skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the BLM co-founders and current directory of the BLM non-profit is one of those "few anarchists" who proposed to outright abolish the police.[1] That article also proposes to abolish prisons, the military, borders, capitalism, and includes phrases such as "U.S. [and its] fabricated borders" and calls to "fight the U.S. state".

If you had told me this was written by some troll to make BLM
look bad then I'd believe you. To be fair, there are some good things in that article too, it's not all bad; it contains some anecdotes worth hearing, but that doesn't follow that the conclusions are also good.

This is also the same person who cited Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, and Mao Zedong as inspirations, by the way.[2] Yes, really, that Mao. I genuinely thought this was inserted by a vandal on the Wikipedia article when I encountered it last week, but the source pans out.

I mean, people don't just get these "abolish the police" and "BLM is a Marxist organisation" out of thin air. Granted, there is a lot of bad-faith trollism from Tucker Carlson and similar people, but if your message is so confused, easily misunderstood, and your leadership says things in support of the most extreme interpretations then quite frankly, you have no one else to blame but yourself.

[1]: https://harvardlawreview.org/2019/04/abolition-and-reparatio...

[2]: https://time.com/5171270/black-lives-matter-patrisse-cullors...
I think they might be alluding to things like "kill all landlords" which are I suppose jokes for some and simply calls to action for others.
Me too! I use AWS all day at work, so I should be able to find the service that charges my personal account 64 cents per month... :shrug: I'm glad that student got help.
What's your biggest problem with Regular Expressions?
There seems to be a shared struggle when it comes to Regular Expressions. Some suffer readability, others think it's completely useless and difficult to learn. What do you think? What are struggles you face with Regular Expressions?
If this is true or means the suicide/mass murder theory is true. Basically the germanwings scenario except much more intricately planned.

I still can't imagine how sick a person can be to do this. If he wanted to kill himself he should just have jumped off a bridge.

I'm kinda still hoping it's wrong and there was a proper reason behind this. But either way I hope the families will het some kind of closure.
My wife is a jewelry buyer for big retail , this is accurate but people also don’t understand the overhead and cost associated with retail in general. It’s much more burdened that some B2B middleman. My opinion after countless conversations with her about the industry is the best model would be something like Trunk Club where they mail you a bunch of rings, you decided which to keep. It probably exists in some format, if not, the obvious problem is the value of the inventory and the potential for fraud/theft that it would attract. Unfortunately it’s essentially what’s been going on in our house since covid WFH, she had a million dollars of product sitting on a shelf in her home office.
Took about 50s on my iPhone.
Your being downvoted but it’s true.
Marxism is a basis for critical theory. The critical theory that made a species jump from academia to the mainstream has its roots in the ideas of Gramsci and Marcuse, among others.

I call it “cultural Marxism” because unlike plain old Marxism, it has relatively little to say about the redistribution of wealth and other economic interests. In this way it’s made itself innocuous to corporate America, which would otherwise mobilize its immune system to reject the ideas outright.

Case in point: I recently sat through some corporate training on privilege that did not, once, mention wealth or economic privilege.
typo: I meant to say it's not something I'm trained in
All states, with exceptions listed below, cap notary charge to $10 at most. Most states are less. These states don't have limits one way or another:

Alaska

Arkansas

Iowa

Kansas

Kentucky

Loisiana

Maine

Massachusetts

Puerto Rico

Tennessee

Vermont
Let the Chinese run them. At this point they're far better at it than we, and we should focus on our core competencies like adtech and slowly reimplementing the past few decades of computing infrastructure in Rust and JavaScript.
Fun experiment:

Take a look at the comments in this thread, and figure out the ones that are created with a throwaway account.
I think you are right, since it entails the Halting problem it is not computable and thus not even in NP.
Not disagreeing with you (a view with all the active services would be great) but one of the many benefits of using Terraform is that it allows you to know what you running.
completely agree. even though it creates a new class of problem, there should be a "cut me off immediately at $XXXX per month" option.
Come to us. First of all it’s Florida and second of all you can say and think what you like. In fact unique points of view are deeply appreciated and widely supported - and engaging contrarian intellectual conversations most welcome.
Use a temp number card. Either privacy.com or Citi cc also offers this feature
> I find this level of wokeness appalling.

Calling out a senior staff member when they state 'white supremecy doesn't exist' is 'appalling'....yeah ok bud
Because, buster, newsflash:

AWS is for enterprise and enterprise startups and wannabe startups that seek vanity milestones (‘we are in the cloud’).

It’s not for your broke ass that needs to turn the tap off at a certain price point lol.
Intellectuals are the priests of the new alliance of throne and altar.

http://profcj.org/alliance-of-throne-altar/
At one point I tried using AWS trial for an app, didn't work out, cancelled the account (or so I thought) only to find 2 years later some charges to my bank of $2k and when I spoke to AWS support, there was another $4k accruing for this billing period.
Took ages to sort out, while they eventually did refund the amount, I was still out of pocket exchange fees (X2) the exchange rate also meant I was out more money. In total I think having a compromised yet closed AWS free trial cost me $350 over a 6week period some 2 years after closing it.
Plot generates SVG. There’s a variety of tools you can use to convert SVG to PDF. Plot is intended to be used on the web so I don’t think we’ll add direct to PDF rendering. (Though it’s possible that Observable might support it — Observable already supports download options that render SVG to PNG for example.)
Even more fun, watch how much karma they can rack up flame bating
It was the same with the puritans. You had to produce children somehow.
Pet peeve: people who put Werror in the default build flags. Leave it off by default, turn it on in your ci!
Seems like in most of these cases it's the advertising industry that needs to collapse, not the traditional "I give you money and you give me some software" industry.
I wonder if an US student who is also a citizen of an EU country can demand GDPR rights in this case. A school may not be a business entity (to say nothing about having presence in Europe), but the data brokers can be called.
One Graph to Rule Them All – The Lord of the Rings Network Analysis
That's matches what I've observed on my ~2017 Dell XPS. On Linux with fwupd (and Windows), it would write the updater to the EFI partition and then set it as the default boot entry for the next boot. I had to manually add Dell's certificate to the EFI "db" variable when I switched to using custom secure boot keys.
Modern transmitters should back down power when SWR (Standing Wave Ratio) is too high, specifically in order to avoid blowing out the front end.
Check it again next year when the political winds have shifted and you'll find that Merriam-Webster has changed the definition again, like they did last year.
Why would you make such a confident assertion, filled with such vitriol, when it's completely wrong? I don't understand your motivation for this.

Here, this link will set you straight, and it has a real discussion of the actual downsides and consequences of this practice.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish_meal

Rather than what you said, which is complete nonsense. I'd accuse you of lying, since you used that word, but I'll be charitable and assume you were exhibiting ignorance.
You must have missed the part saying that most fish sticks use farmed fish.
In the case of Cambodia, I think the connection being suggested is that the genocide targeted "professionals and intellectuals"[0], essentially the bourgeoisie, or the wealthy (it was a communist revolution). So criticizing inequality is being framed as a slippery slope to killing rich people.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_Fields
People misunderstand what multitasking is.

If you're downloading a huge file that takes 1 hour, don't just stand there watching, put a timer on, and go work on a different task.

If you're copying a huge document, don't just stand there, put a timer on and go d another task.

Learning to recognize processes that can be run in parallel is key, but it doesn't mean to do 2 things at ones; anything that requires some level of thinking can only be done single-tasking.
misery loves company
How to Read MTF Curves [pdf]
Sounds like he was inspired to try that by the food company of the same name
anytime anyone mentions "left" or "right" in their argument, I couldn't help but thinking the person is now short or actual argument and need to resort to name calling. And it's not just those 2 words, things like assigning people/practices a bunch of adjectives/nouns without elaboration too, that's a pattern very obvious to detect and can discredit your argument really quickly.
MORE white supremacy in tech
It seems to me that "withdraw money" has a missing parameter.

If you used "withdraw the money from my account", that would imply all of the money. Of course, any customer service person would still want to confirm that by asking for more information before handing your balance over...
I would hope for your own health you clean your dishes after you eat. There are a number of distasteful jobs that have to be done.
I used to work at AWS and I have no first hand knowledge in this case, but would guess it's far more likely that the engineering teams figured out a way to run it cheaper than at launch, and passed that savings along to customers.
A random wait still leaks, but if you can guarantee a reasonable upper bound on the time required, always waiting until that upper bound has passed before responding does not leak.
Debian has had many discussions over the years about this, they all devolved into bikeshedding about dropping an MTA from the default install vs switching to postfix etc.
That's hardly even a conspiracy theory. For it to be true doesn't even require any particular government officials to coordinate at all. It just requires a large portion of government officials to correct estimate that this situation in their best interests.
The "eye for an eye" makes some sense in your description, as it seems to be against other biblical directives.

Where can I look into your statement "It is considered heresy to view the Bible/Tanakh as the last word on a law."?

This is is a new idea that I had not heard before, and it would explain a lot of discussions I have had over the years if I understood it's source. (I keep the sabbath, annual holy days, but not the Jewish laws, so I have had some interesting discussions over the years)
> Corey Quinn, your first and last stop for any question that touches AWS billing, has called for an updated free tier that treats “personal learning” AWS accounts differently from “new corporate” accounts, and sets hard billing limits that you can’t exceed.

This would be good.

I don't normally do "cloud" stuff. It's just not my skill set. But I have looked at it on occasion and one thing that turns me off is my inability to know if I'm going to fuck myself with a large bill from some of these services.
Fair enough. I'm sure there are similar opportunities with less gruelling schedules though! I remember reading a HN thread years ago about retirement hastening decline for some people. I guess many just don't know different or don't find/enjoy hobbies in a holiday context (fossicking for gems, photography, fishing, etc). For an extrovert, it might be volunteering, but then I guess maybe the 80yo politician views what they're doing as volunteering.
Ah, I had misunderstood the section on wanting to start at sunrise, and interpreted it as a bar starting at sunrise and ending at sunset.
Back in the mid 2000s I was working on a stock ticker display for an embedded device. I got into regular arguments with people that couldn't be convinced that a stock price would ever exceed 3 digits.

BRK.A was written in black Sharpie on a post-it above my desk, I would just point to it. I think it was $90,000 back then.
He’s already left - you’re going to be waiting a long time.
Using crypto to earn a better interest rate on cash
I think we disagree on this. I have worked with and for many great leaders who never “acknowledged white supremacy” so it is definitely possible for me, and others to trust such people.

I’m not arguing semantics as my point is that there are many things more important than acknowledging white supremacy exists. This may not be true for others as it seems it’s super important for some.

But if I’m in the business of counting to 100 (or anything) I can be quite successful without including taking about eliminating white supremacy.

Note, I think that systematic racial inequity is bad and must be eliminated. But I don’t think the most effective way to do that is by talking about it all the time. And I think that I can not have any portion of my workday talking about it. This doesn’t mean I am for white supremacy.

I think, at it’s most basic, I don’t think silence is the same as endorsement. The world isn’t black and white (no pun intended) and everyone isn’t forced to choose sides. And it’s certainly not important to state one’s position over and over and over.
I would expect Google Classrooms to be particularly good at not sending data to _third_ parties!

They're already Google, so are not a third party. In this case it's at least clear and obvious that Google is being trusted with student data. And being Google, they already have in-house services for ad tracking, analytics, and what not. You're still sending data to Google, but at it seems less likely it'd then be sent out to other third parties with unclear privacy policies.
Ideally tunable, but sure. At least provide that option.
aws free tier is a joke anyway. surprise billing even after minimal usage and they shutdown your account if you forget to pay or the credit card billing info does not work . If it is truly free, why do they need your credit card.
I'm not capable of directly refuting this so will stand aside, but wanted to note other commenters have pointed out on previous reposts of this that the author misinterprets facts in some pretty key ways to reach his conclusions, and a biochem PhD student friend of mine opines "This is a breathless conspiracy theory. The guy has no clue what he’s talking about." Just saying double check before going too deep :)
No voting rights. Decisions on who runs things you have no vote.
> Nobody should be running Exim in 2021.

Nobody should be installing an MTA by default in 2021.
Yep and is a huge SaaS market place now so mid to large size companies can figure out what they are spending money on.

I don’t use them for any projects mostly because I already don’t enjoy having to manage AWS at work all the time. I also don’t want to live/work in a world where AWS is my only option so I try and use smaller hosting providers and services like tarsnap.
That's really cool. But I wonder, why is a service like this so useful that it gets acquired so many times? I mean it seems like this should be fairly easy to build, unless I'm missing something here.
becase the billing proces is seprate from the other processes
I think NP-hard is correct? You can reduce the halting problem and Kolmogorov complexity computation to each other [1], so the question is whether TSP can be reduced to the halting problem. Well, you can reduce SAT to the halting problem (they explain how here [2]) and you can reduce TSP to SAT given they're both NP-complete so... we're done?

[1] https://www.nearly42.org/cstheory/halting_to_kolmogorov/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NP-hardness#Examples
How to get it working with Docker on Windows 10.
https://gist.github.com/brianherman/63b65cdd92675f4a83cec1c4...
Bitstamp, 2015 Bitfinex, and 2017 Tether Hacks are Connected
That seems like they don’t understand the word. I can’t think of many more communities more inclusive than hackers. It’s certainly not gendered either.

Are all gendered words banned?
The author of this piece is a non-scientist who wrote a book[1] arguing that the reason that the West took over was because of "superior genes" from Europeans over Asians or Africans. He is, at best, a xenophobe trying to make a quick buck. In all likelihood, however, he's a racist imbecile.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Troublesome_Inheritance
in a game engine you have several ms to process events from the user/network

if you're handling depth from US exchanges you're lucky if you have a microsecond

for maximum decoding speed: most major exchanges represent data using fixed point with fixed message offsets (CME being the main exception, but then they have fractional prices)

the 4dp was likely picked due to some past requirement (e.g. fractional prices)

doing a major upgrade of a protocol like this is not easy when you have to co-ordinate the upgrade with all of your members (all of which have their own software/appliances, and some likely pass that 4dp through their systems too)
Every single release of this abomination makes me hate it more and more.

So much that I stopped being excited about it.

And every Android SDK/OS release changes everything in your face. I think there are people at Google who need something to do so they go around changing APIs for the kicks and because they can.

Then there are “the followers” in the Android developer world who would amplify every new fad and follow it like an excellent herd.

Unfortunately transitioning to backend seems quite difficult. Design, whiteboard rounds all go well, “but you don’t know about that backend specific library” :(
I don't multitask, I just schedule scripts and other automated tasks in parallel. I've never seen someone be more productive while doing more than one things at once.
Didn't intend vitriol or malice with that statement. And it's not about how much money they make - I suspect they probably at most made $100 off of this, it's the fact they're even charging for it - puts it squarely in the "for commercial gain" camp to the lawyers.

But the OP clearly doesn't have much of a background or worry for this, likely due to inexperience, age or just doesn't care. If they don't care, all the power to them - but I think they should be worried because litigation sucks for anyone.
"Scalability" means that you can adjust the scale at which you are operating.

The definition of "At scale" just means operating at whatever is a sufficient scale to solve the problem at hand. If you only need one dinky laptop to solve the problem, you can operate at scale with a dinky laptop.

So "fishing at scale" is fishing at a scale that statisfies the demand for fish. Since demand for fish will drop as sustainabile fishing regulations increase costs, there is absolutely a way to fish at scale sustainably.
I feel a lot of monopolies are happening now because of network effects, not as much due to anti-competitive practices.
https://www.pnas.org/content/116/39/19727
Yeah, that statement piqued my curiosity and I'd like a source too. I couldn't tell if it was meant there was a direct lineage or that work and concepts were done in tandem (ha) with the relevant standards bodies and engineers. Googling didn't yield much except InfiniBand's earlier genesis than PCIe, and Intel engineers being involved with InfiniBand and doing the initial work on PCIe.
Have to agree with the others. For example, while setting up ELB it's possible to select at least one option (un-checking the Public IP box) that causes the setup to just fail with a nonsensical error message. Turns out ELB requires a public IP to communicate with the nodes. That's just the most glaring one off the top of my head.

I also remember trying to set up SFTP whenever it was first released. It was literally impossible to do what they were advertising (S3-backed SFTP with jailed homes for each user) without writing a manual json config (I never got it to work). I had built my own solution for this exact thing on EC2, using a bash script more or less, and thought the hosted option would be less of a maintenance burden. Needless to say I quickly gave up.
What's even stranger is that they were actually favourable to 1st gen Ryzen processors when they came out. On their 1800x review[0] they call it: "A very welcome shake-up of the CPU market"

Then they did a complete 180 when AMD actually shook up the CPU market. Perhaps the site's owner changed?

There's a great video about the site here for those who are curious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQSBj2LKkWg

0: https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/AMD-Ryzen-7-1800X/Rating/3916
This is my personal opinion, though I do work at AWS:

It's not that real time counting is difficult, it is that the amount of compute resources and electricity that would be needed to power real time billing at AWS scale would be astronomical. There is a reason why banks and financial institutions generally do batch processing in the off peak hours when electricity is cheaper and there is less demand for the compute resources. Now imagine AWS billing, which is arguably far more difficult in scale and complexity.
HR's true mission is to defend the company (and its managers) from its employees.
For expense types I'm told it used to be eaiser. Then some scammers figured out they could send invoices and they would be paid now everyone needs to waste time tracking little expenses because if you don't even more money is wasted.

So there is a trade off which means some of the tedious jobs can't be automated. Though i agree I shouldn't have to separate my hotel room from meals at the hotel.
Just adding a thought here:

Truth is a couple of Mhz, reasonable RAM and basic I/O can do a whole lot! That is exactly what these little guys did, in addition to being portable, which I wrote a little about above.

Most of the value is still there too. Often we have an app, but we could also have more people writing little programs on their phones.

Lots of resistance to that, and I understand why, but...

This topic got me to thinking about Hypercard for mobile.

Package up all the hard bits, give people a few robust options and a place to input the few lines of code that matter and suddenly we have all the value of those little devices and in a way more powerful form.
As a student trying out the AWS platform (I'm not even a devops/backend/anything related to it) I found it painful to use when compared to other providers. They keep building new products that build on existing products such as Elastic Beanstalk that assigns a LOT of resources you don't even need to host a nodejs app, etc. Even reaching the billing panel was painful. You have to go through at least 3 screens just to get to the "billing" screen. And then you have to browse inside of that to reach your bills. It's disgusting.
I cancelled an account 2 years ago because no matter how much I explored cost manager or any regions I used, I can't find why I still get billed a small dollar or so a month.

I still get bills on the 3rd of each month, followed by a "we can't charge your card" (I removed it when they pulled this shit) followed by a few days later you get the "hey we're gonna suspend your account if you don't pay"

Yeah cool, I only closed the account 2 years ago now, go right ahead and suspend/close/do whatever you've gotta do, I stopped caring.
Look into game theory and Nash equilibria. Mutations will happen constantly but they won't be likely to "take."