skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
no, there is more going on than that. MSFT is adding engineering to Ubuntu to embed private data and keys at boot time; Firefox and libssl are shipped as SNAPD containers; it is not possible to turn off remote updates in Ubuntu

see a pattern there?
HIMARS virtual teardown
> Can you hear that noise? That's the noise of a million Italians crying. Because of you.

Is this cooking 101?
They're not asking for $4.99 -- from their perspective, once you sign up, you'll likely stay for years. $4.99 a month for ten years is $600. And you'll likely need to upgrade your iCloud storage at some point, because you'll run out of space, increasing your value even further. I wouldn't be surprised if many of the people paying for iCloud now will remain iCloud customers for the next 20 years, or even longer.
Hmm, yes, I think you're right. There's the more prosaic "… above and all around", which gets at something slightly different from "heaven and earth". Douglas Hofstadter was right all along about how hard translation is!
From Russia with love: https://ruverses.com/samuil-marshak/what-an-absent-minded-ma...
> If you take a cooking course in almost any Western country it'll start with traditional French and Italian methods as a lot of cooking styles evolved from that.

Weird, I've taken a couple cooking classes in the Bay Area, and this never came up.
I don't get why people thought it would change anything. The OS is still MacOS, and having to use a totally different OS to get a slightly better CPU performance isn't going to convince anybody to switch. None of my geek friends who use PCs give a single rip about the M1/M2 processors. Nobody I know who works with Windows and Linux on x86 systems care either, because MacOS is not their preference nor part of their business. Lots of people are still using 7-10 year old systems that work fine. It has literally zero impact on what they do. Nobody who is not technically-minded is going to care, because they'll either want a Mac or they won't. You turn it on, and it looks the same as the x86 Macs, and for 99% of what people do, the peak performance doesn't mean that much to them.
Nice, will be experimenting with this for work.

Any examples of a docker file with GPU support?
JetBlue agrees to buy Spirit Airlines for $3.8B
Who would have guessed frontier would have been the winner. Their stock jumped 20%
Yeah I think Miller was using the nuclear holocaust as a vehicle to reflect on original sin (i.e., the inevitable tendency of human beings to engage in self-destructive behavior) and the antidote to it offered by the Catholic Church. If he had written the novel today it probably would have been something other than MAD that nearly wiped out civilization twice.
Are you buying the phone through the carrier? God knows what scummy tactics they will use and it's not a fair comparison. You can buy the phone through Apple and only pay for the phone, no extra (unless you upgrade after only 1 year).
Well you’re really adding one party. They raise the price a little on the items, maybe a service fee. Fees. Because the food can’t deliver itself. (This is for the best.) Underhanded approach, but not insane reasoning.

Unfortunately… after baking in some income for the extra party, the delivery service…Well, said party wants to shift the burden of compensating empl… contractors to you. Through a tip! That’s fun. You can show your… appreciation. For them doing their job. Super motivating for drivers. Especially when everyone tips well.

Oh…

They brought the third party. Didn’t have to.

Could it be two parties? Sure. Pizza places, all you have to pay are the pizza place. And the driver they also didn’t wish to compensate fairly. But not all restaurants deliver.
But we're using a lens that bends spacetime. I'm not sure index of refraction is relevant. On the recent image from JWST, I don't see any refraction artifacts on the lensed images of galaxies. https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2022/nasa-s-webb-...
melting dog......lmao. well gotta publish and make those quotas....
I believe these are the people behind the asyncpg Postgres library for Python. We use it daily, thanks :)
Also, in cinematography, haze and fog is frequently used to manipulate light for shots, not intended as a practical effect as such. If they were shooting a scene taking place after a rainstorm, using fog to flatten contrast would make sense for the shot.
Multi-AZ is a requirement on production level loads if you cannot sustain prolonged downtime.

Datacenters do end up completely dying now and then, you really want to have a good strategy in that case. Or not, if that's not required.
I actually dig the declarative schema syntax. Is it something separate that one can use in various programming languages, or is it specific to EdgeDB?
OP said the options to "call me" is greyed out: https://old.reddit.com/r/tifu/comments/wa230m/tifu_by_using_...
Yeah. Also behind uvloop :blush:
> You need the rest of your team motivated, too. Optics are a thing. I understand your point and don't wholly disagree, but send them to something within the country or even within the same state. If you weather the layoffs and right yourself as a company, then send them to the Virgin Islands again.

If everybody respects each other they'll understand (I say this from experience). It's more like, "yuck, I'd hate to be one of those people but wow, I'm sure glad they are bringing in the money that pays everybody's salary". Frankly I was glad I've never been asked to / had to attend n entire sales meeting. It's really not my thing (I have "carried a bag" -- i.e. lived off my commission, when I had a mortgage and a wife who didn't have a work visa to support).

And remember a sales person's job is far more precarious than a developer's, or almost anyone else's. Miss a quarter and you can be canned on the spot. Miss a big deal you've been working on for 18 months can mean the same. Actually, depending on the company's sales cycle, being too far behind after the first month of the quarter can get you ejected.

From that article, the new management of datarobot weren't trying to build a solid business, but rather extract the maximum amount they could.
Because infrastructure is not that high of cost for most companies and every dev and devops out there knows AWS and has no clue how competitore dashboards even look like.
+1 as soon as you look at the costs per day, iPhones are cheap!

At $1.5 per day for the latest iPhone+AppleCare, the upgrade program made me realize I get at least $5-$10 of value out of my phone daily. Even in just time saved on daily tasks e.g. banking, shopping, taxis, work (I don't have to walk to the "location" or even to my desktop).
Yes, there is an atomic test / mitre attack technique exactly for this. The lame part is the attack executes successfully on stock windows 10/11. Its one of the top threats of 2021/2022.
https://github.com/redcanaryco/atomic-red-team/blob/master/a...
I feel like you wouldn't work for a company like this unless you somehow believed that all the bullshit they were doing was for the greater good. I would imagine police probably also don't see themselves as racist-in-a-bad-way but as heroes, otherwise why would you ever work there? That's where all this "thin blue line" craziness comes from. I mean, I get it, wanting to protect people in your community from crooks and scumbags that hurt them is natural. It's easy to trick yourself into thinking that these little exceptions to civil rights are justified.
Would a black economist measure black unemployment or white unemployment differently?
I used to hear this but after being at two companies with unlimited vacation, which were even poorly managed, the unlimited vacation was great. It was super easy to say you were going to be out certain days, and it was never an issue. It was great never having to worry about having enough days. Being back at a place with limited vacation feels stifling. It means I gotta weigh stuff like really wanting a Friday or two off to do something but then worrying about having enough vacation saved up or accrued for Christmas or whatever.

In my opinion, the only way to do it “classically” is have employees immediately “accrue” something like 6 weeks vacation every year and prevent very little if no carry over. The only issue with that is the cash on hand requirement problem.
GDScript went through a major rewrite for Godot 4, so they avoided adding lots of new features in the meantime and focused on getting it stable.

The rewrite should make it easier to add new features now.

Also the design of Godot values ease of use and simplicity to an great degree. They are very conservative about adding new features and I think they have a point there.

Also list comprehension is an odd example, I wouldn't really rank it that highly when it comes to features I miss. More annoying for me is not having traits or interfacse. You are expected to go full in with "everything is a node" and are a bit limited when it comes to more advanced abstractions. I understand why they are reluctant adding them though and I respect their commitment to keeping things simple.
A sales person making $600k probably has a base salary of $50-100 the rest is all commission. Sales can be a grueling slog that requires wit, emotional intelligence and significant research into your target. It's both strategic and tactical in a way that can only be practiced through repeated failure. To be bringing in a revenue that justifies a $600k salary is a rare person indeed. We all tend to oversimplify other people's work or problems. This is a good example.
How much time and effort will it take to find those bugs?

Quick legal money is on gigs that allow you to offer more of your services and get recurring clients.

Be careful not getting burned-out too young.
The United States has a nearly infinite amount of unoccupied land. What's required is the political and social will to incentivize people to build.
It's a high cost thing for them. That's pretty much the extent of it. You might notice that businesses pushing costs down as much as they can has been a general trend for a few decades.

Also, with so much digitization that's occurred, assets tracked in electronic accounts, fewer and fewer people have need for a such a service anymore. Eg. In the late 20th century you can imagine somebody putting stock certificates in a safe deposit box. Why would you do that now?
> I also don’t think parliaments around the world should be filled with people who chose between being high rate lawyers or business leaders and holding public office.

I think that the people I pay to write laws and run a large organization should have...substantial understanding and skill concerning the relation of the structure and content of law to it's pragmatic effects and the practicalities of running large organizations.

Why would I want anything else?

Do I want more diversity of choices? Sure, I want diversity of meaningful policy preference options that would result from having an electoral system that favored proportionality (which is pretty much the best pragmatic definition of representative democracy) rather than duopoly.
All S3 usage I have encountered in the wild has been user submitted files. Stuff like profile pics, document attachments, etc. You could in theory store these on the VMs storage but that encounters the frequent problem that the storage fills up. While S3 is unlimited and easy to integrate.
I can say that price _increases_ happened for a few AWS products in specific regions/countries without blog posts. Often AWS simply emails affected customers 1-3 months in advance and after making the change. That said, I imagine prices shifted due to currency, labour costs, energy costs or other regional concerns. And I’ve seen the opposite - I’ve seen AWS freeze prices and eat the cost differences long after they should have raised costs. It varies by product and region and marketing strategy, I expect.

The only rule of thumb is what is posted on the pricing page is supposed to be what you get charged. No APIs exist for the most part, and the actual charges can sometimes differ anyway (e.g. grandfathered pricing etc.)
Theirs other options available depending on your risk appetite.

For example, I built a file sharing tool (https://www.fileyeet.io/) off the back of Storj (https://www.storj.io/) which is a distributed file storage backed by a crypto coin (maybe one of the few legitimate uses of crypto, although I'm not convinced yet).

Storj was a much cheaper option than S3 although I do have to trust that their systems are as secure as the advertise them to be. Likewise, R2 seems like a good "in-between" option.

Both R2 and Storj share the S3 API for integrating with them.
This list of no-nos hilariously inverts the "shaming" you're trying to avoid: instead of feeling bad for using shortcuts, now I'm supposed to feel bad for not using them?

I chop onions instead of buying them pre-chopped (is this even a thing?) and you see that as some sort of expression of snobbery or a status signalling behaviour? I can't help but laugh here.
Stick-on ultrasound patch hailed as revolution in medical imaging
Well, and it's probably all being coded or rebadged by an overseas sweatshop so there's bound to be more spyware in the app store than drops of water in a rainstorm.
Can you make multiple volumes/rings of "secrets"?

First ring, personal data, family photos,....

First hidden "volume" - banking data, credit card info,...

Second hidden "volume" - dick pics, some embarrasing porn

Third hidden "volume" - atom bomb plans or whatever you're actually tryng to hide.
Qt. Even though OOP is still not my favorite paradigm, and despite being C++, Qt shows how it does not have to be terrible (and that for UIs, OOP is actually quite fitting). The signal/slot mechanism is great, and overall it's just a pretty clean design and a joy to work with.

Similar to how my appreciation for Haskell makes me sad how we still mostly use languages with terrible type systems (though Rust gives me hope), and how Clash ("Haskell on FPGA") makes me sad how prevalent VHDL/Verilog are, Qt in turn makes me sad how we collectively moved to web development for UI needs even outside the Web.
This is a really cool idea. At first I thought it was a random cloud and would benefit from organization, but then reading down saw the key.

The only downside is that it’s not obvious up front which area maps to what business segment, eg if I want to find “Mobile” I have to scan the cloud for things that mentally match to that (eg Android, iOS).

It does make the comparison of products in each area clear though, by virtue of density, but not what the area represents.
Saying that béchamel is a fundamental thing you need to learn is quite specific to a range of European recipes and traditions. You can make lots of fantastic things, from scratch, even involving Italian food, without any mother sauces.

I would argue that the real fundamental things for basic cooking are more like how to use a knife, how to sauté things, what happens to different veggies, meats, and herbs as they cook for various times and temperatures, etc.

As for the mother sauces, they’re prepared ingredients that one might make at home to use in various recipes. There are plenty of other examples: stocks, various things that can be made out of eggs, various Asian sauces, hot sauces, various cooked garlic preparations, sofrito, etc. Béchamel is just one example.
You need a bit of operational planning, then it is fine.

"Oh that? I installed it after seeing an article on Hacker News. Here are credentials. There is nothing really there."

They use your credentials, see extra data that shows you played around with it, and have no reason to suspect that there is a DIFFERENT set of credentials which would give your ACTUAL secrets.

The more HN people actually download and try it out, the more plausible the deniability that I just offered becomes.
> Sales should make a tonne of money upfront, especially those hitting significantly higher than OTE.

Sales should make a tonne of money for closing good, big deals. But actually I never pay it all out up front; I pay it out as the deal progresses, including renewals. I've even paid out after the sales person has left, because the payments were set up only to pay out as the customer and company continued to be happy.

The sales folks typically don't like that of course -- most are quite transactional. But if they make more money that way, they'll be happy (or will leave).

I'm always sorry when a dev leaves, even if it's for good reason. A lot of devs often feel an emotional investment in their employer, which often lingers to some degree after leaving. A sales person, on the other hand, thinks their company is the greatest until the day they depart, after which they often don't care at all. I am less often unhappy when a sales person departs, unless they were a huge earner.
I'm under perhaps the insane notion that politicking is a job, and when done well, the citizens see the benefit. No profession allows someone to work in it for two to six years, then never allows them to work in it again (aside from some nuclear-related jobs). Term limits have their place at the leadership level of their respective institutions (president, speaker of the house, president pro tempore, supreme court judge), but not for the rank and file politicians.
> Is there a way to avoid this?

Is there a reason to avoid this? GP commenter's list of "status" cuisines (including "chopping vegetables" as a status symbol) is just nonsense, you should not expend too much energy trying to interpret it.
For an SSD, you need to buy "Enterprise" or "Data Center" class drives for this kind of application. That class of drive have higher write endurance which is important since enterprise applications can have orders of magnitude more writes to their drives than a typical desktop.

That said, there's no real standard blanket vendor recommendation so long as the "Enterprise" criteria is met.
They seem to be using stripe to process transactions for a cell phone stores, but the $3300 transaction is for selling a van. I guess this tripped some fraud prevention system.
Intel to Wind Down Optane Memory Business
This should be at most 100km. Range is in 60km-100km range typically.
“they… don't see how they're angering their locked-in customers.“

yea those apple employees are so stupid they have no idea that nagging you constantly is annoying. no of course they just don’t care about other people including their customers.

although to be fair sociopathy is essentially just another form of stupidity
> My feeling is that VCs and founders need to find a way to partially cash out rank and file employees along the way if they want start up model to succeed long term.

They also need to adjust comp structure. I've had a few offers to be engineer #1 at this hot startup or that, some of which I thought had a good chance of success. Assuming the best case scenario I always found the following to be true:

1. Founders would outearn me 100:1

2. Given any reasonable assumptions around likelihood we fail, the E(V) of the offer was less than I make now.

3. Founders could, at any time before IPO, completely screw me out of my paper gains e.g. via an acquisition.

I've always pointed out it's possible to make me an offer I'll take, the resources are there, but no one bites. This is absolutely killing a lot of otherwise potentially great startups. I've seen some fantastic business ideas fall down in execution because neither founders nor investors could bear to let key employees share more of the spoils and be equally protected from the downsides.
> For many of us a kilobyte will always be 1024 bytes

Will it? In my memory, and I think that’s common for old hands, it always has been context-dependent. A kilobyte of RAM is 1,024 bytes, a megabyte of RAM 1,048,576 bytes, but a kilobyte of disk space is 1,000 bytes, a megabyte of disk space 1,000,000 bytes.

I think USB sticks and SSDs follow the hard disk convention of decimal kilobytes, but wouldn’t know for sure. Smartphones with a flash ‘disk’ use binary ones, though.
I presume they are trying to express an extra cardinal dimension perpendicular to the plane. Deep underground in Bezos new evil lair perhaps?
In fact, all they need to do is a little like/dislike button in the corner, without any feedback: users would click it when they see something wrong and the backend would correlate it to which part of the UX angers users. However, the number one thing FB would have discovered is that users hate ads and "engaging" content shoved down their feed.
Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)
Yep....

the problem is, that revolution is just two missed meals away, and with people living on the edge (due to huge costs of living), just a tiny unforseen "thing" happening, can cause those two missed meals, and angry hordes of people lynching the politicians.
> Is it enforced? No. But technically, it's there.

Very much enforced in NYC - where they do around $600 million a year in parking tickets.
There is millions of hours of engineering work in all of the services on AWS.

If you intend to replace it with either self-built or open source tools, you're gonna need a good two dozen people on it full time. Plus 24/7/365 admins to keep it running.

Or you can just take the cost and export the work to Amazon, which is usually a lot easier and cheaper in the long run.
Definitely one of my favorites, too. There's an elegiac quality to it that I haven't quite seen in any other novel.

I have a number of quotations jotted down from it, but since this a tech site I'll restrict myself to sharing this one that I sometimes think of when dealing with a recalcitrant machine or mysterious bug:

"That contraption--listen, Brother, they claim it thinks. I didn't
believe it at first. Thought, implying rational principle, implying
soul. Can the principle of a 'thinking machine'--man-made--be a rational
soul? Blah! It seemed a thoroughly pagan notion at first. But do you know
what?"
"Father?"
"Nothing could be that perverse without premeditation! It must think!
It knows good and evil I tell you, and it chose the later."
I fear you are right in your speculation.

Take a look at the Environmental Justice Atlas [1], which tracks 3711 cases and counting.

[1]: https://ejatlas.org/