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There certainly isn't one concrete scheduler that works for all workloads. It probably doesn't matter for server or supercomputer environments; as long as some scheduler works, it doesn't have to change. For other use cases, the scheduler should be flexible with throughput and fairness. Priority, resource usage, realtime, but more cohesive. Tuning the scheduler might be harder in such a design, but it should allow for users to not need to switch to a different base entirely.

It'd be more of a scheduler framework that can be used to support various workloads dynamically.
Sealed sender.
Everything you type in the start menu gets sent to microsoft by default and this can only be changed with Group Policy, so anyone on home edition is stuck with that.
A lot of Bolshevism for one, and there's no "thinking" it's taking place, because it clearly is.
Good choice on their part.
I'm the author of another CPU-only 2D vector graphics library that might be of interest:

- Canvas Ity (https://github.com/a-e-k/canvas_ity)

It's a tiny single-header C++ library in the style of the STB libraries. My aim was to make it dirt simple to be able to drop into almost any project and get high-quality rendering while providing an API comfortable to those used to <canvas>.

I've been checking out Blend2D every now and then. It seems like a very nice option for the bigger, but faster and more fully-featured end of the spectrum.

(Though for what it's worth, while raw performance isn't my priority, my little library still can hit about 70fps rendering the Postscript Tiger to 733x757 res with a single thread on my 7950x. :-)
Usually JS based websites operate with some internal API under the hood.

Inspect those, and then directly hit those with something like Python or Go.

I prefer Python (requests, lxml, BeautifulSoup).

Mimic the headers that your browser is using.

Have you tried this already and run into issues?
>yet I still disagree loudly with development in cases where it significantly harms middle-class communities in nice places that people have worked their whole lives to live in, and I am called NIMBY as an insult for it

It sounds like you are.

The issue, to me, is this idea of viewing "keeping" communities "middle-class" and "nice" through some sort of race/discrimination-agnostic lens, in a country that's historically (within living memory)(of Millennials) done anything but.

Unfortunately, race and racial politics are inextricably linked with housing policy in America. It's impossible to talk about "nice places" without digging into the racialized meaning of "nice", or to talk about "middle-class" places when those encompass everywhere from "shops at Dollar General" areas to "orders Instacart from Whole Foods" areas. And, in terms of "keeping" neighborhood character, it'd be interesting to know the history of the specific neighborhoods you have in mind. "Were they gentrified, or just always inaccessible to marginalized people?" I wonder.

So, sorry, these nebulous harms to "niceness" don't cut it as reasons to forbid development prospective (and, often, current!) residents desire.

>I am not affluent and I have never had an ounce of power to influence anything

I've never met someone who was who'd admit to it. However, giving you the benefit of the doubt: that characterization was not directed solely and expressly at happytoexplain.
> not rewarding, no intellectual challenge

Don't forget that simple isn't easy. I find it very rewarding and intellectually stimulating to solve a problem with a solution which is as simple as possible - but no simpler.
At least 8675309 ends in two digits!
They had a strange setup process. I had to scan my passport and stuff. However, I did have a VPS with them that had uptime greater than a decade and that I killed only because the underlying hardware was going away. That was some 7 years ago or so.
"Absolutely nobody finds "dictatorial strongman posturing" appealing"

(Unfortunately) I personally know so many people who will be voting for extreme far left and right parties in the upcoming European and national elections who unironically idolize "leaders" like putin, maduro, erdogan, orban, bolsonaro, kim jonh un etc and who also think that their leadership style is exactly how a society should be ruled.
They do, or rather not old Facebook, but old VK: https://github.com/grishka/Smithereen

As a bonus it's an ActivityPub enabled application, so any specific instance of it requires less work to get a network effect going. :)
Nope! Well not as advertised. There are instances, usually more expensive ones, where there are supposed to be local NVME disks dedicated to the instance. You're totally right that providing good I/O is a big problem! And I have done studies myself showing just how bad Google Cloud is here, and have totally ditched Google Cloud for providing crappy compute service (and even worse customer service).
Ruby Franke: Parenting advice YouTuber given maximum sentence for child abuse
The next OTA broadcast standard has an internet connection requirement for targeted ads built into it, that is how far gone we are.

My policy is to never connect these TVs to the internet. If I accidentally bought one that required it I would return it to the store as defective.

Of course, that won't stop them from programming the firmware to wait until outside the return period to start demanding internet access. And I expect sets to start showing up with built in 5G you can't turn off quite soon. The perversion of ad and user tracking will never be satisfied, it is a cancer that only stops if the host cells have entirely died.
This other article has the full list: https://www.thedrinksbusiness.com/2024/02/the-546-english-wo...
Tokenization is a crude text compression, which happens at the cost of obfuscating the data.

Without it, we would effectively reduce the context size and increase the training time. For OpenAI tokenizer - by a factor of 4.

Is there a workaround, or are there only trade-offs?
AWS have custom firmware for at least some of their SSDs, so could be that
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> Yes it has an API, but that doesn't mean it's on the internet.

See the second link, the "Web API" section. This is the part tells me that it's on the internet.

> WEB API

> The Oral-B cloud service offers fast and reliable real-time access to Oral-B brushing activity. Fetch brushing data ranging from session frequency and duration to activity stats, achievements and more. Integrate brushing activity data* with health or lifestyle applications.

I don't know about all the older models, but I know the latest Oral-B smartbrush connects directly to the internet using Wi-Fi.
I was all excited about Signal, but rarely use it because of this very feature. Once it started sending me notices about other users, I was extremely not happy. I was very hesitant since one of the first things it did was ask for access to contacts. I'm still pissed at myself for allowing it.
Your right, but what if I type prompts in order to make ChatGPT to show me the full book, or at least big chunks of it? You agree that right now it is possible this, and they didn’t manage how to stop it doing that, right?
until ML stops producing cool new things, i'm pretty bullish on ML, to me even the hype feels justified (as opposed to crypto and NFTs which i always thought would fail eventually)
A modest proposal for reducing mail traffic (1996)
That's not what this is about.

It's not just any open-source project.

It's a privacy-orientated open-source project.

They could at least BSL the server code and allow others to verify the server code and host but not compete.
1. Facebook owns WhatsApp and uses it to collect data about people, such as who they communicate with, how and when. They also know about many of the websites you visit and what you do there. They know everything you do on Facebook, Facebook Messenger and Instagram. They buy mountains of data about us from other sources. By analysing all of that data they can probably do a reasonable job at guessing the content of your WhatsApp messages.

2. WhatsApp tries to get every user to accept the option to backup messages and photos to Google Drive, where they sit unencrypted and accessible by Google. Even if you reject that option yourself, your correspondents are likely to have enabled it (if only just to stop WhatsApp from nagging about it) and so your messages are available for Google to read. Example of why this can be bad: https://www.vice.com/en/article/zm8q43/paul-manafort-icloud-...

3. Google Photos asks WhatsApp users if they'd like it to back up their WhatsApp photos. Even if you reject that option, your correspondents may have enabled it and so your photos are stored online unencrypted and accessible by Google.

4. Why should we limit what Google and Facebook know about us? Google and Facebook influence our behaviour for the benefit of their paying customers. Their computer systems are too powerful for our minds. They work against us, not for us. Companies like Facebook will come to be seen like tobacco companies, except that the harm is as from mind altering drugs. There is a documentary on Netflix called The Social Dilemma which explains this well. The polarisation of societies and the spread of conspiracy theories are some of the effects. The only defence is to disengage.

5. Read about Chinese-style social credit to understand why you want companies like Facebook and Google to know as little about you as possible. This is a good overview: https://nhglobalpartners.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/chin...
>And there are excellent free YT video lectures, free books or blog posts.

There's also a tremendous amount of extremely low quality YouTube and blog content.
I saw a rant from someone in the FSF about project names that give you no idea what the software is for or does. This adds another layer to the complaint.

There's probably a social aspect in which the name itself functions as a sort of shibboleth.
If you're using JS in the first step just because you need puppeteer, check out playwright. It's what the original authors of puppeteer are working on now and it's been more actively developed in the past few years, very similar in usage and features, but it also has an official python wrapper package.
The fact that I can freely discuss the fact that my government installs and supports (occasionally very directly) brutally anti-democratic regimes that stand in complete opposition to everything my country claims to stand for, does not somehow negate the fact that my country is doing those things. This isn't a question of "is the US better/worse than China/Russia/etc?". The question is "Is the US living up to its own legend?"

I would argue that, based on the activities of the CIA and other arms of the government, the answer is unambiguously "NO".

I understand that one of the key ways that e.g. Putin remains acceptable to his population despite being unambiguously a strongman is to basically say "I am no better than any of them, except that I never said I would be".
I don’t think it makes more sense — to be honest, the Linux behaviour seems like a bug and the Plan 9 semantics seem to be what is or ought to be intended.
Pretty much, Signal is more dangerous for giving that false sense of privacy while you need to trust them just like other messaging apps, no thanks.
Even in rottentomatoes reviews of tv series are usually inaccurate because critics only watch first couple of episodes before writing their review while a lot of shows take time for the plot and characters to develop.
> Ignore threats at the border or abroad

Statistics published by federal agencies show miniscule levels of threats at the border compared to domestic threats. "Threats" abroad is and always has been a dogwhistle for Pentagon funding and expenditure, and that's not even addressing the question of how the US can reasonably expect to have jurisdiction in such cases rather than addressing these things diplomatically.

> realistic takes

Normative stance with absolutely zero authority. That is, until you make it clear what you consider "realistic". Dollars to donuts it's going to be cribbed directly from institutional (read: tautological) "common sense".

This conversation has already happened millions of times before. You're not actually addressing things in a way that moves the conversation forward.
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Well I don't think I should be told what apps they use
> What did I say that had anything to do with emotional wellbeing?

I’m glad I don’t have to deal with it on my own phone

> What did I say that made you think I was unprepared for Apple to have to do this in the US?

Thankfully it is only a bad law in the European Union
Newly spotted black hole has mass of 17B Suns, adding another daily
Yeah; even ~300K or so (like Mirai in 2016) would be surprisingly high.
It's running an RTX 4000 SFF Ada, 20GB GDDR6. Interesting that they've gone with a single-slot, low power card. Doesn't pull enough power to mess with their cooling/power design, I guess. Not a lot of graphics RAM to do much with LLMs.

That card is about $1500: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C2KMXQYG
Nah, they want to bring in as much money as possible, subtle difference. High complexity (tech debt) and high costs (paying for expensive managed services) in service to time-to-ship is actually great. If it turns out that the market they predicted doesn't pan out they find out faster and just shut it down chalk it up to r&d costs for the tax break, and if it's so successful it costs them an arm and a let it's "good problems to have."
Ok, which alternative would you prefer? A government issued crypto birth certificate proving you are an actual human?

Or sama's crypto eyeball scanning thing? (WorldCoin?)
Ask HN: How useful are in-browser-bar search shortcuts?
In Firefox you can right-click on a site's search box and "Add a Keyword for this Search...". In Chrome you can manually add search engines and assign keywords. In Orion you can bookmark a URL and insert a query variable.

DuckDuckGo bangs are decent, but I don't like that it has to hit duckduckgo.com first (please feel free to criticize this preference). And while I've only used a handful of DDG bangs, the AirBnb one is not as good as the URL I extracted myself.

I'm wondering why it's not easier to configure browsers to send queries directly to a site's own search engine.
Last time I checked the GCP prices vs. hetzner servers there was a factor of 10 in monthly cost. So I cant say this is a general rule of thumb. It is true though that hetzner can provide superb performance per $. Potentially below what you can do (unless you buy racks of hardware).

Also keep in mind that hetzner is mostly a beowulf cluster. See e.g. this press picture from their newsroom page: https://cdn.hetzner.com/assets/Uploads/IMG-0546-91.jpg

They do have dell servers, too. But don't expect to run on one of these nodes unless the machine type has Dell / PowerEdge in their name. This means the management capabilities are minimal (but usually enough). A fully licensed management card can do way more.

Their renting pricing is ridiculously cheap though. Hardware failure is more common than on cloud providers (see cluster hardware), support has been helpful in the past.
Overall IMHO a good choice if you are price sensitive. But even then consider development vs. deployment vs. running (server) costs. Servers might make up less of the total cost of a service than you expect.
> There is modern data on this, recorded history, and ancient literature going back to ancient greece (and in other societies) that cover this very well.

I know but so is the use of naval forces to eliminate these pirates, even if permitted by other states.

> You can't eliminate piracy with violence under these circumstances, you need to make it too costly or too risky to undertake.

But that's exactly what violence does. If you simply sink them as soon as they get close to a merchant vessel, they will stop in short order. If they're not afraid to die they will stop due to a lack of boats and personnel.

> As shown by the attack on the Israeli vessel, you also can't eliminate the threat posed by well funded, competent adversaries that are highly motivated.

That seemed more like a covert military operation than the usual somali pirate scum. It's hard to defend against that if it's backed by a state (in this case it seems to be Iran) but militaries are made to go up against other states.

PS: I might sound a bit harsh but I've been a victim of violent crime in the past too and I have lost all respect for those who perpetrate it. Don't forget the crew of that hijacked ship is still missing!
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The latter, easily.
I use Signal this way too. It's great for small messages and files. For larger files, you'd want SyncThing.
The code path that drops B will not compile unless that code path drops A first. It doesn't matter if that code path is in response to user input or not. Again, as I said, the point is that the compiler tracks the lifetime of all references. In this case A contains a reference to B, so any code that drops B without dropping A will not compile.
Really? Why working then?
That hits a little close to home. A couple months ago I built a tool to transfer my playlists from Spotify to YouTube Music, and I put it on github. Since then it's really taken off, I usually get a few stars a day, and I've put a bunch of work in both fixing issues that other people had and also just doing support for users having problems.

The thing that is funding the development of it at this point is my slow-burning rage at Spotify; the more people I can help get out of Spotify the more wrapped in wings of vengeance I feel.
At least in the workstation segment cloud doesn't compete. We use Threadrippers + A6000 GPUs at work. Getting the equivalent datacenter-type GPUs and EPYC processors is more expensive, even after accounting for IT and utilization.
So you would pay what equates to $6/mo to have it all as a single charge once a year instead of monthly?
While I am thankful that Signal exists and is a considerate of privacy concerns I don't think their decisions are always right.

For instance, I would love to see picture sent to me by my spouse automatically saved to camera roll. Signal has no option for this because it could put the privacy of me and the sender in jeopardy.
> And who though adding sticker would improve market share?

My daughter loves stickers.
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> Hurfbaz

This made me chuckle. :) It's HarfBuzz. Yours sounds like a goblin.
> If you select “Nobody,” the only people who will see your phone number in Signal are people who already have it saved to their phone’s contacts.

Can someone explain how this doesn’t leak information? If I add someone via username and I randomly guess their phone number, does Signal leak it after the fact?
> But in the 7.0 release, we added

great, but what about all of those people that installed before 7.0 and had it already happen to them? "oops" doesn't help. at. all.
I read somewhere here that, in the case of what's app more metadata is shared with meta, and telegram doesn't have E2EE by default for groups.
Didn't check though.
For some definition of secure and private.

Forcing you to use your phone number and then the same second you created your account go behind your back and spam everyone you just did so is neither private nor something many would associate with secure.

I guess something doesn't have to be secure if you can pretend it is public.

Of course Signal has carefully designed their goals to allow them to do that but in doing so that is a straight up asshole move in a context where they should be seeking trust?

Absolutely mind bending.

This is a great improvement, but they have already proven they can't be trusted with anyone's phone number so it is a damn shame they still won't allow you to create an account without one.

It is a decent service otherwise, but my fricking god I hope they at some point realize the harm they've done.

Up until today I've been ashamed of suggesting signal. Hopefully that will change with this feature.
If it’s running on their serve and it’s part of the license, why shouldn’t they? A real competitor or wanna-be should have the sense not to do that, so it seems justified that they would keep an eye for how their product is used.
I've said it for years; the pre-filtering of data is just putting blinders on before you even begin to train. I have rarely managed to make myself understood.

real models should be able to infer "HTML as she is spoken" and separate it from the human languages it complements. what we got is "models of interpolated views of language"
Honestly, it's just easier to block/drop Facebook entirely and actually talk to the people I want to talk to directly.

Sure I miss out on some things, but I still have friends and family and I still talk to them. I won't make any broad moralistic/judgemental statements here, but for me at least I've found this to be a return to a healthier relationship with a number of people.
OTOH, online authentication doesn’t necessarily even need a tag at that point, right? If invisible or at least imperceptible the particles could just be permanently applied.
TextSecure and Redphone did not upload your contacts to the cloud. No need to be a security expert to know that it's unwise to leak user state to contacts. In fact textsecure (now Silence) is the first SMS app to have a different colors for each contact to help the user avoid mistakingly messaging the wrong person.
First, it is a mistake to call these usernames. Second, it's a big mistake because this is a cool feature.

It's interesting to compare this feature to Session, where you also have randomized identifiers, but they identify you globally, and there's no way to give someone a handle to you that isn't linkable to other conversations. It sounds like Signal now offers that, which is actually the first time I've been intrigued by Signal.
You're right, but TCP doesn't like packets being dropped halfway through a stream. If you have a highly QoS'd link then you'll see latency spikes.
The EU is formalizing rules for taking CO2 out of the atmosphere
I think the parent was agreeing with you. If the “local” SSDs _weren’t_ actually local, then presumably they wouldn’t need to be ephemeral since they could be connected over the network to whichever host your instance was launched on.
Discussed at the time:

In defense of simple architectures - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30936189 - April 2022 (189 comments)
They either already store or would be able to log everything about who is sending messages to whom, and when.

That's the vast majority of what intelligence agencies actually care about. They rarely care about message contents anymore.
> They are more like disposable per-conversation identifiers.

Why are then not just random when you go to the share screen.

No real reason to let a person pick it