skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi everyone! I've had a homelab for the last couple of years and wanted to do a writeup of what I've come up with.

I'm pretty happy with my current solution of K3s, Deno, cdk8s, and ArgoCD with Renovate for keeping images/charts up-to-date. It all feels very hands-off and stable.

It's a bit overkill for the purpose, but it was a fun way to learn Kubernetes.

I wanted to get _something_ out, so this post goes over the basics of installing K3s. I'll get into more interesting territory soon.
Cannon fodder is nice and all, but Putin’s overtures to North Korea might lead South Korea to finally start sending military hardware to Ukraine which would
be a game changer, considering S Korea is one of the cheapest and most effective manufacturers of many NATO weapons.
Living overseas doesn’t necessarily mean they owe you money. But if they really do owe you, you’re best bet is to hire a tax accountant to file the paperwork. It might take time to get reviewed, but it will get reviewed. And, if you are correct, they will cut you a check (with interest even).
It's more manageable to have automation (i.e., Atlantis) do the apply on the open PR and then only merge if it succeeds. You have to rely on the locking feature of Atlantis to avoid conflicts, but it's worked pretty well at scale at Enova (~50 Terraform changes a day).
Of course they do. And where states' intelligence agencies or militaries overstep their mandates their citizens should know and act accordingly/
Can't you just download the js file and save it next to your html files and then link to it from your html?
These are two of my favorite albums but I can imagine those new to jazz thinking Giant Steps is too intense. Although not as intense as Coltrane's Interstellar Space...
Face blindness may be more common than previously thought
If you’re open to a paradigm shift, I can’t recommend atuin highly enough. It’s truly the pinnacle of shell history tooling, but requires a ~1-2 day muscle-memory learning curve.

https://atuin.sh/
> boundaries between markets that cannot be crossed.

This only applies to dominant companies/ monopolies.

But there is merit to the idea - like should investment banks be allowed to profit from taking a position against the position of their customer, even if that was done on their advise?
May I offer you fast thread-locals in C# in these trying times?
> he is the primary promoter of the Taxpayer Protection Pledge, a pledge signed by lawmakers who agree to oppose increases in marginal income tax rates for individuals and businesses, and net reductions or eliminations of deductions and credits without a matching reduced tax rate

This guy?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucky_duckies
Tipping culture is getting out of hand.
My understanding is part of the problem is that they have not been well-funded enough to even think about going after the top earners, who can easily afford to outnumber them with lawyers and CPAs. So, they give the people at the very top a pass because even if they are tax-dodgers, it's too expensive to prove it. Which leaves them going after middle class people who exaggerated their charitable deduction a little or hid a $100 eBay sale. They're easy marks and won't be able to resist with an army lawyers.
Its possible that you may have misunderstood what happened.

Firstly, anthropic made an LLM, exposed it to the internet, and provided these terms of acceptable use.

https://www.anthropic.com/legal/archive/4903a61b-037c-4293-9...

There was no need for cynicism or kool aid at this stage.

Later on, presumably now-ish, anthropic changed the usage policy, to add an exception.

https://support.anthropic.com/en/articles/9528712-exceptions...

> Exceptions to our Usage Policy

> Updated today

The exception is that, starting from now,

> Anthropic may enter into contracts with government customers that tailor use restrictions to that customer’s public mission and legal authorities if, in Anthropic’s judgment, the contractual use restrictions and applicable safeguards are adequate to mitigate the potential harms addressed by this Usage Policy.

I don't think any kool aid or cynicism is needed.

The change is that, if anthropic think the client use case meets the listed humanitarian goals, then the client may use the LLM.
I've wanted to get my hands on an IBM or other with an orange plasma display for a while. Or really any old terminal. It's funny because buying them is very expensive, but places showcasing them are few now.
That's what I'd love to see. Have the ability to set a desired latency for specific domains and have it apply to all traffic on the network.
This feels like the real answer. And profiteering of course.
We do expect people with medical conditions to take actions. Have cancer, do chemotherapy or get surgery. Overweight, change diet (or take thyroid medication, depending). Celiac, don't eat gluten. Bacterial infection, take appropriate antibiotics.

I might agree that addiction is a disease if we limit it to physical addiction. But colloquially "addiction" is used for what might be more precisely termed compulsive behavior, like spending hours on Facebook. This kind of "addiction" is more like self-medicating negative emotions, and negative emotions are generally telling us that we are "malnourished" in some area. So we might be FB-scrolling because we are bored (lack purpose, lack challenge, etc), or because we are lonely and want to feel connected. Until we figure out what FB-scrolling is doing for us and get that need met, we're going to feel "addicted" to FB.
> Now, the IRS knows almost everything about your finances. They get electronic data from your employers, your bank, your brokerage. Most of commerce is settled electronically.

Afaik, this is both true and not.

The IRS gets very specific data points, that institutions are required by law to give them.

That's largely a complete picture of your income, at least from sources that are required to report.

What they have no idea about is your expenses or classification thereof.

If we decided to move to a progressive (more money = higher rates) and no exemption/deduction system, then the IRS would have everything needed.

But in fact we have a spaghetti of deductions, because it's far easier to sneak a special interest deduction into the tax code.
I feel that front end coding is becoming a design practice
and i feel that human tools will soon fully enable it. we’ve made rnbw (http://rnbw.company) since we wanted html-css-js files to run as a designing experience with zero-latency two-way design<>code sync. we wanted the "real thing", built for the #nobuild, #localfirst era. it's simple, flexible, and open. enjoy it!
Is a local official accepting a bribe inherently better than a federal official?

If you were in the spotlight for your alleged corruption at the federal level, I would have a hard time considering you an objective judge of corruption at other levels of government.
Wavelength is Shutting Down on July 31st, 2024
After seeing the enthusiastic reaction to Ball [0] when it was posted here yesterday, I thought people here might enjoy my favourite silly Mac Desktop toy, which allows you to create portals on your screen you can “see through”, and through which your mouse cursor can also pass.

[0] https://github.com/nate-parrott/ball
Great question. https://www.amazon.com/History-South-Africa-Fourth/dp/030018... is an excellent book that digs in on this and other topics about SA if you’re interested in learning more about this extremely complex question and country. As residents often say, it’s especially a heartbreak because the country has so much going for it.
It's a common destructive strategy: don't outlaw the thing, outlaw or defund the thing's infrastructure. Can't outlaw abortion? Outlaw abortion pills. Can't outlaw education? Defund public school. Congress won't outlaw the IRS (for now), but they can bury budget cuts deep within omnibus spending bills.
It's not. It's equal the maximum alignment of their members. For primitive types (like integers, floating-point types and pointers), size == alignment on most machines nowadays (although on 32-bit machines, it can be a toss-up whether a 64-bit integer is 64-bit aligned or 32-bit aligned), so it can look like it's based on size though.
https://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2018/07/18/tax-filing-...

Scroll down to the section that mentions Americans for Tax Reform and links to the presentation: Doing taxes keeps citizens aware of the tax burden imposed upon them by the government. A Return-Free scheme would allow the government to raise revenues invisibly

In case you're not aware of Norquist, https://gop-waysandmeans.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/1...: The paradox for taxpayers is that visible, painful taxes are the taxpayer's best protection against runaway government spending and taxes.
I once got through to hold music at 8am only to sit on the phone waiting the entire business day when it hung up on me, telling me to try again during business hours. I've never been able to get through since.
And just to put those numbers further in perspective: the current design goal of the SpaceX Raptor engine is 3MN (3000kN). Currently they have achieved 2.64MN during ground testing. It is speculated that each of the 33 engines of the superheavy booster during testflight 4 were configured for a thrust of approx 2MN.

Obviously the Raptors are much, much larger than the 3D printed engine from the article.
Who is "we"? The developer also announced this on the FediVerse, and it spread to Reddit within 2 hours of that.
yes definitely - thanks for the comments. We'll think about these points and get back to you later this week(via your contact in your bio)
Starbucks Devalued Its Own Brand
funnull.com/company/about is a mirror of cdn.miaocwh.cn/company/about. The address given on their website for their Philippines location also isn't a valid address.
I see several massive I-beams in your argument that are buckling due to a lack of support. Mind shoring them up with sources, boss?
Semi related, but have you found a way to get kindle highlights out of amazon?

I've been using Readwise (and Reader) which have been great, but it's rather expensive.

I'd love to be able to send an arbitrary article to Feedi like I can with Reader, but also would love to sync highlights back from my kindle.

Going to lurk the repo, cool stuff!
The Charlie sequel is super disturbing and violent. I remember how I felt as a 7yo reading it.
> More than anything, HyperCard made personal computing personal again, in a way it hadn't been since computers would boot straight into a BASIC interpreter

And in a way it hasn’t been since, either. Web browsers and Javascript just aren’t the same. Javascript, shell, even Emacs Lisp are just too low-level. HyperCard gave one a GUI builder and a simple yet powerful language to get things done in, and it was everywhere.
That is what the article's author seems to think, but they give zero evidence for it. The criticism you responded to was The article doesn't seem to discuss that at all. -- and it doesn't. All it does is concede ignorance on the topic.
It kind of depends on your goal. In most cases, pregenerating your images is a much better option, especially if you want a decent resolution. Why do they have to be dynamic?

It would be a cool project, but you'd probably have to whitelist any context input.

For dynamic images I would stick to an image generation model myself, for the
best result with the least resources and complexity. I'd probably go for SDXL or an upscaled SD1.5 model, because you need a fair amount of control to get this right.

You will have to craft a nice prompt, like "empty stage with [best suited whitelisted word from context] in the backdrop", guide this through a ControlNet to get somewhat consistent output, add one or two LoRa's for consistency in style (these can be randomized for more variation) and then just manually composite your product over it with some outer glow.

Be aware though, image models really do not like to create images with "nothing" in the center. You may need some additional mask trickery to get it right.
> have surprisingly good staffers

This is it. Calling your representative almost never results in you actually directly communicating with your representative (for better or worse). You will always get their staffers, who may have completely different moral and political agendas.
You can cheat and look at the JavaScript code. (-:
These days we say "encrypted" rather than "unparseable".
Every go developer I know who likes the language disagrees with this sentiment (including myself). If you really want async/await Go is probably not the language for you. Thats ok! There are a lot of languages that other people like that I do not want to use.

We don't need to have one language to rule them all. Its fine for languages to make different choices and trade-offs.
> In the story above, a competitor to Teams couldn't "keep up". Is that really Microsoft's problem?

If Microsoft start providing kickbacks and bribes to CTOs for choosing Microsoft, many competitors won’t be able to keep up. Is that Microsoft’s problem?

No, it’s our problem. We get to decide what they are allowed to do, whats fair and what isn’t.
Don't think it's city/rural thing or a big city/little city thing. Los Angeles has dozens of tiny museums, often dedicated to obscure subjects (printing, neon art, Jurassic technology), and also some huge and rather well known ones (LACMA, the Getty).
These principles are still true in countries that don’t control their currency. In fact being bankrupt is one of the most guaranteed ways of losing power. The issue is, any politician who says they’re going to spend less and tax more will lose to the guy who says not to worry about it.

That’s why every government loves increasing the national debt.
Note that you can allocate as much temp data as you want to the GC heap without incurring any performance issues (in fact allocation will be faster than malloc), because copying collectors only ever care about live objects.

So the question is, how much of an issue it is to "contort" the program to not allocate large, live objects to the GC heap, vs contorting it to have a tree-like structure for RAII-style memory management.

Honestly, I have no idea, one of the reasons I really want to make a toy language to try it out and actually measure the runtime costs vs convenience etc.

Note: For my particular C implementation, which is admittedly cobbled together with spit and ducktape, you can easily add support for individually managed allocations to the GC heap, since it already uses buckets anyway.

If a bucket contains only 1 allocation, there's no need to copy, you can just keep that bucket somewhere in the linked list. This does require the programmer to explicitly request that kind of allocation though.

For the "huge amount of small objects" case, GC and RAII/RC are complete opposites. If most of those small objects die, the GC will be a lot faster since it drops them by not copying them. But if most of the objects are live, then the GC will spend a brutal amount of time copying, while RAII/RC will barely do any work.

Having memory management options is a good thing ;)
TF1 launches France's first streaming platform with a paid option using Stripe
At my previous job we used Google Slides, and I rapidly came to hate it. Here's why Figma Slides has me excited:

- I use animation a lot, for many reasons, such as keeping audience focus on parts of the slide and visually explaining information changes and multi-step processes. It's particularly helpful for video. Figma already has much better tools for this; Google's are not particularly powerful and buggy as hell.

- Consistency. Google Slides will sometimes render the same text object with wrapping at different points on different machines. I shouldn't have to manually add line breaks to deal with this.

- Precision and flexibility. Google Slides just isn't anywhere near as smooth at design work as Figma. I don't even consider myself a designer and yet I regularly hit Google Slides's limitations.

- Layer/object lists. (Note: I don't see this in the Figma Slides demos, but I assume it's available in design mode?) Once you have a bunch of shapes on a slide, especially grouped, it makes selection so much easier. I don't want to play click roulette when trying to select one object from a pile.

(If you're wondering why I'm focused on Google Slides: Apple Keynote is great but can't collaborate through Google Workspace. I haven't used PowerPoint much, it's okay.)

UPDATE: I've now done a little playing with Figma Slides.

The good news is that it has an object list. But it's only in Design Mode. (So it won't be available to free or non-designer accounts - that's a Figma thing.)

The bad news is that in this beta the animation tools are even less flexible than Google Slides: you can only choose from a limited set of transitions; those transitions apply to the entire slide, not to individual objects; and there's no way to change the timing or easing. However, "smart animate" is one of the transitions, which does a Magic-Move-like "move the objects in slide 1 to their positions in slide 2".

(Note the emphasis on this beta. Figma Slides won't be considered GA until next year, so I'm hoping that all the animation tools from regular Figma will be available by then.)
You could do this, or you could use the distractions as a practice for ignoring the distractions. This is quite a powerful practice for improving your ability to focus on what matters, in and outside the web.
That's because regulations do not work, socialism does not work, communism does not work, how many times should these mistakes be made? Only working policy is a free market, competition and full deregulation.
Isn't it pretty common in marine animals?

Lots of fish, dolphins, whales, etc. Or do they count as grey?
I like the interactive nature of esc-., you can keep "up arrowing", to a value a few commands ago and crucially: edit the value. (add/remove `tgz`, etc)
Has there existed a time since 2011 when the crypto pond wasn’t filled with sharks?
As an alcoholic - 6 years without a drop - I'm confused by this statement. No one could get me sober except me. In my experience, most alcoholics agree with this.

You want to not be an addict? Recognize it, take responsibility for it, and get sober.

I would never tell my friends with depression to just "think happy thoughts". But I have suggested to some close friends that they need help and they could start by helping themselves by doing all of the things that we know to be beneficial for depression: exercise, change in diet, spend time outside, stop ruminating on social media about their mental health issues, etc. And if they can't do that a qualified medical professional can help get them to that point.

Regardless of how bad someone's depression or addiction is, no one can make the first step towards healing except the sufferer. That said, a lot of support and compassion is crucial for a lot of people.

Every time I hear someone took their life because of addiction or depression I get sad. I know what it's like to wake up everyday hating oneself and loathing life. It's not a fun place to be.

If any of you out there are going through any of this, get help. Please, life on the other side of addiction is soooo much better. And no matter what you think, there will always be people that wished you were still around.

A friend of friend took his own life this past week. He'd suffered a traumatic brain injury after falling drunk off of a deck at a party. I have no idea if he was an alcoholic or not. And doesn't matter.

I'm rambling. Carry on.
I shouldn't have to explain why this isn't a viable long-term solution, right?
> The number of anti-Microsoft people that still use Github is astounding to me

This is silly, they will just buy up all the competition, what choose will you have
But human brains have a more developed and reliable means of expressing uncertainty, which is still a challenge for LLMs.

e.g. part-time front-line customer service will prefix a statement with "uhhh..." if they don't actually know what they're talking about, even if they do have trouble answering accurately.
The world has a billion cows, some estimate as many as 1.5 billion, at we expect that to grow significantly as China and India become more developed. I honestly don't think anyone would be worried about cattle if the world cattle population were 90 million. It would be somewhere below 1% if emissions at that point. It's literally a factor of more than 10x.

Stop parroting disinformation.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/263979/global-cattle-pop...

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/livestock-counts
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ELIZA Reinterpreted: The world's first chatbot was not intended as a chatbot
Somehow people can understand the supply and demand mechanics when it comes to banning Airbnb but suddenly that understanding disappears when it comes to building more supply.
Which address are you referring to? 14th Floor Net Cube Center is a valid office space (Regus) address.
¯_ (ツ)_/¯
It's almost like it's intentional.
Yeah, understandable given that the "sample-epub-minimal" repo you were going off of effectively says "just zip it all up and you're good to go", which is incorrect. Not sure what the best remedy is there, maybe I'll open a pull request.

[1] https://github.com/thansen0/sample-epub-minimal
About to? We're beyond "about to".
There was no indication that it was an active choice. I'm speaking to where it was clearly incorrect behaviour, not where one honestly wanted to ignore the condition. I'm assuming these programmers would write out the boilerplate (perhaps even automatically by some IDE feature) and then forgot to return to it to fill in the logic.

And fair enough. It would be just as easy to forget to do that as it would be to forget to handle errors in any other language. There is no silver bullet here.
When I was a kid I thought he was talking about the apes.

Also, I have not yet had a good, clever opportunity to say "Take your stinking paws offa me you damn dirty ape" but it is awaiting its moment.
Another thing that has happened is that there are a lot of hotels are operating as migration shelters. I've heard something like 15% of hotel rooms aren't on the market for that reason, and those rooms would have skewed toward the more affordable end of the spectrum.

Also, regarding rents not going down. According to the MNS report for Manhattan [1], non-doorman studios are down ~1.2% from last year, and non-doorman one-bedrooms are up only ~.6%. Those are exactly the types of units that were commonly being set up as full-time Airbnbs. Also, Airbnbs were especially concentrated in neighborhoods that did see large drops in rents, like EV and Soho, so maybe it did have an impact.

1. https://www.mns.com/manhattan_rental_market_report
When I said "we don't worry about it," I meant the problem has been acceptably mitigated.