skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think you can, if the fundamental premises and values of different groups of people are too divergent.
I've been noticing the greatest hates comes from actually knowing your neighbor rather than the myth hate comes from being ignorant.

If I had to guess its knowing plus disgust leads to polarization.
Seems full fledged McCarthyism is back. Hope we're not blind to everything history taught us.
> it possible that everyone has "aphantasia" but some people confuse remembering having seen something with actually seeing it?

So FWIW, the way I would describe how I "see" things in my mind is exactly how I'd describe remembering images. I'm not sure if that means I have aphantasia or not.

Like, when people ask "try to see an apple and describe how vivid it is", that question almost doesn't make sense to me, or at least feels like a hopelessly vague and subjective question. I do feel like I "see" an apple, but I have no idea how to describe the vividness of the apple. I would describe it more like: the apple itself is 100% vivid, but my "memory" of seeing this vivid apple may be strong, as if it just happened, or weak.

But I can "see" things in this way I've never literally seen IRL. I can do mental math by imagining numbers on paper, e.g. But the way I'd describe the experience of seeing those numbers is almost exactly what it'd be had I seen them IRL and was now remembering it.
Interesting, I thought there were some discussions lately that this much more common than people think (i.e. >2%).
> The Guardian newspaper tried building their own private cloud and failed

What I see often is that it's hard and costly to replicate the whole cloud experience in-house. OpenStack is a behemoth to operate. However, if you build something more specific to your needs (and often mix in selected public cloud services), you'll get a much cheaper stack.

Small businesses can often run very efficiently with a few rented physical servers in a colo, G Suite and AWS S3.

Larger ones can provide a platform specific to the technologies used in-house and combine with public cloud for any other tech stacks.
I'm certain our monthly corporate bill for amazon is high 6 figures if not 7
Here's a fun polarizing stat for "the other side". "More than half of democrats believed Bush knew about 9/11".

https://www.politico.com/blogs/ben-smith/2011/04/more-than-h...

Of all the people I know across the spectrum, I don't know of anyone (registered or otherwise) who believes either nonsense.
Now I wanna try some Yemeni qishr - the tea made from coffee husks.
Right, the question is then, why should we want behaviour that is viable over multiple interactions across long stretches of time?
>Ah yes, the identity politics caused by people who are Republicans is the problem

you're reading too much into it. from my reading of it, "republican" was only given as an example, not as the cause.
I havent written any SQL in many years so I found it an informative read. I'm glad HN surfaced it to me, it's right at the fringe of my SQL knowledge and grew the domain.

I think your problem is with search engines and not the writers of these articles, who probably don't consider you to be the target audience.
I see. I think I was confused by your statement that kicked off this sub-thread:

>...but I had Cloudflare out front absorbing all the traffic that would have come from serving static assets.

I interpreted that to mean Cloudflare contributed significantly load-wise, then you indicated that your site wasn't largely static or cacheable (I think?).

Anyway, in addition to curiosity, we're also considering Cloudflare to offload from more costly AWS instances. So, just trying to suss out whether Cloudflare was or wasn't instrumental for you per your comments. Still not 100% sure, but thanks for the discussion.
I remember being very new to all of this (still am) and being absolutely petrified that as I was exploring an Amazon stack that I'd unintentionally rack up thousands of dollars of charges for an honest mistake. There was part of me that felt so much better about using App Engine at the time; in that case, I had full confidence that the worst I could do is have the app I was building just break if I got to a certain quota limit. That put my mind SO MUCH more at ease. The risk of an accidental cost overrun has kept me from learnings/using AWS to certainly a detrimental degree for me, but the fear of something like this happening is very, very real.
Seconded. They're Level 1 with great technology and really are a dark horse in this race.
What you said has nothing to do with what I said. Server is not the only one serves the party, lots of other workers work behind to make it happen.
US warns hundreds of millions of devices at risk from software vulnerability
Apple, and most other companies in the industry, are still writing code in languages that don't have implicit bounds checking. Let alone all the code that they have written years ago that they still keep deploying. Nobody is going to rewrite that mountain in Rust any time soon.
> Where before ordinary people could get in on the ground floor of Ethereum, and earn a 1,000X return, the projects that raised capital after the SEC's 2017 entrance (e.g. Avalanche, Solana, Flow) all gave their first round to VC firms, and these firms monopolized all of the ~1,000X returns.

What in the world did crypto people think was gonna happen? The 1% of the 1% were just gonna stand on the sideline and not take over this space?

People have been warning of this for ages. "Ordinary people" pushing crypto are about to really turn things bad under this false assumption they they were gonna somehow sneak by and create this whole new system and nobody would notice?

We're gonna replace inequality in the system with hyper-inequality as all crypto does is remove all the damn rules and laws that kept the 1% of the 1% in check. If you thought they were bad before, wait until they're exactly the same but have zero restrictions limiting them.

It's absurd to me how naive crypto pushers are. It'd almost be funny if we didn't all have to live in the same world together.
What you said has nothing to do with what I said.
Eh, nearly no one defines difficult clients as “demanding and pushing the boundaries of technical possibility”. Pretty much everyone equates “difficult” with “demanding, but very poorly organized, uncommunicative, and lacking vision” (also often strapped for cash to boot). You really don’t gain anything from them.
> I don't really know of any other Western cultures where tipping is much of a thing at all

When my dad sent me to the barbers for a haircut, he gave me a coin to tip the barber. I think the idea was that the barber might remember me (9 year-old kid)! I don't have much hair now, so I don't have to tip barbers. But I tip taxi-drivers, evern though I know I'll probably never see them again, and if I do, they csrtainly won't remember me.

I tip waiters, because I believe they depend on tips to get decent pay. I hate it that this is necessary. I also HATE that tips for waiters go into the tip-jar, and are shared by kitchen staff and management.

People should get proper pay. How hard is that to understand?
COVID has probably changed this, but networking jobs tend to require a lot of racking and cabling work, especially if you’re fitting out a new work area. Even with the majority of your infrastructure moved to the cloud, you’ll still need APs or Ethernet jacks wired into a LAN for the end users.
Point taken.

Collapse includes decline but decline doesn't necessarily lead to collapse. That said, collapse is really just decline that happened too fast. Decline appears to be caused by a handful of factors. In the event that too many factors are in play at once collapse becomes inevitable.

You could say the the US / Western civilization is the rebirth of the Roman Empire (Rome 2.0). If you look at the historical accounting of the [1] Roman collapse it is frighteningly similar to the issues US is facing at the moment.

However, it is possible that societies are doomed to the 4 stages of [2] Strauss-Howe generational theory of cyclical repetitions with an inability to ever break free of it.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Societal_collapse#Demographi...
[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strauss%E2%80%93Howe_generat...
Worse: back in the day, you could type raw HTML into AOL Instant Messenger. Notably, being able to construct a link with whatever address you pleased, including `file://c:\con\con`.
I have read it. Their argument about groups making many advances is rather weak, though. It only links to a list of 100 allegedly most important advancements in human history.
If you need a good brain surgeon, a group and its advancements won't help you much. You need somebody with a very good education.
I also don't assume there is a strict hierarchy of capabilities.
You can still do your group advancements while Yale exists.
The article simply does not make a very good argument.
So who will go to jail?
Yes, there is correct attribution on the bottom reflecting this: "Original text authored by Wikipedia contributors" & linked to Revision history of the corresponding Wikipedia Portal:Current events/2021 December 13
Cloud providers (especially Amazon) can definitely be a bit greedy / shady about pricing and lock-in, but the key thing is that they have room to lower prices whereas a bespoke data center does not.

Most data center machines run at a tiny fraction of their capabilities; seeing a CPU running at 25% is definitely something that stands out. Because of this, cloud operators can oversubscribe these machines in various ways, packing workloads of multiple tenants onto a single box while a single-tenant bespoke DC can't. They can also do things that schedule DC-wide resources (namely power) in ways that renting space in a colo cannot; they can shed load in insightful ways when a power overtopping event happens that can minimize the impact (e.g. throttle / nuke VMs that can operate in a degraded mode before impacting other critical services). No hetergeneous, multiple-private tenant DC is going to oversubscribe their rack- or row-level power delivery to tenants and require them to hook in to a smart system to manage overtopping events; they just won't trust their tenants to do the right thing, as they have no power over the tenants' machines and power draws; the cloud providers do.

At the end of the day, the economies of scale are just hard to beat, in terms of COGS.

The real question is whether they'll pass the savings from this on to the customers or the shareholders' dividends, and so far it seems like it is the latter.
Improving Application Availability with Pod Readiness Gates
I've found that most traditional developers have a rough time with SQL, because they're trying to use it like a procedural language, which it isn't - it's relational algebra/calculus based.

Cornell has a good explanation: https://www.cs.cornell.edu/projects/btr/bioinformaticsschool...
Because then you couldn't do a join across non-mandatory foreign keys. Practically, making all NULL comparisons error out would make them almost entirely useless.
>The idea is to accumulate 300 or so low-frequency blogs

What does your list look like?
It would be good if it had an on/off button, like ublock origin.
I believe older cars got this for free forever, similar to unlimited supercharging.
Optional<Boolean>

As found in a few general purpose languages.

Hell, JavaScript has true, false, null, and undefined. 4-value logic!

The real world upon which we model our code has a "true", "false", and "can't tell yet; not enough info". As inconvenient as it feels psychologically, you can't deny the fundamental reality of the third, "can't tell yet", state.
My workplace uses a vendor potentially impacted by ransomware as the result of log4j. When asked, the vendor-- Kronos-- did not deny it as the issue [0], and we ourselves have not received any more substantive answer. Although they may not yet know the attack vector so I wouldn't read too much into it yet. However, regardless of the Kronos cause, I will not be surprised if the next year or so brings a strong uptick in ransomware.

(As a side note, this isn't a great time-- right before Christmas-- to have issues that could impact paying employees on time. Fortunately my workplace doesn't have many of our employees in in this system and Business Continuity can be achieved more easily by temporarily using plain old paper & manual processing than spending time on a temporary technical work around)

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/12/as-lo...
It's not clear the ROI ever pays off.

A rewrite will likely introduce plenty of CVEs that weren't present in the original code -- possibly more than are fixed, for many years to come.
I'm a below average looking male and I worked in the restaurant industry before tech, both in the kitchen and front of house (serving, tending bar, management). When I served, I'd walk away from an average evening with a few hundred dollars in cash. I'm sure it's easier if you're attractive and flirty, but it's also possible to make good money by being professional.
“Humanity deconstruction”
I mean we're all at war with the US economically and technologically, no need to be too dramatic.

I'll tell you, from a non-US perspective (Im French) it's extremely important we have a balance so that even if the US becomes irrational and untrustworthy (think an even worse Trump) we dont all start starving and disconnecting the internet lol

I chose to emigrate to China instead of the US exactly for that reason and China chose to open its door much more easily to me also because they understand they have to compete.

China has political flaws we cant deny, but the US, dude, dont get me started on its potential, or even its current ability, to do great damage. And so far the negative american impact on France is much larger than the Chinese one, so it's not always obvious to me we should blindly follow the US in their little showdown.
And as "rarely" approaches zero ( think legal hold-type "you may surely not delete" ) there is a cost-saving in warm-ish storage in terms of replication and maintenance. Ensuring that your Tape archive is good is a pain unless you have huge tape robots - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiNWOhl00Ao
I've had the opportunity to watch developers search for docs in different languages and python has surprisingly bad SEO for the official docs. Ruby and Golang do a lot better, and JS usually ends up at MDN or W3.

(This is not a comparison between the languages, just an oddity about the docs)
Was it on the frontpage more than one day? One can often miss many whole days but check in from time to time.
You might be surprised at how much of hyperscalers' data is really cold, and also has very weak access-time requirements. For every user-visible gigabyte, there are many gigabytes of secondary data like old logs or analytics datasets that are highly unlikely to be accessed ever again - and if they are, waiting minutes for them to be loaded is OK. And the trend is accelerating since the days when Facebook kept the entire Blu-Ray market afloat to deal with the deluge. I think there's quite significant appeal in the hyperscale/HPC markets for super high capacity disks, even if they're really slow (so long as they're not slower than tape).

Background: I used to work on a very large storage system at Facebook, though the one most relevant to this discussion belonged to our sibling group. I've also missed any developments in the year-plus since I retired.
Maybe if you were less basic you would understand, and you could join those unique individuals with a grasp on why humans are vain.
> If you think cloud computing it's just about a lift and shift from a traditional data center, then you don't understand how to calculate TCO.

This is especially true for more than basic services. If all you need is a bunch of Linux servers, sure, you can find people who will keep them patched for you without too much trouble (although it'll almost certainly turn that “rounding error” into a serious number) but once you start building things which are higher level with legitimately hard problems to solve and need to have good solutions for all of the monitoring, security, ops, etc. needs that staffing becomes harder and you're going to have to sell your executives on the idea that the best use of your expensive A-team is cloning S3, Lambda, etc. when you can get that benefit immediately without a massive up-front payment and have the same people working on a strategic benefit.
I was under the impression that Staff just meant you have some sort of leadership role, as opposed to just being an individual contributor. Is that not the case?
I'd say it's on Firefox.
Fun fact: I have no mind's eye UNTIL I take Tizanidine. That was a really weird discovery.

I do have a mind's ear and mind's sense of touch, but I was blind until I was 4 so I have some neurological/visual issues. If I had to guess, some early wires got crossed and the visual sense didn't develop in my imagination and for some reason the drug fixes that.

It's VERY distracting.
> If 3-value logic is such a good idea, why doesn't any modern general-purpose language use it?

Many languages have a null/undefined of some sort, but they are often simply coerced to false. But, for a language whose sole purpose is to manipulate data the null value nearly always has meaning.

> Given a SQL boolean expression `f(b)` that can return true, false, or null, how do I test if `f(b)` has returned NULL? How do I handle that NULL case?

http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~shadow/sql/sql1992.txt

Section 8.6, the null predicate.

`where f(b) is null`

> ANSI SQL gives users a strange new paradigm for boolean algebra and then says "GLHF" and gives you zero tools to handle the situation.

It's also not a strange new paradigm, and is in fact built on foundational topics. Relational algebra and set theory are not new concepts.
They've been experimenting with this on the Russian side of the station for years. Their version is semi rigid and creates low pressure around the astronaut's legs so the natural pressure in the body and the air pressure of the ISS on the upper body and face squeeze the blood into their lower extremities away from where it pools naturally in micro gravity.

http://www.astronautix.com/c/chibis.html

https://blogs.nasa.gov/ISS_Science_Blog/2015/06/02/rubber-va...
Any plans on integrating with Github / Github Actions at any point?
You just need bog-standard ancient cryptographic signatures for that. Aside from bockchain-hype, what value does using a blockchain bring to the table?
That's great! I had made my mind to actually make this.
The principal is the one with bus factor 1
do you have high-fidelity recall of other senses? i've wondered since i have no olfactory, but high audio and spatial recall
These are old CP/M filenames that DOS reserved for cross-compatibility. They "exist" in every single directory, as CP/M was a directory-less OS.
True. Anytime I have a Python 2.6 or RHEL 5 question the Stack sites are on point.
I don't know why OP described SQL NULLs as 'three-valued logic' because it's anything but.

SQL boolean operators can only result true or false, there isn't a third option.

NULL is a data value for all data types, which happens to return 'true' to the boolean operation 'is null', and 'false' to any other boolean operation. NULL = NULL or NULL = 1 don't return a third-option NULL, there is no such thing, they return a plain old 'false'.

(NULL = NULL returns false because otherwise it would make outer joins terrible)

As you pointed out, SQL does not implicitly convert boolean values (bits) to or from the result value of boolean operators. Bits are values and can be NULL. Boolean results are not values and can only be true or false.

Now, is this optimal? Hell no. (Sum types would probably be the way to go if SQL were designed 50 years later.) But it's consistent.
Trying to turn this into him somehow being victimized by AWS and the original comment as being victim blaming in this regard is kind of crummy.

The OP was a victim of the hacker and not AWS.
Tesla Will Accept Dogecoin Payments for Some Products and ‘See How It Goes’
The pay for principal SWE can get up to $1m+ (at large sv tech companies, or even at startups assuming their equity pans out).

That $800k number is more accurate for staff/senior staff.
They list at least fpgas, cplds, and mcus available to be programmed in addition to oscillators:

https://forum.digikey.com/t/custom-programming/693
As a counter-anecdote, I have been inundated with the Russia/Ukraine story every day for weeks since the US intelligence report.

Every few hours there’s a new report on just this topic by DW or BBC on YouTube, and each time it’s 99% rehashing of the status quo plus 1% of maybe genuine new developments.

Same goes for the new variant of COVID, multiple new sensational “breaking” reports per day all summed up as “yeah, stand by, we’ll know in a couple of weeks, or earlier”.

I just stopped following the news recently, I may be projecting but it’s all a frenzy.
At this stage in development of a new “space” or perhaps I should say “plane of existence” in the case of meta, you need to get as far away from regulation as possible. There will be many casualties, as there always are in pioneering endeavours, but these are just a necessary part of advancement.
Most modern languages have option types.
> “We are tipping,” Grant Wise hollered so the entire party could hear, “a total of $4,400.”

Filming yourself loudly yelling about how much you're tipping is so incredibly cringeworthy.

If you want to help someone out, just do it. Don't turn your server into a human prop and make a scene for your "look at us helping poor people" social media stunt.
Three loud climate warning signals
Ask HN: Are Cybersecurity Workers Ok?
In the last 12 months we have seen the SolarWinds hack, the Microsoft Exchange Server data breach, and since Friday, Log4j. I'm reading an article on CNN about the US government's response to Log4j.

"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. Cybersecurity executives across government and industry are working around the clock on the issue."

""For most of the information technology world, there was no weekend," Rick Holland, chief information security officer at cybersecurity firm Digital Shadows, told CNN. "It was just another long set of days.""

The sysadmin subreddit is also full of professionals talking about the problem.

With so many large scale hacks, 0-days, and breaches happening these days, are cybersecurity professionals ok? Have studies about the mental health and anxiety levels of this group of professionals been conducted?
Ah, yes: https://xkcd.com/214/
nice project.
Can't the guy contest the charges with the CC company? What recourse does Amazon have beyond locking the account?
The people that would want to know about a new version of some software are surely already familiar with that software, no?
https://www.iso.org/committee/45342/x/catalogue/p/1/u/0/w/0/...

If you want to take a peek at an older revision: http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~len/sql1999.pdf
(I'm guessing this will be another case of be careful what you wish for).
Revolutionaries at the Workplace