skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are many approaches which don't depend on AWS, and not all of them mean hosting your own physical servers, and they certainly don't mean you don't have an off-site backup policy.

There are well-understood answers to all your questions, they are not too difficult, they just cost money - some businesses choose not to spend that money, some weigh cost-benefit and go for AWS, some decide to go for in-house servers, some go for hosted Virtual Servers, some go for serverless.

Why does everything have to be built one way?
NYT, WP, ProPublica, etc all “host a website for raw intel that is frequently stolen”.
I pray everyone in this thread contributes to the conversation more than you have with whatever this whiney nonsense is.
Protect? Or use them as tokens in international tit-for-tat diplomacy?
Most of the larger, older cities will have neighborhoods that are walkable, though the city as a whole might fail to meet expectations. New York, Boston, Washington DC and Baltimore come to mind. But, they tend to be very expensive places to live (at least in the nicer areas).

Small and medium sized college towns (<100,000 residents, maybe) usually fit the bill as well. But, have the downside of many seasonal tenants and the other things you'd expect with a heavily young-adult-oriented area. But, even in these, you sometimes find you need to drive to a strip mall for big grocery runs - America doesn't really do small neighborhood markets and the price of real estate often drives grocery stores to the outskirts of town.
There is plenty of space for cars if you stack them. That's a rather successful model in Japanese cities. Free surface parking has an outsized negative impact on cities.

BTW, it's already kind of true that only the rich own cars, car ownership correlates very strongly with household income.
You're just trolling. "The cloud" doesn't exist as a single entity. I'm sure people in other various AWS regions, all GCP, all Azure, all DigitalOcean is working just fine.
What exactly is the bright line between a good newspaper and an intelligence service that broadcasts information? News is that which someone doesn't what known.
Any idea what license(s) they'll use?
>and yet kids have been forced to take vaccines for 50+ years to go to school.

This is at the state level and each state decides their vaccination requirements. Many states have religious and medical exemptions. You can always move to another state or file for religious exemption or send your kids to private school or even home school if you really don't want to vaccinate them. From what I understand the current vaccine mandate doesn't even allow exemption for people who have already caught covid, have natural immunity, and are at higher risk of negative outcomes due to the vaccine.

https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3...

>then what about the smoking laws?

The second hand smoke theory was based on bad science to achieve a political end. It's funny you mention that because this was probably one of the first major catalysts in recent memory that really pushed the distrust of "government science."

https://slate.com/technology/2017/02/secondhand-smoke-isnt-a...

>problem is "you" don't live on an island. Your actions impact others.

Right, but that same thing applies to the citizenry accepting dubious mandates that are unconstitutional. The problem is the government (and media) is using the heavy handed / force approach, which is pretty stupid and obviously counter-effective as evidenced by our current vaccination rate. Federal employees can opt to have weekly tests in lieu of the vaccine though, which is good. Companies haven't been given much guidance though and they collectively bear a larger burden because of numbers and liability.

There are other issues like the government absolved all liability from the vaccine manufacturers as well, which isn't great optics, yet they didn't absolve the companies that are now tasked to force employees to take the vaccine from the same liability. Let's say I'm an employer and I force my employees to get the vaccine. One employee requires hospitalization due to the vaccine. I am now liable for his medical bills. It's completely ham fisted.

This is a pretty interesting, well thought out point of view of employer mandates:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apF6bft5kFA

>Am I arguing that vaccine mandates are a good thing, not always. Just the highly binary arguments don't really do justice to the complexity of the issue.

>And yes I'm on a war against absolutes because only a sith thinks in absolutes.

You mean the entire discussion from this point has been "vaccines are good, you are a detriment to society if you don't accept this absolute?" Ya I agree with that. At one point the government and media used to respect the citizenry's ability to reason; now not so much.
If publishing leaked information is punishable by the state, than what kind of press would you have? Its precisely the most contentious things that the state wants to hide, is what often the public needs to know about.

The modern corporate press is bad enough as it is. But do you really want to live in a country where legit journalists are jailed for publishing things the government does not want you to know about.

Just this week, state prosecutor blanked out almost all the names on Epstein flight logs. Fairly obvious its in the public interest to know which powerful people went there. But powerful people will try to protect other powerful people.
What do you even mean? National vaccination regulations reflect the myocarditis/pericarditis risk since half a year already. E.g. Germany doesn't vaccinate under 30s with Moderna etc.
> right and wrong, good and evil are human judgments

This is nonsense that opens up the possibility to justify pretty much any kind of abuse or atrocity.

> The international rules-based order is safeguarded by powerful entities… because it’s in their best interest.

If the international order was actually rules-based it would have been safeguarded by international institutions, not by a single capricious superpower.

> One goes against that self-interest at one’s peril.

This one eludes me. Who's going against who's interest?
Trust the science! Except when you disagree with its results
It's not that simple. Incident responders and teams that own the pieces have to write the initial draft and review it. Perhaps two different copies. One with more details for internal and another for public. Multiple round of reviews, and then it goes to a separate team to proofread the public material. Meanwhile they also have to measure customer impact and sometimes even inform high tier customers about the incident and its impact.
Interesting. The infra engineer at my previous company fits your description, yet he was the one pushing for our AWS migration.
> Duncan then flew to Ecuador to meet President Lenín Moreno in order to “say thank you” for handing over Assange. Duncan reported he gave Moreno “a beautiful porcelain plate from the Buckingham Palace gift shop.”

Guess I should stock up on gift shop trinkets more often, if they are so useful for securing favors.
As the layers of the stack increase in depth the probability that any one piece breaks the system approaches one. There will be a Singularity but it will be a horizontal asymptote instead of a vertical one.
I agree it's still there, but to me this demo's nearing the end of the valley, way past the deepest point.
Even worse (better?) no sane programmer is going to sign a real-world contract guaranteeing the code is bug-free, and if you trust the wrong programmer to work on your complex blockchain program they might put in a sufficiently complex exploitable code path, and be first in line to (anonymously) exploit it.
And no entry in the timezone database :-( https://github.com/eggert/tz/search?q=athos But then if they have no computers, maybe that doesn't matter.
> I agree that the input should be sanitized but only if the formatting behavior is a bug and was not intentional.

Non-pattern arguments should not do any substitution, because otherwise developers have to jump through hoops to output strings verbatim. You don’t want "Invalid identifier: '${<some valid log4j syntax>}'" to be turned into "Invalid identifier: '<the log4j replacement>'" when the actual invalid identifier (e.g. from user input) was the "${…}" syntax. I’m surprised that log4j behaves that way still after two decades.
"he managed to rip off the mask and expose the unbridled imperialist evil lurking"

That's a bit absurd given showed the total opposite:

Gigabytes of diplomatic cables of highly sensitive data revealed a US Diplomatic Corps trying to do a decent job in a world rife with ugly corruption.

The 'Arab Street' saw the information and they saw the US trying to assuage and nudge brutally corrupt leaders.

The cables didn't unite Arabs against the US - they exposed the ruthless corruption of their own governments and 'united' them against their own governments.

I was in Tunisia near the time of the revolts and I can tell you the thing that pissed them off the most was probably the fact that their disgraced PM had Canadian citizenship (i.e. citizen of convenience, as many do) and simply flew to Montreal to enjoy Canadian Constitutional protections and avoid prosecution.

It's shocking that someone could read about Arab governments doing 'very bad things', the US government trying to stop them, and then come away with the notion that the US is the bad actor.

It speaks to some kind of deeply held ideology or perspective that can make facts that point one way, seem like they point in the other direction.

Assange will have to face trial given the fact that he may have explicitly helped Manning break into systems of National Security, which is definitely illegal. I don't think he did, but there's been some evidence made public that indicates that it's possible. Soon we'll have a court case and see the evidence.
A good guess would be EUPL which is written to work within the european copyright framework https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/collection/eupl/eupl-text-eupl-1...

It works much in the same way as AGPL

Edit:

As per decision https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/documents-register/detail?...

> the open source licence granted by the Commission shall be the EUPL, except in the

> cases listed in points (b) and (c);
There never was an outage. It was just the marketing home page for aws.amazon.com that was down for about 30 minutes and everyone had a knee jerk reaction to “haha AWS down went down again!!” Everything that mattered works fine.
> The burden of proof [for its existance] is on those making up those "fundamental concepts in decision theory". I won't be taking it for granted just because they came up with it.

What? It's trivial. People want things. Things that satisfy wants have utility. You can just look this up. It's pretty basic to modern economics and philosophy.[1]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utility
I suspect Assange does not want to be tortured and murdered and thus does not want this. Are you insane ?
>making downtime somebody else's problem.

It is even more, making downtime's responsibility somebody else's problem. You can now simply point to AWS is down, AWS is slow, AWS is causing error, and there is nothing we can do about it :). And as long as management knows everyone is having the same problem they are perfectly fine with it.
FYI I got a 404 when trying to visit - https://scailer.com/news/join-final-beta-testing
> It's a fact he's a journalist. We've all read his journalism or at least know of its existence.

That's circular reasoning. He's a journalist because we read his journalism. And, ergo, his work is journalism because he's a journalist.

It all works out... unless of course, he was just pretending to be a journalist/ activist and was actually working in concert with a hostile intelligence agency to other, less noble, ends.
>I would treat a sub-$500 retroclone Amiga like a souped-up handheld retro console and expect to happily suffer through the obvious set of flaws while getting in some gaming time. To me it's special that they include even a layer of AGA compatibility, whether we call that a single extra lazy drag and drop or an internal specification complication driven by the passionate desire to include something resembling a fps game :-)

I would suggest running WinUAE on a PC, PiMiga on a Raspberry Pi, or minimig on miSTer. Perhaps even contributing to these projects in some way or another.

Better than giving away your hard-earned money to some crooks that sell a very overpriced emulator-in-a-box (they didn't even write the emulator, obviously), running on some cheap hardware and exploiting the nostalgia of some suckers by making the box resemble an Amiga 500, all the while lying about their product's specifications.
Business wise, it does seem a little odd to consider Amazon EU as one package, when operating income and costs are as localized and non-homogeneous as they are.
Oh my gosh! I miss that. Do you happen to remember the name of the program that allowed you to use a "hammer" against your screen which would result in the appearance of a broken screen?
> because he did the right thing, not the wrong thing.

And who defines the right or wrong? Assange revealed among many things how CIA collects data of US citizens abusing patriot act without warrants.
In the sequences prior to the car I think it's most obvious by looking at the eyes. Especially the wrinkles have an odd "glow" to them. I think they may have recreated all the sequences that look like they were taken out of the movie but it's hard to tell because many of them are shown on screens with a filter.

Honestly, after reading that supposedly some of the shots of current age Keanu are not rendered but real, I'm wondering if that's even true though. Maybe the odd appearance of the eyes is an artefact of the lighting of the all white room.
I absolutely prefer to have the option to go into a datacenter in a hurry and actually fix stuff and be in charge, then be stuck with having to wait an indefinite amount of time, twiddle my thumbs, apologize to customers and hope for the best.

While I considered myself a decent Windows NT admin, 20 years ago, the reason I went all in on Linux and FLOSS software at the turn of the century was because I dreaded the powerlessness that these proprietary solutions gave me, when they failed. You'd call the vendors, pored through logs, finding obscure, undocumented error codes, etc. With FLOSS and self-hosting youve got all the information at your fingertips. And if you encountered bugs and you can dig into the sources, patch them, re-compile and fix things - and share them with others and feel that you're contributing to our profession.

When I got the chance to do cloud projects over the last 5 - 10 years, I always took these opportunities, hoping to ensure that I keep up with the tech. At first I was hopeful to offload the boring ops tasks, take our config management to the next level and automate even more. With every platform I got to work with, AWS, Azure and GCP so far, we kept finding bugs in their APIs, outdated or otherwise incorrect documentation and very unpredictable performance, unless you actually can run stacks at scale to average it out (as in more then just 10 - 20 instances or a larger clustered SaaS of the cloud vendor). Many times we also encountered undocumented limits that required requesting support and waiting for approval by the cloud vendor, to get even their mid-sized resources allocated. It all works very nicely on the free-tier-eligible, smallest instances and services, if as slow and high latency as is to be expected, but as soon as you actually need some decently sized storage, compute or bandwidth, it becomes quickly more expensive than what you can put in two or three datacenters for redundancy yourself, if you look at the yearly costs. So far none of the PoCs I was involved with ever got approved long term. They mostly end up as reference implementations for our customers or show case material for the corporate blog. :-(

No thanks, I don't want to go back to feel that powerless as I did on closed systems ever again. Luckily, although many seem to think that cloud is the only option to run at a global scale, you can still provide lots of valuable services on the internet using robust hardware, housed in well connected datacenters.
> The very idea that there is some measusable "utility" to compare in the two cases, independent from your moral values and sentiments, is inane.

There's philosophical charity, in the sense of your ability to put aside your judgments to listen and gain knowledge. That can be measured. Simply ask "You know this?" and count how many no's. There's some things we will never know that are very important, like dying or being created. From those you can get to real altruism. Caring for others is the natural state of humanity and makes humans strong, nice and beautiful. Selfishness is unnatural, weak, hateful, and ugly. Whatever created you cared about you and helped you, gave you the capacity for joy and happiness. Sooner than you think you will be abandoned by everything and those will be taken away and you will be in need. It's better for you to help others than just helping yourself. Personal sacrifice is not needed. It's not okay to be hurt or be a victim. Interior motives are irrelevant. It's better if everyone in the world is cured than just you while everyone else dies.
I’m from the US and from my perspective he’s certainly an enemy of my country and working to undermine it. A country cannot function if nameless underlings do not carry out the agenda set forth by the elected and appointed people in charge. There are many problems with entrenched bureaucracy but having secrets leaked weakens American power and our government’s ability to handle the problems we face. If you see mudge’s talk about him from way back when, the grudge he holds against the US may be just over funding research. Inciting and assisting Americans who have sworn to protect our secrets to leak them is something I think needs to be stopped as a National security threat. There are a lot of disingenuous comparisons calling this guy a journalist, he’s a lot more than that. Assange is a former hacker and professor and present day activist. Undeniably bright and I respect his technical skills but he’s working against the United States. I’ll say this, though, he’s probably the most trustworthy journalist that walks the earth, sadly
That's fair. The article uses phrasing like "the disabled boy has a total utility of 40", suggesting that the utility is an attribute of the boy, but I guess it would become wordy and repetitive to phrase it any other way.
They can go live in the country. That’s part of what’s good about Urbanism - it lets the city become a real city, and it reduces or reverses sprawl, which leaves more of the rural areas undeveloped. The city should be city, and the country country. It’s the in-between stuff that’s problematic.
How JavaScript works: building a child process in Node.js
> mildly more acknowledged

This is already a very big achievement for just one individual.

How many people, activist or not, have been killed without anybody noticing?
100%. We should all get vaccinated. Doesn't change the fact that the vaccine can cause it though!
Inflation rises to 6.8% year over year
Those are the least confusing libraries in the Scala ecosystem lol. Slick is just like any ORM-light framework. Akka-HTTP abstracts away all the Akka-specific things and you just create routes that return Futures essentially. How is spray-json complex? You're just using macros against your case classes to create (de)serializers.

If anything, you should be saying things like Shapeless provide the extra complexity.
This should be the norm for software developed as work for hire for all kinds of governments, everywhere, if only for the reason that it would save a lot of redundant development of software used by governments. There are obvious exceptions for weapons technology. But the presumption should be that governments must look to existing open source software before they contract for software development, and they should contribute newly developed software to the pool.
> A `<div class="user_profile">` is clearly a container for a user profile, a `<div class="here comes a shitload of tailwind class names because inline styles are now apparently cool again">` tells you absolutely nothing about what the hell is going on.

You know what's going on if you're in a component called user-profile.component.html

How often are you writing something like a user profile component in the context of something much larger? Also, what styles would the class "user_profile" even have? You say the second one "tells you nothing about what's going on," but I'd say it's the opposite. If you actually put real tailwind classes in the second one, I'd know exactly how that div is styled whereas the first one requires cross-referencing another file.

"user_profile" probably has CSS implementation that have almost nothing to do with a user profile. It's probably a container that has maybe a margin, a max-width? The important styling details all come from the inner HTML and stylings on those things. So your "user_profile" class is mostly just another generic wrapper that you had to come up with a name for.
Thanks for the glot.io recommendeation.
My theory is that it has basically gone underground (private groups on Slack, Signal, Discord, etc and maybe some public-yet-opaque activity on Twitter) along with much of the rest of the internet.

Weird and wonderful tech is by definition something that threatens the status quo, and having a public presence could attract unwanted attention by hostile journalists or even law enforcement. This has been called the dark forest theory of the internet. Being unsearchable also raises the the barrier to entry and keeps newbies out - besides not having to deal with them, this also keeps more in the pot for you if you ever figure out a monetization path.

Unfortunately I never got on the cool Discords or whatever in time to know the details of or network myself into these communities. But I’m pretty sure there are people printing pharmaceuticals in their garage with bacteria right now. DIYbio is fascinating
(like the guy who made his own vaccine) but there’s no primer or news site about it - you’re going to have to dig hard and actually talk to people to get informed. I know for a fact there are people printing and inventing new firearms and things like electrical primers.

There are cool things (for a certain definition of cool - not necessarily positive) going on with cryptocurrencies - check out rekt.news for a sample of what’s going on. They are covering heists, but the details tell you a lot: did you know you can take out a loan of $100M right now with zero credit or identity checks? You just have to pay it back in the same transaction.
Yeah that’s a good point. I don’t really know the real reasons. Maybe it’s just hard to do it and to have the 0 cost abstractions? Hopefully not impossible though.
Check Lazarus [0] for Free Pascal [1].

Another viable option would be Visual Tcl [2] for Tcl/Tk [3]. Given the event-based nature of Tcl and Tk, I find it matches well for a methodology like VB provided.

And it's far from the only one I remember (although you'll need to do some research here [4]). For example, Komodo IDE used to have a Tk GUI builder that provided for the same kind of methodology, which has been split off in [5].

Enjoy!

[0] https://www.lazarus-ide.org/

[1] https://www.freepascal.org/

[2] http://vtcl.sourceforge.net/

[3] https://www.tcl-lang.org/

[4] https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/GUI+Building+Tools

[5] http://spectcl.sourceforge.net/
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The constant "time zone" changes might throw a wrench into calculating the offsets. How far in advance can we calculate sunrise/sunset times?