skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because OTHERWISE people might think AMAZON is a DYSFUNCTIONAL company that is beginning to CRATER under its HORRIBLE work culture and constant H/FIRE cycle.

See, AWS is basically turning into a long standing utility that needs to be reliable.

Hey, do most institutions like that completely turn over their staff every three years? Yeah, no.

Great for building it out and grabbing market share.

Maybe not for being the basis of a reliable substrate of the modern internet.

If there are dozens of bespoke systems that keep AWS afloat (disclosure: I have friends who worked there, and there are, and also Conway's law), but if the people who wrote them are three generations of HIRE/FIRE ago....

Not good.
I very explicitly didn’t say they would. I’m saying they could, and implicitly that if America was so inclined it can menace basically anyone and any nation just by pointing at their massive collection of pointy things that hurt.
Not only that, but for some deployments it is actually preferable to limit the amount of money you can pay. In other words, better for the service to be down than for the company or person to be bankrupt. Last I checked, that simply wasn't possible with AWS (no, alerts are not the same thing).
Orcas are large dolphins.
Gives me a flashback to the December 24th, 2012 outage. I guess not much changes in 9 years time.
https://github.com/StarpTech/k-andy : "Zero friction Kubernetes stack on Hetzner Cloud", basically specialized k3s with some pieces customized for Hetzner, and automatic deployment on Hetzner cloud instances.
revealed preference in the market

Revealed preference is just a polite way of describing either exploiting vice or taking advantage of someone in a weaker economic position. Works well enough for your average A/B test on a small website, but we can and should be more aspirational when dealing with housing, community, and society.
Newspapers and magazines have derived most of their revenue from ads since long before Google and Facebook. They're lucky to break even on subscription fees.
My website that runs on US-East-1 is up.

However, my Alexa (Echo) won't control my thermostat right now.

And my Ring app won't bring up my cameras.

Those services are run on AWS.
Dirt cheap and you'll have issues with the network if you do anything meaningful, or rather slightly more complex, IME..
And that breach was from an insider?

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/12/ubiquiti-developer-charg...
A thorough analysis of the Evergrande Implosion
some people like housing on land, other people like housing that is attached to busy public spaces.

both options have their tradeoffs and what makes sense is both individual and subjective.
Amazone One – One way to unlock the world, powered by your palm
Selling an NFT for $8,000 and Finding My Goldilocks DAO
Totally, that's why rent in Manhattan is extremely affordable :)
It's fine to prefer rural areas, but the problem is using the law to force suburbs on people that would be happier in urban areas.

"Increased population density also tends to increase crime."

This is a myth. Murder rates by county https://i.redd.it/xl23t365qub41.png

"Increased population density has economic benefits that tend to go to companies and developers, not me."

This is a self fulfilling prophecy. The thing killing budgets of the middle and working class in cities is the cost of housing. The cost of housing is so high because we prohibit building more of it!

"It's too hard to get infrastructure built. Roads will never be enough and we'll never have good public transit."

We use to be good at this. America had great transit before WW2. Other rich countries are still good at building it. We should not accept the status quo here.

"Culture is too antagonistic. Public shared spaces with no charge or admission control always get overtaken by inconsiderate, loud people. The less of them, the better."

American's go on vacation and come back raving about the parks and plazas of Europe so there's plenty of American's that would enjoy the things we outlaw.
What's a "bin" in this context?
But given that a universal cure for aging necessarily requires universal distribution of that cure, isn't it worth asking if you're putting the cart in front of the horse here?

Once you have the effective cure, it will likely be economically a no-brainer to implement, because a whole lot of illness of old age will just go away. It's essentially a self-funding cure that drastically reduce the cost of healthcare.

However, a cure for aging will not be solved tomorrow, maybe not even a decade. It is a long term investment.

The solution to the homeless isn't economically complicated. It doesn't require us to keep at a problem for ten years. It is strictly a matter of political will.

It isn't even a matter of practical concerns, because we live right now is unsustainable economically and financially.
You're getting at the core issue with this discussion: cities are by their very nature high density living situations.

It's no coincidence that congested cities are looking for ways to build higher density housing. There are just too many people to manage the logistics of a city that is built horizontally rather than vertically.

What it really comes down to is, do you want to live in a city or not? Cities are going to be densely packed. I personally do not want to live in shared housing and ride a train or bus, sit in traffic and hang out in free public spaces and the like either, so I don't live in a city. But people that choose to live in them really ought not complain about the facts of life of living in a city, specifically, that people are packed together like sardines.
Since only the abstract is available to the general public, I can only speculate on what the article actually says.

That said, I've long thought that the opposition to high density development is partly driven by the complete asynchrony between private development and public infrastructure. I live in a rural area adjacent to a medium-size metropolitan area (pop ~400K). With alarming frequency, private entities put up high-rise residential structures; but beyond cursory project review and maybe an access lane or two our municipal governments do nothing with foresight. There is no consideration given to the system-wide impact of these dense developments.
On GitHub Copilot and (Ruby's) Rubocop, Or, How AI Could Help Coding
News media organisations were forced into bed with Google and Facebook by a tragedy of the commons. Readership was going to go to those platforms as long as any small proportion of media organisations published there. Smaller orgs like the ones involved in these lawsuits had only two options - publish on FB/G or miss out on a large proportion of readership.

> monetize like news were monetized for hundreds of years - you pay to read them

Very, very few news organisations have been sustained only or even primarily on readership spend. Your local paper you paid $1.20 for per issue barely paid for its own distribution with that money, much less the staff writers and freelancers doing the actual reporting. Unfortunately advertising dollars have been paying for news for much longer than FB/G have existed.
This is also a clever play on the Hawthorne Heights song.
Where do you anticipate Steam to compete with Alphabet?
Absolutely, I just question the premise that “most” Django applications are like that.

My best guess, and I have nothing but my own experience to back this up, is that for every public facing Django based website, there are at least three used internally and at least one of those use nothing but the build in admin interface as a UI.
I encourage you to read up on the J.E. Hoover and J. McCarthy on how much the US First Amendment is worth. Or maybe try running a pro ISIS webserver in the US, see how quickly you have the FBI knocking on your door. Let's not even talk about DCMA takedowns etc..

The US ranks lower than Germany in the FH and RWB freedom of the press indices [1], which while not quite the same is highly related to freedom of speech.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_by_country
Americans aren't getting healthier because that's not profitable to American businesses.

It's not profitable to media producers if you're out and about instead of sitting on your butt consuming some electronic entertainment.

It's not profitable to food manufacturers if you're eating easily available fruits and vegetables instead of foods manufactured to have a long shelf life.

It's not profitable to vehicle manufacturers if you rode a bicycle instead of drove.

It's not profitable to the jails if certain drugs were legalized.

It's not profitable to hospitals if you paid to be healthy instead of paid to have symptoms resolved.

It's not profitable to write a message "eat healthier" and put that next to unhealthy foods. It's not profitable to write a message "exercise healther" and put that next to your transportation or entertainment. It's not profitable to write a message "drugs are illegal".

All of that space would be better served on non-harmful consumer messages like... buy this product! Watch your favorite fantasy! Make your dreary life in traffic less dreary with our brand new (and fresh-smelling) automobile! And there's definitely no harm to consumers if all of those businesses are grouped into huge conglomerates... for efficiency, of course. No harm to consumers whatsoever.
Your phone has Google Maps or Apple Maps, which will alert you when there are road closures or hazards ahead, yes. It even has a list of places where there are roads, and places where there are not roads, and will not (typically) direct you to go off-roading. The behavior of VMS is like punching in a street address and having Maps tell you to go straight there as the crow flies.

It's hard to redundantly guarantee correctness, if you wanted to rely on VMS to avoid hitting the seafloor that would indeed be difficult. But come on, how hard is it to offer a highlight for the shallowest points near your course, or a warning that says "you added an extra zero here"?
I will definitely be using this as reference to myself on how to author strong criticism without burning bridges.
The residences that cost the most are the ones that require buying the most land in the most expensive area. That's not really contradicting my point.
I also read it that way.
KDE Plasma desktop environment with KWin window manager
I don’t see how this makes any sense at all as a definition of ‘walled’.

There are freely available and free of charge Gemini and Gopher clients for every platform, almost all of which are open source. No signups to any service are required. For that matter, there are Gemini gateways on the web, so you don’t even need to install anything.

If your definition of a ‘walled garden’ is anything that can’t be accessed directly by the web browser Google or Apple pre-installed on your device, I think you might want to reconsider.
>and Ubiqiti are teasing people right now with their next-gen product which is available but also unobtainable.

Any links or reference. Cant find anything with a quick Google Search.
As noted in the update to the article, Ubiquiti was a victim of an extortion attempt from an employee. This is a pretty difficult attack to prevent.
the parent comment was a list of technical attributes about how youtube got there (used as rationale for why it's impossible to compete). i countered that that's not how it got there, as it's emphasizing tactics, not strategy. it's hard to formulate a coherent competitive strategy if you entirely misunderstand your competitor's successful (if anti-competitive) strategy. it's like playing chess by focusing on taking all the pawns rather than the king.
I've been in your shoes, but for my son, who ended up being the first case ever discovered of his particular genetic disorder.

I'm happy to help.

I written down an Algorithm for Precision Medicine that abstracted the journey all the way from diagnosis to treatment:

https://bertrand.might.net/articles/algorithm-for-precision-...

My day job is now to help patients like your partner all day every day at the Precision Medicine Institute at UAB.

Feel free to reach out to us, and we'll be happy to craft research strategy and provide technical tips.
I wonder that way less expensive molasses diluted with not even tap water would not work just as well.
Yeah, we are seeing SQS, API Gateway (both socket and non websocket) and S3 all completely unavailable. Status page shows nothing despite having gotten several updates.
I have an Oculus Quest 2 and me, my wife, and my kids all love it. The biggest gating factor in our enjoyment is lack of content. If there were more AAA titles I would spend way more time with my oculus. It is the most immersive and intuitive gaming experience I've ever had.
Speeding Up Scan-Based Volume Diagnosis
Every argument I have on the internet is between prescriptive and descriptive language.

People tend to believe that if you can describe a problem that means you can prescribe a solution. Often times, the only way to survive is to make it clear that the first thing you are doing is describing the problem.

After you do that, and it's clear that's all you are doing, then you follow up with a prescriptive description where you place clearly what could be done to manage a future scenario.

If you don't create this bright line, you create a confused interpretation.
"some customers may experience a slight elevation in error rates" --> everything is on fire
Seriously newspapers spent the entire 20th century charging people as much as $100 for classified ads, job postings, real estate listings, etc. Craigslist murdered them and they deserved it. Everything after that has been sour grapes.
I and many others would take the house with the land, unless I'm being forced to live in the city for work. When remote work became a necessity, we saw tons of people (and speculative investors) buying up housing in cheaper states.
It's not shown by default, but I really enjoyed the whimsicalness of "The Goofup" https://www.foldnfly.com/404.html#The-Goof-Up
I go through this every time I setup a new computer. Personal unique cool wallpaper for only a few minutes of work!
I think I should add state motto to my data center consideration matrix.
The best idea I've had for the music industry goes like this:

A market place for gig tickets, with open data for artists.

That's it.

Embrace touts, allow resale, reduce fraud (counterfeit tickets)... by making tickets ephemeral, transferable, verifiable. At this point all you've got is a more legit version of what happens in the real world.

The data part... give artists and their promoters full access. The benefit is that it removes a huge part of uncertainty for the artsists and their management. They can now more accurately predict total ticket sales, comparable ticket sales, see ticket sales across other acts in the same city on the same night, etc... meaning they get to do two things: 1) They choose more appropriately sized venues (which makes the event more vibrant as it's fuller - a fuller venue makes better margins as the fixed opex is spread over higher revenue - less lost revenue too as more fans get to see a band and less money left on the table), and 2) They get to set the price of a ticket more accurately to what the market can bear (which means they get more of the ticket value and touts get less, so the artists come out better and more realistic pricing will make a better end-to-end experience for music fans).

The data part is so valuable for filling small and medium venues that it can start to break the stranglehold Ticketmaster have on venues. The tenure of most promoters is around a decade, and Ticketmaster exclusivity deals with major venues come up within a similar time period. By building a grass roots effective ticketing system built on data you have a 10 year bet on knocking out the incumbent if you can keep the promoters and artists on your side as you and they grow. The Ticketmaster stranglehold isn't impenetrable, they have venue agreements with large traditional venues - but there are a lot of alternative venues whose seat you can fill easily, i.e. theatres and cinemas.

Within a single "generation" of music (less than a decade), you should be able to take the majority of small and medium venues, most festivals, and have serious inroads into the territory of Ticketmaster.

Are there things like this? Not really. Sure things like Dice in the UK for clubbing does the resell tickets, etc as a full and complete part of the original ticketing experience, but I do not know of a single company that is really creating anything like an open and transparent dataset that the participating artists and promoters can use without fee. Songkick were going to be my bet on who could do this, but once they went down the Ticketmaster affiliate route I no longer believe this is possible.
Are Stripe, Square, and Tesla not big tech? They have market caps of $95B, $88B, and $1.05T, respectively. And is YouTube not upending the incumbents (TV and traditional media) in the same way that they are?
Are you referring to the traffic signals that have five options? That is, going clockwise starting at bottom left: green arrow, yellow arrow, standard red light, standard yellow light, standard green light

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/8MXdKQHddMk/maxresdefault.jpg
Portability of software is a language problem. Some languages make it extremely easy. Others, like C and Go, make it difficult to be correct across all platforms.
> I have not studied the issue. Are there examples of where switching from low density to high density worked out well?

That's the default for most cities around the around besides American cities where low density suburbs eventually start building 4/5 story buildings and then taller ones.
"some customers may experience a slight elevation in error rates" --> everything is on fire, absolutely nothing works
> Don't the big players penalize mail coming from hosts?

Ftfy. :)

Yes, they do, unfortunately. I am still hoping for some regulation / fine to put an end to this.
Thankfully concepts like survival of the fittest, thermodynamics, capitalism, market dynamics, gravity, and math don't care who believes in what, and they would not care if you nor I believed in any of them at all. I choose to respect gravity, and it serves me well.
When I was at Google I didn't have a lot of exposure to the public infra side. However I do remember back in 2008 when a colleague was working on routing side of YouTube, he made a change that cost millions of dollars in mere hours before noticing and reverting it. He mentioned this to the larger team which gave applause during a tech talk. I cannot possibly generalize the culture differences between Amazon and Google, but at least in that one moment, the Google culture seemed to support that errors happen, they get noticed, and fixed without harming the perceived performance of those responsible.
There are signature gatherers out for a ballot proposition to make local land use laws override state law. The main supporters are small, rich municipalities.
If you can get your hands on it - Check out the pre-release Unifi Dream Router. PoE (to drive other AP), Gateway and built in AP all in one.
As others have mentioned, QNX is very much a model here, with Hubris notifications looking a lot like QNX proxies. In my experience (with the disclosure that I worked at QNX back in the day), that model was -- contrary to your implication -- remarkably clean for modeling real-time systems. Indeed, it was so clean that I was genuinely confused why so many other systems had adopted a much more monolithic model, which so clearly yielded a much more complicated system. (In hindsight, QNX being proprietary very much limited its impact.)

I would strongly encourage you to check out the docs that Steve pointed you to, and of course, the source itself! And nothing beats actually throwing it on some hardware and messing around with it, which should help clarify the model -- and why we believe it to be a good fit for real-time applications.
a well-programmed DAO could save the group hundreds of thousands of dollars that would normally be spend on servers and staff to maintain them

No. Doing anything on-chain is far more expensive than renting servers. Because there's a massive bubble going on, people are willing to work for DAOs in exchange for stock (whoops, don't call it that) but that won't last and over time salaries will equalize.
News has always enjoyed / suffered a tricky carve-out in our understanding of the interaction between the first amendment and copyright because (by its nature) its value to the public is in dissemination.

So while it's generally not okay to wholesale-copy a news article, it's always been okay to quote it (and, in the concrete and particular case of Google and Facebook, it's also always been okay to point people to it).

So the disruption of the revenue model (surprise; turns out people were only getting the ads as a consequence of buying the paper, they weren't why they bought the paper) is particularly tough because the core activity that is disrupting the model (making news universally accessible and useful) is by itself a public good.

(It's worth noting that the newspapers in this story have to go through the anti-trust door on this topic specifically because [I assume] there isn't any meat on the bones of claiming ownership of the news Facebook / Google are aggregating.)
Ubisoft NFTs, called 'Digits', launch for in-game items
I appreciate how this post gets resubmitted every couple of years. It's been a go-to bookmark for ages now and really does help give some visual intuition for what's happening.
Oh, no worries at all!

While there was no acquisition involved, a whole group of folks working on WebAssembly at Mozilla (myself included) moved to Fastly last Fall. What I tried to emphasize is that instead of the projects at hand here being open source because they somehow had to be, we all joined Fastly because it's a place where this kind of project can be made open source (and be created in the first place!) :)
Post-docker-file

Docker-agnostic-file

But seriously, how about: OCIMakefile

I've mostly used nspawn stuff for non-docker containers and then I either build them via normal makefiles that construct the image or I use mkosi.
While interview success "can" depend on these, along with 100s of other factors, these are most likely not the principal contributing factors to interview success on average. So, sure, if you've got the principal factors figured out, optimize to this level, but if not, your energy will be far better spent elsewhere (e.g. understanding the most likely asked questions for a company, and the framework they evaluate on, ensuring you're communicating well (verbal & non-verbal) )
I want to maintain the aspect ratio of my crop, not that of the source image. Perhaps `fit=cover-scale-down` would be a more appropriate name. In other words, I always want a square image <= 512px wide. I think this is a very common use case.
Nice. I wrote up another possible derivation here https://ngr.yt/blog/kalman/ in case anyone is interested.
Blameless, maybe, but not repercussion-less. A bad CoE was liable to upend the team's entire roadmap and put their existing goals at risk. To be fair, management was fairly receptive to "we need to throw out the roadmap and push our launch out to the following reinvent", but it wasn't an easy position for teams to be in.
Unifi Dream Router. You must create a account on store.ui.com, then enable pre-release hardware in the menu options.
So you haven't read the agreement which you ask all the customers to agree to? Lame.
if that is the case, why not advocate for updating system fonts? its not like windows or mac for example are idiots for shipping with "Default fonts" for no good reason?

i'm not even considering linux here.
I, for one, find data mapper simply baffling. I look at it and can't even comprehend why someone might want to do things that way.

Granted, I'm not fond of ORMs in general, but I at least understand the appeal of the active record pattern.