skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes we cannot re-simulate the world or do A/B testing with different versions of it. It is what it is.

I find Progress to be a nebulous/relative term. Defining it depends whether on you can measure things. Things that cannot be measured are outside its purview. For all our pervasive data gathering capability we lack intuitive understanding of how the complex interconnected adaptive system, that is the real world, works. Some change one would consider minor or harmless might balloon into a crisis years down the line, because the conditions have changed or we didn't consider feedback or were not even aware of it.

I agree with you that whether to act or not is indeed a dilemma. But when we do, the question is, are we acting with this humbling awareness, or are we just arrogantly tinkering with it. In hindsight, we find it has been mostly the latter, at least for the last 500 years.

And you are right, that is just how it is.
I'd say that's more of a genre problem than a streaming problem. Metal and less-commercial rock styles still have the album model as king. I hear hiphop tends to follow that too.
yep, was just abstract earlier
Actually, the opposite is true.

People who actually need anonymity need to hide among traffic that is boring. If you reduce the number of hops your crawler is using, you're reducing the amount of boring traffic and making it easier to find the interesting people.

Running a relay in addition to using Tor in the normal way is a good idea, however, as it increases the bandwidth of the network.
> Sigh

Really solid argument here.

I notice you switched my example from a parking garage to a restaurant. The normal model of a restaurant meal is that the restaurant gives you food, and then, later, you owe them money. Without settlement, you owe them a debt. You were only able to spend the Titan by tricking the restaurant into giving you free food. It's very rare for commercial transactions to take this form, of complete delivery by one side followed only after delivery is complete -- and the delivered goods have been destroyed -- by any payment whatever.

The model of a parking garage, by contrast, is that you give them your car and then, later, you want to buy it back. Until you choose to pay in a manner they accept, they'll keep your car. This isn't much of a victory for you.

> So for the last time: no, you cannot spend a barrel of oil like you can a 100 million GBP note.

Once again, yes, you can. Try to spend a 100 million GBP note. You'll find that you can't. (Among many other more serious problems, how would the other party make change?) It's easier to spend the barrel of oil, and you do that on the same terms -- raw negotiation -- that apply to the note.
A Stream of Consciousness Rant on Decontamination and Demolition Projects
Thomas Cook Flying Programme
Good question (I'm assuming realisation of the no-snark doctrine).

No-self is a form of emptiness; "emptiness of self", as you might say. The belief in a self is considered to be the root of suffering, so extinguishing that belief extinguishes suffering. This is the culmination of the path of the "hearers" - those who heard Sakyamuni speak.

The mahayana teaching on emptiness goes further. Not just the self, but all phenomena, arise dependent on chains of causation with no beginning; nothing has independent existence. Nothing can be relied on, everything is like models made of tissue-paper. Various kinds of logical reasoning have been developed to get this kind of perspective.

Insight into this kind of emptiness includes insight into no-self, because the self is a phenomenon too, and one that is empty of independent existence like all other phenomena.

Realisation of the emptiness of all phenomena is said to engender compassion. One's personal suffering might not diminish at all.

Incidentally, I used the term "hinayana", which can be translated as "narrow path", and is considered to be a put-down by some people. I do not mean it as a put-down, I am just using it as a term for those kinds of Buddhist teaching that don't embrace the doctrine of emptiness. I think that all such forms of Buddhism are now historical; in particular, I have been told that the Theravada teachings that are current especially in South-East Asia are not the same as hinayana - that Theravada includes significant mahayana influences.
>The whole idea of serverless is so you don't have to manage infrastructure

Is this even achievable with Lambda though? Even with Lambda, you still have to configure your "infrastructure", just that instead of ELB and EC2, you now have to manage APIGW and Lambda, and any other "wiring" that you need to put in to do what you needed.

All in all, I can't really say Lambda is really all that "easy" considering options like AWS EB/ECS can be setup relatively easily.
PSA: porting an existing application one-to-one to serverless almost never goes as expected. Couple of points that stand out from the article:

1. Don’t use .NET, it has terrible startup time. Lambda is all about zero-cost horizontal scaling, but that doesn’t work if your runtime takes 100 ms+ to initialize. The only valid options for performance sensitive functions are JS, Python and Go.

2. Use managed services whenever possible. You should never handle a login event in Lambda, there is Cognito for that.

3. Think in events instead of REST actions. Think about which events have to hit your API, what can be directly processed by managed services or handled by you at the edge. Eg. never upload an image through a Lamdba function, instead upload it directly to S3 via a signed URL and then have S3 emit a change event to trigger downstream processing.

4. Use GraphQL to pool API requests from the front end.

5. Websockets are cheaper for high throughput APIs.

6. Make extensive use of caching. A request that can be served from cache should never hit Lambda.

7. Always factor in labor savings, especially devops.
Agree with you, Lambda would make a lot more sense if it was kind of a scaffold for your application.

Say you only have 1k users and don't want to spend too much time on infrastructure, lambda is a perfect fit for it. Your application is taking off and now you have 100k: just click a button and migrate it to a Fargate/ECS. That would be the perfect world.

AFAIK the only framework that supports this kind of mindset is Zappa (https://www.zappa.io). I use it in production but never had to migrate out of AWS Lambda so I'm not sure about the pain points related to it.
Jerk 0ff daily?
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21045573, where I found this
Cross wiring user data is always a bad bug. Especially when it has to deal with payments and credit card data. I hope this is a very rare thing and they find the cause quickly. Could be in user authentication, the payment card tokens, or one of any numbers of things. My bet would be on Auth.
> Science is almost always incremental

FTFY.

It is good work. But let's not kid ourselves. Science is made by small steps while standing on the shoulders of giants, not in leaps and bounds.
Well... yeah... but now we have a Commissioner for the "European way of life". Last time I checked that same person ought to be the commissioner for immigration.
Transforming Operators in Swift Combine: Map vs. FlatMap vs. SwitchToLatest
As I understand it, the author conducted the test on an unusually slow connection. With a roundtrip time of almost half a second. Even a typical consumer line is multiple times faster.

He states that the workload is "saving one event to the database".

And then sees 0.42s for his old solution and 0.48s for the serverless solution.

Even if the server waits for the event being written to disk before it answers the request - that should be a negligible time compared to the roundtrip time he sees.

So the "15%" only hold for his very slow connection. If he repeated the same test on a faster connection, then it could turn out the serverless architecture is not only 15% slower but multiple times slower.

If 0.40s of those "0.42s vs 0.48s" he sees are due to his slow connection, then on a fast line it would be 0.02s vs 0.08s. Then his conclusion would be "4x slower" instead of "15% slower".
Serverless is a cool solution looking for a problem to solve.
However much I want to use it, eg. not having to manage servers myself, I can't find any use case where it would make sense.
1/10 and 1/100 are both fractions. If 1/10 of the salary of a developer is saving 1/100 of that developer's time, you lost. Fractions are not equal, blanket statements about fractions are not good business practice.
This shouldn't matter. If the task wasn't timed, then computer literate people would still be able to find the required features, while the illiterate people wouldn't feel comfortable clicking through menus and trying to figure out how to use the program in hand.

If you want to be pedantic about this then using GMail or Outlook would probably have increased the scores some what, because a lot of people already know how to use them, but that probably doesn't answer the questions posed in the study since even most illiterate computer user can perform complicated tasks if they were shown how to do it (assuming they are of about average intelligence)
I think this is an important consideration that a lot of people miss. One of the trends of both serverless and containers it that compared to older models they are allowing smaller and smaller teams to do bigger and bigger things.

So, in certain respects it's an enabler. Context always matters.
https://2019.www.torproject.org/docs/onion-services
> Money is not a system of control. Debt is a system of control.

As if money and debt are unrelated. Debt is a function of money, and most of us are born in debt because the country we are born in keeps lending money(trillions). We have to acquire money to get and stay out of debt.
this brings back memories :') love it. thanks for sharing.
What kind of shape does the second-to-last one make?
> The whole idea of serverless is so you don't have to manage infrastructure. OS patching, mucking around with Docker and and port fowarding rules are all removed once you go down the serverless route.

If this were the reason to use Serverless, it doesn't buy you much. Ports? You set that up once and you're done forever. OS patching? You already have to manage patches for your app and its libraries, so OS (really container) patching is just another part of your patching strategy.

The reasons to use Serverless is the same as everything else in the cloud: 1) fast scaling, 2) sometimes it is cheaper depending on X, and finally 3) you don't have to think about where to run it.
In that case the shareholders should be held responsible for leaving people stranded.
What criteria do you use to shortlist CVs for technical roles?
How do you identify peaks in CVs i.e aggressively select some candidates?
How do you identify red flags in CVs i.e. aggressively reject candidates?
Predicting the future is a job for fortune tellers, not developers. Being sure about what will be the cost in 5 years is beyond fortune telling. Based on what I know, my company will continue to have on-premise servers and all the companies in the sector will continue to do the same. "server software" is not just Internet software, the world is larger than that.
Weird, for some reason your comments are being instantly marked as "dead." I think there's some kind of filter that's tripping out for your account since it's new. I vouched for your two comments so hopefully everyone can see them now, but an admin (i.e. dang?) will need to look into this for a longer term solution.
Like others have mentioned, then you need JACK.

The majority of laptop/desktop users are watching youtube videos and movies, or listening to music. Where some latency isn't really an issue.

Choice here is good, and the _good_ thing is that pulseaudio is not core to your operating system so it can be swapped out. :)
If you really are concerned then why would things be different without the registry?

Unless you bought you gun and ammunition using cash there already is a paper trail leading straight to you.
If percentile refers to tenths, what does decile mean and what's the difference between the top percentile and the top decile?
Any http-aware software that supports socks proxies can access information on hidden services, so any crawler can do it. I fail to see what is novel about that, except that it uses k8s and mongo and a catchy blog title.
My take on AWS Lambda is that it is the perfect glue code to automate operations between different AWS services, but not really something you want to build your entire application on. Especially since you need to make Lambda-specific optimizations in your deployed function to get good a good performance/price trade-off.
Crypto can perfectly be used as transferable debt. As a matter of fact, smart contracts can handle this use case much better than traditional money can.
I don't get it then - you asked when do people have meetings outside normal working hours as if it was some sort of travesty that nobody would 'have the gall' to do, and now you're saying it's absolutely fine you just move your hours around...
If you have predictable load and constant expenses then yes, lambda should cost more than EC2 ondemand, and hardware hosting should cost less than cloud. You started development on AWS, but once infrastructure become static and all tasks well known, you can migrate and find the same of even faster hardware for almost half price. Cloud gives you a lot of flexibility, serverless make flexibility almost unlimited, but it should have its price.
This exists in a more advanced form already

https://wicg.github.io/webpackage/draft-yasskin-http-origin-...
Where in the world is your surname most present?
How to Protect Yourself from NPM
There are definitely still things you need to think about with Lambda, like how much memory you want to allocate etc.
I suspect that this might be a varies-by-country thing, certainly in the UK 30 days is the norm, 90 days would be a bit odd.

But I think Italy are mostly 90 days (apparently due to that being Fiat's terms, and everyone else followed suit).
And they use free42 under the hood :).
If they are using orbital angular momentum (OAM) coding in normal EM radiation we would not discover it yet because we don't listen for it.
> But you could issue transferable denominated in bitcoin or gold.

Correct. As a matter of fact, this already exists: some Swiss Bank has started issuing certificates of ownership where the underlying is BTC.
Hm why is the domain "first"? This is definitively not a first, seems to be more or less a copy-paste of previous "no-harm" efforts. This is the first time I've seen one with a link to patreon attached to it however which is... interesting.

> * The software may not be used by individuals, corporations, governments, or other groups for systems or activities that actively and knowingly endanger, harm, or otherwise threaten the physical, mental, economic, or general well-being of underprivileged individuals or groups.

This is basically a fuck-off clause that's not well defined, I doubt it's even remotely enforceable.

For example, one can argue with pretty solid references to studies that Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and other social media platforms are knowingly endangering and harming the mental well-being of all it's users, and they do it for profit.
'Perfectly real' deepfake videos are 6 months away: report
The fact that articles from Nature are getting flagged now is beyond dark.
Vested interests, desperate denial or plain delusion?
I hate adding extra latency, cold start times meant that for any API that was serving data to a customer lambda is a no go for me. Cold start times, just suck for UX imo.

I have one lambda function in my backend at the moment. It is a trigger from Cognito to create a user in my database. It makes sense here, this lambda will only be run once for each user.
Yeah, that would have been a much better fit. I just didn't know you could put ALB in front. (Also, a "load balancer" in front of serverless... , and yes I know load balancer do more than load balance.)

I mainly went with API Gateway since that's the default setup the serverless framework uses.
I really enjoyed his book "Keys to Infinity".
Given that the Air Travel Trust has £170 million of cash and £400 million of insurance; that when Monarch Airlines failed they could repatriate "around 110,000 passengers" for £16.3 million [1]; and that Thomas Cook's collapse leaves about 150,000 holidaymakers [2] in need of repatriation; it seems unlikely the funds will fail to cover the problem.

There might be other expenses, outside the scope of the ATT, that the government ends up paying - there are estimates as high as £600 million [3] - but arguably that's a sign the scope of the compulsory insurance scheme should be broader, not narrower :)

[1] http://publicapps.caa.co.uk/docs/33/ATT_Accounts_2018.pdf
[2] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-49791249
[3] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-49781920
Perhaps compensation is higher for those with shorter songs, possibly due to being paid per play of the song?
You should have a play with Shortcuts on the iPhone - or Swift Playground, or any other the plethora of 3rd party coding platforms that run on iOS.
The part that worries me is that companies are increasingly seeing it as their social responsibility to gang up and destroy "bad" people like Stallman.
The vast majority of office chitchat is like a carrier wave in radio. It doesn't transmit much information other than I am a normal human who you can turn to when it is needed. There is a fair amount of politics etc that is conveyed more through body language and dominance dynamics rather than the actual words exchanged.
Thanks for the link. To close the loop the audio kernel documentation in AudioKit Synth One references the OP.

https://github.com/AudioKit/AudioKitSynthOne/blob/master/Aud...

It's interesting in that it's written in Objective-C++ which in xcode are suffixed with .mm - This is for performance reasons I assume.

I didn't know about Objective-C++ and here is a link about it. Is it kind of pushed into a dusty closet? Because I only found an archive.org link.

https://web.archive.org/web/20101203170217/http://developer....
Can somebody provide context on this study? It's sometimes interesting to get a glimpse at the state of a field. Is it just that or is there more to it?
Unfortunately that's not how the DMCA works.

Once they've submitted a DMCA notice, the hosting company has to take it down within 2 days unless you file a counter-notice, which has to personally identify you and be signed "on penalty of perjury".

None of the DMCA process has anything to do with whether the claimant has a legitimate copyright claim over the work.
If all gun owners could at least pass "I am capable of passing a firearm safety test" then world would be a better place. Think of just how many children die each year because their parents don't know how to store a firearm safely. Same goes for spree shooters if they had to first go through licensing program their obvious mental health issues could be noticed before they execute on their plan.

Just because gun license wouldn't solve every single edge case doesn't make it a bad idea.

>If we would get something similar with firearms licenses, there would probably still be too many firearms to help stop the glut of firearms.

A tax and mandatory insurance for gun ownership could also be imposed like with cars. This would mean that people with licenses wouldn't want to deal guns to unlicensed people because they would still have to pay for the insurance and tax on every firearm they own.

Even if current gun owners were grandfathered in this would at least slowdown new gun ownership and obviously inherited guns would follow the new scheme.
I foind Snapchat impossible too, but I get the feeling that to an extent its deliberate gatekeeping to keep us old folk out.
I distinctly remember tat for a long time I was using OSS instead of ALSA, because I have seen that behavior as a desirable feature for me :)
Apple AR Headset FOV, Codename, and Stereoscopic Rendering Found in iOS 13.1
the answer is: lambda! Try paying attention
"...it compromised its commitment to open source software, partnering with Microsoft to put Windows on the XO-1." apropos https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21045765
I suppose you don't maintain a friends list on those 15 accounts.
Soap and REST at Odds
The cubic earth made me laugh; I'm currently making a planetary terrain generator which uses a normalised cube to generate spherical terrain, so this was particularly close to home :)
The UK requires that any outfit selling flights where you pay them and they promise to sort everything out, rather than they just execute and you get a bunch of tickets, passes etcetera in exchange for your money - joins ATOL and pays a small fee for every such holiday sold.

That fee is held by a central organisation that spends the money to fix things when one of these companies collapses, in particular to make sure all the random Brits abroad get put on a plane home.

It exists because the seasonal nature of the business means it's very common (routine in fact: https://www.caa.co.uk/ATOL-protection/Make-an-ATOL-claim/Lat...) for small outfits to go bankrupt, and otherwise their customers get stuck and then the government has to either suffer terrible headlines about why didn't they do anything, or spend money flying home idiots who took a bad gamble.

The account is certainly too small to cover Thomas Cook. But on the other hand, even just having the mechanism in place means the government has a pre-existing organisation to say "OK, fix this, but we understand you don't have the money so we'll pay" rather than trying to cobble something together only now.

/Maybe/ this experience will mean the fee is subsequently increased for new holidays. But my guess would be that's unpalatable and the argument will be made that a failure of this scale is not something the rest of the industry should anticipate and fund, whereas the constant drip of smaller failed travel companies is predictable.

Compare the 2008 financial crisis. There's a much stronger protection for banks in the UK called "Last man standing". In principle the government can allow banks to fail, and remaining licensed banks pick up the entire cost. This is indeed what happens for small banks. However in practice of course allowing even a single very large bank to collapse might be so disruptive that it's intolerable regardless of whether you believe the other banks can afford to pay for the aftermath.
This has been in planning between the CAA and major airlines since at least December 2018. (See 'Project Matterhorn').

The operation will temporarily be the 5th largest airline in the UK, with a fleet of around 50 aircraft.
Saving and Processing Sensor Data with Node-Red and WarpScript
> requires a complete re-architect of your stack.

Not necessarily. The reason I decided to try this was exactly because I found a tutorial showing you could easily host a bog-standard ASP.NET web app on Lambda with the serverless framework. I had to add a small startup class, and one config file to our existing app and I was up and running.
This is a good tool, but the execution of the website is disappointing.

1. Only showing excerpts of the highest threat levels. Trying to view the less severe threats asks us to email in. If you're willing to volunteer the information, why the hoops?

2. "Play a short game to continue using this tool" ensures I'm not going to share this with anyone. Putting a stranglehold on users is _never_ the way forward. I might have volunteered my time if I were at home and browsing through. I can't when I'm quickly flicking through during taking a five minute break from looking at work. But it's left me with a final negative impression before being unceremoniously blocked off.