skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can purchase and then colocate 2x Dell R640s (8c/16t, 64gb of ram, as much NVMe storage as I can stomach) with tier 1 bandwidth billed at the 95th percentile and 24/7 remote hands support for about $150/month. The purchase price on the Dells is about $3500/ea.

Total first year cost on this setup: $8,800

Total three year cost on this setup: $12,400

2x m5d.4xlarge EC2 instances (this isn't counting ingress/egress rates, or really anything else) First year cost: $15,621 .

Total three year cost for the EC2 instance: $46,863.36

For the cost of using EC2 you could hire an extra person to help grow your company.

Yes, you can get discounts in AWS for agreeing to a three year term. Yes AWS offers you flexibility to walk away at any time.

If you have a base line load (which most companies do) you should really look at colocating your owned equipment. You also get the bonus of being out of the watchful eye of Amazon's profitability team looking to see if they can copy what you're doing.
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> Why is removing a feature better than letting run a bit slow?

If a restaurant runs out of food, there are gonna be some customers who would eat a turd sandwich, as long as they could eat something, but most customers would flip out and demand to know who would think shipping that out of the kitchen was okay.

Now the analogy isn't perfect, but I imagine there's a host of reasons around expectations of support and experience that Apple has no plans on addressing for those cases, and rather than having a lot of time wasted clogging support with something that will just frustrate the average customer regardless, better to leave the few complaints about why they can't have it, since after all, your complaint doesn't cost them a dime in potential support calls. Just a vague feeling like you're not getting everything you want for the price you're paying.

If you've ever been to Disneyland, you can see historically, the park is jam packed with people who have that same frustration, each a paying customer.

If my assumptions on their product calculus is correct, I know which of those options I'd choose, from a business perspective.
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Cars by Bird, Sedans by Lime.

It seems less promising, now that I see the piles of scooters in downtowns.
I was just thinking about how the agent could generate ephemeral PBX extensions. OTP-like would definitely be the way to go.

Edit: perhaps the extension would be per transaction, not per-agent, and when the customer calls the extension, the agents system can automatically pull up the customer’s account. These extensions should expire, but given the length of some customer calls, and how often I’ve been disconnected from customer service lately, perhaps it should be on the order of hours, not minutes or seconds
>building custom hardware out of TTL chips to eliminate all software/bios/firmware from the bootstrap

I'd be curious to learn more about this.
> China is now a nightmare dictatorship

Tibet, the great leap forward, among others.

And I'd clarify 'China' to 'the Chinese government'.
Sure. I'm wondering whether something like Dark Reader - i.e. an addon or even as a standard browser feature - might be more helpful to people who genuinely need dark mode everywhere, rather than trying to persuade thousands of site owners and designers to individually provide some kind of dark styling (and as is apparent in the thread, not doing so perfectly, e.g. with images).
It's been decades. That means "Check!" right?
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These fraud alert calls (in my experience of course) generally don't have any ID verification so there's no real danger from the user side in interacting with them. They just ask do you recognize these charges and that's it and then initiate any fraud response. From the bank side the worst is if the number has been hijacked but the user would still be able to dispute the charges later through the normal means but CC cloners probably rarely do that so it's not a huge issue.
With regard to the phone number spoofing: I recently had an actual call from American Express's security department marked by AT&T as "Fraud Risk," presumably because it's been spoofed in the past. It delayed the detection and resolution of the theft of my card number (not by much, but still...). It's criminal that we haven't better secured the Caller ID system.
I don’t understand how they were able to get the actual transactions, which op verified as correct
Wouldn't just having a second key which the government keeps in escrow in case they need to decrypt a message achieve exactly what you are saying is impossible?

Others have already pointed out the problems of who has access to that key, I'll simply point out that the system would potentially collapse under its own weight. If there is a single master key then it's a huge risk. If that risk is recognized and there's a way to invalidate and replace that master key then suddenly you have an entire additional infrastructure of communications for key replacement that has to be in place. If you have multiple separate keys generated at the initiation of each encrypted communication, then there has to be a separate secure infrastructure for transmission of the additional key to some government entity. As a side note that potentially secure infrastructure by law probably has to have the same key sharing requirements. You also run into problems with things like embedded systems, and if you don't think that's a problem look back at the problems in the networking stack used in vxworks and other embedded systems that are in the field and effectively unpatchable.

Edit: ipnet, URGENT/11, https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/urgent-11-vxw...

Edit2: I forgot to mention, this is an all or nothing decision. If you're mandating this it has to apply to ALL communications or you end up with things shifting channels. Banking transactions? Master key. Medical patient portals? Master key. VPN to the office? Master key. Any secure website connection? Master key. You likely have to make using any non keyed encryption illegal with severe penalties, and you have to devise a system in which it's possible to identify encrypted communications not encrypted with that key without that key being available.
But we agree that that's the background and Taiwan hasn't reached consensus to change the official policy, right?

OP is getting dogpiled for pointing out the grade school history overview of the topic.

As for whether the threat of invasion is the deciding factor on the official ROC policy.. I think it's better explained by the fact that everything is going fine with two Chinas. They trade a ton, everyone's happy.

Why mess with that just because the diplomatic positions don't make logical sense?
Algebraic notation wasn't in common use in the US until the 80s. 3BSD was released in 1979.
Civic Museum is on the lookout for an amateur who can crack a '30s-era safe
I'd say not only doable, but would likely also encourage better habits initially. This question reminds me of a school I read about that taught programming using only pencil and paper.
> (but not at the same time)

Nice reference.
No kidding... the Nobel committee seems to aim for nearly-posthumous far too often.
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Queen's pawn game:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen%27s_Pawn_Game

[edit] See also "Ken, Unix and Games" by Dennis Ritchie:

https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/ken-games.html
Every financial institution has a mobile app now. They should just add a secure voice chat feature to the app instead of relying on phone calls.
Hi could you post the summary here too
The one-China policy was set at the time the KMT had one-party rule over the ROC. The DPP have no interest in pursuing the claim to the mainland.
That's actually pretty surprising.
Games are speech; all speech is political.

There's a reason Metal Gear rewards players for avoiding a head-on fight at least as often as engaging one (and rewarded players significantly more often in the original games).

Hell, there's a reason there are bishops on the board in chess and they move diagonally.
I think the storage space figure for the Bolt is a bit theoretical. Its storage area is tall, but otherwise a relatively small area behind the rear seats that would be difficult to fully utilize.

Standing next to them makes the difference in dimensions readily apparent. The Bolt just looks tiny. My current car is an RX-8 with rear suicide doors because of its limited space. Even it looks larger than a Bolt (probably because it is 1 foot longer than the Bolt).
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> Preemptively bounce any application servers

Do you mind explaining this?
I liked Artifact quite a bit, but I'll admit that it wasn't "fun" at all to me. I played it for the challenge, similar to how people will go to the gym, do puzzles, or do difficult hikes. They marketed it as a fun game for everyone, but in reality it was designed for people who wanted to play competitively.
> Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email us and we'll look at the data.

While accusations of brigading are common, I don't think the accusation is cheap in this case, you and I are both aware that the brigading happens on China related articles - we've spoke about it directly with each other via email. I would assume per the above you're looking at the data.

The last part is a bit of a deliberate trap - I've stated a fact, that the CCP agreed to provide HK with 'a high degree of autonomy'. If the anti-democracy suspects should downmod it, because it promotes allowing HK to do what the CCP agreed, they would be accusing their masters of lying. I quite deliberately did not make any allegation that the CCP would lie.
Before Twitter those political leaders would just privately have a laugh about the genocide they just green lighted over a glass of scotch.
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> could everyone who makes up GNU who don't like RMS just fork it and work on that instead?

Three possibilities:

1. RMS steps down. The project stays together but loses one pesron who "...does not write software...does not design software, or systems."

2. RMS refuses to step down. People who don't like his leadership stop developing on their current projects entirely.

-2a. This is a relatively small number of people; the project continues, but they have at least a dozen fewer people who do actually write and/or design software.

-2b. This is a large number of people; the GNU project is crippled or becomes untenable.

3. RMS refuses to step down. People who don't like his leadership fork the project.

-3a. This is basically everyone. This is similar to 1, (or a combination of 1 and 2a), but with a branding change (similar to OpenOffice -> LibreOffice, or Xfree86 -> Xorg).

-3b. This is about half the people. Both projects subsequently struggle to find the labor to continue operating; this is similar to 2b.

-3c. This is a minority of people; the new project struggles and eventually dies. This is similar to 2a.

Even though 3a would work, it's sub-optimal; but there's a significant risk of 3b. 1 is the best option if possible, so it's obviously the option to try first.
Nope, it means "good move". Check is +
Calling twice in rapid succession is an emergency feature for Android (possibly other) phones when in Do Not Distrub mode. It bypasses the DND when you call twice like that. Usually, only the numbers on your Starred list can call without getting blocked by DND.

The recipient may believe they had starred the number because of this, making them more likely to pick up the call.
> Is your argument that adopting democracy and the rule of law are risky to elites and the ruling party?

No, just trying to explain why China does not go all-in and jump to the democracy train.

CCP apparently don't want to build something (Institution of democracy for example) that will later overthrow them (too risky, even maybe there is something good in it), and elites are bounded with CCP (That's why many of them are allowed to be elites). For CCP, "Without the CCP, There Would Be No New China"[0] is still the safest approach to any domestic problems.

Also, the westerners did not bring democracy into China, so Chinese people are not necessarily benefited from the western democracy. No benefit, no motive.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Without_the_Communist_Party,_T...
I can't give you a good answer for that as the fastest plan my ISP provides in my area is 100/10. This setup maxes that out no problem (which isn't surprising or impressive), usually hitting about 130/15 due to turboboost or whatever word they're using for temporary speed increases these days.

I think you can find some better info with a search though.
should be there in a couple of hours though
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Well...maybe they shouldn't, its definitely not the first group of people we have armed/trained/funded and let down when push comes to shove.

Perhaps we should stop funding/arming/training people militarily to begin with.
> face weeks of public backlash

I think you're over selling gamers here, they're generally quite pathetic when it comes to organised protests and self control.

They all cried for a week when Blizzard screwed up Diablo, then a few months later those exact same people bought wow classic and another HS expansion.

Nothing remotely serious will come of this.
He would have had to expend quite some calories to type that out every time on an ancient keyboard with chunky keys and massive travel.
Actually most other continents have far less rivers which lend themselves to easy shipping. Also development in Europe was ahead of the curve in the last couple hundred years (and before we did not have the technology for locks and easy travel upriver). Now that everyone has catched up (or is in the process) there are fare quicker/easier/cheaper/flexible options like trains, trucks, planes available. So the pressure to build good waterways is way less.
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Exclam! Generally a good move, perhaps even unexpectedly so. Double exclam, !!, being a brilliant move, especially one with flair like a sacrifice. Triple exclam is reserved for the games of Emory Tate. ;)
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e4 is more common. d4 is second.
As a huge CCG buff (top 10-100 finishes in YGO, Hearthstone, MTGA), I tried to get into Artifact for ~80hrs. There are some really great things buried in the game:

1. The heroes add a bit of consistency to draw RNG. The equipment to upgrade them was also pretty cool.

2. The three lanes set up can create some crazy mind gaming / outplay comebacks.

3. The draft experience was fantastic. The color restrictions of the heroes was a bit less punishing than MTG but still required some thought.

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Unfortunately there were WAY too many issues for the game to survive:

1. Expense was way too high to play constructed. No one is going to pay ~$60 for a single deck in an unproven game.

2. The RNG was too obvious. It doesn't matter how skill based the game actually was when a significant portion of games were decided by coin flip attacks. The frustration will drive people away.

3. Game length. 20 minutes is just too long to spend with Artifacts simple mechanics and RNG losses.

4. Progression. There was no meaningful rewards for playing. Keeper drafts were prohibitively expensive. Getting packs naturally was just too slow to feel like you'd ever be able to make a decent deck. Competitive ranking was non-existent at release.

I actually think an Artifact re-launch could be successful.
You buy when the trust is at a larger discount than normal in a bear market or look for trusts where there is corporate action going on and the shares will be rerated or trust will be wound up.

You presumably could short a quoted trust or us CFDs or buy warrants but that's a bit rich for me.
They self-deal. The loans are used to pay management and other fees from affiliates entities.

When the parasite finishes the digestion of the host and it goes bankrupt, they get to write down the losses against the money made on those fees, and the actual losses are distributed amongst the partners in the syndicate.
Unrelated question: I went to my bank for a wire transfer. And I was horrified to find out that after verifying my info, they had full access to the same web interface I use, with my accounts. They even showed it to me, asking me which account I'd like the money to go out from. Is it common for banks to grant this kind of access to employees?
Thompson is a person of class, hence opening with the queen's pawn. The Kings Gambit accepted is too brutish.
> 3) "We've sent a verification pin to your phone."

> ~ Gets verification pin text from bank's regular number ~

> Me: <reads out the pin>

I think I'd be able to stop them and refuse at this step. But I suppose it depends on what sort of text shows up in the verification SMS message.
The physical services provided by these startups are fronts for erecting a mass surveillance infrastructure that collects user data. When you reach a certain point, you become a data company regardless of what particular service you started out providing.

Amazon sold books. They collected enough personal data and built out their infrastructure enough that it allowed them to branch out into...everything. Facebook was a glorified online forum. Now they are minting a new currency and working on the frontier of VR. Uber was a taxi company. Now they are into computer vision, AI, robots, mapping, etcetera.

That's the model that these companies are trying to follow.
Beyond that I would expect legal precedence set to sanitize inappropriate thoughts. I don't see any of this as far fetched. People will do what people can do.
I don't know about the German system, but here they use EMV-CAP: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chip_Authentication_Program
Thanks! I heard their estimates can be wildly inaccurate, but I didn't think that can mean wrong by order of magnitude...
Not in the way intended y combinator doesn't do MBO's or dodgy debt loading as far as I know
I really like the logic behind this one: https://www.xkcd.com/936/

It also doesn't require any special characters and its quite easy to remember.
There's the Message-ID field, but do e-mail clients (apart from Mutt) let you search for the message with a given Message-ID?
I'm curious too, could it be due to the way the search space is explored in parallel?
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> it's also possible that Chinese citizens will make a society that's free and liberal for them but not for everyone else.

In the short term, probably, but change takes time. It took 90 years for the US to ban slavery and another 100 for minorities to officially be equal in the eyes of the law.
It's really infuriating. I've been using the 10.15 betas since june. Every single time I build&run my binary in Xcode, macOS asks if it should have access to my Documents folder. I click `yes` every time, but it never remembers. It's just become an annoying extra step to my development cycle.
And calling "It was the best of times" the beginning of a famous Dickens quote hides the fact that it's also the beginning of many other valid English sentences, I suppose.

There is nothing incorrect about the article's statement.
I don’t want that feature in my camera since the geo data is phenomenal for organizing and search. I want the metadata in my copy just not in the copy I upload.
The conclusion I always reach in these discussions is that if people truly want encryption, they will have to do it themselves and not rely on others. Others can always be forced or otherwise coerced, legally or otherwise.
Companies that may go bankrupt are paying higher interest than normal, stable SP500 companies. This is attractive to people who want to get higher returns at the expense of additional risk. In other words, the existence of these loans is a necessity due to the way the market operates.
> Clinton began his term believing that trade sanctions could pressure China to improve human rights conditions. But after a year of debilitating debate, he was forced to reverse his policy of link- ing trade to human rights.
>He was right to do so. By continuing to grant MFN to China, Clinton will help advance the $38 billion trading relationship which the U.S. now enjoys with the world's fastest growing economy. Moreover, by increasing prosperity in China through greater trade, the U.S. can help to create the economic freedoms that are the foundation upon which political freedom will someday emerge.

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>Clinton began to end this spectacle of confusion last week when he decided to renew MFN almost with- out condition. Perhaps the most important aspect of his decision is philosophical; the President has now adopted the view that trade relations must be separated from U.S. political goals with China. Moreover, he has endorsed the view that increased U.S.-China trade can promote economic freedoms, which in the long run will spur the growth of political freedoms in China.

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>This step alone will help to reassure Asian friends and adversaries that Clinton plans to get a better grip on foreign policy.

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>Now that Clinton has reversed his policy, he should move quickly to exact a price-of Beijing's cooperation in two areas of critical concern to the U.S. They are:

* Ending North Korea's nuclear threat...

* Better treatment for Hong Kong and Taiwan...

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https://www.heritage.org/report/the-collapse-clintons-china-...
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This puts Blizzard in too soft a light, as if they have no choice.

A better comparison is Blizzard being a store owner who sells cakes to everyone, when one day a Nazi comes in and says you can't sell cakes to that uppity black person who upset me or you'll never be able to sell cakes to Nazis again.

Blizzard then gets to decide which is more important, business with Nazis or standing up for a core set of values.

As may occur in this instance, the free market may decide if they're going to side with Nazis, Nazis get to be their only client.

At this point people are deciding how delicious they think Blizzard cakes are, and if they still want to eat them.
If you're worried enough, I think there's some trick where you use multiple different C compilers made by different organizations to build (let's say) gcc. Then you use all those gccs to rebuild gcc in a deterministic way. If all of those rebuilt gccs are byte-for-byte the same, then either it's safe, or all of the initial compilers you used were in cahoots. Depending on who you pick to start, that's arguably very unlikely.
I've got bad news for you, but the current state of rabid hiring means that this was very likely written by people that airbnb calls "data scientists" or "machine learning engineers", I'm sure half of these people have a phd in some arbitrarily "quantitative" field.

The state of all large companies that I've seen that are not FAANG is that they are rushing to build teams of "data scientists" that slap together keras models and "ship" them, meaning the outputs are stuffed in a db only to be consumed by other keras models.

My favorite gem from the original paper, which shows the sad, sad state of deep learning in industry is this line:

>Out of sheer habit, we started our first model by
initializing all weights and embeddings to zero, only to discover that is the worst way to start training a neural network.

I can't imagine anyone who has even a mild understanding of how neural networks are implemented and trained making this mistake.
>If you’re visually impaired, most internet memes are inaccessible. That needs to change.

Yeah, memes are exactly what researchers should spend time and resources on, especially with regards to blind people.