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> As ever, if you’re not paying for the product, then you are the product.

Okay but I care about this purely as an AWS customer. I've used them and want to use them more, and have never used cloudflare.

> Having AWS give them something for nothing

> AWS are likely not stupid enough to get suckered into increasing Cloudflare’s market power for no return

By this logic, should they never drop egress prices at all? Should they actually raise them?

And Amazon doesn't get "no return" for dropping prices. It brings them more users.

Some of the other big clouds also have huge egress fees, but there are lots of providers that don't, and many users move to those specifically for that reason.

The biggest reason to keep egress fees up is to keep a high incentive for users to stay inside the walled garden of a single cloud, and that's very anti-competition and therefore anti-consumer.

> The content ring is part of their traffic boosting goal and sure it’s a cartel. It’s a group of natural competitors, setting prices as a club.

Peering should be extremely cheap though. And that only helps customers.

"Hey everyone, let's collaborate to reduce our profit margin on this product to merely high levels." is not a bad thing, and it doesn't fit the definition of a cartel either.
Signatures aren't just uniformly-distributed entropy, like hashes are; they encode real information, e.g. elliptic curve coordinates. Hashing and truncating the signature would destroy that information, meaning the signature could no longer be verified.
But to be clear, there are no insurrection or terrorism related charges.

The point is it does not meet the definition of insurrection.
There has been relatively high levels of support for normal / standard GPLv2 enforcement.

That said, the FSF and Conservancy like to pick more edge cases and go to absolute war on them. That doesn't generate as much support it is true and a lot of parts of the GPLv3 push also rubbed folks the wrong way.

"Linus says says GPL v3 violates everything that GPLv2 stood for"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaKIZ7gJlRU

is but one of many many examples here.
Robotics.. After machine learning and crypto era, we've come to robotics era.. Soon, terminator baby
So, data-driven, factual research is the domain of the extreme far right wing these days? I mean, I knew the left was illogical, irrational, and irresponsible, but didn't realize leftists were admitting it.
wow, here they tell you how to swap the new style lenovo keyboard for the solid old one. That's what i call a mod. https://www.instructables.com/ThinkPad-T430T430sX230-Classic...

Unfortunately one also needs to swap the firmware for the top row of the keyboard to function. I wouln't dare to do all this, out of fear of thrashing the laptop.

I suspect that these new fangled butterfly and chicklet style keyboards were especially designed as means to extract more money on inevitable keyboard repairs. (and don't dare to eat any potato chips in front of the keyboard).
Stanford MBA salaries have jumped 30% in the past decade
This argument is super lazy. Businesses do tons of things which don't raise short-term value. R&D, buying insurance, hiring junior people, laying out money for reserved instances with AWS.

Guess what all of these have in common? The exact thing that security has; eliminating long-term risk. Don't blame the stock holders because your arguments didn't persuade management...
They (B2) are with Packet (rebranded to Equinix Metal), last I checked.
You might like https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/jul/05/sixty-years-...
> phones sold on installment plans with a vendor lock would let folks pick up the phone on plan, root it to avoid vendor lock and then stop paying on phone.

To be fair, the fact that they signed a contract saying they would pay for the phone is what's supposed to be what keeps them paying for the phone. There's already laws around paying for things you buy, so the whole "well, people wouldn't pay for their phones" argument is completely invalid.
It's rough all around the edges:

- Want to mount HD Volumes? You've got to copy/paste a bunch of commands as an additional step after attaching it. This, in addition to the mkfs.xyz and all the normal linux stuff

- You thought AWS pricing was opaque? OCI implemented something called OCPU each of which gives 2 cores, but you've got to go to their 'cost simulator' page to make sense, and even then, there are some of their machine types that are not in the cost calculator

- They offer ARM cpus with their proprietary Oracle Linux... but once in, if you try to install the "oracle arm development toolchain" using their own tutorials, commands and sources, it doesn't work.

- To get into a "pay as you go" plan after your trial finishes you have to dance around in 4 or 5 video/calls with one of their "representatives" so that they move you to "PayPal" payment (for some reason they don't accept cards directly but only Paypal)

- Once I was "moved" to the pay-as-you-go, my Billing chart UI just broke, and suddenly I don't have a way to see how much I am spending (empty charts).

- The "performance levels" of block storage is also weird... and just now they released "ultra high performance", but it cannot be used by any machine, and you also need to do some additional crap to make it work.

- The login is strange.. at some point trying to login, I ended up in some strange Oracle screen that had nothing to do with OCI.

- The "Wordpress appliance" (whatever they call it) that they place at the very front of the screen after you login doesn't work: The admim user/password you enter when setting it up does not work. This one made me laugh... so bad.

And so on, and so forth. There's a lot of other papercuts that we've had while trying it.

If you want to create a couple of instances it is OK, but the brokeness becomes old when you are trying to do something real.
> It starts quite fast: ~0.3 sec with ~30 plugins, on Linux on CPU Intel Core i3 3Hz.

That is impressive!
Depends on how many times you've scaled 100x already. 1 user to 100 users is 100x, 100 users to 10k users is 100x, 10k users to 1 million users is 100x. Aurora serverless autoscaling can handle a LOT, depending on the architecture and use case.
why does one need to gulp so much water?
one of my earliest programming qirk encounters was scratching my head over why `() => { key: value }` returns nothing
Not super surprising – no response at all is often much better than police response in mental health crisis situations.
An exclamation point being part of a function's name is certainly surprising to me. It would be like learning that `foo[5]` was a function named `foo[` being called 5x or something..

(Apparently it's a ClojureScript convention to put an exclamation point on impure functions.)
Historical Italian Cooking is a good channel on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsDUyQI88LLvpu9RCevwQEA
Sort of an aside: this reminds me of a presentation I saw years ago by an architect(?) talking about architectural anti-patterns. My favorite comment was how planters are added around buildings as an afterthought as "green band aids".

Unfortunately for me I have no idea who the presenter was nor the venue. It was maybe a TED Talk but this was back when YouTube's only content was ripped off Newgrounds animations and clips from The Daily Show. It must have been over ten years ago because the Iraq war was mentioned as being a contemporaneous event. I'd love it if someone knows the presentation I'm talking about.

I think a lot of the points (as I remember them) are germane to this article.
I think that longer = more rowers; less wide = less mass.

Wouldn't that mean a more powerful and agile ship?
It isn't always possible to build my own hardware, especially in the embedded world. I buy unlocked hardware now, but I learned that lesson the hard way from Verizon and Samsung.
> And of course panspermia isn't new or my idea particularly, but what bugs me is instead of saying there needs to be more evidence, it should be the default assumption. Our environment is just not representative of most of the universe even if you ignore non-baryonic dark matter.

One might dismiss this by invoking the anthropic principle (a blunt argument, sorry). Most of the universe is void, and planets with no sun have little energy being tossed into their closed system. It seems adding whatever the hell can be found on asteroids into a planet bombarded by energy (a star being most convenient) is a necessary catalyst for life.

I'm sure I haven't thought about this as much as you have. What makes you think life can be formed without the presence of a star? Is it simply how much more not-near-a-star places there are?
Recommended watching on the channel 'Not Just Bikes':

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IsMeKl-Sv0

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxykI30fS54
At least there are 20+ years worth of chances for it to have been easily archived. CNN was one of the sites that was big enough to need load balancing back in the HTTP 1.0 days, so their main `www.cnn.com` would redirect you to a `www{2..8}.cnn.com` URL that the Wayback Machine usually doesn't have cached, leaving you empty-handed when you have a link to an old article. To find archives of articles they deleted 20 years ago you have to hope it's been cached via one of the IP address, e.g. https://web.archive.org/web/20020309034530/http://64.12.50.2...
On the water, speed is agility, and speed is limited to the square root of length for displacement hulls (which these are). Wider means heavier for a given length, taking longer to speed up, and more friction to overcome.
FYI: The site of the European Institute of Underwater Archeology has a lot of information about the site (https://ieasm.institute/egypt.php?lang=en).
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It is not completely invalid. This is a ridiculous statement.

The stats are actually pretty clear. T-mobile in particular got hit with plenty of fraud and others did too before they got better at locking things down.

Activation locks were also a control put in place to reduce what was for a while an epidemic of street crime where phones were stolen. The locks are critical and pretty popular, many DA's and cities demanded Apple put them in to try and reduce street crime - and they did.

So the idea that locks prevent theft / crime is not completely invalid. In fact, there are laws against stealing from houses and many people still lock their house. Their are laws against steeling cars and people still use keys for their cars.
Perhaps I didn't express this properly but I found Google's C++ dialect quite easy to work with, readable and intuitive because it banned things like exceptions, writing your own templates and no mutable reference function parameters.

Also I found the protocol buffers and RPC C++ bindings to be straightforward. YMMV.

Additionally the tooling reasonably pleasant (at least for "leaf" projects in the build system).

I know if I were starting a C++ project from scratch that after questioning my life choices that led me to this point, I'd just auto-start with Bazel, Abseil, Gflags, GLog and GTest. The whole thing would also have to work with CLion.
Tell HN: BBC News Filter – How the Beeb nudges its viewers
BBC News has lately become a questionable news outlet. Here are a couple of examples which show how they doctor videos and photos for local and foreign consumption:

https://viewsync.net/watch?v=fJ6ogocSR-M&t=0&v=Ub_8oWsWhLo&t=0&mode=solo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eS8EceIa1MQ
The concept of a soul is a rich one, and for many people is largely metaphorical or figurative. You can subscribe to a materialist account of our cosmos and still draw meaning from the idea of a soul.
>The major new claim here

Per the article and its citation of decade+ old precedent, that is not a new claim. Whether these requirements of the license are reasonable or not is irrelevant. If OEM's don't like the license terms then they can buy/build something else.
Apparently I can do a pretty decent impression of a Northern Mockingbird
Frankly, at the time where the questionnaires were filled by the study participants, there were no vaccines available as far as I can tell.

I don't know where that high-horse you're on comes from, but it's quite undignified.
The benefit is that ability to compile that old code, even if it takes some flags or marking it unsafe or whatever.

There is a lot of old code that will never be rewritten but is still valuable, and I believe we will waste a lot of time just language-shifting entire ecosystems as new languages come and go.

Look at python 2 to 3. There are still packages out there on python 2 that haven’t been migrated. And thats mostly the same language!

(Note that my view is colored somewhat because I am a scientific programmer)
The nation was founded on the principle "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants". The question is whether an increase in political violence reflects negatively on the citizenry or negatively on the ruling class; political violence isn't necessarily immoral if the ruling class is sufficiently corrupt/authoritarian.
Moral victory for atheists sounds like an oxymoron. Atheists don't need victories - there is nothing to prove - and atheism is amoral.
Even though the blog is syntax highlighted?
I think this is the talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/james_howard_kunstler_the_ghastly_...
Sorry, pet peeve of mine -- "obtuse" means "slow or dim-witted;" you want "abstruse," which means "difficult to comprehend."

Granted, using "obtuse" in this way is apparently becoming more common, so this is probably a losing battle...

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/obtuse#note-
If you are a pilot, they will give you wings whether it is a NASA mission or a private mission. If you are a passenger, you get wings on a NASA mission but not a private mission. That's the double standard.
In a past company where I was, we were approached by OCI sales team wanting to move us from AWS (we had a partnership with Oracle in other products).

After doing some due diligence, I couldn't find a reason to move anything. I think Oracle has to find something that just excels in their cloud. Shit, even giving free outbound traffic forever would be a huge plus. Microsoft has their AI stack, Google has their Spanner and other propiertary services, AWS has "everything else". But if Oracle wants to really take clients from others, they ought to do something good. I don't think they can compete with the DigitalOcean/Linoe/Vultr class... So unless they have a "killer app" it will be complicated to find customers that want to go through all the hassle of migrating from an existing cloud solution.
I'm not sure if it's a stylistic choice or a badge of 90s hackerdom, but this and the next top HN personal blog post right now
have no scaling or view metas and are impossible to read on a phone. I feel like open decision-making isn't working well if it hasn't reached a consensus yet about mobile readability. (I'm just being snarky because I'm in the middle of rewriting a ton of ancient mobile-unfriendly code, but, really I would polish up my presentation before I put something on HN).
That's messed up and racist in itself. A lot of the white racism is fueled by whites themselves. No one deserves to be raped, and to make such a despicable joke shows what kind of despicable person Louis CK is... which was pretty apparent when he was called out for wanking it in front of random people.
I have been writing code for several decades. Never managed to learn LISP due to a parentheses embargo with Naboo.
There's also Google News search if we just want to focus on news outlets.

https://news.google.com/search?q=frito-lay+strike

> I don't feel like other major sources are much better; they've got sponsors to please, too.

In contrast to Fox, we can see coverage from NYT, Wapo, Newsweek, CNN, Independent, and many small outlets.

> Fox News is the ONLY news source in Middle America.

Aren't OANN and Newsmax competing against Fox for the same audience?
Sure. Did you realize that epistemically they don't have the power to reject explanations? It would certainly be news to Stephan Guyenet if they did have in this case.
Wide relates in the end to drag. And yes the number of rowers matters -- a bigger ship requires more rowers, thus more mass etc. Generally, there is the "optimization problem" with each such system that a bigger vehicle requires bigger engine and more fuel which means more mass. But here they mainly refer to the ratio of length versus width and from my and above posters guess they refer to the profile of the boat in the water.

Edit: to amend and clarify: mass in a fluid affects displacement (assuming you stay above surface) and thus drag and maximum speed. Here is a crude reference about boat speeds https://www.boats.com/reviews/crunching-numbers-hull-speed-b... -- if I get time I will do more Google fu but I am pretty sure anyone can find the complete derivation online.
Have you talked about this with the FSF? I can sell a GPLv3 device that ships with unmodifiable locks?

If this is true (it is not) than we can do all sorts of dongle type locks on devices.

GPLv3 is not just about the bootloader. They are very clear actually that vendors must release anything that is needed to bypass locks or integrity checks.

" It will depend on how the hardware was designed—but no matter what information you need, you must be
able to get it."
The last time I tried Google Cloud was to test some Serverless code, this was the outcome:

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Just spent 2 hours trying to make some basic Google Cloud Services examples of Serverless to work, directly from the Serverless page to no avail. GCS was returning all kind of weird errors, including HTTP 500 ...

After that decided to move to use the AWS examples, and the first one I tried worked like a charm! Google has a long way to go to be at the level of AWS, right now the infrastructure seems crappy, if you cannot even run the most simple examples of a simple HTTP serverless function.

EDIT:
Also, I would never use Google Cloud, fearing that if for some reason they decide to "block" my account, I would have no recourse. Their support is terrible as well.
How do you write "Ever Given" in heiroglyphics?
I don't think we should mix in consciousness in the definition of life. It is hard enough as it is also without consciousness mixed in.

Origin of life and origin of consciousness are as I see it the two major mysteries of the universe. I see them as separate.
Further cementing the idea that Bezos wants to be Musk.
I think it's a rhetorical and political mistake to tie this effort to police violence and systemic racism. If you say "We're going to have a special mental health response team to deal with suicidal people and the non-violent mentally ill." Who would oppose that? That seems a very reasonable thing to try.

On the other hand, if you begin by saying "Because the police are racist murderers..." It just seems like begging for a fight that doesn't need to happen. People who might support the effort will resist it. I think it's the same mistake some people make by saying "Defund the police" rather than "Let's respond to the non-violent mentally ill with trained mental health responders."
> I believe the main problem with those social media apps is not an issue of time, but of productivity and determination/will-power

Social media are designed to be addicting. [https://www.economist.com/1843/2016/10/20/the-scientists-who...] They take advantage of the same techniques that casinos use to keep gamblers pulling the lever on slot machines.
Mom wants to learn how to use my PC, specially whatsapp Web and google search. She had a previous tutorial in his 20s with Win9x at work.

She then does some searches and brags about why is so slow, because last time it was also slow but responsive when not using internet.
What does immigration have to do with CO2?
> The poster you're replying to still has the cause vs effect right. That gets encoded into law because that's what a lot of people want. The law follows the demand - people know that there are developers out there with far more money to throw around then they have, so they fight money with law.

This doesn't make sense to me. If single-family homes are what most people want, why would a developer bother to buy up land and build something denser if people don't want to live somewhere denser? That sounds like a dumb business decision.

Nearly the entire country is zoned for single-family housing. Someone who wants to live in a SFH has no shortage of options. Meanwhile, someone who wants to live somewhere denser has very few options; we've almost entirely banned building new ones, so what dense places do exist are mostly the ones built prior to modern zoning codes.

As a result, people who do want to live somewhere denser often aren't able to, despite the demand. The data backs this up: https://cityobservatory.org/the-myth-of-revealed-preference-...
https://wiki.freepascal.org/CudaText#Advantages_over_Sublime...
https://www.wired.com/2010/10/legobot/
Its funny how much Apple has fallen from when they were crushing it (2005-2010) in UX/design.

If you compare the Windows 10 [1] vs. the OSX Big Sur [2] landing pages, Apples focus is on showing all the nifty apps vs why you would want to use the OS. I felt like during the time they were crushing it, their message was so much clearer.

It was things like: Create things. Secure. Reliable. Simple. Rock solid Unix under the hood... etc.

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows

[2] https://www.apple.com/macos/big-sur/
Fitting that Diodorus should post this to hn.

"So far, archaeologists have explored less than five percent of the ancient city." So still much more to come.

The story of Heraklion is a great example of climate change and its impacts on human civilization.

The other story of Heraklion is its great multiculturalism; it exhibits both Greek and Egyptian influences. I am always fascinated when I hear other nerds describe the process of learning Western history as "begin with the Greeks." And we often base Western civilization upon Greek thought, Roman law. At the same time, I am reminded of the story of Thales who supposedly learned his mathematical talents from Egypt. The interconnection between the two worlds seems obvious to me today, and I often wonder the reasons Westerners usually begin (and, for some, end) with the Greeks.

Hopefully Heraklion/Thonis can teach us more about the interrelations between Greece and Egypt; not only how they traded, but who they sat in between, how long this city had been here, did the Sea-Peoples (Phoenicians if you ask me) trade here, and were the populations of Greece and Egypt far closer in cultural heritage than we acknowledge today.
International Space Station doesn't fall back to earth because once a month it fires its thrusters to regain the lost altitude.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISS_Propulsion_Module
> What I'm actually wondering is how much work it would be just to create a single button that's an escape key on a USB stick

If you have a suitable Arduino (or compatible) lying around probably not a lot of work: https://www.arduino.cc/reference/en/language/functions/usb/k...

It would depend if "Escape" requires a specific non-standardized scan code or not. (Even if it did you could also try sending the Ctrl-[ variety instead.)

(It's even possible to get away with not using USB-specific hardware, like I did in the "old days": http://code.rancidbacon.com/ProjectLogArduinoUSB :D )

Random piece of keyboard trivia: On Mac OS X (and I assume current variants) each keyboard is a separate "entity" with e.g. separate state which includes caps lock state. This means that the USB "Capslocker" gag USB dongles that randomly toggled Caps Lock state didn't actually affect Macs.)
Ive only used Perl for one story at work but I don't fully grok yet why we $ a @ or a %

Getting a hash passed by ref to a sub was a true syntactic challenge that I haven't experienced in a different language. Have to say though, using regex in Perl is chef's kiss