skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have written a few documents outlining some risks and possible mitigations against AWS problems.

It's not just "Russia nuked North Virginia". That's not by far the most likely failure scenario in my estimation. I consider "billing problem causes Amazon to close our account" or "trusted employee with top level access deletes everything in our account right down to Glacier storage" or "employee with access severely violates AWS T&Cs and gets us booted off" as being far more realistic threats, while effectively having the same consequences as a couple of ICBMs with MIRVs targeted to every datacenter in NV...

In any of those cases, expecting to rehydrate from S3 isn't an option.

Of course, nobody wants to incur the costs associated with "How could we keep business continuity without AWS?" because it gets very expensive very quickly for anything non trivial.
You might be interested in Bannerbear, an API image and video generation service. The founder talks about being an API first business in his blog [0]. Here's a good piece of info about API first products for technical founders [1]:

```

API Products are a good fit for technical founders

This article focuses on API product ideas. Why?

API products are low-friction for the customer - you aren't asking a user to fundamentally change their behaviour, you are just solving a problem they already had and allowing them get on with their work. Let bigger startups build high-friction software that changes habits (note-taking, project management tools, etc) and focus on "plumbing" if you're a solo founder.

API products involve interesting technical challenges - as a technical founder you probably suffer from Shiny Object Syndrome where you keep getting bored of a product you've built and want to build a new one. You're more likely to stay interested in a product as a technical founder if it presents interesting technical challenges, and APIs can be good for that.

API products don't require heavy investment in UX - if you're a technical founder and design isn't your strong suit, API products are a perfect fit. Customers of API products care less about how the landing page and user dashboards look, and care more about whether the API "just works" to solve their problem.

API products enjoy less churn - this one is a hypothesis but arguably if you create an API product and integrate with your customer's platform, it will take a long while for them to churn. Anecdata; there are API products that I have been a paying customer of for years.

```

[0] https://www.bannerbear.com/journey-to-10k-mrr/

[1] https://www.bannerbear.com/blog/1001-saas-product-ideas/
https://archive.is/1lwUM
If I go look at Danmarks Statistik (Denmark's statistics - government agency with statistics available regarding different things in Denmark) https://www.dst.dk/da/Statistik/emner/oekonomi/prisindeks I find this https://www.dst.dk/da/Statistik/nyt/NytHtml?cid=32881 it says that inflation increased 1.8% from 1.7% in August. In a lot of EU lands it increased from 2.5 to 3.2 during the same time.

Of course Denmark also has the highest food prices in Europe already ( https://www.dst.dk/da/Statistik/nyt/NytHtml?cid=32175 ), so probably that is why whenever I go to the store nowadays I feel like I'm getting ripped off.
I think it all stems from a misunderstanding between buyer and seller.
That's exactly what I mean by misinformed. WSL 2 isn't using a simple virtual machine the way it is generally understood. It is instead using a lightweight VM using Hyper-V, there is no booting time. IO in itself isn't slow if you move files to the Linux FS. What is slow is the communication between Windows <—> Linux filesystems.

Edit: regarding the custom kernel, you can create your own if you want, nothing is blocking you from doing so https://kumekay.com/compiling-custom-kernel-for-wsl2/.

Microsoft's kernel is also available on github: https://github.com/microsoft/WSL2-Linux-Kernel.
Archeology dog tracks Stone age settlements
https://archive.is/j7ZvR
Signal just lets you create a convo with yourself.
I don't think you should make prejudiced generalisations or finger in the air guesses about how depression affects people's behavior.
That's how I learned programming at the university. A function returns something, a procedure doesn't. Koka has something a bit like that with typed effects https://koka-lang.github.io/koka/doc/index.html.
I don't believe new or used vehicle purchases qualify for hedonic adjustments.

https://www.bls.gov/cpi/quality-adjustment/home.htm
FWIW, we just disagree on morals. I believe everyone has the right to say whatever they want to a willing recipient... but they DO NOT have a right to "be heard". The latter simply doesn't work, because there are too many people to give everyone the right to force random other people to hear what they say. Even with small numbers of people, you end up with some people who are simply going to spam, and you need a way to stop the spammers, so you empower someone to... strip away that right on some case by case basis :/. And then that person always always always ends up restricting actual speech in their quest to make everyone feel heard.

Literally everyone--even people you think are spammers, or people who are spewing "hate speech", inciting treasonous, telling lies, or exposing "inconvenient truths"--should get to have a Twitter account and should get to post as much stuff as they want... to their followers. As someone who tells inconvenient truths, I am telling you (through my extended example elsewhere in this thread involving Apple) that this is important: this is what let's you build an audience, and it is what prevents people in power from taking away your audience!

But it isn't possible to have freedom of speech with "a right to be heard", in no small part because "a right to be heard" is impossible to implement without utterly draconian control and rate limits on speech to prevent you from just dominating anyone's discussions by shouting louder. Seriously: people who think like you do are the reason why freedom of speech is so hard to come by in this day and age, as this mental model of "a right to be heard" fails to incorporate the ramifications of the very thing if asks for :/.
Can I read more about that purchase practice? It seems high risk to buy property, reduce its value and then put it back out for sale
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Modules in Nebula Graph: Scheduler and Executor
People want to solve problems, they don't want to sit around babying their tools and technologies. To that end, if libraries and frameworks like React and Remix enable them to move fast and solve the problems they want to get solved, those will be used over things that are ostensibly leaner yet do not inherently solve the problems required.

Tools also have network effects. If you choose something like React, and you run into a problem, well, it's likely solved with a simple Google or Stack Overflow search. If you run into a problem with htmx or others, the community and support just may not be enough to solve the problem, and you'll have to spend time figuring things out yourself, time that could be better spent trying to solve your problem.
Related to that, if (in business) you need detailed quantitative analysis to tell you which of two paths to pursue, it probably doesn’t much matter either way. And extrapolations are a dangerous business anyway.
To be fair Arch comes with a lot of prebuilt and preconfigured stuff plus utilities, abstracting A LOT away from you. Prime example is getting a desktop to run: For example install the gnome package, enable gdm and install the driver package for your GPU (xf86-video-whatever) and ... you are done. Having dealt with LFS and "back in the day"-BSDs that's usually a real pain to do. Sure, you need to install the system by "hand" (pacstrap, cough) and have to configure this and that (like redirecting genfstab output, cough), but it's far far far away to be remotely from scratch. Sure, you learn more than through the average Ubuntu-like installer, but how modules work or that they even exist is something even the most Arch users don't know.
Even before Hebb, Cajal or Tanzi had suggested the same idea in the 1800s . Hebb only wrote down a vague hypothesis, but what matters is he did it much earlier than Lomo thus the disproportionate credit he receives. References are clearly not a correct mechanism of credit attribution but a very vague one, because that is not even their goal, they are mostly used for explanatory reasons.

That said, while Lomo &Bliss may not get a lot of love from machine learning experts who have a superficial knowledge of they field, they do get a lot of attribution where it matters, in neurosciences
That's true, though many languages don't respect that (Go, Java, Rust).
I’m still reading it but with every paragraph it gets worse and worse and worse. How did this go unnoticed and unreported for so long?

EDIT: I’ve finished it (long article). All I can take away from that is that the current situation and short and long term outlooks are all extremely bleak.
Those two are examples of lone individuals spreading misinformation, but not a concerted effort of Wikimedia itself or one of its chapters
https://www.ujs.org.uk/46647/_live_gl2714vwjko33ihq4v_ziq
https://www.ujs.org.uk/46647/_npb_2021_50ad3eo0rulivfnuf6zge...
https://www.ujs.org.uk/46647/_live_2021_ko2cfnkwxct1edwj-dkt...
https://twitter.com/Avddsf21/status/1447452592552873989
https://twitter.com/i/events/1447452669497331712
https://www.ujs.org.uk/46647/_live_gl2714vwjko33ihq4v_ziq
https://www.ujs.org.uk/46647/_npb_2021_50ad3eo0rulivfnuf6zge...
https://www.ujs.org.uk/46647/_live_2021_ko2cfnkwxct1edwj-dkt...
https://twitter.com/Avddsf21/status/1447452592552873989
https://twitter.com/i/events/1447452669497331712
Bear in mind that the chart covers a 20-year period. A 56% rise in prices over 20 years is 2.25% per year.

Why doesn't it make sense to you that this particular basket of goods can rise in price, on average, 2.25% pear year while individual goods in the basket can either fall in price or rise much faster?
E.g.:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Swartz

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2016/09/the-case-of-scie...
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Energy?

The UK's main supplier of fertiliser has actually stopped production because of the rising cost of gas.

https://www.business-live.co.uk/manufacturing/cf-industries-...
US nuke sub plans leaked on SD card hidden in peanut butter sandwich, claims FBI
Some people put profit over ethics. This is an ideology.

"investors are counting on us", "people will lose their jobs", are examples of how people fit this ideological stance, into their morals, their ethics.
Nothing. At least in terms of "Bits"

Technology as a word has now blended to everything about "bits" or Information Technology. But my background is EE I am always more interested in "atoms". How "bits" should have helped "atoms" to make more interesting things. Instead we have SnapChat that now worth the same as Sony.

I really do believe there are many many sector of our world and business that is not really help by "bits" at all. Anyone who ever touched CRM / ERP discussions might have a sense of how out of far apart technology (bits) and real world business needs are. And that example is only the tip of an iceberg. Tech should be much more than "bits".

So if I were to pick things that excite me most is the potential of Battery Breakthrough, Nuclear Fusion Progress.

And I am increasingly looking into Low tech or No Tech. Back to Mechanical watch, Single purpose appliance, Mechanical engineering, Paper Back Books. As if I am running away from "bits".
>...What. The. What.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary_source
I don't have an explanation. I don't have any insights into Southwest's infrastructure and because of that I'm willing to not post any theories - I would be making shit up. Likewise, I wouldn't repost poorly sourced explanations and potentially spread more misinformation. I think all that makes for poor discussion and are the types of comments that would get downvoted.
A good v1. But these skeumorphic coloured VU LEDs seem like a missed opportunity for innovation.

How about an enlarged stave-a-like with an ECG-style line on it, tracking my pitch over time, with an oversized vector showing the direction to the next half tone?

By way of analogy: Google have made a decent enough spirit level, so now give us LIDAR.
Because tuning by ear is difficult and playing the guitar can be fun even if you're not musically talented enough to tune the instrument.

Another issue is that guitars are often played in a amplified live setting. You want to be able to adjust your tuning while the rest of the band is playing or other noise is present, and you don't want the audience or others to hear you tuning (so you can't hear it yourself either).

I can tune my guitar relatively but I can not for the life of me tune it with from an external reference pitch like a piano key. I use a tuner if I need to be in tune with other instruments.
The median pay includes those who teach summer school and earn extra money.

Therefore, median pay for teachers cannot be equivalent to someone with a bachelors degree and unpaid summers off.

Furthermore, the baseline should not be calendar days but hours worked. As willcipriano's own reference #1 points out, teachers "may also work evenings and weekends to prepare lessons and grade papers."

If teachers spend their afternoons doing extracurricular activities, and evenings and weekends for grading lesson planning, giving a 55 hour week[1], while the average for someone with a bachelors degree is 40 hours[2], then the HS teacher makes ~15% less per hour than the hypothetical median bachelors degree holder. [3]

[1] https://www.scholastic.com/primarysources/pdfs/Gates2012_ful... (from 9 years ago) says teachers spend 10 hours, 40 minutes at work.

[2] https://www.thebalancecareers.com/what-is-the-average-hours-... says "Those with a bachelor’s degree or higher worked 8.0 hours per day, while those with a high school diploma worked the most on an average day: 8.2 hours."

[3] HS teacher, $62870 / (39 weeks * 55 hours/week) = $30.40/hour. Median bachelor's degree holder: $72830 / (50 weeks * 40 hours/week) = $36.42/hour. (36.42 - 30.42) / 36.42 = 16.5%.
The writer talks about all the possible ways this "worst case" would happen, but there's not much about the "worst case" itself?

I'd like to know more about the nuances of this blanket statement:

>The best case outcomes closely resembled a global depression.
Ikea kitchen
Localstack is our favorite for developing our application on AWS environment. It saves us from redeploys and AWS env based issues by simulating services on locally
I'll have to update the filk.

https://old.reddit.com/r/MKaTH/comments/kddkg2/my_tradecraft...
I very much admire the how devoted some of these founders are to their startups. Going out to malls and parties just to pitch your app to random people is definitely not an easy task, nor very rewarding emotionally.

I’d bet that this commitment is also part of the reason they succeeded.
Southwest is lucky we don't have the same consumer protection laws in the U.S. as E.U. citizens have. If we did, they'd be paying out to passengers big time this weekend. (Or, more realistically, they would have taken better precautions to prevent an event like this from happening in the first place.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_Compensation_Regulation
> including which websites you visit

Are they crazy? How is this legal?
So according to this food prices increase because people buy (and eat) more food. With many Americans already overweight...

In any case, do you have any proof that more food is bought? I'm having a hard time believing this, unless people were lacking food previously.

If they didn't spend that money on food, how did those prices increase? Which parts of the stuff that goes into food increased? Links to actual data is severely missing from all the assertions made here. A moderate one-time stimulus check is responsible, really? Because all that other money that was created was not given to many people and I would like to see some data if you want to claim it ended up with them anyway by now. General wide-spread wage increases of according size, for example.
Reluctant? Really? Citation needed.
Have you ever heard of the FBI crime statistics?
The first time I used Mathematica (20 years ago) it blew my mind. To be fair it was the first time I used a CAS and so the very idea of a computer crushing me at several calculus tasks was incredible.

From the open source alternatives the better supported I think is (wx)Maxima, which for the simple tasks I usually require (i.e some Taylor series, check cumbersome trigometric equations, ...) it's more than enough although it's true it lacks by a long margin the polish of Mathematica. Recently I'm considering buying an educational version of Mathematica just for the convenience. It sucks it's a closed source program but it's rare, although not impossible, for open source alternatives to have the same good documentation and ease of use. I guess that the attention to these details is not something people usually do unless being paid.

Now, tangentially related, this is extremely cool (and previously posted in HN I think): https://ai.facebook.com/blog/using-neural-networks-to-solve-...
I'm so confused. Pretty much everything you describe is them making money. Would you rather them not be in business? Be a subscription browser? I don't understand.
True, but I feel like a lot of people make things in web assembly so that when it's finished, it can be put up as a website to show off in their portfolio in an accessible way. And I also feel like that makes is less pure in the hacker way. A lot of toy projects today are being built with showing off to employers in mind.
There's a lot that could be said about different cultural beliefs and rituals around grief that contribute to this. At least in my very white, Christian (or lapsed Christian) circles, it's treated as some private burden to bear with immediate family only, which isn't easy if you have little or no other family. But I've seen so many other cultures, even very close ones in demographics but in other countries, where rituals - wakes,
jazz funerals, potluck memorials - bridge these gaps and give people meaningful tools to help connect over loss.

It's possible to adopt or create rituals, if others who are grieving are willing to participate. But it often seems like ones already in someone's culture "stick" the best.
And you still haven't notified them?!
yeah, like your elected officials are not getting money from business and not doing insider trading.
Apparently he wrote two articles on this, the second of which is paywalled:

https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/how-todays-fastest-growin...

https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/how-todays-fastest-growin...
If you are right, they should change their constitution, now their official name is still Republic of China(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan).
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28688613
No, every single article that said that has always been inaccurate.

It used to be in the first and last sentence of its code of conduct (https://abc.xyz/investor/other/google-code-of-conduct/). They've removed it from the preface, but it's still in the last sentence.
They don't want others stealing their oil, but they're likely to lose it too if they don't transfer it somewhere safer (no pun intended), so it's definitely a strange situation with tons of politics involved.
Can’t read the whole article however, from what is mentioned in the visible part, I find it a bit strange that free speech and monetary transactions, aka earning money with said free speech, is something that should be protected by law somehow.
NOAA fiddles around with measurements and generates temperatures according to models that assume the CO2 hypothesis. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzGPq9LSjEw
Another trash bin full of wasted food at Amazon’s Fresh FC warehouse
Same news event already posted here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28822990
It works surprisingly well. Very reliable and precise. I didn't expect it to be able to detect if I'm on my bed or on my desk, which are separated by barely 5 feet.
As far as we know publicly, AWS regions are very separated and even if us-east-1 is entirely dead, the impact on the others should be minimal and mostly cosmetic ( i hope they've fixed the status page that was hosted in S3 us-east-1).
Because scientists aren't allowed to have a sense of humor?
You have done so if the painting is under the copyright of someone else, surely?

I’m afraid the argument that copyright is infringed when a copy is made within computer memory has long standing in the courts & is well established at this point in time (to my lay legal understanding).
> The vapor from evaporation of the oil could explode but not a million barrels of oil itself.

So that scene in "The Equalizer" when Denzel Washington blows up that oil tanker would in reality become a massive oil spill, or fire?

That would have been a strange plot twist, the equalizer himself being the cause of a massive environmental disaster :-)
It needs consent from the grieving, which sounds obvious but I've learned in practice isn't. It also depends very much on context; someone left living alone doesn't need a community's worth of food, but someone left caring for children, elders, or dependents has a much greater need for logistical help like that.
The Lightning Network might or might not lead to a widely used open payment network.

I would love to hear more from people who already use it. How well does it work?

As far as I know, El Salvador is currently trying to shift their whole economy to Bitcoin. Handling day to day payments via Lightning. Is anybody from HN there? How practical is it for non tech people to use it for their daily payments?
The policy still exists. The practice is dying out, however.