skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Is this guy trying to convert me to Christianity? Am I misunderstanding his final statement where he seems to say that the only solution to subversion is faith in God?

Care to link that part?

I'd believe it though. IIRC, disinformation techniques are meant to seize up rational judgement processes, and it makes sense that one way to defeat that is an extra-rational commitment to something.

I recall a scene in the show The Americans, where the Russian agent was blackmailing a very religious woman into helping him. Going against all rational self-interest and at great personal cost, she told her superiors about what was going on allowing them to thwart the Russian's plan, because she believed that was the right thing to do. The Russian agent character grumbled that religious people are the hardest to manipulate because they don't act predictably (or something like that).
Erdoğan is a Ottoman and not an Islamic leader. He is using Islam to reach his goals but he is not married to it. He'll move away from Islam as soon as it no longer serves his purposes.
It might help if you told us which country you are in.
Directors and/or VPs of the various service organizations. It’s not a matter of it being a technical problem. It’s a business problem. The reported status has business consequences.
Wishing everyone happy holidays! I’m so grateful for this amazing community.
The GCP admin console once created an impossible to delete cloud function and I spent 2 months convincing support that I knew how to click a button.
Happy Holidays you glorious HN bastards!

Get off the internet and go spend some time with the family, so there's more bandwidth for me.
Google translate:

We would like you to be able to collaborate, through this survey, with our undertaking; which seeks to facilitate education in the most remote areas with projects financed by the profits generated by serving as a means of quick and effective connection; between private teachers and parents or students. =)
I disagree.

I think the endgame is clear in the US. Most states have dropped all restrictions and those that haven’t will suffer economically and politically until they drop their restrictions. The only question is how much economic and political suffering individual cities and states will tolerate.

Virginia voters threw out their entire Democrat government and governor and will likely join the list of states banning restrictions.

In the end I don’t think it will be about Covid at all. One by one we’ll move on because the people will demand an end to restrictions.
Being within 2 -3 times slower than the top of the line is quite reasonable for a new chip.

The Java results being so much slower are likely the difference in optimizing for new arch, bot neseccarily the chip itself.

Given that many apps lice quite nicely on VM and containers (using a lot less capacity then is available from the hardware), I think this is respectable to start with.
Merry Christmas from the Great White North, to all our HN friends and debaters.
May all your varied Gods, bless you with a bit of peace, a bit of joy, and as much love as possible.
> Complete speculation; but I wonder if...

If we're going into pure speculation mode I think we might also want to include that maybe their outages are staged and have factored in that the temporary bad press and paying out SLA credits is more profitable because it guides existing customers to start scaling to multiple AWS regions to offset these infrequent downtime events in 1 specific region at a time.

For example if you have hosting on US West but now to help reduce time down you duplicate your infrastructure in the EU region then I'm pretty sure the outcome here is if you were paying $6,000 a month before now you would be paying $12,000 a month (+/- any regional cost differences).

Realistically I don't believe this is the case but it's not impossible.
Nice link, didn't know it. Thanks!
The parts of a ship that thrusters are directly attached to experience acceleration first, the other parts that are further out from the thrusters won't accelerate immediately and if the acceleration is too sudden or extreme could be damaged or break off entirely.

And to answer your question in the other response, many thrusters have a minimum thrust, and even that minimum may be too much for the parts when deployed.
> what level of risk and mortality are we prepared to accept

IMO, the rational answer to this question is 'the same risk and mortality that we have already accepted from influenza.' There is a lot of variability there, of course, but it is way above zero in any case.
Westerners think that their culture is the greatest of all time, how could you not accept it? They are even exporting it together with their bombs and missiles in case you don't comply /s

But seriously, if their "culture" consists of gender theories, Holywood movies, superhero novels and the like, they can keep their culture.
What do you call a rota?

Seems a word in common use in the UK
https://archive.ph/RcFKd

http://web.archive.org/web/20211224011509/https://www.nytime...
Why isn't there any investigative journalism looking into wtf is happening at AWS? What the point of all these tech journalists writing all those puff pieces for access if they're not going to use it to pierce the NDA shield at times like this?
That country is Russian, right? Or Saudi Arabia?

I am not very familiar with Syria situation. Purely a honest question.
Rockets can easily accelerate with enough force to kill a human (cargo flights and unmanned flights use different launch profiles for this reason).

The less Gs you need to design a component for, the lighter/simpler it can be, so why unfurl early and add that extra mass and complexity to the design?
I agree, Web3 is a buzzword with little meaning. The features I am most looking forward to are:

1. Self-owned storage. I would love it if I could make and use apps where the users owned the storage (in a convenient way). This means that running apps is basically free and you don't have the legal pain of controlling user data. It also means that users can export their data (the just need to figure out how to interpret it).

2. Decentralized hosting. I think it would be amazing if you could keep using sites even if the original host went offline. IPFS is making good strides here. For example if you like my first player chooser you can pin /ipfs/QmWBUag1ynHaZekVHyr1VfMgF6fh64PPP46oiNYCgCPCQK and use it forever. This combined with 1 means that you can keep using apps without any creator involvement.

These two feel so close that they could be used today. There are efforts, but at least for 1 not much is really sticking.

The above 2 are all about single-user data though. Combining data for multiple users like many of your other points reference would be super cool but is a much harder problem, particularly around security and privacy. I think that will be full "Web3" but I see us as a long way off.
I remember there was an instance of a soldier being beheaded on the Bosphorus bridge. Not sure about the plural though
No video :-(
YouTube premium, to watch videos without ads. As a bonus you get Google's music streaming (YouTube Music) for free.

Hoppy.network, so I can give the Raspberry Pi running in my closet a real IPv4 address.

Monthly donations to Ardour.org, my favorite DAW.
Really? We don’t need this.

I come to Hacker News to avoid the culture wars.
L.E.B. (Low End Box) https://lowendbox.com/
Reminds me of Typer - from the creator of FastAPI:

https://typer.tiangolo.com/
I find that working on FOSS while on a big employer's payroll is the move these days. Every tech company is investing tens of millions of dollars or more in open-source and pays devs well to work on these projects
I actually transitioned from SDE to SRE, and you can imagine how awful it was for me doing the opposite.

SREs are the hardest working engineers I know, but unfortunately they're not given a lot of autonomy to fix problems. Or one SREs has strong opinions about stuff and blocks fixing things.

My conclusion has been that everyone needs to be devops. SDE needs to also own the ops of the thing they've developed.
> Taking in a generic T: Read is the recommended way to accept streaming inputs.

Recommended by whom?

When you want to process stuff in bulk, it's better to use BufRead::fill_buf (reusing the BufRead's buffer) rather than copy into your own.

For example, I wrote some code which basically skips some escape bytes. [1] It wraps a BufRead and is itself a BufRead. Its caller actually can process bytes straight from the buffer of the BufRead you supply, skipping two layers of copying.

> The converse is potentially disastrous - if you read too much from a TCP stream you could hang your program waiting for more input that never comes.

You can implement any idea badly, but that doesn't mean the idea itself is bad. There's a difference between taking advantage of buffering and expecting to operate only on full, fixed-sized buffers.

[1] https://github.com/dholroyd/h264-reader/blob/60ed66dc4dbfe74...
Redis Serialization Protocol (RESP) Client for the Web
He's pointing out the rule, not the title.
Yes. I'm not blind to the fact the Russian people were, at the end of the day, just people going about their lives; and these people were no different than you and I, just doing what they could to survive/thrive.

However, there were a few notable "malcontents" that went against this grain, in spite of the zeitgeist of their time, and the workings of the people around them.

Reading through old non-fiction accounts by Soviet dissidents (mostly lambasting their society), I cannot help but feel there are parallels between their struggle, and ours.
It's been a thing for a while on the X, they've just opened it up to running custom scripts from a USB. I'm sure it's generated thousands of sales for them at this point.

The X light show: https://youtu.be/-jyPkg0yXzM?t=6
Merry Christmas and thank you! I've learned a lot from you all the past 2 years.
Boys at least appear to be more in danger from the vaccine than the virus.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/10/boys-more-at-r...
Can’t update the page if the updating service is down.
L2 is very far from earth, well beyond the Moon. The Shuttle could never leave Low Earth Orbit, so it's a non-factor in repair missions once JWST is on station.
That's MAD, but for global satellite usage due to Kessler Syndrome.
Unfortunate, but true. The people want the bloat!
All they need to do to hire me is lay off the draconian IP assignment clauses or give me an explicit exception for side projects. That's what I tell the desperate recruiters, and then they go away until the next one comes along.
It's definitely a weird and (anonymous-)user-hostile design, but here's a trick: reloading the page instead of closing the popup does load the content without the popup. (Until you navigate to the next link, of course, after which you'll need another reload.)
> Have any of your customers had an e-mail they've tried to send not arrive because the recipient's system was using a black-hole list [...] ?

Yes. Twice.

In the first case, the mail provider was our ISP; and they got themselves in some mainstream blacklists. The problems getting that sorted out were part of the motivation for bringing mail in-house.

In the second case, there was some academic departmental mailserver and they were using some list incorrectly; using an extremely-opinionated list to block when it should at best be used to score.

This wasn't in itself a big deal, but one of my boss's correspondents was a senior professor in this department and they had some important business; and the postmaster was a dick, and wouldn't help. Boss didn't want to use some secondary email address; I had to show him how to set up an alias on some commercial server, which was second-best, but he was in a hurry.

Boss was angry with me and barked at me. If you run a mailserver for some group, one you assembled yourself, then people expect you to take responsibility for sorting out any mail problems. Well, they're right: you have taken on that responsibility. You made it, and you're running it: who else can they complain to?

[Edit] My point is that it's not hard to set up an artisan mail system; what's hard is that you create a job for yourself that is at the same time networking, user-facing, and technical. It's an interesting learning point, and I recommend it. But don't underestimate what you are taking on.
I used to complain about the AWS UI, then I switched to GCP...
I tend to be around 55-60 degrees... Still great though, my previous mbp from 2019 was around 90
Buy a domain for $20, get a GSuite account with it for $6 a month or similar, then archive all your mail via Outlook or your desktop email app of choice. You also get a lot of other tools and storage space for very low cost which I find useful.

It's still using Google but it allows plenty of control and management, and I can take my domain anywhere with minimal stress. It's a decent compromise.
Phillips Xelsis https://www.usa.philips.com/c-m-ho/coffee/saeco-automatic-es...

This is probably my fourth full automatic espresso machine, definitely the best I've owned. Amortize the price based on how much coffee you drink (I drink 4 a day) and cost of coffee shop vs machine + beans. Factor in well used machines probably last 3-5 years and then they do need replacing.

I make a personal rule that I only buy $$ coffee from coffee shops if I'm wanting to sit and work/meet (less likely these days) or if I'm really on the go and need a pick-me-up. Otherwise I make a latte on the machine and bring it with me in a vacuum container when I am out and about.
I came here to say this. Spotify is incredible. My only real beef with it is the interface, especially with classical music. I look at my phone to see a list of movement titles, all exactly the same. And with both classical and jazz it’s impossible to see a list of the personnel within the program—if I want to know who’s on drums I need to paste the name of the album into Google or something.

But Spotify changed everything. I recently saw a series on Netflix and liked some of the music used in it, but had no idea what it was. I just entered the name of the show and “soundtrack” into Spotify, and there it was.
It really depends on the org I think. But Boss's Boss probably gets paid 40-50% more.
It's the streaming service problem. Entrepreneurial me wants competition and a free market, but end-user me wants everything on one service because bugger having 10 different game launcher/library apps installed.
osboot is much more pragmatic, since it doesn't try to be 100% free of blobs but rather chooses platform support over that. AIUI it is partially a response to just how utterly useless libreboot had become (it can't support any recent platform).
Azerbaijan v. Georgia? To heal? Tooze is good but needs to hire an amanuensis.
Even a fictional character, Paul Atriades, knows that religious zeal is a beast that cannot be contained. I am more inclined to believe that as a skilled politician erdogan should be well versed in history and politics to see that danger. And I believe that he indeed is a believer of Islamic religion.
So this is the 4th time an uninteresting update like this has come to the front page... Why? What can be gathered from it? Get the AWS post-mortem on here, for that I'll be piqued. HN is not a status page. I don't instinctively check HN when my service is down because why would I?
Analysis of Garbage Day's Substack metrics: 16K readers, about 10% pay
can't we ban it easily just by not allowing the radio devices? (I don't know how trivial is to make satellites internet connector like dishes etc.)
Ask HN: What are you thoughts on 'source only' software products?
A 'source only' product is one that is purchased with the source code of the product. The source code of the product cannot be shared, but it can be modified by the customer to suit their needs.

The idea of 'source only' is not new at all. Back in the late 90s when Delphi was popular, many developers created and sold components to other developers (e.g. UI widgets). These components came with full source code of the components but they were not open source.

Fast forward to today, what are examples of 'source only' products doing well? Two examples: 'Kirby CMS' and 'Craft CMS' (Content Management Systems). Both are popular and profitable. Their source code is even published publicly on GitHub. The product creators trust customers will pay for the product (presumably some do not, but don't matter to profitability). Other developers are happy to contribute to the eco-system of plugins. So, yes, you can also build a community of enthusiastic followers for a product that isn't open source.

The label 'source only' is considered a dirty word among some open source advocates. But if you are building a B2B (Business-to-Business) software product, 'source only' is a viable option to succesfully make a living from your product - one that isn't completely closed source. (The GPL family of licences let you pay for the distribution of the source code.)

What are you thoughts on the 'source only' option for software products? Is it something you would consider? Why is this option sometimes maligned?
What's most shocking to me is how little interest there seems to be in educating the population. We're constantly bombarded with the latest COVID-19 case/death numbers, editorialized headlines designed to instill fear, and told to basically shut up, get our vaccine shots, and trust the "experts", and there's been no attempt to educate the population on the real numbers.

For example, how many people know the:

- Case fatality rate of COVID-19 (in the U.S, it's 1.6%)
- Infection fatality rate of COVID-19 (can only be estimated, but probably around 0.1-0.3%)
- Hospitalization utilization (not just now, but also before COVID-19 so one can compare to prior flu seasons and such. Personally I have not found this data)
- Demographics of those who died with COVID-19 (in the UK the median age of death is 84, above the life expectancy of 82. Most deaths are old people and/or those with co-morbidities)

Most people drastically overestimate the danger (eg. by at least 5x according to one survey) because they're bombarbed with news and government fear-mongering, forced to take vaccines and be subject to draconian restrictions, then told to shut up and "trust the experts" while being kept in the dark on the data. Even Big Tech was censoring those who questioned the mainstream narrative (eg. Chris Martenson briefly being banned on Youtube)

In any civilized democracy, the citizenry should be educated so they can make the most informed decisions. There obviously seems to be no interest in educating the people except when it serves the narratives of the elite - which right now is basically "get your shot" and do whatever it takes to reduce COVID-19 numbers regardless of any collateral damage (eg. businesses going bankrupt, people losing work/income, hospitals reducing capacity for other kinds of care, schools shutting down, mental health crisis, restriction of freedoms like movement, general fear).
I kinda like that these misbrands are all done in the style of a competing technology, or a misconception that would kinda bother people (like vim / vscode, rust / go, or angular / react).
In a sad way, that’s really optimistic. I’m pretty sure in a situation where the elite were demanding that most of the people on Earth be removed, that would imply death, not relocation to space.

No chance Bezos is going to pay to relocate anyone else to space.
Shadow banning is a very useful tool for moderation. It is extremely frustrating as a moderator dealing with users that persistently shit up the place and crank out new accounts to continue the abuse as soon as you ban them. Shadowbans greatly relieve the moderation workload in cases like this because the abusive users keep themselves occupied, potentially for weeks. As someone who has previously moderated a large phpbb, I don't lose any sleep over wasting the time of abusive users since they are happy to waste my time as a moderator by deliberately and repeatedly breaking the rules.
So one of the main conclusions is that SARS-CoV-2 in children produces antibody responses to all the other human coronaviruses (this happens in adults too, but the effect is stronger in children)

In the discussion section they speculate that maybe recent infection with these other coronaviruses could give some level of protection against SARS-CoV-2, and that this could possibly explain some of the unusual-ness of the age-severity relationship, I.e. that very young children are not hit as hard by SARS-CoV-2 as by other diseases like the flu (relatively). That would be really interesting to see investigated carefully
We sacrificed the mental health of the young for the physical health of the old.
There should be a law that requires any data collecting companies to list the inferences that they are planning to make from the data they collect. Once the study is complete, they should be required to destroy the data and inform customers.

A question like in the OP seems like it’s trying to figure out your level of education, which is something that could be used in discriminatory ways, not to mention that it’s not something everyone wants to share.
I know a few companies that treat their engineers very well (remote, good pay, equity, no overtime, ~6 weeks vacation) and they’ve barely lost anyone.

Companies like Amazon should learn from this, but they likely won’t unless their employees unionize.
Some cloudfare seem to be down too?
email is totally broken. this article is right but the answer isn't let goog read your messages, it's invest in new communication protocols

tons of serious players don't trust email at all today

some, like my health insurance + bank, are dinosaurs who are all but licking the molten shockwave of a meteor. But still -- they have real reasons they email me that my 'secure message inbox' has a new message. Oscar uses 'secure email powered by virtru' to tell me they're not going to reply to my reply to their email, wtf, huge indictment of oscar, but also indictment of email.

but it's not just dinosaurs -- amazon, who has had a tough month but is generally savvy, doesn't trust email. they won't send me itemized receipts because they don't want google to read them.

I half believe we're about to see a renaissance in self hosting for individuals + businesses. this article is calling the bottom.
I couldn't put the thing down. Then I had to immediately order the sequels. Different strokes for different folks. There have been plenty of books that people have recommended to me as page-turners and I just couldn't get through them at all.
It's probably true that asteroid mining will never be economically viable for supplying Earthbound industrial processes. Where it might possibly be useful someday is if we ever try to do manufacturing and industrial processes in space. Absent completely sci-fi propulsion technology, it will probably never be a good idea to launch bulk raw materials out of Earth's gravity well.
Saudi Arabia as the direct source of Wahhabis, with the US funding and arming them.

Russia has been supporting the secular Syrian government.
Arrgh! That's not the feature! That story showed shots of the normal games in the car that work when it's parked! That car wasn't moving! You can't play those games (Cupheads seems to ahve been shown) when it is moving!

They didn't show you the games you could actually play, they showed you what they thought would make you upset. And it did. Seriously, the whole media ecosystem in this space is one intentional deception after another. Do you really not see that?
But will the country. Like other populists found out, once you unleash the beast you have a job on taming it again
There is social pressure to maintain software. There is no social pressure to maintain a mathematical proof. So the analogy fails.

The choice people make doesn't change the expectations of others.
Saudi Arabia. Russia supports Assad and has no interest in destabilizing the country because they want to maintain their naval base at Latakia etc.