skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I actually recently delivered a project which uses almost this exact technique. Python lambdas that operate on SQLite files have the benefit of being much simpler and cheaper than most other scalable database solutions (like Aurora) for very light loads.

That said, accessing SQLite databases is surprisingly disk IO heavy. I haven't gone too deeply into measuring the effect, but it seems the core issue is that traditional RDBS wire protocols are better than SQLite's disk accesses wrapped over NFS (or whatever connection the lambda/EFS join is). Stuff especially starts to break down when you need any sort of concurrent access. The small overhead for locking/unlocking files can quickly become awful when multiplied by the EFS latency, so you really do need extremely fine sharding.
I do something similar, but test out the performance before you commit to it. There is a massive chasm between how EFS is marketed and how it actually performs. EFS is the slowest possible way to store data in AWS, with painfully low per-client and aggregate throughput. We implemented EFS because it was easy and then immediately commenced the project to replace it with S3. The bare EFS solution didn't survive long enough to make it to the S3 project's finish; we had to add a layer of caching instances in EC2 to bring EFS throughput up to an acceptable level. We almost needed two layers of caching instances; i.e. EFS fans out to N caching instances, which then fan out to M caching instances, which then fan out
to P workers, P >> M >> N. Because the EFS throughput is so poor, it could barely cope with the fan-out to the one layer of caching instances. Fortunately the S3 migration project finished before we got that far.

This announcement is, of course, the result of adding a caching layer on top of EFS. Naturally. But because they don't mention "throughput" and only mention "latency" I'm betting they have not used the cache layer to increase throughput.

I'll only ever recommend EFS if your data is very small and the throughput requirements are negligible.
But even in that, presumably the owners have some compensation for him based on winning championships. I really can’t see how a good manager doesn’t believe that their team winning is a measure of their success
a Crypto company whose founding principle is "not banking"
This is an answer to this question by sho_hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30276877
So, the process used in the article is molten oxide electrolysis - using a raw iron oxide ore in molten form in a bath with its other (oxygen-bound) impurities - aluminum oxide, burnt lime (CaO), etc.

The neat thing here is that the impurities stay behind in the electrolyte bath after the iron is removed (unsure if it's a gravity mechanism or a cathode attraction, but the molten iron ends up on the bottom of the electrolytic cell). As the article explains, this means that even cheap, low-grade ore with lots of impurities can be used with this technique.

The other advantage is that the direct chemical reduction of iron eliminates the multi step (ore in a blast furnace to get pig iron, pig iron + coke, etc) procedure in traditional production. Among other benefits, you're now only heating the material once instead of 2-3 times, and as a result, you actually consume less total energy in this process even though you have to reach a higher temperature in the single heating.
Costa Rica seems to be showing up in some discussions as a retirement option for Americans for cost of living and healthcare options. Panama has been on this list for a while. Would love to hear about others
Is this really all that new? Americans have been retiring to the Philippines, Mexico, Thailand, Panama, and other warm and cheap places for a while.
Use the zip-tie to "anchor" the slider too... that will defeat the pen trick.
> The responsible team does a thorough review, and in a bout of self-flagellation proposes a long list of extra processes that add steps and checks essentially amounting to “don’t trust anyone to commit anything right ever.”

If that list of extra checks is automated, i.e. added to your deployment scripts rather than manually followed by a human, then that's great. Every bit of repetitive decision-making and tribal knowledge that you can eliminate from your team's day-to-day functioning is a win.
Just don't subscribe if the value isn't worth it, and there are plenty of services available subscription free.

I watch a lot of youtube videos and I have never been tempted by the $12 a month premium service. Sure, I've probably consumed some advertisements in between videos, but that's been worth it to me for the amount of youtube content I've enjoyed.

A service I might find more worth paying for is Spotify, since there is value in the easy access, centralization of all the artists, etc. But I don't always listen to a lot of music, only sometimes. So maybe if I know I'm working a job where I can listen to music in the background it's worth the cost that month to enjoy it ad free, but if I'm not going to be stuck working the warehouse I might not be listening to music and not spend the money on it.
This article actually has educational value other than laughs. Counter-examples are sometimes easier to remember than straight examples, especially if you're reading about pitfalls - your brain will match those patterns when it sees you're writing them. A text that explains what the wrong way looks like and mocks it, in my opinion, will be more effective than a text that explains the right way in great detail.
First heard about this at DEFCON at a great presentation titled: Packing and the Friendly Skies. [0]

He makes a great case for keeping your laptop with your gun as the only way to guarantee its physical security.

[0] https://youtu.be/KfqtYfaILHw
Where did you move from?
> a certain aspect of the pathological process here is one that ties to correct the pathalogical symptom

That's not how I had been thinking about it but rings true for me. I have approached it more from "the mitigation should be proportional to the potential harm" angle. But I like your model, it gives a little more guidance on what sort of changes will be successful.

Anyway yes I believe we are aligned.
I know people talk highly about the Soviet directors, but aren't the early ones basically propagandists?
I was more referring to the (somewhat fair) crusade against big banks in the crypto community in general. Tweeting against banks all day and talking about "code is law" while paying a safe deposit box fee and leaning on the traditional legal system (wills, etc) and banks (the box) scales somewhere from ironic to hypocritical.
Interesting to think of this in the context of Glue Work. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KClAPipnKqw

Building culture means handling these opposing forces in a productive manner.
Georgia (and Armenia) always seemed to me as being a place with amazing sights to see. How are you finding it?
Does outer space end – or go on forever?
Misinformation is just due to people and organizations attempting to act optimally. If you don't embrace it, you'll be crushed by those who have.
Before I thought about Lithium batteries in EVs, I thought about liquid acid batteries.

It would be easy enough to have "gas" stations where you could drain the elecrolyte fluid and refill with recharged fluid.

"Recharging" an EV would then only take a few minutes like pumping gasoline.
Yes, lots of people died in rural areas and were buried without ever getting near a doctor in the Delta wave, so they weren't recorded.
Wind energy counts as green and will be used for this purpose.
Huh, won't India be a better option? Loads of English speaking folks, low crime and rising standards of living.
People who don't like attention from law enforcement do.
> But there is a whole new army of anti-vaxxers who don't care what they eat, vape, smoke, or whether they or their children are standing in a plume of diesel exhaust 24/7.

You're making some pretty specific assertions here that your whole rant seems to hinge on. Source?
If I buy a cheeseburger from McDonald's and they decide to invest the profit in R&D, is it still my money at that point?

To be more fair, SpaceX is mostly spending VC money, while SLS is spending taxpayer money. They are gambling that they can make a better product for the customer without working under contract with the customer and being payed for their development..

SLS has a government contract that pays up front for development, and will work hand in hand with the customer throughout development.
Mexico, Costa Rica and Panama are already popular retirement destinations for people from Canada and the US. Much like with gentrification in cities, I expect to find the truly affordable destination you will need to be a little bit ahead of the trend.
I've seen a lot of love for skeuomorphism on HN
The BSD model of the time had failed:

* The concept of a share-alike license (invented by the FSF as far I know) was critical for the world at the time. I think we'd see models like MacOS (built on top of formerly open-source code), rather than Ubuntu.

* The ideology behind it was critical as well. You might not agree with everything Richard said in the eighties, but everything else derives from it, either as an incremental change or as a response.

One more major contribution -- which I do attribute to Linus -- was how to structure effecitve communities. The FSF development model consisted of a few individuals doing heroics.

GNU/Linux was really the minimum viable product to iterate from.
He supposedly died of Crohn's disease though. I can't imagine anyone traveling across the world to India of all places in the throes of a Crohn's flareup..
> I do not make rules of reddit(I feel that the discussion somehow has took that direction, where... I am defending reddit?) - I just speak from my experience.

I don't think you're "defending reddit", FWIW. I just wanted to push back lightly on some things you said. And I've also seen a system based on escalating "warnings" work very well at multiple places, including arguably here at HN!

> Not, if you return with different email ...

That's not what multiple users have said in the current discussion. Their AI bot watchdogs are a lot more trigger-happy than that these days. (Which is quite fine and well per se, since plenty of bans of spammers, grossly offensive abusers etc. are quite legitimate.)
Early investors almost always require a friends and family round.
My Crohn's is under control and has always been fairly mild, but having spent a week in hospital when it was at its worst I can see how this could happen, I lost enough blood for the doctors to be very concerned. A severe flare can definitely be life threatening.
Blimey, well done you!
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Tell me, have you set the difficulty on the first played game to some level that might artificially encourage further play? I only ask as I've not played solitaire in literally 20 years or so and everything on the game I just played on your site seemed to fall in to place remarkably easily... .

ed - spelling, grammar
Game theory- prisoner’s dilemma.
Colombia, there are a lot of gringos that move here. Pensioners, ex-military retired, digital nomads, online-daters etc.

Weather, quality of life, women, freedoms and a completely different culture are the draw cards.
Personally, when I am in idea mode I'm usually incapable of detailed problem solving, and when I'm in details mode I'm incapable of idea generation. It takes many minutes to change modes and on some days I simply can not change.

So, if I don't write notes, I can't do anything complex. Some 20% of the ideas turn out to be useless, and must be discarded, otherwise they add up, but most of them, buy a large margin are stuff that should be executed.
Maybe the government is trying to discourage awareness or curiosity into their own back doors, trojan horses, and spyware in every computer and phone. Powerful legislation in that direction may open doors that the government would remain to keep closed.

Taking the tinfoil hat off, I genuinely think that federal governments are disinterested in small time, low hanging fruit.

I also consider the police to be first responders at best. Once a crime has been completed, the perpetrators are likely to straight up just get away with it due to the ineptitude and bloat inherent in a police force.
The author is correct that in any debate, the prominent skeptics are often extremely well informed (joe Rogan on vaccines, in his example).

I think what the author is missing is that Joe Rogan and the likes are not spreading misinformation, but spreading tools for misinformation.

My mother in law is very deep in misinformation. I’m not talking simple anti vax, I’m talking “trump will raid the Vatican for stolen gold so we can be a free country for the first time since the 19th century” misinformation, like QAnon tier stuff.

Once, when I was still trying to convince her to get a vaccine, I told her that after Israel’s early vaccine efforts, both cases and deaths are down heavily. Her response was to pull up a screenshot of a fox headline from a YouTube video that simply stated something like “cases up 60% after vaccination in Israel”

I don’t know the context of the headline. I’m sure in whatever context, it was accurate and not misinformation. But the actual spreaders of misinformation use skeptical talking points as weapons to spread misinformation, like the vaccine being a weapon to kill off the population for the great reset.

Anyways I don’t think it’s wrong to be a skeptic. But skeptic talking points being mass weaponized on social media is absolutely new and uniquely enabled by modern technology.
Adding to the echo here a bit, but once more: this is so cool! Good on you for sharing something special like this with your daughter. Well done.
> E.g. there was a client (I forget the details - sorry) that introduced the concept of a unicode "favicon" and a few people lost their shit about it.

Here's the whole story: https://github.com/makeworld-the-better-one/amfora/issues/19...

I wish the ML archive linked down there weren't dead, sigh.
I have an 80GB 5.5 sitting in my night stand. I sometimes think about doing this after dankpods blew up but then I remember I have almost 0 use for something that has music already on it, vs streaming. The clear shell looks fantastic.
> So how do we represent /proc in such a way as to make interacting with it through minecraft useful?

Not exactly what you wanted, but Hajime can already query info from /proc to make it accessible from within Minecraft.

https://github.com/Slackadays/Hajime
> Under US law, a “firearm” includes the bare frame for a firearm

It feels to me that it's serialized part of firearm built in a metallic material. TSA website[1] also distinguishes "firearm" and "firearm parts", the latter of which includes often-controlled gun parts as quoted below.

> Firearms must be unloaded and locked in a hard-sided container and transported as checked baggage only. As defined by 49 CFR 1540.5 a loaded firearm has ...
> Firearm parts, including magazines, clips, bolts and firing pins, are prohibited in carry-on baggage, but may be transported in checked baggage.

This might be only relevant to gun nerds, but I think what that "tiny piece of metal" applies to are stripped AR-15 lowers and polymer Sig inner frames. Those two parts are so considered firearm that are practically not much of one.

1: https://www.tsa.gov/travel/transporting-firearms-and-ammunit...
If a service is useful but you're short on money, write them a polite note, and explain the situation and how much you would be able to pay. A good chunk of smaller companies will accommodate you. Maybe even the occasional big one.

However, it's probably time to clean up, curb your appetite, and try to spend less time inside your computer/phone, or at least in the consumerist corner of the internet.

To add some anecdata, I recently have been sucked into much labor and work in the physical world and have had much less time to spend at the computer. The mental difference from this "digital detox" has been noticeable and eye opening. I'm exposed to much less anger and hate (news + social media) and I don't waste a ton of time getting sucked into random walks of knowledge seeking and trivia.
When you get online – get paranoid
If I'm Apple, when do I accept that the writing is on the wall...

It will be an interesting WWDC.
There's no irony. What you're referencing was half a century ago. It also isn't ironic for a German circa 1960 to move to the US, or a Russian circa 1995 to move to the US, or for an American to move to Japan in the 1970s, and it wasn't ironic for a million Vietnamese to move to the US, and so on.

The people of Vietnam no longer much care about the US involvement in the Vietnam Civil War (which is one reason why US popularity with the people of Vietnam is so high). Soon everyone that fought in that war will be dead and its memory will particularly have faded away accordingly.
Oh and:

4) Optimized for SEO. About 50% of my business came from referrals, the other 50% SEO.
I feel like this would go poorly in Europe
> And I've started by purchasing a domain name for 10 years and having a 'catch all and forward to gmail' rule setup.

This is the easiest way to do this since most domain registrars have a forwarding option. Cloudflare recently introduced Email Routing, which has been working well for me.

> But what if I get reported on my domain name? What if that gets suspended or blacklisted too?

Usually IPs or blocks of IPs get reported for spam, not domains. So in case the SMTP server you use starts to see a drop in reputation you can always change to another one without affecting your deliverability.
Many parts of India have some of the worst air pollution in the world.

There's also the ever present risk of a nuclear war with Pakistan or China.

Terrorism is another significant concern.
Note that this wasn't a case of the money being lost because the key was lost when the owner died as per the initial headlines - in this case the money simply wasn't there in the first place: "Quadriga likely never invested the funds entrusted to it, according to Chainalysis, ... Either the funds were never received or quickly went missing" and "Ernst & Young found five Quadriga cold wallet addresses, but they were empty, containing no cryptocurrency since April 2018."[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadriga_Fintech_Solutions
Mexico is a lot of fun.
You’re unlikely to run into trouble if you keep your nose clean (of white powder)
These statements seem to counter each other.

>They acquired property, bought yachts and planes, travelled to exotic destinations.

>Robertson, online posters insisted, was conspiring with Cotten, who’d faked his own death and was hiding in some extradition-free backwater until they could rendezvous and live happily ever after.

Seems like they already lived the good life, why fake your own death which only complicates things more.
But the meaning is not in the text (text-as-artifact, the ink on the page), it is strictly in the mind of the reader, accessed by reference to the speaker's experience with the language in question. If you don't have something to ground at least part of the symbols in, there is nothing to work from. Any word can be assigned any meaning, and there would be infinite possibilities. No amount of statistics will allow you to work out whether a given word or part of a word refers to a rock, a rabbit or Noam Chomsky's granddaughter. How could it? To be able to do this is called knowing a language, and if all the people who had that skill in the soft tissue of their brain have kicked the bucket, tough luck, you can't get that knowledge back.

All (bar none) decipherments of unknown writing systems have been done by reference to related languages, especially the existence of bilingual texts. Computers and statistics are definitely able to help us do that, but if all you have is a page of text with no context, then the information you're looking for is gone.
That’s disingenuous. Is your salary your own money? The fact that you earn the money by working for your employer doesn’t make that money their money. It is still yours. You can spend it however you like.
> computer science principles

Hum... Try process engineering principles. They have no relation to computer science, but with the area of knowledge that focus on organizing work.
Yes, and the most insidious part is that the beneficiaries don't even realize it. Often they genuinely do have talent and work hard, and they didn't get a million dollars dropped on them with no strings attached, so they attribute 99% of their success to personal merit. The free housing and transportation, the extra formal and informal instruction, the contacts, the superior nutrition and health care, the freedom from distraction and psychological safety of working with a net - none of those things penetrate their consciousness at all because those weren't blatant easily-counted gifts. They don't realize others don't have those things (all their peers did) or how much that matters. "I still would have succeeded without those" even though it's not true. It's the nature of privilege to hide itself.

The correlation is not absolute, of course. There are poor kids who succeed - like me, though even with beginnings that were modest by most standards I was still far luckier than many. There are rich kids who fail. But the relationship is still far stronger than would be allowed in anything we could legitimately call a meritocracy.
I would recommend anyone in IT to read their blog (and play the game a little for the context) to understand how to wisely deal with complex systems and learn good programming practices.

https://www.factorio.com/blog/
I don't believe it's the case any more, but for years the US government funded anti-smoking campaigns while simultaneously subsidizing tobacco farming.
How do we know if AA is actually solving the issue? At what point will AA have solved the issue (approximate date)?

Either AA solves racism by $deadline and becomes obsolete, or it doesn't solve racism and is discarded in favor of something better. Either way there is no reason to have indefinite AA beyond $deadline
What a Russian invasion of Ukraine would mean for the global economy
Louisiana enters the chat
I'm hoping I could find a community interested in.. I don't want to say exactly "low tech" computing but I guess the idea is pretty close. Cheap microcontrollers today are incredibly powerful.
It depends what you are measuring as the risk. The risk of lowering your quality of life may decrease with wealth, but the risk of your business failing likely stays roughly the same. Thus, more appetite for risk.
The guy could have bribed the doctors and the wife might not be in on it.
One way to think of this: have the computer learn how to translate between any two languages, i.e., learn how to "build translators", and then attempt to translate between the unknown language and every other language.
The best lies are half-truths. Maybe he actually has Crohns and there's enough documentation to make this story (half-)plausible.

(just offering one possible answer to this question - I don't know any facts about this case)
There are so many options!

My favorite conceptually is a dead-man switch. For example, something will have a password only you have, as long as you input you are alive every x days. If you die, eventually it switches to another password someone else might have.

It really is amazing to think how hard it is to keep something safe, once you are tasked with it.