skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Yes, VP approval is needed to make any updates on the status dashboard. But that's not as hard as it may seem. AWS executives are extremely operation-obsessed, and when there is an outage of any size are engaged with their service teams immediately.

My experience generally aligns with amzn-throw, but this right here is why. There's a manual step here and there's always drama surrounding it. The process to update the status page is fully automated on both sides of this step, if you removed VP approval, the page would update immediately. So if the page doesn't update, it is always a VP dragging their feet. Even worse is that lags in this step were never discussed in the postmortem reviews that I was a part of.
I've used it with clients and it works fine for my use cases - image optimisation for web pages

Images get fetched from original, resized to the size needed by the client device (desktop vs mobile), and optimized to an appropriate format
It's interesting because there have been so many web developers over the years who been given the advice that a variety of 3rd party CDNs was "faster" and did that intentionally. It may have even been somewhat decent advice for a time. Mostly because of the 6 requests per host blocking in browsers: more hosts, more parallel requests. Of course parallelizing requests isn't always faster, especially as you point out if some of those CDNs underserve certain edges. Plus, HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 change some of the dynamics of that directly (by massively decreasing connection overhead to the same host so that even "blocked/serial" requests may finish a lot faster than the time it takes to open a full connection to a different host). Sometimes for the "if everyone uses the same CDN for jQuery the browser only has to cache it once for everyone" cache effect, and that is no longer true either as to avoid some privacy issues and such browsers have only further sandboxed their per-website/host caches and even "shared CDNs" no longer guarantee shared caches.

But yeah, post-HTTP/2 and privacy-related CDN sandboxing, especially, it is further and further from good advice.
> > Ineffective dive bombing at Midway? It was the only thing that was effective!

> Poorly executed would be a better term. They succeeded by almost pure luck.

If you mean pure luck in finding the carriers, I could agree with you. But...

Three to five hits on the Kaga. Only one hit on the Agaki. Three hits on Soryu. No hits on Hiryu in the first attack. Four or five hits on the second attack on Hiryu. That's not just getting lucky.
I've been building a little TP-Link Omada setup for my home. There is a cloud option for the controller software or you can buy the hardware controller (or...run it yourself)

Was going to go all in on Ubiquiti but was put off when reading about the reliability issues, plus was way more expensive.

Pleased with my router + access point + PoE switch + hardware controller :)
Do their products have much in the way of phone-home / cloud access?
Wireshark support is here!
I mostly agree with your assessment apart from this part:

> Without that need, you end up with individuals doing reporting on substack.

Content that is produced on substack is opinion, not news. It is produced from a comfort of a chair, not from a war zone or a hurricane zone. Nothing wrong with that (if opinion is what you are after), but you actually need to have a news organization to produce news coverage. A single person can not do it in a professional and repeatable way.
One aspect to keep in mind. In those "earliest days" the target that was being cloned was the IBM PC, which Wikipedia [1] quotes as having an introductory price of $4,455 in 2020 dollars.

Wikipedia also quotes a price range of $4.00 to $70.00 [2] for various Pi model introductory prices (they don't quote as "2020 dollars").

There is much more room for profit available to someone who is cloning a $4,455 product than there is to someone cloning a $4 to $70 product. The comparative very low price of a Pi vs. an IBM PC from 1981 likely makes it not profitable to "clone" and so no one is attempting to clone the Pi's.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_PC

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi
> There are a lot of less charitable formulations; why should other readers care about parent commenters insecurity? Does parent commenter not appreciate the work that goes into studying these topics? Was parent commenter told they were "smart" to often as a child and never learned to exert themselves academically? Etc.

You're missing the obvious interpretation -- jargonization of the sciences keeps people out and keeps the masses stupid. Math is particularly guilty of this -- more charitable fields use jargon that is at least semi-self-explanatory, words and phrases that, while jargon, do make sense if you deconstruct them. In Math, people are so arrogant that they discover something and immediately name it after themselves, so if you haven't had a topology class, you won't know that X person's name maps to Y concept. Good jargon can be pieced together with pure reason alone without knowing the names of the people who invented what. This isn't true across the board of course -- "gradient descent" is a particularly well-named piece of jargon, for example.
Thanks for the link, I'll have a look. I don't think it's true that "people generally like drugs". Some people like drugs. Most people don't, with the exception of alcohol and milder "drugs" like coffee and nicotine. Most people like to get drunk, but only occasionally. Even the people who like to get drunk prefer to do it in well circumscribed contexts, like social occasions or rituals etc. That actually goes for the traditional consumption of entheogens also, btw.

In particular -and I'm aware you'll probably find that hard to believe right now, but- most people really don't like the idea of hallucinogens. Crossing the doors of perception to enter a different reality is not most peoples' idea of a fun time. Quite the contrary. See "bad trip". I've heard of junkies, I've heard of alkies, but I've never had anyone having a "bad trip" with wine or beer.

Incidentally, when I first started hearing about datura, it was all from people saying that it's the worst imaginable trip one could ever have and they never wanted to touch it again.

Anyway, my personal advice is to not do drugs. One only wastes their time, time they will never get back and that they could be spending in developing their knowledge and skills instead.
Seems like White should get a little more credit; he's going well outside established science, and accepting a much higher risk of failure than most are comfortable with. Seems like he's throwing ideas at the wall in the hopes that maybe something sticks. More of us should do that, or at least, support those of us willing to see if something did stick.

The tone of this paper seemed less like an academic assertion of an effect, and more like "hey, found something cool, someone should look into this, I gotta get back to what I was doing."

I'm also not going to blame the guy for being interested in space-age propulsion systems.
Why do you want to import them – why not just fetch them from origin based on demand?
Generally it's the suburbs immediately outside a prosperous city that start to urbanize. Genuinely rural areas in America often have the opposite problem - they shrink.
I think the question is about what requires to be decentralised using a blockchain technology. The answer seems to be nothing.
Systemd by example – Part 2: Dependencies
Wombo Dream
> Relative to single family homes, apartments are viewed as decreasing property values, increasing crime rates, lowering school quality, increasing traffic, and decreasing desirability.

The problem is most cities only allow two kinds of development: Low density or high density. We're missing the middle!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_middle_housing

I've really enjoyed these two YouTube channels on the subject.

"Oh the Urbanity" has a great video on Montreal's "missing middle"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYCAVmKzX10

And "Not Just Bikes" discusses a "missing middle" neighborhood in Toronto:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWsGBRdK2N0
Note that bandwidth is included for servers with gigabit uplink - for 10gb uplink "only" 30TB/month is included. How much is just 5TB/month egress on Amazon?
https://archive.md/agWZC
For me definitely decentralized exchanges. Look at uniswap.

Really look forward for the day where I can buy stocks there.
In my perspective the user experience is so much better. You own your "tkns". You don't need a broker or whatever to get access to an exchange. It works 24/7. Especially would be useful for people without bank access. By the way trading volume is already huge there.
The worst business slogan of 2021
There wasn’t really an aversion to or direct decision to not use Django, it just kind of naturally evolved. We were experimenting with FastAPI in some mock APIs used for test suites and some different projects and decided to incorporate it into a larger project.

The pulling in of other tools happened naturally over time. Perhaps we reinvented the wheel and Django may have saved some time or effort, but ultimately in the end we gained a very deep knowledge of the system we have and the things that make it work, and how those individual pieces might be usable in other projects/scenarios.

A large driver was honestly just that we had no organizational experience in Django, and so there was no one that even would have looked at it and said “Hey we’re just recreating what Django already does”.
This is a stupid generalization and straw man.

If this is your argument then just stick to your 401k and fuck off.
Why some songs turn into earworms – and 5 ways to get rid of them
Makes sense when you are young for sure. Especially young and single and looking for a partner. That sort of stuff loses its tends to lose its luster when you are 40 married and have kids.
The laws do not mention BDS at all, and they apply to any boycott.

You can argue that the current popular boycott is against Israel, but the US has had multiple waves of boycotts.

This law allows the US to move as one. ...to act as one. Which affords very significant leverage to our government in order to enact change - whether that's against China, Israel, Russia, South Africa, etc...
I don't believe this to be true, but understand that the systems involved are fairly chaotic so I'm willing to change my mind. The reason that you think these things are the drivers of wealth is that they rely on the currency/asset imbalance and then simply leverage on top of it. Fix the underlying issue, the down-stream effects goes away.

I give Japan as an example of a country that just so happens to be balancing their money supply with their increase in assets. Their interest rates are flat and the only return you get on them is based on very real risk that can go the other way. Their stock markets are just about flat and is only recently hitting a new all time high after 30 years. Capital should give returns, yes, but increased productivity should be shared by all, so you should see slight wage increases.
‘He touched a nerve’: how the first piece of AI music was born in 1956
They don't need this to imprison anybody. They will just throw you into an industrial meat grinder, and your name into the registry of missing persons.

That why you cannot deal with them with any diplomacy. Only an answer in kind, or worse will make them scratch.
A Pulitzer Prize-Winning Reporter Has Been Accused of ‘Scamming’ Musicians
Please don't post flamebait here or take threads further into flamewar.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I thought Cloudflare was going to win the image hosting/serving/resizing game based on their original blog post, but that doesn't seem to be the case.

I kept getting frustrated with the complexity and changing costs of solutions out there, so about a year ago I launched https://www.simplefileupload.com. It's a super easy, flat rate cost solution to quickly allow users to upload images and files. It provides a customizable upload widget and serves files via a CDN and firewall to protect against attacks. It doesn't have query param image resizing yet, but it's coming!
This site does seem aware of that and offers CSS options based on what are probably the two most common CSS returns from Google: a "Best Support" option that includes a number of legacy formats and "Modern Browsers" option that merely gives the browser a choice between WOFF and WOFF2, based on if they support WOFF2 or not.
Well again, the people that have a subscription do not get a paywall, they get content when they click the same Google link and are probably very happy with that outocme. How is Google supposed to know who has access?
How is it a bait and switch? If the content is relevant, it's relevant. If you clicked through to something that said it was about NBA basketball and it was instead about knitting, _that_ would be a bait and switch.
They aren't meant to be, but shitty teams are shitty. You can also create a COE and assign it to another team. When I was at AWS, I had a few COEs assigned to me by disgruntled teams just trying to make me suffer and I told them to pound sand. For my own team, I wrote COEs quite often and found it to be a really great process for surfacing systemic issues with our management chain and making real improvements, but it needs to be used correctly.
Run Minio yourself? It's amazing, and easy to setup using dokku (for great backup/restore options).
If you look at the area in the 3D view in Google Maps, it's pretty obvious - the plots left and right of this small neighbourhood are on a slope, just there the terrain is almost horizontal...
NRF chips for mySensors projects dried up within a week. I stockpiled during early covid so I don't know if the stock has returned. During that rush, I also bought more atmega chips than I needed.

Hopefully my supplies last until the surplus sales in a few years from everyone doing the same overbuying that I did.
It depends on what you consider voluntary. If you can't get a job in your hometown, then it doesn't feel very voluntary when forced to move to support yourself (survive). Sure, it's a choice but there's pressure behind it.

If someone says give me your wallet or I'll stab you, that's still a choice. I wouldn't call it voluntary. It's a choice of survival.
I think people have short memories. They perceive that the news used to be better, so they assume it was always that way and that the current supposed decline is unfixable- after all, such a state of affairs has no precedent!

Similarly with claims of censorship over covid. Yes it is a cause for concern, but no, it probably won't lead to the Ministry of Information, as some people claim. But crucially, even if it does, that isn't in itself dystopia, our governments created propoganda ministries during WW2, and they don't continue to exist today. Military censorship has always existed but the propoganda ministry of WW2 was much more active than just censoring military information.
The people opposing zoning changes did not do that. They moved to a suburb right next to a city so they can commute in. Getting outraged that the city grows is ridiculous.
I agree that this is what I would want to use, but doesn't the lack of any kind of specialized switching hardware make it uncompetitive in terms of price/power consumption/speed?

I have on order a mikrotik rb5009UG+S+, which has nine gigabit ethernet ports, one 2.5 gigabit ethernet port, and a 10g sfp+ cage. It has zero fans and benchmarks show it capable of 10 gigabit routing. It costs less than $200.

I love vyos, and I would definitely prefer an open source router. But people I talk to love their mikrotik products. It doesn't seem like the old ones are being abandoned.
iPhone 11 Giveaway
You can lease equipment you know…
Please stop taking HN threads further into flamewar. You've done it a lot in the past, and your account seems unfortunately to be swerving back into it. It's not what this site is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
What magical thing is in Raspberry Pi that cloning it would be an advantage over other Linux SBCs/SOMs or EVKs like Beagle?

Oh wait I know the answer - the price. You want it cheaper. But it's already subsidized by Broadcom so how do you think a cloner would make any money off of it?

Or are you trying to use it in a product and you need a second source? Because that way leads to doom as well.
Eh. Right on cue, I suppose. Because I married someone with a sense of humor. Maybe you can write a search engine to figure out what that is. Yes, that’s a throwback to when nerd jokes were a thing. I’ll throw this in so you you’re able to comprehend /s
30k? Fwiw I think your stats are way outdated. That was like 1999.
Then it's not really a question of "what are blockchains good for?" but rather "what is decentralization good for?" And that's not a technology question.
The most important factor is that on the internet local news media lose their geographical monopoly. So everyone can subscribe to NYT or WSJ no matter where they live. This effectively creates a winner takes all situation like in many other industries which get closer to a free market.

Add to that the fact that classified ads have been taken over by likes of ebay, LinkedIn, craigslist, etc. Basically the business model of the old newspapers have been disrupted and trying to blame it on popular targets like Google and FB is pointless.
No need to call me out personally for my observations. It isn't an HN thing to do. As I've said in another post, glad the website and video are out there, and glad to inform folks about the Proctor Test.
The bottleneck isn't exactly number of miles until you see cows, it's minutes driven.

That is, rural folks would be much happier if the city had more density and a great public transit system that integrates with cars. But just the density would make things worse.
Maybe, but there's some assumptions buried in here, I think:

- first, the token has to be usable by any exchange it's traded on. Different blockchain technologies may not be compatible. (For instance, you can't move an NBA Top Shot NFT from Flow to Ethereum.) This is a solvable problem from a technical standpoint, but given how fiercely ideological different blockchains are, there may be non-technical stumbling blocks that arise here.

- second, there has to be an "off-the-blockchain" legal connection between the token and the object the token represents, something that's recognized legally as a "bill of sale." This isn't a huge hurdle and I'd assume the purchase of the token includes language that covers this, but that legal language might include arbitrary limitations, such as stipulating that if you don't use their preferred exchange they'll charge you extra fees, or even restricting the token to specific exchanges entirely.

This is an issue that I think a lot of "smart contract" proponents just haven't come to grips with yet: when you read "contract" in terms of a blockchain, think "API contract" rather than "legal contract". A cursory search suggests there are Flow to Ethereum NFT converters out there, but if you run your NBA Top Shot NFT through one, does the NBA still consider it valid?

- third, this example is specifically tying the token to a physical object, which adds other complications. You may be able to successfully trade your token on Sunday, but the wine store may still only be open on weekdays.
The Intelligent Case for Crypto
Here is Benn Jordan’s accompanying Youtube video in which he goes into more detail as to the nature of Ian Urbina’s scheme: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zk872ERRVxA
not to mention free DDoS protection. In Amazon I read in one hacker news article that it costs them around $6000 for the custom AWS DDoS team. Why people still use AWS? Other than that it is a corporate police. Honestly would like to know.
It was only available for a single one-night booking. Think about refreshing a browser page to buy popular sneakers or concert tickets right when they go on sale, except in this case there's a total inventory of 1 product for sale. From the listing:

> I’m inviting one crew of mischief makers to let their inner eight-year-olds run free in my childhood home on Dec. 12. Booking for this one-night stay opens Dec. 7 at 1 p.m. C.T.*

Despite the listing's "This is not a contest" disclaimer, with the under-market rate, included Lego set and the single night of availability, it's pretty clearly a promotion tied to Disney's Home Sweet Home Alone movie:

> Then, when you’re ready to wind down, you can enjoy a viewing of the film franchise’s newest holiday adventure, Home Sweet Home Alone, on Disney+.
Never. Shipments are still lower than pre pandemic and more cards are going into AI research and crypto scammer than ever.
Anyone have deep experience with both Django and Laravel and can offer a comparison of the two?
This year’s 132 tech IPOs are trading below their IPO price
I know of no evidence that the National Institutes of Health - scare quotes or not - is out looking for trivial diseases in an effort to promote its own existence. Its extramural granting program has been remarkably successful and is the crown jewel of U.S. biomedical sciences. Its prioritization process is largely (if sometimes imperfectly) aligned with causes of mortality and morbidity.

That said, translational and implementation research is often more poorly funded which is in part why getting from evidence to clinical practice to widespread societal adoption is problematic. Especially in the biomedical sciences, evidence is actually a poor and lagging predictor of diffusion of innovations; so the fact that good evidence is widely available while adoption is slow shouldn't be surprising at all. Of course, having a functioning health care system where the incentives are all aligned toward healthy persons would help, too.
Strong disagree. Almost all music (distinct from "music platforms") does not contain any advertising. Many movies contain product placements, but many more do not. TV shows frequently have ads embedded, but platforms like HBO do not show ads. Almost all paintings, sculptures, or other art media do not contain ads, excepting those created specifically for the advertising industry.

Considering the totality of media created by humanity to date, I would suspect that advertising is present in a small minority.
> Only above a certain population number. Many smaller cities and towns don't have this issue.

So only every place where it matters then.

Not having restrictions on 20 story buildings in farm country where nobody has any incentive to build 20 story buildings is irrelevant.

> Only if you own land. And only if your ideals support it. With a sufficient renting population there can be change.

This is another instance of "only where it matters" -- you have an area zoned exclusively for single family homes and nobody is renting because nobody who has to rent can afford to live there.

Also, this is "solved" by the scam of rent control. You bring just enough of the existing renters into the "screw the new guys" fold to prevent changes adverse to landlords.

> If this is true, then why even have a discussion? I mean, it's settled then - this is a democracy and the voting base will not support changes.

The question is at which level of government it should be decided. You do it at the state level instead of the town level and now there are a lot of people willing to remove zoning restrictions in the places they want to move to.
This guy had senior positions in both Limewire and Spotify, pretty interesting
A preference uninformed by alternative ways of living.

Having lived in suburbs, exurbs, dense and extremely dense cities, I find most people have no idea of the benefits and disadvantages of each place.

My impression is that the vast majority of suburbanites live in thoroughly suboptimal conditions and that their health and social lives would be massively better served by living in more dense and walkable areas.