skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It sounds like the Standard plan was always tied to being under warranty, and they haven't actually changed what's included with the Standard plan? Am I misreading something here?
I know of at least one FAANG retiring the DBA role. While there are huge piles of legacy code, I wouldn't bet on legacy maintenance being a good ticket at a FAANG.
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> Also, Monolith is sometimes synonymous with tangled spaghetti code but it doesn't have to be

Yeah, I hate this false equivalence. When did we start assuming that monoliths couldn't be modular and have clear package boundaries?

IMO how you deploy your software (one binary vs many services, all on one box vs distributed) should be an incidental detail that is automated away.

You have two packages that are very chatty? Your infra figures this out and deploys them in the same binary. Two packages that rarely talk? Deploy them as separate binaries and maybe even on separate hosts.
Actual economics is easy; people trade information innately.

Ok sure an economist can wrap it in math with correct order of operations as it looks like this geometric object on paper. But that’s unnecessary obfuscation intended to empower them and traditional talking points.

It’s 1984 levels of double speak going on; without economists counting there would still be trade. Their work does not give rise to human agency.
I like this idea, but what is the ultimate lesson, other than "chaos ensues, and it's nobody's fault in particular" ?

I mean, it doesn't seem to provide any guidance on how to actually solve these problems, only make you aware that they exist. Usually a "flight simulator" experience would address that side of things, too.

I suppose a worthwhile takeaway is "don't be so quick to blame others," which is good for keeping humility, but that doesn't address the mechanics side of things.
I think that has been a standard feature since at least OS X 10.2.
> How can they know this?

No insights on that, but this is more the way I read such statements:

This is their report of what they know.

Common sense dictates that this does not mean much as we normally only know a fraction of what is.

However it might also be a sign that they are not yet aware of much at all as it is that overly unspecific.
You can't work there (except possibly in some minor roles) if you're not a US Person as defined by ITAR for a reason.
Or for water infrastructure more generally, City Water, City Life by Carl Smith
It's embarrassingly hard for me to not go on a rant when people use the same term to refer to assembling and compiling, and try to equate a compiler with an assembler.
How Much of a Premium Will Nvidia Charge for Hopper GPUs?
Well, Bijlmer itself has become a mess at some point
If you're interested in these kind of issues, rms has been collecting them for years on his website.
Why did those machines have uncovered USB ports?
Can AMD Keep Doubling Its Datacenter Business?
Except you can't survey an area with a an artillery warhead.

Sure, you can use your spotters to scout ahead, but why put them in danger of an ambush and have them get killed by a sniper or hidden machinegun, when you can survey that area from a safe distance, and take out the sniper/machine gun if you see one?

This is not meant to replace artillery battalions and scouts, but to complement them.
You should take a look at the switchblade. The switchblade 300 model has the equivalent of a 40mm grenade as a warhead, 2.7kg weight, endurance of 10 minutes and a range of around 10km all puts it well in that lower end range. Couldn't find any pricing data, but I imagine more COTS approaches could come out pretty cheap.

I'm actually surprised we've got man-portable loitering munitions like the switchblade in use before the widespread adoption of guided mortar rounds. I'd have to imagine it's more cost effective (in terms of kilograms of high explosive on target per dollar) to make some GPS-guided or laser-guided mortars, and either use ground troops or a small UAV to provide targeting data.
> diverted into the ocean now because of insane environmental laws

Is that from the Resnick [0] talking points memo? The Resnicks should grow their almonds back in the Middle East where they belong instead of in the CA desert.

[0]https://www.forbes.com/profile/stewart-lynda-resnick/?sh=274...
If they can precisely deliver ~22 tons of material from Florida to anywhere in the globe in ~20-50 minutes, arriving at perhaps Mach 5, one should tend to regard SpaceX as at least weapons-capable.
What about things like Nestle siphoning off 58 million gallons a year from public land near LA for nearly no cost in order to bottle Arrowhead water?
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22240041
Do you know of any open source-compatible uninterruptible power supplies? I specifically chose this model because APC has (had?) a reputation for being bulletproof.

(My last UPS was also closed source. It liked to beep at odd hours, and sporadically turned itself off. At least the APC doesn't do that, I guess.)

Also, at the end of the day, it's just an overpriced sealed car battery. I wasn't looking for a hobby project, and if I was, this would be low on the list.
Sorry, but that is a cute way to say "take water from people who have it".

For decades, southwest states have put up billboards in rust belt states to entice workers to move in order to keep workers filling their economies. Much to do was always made about the great climate. So if climate is an economic advantage, so is easy access to water.

These large bodies of water are not just for irrigation, they are the method for which much of the nation's harvest of grain is moved to eastern ports. It still is used to move the raw materials for steel production. Tapping the Great Lakes to support California's insatiable thirst will only drop the lakes to a level where shipping becomes unprofitable.

Climate change is already making food growing possible in some formerly unlikely locations. I'm exactly at latitude 42 degrees (it runs right through my living room). Not a mile from my home, they grow broccoli and other vegetables right up until December 1, unheard of twenty years ago. They are now on the second planting of lettuce a week into May.

Climate change is going to take that market away from these states whether they have water or not.
>If some people genuinely have problems and some genuinely don't

You only gather data to reach that conclusion by letting both sides talk about their experiences, not by telling one side "you're rude, shut up and listen more".
Yup.

Also, recursion can be very bad for parallel stuff, if not done carefully.

We used to have to do a lot of optimization, in my old job, involving use of GPUs, ISPs, multi-thread, etc.

In that kind of environment, things can get quite crazy, and seemingly innocuous stuff, can have huge knock-on effects.

For example, cache hits. If you want your code to stay in a shallow cache (which could result in 100X improvement in speed), you may do things like write something over and over, inline, instead of calling a method or subroutine.
What does overloaded even mean? An agile program team has a certain velocity, and will work on backlog items in order of priority. The business always has the option to expand the team in order to increase velocity (perhaps with some diminishing returns). But if the business is short of capital, or the whole program isn't very valuable, then it is often preferable to just let the backlog grow.
> Well, Bijlmer itself was a mess…

Still is, but massively improved compared to the 80's.
Or you could just use Rails and actually ship a product within the first year of work.
I Could Tell You but Then You Would Have to Be Destroyed by Me [pdf]
I'm not seeing any new arguments here. Summarized:

They don't need that much money.
It's not even that much money, relative to the world.
That much money doesn't make you live forever.
They didn't even build the things that they're known for.

Am I missing something new and interesting?
For those who don't know, Quartz (the 2D graphics layer of macOS) is internally built off of PDF.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quartz_(graphics_layer)#Use_of...
The UkAF literally bombed Snake Island the other day. They definitely have an air force.
> I gotta admit though, the Pakistan version has a lot more memorable tunes

This one's a personal favorite of mine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUqRXjCM8Gg
Sounds like Poker Chess (or Choker)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVx8l0y8rGI
Ask HN: How do you provision/delete accounts for employees?
When you hire someone you usually have to create accounts / give access to a lot of services (email, docs, accounting, admin panels, Github, cloud provider...)

How does your company handle this? Do you have an HR person that manually onboard them? Do you use software that creates these accounts for you?

Lastly, would you pay for a simple tool that does this?

I think that for SMEs that don't use HR software, a simple tool that just takes care of the onboarding/offboarding provisioning/deleting of accounts would be very helpful.
People probably forget that because the Preview UI is extremely minimalist, like it doesn't want to tell you about all its capabilities
I'm not sure how he proposes to limit people to less than a billion dollars (or $100m as he also suggests) without completely overhauling the financial system. Seems like the harms of that are greater than the harms of having some extremely wealthy people (most of whose wealth is tied up in their businesses).
We agree here. By "consumption," I'm not just referring to residential consumption.

There is enough water in the Southwest for a sizable population, of course. The problem ahead is how to distribute a constrained resource to that population without deferring to lobbied interests, wealthy landowners, golf-course owners, etc. That's an uphill battle, to say the least.
I totally understand. They are just discovering the basics, and slapping fancy names to it.
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This works by Vantage ingesting and processing Cost and Usage Reports from AWS where we process and structure this data on a per-resource basis. It is updated as often as AWS updates billing information which is typically 2-3 times per day. Unlike AWS, this isn't contingent upon you enabling cost allocation tags. We can show the costs for each resource independent from tagging. We use read-only cross account IAM roles for security best practices.

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Cars.

Cars are ubiquitous. They are everywhere. We all relate to them without thinking. Cars run on batteries. Even IC runs various systems using battery power when parked. But do cars have an off switch? To turn them truly off, such as when storing for a long period, the procedure is take a wrench and physically disconnect the 12v battery. So I disagree with the author. At least some battery-powered products are doing perfectly well without off switches.

Other IC vehicles, notably aircraft, do have true off switches that fully shut electrical power at the source. So it isn't anything inherent to IC technology. Consumers have spoken: some things do not need off switches.
A system that can arbitrarily take away all assets over 1 billion, will arbitrarily take assets of less than a billion. When the government has that much power, someone will come along and abuse it.

Also no matter how much money the government is given, it will never have enough.
No, definitely not at the experential level of a 5-yr-old. They enjoy the outcomes of math and science, like eating the M&Ms they jsut counted or seeing an exploding volcano. The act & outputs is mostly beyond their comprehension and boring as hell. Trying to give your preschooler a "head start" in math is sub-optimal at best.
Server Side Rendering annoyed me the most because I kind of like the idea of components for front-end code, but I don't want to host yet another thing when I could of at that point used a server side template engine for my back-end web framework.
Or as an old oracle put it once:

IF true THEN
‘big’
END IF
Why, I wonder, does the article talk about a massive drought if that is not a factor?
It's interesting - but it's hard for me to see this being the future of urban life when most of the city looks entirely suburban (not very walkable), separated from the main commercial area without bars/restaurants/shops in their own sub-neighborhoods.

I would expect a key part of future urban life would include one of the most important parts of current urban life; walkability and a harmonious melding of commercial, residential, and public spaces.
We had a talk where I work by Jamie Druckman who comes to similar conclusions

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JE78OLNY6JQ
A lot of people look at everything in simple, reductionist way. Musk is either a god or he's a charlatan who stole companies and contributes nothing. Some people do this to influence a view point and others do this because they are simpletons echoing sentiments that feel good to them, this is how it has always been.
> for what it provides

Flood safety, food security and more gravity storage for renewables. Yeah, not worth much at all.
I use a "textured" font on my website (https://fonts.google.com/specimen/IM+Fell+English, see https://maya.land) and it bothers me all the time that the deformations repeat across letters -- like cracked stone ones where the cracks are the same on every "a"? Because I think mine's simple enough, eventually I'm going to figure out how to get a similar effect with an SVG filter like the "xerox" one on https://endtimes.dev/.
Not at all. And I understand the now obsolete technical show-off value of the tower at its time. But now I think it's just a humdrum industrial eyesore.

I think most people disagree with me so I don't think it's going anywhere. But that's my view of it.
Unfortunately I was unable to reach it so I just stayed awake and eventually maintenance came for a visit and they replaced the battery and reset it.
Since 32% of all of American water use is irrigation, I'd probably start with improvements and moves towards more drip irrigation. For domestic use, toilets seem to represent ~24% of use, so moving to dual flush toilets could probably make a big dent. Outdoor water use for homes contribute between 30% and 60% depending on region so discouraging green laws in arid regions is probably a good idea, and that seems to be happening.
This drones are almost useless against modern army with good anti air defense.

Here is Indian article with some technical details.
https://www.defenceview.in/why-did-the-turkish-tb2-uav-sudde...
I'm sure it's by design. I don't know the author's stance on nationalizing, but people who make similar arguments about "you don't need that much money!" also like to propose nationalizing all wealthy companies.
Several states have laws that would in fact create an immediate ban is Roe v Wade is overturned.

Specifically, Kentucky, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and South Dakota. Idaho, bans would start 30 days after Roe v Wade is overturned. Several other states, the Attorney General just needs to say yes and abortion is banned.
I think they probably don't, if only because government contracting is an absolutely massive pain and having been on both sides (early at a YC co and have worked in local and federal gov) I know that the gov side considers it an issue that they don't have a close enough relationship to tech startups. This was the whole rationale for launching DIU.mil, Afwerx, sofwerx, NavalX, etc. and championing OTAs which helped shorten the procurement process so they could get smaller companies interested

edit: spelling error
I've had good results with EasyOCR, much better than Tesseract. I agree with you, Tesseract has performed very poorly in my experience.

https://github.com/JaidedAI/EasyOCR
Integrate Azure and Spring with Spring Cloud Azure
I found an area of Almere that has a cluster of really weird unique architecture from around 1987 along De Realiteit:

Google Street View:

https://www.google.com/maps/@52.3921571,5.2180409,3a,90y,176...

(look up and down De Realiteit to see many freaky houses)

Polderblik:

http://polderblik.nl/

Campus (1987) -- Vertical Red Shipping Containers:

https://www.architectuurgidsalmere.nl/almere/campus

Cargo (1987) -- Yellow Porta Potties:

https://www.architectuurgidsalmere.nl/almere/cargo

De Naam van het Huis (1987) -- Half House with Watchtower:

https://www.architectuurgidsalmere.nl/almere/de-naam-van-het...

Circle (1987) -- Circular Hobbit House:

https://www.architectuurgidsalmere.nl/almere/cirkel

Many other weird ones:

https://www.architectuurgidsalmere.nl/almere/meerzicht

https://www.architectuurgidsalmere.nl/almere/macabine

You can see them all and more on the map of this Almere Architecture Guide:

https://www.architectuurgidsalmere.nl/

And there's another road called Aresstraat that contains rows of totally unique houses, reportedly so up-and-coming architects can try out their weird ideas. Here's a funky looking tilted level "House in House" designed by Marc Koehler in 2011, which was just up for sale for around 700,000 EUR.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Aresstraat+21,+1363+VJ+Alm...

(Look up and down Aresstraat at all the different architectural styles! Down the street a bit it flashes back in time to street views from 2009, before most of the neighborhood was even built, showing the wide open sand peppered by a few houses and construction sites.)

https://www.architectuurgidsalmere.nl/almere/house-house?fbc...

>PROJECT ARCHITECT(S): Marc Koehler;
CLIENT: Privately;
BUILDER: Ubink and Co BV;
REALIZATION:
2011

>According to the architect, “House in house” is based on a reinterpretation of a traditional Dutch canal house with an attic. An arrangement of three 'boxes', which accommodate the necessary functions of sleeping, office and entrance, structures the interior space.

>The slanted attic window ensures a striking presence of the house in the streetscape. Here is the sleeping area with skylights to see stars and moon. The floor is placed horizontally, which is visible from the outside. The office is retracted on the first floor, with its own entrance via a spiral staircase. Living takes place in the residual space between the boxes. That space is a route with stairs that spiral upwards. What are usually the landings is here transformed into a series of spacious places, for hobbies, music, watching TV or eating. This design keeps living flexible and dynamic. The house is also equipped for new interpretations that people want to give to the concept of living.

Tour:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WujRwW4_eMw
There’s no business model YouTube could adopt that I would accept because I don’t trust Google. Even as a paying customer, they still extract your data, and probably sell it.

I use adblockers and alternative YouTube clients wherever I can and I don’t care, because I have no choice.
> It's based simply on inaccurate projections of how much water would flow in

This ignores the fact that both projections and actual flow are trending downward. If the problem were just bad data, we would be just as likely to have a surplus as a deficit.
Yeah, abandon them. Just let large areas of the US lay fallow.

Jesus, what happened to HN?
> The CDC completely eliminated malaria and other mosquito born illnesses in the US

By spraying DDT over all the places mosquitoes live, which is now banned.
I read a comment on Reddit a while back that now reflects how I invest in Crypto: "Buy some crypto, then forget about it for 2-3 years".

I'm sure BTC will come back up and I still think it will hit 100K at some point. But it's going to be a hot minute before that happens.
Yes, when Apple bought NeXT (I know, more like the other way around) they wanted the graphics model to follow something akin to NeXT's — which was based around Display Postscript. The modern equivalent was of course PDF.

If you could render into a PDF context with your graphics engine (CoreGraphics) you would have a near print-ready document. (You still need to pass along additional info regarding whether to print duplex, number of copies, etc.)

So anyway, Save to PDF, Open in Preview were basically free.
Toilets and lawns probably contribute a lot to this difference.
> While I respect Kottke…

And than showing utmost disrespect by gaslighting and diminishing their described experience/state of mind.

Do you really think these "I'm not a... but' or" While I... but" comments add positively to the discussion? Why not accept that the author is in the described state, acknowledge what you read and then, without snark, write that you wished you would be able to have a sabbatical from your 9to5 job.

Because than some people might be able to point out that there maybe are ways to achieve this. I know a lot of people that did that with a regular 9to5 job.

Sure depends on the circumstances. But not impossible.
I’ve heard varying numbers about the range of the artillery. Somewhere between 15 and 45 miles. Whatever the range, hundreds of drones covering the country could allow for extreme precision.
>The term "Bangle Butt" was applied to the E65

It was applied to a lot more than that. Even the F11 6er still had it.

What is interesting, though, is how much flame surfacing started to flood car designs after Bangle's BMWs had been out for a few years. I'm not arguing that the E65 looked good, but he certainly made an impact on all of car design, seemingly overnight.
They are being treated like that already.

"Russian space chief Dmitry Rogozin apparently threatens Elon Musk"

https://www.space.com/russian-space-chief-rogozin-threatens-...
Sometimes the old arguments are the best. Just because something has been said before doesn't make it any less valid.
Market forces anyone? Scrap the historical allotments, and have the potential users bid for water. Pay to play seems like the best medicine here. The actual price for a gallon will round to nothing for a consumer, but the ag users will have to figure things out that they should have figured out long ago.
Because it's too easy to convince carriers to port someone else's phone number to a new SIM. I wish the carriers would address that, but that too would likely require some sort of government intervention.
Chris Farley's "Down by the River" skit is my #1 of all time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xv2VIEY9-A8
>> and how to count to 169

This is weird; counting is a set of repeating patterns, so getting to 99 should take him to 999. Maybe he's memorized the numbers to 169, or he's really a 12-yr-old boy who (without understanding why) likes to say "69!"?
The classic, find the most vile expression you can and use it as proof that such channels which traffic in expression should not exist.

You cant prevent the expression but you can try to control channels by painting them with guilt by association.

I don't read all manner of trash, its not the avoidance that prevents me from becoming a racist is it? It's not content moderation on FB that keeps me from being a flat earther.

I thought people were racist because they were taught by racist parents, or indoctrinated in racist schools, or awash in a racist culture. But now we are saying the existence of racist literature that must be stopped. This is incoherent at best.

Its just the next battleground for nonsensical book burning. The fake idea that a clean world free of all the bad things you don't like is only one law away.