skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Amazon can apparently get data cheaply out of cold storage with a day or so of warning.

Can google not do that? And if they did, they could still maintain the same kind of tiering.

If they can't do it, that's a very strange system.

If they refuse to do it, that's manipulative.

For archival storage Google's charging three and a half years of storage costs to retrieve data. Even in the most flattering scenario where roughly all of the cost is in doing the I/O, and disk space is "free", that implies that retrieval is at least 75% profit. If I/O is half the cost of storage and disk space is half the cost of storage, then retrieval approaches 90% profit.
Ugh. When I was in jail I had to have a bright light shining on my face every night for five years. Cover the light and you went to the Hole.
The New Versions of Huawei Laptops
It's quite a coincidence that the numerous complicated factors all started causing inflation at about the same time as the government printing tons of additional money. Also a coincidence that the confluence of the ineffable complex factors had the same effect that a naive person would imagine printing a lot of money would have.
More like where I worked where that was a thing the ops team were a slave class in a company mainly staffed by devs
I’ve been using openhab for a few years now. Relentlessly reliable on the rpi, easy to customise, and it’s doing everything from balancing our power grid to managing water distribution to turning the lights down when I put a movie on.

I like it. Never tried honeassistant though, so can’t compare.
Yep, Subversion was definitely better than "copy of project 2 copy 3 FINAL", but it doesn't compare favourably to git.

Although that said I did used to play a game where a community mod pack was delivered via SVN - you'd simply check out the repo into your mods folder and everything just worked, and updating became trivial. This was a fair while ago before Git LFS was mainstream and SVN had better large file support (as in many files in the hundreds of megabytes per each, not multi-gig assets - this was in the era post dialup but while residential "broadband" speeds were still quite slow).
The problem is that green hydrogen production remains a drop in the bucket, and we lack the kind of electricity overproduction to change that.
That's timely, because I just started switching over to 29.0.50 on 2 of my boxes, but 29 is just too unstable for me now. lots of rendering glitches. back to a stable fast version now.
If we're going metric, why not go all the way and end up with joules?
The War Diary of Yevgenia Belorusets
Inflation is the decline in value of the currency. CPI is how we normally attempt to measure inflation since asking "How much will you pay for a dollar today?" will not yield a useful answer. You are right that the measuring is done in hindsight. But the decline in value of the currency is responsible for prices rising to compensate.
Adding "5 Questions for Stephen Kotkin, Ukraine Edition" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylaC0MUleZs

I find John M's arguments defeatist and pessimistic. Stephen offers a positive message and outlook.

I've collected several good discussions here: https://verdverm.com/ukraine/
that's 2.16 eur per liter.

is 2.30 per liter here in Europe now. don't worry, I'm sure you can pay it. we can pay it, too.
In nordic countries heat pumps (and good insulation) are more common for heating than gas.
To echo the sibling comment, cold weather air heat pumps work, they get efficiency over resistive heating down to about -25 or -30C, and are widely used in colder climates.

There are also ground and water heat pumps that exploit the
higher ground/water temperature in the winter. There are also utility scale versions of these used in district heating plants.
Tried maybe around 5 eye-masks in my usage of them during the last 7 years and the best one that does not fall off during sleep(mostly), does not let much light in and is comfortable:
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005002554825105.html?spm=a2...
This is not new.

When AT&T dissolved the group that had been maintaining a bunch of unix software, and other people had to try to pick up maintenance of ksh, they discovered a little thing called AST.
>Xi's position is too unassailable right now

I don't think he's quite there yet. If the 20th party congress later this year goes according to plan for him, he will be though.
Giant impact origin for the large low shear velocity provinces (2021) [pdf]
Maybe! You'd need to use workers for giant blobs of data, not their normal website plans, but those don't cost a lot.

It's probably worth setting up a cheap torrent-seeding server too.
What is actually happening is that Russia has moved onto the Chinese alternative to SWIFT, India&China&Iran&Syria etc are forming an alternative block, and Russia is put into a close relationship with China. This is not a good idea because Russia&Ukrain&Belarus produce 1/3 of all corn, a huge chunk of fertilizer production, and a huge chunk of many commodities essential for the little industry we have left.

What will happen if a significant portion of oil is no longer traded in dollars? The dollars value is supported by the large amount of oil trades, and without it the US can't run the deficits its gotten used to. The US has transferred much of the industrial base to China which makes it hard to recover from that.

> Russian civilians should consider themselves lucky that the war is only economic for them.

Russia is the largest nuclear force in the world, and as Afghanistan and Ukraine shows a conventional war is very resource demanding. If the US went to direct war against russia that would be WWIII, and considering that there are nuclear stakes here that is not a good idea.
The west has this weird idea that destroying its living standards is the way to support Ukraine and combat Russia. My guess: won't happen. Russia won't change its course, but I will be paying 5e per liter of gas in september, all in name of some "democracy, freedom" in Ukraine. Supremely delusional state of affairs.
Read the article. they explained it. and this 20TB was just a small piece of their backups. their IT killed off online access to it during ftp extraction after 2 weeks.
I feel the same way, only not about politics, but aesthetics. I would gladly pay extra at the pump to force people to listen to snatches of noise music, like the Boredoms or Merzbow; or mini documentaries extolling the virtues of Dadaism or Brutalism.
I do get the feeling of all the things I've never found a great use for under one roof at last!
Conversely, often it's more interesting to read a single person's well researched opinion than a dozen one-off comments.
Wouldn’t an enterprise go with what they’ve always used? Like Dell, EMC, HP, etc…and most startups will use a cloud provider instead of on prem
China’s lockdown of its tech hub bad news for the Fed’s fight against inflation
The story of my career. Literally EVERY good employer I've had suffered some change a year or two into my tenure that turned the place around... into a shithole.
So, Beijing Has a Nuclear Pact with Ukraine
Still wouldn't help them because of how heating is structured in the country.

Now, massive upgrades to thermoisolation of homes could be pushed, if there was political will.
I came to the conclusion that it's nice to have a google and MS free environment. If Teams is needed, or a Windows only game, I can still boot Windows.
10 years of supporting your own compiler is pretty damn impressive
Windows vs Linux is similar to the chess.com vs lichess.org comparison.

chess.com is worse performance, bloated to the moon w/ ads and popups, costs money, not open-source. And lichess.org is the opposite in every way (free, way higher quality, zero ads).

I can't believe MS would put ads in system tools. What the hell are they thinking!? I've used linux for 5 years now and not looking back!
Sure, but then we’re discussing the topic as set by the post’s title, not the actual topic(s) addressed by the post’s content, which are quite a bit more complex and nuanced than a title of a few characters could ever convey.

What if we want to hold a conversation about the actual post content? Should we add a tag such as [please read]?
Curious who Chomsky is partisan for.
We all know. @ben-schaaf was answering the question "how would an alternative rendering engine fix this problem".
I think programming culture is full of people trying to up sell themselves, and it gives everyone a warped perception of self worth. I agree with this whole blog post, but it still itches me that the author has to frame his accomplishments as tiny when they seemed non trivial and apparently took place over nine years. It’s like if you aren’t working on enough buzzwords you must hedge your self worth.
I've been regularly checking that page, delighted with every step of progress as WebMIDI gets implemented in Firefox.

In about:config, I have dom.webmidi.enabled set to true. I'm using this test page and waiting for the day it starts working for regular version of Firefox.

https://versioduo.com/webmidi-test/
This would be more meaningful if we knew what you think makes a rockstar engineer.

Some people value extreme speed.

Others are impressed by somebody who will dive down a rabbit hole and follow however deep it leads, discovering the linker bug or kernel driver interaction that causes a failure, and patching it.

Or maybe you are impressed that they go away for a month, talking to nobody, and come back with a complete system all ready to ship.

Or they write libraries that everybody uses because they are so exactly what people need.

Or they are always available to explain things to junior people and get them going in the right direction.

Each of those would be unusually valuable, at some places, and would have trouble getting any recognition, at others.
I worked for a company that made games that were used by young children and so covered by COPA. They definitely took a lot of care to delete everything.
You’re forgetting about the subdivisions. The house where I grew up was about an hour walk through the woods and up many hills from the nearest bus stop, which would take you downtown but to neither of my parents jobs. By car it was just ten minutes to downtown.

Where my dad worked was across from some hotels, and the bus dependent workers there had to run across a six lane highway with no crosswalk then walk along another one with no sidewalks for a mile to reach a bus depot.

Also, bus systems are barely functional right now due to labor shortage. The college town where I am now has a very good (for the South) free bus system, but it’s a tiny town with no suburbs and they are constant cutting service, missing routes, etc due to driver shortage.

Not to mention—if people can’t, or won’t, take the bus to places other than work, retail and service jobs evaporate overnight.
There was a frightfully insightful recent twitter thread making rounds, saying that extractive industries are perfect to be headed/owned by mob bosses, because the more complex the industry the more leverage the technical employees have. I.e. in extractive industries they have close to none, in manufacturing they have a solid measure of respect, while in tech industries they get to dictate the culture of the company.

Which means a mob leadership (we're not pretending anymore Russia doesn't have one of those, right?) will favor extractive industries over everything else, not just because they're much easier to own and exploit, but because allowing other types of companies to grow creates power centers outside of their control. They actively prefer to outsource services abroad, even if they are more expensive and create reliance on foreign partners.

Which means Germany's bet was wrong on two counts:

1. It propped exactly the kind of industries where the money goes in mob's pockets

2. It was unnecessary, because Russia was making itself incredibly vulnerable to sanctions all by itself by avoiding to develop anything more complex than a well or a mine (normally I'd say defense excluded, but seeing the quality of their current armed forces, it's more like an argument that even defense is included).

The natural question here is if the blunder is an honest mistake... but honest mistakes and motivated reasoning go suspiciously well together, and by all accounts the German elites more than occasionally gained from trade with Russia.
British tech champion Arm to slash hundreds of jobs
It's just a domino effect. Demand for good has decreased significantly during COVID as businesses had to scale back. Inevitably suppliers had to shutdown or cut production. FED started printing money in the meantime and giving consumers handouts to stimulate economy and increase spending. Instead, that money went into a stock market frenzy and savings accounts as people were forced to stay home. When COVID restrictions eased and economy started to open up and consumers rushed to spend their savings. This caused businesses and suppliers scramble to meet demand and ultimately triggered the supply chain crisis. As a result the prices on goods have shot up as there was too much money chasing to few goods and the economy wasn't able to keep up with demand after remaining dormant for months.
That's great to hear, appreciate you letting me know there are options that do work at low temps!
I believe some of the Chromium folks are partly responsible for this. Though it's probably not a planned "campaign" of any sort, I've seen some prominent figures constantly direct hatred toward other browser vendors online, and countless webdevs piling on. I'm not posting links because many of them are highly toxic, but browser developers on the receiving end has expressed their frustrations more than once.
Not sure how I feel about an anon account presumably created for the sole purpose of denigrating someone's ability.
WW1
7/28/1914

WW2
9/1/1939

Ukraine invasion
2/24/2022

7+28+19+14=68

9+1+19+39=68

2+24+20+22=68
Cities should not pay for new stadiums
But on Hackernews those one-off comments can come from years of studying the same topic. Sometimes even explaining why the long well researched opinion missed something so important that the whole article is wrong.
Sure. USB's port has a little tab inside, I think its like 0.6mm. Because they put a TON of pins on this little tab (24 pins!) the tab itself in almost all cases has to be plastic or non-metal.

Lighting by contrast tends to have a metal tab which is relatively beefy at 1.5mm. This is much stronger materials and dimensions wise AND is on a part (the cable) that is pretty easily replaceable. So that's a win win win.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning_(connector)#/media/F...

Despite this, the port itself is SMALLER for lighting. So add another win?

Finally with lightning the interface is simple, it's one piece inside another and the tolerances seem really good / there is an little indent to help seat a lightning cable. With UCB-C you have a shall going around a tab, so loading is onto the interior surface with flexing, then a shall around that, so tab -> surrounded by cable shell -> surrounded by port shell. In my experience this just results in a fair bit of slop in accumulated tolerance issues.
This take appears pretty disconnected from both the point of the resource its replying to and the landscape of what CS education looks like right now, as well as uninformed about the point of the linked work. In addition, it contains 15+ hrs of reading material, I don't think judging any work purely off of the polemic abstract (and i would consider it bait) is in good faith or form, but if you can read 15+ hrs of pedagogic material in less than 5 I congratulate you and will buy you a beer. To be clear, this is a textbook about the process of teaching CS subject matter. Asking "does Computer Science as a taught discipline carry explicit values?" Has a plenty of well researched answers. If you don't want to engage with it or the heritage of studying the outcomes of technology, thats your call, but it doesn't provide you an effective framework to justify your beliefs.

From the perspective of good faith: please do read "Race After Technology" by Ruha Benjamin and "Algorithms of Oppression" by Safiya Noble. They are two books that i wish more tech and tech adjacent people would read.

> Now, CS approached with the conclusion that it is biased and somehow racist will, of course, prove itself to be

The two above books are great counterpoints to this mentality. If you want to analyze a system you look at its outcomes, thats basic systems theory. "Thinking in Systems" by Donella Meadows provides both a great introduction to systems theory as well as numerous examples as to why this way of considering them is valuable. Additionally this seems to be a non-rigorous way to interpret any of the humanities. Alas, who is going to expect those in the technologies to consider their work critically.

> See the multiple different ways to architect a CPU, Write an OS. The web and peer to peer technology.

These are nonsequiters, and do not address the values imparted by both CS education and the culture within. As counter points I can name off the top of my head: locked down bootloaders, proprietary drivers, data ownership, mass surveillance/adtech, about 4 actual OS vendors with dominant control of the market, data set bias. The web as it stands for the majority of people on it very much so fits the standard of centralization. Just because a few fractions of a percent of all internet participants use the internet in a peer-to-peer way a fraction of the time that they use it doesn't provide a fruitful sample of how values are built into the system.

Comments like these are why we black engineers rarely feel comfortable within our industry. Its not to say anything you said was explicitly offensive, but that it shows an unwillingness to interact with challenging material.
> Yukon, NWT, is teeming with stuff you can hunt and eat.

And likely teeming with stuff that can hunt and eat you. Well, just grizzlies I guess.
> And by “topic”, in the case of HN, I mean the title of an article.

The thing is, the topic of the actual article is generally more interesting than the topic suggested by a naive reading of the title (as is the case here).

People discussing things based on titles leads to generic discussions that recur again and again and go nowhere. Whereas the actual topic of the article's content is rather more specific and could lead to an actual new and more specific discussion that might actually go somewhere.
Are there no measures that bake in home prices?
Thanks for that overview! I still don't get it how businesses even in these days can make it hard for you do delete your account.
Living in a low and deteriorating trust society has many non obvious knock on effects that are hard to see from the inside.
That's true. But * probably * pseudonymised :D
This isn't just about Russia and Ukraine, it's also about China and Taiwan and Russia and what Russian imperialists call the "little russias."

Greater instability has far greater risks to your pocket book than some short term concern of tiny rises in fossil fuel costs.
The web is built on the foundation I can use any browser. You are going to break the fundamental promise just to avoid working around a bug?
I have to strongly disagree. The lengthy article has much more thought put into it. It's almost always better researched and the author usually has relevant experience or expertise, and those are usually at least known to the reader in some way or easily discovered.

I have seen many, many cases where a big portion of the top comments are either saying something similar to what the author of the article said, or they are asking a question, or raising a rebuttal, that is already addressed in the article.

Comments are short and probably have close to zero research on average. Experience may play a part, but people don't usually offer up the resume with a comment, so you have no idea if they even have credibility. And there are mountains of witticisms, anecdotes, or emotional arguments that add little to nothing of value to the conversation.

Personally, I almost always read the article and then skim the comments to see if anybody has added any thoughts I might find interesting.
Worth noting the historical influence of Russia on the German antinuclear/Green lobby, as well.
No, the idea is that destroying the living standards of Russians will achieve peace — which is also highly questionable.
While true, it's not really a problem per se. On average, wages keep pace with inflation and so if prices go up in a persistent way, so too will wages, and the effect will cancel out in time. You are right that some prices are sticky - but so are wages - and so there's a built-in mechanism to address this over time. [0]

> Edited to add: Are we likely to see an acceleration of the electrification of transport? Buy Tesla shares? Renewable energy projects double-digit percentage uptick?

Investing isn't really that simple. While TSLA has notionally gone down in price per share (from $1200 to $780), the bubble has gotten bigger. It's market cap is higher than every other automaker put together, plus a bunch of utility companies, plus a few battery companies. This is about the most crowded trade on the planet. Even after Elon dumped on everyone at the peak and is under SEC investigation for doing so. [1]

Generally, you won't do much better than just investing in the S&P 500. In fact 92% of actively-managed funds underperform the S&P 500 over a 15 year period. [2] You think you can do better?

[0] https://corporatefinanceinstitute.com/resources/knowledge/ec...

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/sec-probes-trading-by-elon-musk...

[2] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/15/active-fund-managers-trail-t...
Another great example why I love to use managed services / serverless services and not take care of security groups and NACLs
Yes, they are solving the storage and RAM challenges partially by throwing CPU at it: not using native pointers, switching between multiple struct sizes where the original had one, compressed integer values, etc., also they restructured drawing to happen in slices as the beam travels, which must have its costs. Also I wonder whether original Doom relied on some GPU hardware, whereas here everything happens in software. RP2040 doom also has to emulate the sound hardware, and handle lots of interrupts to initialize the DMA for each individual video scanline.

OTOH they are actually overclocking the RP2040 at 270Mhz.
>all in name of some "democracy, freedom" in Ukraine.

Sorry, but this is not some internal war between 2 political factions where some other big power intervenes to help their preferred faction. It is an actual freedom war where many people are killed, many others are forced to leave their country and if Putin wins it will not stop there, he will continue.

If you are from US I understand why you might be frustrated with wars already though, but the alternative of doing nothing is worse, is like we pay tribute to Putin and hope is enough and he won't invade half of Europe.
nonsense. there is enough room for secure pairs, just don't be too stupid.

RSA is secure, only government agencies are argumenting against it
China orders 51M into lockdown as Covid surges, including Shenzen
Whoever guards the doors at the Kremlin will eventually run out of bullets.

So, yes, they do have a choice, but it's a pretty awful one.
Or U.S. politicians could actually support the U.S. domestic oil and gas industry and the free world could have all we need. Instead we’re making the Saudis rich.
Possibly, but I would bet that many people are upvoting these articles based off a combination of the title + the discussions of the title, which would suggest enough people find those two things interesting (which is why it’s at #1 and why most of the comments are around the title vs. the subject).

Also, if the subject is more interesting than the title, then authors should consider being more thoughtful around a title that fits the subject, vs. making sure people click the article.