skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Remote people often seek out coffee shops or libraries, even though those are not "home," or arguably even because they are not home. An apartment complex with second or third spaces would have some appeal according to that desire.
Rentable Mac Mini (or Mac colo of all flavors) has been a thing for easily 15+ years. https://www.macstadium.com/ is one of the original providers if I recall correctly. I remember renting a macmini for a month when the app store on ios first came out because I couldn't afford a macbook.

AWS is largely taking other peoples efforts and putting the Amazon brand on them.
Why can't you be rich and be exciting things? I know many definitely rich, and definitely exciting (maybe too exciting) people.
Good riddance. Ajit Pai is a friggin’ scumbag. Him and Martina Markota are both garbage.

https://twitter.com/delmoi/status/941195823572045824?s=21

https://www.gq.com/story/fcc-pai-bad-video

https://gizmodo.com/ajit-pai-thinks-youre-stupid-enough-to-b...

https://twitter.com/martinamarkota
> Which gets into the concept of whether the ML model has actually learned some deeper conceptual ideas than we have, some deeper truth about how this works.

Well I think that the results speak for themselves; ultimately the question you raise is one of semantics. ML models don't think in terms of "conceptual ideas" like humans do, these models simply perform at such a massive statistical scale that they can identify patterns far beyond any human conception. Clearly, the model embodies some verifiably reliable information about the way the world works, but this is "just" a trick of statistics not anything resembling actual "understanding" in the way the word is typically used when referring to human understanding.
Could you point to the source of this information?
It wasn't obvious to me.
My experience of other coding challenges is: here's the problem, and you submit source code which is run against many test cases to confirm correctness. Advent Of Code only asks you to submit an answer, not source code.
AWS is playing the long game and betting that M1 based servers start to take off. It's very risky (and expensive) but it would pay off if they are correct.

They would be first in the market and be years ahead of their competition.
The primary 'value' of mask mandating is to discourage shopping, going outside, and use of public transit - since masks are generally unpleasant and asocial.

Once these factors are removed its unlikely that mask wearing provides any value beyond security theatre.
yes there it is, though the other is accurate too
I heard a different major factor from frontline healthcare workers - obesity. A vast majority of deaths in in the major hospital near myself has been obese people.
> several of the applications we worked with throughout the course were distributed as Windows binaries

Because most linux users use their distribution's packages and it is normally easier than hunting for windows binaries.

Need an assembler? `sudo apt-get install nasm`, etc. I am a math/cs undergrad and have not used a windows machine in over 6 years. (In my case it would be editing either editing my home.nix or creating a shell.nix for a course rather than apt/dnf/etc)
> No other fusion power plant in the world has managed to run for more than ten seconds.

This sentence is incorrect, I guess they meant at 100M degrees because some older tokamaks did run for longer than 10 seconds at lower temperature.

Like the Chinese one that ran for 100 seconds at 50M degrees, but 100M degrees for a short time. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experimental_Advanced_Superc...
> AS A USER I always tap on the search result with the lightning icon because it means that it will load fast and give me the text I am looking for right away.

Nothing wrong with that but that is a choice. I installed that extension that loads AMP pages as HTML so that I never use AMP. I don't need to save that 1s and I am not ignorant enough to be tricked into using it.
Nobody will without Apple allowing it and taking part, and Apple has not been supportive of things like this. E.g. any macOS hoster and many companies doing macOS software would love to throw money at Apple for permission to run "hackintoshes", but no dice, and the structure of this offering suggests AWS didn't get special treatment either.
Alternatively, Apple might gain revenue from iOS and macOS builds becoming more accessible

Wishful thinking: resurrect the xserve. Give me that 1U Apple appliance so I can stop stacking up Mac Minis (we have an incredibly non-trivial amount of iOS development happening across multiple divisions. Current Mac Mini count: 8)
"Europeans" (everyone from Ireland to Moldova?) are constantly talking about how safe their countries are, but the reality is that in America, not everywhere is Detroit or Baltimore. You guys are literally falling victim to fake news.

The average small town will have a maximum of 1 or 2 murders per year. Cheyenne has only 60,000 people.
> I said "many places" not "all places"... Doesn't mean that people living in those areas don't have to watch out.

I agree that there is some non-zero number of people in the U.S. who have to watch out for gun murder. The point I'm trying to make is that they make up a really small proportion of the population. Anecdotes are fun.

> As for gun murders being a rare death cause, indeed if you average over all age ranges they are. However, for younger people they are a major concern. CDC data [0] lists homicides in the top 4 reasons for death for age groups from 1 until 35. Which weapons are used for these homicides? A different statistic tells us most times it's guns [1].

You're right that, among untimely deaths, gun murders move up the ranking if you're looking at young people. But this misses the main thing, which is that untimely deaths of any kind are super rare among young people, even rarer than overall. Why should we care if gun murders make up 50% of untimely deaths among young people if the likelihood of untimely death is sufficiently low? Your line of reasoning seems to indicate a 10% chance of untimely death with 1 percentage point of that being gun murder is preferable to a 1% chance of untimely death with 0.5 percentage points of that being gun murder.

As an aside, thinking about this (and many other things) in terms of ordinal rankings will often lead you down the wrong path. "Top four reasons" tells us nothing at all. If there are 5,000 categories constructed and they are roughly evenly distributed, "top four" tells us nothing. If 99% of the probability mass is in #1, "top four" tells us nothing. It's like the classic "The U.S. is [embarassingly] #44 in math achievement". This means nothing if the top 80 countries are tightly clustered around 98 math achievement points.

> But preventing gun deaths is important too.
My point is that it isn't important. There are much, much bigger fish to fry from a public health perspective. The marginal benefit of throwing one dollar at "gun violence" is << the marginal benefit of throwing that same buck at something like trying to get construction workers to wear proper safety harnesses.
This has no comments though.
> Offline+subkey PGP is about enabling a root of trust that isn't exposed by exploits. Forward secrecy is about deliberately and frequently changing keys so that a point-in-time compromise can't be used to rewind all your previous communications. They are not the same thing.

Subkeys aren't exclusively about having your root be offline, that's just one use case. Yes, you can have a long-lived subkey and a super-long-lived root key, but you can also have short-lived subkeys and a regular-length root key; indeed to a computer there's very little difference between those timescales.

> Regarding deniable messages: the ability for an unrelated Mallory to confirm a message Alice sent to Bob is a vulnerability. It leaks a piece of information to the world that only Alice and Bob needed, and that both needed only for a brief moment in time.

That depends entirely on what Alice and Bob were doing and what their expectations were. If Bob received an authenticated message from Alice and expects to be able to prove as much, not being able to do so is every bit as big a vulnerability as any other.
Amazon is a marketplace, not a retailer.

They are not selling the knock off, they are allowing the knock off merchant to use their marketplace.

Your remedies are with (assuming US based):

* Copyright enforcement via DMCA on your marketing info/photos etc

* Trademark enforcement via Customs and USPTO

* Design patent enforcement via Customs and USPTO

It's not Amazon here that is the issue, it's enforcement by the governmental authorities that are supposed to do that enforcement.

You'd have exactly the same problems if you were selling on etsy instead of amazon, or at a local weekend handicraft market.
The video in the article literally shows trucks and pallets of retail Mac Minis being unloaded to be installed into a data center, so I think that’s exactly what they are doing. I doubt Apple would commission custom hardware for AWS when VMWare has most likely been begging for years to no avail.
That's a minimum of 24 hours, not a maximum. As the sibling says, this is condition of apple's EULA.
The people who want to break up tech monopolies aren't doing it because they want to tell people what to do. They want to break them up because they are strangling competiton and leaving consumers with less choice.

You are acting like people using these apps is a sign that they like things better this way. Consider that, once the network effects are large enough, the end user doesn't really have a choice. So you can't claim people prefer things the way they are. This thread is proof that there are many people who want the web to be more open, but feel stuck with more centralized options.
I was a TA for the department head in CS, and he gave us free reign to handle grading and such however we felt was best. More important things to do, I guess :)

We had Homework, Quizzes, and Tests, 33.33 each. Homework was graded like you said. Quizzes and Tests were open notes but on a relatively tight timescale. If people missed a homework, they could turn it in late for some linearly scaled penalty. If they missed a quiz or test question, they could come in and demonstrate/defend a solution off the cuff during office hours for 70% credit or something similarly high.

Students loved it. They no longer had to stress about getting an A, and they could instead focus on understanding the material, since that was the easiest way to (eventually) get the points.

I will say, though, this strategy was very time consuming for a large class. It also requires the TAs to have mastery of the material, which (shocker) is unfortunately not all that common.
My point is that superconducting confinement coils don't take any power to maintain their field. You just spin them up and leave them there. The power to keep cryogenics running is a hundred-fold less than the electrical power needed for confinement coils.

JET and DIII-D are the largest magnetic confinement fusion research devices made so far and they both use copper coils. They have confining fields of 3.45 T and 2.2 T, respectively. My machine operates at a modest 1 T (for now) and is much smaller. I'm sure the electricity bill that the confining coils that those large machines racked up is substantial.
In addition to what the peer comments say, Africa has learned a lot of lessons in fighting infection disease outbreaks from fighting Ebola: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7404531/
Someone originally turned me on to CityJournal here on HN some years ago. I'm pretty sure it was this article that did it buried in some comment https://www.city-journal.org/html/sidewalks-san-francisco-13.... I'm not sure if it was coined there but the author uses this term the "homelessness-industrial complex". It was a pretty shocking thing to read back then to contemplate something so cynical, but I think these outcomes can manifest even without outright malice and scheming. So I hear you on the cynical take being a downer, it's all so frustrating the lack of progress.
AWS probably would have had them sooner if it wasn’t for the t&c...
NYC is smoothed out by a population of millions of people. Take a look at DC... Take a look at the average small American town. Most have 0 murders, or 1 or 2. Not everywhere is like Chicago and Detroit with hundreds of murders a year
"I dont see Amazon going out and buying 50.000 Mac minis and racking them" ...

you usually don't see this kind of thing unless you work at the actual place, or you have a colo where Amazon also hosts stuff. Unless you work there, you don't actually know whether they buy that number.

In fact, I bet you they do buy over tens of thousands of Macs of all kinds every quarter, if only to satisfy the demand for hardware for engineers and for testing purposes.
Way back (probably around 2000) I created a Usenet News message that referenced itself (pretty trivial).

Turns out that a bunch of news reading software didn't like this and crashed when it tried to load that newsgroup.
In 2000 in a close election, Bush 43 carried Texas by >21 [1].

This year in a pretty comfortable Biden win, Trump carried Texas by a mere ~5.5.

In 2018, Ted Cruz as the incumbent retained his Senate seat against Beto O'Rourke by a mere 2 points [2].

You raise a good point about the study of voting patterns of Texas transplants but whatever the cause I think it's clear that in the long term Texas is trending blue.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_United_States_presidentia...

[2]: https://www.nytimes.com/elections/results/texas-senate
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I'm not surprised. I remember hearing NAFTA really screwed with the price of corn and tortillas for Mexicans around 2007. Distorting corn and corn syrup prices is kind of obvious. The surprising part is incorrect labeling and poor enforcement. I imagine Kosher Coke is legit?
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You can also run a MacOS VM in VirtualBox on Ubuntu. No Apple hardware needed.

https://github.com/myspaghetti/macos-virtualbox
Try to do a flip and see what happens. Or copy your array to a file, or to a native library.
I've never thought of buffers as a replacement for arrays, and I don't think they were ever ment to be.
The take away from the comparison is basically to do what we were doing already: use native arrays unless doing so with buffers simplifies your code.
Amazon EC2 Mac Instances to Build & Test macOS/iOS/ipadOS/tvOS/watchOS Apps
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Right. This process happens outside of the nucleus of the cell.

Perhaps people are getting mRNA vaccines confused with CRISPR, which _is_ a technique to modify DNA.
Thanks for the rabbit hole. It made me discover an interview [0] with Googles captain of moonshots. In it he also discusses other interesting moonshot management strategies, besides the monkey-pedestal one.

[0] https://www.wsj.com/video/astro-teller-on-moonshots-for-alph...
> ironically is in itself a sort of sloppy analogy of the kind he just denounced

I read it as that being the point, that analogies are sloppy, reasoning by analogy is sloppy, and look at how this sloppy analogy is intellectually bankrupt.

I actually thought this was mildly funny.
When this started circulating a few months ago my wife and daughter decided to get their blood tested (I was already taking regular Vitamin D supplements). They both showed with extremely low levels of vitamin D and have since started taking 2000 IU daily to try and increase their levels. It's so cheap and easy that everyone should be doing it right now. Even if you don't want to get your blood tested, I think going on a supplement _now_ is right for everyone. But I guess each person should consult their doctor if they're concerned.
Growth hackers, lol

How about "spammers"?
At Amazon's scale, betting on M1 servers for a niche subset of their EC2 offering doesn't seem to be really risky.
macstadium has been doing this for a while, but it can be unstable and annoying at times. If they can be better than macstadium then it is compelling for iOS dev shops who don't want to maintain a fleet of mac mini build servers. Also amazon can use it themselves for their own CI services
iTunes has not sold music with DRM since 2009.

I assure you that they care much more about you buying books from them than about "lock-in" from you using their apps and buying their devices. Proof: their apps absolutely suck and their devices are not much better. The devices exist to get you to buy more books from them. It is absolutely not a side-effect that their DRM satisfies publishers.
That's a kind of strange take on this. EC2 didn't offer MacOS before, and now it will. How else would you describe it other than a "new feature"?
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New DOJ rules state you can get GITMO'd hard for a decade. Tell your company to STOP (or get a new company).
During my last >15 years of Linux usage, I had exactly the two filesystems you are advocating for here crashing on me:
- XFS, long time ago, had a bug that made it lose files silently
- BTRFS twice, most recently about a year ago in a super simple setup (no raid or any other fanciness). I wasn't able to recover it, after a while I at least got it to mount as ro and copied the contents away

These were all on Gentoo, so with relatively recent tools and vanilla kernels.

The only filesystems that I never had problems with were ext4 and reiserfs.
What snake oil is being sold here with a free book? Who exactly is a hack? Sure, there's some technical differences between the two terms, but outside of the research community they are used interchangeably.
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re:Invent is this week, and tomorrow morning is the keynote, so expect like, 5 AWS-related stories on the front page tomorrow.
I am using /e/ for quite some time now, and I'm really happy.
Both articles seem like intentionally done by someone trying to scare people away from trying privacy-friendly and easy to use OS.
About https://intangiblesheep.neocities.org/rants/eelo.html:
- Most users would prefer Magic Earth even though being not open sourced, because AndOSM sucks, and Magic Earth is much close to Google Maps quality.
- No one is forced to create an /e/ account, but if you decide to create one it is much less likely your data to be used, because /e/ doesn't sell ads like Google.
- Lineage OS has no privacy enhancing features, while /e/ removed all calls to Google servers. This improves privacy a lot!

About second article which is not even published anymore.
- Since when collecting money by crowdfunding makes a company bad?
- It is a lie that /e/ doesn't do anything new. Check here:
https://doc.e.foundation/faq#is-e-lineageos--microg
- the ROM still falls back to google’s DNS : This have been fixed many months ago.
- th/e/y don’t accept negative feedback : I have been in /e/ chat and there is so much negative feedback there and no one gets kicked out, I wonder what he did to get kicked out.

Seriously, this all looks like someone who doesn't like privacy trying to scare people away. Admit it no one is going to use a hard to install or hard to use OS. /e/ is the best option if you want your grandmother to have some privacy while still being able to use android apps.
It's against Apple's T&Cs, though. If you're doing it at home by yourself, who cares. But a company that's interested in automated testing etc. isn't going to see it as an answer.
That sounds elegant for IO, but I wonder how device level security is handled, out of band management, and firmware updates.
Well. Looks like the hacks, gimmickers, and salesmen have succeeded wonderfully.
I appreciate that, and I think he's well qualified to preach - Particularly on this topic, but on plenty of others. Comedy comes from discomfort, and Chapelle's brand has always been a discomfort from disquieting truths. That plays well into preaching. That said, I think the history of actors getting involved in policy and politics is littered with cautionary tales. I wish him success in not getting dragged into the mud.
One Mac (serial number) per instance, so you probably couldn’t host iMessage or other access to Apple Services without getting burned after a couple days (and AWS wouldn’t want you doing it and getting a whole rack of Minis banned from iCloud or something).
You “can”, in a technical sense, but not legally—Apple’s licensing for macOS only allows it to be run on Apple hardware. (You can run a macOS domU on another OS’s hypervisor, but that hypervisor has to be running on a Mac.) This matters when you’re a corporation.
You can't really test apps if there's no graphics acceleration. If you want graphics acceleration, you'll need to run a macOS VM with GPU passthrough using virtio or Proxmox. I did that for a bit until I just gave up and bought a Mac.
At this point you might not be able to short profitably but there was plenty of opportunity even with relatively high borrow costs (~8% currently).

You just need to do it at the right time, before the market prices in the obvious fraud.

I naked shorted Nikola after the ridiculous spike caused by the initial GM deal. I'm already $100k up on that and I predict I'll make even more as the stock price drops.

I also shorted via short term puts a few days ago, when the price spiked a bit on the hopes of new GM deal. I'm betting that the stock price will drop tomorrow due to expiration of a lock up period which will unleash millions of new shares. I'm already up 100% on that and hoping for at least 500% (although if the stock goes up, I might loose 100%; will know by Friday).

What you call "market has already priced in" is people like me, who acted decisively and took the risk. The information was there, I (and people like me) didn't have any secret info. But unlike those other people, we had the courage of conviction and risk tolerance to take on high risk / high reward bet.
Your legal department is going to be stoked when you try that at work.
How does one fib proficiency in a role as an individual contributor? I mean after school is through? I have been a software engineer for 14years. I am self taught with only a 2yr degree i completed my 4th year into this career. Can a line in resume(a degree mention) remedy a failed technical screening process?

Personal experience : I have declined several MD CS holders this year alone for positions because their demonstrated abilities were not up to par(and these were not particularly difficult questions).
What's the reason? Maybe not share it but double check that the reason is still valid. The criteria changes pretty frequently. They always need more blood.
Interesting, I do see the tablets You are describing, they don't have a display. I was looking at the ones with a display, Amazon has a Wacom one with a 4K display for around $2500 USD, that's a lot of pencil crayons and paper! I think Santa might be bringing one of the ones without a display this year!!
Desktop stores the key on disk already. Android shows a key you write down.
The 24 hours is dictated by new Big Sur EULA.

https://9to5mac.com/2020/11/11/macos-big-sur-adds-leasing-te...

From the new EULA (not just for Amazon, paraphrased by 9to5mac):

* Apple software and hardware must be leased “in its entirety to and individual or organization”

* A lease period must be “for a minimum period of twenty-four (24) consecutive hours”

* Customers must now accept software agreements for all installed software of leased hardware

* All of these changes are only offered for “Permitted Developer services,” which are now spelled out for users

* Developers may now “install, use, and run additional copies or instances of the Apple Software within virtual operating system environments”

* The “lessor” such as Macstadium is fully responsible for making sure that all of these new requirements are upheld