skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a little more complicated -- if living in a city means that you switch from a car to public transit, that's a major environmental win. If living in a city means you switch from a free-standing house to an apartment building, that's a smaller but substantial environmental win. Sewers are generally better than septic tanks, trash collection is more efficient when people live closer together, and so on.

Cities concentrate pollution and completely overwhelm the local environment's capacity to absorb human impacts. However, they generally reduce overall pollution when compared to suburban or rural living at the same income level.
I did not say that this person was victimized by AWS, you are putting words in my mouth. We agree that this person has been victimized by a criminal.

My point is that AWS failing to implement spending controls makes this type of attack significantly more damaging, and the slow turnaround on CloudWatch spending alarms means five or six-figure sums of money can be spent before customers are alerted.

AWS can and should do more to give its customers additional control over spending as a defense-in-depth measure. This would be valuable both to limit unauthorized spending (this scenario, or a "rogue employee" scenario) and also unanticipated spending ("autoscaling gone wild" type scenarios).

AWS is a big target, and the fact that credentials can be used to spend an unlimited quantity of money means they are a huge target for criminals. Defense in depth would be wise in this situation!
That's the family rate. I think I'm paying 70% of the premium - still cheaper than buying direct, I suppose.
I own a wholesale toy business and the entire cost increase for us is ocean freight. A 40’ container from Asia used to cost 3k, now it’s 12k to 15k (and takes months longer). If a 40’ container can carry 10k units, that’s a unit cost increase of over a dollar just for freight.
You gotta be careful with those doubling times. Is that due to the raw number of tests being done increasing substantially? If it is unnormalized raw reported numbers then they can't exactly be used to infer the doubling time without more information. I know this is something everyone must know by now, but you will still see incorrect comparisons in media.
Metal and Driver Kit came after Swift, they happen to be written in a mix of C++ and Objective-C, with Swift bindings.
There's nothing to rebut. The point is he's only looking at his adversarial party's ills and totally ignoring his own party's ills, or full willing to justify them. That's how it works, that's the divide and conquer. No matter what his party does, he will never vote for the other party and vice versa. That's the main way the system protects itself.
I don't particularly care why they're trying to trade the markets, or if they're providing intrinsic value, but I'm happy to invest money and collect 20-30% dividends from them.

If everyone suddenly decides they don't want to trade any more, then I'll find somewhere else to invest my money.
> It's very convenient to think that everyone's hyper-sensitive and there's nothing you could do to change that, but usually people are pretty receptive to just about anything as long as you respect them.

I think a lot of people are willing to listen, but there is a some amount of evidence that indicates political leanings may have some basis in biology:

> Studies have found that subjects with right-wing, or conservative in the United States, political views have larger amygdalae and are more prone to feeling disgust. Those with left-wing, or liberal in the United States, political views have larger volume of grey matter in the anterior cingulate cortex and are better at detecting errors in recurring patterns. Conservatives have a stronger sympathetic nervous system response to threatening images and are more likely to interpret ambiguous facial expressions as threatening. In general, conservatives are more likely to report larger social networks, more happiness and better self-esteem than liberals. Liberals are more likely to report greater emotional distress, relationship dissatisfaction and experiential hardship and are more open to experience and tolerate uncertainty and disorder better.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biology_and_political_orientat...

* https://www.routledge.com/Predisposed-Liberals-Conservatives...

> The book is intended as an objective study of the conceptual metaphors underlying conservative and liberal politics although the closing section is devoted to the author's personal views. Lakoff makes it clear however, that there is no such thing as an Objective study of politics, as politics is based in subjective morality.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_Politics_(book)
Is VMware free?
I ,for one, welcome our new IT overlords, the AWS/GCP/Azure. The old overlords of IT, the IT infrastructure depts, were too slow and bureacratic and lacked elasticity. For example, if I wanted to spin up a few servers with Cassandra -- I would have to undergo rounds of review for approval of a new technology then work on requisitioning the h/w or VM, and figure out support chain-of-escalation. Also somehow , on-premise VM were always crashing or running out or disk space.

With the new overlords, I have to pass through fewer reviews (I work in financial sector; we love review meetings and gates.) and provisioning a service is as simple as a AWS/GCP/Azure url. And tearing down stuff is easier. The old overlords of IT would be pissed if we decided we did not need a h/w server and we would have to fill out questionaires to determine how we could have been so misguided and then I had to wear my dunce hat for any meeting we would have for the next requisition.

I love the battle of cloud computing. With the big three, they are still hold too much power. I look forward to the day when Vultr, DigitalOcean, Ovh, Linode can get approved to be used in my employer's IT stack. With Terraform or Kubernetes, I would be able change our dev/qa/uat cloud environments at will and this will force the Big Three to lower their prices even more.
Neither.

I believe they are doing it to make money. Which is perfectly alright.

Isn't the government supposed to _evaluate_ and _regulate_ the market in order to account for the externalities created by X, Y, and Z corporations? If they are not doing this, what do we do? Cause we've been voting the same cronies in cycle after cycle, with the same result.

What is the definition of insanity? Our reality.
Again, “level of immersion” is subjective to what? How good the graphics can be? How much rumble your hardware has?

If Zuckerberg was smart he’d aim for something closer to The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch.
Same here. I didn't think I had aphantasia at all until I tried this test and then realised that me "visualising" something doesn't really bear any relation to being able to see a visual representation of that thing. Mostly it just felt like pulling up memories, and in fact when it asked me to visualise a rainbow I simply couldn't, though I could "see" one when I thought about a photo of a rainbow I took not so long ago. But again, that feels more like simply remembering.
Capacity is heavily reduced in the cafe. There's also a protocol for the servers to deliver your food to an empty table near to you, which you then fetch yourself, so the servers aren't in close contact with the diners. Obviously, you order via QR code and the museum website, and everyone in the place has shown an EU COVID pass and valid ID to get in.

The cafe is also very open and airy, though it is still indoors. I guess swallowing a herring standing outside overlooking a gracht is even safer, so it's fair to say I exaggerated, but it's also easy to find a packed bar in town, and similarly a kebab shop with indoor dining where they don't give a rat's ass about your COVID certificate.
I have not seen any evidence, that being "healthy" makes any difference with the risk of getting infected and the likelihood of spreading the disease. It does make some difference how bad you come down with the disease.
(in a sense, "healthy" people might spread the disease worse, if they only have light symptoms which they don't notice)
I left LastPass after they nuked the free option, went to 1password since my employer had a corporate deal, but when I left (my former employer) 1password simply cut my access to it with no option to switch to a personal account and no way of getting my vault back. Got very angry and searched HN for suggestions and also found BitWarden. Pretty good interface, fair deal and prices (with the free option as well). So I'm here to stay now, at least until someone buys it and turns it into another LastPass....
In many organizations the line manager is the tech lead (at least at the lower levels of the hierarchy). Having a separate leader and manager is only useful if you aim to create a barrier between technology and the business, which is typically not a very healthy thing if you're a technology-driven company.
Nevertheless it's a common practice in places where technology is just a supplier servicing the business.

And a tech lead is very much about directing people. You need to have a vision, inspire them, make sure everybody is making progress towards the goal etc. It's hands on and operational, but that's where collaboration between people is most important.
A much better framing of this dichotomy: https://randsinrepose.com/archives/stables-and-volatiles/
The thing about wealth is that at the end of the day it's a number, it doesn't mean anything until it's converted into quality of life.

no matter a person's wealth society won't allow them to convert into personal pet projects which don't benefit or at least have the potential to benefit others.

You won't be seeing billionaires building pyramids
Is there pain at rest; is any movement irritating, are there specific motions that set off a painful period or not ... etc. I advise going into the doctor with as many specifics as possible and treat them like they're trying to hide things from you. Good luck!
it's a hard sell for skeptics because basically every major politically-charged doom-and-gloom x-years-from-now climate change prediction has ended up not coming to pass thus far[0]. obviously it's not like it's literally impossible for such a scenario to occur but at some point when a boy cries wolf enough times over the decades it's hard to take any headline phrased like this one immediately seriously at face value.

[0] https://extinctionclock.org/
gifrun
2010ish sounds right to me, APIs used to be widely available and accessible, which still left a way for people to have control over how they used the internet.

But maybe the API was ultimately a trap. A la "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish". Offer an API to encourage adoption, and then start restricting it later.

Which got us to leave our federated platforms with open protocols and enter closed silos.
On the 99% rehashing, that is another compromise that is forced by the format. The news org doesn't know how much context a reader has: they have to balance between a brief update to a known story (in which case a reader unfamiliar with the story will have no idea who's who, or what's going on) and a full rehashing every time there's an update (which is repetitive and harder to follow over time for someone familiar with the story).
Quora is just plain strange. I used to use a sock puppet account on Quora to answer questions and "promote" my personal business (I know, not a great strategy but it worked quite well).

One day I decided to create a Quora account with my real name as the founder of my company. I then answered questions will full transparency and full disclosure when mentioning my company/product.

My real account was banned and answers deleted. My sock puppet account still thrives.
If you like this in email format:

https://currentevents.email

(looks like my GitHub action has stopped working - will fix it tmr)
Quite simple, it's a real problem but without a realistic solution short of burning everything to the ground. Once the bean counters had discovered and invaded the paradise there was no way to kick them out again. Maybe the only solution is to build a new paradise and hope that it never gains enough traction to attract the vultures.
How Is Facebook Addressing Vergence-Accomodation Conflict?
Not to mention, the upfront budget for hardware or servers were passed to the team requesting a small portion of it if it's the first team to do that.
There absolutely is pressure because you spread it for longer & to more people if you’re not horribly symptomatic or dead.
I think I've seen a sociology video talking about a pyramid. The base needs the top and vice versa.

I don't like citizen going crazy on corporations (which I despise often). Because most of the product they buy are conscious and free decision. Blame corps for tapping into human reflexes (rule 1 of any commercial anything).
Because it's generally agreed upon that the current web is indeed fucked, and along with the empathy in the sentiment, up-voting is one small way of raising awareness in the hope that someone will fix it.
I'm struggling to parse the point you're making, paraphrasing:
"Systemic issues in SA causes more money to be lost than sending money to Uber Eats... thus the parent's point of not supporting Uber Eats is moot"?

I think you can choose to not support a company that isn't playing by South African labour rules and rather support a local alternative even if the government is corrupt. And that doing a little bit is better than doing nothing, even if it's not a complete fix.

Apologies if I misunderstood, though - I do agree with you that there are bigger issues at play too in the country. But I do think it doesn't mean we shouldn't also fix the smaller issues if they are in reach. Low-hanging fruit and all that.
Sounds like he remembers an over romanticised version of the web. if you would really remember how the old web worked or ever used Altavista or other early search-engines to look for stuff, you'd realise the web is a LOT more accessible today, with a lot more information available. Yes I met new, and kept in touch with people through forums and IRC, but that has just shifted to other places online. Maybe less accessible to people from my generation or older, but this is still there. Now it's Discord, Slack, Tik-Tok, Instagram, Twitch, Snapchat, ... all run by companies, but offering services that are WAY more accessible. I remember explaining non-techie friends how to get on IRC in the late mid/late '90s and early 2000's, which was a mess.

Yes it's all commercialised, but that's a 2-way street. It costs money to run infrastructure, the web has boomed. You're not talking about a couple hundred users on a forum, or a few thousand IRC users on an irc node ran by some volunteer who in exchange for being an ircop or forum admin was prepared to swallow the cost, or was ran by some guy working at or owning a small ISP.

With scale comes money. Even late-stage forums were full of ads, just to cover the hosting cost. And this was not a sudden change, this was an evolution, driven by demand.
Hoping it's mild is great. Betting your life it's mild is dumb.
Happy to see both my favorite editor and my favorite programming language hit the front page of Hacker News! FWIW, I responded to some of the points regarding Tutkain over at reddit[1].

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Clojure/comments/rflhxf/comment/hoi...
A MAC in enforcing mode would have prevented it.
I’m not sure why I’m the first to point this out on HN (which is usually a pretty skeptical group) but “aphantasia” is very poorly studied (1). I’ve met plenty of people who claim to have it but it seems more like a failure of language to compare experience. That explanation seems more reasonable to me than a few people are wired differently.

(1) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphantasia
800k TC for a 7? That seems low
This is endemic of the problems at NASA. The concept is likely sound, and the problem likely needs to be solved, but doing it in such a tiny and insignificant way.....spin the spaceship, dont vacuum the space people.
Probably because their engineering team has a bus factor of two?
That would push some down into the feet but also accelerate some up to the head. In addition that's a lot of space in a pretty cramped area. Then you have to mount it so it doesn't induce vibrations on the space craft which is an issue they already fight with the existing exercise equipment. On top of all of that you're creating pretty sizable gyroscopes that you need to spin up and down requiring a counter force from somewhere.
Methanol is a good choice for the situations where hydrogen is unwieldy or impractical. Ive actually played with it a bit...far easier to synthesize than other hydrocarbons, and it works quite well as a direct fuel for solid oxide fuel cells. But per weight it has a much lower energy density than hydrogen. It matters more than you'd think...in the 80s methanol was tried by a lot of trucking companies, which eventually came to the conclusion that the energy density was too low to make sense. The weight of the extra fuel ended up costing them more because they couldn't haul as much, despite the methanol being a bit cheaper. Of course the fuel price economics are quite a bit different now, and that may change, but the point is that energy density by weight matters a lot.

And I think you'd be surprised at how practical hydrogen can be for some use cases. Aircraft, for example, likely wouldn't even need cryogenic storage for liquid hydrogen because consumption rates are higher than evaporation rates even with basic foam insulation. And hydrogen pressure vessels are now getting to the point where they're feasible for trucks.
At this point, you might as well just invest in a tape library
This mirrors my experience. Many Discord servers have strong anti spam measures too.
This. When omicron and delta mate and produce offspring, we’re going to be screwed. Deltas virulence + omicron transceptability = the Great Wave of summer 2022. It will be a good year for Pfizer investors and Russia.
A large percentage of Moderna’s revenue is just from the Vaccine (with some googling you can confirm it’s an overwhelming amount). Moderna was more or less a startup.

When political theater writes blank checks to pharma companies, they go on to rake in billions on a quarterly basis just from the vaccine.

So, if we follow the money, third booster will be mandatory, followed with ‘highly-recommended’ fourth vaccine for the vulnerable class.

It’s a mix of money, politics, and actual health concerns that drive all of this. Do not for a second think that billion dollar quarters are being scoffed at, there are forces at work that will absolutely facilitate collecting this check. The icing on the cake is that it’s happening on a global scale.
"everyone rushes to support a project the moment it hits the news, that's not sustainable."

This is exactly how a lot of things function, especially in government and disasters. So apparently it is sustainable. It's just not ideal, but this element is always going to be a part of human nature as our collective consciousness can only focus on fixing a few things at a time.
Your product doesn't help this situation at all. The problem is people want capped spending for unimportant projects (just cut off service rather than accruing charges), which can only be done by AWS. You're just providing reporting assuming no additional charges.
You Won’t Survive the Apocalypse Alone
IBM, Samsung, Intel, and other manufactures of flash and flash based products disagree with you on that only once per year time frame. As flash gets more and more dense leakage from the cells becomes a much more difficult problem to solve.
Yeah but my dad can beat up your dad.
They leak into other boards, like sci+math instead of staying on pol
It actually runs pretty well for most things. The hardware is still good unless you're doing high intensity computing or trying play AAA games on it (for which it was never good anyway).
You could run them through sentiment analysis too, categorise sources as left/right/middle etc. Flag obvious content farms/bias etc. I do think it's been done before but can't remember any details from the top of my head.
Competition won't help - it is impossible for an outsider to accurately measure a company's security practices and pick a company based on that.

What we need is regulation regarding putting personal data at risk to provide a financial incentive for companies to take security seriously.
This article suggests that the US should issue as much 30-year debt as it can at current interest rates and to disfavor issuing short-term debt. The intent is for this move to act as an inexpensive insurance policy that will give the US some breathing room to fight inflation when it needs to fight inflation (which is really soon, according to the article).

I don't see a downside to this plan.
Hackers launch over 840k attacks through Log4j flaw
It’s an interesting framing overall, but I’m not really convinced that the R/E distinction is as clear in real life.

The key attribute that both R and E types here seem to share is _caring_ and a commitment to a larger team goal/outcome.

The care/don’t care distinction seems clearer to me and much more recognizable. Within _cares_ people, there may be a further divide in styles, between progressive idealist and tactical/strategic (corresponding to R and E). But the thing about caring, is if you care, you’ll notice if your approach isn’t working or you need to change your style to suit the environment.

The implication of this framing is that leaders really need to make sure there is a clear vision/goal/outcome/mission for the _cares_ people to organize around. They also may need to recognize that most people unfortunately don’t care about their work or their contribution to society beyond raising their children and consuming, and that’s fine/not likely to change.

For people who care, then, the task is to recruit/organize the people in the organization to help avoid counterproductive work, and nudge things in the right direction.

(And of course, like nearly all categorizations of complex human systems into binary, my categorization is just a concept to organize thought, not an assertion of truth; people are fluid and drift between and sit on a spectrum between those categories)
Tencent PR seems to control DotDotStand- “third-party tech blog”
That's what I'm thinking. If flash-based archives require servicing to keep their data, there are systems that provide far better trade-offs for similar amount of bother.
Thanks for that. Looking forward to trying it out. Do you – or anyone else – know of similarly useful apps for appreciating and/or learning more about nature?

Living in Ireland, I’ve found the BritishTrees app from the Woodland Trust to be useful for identifying trees and the Night Sky app for celestial objects.

Being restricted to a 2km/5km limit over the past couple of years gave me a much greater appreciation for the more subtle aspects of local flora and fauna. I can now recognise by sight many more bird species than I would have been able to 2 years ago.
Flutter Themes, Jekyll and Hyde
“X was good before it was ruined by Y”
Rather than a list of tools, I simply recommend learning one tool well so you can always on do a quick presentation if you need. I like draw.io but it is sometimes buggy.
When Pg told people to build a business that doesn’t scale, he meant this.
Seems like a good article but I was kind of hoping it was going to be about hippie anarchist hackers in the workplace. They're always my favorite coworkers.
It's interesting that they decided setting up a cloud server did not require the same level of review. That does not seem exactly like the result of a technical difference.