skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Trademark law says you can't mislead consumers into thinking your thing is the trademark owner's thing.

So, where did you get that these infected machines became a "your thing" and no longer are just Windows (albeit infected/altered)? I don't see the (legal) basis for calling these infected systems no longer Windows systems. If they're still Windows systems, this whole Trademark trick goes pretty much straight out of the window (no pun intended) for that reason alone.

> There's no new precedent here

Unless I'm reading it wrong, Microsoft essentially got itself a verdict that says that something that harms the reputation of their OS actually violates the trademark of that OS. As if their OS getting infected (rather easily) in the first place, isn't enough of a valid reason for a bad reputation.

Just forget for now, about how this also totally ignores that Microsoft probably deserved to have been sued out of existence a long time ago, for (deliberate!) not doing what it could to keep their OS more safe/secure.

Instead, now they pretty much can claim that basically anything that (in their perception) harms their good name and reputation, can be banned from running on their OS (or at least being seized and put under their control). That's the same (il)legal lunacy as currently exists with Apple dictating what can run on their iPhones. I would definitely call that a precedent (I've never heard of such a bonkers trademark case/verdict), and one with an extremely tricky potential for abuse by Microsoft.

It's a good thing that Microsoft has never been caught abusing anything, right.
If you turn on "show dead comments" you'll see that the grandparent post to my reply was indeed specifically saying that N95 masks don't work for some reasoning having to do with relative size of the fabric mesh vs the COVID-19 viral particles. So yes, the context for this conversation has indeed always been N95 masks.
Well, you'd also have to have 100% risk tolerance for that to make sense. Something like 50% chance of 0 and 50% chance of 100 billion might be more realistic for a binary outcome valuation like that.
Given how much this reads like Machiavelli's The Prince I see it less as satire and more as a Straussian read

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Strauss#On_reading

> Thus, Strauss agrees with the Socrates of the Phaedrus, where the Greek indicates that, insofar as writing does not respond when questioned, good writing provokes questions in the reader—questions that orient the reader towards an understanding of problems the author thought about with utmost seriousness.

So my take is it's a kind of litmus test: anyone who expresses genuine outrage at this or treats it purely as satire isn't qualified to interview anybody, because they haven't put any real commitment to wrestling with the (possibly impossible) challenge of successfully, reliably, economically identifying good hires.

Like I probably only want to work with people who read this and say, "Hmm. Interesting, but what about -"
Another niche where it shines is the small, low-volume tool. You don't want to give it an entire VM, because that's a major waste. You don't want to have it share one "tools box," because it is awkward sharing like that, security becomes more of an issue, and it generally devolves into a mess. So if you've got other things running on AWS, then AWS Lambda is great for this. Do you need a random web-facing snippet to receive a webhook a few times a day and send a Slack message to your team? Perfect.

Not the core of your app, but a tool of great utility. On the other hand, this isn't exactly the Serverless Revolution either.
Looks like this fix takes care of the problem. Now the challenge is to get it rolled out everywhere:
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=12484
To be honest, the serverless environments I dealt with had worse deploy experience than plain servers. There's a bit of a ritual around deploying a lambda for example and it requires a specific packaging process. I can't easily use poetry for python projects there.

I guess if we count fargate as serverless, it's much better for this use case.
China to test entire city of 9m people after just 12 test positive for Covid-19
I don't think anyone disputes that vaccines are better but as of today we don't have one.
The funny thing to that reply is that it's my dad who feels really strongly about paying for accommodations if I or my brother visit him. But, yeah, absent some serious wealth disparity it seems weird and, even then, it would probably be something I'd throw off with a line like "I have more credits at that hotel than I know what to do with" or something like that to avoid anyone being embarassed.
> What they are hoping to mitigate is the problem where anybody inside your VPN can access anything else they want inside your VPN, which is how most corporate VPNs work today. That sucks, but they're fixing this with a centralized configurable cloud-based VPN solution, in which you have to trust.

This can also be accomplished with rules and micro-segmentation of various types.
Ok, let's end this comment train about measuring the value of women by what they can do for their significant other right now.
Maybe not hobbyists, but wordpress alone powers like a a third of the web.
While this may be pre-IPO fluff to lift mindshare for Airbnb, the subtitle for the article:

Focus on the core business, keep expenses low and listen to customers

is true for ALL businesses, not just hot new Silicon Valley "startups".
Delta-V: Designing the Asteroid Mining Ship 'Konstantin'
That still doesn't mean you can talk about the act as if it has happened multiple times.

Maybe if you changed your original post to "Police support throwing grenades..." and not "Police throw grenades..."
Coding while talking is significantly slower than just coding though.
> Don't take it as proof just because there is a study.

I don't. I take my lived experience as proof that this is real.

You seem to be in denial of a common psychological experience.
Well, you’ve certainly proved that I don’t understand this well enough to evaluate alternatives, fascinating though I do find this subject :) I guess the dimensions seem like they’d be easier to get right than leveling, though, maybe?
Counting Speeches to Understand Xi Jinping
> The solution is only about ~100 lines.

wins=. 9 3 $ 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 0 3 6 1 4 7 2 5 8 0 4 8 2 4 6
winner=. # e. 3 + wins #@-.~"1 ]
isover=. [: +./ ] winner/.~ 2 | #\
fullgame=. {.~ 1 + 1 i.~ isover\
all=. (i.!9) A. i.9
echo # ~. fullgame"1 all

https://tio.run/##NU3LDsFAFN3PVxxqQRq3Rh9UIuE7tItGBiOjTTRYkP...

Or the 1-liner:

# ~. ({.~ 1 + 1 i.~ ([: +./ ] (# e. 3 + w #@-.~"1 ])/.~ 2 | #\)\)"1 (i.!9) A. i.9

which surely could be golfed even further.
Serverless just moves complexity around and makes some things a bit more awkward, like debugging and logging. You have to be all in on the platform. I’ve just taken over a serverless app after the lead left and there are so many moving parts to make it all work.

Not yet a fan.
This is why Serverless will be huge in enterprise IT. You just described 90% of workloads.
To add to the previous comment: I mostly don't recommend the hosted solution because I tried to make self-hosting as easy as possible.

You can set-up your own userTrack dashboard on DigitalOcean in a few clicks and use your own domain name. You can enable automatic backups and userTrack comes with an auto-updater system, so it doesn't need maintenance. If you encounter any issue you can still just contact support (me) and I will look over your installation to see what's wrong.
How a modern sewage treatment plant works [video]
Yes, it is rational, because of the other 50% chance. Welcome to finance. If you think a 50% chance of going to zero is bad, well, wait till you find out about some of the derivatives people trade. And hey, at least the value of this asset doesn't go below 0!
Pay per request needs to be within 2x magnitude of an always on server. Really one should be paying for latency, scale, cpu time and bandwidth.
I use that a lot. There's the joke lambda spackle sticker (https://www.thecloudpod.net/product/lambda-spackle-sticker/) but that's exactly the great use case.
> Why should it seem absurd or obviously wrong?

Because you could replace the entire thing with a 2 hour IQ test.

> but you can't lack that level of talent and pass the test.

Another reason that this should seem absurd and obviously wrong. It's trivially simple to pass the test without the "level of talent" being targeted. It is just a matter of repetition. There are entire websites dedicated to beating this well known hiring step. Anyone can learn recursion and caching and work a bunch of leetcode / hackerrank problems and get a job at a place who implements these interview practices. Whether it takes you 2 weeks to prep or 6 months to prep is not revealed to the interviewer.
Every time this topic comes up on HN I feel like the only person who does side projects because I enjoy them as a hobby. Learning for the job is distantly secondary, and getting my next job is tertiary. They're perks to something I'm doing anyway, not justifications for doing it.

Yeah, I program at work, but the tasks I get at a software job don't scratch the itch that got me into tech in the first place. Just like how most workers in "creative" fields don't get paid to do the interesting things that first attracted them. They're stuck using their arts degrees to write marketing copy instead of their dream novel, or they became a civil engineer to design inspiring architecture but their day job is trying to update someone else's vision to include the safety features the designer didn't leave room for.

I get that lots of people get their fill of technology at their job and don't want to see a screen when they get home. Live the life that makes you happy. I'm just boggled at how many people appear to find it unimaginable and unrelatable that a technologist likes technology enough to mess with it for fun, even after work.
It sort of sounds like perhaps if you are going pre-fab you shouldn't expect to be able to do any modifications or fit their pieces to your own plans? Instead just find a site that is suitable and plop down their exact premade floorplan?
There is more than one way to handle protests. You can stand by and observe, only really going in when something is amiss... or show up in riot gear as your first option. The second choice has been the choice with BLM protests - but is rarely the choice with, say, anti-abortion activists. And you know, I don't get it: If an African-American man can keep his cool while having to police an KKK march, why can't cops in general keep their cool with these?

Part of the issue is that folks are protesting the police themselves - namely, the systematic and blatant racism and police violence. The prudent measure, minimally, would be to have a background presence since they've not actually jumped on the chance to make real change. The Rodney King riots happened in 1992: We've had decades to try to change the face of policing. If anything, perhaps we should have started real change after any one of the incidences. Changed police immunity. Required more training. Try to reduce officer stress and weed out folks that were racist. Abolish police gangs. But that's much harder, and won't stop a protest while it is happening.

But it would actually stop them.
Sounds again like something MS would say. Could you drop this condescending tone? It's not helping your arguments. There is Linux desktop market, including for gaming. Check your facts. It's a smaller market, but it exists even if you don't like it. I'm saying it as someone who buys Linux games.
In my limited experience, there is only so much you can prefab, and those parts are the easy ones, ie framing, wall panels.

Unless you have a complex wall assembly, it’s probably not worth it.
I did this by renting a hotel room next to my friend for a few days. It’s actually fun and renting 2 rooms for up to 2 weeks per year is significantly cheaper than paying for an unused bedroom in a city. More importantly you retain flexibility to use that for more than just an empty room.

Couch surfing is also a perfectly reasonable alternative.
I am still on the serverless high, and I don't see it going away any time soon. For the large corporation that I work for, things like soc2, patching, server maintenance, etc. are a giant pain every single month. The quicker we switch as many things as possible to serverless the better. One of the services I converted over went a year and a half with absolutely no attention from our engineers. It was great seeing how old the latest deploy was. Coupling serverless with terraform and git makes everything even easier. It means doing things like adding another lambda to an API as simple as copy and paste terraform, replace phrases in terraform, write code. terraform apply and done.
iOS is still useful without an iCloud account. Everything still works. Calendar, Calculator, Contacts, Safari, Music, etc, on and on all work just fine. You can add any number of third party services with the email app. All you loose not logging into iCloud is sync'ing of said data to other devices. It's a local only device at that point.

Pretty sure the same stands for Android.
Hypervideo: Exploring Superfast Motion-Capture Teleconferencing
> Are you implying the “winners” know what they are doing with technology is immoral but are willfully casting it as moral just because they are in a position to do so?

Probably more the latter ('casting it as moral because they are in a position to do so') than the former ('know what they are doing')... IMO, most people, most of the time, think they're doing the right thing, from their perspective. However I'd want to leave room for the idea that they may not be weighing, or even conscious of, systemic moral and ethical factors.

I think I am more, silently, responding to your second comment,

> That’s an interesting systematic perspective if you can get to the view that morals/ethics are subjective and a response to social standing.

I tend to view morals and ethics as part of an objective Platonic (technically, Judeo-Christian) ideal. So the 'subjective' description rubs me the wrong way, though it is an accurate description of the observed effects.
Any open system that becomes sufficiently popular will be attacked by spammers, malware/ransomware, black hat hackers, and DOS attacks, no exceptions.

Anyone planning to implement any kind of open or federated system today needs to take note of this and bake in mitigations against it from the very first line of code.
Shh! There’s too many truth-facts in your comment. It doesn’t allow the horde to continue raging.
I wonder if there is a business there... get US-based crews that are capable of being prefab builds.

Buy your prefab, crew shows up.
Whaaaaat? What is this sorcery? Polls in HN? Cool.
I think it is useful to not over-optimize your life. You want to be prepared for the 5%. That's why I bought a car recently, even though I advocated for the OP's philosophy before and rented where I could.

"Don't cross a river because it is 4 feet deep on average."
> Yes that's my point. It can easily change for the worse again

Hate to break it to you, so too does every other company you buy goods and services from. Do you take similar precautions for them?
This is really key. The quality of the end product will always be determined by the crew that sets the house. Same will be true for custom stick-built.

The biggest challenge we faced, even with a skilled crew, was simply getting the pieces into some of these lots in the ADK. Between the tight winding roads and lot elevation, it was quite a battle.

Source: My family has been in the modular and manufactured housing business since the 60s.
> us-east-1

Everything's in US East 1. I sometimes wonder if it's a disproportionately larger estate that has even has its own gravity, compared to all of the others.
Man that was a dumb question. Thanks for clarifying.

So we'd need electric utility companies to share the live data of how many kwh of solar and wind people are selling back to the grid in order to get an accurate regional comparison of real-time carbon intensity?

FWIU, they're already parsing the EIA data; but it's significantly more delayed than the max 2 hour delay specified by ElectricityMap.

Here's the parser for the current data from EIA:
https://github.com/tmrowco/electricitymap-contrib/blob/maste...

Should the EIA (1) source, aggregate, cache, and make more real-time data available; and (2) create a new data item for behind the meter kwh from e.g. residential wind and solar?

(Edit) "Does EIA publish data on peak or hourly electricity generation, demand, and prices?" https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=100&t=3

> Hourly Electric Grid Monitor is a redesigned and enhanced version of the U.S. Electric System Operating Data tool. It incorporates two new data elements: hourly electricity generation by types of energy/fuel source and hourly sub-regional demand for certain balancing authorities in the Lower 48 states.

> [...]

> EIA does not publish hourly electricity price data, but it does publish wholesale electricity market information including daily volumes, high and low prices, and weighted-average prices on a biweekly basis.

AFAIU, retail intraday rates aren't yet really a thing in the US; but some countries in Europe do have intraday rates (which create incentives for the grid scale energy storage necessary for wide-scale rollout of renewables).

(Edit) "Introduction to the World of Electricity Trading"
https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/042115/under... :

> Energy prices are influenced by a variety of factors that affect the supply and demand equilibrium. On the demand side, commonly referred to as a load, the main factors are economic activity, weather, and general efficiency of consumption. On the supply side, commonly referred to as generation, fuel prices and availability, construction costs and the fixed costs are the main drivers of the price of energy. There's a number of physical factors between supply and demand that affect the actual clearing price of electricity. Most of these factors are related to the transmission grid, the network of high voltage power lines and substations that ensure the safe and reliable transport of electricity from its generation to its consumption.

Which customers (e.g. data centers, mining firms) would take advantage of retail intraday rates?

How does cost and availability of storage affect the equilibrium price of electricity?
> with tax loop holes removed

Yeah, I agree completely. The fact that there is a material difference between one kind of institution and another gives legitimacy to complaining about religion, IMO.

> To apply it to our legal system, tax system and to cherry pick bits from it for our military conflicts seem less than fruitful and more than a little hypocritical in a modern age

I totally agree and it saddens me to see this happen. I think one crucial detail though is that instead of religion, I would call this dirty politics (or maybe even just rhetoric?). Dirty politics itself isn't new, but what has changed has become the scale at which it is now employed.

> It doesn't matter until the likes of Facebook are turned into public spaces and regarded as havens for free speech or they are not. That's really the question that has to be answered.

I don't really know myself, but I lean towards yes, if the likes of Facebook had a policy of safe harbor, then they should be regards as havens for free speech. I don't know enough about FB to say if they are no longer protected by safe harbor, but they're probably not in that category.

When we consider though the systematic exploitation of human psychology deployed at scale, it's honestly terrifying, but to me instead of treating it as a free speech question (which is hard), it should be treated as a privacy question and the kinds of businesses you should be able to make. All of these terrifying capabilities and their free speech implications are predicated on companies harvesting our data at scale. The answer should be that there are limitations on what you can do, and business should probably just make money by charging people for stuff.

I get that, early on, it may have felt necessary because we didn't know better, and there wasn't a cultural infrastructure for consumers paying for digital goods. However, a lot has changed since then, and the internet has now become basically the equivalent of a welfare state, where our digital existences within it have been sponsored by all powerful benefactors, e.g. Facebook, Google. To me the solution is simply, pay for stuff, and make it hard to have businesses where your users don't pay for stuff. That could be have liabilities around data that you collect, or outright making it illegal.

Can't promise I have answers to all of the details, but this I feel good about the overall premise of my hypothesis.
Title is awful. 1 and 1 is 1; 1 plus 1 is 2.
The truth!

http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/ij_ch10.htm

17 chapters (change the 7 to 1-17) telling you everything what's wrong for gentiles the world over, no matter if your causcoroid, Mongaloid, Astraloid or Negroid, they hate us all! Especially the causcoroid, of which they are!
People on HN seems to believe that outside of Google it is impossible to have problems that are complex and high scale, therefor if you use microservices and/or serverless and/or nosql etc etc it's just that you're following the hype, not that you legitimately benefit from them.
I like the overall concept and have used similar sorts of thinking in my life. I think it's useful to have a raw numbers audit of the costs in your life and to figure out if they're worth it or they're things you could eliminate. However, I think at some point you're going to have to be okay with some "inefficiency" in your life, assuming you are doing okay financially, of course. Stressing about efficiency can take its toll on you mentally if you're the kind of person who likes to maximize every little thing.
Nintendo Switch has the official USB-C logo on the box and it's not compliant, in fact plugging in the "wrong"(but also USB-C compliant) charger can break the device.
"We should be careful to draw a causal relationship here. It might not be that getting the military equipment causes police to be more aggressive and therefore have more killings."

True. Still, when the only tool you have is a hammer, soon or later every problem will look like a nail.
More Customers Will Listen to Your Offer
Non-activated Windows is limited. You cannot even enter the appearance features in the settings application when in such a state.

You can use it, sure. But between the watermark that is always on top and lack of being able to customize the OS I wouldn't want to use "free windows".
Oh come on. Even as engineers, it's important not to have delusions of grandeur: we're replaceable cogs in an infinite machine. Unless you're engineer #2 or work as a VP or a part of the C-suite, you truly don't really matter to the company. Thinking otherwise will only lead to heartbreak.
The very last sentence of your comment was "Quite simple".
I don't think international travel will ever become $80k/ticket expensive. Even before widespread air travel, people traveled abroad on ocean liners for far less than that.