skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use their service since 2003, I think.

Usually they list the best offers, and if not it's at least a good starting point.
Just reading the name of this site makes me want to fart.
Are you sure? I am not sure if Geekbench is a valid benchmark but I have an AMD 5900x.

Running it in Windows (host) I have a lower score than I get in VMWare running Ubuntu (guest).
Alright, I'm willing to take your word on that. I only experienced it as a user :)
Ask HN: Why is Jeff Bezos donating so much money to Maui?
I live here and have noticed a lot of donations happening from Bezos to various causes and projects on Maui.

It may be purely because he loves the island as much I do. It may be something else, like Amazon is opening something here?

I have no idea. Anyone know anything?
I don't think we are even near the peak "Cloud" before it can slow down. We are just starting to see now entire dev envs in the cloud, and I'm pretty sure we will continue to go in that direction.
That's the point though. A beginner is going to make mistakes and should be able to learn in a safe environment. Think of a student on a tight budget at college or in a bootcamp, who has to learn AWS because it's on the curriculum.
I like to jump in by doing. At first imitating exactly, then trying to customize some parts. Trying to identify major building blocks, and building something new from them. Establishing a trial and error methodology that I can repeat over and over again. Constantly looking up a reference for issues I'm encountering. Then later reading parts of the reference completely, to fill in the blanks I missed.
Why Firefox has been in decline for 12 years
Do you have a source for the argument that acidification is worse than warming? I'm more familiar with the pressing problem of positive feedback effects, like accelerated release of natural stores of carbon and methane.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change_feedback#:~:t....

There is a moral threat of "with climate management tools, we don't need to act on carbon reduction." I think that is less dangerous than the threat of "we have no validated climate management tools to deal with rapidly accelerated climate change." Ideally, we would research and develop the science and technology of weather control and climate management now so we don't feel compelled to do anything drastic in the near future. For instance, we know that dumping sulfur in the upper atmosphere can cool the earth for <$10b/year. But we don't want to be in that position. Instead, maybe we mandate that all container ships loft saltwater droplets to support cloud formation.

Also, keep in mind that some approaches might be applied locally to protect certain ecosystems rather than aiming for a global effect. E.g., cloud brightening R&D to cool areas with lots of melting permafrost. We should be spending billions on this r&d.

We need time to transition, it's happening. In 20-30 years, we will have a much cleaner global economy, with no coal and minimal oil. But we don't want to have the permafrost melt in the meantime!
More specifically, a TUI takes over your terminal and treats it as a window. Other examples are full screen editors like vim and emacs or a process monitor like top or htop.

Contrast with most terminal programs and shells that treat the terminal as a stream of text lines.

A TUI usually doesn't appear in your terminal scroll back.
Since you mention this, could you provide thoughts on our project if you have a moment?

SAFEROUTE: WALK ROUTING VIA BEST LIT PATHS: https://github.com/kineticadb/saferun/blob/master/start-here...

We're in the process of app-ifying this, though as a fun project and not a business. The idea would be to identify walking routes optimized by a variety of factors:

- best lit (for safety)

- most beautiful

- best mobile phone coverage

Would this be useful?
> The real question is how did the web remain relevant while being so far behind this tectonic platform shift?

We didn't all shift to to smartphones the instant they became available. It took a while for people to transition to smartphones. Likewise getting an app up and running (in addition to their websites) took time for most businesses, and many probably waited before jumping on the band wagon

I am sure everyone on HN moved quickly, but for the rest of the non-tech world I am sure they were doing just fine using their home computer for several more years.

Even now, I still think "I'll wait and do this on a proper computer". It's not like apps have solved all computing-ills - many are total garbage with bugs and/or poorly thought through designs.
If it's 50% slower, then native code is 2x faster.

How much slower is it?
There are a number of mechanisms at work for such use cases. You can flush caches manually, or have the memory uncached, also you need to make sure, some accesses don't reorder. If you are interested, you might search i.e. for ARM device memory. https://www.embedded.com/dealing-with-memory-access-ordering...
As the guy who gets "invited" over when friends of family have issues, I am shocked at how new routers / "firewalls" are made for consumers.

Most recent experience with Netgear Orbi Mesh system and Nest Wifi (or is it Google Wifi v2)

There are nearly no customization, hardening that can be made.

I can appreciate that a presentation is needed for average home user, but there should be a technical tweak away layer available.
If we're going for anecdata, I called Comcast Business a couple of months ago and asked about IPv6 support. The sales rep asked, "What is IPv6?"
Remember CCP have no similarly as Republican or Democrat. They will never fight fairly with you. Once you amass enough and they see you as a threat. They will use any methods to take it away from you. See what happened to Jack Ma. [1]

1: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-09-01/jack-m...
Oh interesting, thanks for the correction. Will be interesting to see if I start to notice them when I (and people who might drop them) are out more.

The fee/deposit payment is part of it (prevention, it not seeming a disposable item) but with a deposit (there's no good way to say this..) there's also the incentive for the homeless or otherwise desperate to clear them up, since there's some guaranteed value. (Which could be a bit less than £5 due to negative get-me-home-at-night balance, but I don't think it's allowed to go as far as -£5, so a card with a deposit on it is always an asset.)
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How do you thinking they should appear?

It's interesting to compare to embedded processors without a memory management unit, like this STM32 reference manual, see p.68 and following:

https://www.st.com/resource/en/reference_manual/dm00124865-s...

Everything looks like a memory address. Note that it's not actually memory, the processor just diverts requests for that address to the peripheral instead of memory. But on that little ARM processor, if you want to write to actual RAM, that's memory addresses 0x2001 0000 to 0x2001 BFFF. Data in the onboard Flash memory is at 0x0020 0000 - 0x002F FFFF. If you want to talk to something on a serial port, write to registers from 0x4001 1000 - 0x4001 13FF. If you want to show something on an attached LCD, or pull a buffer from the USB or Ethernet peripherals, or work with GPIO, or do anything at all, really, it's at some memory offset. This chip has some DMA, you can set it up to automatically push from one peripheral memory space to actual RAM or vice versa. But everything happens at a region of memory.
Loved TWAK, but sadly they went out of business
A bad actor could hammer any publicity available services, and you could be hit with an enormous egress bandwidth bill.

Spend alerts can help with this, but spend is only calculated every 24h or so, so it's far from a panacea.
Also doesn't Austria do do that thing where employees get paid 14 times a year instead of the normal 12?
Mistake #1: using AWS

lol
Thermal cameras absolutely suck for body temperature measurement. Those fever cameras are all security theater garbage.
https://archive.is/RDpDc
I think you mean figuratively garbage. Words can only be literally garbage if they're printed on a page which is then disposed of.

I mean, while we're being pedantic we may as well get it right.
Cymothoa exigua, or the tongue-eating louse
>> "Spartans can't be 80% slaves because the Spartans didn't consider their slaves to be Spartans"

That is not what I said. Why do you misquote me? This is what I said:

>> The people inhabiting the greater area of the Lacedeamonian city-state, the inhabitants of the settlements in Laconia and Messinia, were never referred to in any ancient text as "Spartans" or "Lacedaemones" and they were only referred to, to the extent they were ever mentioned, as "helots" ("είλωται") or, simply, as the Spartans' slaves.

Nobody in ancient times considered the helots to be "Spartans". This is in the same way that nobody in ancient times considered the slaves of the Athenians to be "Athenians" or the slaves of the Romans to be "Romans". And no historian in modern times does so, either. When speaking of the Gauls, subjugated by the Romans [1], no author, ancient or modern, cals them "Romans". For any ancient or modern culture that had slaves, the distinction is always there: the People of X on the one hand, and their slaves on the other.

Yet the author is deliberately muddying the waters playing on the confusion between "Sparta" the city-state and "Sparta" its capital city, and even invents new terms to refer to them: he calls "Spartiates" the free citizens of the capital city, and "Spartans" everyone else, a distinction impossible in the Greek language and unused by anyone except the author as far as I can tell.

All these deliberate confusions are the result of a perverse reading of history, clearly aimed at making an impression to people who are not familiar with the history of Sparta outside its depiction in popular media and it is clearly calculated to draw internet attention to the author's blog by riding on the coattails of the success of such popular media, and not to inform about history.

The only antitode I know against fudging and misdirection like this is to make language precise and clear.

>> The Spartans owned the helots!

Who said they didn't?

___________

[1] OK, not all of them.
Your desktop does not have much private data (other than your files, which reputable programs don't scan without reason). Your phone has your location, your activity status, your phonebook, which 99.9% of people cannot spoof
Below switches which on the high end can have their own root complex, the more common thing is lane bifurcation and multiplexing.

This holds especially true for consumer motherboards and PCIe breakout boards.
Do note that neither of them works very well on recent Android devices.... the first one has many bugs including wrong timing (e.g. everything is accelerated), and is also 68k only (so PalmOS < 5.0), while the second one is "HLE", incredibly expensive, doesn't look at all like PalmOS, the UI is annoying, Alarms work flaky, etc.
The more you lean into the "facilitate daydreaming" angle, the more you're just Instagram, though, right?
I read a good bit too. I highlight the interesting bits (https://critter.blog/2021/04/01/the-evolution-of-my-ebook-hi...) and if something really stands out then I base a blog post on that thought. Here's a small example of that: https://critter.blog/2021/06/28/ignoring-the-reactionaries/
The other commenters mention multi-cloud use cases but another case is prem-cloud hybrid. You may want some of your business on prem for whatever reason but be able to move workloads to various clouds and back, for price, load, or whatever reason.
I would say that "shorter" isn't the key. It just happens that when one writes "shorter" one tries to write in a more consice and structured manner. Not always, but typically.

Whereas whenever I see a long article, it's typically because the author decided to ramble about everything, nothing, and their dog, before they even get to anything remotely related to their point, by which point I've already lost the will to live. Not to mention I suspect they do this increase adspace, and then feel cheated I was tricked into clicking in the first space.

But a well reasoned argument need not be short to be effective. Orwell's essays do not need cliffnotes in order to be appreciated. CS Lewis does not need it.

So I would replace "short" with "intentional", "structured", "respectful" ... I think it just happens that it's easier to be unstructured and disrespectul during longer rants than it is with shorter ones.
blame rpi, not LE.

i mean, what did you expect when you bought literally the least capable hardware possible for a set top box, really?
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Exactly, it's pretty common for them to shoot their own foot with a couple of hundred dollar bill, just for one tiny instance with additional options that 'you have to do'.

IMO AWS is deliberately make these things happen and reimburse it later with excuses. It's rather a strategy at this point it seems like.
Yes, you get the monthly salary 14 times, the last two are taxed at lower rates.
surely if you "query the endpoint a few times per day" the captcha indeed shouldn't be an obstacle to that. I thought the idea is to prevent ddos and spam, and not to distinguish between an actual human and bot. like it shouldn't prevent non-harmful scripts like web scraping etc. as long as you don't overtax the servers.
Captcha is proof of human work.

Because of improved interfaces to exploit the poor, a spammer can already pay to have humans solve captchas using an API, just as well as they could pay for computing time to solve hashes.

As such, if you were to tune the difficulty of a computing proof of work to be more expensive to compute than to pay the lowest bidding human farm to solve a captcha, it should be better at decreasing spam.
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> I just don't understand why there's not more pressure on MS to port Office to Linux

Why is this hard to understand? Who uses Linux on desktop? Check some browser stat.

Run a remote Windows in a cloud and throw Office in there.
My two favorites are probably the hedgehog theorem (= number of discontinuities if you were to comb a hedgehog)

https://clever-geek.imtqy.com/articles/784617/index.html

And that the determinant is the volume of the parallelepiped spanned by the vectors:

https://math.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Linear_Algebra/Inter...

It's quite stunning how far one can get with visualizations. I think it's an indirect discovery of Euler though (who did many visual proofs) that visualizations are really just that and to do proofs textual reasoning is necessary.
Did you try any of the low-code tools?
It's enterprise software, which means the UX is not a part of the equation when making the deal.
In terms for bang for your buck, DO is much cheaper.

Yeah you can get a cheaper AWS server, but it's a much lower performance one.
Well, that was pretty standard for PalmOS. m68k PalmOS ran on top of AMX, which was also technically an RTOS...
This is a very low quality article with a lot of errors and completely missing on key concepts of PCIe like the root complex.
I wonder if WSLg will work on my passed-through 3090 from my linux host to my Windows VM, or of this requires barebone Windows.
Last time I checked there was literally one person maintaining trackpad support on Linux; no wonder it needed work!
Less ideology more technology
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Where can I learn about the most effective algorithms for forecasting weather?
Check out the stand-alone Windy Maps app. It's basically their OSM-based map layer, all by itself. It's a decently handy lightweight compliment to other heavier OSM tools like OsmAnd and GaiaGPS.
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Why not? Not that I think it's an unreasonable position, but there's generally going to be some payment processor who knows who your paying customers are, right?
> I struggle to understand what's so interesting in X(AWS/Azure/GCP/Alibaba/SAP/Oracle...) Cloud that it appears basically daily on HN

> I see it like +-decade old (in mainstream) wrapper/apis over managing VMs/Infra while being proprietary as hard as possible

Don't know if serious or not, but nevertheless let me try. It's the global and near infinite scale, the enormous amounts of managed services you get behind those APIs. You need a database/message queue/object storage whatever at whatever scale? Have at it, and pay as you go. If you can't see the interest in that, i wonder what it is that you do.

And IMHO there's nothing inherently complex about the APIs of AWS or GCP ( the only ones I've really used). They're as complex as the things they manage.
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Their stand-alone map application Windy Maps is pretty darn nice too. It's a really nice compliment to OsmAnd and GaiaGPS for viewing OSM data, and they've done a good job showing relations which helps illustrate cycling and hiking routes.
If the period and zone coverage were different it could couldn't it? A longer travelcard covering zones 2-3, (for work say) but then a much shorter period where you have a lot of travel in zone 1 (friend visiting so doing touristy things for a weekend say)?
One year ago they launched their new Android version, which is godawful.
Just read the reviews on the android store.

Why Firefox, why?!
What transition? Mobile is the lite version.
Author here, surprised to see this here! Thanks for sharing it. Happy to answer any questions
"Mad Wuzzler Skills" required? (Wuzzler means table soccer in Austria.)
The Cult of Crypto
My advice is to get a Anker USB-C to HDMI cable. One cable per display.

It works well for 4k@60Hz and it's one of the cheaper solution at ~ 20$ per cable.

Cherry on top, it's sold by AnkerDirect on Amazon, which is the genuine manufacturer.

UK https://www.amazon.co.uk/Anker-Adapter-MacBook-Thunderbolt-C...

US https://www.amazon.com/Anker-Adapter-MacBook-Thunderbolt-Com...
Hey thanks! Seems like your questions are based around building a following, and that's not something I've been concerned with, but here are some answers regardless.

1. I don't really use social media. My blog posts auto-post to Twitter and LinkedIn, and that's the extent of my social media engagement. I don't follow anyone on Twitter, for example. Sometimes people will email me if they feel strongly about a post. But for the most part, I solve for being "caught in a bubble" using a small Slack community I'm a part of, where some friends and former coworkers pick apart my blog posts and point out how stupid they are :)

2. I'm not really sure. I don't pay much attention to SEO since the traffic doesn't matter much to me. Don't get me wrong, I get a thrill when something I write makes the rounds and people seem to like it, but not enough to worry about optimizing for it.

3. I just use the built in Wordpress email subscription feature, which doesn't provide any open rates. I only have ~150 email subscribers anyway, and my blog itself only gets 100-150 views a day. In general, I've done basically no marketing for it outside of that I used to post a lot of them to HN until the domain got shadow banned.
That’s kind of a meme in HN and Reddit: there were a few public occasions where users were refunded and people now just assume AWS will also refund for every instance.
Actually an appropriate gcc target didn't exist at the beginning. Initially there was only Codewarrior, which was commercial. There was not even an emulator. That came from the open-source side and was embraced by Palm.

However J2ME was not really an option. By the point Java existed, gcc prc-tools already did.
The "rule" is the null hypothesis. The exception is a result about three standard deviations from the null hypothesis. Finding such an exception result means you can not reject the null hypothesis.

The argument is that not being able to reject the null hypothesis means that the null hypothesis is correct. This is an invalid argument. We're sorry but we can not accept your submission at this time.
I mention in the section on ideal usage frequency how there are some great products that you’ll use rarely, like a christmas tree!
So if that’s the set-up (on-prem + a cloud provider), what’s being sold as a hybrid cloud solution - some services that allow you to manage them better or something else? What are some examples?
No, they don't. They're strong evidence for the claim.

Corporations are strongly structured internally. They usually have a "spine" of bog-standard hierarchical organization[0], and some form of secondary, graph-like, functional organization, different in every big company. Like e.g. (roughly real structure, but fictional names):

- Hierarchical spine: I currently work for team Awesome, under business unit BU1, under department D1; I report to manager Eve (Awesome), who reports to Fred (BU1), who reports to Greg (D1) who reports to Helen (CEO).

- Secondary organization: My team (Awesome) closely works with teams Invincible (BU1) and Jazzy (BU2), all with slightly different reporting chains.

There are dozens other teams in the corporation and several more BUs. I almost never interact with them directly. My social cooperation instinct covers my team and other teams in the "secondary organization" section. Separation of responsibilities and complex structure prevents my team from actively competing with other teams - we either cooperate with them, or don't know they exist.

This is how corporations scale. If you want to see a scaled-up system demonstrating competitive tendencies, that's... the market itself. And it needs the strong, top-down, hierarchical regulatory system to prevent that competition from immediately turning bloody[1].

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[0] - Which is the fundamental social technology we've invented that allowed us to scale the societies and build a civilization. It's why every large (> ~100) group of people you can find has some form of hierarchical governance.

[1] - As a social technology, the modern symbiosis between the market and governments is a marvel. It's by no means perfect, but the fact still is: we didn't just suppress our competitive tendencies while scaling societies up - we've harnessed them and put them to work, and it mostly turned out OK.
If using SSD or similar fast storage subsystem, or those that hide a higher random access time vs sequential, you may indeed want to reduce random_page_cost to make random_page_cost / seq_page_cost in the 1.2-1.5 range.

But it's also wise to review the default_statistics_target being used, that autovacuum is running frequently enough (which does autoanalyze), that the analyze thresholds are also properly tuned...

Thank you for mentioning https://postgresqlco.nf Team member here :) All these parameters mentioned here are well documented there, with recommendations.

Also, have you tried the Tuning Guide? (https://postgresqlco.nf/tuning-guide)
Oh ok thank you for the explanation, that does clear it up. So this decision applies to the US (though maybe not outside the US)
> Well that 24/7 db server is not going to back up itself and maintain itself when the HW fails or the power goes out.

Uh, yeah, that's why you pay IT people to do that sort of thing. Hiring your own will almost certainly be less expensive than paying Amazon's people, and provides you more control and more options in the event of any problems. It's not like AWS never has problems, and when it does all you can do is twiddle your thumbs until someone else fixes it.