to do things. But the framework just really clicks for me.
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1) It's not like cloud databases are problem free. You can have very non-trivial issues, and they especially have nonstandard (and very nontrivial) transaction semantics. I'm not saying this is necessarily a problem, but unless you're on top of it. You need someone with real database administration experience.

You especially CANNOT "START TRANSACTION; SELECT * FROM products; SELECT * FROM five_other_tables; UPDATE sales ...; COMMIT TRANSACTION" (so all product prices and ... are included in the transaction "and nothing goes wrong"). It does not scale, it does not scale on postgres, it does not scale on Aurora, it does not scale on Spanner, it does not scale anywhere. It will scale on MySQL and MariaDB because it will just ignore your SELECT statements, which will cause a disaster at some point.

2) The big problem with cloud databases is the same as with normal databases: let bad developers just do what they want, and you'll have 40 queries per pageload, each returning 20-30 Mb of data. You NEED to optimize as soon as you hit even medium scale. And, sorry, "just slap a cache in front of it" is very likely to make the problem worse.

Cloud Hyperscalers salivate seeing this, have simply said: "don't pay an annoying database/system admin to tell you to FIX IT, simply pay us 10x what you pay that guy".

There's 2 kinds of people. There's people who look at the $10 pageload as both a technical embarassement and a potential business disaster. And there's business people who build hyperscalers, dine the CTO and hold a competition for a $100 pageload, while ordering their next Ferrari.

3) There's nothing automatic about automatic sharding. And if you "just shard UUID", your query performance will be limited. It will not scale. It just won't, you need to THINK about WHAT you shard, and HOW. No exceptions.

4) you'd be surprised how far ansible + k8s + postgres operator goes (for both CI/CD and distributed databases)
We'd have to return the greeting, including our preferred pronouns.