skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Financial plumbing of a typical EB-5: An Immigrant invests in a “EB-5 Regional economic development center” or “Red”. The Red pools many EB-5 investors together and then makes real estate, or similar, development loans. This works well for the EB-5 immigrant as the loans have a maturity date so in theory you get your money back after a set period of time. EB-5 investments must be equity (no fixed period).

From what I’ve heard, most immigrants break-even or lose a bit on their investment after brokers fees and such.
Came here to say exactly this. When you're sprinting to get to market first, you can't not afford to leverage the cloud. Later on (but preferably before you IPO for billions), you should seek to migrate away from the cloud to a platform you have tighter control over.
Some year it likely will happen. Followed by a year where it touches 28K again.

But you bring up a very good and often missed point. Highly speculative wagers are, if maybe not rational, understandable when 100X+ or 1000X+ potential gains exist. But that's not where BTC is right now.

If everyone is very lucky maybe BTC does 3x. Maybe even 6x but that's much more tenuous and uncertain. 100X? Very unlikely right now. The downside risk just isn't worth potential 3X gains for me and probably many others, but I'd feel different if there were realistic 100X gains possible.
I think the inductor one only makes sense if you imagine the flywheel being driven with huge buckets -- such that the voltage drop is massive if ∂V/∂t is large (with analogy to L ∂I/∂t). I'm far from convinced that is totally right though, as you can easily have arbitrarily high voltages with switched circuits and inductors, but not necessarily with turbines...

I guess a transistor is a little man twiddling a valve according to a dial in the "water model" of electricity, any through-space effects are due to leaks, and nonlinear components like MOSFETs are a bit more creatively explained. (E.g. Source: water reservoir; drain: water reservoir; gate: gate between source and drain reservoirs, driven by an utterly mad person who follows interesting rules. Oh, and inexplicably he's a bit stronger than transistor man too).
The USA should arm Ukrainian citizens to the teeth ASAP and keep US forces out of Ukraine (i.e., avoid any NATO "solution" to Russian aggression). Let the Ukrainians do the training and organizing - any war should be a guerrilla war.

If every Ukrainian citizen (primarily talking about western Ukraine) had a rifle/shotgun and 5 grenades, the likely success of Russian forces in any incursion (short of a nuclear attack, which I presume absurd) would be nil. It might even increase self- and other-respect among the Ukrainian!8-))
> FreeBSD's network stack is (still) superior to Linux's - and, often, so is its performance.

Where is this coming from exactly? The linked article about Facebook is 7 years old. The following benchmark shows the exact opposite: Linux's network stack has long surpassed FreeBSD's. And I would expect nothing else given the amount of work that has gone into Linux compared to FreeBSD.

https://matteocroce.medium.com/linux-and-freebsd-networking-...
"[1] This blog runs on the cloud but that’s because WordPress is a security nightmare and a cloud VM is the easiest way to sandbox it. Ironic, I know."

Really all that needs to be said. Self-defeating post.
Security by job insecurity
Because it's not a crypto thing. It's a blockchain thing.
I think people are taught to write this way, it's called "human interest" or something. Presumably, if they tell me Xs story starting with their grandparents, I'd be more read to extend empathy to Xs story later on. Except that by the time it gets to the interested part, I'm usually to tired to care...
I'm trying to tell you that that you can't just look at cryptocurrency and claim a bear market. Same way it's not a bull market if one individual sector is down. Cryptocurrency, because it's also seen as an investment, must also take into mind other investment options. Particularly another common option: stocks.

One may claim that cryptocurrency has survived many bear markets if you only look at cryptocurrency. Someone else may claim that the only reason cryptocurrency hasn't died out is because it's standing on the shoulders of the longest running bull market in history when looking at stocks. There is so much money and confidence about that people are just looking for places to park it. The question is: Does cryptocurrency remain when the fun and games end, or was it just tulips?
Yes, it's a waste of time iff it does not improve your product / get you closer to achieve the goals your organization has (profitability, whatever).

If understanding every detail of your stack makes your product better, go for it! If it doesn't then learning every detail of it is not business, it's an academic exercise.

At least that's my take ;) have a nice day.
It has happened plenty of times. HIV, for one? But such transmission is quite rare and only seems to occur every few decades.

That's for "interesting" viruses, by the way. "Boring" viruses probably get transmitted all the time. Most things are boring.
The employee probably was too public about the issue instead of just going up his manager hierarcy. That's the professional way to do it (and if it doesn't get addressed, there's nothing more he can do).
Sounds vaguely like this PHP malware:

https://github.com/bediger4000/php-malware-analysis/tree/mas...

https://github.com/bediger4000/php-malware-analysis/tree/mas...

But only vaguely. I would guess the random content is for human consumption, and the underlying PHP redirects bots to some other SEO thing, which is opposite of the malware I linked to above. But that's just a guess.

A lot of malware is so poorly coded it's impossible to tell what the intent is. Your random content could be a result of that, too.
Hi Founder,

I've been wanting to use render for a long time now at our startup, but last time I looked at your GDPR info it was lacking.
We sell to public education institutes in the EU, so it is a make or break for us.
We might not be your target customer in that case, but otherwise I would love to hear what is possible.
> and put hot pans directly on it.

Really? We’re going to have to replace our quartz island countertop just from sitting a (hot) lid on it. And we were also told that we shouldn’t sit anything hot on it (I just wasn’t thinking when I sat the lid on it).

A quick search [1] also shows that a downside to quartz is that it’s not as resistant to heat as other surfaces (including granite).

[1] https://countertopguides.com/guides/pros-and-cons-of-quartz-...
> Cryptocurrency does nothing, nada, zilch, zero to address corruption in any shape.

Those are nice nouns, but have you any specific argument? Bitcoin's origins were designed to redress this very issue.
I am sure their lawyers know exactly how software licenses work.

I also bet that the list of dependencies they used for this mass email was probably not generated by a lawyer.
>cloud is no panacea

That is the subtitle of this article I wrote last month - https://medium.com/@rykrk/everything-is-just-build-vs-buy-d7...

I note that the grandparent's premise for a catastrophe is that everything in a datacenter must necessarily be poorly configured. To that, I ask: how many corporate cloud footprints have they looked at?
> there's literally not a single reason for not wanting to use a cloud service / a managed provider.

How did we get to this point of learned helplessness. Some people are in fact capable and do run there own software stacks, configure and manage their own databases, and are self-sufficient in providing their own service to their customers and users.
That’s not an effective rebuttal.

First: Blockchain transactions are only accepted when they’re added to the blockchain, so participating in the blockchain necessarily directly enables the drug (etc.) transactions in a way which isn’t true for fiat or commodity currencies.

(I happen to have the opinion that almost all drugs should be legally available in some form for personal use, but that’s a different argument; partly but not solely because I think legalisation will help to stop criminals getting the money).

Second: inverting group membership like that is poor logic.

Consider for example, that the fruit of atropa belladonna is poisonous. The fact that most poison isn’t derived from belladonna does not change this.
I'm more concerned about the Y/Y and decade to decade change of my wealth than week to week. That's fine if others aren't. There are at least a hundred currencies in common use of both fiat and crypto variety, overall the dollar is looking to be a horrible choice as a long term store of value.
I am curious how much BTC was used given the costs of transactions was very expensive, especially for a smaller economy.
We can't catch a break with inflation this year!
While of course it could truly be for unrelated reasons, the direct response from VW is inconsistent with a company trying to change a culture of coverup and fraud:

>VW said the information provided proved to be “irrelevant” and that “the employee was terminated due to fundamental differences in the way we work together”.

Better PR would be something like "While the reported issue turned out to be a misunderstanding, we appreciate and encourage all employees to speak up if they have similar concerns. Our separation from the employee was in no way related to their reporting of that incident - if anything, it was a mitigating consideration."
It certainly is if you're an environmentalist. Or an Iraqi.
"People with more money than time buy $3,000 road racing bicycles with ultralight carbon frames to shave two pounds off the bike, regardless of the fact that they themselves are probably at least 10 pounds overweight."

From Chapter 2 of Early Retirement Extreme by Jacob Fisker
Yeah, I get that, but I'm just saying if this is a problem needing solved to accomplish some visual effect in game programming (as a contrived example), that practically speaking it's not a hard problem. It's only a hard problem in a theoretical, general sense.
wikipedia has a very comprehensive treatment of this analogy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydraulic_analogy
for some, but for others the final result is all they care about.
Let's say that you're starting Apache Tomcat. You have to dig into the tomcat startup scripts and figure out where, if anywhere, it writes the pid file to disk so that you can later use it to determine if the process is running or not. If java happened to crash, though, this pid file is stale and might not point to a valid process. There's a chance that the pid has been reused, and it could have been reused by anything -- even another java process!

This is important, because this pid file is used to determine which process receives the kill signal. If you get it wrong, and have the right permissions, you can accidentally kill something that you did not intend to kill.

This is further complicated if you want to run multiple instances of Tomcat because now you need to have a unique path for this pid file per tomcat instance.

If the thing that you're trying to run doesn't fork, you then have to execute it in the background and then store the result of $! somewhere so that you know how to kill the process later on.

It's all very error prone and the process for each daemon is often different.
Ummm... I think the curl license is displayed pretty publicly. So, yes - this email deserves to be mocked roundly.
And? If you're going to basically force someone to work for you, you get what you get.
Misconfigurations in the cloud are much more dangerous as well as you can quickly accumulate charges and there is no way to implement a spending cap. With bare-metal hardware the costs are typically fixed and agreed in advance.
I'm not assuming anything.

There is a guaranteed deep correlation between BTC price and amount of electricity needed to run the BTC network. That is the way proof of work is designed to function. I.e the whole way it protects against a 51% attack. There is simply no getting around this.
I wonder if it is a rehash of March 2020, when Covid started for real. Except now in reverse - nobody knows what to expect, everybody is extremely nervous.
Ransomware hit Belarusian Railway, demands the release of 50 political prisoners
Is it just me???
"An error occurred during a connection to archive.is.

archive.is uses security technology that is outdated and vulnerable to attack. An attacker could easily reveal information which you thought to be safe. The website administrator will need to fix the server first before you can visit the site."
Speaking nonsense like a human - i.e. being a perfect simulation of a mentally deficient human - is not going to help much. If you would respond with perfectly grammatical sentences bearing to relation to the question in hand, at best what you'd get would be Elisa (granted, 90% of tech support may be that), at worst, it'd be pissing off the clients.
Agreed, and to some extent I would think you would want your most talented students to have access to network with students that have an "in" with the rich and powerful (whether that is hereditary or whatever). If you exclude some of those, ahem, less talented progeny you lower the value of some of these schools I would think for minorities, the less privileged, etc. eg. Wouldn't you want the next Granville Woods to have access to a VCs daughter or a Senators son?
What really scares me is the TV ads. People like Big Papi and Matt Damon advertising Crypto buying platforms to people during football games is HORRIFYING. Once I saw those ads, I knew the end was near, and that these crypto platforms had literally pivoted to selling these things to completely clueless greedy people.

Like the old adage said, when your shoe shine boy has a stock tip, it's time to sell. And when your aunt has an opinion about crypto, it's time to sell, as well.
I don't want to generate unwanted interest or drama for specific people by pasting links to mailing lists.

You can Google for "microsoft (buy|acquire) canonical" and find points on why it's very likely.
I'm more surprised VW has anyone that understands software
That only works if you can convince those in the government that it is "too big to fail". This is why there has been a push to get politicians involved.

When bitcoin fails (and it will), those who mine will be the first to move their value out to whatever BitCoin2.0 is. Then they will be able to charge whatever they want to the suckers left who want to exit, because you literally will have to pay the miners transaction fees to let you do this, and there will be no cap on what they can charge.

The final appeal will be to the government, saying "you bailed out the banks, homeowners, students, the auto industry, the airline industry, why not those who lost money in bitcoin?"
I worked at a company that had Target and other Fortune 500 retailers as clients, and we had very strict SLAs with financial penalties if we broke them. There was absolutely the possibility that we could have ended up our clients more than they paid us.
It's sad what Bitcoin has become.

Not the price. That doesn't matter.

I discovered it around 2012 and at that time people were really excited. Not because they thought about "getting rich". But because people were finally learning about how money works and how corrupt and fragile the whole system is. Bitcoin showed us at once both what money really is, how it works and gave us a solution to the problem. Very exciting times. Many of us dreamed of being free from the heartless leeches in private banks.

But before long people did start to think about "getting rich". That's the really sad thing about finance. It has attracted some of the smartest people in the world who use their brains not to help others or do anything useful, but to essentially just leech off the real economy.

So Bitcoin just became like everything else. Clever people "getting rich" doing nothing of value, and people like me just giving up trying to explain what the real problems with money are.

Now I feel like the old world financial system is stronger than ever. People are singing its praises because now there is a failed alternative to compare it with.
It depends on your workload. For static content, especially kTLS encrypted static content, FreeBSD is quite a bit better.
I get the appeal of being able to rent an inexpensive dedicated server, have a whole computer to oneself, and have so much spare computing capacity that one doesn't have to really think about it. It does feel liberating, compared to being nickled and dimed by one of the cloud providers, and having to put up with the overhead of virtualization and networked block storage.

But what feels better still is knowing that I can put my phone in airplane mode and trust that the cloud provider will keep my application running, including automatically restarting it on a different physical machine, switching the database over to a hot spare, etc. I could hypothetically script all of that myself in a bare metal setup, but when the shit hits the fan, my home-made solution would be much more likely to fail than AWS auto scaling and RDS.
> I feel awful for everyone in El Salvador

From 2 days ago: El Salvador Buys $15 Million Worth Of Bitcoin ‘Really Cheap,’

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zacharysmith/2022/01/21/el-salv...
I'm not talking about faking a web app, just use a normal webbrowser and point it to the internal server. It's what we do in industrial automation as well (of course with watchdogs so it doesn't end up displaying a dead page if windows is used and the HTTP channel shits itself).

We did this with meta-refresh and progressive loading (https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-lost-art-of-progressive-ht...) earlier on as well. Benefit is that you get that client-server model without having to do all that much special for the client side, works on any client that has a working browser (even ancient IE5/Netscape4 rendering engines), even embedded systems and weird stuff like NetFront and Opera Mini Java (which runs nearly everywhere).

A lot of actions are essentially reading for status and anomalies, and every now and when adjust or control things (not real-time actuator control like a robotic arm or something like that, that requires hard realtime loops for us), anything bigger than that you'd do on a full desktop style system anyway and you can just use a modern web app in the browser for that. Those then also work on tablets (wallmounts! yay!), PDAs (well mobile phones without modems today) and other devices.
Know someone with PhD in chemistry that went into to law, then onto patent law. It seemed a long road. Then it took awhile to become accepted. However, here we are 15-20 years later, and they work as much as want to work. Interesting, is that they are registered (holds bar?) In a few States and countries.
In the US, I have long thought the USPS missed several good opportunities to get involved in the internet revolution in the 90s. This is a major one.
We are at the point where we really have enough things and enough "experiences", so we don't know what to want next. Sex used to be an important driving force, but that fades out too ...
Yes. If you want to practice patent prosecution you need to pass the patent bar, and the patent bar is only available to a narrow and kind of weird set of engineering degrees.

Only some computer science degrees count, and only some degrees with "engineering" in the title count. The patent office is usually very strict with this and is not interested in hearing about why your degree should count.

They do offer alternative methods of qualifying based on the specific numbers of credits you have in certain classes, but that too is fairly strict.
Yes, but systemd is missing and most drivers because they are not gnu.
The article makes no mention of the employee making any public statements or disclosures
> Is downtime an actual, business-killing problem in practice? In my experience, very rarely so

Of course it is. If you make a service that other people use as part of their workflows or business, they will be switching providers if you’re the only one that routinely goes down.

This is also a slippery slope. If your engineering team is in the habit of shrugging off downtime as no big deal, it tends to get worse and worse as time goes on, staff turns over, systems scale up, and load increases. If you can’t manage to keep downtime to a minimum when you’re small, it’s going to be much worse when you’re bigger.
I'm not attributing wide spread societal faults to specific institutions. This is simply a question of garbage in, garbage out. The sample of students from 1-2 generations ago is biased towards certain races. Therefore, using that biased data to decide who gets into a university today perpetuates that bias. The exact source of that bias isn't important and doesn't mean the bias doesn't exist.
Model that predicts the probability of a Twitter user being anti-vaccination
> they're ultimately limited to carving a niche for themselves with little effect on the wider system itself.

You have already noticed some of the changes, but you're not thinking long term enough.

Look at what's happening in universities, not for existing researchers, as they will eventually be replaced.

I must admit I'm a bit disconnected as I left a couple of years before COVID, but already back then, students do their lit review using google. If something is not easily accessible, unless it's a must-known paper, they won't bother with even scihub (and I'm talking about scihub because even if the university provides access to most journals, most people don't bother with that as it requires being on campus or using a weird VPN)

In classes, there're a lot exercises based on replication: try to get the same results as this or that to learn about this method. For now, it's mostly done with books, but a new trend is using published datasets to level up.

I'm not saying you aren't partially right, but things are changing fast!
I've come across more people --- certainly on this site anyway --- that want to force people not to partake, using state power if need be.
For the same reason everyone thinks they're above-average drivers.

For my own part, I suck at politics so I knew I couldn't climb the
ladder. Joke's on me because politics is even more important in
starting your own thing.
Reading this felt like having a stroke.
Migration Trends
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https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/6695292/150829129-a5cb7159-7eda-4481-81b6-dd7d99162435.png

original link: https://github.com/kokizzu/list-of-tech-migrations/issues/9
Major services have major pay outs when majorly bad things happen to their enterprise customers. Finance will not approve a level of risk that would bankrupt your cloud provider for any critical service. I suppose this is mostly immaterial for startups given they don't have the weight or value.
"A review cannot be requested for this restriction"

ML enforcing rules is bad enough, but not allowing false positives to be corrected is ridiculous. This is why I would never consider g-suite for any business application.

Otoh, I think there is a legitimate business to be made helping small businesses and individuals secure themselves against arbitrary behavior from big tech. This kind of thing can have serious consequences (imagine if it was something of real substance that got restricted without recourse) and people need to consider hardening their activities against google et al
> Microsoft has declined 20% since the new year.

>> No one wants "currency" that ...

Who uses Microsoft stock as currency?
You can also "create" (i.e. start) one on your VPS if you happen to know how.

Which takes about as long to figure out how to do as anything on your control panel. Plus, you learn how things actually work.

Not saying there aren't other perfectly good reasons to use cloud services - bu the above argument isn't one of them.
https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/6695292/150829129-...
https://github.com/kokizzu/list-of-tech-migrations/issues/9