skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This happened to me back in 2014, albeit with a smaller bill of around ~$10k.

I was pretty inexperienced and I accidentally committed my Amazon credentials to git and went to bed.

When I woke up I had a handful of emails from Amazon alerting me to the situation. Back then $10k was almost a third of my yearly income, so it was a pretty traumatic morning say the least hah.

When I spoke with an Amazon representative they were very nice about the situation and dropped all the charges, since it was obvious what had happened. I'm sure that's what will happen in this situation, especially given the social media attention.
Sorry if this is a bit blunt, but I'm mystified by the description of that video as "sober and rational". I'm not a Linux fanboy at all -- I happily use my Mac and don't even own a Linux computer besides my Raspberry Pi -- and in fact I was looking forward to digging into that talk, but it's just a guy rambling extraordinarily slowly about a bunch of half-points for an hour.

The parts that I managed to endure were these:

"Some Linux figures are being cancelled, like Richard Stallman." Silence the pianos and with muffled drum... oh wait, actually, systemd will probably keep running and crons will keep firing.

"Linux companies undergoing changes." Where's Heraclitus when you need him?

"Linux complexity increasing rapidly." He counts 2m lines of code added this year. But it's mostly drivers, and anyway this number has been trending downwards for a decade from what I can see (https://www.pingdom.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/linux-ker...).

"All Linux events are cancelled." Hmm, far be it from me to say, but I faintly recall that there was something besides Linux which might account for that.

"Google building Linux replacement." Google not building Linux replacement, Google building operating system.

"No operating system stays dominant forever." Linux is indeed not Ozymandias, sitting alone at the top of all creation, outside of space and time ... but I'm not sure how that means it sucks.

I wanted to like this, I honestly did, but the arguments are so dreadful that it feels like a deleted scene from one of Plato's dialogues. And Lord almighty he could have got to the point - such as it was - in much less than an hour.
I don't think that's how it works. It can be distributed in UK following UK laws yet accessed from some other place. If i borrow a DVD from my local library and travel abroad with it, my library is not infringing on anything and neither am i.
Sir, I really liked this one. Gonna read the book for certain.
In a sense -- a sense of humor is the foundation of humanity. Are you admitting your anti-human? It seems like it.
> Where is the hacker spirit? Where are the builders?

The builders? Of technology, you mean? Why, you can see their hand in all the
technological advances that have caused the loss of habitat that the article
flags up as the most likely driving factor for the decline of bird populations.
The article mentions "intensification" of agriculture. That's the abuse of
technology to increase production yields. That's the culprit, right there.

Your builders and your hackers are the ones chiefly responsible for the mess
we're in, because of course that famous hacker mentality makes no space for any
considerations of long-term safety and sustainability of economies or the
environment. It's just a blind, magical belief in technology as something that
can never go wrong, that can never destroy and harm, anyone.

The damage to the environment that was caused by abuse of technology in the
first place is not going to be addressed by creating even more technology.

You want a solution? Less technology, fewer machines, less burning of fossil
fuels, less use of pesticides, less deforestation, less soil depletion by ever
intensifying agriculture. That is the solution. And it is blindingly obvious.
Damn this is really cool - thanks!
> Why would interest in technology negatively correlate with interest in art?

OP didnt write any such thing. I think you're reading too much into his comment.
Oh come on. China has clear ambitions to be the worlds superpower. I have my gripes about the US, but China is clearly a much worse outcome for human rights. It’s not that they are the “enemy”, it’s that it would be flat out unacceptable for the CCP to control the entire planet. What’s plaguing American academia, and America at large, is China’s influence and bribes.
> Isn’t it cynicism (or idealism) just a survival strategy which happens because of your experiences?

Not at all. You are confusing coping mechanisms with (healthy) survival strategies.

In many societies the absence of empathy and mutual aid is one of the biggest contributors to unhappiness.

And it's not correlated with poverty.

(I'm not using the word "cynicism" because is very poorly defined and constantly misused in this thread.)
Amazon will need to switch from annual share dilution to annual share buybacks first.
The sad reality is that the supply chain from farmer to whole sale to grocery store is incredibly optimized but the way back isn't. You'd have to check every single item if it is safe to eat or not.

Also, the bigger grocery stores like Walmart are basically a warehouse for food with checkout. There's bound to be some (process induced) waste. It's how the stores are set up.

There was a Zeit article about reporters putting a GPS tracker into shoes they RMA'd. The shoes were "recycled" immediately. They can't sell RMA goods as brand new even if they are barely used. If they did, then some customer will give them a bad review and ruin the brand.
It is the framework we have; as a result of China’s WTO accession, that’s the framework.

They literally agreed to an IP framework.
I think that's understandable, it's primarily a security chip so if you're ever going to lock anything down, that would be it. OK, from a purist perspective that's arguable, but I think it's also arguable allowing unsigned code would make it less secure. Anyway you can still run another OS on a Mac with a T1.
Personally I am using DataSync like described in the docs, but with Elm, so React is just an option for using this API, not a requirement :)
Apple launches AirTag detector app for Android to boost privacy
Jeep Put 265 Pounds of Extra Weight in My Car to Prevent It from Flipping
This is basically how Linq (in .net) does it. It is much more composable than SQL but still implement the relational algebra.
Now: https://holo.host

Ready for testing and pre-release R&D.
If you continuously call all politicians equally corrupt, they have no incentive not to be. You and the people you influence will have no justification based in reality for the decisions you get to make, like voting. That’s the end of democracy.
Of course they won't. Relocating will create a lot more money than protecting. A protected city doesn't become more valuable, but higher land that I buy now for pennies will become prime coastal real estate by the end of the 21st century.
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I.e. try to send some e-mails without the log4j vuln syntax (just put your IP) and see if you still get hit. It's just the fact that there is the IP, not that it happens to use the jndi syntax.
I have poor eyesight and am fairly sensitive to contrast problems. I found this site very pleasant to read and have bookmarked it for later design “inspiration”.

Yellow on black tends to make the writing “shrink” for me, lowering the readability.
This is exactly the scenario that people post in every thread about AWS failing to implement budgets and hard limits, and every time people always say "but AWS will just forgive the fee!" as an excuse for AWS being so user hostile.

So far, this time, they haven't. I hope they do for this guy's sake, but to not have that as an official policy, or to implement a tech solution, is beyond terrible.
Plastic-degrading enzymes correlate with pollution
Nike buys virtual sneaker maker RTFKT in metaverse push
how silly of IBM to outsource their OS to another company.

Not silly at all. It was very common. Almost all business computers of the era ran CP/M - an outsourced operating system.

Even today, Apple is the only major company that doesn't outsource its computer operating system.
Yea because the CCP has a long track record of sharing, especially with North Korea. Upstanding global citizens they are.
Problem: Managing server hardware takes money and people.

Solution: Subscribe to a middle-man that manages it for you.

Problem: The middle-man is slowly turning the screws to increase its profits.

Solution: Subscribe to another middle-man to figure out how to decrease the first middle-man's profits.

It seems to be a universal truth that computing people try to solve all problems with another level of indirection.
Hex v1.0 released and the future of Hex
I've had the same experience. It seems that people that truly love what they do are the best clients to have. The worst are when you get someone random in the company that's been assigned to deal with the project, and they have no interest and just feel it's an added responsibility to everything else they are already disinterested in doing.
Coming soon to a dev recipes site near you: post after post starting with a four paragraph retelling of a trip to the countryside, the packing for which made the writer think of custom aggregation functions...
Yeah after reading about it more I was wondering if maybe some other organic sulfide compound was reacting with it and creating the smell.

I did never smell it on any other dishes or flatware, and it never went away with washing.
> Oh, yeah, and it's fucking expensive...

~80 USD per user (not per computer, per user), and then you have support for that version the X upcoming years. I understand 80 USD is a lot of money for some people, but I would argue for businesses it isn't and it isn't if you compare it to other stuff. Which requires subscription, or lets you pay with your data / advertising. Even if FOSS, that's arguably worse.

(I use Sublime and Vim, sometimes Vi, and on Citrix we got Notepad++ which is Windows-only.)

> Personally, I just don't feel comfortable working with sensitive information or proto-executables in closed-source software.

For starters, you could decide to not not hang it on a network 24/7. Or hang it in a different VLAN than the stuff on your network using Log4j.
Yup. To be blunt: SQL is a flawed old language that should've been replaced decades ago, but every time somebody tries to replace it they throw the baby out with the bathwater and throw out the relational theory too.

It was a fine language for its time. So was Pascal, and FORTRAN. We don't use those anymore generally for a variety of good reasons.

SQL ANSI nulls alone are a good-enough reason to toss it. Any language where "x = x" commonly returns an object that is treated as falsey is broken.

edit: I'm getting "You're posting too fast" so I can't continue this conversation, but no being able to express "unknown" is not worth throwing out the reflexive property of equality. That is a bad trade-off and I will die on this hill.
HAVING is after aggregation, WHERE is before.

/thread
If I leave my credit card somewhere or the details gets stolen some how, so a thief gets it I do not have unlimited liability for the abuse of the card.
Doesn't something hot (in the way we colloquially use the word) have a temperature higher than the surrounding air/metal/whatever?
> With leaders like Boris, Trump/Biden, Xi and co, Apparently we can't..

We can at least stop electing them and people like them.
Mozilla is overwhelmingly dependent on Google.

Likewise, it's products are just as trustworthy as Google.
Honestly AWS is just a casino; people are blowing ridiculous amounts on RNG to try and find nice hash tables that could potentially make money by manipulating cattle.
Homelessness isn't in itself a mental condition, although it can lead to or be caused by it. Public healthcare can help people who are homeless maintain their sanity and health, which can get them back on their feet. It may even stop them from becoming homeless in the first place. It also gives both the individual, care services, and authorities all a point of contact to try and make sure they're being taken care of.
Please rename aux.py
I don't think it's the CEOs that are publicizing their bonuses. It's the anti-business media and political circus mainly.
> The best survival strategy is to fight to improve your situation, not fight to change the world.

Individually, this is probably so. Collectively, it leads to the world becoming more and more shitty, year after year. It's a trap, and no one has figured out a way out.
> humans and human society are supposed to support humans

And it is the same thing I am talking about. Abstraction is humans’ way to streamline the process of maintaining the society. Money was created as an abstraction of a reward for one’s labor. Then atop of it more abstractions were built. Existence of stocks and markets is orthogonal to how to maintain a livable environment. In other case communism would do a better job at not starving people to death.

> Grandparent maintains, quite correctly, that our current society is, in fact, tooled to support abstract concepts like "valuation" and "wealth creation" instead of things like clean nutritive food and safe affordable shelter and supportable realistic hope

Give me an example of a society/culture, that cared more about the environment than the ones currently existing. Former societies/cultures were much smaller in scope and headcount to care about such things. Deforestation was a thing during the time of ancient Romans[0], the idea that a species can go extinct (at lest in European-centric culture) started to take roots during 19th century[1]. According to the Wikipedia, Thomas Jefferson was against a notion that species can go extinct (my point is: it wasn’t simply some fringe group’s dogma). Compare this with The South Sea Bubble[2], which was in 18th century.

In short, my argument is: the abstract ideas like “valuation” and “wealth creation” were there well before any coherent idea about taking care of the environment as a finite and common resource was widely accepted.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deforestation_during_the_Roman...
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinction#History_of_scientif...
[2]: https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofEngland/South...
> Believing that all the world's problems would be fixed if only someone good-hearted would attempt to solve them?

That's a very cynical take.
> enthusiasts buying specially designed niche products

Well, it might be that now, and that might be what they show on their front page, since it’s very striking. But IIRC, that’s not what Massdrop was originally for. See here:

https://web.archive.org/web/20120307051310/http://massdrop.c...

https://web.archive.org/web/20120403101317/http://massdrop.c...
IMO, an ideal co-op cloud host wouldn't have a bunch of complicated p2p junk. Just a good ol' datacenter and people to operate it, with the cost and governance shared by the organizations running workloads on it.
I wonder why life never evolved something like this? It seems like it would be useful for places with large day/night gradients or around volcanoes
There's a difference between setting a price in good faith that you think the market is going to accept, and setting a "f u" price that you think no reasonable person should accept.
How smooth are fractures of porcelain? Probably too smooth for gold to hold it together like solder does metals?
> Mr Garman counters that the higher price of moving data off a cloud (“egress” in the jargon) reflects the higher costs of that exercise. Almost by definition, customers leave with more data than they entered with.

Uh, they charge more per byte, that's not what's going on. I don't know if that was AWS's Garman being deliberately misleading, or the Economist journalist misunderstanding.
One also wonders why anyone with little appreciation for fine arts would have clicked on the post at first, but now that it's at the top of page 1 there will definitely be a bunch.

Leave off "basic", which I agree is polarizing / pejorative, and you go from assuming "basic techies" have low arts interest to just the fact of recognizing that n "techies" may have low interest, and then the film nicely connects those worlds. If you've read this far, there's a good chance you'll find at least the trailer interesting.
Losing access to email and contacts can have a big effect on some people.
Yes, but cats and birds have existed together for, I don't know, millions of years? Without cats causing a mass extinction of birds. And why is that?
Uber and Lyft are both far more expensive than yellow cabs ever were in NYC, and it's now usually very difficult to hail a yellow cab. I'd say Uber royally fucked up that system.
When I was in sales, I found that these older gentlemen try to strong arm you, but if you push back and don't back down, you generally earn their respect and they still go with you. They want someone to push back, while still giving them what they need. It seems to just be that generation.
Twice in my career I have been involved in evaluating enterprise products for a large corporation - and part of that process was looking at Gartner reports.

The Gartner reports were complete and utter garbage, filled with factual errors. Looks like they were written by interns, regurgitating marketing material - completely removed from reality.

Since then, whenever I see somebody mention a Gartner report, I immediately dismiss that part of the argument.
Appreciated dang
To be fair, the actual Python docs are also pretty verbose when you’re looking for quick answers.
How health care works.
Show up anywhere. They can more or less charge you anything they want, destroy your credit if you can’t pay.

Of course the conversation is usually about how to get someone else to pay the bill instead of get costs under control.
The other direction is to use the commercial clouds but aggressively defending their status as a commodity. Have VMs at multiple providers and move your load between them as needed.
Cool, but it doesn't generate SBB in real code, but instead gives me something like this:

xorl %r11d, %r11d
cmpl %r12d, %eax
seta %r11b

And if I do both of these, side by side:

tmp = rc.code < rc_bound ? ~0 : 0;
if (rc.code < rc_bound) rc.range = rc_bound;

Then GCC generates an if-else branch.

Thus, inline assembly is the only option so far to prevent the compiler from doing something dumb.
Programming really is like magic.

In Harry Potter: You say magic words, that make things happen.

In programming: You type words in the computer, that make things happen.
These were some refreshing ideas to solve UX problems in the clojure REPL driven development flow (especially the REPL panel which I always keep hidden).

I've been frustrated a bit with the general UX of using emacs, clojure, and REPL since a while now. I keep tweaking my emacs config to improve it one bit at a time, hopefully one day I'll be happy :)
The enormous parks here were closed multiple times over the past 2 years. I'll never depend on such amenities again because they can be taken at will.
No doubt those bonuses would be secret if they could be. Fortunately they are required to be transparent, so the only option is to brag about how well-deserved they are.
> Dr. Levine discovered SANS by flying cancer patients aboard zero-G parabolic flights. They still had ports in their heads to receive chemotherapy, which gave researchers an access point to measure pressure within their brains

what
Unless my better world is one in which more people are better off.
In some ways it reminds me of mdb from {open}solaris. https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E18752_01/html/816-5041/modules-2...

Its nice to have a fast, scriptable debugger. I'm thankful that it (partially) works on FreeBSD now.
Believe it or not, some people are fully vaccinated.
Severe Chrome bug allowed RCE on devices running remote headless interface
Exactly.

On other hand, the msn article is so badly written, I'm not sure I understand exactly what happened in this case.
European countries aren't dealing with these people by stuffing them in asylums; they have public housing programs, free healthcare, community support programs, health-workers and social-workers doing at-home visits, day-centres, and lots of other schemes to help.
I literally do this all the time. My job is to make the software I work on perform well, and sometimes that means debugging the operating system and figuring out why it’s not doing that. Assuming I bring results by doing this (and I do!) nobody is going to tell me to stop: they honestly could not care less with how I went about my job.
yeah, detection of file types is a fun. I worked on several implementation of very precise type detection (for use in email & web proxies), and there are so many low-level details that affect that detection. The biggest fun is detection of type for container-based file formats, like, OLE-based office files (office 95-2003), Zip-based formats (MS Office > 2003, OpenOffice/LibreOffice, jar/war/ear, ...) where you need to actually look into the file to determined the type. And to add complexity, the implementation should be very fast if you run inside the web proxy where type is detected for each request (at least twice for request/response stage, or more if you process an archive).

Extraction of content is a separate fun ;-)
well its not insightful. May have worked for OP but some guys juzt struggle with how they should behave in "normal" social settings so they need more exposure to that.

Therapy IS a social setting but if its being used as an exposure technique... then there are far better alternatives.

Try recreational sports/activities you enjoy and want to improve at. Youll get a lot more confidence from those then you would therapy.
So many RCEs in this release.

Apple used to be so smug about not being vulnerable in those 2000s commercials. Now that they have reached critical mass, their OS is equivalent to Windows.
I think you're treating these spaces as if the user is the business or the council parking meter, but in reality it's the person from the community. We've decided that the user of the space is the community, whether it's for parking, alfresco dining, or even just a little garden with a bench. As a member of the community sometimes I want to enjoy a coffee from Business A outside. Business A provides the tables and chairs, but ultimately I'm outside where I wanted to be, as the end user of the space.

I know we are interested in the economics of it right now, but I think we often get caught up in the money involved in what are ultimately community space management decisions. Surely someone should pay or be compensated for all this right? It doesn't have to be that way. Sometimes as a community we decide to put a little garden in a little spot, and that shouldn't need an arcane ritual of currency and bureaucracy.
I like the incubator example. It is easy to jump to (extreme) conclusions, and not see what's really there.

Reminds me of https://www.logicalfallacies.org/