skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you have ever done deployments in non-US DCs... I'd say "yes-ish" -- in that unless you are in a super private swiss DC or some-such, even the good DCs in Tokyo are problematic and the other DCs in the middle-east/spain/france... all sucked as far as the quality of builds...

Private corp DCs for the FAANGS are going to be top-tier... public ones are all going to suck.

But thats just my experience.
We had a similar situation to Troy's where several thousand pounds was charged in a matter of days as a result of our misconfiguration of caching in our azure app services (before that month we typically had around £800 a month costs). We emailed Azure / Microsoft and they were happy to refund us. I don't think this is their intended business model.
Please don't post unsubstantive comments (and especially not name-calling ones), regardless of how wrong someone else is or you feel they are. Maybe you don't owe the crackpot bin better, but you owe this community better if you're participating in it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Are you using CloudFlare DNS, CloudFlare and Archive have a Long and Public Disupute over DNS or rather eDNS
Yeah, this conversation seems a bit like people arguing past each other. But it's a result of the fact that the story on Linux was stuck for so long (e.g., sysvinit on Debian, Upstart with some sharp edged hacks on Ubuntu). Systemd as the solution seems to have sucked out all the air out of the room: either it's great and people are idiots, or it's the worst thing on the planet and people using it are sheep.
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That's true. And sometimes you get an odd mix of good network quality but crappy features, or the other way around and that isn't amazing to work with either.
Have you looked into forwarding X?

https://ostechnix.com/how-to-configure-x11-forwarding-using-...
Inductance would be the momentum of the water; reactance to change in flow. Capacitance would be the expansion tank; reactance to change in pressure.
I do wonder how many other people you've interacted with.

There are many people in government trying to do a good job and many who aren't, just like private industry. I recently spent <15 mins at the DMV to get a vehicle title transferred and it was a very efficient process (granted I spent more time in the car as there aren't offices in every town).

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Perhaps you should talk to your local representative about the DMV's funding. There was a recent post to HN about how the FDA only has 10 employees to do declassification of documents, of course they will be slow at doing that. I wonder how many employees/per capita works at your DMVs.
Onchain isn’t bad, it’s a few cents however smaller places like EL Salvador use Lightning network, which allows extremely low transfers (on the order of 1 sat). Lightning works better than a credit card.
I believe U of T has a policy like this where they accept the top x% of students from every high school in the state.
I wonder if he owned the land it was found in, or if some portion of the proceeds go to the landowner.
You can use the SMTP relay from other providers. The free tier should be enough for a personal account or two. For example AWS SES, Mailgun, Sendgrid, etc.
>> cling there under surface tension = Static charges. When a walk in wool socks on a wet carpet my socks pick up water. When I walk on a dry carpet my socks pick up electrons.

>> expand, and break open its insulation = an arc causes by too much electricity in too thin a pipe.

>> it doesn't evaporate and condense on cold surfaces = electro vapor deposition aka physical vapor deposition
It would be really nice for C++ to add a mandatory “out” keyword for these parameters, just like C#. In that way you are forced to specify that this is an output parameter both at the caller and the callee, which makes things much more explicit and readable.
Skywater PDK is "open source," but not necessarily "free software," it's released under Apache license
Desalination is awesome, and I love to see it improve. No matter how good it is, it won’t be cheaper than water that is available in rivers and aquifers.
> but...it is easy, standard, and available.

So is a LAMP stack on a dedicated machine.

> Plus, the more of the services you use,

The thing is, most webapps don't use a lot of services. Backend-Logic in whateverlanguage, a database, and a webserver. Maybe hooked up to some CRM system. That's it for 99/100 webservices.

Yes, the services cloud providers offer are amazing, they are complex, and it is natural for developers to be fascinated by complex things (I know it is for me). But it's important to realize when simple is simply enough.
I don't touch Bitcoin because I see it as a speculative collectible, not an investment, but there are plenty of regulated markets that are volatile.
I built a recommendation engine[0] using the BoardGameGeek data with the methods described in Significance[1].

I've also extended it[2] relatively recently to have a tweakable ranking system which my father explains here[3]

[0] https://trythesegames.com/
[1] https://rss.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1740-9713....
[2] https://trythesegames.com/rankings
[3] https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/2728398/flexible-boardgame-...
"The price of Bitcoin didn't go down, the price of the world has gone up"

I like it. I'm going to use that.
When an Apple Users Group Says Goodbye
Yeah, I've avoided CloudFormation like the plague, Terraform is really so much better.
Yes, I know. It's still funny.
This sentiment is exactly why it hasn’t worked yet. Yes bitcoin is a currency hence the “coin” in its name but a lot of crypto is not. This is a failure in education in the community and also a failure by the US government to correctly classify the different types of crypto, and essentially label every blockchain as securities when only a few even approach being securities. In their desire to collect tax, they have completely mistaken one thing for another. In the same way the US hasn’t figured out that “tech” isn’t one sector of the economy but actually has 100s of new industries each of which are extremely unique. Facebook and YouTube are not two competitors just because they both are software with ads, they each exist in their own industry and monopolize their industry. You wouldn’t consider TV broadcasting and radio the same industry even though they are both forms of media. Crypto is the same, there is just so much unique software that is being miscategorized.
It depends on what the converted energy is used for. If you use it to power a device in the house then it's quite likely most of that energy will end up as heat in the house again.
Yes, a surprising amount of stuff on the satellite is mechanical. After reading up on Webb's construction and the way the incredible thermal separation of the hot side and the cold side is achieved, as well as the sensors and the cryocoolers my respect for the designers and builders has gone up a couple of notches.
The Talos II is blob-free. At launch, proprietary binary-only firmware was required for the network interface, but Raptor Computing Systems offered a bounty to reverse engineer and do a Free Software re-implementation of the firmware, and that effort succeeded and the bounty was paid. See:

https://wiki.raptorcs.com/wiki/Project_Ortega

https://github.com/meklort/bcm5719-fw
I mean, it's in the name itself - web3 makes it sound like it's the next evolution of the web that we'll all be using in a few years.

I think that's part of why there's so much backlash from the tech community -- it feels like a small group of people (who largely haven't built much on the web besides React apps) have decided that they get to call what they're working on the new web, even though it's currently mostly vaporware and bad art.
Can't believe this sentiment is somehow popular.

See: Afghanistan, Nicaragua, Palestine, Bosnia etc.

Your described solution will ensure just as much war/suffering as a direct involvement plan would.

let's be honest: no combination of armament OR good will will end this anytime soon.
A crude joke comparing electricians and plumbers:

https://i.redd.it/42ah3br6r2251.jpg
I have a slightly parallel hypothesis as to why companies are paying fortunes as AWS and Azure bills.

I call it Kubernetes Driven DevOps. While kubernetes is a really great solution to a wide range of problems, often those problems are only faced by large companies with massive scale.

But what is really happening in the industry is that, the new age DevOps engineers start their learning with containers and kubernetes as the base truth - and then are hired based on their experience around that ecosystem.

This inadvertantly leads to an industry full of kubernetes experts who nail every service with k8s hammer and then drive insane amount of cloud infra bills.

I miss the old era cloud where the offerings and the ecosystem were friendly to indie devs as much as they were for BigCorps.

Here's a tweet thread where I outline WASM as a potential bet against this kubernetes inflated devops culture - https://twitter.com/vettijoe/status/1484507483788161026?s=21
This was addressed directly within the linked blog post:

> In my tweet and here in my blog post I redact the name of the company. I most probably have the right to tell you who they are, but I still prefer to not. (Especially if I manage to land a profitable business contract with them.)
I would imagine that if bans in democratic countries come, they'll be bans of proof of work. There's quite a bit of precedent that banning inefficient processes is okay.
I think moderators can do some sort of repost/reset of the algo ranking to give a post a new chance.

If the moderators are more or less like the readers, I guess it is no extra skew.
Right now, no, but in principle, yes. You can effect transactions. Everything else is just a matter of adoption.
From a resources (CPU/RAM/disk/bandwidth) per buck, the difference is extreme. ~50 bucks a month on Hetzner will give you 8 cores (real ones, not vCPUs), 32-64 GB of RAM, several hundred gigs of SSD and 1Gbps unmetered bandwidth. The same on AWS will probably be ~150 bucks just for CPU & RAM alone, excluding storage and bandwidth.
That's the professional way to do it (and if it doesn't get addressed, there's nothing more he can do).

I'd argue that if your boss is refusing to act on a serious security concern you have a moral duty to take it further up the hierarchy yourself, and to (responsibly) disclose to the government/public if the company won't listen. Shrugging and saying "Well, I tried!" isn't good enough.
There does need to be a solution for countries that do this - that is to say indulge in radical devaluation; but it is clearly not BTC or ETH. It could be a properly backed and regulated crypto currency, one that also could be used without burning barrels of oil. There is no such crypto currency though, and there may never be one.
>No web3 is not a pyramid scheme.

As long as it's centered around the value of BTC, this is false. BTC has totally failed as a currency and is completely dependent on speculators pushing its valuation up to keep the miners profitable. I'll be willing to concede this point to you if eventually all proof-of-work coins disappear and the BTC maxis go away, and the incentives change to move away from mining and towards providing real services, but I doubt this will ever happen given this was the whole reason the crypto bubble happened in the first place.

Perhaps you want to define web3 in a more vague way like "any web business that uses a merkle tree publicly in some fashion". You can do that but either you're still left with BTC maxis leading the charge on that, or you have to expand it in such a way that the term becomes meaningless because it applies to a lot of unrelated things. Was google a web3 business before anyone knew what that was because they used a merkle tree in google drive, and google drive was public? How about github with their public git repositories? See what I mean here?
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Good to hear, and I hope Ethereum team will be able to complete a smooth transition.

I've been hearing about Ethereum POS for many years, and almost started losing hope at this point.
While they may make money trading personally on crypto, they're in the best place to sell a currency just before they prohibit.
They can make money trading with or without crypto, anyway.

Regardless of the politicians' personal finances, countries are likely to squeeze on cryptocurrency so that their fiat currencies (which lost tons of value in the last 2 years, to fight the lockdowns imposed by the governments) would gain value.

Putin's move is sensible and probably likely to be followed by other countries. The ruble lost quite a bit of value.
It's likely we won't end up with gov backed cryptocurrencies but just a digital rebranding of USD.

China is doing the same thing with the digital renminbi.
I'm afraid we'll have to agree to disagree on this one Scott, on a philosophical level.

We have companies like pullrequest.com monetizing code quality (currently only private but I presume they'll enter the OSS market at some point), and then other companies who are monetizing security audits. None of this money trickles down to the distributed teams of developers writing the software in the first place. This makes me uncomfortable - and you are right we do have to find ways to help with this.
>Just because F500 companies are big, stupid, slow and greedy, doesn't exactly make stealing right.

That is precisely why it's right. These capitalists have stolen our labour, and corrupted our politics for centuries. `Stealing` it BACK is the ONLY way history has shown us works.
Eventually all fiat currencies will be worth less than 1 sat. Today there are 4 countries that fit this. They should ditch their garbage money and use BTC.

BTC has 100x left in it, easily. Probably a lot more.
"home" is a bad analogy. Online services can easily become central to your life:

The prime example/offender is GMail. There are numerous stories of users who were suddenly left without access to their account, with no explanation or recourse given.

Some people get lucky and manage to reach an influential Googler through offline channels, and have their access reinstated.

Average Joe on the other hand, might suddenly lose access to services linked to their GMail account, such as online banking, communications with important contacts, services that bill his credit card on a regular basis but that now Joe can't close the service or dissociate his card, due to having lost access.

How does Joe lose access to linked services? (a) if he signed up using Google SSO, or (b) passwords were saved in his Chrome account that he no longer has access to, and (c) can no longer recover passwords that were registered with the GMail address.

Yeah, Tinder/Fortnite are typically much less central to one's life, but for some people, due to social/health factors, these services are a gateway to an important part of their lives.

Number one I can think of is we're still in a pandemic, and whether because many cities are still observing lockdowns or risk-averse individuals still prefer to isolate, people are being driven towards online services that facilitate social activities such as dating or playing some variation of virtual cops & robbers.
Software eats the world just like a black hole.
> ML enforcing rules is bad enough, not allowing false positives to be corrected is ridiculous.

And potentially illegal. According to Article 22 of the GDPR:

"The data subject shall have the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling, which produces legal effects concerning him or her or similarly significantly affects him or her."

I think that being accused of copyright infringement (and having your free speech rights curtailed) should count as "similarly significant" to a legal effect on someone.
Occlupanids: Those plastic clips on bread bags
Well, until there's a better way to have some kind of token or currency, blockchains will be part of web3. Lack of incentives is why the first wave of open protocol design fizzled out, which is why they're so important this time around.

The way it's shaping up, improper or overzealous incentives will be the undoing of the second wave, but that movie has yet to play out.
The scope can’t image anything at all right now, and it will be quite a while before it can.

Each mirror segment was firmly supported to withstand the violent forces at launch. In the past few days, the two 3-segment wings swung into position and every mirror segment moved slightly so that now they can be aimed by their actuators. Each segment has actuators on the perimeter that will fine tune the pointing and one in the center that can deform it slightly to change focus. Each one will now need to be fine tuned. There are also many adjustments to be done in the secondary optics.

Inevitably, surprises will crop up as well and have to be dealt with. They do this quietly now for PR reasons. While the Hubble was being commissioned, some engineers talked freely about the things they were dealing with. At first it was very interesting to follow along. But once it was determined that the primary trouble was misconfiguration of the objective, all the chatter stopped. Since then all space missions tightly control their press. This is understandable but makes it a little less fun to follow along.

The good news is that most of the single use motors and actuators have done their thing and and are now retired. The ones that remain (like the mirror pointers) are based on designs that have worked many years on many spacecrafts. It is great to see the project get to this stage. I can’t wait to read about what we find out there.
The height was messed up on this, so it got downvoted. It should be ok now lol
I was intending to prompt someone to finally admit they don't care about store of value. I agree the bashing of BTC is fundamental misunderstanding. If you don't worry about store of value, dollar or BTC will work just fine for many transactions.

>The Dollar is not and never has been a long-term store of value

Depends on what you mean by long-term. If you held the dollar from 1813 to 1913 it was an excellent store of value. If you hold it from 1971 to 2071, with our current target of 2% inflation, you'll be lucky if 13% of your value is left. The systemic intentional destruction of value of the dollar has accelerated rapidly since at least the early 70s.
I've been responsible for parts 1,2,3,4 and hand off the work to owners/managers/investors.

There is a large time gap between 4 and 5 - and it seems everyone forgets who they hired for that supply chain "analysis" many moons ago.
They did understand it enough to produce their famous Gaswagen engine, weren't they.
From a PR perspective that would not be very smart. Everbody wants to know that it works in principle and if the images that it can make today are not quite as good as the ones that it will make six months from now that gives more points in time to make the public aware of what the telescope can do and what an amazing achievement it is.

I fully expect NASA to release a 'first light' image in the near future and if they do not I'll be sorely disappointed.
even worse, i bet a lot are in the situation of "i have cloud AND i need to hire a system administrator".
Maybe the real purpose of money is--and has always been-- to allow people who think they are clever to take value from others.
If the markets are underestimating inflation, then the Fed will need to be even more aggressive with the interest rate increases, meaning the price of speculative assets like BTC will drop even more.
I found that when I watched it a lot I got much better at it. The style of the questions needs to be learnt. There are also a bunch of writers, composers and painters that come up a lot. If in doubt guessing one of these from roughly the correct period works pretty well!
Generally this is an accurate take. I'd add two things:

> ...because they're realised they really have no idea of their exposure.

This is partially because it is often non-engineers being asked to figure this out. The "information security analysts" at F500s are asked to do a lot of unfair work, such as analyze risks related to decades-old software they didn't build.

> ...there's a whole business ecosystem in just being able to answer that question let alone do anything about security issues.

The first part (answering "what dependencies does my software have") isn't inherently bad. I'd emphasize the underinvestment in the second part more.
Not clear how a lower bound on the absolute value of the difference of any two of the square roots would help give a lower bound on the absolute value of the difference of the two sums of square roots.
So, to your best knowledge, these are the queues for the wannabe immigrants? Like anyone who wants to immigrate can go ahead and join one of these; is that how it works?
Yes, the worst-case complexity is exponential in N, but the wording in the article could lead you to believe that no explicit exponential bound is known, which is false.
OpenSea Bug Allows Attacker to Get Discount on Popular NFTs
Covid-19: endemic doesn’t mean harmless
Plus everyone you hire will need to learn all of this rather than using their existing cloud knowledge.
You can even do one better since systemd can natively run rc scripts. If you're on a systemd based distro peak at /etc/init.d. You can even manage services with /etc/init.d and the service command.

The amount of effort systemd went through to make existing software work is genuinely heroic.
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CHERI (Capability Hardware Enhanced RISC Instructions) extends conventional hardware
Instruction-Set Architectures (ISAs) with new architectural features to enable fine-grained
memory protection and highly scalable software compartmentalization.
Introduction to Probability for Data Science
Our current CloudFormation pipeline template is over 5,000 lines of yaml. That's probably on the high-end, but based on your statements, it sounds like you haven't seen a corporate cloud footprint.
If Google has the copyright on "1", they only need to get "0" as well and they'll have everything.
It would be great to see screenshots of what each option will block. Although many are obvious, some are less clear.
GitHub Actions by Example
At my previous housing co-op, the new kitchen manager accidentally ordered nine cases of limes (~$1000) instead of 9 limes.

They assumed it was a mistake and only delivered a single case, which was still 180 limes, but at least it didn't use up our entire food budget.

(Normally I'd expect a phone call or email to confirm, but this was a smaller, local supplier, so they probably didn't have real systems to deal with outliers.)
I agree, but I think the horse is out of the barn in many respects. It will be very hard to get organizations to adopt such standards without being forced to by some regulatory agency, unfortunately, because that constraints adds cost and impacts schedule.

That's without even considering all the kinds of rules-lawyering that would be applied afterwards.
It's not mysterious. It's there to alter the sensor (usually radar) observability properties of low-observable (stealth) aircraft -- usually to make them more detectable.

Citation: worked on them.
The US Refuses to Fall in Love with Electric Cars
People have tried: https://github.com/jkcfg/jk

But yeah I agree. The thing is, if all you need is robust determinism why do you need a full functional language with currying and other complex concepts?

Google had the same problem for Bazel, and their solution (Starlark) is way easier to understand.
Myths about FreeBSD