skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The only datapoint I can give is that moving from AWS to GCP reduced our bill by 2/3rds. That isn't a 1 to 1 comparison though as we did a re-platforming at the same time.

Moving from AWS ECS to GCP Kubernetes was probably the biggest money saver. It reduced the amount of compute needed by a huge amount. Being able to safely use pre-emptive VMs in Kubernetes is also leads to huge savings.

I am sure that if we used Kubernetes in AWS it would have had a similar cost reduction.
One of the latest events like this is Capcoms Resident Evil Village which launched with a DRM that added terrible stuttering to the PC version.

They only admitted to this and promised a fix when a cracked version came out that had the DRM removed and it didn’t have any stuttering [1].

[1] https://www.gamesradar.com/resident-evil-village-pc-patch-la...
> alpine linux can fix this by creating and providing a generic word for their flawed-opinionated-mini-linux whatever

Why is it on the Alpine Devs to name a downstream project? Would you ask the Debian devs to name Ubuntu?
A new type of healing, supported by Apple
'best interests' can include priorities other than money.
I advise you to go back and read the law again. What you describe doesn’t happen and it’s not even enforced by it.
Why did the railroads grant them? Because Standard Oil was a huge amount of business. And back then, railroads had other railroads that competed with them. The railroads granted them under the threat of Standard Oil taking a huge amount of business to the competition.

Was it for the ownership of the tanks? No, I don't think so... but I can't prove it.
Then the virus variant itself would cause autoimmune disease, and we'd have a much bigger problem than deciding whether to approve a new vaccine.

For fuck's sake, I'm not saying do no testing. I would assume they do basic checks, first in humanized animals, then using bioassays to try to detect all sorts of problems including antibody cross-reactivity with a wide variety of human cells. I'm also not against a preliminary limited human trial, with bloodwork checked after a few weeks to try to see if the assays missed anything obvious.

Short of that, what do you want them to do? We can't wait years to see if people develop symptomatic auto-immune problems. If we even wait 3-6 months for each new protein, the time advantage offered by mRNA or adenovirus vaccine tech is blown, or at least reduced to the point where there's no ability to react quickly to changing dominant viral strains in a pandemic, or new outbreaks of known diseases.
Blaming climate change on the "greed" of oil companies seems to me just a way to avoid taking personal responsibility for one's own choices as a consumer.

You really can't drive a massive SUV where a smaller vehicle or even a bike might work perfectly well and then yell at Exxon about their greed.
OP here. Sadly a true story with a "shall not be named" software for optical media management. I just want a Win32 binary that does it's job. Instead, I had to wait 45 seconds every launch until the server "spins up" from working in the background.
Perhaps we would already apply environmental legislation to CO2 as a pollutant such that carbon intensive industries and products would be more expensive and low carbon products/industry more competitive giving consumers more choice.
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I agree, I don't think there's enough research here. If it were just one browser, perhaps designer choice.

But it is two browsers that chose blue, so perhaps there is some underlying Unix-y reason. Maybe early ncurses had chosen that blue for something unrelated to the web, and the decision goes back further.

Or maybe it was just lack of choices. For example, of the 16 original hex colors, blue & purple IMHO look the least like crap when mixed in with black text. Maybe its just that simple? red is too alarming, green is too bright, yellow/magenta/cyan/grey are too hard to read... now I'm speculating, but I think the answer might be an unrelated pattern in some other color-related origin.
Like Democrat and Republican politicians, corporation and consumers blame each other not because they are enemies, but to avoid criticism of the game they pay together. Recycling (and ignoring Reduce and Reuse) is the perfect example of deploying a fake solution to avoid having to fix the real problems.
It is downvoted because you say something is a failure without backing it up, when GDPR is actually a success for privacy and consumers everywhere.

1. Marketing consent has now to be explicitly asked for when signing up for any service. Companies cannot enrol you to one if you didn't ask for it.

2. Right to be forgotten. You can request a company to erase all your private data they hold on you.

3. Companies have to legally report data breaches within 72 hours after becoming aware of it.

4. Penalties for companies who do not take privacy seriously.

5. Companies can no longer just hoard sensitive/private data unless they have a reason for it.

6. Selling private data from company to company now requires original consent from the user (this stopped a lot of businesses selling lists for lead gen, call centres, etc)

7. Companies treat private data as a liability now, making them ask themselves additional questions whether it needs to be stored or processed at all, and if so, put additional security fences around it.

This list can go on for ages. I don't see these benefits and additional rights for hundreds of millions people out there as a failure. It's a win win for consumers.
A pass on what? Are we going to punish them?
Yes; that is what I mean by "smarter Holter monitor". A regular Holter monitor contains some firmware that logs to some flash storage or whatever. And there may be no display or anything.

I wonder whether there exist some Holter monitors that could be made more functional with just a firmware reprogramming job. You really need interfacing though: BT, Wi-Fi, ...
Of course this is absurd because consumers have no access to information about the emissions that factor into their products, and various corporations work very hard to prevent this kind of transparency (including misleading people on the calculus a la TFA).

Not only that, but most consumers don't concretely understand the implications of "climate change" because most people can't summon a dozen climate researchers to do a study and communicate the results (indeed, in most places the actual studies are paywalled). And here too, corporations are deeply invested in making sure people believe that climate change is just a myth or that the implications aren't as severe as the science leads us to believe.
Apple build advertisement profiles on iOS users, and allow App Store and Apple News ads to be targeted using said profiles. They are estimated to sell billions of dollars of ads per year. Their tracking is, as far as I can tell, not opt in. Instead it's an opt-out hidden in an obscure settings menu, with the sign "beware of the Leopard" on the door.

See https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT205223

So it absolutely isn't antithetical to their business model. The opposite: Apple's business model is to lock users to their platform, and extract rent out of as much of their economic activity as possible. If anything, third party advertisers making money from iOS users directly without giving Apple a cut is what's antithetical to Apple's business model.

It seems basically guaranteed that within a couple of years Apple will be doing another attempt at launching an ad network for third party apps and/or web sites (Safari-only) using the same tracking data.
Magnetorheological Fluid
Clojurists Together funds 6 open source developers with $1,500/mo for 12 months
> I assume that the author will actually be advocating for society wide, extra legal penalties for known speeders; perhaps insisting on a public registry of those known to have had traffic citations, so those people can be denied services at restaurants etc...

You're so close and yet so far.

There is a registry of traffic citations, too many and you can't drive. Too many and you are forced to take classes.

The reason the penalties don't apply to restaurants is because your reckless driving has nothing to do with restaurants, it doesn't affect others in restaurants. It does affect others on public roads which is where the restrictions are placed.

Conversely, I don't expect anti-vaxxers to be denied driving licenses because their driving doesn't affect me. Their behavior does affect me in a restaurant because of an insanely contagious disease and one would imagine restrictions ought to be applied there instead.
Not without paying a bunch for bandpass filters and power amps to get it up high enough to actually drive your 100w amp. Most SDRs are just the transceiver without all the front-end parts you really need for a "usable" radio.
I mean if you used an SDR in your consumer product. Let's say you make a dual purpose LoRa / WiFi radio to put in vehicles for a fleet management solution. If you use an SDR, you'd have to lock it down with DRM to prevent end users from repurposing it.
At this point I have to say American that voted Dems old fool deserve what they getting or coming. Just like when voted Barry that spike up the insurance and medical bills. Already American got beaten in Agfhan. Wait and see a repeat of 911 (922?) now that those goat herders know American can be easily beaten simply by dragging it. Oh yeah, blame a President that did good for country back then. I am betting next 911 is somewhere on the westcoast.
completely agree! right now there's news headlines about how terrible the 2021 Sturgis Motorcycle Rally (locally relevant to me) was as a "superspreader" event, because people are getting positive PCR tests after the fact. however, there's been 0 covid deaths resulting from the 2021 Rally, while there was the usual single-digit (4 this time) traffic deaths. (when you take into account the sheer number of attendees and the sheer amount of drugs and alcohol consumed during the event, this is actually a shockingly low number!)
the 8 bit palette that most computers supported in VGA graphics

There were plenty of us who surfed the web in less than VGA. I was on monochrome.

OS/2 Warp had a web browser and supported CGA: https://www.mit.edu/activities/os2/faq/os2faq0201.html
ngl, their marketing teams are brilliant. yes, they are destroying the planet, but they certainly succeeded in driving the language/narrative.
Country? Level of experience? Area of expertise ?
Seeing Quintuple – ESA/Hubble (‘Einstein Ring’)
The bitching of lack of a lot of the features for web devs doesn't come from it being built for users instead of the devs rather it comes from Safari being built to not compete with the AppStore on iOS where they get a 30% cut of all transactions vs the 0% on the web.
They call themselves "energy" companies, so where does it matter where that energy comes from?

In that perfect world where once they knew early on that the consumption of their product would lead to an uninhabitable planet for future generations (because that's what we're facing now), couldn't they have pivoted (slowly) towards true renewables and battery technology? They could have been the leaders instead of the culprits, and positioned for greater long term growth and shareholder value, instead of the relatively short term profits of business as usual.

As long as we're writing science fiction that is... But someone somewhere made a choice to bury the science and keep the status quo, either by action or inaction.
I used to only blame consumers, until I learned how inefficient oil production is and how much CO2 is emitted at the oilfield. Yes, some oil companies are burning huge amounts of oil and methane before the product even reaches the end user. For decades, these companies have chosen against implementing process improvements, and the only way they will do anything is by penalizing them.

https://news.stanford.edu/2018/08/30/measuring-crude-oils-ca...
Big industry of all sorts routinely tries to manipulate public opinion and the machinery of government to keep itself in business. That goes for big corn as much as big oil, but big oil is the one fucking over the planet.
You'd better believe it! I made a calendar reminder just for the occasion.
Portal Windows for Electron
Do they also have a legal obligation to lie and fund disinformation?
> we moved to white backgrounds around the same time as the web came to fruition

‘We’? Document-oriented workstations, including the one WWW was developed on, routinely used black-on-white back to the Alto, or NLS. (CAD stayed white-on-black due to the history of vector displays.)
Indeed. They even have some they guarantee to make for at least 20 years.

https://www.st.com/content/st_com/en/about/quality-and-relia...
What is the plans with Floc ?
Flash came with McAfee. Everyone knew that McAfee is being distributed by assholes, but they needed the assholes' product anyway, so they put up with it. Eventually projects like Ninite were created precisely to install software without all that included junk.
I found this article to be so spot on. There’s a mindset often found in tech companies that essentially comes down to “in every decision the data must win.” I see this in my day to day working at a large saas company all the time, and pushing back against this mindset is akin to heresy on some teams.

What the author points out is happening to Netflix is the inevitable late stage of this mindset. To me it looks like the home screen in Netflix is optimized for superficial engagement, at the expense of the actual value and joy customers get from the service.
Unknown re private scanning, however Australia and UK have rigorous internet censorship regimes that block copyright infringement and gambling that use exactly the same censorship infrastructure that was build to block CSAM in the early 00s.
And you can't ride a bicycle or train where the infrastructure doesn't exist because of pro-car lobbying by the oil companies, and then yell at individuals about their 'personal responsibility'.
dunno, but I wish we'd started out with all browser default CSS looking like twitter bootstrap 2.3.2 rather than the bevelled tables and clunky buttons there were, and which took ages to shake.
Sort of reminds me how I can’t get a digital newspaper without ads, regardless of what I’m willing to pay, or how every cable tv provider in my region has unskippable ads in on demand and (soon) recorded tv programs, regardless of what I pay. The content industries are very much stuck in a “content must be financed through advertising” mindset, and google seems trapped with them. I can easily imagine a paid privacy-first google premium service that strips out google ads across the internet, and I would pay for it, but apparently google’s imagination is more limited. So now I just use ad blockers.
Isn't this a VC/investor problem? If you make a new device, say some GPS locator for hikers, isn't their very first question going to be, "Okay, this is cool hardware, but how are you going to generate MRR from each purchase?"
That's an unfair analogy. Rent control directly (or undirectly, depending on your views) decreases the supply of rentable units. Your seatbelt analogy implies that anybody, at any time, can obtain rent control. That's simply not the case. I can't "get" a rent-controlled apartment as easily as I can put on a seatbelt, because the "seatbelt" of rent control isn't available to everyone in the city.

A better analogy would be a city bus. If I take 10% of the seats and allow people to reserve them for personal use indefinitely, that makes the rest of the bus more crowded. The act of renting those seats out limits the supply of other seats, making the rest of the bus more crowded. It doesn't "cause" damage to the riders in the 90% of the bus, but pretending this policy hasn't made things more crowded would make no sense.
Breaking and entering is one thing but this sort of thing happens with roommates and house guests all the time. First hit on Google reveals: https://nypost.com/2020/08/29/nyc-grifter-roomie-spend-first... you can find plenty more.

There have been cases were someone who was invited to spend the night has lived for weeks to months at a property without permission.
Roughly diverges from Carter putting solar panels on the White House and Reagan not taking them off. Other countries follow France in building out nuclear power as a substitute, while investigating how to reduce oil consumption to avoid depending on OPEC. Salter gets more wave power funding. Siemens get started on wind turbines earlier. Basically we end up 10-20 years ahead of current. And the discussion about what to do is easier because there are fewer financially motivated liars involved.

(We can assume that state owned oil companies still captured their respective governments, we're just stipulating that a separation of corp and state can be achieved in the west)

(However, until 1990 the world remains more concerned with the threat of immediate obliteration by nuclear war than the slow problem of climate change.)
I believe $1K/person is more than enough for great living (including a humble but nice room rent) in the majority of countries (including a number of the EU members, let alone the "third world").
Most people's experience with alpin is through containers. Given you provide `alpine-glibc` containers is likely where the confusion comes from. If you don't know the backstory one would easily assume this is an Alpine endorsed container.
Why does anybody use Heroku? It's just a layer on AWS too.

AWS is unnecessarily complicated for a common set of use cases. Layers on top that provide simplicity, and more importantly, confidence is nice.
To dead sibling: because hackers can still read it =]
> What does that alternate universe look like?

Have all the billions of subsidies flow into renewables, battery and electric car tech, instead of oil? Today it's slowly catching up, but we'd be decades ahead if we started decades ago.

Nobody is saying it all the fault of "evil CEOs", but it fair to point out evil CEOs and in general evil deeds by corporations.
A significant portion of the emails I receive are encrypted in transit using TLS. So governments would have to routinely MITM TLS traffic in order to surveil every single email.
Also: the fact that it's hidden under 'parental controls' speaks volumes.
The Taliban != Al Qaeda

These are two distinctly different things.
Those companies are polluting because they are allowed to. Only a society level response can rein them in.

And then the individuals will change what they do, based on what is still available.
I think it is like the car industry. The push to electric vehicles has forced companies to adapt, reskill and do the R&D because they know their business will be going away in 10+ years.

I would like to think that heavy R&D into renewable energies would have been the priority of "Big Oil", not the alternative.
Wow congrats, getting Macs to run Linux sounds a superhuman feat.
Sharp eye :) Yes we are. Our dirty secret is that on the backend all of those are using the same engine with minimal modifications that is generating Terraform automatically and running it for you. We are just iterating on use cases.
If you look at the data above it shows home building peaking in the early 1960s in NYC. Rent control laws were strong until the 1970s. That's the point when homebuilding plunged and didn't perk up for decades.

Weakening them in 1974 if anything seemed to restrict supply.

SF has comically low density housing that is driven by homeowners lobbying to restrict development.

The difference between SF and Seattle is probably property taxes (higher in Seattle). It discourages land from being hoarded and used unproductively.
Never underestimate people's vanity.
Language is way more powerful than people realize. Changing the language seems to literally change how we think.
Covid hospitalizations are worse than last August before vaccines were available
The couple of times I've had something I wanted to do that needed an SDR more powerful than than an RTL-SDR and decided I wanted a LimeSDR or LimeSDR mini...the lead time on them has been such that it would not arrive in time for the project I wanted it for.

Right now, both LimeSDR and LimeSDR mini orders place now don't ship until Feb 28 2022, except for the LimeSDR PCIe which ships Sep 29 2021. (You might be able to get the USB LimeSDR sooner from Sparkfun. They say they might have some coming in early October).

Projects where I'll need something like that are rare enough that I can't really justifying buying one just in case another such project comes up.
I wasn’t even aware of the Netflix show and I don’t intend to watch it (we canceled our subscription anyway, as we can with a little patience borrow DVDs from the public library). I was going to nitpick dismissal of children as not painters (when the “free child” state of flow may well be essential to art), but I’ll leave it at that and highlight this instead:

> We enthusiastically support the public television system, a true American treasure

Along with public libraries, PBS was and is a mainstay in my learning and growing. Without the injection of distracting advertising that pushes for indulgence in materialism (I already struggle with over-valuing control over things), I find it easier to attend to the topic of the show, be it Sesame Street, Mr. Rogers, Reading Rainbow, Wild America, Bob Ross, NOVA, Nature, or the recent series of shorts about small-scale life. I fully support my and our US tax money going to public libraries. I grew up with limited resources, as do so many others, and libraries are one of the best schools we have as an investment in our future selves and culture.
Libhybris is andoid dependant. There are a ton of community ports. The volla I use (gigaset gs290 also) also has ubuntu touch support. But sfos is much better. Mobian can also be installed via ubports, but i havent tried.
Yes but they promised they would keep premium phones updated for three years.

"The three OS update guarantee applies to LG premium phones released in 2019 and later (G series, V series, VELVET, Wing) while certain 2020 models such as LG Stylo and K series will receive two OS updates.*"

http://www.lgnewsroom.com/2021/04/lg-announces-three-year-pl...
The horrid state of the planet. That's a good one.
I like this perspective. I hear you.

It just seems that the list of candidates (for which we vote) is assembled by corporations with the intent of writing laws that promote their profits (at the expense of the people and other businesses).

I don’t see how we (the people) can vote who gets on the list in the first place. Until that happens I don’t consider it to be true representation.
Sounds like they offer regional exclusivity to interested partners: https://sailfishos.org/cases/
The Vanishing Legacy of Barack Obama
That's incorrect - Sailfish OS uses the Sony Open Device program kermel and blobs as a base and there is up to kernel 4.9 available for the Xperia X:

https://developer.sony.com/develop/open-devices/get-started/...
It's (partially) centrally coordinated, but it's individual behaviors that change, not "corporations making factories and ships magically better while consumers don't feel a change", which is the average (sl)activist's proposed solution.
This is a really odd take to me. No, you may not get every single thing right, and if someone is really determined then they might get through. But does that mean you shouldn't put the effort in to make that as difficult as possible? Of course not.

What you're saying is essentially the equivalent of saying "If someone had a bulldozer they could smash through the wall into my house anyway, so I'm going to stop locking my doors and closing my windows when I'm out"
> fossil fuels are readily available and highly energy dense and relatively safe. Nothing else offers that.

Your car or plane can't tell the difference between fossil hydrocarbons and biofuel hydrocarbons. (Though you might adjust a car to use ethanol instead of longer compounds.)
blue because it stands out, red means stop, green means go, yellow and orange you cannot read.