skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yet, how does the fed fight inflation? By raising rates, i.e., home prices will be dropping. By how much, no idea, but sure reeks of bubble territory.

Of course the loan itself is worth less to the bank during inflationary times. You make more money, your payment stays the same, and real estate prices will rise somewhat, but it's not as simple as you make it seem. I'd be worried if I were planning to sell within the next few years.
> Also, it's still going to be Europe's problems for generations after the west generally stops interfering with other countries. Until then, "deal with it."

The electorate already is, and strong borders are becoming more and more popular among the citizens of many Europeans countries. Making the choice not to integrate has consequences, for everyone.
> We need a, open source, community driven, no-code tool.

What is with the obsession of devaluing technical skills so that non-technical business users can increase their profit?

Charge for your cost saving/tech-enabling tools.

Stop devaluing tech.
Stop motion animation is just different.
The problem with this logic is that there is literally infinite demand assuming the following premises:

1) Real-estate is a long-term positive return investment

2) The USG will do anything in it's power to keep that premise #1 valid (QE, low/negative interest rates, etc)

3) You can use real-estate equity as part of leverage to buy more real-estate.

4) Foreign investment is allowed, so the system isn't a closed loop

It's a bubble and will keep inflating until it pops.
Except with IPv4... it hasn't been solved because there just isn't enough addresses. And most organisations I have worked with on AWS is still predominately IPv4.
I always wonder with these sorts of things, is it the person who is 'wrong' or it the society?

Perhaps the society has too narrow a definition of 'normal', or perhaps the society we experience causes these issues (overcrowding, poor food+water, stress), etc.

I also wonder whether 'mental illness' is a field where you can literally create illnesses in order to then treat them.

Obviously, there are some genuine mental issues - I just don't think we are able to ascribe causality correctly, when the only ones trying to 'treat' the issue are the same parties that stand to make financial gains.
Consider that Wired reported on NSA's secret mass-wiretap of AT&T communications in 2006! This was a high-profile lawsuit (Hepting v. AT&T), which was dismissed in 2009 after new immunity legislation in 2008. That was followed by Jewel v. NSA in 2008 which seems still unresolved.

Not to mention the whistleblowing on the Trailblazer Project and New York Times reporting on the "Terrorist Surveillance Program" in 2005/2006.
> as well as the first iteration of Facebook Messenger

I was told, from someone familiar with the project at the time, that the first iteration was done with ejabberd, which is written in Erlang, with the main purpose of bootstrapping it. Erlang was not really in consideration in the long term at the time. Not sure if it changes your take personally but hopefully adding some context helps. I am always glad to be corrected if wrong. :)

I wrote about Techempower in the past. In a nutshell, the Erlang runtime does plenty of assumptions that you would absolutely use in production but which become overhead in benchmarks like these. Previous comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22894191

> My personal takeaway, which seems to be mirrored by every big company, is that the ecosystem just isn't worth the investment.

Your experience was guided by a decent amount of time and I actually appreciate you invested in learning it before deciding it wasn't worth it. However, I doubt every big company had the same takeaway for two reasons:

1. I doubt every big company went through the same experience (i.e. have they learned about the ecosystem?) to mirror the takeaway

2. The every quantifier is provably false, since there is Facebook/Whatsapp, PepsiCo, Klarna, Ericsson, Nokia, Mozilla, Cisco, and others using the ecosystem in production and/or investing on it (plus at least another company from FAANG using it at multiple projects)
> And news flash: hedgehogs and bees are only being saved because humans think they're cute.

Hedgehogs maybe, but I think in the case of bees humans like fruit and honey.
The episode they made in response to 911, April 9th is very good and touching. It really is something special

https://arthur.fandom.com/wiki/April_9th

Here is it https://pbskids.org/arthur/health/resilience/episode.html

Or this if doesn't work https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3pklin
Ok, then. Where do you think babies come from?
> Eviction moratorium

This is a big one, particularly since its effect is concentrated in high-priced geographies. Lack of foreclosure supply is a reduction in supply. Curious to see how that shifts at the end of this month as well as in March next year.
The thing has been that historically even though Amazon would "depreciate" a service they kept it running and supported.

"Amazon SimpleDB (N. Virginia) Service is operating normally" is their current status page, but their marketing materials doesn't show any SDB stuff. So if you had some old workload ticking over - you could just leave it usually.

I actually used SimpleDB in a light use case wildly past the point at which it disappeared from all marketing. I kept on expecting an email like the EC2-classic one, but it never came even though simpleDB didn't show up anywhere really
how long can we continue like this though?
In the end, a shock inflation will be even more disasterous as it will wipe everyone's savings.
Also, either way, at some point the system will reach a point in which affording basic needs becomes more and more of a problem, especially if wages are not raised. The US had a stagnat minimum wage for nearly two decades.
This is probably dismissed by the "or pay AWS to do it" clause.
For those not deep in US kids TV:

https://pbskids.org/arthur/

and

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_(TV_series)

As a UK dad, I don't recognise the name, but oh yes, I recognise the characters.

Shame ..
And it's one of the first popular processors developed by a Chinese company.
Hunger has left the developed world, but is still an issue in poor countries. Our society is so incredibly wasteful with food, there are massive amounts of perfectly edible food send to trash every year. This leads me to believe that even with a massive reduction in the use of fertilizers and pest control exactly nothing would change in the developed world in terms of food supply.

However, to enable that we'd probably have to get away from monocultural agriculture which is not only an issue for agriculture, but for instects and other wildlife as well.
I've seen 172 conversions with diesel. In fact that young guy that flew around the world in this 172 last week used one.
I don't think they know what 'hedge' means, but they understand the concept that the value of the money may be going down.

That said, it's probably not a driving sentiment, rather, just the basic overall impetus of inflation and low rates.

It could be that there are whispers of increasing rates and everyone is looking to lock in.

That said, in around 2006, this was the feeling as well. The major crash. And as soon as things were getting frothy again - COVID and major turmoil.

Finally, it should be noted, that there are external factors driving inflation, if even some of it is temporary, which is cost of transport, and supply chain issues in China, and of course, tarriffs.

That said, Fed probably needs to raise rates.
Yes there are plenty, they tend to be female democrats.
Given that the bomb exploded, how do they know what was inside the detonator? I guess the culprit had some technical drawings in his possession when he was arrested?
My favorite is the times when I have dived in to fix performance of the system, found the place where I or a team mate left in a terribly unnecessary loop or increased complexity, quickly fix that and report back the great success in improving performance! Great indicator there for management.

I think the person/team following such a path does deserve accolades but if their ego blocks them from admitting honestly how difficult the work was, others will sense (maybe not management) the dishonesty sooner or later and problems will eventually develop.

I always give my team mates accolades and offer them excuses when they've messed up: "we were really busy that week", "its easy to forget to bump the minor version", "that manual testing work is tough". If they choose to ignore the offered excuse and go silent with their ego I think it stands out sorely over time. If they accept it then we all know what we have to improve on next time.
Is it practical for code to flow between these two execution units? In my understanding, the architecture of a GPU and CPU are so fundamentally different that it doesn’t reallly make sense. You do want to have a single data structure representation however.
This would really help the devs who are being detained in a cell and the only way of communication is through changelogs.

Jokes aside, I thing this is a great thing, PWA themselves barely announce when they update, and if you're building a webapp, you can have the changelog announce new features.

I'm unsure but Since this doesn't seem to require you add a changelog everytime you update the WebApp, I feel like the redundant "Bug fixes and performance improvements" can just be swept under the rugs. Ofc this comes at the cost that you might wanna show the (real) current version somewhere for bug reporting.
Coronavirus lambda variant spreads across Latin America
The inside bottom I should say is well seasoned. The sides, handle, and outside...not so much.

In my experience even the inside bottom will at times rust in places. Likely where the seasoning broke or was tore through in scraping.
The average homebuyer is also only putting 5.3% down [1], so even if they know what hedging is, they’re not exactly moving significant amounts of capital around.

[1] https://www.housingwire.com/articles/49443-the-average-down-...
You will take 5 deaths, meaning you will choose for others whether to risk that. Do you not realize the implication here?
Oh, I wouldn't let you get off that easy with posting one of dozens of hokey Wordpress links. I figured you'd try to hide behind the idea that "no one reads the articles that show the truth!" or some such nonsense, and here we are.

First, you're referring to Marc Girardot who, according to his own bio on the PANDA site as having a "MBA from INSEAD, as well as Ms. in Economics and Business" and no expertise or training in immunology in any way shape or form. PANDA, for the record, self describes as "replacing flawed science with good science and for retrieving liberty and prosperity from the clutches of a dystopian 'new normal'". PANDA and it's members are so biased (and at times, under-qualified as in Marc's case), it's absurd that you are on Hacker News telling people otherwise.

But back to the "article" you posted. It begins with an anecdote about a totally real email from a totally real friend regretting taking the vaccine. Shortly after that it features a great table with "data" with no source provided of any kind for the numbers strewn about. Then we see a link to a WSJ opinion column where the authors state that we learn more about the efficacy of medicine as we use it real world scenarios (not against the vaccine, just saying our opinions change over time) and a link to another opinion column published in the BMJ by a group of 27 clinicians, researchers, and consumer advocates who think the FDA should slow down vaccine roll out. Not all that compelling, and definitely not a call to stop vaccination as I'm sure Marc would have liked.

Next we see a graph with "credit: Nature" under it and a few sentences in to the next paragraph is a link to a nature article, but no specifics on where the data came from. Again, I guess specifying sources isn't that important!

I read the rest but I find Marc to be under-qualified by his own admission and the article to favor pushing an opinion over useful, factual science.
You're missing the point though, which is that people need time with people to learn. Watching videos isn't enough. What happens when they have questions and need to have a conversation?
#KilledByAWS ?
They(we?) were more related to each other. I guess that like chimpanzee[1] and bonobos[2], perhaps closer, but my biology knowledge is not strong enough to choose the perfect example.

Note the humans and chimpanzees diverged like 5 million years ago. Neanderthal is very close to us and it's reclassified as it's own specie or as the same specie from time to time.

There is a nice graphic in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimpanzee%E2%80%93human_last_... Neanderthal is not in the graphic, but if you want to add it, you should put in near the top left, between us and H. Erectus, probably closer to us.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimpanzee

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonobo
Why is this even a thing when a vaccinated person can still spread a virus? It protects him or her from a severe case of
disease it does not prevent the spreading of the virus.
I dont' care about static vs dynamic typing but if I could at least typehint function arguments my IDE intellisense and
I would be so happy :) Maybe it could even be compiled to guard clauses or something?

Writing specs is tedious and apparently not even encouraged for private functions.
I had the opposite experience, moving into an older neighborhood deep inside the city, but in an area where there hasn't been much construction for the last 50 years. The number of birds, small animals, and bugs are astounding - and this is a relatively densely populated location.

AFAICT there are two main factors:

1. A nearby stream which is part of a protected greenbelt -- never more than 100m wide or so, but miles long.

2. The fact that the area has not been torn up for construction in a generation, so the plants have had time to overgrow everything. I assume the wildlife largely follows the plants.

Of course there aren't any larger animals who need room to roam, because they couldn't survive crossing all the streets. Cars are one of the biggest barriers to wildlife and humans coexisting nicely - or to humans and humans coexisting nicely.
Note most SIEM's (your SOC team) can detect this (not by default as far as I know).
I hate this global trend of talking about real estate prices in yoy terms (without mentioning that, particular in the title), by month.

e.g. in this case, prices increased in May by 2% percent, such that they ended up 17% higher than May 2020. Yet the title is prices surged 17% in May.

It's obvious it should be read differently than your intuition says only if you follow the market. And it's surprising how many people I come across citing this figure who're unaware of the difference and the correct way to interpret this misleading statement.

At 17% it becomes more obvious than years with 3% growth, but still.

Further, even if they had clearly stated something like "May's RE prices see 17% growth in one year", it can still be a bit misleading. It's easy to imagine a price-curve where a rolling 12-month period can see increasing yoy-growth, even though the market is in decline the last months. And I've seen RE-driven news pieces abuse it in the past stating 'record high prices' based on this yoy growth figure, even though the past few months the market was dropping.

There's been a number of studies that show that RE has been strongly driven by market opinion/expectations, not just a simple 'demand for housing'. In fact, to 'overbid' means essentially to get comparatively fewer square feet per dollar. As in, overbidding means reducing the feet per dollar you buy. For people who demand housing (square feet), it's interesting that RE pushes people to accept less housing for more money. And it's in part because of a collective craze as people believe prices will keep going up. Interestingly there's more RE per person than ever before. Construction has been outpacing population growth, there's fewer people per home because of this, and homes are getting bigger every year. There's some indications (of course low interest rates are the primary factor) that the RE price craze is causing a bit of a self fulfilling prophecy, and I find that the news is actively contributing to it, looking to publish the most incendiary selections of data.

Anyway bit of a rant for just a news article title, but everytime a big paper publishes a piece like this it's always part of the talk at the coffee corner the next day and in my country (Netherlands) there's clear links between the articles/journalists and the largest RE agent association that has 80% of the market. They're always pushing a narrative.
I don't think it helps that Blackrock and Vanguard seem to have taken it upon themselves to buy huge amounts of family houses at up to 30% markup.

If there was ever a time you'd think that legislation could be drafted to help the common man, here is a great case! But I'm not holding my breath.
In other words, you didn't report a touchpad malfunction that was interfering with obvious and clearly stated security policies, and allowed the malfunction to interfere with your work for days/weeks/months without seeking assistance from IT?

This is not a good look, but if that's how you want to play the game of lying to your employer, fine with me!
Since I started working as a “consultant”, I started using the exact same Evildoer tricks ! I’ve said “No” to partners coming with easy & urgent requests, just because I wasn’t feeling like dropping my work and doing these. To the juniors’ disbelief, I _gained_ their respect.

This is also how I never got caught with the “can you stay all night/all weekend and try to get this done before monday ? Our boss just asked for it..” song. Nope, he’s just being evil. I have other plan, good luck.
I don't agree that rough surface is no big deal. I bought a Lodge cast iron pan 20 years ago when Alton Brown was hyping them up on Good Eats. It's of the 'newer' generation from Lodge that come with a rougher casting from the factory compared to their much older and beloved pans. Even after 20 years of regular use it's still a rough surface and nowhere near as slick and shiny and nice as a pan you might find from an antique store.

It's still a great pan, but after using a slick surface pan I realized there is a big difference and better option out there. I still can't cook scrambled eggs in this 20 year old pan without a bit sticking and staying behind on the rough surface. Ultimate I switched to using carbon steel pans which are just as nice with heating but perfectly smooth and slick from the factory.
I bet the prices go down a bit by August. Where I live there's a lot more inventory on the market today than there was in May.
its absolutely abhorrent actually.
a younger friend of mine (mid twenties) known no one in his age bracket who is able to afford a home. They all have normal jobs, a high education etc. (teacher, mechanical engineer, nurse etc).
"strong signal about the user's interests."

I would also note that by only advertising to those already looking at cat websites, advertises are missing out on those customers that are not giving off strong cat vibes. I'm sure there are plenty of people out there that don't think about their cat enough to search for cat stuff, but that still buy cat food every week.

If an advertiser were to run an ad alongside an article about the wild fires, they might reach a wider market. Who knows, they might even convince some folks to get a cat who were not even thinking about it.

p.s: And isn't that what marketing is all about - solving problems you don't even have!

p.p.s: When you know you have a problem you look at a catalog, not ads.

p.p.p.s: Also, bubbles.
Pretty much agree; and I'll add NVIDIA has also made it a point not to support profiling (and probably debugging) OpenCL... to this day.

Still, that doesn't contradict what I said in my earlier post.

There was also OpenCL C++, which I really wanted to see implemented by GPU vendors, especially NVIDIA, and that didn't happen either.

As for C++AMP - did that ever work on NVIDIA hardware?
It's amazing how strong the resistance is to sprawling less. Not to developing less, but just to using more compact forms so that some land can be preserved in its natural state.

Example: https://dgunderblog.wordpress.com/2015/06/29/when-is-it-okay...
Things that only someone who has been programming 20 years would know
The lumber shortage only lasted a few months, right? https://fortune.com/2021/07/26/lumber-prices-bubble-cost-wil... says it's over.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venona_project

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

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

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

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_studies
Surprising I also don’t recognize the name but recognize the characters. Does this show have a different name in the UK?

Edit: I think I am just confusing it with a very similar looking UK/Central European show.
Heinlein on slavery:

“Nor do I feel responsible for the generally low state of the Negro — as one Negro friend pointed out to me; the lucky Negroes were the ones who were enslaved. Having traveled quite a bit in Africa, I know what she means. One thing is clear: Whether one speaks of technology or social institutions, ‘civilization’ was invented by us, not by the Negroes. As races, as cultures, we are five thousand years, about, ahead of them. Except for the culture, both institutions and technology, that they got from us, they would still be in the stone age, along with its slavery, cannibalism, tyranny, and utter lack of the concept we call ‘justice.’”

More in the same vein here:

https://worldsf.wordpress.com/2012/09/07/heinlein-and-racism...

Includes such evergreen classics as “neurological differences”, “white people are the ones actually discriminated against”, etc.
Eh, I agree that those who could get vaccinated, but don't are indeed assholes.

Worth remembering, though, that there are groups of people who cannot get vaccinated yet, either because it hasn't been proven safe and effective yet (kids 0-11), or because, for specific reasons, it isn't safe for them to get the vaccine (those severely allergic to components of the vaccines, some immuno-comprimized people).
As I mentioned above, the SOC team can detect the exact process ID for these app really easily. No plausible deniability.
> Torrent support in S3 is being killed off with little notice.

Did anyone ever seriously use it? It never made much sense to me -- if you're trying to optimize for performance, S3 is already pretty good and a CDN can make that even better; if you're trying to optimize for cost, you wouldn't be using S3 in the first place.
Company networks still exist?
There's no reason to think they'll do this, though. You're just wildly speculating. The much more likely scenario is that they say "find a remote position at the company or leave".

And they're not so much "mandating the health of their workers", they're mandating that their workers don't harm other workers.

> If someone at Google died from drunk driving, would it be fair to ban alcohol?

If enough people got wasted at work and hurt other employees as a result, they'd probably think about limiting alcohol at events at the office. That's a closer example to this vaccination requirement.
As discussed on that thread, nobody used S3 torrents.
> In the UK, 1.2% of delta infections are among people who had previously recovered

This is very interesting. I hadn't seen that. Can you share a link?
At $0.045/hour, NAT gateways are expensive. This sets up perverse incentives, as it's cheaper to keep wasting public IPv4 addresses. If anyone from AWS is watching, I suggest that you make the base fixed price of NAT gateways way cheaper, and maybe add a small extra charge for EC2 instances and Fargate tasks with public IPs.