skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Saddling _teenagers_ with such debt is problematic in many ways.

So perhaps the solution involves some combination of 1) raising the age at which someone is considered an adult until it does not end with "teen", and 2) not giving loans to people with no plausible way to repay it, and/or 3) requiring a cosigner who is both older and better funded.

Maybe we take away blanket guarantees for student loans, make them dischargeable in bankruptcy, make the interest rate and borrowing limit based on plausible future income, things like that.
Everyone is hooked on the "get rich quick" highs that have been available for the past 7 years

- crypto
- meme stocks
- NFTs

There needs to be another innovation where hype can build around some narrative so people can get rich quick. Web3 has terrific product-market fit.
> "You" probably don't need AWS

Who are "you" ? That answer is crucial.

"You probably don't need to pay your power company" could be a similar headline. It's true, we could all deploy generators to power our homes(and handle fuel logistics etc), or go fully offgrid with solar panels and batteries. Why don't we do that?

Let's see - there's the equipment cost, then there's the 'installation' and 'maintenance' costs, often performed by contractors. This often makes the return on investment not worth it. It would make even less sense if we had to constantly tinker with the power solution (or keep someone on call to do that, on our own payroll).

Let's say we have an aluminum plant in the middle of a desert somewhere. It might make sense to operate a power plant tailored to our own requirements. Or pay a company to build and operate one, as it's their expertise.

Somehow, these calculations look different whenever executives try to pitch their "on-prem" or "colo" solutions. I've yet to see a spreadsheet where their own staff costs are called out. Or the potential costs because someone has to rack and stack new capacity, rather than that being automatically handled.

AWS is the 'power company'. They take care of stuff so I don't have to. If I'm pulling too much power, that's on me. Linode would be a company specialized in generator rentals. Some logistics taken care of, I still have to worry about a bunch of stuff. It might be what my shed in Alaska needs.

Now, a discussion can be had on AWS pricing structure (cough network egress cough). I would expect to pay a premium. Sometimes they are reasonable, sometimes they aren't (Hi, NAT GW).
I stand corrected. Clearly being private is not a factor if public universities are leeching off the public even more. That amounts to corruption in university governance. <sigh>
SpaceX shut down Russian electromagnetic warfare attack in Ukraine last month
That site is great, it even supports Web 1.0 while still looking good! https://web3isgoinggreat.com/web1
New Scientific Technique Dates Shroud of Turin to Around Time of Christ’s Death
TSLA Q1 2022 Investor Deck
Yeah that's probably protected data. I'm not a lawyer but maybe it could still work if you don't store the health data and just use it to locally generate adjustments (or maybe just store the health parts in-browser but keep the generated financial adjustments in the cloud). The more accurate your projection model, the more personal data it'll have to factor in.
Infrastructure as code can work on any cloud provider including smaller ones like Digital Ocean, Linode, OVH, Hetzner, etc which are mentioned in the article.

A lot of the things you said apply just as much to them as to AWS.

In my opinion using AWS is fine, as long as you use cloud agnostic stuff and avoid AWS specific services. That way if you ever have to switch, you just have to rewrite the provisioning part of your infra-as-code, everything else can be easily migrated over with some config changes.
> I can't see the contents of the traffic, since 99% of it is encrypted, but I can safely say Apple is very cozy with your device.

So in reality you are too lazy to hook their TLS verification code (super easy to do with public tools), or alternatively you did do this and the traffic just wasn’t that interesting.

Not really sure what we are supposed to take away from this.
> JS engines have had many serious vulnerabilities in their JIT optimizers, it’s not myopic at all and is a well known technique in the industry.

HotSpot and V8 are both written in C++ and get more use than any other JIT on Earth.

Can you provide a link to a CVE caused by JIT miscompilation and explain how Rust would have been able to prevent the bug in a way that C++ wouldn't?

> I agree that some folks aren’t executing untrusted ruby code so they wouldn’t have to worry about this - but how many PaaS/SaaS products out there are?

This is what Xen, KVM, and Hyper-V do.

> Or how about third party dev tools that are blindly downloaded and executed on local workstations or CI pipelines?

Are you suggesting a Ruby JIT shouldn't generate machine code that corresponds to the Ruby program, but somehow magically prevent stupid developers from doing stupid things?
I entered: I punched a random stranger in the face.

Responses:

1. NTA, never a dull moment

2. YTA, I’m glad it was a single punch and not something worse.

Also OP, are you ok?

3. YTA. Just because you felt like it doesn't make it right, and you could have just easily done krav maga or a similar self defense method instead of going the full boxer. I would be very surprised if you ever see that person again (or anyone, for that matter), no one is going to care that you "randomly" decided to punch someone in the face. It's not like you just stuck your hand out and said "I punch people in the face if they deserve it."
"One option is to purchase a hardware server and keep it on premises" - really? I expected something intelligent in the article, but this option looks too dumb.
I personally know of at least 2 families. My guess would be millions.
To be fair, the semantic web was also very much bullshit
It completely ignored "trivial" things like the cost and benefits of maintaining machine-readable general compatibility with unknown consumers of said data.
Companies and people are rational in their self-interest and the semantic web is just an academic utopia that was never meant to be.

I personally think it's very fitting that web3 is now hijacked by crypto, another utopia dream that tries to deny the benefits of government and human judgement in the rule of law
Yes

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> AWS replaces an entire ops team for me. It's invaluable.

For me, it's more like they have an automated ops team that my systems can interact with.
> consuming bandwidth, electricity, and computing capacity of an open source project as part of a profit-making service,

And yet they don't disallow Googlebot! For obvious reasons.
I've been brainwashed by consumers – they demand and expect a certain experience on the modern web. Also, you can run Next.js on a Raspberry Pi and free Cloudflare DNS+SSL. :shrug:
I'm skeptical as well since I don't believe the CIA or NSA even use such tools. Don't they just use RHEL or Windows? Why would they backdoor their own stuff?
I grew up in a 3rd world country (now I live in Europe) in a city that by HN comments seems similar to SF (big and full of harmless homeless people/drug addicts everywhere). I remember when I was a kid and I was with my mother I stared to a homeless man for some time. Of course he just seemed peculiar to me, I was a little kid, but this guy got mad and screamed "Do I owe you money or what? why do you keep looking at me?"

My mother grabbed me in her arms and we just went away quickly. She told me to not look at homeless people for so much time. Of course I was very scared, I don't remember exactly how old I was but I still remember the episode some decades later.
>Servers are often weaker than many consumer computers anyways, so I don’t thin it’s because it can render faster than your own browser.

I'm thinking about that Hacker News article, which had a laptop in the datacenter, because it was much faster on it.
Try headline https://viaheadline.xyz/ which uses ceramic for storage, unlock for payment and membership, ipfs for pinning, and a bunch of other protocols for decentralisation.

I can walk you through some of the useful stuff going on if you want to have a chat.

Offer valid for anyone else.
I looked into crypto early and passed because I figured it would either not live up to the hype as a usable currency, or if it did take off governments would step in and squash it.

Turns out both concerns were largely correct. The part I missed was that people would still buy it anyway. I don't really feel bad about the decision since the process that lead me to it will work out more often than not. I'm sure plenty of tech folks had a similar thought process.
> It's the most fundamental and pure form of value added manufacturing. When you view miners as electricity refineries, it's pretty simple.

I guess that's the case if your refinery is producing absolutely nothing of value.

That's the overall point of critics: web3 has huge costs for tiny (and disputable) benefits.

Even your comment lacks any benefits of web3. Making electricity more expensive isn't a benefit at all. It sure won't put a colony on the moon. And we were already able to turn electricity into "information" using an invention called a "computer."
faster load times is achieved by not using javascript, (pre-) rendering content on server and caching with CDN

this is how Wikipedia does it for the last 20(?) years and they sure won’t be changing that any time soon

PWA is a whole different topic
How about: "You probably don't need to pay industrial power rates for your MVP setup."
I'm using it (ALGO) for micro transactions and for my clients' art and gaming projects that require the smart contract and NFT features. Such as artwork that transforms or digital fighting cards that get upgrades.
The age argument is an interesting one. Should we be redefining what the age of majority is? Because if 18 year olds aren't competent enough to make borrowing choices for college, it follows that there are plenty of other consequences they shouldn't face.
Hey Sam, hope I'm not overextending, wouldn't want to psychoanalyze someone that I don't know. Based on your post history, it seems like you're having hyperactive thoughts. Would you agree? Do you have access to a professional that you can talk to? Maybe friends, family, or coworkers around you can recommend someone if not?

And goes without saying: please do continue posting to HN, I don't think anyone minds the posts.
Plenty of companies don't factor staff costs into anything. In my first job out of university, absolutely crazy requirements for tiny things were accepted because it would just mean the project would take a few weeks longer.
I feel like Arch just works. But maybe I am not using all features
Q: I asked how is babby formed how girl get pragnent but then a mother in AR killed her three children AITA

A: NTA

You asked a question.
Mother in AR killed her three children.
She was upset that she might be pregnant.

Nothing wrong with being curious.
> PWA is a whole different topic

No it's not, as hydration is used to improve the initial load times for PWAs. Afterwards PWAs will load offline first.

> faster load times is achieved by not using javascript, (pre-) rendering content on server and caching with CDN

Yes you can make sites not using JS and should in certain scenarios, that's not relevant here.

> this is how Wikipedia does it for the last 20(?) years and they sure won’t be changing that any time soon

Wikipedia is a web site, not a web app. It works really well as a site and thus uses technologies meant for web sites.
Frame.work
A lot of us don't feel it appropriate to "just ignore" technologies with massively negative externalities. We are effected whether we like it or not.
Deployed few services on ecs, nat gateway, shared elb, certificate and route53.

Total cost 30$ per day ~900$ per month.

You can accomplish the same for a fraction of that cost.

The convenience you talk about comes with a huge bill.

If I add reserved instances/savings plan, probably gonna drop to 600-700$, but still… I can setup that myself on my local lab for around 5$ per month.

So the knowledge required to setup that and hardware is worth around 695$ per month.

Thats why Cloud Providers are biggest employers of old sysadmins ;)
You're right that this could be done without NFTs, for sure! You could have them as digital assets within the game, like MTG: Online, and trade them. The main benefit of using a blockchain is that you don't have to build a store and manage payment processing yourself.

Edit: Also, if the games servers died so would your collection of cards. If for whatever reason the devs killed Gods Unchained someone could build a fork and we'd be able to take our cards over there because the asset is decoupled from the game. Bit of an edge case but in a world where people complain that digital ownership is false (such as ebooks) then it could be a fun solution.
Kind of sideways related to "Goodhart's law" -- "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure."

Which kind of dooms all web search now that one thinks about it.
Based on the comments I see here, this site completely replaces the need for the subreddit, which imo is a complete waste of time and is probably a net loss for society. The replies are quite depressingly realistic.
Funny ones I found in Greek (my native lang):

"και έπεσε σκοτάδι" => "and darkness fell" (???)

"είναι βρώμικα εδώ κάνε λίγο φασαρία" => "it's dirty here, make a fuss"

But they're actually mostly pretty decent.
Isn't it sad that he has to type out his only messages to the world letter by letter, and he spends his time typing out the names of mega-brands?

"...‘(son’s name) moechtest du mit mir disneys die hexe und der zauberer anschauen auf amazon’ – ‘would you like to watch Disney’s witch and wizard with me on amazon’ on day 461"
> Fast forward 100+ years and suddenly that quote sounds hilariously wrong.

Only if you don't care about history and conservancy. Every medievalist is still frothing at the mouth, for good reasons.
The Future of the Recent Flexible Work Revolution Depends on Men
Yes but so does any other distributed consensus algorithm. Blockchains just happen to be based on the worst ones that don't have any good properties but still keep all of the bad ones.
Tesla (TSLA) releases Q1 2022 results: beat both revenue and profit expectations [pdf]
I think the criticism is due to your use of buzz words, broad sweeping claims and abstract concepts that require knowledge of and acceptance of lots of supporting concepts that are highly contested; you then combine these semantic tools in to some apparent theory of how things should be but without a concrete conclusion that is clear in terms of what your recommendation actually is so it feels like a lot was said but nothing actually communicated.

For example, what is “future illusion of revenue”. Why is the word illusion there? Are you challenging the existence or classification of revenue? Of money? Of commerce? Or accounting? I can’t tell. Why is the word future there? Are you challenging old business models that will be replaced by web3? Highlighting the emergence of a post money economy?

I don’t know what you mean by including you those buzz words. So they feel like fluff to create apparent sophistication but in reality have no meaningful conceptual value. They don’t move the argument forward towards a conclusion.
Show HN: PyInpaint, a lightweight image inpainting tool written in Python
- A simple and effective tool to remove scratches, bruises and small holes on images.

- Basically it does the job by doing Dirichlet interpolation on a non-local graph created using images.

- Could be easy integrated at the backend for fask or django projects related to image processing.
Agreed that you should be careful about all the auxiliary aws services but can you actually show real proof that on perm is cheaper as a whole while doing everything fast?

For sure you pay a premium for ec2, but at the least you get good reliability. Your data won’t disappear off S3 unless you delete it. What level of rigor do you need to put in your on premise game to promise the same?

Even for my side projects I nowadays just float an Elastic beanstalk flask app and a small rds instance. It costs 15 a month but I’m fine with that cost for the time it saves me. If you want to be truly cost conscious stick to lightsail. It’s a steal all things considered.
Thanks, I'm going to write all this out on a whiteboard the next time someone asks me to sort a linked list in a technical interview.

Edit: just wanted to clarify that the point I'm trying to make here is that if you want to ask someone if they've memorized the answer to that question, go ahead and ask it in a technical interview, because the real well-considered answer looks like the linked article, and my honest non-smartass answer is that one should use the library function and not try to implement it themselves until they've done sufficient research into the problem to prove to a reasonable degree that they indeed do need to re-implement sort() and that it's in the best interests of the business to fund such a project.

Would love to read this over the phone to a recruiter and have them tell me that it's not what they have on their sheet.
The faster Ponzi schemes run on the newer L2 chains.
I used to dig trenches and build forts when I was a kid. Tunneling would be a fun hobby to get into if I had some land to do it on.
Was it like this during the first dotcom bubble?
I was a highschooler back then.

No, because the internet had obvious practical potential to pretty much anybody who'd ever used a computer before.

And if somebody didn't get it yet you could show them a webpage or something. You could pull up a news site - "see, it's like your regular newspaper, except on the computer... plus a zillion other online newspapers, and weather, and shopping" etc. Very few people would fail to get the general concept (even if they had no interest in it) after a few minutes of that.

Ordering things from a catalog over the phone (Sears, etc) had existed for a century already, and online shopping was a fairly obvious extension of that.

The internet was also an idea that all manner of media had primed us for. Since, what, the 1950s? 1960s? movies and television and World's Fairs had all been promising us that someday we'd be able to do actual useful shit through our TV screens and that computers were "the future."

So once that all arrived it all felt pretty obvious. Both to tech-savvy types, and the general populace.

But... Web3?

There's nothing simple you can show an Average Joe. Even most tech-savvy people I know fall somewhere between thinking it's utter garbage and having no clue what it is on any kind of practical level. That's something you absolutely did not hear from tech-savvy folks in the 90s.
Billing alarms only work if you have static usage. I had to constantly adjust their alarms and eventually gave up.
Would you be willing to pay a demurrage fee on cash equivalent to inflation if it meant no inflation in the unit of account? The difference is small but important. Such a currency wouldn't lie to you. The money illusion would be gone. You can plan decades ahead. You know what the negative interest rate is going to be. Loaning out the currency avoids the demurrage fee on cash. So a 0% loan would maintain your savings.

Why doesn't this happen? Two reasons, people have loss aversion so they prefer being lied to through the money illusion. They get to blame you when the truth is that they are at fault. If they preferred taking the loss they wouldn't have to find a scapegoat. The other reason is that inflation has an uneven impact on the economy. Some gain and some lose and many people want to be winners or at least for there to be the possibility of winning, even if it is a detriment to society overall.
I had worked in embedded a bit at my first job out of university, then took a job doing mostly modern C++ but also Android/IOS/.NET development for over 3 years. I realized that I missed embedded and wasn't super fond of "software" for the reasons outlined above, and ended up where I am now.

I actually got a small pay increase compared to my previous role! I don't think my salary really compares to what I read about on here (like, I think your average HNer easily makes 2x what I did/do based on the posts I've read) though, so take from that what you will.
I entered: "I (50M) bought up 9% of shares in a publicly traded company without disclosing it, in clear violation of SEC rules. Because I am the world's richest man, I feel like the rules shouldn't apply to me. AITA?"

Responses:

1. "NTA - you committed fraud. You should be held accountable.
EDIT - you are the world's second richest man, tied with Bill Gates. Gates has a much higher net worth than you due to Microsoft stock, which is why you are second and he is first."
2. "YTA. I would never have invested in a company without knowing who was behind it, and there are plenty of other opportunities out there for you to continue gaming the system."
3. "YTA, but not for the reason you think. The reason the rules apply to you is because you are the one who broke the rules. You can't change the past and what you did was wrong. At best you can do is disclose your holdings on your next filings which you are doing.
You are a criminal and should be ashamed of your actions.
Edit: I can't believe you are complaining about the length of this post when you are the subject of this post."

lmao
Yes, these (along with the quoted tweet) are consistent with a worldview that considers the impact of his choices on others.
I taught myself to code because it was 'fun'. Who are you to tell people how to devote their time?

It would be better for all concerned if you would take a break from posting these kinds of directives and get back to developing actual solutions to actual problems.
They go away when people stop running them or the system fails to function which is not forever but sometime in the future.

It is a scam to promise forever. AWS doesn't promise forever. It's free reads until one day.
Like how sticking your tongue to a frozen piece of metal causes a burning sensation.
It worked great until Apple decided that they wanted to be a streaming music provider a few years ago. I hate the new music app. Back when the iPod Touch was still a separate product, the music app was far better. Then an update broke all my playlists.

The sad thing is that this kind of feature breakage of software is pretty much universal across the industry today. Unless one is using whatever seems to be the current new-shiny thing, you're a support burden that needs to be eliminated. Why don't developers accept that old features are still used by people? Maybe I'm just some stupid old kernel developer that places too much emphasis on not breaking other people's shit, as my values are certainly not reflected by most of the products I have to use every day (from websites to phones to user interfaces).
What is that "# $Id$" at the top? Just a comment or serves a purpose?
This seems quite risky. Legally, how does this work??

In The Netherlands & Spain, you're allowed to pirate for personal use. But it is still illegal to DISTRIBUTE copyrighted work.

I'm curious how companies doing this don't get sued into oblivion. That seems like a clear breach of the law, and it's for profit.
How do you report people like this on HN?
73% of Turkish youth wants to leave the country: https://www.duvarenglish.com/report-finds-73-percent-of-youn...
> It's not technically violating copyright law

Are you sure about this?