skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would guess the real use case is: you considered becoming a Snowmobile customer but that's too heavy-duty and you need something for smaller amounts of data. Or you are a Snowmobile customer but sometimes you don't need to back up the truck for a relatively modest-in-size update.

So AWS made this.

Now they have an offering for you & everyone like you, that they can pitch to CxO execs, especially those who came from Snowmobile-using companies.
My mastery as a software engineere doesn't stop at my tools.

I look at my screen most of the time. I'm not buying cheap screens anymore. It is just not worth it.
Holy hell. I'm looking at the pricing example on this page [0], and at $460 to transfer out 15 TB, you're telling me this is less than half the price of normal internet outbound traffic?

I knew AWS bandwidth costs were absurd, but it wasn't until seeing those numbers that it really hit me just how absurd they are.

0: https://aws.amazon.com/snowcone/pricing/
I'm not normally a Malcolm X guy, but I read this quote from him recently and I feel like it put into words my feelings on these type of things far better than I ever could.

> The white liberal aren’t white people who are for independence, who are moral and ethical in their thinking. They are just a faction of white people that are jockeying for power. The same as the white conservative is a faction of white people that are jockeying for power. They are fighting each other for power and prestige, and the one that is the football in the game is the Negro, 20 million black people. A political football, a political pawn, an economic football, and economic pawn. A social football, a social pawn. The liberal elements of whites are those who have perfected the art of selling themselves to the Negro as a friend of the Negro. Getting sympathy of the Negro, getting the allegiance of the Negro, and getting the mind of the Negro. Then the Negro sides with the white liberal, and the white liberal use the Negro against the white conservative. So that anything that the Negro does is never for his own good, never for his own advancement, never for his own progress, he’s only a pawn in the hands of the white liberal.

I'm not saying every "white liberal" is like that, or even that they are doing it consciously, but looking at things like this makes me think the people who are arguing for the name change are doing it so they can feel good about themselves while solving a "problem" that wasn't really a problem.

Additionally, I'm not against changing hurtful terminology, but when I see white men arguing white men about what is best for other races or sexes, I kind of roll my eyes. As a white man, I kind of feel my role in all this is should be to listen, understand, and follow.
> A pointer stores a number

I disagree with this, and I think it's important to understanding pointers.

A pointer is a number. A variable stores a value.[1] A variable has an address, a value does not; a value might be stored at an address, but it doesn't intrinsically have an address. A person might live in a building, but the building has the address, not the person, who can move.

[1] (In C-like languages this is true. In Python, a variable stores something you're largely not allowed to inspect, which might be a pointer to a data structure with data and metadata. Haskell has no variables, just names for constants.)
People would give more support to government efforts to fight child abuse videos, if the government stopped using child abuse control tech to violently suppress human rights.
The money belongs to you, but the credits belong to the customer. If you were selling cakes, and customers hold 1000 credits, you must hold on to enough money to buy the flour for those cakes, so to speak.
Missing from article are any specific productivity or health benefits that come from an upgrade to 4K. For a sane guide, check out the /r/monitors google doc link in https://www.reddit.com/r/Monitors/comments/h8vb4s/rmonitors_...
Is this used for AI type scenarios as a data buffer to s3?
I miss seeing '.cgi' or '.pl' at the end of the http endpoints to give it that authentic 90's look and feel :)
>many modern screens still are 12bit

Unless you're using a really cheap screen, most LCDs are 8 bits per color. The cheap ones use 6 bits + 2 bits FRC. 12 bits (presumably 4 bits per color) seems insanely low because it would mean only 16 possible shades per primary color.

>meanwhile silicon graphics had a CRT screen in 1995 that was 48bit

Source for this? 10 bit color support in graphics cards only became available around 2015. I find it hard to believe that there was 48 bits (presumably 16 bit per color) back in 1995, where 256 color monitors were common. Moreover, is there even a point of using 16 bits per color? We've only switched to 10 bit because of HDR.

>7. Those things are crazy resilient, I still have some working screens from 80286 era (granted, the colors are getting weird now with aging phosphors), while some of my new flatpanels failed within 2 years with no repair possible.

This sounds like standard bathtub curve/survivor bias to me.
The "X-Client-Data" Chrome header that I think you are referring to is not sent in Incognito mode according to this article: https://9to5google.com/2020/02/06/google-chrome-x-client-dat...
Employees always know what's going on. You can't hide the truth from the people who directly experience it every day. And these people talk.

I'm always amazed when managers feel the need to keep upbeat and "dispel the rumors" to the exact people who started the "rumors." Even as a developer, I have excellent insight into customers. I remember working for a company whose product usage fell off of a cliff. I certainly noticed how loads on our servers fell long before the sales team got additional training to combat the falling renewal rates or before the layoffs hit.
I have two monitors right now and wish I had a third. One for code, one for documentation, and one for running whatever I'm working on (website, android emulator, etc). Currently I have the code monitor vertical and swap between workspaces on the horizontal monitor for the running thing and documentation.
I have the same issue.

It was painful to look at.
Modern day housing market is largely based on interest rate since most people finance their home purchase with mortgage. Just raise the mortgage rate 3 to 4 percentage and you will crash the housing market.
It's nice you can do that, but Facebook has 19 million other ads they're happy to show.... so it's still crap if you see any ads.
> A school district in Beverly Hills, California, was saddled with a bill of at least $11 million to plug 19 oil wells on the property of its high school, after a judge in 2017 absolved Venoco LLC - the bankrupt company that had been operating the wells - of any responsibility for clean-up because other creditors took priority. The city of Beverly Hills is contributing another $11 million to the job.

> “This is an incredible amount of money” siphoned away from education, said Michael Bregy, superintendent of the Beverly Hills Unified School District.

> State and federal regulations normally require drillers to pay an up-front bond to cover future cleanups if they go belly-up. But the rules are a patchwork, with wildly differing requirements, and they seldom leave governments adequately funded. In Pennsylvania, for example, it would take several thousand years to plug its estimated backlog of 200,000 abandoned oil wells at the current rate of spending, according to data from the state regulator.

> Oil-industry lobbyists have been fighting state and federal efforts to increase the bonding, arguing it would hurt jobs and economic growth during an already tough time for the industry.

> “States and the federal government have many sources of funding available to reclaim and plug abandoned wells,” said Reid Porter, a spokesman for the American Petroleum Institute, the country’s largest oil and gas trade group.

Corporate pork, plain and simple. We can't kill these jobs and this energy source fast enough.
I need new eyes after viewing this website. I think yellow burned out my retinas!
> Rust is a compiled language

So is Haskell. What I'm saying is that in 2020 the dev workflow is not: code, compile, run, repeat. Thanks to modern tooling it is now a near-instant feedback loop of: code, red wiggly line(s), fix, repeat. Ie. real-time conversation with the compiler.
I'd love to hear more detail if you care to open an issue.
E2E encryption is meaningless unless there is a way to prove that it is E2E, e.g. by showing us the source code of the client side and allowing us to compile it ourselves, which Signal does.

It would be super interesting if there was a way to abstract out encryption on the camera itself, where the video call software gets an encrypted video stream and its only job is to convey that stream to the other side, which decrypts it.

The hard part is sending an encrypted stream that can be programatically degraded based on available bandwidth, and still be cryptographically secure.
I guess I don't consider that the same thing at all. They're censoring searches coming from china to google.cn (hosted in China). They didn't really have a choice, the servers are in China, the users are in China.

What they aren't doing is actively blocking users from China getting to www.google.com, and they aren't censoring searches Chinese users do on www.google.com because those resources aren't hosted in China and aren't subject to Chinese law.

Zoom on the other hand IS blocking users from China accessing resources in the US and while they may have "undone" the ban, they banned US users from their platform for breaking a Chinese law that they aren't subject to. Namely talking about the Tienanmen Square massacre.
Thanks! It even has a docker container for easy deployment.
It's confusing too because implementing E2E crypto seems far easier than the above events. Any ideas why they might be so resistant to it?
The alt-right has a strong relationship to Nazi ideologies, "ironic" or not, and the parent is therefore reasonable in pointing out that it's an inappropriate comparison to 1995 moderate politics, regardless of left vs right opinions. The GP could have just said "far right". Now, if the parent was accusing a specific person of being alt-right, you could absolutely have a case against him based on how reasonably the label was being applied.
Real strange that the mob here is downvoting you - you are right, tor is used by criminals. i’d stay away from it as it has nothing to do with being “anonymous” for...”privacy”.
Did Galaxies Grow from Quantum Static?
> And it's tremendously unfair and probably a bug for any "optimizing compiler" to use that undefined behavior to do anything other than subtract the two pointers and return true or false when they're logically compared.

https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61502

=)
Worth noting that Twitch usually doesn't make a statement about bans / ban reasons. This is Finegold's claim, and he is far from a neutral party.

Also the specific issue was reading the email address, not the message. This, naturally, invites chat to send messages to that address. Regardless of intent, this is a very reasonable expectation to have. If the email is not a troll, that amounts to inviting a horde of people to send nasty messages to a suicidal person.
I think the Python ethos applies directly to typing speed: "code is more often read than written".

I agree, if speed of your typing is your bottleneck in getting code written, perhaps you should be coding smarter not harder.

I think there is some wisdom that you should try to be a "good" typist, in that better typing skills reduce the risk of injury (RSI), but that's self-care/ergonomics, and while still very important, there are plenty of good software developers that hunt-and-pecked their way to an early retirement (and/or multiple carpal tunnel surgeries).
> Extra bits won't hurt anyway.

Nobody said it would hurt so I’m not sure why you’re pointing out the consensus like it’s some sort of profound statement.

> If your recording is not loud, you lose your dynamic range

If your sound engineer is wasting your dynamic range, maybe get a better sound engineer? And if they manage to fuck up something at the core of their job, there’s no reason they wouldn’t fuck up just as much with 24 bits to waste.

> So it is true in both senses.

In no meaning of “true” and “both” in common use.
This is exactly what I have to do, but why am I forced to?

While Kindle is locked in, it seems to be a love child of Amazon and works extremely well. The difference between Kindle and iPhone is that Kindle is a single-purpose device, and iPhone is a general computing platform.
I've seen plenty of professionals using Harbor Freight tools, usually not carpenters but the tile saws and wrenches seem popular for professional use.

The correlation seems more likely to me that if you can afford the fancy tools then you've already had some level of success. Though there are those new mechanics who bury themselves in a mountain of debt buying a whole chest full of Snap-On stuff...
I can't share details beyond I was working at Google at the time, but I saw a 1Tbps DOS attacks back in 2012ish; so I doubt that this is "the largest ever", though it might be AWS Shield's largest ever. I don't think Google shares their numbers, though.
I want to get a 240hz ultrawide personally, both for games and instead of having 3 separate monitors (I hate the bezels between them). Samsung is making a good one, 49 inches, HDR 1000, 240hz, and adaptive sync [0]

https://www.anandtech.com/show/15396/sausng-odyssey-2020-mon...
I honestly find MBP trackpads to be too big, which is admittedly a preference thing, but their keyboards are absolutely horrible, and I have difficulty understanding how anyone could think they were "great". There's not enough distinguishing keys from each other, so I can't ground myself to the home row. I can't think of many keyboards I've used throughout my life that I enjoy less than the MBP. And that's not even mentioning the quality issues (duplicated or broken keys), or the lack of Fn keys.
We are truly saved by our better angels. If all people were ruthless economic competitors, and took every efficient financial opportunity available to them, criminal or legal, a cooperative society would be unmaintainable. We should consider ourselves lucky (perhaps blessed) that the anti-social among us are a tail end minority.
I think people just don't realize that you can change text size independent of scaling, even in finder.
There are many ways to do this, but the easiest way is to look at the Network tab in the browser developer tools as you load the page, type an address in, and generate the code.
I don't think it's always a shibboleth, many people use Democrat as the demonym adjective form because of the obvious confusion otherwise. Seen it both ways.
But not across dimensionality and because veneur has outsourced the storage of the metrics you can’t calculate arbitrary percentiles after the fact.
> Assuming Hey followed standard email service protocol

They didn't. https://hey.com/faqs/#can-i-check-my-hey-email-with-my-exist...
And what about 8088? Because it become more popular due 8 bit I/O data channel.
Simply put: putting anything you can't replace into checked luggage is foolish.

The TSA is a lot more likely to steal your stuff than some random person with a printed key. Plus, if you use a real lock, they have the right to clip it off, which is trivial. Don't put stuff of value into checked luggage. Keep it on your person or ship it via a carrier who has insurance.
The pictures alone are worth the read.

I've seen huge ships in dry dock a few times before, but these pictures are an even better experience of the whole process.
No problem. Bear in mind I'm from Latin America, so we're usually several years behind the US (i.e. older tech, sold at excessive prices).

My work laptop is a Dell Latitude 7480. It's display resolution is a 1366x768. I normally use it with an external monitor, because the screen is not only small but also low quality. This... fine... piece of hardware was bought my current employer I think 2 years ago.

In all workplaces I've seen, either you get a macbook (with their high quality display) or an entry level laptop from Dell/HP/Lenovo (or some no-name brand) with a low quality 1366x768 display, which is what passes for entry level where I live. In many companies, macbooks are usually given to people who can explain why they need them, or to reward good performance. However, newer startups seem to default to macbooks.
Oh! Is that what those funny looking "hoods" are about? I thought for a second they might be functional, but I guess they're just decorative? "Gaming" equipment (monitors, chairs, mice, keyboards, etc.) rarely seems worth it to me, simply because they spend too much effort and cost on things that are non-functional, but make the thing look attractive to the target audience. I am not a part of that audience, so I find the esthetic rather garish most of the time.

The one exception for me is that I do like a couple of gaming mice. It's not so much for the hotkey functionality, but because they have a really high resolution, which makes mousing easier and more precise to me. Other than that, my setup is all really basic, office-style equipment, and I love it.
It's no secret. We were happy to answer this last week (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23473932), happy a couple years ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16076041), and happy now: we have two boxes (one active, one failover) at M5, a small hosting provider that has good support and better tooling than what we had before. They've served HN well. They seem to be run by engineers, and are engineer-friendly. The founder has been an HN user for 9 years (https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=mikiem).

I don't remember how Scott found them, but it was through some HN-sympatico source like an obscure technical mailing list. We wanted to switch providers, and it seemed like a good idea to pick one that appealed to people with similar tastes to us and sympathetic with the spirit of HN. It's worked out great so far.

Weirdly, this is at least the third time that you've posted strangely insinuating posts about how/where HN is hosted:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21423248

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23374955

Three starts to look like an idée fixe. I still can't figure out what the insinuation is supposed to be...no, we're not an intelligence front. I really want to put a joke here, but I suppose it would probably only feed whatever this is, so I guess I'd better not.
A lot of money is spent based on the assumption that they can—it's not a great situation even if the assumption were wrong. The worst form of government, except for the others.
I have. I like it but it's a shame it's not a bit more active.
and tell us, what kind of activity requires such anonymity?
Ask HN: Any recommendations for keeping the trolls out?
I have been working on a project for some time to help people with PTSD keyword tag media (books, movies, TV shows, podcasts, etc.) with triggers, in order to help others strategize about their consumption (skipping that episode and reading the synopsis on a wiki, etc.).

Obviously something like this will attract trolls, who could do some real damage with a platform like this.

Does anyone know of any good libraries/utilities (preferably Node.js) to assist in such a thing? Or even just concepts/advice?
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-pePy_1_Ts&t=50

WTF?

OK, I understand they're on another level, but that's ridiculous. Seems like muscle memory. I had no idea they can do that.
But any given provider won't have a 2 Tbps uplink out of their own network. It would likely have to be highly distributed across many providers. ISP's don't build their networks to support all customers running at max at the same time, as most consumers will only push that 1Gbps limit for short bursts.
The author mentions to go for a 120hz monitor. Is a 144hz one also sufficient?
Disclaimer: I work at AWS, totally different team, and had never heard of this product until this announcement. This is 100% my personal opinion and I'm not operating in any official capacity.

>Personally, I'd probably just suffer through having to spend a week doing a slow internet upload/download rather than paying for Snowcone.

Well, I think there's two things here.

1) A lot of businesses probably won't be willing to spend a week with reduced internet capacity to upload stuff. Things we as single users might be okay with might not always translate to being a good fit for a business overall.

2) My reading is that some of the use cases for this are areas where you are likely to have limited or no internet connectivity.

From https://aws.amazon.com/snowcone/

>AWS Snowcone is built for edge computing and data storage outside of a data center. It is designed to meet stringent standards for ruggedization, including free-fall shock, operational vibration, and more. When sealed, the device is both dust-tight and water-resistant, protected from water jets on all sides. Snowcone has a wide operating temperature range from freezing to desert-like conditions, and withstands even harsher temperatures in storage.

and:

>AWS Snowcone deploys virtually anywhere you need it. It features 2 CPUs, 4 GB of memory, 8 TB of usable storage, Wi-Fi or wired access, and USB-C power using a cord or optional battery. You can put it in a messenger bag, run it in an autonomous vehicle or an airplane, or even attach it to a drone.

So, ruggedization and the ability to run this totally off battery points me towards thinking about use cases where there's not existing infrastructure to take advantage of. I guess this supported by the 'run it in an autonomous vehicle or airplane' bit I'm quoting as well.
Many providers in EU countries offer 1gbps fiber as an option, but the most sold option is more like 200-250mbit because the price is lower. And many of those are cable based which means only 25 or 50mbit uplink, not symmetrical like fiber. So that would require 100,000 endpoints participating.

But this was a reflection attack, so most of the bandwidth was coming from poorly secured servers. In datacenters those would most likely have 1 Gbps uplink speeds.
What part is interesting or surprising? As per the spec, isn't this what the operators should do?
This attack specifically involved servers.
https://brilliant.org/
You can join most meeting from your browser. They employ multiple dark patterns to discourage this. Once you click the link it pops up a page that says it is launching the app. After a couple of seconds they give you another link to try again. If you click that it then shows a tiny link to view from your browser. Then you need to solve a captcha but then you are in and everything works well.

I'm fearful that I'm being paranoid but if they want to use their native app that badly I'm pretty sure it is collecting some information that I don't want to share. I'll happily take the extra steps to keep them sandboxed in my browser.

Honestly this is one of my favourite features of Google Meet and Jisti Meet. It is so easy to send a link to anyone and they are in the meeting in seconds.
A climate menace... and also the main component of natural gas. And we're moving away from coal to natural gas for things like power plants. That's money that they are leaking.

(Of course, it may not be enough money to make it economically worthwhile to collect the methane...)
There's absolutely no way these oil wells are leaking as much methane as Siberian plain slowly melting. I did a calculation a while ago and it ended up being equivalent to 125 years of 2019 CO2 emissions.

Once these natural stores of gas start getting into atmosphere due to 2nd-3rd-nth order effects these little gas leaks from human made oil wells are nothing.