skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If they see it’s the cause they can decide. From that i can tell there is very little evidence that Denuvo causes problems if well implemented so i doubt there is much incentive to remove it.
"The last war USA "won" was WWII."

Well, in Europa is was a German-Russian war.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwKPFT-RioU
Please tell me that 'watan-farosh' MEK is not behind that link.
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Serverless = Managed Server
I would guess the high price is partly because there is not so much demand and they don't have the volume. It's a niche product. I think it makes sense to set the price way up and only target the people who really want this. Why does everything have to appeal to some abstract group of 'most cosumers'?
Or until we discover how many fewer billions Earth can support at +4C
Biometrics are relatively convenient and very safe when they're used in place (not remotely) with a human agent overseeing. No cops have ever let a suspect pop out to buy a 3D printer and some custom moulds before taking their prints. The airbase's gate guard isn't going to let you substitute a custom-made adversarial JPEG image for your face after asking you to roll down the window even though her normal job is statistical analysis and she has never fired that weapon she's carrying in anger.

They're not great without supervision and they're completely hopeless remotely.
The Western Canon by Harold Bloom (2011)
If I were going for a less is more phone, I would be much happier with a traditional "flip" or basic-functionality physical button phone. This will just be frustrating to use, because it sort of offers what you need, but with a cramped interface and likely painful interface obstacles.
I think the bigger problem is that you can up their bill by spamming them
I appreciate you taking the time to respond here, especially when your ultimate position is a foregone conclusion. I share your pessimism about the overall trajectory of human progress, and there are parts of me that believe that the destructive patterns of human settlement are themselves an expression of the unique but entirely natural phenomenon that is our species. Finding optimism in spite of these facts is an exercise in mental contradiction.

But I am curious to know what you think: couldn't you have made this same argument about slavery two hundred years ago?

"The conclusion I came to is such things like ethical emancipation is an ethical and intellectual dead end which disregards the nature of the beast, and the beast is the most hierarchical, socially stratified, and conquest-driven species to ever grace the Earth. If there's a people that hasn't been dominated by another, it's because they're so remote as to be beyond the reach of civilized society.

"If the way things are isn't right, then it is besides the point because the way things are is so deeply rooted into our psychology that you can't change it without violently changing what it means to be human..."

Again, I'm not saying you should stop eating meat. I'd like to, but even I haven't. I'm also not saying that I would have asked a 19th-century plantation owner to just give up his slaves voluntarily. But I think the Civil War was the single most defining struggle in the building of our nation's moral character. Would you rather live in the America we have, or in the alternate-universe America where our great-grandparents skirted this question so that they could "live and let live"?
Of course, antibiotics are special because of their externalities.

I'm taking about stuff like modafinil, for example.
'Uncle Napoleon' might be helpful too
That was my reaction too. Is there a different market where the ratio of bad ideas to good ideas is better than in education?
I'm quite tired of the framing of the climate change discussion, whether it exists or not. It is like you pondering whether your house is going to actually burn next year or not when you think about purchasing insurance. Completely idiotic question. What you are thinking is the risk (i.e probability times loss) of your house burning. So no, I am not going to tell you that the climate catastrophe is going to happen. What I do say is that even if after reframing the discussion from dichotomy to probability discussion, if you really think that the probability of the scientists being collectively wrong is so small that the science can be ignored, in my books you are so f$&king stupid[1] that you should give up your voting rights.

[1] pardon, I think my french is a bit rusty here.
Not at all. It's in this case, using the term serverless is akin to calling cloud based software (Google Docs, TurboTax, etc) softwareless. It's closer to calling a stop sign a "go sign" than descriptors from your example. Calling managed servers "serverless" is distinctively misleading.
Managed on-demand server, specifically.
I'm sure they were planning on committing suicide by doing all that. So glad we helped push them along.
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The long and short of it is that “serverless” is all done on a pay-per-use basis. So is running a VM to host an email server — let’s say $5/month on the low end. With this setup you’d be paying pennies a month assuming normal personal usage. If you were running an email server for your Fortune 500 company, yeah this wouldn’t make sense. But for personal usage? Assuming SES isn’t on the shit list of Google et al this is fire-and-forget, and dirt cheap.
Imagine if someone said

“the more you understand about farming, the more absurd it is to call them server farms.”

“the more you understand about biology, the more absurd it is to call them bugs”

“The more you understand about meteorology the more absurd it is to call it ‘the cloud’”

Yes, if it weren’t for people on Hn educating the poor unwashed masses we would all think that our software running “Serverless” was being run by elves at the North Pole.
You can set up autoscaling groups via terraform just fine, with a little bit of care taken to ensure that you trigger on the right metrics.

If anything mail is pretty much the easiest thing you can possibly pick to scale, because the inbound mail will be automatically retried. And haproxy in front of SMTP servers works just fine (really, any load balancer that can load balance raw TCP connections, but I've used haproxy to load balance thousands of messages a second).

For your user-facing side you need a bit more resiliency, but nothing stops you from using a service like SES to back a traditional setup for sending either. Reliably scaling outbound mail is the easy bit - the hard part is the reputation management that managed mail services provides, and no specific deployment mechanism will solve that.
> The million dollar question is: will toppling Iran's government and ending the suffering of its citizenry under it be a net benefit for its people, or is the status quo shielding them from an even worse fate? How can you really know?

Let's see what happened the last time US toppled a government in the Middle East - You got the ISIS. Before that the US toppled a government. It created The Mujahedin, who are directly responsible for about every Islamic Terror attack anywhere in the world since the 80's. Before that the US toppled the democratic government in Iran. That is directly causing this.
Those phones typically look and feel cheap. There's a market for a higher quality version of those phones.
and you can say the same about the US. You don't have to repeat it all over the thread. we should stop looking at everything as black and white.
Lets discuss reason why it ia in the current state. Would Iran be in this position today if we hadn't tried to install our democracy to them back in the 50s?
I am not a fan of this article. I have seen many critiques in this vein, this is just another car in the train. None of them have quite reached the point of confronting what is bothering many: What will we do when machine learning (or science, or anything, really) comes to a conclusion we find unpalatable, for whatever reason?

It could be any conclusion, not just those conservatives dislike. Using myself as a target, what if we eventually have enough sampling data to show that people of Irish extraction are more prone to alcoholism, and people of Scottish extraction tend to be statistically more thrifty? (This suggests that I would be a cheap drunk). How will we cope with that?

It is true, ML is prone to some black-boxiness, but it could be any statistical extraction. We might very well use other methods besides ML to show the correlates once suggested.

Will we simply put in a hard override to get the answers we want to get, the answers we find comfortable? History shows we have seen whole governments subscribe to this idea before. Ignore the results, publish what pleases.

I've no easy answers here, but my guess is that history will repeat itself.
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There is a huge difference between a metaphor (resemblance) and contradiction (stating it is and isn't something at the same time).
At least Amazon seems to care about supporting sanitizers on the build, so I wonder how much it has been validated through fuzzing and similar security validation processes.

Which is kind of relevant if such implementation is to be burned into a piece of hardware, that might never see any kind of updates.
>Why can't application developers abandon this strange habit of adding a slow "scripting" language?

How is it strange? Your suggestion sounds even more bizarro. It's not like those developers don't know about shared libs and .so files.

It's that:

a) Programming in C/C++/Rust is more cumbersome (than in a dynamic/scripting/gc language), and throws off tons of potential extension developers.

b) building extensions as .so even more so, adds different builds per OS/architecture, compilation steps, and tons of potential issues, both for setting up your extension building and for delivering it.

c) encouraging extensions written as .so in different languages, means a smaller pool of common reusuable extension code (each extension will reinvent several wheels). Whereas people could easily develop libs in the editors extension language and share them for re-use in others' extensions.

d) an issue in a C/C++/unsafe Rust etc extension will bring down the whole editor. In an embedded language that just calls API you can mitigate it easily.

f) same for memory leaks and such.

AAA game studios, which are hardcode C++ users with high performance / low latency needs, and have gone to using embedded scripting languages (with great success) and for some reason mere editor developers should abandon them and go pure C ABI?
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You can just buy 1000s of high-credit profiles located in the wealthiest zip codes for $1/pc max (I’ve seen prices below $0.1/pc but I suppose this is a special request)
It's so bad; the curves are hurting my eyes... my favorite part is where the curves get clipped to a suddenly straight line. That only seems to happen when the numbers are the min/max of the data range. Whoever wrote this fitting algorithm needs to be drawn, quartered, and fashioned into a pie chart macabre.
> the innovators (lords) capture the majority of the gains, and the 99% (serfs) get an awesome phone, a $4,000 TV, great original scripted television, and Mandalorian action figures delivered within 24 hours.

It's striking that the Bread and Games of the Roman Empire works out so well even today after that many more people are are comparatively well educated and should know better.

What makes be particularly sad is that 15 years ago I was confident that social media and smart phones will bring the printing press to the least advantaged, resulting in a more homogeneous society. The contrary has come true.
The main independent claim doesn’t specifically call out quantum algorithms. I’m struggling to see how Signal/Axolotl doesn’t match every element.
The language for the command mode prompt is "ed", no?
Battle Field V was never officially ported to Linux.
The first part of solving a problem is admitting one has a problem. Just like alcoholics and addicts admit problems, the solutions (rehab, withdrawal medications) are expensive, maybe this is the same thing?
I worry that we have removed people's moral agency by normalizing huge debts for life's necessities. We have the technology to make housing and education cheap and plentiful, but instead create scarcities and credit to have leverage over the workforce and keep them working in ways they'd prefer not to. I mean, every day I think "but guys seriously shouldn't we use all these computers to work on the metaphorical asteroid heading for Earth??? guys??" But we don't, myself included, because bills.
Signing e-mail servers two different purposes:

Authenticating the actual sender vs. authenticating the server or service controlling the domain for reputation purposes.

If you trust Amazon enough to use their cloud services, there's little reason not to trust them for the latter. Doesn't mean trusting them with respect to the former.

Things like DKIM makes no assertion that the content was sent by the right person; just that whomever controls the domain has trusted the service in question to send e-mail on their behalf.
It's also a guarantee that Neovim wont be a niche clone, with very few own extensions and no classic extensions supported tho...
You can put together a competent gaming PC for about $400 these days. Buy a refurb business desktop with a fourth-gen i5, add a GTX 1650 and you can run pretty much any game at 1080p on medium settings.

A lot of young people (or people in middle-income countries) can scrape together a few hundred bucks for an entry-level gaming PC, but would find a $60 game to be prohibitively expensive. IMO the move away from demo versions and physical media has substantially incentivised piracy - if you can't try before you buy and can't resell your game, you're less inclined to hand over your hard-earned cash for a game that you might hate.
Plural of anecdote is not data.

Taking an educated guess: I am likely better qualified to make statements about "climate change" and I would always refrain from such statements due to the complexity of the subject. But I could agree on using the "precautionary principle" and try to limit CO2 emissions. The current hysteria is not helpful but helpful would be building Thorium and 4th generation nuclear reactors. Both may lead to another kind of hysteria, at least in Europe.
Autotranslation of the title: "Radio cell query transparency system of the State of Berlin"
I haven't used it, but isn't this what https://airtable.com/ is for?
The Ministry of Serverless (Miniless) is working on it.
Making the data someone else's problem. :P One cool thing with the cloud is that you can work with the data without it leaving the "cloud". If the consumer of the data, eg the e-mail client is also in the cloud, it really doesn't matter where the HDD is located.
They had no need to upgrade. If anything they had a massive need to downsize the inventory of weapons. Plus the security protection was shockingly irresponsible. The code was all zeros
I don't think that's a very apt analogy because it still frames the question as to whether something is _going_ to happen.

It's more like you contemplating whether your house is going to burn next year while a fire fighter is telling you it's on fire right now.
You might even toss in running managed services externally in the second definition, for example DNS for your own domain - pretty much every service small to large offers a DNS hosting service with your account, typically at no charge. Otherwise, you'd have to run your own server, etc.
I've seen this handled by not allowing the enemy team to initiate a votekick/voteban against a member of the other team.

This method has problems, but those could be rectified later via human moderation and other means.
It is important to distinguish the basis of the change. Whether anthropogenic or of other causes (or, likely, a mix of causes). The same change in weather could have different responses based on the cause. It is also important to talk about what to change. Some governmental/industrial changes could cause the deaths of millions or billions of people (doing absolutely nothing might do the same), it is important to have a civil conversation where the ideas and rights of all are respected, understood, and considered. Oversimplifying is not useful. I'm not arguing for any specific reason or changes, only for civility and all around thoughtfulness. It is a very complex issue that may impact a huge number of factors in society. Great caution, civility, and thought should be given. Even to those who disagree with some conclusions. Advocating for the removal of voting rights for those who disagree so that we can arrange their future for them may be counterproductive.
I'm working on a dat project implementation. If I could rely on the Nearby Connections API and SyncManager, I wouldn't need servers. The data would just go client to client and eventually hit the server which would be just another peer that can do things phones can't.

Serverless to me is abstracting all the cloud providers away for provisioning, and it's first class. If Lambda's down, whatever hardware you could build and ship to a data center is down too. I now have access to the same critical data center tools.

Also code completion. Take my code, and rewrite for performance and security. Run it on some OS that is always rewriting itself. I want the power not the grid.
Thing is the world's climate will not fail us gradually.

Past the 'tipping point' the 'Geo-engineers' will be let out of the asylum and get to deploy their crackpot hail-Mary schemes playing fast and loose with a runaway high dimensional complex feedback system they (or we) barely are beginning to understand.

There is no 'backup' on this planet. There is no 'safety net'. There is no 'oh shit, abort!' button.

An optimist would say we are just going to make sure to speed up the inevitable.
How is it any more misleading than “bugs”, “containers”, “the cloud”,”server farms”, etc.

Wouldn’t you be the first to criticize someone who didn’t take the time to understand other computer concepts that had been around for years and then attempted to speak intelligently about them?
OneMedical used to be that way in NYC, now the Manhattan locations often have no appointment slots for a few days and you’ll have to go out to a Brooklyn location to get same-day or next-day care.
The "suffering ended" in a rather grim way for 500k+ people in Iraq: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/iraq-death-toll_n_4102855
Maybe they had learned to make picric acid. One of the early methods involved nitrating silk. But for that, you need nitric and sulfuric acids.

Nitric acid you can make from sulfuric acid and alkali nitrates. And sulfuric acid was discovered by Rhazes (Zakariya al-Razi) in ~900 AD. So it's possible.

Or maybe ammonium nitrate. That was known in antiquity, but not as an explosive. But maybe they discovered that. And indeed, mixtures of ammonium nitrate, picric acid and anything carbonaceous are decent ~high explosives.
It is so impressive that now other platforms are adding it, thus proving the point that Dart is not a special snowflake.

What Java brought, we already had in the form of Eiffel, Oberon, Modula-3, Smalltalk, Component Pascal, Dylan, they just suffered from not having Sun's budget offering a compiler and training materials for free.

Now they are trying to bolt into Java, features that some of those languages already had, but Java 1.0 ditched them like value types, AOT compilation to native code and proper generics.

I am betting that Dart will never have any relevant market share besides being the Flutter's language.

Android team is betting on Kotlin/Native and Jetpack Composer, so lets see who will win the internal politics.
A weaker Federal government would mean stronger state governments. It would incentivize states to compete, and we all know competition is good.
What’s the “resemblance” of “running in the cloud” to “running on servers owned by someone else”?
There's supposed to be a Directions feature, but no details yet. If it interfaced with the Google Maps API I'd be pretty happy.
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All the customer’s managers including the CEO sided with X, as they concluded that bending the company X to their will was more trouble than an individual. And anyway, I would be paid for the extra work.

I absolutely don't understand why this is the problem. Something came-up (not because of you) and you will get paid for solving it.

If you don't have time (other plans) or you just don't want to do that (good example: request is stupid and you know it will cause more trouble in the future) you can just tell that to your customer (or bump-up rate for this extra work).

How value base pricing would solve the above issue?
> it's hard to argue with a measure designed to save lives.

No, it's easy to argue because cars inarguably cause way more deaths than bikes. So when people switch to cars from bikes, it's indirectly killing more people. Any measure that prevents bike use leads to more deaths.
Not a single post on Hacker News can use the term "serverless" without the exact same replies being posted every time. It's as if a certain portion of the HN crowd simply cannot fathom that a new term exists and is in use, and instead resort to the same, tired responses.
If you buy old stuff late in the lifecycle you’ll have that problem.

This issue exists with Windows as well. PC OEMs will only commit to a few years of driver support. I have a few thousand PCs that are 2018 purchases that will not be eligible for the next major branch of Windows 10 and will need to be replaced by mid 2021.
Not the OP but, when I did consulting/advisory work, we mostly did a combination of value-based and nominally value-based.

What I mean by that is our large clients had subscriptions with us for advisory services, which included or could include some specific deliverables like reports but was mostly fairly open ended access for inquiries, press references, etc. I put these mostly in the value-based category.

Then we had things like advisory days, speeches, etc. we priced on the basis of the deliverable value--but in practice there was a fairly close correspondence to time spent. In practice also, clients would end up turning a one day session into two half-day sessions for different groups, so from their perspective they were mostly buying our time on-site (plus travel, etc.). We tried to hold the line on pricing for value but I'd say we only had some success here.

We'd also do custom research etc. for clients which, from their perspective, was almost certainly more value-based as much of our work was out of their sight. (Of course, from our end, we were mostly coming up with that pricing from a desired internal day rate.)

I think the only time we nakedly charged by the hour was when we were doing legal work because that was just the way the law firm which was our direct client worked. (TBH, it was pretty nice to get a healthy hourly rate for everything and it was a substantial job. Also somewhat open-ended work we weren't particularly familiar with, so an up-front quote would have been difficult.)