skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Is there any evidence this guy was actually a KGB agent? I've seen this guy a lot and he talks awfully like someone who is saying what a certain group of people wanna hear.

He showed up in this NY Times video identified as a former KGB agent, so that claim stood up to whatever fact checking they did: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tR_6dibpDfo&t=180s.

> I've seen this guy a lot and he talks awfully like someone who is saying what a certain group of people wanna hear.

That doesn't mean he's wrong.
Fake news. Turkey has some of the most active crypto exchanges in the world.

https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/exclusive-turkeys-cryptoc...
I don't use Facebook either. Part of the problem is that other people treat it as if everyone is on Facebook.

People will only invite you to events on Facebook. Restaurants will only post updates to Facebook. Businesses have support forums in Facebook groups. Etc.

You do miss out on a portion of the internet by not being on Facebook. But I think that's because people rely too much on it.
You haven't seen most Android projects that have a massive legacy module that Gradle spends 5 minutes compiling and doing nothing else. Seeing those 7 lines say IDLE is a daily experience
This is getting to be a massive joke. Any reputation AWS has for being robust has been wiped out over the past month or so. I feel bad for the various engineers at AWS and other companies who are having to work on their day off.
> Goddamn AWS seems to be down again 4th time this month alone

I feel obligated to point out that this is a very editorialized title, which is against site guidelines. Not... that I don't sympathize, just that it's perhaps a bit out of line even for providing context.
The Benefits of a Single File Blog
no fun if you have to explain it haha
Jeff Bezos comes back /s
Oh that's true, I misread and thought she was the father's half-aunt!

Nevermind then, A+ my possible ancestors.
That seems to be the status quo. I'm curious if the current trend is enough to break that tradition.
"I don't care about cookies" + "Cookie Autodelete" add-ons solve that problem easily for me.
I'm not usually the person to complain about UI performance but Google cloud admin is the slowest trash I had to use in a while, even Azure is better. So here's me hoping it doesn't pick up steam.
Nit: buying currencies shouldn't be an investment, but it can be speculation or a hedge.
I think that's what is written between the lines here - they will.

I think they saw an easy way to monetize something most might not realize they already have (share holders love recurring revenue).

The backlash now leading to a poor back-pedaling, with the final act being to remove the included non-centralized feature. Overall just an early introduction to the app that will take precedence, leading to the desired subscription income.

They could have taken the route of, 'sorry for not documenting this better' - and keep remote start separate, and actually mention it in the manuals.

Instead they nearly shame users for learning about having the feature and being upset.
But then how do you get their email addresses and charge them a subscription fee?
That is the official Tesla GitHub you are supposed to make your own code to plug in
Funny thing Youtube doesn't accept my money. It says my region is not supported for Youtube Premium. I would not mind paying 5-10 bucks a month for that, already does for Netflix and Apple TV.
I suspect in the next few years that will be less of an issue. There are companies currently ramping up in Japan, Germany and the UK that are making 3D printed solid state batteries that will be lighter, higher capacity, higher C rating than the current batteries. The tech exists, is safety certified but not yet in mass production.
Some poor soul is in charge of updating that page manually.
It's a great article.

For myself, and my approach, I'm always a bit leery of "hard and fast" rules. I prefer a heuristic approach to almost everything that I do. Also, I've found that code comments are only part of the mix. As the article indicates, the code, itself, should be written in a clear fashion, and supporting materials (which can include seminars, tutorials, examples, unit tests, and test harnesses) are an important ingredient.

I wrote my own approach to documentation in this post: https://littlegreenviper.com/miscellany/leaving-a-legacy/

It's a long read. I don't think many people really give it much of a gander.
I wonder how Russia and China prevents satellite internet. Threats of destroying the satellites?
The USSR was pretty much Russian imperialism. Russia is still very unpopular in eastern Europe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor
That's because they're running on-premise.
I worked at one of these companies, actually.

It was actually a lot of fun and very productive when it was a small team of people who knew and respected each other.

Scaled up to a bigger company, it turned into the nastiest political nightmare I've ever seen.

The "no managers" thing is also an illusion. There's always someone who can fire people or give them raises. Those people become the de facto managers even if they have some different title.

Employees are extremely good at picking up on who they need to impress to get raises and promotions, even if you try to pretend that they aren't managers.
Totally agree. In contrast, for example, FILE objects in C are (mostly) buffered by default. So in that sense, Rust defaults are less sensible for some developers who would be better served by buffering, but aren't aware that they need it. But I also think that Rust's default is totally reasonable and it's just something you have to learn about as a systems programmer.
While a farm tractor might have a factor of safety of 10, spacecraft are usually closer to 1.3, due to mass and efficiency constraints.

Space is hard.
"The main thing we know about the QHL’s software is that it is large and complex enough to defeat a years-long “software archeology” effort directed at determining whether the nodes can be trusted (in the end, they cannot)."

"cheap, effective sensor nodes lead to a government with the capacity for ubiquitous surveillance, which leads to a police state, which leads to societal collapse or worse."

It feels helpful to reframe "can it be trusted?" as "who knows more about its emergent runtime behavior?" This makes it more obvious that there are answers that can't be found by staring at the source code. Vinge was likely aware of the unanticipated behavior of the Morris worm (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_worm) when he wrote Deepness. In the years since this book, we've seen more examples (stuxnet[1], ethereum[2]) of software with behavior unanticipated by -- and even weaponized against -- its creators.

(I'm very interested in this subject, and research ways to prevent unanticipated runtime behavior. My approach can be summarized as, "keep software small and simple to stay out of dark forests[3].")

[1] "accidentally spreading beyond its intended target" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet#History

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethereum#The_DAO_event

[3] https://www.paradigm.xyz/2020/08/ethereum-is-a-dark-forest
I had agreed to terms of service and was a paying Google Cloud customer. The API itself was free to use if they granted you quota.

Maybe if I was a larger corporate customer, I would have had enough spend to have a sales rep and the ability to contact humans and get a more official contract, but that wasn't available to me as a small business.
I don't agree that reddit is a social media site as it is typically understood. What is your reasoning to suggest it's "clearly" social media?
You could say the same thing about running random bash scripts on your computer, since it too has a browser.
AS6453 is having a mega outage according to https://www.thousandeyes.com/outages/. Lot of services for users in India were inaccessible for ~1h or so.
Or maybe breaking stuff is celebrated? For every type of downtime there will be lessons learned.
Good question!

I would just quote a fixed price to each prospect. Then they may come back with an hourly rate proposal….

But of course any company that sees your work as a part of their intellectual property will not be interested. So I could never do this if I was working on a product that the customer was going to sell.

Where I was able to charge a fixed price and own the IP was instrumentation software for Biotech companies. They were not interested in IP for obscure instruments. Also I found that small engineering companies who were struggling with their software capability would be very interested in a fixed price + royalty deal. Because they struggled to hire software talent.

So the key is to find customers with “non core” needs. Eg if they need a time tracking program they are unlikely to care who owns the IP. But if you are working on a search algorithm for a search engine company they will only employ you on a time and materials basis.
> For example, if a disease kills 40,000 people per year. That's 400,000 people in a decade. A drop in the bucket of humanity for sure, but that's about a city size population. That's not counting the collectively lost days in term of feeling terrible.

Heart disease kills 659,000 people a year in the US alone (https://www.cdc.gov/heartdisease/facts.htm), but for some reason we're not having COVID-level panic about it.

I'm struggling to find annual statistics for COVID, but I did find an article written September '21 stating there had been over 630,000 COVID deaths in the US since the start of 2020, so that's over a year and a half-ish, so a bit less than heart disease.

Of course, heart disease isn't contagious (at least not in the traditional sense - genetics and lifestyle factors could be considered contagious if you're flexible with the term), but it's also a cause of death we've grown disconcertingly accustomed to for how prevalent it is. I expect once this outbreak has run its course, we'll probably see annual COVID deaths settle at a much lower number thanks to vaccinations/immunity. I'm not sure when we'll come to accept it as just another risk of life, though.
I once started a computer game company without first knowing I could make games lots of people liked and would pay me for.

Which is to say, with the benefit of hindsight, I did not do sufficient product-market discovery and validation upfront before I went "all in" on it.

I/we got sales but it never came within even an order of magnitude of how much FT engineering salary I was missing out on. By some metrics it was a success but by net USD impact on me it was a fail.

Was a great experience and I learned a ton though.
They calculated that. Building a second JWST would have added 10% to the budget, but the budget committee nixed that.

YOLO (you only launch once).
Glory to God in the highest; peace on earth and good will towards man. Merry Christmas HN.
You can "read between the lines" many different things, none of which are said explicitly. Scientists love to be explicit whenever they can.

I don't see this as being indicative of any particular policy, but I see it as a data point which could inform decisions such as:

- whether boosters should be given to children, or whether they should be given them last in line

- whether we should allocate limited supplies to children, or to other vulnerable populations (eg.: vaccine inequity around the world)

- whether we need the same schedule for children and adults

- ...

Again, I don't think this paper pushes too hard either way on any of these types of questions, it's a data point in a sea of data.
Seems like every company in tech is losing engineers left and right at this point
US here and I've never heard the word. I thought it might be an acronym until I read your comment.
You could just borrow the AWS wording.

Say that you're answering the on-call pager, but with "elevated latency".
You felt obligated to the benefit of who, exactly?
Who's the target user for a algorithmically curated feed of semi-random news stories?
Syria was a prosperous and deeply secular country, with many cultural sites dating back to the ancient world. At least it was until imported wahabbi terrorists from you know where started to split the country up, turning parts of it into a Islamic State caliphate.

Today, Syria is being plundered by the same countries that helped the terrorists sell the stolen oil. We all know which country smuggled truckloads worth of oil then, and which country does the same now.

Comparing Turkey's and Syria's cultures is like comparing an ugly frog to a beautiful marmaid.
I think nowadays given a choice between running my own email vs running my own matrix I'd try the latter.
True, but it's funny... perhaps next time a "Tell HN" with the link?
Just wait until USB drives with “custom Tesla light shows” start turning up on eBay!

“we have super convenience for you pleasure, simply you plug into car and agree security waning messaage on screen for custom lite show fun for you and friends!!!”
>> Is Hunter Biden’s son in any position of power?

Well yes, and that is what is corrupt. Neither son of the Vice President nor son of the President should be a position of power, but they have in fact proved to be so.
Let’s call a spade a spade: this is an HN clone for stories about the financial world and their interlocutors. Which is great!

But what’s the obsession with risk here and how exactly does that (functionally*) factor into the sites ethos?

Also, who said there’s a financial storm coming?

Cool site, but the FUD seems disingenuous at best.
What about it? Nobody ever complained if they were over delivered did they?
https://github.com/dbohdan/classless-css
Since it uses a 10-day window to accumulate the scores.
Unfortunately, this is my base inclination.

That everything is essentially predetermined by my genetics, and how my environment has affected their expression; and that my free will and choices are just an elaborate illusion played by my biology.

But something in my biology is telling me to strive for something more.
The US has always put arms embargoes and blockades on Turkey, even having formal ones in the 1960s and 1970s. The US also arms the terrorists in Turkeys south to attack and terrorize the country. According to CIA agent John Stockwell and others they have been arming those terrorists since the 1970s on Kissingers orders to attack Turkey. The US also refused to sell defensive systems to Turkey under the Obama blockade. The Turks bought it then instead from the Russians. Other NATO countries also have both Russian weaponry and the S-class defensive system like Greece, Bulgaria and Hungary. Turkey is clearly not competent enough to build it itself which is why it bought it.
The GCP admin console is painfully slow and yet is still somehow faster than the new Google Ads UI.
I mean, it is called Hacker news. Not to be flippant, but if you want trusted, known, secure, official, warranty-backed behavior, you might go read like, CNET or something instead?
The entire HN community, presumably.
Mobile Suit Gundam, a japanese cartoon from the late 70's. It envisions a future where the majority of the earth's population has been forcibly relocated to such colonies, while the rich and powerful remain on earth.
In $100 bills, the weight of $1 million is about 22 pounds.
I keep getting AWS recruiters contacting me and I'm pretty sure I am nowhere near qualified
Has that actually been demonstrated? I don't personally feel fatigued by medical advancements which ended up not panning out. In fact they make me feel hopeful about the future and glad to exist in a society where such research is even possible.
Audible helps me go to bed on time and that is worth at least 10x what they charge.
This seems like a lot of work for a marketing stunt
Great questions! I thought a lot about those at the time, I didn't felt comfortable sitting on a pile of data waiting for an attacker to try get it. So this is what I did:

Once I decided I was going to kill the project, I removed the option to become a paying customer to not get more, waited for the last of my paying customers period to finish (it was a yearly subscription). And released an update that made the app work strictly locally, user data does not reach my server (edit: there is no server anymore) and stays in the user's browser (it works like that now).

Kept the data for a couple of weeks in case anyone wanted to recover it to help them use it with in the new "local" version, but enventually no one did, so finally I deleted my db. So right now I have no access whatsoever to that data.
Tameɣṛa n Nwal tameggazt!

(In Kabyle language, from Algeria!).
Is there a good way to view the replies to just one of these hundred tweets on the mobile app? I'm curious about some and not others but tapping any of them just shows me the full list of tweets again.

I know the answer is probably no but I'm hoping I'm just missing something obvious.
The only issue with Spotify is that they are missing quite a few major artists. e.g. Garth Brooks isn’t available on Spotify. One of the best sellers of all time - not on there. Kinda annoying.
AWS was always stressful. Great people for the most part. Culture had strong pros and strong cons. Same for treatment of employees; mixed bag.

During COVID everyone who didn’t need to be in the office worked from home. That was sometimes more stressful as you had lots more time in video meetings and no hallway interactions to make quick decisions on easy stuff.

For the problem reports today I am in wait and see mode. It’s not clear to me yet that AWS is the problem; could be a six-pack-and-a-backhoe kind of problem with a network provider.
> Unlike say, the Apollo program, which had a guaranteed successful outcome?

Apollo was wildly dangerous. Apollo 1 killed the whole crew. The contemporary calculated failure odds for a Saturn V launch were 1/8. Compare that to the current Dragon 2 projected LOC risk of 1/276 [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crew_Dragon_Demo-2#:~:text=NAS....
Dept to gdp of Turkey is 40%, if you believe official numbers. But they are not publishing numbers for dollar denominated guarantees to PPPs.

This is only one of the many unpublished “dept”s.

The more the Turkish lira devaluates, the more the public has to pay for the PPPs. Hence, when considering for creditworthiness, you need to account for all, not a single number.
I guess the acceleration needed to leave orbit might need so much more fuel if you need to do it slowly than doing it fast?

Otherwise it would just take longer.
I also switched from python to rust, and it sure was rough haha. The compiler is a stern but effective teacher; I felt like I was constantly fighting the language, but primarily because of my lack of understanding of ownership (not rust's fault!).

The Dijkstra stuff on day 15 is what ended it for me; like you said, python makes it easier to prototype stuff, so if you need to learn/relearn algorithms you never use day to day, it's so much more forgiving.
Azure CLI is absolutely insanely bad.

Google CLI is great.

Aws is trying to get better.

GUI on the three sites is awful.
Curiously this made my transition from SRE to SDE somewhat interesting. After I transitioned I kept working the same hours I would as an SRE and would be surprised at the lack of output from my coworkers. It wasn't until later that I realized it was simply the difference in hours worked.

As an SRE, your only option for climbing out of the mess is to work harder/smarter/extra, and you are always lowest on the totem pole when messes happen. You either learn to keep up with the crazy schedules, or get the hell out of dodge.
I agree that some people would prefer to see this as a weekly popup, but some people have the habit of taking a look at what is happening every day :-)
"Technocrat" doesn't necessarily imply "technologist". It's like the more colloquial "wonk", i.e. someone who's more interested in the minutiae of policy rather than party affiliation or personal aggrandizement.

Offtopic: dear god that article is a design trainwreck. I don't think I've ever been more thankful for Firefox's reader view.
It's very easy for a 1gig connection to saturate residential hardware, especially if you have a symmetrical connection which I assume you do if it's fiber. Definitely look into Ubiquti, I posted above a bit more on my setup. I hear the concerns, there are other options but IMHO they have downsides. Going used is an option if you can locate working true enterprise equipment from an office but make sure there isn't a recurring software license on the equipment which many of the vendors implement. I've actually known of offices ripping out their perfectly fine, working equipment because it was cheaper to switch to a different vendor than continue to pay the license fees.
I take issue with you calling me conservative, I’m a libertarian.
This shouldn't be downvoted. It's an opinion that is unpopular here, but which needs to be stated occasionally. The FSF is extreme, and, right now, not 10-20 years ago, but right now, the FSF and Stallman are negative assets for FOSS.
Might want to put NSFW before the link, I'd already clicked on it before reading the warning. No harm to me though, I'm at home.
…or there are Internet issues that are causing issues for people. Do we actually know AWS is having issues or people are speculating?

Not seeing any issues here, but am seeing people reporting broader internet issues at the moment. Post title seems a bit quick on the trigger to point blame.
Every place I'v worked has celebrated fixing things that have broken, and forces engineers to fight for prevention. It's not exactly celebrating things breaking, but it sure looks a lot like it.
But we're all literally looking at the title right now.
I have been wondering if Charlie Bell leaving AWS has anything to do with these recent outages. His ops meetings were fucking brutal. I’m curious how they are since he left.
There is something admirable in being unproductive and unreasonable.

I don't have the temperament for it; and just like you I can live my life to the best of my ability, winging it with the best of intentions.

However, after seeing how there are others out there who "push the envelope," and go far and beyond this, I cannot stop myself from feeling emulous.
> Everybody knows the new savings scheme he introduced is essentially increasing interest rates.

This is not true. Raising interest rates would mean raising the cost of funding for the banking system. Under the new saving scheme, since the Treasury pays depositors the extra yield, the cost for banks remains unchanged. As does the marginal cost of borrowing from the central bank.

The new saving scheme is a free dollar call sold by the country's Treasury to depositors. And it will pay it out by printing money.
YT Premium gives me a lot - YT is transformed when you don’t have ads, can have it playing in the background while on another app (there’s a Picture in Picture beta I’m using at the moment which works great). Also downloads and Music.
We're going to look back on our treatment of children these past 2 years as one of the greatest blunders in the history of public health policy.
by and large managers are only paid 10% extra. This 10% is applied at the band level, it's incredibly common for the engineers working for a manager to make more than they do.
1. pernos.co: Time travel debugging with a beautiful, online interface. Simply record a bug locally, then upload it to this website, and you can travel through the execution forwards and backwards (with source file labeling and other views at each step).

2. Wolfram One: Symbolic computation for everything. A high-level shell which can run almost any basic computation with great visuals and natural language input.
If you worked on something since 1996, do you think you would give two flying figs what day it launches on?