skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Note that I have recently taken and passed the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner exam, and am currently studying for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect exam. We’re doing study groups at work, based around the material from acloud.guru, which is available to us for free thanks to our employer. I’m leading the AWS CCP study group, and a co-worker of mine is leading the AWS CSA-A study group, which I’m also in.

Yes, it’s a lot of random stuff to remember, much of which doesn’t seem to have a great deal of bearing on the AWS technology that we use on a daily basis in our real work, which I’ve been doing for years. But I am still learning a lot, and I’m convinced that there are important gaps that are being filled in my education, thanks to the classes we’re taking and certifications we’re getting.

I do find that I can listen to the video class material at 1.5x normal speed, and still follow along. It helps things pass along quicker. But for the CCP exam, my first time around I got about halfway through before I gave up and just took the exam cold, because I kept falling asleep during the videos. This second time around, I have to pay more attention, because I’m leading the study group, and I have to help teach this material to others. I did pass the exam the first time, but I plan on taking it again, because I want a higher score.
The Tsar Bomb started development in 1961 and at that time the fear component became much lower (aka Khrushchev Thaw). Both Stalin and Beria died in 1953.
As other people have said, preparation is a big part of enjoying it. Any hallucinogens without knowing what to expect would be scary.
I hope Linux and Mac versions will be released before the end of the year, just after the planned features are completed, mainly including auto complete, running external tools and settings UI.
Because that had worked for them in WW2, when German tanks (among many other things) were technically superior to their Soviet counter-parts with the results we all know.

Fortunately this will never happen but I have always been curious about how US technicals would fare in a ground-war in Russia. My bet is that they would fail most of the times with no possibility of easy fixes, at least compared to their Soviet (now Russian) equivalents. What’s the US equivalent for the Russian Ural or Kamaz trucks?
I would say in England £20 gets you roughly 20gb of good quality internet, but there are lots of plans that will sell you way more for way less with poor coverage and throttling.

The post implies that they found a rate which was $2 for 20gb in the U.K. in their cheapest tarrif - which I assume was some sort of ‘unlimited capped at 200gb for £15’ style deal which would be heavily throtttled.
Beware the Doomsday Gap:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yfXgu37iyI
> Go check out the Wikipedia image of the bomb (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_Bomba) and then watch the video. They have the recording they pulled that exact picture on the top of the page from, except the quality is significantly better in every aspect.

The bad image quality on Wikipedia is intentional because the use of this photo is restricted by copyright laws [0][1]. Resolution downscaling is done for all non-free photographs and images on Wikipedia to conform to the fair use criteria to the maximum extent under the U.S. Copyright Law.

Intuitively, the copyright system in the Soviet Union (or any other country, for that matter) for works created by civil servants while performing official duties for the government should be similar to the U.S. Copyright Law - under public domain. Unfortunately, if the Wikipedia editors were correct, when Russia joined the Berne Convention, a lot of previous uncopyrightable works have been retroactively granted for copyright again. The result is an extremely complicated copyright situation, making the vast majority of Soviet Union public domain works non-free.

See https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:PD-Soviet.

Unfortunately, yes, copyright laws can be this stupid. And copyright has encumbered many historically important records similarly, what a pity.

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[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tsar_photo11.jpg

This image is a faithful digitisation of a unique historic image, and the copyright for it is most likely held by the person who created the image or the agency employing the person. It is believed that the use of this image may qualify as fair use under the Copyright law of the United States. Other use of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, may be copyright infringement.

[1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests...

If you believe the argument is mistaken and the photograph is free, you can simply screenshot the full-resolution denotation scene in the film and upload it to Wikipedia, and persuade the editors that it's indeed a public domain work, but good luck with that given the complex situation...
Nope.

Lets stick to the ‘no lower pirce than apple store’. This is very and clearly anti competitive tactic. Only side (apple) with significant leverage can use it. In every other situation it is not possible.

And to make it clear: this point is anti competitive, while you re completly skipping this topic concentrating on apple vs developer, because it harms (increases of price) consumers.

Multiple datapoints on this available, the best one is the very own of apple: mac os store. It is a ghost town.

Ios store would be instantly the same ghost if there existed even one ios app store alternative.

P.S. reminder: im addressing your mistake of ‘this is not anticompetitive’.
Ask HN: What are your favorite tech news sites?
Currently I read HN almost every day, but have lost interest in sites like TechCrunch that focus more on the finance end of startups - e.g. who got funded and for how much, etc.

I'm curious as to what tech news sites do you read to learn about new technologies (software, not so much hardware), advancements in existing ones, etc.

Have a good week!
When Shaw purchased Freedom, I was optimistic that they would put a serious amount of money into building a sufficient number of rooftop, monopole and tower LTE last mile access sites to be serious competition to Bell, Telus and Rogers. Sadly this has not been the case. The network coverage even in the major metro areas of Vancouver and Toronto is very poor compared to the others.

I think Shaw sees much better ROI from their last-mile captive DOCSIS3/DOCSIS3.1 cable customers. Many of whom are on places where the local telco is years away from doing a real GPON FTTH overbuild. So it's 150Mbps+ DOCSIS3 service options vs 10-15Mbps ADSL2+ on long loop length copper.
Yes, good 3D GUIs for design are very, very hard. Blender has been struggling with theirs for two decades now. Autodesk Inventor is pretty good, and that took over a decade of refinement.

Trying to design 3D objects by writing code is using the wrong tool for the job. You can make cool curvy things. Now try to design an auto suspension. Or a head.
To me, the important point is #6

6/ The thing is, contact tracing is high-touch/low-tech because it is a social science intervention. Social scientists have always understood that if you only gather the data that's easy to reach, you'll come to bad conclusions skewed by defects in your collection.
She may have only played with them for a few hours but the plastic waste will outlive her by 100x. You really can't see anything negative here?
I have written code for a cycle-exact 8088 emulator https://github.com/reenigne/reenigne/blob/master/8088/xtce/x... which handles all the invalid opcodes the same way that real hardware does. There is more potentially-useful way of observing TMP and IND that doesn't involve jumping to code that you might not control: use the LDS or LES opcodes with mod=11.
While I agree with your logic, a small correction: for India the data you found would probably be per capita and for USA its per household (which I think constitutes 3 or 4 members).

So something like 10x difference
Of course it was not real time. You just picked a shooting direction along one of the two axis.
Do you honestly think the city government should take over what Uber and Lyft provide?
American Animals is a movie of a similar situation (if not the same one)
Anecdata of course, however i once had to be online while on the ICE from Augsburg to Dortmund (that's a 6hr ride).

In preparation of a demo, i spotted one last bug in our system, which i tried to squash together with a few programmers from the manufacturer, being online in Skype and Teamviewer basically the moment i sat down in Augsburg and managed to work around it when i had to exit the train 6 hours later.

This was around 2016, and at least on this ride there weren't much areas without reception.

Not denying the base problem though, once you get used to LTE you'll begin to notice if you ever drop back to 3G, or god forbid, Edge...
Cross platform is always going to be a compromise. You will never achieve a fully native feel for each platform and in trying to do so will soak up a huge amount of time.

So I'd start by asking yourself whether you really need your application to be cross platform.
BTC is a poor candidate for day to day transactions. I'm not sure it can ever reach that level of adoption under the current conditions. Lightning network has been a Rube Goldberg machine of complications.

There are other altcoins like NANO which are a better fit for actual transactions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVNyr4Q3jq4

Agree that there's no way to reach a 100% homogeneous cryptocurrency economy and that exchanges are necessary. As an example, taxes are always paid/priced in the state's currency. Even if we could reach that point, I doubt it could be done by an entire economy switching their billing over to BTC overnight. Exchanges facilitate adoption.
None of these are, as far as I can tell, "unsafe" in the rust sense. They won't result in memory safety issues in the current process.

Your concern is a generic concern about shelling out which maybe makes sense in some cases, but is untenable in general.

I also don't see how 1 & 2 are real problems. From looking at the readme I understand what happens if tar doesnt exist. The macro raises an error. This is similar to what calling subprocess.check_call would do in python. It's quite safe and well understood.

And 2 feels truly made up. Not only could you invoke "which tar" within the macro to find the answer, Id bet you a good bit of money that the answer is whatever is in your path. Anything else would be weirdly complicated. This is exactly the same as every other language that has a way to shell out to a subprocess.

And even if you have MVC like design where things are clearly separate, something will need to call the shell at some point. So issues 1, 2 and 3 never go away, even if you stick the script in a .sh file, you still need to invoke that file. And now how do you deploy that?
Wouldn't an antitrust claim against Apple likely fail if the plaintiff cannot establish they actually have market power in the smartphone market?
They’re not dolls like Barbies are.

You buy them completely sight unseen, like CCG cards or Kinder eggs. They literally come in eggs you open and collect.
Black hole singularity is infinitely dense and zero size
We also have "unlimited" plans in Spain, however at +40€ typically, and under "fair use" use clauses.
Am I the only one left in the world who actually likes Google and has a positive opinion of them?

I remember switching from AltaVista to Google and thinking they're much better. I remember a friend forwarding me an invitation to join GMail on its first beta day and how impressed I was with the 2.2 GB storage. I remember switching to Google Chrome when I read about its beta release on Slashdot. It was much faster than Firefox.

Personally, the company I loved to hate was Microsoft, and for me Google was the good guy.

Question to those who hate Google - are you old or young? Have you used the Internet in the 90s, before Google came? Have you used email where you lose your emails once you exceed the 20MB capacity, and you need to pay money to increase it? Have you used Internet Explorer because it was everywhere?

Have you seen what Google replaced?
It was runaway I in this case.
With social issues I have noticed this trend that is always deemed that one is trying to solve the issue where someone else thinks there is "a bigger threat" one should be concerned instead, in other words if this was a conversation about bottles of water someone would chime in: "Why not start with toys? At lest bottles of water have a practical purpose to make it easier to carry water?"
However, when you change car, or happen to have many, or switch interest from buying a car for your family to learn about tires manufacturing process, then madness is ensured.

I bought a large refurb iPad Pro and pencil this spring. Presumably a high value segment, since YouTube, amazon and google keep on pushing me iPad related ads and content for months now, for things I have already bought, out of my own research.

I guess I’ll have to fake some baby related purchases to have their focus changed.

I have yet to find a case where "profiling" benefits me, as a user.
Consider also that the easiest way to get a Poisson distribution

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Fry_Richardson#Mathemati...

is via independent events occurring at a constant mean rate.
GP refers to the collecting aspect mentioned in the article. Whether it's gambling or not depends on how it's implemented precisely. When a consumer cannot know the probability of obtaining a rare item with a purchase, and must spend an unknown quantity of money to achieve the goal, then – so the argument goes – it is an exploitative manipulation of the mind and breaks anti-gambling laws and anti-consumer regulations.

The digital equivalent ("loot-boxes") has been brought to court in Belgium and restricted/regulated in the EU since. Regulated collecting by purchase shows the probabilities, and allows obtaining a rare item or set for a fixed, predetermined price.
> "But Android!" one might say, and once again, the analogy falls completely flat. The switching costs of going between iOS and Android are obviously not remotely comparable from the switching costs of going between Walmart and Target. When you move into iOS town, the only store within a thousand miles is the App Store.

The analogy actually works quite nice, and you already hinted at how: the Android alternative is akin to permanently moving from one place to another because that one place you were in did only have one store with very restrictive rules and opening others is forbidden. Accepting such a monopoly and arguing that "people are free to sell their houses, leave their friends and family behind and move elsewhere if they don't like it" doesn't really make it a monopoly is ridiculous.
Another mindblower: you can chuck a capacitor at the other end and you’ve got a circuit with one wire!

Hence you can get shocks from one live wire.
The linked page has a (the same) low quality picture as well: https://web.archive.org/web/20080518004931/http://www.atomic...
Yeah, I've long thought this should be pretty doable. At least with a good TOF camera.

Most of the literature I've seen has been on specifically gaze correction, which isn't actually what you would want.
Sure, there are religious extremists (and we painfully felt it ove the terrorist attacks).

I was talking about either flat earth, or the idea that earth is young. These are concepts which are completely foreign to France and not even carried by the religious extremists (maybe someone is telling this, but they have zero traction).

Specifically, I was commenting on

> one of the reasons that the secular world is having such a hard time effectively resisting these movements
Unfortunately they started blocking lots of tor exit nodes after they were bought by the advertising company.
It is going on, see https://github.com/learning-at-home/hivemind and https://github.com/bytedance/fedlearner
For what it's worth, NBN Fttp (and maybe other connection types?) is same-day, usually within the hour. Launtel even have daily rates so you can quickly switch to them if you need a backup provider.
Wow, this page takes me back. Match Day! What a game.

https://worldofspectrum.net/features/warajevo/Sshots4.html

I don’t remember how it came to be that my mam & dad bought me a ZX Spectrum+ – probably because I was about 10 at the time. Did I ask for it? How would I have known? Either way, an eternity of thanks is due because that thing changed my life. I mean, I just can’t imagine me without that foundation as a kid.

I know it’s a bit clichéd but I really think it’s true that the fact that kids today get iOS vs. a BASIC prompt is a real shame. Even having to manually LOAD a game makes you think, huh, what’s going on there? Back in my early 20s I worried that the next generation would come and eat my lunch, but it never happened, and I think that BASIC prompt was why. It really was a golden time.

Good times. I wish we’d never sold that thing, but it made way for an Amiga 500 and who was to ever have known that it would be valuable, even if only sentimentally, 30+ years later.
> Eastern Europe only started getting widespread mobile phones with the rise of cheaper, high-function smartphones in the past five to seven years.

This is not true at all. By about the turn of the millennium, from Romania to Poland pretty much everyone who was not elderly had a mobile phone. A basic Nokia model was not very expensive even by local standards.
I agree, this is a misguided idea. The whole point of not using Bash is that you don't have to use it's terrible design and syntax surely?
I have been using my own instance for about 2 years now. I couldn't be happier. While researching for my master's, I never felt I was missing out anything substantial.

Setting up your own instance is as simple as mirroring the Git repository. Mine is running in the default 8080 port.

Here's more info on how to do it:
https://asciimoo.github.io/searx/admin/installation.html
Depending on how they handled that, maybe those incidents should speak for DO, not against them.
> A lot developers just choose shell(sh, bash, ...) scripts for such tasks,
> by using < to redirect input, > to redirect output and '|' to pipe outputs.
> In my experience, this is the only good parts of shell script.

If you try to use shell as a general purpose programming language, of course it sucks.

If you treat shell as a DSL for files and streams, nothing can beat it. Shell is amazing.

I'm sceptical a bunch of Rust macros can beat shell. I think you'd better off writing a few smaller programs that use STDIO and stringing them together with shell.
I worked on a project for a major telco who regularly struggled with customer bill shock. Business travellers would go abroad, run up bills without knowing it (literally tens of thousands of pounds) and then complain that the provider never warned them or set a cap. Often the provider would have to eat the cost (it wasn’t massive markup, these were just the underlying trunk costs). We spent a long time building alerting and monitoring tools, which would even lock out your 3G dongle if you’d spent too much.

Unfortunately for us (but fortunately for customers) the EU introduced legislation to cap this spend and things have been pretty good since then in those parts of the world. I’m hoping UK customers don’t go back to the old days post Brexit. I do some business in Egypt and it was my first experience in a decade of actually having to worry about it and wasn’t prepared at all.
Political Detox Week – No politics on HN for one week (2016)
I love this book. They currently have his 1659-61 notebook on display at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge (scan available at [0])

Its opened on a page titled ‘Otiose et frustra expensa’ (Idle and vain expenses) where he lists his snack binges (including ‘cheries’, ‘Tarte’, ‘Marmolet’, ‘Custardes’, and ‘Cake bred).

[0] https://mss-cat.trin.cam.ac.uk/manuscripts/uv/view.php?n=R.4...
Where are nontrivial strings easy to parse?
I am young. I don't hate Google. I honestly don't see what is that horrible thing that I must hate them about?

Advertisements? Are we gonna pay for Gmail and Youtube?

Is it them treating certain search results as preferable? Yes, that's the point of a search engine.

The worst thing that Google does is just shut down good services too quickly but that's not really something to hate them that much for.

Maybe I am just ignorant.
This documentary looks like a fairy tale with an appropriate storyteller, music and narration. Like a massive nuclear bomb is the happiest achievement of the humankind. How schizophrenic is that??
Interesting, so this really is the first release of a high-resolution copy, I stand corrected. Unfortunately, nobody can upload it to Wikipedia because of copyright problems.
When you have 100 nukes comming at you, it doesn't matter that much how effective they are. You'll get nuked, no doubt.
I agree with you on every point except the last. Now might be a bad time to recommend Lightroom given their last update permanently wiped people's photos[0].

Having agreed with you, there is a non-insignificant switching cost (in time) for photos, especially if something is your primary photo store.

[0] https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.zdnet.com/google-amp/articl...
Leslie Groves appears (from his own memoir) to have had the urge to find out what happens.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24078815
Are there any modern applications / examples built with Qt? This is the screenshot from the Wikipedia article:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e8/Qt_Creat...

I always see Qt mentioned, so I'm definitely not trying to discredit it. I just never seem to see common examples with it compared to something written in Electron.
I believe this is how flutter (and by extension, chrome) works as well
Sometimes your work flow is shit and you need to change it. Imagine a carpenter telling you that his thumb hurts a lot when he uses the hammer to punch in a nail. Because he likes to keep his thumb on top of the nail. That's his work flow.

Would you spend effort designing a novel kind of hammer that grips the sides of the nail instead of striking the head? No. Just tell the carpenter to stop doing the stupid thing he has been doing.
> I mean, if you start building an auto-fixer pipeline for an auto-linted error... then is that error actually valid in the first place? Probably not.

Just because you can automate it does not mean that the task is worthless.

React provides auto-migration scripts to newer versions, Python had the 2to3 utility, the Linux kernel has patches auto-generated with Coccinelle, editors have "rename this variable and all references" functions. Starting from a certain code base size there are changes that are worthwhile and best tackled with automation.
This is great!

What about "set -euxo pipefail"? I see you were using eprintln before the commands, could we have a "set" macro that would do that for us?
Any talks you recommend in particular?
mobile phones now come in varied sizes, screen resolutions and many capabilities. and app has to look native and feel responsive so simple web views don’t work well anymore.

camera,bluetooth,qrcode scanner, fingerprint/face id for authentication, don’t have good equivalent api in web standards.
It's like saying VAT and GST aren't charged on customers but on businesses.
We’re experimenting with using a rust core library (matrix-rust-sdk) for next gen Matrix clients for code reuse/maintainability/performance/safety, but then doing platform native UI on top for optimal UX (via swiftui, web, android, gtk, etc). It remains to be seem how well this will work :)
An underused option is to include a local HTTP server in your native app and open it in the user's default browser. This avoids some of the resource consumption and security issues that make Electron bad, but still lets you integrate native code with a web UI.

I wrote a little framework for this: https://github.com/jdarpinian/web-ui-skeleton