skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I was actually pretty surprised to see that it was possible to get access to all these obscure builds.
I self hosted for myself and some clients for years. As long as you set up everything correctly it's fairly pain-free, but it's definitely worth getting on as many abuse notification lists as you can find - I wasn't doing anything remotely spam-related but still got blacklisted by hotmail twice and some other places a couple of times; as I remember it getting cleared was just a case of jumping through a few hoops, but I still needed to find out about the problem before my clients did, and find the hoops to jump through (which was never easy).

I found the main issue was maintenance. Once it was set up it didn't need too much poking, but I was still responsible for my own downtime and backup, and every few years I'd need to move it to a new server. I ran a secondary relay so at least migrating without downtime was relatively easy, but it was still a multi-day process while I moved configurations, rules and mail across, waited to trust DNS propagation etc. And in the back of my mind if someone didn't reply in a timely manner, I couldn't ever stop wondering if I'd missed a blacklist somewhere, or if a provider had just decided to spambin everything from my IP.

The other pain point was that as it was a necessary service rather than something that generated profit, I didn't want to put any serious time into improving things for myself. That meant I was using IMAP+Thunderbird with whatever shonky open source webmail-du-jour I'd set up on the server that year, combined with various shell scripts and notes in wikis about how to manage users, forwarding rules etc. It worked, but it was never easy, and was never slick.

After I took a job where we all used gmail, I got used to things being easy and slick, and decided to stop self-hosting and move my mail to dedicated mail providers (fastmail and sendgrid in my case, ymmv). Haven't looked back.

Self hosting you mail is something I'd recommend doing once for fun to see how it all works, but unless you have a clear and definite reason to go it alone, it's definitely worth paying someone else to do it for you.
They apparently did a lot of the cgi in real time with an curved led wall and some version of unreal engine. They track the camera position so they can move the image on the screen to match properly and They only render high resolution what’s in the camera viewport and the other stuff just provides some nice realistic ambient light.

ILM video:

https://youtu.be/gUnxzVOs3rk

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/02/the-mandalorian-was-s...
Similar experience for Tesco in the UK: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-57973960
Slightly off topic, but later on in that Qc Na thread:

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This brought to mind my introduction to OOP by a talented
but notoriously inarticulate programmer:

NIP: Do you know what OOP is?

Me: No.

NIP: Ah. Well, you have objects and methods.
Objects: objects aren't anything. And
methods are how you talk to objects.
Okay?

Me: Sure.

I knew there was no point in asking questions -- this was
the man at his most expository. I took him to mean, "Forget
what objects are, just work with them."

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Which I take to mean "Objects are black boxes. How they behave is what they are"
Vultr is really good, have multiple instances there and on Hetzner.
More about the progressive thinking if Frederick the great. Afaik the fist steam engine in mainland Europe was deployed in Prussia.
This is a poor excuse.

Pilots are required to keep a certain number of hours logged in simulators. The simulations are always abnormal flight situations.

So the only argument here would be that the number of simulator hours required is too low. In the context of this discussion, this idea should be mostly irrelevant.
This comes up quite regularly, some of us have had major deliverability problems with SPF and DMARC and DKIM all set up. There are, it appears, other factors outside of one's control -- for me it was (at the time) MS apparently wouldn't receive my email (that was whitelisted, and from a 15yo domain with < one email per week outbound to Live.com) because a ip4 address of a server (not the one I was using) currently hosted by my hosting provider had previously been used for spam. There was no efficient way for me to move hosting provider and know that the same situation wouldn't be true, so I signed up for a new @live.com address and send emails to MS domains through that from my MUA (Thunderbird).

At that time MS had a third party that managed this, you could pay them to do something that would basically get you whitelisted; but this was for an SME and the cost was prohibitive for the potential benefit.

If you moved server on AWS presumably you'd have to go the same route again - who did you contact? - would you be 100% confident you'd get whitelisted?
> It's one thing to be shit on by your employer, but having the customers treating like shit as well is just as bad.

Spent a few years in retail, and can tell you: if management treats employees badly, customers will treat employees badly, which in turn causes another cycle of management treating employees badly. It's a cycle that is caused when management and employees aren't focused on the one thing that really matters in a retail exchange: having happy customers.
You can find a real looking FDA youtube account which has the full video: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_giJ3xlEL9jUF1YfJdzzuQ

I don't think the presentations should be interpreted as an endorsement from the FDA. Its more of an open forum discussion.
Pareto principle. 80% of people are decent human beings, but the 20% that aren’t cause 80% of the problems.
Why do you say that? Genuine question. Didn’t they bomb a launch pad a year or two back? If you can do it with manned aircraft you can do it with a drone.
Well unless there is a reason to you’re probably not giving up bases but what I mean is that in terms of geopolitics the US is shifting remaining away from Europe. The region no longer supports the US interests (logistically or otherwise) because all the future action is in Asia.

> The first sub is not expected to be in service before 2040.

Right. So if you wanted to say that wasn’t meaningful, then they wouldn’t do it because the timeline is perceived to be too long. But I think they’re operating on longer time scales.

But also this is just one action of many. Wouldn’t surprised to see something like a joint US, UK, Australian base in Australia or similar.
But I wanted to be a Terraform user. So an alternative interpretation is that, as designed, Terraform is slowing down adaptation of the known universe for Terraform users.
There's been a long history of non-finance companies branching out into finance.

- Sears: had Allstate for insurance and Discover Card for credit. Unlike most "branded" credit-cards, Sears did its own underwriting for the Discover Card i.e. they owned the Greentrust bank behind that card. (That is unlike Amazon Prime card being underwritten by Chase Bank.)

- G.E. General Electric: financial services GE Capital like loans and leases

I remember finding out that many music stores use GE Capital to finance the inventory of all their guitars hanging on the wall. (Industry lingo of "floor planning".[1]) Sort of strange to realize that a lightbulb company has a bigger subsidiary that sells financial services. It's more profitable to make money by selling money than by manufacturing lightbulbs.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=ge+capital+floorplan+financi...
So you re-implemented terraform but worse most likely.
Also you could have added those missing features and re-use the TF engine, it's very simple to include new API of an existing provider.
No, this is only their marketing shtick unfortunately
Game Programming Interview Guide
> The SquareTrade warranty I bought with a Dell XPS 15 was absolute trash.

I'm dealing with a trash warranty from Assurion on an electronic drum kit I bought at Guitar Center for my son. Not a good experience - I have to ship drums back to some warehouse to get a gift card? Um... that's $50 worth of packaging right there. Oh, and then I have to buy the warranty again if I want the replacement covered. Yes, I should have read the fine print in detail... but maybe the retailer shouldn't offer horrible experiences like this for a premium.
Doesn't Tesco in the UK have a bank product? Can't say I hear much about it when I shop there.

Makes sense though, why not be a lender as well? Then people can get their groceries before they get their monthly paycheck.

Also on the payments side, why pay the card company when you can make your own card?

These aren't new observations though, anyone looking at a supermarket would think of these things.

Big issue is regulatory. There's a heck of a lot of hoops to jump through to get a bank license.
I think we can focus on both our response to widespread viruses and also making sure we aren’t shooting ourselves in the face by releasing novel viruses into the wild.
The missing piece is that he got it to run on Vista x64, but it is low resolution and looks out of place, which he suspects is why it got axed.
> Terraform is great for "fire and forget" deployments.

Indeed, terraform is great for exactly the opposite: For making sure both the initial infrastructure and subsequent modifications to it are first proposed, discussed, reviewed in code and applied afterwards instead of anyone with privileges tinkering with settings on an "as needed" basis in whatever console thereby ending up with an infrastructure where you have no idea who turned on the frobnicator, why it was set to 11, and what might be the consequences of changing the setting.
You left out Iran’s multiple statements about “pushing the Jews into the sea”.

It’s not like Israel is attacking Iran for shits and giggles.

And being a country of 9M surrounded by hostile powers means you make yourself appear as threatening as possible.
How did you know to contact Microsoft to have them whitelist your IP? Was that from a DMARC report?

This is the sort of thing that puts me off self-hosting email, as much as I'd like to do it -- it seems like a huge amount of effort, tracking down who I need to shout at this week to have them whitelist my IP address.
You mean island countries?

South Korea is essentially an Island, since it has been completely shut off from NK for decades.
VR on Linux: A Growing Market?
The tragic comedy of modern enterprise in the age of COVID
I was going to put functional programming, even though I don't specifically use FP languages. But this is just one example of 'clearer thinking' being the tool that saves so much time not going down unrewarding paths.

- immutable data, pure functions, stateless objects/classes
- separation of mechanism and policy
- distinct understandings of why, what, and how
- thinking of code as maintaining rules or logic invariants
- knowing the 'factor' when refactoring (I prefer the verb factoring)
- getting better at naming and organizing things
- getting a feel for the 'shape' of a problem or solutions without distracting names of things
- fine-grain understanding of why things work or don't
e.g. transaction isolation + large nested transactions vs microservices

That last one came up in a discussion of alternate datastores like ScyllaDB or CockroachDB (which I really like). But the problem wasn't really a limit of sharded MySQL which works really well, but how transactions are scoped and different domains of data are being written into the same db with the same connection and tx.

This kind of understanding lets you solve bigger problems with smaller solutions (i.e. less effort and risk).
Itanium had x86 emulation in hardware, so I think the model was to transition via emulation. But, as far as I know, it wasn’t very performant, and then AMD nailed the coffin shut a few years later with their 64-but architecture.
It is rare to see two-sigma results like this reported in physics. Or did I misunderstand?
I suspect they saw it happening as we now see it happening for Apple on Mac - i64 would rule the servers and high-end hardware while people used x32 on "personal" machines until such time as i64 was cheap enough and fast enough to emulate x32 for home machines. I believe it was even touted as being able to do that - and the major vendors would recompile pretty quickly at that point.

If only they had been able to convince Microsoft to not release for AMD64 the world might have been extremely different ...
I keep my original Xbox just to play JSRF still, but I would like to play it in HD someday. Bomb Rush Cyberfunk is looking real good though as a spiritual successor if you haven't seen it yet.
Navalny's website is also blocked in Russia, of course, so you won't be able to load that PWA. (Without VPN/)
It might be a cultural-ideological reason that you think this way. Not every place in the world has those same assumptions and taboos. There are more blank slateist cultures where the only polite thing is to assume that any child can become anything. In other places people take it for granted that there are differences in abilities, talents, aptitudes, personalities that are fairly clear by age 10. In the US, this topic is too similar to how racists talk about blacks, so the whole thing is taboo. In places where the topic of innate talent does not have racial connotations (more homogeneous countries), people more readily accept it.
I'd like to see this picked up by a more reputable source.

Metro is an offshoot of the Daily Mail, and largely known for its 'free' newspaper which is distributed on UK public transport. Its online operation is well known for clickbait and a similar level of "journalistic integrity" that the DM is famed for (i.e. they'll print anything that will get clicks or sell papers).
They're outliers rather than the average. They had amazing leverage to retain control beacause of the scope of what they were doing.
When I eat vegs I just feel "not hungry" for long periods of time.

This, and eating breakfast made a change. If you don't feel like eating breakfast is because you ate too late in the evening and still have food in the system.
There is always the next match, looking better, funnier or whatever you are looking for... That's why.
> The incentives of dating apps are all wrong for the daters. They want to maximize users, which means they want you to keep dating through the app forever. Finding you a great long term match is, from their perspective, losing a repeat customer.

Ironically, OKCupid wrote about this exact issue, explaining why membership incentives were bad, etc.

Then they were bought by Match.com, went to a membership based subscription model, and deleted that post.
Excellent! Thank You.
The Fachhochschulen are an interesting case. Generally they cwn not grant PhDs and are doing quite limited (if any) research. I think this changed a bit in recent years and they are doing more research.

That said, they don't really relate to the topic of the article as they would not have had any influence on the German industrialisation, considering that they only exist since the 1960s.
That's an hilarious statement given the horse meat scandal.
For me, the functional/pipeline/call chain style changes perception from "how" to "what".

Because I say "what" do to do without going into details of "how" I feel like I have spent less mental capacity reading this portion of code.

However, it does require your transformations to be simple and composable, shove a giant multi-line lambda in there it yes, the loop will be better.
I once drew a comic with DeCSS steganographically embedded in it.
Just to be clear, what makes a bank is not really lending, anyone can lend money (you might not necessarily be able to write a mortgage depending on the jurisdiction though). And there are lots of non-banks that lend money routinely, starting with car makers credit arms.

What makes a bank is taking deposits (that's what requires a banking license). And banks are competitive at lending because they can fund cheaply with deposits.
Car insurance, too!
Defining one function that just calls another with a fixed argument is also a one-liner with arrow functions. And I would argue that this would be easier to understand and anyone reading the code wouldn’t have to understand what currying is.
The AWS Security is the normal cause - so if you're using an unknown OS try a known one first, get that working, then migrate the instance and IP to your new OS.
> But pretty much everything works out of the box.

Things that didn't work out of the box "for me":

- Using multiple displays with mixed DPIs without wayland.

- Using wayland with nvidia (Even with the latest driver that supposed to give a half-baked support for it)

- On my HP laptop when I close the laptop lid, instead of suspend, it will turn airplane mode on. The only fix is to remap the key that send airplane mode to suspend.

- Multiple functions keys doesn't work, They don't even send keycodes so I can remap it.

I had to delve deep into Arch Wiki to fix most of my issues, at that point, I just gave up and installed windows 10.

Yeah, "everything works out of the box" should always be replaced by: "everything worked out of the box for me".
It walks and quacks like self-censure in view of future monetary (and not only) gains.

Again, I'm surprised that almost no-one in here (to say nothing of the big media outlets) is not saying anything about the huge conflict of interest involving Bezos and the companies he owns and/or controls.
Like the comment you’re replying to said: this is your opinion. I loved Mandalorian and looked forward to it every week. I - and my friends who watched it - certainly didn’t see it as boring drivel or an “unassuming adventure for kids” (I don’t even know what that means). But you’re speaking with great conviction as if this is an objective fact. It’s not - we all get different things from it just like any other media. No need to insult Star Wars fans either. You don’t like it - that’s fine - but this is completely subjective.
We now see that Apple and Google routinely remove apps by request of Russian government. How come Telegram was never removed? Maybe the russian government never really asked?
It’s a good point, but it is also more complex. For example the severity of policy response tends to be proportional to local severity of the disease.

You can imagine a situation where all countries have a different, fixed propensity to Covid, and adjust their policy until they hit some universal level of containment. You’ll then see a world with very different policies but identical outcomes.

I think it is hard to disentangle those two in general.
Try most electronics.

Their problem is that "made in China" has a negative connotation and they produce a lot of cheap stuff, which inevitably breaks or doesn't work properly so people just go "damn Chinese shit".

It seems they're getting to the point where the cheapest stuff is made in other countries.

Have to wonder what happens when the world runs out of cheaper countries to outsource to.
Similarly AT&T shutting down their 3G in 2022 network is forcing a significant number of acquaintances (who are ATT MVNO customers) to replace perfectly good (4G LTE capable Android) phones because AT&T is using this event to require all network-attached devices to be HD Voice (aka VoLTE?) capable going forward [0].

[0] https://www.att.com/support/article/wireless/KM1324171/
The Dreamcast was great for racing games - particularly arcade racers too!

The last one I remember buying was Metropolis Street Racer - good fun.

If you haven’t checked it out, give Tokyo Xtreme Racer a look
I'm the tech lead for Cloudflare Workers. :)

I don't know much about Firebase, to be honest, so I'm not sure how to answer that question. But, our aim is that every type of server compute should be something you can build on Workers. Meanwhile, our design philosophy is that Workers should feel like you're programming one big, globe-spanning computer, rather than lots of individual servers.
This seems more about cracking down on "please review our product" gift cards in shipped products than much worse practices. My un-favorite is review hijacking, where someone buys a listing with good reviews and then uses the "product variant" loophole to use it for a completely different product.

I have products from Mpow, RAVpower, and TaoTronics that I quite like. Meanwhile, many product categories are dominated by drop-shippers selling generic goods under computer-generated brand names that will never be seen again, either hijacked or full of genuinely fake reviews from people who never even existed (or both).

I can only wonder what Amazon's reason is for going after one of the least problematic behaviors on their platform, while leaving the more serious crap untouched.
I'll be getting rid of my Android device once the PinePhone is back in stock. I only ever use my phone for SMS, calls and maybe a flashlight here and there, so it should be a pretty comfortable transition.
Yeah but you should do both. Regulate labs and prepare for pandemics.
That's to be expected as Aukey is also just a brand name for rebranded white label products of varying quality. The difference is a little card in the package promising compensation for a positive review.
They do now heh
I have seen Iron Man 2, both Guardians of the Galaxy, the fist Captain America and the second Avengers movie. So it's actually five movies (one more than I thought).I might have seen part of the first Hulk on TV but I'm not entirely sure, could have been any of the other ones. I stand by my opinion.

When you consider that Hollywood produced movies like The Deer Hunter, Chinatown or even the first Jurassic Park if you want to talk about blockbusters (not the new ones they could be Marvel movies), it makes me a bit sad.

I mean, don't get me wrong. I enjoy going from McDonald's from time to time. Nothing like a bunch nuggets when you had too much to drink. I just don't go around pretending it's good food.
I wonder if you'd still be using those big brave all caps if the tables were turned and you were the one being censored. It could happen, you know.
As the sibling commenter notes, Terraform has a refresh flag, but I wonder if Kubernetes’ model is better here. Rather than a one-off process that tries to update everything, Kubernetes has many small controllers which are essentially processes on the cluster that just run a control loop. Each controller corresponds to one resource type, so it will just loop over incoming events that pertain to the resource type in question and attempt to reconcile the state of the target resource instance with the desired state. If it fails initially, it will retry with back off. If something doesn’t stabilize after several minutes, an alert can notify a human.

The key differences between the controller approach and the IaC approach are, I think, lots of little processes continuously reconciling state for all resources of a given type (many small loops that touch all resources of a given type on the entire cluster) versus a one-off process that tries to touch just the resources it cares about and if it fails it just gives up.

One thing Kubernetes definitely improves upon Terraform is that Kubernetes uses a YAML “assembly language” for its infra as code, but that YAML could be generated by a real programming language. Terraform expects you to write HCL, which is an accidentally re-invented programming language (every IaC tool provider thought static configs like YAML would suffice as a human interface, but as they gradually realized the need for more dynamism, Terraform and others would bolt on one dynamic feature after another until they had a slow, unfamiliar, and counterintuitive programming language). Terraform has a CDK that allows writing in other languages, but I’m skeptical that it liberated you from Terraform’s model of the world (e.g., if I rename a variable in CDK, does it try to destroy and recreate the underlying resource as with Terraform?). I’m also concerned that rather than allowing us to generate YAML in the obvious way, it will require bizarre inheritance patterns like the AWS CDK. I would be curious to hear from folks who have used the CDK.