skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's wrong with Elon Musk? He deserves it! He single handedly brought forward the EV revolution by at least 1 decade, maybe more. He improved the car emissions more than governments worldwide were not able to do for decades before him. EU made it significantly worse by betting on the wrong horse (diesel) and then pushing very hard on it and giving cancer to its citizens.

Bill Gates put a computer in every home

Steve Jobs put a smartphone in every hand (for better or worse)

Bezos revolutionized online shopping AND cloud computing.

Why wouldn't these people be billionaires?

Governments could never achieve this kind of progress, they are too bureaucratic, corrupt and incompetent. Take away the billionaires' money now, and you will stop the next big innovation.
For me the light/bright colors are really straining my eyes since they're very sensitive to glare/bright lights as a consequence of cataracts.

Also the switching of the FG and BG colors was just an example I could think of in the moment to get something like "dark mode" with minimal effort.
In practice I'd probably go with a somewhat "off-white"(?) FG on a medium-dark grey BG.
IMO a less bright white text color in this scenario does well in eliminating the "shrinking" you speak of while the contrast with the muted grey BG isn't too harsh.
https://theworld.org/

This one is pretty on the nose. It's from PRX/PRI. They have web and audio.

But "relevant" is not easily measured. It's obviously pretty personal.
No we’re not. I will tell you this year I’ve dealt with more security incidents than I have in my entire career combined.

My organization takes security seriously but and the end of the day we serve customers who don’t. That’s been the bulk of our issues this year.

log4shell has just been the icing on the cake.
Joseph Hazelwood,
The Deepwater Horizon Engineer,
The USS Connecticut navigator.

My biggest f’up at work was probably $75k. I was nauseous for weeks (months maybe). I can’t imagine the experience of a billion dollar day at work.
I guess there are probably countless parties, but if you're referring to the retailer as the third interested party, then they are already be benefitting from the sale.
I dunno. If they really were trapped in a Prisoner's Dilemma, then the equilibrium would be that they get big, I think (unless there's a "repeated games" angle here). Yet what we actually observe, of species that get isolated on islands, is that they do get small.
Why are you comparing it to selfhosted? BareMetal has been a thing for decades and outperforms the "cloud" on cost and performance for the vast majority of usecases.
High streets aren't necessary for transportation.

There is no need to travel specifically along those roads if there are a dozen others to chose from.
I think this is a common need, even in smaller organizations. Spinning up/down deployments doesn't imply you're doing it in response to scale needs (most orgs don't have those); often it means you're simply experimenting with new tools or new product offerings. Having the ability to do that without waiting for infrastructure provisioning, and having the ability to only spin up the resources you need to see (for example) if a given version of a web framework can run your site well, or of a new database meets your needs, can be a significant value add.
I know they're distinct things, I just wonder about the way visualization is described.

From the way non-aphantasia is characterized here one could assume that the difference is just how much control people have over the content of the image, as opposed to the degree of realism.

A hallucinating person may have an experience that feels indistinguishable from reality, but they can't control what the experience entails. From this test, I gather that a non-aphantasiac person has an equally-as-realistic image in front of them, but they are completely in command of what is shown.
Like many mental traits there's a spectrum: Some people (like me) have extreme levels of visualization in our heads. I can picture things I'm imagining in intimate detail which is (probably) why I'm pretty good at turning code into precisely what I'm imagining (e.g. https://gfycat.com/carefulangrybirdofparadise it's a keycap). However, I have such bad long-term memory that I qualified for special needs (mental impairment edition) education (which I did not get enrolled in, for reference).

I'm blind in one eye (since birth) so I don't see in true 3D. I thought it was because of this--and my long term memory issues--that I have a hell of a time remembering peoples faces (or names). I am not the guy prosecutors want as a, "he saw the perp's face" witness to a crime... I don't have prosopagnosia (true face blindness) but a whole heck of a lot of people look the same enough to me that I have difficulty telling them apart without hearing their voices (I'm fantastic with voice ID; probably comes naturally when you have trouble with faces haha). Yet I've met people who were also born blind in one eye that are absolutely fantastic at remembering people's faces (and names, obviously).

So what I'm getting at is that even though I don't have prosopagnosia I have difficulty with faces. There's got to be a spectrum as with most cognitive measurements. Psychiatrists don't have yes/no charts when they test you for things; It's pretty much all scales from 0-10 (or 200-799 for some reason haha).

Just curious (if you read this far): How hard (for you) is a question like this? https://www.123test.com/content/question5.jpeg
That was part of spec of the traction/break of a vehicle I worked on.
Passagers life was prioritized as the premise behind the decision was : "Outside the vehicle is an unknown, we don't know if it's a human, an animal, an object ; we know that inside we have human life (at least the driver, at most the hundred of passengers), so we give priority to what we know)
China is bad and that context is important.
Oooh. Do you have any particular references you'd link to for more info about this?

https://medlineplus.gov/druginfo/meds/a601121.html says that

> Tizanidine is used to relieve the spasms and increased muscle tone caused by multiple sclerosis (MS, a disease in which the nerves do not function properly and patients may experience weakness, numbness, loss of muscle coordination and problems with vision, speech, and bladder control), stroke, or brain or spinal injury. Tizanidine is in a class of medications called skeletal muscle relaxants. It works by slowing action in the brain and nervous system to allow the muscles to relax.

> ...

> This medication is sometimes prescribed for other uses; ask your doctor or pharmacist for more information.

I'm very curious about the diagnostic path that got you to the point of giving this a try - it sounds very interesting to follow/copy bits of it :)

I ask because of bog-standard autism, which in later years I've been able to partially outgrow to a helpful level, but which naturally proves to be difficult to out-think in terms of subconscious knee-jerk reactions and low-level assocations between things (easiest correlation would be "first programming language" type stuff (oversimplifying the world then needing to unlearn that later, etc), except at a very subtle subconscious level). I wonder if this might influence vaguely similar pathways in my favor. I'm always curious if there are things I can try (that are physically sustainable and with reasonable intrinsic safety margins, unlike eg recreational options) to shake up the status quo and maybe help give me a bit of a boost to helping me reset stuff.
You should reach out to them and let them know. I don't know what the alternative would be - are there better CC licenses out there? Dual licensing CC+MIT/BSD?

Pragmatically (but not legally speaking, INAL) you could probably get by with summarizing and linking (especially to web archive).
If I were a betting man, I'd bet that some upcoming generation (maybe the one after Gen Z but who knows) will turn away from the digital world.
Is it normal for an Ask HN to be a link? It’s got a weird ad smell.
Point taken.

I'm not that happy to have the UK voting system compared to Belarus.
If you eliminate tipping and pay the employees a fair wage then you will need to raise your prices in order to do so. Which means you are wrapping what was the tip into the menu price and in essence making tipping mandatory.
>Nope. With the cloud, the costs have went down for any large coMpany, even those that just moved the old crap to VMs running on someone elses hw.

Are you implying that there isn't idle cloud hardware?
I think the author is stretching the separation of the online world from the 'real world' to support the bifurcation thesis. The online world isn't a separate reality or separate world.

'This is a place with no need for traditional money, or traditional art; the native solution is obviously superior. To put it another way, “None of this real world stuff has any digital world value” — the critique goes both ways.'

The Metaverse isn't a computer game, or at least isn't only a computer game made up of entirely imagined content. As an extension of the internet it's primary purpose is to do away with the physical separation and distance between real world people and resources.

Fundamentally networks are communication systems, whether it's a telephone network, the Web or the Metaverse. It's about taking resources that are physically distributed all around the world and making them function as though they were right next to each other, re-composing them in different ways.

The first phase was to allow you to log on to a server anywhere in the world, instead of only the one in your building. The next step with the Web 1.0 was to link and re-compose documents regardless of what server they were located on. The next step with web 2.0 was to give access to applications running on any server anywhere, rather than just applications installed on your local computer. Social media was another phase which did for interpersonal relationships and communication what the original web did for documents.

The Metaverse doesn't really add any new capabilities here, it's just a new user interface. It's a VR browser instead of a web browser. It's not a new world anymore than the combination of facebook and twitter are a new world, they're not, they're just a way for real world people to talk to each other. With the Metaverse they will virtually stand next to each other instead. My kids already do this in Minecraft, Valorant and LoL.

The bifurcation thesis works in terms of businesses, and that's what Stratechery is about, but the article doesn't actually analyse the business implications of any of this.
> I've found that I can work well with software because I can visualize it like an engine or a system of pipes and machines, but I cannot for the life of me do algebra.

I'm the same way. Really good at the work I do. Reinventing an existing algorithm? Nope. I can just barely read math notation, but I have to write everything on paper. It requires an amount of logical state I can't achieve without externalizing everything.
Selenium IDE allows recording/playback of actions via browser extensions as well, without having to figure out the XPath, etc., yourself. Preflight looks much nicer than Selenium IDE interface, but is it much more different in its function?

Can you run Preflight on-prem or must the AUT be accessible to the Internet?

Regarding the Context Awareness, is there any issue with working with React apps? If I renamed an item in the navbar, or changed the position of an element (thus changing the XPath), would CA be able to identify and workaround that?

Questions aside, it’s a great idea and the app looks great.
They are animals like any other, and this notion of 'apex suburban predator' is nonsense.
I experienced a similar transition, albeit this was over 10 years ago. I've come to realize that a balance between both meatspace and hyperspace ends up being most satisfying. For me, the former was very valuable in introducing new experiences (learning and playing music, construction projects, hobbies like hiking and surfing), but the lack of cognitive and 'online' stimulation will make itself apparent over time.
I currently work for a large fortune 50 company as a Senior SRE in charge of server build automation for both cloud and on-prem. We have found that on-prem is cheaper and has less hoops to jump through. We do use vRealize Automation and Orchestration from VMware and it is a good agnostic platform to do this.
Type checking is not exponential last I checked. However, languages with global type inference have exponential behaviour when inferring types for some pathological programs.
I'm not a cybersecurity worker (although I would like to be) and I would with them. There's been a lot of activity but I wouldn't say they're more stressed than normal. We did have some log4j stuff but to my knowledge weren't affected by the exchange server or solarwinds exploits. News companies are generally going to exaggerate and use hyperbolic language to make things seem as exciting as possible "organizations are now in a race against time" in order to get more clicks.
I had been doing this way before the pandemic. Sometimes family members are wearing headphones and such, it just seemed polite.
If it's stupid and it works it ain't stupid.
As a Software Engineer, I consider it my obligation to ensure that people across an organization understand that it is not normal and not acceptable for a Software Engineer to be rude, angry, grumpy or dismissive. The genius mystique must be defeated. I behave as an activist employee: if there's a nerd bringing shame upon nerd kind, I make sure to tackle it head-on. I implore everyone to be activist employees. A nerd who berates someone? Your new mission is to get them out of the organization, and teach everyone who has been in the blast-radius of their bullshit that they were not a god, that their behavior _was not worth it_ no matter how good their code was. You'll change lives for the better, more so than your code ever will.
"Organizations are now in a race against time to figure out if they have computers running the vulnerable software that were exposed to the internet."

Large orgs should already have sufficient documentation as to which packages and versions are in use and what systems pulled them from their proxy repo.
Can you put them in a battery powered box, with no data connection? I'm thinking my little consumer grade APC could power one for many days (months?). I'll have to check the numbers
Wrong, I've met plenty of seniors who fit that bill as well. :)
IIRC - it's an integer overflow problem. And power cycles generally come much sooner than than the 51 days.

From a software engineering perspective - seems like something that should be fixed. But apparently someone else decided not to. Maybe complexity? Cost?
People can imagine smells?! I had no idea!
And here's number four:

http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/meant80n.uk.php

Comparison of the longterm mean temperature in the artic with each year going back to 1958.
Looks really informative and polished!
Security is certainly and quite clearly not a reason to use clouds. If they are any reason at all it is to avoid them.

But the others are spot on.
Does these eyedrops have a "rebound" effect? Meaning, you stop taking them your eyesight gets worse than it was? Curious about the mechanism.
My requirements as in what requirements am I writing for my software, or what requirements do I have on the JS framework I'm choosing (speed, blabla)?
I am not sure I buy into your statement here. I believe there is a way.
> often it means you're simply experimenting with new tools or new product offerings.

That only makes sense to me in the context of a business being an IT shop to begin with. Most businesses aren't, and their new product offerings require factories and dies and labor and materials. Besides which, the problem of provisioning is entirely overblown for this scale of business. I can spin up new servers all day on our on-prem vSphere cluster.
I think crypto advocates have moved on to the acceptance stage of transaction fee grief. It’s not a bug, it’s a feature!
Edit: double post, reference edited in above.
Gonna check out ficusjs, thanks!
For example, the latter is testable.
==but it’ll cost as much as a large house in the suburbs with a big garage and 2 big lawns.==

Based on what metric?

Here [1] is a three-bedroom apartment in one of Chicago's nicest areas (Ravenswood/Lincoln Square), with heat/water included, right by the Brown Line for $2,100/month.

Find me the large house in the suburbs that will run you $2,100/month. Don't forget to include the 20% down payment, on-going maintenance, utilities, and an additional car.

[1] https://www.apartments.com/4742-n-oakley-ave-chicago-il/4d99...
Wasn’t Gates mother instrumental to securing that contract because she pitched Microsoft’s Basic directly to the CEO of IBM who was a fellow member of some board they shared?
Are you saying that wealth extraction from Africa to its former colonial masters does not happen anymore?
in all industry I have worked, including being a waiter in europe, I have never seen people treat/talk about workers this way.

what a low level of trust
What were the PRN and AUX files used for?
This is good competition is needed to help with pricing. AWS and other large cloud providers have an incentive to “lock” customers in and raise prices.

There must be a pressure by competition to keep this incentive in check.
> I remember having a $30MM/year line item for Oracle alone

I think I found your problem...
You're talking "Mom and Pop" scale businesses that have minimal computing needs other than printing and Internet access. Most "on-prem" IT is much larger. My company (also in the Midwest) has mainframes, SANs, vSphere deployments, Nutanix, as well as supporting ~3K users.
Wouldn’t that be inconsistent with the other, related data:

Quote:

“National data show an exponential increase in both new infections and test positivity rates during the first three weeks of this wave, indicating a highly transmissible variant with rapid community spread of infection.”
PSEs are really earning $800k per year?
You’re Going to Work a Long Time. Here’s How to Build in Breaks
> How would the system I'm describing make inequality and the resulting conflict worse?

Because your system has to be implemented with humans, and humans cannot be trusted with the power to tell other humans what to do. Your system requires that in order to work. (Existing governments also require this in order to work, which is why they're dysfunctional, but your system requires it much more.) A free market does not; in a free market, all transactions are voluntary and nobody is given the power to tell anyone else what to do.

I don't see the point of further discussion since we appear to have a fundamental disagreement about this vital point.
No one said it was an exclusive property of principals alone :)
Wikinews?
The United States is a Republic and not a Direct Democracy
You are right, but I saw some striking similarities, and needed to joke about it.
Me neither. I realised very young, well before I even knew visual aphantasia existed. I get where the people lacking visual are coming from. It's hard to even imagine imagining a smell.. where in one's head does the minds nose feel like it is? What's to stop people just imagining nice smells all day..
It's both.

I'm from a purple area and have half a foot in red land and half a foot in blue land. No matter where I am, I hide more about myself than I used to.

If I'm in a left/blue/urban type space, nobody gets to know that I converted to Christianity as an adult, that I disagree with intersectionality as a lens outside of a legal context, that I think some of the gender activism is crazy, that language has a science to it and we should defer to it, that I shoot as a hobby and think the 2nd Amendment should include digital weaponry, etc.

If I'm in a right/red/rural type space, nobody gets to know that I'm a lesbian who hates femininity, that my Christianity is heretical/liberal, that I think transgenderism is real, etc.
> Flash has to be powered so the contents of each cell can be refreshed so data isn't lost

That's not how flash storage works. You can unplug a flash drive and put it on a shelf and it will keep its data. Here's a review of portable, external SSDs that don't lose their data when not plugged in:

* https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/best-external-hard-driv...

Are you thinking of DRAM perhaps?
Thank you for your carefree and refreshing response.
Annoyingly, AWS won't allow you to lower the quotas aka service limits. They can only go up. Even after you completed the project and don't need them anymore, they remain forever and create an increased risk.
The article is interesting, but it reads like it was dictated to a speech-to-text system.
It seems I misinterpreted your comment then. I thought you were talking about the applying part as currying, which is really common. So I kinda short circuited my reasoning and instantly went for the UMM AKTSCHUALLY.
I think one way to massively reduce polarization in the US at least is to mix up the parties. That is to say, get left leaning people into the republican party and right leaning people into the democratic party. (just having them vote in the primaries would be sufficient). This would at least dampen the political effect of extreme polarization.

The funny thing is that from a game theory perspective, it seems like it would be in both parties’ interest to encourage this. If you push your supporters into the opposing party for the primary but they don’t follow suit, your voter base/platform can remain static but your opponent’s voter base/platform shifts towards you. This would make it easier to pass legislation you want.

Allow this to continue and eventually both parties would have to encourage this until we reach nash equilibrium with both parties being fairly heterogeneous.
Interesting, how are you planning to collect articles for the news "sagas", and how often do you want to update information? I'd say articles written on the same day as some event will always have more noise than summaries written later.
> I have zero mental imagery of even my wife's face, yet people could somehow describe features of strangers?

But could you describe your wife's features?

And if so, do you think it's because you're reciting a list of memorized facts ("she has brown hair" etc) or because you're drawing on your memory, even if not visually?

Could you describe (at all) any major pieces of art, such as the pose of the Mona Lisa?
Thank you for your service!! We need more of you. The problem is where I work these toxic characters are supported and enabled by equally toxic leadership and executives.
Do you like listening to music?
And:

1. Military build up since WWII, including global logistics and bases. For example, the F-15 is 104-0, and no one has come even close to the F-22 (arguably not even the US with the F-35)

2. The best infrastructure (and supporting services) in the world

3. Reserve currency (for now).

It's important not to forget these while on the China hype train.

One of the bigger downsides that the US has is that we are used to a higher standard of living compared to other countries. This was possible by the aftermath of WWII, where everyone else was destroyed. Not so much now, as global infrastructure/development is catching up and we are starting to revert to mean, which means down.
Spicy take: none of it is relevant to you. All world news is outside your sphere of influce and sphere of concern. It’s a pure waste of your time and you don’t need to read anything about it. If a global event is about to affect you, I guarantee you will hear about it.