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>The gist is that English single-digit numbers take longer to say/think than mandarin

That has nothing to say, compare it to programming languages, is the language with the least LOC's the best language? No, often its a mix.
Can you help me understand what you’re looking for in a “virtual album” feature that isn’t achieved by tags?
Most of us are paying for space that sits empty 8-10 hours a day.
I don't know why people think that remote work means that you can hire from anywhere in the world. You still need to be able to be able to schedule meetings to have discussions/make decisions quickly and that really limits the spread of a single team to a couple timezones.
Google doesn’t innovate anymore. They acquire and throw most of their acquisitions in the trash.
Hey there, Vlad, the creator of https://awsnews.info here.

One day I realized that ~30% of AWS product updates updates are some boring stuff like "some service just launched in another region" or "you can now add tags to your appsync api", etc.

So I decided to create a website which filters all the noise out and brings a more pleasant UI than https://aws.amazon.com/new/

Tech Stack:

* Frontend: React App built with Next.js

* Hosting: AWS S3 + AWS CloudFront

* Backend: AWS Lambda + AWS DynamoDB + AWS API Gateway
Nope, because your chart doesn’t include the fact we will aerobrake on a Mars, requiring only a few hundred meters/sec for final landing burn, instead of the 2,500 meters/sec Luna requires.

Also you can easily make return fuel on Mars, which massively changes your payload to fuel ratio for the trip there.
Yeah. My point was my parent comment said that a large home was needed, but actually an average sized home will do.

I’ve worked out of a 880sqft city apartment pre-covid, and it wasn’t fun w/o children. With children would be hard.
My QC35s don't have that button. It's only available in the app, and there is no fine-grained control or anything - just high/low/off.
Let's say I want this hand sanitizer:

https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B01HEUD8YS

I should be able to purchase a quantity of 1-2, even if it's out of stock. I'm completely fine with being number 527,374 in line, but I want to be sure I will get it and only have to do this once. Instead of refreshing this page 20 times a day for a week, in hopes of hitting the several minutes when it becomes available and then inevitably sells out.

This is especially true for masks--impossible to be a good citizen and buy them, when there is no sane way of buying them and you have to jump through the hoops above.

I really don't want to write a scraper because it seems unethical, to get a "leg up" on the non-tech savvy people.
How about federating censorship (/curation).

That is, anyone can pick who gets to censor / curate their stream. And Facebook just provides the platform. Maybe, for legally required censorship, the platform can still take action. But for anything else, let people pick their censor.
They weren't audited at the time (nor was there a standardised way of doing so).
Yep, there are always trade-offs. The current remote work paradigm is benefitting folks who are more senior, more capable of getting more done with more focused time at the expense of younger, single folks who have a lot more to gain from having close-knit relationships in person with other coworkers.

The other side of the coin is as you mentioned: people who mainly rely on relationships and politics to get ahead without contributing concrete value are starting to feel the squeeze under this paradigm.

As is the case with everything though, I expect that the pendulum will swing back at some point. Nothing lasts forever.
Ask HN: What do you think will be “the next big thing”?
I found some interesting articles on this topic, but HN always gave me great insights regarding technology and business.

I would like to hear your opinion about the potential next big thing(s).
Parallax occlusion mapping is quite heavy itself, though. Transparent layers stacked on top of each other are also quite expensive due to overdraw.

Probably the cheapest way to add a little bit of 3D-ness would be to write the fluid sim to a texture, use it as a height map, and sample the texture a second time while offsetting the uvs slightly based on height map and camera position. Still not a great solution, and would probably only work if it was a wall of fluid in front of you.
Nah, you're just in an unbounded recursion - don't worry, I can already now tell you that it ends with stack overflow.
What's funny to me is despite wielding all this power and network effects - when tech giants try to enter new markets they fail at a seemingly higher rate then start-ups and other businesses. They have a ten mile head start and are still losing the race consistently. Which is probably good for most consumers.
A story like this pops up every year and preventing ransomware/ mass-deletion of publicly exposed databases has proven to be very challenging to stop from happening. I mean, I wrote about this issue 5 years ago:

https://blog.shodan.io/its-the-data-stupid/

We've also sent the raw data to various database vendors for free but even for them it's difficult to reach out to customers to get it fixed. And then there's always the worry that you'll get shot as the messenger of bad news. We've had a lot more success in getting things taken offline when we already have some relationship with the organization or at least a mutual customer.

In the past, older versions of MongoDB were more public than newer versions but that isn't the case anymore based on what we're seeing right now:

https://beta.shodan.io/search/facet?query=product%3Amongodb&...

And in terms of Shodan, we crawl 24/7 (i.e. not waves) and update the search engine as the data is collected with a small delay (<1 hour) so anybody that gets real-time notifications (https://monitor.shodan.io) for their networks will see it before it shows up on the search index.
Reminds me of that time we accidentally left a really large Redshift cluster online, for two weeks, before somebody noticed. It was around $12.5k if my memory serves me right.

Never managed to get the money back. They always seem to focus on building tools around reporting (ie “budgets” being just a report, rather than an actual enforceable budget).

But I still can’t escape the fear of accidentally triggering something that costs a lot. It still happens sometimes, a sudden $1k EFS bill being the latest.
Wow. Imagine for a moment being a famous person of a certain age and making that list. As if strangers on the internet are betting on, almost plotting your demise.
Yeah, that’s what I had looked up as well. Pretty interesting. I don’t think I’ve come across an etymology that went from
Gothic to Latin to English, but I’m hardly an expert.
More like 6 or so but I agree with your basic point. (US East to Central Europe works. More starts getting difficult.)
Yep, you can do everything outlined in the article and have an IP that has not send spam in 10+ years and gmail will still spambox every single one of your mails.

However if a domain signs up for Google Apps, magically you get whitelisted, even if you are handling your own email, funny thing that.

I guess Google's customers are just more trustworthy...
Being a YouTube, Gmail or Facebook user you are not their customer. If you however buy ads from said platforms...
A free speech service that is serverless and unable to be shut down. That will truly give power to individual people.
This just seems bizarre - why?

If the point is to take back email from the big guys, building on top of AWS SES seems to do exactly the opposite of that.

It's built on a completely proprietary service, which you have very little control over. If you're having issues with it, you're SOL unless you're paying for an AWS Support Plan, which is already well over the cost of Fastmail etc.

And on top of that, now you are stuck on a specific web email client as well, instead of POP, SMTP and IMAP which all of email has been running on for decades.
I'd be ok with the changing prices--I use Amazon's subscribe and save, and the price fluctuations are reasonable. If memory serves, if the price is totally out of whack or the item is out of stock, I get a notification about it.

I've also never had to return a subscribe and save item, but I imagine if the policy was the same with these "pre-orders," there wouldn't be an issue, since subscribe and save has been in place for decades.
$399+, not $1000+.
Anything can be a bad thing in excess... Even water.
I think explanations on the phone or in the online help say somewhere that the assistant sort of can recognize commands offline, even before Pixel 4. But I may be mistaken—can't find that now.
Only if you are willing to move away from friends and family.
Primer: The Job Guarantee
There's a video at the story link that shows them using a draw knife on the bark.
What Is Reactive Programming?
That worked well with windows 8. Good luck Apple. It could be great but I hope it doesn't mean the os will get further dumbed down.
Yeah, but I just bought my house 2 years ago.
If you think these numbers are anything other than the tip of the iceberg you're incredibly naive. Consider how many victims of police violence have the means to make a complaint to the CCRB. The fact that these complaints (to this point) have almost never resulted in the firing or disciplining of violent officers makes filing the complaint itself mostly pointless. Add to that the fear of retribution from the NYPD, who have your address and have already made you a victim, and it's shocking that there are this many on file.
One thing that I think is overlooked in this thread (though I didn’t read it all) is that carbon capture/sequestration is not incompatible with burning fossil fuels. You get the energy by breaking bonds of (somewhat) complex hydrocarbons, but it takes less energy than is released to capture/sequester the resulting carbon (at least theoretically/for some methods). Therefore there is a possible future where energy could come from fossil fuels without CO2 release.

There are other reasons one may not want energy from fossil fuels, however.
Hmm, maybe it comes in waves? I just read over the last hour or so of posts on /latest/ and most of the posts there looked legitimate.
I didn't say it would be an equal problem, I said that you will have similar problems if an airplane fuel tank catches fire. The problems you're raising are definitely real problems, I just think they can be designed around.

The engineering problems obviously aren't large enough to prevent something like the Tu-155 from using liquid hydrogen. Whether it can ultimately made as safe as conventional aircraft, I don't know. Maybe not. Either way, I don't think the economics are favorable for hydrogen.
If a site/service has a right to allow a person to delete data. The machine can be setup however they like. These are not hacked databases. The system said welcome what do you want to do? You can read everything or delete everything or add anything.

So they did.
I'm wondering if someone could file HIPAA complaint at them and get these things classified as Medical Devices and shut this sharing of bio data down. A simple opt-out doesn't fly with HIPAA. It requires a signature that you will allow another person to access your medical records.
I like the description:

> Babel preset for converting PHP syntax to JavaScript. It can run subset of PHP in the browser or in Node.js. Expanding Atwood's Law.
It's not impossible to script this functionality if needed.
I mean you can't really avoid it. It's pushed on to you and theres no clear understanding about how tied the headphones are until you buy it.

The WH-1000MX are very good headphones, but sony gonna shit the bed. (PSN anyone)
The challenges for regulation are two-fold, in my opinion:

1. It just doesn't work. Legal and regulatory solutions are too slow and poorly designed to be effective, see for example the EU browser consent decree applied to Internet Explorer. IE didn't fail because Microsoft was forced to offer a choice of browser; it stumbled because of other nimbler competitors (particularly Chrome) that were able to innovate despite Microsoft's historical success. Similarly, Windows' monopoly of the 2000s was nothing like as entrenched as a business like oil: the dominant player is always at risk from technological shifts (e.g. browser-based apps) that render old advantages (Win32) less profound.

2. The marketplace is global. Heavy regulation of US or EU companies is a competitive disadvantage when Chinese companies operate in a very different dynamic. The US could hypothetically force the dismantling of Facebook into its constituent products or the EU could add stricter rules on how it could monetize its services, but that just plays to the advantages of Tiktok and other companies that they have even less control over. It's unclear that this is in the interests of America or Europe.

[Disclosure: I work for Google, but it's Sunday and I don't speak for them; I'm just another muggle posting on the internet.]
Mostly because it's a very effective way to ensure things get fixed, while gaining the "attacker" nothing. It's harmful, but so is finding 4000 insecure databases, sending 4000 notification emails, and having 3950 of them ignored (and that approach is probably more risky, so far as inviting legal trouble and expenses). It also neatly removes anyone else's ability to take the data.
Well cases is the wrong measure as it's only identified cases -- we don't know how many new cases Washington was actually seeing before the lockdown
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This comment on its own can be read as testimony that covid-19 self isolation / social distancing can cause a compulsive need to try to feel relevant in some way when you meet to little people in situations where you are actually relevant. So yeah, I know it is somewhat preposterous to claim any relevancy, but one has to try to cope in some way.

I'm only just "DNN-literate" enough to get the broader points of the more well written papers. I certainly don't know enough to give any criticism on my own, but in a somewhat funny way, statistics, and my experience could perhaps lend some additional weight to your argument.

I'm pretty sure this is very similar to one hypotheses I've amused myself with from time to time, if not exactly. I don't even think I knew what the word overfitting meant at the point I came up with it. Though the ideas involved would seem to boil down to the same thing, or close enough to gauge how common this line of thinking would be.

It's a sample of one, but since I don't believe myself to be that special, and don't believe others would believe so either, it adds some weight that this line of thinking might be relatively common among anyone with even a little knowledge in the field(s).

Perhaps one could even argue I ought to be relatively bad at coming up with novel (creative) ideas, and ideas which are not precluded by known facts. At least partially because my brain would have a higher chance of being overfitted to the few bits I know. Any of my ideas should then either be shallow or false with high probability.
Good points. I would have expected to hate remote work, because discussing technical decisions with coworkers is a part of the job I really enjoy.

However. When you take into account how hostile the modern office is to IC work, it turns out WFH is much better^. I'm not waiting for the open office to quiet down before getting real work done, and I can just focus whenever I want. 1:1 technical discussions are easier to have, because you just Zoom call the one person, and don't have to go around searching for a conference room. Modern offices are designed so poorly, with such a high level of distraction and low level of functionality, that even WFH without any preparation is much better.

^ Having to take on childcare or not having a private room to work in cancels out the benefits.
Interestingly, if FB censors some one/thing that isn't a direct competitor, that means anti-trust doesn't apply. At the same time, the problem of a forum essential to public discourse censoring speech persists. Even worse there is very little appeal possible against the censoring.

So, whilst anti-trust might help sometimes. It is not the best tool here. What we need is legislation.
Sounds like a good public service. I’d much rather have my data deleted until it’s secured than have it stolen by someone else.
This reminds me that I still need to root my phone so that I can remove Google's crapware...
Unfortunately both parts of your comment are incorrect.

Upper class Americans and Europeans generate more emissions per capita than lower / middle class people. They consume more, so they emit more.

I don't know your specific situation, but in general the carbon offsets you buy aren't actually priced to the real cost of reduction, and your estimate of your carbon footprint is likely low. So the real price would likely be significantly higher. If you're living in a large (and so heat / cooling efficient) building in the bay area where those costs are minimized anyway, and don't have a car, then you're an outlier, and you can't extrapolate accurately from your situation.
A set of raspberry pis can work wonders for cheap. They also let you work with orchestration and scaling.

If you want a real box, buying used is fine. Plenty of companies need top of the line and sell off their old stuff.
The top end Sony headphones actually ask for a photo of your ears to do exactly this. It's only for use with the fancy spatially aware apps - pretty much only Deezer does this at the moment?

I signed up for a free trial (and I did send a photo of my ears), but I couldn't tell the difference and the HD library was so small it didn't seem worth paying monthly for it.
Good communication skills and soft skills are even more important when you work remotely. I’m sure there are offshore teams that are really excellent at this, but unless the offshoring is for stand-alone teams the comms combined with the time zones are going to be brutal vs a more expensive domestic squad.

DevOps reports research seems to bear this out, but you never know if management will figure that out before they make the decision.
And a massive leak of plaintext (!) passwords last year [1] would indicate that users were correct.

[1]: https://www.zdnet.com/article/26-million-livejournal-credent...
Nice article, 'starship' is new to me, just tried out, a bit verbose and took too much line space for me. 'highlight' should be replaced by 'bat' these days. 'grc' is nice and I first time learned it here. After read it and tried out, I just added 'grc' to my tool kit(though ubuntu 18.04 misses /etc/profile.d/grc.bashrc and I had to download it from github)
I wonder if wireless ones can be hijacked and requested to produce and ultra loud pulse to damage hearing. I suppose that's possible with wired ones buy I guess you'd need to broadcast plenty of energy for them to pick up, which makes it impractical, whereas with wireless ones you just need to get control of the signal. I'm guessing though.
There's a difference between a vulnerability, and a common misconfiguration that usually comes from a "make it work first, security later" mindset.

The good that comes from destroying the DB is:

a) the data is no longer exposed to the Internet, where more malicious actors could take it, affecting the customers of the incompetent company

b) ignoring it stops being a viable option - leaking your customer's data all over the place often doesn't have sufficiently obvious and severe consequences for the company doing the leaking to discourage it. Disruption that breaks production will get their attention, and they likely will secure their database in the future.

(No moral or legal judgement regarding this action, just answering the "what good comes of it" question.)

Edit: Also, someone commented further below on the difficulty of doing it the right way - it's hard to contact the companies, and it's even harder to get them to actually listen and fix it instead of ignoring it or trying to "shoot the messenger". This approach may be wrong and/or illegal, but it it much likely to actually draw the attention of the right people, and prevent them from simply ignoring the problem.

The companies running those open databases aren't just victims; they're also perpetrators of privacy violations. In many cases, they're even collecting data for a purpose that the data subject receives no benefit from.
This is a blanket terms of use for their data store. They want you to cite them. And they don't want it to be possible to launder the data by having a non-profit/non-commercial user re-upload, so that a for-profit user can then download.

This feels like a heavy hammer for that purpose, but it seems pretty straightforward to read between the lines on these terms.
cool - and the micro instance is free anyway
We could also ramp up nuclear power production and build hyrdocarbons from water and CO2. Lots of things become more practical with cheap, abundant power (assuming we can get that from nuclear).
The article was written by a Canadian citizen. I wonder...
I mean, if the database is not directly available on the internet, that would be a great help as well.
Indeed. If we didn't slavishly imitate the language of people around us, we'd have no languages at all. Even as things are, it takes a decade and a half for most people to master their own tongue.
Yes, it's a version of ZX Spectrum. Each keyword had its own code in the character set.
Ah sorry, I used Dreamhost as they were one of the biggest shared hosting providers back in the day. No VPS, just a user account on a big host. They’ve likely evolved considerably since I last used them 10+ years ago.

Point being their product was targeting me and designed appropriately. I forget the details but I know there were caps that were ample for my meager needs but would prevent this sort of accidental overage.

My point is that compute has become a commodity like electricity but without the built in fuses. My residential box can’t pull industrial amps.
I am one year out of college, been working as a software engineer at a non-tech company ever since. This article as me conflicted. I enjoy the benefits mentioned in the article, so much so that I am considering moving to a bigger city that has more tech jobs (while keeping my current job). Although I was working in the office before, the transition to remote has presented me with the opportunity to move to where I want to be. However, this article makes clear the risks now include missing out on career opportunities, mentors, and skills that could stunt my career growth - if my job doesn’t get outsourced first. As someone who’s still starting off in their career, I’m afraid of making a misstep - but also believe this time is the time to take risks and see how they play out.
A paid listening service that I control that stops the harassment, electronic warfare and spamming and propaganda. My phone rings off the hook with people who want to rip me off or hurt me or my community.

That cancels the guy who staged riots at small schools, got sleepwalking boomers who never heard him speak think that he had something to say, staged riots at big schools, then tried to stage a riot at CPAC and got canceled by conservatives because he was planning to stage a riot there.

Many people today think "free speech" means having the right to destroy the fire alarm in a burning theater, to tell people there is no fire, to force people back into their seats. Let's make them go away, as well as the people who spam the political agenda with crap (e.g. rich people are hurting so bad out here man i know you cut our taxes five minutes ago but we need a tax cut again right here and now...)

That will truly give power to individuals.