skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In addition: long before AWS you could easily rent virtualized or dedicated servers.

It took longer to provision than EC2 and all you had for storage is a fixed amount of disk, but that was absolutely sufficient for many businesses.
By that strange logic, all the developers of the Go Programming Language deserve a special place in hell ?

Why do I have to laboriously type two hypens for a readable option ? Causes finger pain especially when you have a large number of options.
MS reversed by transplanted immune cells that fight Epstein-Barr virus
This project started in 2006 and from what I can find, cost estimates have not changed much. The initial range was 6 to 12 billion Euros at 2006 prices. Converted to $ and adjusted for inflation, $11B is right in the middle of that range.
For me it started with having to write unit tests and acceptance tests and integration tests for the stuff I make.
I agree here, some lines and trains in Europe go up to 300 kmh (last one I've tried was actually in Spain, on par with French TGV).

Plus airports have this pesky habit of losing all your luggage, even on fairly trivial flights. Recently my journey was Geneva -> Barcelona -> Seville, and they lost my big luggage with complete paraglider (4000+ euro) and other stuff (cca 1000 euro). For a week, they couldn't even locate it, had to buy tons of stuff and rent basic paraglider from school and I started saying goodbye to all equipment. No real compensation for anything. Then it just showed up in place I told them to deliver to, not even apology (vueling airlines, but I blame airports for this more than airline).

That's just one sample out of quite a few on how to ruin your dream vacation by flying.
> I was positively surprised that 10G fiber networking is now down to $70 for a PCIe card + 20m cable kit.

Wow, that is surprising, maybe it's time I started upgrading my LAN...
> Also, in Germany trains are very often late or have other issues.

Wait, what? I am really surprised to read this.
I haven't used Rails before, so I may be missing something, but is this necessarily the case?

If I remember correctly the blue book isn't too keen on modelling your domain in your database, but rather build it out of POJOs and then build a separate layer. But at the same time it's open to using DDD with a logic paradigm, which is eerily similar to a relational database. If, after you've done the necessary work with the domain experts, you have determined that Rails is the right tool for a job, I think you can safely call it a paradigm and carry on.
The difference between an agency/consultancy (selling services) and a product company is enormous. There are other advocates here for product, but since the $100k you mentioned is probably for a services engagement (you don't have a product yet), I'll share a warning about that model for a startup. When your business sells services, you essentially become a broker between people who need a type of work (your customers), and people who can do a type of work (your employees and sub-contractors). The health of the business, then, is tightly dependent on the relationship between the demand from your customers, and the availability and cost of the people with the right skills to execute the work. Assuming you're already in a good place to gauge the customer demand, my warning is about staffing to execute the work. It's easy to imagine that legions of the experts you've worked with previously will be inspired to join you, but you'd be surprised how untrue that can be (or possible but more expensive, due to the risks of a smaller company). Yes, it's possible to create a great, sustainable services business, but it's important to be aware of the challenges you can face with staffing, retention, keeping customers happy, and doing it all within a commercially viable margin.
I'm from Germany, and i don't feel like the US is seeing itself as "equal" as to other countries. The US is one of the most militarily aggressive states, just within my lifetime, they invaded Afghanistan, Iraq and had several weird operations in Syria and Libya. "Normal" values would be zero.

I long for the day when US war crimes are treated the same way as war crimes by non-western countries. Instead they pull off shit like the Hague Invasion Act.
Look at when the Ukraine revolution/coup happened, and when Putin annexed Crimea. Also, understand that after the coup, when Ukraine rewrote their Constitution they laid the ground work to drop neutrality and join NATO. Putin annexed Crimea the next day.

The only reason things didn't continue to accelerate under Trump is because he was not a fan of NATO and had no financial interests in Ukraine like Biden does, so the Ukrainians knew they had no friend in him. Once Biden won, Ukraine went back to poking the bear with obvious results.

I'm sure the Biden families financial activities in Ukraine are 100% completely unrelated though.
I think it should have been clear enough from the reply that I think China's actions in Xinjiang are reprehensible?

Maybe here's an example you'll like better: It is true that Ukraine has had a serious rise in neonazi activity in recent history. I am not a fan of neonazis. However Russia's justification of their invasion by that is obviously disingenuous. Their own government is proto-fascist, obviously they are going to do anything but that.

If you apply that same logic to the US, you'll have a pretty good understanding of my position.
I disagree, pioneering SBCs on a non-profit budget means this one hitch on binary blobs is a very low priority for them.

Working with the same vendor consistently to iterate on a very similar design each time is ideal.
Mac sales fly as PC declines – did the M1 chip save Apple?
"But when citizens lose trust in elected leaders, health authorities, the courts, the police, universities, and the integrity of elections, then every decision becomes contested; every election becomes a life-and-death struggle to save the country from the other side."

Perhaps the root cause of this is not misinformation but rather the increase in awareness of how corrupt and incompetent some of these systems are.

I've witnessed these things myself related to political figures, police, prosecutors, the judiciary, and the organizations that are supposed to oversee them (the Bar, judicial board, internal affairs, the FBI, attorney general, etc). Rights violations are so common that nobody cares unless they resulted in bodily injury or substantial monetary loss. If nobody is standing up for or enforcing those rights, then do we actually even have them, or are they a fiction?

If the oversight of the people comprising the system is ineffective, then that is what will lead to abuses and this idea that each election is a battle. It seems nobody can enforce the rulers to follow their own rules. And these rulers have consistently granted themselves more power and autonomy throughout history (really surprised they didn't bring this up).
> Yes (although such spamming shouldn't be possible in the first place thanks to the reputation system).

Not possible, or just disincentivized?
When tech people say things like "most problems are people problems, not tech problems", showing that their field are already fully understood and they are just there to talk to a machine and not to build new things.
If you ask me, technology was always boring and sucked and was a bland expression of utilitarianism. At worst it was even more terrifying, remember when we developed nuclear bombs? Or even just ordinary bombs and tanks and other murderous technology? The fascination with tech is just the bias of youth, when everything in the world seems new and uncharted and full of possibility. You only enjoyed it because you were on the other side, you were the beneficiary, instead of being the one who has to spend your entire working life slaving away to keep it functioning. And dealing with the outlandish demands from customers and the general public who don't understand or care how it works, they just want the latest solution now and will toss any amount of money at the problem to get it.
The article doesn't mention whether the token is limited to the account with the RDS database or can access additional resources.

I'd imagine it's only scoped to a single customer account but I'm curious what it gives access to.
I would have expected this for iOS, but for macOS this is quite jarring. I don't think just designing good products is too innovative and that extends to the M1 chips. The negative side of such manufacturers is quite predictable and this is just plainly bad software behavior through and through. Apple isn't user oriented, it just assumes its users won't notice.
> The fact that Pessac was easily modified appears to be accidental

Why is it accidental in your opinion?

Corbusier's Five Points of Architecture[1] specifically dictate free design of f.x. the ground plan, in order to facilitate further modification.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Corbusier%27s_Five_Points_o...
Apple patents TrueDepth camera system behind the Display
Nobody wants China to get away with their camps, but no one wants the US to get away with Guantanamo Bay, either.

> That's not the same as putting people into prison because their religious beliefs make them enemies of the state.

Isn't this what some people ended up in Guantanamo Bay for?

Edit: TIL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uyghur_detainees_at_Guantanamo...
* algorithmic timelines circa 2009

* bitcoin price jump in 2017

it won’t be over, the cat’s out of the bag
I think current gas prices will help shift that a bit. I don't think they are coming down anytime soon.
I have a very uncommon name (though not unique) and I've had people mistakenly signing up for services with my firstname.lastname@gmail.com (which I don't usually sign up to services with).

The annoying thing is the number of services these days that don't seem to require you to verify your email. Examples of the above included eBay and Spotify. On both occasions I had to contact support to ask them to delete the account.
Meh. I've seen accusations of marxism far more often than pleas for decolonization of non-colonizers, and for far dumber reasons.
Related: your office chair can make a big difference. I changed mine and have a lot less upper body pain now than I used to. Within a few days I noticed the difference - it was night and day.
We should talk about the many abuses and injustices committed by the US, but why should every thread criticising Russia or China also be a thread criticising the US? If someone is genuinely concerned about the abuses of the US government then shouldn't they be making their own threads and posts without prompting, instead of just tacking them on to every thread about Russia or China?
Smartphones. Purely consumption devices changed the balance to be more producer/consumer than collaborator.

The world is on board now so rapid tech changes aren't possible to market.

There's still crazy/genius if you look for it, but hobbyist only in most cases. NixOS, Urbit, any DHT or CRDT system, VR, Graal, WASM, mesh nets like ygssadril.
There is an exact year: 2008. Two reasons:

- Obama is elected with significant help from new social media tactics. Powerful interests realize that tech will shape the future of politics. This leads to less "technology for technology's sake" and more of its use to achieve sociopolitical goals.

https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/faculty-research/case-studies/o...

- The financial crash heats up resentment against elites. While it may seem like the East Coast media and financial set are opponents of Big Tech, to the average person, they're both out of touch elites. Tech stopped being cool when it stopped being the underdog.
I’d wager it’s a small number of people who thought it was never a crisis. Approximately 1 in 350 Americans died of COVID in the past two years, so most people know someone who died. Personally, it’s hard not to call it a crisis when it hits that close to home.
What you learn from ordinary people's accounts makes the current amount of pressure on China on this issue laughable.
See Larry? This is what you get when you bore a tunnel through the Alps!
I use Intel 82599ES SFP+ and a TL-SX3008F router. But let me warn you: Things are affordable, but NOT consumer-friendly. I needed to study the 500 page PDF manual and do basic link configuration through telnet via USB before I could connect to the router via Ethernet and use its web-GUI to finish the setup.
>Since when does it take a pro-Western stance to condemn a war

It takes a pro-Western stance to condemn Russia for invading Ukraine under false pretense but celebrate America invading Iraq under false pretenses (a war in which literally hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians were killed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Iraq_War).
There does seem to be a strong cultural thread in architecture that views the profession as more art than design. If I have to live and work in a building, I would much rather it was designed with me in mind than being the architect's expression of personal style.

Edit: to be fair, this criticism could also be levelled at programmers and interface designers.
I agree very much that DDD is an extension of OOP in many ways

May I recommend the video Domain Modeling Made Functional:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QlhkQl0DSw

and the book on the same topic:
https://pragprog.com/titles/swdddf/domain-modeling-made-func...

Scott Wlaschin has been on a "crusade" for years to decouple DDD from OOP and show that doing DDD in a functional language (he uses F# for all his examples) is not only possible, but preferable. He might not change your mind, but it will make you look at DDD from a new angle.
One may hope.
I’m sure at some point a tunnel was built somewhere to technically connect Portugal and Vietnam.[1] Flagged.

[1] https://basementgeographer.com/the-longest-train-ride-in-the...
All the easy problems were solved, and the hard ones don't offer a good return on investment so they are only achieved by academia/serendipity.
It's right there in your first three words, it didn't change so much as you, "grew up".

It doesn't have to be technology, you could probably say the same thing about most things in your life, "I don't know what happened. I used to like hanging out with my friends, riding my bike, listening to music. But then things changed and now I've got a job, a mortgage to worry about and it's all about money and I never have enough time to do the things that I want to do".

But you have an internal contradiction. You're nostalgically looking back at a time when you optimistically said, "Wherever I looked at the world's problems, more technology seemed to be the answer" but then say that, "Today's startups are solving the most boring problems imaginable.".

More technology is not the answer to most problems and most problems are boring.
what exactly you refer too? Very unspecific question.
That’s because it’s on the blog on which Raymond looks at a common annoyance on the Windows platform and makes up excuses for it. Sometimes they make sense, sometimes they might have made sense decades ago, oftentimes it’s just bullshit and the real reason is just an off-the-cuff decision by some random intern in the 80s.

Windows already has mechanism for streamlining the visuals when the desktop runs through RDP and updating one small rectangle on the real screen once every second costs basically no resources at all, especially considering the typical Windows use case where everything runs through multiple layers of virtualizations while the virusscanner is wasting as many resources as it can get away with.
Software updates require a restart, but that's not what I'm thinking of when I consider a power down. I'm thinking of the scenario where you take explicit action to power down your machine and leave it powered down. I power down my machines before going on vacation, for example.

Even when you power down or restart a Mac it remembers all the applications you had running and all the application windows and it re-opens everything so you come back to everything just the way you left it.
RISC-V is probably the closest, but they're going to need to get faster to compete with ARM.
https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/japanese-america...
i had lunch with a friend who was diagnosed with cancer, but then later found treatment to keep it at bay. i asked him what his thoughts were when he was first diagnosed, he shared that he wished he would have pushed things further to have more success in business.

maybe he was just sharing his business related thoughts with me, but i was left thinking about how i shouldn't put to much emphasis on achieving goals and just enjoying the ups and downs of the journey.

i think it is good to focus on accomplishments, but sometimes i just enjoy going through the motions of sitting down and completing one task, or debugging something that i won't figure out, or just drinking a cup of coffee and reading only one chapter of a book not to finish the rest.
Definitely more process involved, but the requirements were also simpler compared to sprawling modern architectures. I think the overall effort is similar, but was slower due to the speed of communications and paperwork at that time.

Getting hard assets is a core part of business in basically every industry, so I found it strange to claim that it was some major obstacle just because it happened to be servers instead of trucks or factory equipment.
Its always been, you're just realizing it as part of maturing and understanding the world. Technology cannot solve people problems the same way that some silly agile ticketing software isn't going to fix some broken company culture.

There were many silly startups in the late 90's/early 00's. Even the commonly sought after employers of FAANG aren't doing revolutionary things, their cash cows: advertising (F), giant ecommerce store (Amzn), makes phones/tablets/laptops & sells digital stuff (Apple), streaming video (Netflix), advertising (Google). Any cool tech coming out of those companies is mostly driven by them scaling the above named revenue pipelines to the Nth degree.

One could have solid arguments that many things tech has done have made things worse. Is tech/software eating the world driving a bigger divide between the 1% and poor people? You gotta admit tech contributes to that. If someone wanted to run a propaganda campaign about topic X, isn't social media the perfect platform to do it? You can reach millions upon millions of people with a few clicks of clever copy-writing to push an agenda. You can even target them directly.
Remember kids, every week Qt changes their licensing model, every time less in favor of open source and more in favor of a second Yacht for the shareholders. I hate to recommend electron, but with the current closed direction they are going I to, better to stay away from Qt. The KDE foundation agreement is the only reason they still release Qt as open source, sadly. Qt for MCUs is completely closed for example.
> Also, in Germany trains are very often late or have other issues.

Yeah, try to travel by train in Germany during any of the christian holidays, and you'd think you're in india by how overcrowded and chaotic it is.
As a similar millennial geek who has been making some of the gadgets for the past few year, I still get wicked excited about new gadgets. The complexity and beauty inside is still magic to me. When a prototype comes in, I love looking at the insides and thinking about how much people are gonna love this thing. No me though, since it’s currently a huge garbage fire and nothing works :)
feel like that time was closer to a golden age if anything
To your point about 3D printing and robots, we haven’t really moved the needle that much. We’ve made it easy for anyone to print a “cool” robot, sure, but it isn’t necessarily a _useful_ one.

As a former “maker” and electronics hack I think lot of maker stuff has devolved into “cool” stuff that consists of wire hangers and servos with RGB lighting and very little actual value. But coolness doesn’t really mean much when everything is hyped as such.
> What's the alternative? Someone commits a felony, and then you...?

The US is the OECD country with the highest per capita % of incarcerated individuals. By orders of magnitude. So it seems other countries have found other approaches?

> Source: Half of the OECD countries have less than 100 people in prison
per 100 000 inhabitants. Thirteen have between 100 and 200. Two
countries exceed this – Poland with 230 and the United States with
more than 700. The US rate is the highest in the world followed
by Russia with about 600 per 100 000 inhabitants. Except in the
United States imprisonment rates for women are negligible.

https://www.oecd.org/sdd/37964686.pdf
To be blunt, the change is in you and not in "tech". It correlates with you becoming an adult, and your perspective on technology and society changing.
> if the goal is persuasion then good-faith arguments don't scale.

This is true, but only in a very narrow, specific sense. Arguments don't persuade on their own, they scale with the credibility of the speaker. Speakers gain credibility and respect by:

- Giving good advice.

- Showing good judgement and making accurate predictions.

- Demonstrating that they understand various audience.
constituencies, with bonus points for demonstrating that they actually care about these constituencies.

Conversely, there are numerous ways for speakers to destroy that credibility, like a history of making deceptive statements.

For most people, this means good-faith argumentation doesn't scale because they don't have the standing to make people take them seriously. But it isn't a rule of good-faith arguments as such: arguments are just constrained by social factors and by people's finely-tuned heuristics for who's worth taking seriously.

I suspect this is the main reason people are frustrated by internet debates, to the point of wanting to give up on them and just start censoring people. I make what I think is a careful, reasoned case, and in response all I hear is crickets, or trolls, or "lol lol lol lmao lol lol lol". This is because, to almost everyone reading Twitter, Hacker News, Substack, or the NYT comments, I'm just a rando.

It takes time to build respect and credibility, so keep at the good faith discussion, give people a reason to read what you're writing, and keep your relative obscurity in perspective on the way up.
I always like the the non-work focused hacking posts about something interesting/surprising being achieved the most. For a famous example https://nee.lv/2021/02/28/How-I-cut-GTA-Online-loading-times...
>Those satellite images are jokes to most Chinese people.

Why?

>In fact, the western media's coverage of Xinjiang has demonstrated your hypocrisy to those of us who didn't know it before.

How so?
* Today's heavily publicised, heavily shared startups solve boring problems.

You're only looking at the surface.

This kind of boring stuff has always been around. As has the pursuit of money and the use of tech in that pursuit.

Tech is more accessible now, and thus you will naturally get more noise.

It does not follow that there are fewer signals, just more noise to filter out.
The iPhone and Android are such impressive tools and so many people have them. Having a super computer in your pocket is the norm. There is more compute power in the average person’s pocket than IBM had onboard the Saturn 5 rocket. It’s just part of life! The norm. We’ve adjusted and adapted (sort of). Advancements beyond what we have today are hard to fathom for most folks but also expected.
I'm one of those human weathervanes and get terrible headaches ahead of rainy weather. I've logged such episodes in a notebook and they seem particularly bad during Atlantic hurricane season. My quack, untested, idea is that climate change is leading to a greater incidence of headache.
Did they really kill a 3000 year old tree just for guitar wood or was there something wrong with it? Maybe I'm more naive than i thought about people's feelings towards rainforest deforestation but I don't know how anyone could show their face playing such a guitar in public.