skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really would love if folks talking about volatile AWS prices would actually give examples.

I have been screwed, personally, by enough "free" and "unlimited" offerings to never believe them.

On AWS, all the price changes I've had have been to reduce my costs. This is over a pretty long period.

So inform us of the uncertainty with AWS.

Google, sure, they could cancel or 3x your bill (hi Maps API customers etc). AWS does not have that history.

Cloudflare has secret pricing - that's the really annoying thing. Seriously, put a porn site up online with cloudflare and see how far "free" gets you.
Correlation does not equal causation. Real estate boomed in the 80s and 90s and 2000s despite much higher interest rates.
To be more specific, the reason for that single line is because some legal systems (like in the US) have different "classes" of offense. That line is the differentiation for which class the crime is. The lesser could be a "summary offense" or "misdemeanor" and the higher a "felony"

I, of course, was not suggesting that you didn't know the difference in seriousness. I am stating that the difference in seriousness is the reason for the line, because the underlying legal system generally differentiates crimes this way.
Can you give an example of something specific that is taught in California schools with regards to CRT that you object to?
> in the western world and signifiant places outside of it (SA,India, Thailand, Vietnam, Japan, Brazil)

Brazil is western
USB Mass Storage (bulk only, at least) is also SCSI-based.
The world’s oldest family companies: 100 lessons in endurance from 17 countries
Ah you mean like the bugs I hit all the time on commercial IDEs like JetBrains products?
The business seems fraught with hairy (furry?) problems.

The laser system has promise, but you need a source of random data to drive the movement of the laser pointer (maybe strap them to other cats?). Otherwise, an attacker who can predict the movement of your pointers may be able to predict the output of your entropy stream after observing the behavior of your cat colony (certain cats may prefer to hunt at different times of the day, or prefer to lay in wait and pounce vs giving chase, etc).

Alternatively, you could observe a field (bed) of cats and record their chirality, assigning 0 to sinistral cats and 1 to dextral cats. The science[1] seems to indicate no preference for one or the other per cat, so your readings should be random. However, you may only observe one or two bit-flips per hour and during transitions it may take some time for the system to settle back down to a steady-state.

[1] http://blog.dimview.org/math/2017/07/28/cat-chirality.html
Part of the issue is that modern cameras are very high definition. For example, they can capture your skin in detail which is unnerving.

They can also capture what you are reading which means that they dance very closely to the idea of recording audio in public without consent. This could be especially bad if the photographer captures images of communications used by people with disabilities such as braille or signs.

A third issue could be having your photograph taken while doing something private in public such as pooping in the woods.
Using one given color profile is part of the trade-off.
> As interest rates are lower, the discount on future cash flows decreases

That is one of the causes of high asset prices. Another is that cheaper debt allows more people to borrow money to buy assets.

> If paper wealth takes a shit the people that will be impacted will be retirees and the wealthy, not your average joes.

If paper wealth drops average joes will also be affected. Employment depends on consumer spending, and a big drop in asset prices can have a significant impact on spending through wealth effects (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_effect)
Depends on your goal. Do you want to build a company or do you want to learn? Even if you have a completely unique idea, there's no guarantee that you'll find product market fit. Or maybe you have an idea that already has a market, but the current products aren't satisfying certain needs, or you think you can improve one aspect of the product.

I say build it, go at your own pace, and execute. The worst thing that can happen is you learn something.
Ionity and Blackrock investing €700M to add 5K fast chargers across Europe
You most likely don't want such a device at home: it likely makes quite a lot of noise, takes quite a lot of space, and is not really useful as an individual. Its use-case is more for a public/semi-public space, for a group of people to see.
The Ottoman Empire: a forgotten giant of western history (FT.com)
I'd disagree that houses are the same as they used to be. There's a spectrum of housing from from degraded to new to renovated. But the ideal house today, compared to the past, today's house has so many more luxuries and conveniences: appliances, energy efficiency, air quality, amount and variety of lighting, safety standards and knowledge of advanced materials, there's literally no system that you can't improve in a house. Even the humble hand made log cabin could be outfitted with an efficient modern solar battery system with a precisely engineered woodstove to boot.

All this to say, many houses are upgraded over time, not merely degraded. I'd much rather live in my house now after the decades of upgrades than when it was freshly made in the 70s.
It's rare that programmes like PRISM surface publicly. I don't see how Apple would gather top secret intel on national surveillance programmes on their own, so there is a good chance they aren't even aware.
What key AWS Lambda metrics should I monitor?
Also see the filed proposed class-action lawsuit:

https://www.classaction.org/news/class-action-claims-defect-...
In Eich’s defense, I’ve read before that he originally wanted to make a Scheme dialect instead of JS but was given the finger by higher-ups (and only two weeks to create JS 1.0 to begin with!).
Ocean is full of water. It just costs money (maybe a lot) to desalinate it.
I put wi-fi, at least the earlier generations, up there are the list of consumer technology that will always be supported somehow, simply due to its extreme popularity. I can still buy floppy drives even though they became outdated decades ago, just as I can buy serial ports. USB-A will be up there as well, as will wi-fi and bluetooth, as long as governments don't ban wi-fi/bluetooth devices.

Wi-Fi runs in unregulated spectrum, which means that no operator has to pay lots of money to governments in order to use the spectrum. Contrast this to 2G and 3G which network operators over the world turn off so that they can deploy the more efficient 5G, which one day too will likely be deprecated in favour of something even better.

Multiple wi-fi networks can coexist. In fact, wi-fi already shares its spectrum with bluetooth and probably a whole range of other applications. Even if a company from say cupertino thinks that Wi-Fi is outdated, the spectrum will remain unregulated, and you will likely have some way to bridge from whatever technology the cupertino devices use to that technology (or well maybe I'm a bit too optimist, that cupertino company has figured out tons of ways to lock you in lol).
Um. They'd much rather deal with a waiver request from someone for $100 then to deal with a bad credit card in accounting spinning down a major account.

BTW - I've never heard of the later happening at AWS ever, and I have at other hosting providers.
+1 for comparing wind tunnel capacity. Also TX has no dirigible hangars.
The title is inflammatory if the events in the article are true. They were arrested for willful trespassing and then released shortly after. Hardly news worthy.
You can also reflash the firmware on a lot of smart plugs if they use ESP32, look up Tasmota.

I use Sonoff plugs, the first thing I do when I get one is solder headers on them and reflash their firmware - hey presto, no cloud
Are there any experts here that can explain why rates are dropping in Japan, India, and a few other countries? Is it different flu seasons, different treatments, a new strain that is causing delta to self destruct, other? I have read theories but am legit curious.
It's not, but it's much closer than other dynamic languages like Python, PHP, Ruby, etc. For numerical code (which avoids allocation) it's often pretty close.
I'm not speaking from personal experience either, sorry if I seemed to imply that. I just meant it as a general comment with regards to anything that the military does. There is so much red-tape surrounding procurement, implementation that I wonder if they are agile enough to be on the cutting edge.

I don't mean to diss W2k in general, Its an OS that is well understood by now - weaknesses, mitigations, etc. Slowmoving entities like the government accrue so much cruft that it makes it exceedingly difficult to move to newer (and possibly better) platforms to take advantage of newer security tech.
Yes, it's defintely used for Dockerizing apps. I've Dockerized several Ruby, Node and Elixir apps using Alpine at work.
What if you want to use the functions in other C files? What if you want to compile them all separately?
The West is a joke. Germany and two other countries could easily team up and hold an alternative World Cup. We could just unilaterally do it, the original one would instantly lose the bit of legitimacy it has left. But we are not even doing that. How is the world supposed to take us serious, when we are not exercising power, where we actually have it?
Ask HN: What's Up with BuildZoom?
I've repeatedly seen job postings for this company on HN and I can't upvote, I can't comment, and I'm confused why they're on the front page. I can't flag, unlike every other article, but I can hide. It looks so weird, and it happens with this one company so often. I'm very curious what I'm missing.

What is making it so that this company is able to post onto the front page in slot 14 despite seeming to have zero upvotes and no comments? Are they just a Y Combinator company with special posting privileges? Does this treatment apply to other websites?

It's very strange to see the 14th ranked story on the front page a simple link to a page with job openings that aren't even particularly special. It seems like they are somehow using HN as if it were LinkedIn and it's very sketchy looking.
It’s likely much more manual that.

They admit themselves that these attacks are not easy to detect.
the closest thing to electronics I had in school was adruino and plc, lol.
JWT: How-To Guide with Best Practices in JavaScript
From JWT basics with examples to advanced security considerations.
Exactly, lootbox gambling for kids shouldn't be tolerated.
I slightly disagree. The land definitely factors; I don't think we can argue that. But there's also a lot of value of a house just being on the land, no matter its quality (ignoring complete dilapidation).

If labour and material costs are also high that increases the value of houses that are pre-existing. It means the buyer does not have to pay extra for and wait for a house to be built, which has some value. Also, there's a certain tolerance that I'm sure many people, if I may project, have for how crappy of quality a house actually is. They just want a damn place to live and call their own. Especially when the market is not in the buyer's favour.

At least that's how it all seems in Toronto. In the city of Toronto proper, a detached house selling around $1,000,000 is almost guaranteed to be of relatively bad quality right now.
> I am not a fan of Ayn Rand's philosophy

I've been thinking about this lately, and I'm not sure where I stand. I'm against book burning, but I feel like there are also problems with unchecked dissemination of ideas.

I think this is flawed logic in a few ways, but I'll put it down anyway:

1. Is there a difference between an undiscerning student (i.e. young, impressionable, hasn't been taught critical thinking, doesn't have sufficient experience to evaluate the validity of what they're learning) reading Ayn Rand on their own and being taught Ayn Rand by a teacher?

2. Would you consider it acceptable to teach Rand's novels non-critically as part of the curriculum (heck, why not, there are more than a few Senators that cite her books as inspiration).

The problem I run up against is how do you "objectively" decide which books to restrict. As you said, "school libraries curated by legislators with an agenda seem like a Really Bad Idea," but everyone has some sort of agenda. Everyone thinks it's obvious what should and shouldn't be taught in school, but of course it's not the same "obvious" for everyone.
> but the language itself don’t have any notion of lanes or SIMD instructions.

C doesn't need it, you can just call CPU instructions like functions. SIMD is just another kind of CPU instruction, so C supports it. That works in C since you have a direct view of the memory layout. It doesn't work in higher level languages where memory is abstracted away from you, in those you need the higher level concepts you are talking about in order to take advantage of SIMD.
I just googled "how to safely store bitcoin" and a bunch of articles with good, simple advice came up.
Or maybe you are a retard?
But comparing it to not doing that work is somewhat dishonest — for that you use compare a malloc for each call and a destructor at the end of the scope — and surprisingly, malloc will often do much worse than a good GC implementation, with trying to defragment a bit, etc.

Also, Java can often accumulate big heaps because it only runs the GC when it absolutely must — as you mentioned, it would be unnecessarily work otherwise. It might be interesting to mention that OpenJDK is the “greenest” out of the managed languages due to that.
There's no way the abortion ban will survive in its current form once it gets to SCOTUS. Even the Texas state legislature knows that. So it's just a matter of time before it gets watered down.
Seriously, with sub-ms pause times of ZGC you could run a GC every frame and have tons of time to space for actual processing.
Sure, in cities like Berlin I am not surprised to here that more people consume it. But outside of big cities, I rarely encounter it. The only reason I don't like this legalisation, is that with the drug being more easy to obtain, more people might smoke it, leading to more smoke in public (at train stations, in parks, ...). I hope I am wrong, but intuitively this seems plausible.
I agree that the trend is in a worrying direction. It's certainly worrying me.

I think though it'd be much harder to convince most people to give up on meat and dairy than it would be to convince them to take responsibility for their food, where it comes from and how it's grown or raised. And I think it's the people who aren't vegans who have to have this discussion. I don't mean that as an attack on vegans, but I don't think that continuing to eat meat, even in a sustainable manner, is something that agrees with vegan ideals. So it's going to have to be meat eaters who change things. Or else things won't change.

I guess I agree that most people take their food for granted. I don't know how that changes. Maybe we need a popular movement of activism from meat eaters :) I guess that sounds like a joke but there's small things like that, like the Slow Food movement. They're just not very popular...

Thanks for the discussion.
I don't know if you're joking, but most people in CA don't want to move to places that are still deciding to keep confederate monuments in front of courthouses.

https://apnews.com/article/mississippi-referendums-elections...
But what if you turn that around? If you are currently remote but considering an offer from a place that's in-office, wouldn't you want a higher wage to compensate you for the extra hassle of commuting? That's extra free time you're never getting back.
They were arrested and released without explanation. The police PR dept then came up with trespassing story without any details.
I suspect you are used to those 1280x720 being applied to a far, far smaller field of view. 110 degrees is remarkably wide.
Using an app or voice to control your lights is only rarely useful.

Having one switch control all your table lamps, floor lamps, and ceiling lights is useful. Being able to add new wall switches (really remotes) in new locations for ~$25 also nice (excluding the cost of the rest of the system, obviously).

A few years ago, we had no switches or light sources by the entry way; we had to stumble our way to a switch in the dark. I fixed that with remote controlled outlets at first and later upgraded to Hue bulbs and dimmers. In the bedroom, my wife and I both have remotes for the lights (though she actually prefers voice control, ironically).

We have a few useless wall switches that control outlets instead of lights; turning those into in-wall remotes makes it so we can control multiple lights and use the outlets for devices that need continuous power.

We also have our light bulbs automatically change brightness and color temperature based on the time of day. We get daylight-bright light during daylight hours and dim warm light in the middle of the night. It's really nice.

Another nice smart home feature: checking that the range is off. My wife used to stress about this, it's no longer an issue. Don't worry, you can only turn the thing OFF remotely, not on.

The smart speakers are mostly for music, checking the weather, and time. Occasionally for light control.

Smart/energy monitoring outlets we use mostly for tracking down energy hogs and reducing our energy bill.

The security and privacy stuff is a risk, but as long as you stick to major brands IMO the risk is overblown. Those brands are subject to a ton of scrutiny. Fly-by-night alphabet soup brands off Amazon or Alibaba are another matter.
Addendum: And somehow going up in the rankings despite the absence of an upvote button? Is HN broken?
> Not to victim blame, but it really is odd to me that someone would leave any amount of BTC on their phone, let alone millions of dollars worth.

The SIM swap attack was used to access an online service where the BTC was stored.

I know the classic cryptocurrency trope is that Bitcoiners will move money to a paper wallet and then store the passphrase securely somewhere, but in reality that's about as attractive as cashing it out as 46 x (hypothetical) $1 million dollar bills and storing it in a safe.

In other words: Most people who have that kind of money really don't want to do anything like that. Most people who don't have that kind of money really overestimate how easy it is to safely and securely store something like that.

But that's beside the point. We could debate all day about storing paper wallets in bank safety deposit boxes or using Shamir's Secret Sharing or any other number of increasingly complex scenarios, but in practice most with that kind of wealth aren't really interested in locking it away and not touching it. If they want to make an investment, trade, or purchase, do they jump through all of the hoops to unlock and move some of the money and then securely store it all away again? Surely someone might, but in practice most people want it somewhere that that can trade, invest, transfer, and access with reasonable security.

This inevitably turns into one of those internet OpSec debates where people on the sidelines imagine scenarios where they are smarter than the victim (with the benefit of hindsight, of course), but in reality there are many, many people out there storing vast amounts of wealth accessible by 2FA with their phone and it's rarely ever a problem. Cryptocurrency makes this more complicated because the transactions are irreversible, fast, and (somewhat) easy to hide.

So if you happen to be internet famous for bragging about your Bitcoin wealth, definitely take steps to make it impossible for people to access it via phones or anything else. But you also probably want to obscure your physical location and invest in personal security, because in-person attacks are the next step. But in reality, a huge number of people have access to a lot of funds via digital access without such problems on a regular basis. It's fun to fantasize about ultimate OpSec, but in practice most people want the money accessible and tradeable on short notice.
But it's going to take a while until community and mainline kernel support make the RK3566/RK3568 ready for a casual user.

https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/Quartz64_Development#Upstreamin...

TL;DR

Video output just recently (this week) got ported to mainline Linux, but it is still a bit rough. Only works on 1080p60fps monitors.

Everything else major for the kernel has been mainlined or is in review.

U-boot is still only downstream rockchip with closed source memory initialization (boot blobs).
You claim that a bunch of GPU crypto minors won't exploit a chance to incur billing overruns if amazon waives charges?

The amazon deal is simple. Very clear pricing for pay what you use.

Cloudflare - can you link to the page where they show the cost of bandwidth? Still waiting.
I think you’re confusing depreciation with value.

In most cases every 20 year increment backward yields a higher quality house. Newer houses are garbage in many dimensions.

An older home requires a little more capital investment, but if it has lasted 130 years, it’s sound and could be remade/modernized at a cost well below any new construction.
See Hacker News FAQs:

"Another kind of job ad is reserved for YC-funded startups. These appear on the front page, but are not stories: they have no vote arrows, points, or comments. They begin part-way down and fall steadily. Only one is on the front page at a time. The rest are listed at jobs."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html#jobads
With all due respect, it seems you're so deep into the culture war that you can't see the forest for the trees.

The left vs right distinction hasn't existed in San Francisco for decades at this point - it barely exists in California metros at all anymore beyond the old party fundraising machinery. The Republican party is already practically irrelevant state wide. The same can be said of Democrats in rural California or even many states. In those scenarios, the second you make it about political ideology, you shut yourself out of the process, either by refusing to engage with it because they're the "others" or failing to understand what the constituents actually care about.

For example, you're negatively comparing Nancy Pelosi, the House Rep of one of the wealthiest districts in the country, to three senators of diverse states. I don't see what led you to that conclusion other than a ideological blind spot - all the SF homeowners who put her in office for nearly 40 years have benefited wildly from the national policies she has supported. She has so much power in Congress because she represents that district so well that she can spend all her time fundraising for other members of Congress and fighting the culture war (which, in my experience, rarely bleeds into her actual campaign because her constituency doesn't give one shit as long as their two bedroom condo is worth 7 figures). These are the "wealthy" that the GP is talking about and they've stuck with her for nearly four decades through several boom and bust cycles. Say all you want about her politics, but her constituents overwhelmingly chose her over and over again. Are they idiots?

Most striking is that all of your complaints seem to be about the local politics of San Francisco - so what do Pelosi, Cruz, Sinema, or Manchin have to do with it? If they had any more than a passing, indirect influence on San Francisco decision makers, it would be a major breach of the Federal/state/local separation of powers. Likewise with monetary policy. A focus on national politics makes one completely blind to what's actually going on at a local level.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_persistent_threat
> The whole reason for mogrify's existence is that it overwrites the original image file.

Then it should not exist. To save one "rm", doesn't look like a good idea to me.