skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly, this article presents a fairly ridiculous comparison. You could bump deploy times on Heroku to 20 minutes and I would still use it without a second thought. At best, I'll complain a little louder.

Here's step 1 from the article: The documentation says to create a new AWS IAM role with credentials for automation.

At this point, you've already failed. You are forcing more complexity on me than I have to care about when using Heroku. And the underlying complexity is worse. You need to be familiar with Gitlab's CI/CD pipelines. Your included YAML file hides all the complexity and uses all your magic variables: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/5-minute-production-app/deploy...

What happens when something breaks?

Quite literally, the only downside of Heroku is the pricing. Even that, I question for smaller teams where operational overhead can get way worse. I have yet to come across anything in the ballpark.

Anyway, this may still be a decent setup for deploying an app to AWS perhaps, but comparing to Heroku in the title is way off base.
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The "gimbal video" has been plausibly explained several times already. It seems journalists cannot be bothered to actually do a bit of research before writing these articles. First hit on google: https://www.skepticforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=29089

Occam's razor.

Develop the technology to travel light years through space, and craft to fly through an alien planet's atmosphere (more dense/less dense/hotter/cooler), and then... flash a few lights, disappear, bend over a bit of corn, and bother a farmer in the middle of nowhere?

Or... mistaken natural phenomena, hoaxes, faulty video equipment, and so on.

Sorry, but alien UFOs do not exist.
To be fair I'm pretty sure discussion about pricing never were the bottleneck, they happened in parallel to the safety/efficacy approval, so Europe saved 1.2B Euros doing this, at no other cost.
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Oh, I never saw this but like it! I occasionally note submissions that have been weighed up/down based on the karma/time of the posts surrounding them for fun.
It would be nice if the password (or more likely a key derived from the password) could be attached to the URL (in the hash so that it isn't sent to the server of course) and there was support for generating a random password/key. This way you could just send someone a URL and the transfer would start as soon as they open it.

Human-understandable passwords have their place but if I need to send the signaling server info anyways I may as well transfer the encryption info in-band.
" I recently found out about the `info` program that does what you're looking for as well."

No, it does not.
I am looking for simple straight forward information.

Info does also not provide that in the examples I tried.

There seems a culture problem. Some people like it complicated and as information dense as possible?

Well, I don't. I know how to read very deep technical information if I have to. But I prefer it simple and structured. So I only see the information I want and not all the obscure use cases too. That cost energy filtering it out. Energy I want to use to get things done.

And btw. I was once introduced to Linux with manpages as the way to go. No wonder linux never reached the masses.
Consumption is arguably part of the reason for the decline.

There's no fundamental reason civilization can't "advance" whilst consuming less.
I have never understood why there is no system by Google, where abandoned system apps are removed by the Play Store updater.
Remember that many public vaccination programs are relying on healthy people taking on risks to protect others. Right now, more people are being harmed by polio vaccinations than by wild polio: https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/polio-vaccination...

I think that is a perfectly acceptable trade-off given the the long-term goal of eliminating polio entirely. I also think it's totally ok to ask people to bravely face a risk to help others (a fairly small one in this case). I even think it can be ok to ask minors, and parents, to take on those risks in some circumstances, and I think polio elimination is one of them. But it's a trade-off that must be done openly, with consent.
These the same people who Jonny drop tables themselves?
https://twitter.com/gitlabstatus/status/826591961444384768
As someone who has only done back end for years and is lazy and don’t want to learn front end stuff, this is an inviting way to break into that world for me.
If anyone is curious, here's some info on the Juniper situation:

https://www.wired.com/2015/12/researchers-solve-the-juniper-...
> Ended up in a Heroku blackbox for your stateful web app? GitLab introduces a better Heroku integrated into your DevSecOps workflow: The 5 minute production app.

Are we sure this wasn't written by some sort of new AI bot GitLab is employing? So many keywords stuffed in those opening lines.

The comparison in the article is incredibly naive, IMO; they are not being a better Heroku, this is just demonstrating something you can do if you already have good knowledge of three complex tools: AWS, Terraform, and GitLab Pipelines.
I would go further and argue that we have no evidence that aliens are behind UFOs, however, absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, so we cannot disprove it either (if 'they' exist, so you have a prior that is > 0).
We are trying to do this, but GPT-N is not a productive avenue because you can't achieve what you're talking about by training on text. Single-vehicle control is a much simpler problem and thus you hear about it because there are successes to talk of, but an attempt at something like SkyNet is very much in the works, possibly for coordinating attacks though that isn't something I've ever worked on personally, but very much for automating the entirety of what the intelligence community calls the TCPED cycle. This is something my wife is working on, and the code name for the contract is actually "Cyberdyne."

You're never going to hear anything about the details of how this works or whether or not it works at all because it only works if it's kept a secret.
You don't know what you're doing then. It's illogical to think going somewhere, using time doing so, makes you more productive, you lose productivity by traveling, ipso facto. Doesn't make sense.
Totally agree. The ease was the reason for us as well (although now running Cloud 66).

This post seems a bit disingenuous. Gitlap + Terraform + AWS != Heroku.
Yet another think of the children argument here. Should we also purge all graphic gaming content from discord and ban action movies because they give a false impression of what real world is like?

Further it’s the parents job to supervise their children and not the corporation. In addition one would think that your little 10 year old shouldn’t be playing GTA 5 on discord in the first place and that is more disturbing than seeing a naked boob.

American’s attitude towards sexuality and nudity is quite conservative if you ask me.
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Sure, many things could be done for two processes to monitor each other. The confusing bit is this happening at all:

id1: Friar Tuck... I am under attack! Pray save me!

The most reasonable explanations to me seem that either this is wrong and didn't happen, or that it actually came from id2, and the source of the message is falsified just for fun, or in hopes to create additional confusion.
Sadly, I've felt this many times while traveling the world.

There's no place to "discover". Anywhere you go, tons of others have been there before you. You can easily look up pictures on Instagram or wherever.
Reddit discussions:

https://old.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/mb1vpb/rukp...

https://old.reddit.com/r/unitedkingdom/comments/mb11kw/the_o...
Lab confirmation of double masking can be performed in an afternoon. A clinical trial is going to take tens of thousands of self-reporting "I wore two" people for months or longer, plus difficulties with all sorts of confounding variables.

I'm very comfortable with a tentative recommendation based on the lab data for a non-dangerous intervention. If we get observational data a year from now confirming it, even better.
If you want crazy, you should look up RegEx match open tags except XHTML self-contained tags.
I don't get why it'd be a major scandal for Reddit even if u/maxwellhill was Ghislaine. They were not a Reddit employee, just a community moderator. Would HN be responsible if famous person X was secretly posting on HN?

Do people expect Reddit to dox everyone posting or moderating on their platform and then publicize the results?
You should have seen their jaws by the sight of the first lightbulb.
She’s a trans woman, but Graham would rather slur her than acknowledge that.
Exact opposite
A bit OT, but this reminded me of the story behind the “catch copy” by Shigesato Itoi [1] for Mononoke Hime, 「生きろ」

https://ghibli.jpn.org/report/mononoke-9/

(Used prominently in their marketing material including posters)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shigesato_Itoi
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I barely hear a word out of go fanboys outside of their own respective bubbles. Rust fanboys however...
That's what I was thinking while reading this article, +1!

In short, the premise of the talk is: if you add a self replicating change to any self-hosted compiler:

- You can 'teach' the compiler to do things that are never explicitly stated in their source code, like, in this article, making the compiler modify programs that meet specific predicates.

- You can not trust that your compiler hasn't been modified without bootstrapping it yourself. You can't trust a program without trusting its compiler; and since compilers are programs, well it's turtles all the way down.

To build a trusted compiler, you have to bootstrap one yourself from some trusted manner, usually from hand-written assembly. In C, this would be akin to writing a small C compiler in assembly, using that to compile tcc, using that to compile a slightly larger C compiler, and that to compile clang or gcc.

But in other more complex languages, such as Rust, bootstrapping is not as clear cut. There's the Reproducible Builds project, but afaict there exists no minimal small Rust compiler you can bootstrap the latest one from: You have to go back the the original OCaml one and compile up from there, or just trust that the publicly available build is secure (which it most likely is).

I guess the lesson is that it's possible to inject hidden self-replicating behavior into any significantly complex system.
Canada is spending $170M on this one. I don't think more money would help.
I see they handle Daylight saving, albeit they flag that entire week as the change from what I can see for the UK which has a change from GMT to BST (which they call UST+1) on the 28th - yet whole week gets labelled that in which it changes.

Personally I'll be glad when we do away with such daylight saving TZ changes.
Thanks. I don't understand your last paragraph. Can you provide a bit more context? Just a starting point for an Internet search :)
If you absolutely have to resort to trial and error, at least don’t be the error.

Natural Selection is as dumb as a box of rocks and slow as molasses; when it comes to achieving a goal we humans do far better, far faster.

There’s obviously the merest whiff of trolling here, but come on.

*Edited so as not to besmirch the good name of frogs.
but thats not even in the same ballpark as heroku or is it? people using heroku dont want to have anything to do with terraform
HG Wells?
Have you listened to any accounts, especially from the military folks who recorded some of the content?

Birds, balloons, known airborne objects don’t travel at the speeds of military vehicles which were following.

I’d consider camera artifacts to be a phenomenon. It would still be interesting that a previously unknown artifact presents in certain conditions that mainly occur on military equipment.
Yeah, I also didn't like other things like the shaming of kinks even if mentioning them could be relevant. Would have definitely preferred something more neutral.
So magic computer could be more effective with more magic memory than with more magic processing power, right?
I think that lots of the clouds will have their own offering, but having an open source based offering across clouds is what we're going for.

Also it's very early stages - but the goal would to be better than Beanstalk
There are plenty of jobs that consist of not much more than walking around - beat cop, traffic warden, security guard, park ranger, even janitor. I find it unlikely that walking around for 8-12 hours is going to damage your body more than spending the same time mostly sitting down, not moving. Speaking personally, I've held both types of job, and I know which kind leaves me feeling healthier (it's not the sedentary kind).
i'm just happy all of you are still commenting for free :)
It would be helpful if the post was a bit clearer on that.

FWIW, I've used Heroku as a production environment at multiple jobs. It works great there as well. The primary issue in my experience is cost. If you need to serve a lot of traffic, Heroku gets very expensive very fast. But it's still easy to use.

That cost can be offset by the fact that you may not need to hire a dedicated devops engineer right away, and your other developers spend much less time dealing with server setup and debugging.
> Till we've crypto that's quantum, and daunt 'em.

Luckily there are asymmetric algorithms which are are secure against quantum computers, so we don't have to resort to quantum-key-exchanges.
Having a preferential contract with a single supplier is not remotely the same as imposing export controls on every supplier within a territory. The EU is and always has been allowed to source vaccines from the UK and the fact it voluntarily chose not to does not mean it was 'effectively' banned from doing so. The British government spent months and tens of millions of pounds setting up the AZ supply chain while the EU were haggling over its contract. It's not then unreasonable for the British government to require that it has priority on the supply it was instrumental in creating.
“P9F has relicensed Plan 9 with the MIT license”
> The program will adjust to light and dark terminals themes.

Instead of doing this you should use named colours. "Green" in my terminal is definitely the correct green for my terminal theme.
This is a weird policy for reddit.
But also, Jesse Singal (and Graham Linehan, linked elsewhere in this thread) are infamous in the trans community for spreading hateful disinformation and encouraging harassment brigades and then complaining about "cancel culture" whenever anyone criticizes them or they say something hateful enough to actually get banned from a platform.

We wary of "free speech advocates" who have an axe to grind against a specific set of marginalized people and view any criticism they get or moderation techniques employed against them as authoritarian.
Which is why I at least take pause when I see the entire liberal sphere drop their characteristic distrust of the healthcare industry in the US and the whole "profiting off healthcare is evil" line, to suddenly standing in solidarity with Big Pharma.
I'm not sure how a blog post like this made it past any kind of review/quality control/PR in a 1000+ employee company.

Criticising other services is quite poor form already.

But then the criticism is a shallow dismissal by someone knowing nothing about Heroku, and with a minimal, odd example on top.

And the proposed alternative is running Terraform in a CI pipeline to set up AWS.

Yeah, that's not why people use Heroku...

I'm usually positive towards Gitlab, but if I were them I would make this post disappear as quickly as possible, it's that embarrassing.
I've found if I read this comment to myself in the voice of Marvin this comments becomes rather superbly and obviously funny.
GitLab is an experiment of building a VC funded startup on anti-patterns and see how far you can go and get away with.
While NLP chatbots are clever tech and probably work for the gadget-enamored, to me they just seem patronizing and rarely if ever produce helpful answers to my questions. Faster and more direct is a simple ddg.gg query.

“Support, Lead, Engage” sounds more like a middle-manager’s product enhancement slogan. Might sound good in the meeting, but winds up leading to kafka-esque support scenarios and customer disengagement.

Reminds me of the dystopian chatbot OMM 0000 from THX1138 https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/THX_1138
> What happens when the losing party disagrees with the outcome and accuses the other side of cheating?

You encourage your followers to storm the capital
Do you have a theory for why they're being pushed off? Are these due to having keywords that are downweighted or sinister VC conflicts of interest?

Seems like you're pretty interested in this
> It gives children a false impression of what sex is like in reality.

So does every other part of American culture. I'm throughly unmoved that producing adult material in an artistic sense is harmful to society. (None of the communities I'm in allow photo or videos. Or minors. We ban them when we find them.) Such things have always existed and have always been a part of human culture, despite various moral panics.

The assumption that incelibatity is due to pornography is unproven. The Japanese birth rate started dropping in the 1950s, well before this could be a factor.
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UFOs are probably a mixture of different phenomena. A couple of reports are quite difficult to explain. Unexplained weather phenomena doesn't sound like such a far-fetched theory to me.
Nice writeup. The catch is it's very hard to measure correlation reliably for badly behaved random variables (like the ones we have in finances).
Unlike the US, Europe doesn’t make a habit of punishing criminals for the rest of their lives, and forcing them into further criminality.

As a general rule, if you’ve served your time, then you’ve repaid your debt to society and should no longer be punished.

Having employers apply extra-judicial punishment to those how have already been sentenced and and served their time is kinda barbaric, and totally defeats the point of having a justice system.
"there is no CLI involved"

Well that's annoying, seeing as I've just done everything else on the CLI
Very true. The earliest hedge funds did not rely on option pricing, or options for that matter.
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I mean, isn't that obvious? The Chinese did not allow anyone to investigate WIV because they don't want to be blamed.

I agree that conclusions should not be drawn without evidence - but by the same token, you cannot rule this out as a possibility because no effort was put into investigating it.
I have often heard this. And even witnessed it some. But i wonder if the phenomenon is actually due to the fact that people who are in good health and well when they retire are more likely to stay active and those who are not in good health or don't feel well, tend to not stay very busy after they no longer are required to.
In many ways its harder to see something through water than it is to see it through rock. Ground-penetrating microwave radar can get through tens of meters of quartz but centimeters of water. VLF and ULF penetrate 10-100x farther through the ground than through seawater. The frequencies that can penetrate more than a few hundred meters of water are around the same as the ones powering your lights. Antennas at those frequencies are miles long. You need special, non-conductive soils and bedrock to make them work. In short it's a real pain in the butt.

After 200 meters the ocean is practically opaque. Objects much deeper than that are reflecting a handful of photons. Below 500-1000 meters you're talking about photons per second at the surface.

Water is one of a quite small number of general radiation absorbers. To block alpha/beta/gamma radiation you need pure density- more mass per volume to slow down high energy particles. You can use heavy atoms like lead or uranium, or very densely packed lighter atoms. Neutron radiation is different- the actual number of atoms per volume is critical to maximizing the number of scattering events. That means you use things like polymers- hydrocarbons, so you have as many small atoms (hydrogen) in a volume as possible. Water is one of the denser liquids, while still being 11% hydrogen by mass, vs 14% for pure polyethylene. That makes it quite good.

Even sound isn't great underwater, relatively speaking- being a fluid in motion, there's a constantly-changing distortion on everything. The thermal conductivity also means thermal signatures spread out quickly.
Well it's just a few minutes, but definitely the most impressive few minutes of the movie ;) AFAIK most scenes where dinosaurs are jumping and running around were computer-rendered.

Remember that scene where the protagonists are running with the dino swarm around them? The paths of the dinosaurs were laid out in the real world with tennis balls, and back then we wondered "wow they must have great image processing code to remove all those tracking markers". Turns out it wasn't algorithms but humans who removed them frame by frame, pixel by pixel (it didn't occur to us computer nerds that brute force makes the most sense if you're on a tight schedule).
It's just supply and demand. The rich are leaving the cities for suburbs, so more of the higher end apartments are available. Which will lower those rents because there is low demand and high supply.

Meanwhile, there is a moratorium on evictions so cheaper apartments are not becoming available at a natural rate. So you have high demand and low supply, which will drive prices up.

Of course there are many other factors in play too. Such as zoning issues preventing new building, NIMBY preventing affordable housing being built, environmental restrictions preventing building in certain areas, etc. Plus the fact that developers will make much more money building luxury apartments than they will make building low income housing. Sometimes governments will offer tax rebates to builder of low income housing, but this then upsets a lot of the same people who want the low income housing to be built so it goes on and on.
That's fine, but I believe I'm still allowed to take exception to it and express my opinion.
The good thing is the actual vaccine development was done by Oxford University that has experience and done a good job with the vaccine itself.

They failed for 8 years to get this particular vaccine platform to work, and read some of the other comments, they probably caused more of the infamous string of clinical trial screw ups than AZ.
How I made $1256 in 24 hours with my indie project
The product in question was soft launched in January but failed to gain much traction. I made no sales at all. In February I decided to go live on product hunt. I tweeted about it and made a few sales.

A few hours later, I tweeted how Product Hunt made me a few hundred dollars and this tweet changed everything.
People apparently enjoy seeing posts about money, so the tweet received a lot of attention, and Product Hunt retweeted it to their 600k+ followers.

Sales began pouring in right and left at this point, and by the next morning everything had sold out
So, what's the moral of the story? People like reading about money.

Ps:Also attach stripe revenue charts to your tweets, people like those.

The product?

https://indiebrands.io
I sell one-of-a-kind brandable domains with custom logos included.
The latest batch of domains has just gone live, and sales are looking promising.
> sonic boom-less aircraft

Here’s a theoretical example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busemann_biplane
So, why don't you move to the wilderness and leaves the internet for us, the weak ones?