skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Currently I work in a company that's very cost-conscious about hosting. They are generous in salaries but are mercilessly practical about IT costs and the abilities of computers -- especially the latter part is something that most of the programmers today have almost completely forgot.

I have 3 spare laptops lying around; weakest of them is with a Celeron J4155 and I have put a web app with no caching on it (it does have a persistent DB) and hammered it with my workstation until it finally started giving up at ~2500 req/s (Elixir/Phoenix stack). Again, that's a Celeron J4155 with a SATA III SSD in an M.2 factor (so disk speed caps at 550MB/s at best; usually 400-460) and 12GB RAM. Most programmers wouldn't touch such a machine.

I imagine I can buy 2 more of these laptops and make a completely replicated 3-cluster of the entire stack of our company and the slowest requests (on admin UI where we have a lot of SQL JOINs) would likely never go above 200ms. That totals at about 600 EUR (yep, I bought the laptop second-hand for 200 EUR). Then 500 more EUR for a good UPS to plug the laptops and my routers to. Boom 1100 EUR and several weekends later I can likely charge my own employer for hosting at 100 EUR a month for their entire infrastructure and I would likely still be ripping them off even with that.

The only real cost is human time and energy invested in making it work. But for most companies that's not a 24/7 fight so that cost is fairly low. You can do it twice a year and you're likely never going to have problems.

So yep, I am completely with you here (if my rant didn't make it obvious). Infrastructure costs are already being heavily optimized by companies out there.
I usually read the top comments first, but later I go to the bottom of the page. Sometimes comments get downvoted without a good reason.
All VPNs are terrible, except the ones you create yourself with your own hardware on premises you can trust.

My advice to you would be: defense in depth. Get yourself a good firewall (e.g. pf). Follow security best practices. Be diligent. Keep separate computers for separate tasks. Omit binary blobs as much as possible.

You can practically consider yourself already owned these days.
Genetic Variant Discovered in Amish Protects from Heart Disease
17 hours after launch and of course, a solid rainbow road is already in place!

edit wow, that got very 4chan, very fast in the hour since my comment. The Internet for ya!
> Often in orgs, there are other employees equally versed in all aspects of the work you do, but are just currently working on another aspect of the project, or codebase. Thus, some work may be immediately taken off your plate, without you having to dedicate your own time to training, etc.

Not everybody's time is worth the same, and it's a classic organizational fallacy to treat your employees' time as having equal worth. Simply put, five minutes of a senior engineer's time is worth more than five minutes of a junior engineer's time. This is clearly obvious even if you only compare their salaries (and not the value that each worker brings to the company). If their time was worth the same amount, we wouldn't hire juniors in the first place.

Thus, it's inherently unreasonable to use five minutes of a senior engineer's time to save five minutes of a junior's time. I expect juniors to struggle with something for at least a few hours before asking a senior for help.

This is besides the point that, if employees are documenting their work properly, there is less need to synchronously synchronize. "I don't remember, read the documentation, that's why I wrote it."
Firefox Crop Circle Hits Google Earth and Maps (2006)
No one is taking the ecosystem from you. This board is just one expansion option.
Conversations were around the intersection between cycling and safely equipment where the core features legitimately depend on ongoing services outside the device (gsm, for example).
>Hell no it's not ending, why would you even think that? Because a few governments only started cautiously talking about breaking apart giants? So what? As if corporate lawyers don't find holes in any new regulation literally the same week. Governments take years to formulate a legislation, and your average corporate legal team defeats it in days.

In some way wish it is ending. As human society, we don't need any more mega big company. Everything ought to kept local and small and diverse, so there is no central control, it is only resilient way to thrive for tech and innovation.
I thought that is common knowledge most designers don't use pure black.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rsync#Algorithm
The MiSTer itself. It's still a great system.
And I don't really want any of that. I want just send textual message to group of people for free. Maybe add an image, but that is it. I don't really care about anything extra.
I still firmly believe Lego is "one of a kind" in the toys category. I personally still use Lego Technics to prototype stuff from time to time. The thing is, kids (and maybe adults too) do not play Lego as they did before. The less toys you have, the more you reuse, reshuffle, tinker. It may be surprising but kids have no time for this today. Build (following the instructions), play, switch.

I actually find it interesting in a positive sense that it is possible to design something that cannot be taken apart in Lego.
Cool project. Any ideas how much it would cost?
It's funny how you think voting for the same idiots will save anything.
I want to know what they were thinking. "Alright, 10cm of snow ... send out the bots that are completely unfit for these conditions!"

While questionable considering the location, of course it's fine to not design them to work in snow. What baffles me is that they didn't design them to work in snow and sent them into the snow.

Considering that it's a lot of them in a bunch I can imagine that the bots had just started from their garage. Maybe this was some internal test?

I can't imagine somebody consciously decided to let these things go through snow and operate normally. And surely there's that amount of human oversight ...
New Humanoid Robot Has Realistic Human Facial Expressions
It hasn't been done before because the "GDTAAA WSPR analysis software" he references is his own homebrew solution.
Anyone know what the grammar rule is for the order of the words here? I.e. I would've thought it should be "dog (anti)-seagull patrols".
The web2 era is ending while the web3 era is just getting started
Abandoned Airplane Takes Off Again as Luxury RV
Of course. I'm just pointing out how the source data is encoded in the ELF file. As I said in the comment there is much value in the tools that take this data and the locations of the libraries and build up a nice tree.
> The only real cost is human time and energy invested in making it work. But for most companies that's not a 24/7 fight so that cost is fairly low. You can do it twice a year and you're likely never going to have problems.

If this were true, what made the cloud providers popular in the first place?
But even that Telegram does better, because you can edit messages you've sent to correct typos, you can pin them in channels, and there are extra nice things which might come in handy ( when do you want to meet? A pinned poll and it's easy).
Why Indian-born leaders dominate American tech’s top ranks
I thought this install feature was for phones only, but a comment further down posted an addon link:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29440657
Because silicon carbide has a wide band gap, you can use it to switch higher voltages. This means lower current losses through wiring.

It also can operate at higher temperatures more effectively, so it can be driven harder than a silicon transistor.
This is more so in the opening (the beginning of the game, and separately where engines tend to be a bit less informative) but yes it is definitely part of the chess metagame, and you'll often see commentators talk about whether someone is "still in prep" or has gotten out of it. It often can lead to time advantages if one gets an opponent out of prep.
This isn't the convenient answer we want, but I keep thinking that personally I should invest in a vehicle that suits 90% of my transportation needs, and plan to rent for the other 10%. It is likely the better financial approach, although it's definitely not a silver bullet.
How did they all end up in the same snowdrift?

I'd love to see a Minard-type chart of the delivery routes, and the counts of how many robots dropped where...
I think the relation is (concern about) insufficient consideration for diversity of real world environments.

Looking at those wheels, I can only assume they were designed by someone who never experiences mild snow outside their home. Someone in San Francisco or Monterey, for example. Yes, even though the company is Estonian.

I’m somewhat more trustful that self driving cars can cope with bad weather in particular, though the general principal “reality is hard” still applies: https://youtube.com/shorts/kM-xBgz26pE?feature=share
Where Is the Antimatter?
You are fortunate that your apps depend on SciPy for machine learning and not TensorFlow. TensorFlow is not on the list of supported 3rd party libraries, but I think I will try it anyway later today just to see if it works with pyinstaller.
> Microsoft got replaced by FAANGs

Microsoft is still there with a $2.4T market cap. In the context of a discussion about big tech, Netflix is not really part of it. Although the FAANG acronym kind of stuck.
The one-tab extension solved my tab problem. Since it saves the list of closed tabs, I don't feel like I'm losing my open tabs, even if I never take another look at them.
My gut feeling is that we should just make such systems legally mandatory. The need for the reversal procedure is a side-effect of Apple's fraud prevention approach and they were the ones to cause the problem. It's only a matter of time until they lose in court and have to reverse such a ban, so why not require the ability to reverse bad decisions in the first place.

Facebook pretended that deleting user data was impossible for a long time. But since GDPR made it mandatory they discovered a cheap way to do it. Some laws work like magic ;)
Thanks for sharing your thoughts, I think I am going with a big financial planning company/big bank.

Yeah I think it is kind of a shame how bureaucratic it is to do that. Especially because I need my sister's approval, so that she can help opening a custodial account for my niece. If I didn't trust my sister I would be afraid of sending money to that account haha

Anyway, I will try my best and if anything I will just buy some interesting Crypto and give her a wallet, that's much easier. Thanks!
It's about the number of patients, not the time. It's cheaper to run a trial over a longer period of time, a few patients at a time, but they don't continue to track patients for the entire duration. In this case tons of money was thrown at it and they were able to run tons of patients in parallel. Billions of doses of the vaccine have been given - seriously, what more do you want?
Show HN: A non-blocking alternative to JSON.parse to keep web UIs responsive
I don't disagree with you but I wonder if you are underestimating how many years of useful service can you get out of dual Xeon E-2690v3 systems. Almost no business actually needs the latest and greatest -- the only serious concern when hosting on-prem is energy consumption and heat dissipation. If that can be covered well the rest is much easier to cope with.
It doesn’t. The verb is “jemanden oder etwas durchwinken” (let someone or something pass through).

Akkusativ is jemanden oder etwas.

Dativ is jemandem oder etwas.
The Omicron Factor the Media Won’t Tell You About
Staying at the same position too long and allowing myself to become bored at my job. I naively assumed that if I was performing well with my technical skills that I would be handed more interesting projects but that certainly wasn't the case. It seems obvious now, but the biggest lesson I learned was that I needed to put time and effort to steer my career in the trajectory that I want and that I wasn't as stuck as I thought.
If you shop lifted from your local Target, they would not be allowed to empty your cupboards of all items that potentially could have came from them. They would have to prove each one belongs to them and was obtained via theft first. If they want a policy like this I think they should stop having to use words like 'buy' and start using words like 'indefinite revocable lease' to describe the transaction.
I hope so. Out with big tech, in with small decentralized tech.
It's listed here with a price in the range of $999-$4,999.

https://thesnowbot.com/products/snowbot-s1-snow-blower-robot
The capital costs are very easy to make back. For us, the payback period was <1 year, and our machines provided unbeatable performance with very good transparency into issues, which made it relatively easy to track down issues. Dedicated machines are really, really powerful now, and you can do with a few what it used to take racks. I feel like the perception of “it’s too hard” or “it’s actually more expensive” is subtly encouraged and reinforced by the myriad companies that stand to benefit - all those hosted services, the cloud providers, etc. And they make it easy for individual employees to appear more productive, but in exchange for costing their companies much more in the long run, and introducing a lot of inter-service latency and complexity. Misaligned incentives.

The major exception for us is S3, scaling storage seems like it would suck terribly.
I mean every single private key in existence is already on the internet.

Have fun raking in those free bitcoins. https://keys.lol/bitcoin
Why is that though?

Could it be that by a process of inflation and deflation of the money supply governments have historically manipulated the value of their population's savings?

Could it be that the current zero interest rate policy has made it impossible to save for the future without taking considerable risk in the stock market?

Could it be that governments have made savings a joke, ensuring that anyone putting their savings in a bank is guaranteed to lose purchasing power over time?

Could it be that some governments are so corrupt that they will force savers to accept negative nominal interest rates, so you get back fewer dollars/euros than you put in?

Could it be that from inception Bitcoin was designed as a better form of money? One that does not leak it's value over time? One that cannot be manipulated by any government or powerful centralized entity because it is truly decentralized? One that comes with a fixed and predictable central bank inflation policy valid from now to the end of time that allows everyone to know exactly how many bitcoin will exist in a given year now, tomorrow or 20 years from now?

Could it be that everything you assume you know about Fiat Currency and Bitcoin is incorrect? Could it be that the fact that you have been consistently wrong in under-appreciating and under-estimating the potential of Bitcoin, should teach you a lesson? That maybe you should examine the flawed assumptions that led you to ignore Bitcoin as yet another Ponzi scheme?

What would it take for you to realize you are wrong?
Outsourcing culture. Nobody wants to nurture talent -- that would also mean to invest in relations with your employees and not alienating them. Shareholders prefer to sacrifice a little more of their profit so they deal with less potential problems. And the pull of the idea that every human in the org must be an inter-changeable cog is too strong (even if that idea continues to be absurd, and always was).

Hosting apps in the cloud was a fair exchange 10 years ago because operational tooling in general was more immature. Nowadays it's much easier to self-host many pieces of software though.
>Imho it's 600+ miles on a single charge, with a 300m recharge in 10 minutes.

In my opinion the Battery equation is already solved. Even for those who are at the end of longer driving range curve, we have a solid and realistic roadmap of battery technology. Pick Tesla tabless battery for example. It isn't Solid Battery like Holy Grail Battery, but it gets to the point where even if you are somewhat skeptical of EV, surely this is edging close to good enough?

People often confuse range anxiety with battery capacity. I dont think that is strictly true. It is one of these things where engineers would come in and suggest we need bigger battery to solve our customer's problem. But here is an product person POV, what if you have fast charging station everywhere. From your car pack living in cities, to packing in a mall or pubic parking space. This is similar to charging smartphones. Once you can charge your smartphone even dinning in Restaurants or on a Bus. You dont get nervous about running out of battery.

So as many comment have suggested, the biggest obstacle to EV isn't battery, is the abundance of Charging station. And given I actually believe City transport in the future should be micro mobility, whether that is e-bike or something else we have yet imagined, we need charging port for both bike and EV. And this needs some government planning.

While this is all good discussion, I really wish we focus more on silicon carbide :)

I wonder why they didn't jump straight to 300mm and only upgraded to 200mm wafers. They could have completely cornered the market with better economy of scale.
Previous discussion from 2018:
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18659809
Docker is a mess if you want to read or write any files on the host system. Which is often what you want to do from a cli.

Mainly because volumes are mounted as the host user UID, while the container might be running any other user, often root.

Quite baffling they haven’t made this easier since it would be a real killer feature unlocking even more potential from containers.
Consider teaching her how to use computers at a very high level first. How to type, how to use a mouse and keyboard shortcuts properly, how to send an email to grandma and grandpa, how to install and uninstall programs, and so on. Those are basic skills she will need as an adult to be productive and communicate efficiently. Programming is not an essential skill for most people and third graders are not giving any serious thought to a future career path.

But above all, make it fun! Just spending time with your daughter is more important than getting her to learn stuff.
I don't know why anyone would even bother to suggest such a thing when there's a second, completely-independent, unobservable computer running on every phone, with ring -1 access. Until we get rid of those, phones will continue to be the IDEAL surveillance tool for state-level actors. It's like the old saying about security: If you have access to the hardware, all bets are off. In our phones, the cell companies already have hardware-level access. It's almost like the government had a hand in developing the cell phone technology stack to make it so easy to use in this capacity... (Seriously, they did, but I don't want to go down the rabbit hole of finding links.)
that works as long as there are enough of you for every team/app/service/whatever to build and operate all that around the clock and without bus risk.

A lot of these threads end up talking about "scaling" from a pure hardware perspective. Once you start talking about medium-to-large companies, the real scaling headache is people, process, and organizations.
I have a small AppleScript in production use at work at this very moment. As a designer-turned-developer, AppleScript was the first tool that let me feel like I could be in greater control over my computer and inspired me to learn Objective-C (this was pre-iOS days).
and exhaustion also starts to play a role after playing for like 7 hours, at some point mistakes will start to slip in.
A $500 Epson SC-p600 inkjet printer will suffice for most titles, this is the same equipment used to produce most of the (Teslin-based) fake IDs in the US. If there are UV features, you'll just need another cheaper inkjet printer and UV inks from uvstuff.com. Holograms? OVI? Just hit up alibaba sellers, or talk to https://www.material-house.com/

To produce even somewhat convincing cash, you will have to invest hundreds of thousands to procure a Heidelberg offset printing machine and learn how to operate it (and fix it, because presumably your forgery operation will not be able to take advantage of support contracts). This isn't a simple task, and banks will still catch your fake money.

This is the kind of equipment you'd be looking at to produce fake currency (at the low end) https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-counterfeit-money/im...

>And even if you find one in the glovebox, there is a pretty good system in place for the justice system to decide if that transfer was fraudulent (was due consideration exchanged in terms of fair market value of the vehicle or relationship between the "new" and previous owner).

Of course, but the question at hand is whether or not the dealer asking for a title before providing new keys actually offers any meaningful security benefits or not. I believe that this is just security theatre.

>If the vehicle was reported stolen, when they call to verify the title provided - the dealer will be warned as such.

Presumably the title doesn't play any meaningful part here. They could just call in with the VIN, no?
They have one for their charger shapes as well among many other things.
Seems unfair and highly inappropriate to capture a babies genome when it is too young to consent to this. That data will be on record forever and leaked everywhere. What legal and technical protections does the baby have?

Suggestion: Wait until you have a hand-held DNA scanning device that can real-time scan the parents and the baby upon leaving the hospital. The device by law must not have writable storage and must dump all memory contents between uses. It must have a red light that says "No Match" and a green light that says "Match". If the red light comes on, you do a more extensive test that also has data retention protections in place. The parents must witness the entire chain of custody of the data from the more extensive test and witness the destruction of the data. Everyone involved signs a legally binding and witnessed data destruction form.
Link should probably be either the youtube video or the linked writeup at https://uk.motor1.com/news/549053/motorhome-made-from-abando..., since hackaday seems to have written this entirely based on those.
> The great dark towers of the necromancers, which tried to do everything magical under one roof, suffer the usual problems of conglomerates: weak incentives, and no specialist expertise. Eventually their empires shrink.

Except we went through this a few times already. E.g. on the consumer side, there was dot com (open), AOL (conglomerate), web 2.0 (open) and now FAANG (conglomerate).

This looks more like going in circles than one distincive trend.
Darknet Diaries episode "85. Cam the carder" had an interesting perspective on how things look from the other end, enjoyed it.

https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/85/
Globalization overshot. It was mostly artificially propped up with the global fiat monetary system. Now that the fiat monetary system is running out of steam and heading into high inflation territory, we will revert back to a more localized world which most people will be happier in.

Many people nowadays were essentially 'forced' to move country or cities because of purely financial reasons driven by the money printers. This is all artificial and it will unwind.
I wish that too, believe me, but the interests of the corps is to pull us towards a cyberpunk future when they can stop your (artificial and cloud-connected) liver from working if you post something vaguely anti-establishment somewhere. They have been very trigger happy lately.