skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cecil Rhodes, while problematic, was born in England 200 years after the colonizing of the Dutch Cape Colony in South Africa. When he arrived in Africa, sent out for his health, in his early teens he landed on an established albeit failing cotton farm.

His wealth arose from snowballing into a monopoly the purchase of Kimberley diamond leases from other European settlers over 17 years with backers money and then his own.

For that matter Columbus was in truth a failed navigator and accidental colonizer.

His intent was sail to the already colonised spice islands of the Dutch East Indies ... but he'd made a boo boo wrt the circumference of the Earth.
I agree with you and unfortunately if me and some friends decide to rip our media to a server and share it, there’s some men with guns that might decide to interfere with our cooperation.

In practice I see plenty of people sharing access to plex servers, but it is unsettling that someone could somewhat arbitrarily be subject to violent interference for sharing media with friends.
I'll just leave this here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exponential_growth
Back in the day GPS was intentionally offset so countries couldn't use it for weapons.. well except it's owner of course!
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37086982 , https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37125047
In such a crisis if installing tools is impossible, you can run many utils via Docker, such as:

Build a container with a one-liner:

docker build -t tcpdump - <<EOF \nFROM ubuntu \nRUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y tcpdump \nCMD tcpdump -i eth0 \nEOF

Run attached to the host network:

docker run -dP --net=host moremagic/docker-netstat

Run system tools attached to read host processes:

for sysstat_tool in iostat sar vmstat mpstat pidstat; do
alias "sysstat-${sysstat_tool}=docker run --rm -it -v /proc:/proc --privileged --net host --pid host ghcr.io/krishjainx/sysstat-docker:main /usr/bin/${sysstat_tool}"
done
unset -v sysstat_tool

Sure, yum install is preferred, but so long as docker is available this is a viable alternative if you can manage the extra mapping needed. It probably wouldn’t work with a rootless/podman setup.
In my experience DVD looks bad when you hit pause, but a decent upscaler and not hitting pause is fine for most things.

If I really like it or watch it more than twice, I’ll get the Blu-ray or 4K Blu-ray.
The authors point was to treat cyberattacks just like physical attacks. If a country attacks you, you don't just tell your own military that they need to step up their game and close the holes. You seriously consider going and killing the bastards that attacked you, even if they exploited your own weakness, even if you made mistakes and could have prevented it.
It’ll probably be a while before i get a chance to work on one of these machines, but I had a chance to meet a couple employees, Steve Klabnik and Travis Haymore, at a “Beers and Boards” meetup Oxide put on after a conference in Raleigh last year. They were really cool, as were a lot of the local folks that showed up. Would highly recommend going if they ever do one in your city!
Supporting utf8 and proper glyph (emoji) support is pretty necessary.
Hard not to read this as, "because some old guard economists don't like fun things."

I am not overly fond of some of the ideas in freakonomics, but I can't deny the fun of looking at things and trying to tease out explanations. If anything, I would want to laud getting people to even try replication at a good thing. I fear if we only enjoy the flawless replications, we set a bit too high of a bar.
Well earlier detection and improved treatment is going to lower mortality rates. But that still doesn't prove cancer has increased.

Note: I personally believe it probably has but such an opinion is not science.
I watch movies while doing other things (cleaning the house or certain design tasks at the computer) which makes it very easy to watch them again! I go through them quickly and will tend to go back to them after about a year. I recently watched all of the Mission Impossible movies over the course of a few days.
I like the taskbar enhancements in v10... but not much else.
You have to understand the various TV types. OLED especially can look like crap if you don’t tune it right, because the pixels go on and off instantly, at least if what I heard was correct.

480i was built for the exact opposite, CRTs where pixels fade slowly.
America went to the moon, because if they didn't then the Soviet would be there first. That's the real reason, and that explains why nobody ever went back since. (Why bother, when you are not number one? It's hard to justify the bills when you show it to people.)

I believe eventually we will be on the moon again, and on Mars, but it will require a lot more technical progress before the cost-benefit analysis makes sense. Or maybe all we need is a second cold war, with murderous dictators propped up around the world, CIA toppling governments, proxy wars killing millions, that kind of thing. Choose your pick.
That's one of the reasons I use i3.

gaps horizontal 417
gaps inner 10
smart_gaps inverse_outer

https://imgur.com/a/MjNBgms
Is there a situation where apt cant download and install packages but docker can fetch new containers?

apt libs borked or something?
Cattle not pets. Carve a new partition with gparted, install new OS, mount the old partition and copy over any valuable data. (Hopefully you have this backed up anyway)
Good old "I've deleted c:\windows\system32" problem, but now in Linux.
> Most dev teams I work with are actively reducing their actual managed server and replace it with either Lambda, or docker images running in K8.

There are plenty of services that don’t fit on k8s or Lambda. Not all pegs fit in those holes.
A useful idiot blissfully thinks they're changing the world for the better while installing a Party member to enforce "Equity" on the unwilling.
this is pretty pedantic alright. For better or worse and as much as lots of people wanted to push back against it, you're just going to have to accept that "toxin" has become a general term now no longer tied to just naturally occurring poisons. Words evolve, they change with use.

It's like the people dying on that pedantry hill over "literally" being now used in slang to just mean "a lot / really significantly" rather than "how something appears in literature". I'm sure there were people equally complaining about the death of the English subjunctive verb [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_subjunctive
I was surprised that `strace` wasn't on that list. That's usually one of my first go-to tools. It's so great, especially when programs return useless or wrong error messages.
A truer acronym has never been coined.
50 ft seems a little large for plate tectonics , plates move on the order of a centimeter per year [1].
(similar to fingernail growth!)
[1] https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/tectonics.html
Thread-per-core style, with executors pinned to cores/core-regions. IO_URING and DirectIO support, and a bunch of nice utilities to make working with the thread-per-core style and sharding easy, including a neat utility to automatically mesh all your executors together with incoming outgoing channels.
If hydrogen infrastructure was a thing, I would suggest that Hydrogen PHEV would be a fantastic solution for long haul trucking and trains.
It's not fair to compare 1 GW of solar to 1 GW of nuclear power.

A solar plant will produce at full capacity an equivalent of ~5 hours a day.

Nuclear will produce at full capacity for 24/7/365.
I think it's correlation -- people who eat a lot of red meat tend to eat a lot in general -- so it's just a proxy for obesity. That's the usual problem with studies of high protein diets, anyway.
What you've described is hundreds of thousands of years of incremental expansion from settled places to a habitable horizon not that far away.

We're not walking to Mars or floating a boat across a strait for a couple of days with a bag of apples that can be planted to grow while we fish.
https://youtu.be/jKHi__DaplU?si=aD9pqnLMakr49jZ4
I have not. I've done at least one problem (some many more) in each of 32 languages on Exercism so far, though. Looking at your example, there's some familiar features from the lisp and ML families.
Regular maintenance is insurance against future problems
`Kafka server with tons of stock-trading info`

Can you talk more about this? I personally have a Dell R720 and about 90TB available for use, and use 40TB of it for my media server. I'm wondering if that's some use case I want to look into.
Are we talking about the October 2022 report by Senate Republicans or the April 2023 report from, again, Senate Republicans? Because as I understand it, the official political explanation according to Republicans of a lot of things doesn't exactly comport with reality, so I'm not sure why you believe we should trust them here, given the track record. Unless the idea was to push a particular point of view.
Is this a rebrand? I don’t remember it being called a “cloud computer”. (Or why else is this on HN?)
Redbox is about as convenient as the library (or more so, with a cost) and it has all the latest.

The key is they don’t have to pay for mailing, AND I can get something last minute with a short walk or a short drive (which puts three in range).
> including missing primates last year

The article you linked does not talk about missing primates. They were doing experiments on monkeys. Activist put pressure on them to stop and they did stop. Then they rehomed the monkeys to a sanctuary.

They are “missing” in as much as the monkeys are no longer there, but everyone knows where the monkeys have gone and why the monkeys have gone. The article you linked itself explains this.
>agent assured me the price was correct

>arkansas

yea
If it works what prevented ancient people from building windmill ships?
That doesn't solve the problem, in the general case (it might work acceptably well in practice, though)
It's still useful in EC2 (or any other VM-based environments) and Docker containers, as long as you can install the necessary packages (if they are not installed by default). Because after all, there are "servers" underneath, even for the serverless apps, I suppose.

It's definitely harder for apps running in Lambda because we may not have access to the underlying OS. In such case, I kind of fallback to using the application level observability tools like Pyroscope (https://pyroscope.io). It doesn't always work for all the cases and have some overheads/set up but it's still better than flying and more useful than the Cloud Provider's provided metrics.
strace is ok as a last resort, but "perf trace" and bpf tracing tools are the production-safe alternative. https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2014-05-11/strace-wow-much...
Dow the rabbit hole I go, is it pronounced as S.A.D or “sad”. If it’s each letter (like CIA or FBI) it’s an initialism not an acronym; the latter should be pronounced as a word.

Which befuddles my industry joke of TLA (three letter acronyms) since it is pronounced as T.L.A. Not “tella”
Not in the US, but maybe elsewhere.
They have Blu-ray all over the site.
> A recent study shows that on any given day, just 12% of people in the US account for half of all beef consumed in the US.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/oct/20/beef-usd...

https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/15/17/3795
In economically depressed areas like this, it doesn’t matter what you pay.

If you roll in a $5K welder or roll of copper, your guards are going to screw you.
Yeah. If more people are living long enough to have cancer, you'll see more cancer.
> Get In Touch

> Contact Sales

Nope, hard pass. If you don't list your prices on your website I'm never going to be a customer.
Very nice. Will be interesting to see what comes out of studying these.

Semi-related, I still hold out hope for more discoveries of the Isthmian/Epi-Olmec script. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isthmian_script
Chocolate is a superfood, and bacon is not toxic. There's a difference between a food containing a known toxin and a healthy food that can become unhealthy based on its preparation. Boiled beef is healthy, but charred beef causes pancreatic cancer. However, blue cheese contains a neurotoxin, and I doubt it has a hormetic effect as I haven't seen a study showing that people eating blue cheese have better health.
Aren't trains already electrified in most places? For that matter I lived in Germany for a year 25 years ago and traveled a lot to points east and saw buses that took power from an electric catenary the same way trains do. (Funny, I frequently commute on a battery electric bus when it gets assigned to our route.)
Astute observers will note that China did not in fact invade Ukraine
Sure, but more often than not - esp in cloud scenarios, sometimes you just get a machine that is having a bad day and it’s quicker to just eject it, let the rest of the infra pick up the slack, and then debug from there. Additionally if you’ve axed a machine, and got the same issue, you know it’s not a machine issue, so either go look at your networking layer or whatever configs you’re using to boot your machines from…
This sounds more like a wildfire management crisis than an insurance crisis.
Yes, you are engaging in the no true scotsman fallacy, please stop.
Have you eval'd SWEbench yet?
That doesn't make intellectually honest people angry though?
There is plenty I miss, but not living in California is one of the best decisions I’ve made.
AWS endpoints are similarly publicly accessible, protected by single access keys or session keys. That's the nature of the Internet. Your VPN endpoints are also publicly accessible; anyone with credentials or a RCE in the VPN endpoint can get through.

At some point you just trust the common shared public key libraries that protect public APIs and VPNs.
It's bad. But the field has moved towards causal inference methods anyhow, and away from the "cutenomics" Freakonomics championed.
My question was motivated by the OP. The longshoreman was arguing for some sort of compensation for an injury from an electric shock.

Unless there are relevant symptoms or electric shock is known to have effects on bones, why would the doctor look at x-rays? He probably also didn't look at stool samples or test for TB.
Apple has apps for other platforms that at least allow playback of stuff you’ve bought, even if you can’t buy more. I’ve watched mad men through on a Fire TV on Apple TV, worked fine.
Nvidia are fucking arseholes for trying to undermine the vital work of nurses around the world.

Even to use the phrase/word shows a complete disconnect from reality. Nurses save lives every second of every day so to even suggest it is nefarious.

Greedy cunts will try profit and exploit gaps in knowledge with white elephants but believe me when I say you need human nurses more than anything. No one gives a shit about healthcare until it matters, then it's all that matters.

They are so far up their own hole with AI bullshit that they don't realise what proper 'AI" analysis would reveal. Pay fucking nurses more, get our best people in the important jobs.

These wankers are racing to the bottom and not the top.
It’s potentially a state fiscal crisis if the state keeps operating as insurer of last resort.
Every action has costs. Laws and regulations will exhibit costs, sometimes hidden costs until the law is actually in place.
Lots of sad folks due to risk price catching up to risk reality. California, Texas, and Florida all hit hard, and inconveniently, most populous US states.

Move where the risk is lower, with my apologies to Sam Kinison.

https://www.wired.com/story/insurance-rates-soaring-us-homeo...

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/29/climate/smokehouse-creek-...

https://riskfactor.com/

https://resilience.climate.gov/
IME there's always that one service that wasn't ever migrated to containers or lambdas is is off running on an EC2 somewhere, and nobody knows about it because it never breaks, but then the one time AWS schedules an instance retirement for it...
I've got several bookshelves filled with DVDs I've accumulated through the years: through charity shops, pawn shops, other collectors, estates, etc.

Its always wonderful to discover something amazing going for a steal. And I think DVDs hit a good sweet spot between having good-enough quality (after some upscaling), being cheap, and being quick and "fun" to rip and backup.

Its on the more minimalistic side of hoarding at least.
Smash Bros. Ultimate custom stages are deleted after a month or so. You can find hundreds of beautiful screenshots of custom stages you can never play.
Time to shack up. Double your income and halve the demand.
I am by no means a Modi supporter. All my replies have been scathing and critical of his government.

That said I am amused too, at how you are completely normalizing Trump and Modi -- two autocrats of varying ambitions. But last I checked, only one is a convicted felon from sexual assualt to the theft of strategic security material. US did not give Trump a second term, but he is having enough second chances at anything -- including the presidency -- after these legal hurdles. That says heftily of the public support. Same situation is probably unheard in any country today -- including India. Remember Rajiv Gandhi? He'd have been jailed had he not been assassinated. That is not an opinion but facts. India is poorer but political checks and balances have traditionally worked better. The fourth estate has made people accountable even if they are under fire over time. We have our versions of Fox News but there is difference. Else IndiaTV wouldn't be a butt of jokes even among far right. Speaking of this as someone who has voted against BJP consistently after the Vajpayee era

You have a grudge against my opinion -- feel free to. I started this discussion by saying we have different viewpoints of how social media is influencing people. I lived in both places in the last decade. I see it first place. I am by no means pointing fingers at you. You can be at peace with your world model. "The political shitshow in US is incomparable to anywhere else & a lot of it is voter ignorances" is probably the best tldr I could offer. You can choose to disagree, like I do for your viewpoint.
Modern healthcare is somewhat effective at detecting and treating cancer but does very little for prevention. The only really effective preventative intervention seems to be removing polyps during a colonoscopy before they have a chance to turn cancerous.
In college, many aeons ago, I bought a used Sun workstation (mainly for the copy of FrameMaker on the machine). At some point I was trying to clean up the root filesystem and deleted the root shell (I can't remember the details but I think there were two shells, one used to boot the system, and one for the user shell).

That's how I learned that SunOS machines at the time had an extensive set of features for booting the machine (like, a built in EFI shell) and providing kernel params, so I was able to finally boot into the machine by telling the kernel to launch the user shell, which was enough to boot the machine to user space. The SunOS machines also could do pretty much everything over serial- including installing an entire OS.
Which specific social sciences do you believe are doing better?
Really been digging using Hyprland with arch.
Gene Roddenberry would like to have a word about the bias of the testers.
Eggs and basket analogy. We only know of one planet with life. The number of things that can wipe out life on a planet is high.
Google Vlogger
So basically busybox?
No they called it that for a while.

Why its on HN? Maybe somebody discovered it for the first time?
So do people write in CUDA? I assume non-ML scientists do but ML researchers don't?
It is not a consumer item. The people who would consider this product are well acquainted will involving sales people.
It has never been as simple as whichever side has more people, and that has only become more true as military technology has advanced.

Many lessons came out of the first two world wars about how modern warfare would be fought. One of them was that it didn't matter how many well-rested soldiers you had willing to fight. If you ran out of ammunition and your opponents have enough left to annihilate you, you'll probably lose.

We'll never know for certain, but there's a real possibility that if it hadn't been for the Lend-Lease program, the USSR would have run out of weapons and supplies, and Hitler would have defeated the Soviets.

Obviously, there's limits. One soldier sitting on warehouses of ammo isn't going to take out a force of ten thousand. But at the outset of the war, active Russian troops outnumbered Ukrainian troops by only 4 to 1. In the right circumstances, those are winnable numbers. And even better for the Ukrainians, Russia couldn't send all of their troops in. They needed to keep the bulk of them in Russia for defense.

Estimates of causalities in the war range from 1:3 to 1:5 in favor of Ukraine. So even if Russian troops outnumbered Ukrainian troops 2:1, all Ukraine has to do is continue killing Russian soldiers at the same rate, and eventually Russia will run out of soldiers to send.

That's what "winning" looks like for Ukraine. This is a war of attrition. They win by exhausting the enemy before the enemy exhausts them.

But it relies on Ukraine continuing to have enough ammo to kill the Russian soldiers at that rate. This is a war of attrition. Russia's firmly on a wartime economy, and unless the bottom falls out on them, they'll continue to produce weapons and ammo for the duration of the war. Enough for every solider they field? Maybe, maybe not, but they won't run out.

Ukraine, on the other hand, relies on the West for weapons and ammo. If it runs out, it loses, and that's why so many people are upset about Western countries dropping support. It's a winnable war for Ukraine, but only if Russia's enemies stay committed.
>I believe LLMs will be commoditised while the compute power will be the next big thing.

Can you talk more about this? Would love to understand.
Would you like to expand on this a bit?
Greg Morrisett is one of those people who is consistently involved in neat work. Typed x86, Cyclone, and SAFE architecture come to mind. It’s best to just all the papers of such people. I found a list of his:

https://www.cs.cornell.edu/~jgm/jgm.html
Water, no. Food, probably. A lot of the undeveloped world eats only locally produced food, minimally processed. Highly processed foods don't necessarily make it out there.

As they start developing, they are able to import things with high levels of preservatives etc.
I recently watch:

Unplugging the Debugger - Live and postmortem debugging in a remote system - Matt Keeter [1]

The talk was at the Open Source Firmware Conference.

Pretty cool look into how their system works under the hood.

[1] https://vimeo.com/877092565
steve is so cool. i wish we had more steves. we need more people like steve
You were never their target audience. There is never one price off the shelf pricing for this kind of hardware
Well, if these fixed sales are cutting into our recurring revenue then they’ve got to go! Vault them all. Every last one.

Surely the problem is that we just haven’t gatekept popular culture well enough? It’s the children who are wrong.