skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We currently pay $250/month through some small vendor for hipaa compliant sftp hosting (that we transfer a whopping 50kb on a weekly basis). I always felt like it was a rip off, but azure/aws didn't have their own version. And I'm loathe to manage a VM. PaaS is my sugar bear.

My eyes lit up when I saw this. We're an azure shop, but I'm not afraid to use AWS for limited cases. Then I saw - $.30/hr (so, $214/mo). Really? REALLY?

Wouldn't it be comically easy to just the add SFTP as a protocol option for S3? Why does this need a dedicated VM to run it? (Yes, I know this is PaaS and you don't manage the VM, but they're essentially pricing it that way)
They could easily collude with the party you are making a contract with, and rule against you however.
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The part that I found most interesting was the idea that we're moving away from low-capital startups.

Does that mean venture capital is going to have to get much bigger to fund these ventures? Does it suggest the ballooning of worldwide VC funding isn't just a bubble? (There's a really interesting chart in WSJ that I can't find right now). And will a few massive VCs become more powerful while smaller ones fizzle? What about ycombinator?

Does it mean that technical talent will be more or less valuable? Much more talent will be needed, but there's probably less opportunity to build a massive business with a few talented geeks as the low-hanging software fruit is probably plucked. Talented developers might be less critical to business success.
What do you require a 3.6L for? A 1.8L will move all the cargo you care to. A 2.5L tows my 1200lb camper over high mountain passes. A big engine is really only a must if you are towing something north of a ton, as far as I'm aware.

People tend to buy more engine than they need, and 1.8L's are more powerful than ever. And nobody had 300hp thirty years ago except the sports cars. We survived.
Just about every millennial chuckles at "Zuck is robot," whereas "M$" was always only ever a Slashdot-ism.
Google devices are now produced by HTC as they bought their smartphone division. In the past, LG, Samsung, HTC and Huawei all produced Google (Nexus/Pixel) phones.
>>> However, that research is Big Science,

Not all of it. The big science approach is a function of "pure" fusion research done from the assumption that containment/ignition only comes from magnetic fields and particle collisions. Some are approaching it from different directions, even using physical forces to trigger ignition (ie slamming the hydrogen with a big hammer). This isn't crazy stuff, just a more practical approach from people who see the problems from a different perspective.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Fusion

https://www.canadianbusiness.com/technology-news/crazy-geniu...

"At the centre will be a sphere, three metres in diameter, inside which molten lead swirls at high speed creating a vacuum, or vortex, in the middle. Arrayed around it will be 200 to 300 pistons, each the size of a cannon. Firing in perfect harmony, they will create an acoustic wave that collapses the vortex at the very moment a plasma injector shoots hydrogen isotopes, the nuclear fuel, into it. If General Fusion has its physics right, the heat and pressure will ignite a fusion reaction that spins off countless neutrons which will heat the lead even more. Pumped through a heat exchanger, that hot lead will help generate steam just like a conventional thermal power plant."
Spaghetti as a service, delicious
> 30 hour weeks. It sucks.

Sounds terrible
I think that is the key notion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_system

Handling resources isn't the definition of an OS.

Also asking "what is art?" is not the same as asking "what is an operating system?"

Art covers just about all human activity, the definition is extremely wide. I wouldn't say an OS has a definition that wide.
30 hour weeks — Do you mean in addition to a regular full-time job?
I'm especially fond of his description of boundaries and the trade-offs of different kinds of contracts between bounded contexts. There's also a lot of good insight into how we abuse the database and couple ourselves to it for the convenience of CRUD. Really feel like I should've picked up this book months ago.
I didn't know ReactOS has achieved 100% compatibility. That's great news!
Right, sorry for the confusion. I was responding to two separate items in the question. One was the price, the other was the age of the article. I thought the question was clearly asking about both. Question 1: is $40 fair? Question 2: is that price (or potentially any price) fair for an article over 30 years old? My opinion is that $40 is not a fair price for a single article, and yet it's required to make the subscription business model work. And my second opinion is that the duration of copyright should be shorter. Obviously these opinions are in conflict with the business with which I'm involved, and are certainly not shared by most others within the industry.
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> the only reason this could ever be acceptable of because of hate of Facebook

It's acceptable because it's perfectly legal in the UK. The world is not America. Other countries have different laws and systems of government.
I assume someone involved wants to launch a subscription product, yeah. And that person probably doesn't care about hearing how subscription products are really great.

But since this is B2B, it's pretty likely that not everyone at the buyer's company is convinced on the project and looking to buy a product. They might want to in-house everything, or not want a subscription product, or just be someone up the chain who doesn't know about the topic at all yet. It's one of the weirdest things about enterprise sales - it's not just informing people that products like yours exist, or pitching your merits over competitors. Instead, it tends to mean bolstering the business case someone at the company is already making.

(Actually, that might well be why the guy at the start of the story failed. I've seen people sell their product to employees as the best option for their needs, then lose out because management decides there's no need at all.)
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Flutter team member here.

Just letting you know we haven't forgotten about these issues and will be getting to them in the coming months. The iOS text issues, specifically, have someone looking into them sooner rather than later.
Some of the MorphOS people are dreaming about it and a few are purchasers. However, the MorphOS devs themselves haven't really said.

https://morph.zone/modules/newbb_plus/viewtopic.php?topic_id...

Might be fun to see AmigaOS on one of these too.
In the UK, Cyber Security Evaluation Centre (HCSEC) Oversight Board exists solely to oversee Huawei’s activities in the UK. You can read the latest report: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...

Huawei’s processes continue to fall short of industry good practice and
make it difficult to provide long term assurance. The lack of progress in
remediating these is disappointing. NCSC and Huawei are working with the
network operators to develop a long-term solution, regarding the lack of lifecycle
management around third party components, a new strategic risk to the UK
telecommunications networks. Significant work will be required to remediate this
issue and provide interim risk management.
NASA's Mars InSight mission to land around 240p eastern today
Joseph Stalin: "This war in not as in the past; whoever occupies a territory also imposes on it his own social system. Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach. It cannot be otherwise."

Substitute "army" "crushing economic leverage"
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I drove for Lyft one summer and someone who had just gotten into a serious motorcycle accident called me to take them to the ER. They bled all over my back seat, not to mention terrifying me because I have absolutely no training as a first responder. If you need to urgently go to the hospital, call a fucking ambulance, not an Uber!
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If they had a clear path to fusion and money were the only thing in the way, money would flow into it from every direction.

The problem is that nobody knows how to build a functioning reactor yet or if it's even possible to build a functioning reactor. It's very possible that we could throw trillions of dollars at this and still not figure it out.
Sure, local preferences and regulations do vary, and they matter. I'm sure a lot of countries are hesitant to use American CC networks too, given how American/everyone-else interactions sometimes go.

But, that doesn't really solve the problem, it merely pushes things around a bit. It's insufficient to say "credit cards aren't universally loved", because that does not imply that Bitcoin is the correct choice anywhere. It's perfectly possible that the local alternatives to CCs in other nations would still be preferred to Bitcoin. If one wants to sell the idea that BTC is a better choice than X, one must produce compelling reasons why this is so, preferably without relying on ideological statements that don't have universal appeal; I'm sure the goldbugs love BTCs anti-inflation nature, but that argument only carries the day with a very small group of people.
It did get me thinking about the 'cool horizons' paper again - https://arxiv.org/abs/1306.0533
So basically strongarming everyone into using hardware that the US government has a backdoor into.

Not going to lie, simply based on historical US international interventions, I'd rather be spyed on by the Chinese. They're less likely to start a war or overthrow governments.
This is about ISP equipment (routers and such), not consumer stuff.
faker than the moon landing!
I don't know about comically easy, but should be doable to have some sort of shared frontend.

$214 (even $100) is a really beefy vm, though. I wonder whats provisioned and why.
Cool. That didn't make any sense.
The "credibility" point is important. As I say in all data MOOC-related HN threads, these types of courses will not make you an expert, but they're very good at giving a background on the terminology so it's less arcane.
The part where Visa and banks know your name and address and the blockchain doesn't.
Wow, looks like it was also used in Microsoft and BBC News repos.. unless I read the updates incorrectly. Perhaps the attacker was targeting a specific user?
Look I totally agree the U.S and The West has plenty of problems that certainly to a degree match the Chinese issues. I could bang on about the prison industrial complex for hours.

However I think a key difference is that on your issues "women & minority rights, immigration, police brutality" there is actually a huge number of people who disagree with you. I know it's messed up and they are deluded or afraid etc. but the fact is they get to vote too and they would rather women be subjugated, the country be white, Mexicans are rapists. This is (subjectively) "bad people" and lawmakers using democratic institutions to create these systems and enact change, which is fundamentally different IMO.
Cumulus are the SMT-8s. I think you're thinking of the PowerNV vs PowerVM distinction.
HIPAA compliance, even on AWS is extremely expensive. I believe the best vendor to get HIPAA (someone correct me if I'm wrong) is to go with Google Cloud. Last time I checked did not charge any extra for HIPAA BAA signing.

Edit: I stand corrected on this, AWS no longer requires dedicated hardware for BAA HIPAA: Sorry I didn't look this up, I had old information.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/apn/aws-hipaa-program-update-re...
> A popular criticism of Go's approach is that the compiler doesn't force you to handle your errors, which is true, but I find that Go's culture suffices here...

The Go culture does suffice, but the Rust culture is even stronger here. Everyone is expected to use Result for something that can fail, which I like a lot for consistency's sake.

> The other popular criticism of Go's error handling is that it's verbose, which I wholly disagree with--the verbosity is such a negligible cost that I would much prefer verbose error handling to the language complexity required to elide them (especially if the proposed sugar required baking "errors" into the language as opposed to treating them like any other data).

Six months ago I would have agreed with you. And then I learned about error propagation using the question mark operator in Rust:

https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/second-edition/ch09-02-recove...

Arguments can be made about creating custom error messages at each call level, but is that really necessary most of the time?
I'm unclear on why this is a questionable usage. My wife keeps chickens, and going out morning and night to open the doors is...certainly not hard, but inconvenient (particularly the night one, as you often remember AFTER you've settled in for the night and must head out, regardless of weather.

Skipping the occasional visit doesn't work either - they need to get out both for general happiness and foraging, and if you don't close the door, creatures kill your chickens. (This has happened to us twice, and we're in the middle of suburbia, albeit the Seattle variety with more wildlife than the average cul-de-sac)

> The chicken coop opens and closes at the appropriate time of the day?

It's closed sometime after chickens have entered for the night, which tends to go off of sunlight, and opens early enough that the chickens aren't literally cooped up when they want out. That's rough, but the machine doesn't have to be perfect, it just has to do as well or better than we humans do.

As for what value does IOT add? Well, it can help confirm when it is/isn't working, but mostly it's that the cost is almost the same, at least for those of us without extensive electronics experience. Your alternative (I'm not sure how it's more robust) solution LOOKS cheaper, but I wouldn't know how to connect the parts and would likely screw up the amps/watts enough to break stuff and require replacement parts. For me, spending an extra $50 on parts is worth the saved time and effort - even as the $250 version that has no options for customization of behavior/interactions is NOT worth the saved time and effort.

Probably - it should be noted I've been researching this topic (along with any way to ensure the chickens ARE all inside - if they get broody they may nest elsewhere, which ends poorly) for the past year but so far we're still doing it manually. I expect this to change over the holidays.

> There's some great parallels here to an MVP in the software world.

Only in the vague "is this adding enough value to be worth it?" sort of way, but as the answer is "it depends" I'm not seeing the great learning opportunity you're implying.
Ask HN: How would you approach creating modular HTML templates for non-techies?
I am an intern developer at a company and I've been asked to put together some templates that can be used within their CMS to create basic pages. The system basically just accepts content in raw HTML form - there is external CSS but for bureaucratic reasons I can't change it so everything will have to be inline.

My current plan is just to create copy-pastable 'blocks' - such as one with straight text, one with an image on the left and text on the right, one that's the reverse, and one that's a bullet-pointed list. My coworkers who'd be using the system are technically competent enough to paste them within a master template and 'fill in the blanks', though I'd probably have a simple script that takes the content of a hidden <pre> tag and formats it as a series of paragraphs within each text section.

I feel like this is a fairly crude way to do things, however, so I wanted to ask the more experienced developers of HN whether there's a better approach that I've overlooked?
All the major DoH providers appear to also support DoT, so DoT is a viable option. Also it is easier to implement, as it can just be a abstraction of existing implementations over DNS over TCP.
"The polish and QA investment mass adoption provide make for much more solid products."

That's pretty much untrue unless by polish you mean "pretty but pointless IDEs and buzzword/checkbox compliance."

Ocaml is already very accessible, just on its own terms.
A company like Apple has a quarter trillion in cash laying around, they could jump start fusion and control near-limitless energy in several decades. I wish there was more of a visionary drive among institutions for intellectual curiosity and pushing the boundaries of humankind. And yes, I know why they don't... shareholders business plans risk blah blah blah. Reality is just so BORING. Maybe one day we'll find a way to make life's ultimate pursuit something more interesting than an optimization function on some integer in a bank server.
The promise of stellarators is continuous operation, whereas tokamaks traditionally rely on inductive pulses for the two-fold purpose of confinement and heating.
Everyone should look for a new job sooner (don’t wait for burnout, don’t wait if you’re not being promoted or seeing comp increases, don’t wait for the promise of reasonable hours). Congrats on the soft landing, sorry to hear you burned out first.
If anyone is interested in this kind of model of computation that has infinite precision: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_computation
Ugh, no choice to speed up the videos to 1.5x.
You are correct in theory. However, as the shares are not publicly traded share_price is very likely a bs number.
Seriously. Does anybody think GDPR is more than just virtue signaling so they can fine companies?
Google bought HTCs smartphone design team (finalized earlier his year), but as far as I've seen there is no reported exclusive manufacturing arrangement tied to that.
No disagreement. Aside from a few consumer and prosumer products, Adobe has always kept a hard line that their primary customer base is graphics professionals who are willing and able to pay for a premium product. At a time when retail software generally was dropping in price, Adobe maintained its pricing on most of its products. It's a strategy that's generally worked out pretty well for them during a period when business models around selling software have become much more challenging.
What’s Next for Marketplace Startups?
I think OP is referring to the spying / invasion of privacy itself as the aggression, not anything subsequent.
I think the other advantage is the size. The EATX size of the T2 and T2 Lite is a bit bulky for some applications. We're actually thinking of sticking the 4-core Blackbird we ordered in the home theatre and using it for media as well as general computing. The mATX form factor just gives you much more flexibility.
I agree. That particular slide really struck me as being "attention grabbing" in a way that had nothing to do with the actual point they were making on the slide.

It's a cool photo and visually appealing but I cannot think of a single thing about the image that has anything to do with the idea that "we are all living in a subscription economy."

I can think of some slides that would evoke that. Like a slide with an animation of money flowing out of my pocket incessantly as calendar pages are torn off a calendar. :)

I am feeling a bit biased against the "subscription economy" right now after only narrowly avoiding the "router as a subscription" that my internet provider wanted to saddle me with this weekend when I upgraded my plan.
Good point. But for my use case, I have hundreds or more of logfiles, and I parallelize at that level already. So I'm concerned with the total CPU time per file more than anything else.
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The combination of panic and recover is exactly like raise/throw and catch. One could even reasonably argue that both are both just a single specialized call/cc (You pass call/cc a function to execute, which receives an argument that allows immediate exit to the enclosing scope.) It's basically a kind of control flow operator. So what's the novelty here?
People have been using this line of reasoning in the last few years of tensions with Russia. I personally find it very irritating. NSA and CIA have some very bad points on their track records, so that means we need to excuse every other bad actor regardless of frequency and degree? Even if due process in the US is flawed or has slipped up in the past, it's still better than a lot of people get.

The implication is that our own shit has to be 100% spotless before we ask others to improve. Perfection doesn't exist, so that ends up being an excuse for nobody to improve.
Can't you turn it on, run your scripts and turn off again? I agree that it's weirdly expensive though.
It could still be optional for parties who trust each other. Chargebacks is not the only way to establish trust in a transaction.
I think fancy custom ligatures are actively un-helpful when trying to demonstrate something about code to a wide audience. Is it a custom operator? Is it a fancy codepoint like APL or Julia? Is it a pre-processor macro?

Personally, I don't like them in my editor either, but if you want to use one that's fine. But they're pretty confusing when encountering in code online.
> why is this down-voted?

You are responding with snark, on a topic on adapters for use in homes, with solutions that you yourself say are for "facilities above a certain size".

Your post is off-topic, but you might very well have been upvoted if you had presented it in a more positive way, like talking about your prior experience machining valves for your own heating system. That would have been interesting.
Ask HN: Does Decentralization Matter?
I recently read this article by Chris Dixon called "Why Decentralization Matters"[1]. Does decentralization matter at a meaningful scale, and if so, to what extent? To a small niche, to the public, or somewhere in between?

[1]: https://medium.com/s/story/why-decentralization-matters-5e3f79f7638e
It seems the top voted comment on every single China story on HN just lately is about the social credit system rather than the linked story. Strange.
We're on Azure and they definitely don't charge for a BAA. And it doesn't appear that AWS does either.
Moore's law and economies of scale wiped out any advantage that dedicated hardware could give.

It wasn't just Lisp or Smalltalk machines -- by the late 80s, early 90s, anything that wasn't an x86 machine was pretty much wiped out apart from the small percentage of the market that Apple held. Things that had been quite superior, like the Amiga's custom graphics chipset, the Motorola 68k CPU lineup, the DEC Alpha processor couldn't compete on cost at all -- let alone bespoke, effectively custom, architectures with exotic microcoded support for Lisp or Smalltalk, etc.
Gotcha. In that case probably just built by Foxconn like everything else.
Last I checked, F# on Mac still requires mono for development, its repl is super janky, and its tooling is all over the map. Have things improved in those areas in the last year or so?
What actually happens when I like or dislike?
This morning seems to be a roller coaster related to the Volt, stories said it was being cut, then people removed references to that, and now they're back to saying it will be cut. This Verge article[1] currently says production will end March 1, 2019 and Jalopnik agrees[2].

Obviously, they say they are focusing on electric. Maybe they are killing off the hybrid to focus on the purely electric. Maybe some new product will be released to replace it. It is far from clear at the moment.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/26/18112536/gm-layoffs-fact...
[2] https://jalopnik.com/general-motors-may-kill-the-chevrolet-v...