skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the way most games are set up, the 'drops' part isn't compatible with self hosting - how do you verify someone accomplished the thing (completed the quest, killed the boss, etc.) without cheating?

If you don't verify, the economy gets flooded and value of everything approaches zero - even if it is on the blockchain. If the entity controlling the economy isn't controlling the servers the code is running on, is anti-cheat feasible?

I think there could be a novel game economy pattern could emerge from this that could be compelling (where items are not tied to in-game accomplishments), but I'm skeptical blockchains can mesh with current popular game economies.

The only alternative seems like it would require all of the game logic to be encoded on the blockchain, which would mean killing a monster would cost money (to encode the transaction) - would have to be an extremely compelling game to justify the expense.
One of the major selling points of using cloud is serverless where it truly lets you build-once-and-forget with minimal maintenance overhead. Can you suggest comparable on-prem/Hetzner alternatives for the products I use: CloudWatch Logs, S3, DynamoDB, Kinesis Data Stream, Step Functions, Lambda, CloudFront, API Gateway, Athena? Having used these services in my day-to-day job, I just can't imagine myself ever going back to the old way of doing things.
Loan forgiveness is a big FU to those that chose not to go to college to save money.
Children Sacrificed by Incas Found with Cocaine, Ayahuasca in Their Bodies
I am now imagining this on dating platforms:
Male/white/he,his/Marmite/Vi
This is true, but I will argue again that I am proficient enough with AWS to deploy a full stack with 10+ lambdas, DNS, certs, RDS, step functions, etc for < 5 dollars a month. You need to understand what to use and what not to. Most of that bill is from the nat gateway/private VPC, which you really dont need
> Why would you be worried about vendor-lock if you haven't built anything?

When else would you worry about lock-in? The early stages of a project involve setting up the foundation. If you build your foundation on vendor-specific tech, you've just locked yourself in or signed yourself up for a very painful transition in the future
These articles are pointless, they completely miss any nuance to you and your solution.

Who are you? A hobbyist developer? A small team of 3 devs? A large company with multiple teams of devs dbas sysops?

What's your use case? An occasional Cron job? A small WordPress site? A distributed HA app that manages a huge ingress with strict uptime SLAs?

Where do you want to spend your effort? Happy to apt-get a few packages and call it a day? Need to create and maintain a load balanced postgres cluster with low lag and cross region replication and backups?

There are a lot of considerations that go into choosing a provider. Making blanket statements like this just feel click baity.
The invites to parties, intros to founders, the opportunity to help guide large monetary decisions, and insane amounts of competitive intelligence (VCs dont sign NDAs and founders are often willing to say a lot) were the compensation.
Also if I'd ever want to start a company, I'd know exactly what to say and to whom.
I doubt how many companies are actually using java15+. Many still sticks to 8 or 11
this module is a thriving, multi-use community of interacting concerns and responsibilities. yes, it would be more legible to central administrators like us if we evicted all the requirements and implementation details, paved it over, then redeveloped it into a high modernist Corbusian hexagonal microservices architecture. but truly, who would want to live or work inside such a bleak module structure, where instead of simply nipping downstairs to share surplus resources with unrelated business logic in the parent stack frame, you would have to traverse through endless tiers of serialization, transit, deserialization & be subjected to endless authoritarian checkpoints for authorisation by central authorities?
Not claiming ownership, or explicitly disclaiming ownership (e.g. "I don't own this", "No copyright infringement intended", or giving 'credit' to a source) are not defenses to copyright infringement. These are just urban myths that people repost on the internet with no basis in reality.
I find the provided arguments a bit baffling - you would be better off without AWS because you might forget to turn off $80k of instances? How is that their responsibility or different than any other provider / service? Or, if you're using Lamda - well, you're not just accidentally developing a serverless solution, are you - you know pros and cons and have chosen to do it, knowing how it's priced and to be careful...If self-hosting is potentially a better option, I'm curious how that can be done in a simpler way, while providing all security and benefits of mentioned VPC, EKS etc...

I'm not particularly fond of AWS, but I think they're pretty transparent about pricing of various services - it's linked everywhere and pretty visible, calculators are available etc...I agree about not being able to set limits, though - but how many other vendors do it?

My biggest gripe is the UX of their Console and various services - I'd rate it 3/10 compared to what could be done in terms of design, displayed information and user paths / workflows.
recycles = will it blend

The big whoop here is machine opening the case before blending. You can actually see the machine stamping holes in separated parts before grinding them down, good way to make sure nobody has the idea of trying to reuse those PCBs with plenty of still 100% working components.
The feel like the meaning of the term "web3" is not so specific. It refers more generally to the idea of building decentralized services that run over blockchains whether they resemble web apps or not. I think the sentiment is that blockchain technology is imagined by some to be the next technology that will be as transformative as the web was when it first showed up. It's also a play on the term "web 2.0" which I believe referred to a new generation of more powerful web services and more refined design aesthetics that showed up on the web beginning around when Facebook started getting popular.
Not shocking at all to me.

If we're building a new web service, at the scale we're at, we _know_ Go is a good fit. We already chose it for our other 3 web APIs and it turned out a good choice.

Why should we spend time and effort re-evaluating our decision when we're perfectly fine with the language? Instead, we prefer to spend that time for building the actual product.
You're right. My personal successes came from pecking away a few hours per week, keeping costs low (or free) and growing slowly over multiple years without the need to monetize early.
Dropbox makes sense. They're an egress-heavy business. Other than media companies (Netflix, Disney Plus, et al.) there aren't that many egress-heavy businesses, so AWS continues to make sense.
What's the state of Datomic these days? I stopped keeping up with it a while back when I stopped really paying attention to the Clojure space in general. Last I remember hearing it was still a purely pay to use their instances sort of deal.
The fundamental value of fiat currency is that it is effectively a share of the productivity of a particular economy. The underlying driver of that value is that debts are denominated in and payable with the currency, and the underlying driver of that is that the government levies taxes.
Why didn't you create your own YouTube channel?
You call people assholes, dismiss people's arguments out of hand, and quote people saying things they didn't even say (in quote marks, too). I think you're just a dick. I'm glad you consider yourself a free speech absolutist though, that's something I guess.
Netflix uses AWS heavily and they are probably one of the heaviest users in the world of compute.

https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/netflix/
Banks pretty much can. The only real limit on bank money is the banks ability to find a credit worthy borrower. There's far more of that in the system than central bank money. Of course the issued currency is balanced with a liability. In the case of normal banks this liability is generally taken by a person or entity in the system. For the central bank it's marked up as not-yet-taxed-away money. Crypto currencies are just silly and absolutely rely ultimately on social stability, which essentially means the state.
> requires at least 2GB of RAM

Does it checks the memory and fails with a message? What could possibly be done by a password-storing app that requires 2GB of RAM?
just put it under your desk!
Then you’re not doing a whole lot of C. The most difficult thing for me is having to flip between posix, make, clang, gcc, ld, ar, and ranlib man pages, and Apple’s “archived” documentation which by the way, despite the way they name it isn’t deprecated, it’s the only primary source for understanding dylibs.

Oh and it’s so poorly documented in practice that you have to cross reference it with codebases to see how the tooling is actually used in practice, then peel back all the weird quirks from those authors.

That’s the hard part.

Googling for a C library isn’t.
Dropbox is not a relevant example to the original comment IMO - they clearly need cheap storage above all else; it should be no surprise that someone can self-host something so single-minded as a storage application without all the cloud provider baubles.
https://time.is/

Wow, someone actually built it....

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/whattimeisit/
* Extremely granular permissions

* integration with the rest of the Oracle suite.

* compatibility with the Oracle database you’ve tightly coupled yourselves to over the last 30 years

* Various incentives for purchasing influencers
what are their demands?

pretty sure my Raspberry Pi will just give up after pulling 2000 npm packages and building native modules
Can we please differentiate between "CSAM" and "not CSAM"?

They said they were going to deploy CSAM, and then they retracted (albeit temporarily). A lot of what made CSAM a concerning issue for many (including me) isn't in effect for this particular feature.

Maybe they'll redeploy CSAM, maybe they won't, but this isn't CSAM.
I grew up in a small rural town as well, and this post gave me major nostalgia. When I was 7 or so, my parents limited me to a pretty small area (it was our "block", but that had a pretty different meaning from what most city folk would think of when they hear "block").

At some point, my limits were updated, and I was allowed to go anywhere that did not involve crossing the main street in the town (which at the time was a reasonably busy section of OH SR 30.) I'd ride to my grandma's house for a Coke or some ice cream and chat with her for hours at a time. There was a local playground near her house with the old school kind of swings that really let you get high up in the air.

I remember vividly the day when I discovered that I could ride my bike to the local Dollar General via a back route without crossing that street and the sense of freedom that gave me. I could also make the 2 mile ride to my best friend's house.

When I was a bit less than 10, the restriction on crossing that street was lifted, and the whole town was open to me. My friends and I rode our bikes absolutely everywhere and explored creeks, parks, and country roads like there was no tomorrow.

Now I live in a medium sized city, and every once in a while, I think about the proximity to family and the freedom to roam that I enjoyed growing up. More than anything else about home, I miss these things, and I have to wonder if I'm denying something to my kids by living in the city. Sadly, there aren't many software dev gigs in rural Ohio, and now that my kids are entrenched in the local schools (which, to be fair, are miles ahead of what exists back home), their upbringing as city kids seems to be written in stone.

Anyway, sorry for the rant - waxed nostalgic for a bit there.
>Deployed few services on ecs, nat gateway, shared elb, certificate and route53.

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

Ummm... I think you're doing something incorrectly. The biggest line items on that list are ELB (assuming you mean Application Load Balancer/ALB) and NAT Gateway. But with that setup, I could maybe imagine $100/month with on-demand plans. Not $900.
For me it's surprising, and make me wonder is that the case at all.
In my first job, it meant we got a dev back moving to Digital Ocean as they were no longer dealing with servers and infrastructure.
Exactly this. All these promises of crypto being "independent" of banks and governments all rely on the relative obscurity and novelty of the technology. If crypto became the default currency, it would have to play nice with existing economic and political structures, and all of those "advantages" would be gone.
That it doesn't seem to be generally true, and is incredibly rare... so the real issue seems to be that people outside of the Silicon Valley VC scene can get rich "without doing actual work"?
AWS is more or less eliminating the cost of one to two full time devops jobs, at the cost of one quarter of one of those jobs, for my startup.

All due respect, I'm not sure the author knows what they're talking about.
My medium-sized company saved a considerable amount of money by moving to Azure from a managed dedicated server company. I wouldn't call the previous situation "a complete clusterfuck catastrophe" by any means, although I would say we were paying too much. Our Azure bill is just starting to approach what we were paying five years ago to the previous company, with far more things going on now plus all of the flexibility that The Cloud™ has to offer.
Shouldn’t that be…

User-agent: Zombies
Disallow: /braaains

?
what exactly do you set up for 5 bucks a month on your local lab? Sounds more like you’re comparing what lightsail offers, which incidentally costs the same even on aws?

If you want a simple sight with just core aws, you can set one up on aws on elastic beanstalk for a few bucks a month. Add an rds for 15 a month. Why will you needlessly overcomplicate the system and then cry foul?
This is one of the most beautiful pieces of technology I have ever seen. This gives me hope. I can't imagine the feeling of finally being able to communicate after being trapped inside of your own body.
If you want to easily hire people/ get experience for yourself, just use AWS.

AWS is practically an industry standard tool. Of course you might be able to find a slightly cheaper way to do things, but training people will be harder.

The only time AWS doesn't make sense is when you hit the scale where it's not longer cost effective.
In the first example of problematic calls to nth_element, there is another bug: if the container contains nothing, it will call nth_element with begin(), begin() - 1, ...

Also, typo: "compare functions much comply" -> "compare functions must comply"
Another open source alternative is CodeChecker [1] with the Clang static analyzer [2]. Make sure the Clang toolchain has been compiled with Z3 [3] support for better results (it's the case in Debian stable), particularly for code doing bit operations. It supports cross files analysis ("cross translation units" or CTU), which last time I checked was not the case for IKOS and helps improve diagnostics.

It's not completely turn key if you use it for a cross compiled code base, but once set-up I prefer it to another professional tool: much less false alarms. Although it's good to have both, each one found issues not seen by the other.

[1] https://github.com/Ericsson/codechecker
[2] https://clang-analyzer.llvm.org/
[3] https://github.com/Z3Prover/z3
That was also the general desire among many of my friends and colleagues. So far I'm happy with the life in Germany and Europe. Thank you for the good wishes!
You might be right. But just like crypto bros co-opted the term, it could very well be co-opted again by whatever tech seems like the next big thing after "everything is blockchain" fades into obscurity
lol got way more support for this one than expected:

"I stole a stranger's car so I could bring my side chick to a movie and get back before my wife notices."

Excuses bot:

NTA- but it was stupid of you to do. You need to get your own car.

Your fault bot:

YTA, definitely. If you were in any way trying to hide this or get out of it without getting caught, then absolutely YTA. The fact that her reaction is the same as mine saying "I can't believe you would steal someone's car" just goes to show that you've made a really bad decision and need to come clean about it ASAP

Tossup bot:

NTA. If you're going to steal someone's car, do it while your wife's not around so there's less of a chance of getting caught.
> each side has become increasingly vindictive of the other

For a number of reasons, no doubt. But partly I blame the efforts to remove pork from legislation. We thought that was a good idea, without realizing that it was the basis of compromise. When each little piece of legislation comes through on its own, there is no incentive to compromise, but just play tribal politics instead.
Right you are, I was under the impression it was a licensed IP like a number of other properties I've come across in deep scrolls through their catalog.
Wow. This is insanely shitty if you ask me. I can't think of any non-malicious reason why it's done this way.

I recommend using vaultwarden instead to self-host bitwarden: https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden
> If this was a gaming focused forum, you would see a lot more Windows fanaticism.

Eh. Gaming forums are full of complaints about windows and what a pain in the ass it is. Old games break, new games break, drivers break, malware concerns, bloated device drivers (glaring at you, Razer) and gamers don't like all the bloatware and analytics crap.

The reason you don't see Windows fanatics on here is because so many people hate dealing with it.

People seem genuinely excited that Steam is pushing more games to Linux.
C++ is much more difficult to parse than Java, so refactoring is a big ask. If your renaming tool can miss some usages it's worse than nothing. IMO C++ also has always had less boilerplate than Java, so boilerplate generators were less useful. C++ also has other typing-saving tools, such as the preprocessor (we can argue about whether it's a good tool, but it can certainly save typing).
The point I think the parent was making is not that they are analogous situations, but that in the reasoning they've encountered (and you helpfully provided to illustrate their point), one could literally just swap the positive aspects for negative aspects, and it would read as supportive of socialism and against crypto.

Here:

Socialist governments have been a mix of successes & failures, among the very-privileged who can afford to take risks, for just the last ~100y. Everyone involved knows there's a lot of things left to solve, but sees reasons for hope.

For 13+ years, the most fervently 'crypto' fanboys have promised various utopias but actually delivered scams, fraud, pathologically dishonest companies, and even financial ruin on a larger scale than other technologies.

It's the same exact logic.

(please note I am not comparing genocide and financial ruin as being analogous)
I'm a big advocate of AWS, but there are some unexpected billing items e.g. moving data between AZs in the same region. Yes it's all documented and you may be able to be work around many items, but you really need to get into the weeds to cut costs.

When I was initially perusing AWS at my current company I was able to save us a ton of (recurring) money simply by properly deleting EBS volumes of terminated machines... someone didn't check a checkbox at some point (and/or didn't understand its significance): oopsie.

It's hard to set alarms early on when you're building stuff out. In any case I think it really needs to be someone's role to understand the billing thoroughly, somewhat regularly. Our billing line items post daily to me on slack, mostly I'll just check the total vs the previous week, and cloudability sends email alarms for specific things and suggests RIs etc.
SpectaQL 1.0: GraphQL doc generator
Reminds me of these YouTube videos filled with bad advice for newbies. For example, "Why I never code with ELSE statements, and YOU shouldn't either". It sounds profound to a newbie, but it's all just disingenuous dogmatic click bait.
A friend with nickname "G3rn0ti" from Germany explained in the longer comment what I had on mind.

I am not sure how it works in USA, but in Poland it's similar scheme as in Germany.

Pure Ponzi-like scheme, but if you decline to participate in it, then you go to fail for avoiding it.

Anyway, there are many more people who can join the crypto trend than polish Social Security system. Growth trajectory is downward, and only printing more many can save it from collapsing.
Or, said another way: nobody is choosing Oracle when starting from scratch.
I have read plenty about them and it's still possible to track those coins through various means using various pieces of metadata. The worst problem with them is probably that the privacy gains are basically useless if you ever plan to cash out on a legitimate exchange.

>But it's not essentially true, and with education, & software, & further technical advances, far more privacy than we have now is possible

Yeah and that's a huge headache most people don't want to go through, very few even in the privacy community want to have their money tied up in that kind of system forever because it's so cumbersome to use correctly.

>Especially, far more privacy from criminals & abusive regimes that would persecute/imprison/kill people for dumb reasons.

I have seen no evidence that this kind of technology actually helps those people in any disproportionate way, the same technology can be used by criminals and abusive regimes to conceal their activities and in fact it is being used that way right now. Long-term I think it's unwise for them to use it for that purpose, for the same reason it's unwise for others to use it for the purposes of evading them. Remember that the human factor of people making stupid yet honest mistakes is the biggest vulnerability in any system of this kind.
You should be really careful about using libraries from distribution package managers because none of them can resist screwing with the source, which often times makes them unusable. Even the vendors themselves say don’t screw with the packages and maintainers do it anyway.
What % commission do you think such "affiliate" gets for a website that doesn't sell anything? It's a UTM tag for Google Analytics
It would be a change to macro models of economic growth, if accepted. The default is that TFP grows exponentially. There's also a useful comment by Marginal Revolution here (https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2022/04/ad...) where he points out that TFP itself is really just a residual, and perhaps not a very well-defined concept. That is, if you regress

Y = AK^beta L^(1-beta)

with K being the amount of capital and L the amount of labour, A is just the unexplained "scaling factor" and it gets called TFP. But what TFP actually is... is a bit of a whatever-you-like.