skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Floppy disks are not manufactured today. Maybe there is nothing “wrong with magnetic media”, but there is definitely something fishy about running your business on equipment that can only be replaced with used stock & the various supplies of NOS floppies.

Floppy disks are also extremely difficult to repair, and realigning a misaligned head requires equipment and media that is difficult to find and expensive to acquire. If you never had to adjust the head on a floppy disk—well, let me tell you—you have to get a special floppy disk to realign it and use an oscilloscope to read the signal test pattern from the special disk while you realign it.

“Not manufactured for over a decade” and “requires specialized equipment and training to repair” is a bad combination.

To be clear, there are a lot of scenarios where floppies make sense today. You may have an old CNC machine or an old chemical sample analyzer that takes floppies, and it may cost five or six figures to upgrade.
Be an enterprise customer.

Again AWS is great for small businesses just starting up that can make a lot of use of the free tier, and find the pay per use pricing attractive, and for massive corporations that only need one approved vendor that can service all their needs without going through the purchasing process again.

It's the middle where you will get squeezed and not get a cost effective value without a dedicated AWS guy or two.
iced-rs, a gui framework in rust, is sponsored by kraken.

react-grid-layout is written and maintained by cofounder of bitmex.

uWebSockets, one of the fastest ws servers, is mainly makelt afloat by crypto exchanges who make use of the author‘s consultancy service.
Native Americans are allowed to operate casinos on their land, state laws to the contrary be damned. So if there's an Indian reservation near your cities, banning gambling is a waste of time and just gives the Indians a monopoly. Might as well make some of the money yourself.
> Tor embedded into the client

This is the most interesting part of this announcement for me:

>> You can test Arti ... as an embeddable library (if you don't mind a little API instability).

My first thought was adding Tor as a transport for TCP DNS resolution for an existing recursive resolver like unbound. Or, a TOR proxy for DoH public recursive resolvers. Either would result in better privacy than directly using a centralized public resolver with DoH. For the former, you would need to send the query through multiple circuits to have confidence that a guard or an exit node wasn't modifying the query/result (with all exits for a particular query in the same country to minimize geo DNS load balancing causing different results-- this level of control would be easier with a library than a separate daemon communicated through via socks. For the latter, using a socks proxy would work, but the library would make for a simpler setup for the user.

Too bad rust doesn't really do dynamic linking. 'libtor' as a distribution maintained library that is automatically kept patched for security vulnerabilities would add piece of mind when running applications that embed Tor.
Germany does not play around with fare evaders. The checkers will enter the train and check your validated ticket. If you do not pay they will fine you on the spot and if you do not pay you do risk going to jail.

Transit is expensive, claiming people have a right to free transit is just idiotic on so many levels.
Of course. Like with crypto, I can't wait to see it blow up in the face of grifters and talentless hacks.
I was briefly unbanked. It was due to fraud that was not my fault. There are lots of other reasons to be unbanked that are not just "too lazy to sign up for bank account hurr durr".
Since Lambda is just one of at least three ways to “launch a Firecracker task to do something”, I choose the right one.

For something like that, I would use CodeBuild. In essence all CodeBuild is a method to run a list of bash commands in a Linux Docker container.

Standard disclaimer: I work at AWS in Professional Services.
I’m sure you’re right, but I couldn’t help but think of Clarke’s first law:

> When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
I didnt know this but the semantics do seem odd as we have <pre> and <code> right?
Every bank I deal with (3 of them) take responsibility for any claims from identity theft/bank fraud. Looks like the push worked!
Well, now that you mentioned the subject, I think my bank has the only sane multi-factor authentication implementation I have seen on the wild. Including all the usual giant informatics specialized multinationals. And they have been doing it since something around 2005.

The threat surface of a physical office is just absurdly smaller than an internet service. And the recovery options completely outmatch anything virtual.
I enjoy using Elixir but I've never been able to get into any of the forums, channels, etc.

Maybe there are better metrics to gage momentum.
If grandma can't install lineage that's fine. She can sell or give the phone to someone who can who then uses it, sells it, or gives it to someone else (or back to grandma).

Grandma can't fix a car either but she can at least get the tyres changed without paying the car's rrp and getting someone to heat it up within a few degrees of exploding, or drive it on a new road without it having a tantrum.
I doubt you could do that through configuration changes alone, simply because of how defensive the firmware would be about that exact scenario. You'd probably have to resort to code exploits on top of simply gaining access. Even then, there's probably a rudimentary interlock at the silicon level.
Is this for US-based banks? There is no mention of the locale anywhere on the site .
Based on “millionaire next door” I’m not surprised to see that on the list. Teachers in general seem to live a “less flashy” life than a stereotypical lawyer, and two of them now on pension may have lots of cash laying around - and selling them product could be quite lucrative. Someone’s buying the CDs and overpriced mutual funds.
Completely scrap Cloudformation and CDK and come up with something that requires /less/ code - not more, and has resource changes applied in parallel where possible. CFn is pretty garage - CDK just makes it more complex.
I've got a simpler method than this. Just cut a round pole (broom handle?) that you can stick between the wall and the closed door. It will keep the door from opening and it can be removed at will. Low tech but very effective.
You can use Lambda to run Docker containers of sizes up to 10GB

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-for-aws-lambda-containe...
But then you wouldn't have the constant white knuckle anxiety that you could run up a five figure bill in 30mins by accidentally misconfiguring your infra deployment.
Maybe they'll even buy you a lobster dinner before they fuck you.
Side bets like insurance exist to derail this.
Apparently it would only receive one frequency (presumably tuned when made). The target was for developing countries that might have only a single state-run station.
The $0.125 is fascinating. According to my stats I query Google between 2500 and 3500 times a month. That would be a $300/mo. bill for Kagi?

I guess most people don't query as much as I do, but seems like it would need quite a number of people underquerying to make up for users who would be similar to me?
Yea... the a la carte came on a separate smaller plate. I just have never seen a big plate with nothing else on it.
Credit onions have another pressure - they’ve limited things that they can legally “do” with profits and one of the easiest is to reinvest in the branches, etc.
Maybe. The problem with multi-user blocks is the same as with methods in software - Hyrum's law. People will rely on them staying as-implemented vs as-spec'd.

I think that (and the problem of bait-and-switch) still need an answer before it's usable beyond small groups. Maybe small groups is good enough for now. If it goes in any form like software development, we'll at some point split into two camps. One will say YOLO and just implement shared blocks, trusting in good will, and the other group will noodle on foundational principles to get this right. (Group 1 will make the money, group 2 will have the fun. As always ;)
You’re getting lucky with the Infiniti. Nissan/Infiniti are consistently the most unreliable Japanese autos. And I’m a huge Datsun fan with 3 in my stable. Carlos has managed to turn Nissan/Infiniti into the rental/fleet car of choice for many companies.
Telegram must hand over IP infringers' details
How so? Storage is storage isn't it? Floppy disks can have autoexecs on them.
It's not illegal per cfaa, the individual who signed up did not own the email or have a reasonable/any entitlement to it. Above poster deleting the account is accessed through fully legal and intended means by service provider. The law would treat poster's deletion as fraud protection, which arguably it is. That data you claim its not theirs isn't true.
With respect, I don’t think you read my post very carefully before replying.
exactly this.

we even made an interface in code that runs a given task on a lambda (backed by a docker image) or batch (backed by the same docker image) depending on cpu/mem/time constraints. the tasks themselves also send a message when they're done so you can just subscribe to that vs. long polling.
What would be an Amazon-killer for me as a consumer -- and just about the only thing that I can imagine that would be -- is something like Amazon that connected me to the inventory of local merchants where I could buy things for same-day or next-day delivery via something like Doordash. There is a ton of inventory within a 30-60 minute drive of my house (in the Bay Area) but no centralized service to connect me to it, so if I want some glassware and some shower cleaner (my actual current use-case) I have to visit two different merchants, place two different orders, set up two accounts, take twice the risk with my credit card number, etc. A centralized order dispatcher that was connected to local inventory and delivery which would let me order everything I needed all in one place and know that fulfillment would come from local merchants that I can trust to vet their suppliers would kick some serious tushy.
Social networks, news sites, online marketplaces or retail.

I would imagine the experience to not be any different from trying to use the Twitter app when you lose connectivity. The app can choose to either:
1. Degrade the experience gracefully. Still function in a limited way.
2. Display a network error message, pausing whatever action the user was about to take. Keep retrying for a bit.

PWA can get you almost there. But LiveView is server rendered (business logic lives on the server). A loss of internet would render such an app unusable.

With this technology, I believe they are bundling the Phoenix LiveView server in the binary - to alleviate that gap. It’s like packaging node + app in a binary.

I think, the appeal here is LiveView. You can develop a SPA/OPA native app without writing any JavaScript. The code is entirely Elixir + HTML + CSS. Bundle it with SQLite and you’ve got a decent stack now that can even work offline.

Disclaimer: I didn’t see many details on the project page. My assumptions may be incorrect.
I've seen this discussion happen before and the same problem be pointed out re: WASM and canvas[1]. (I'm sure there are more examples than just that.) The trouble is that Canvas exists for a good reason: It is much more time-intensive to re-implement something like Audacity in the DOM than it is to render Audacity to a canvas.

So if we wanted to spend the time, could we be over-focusing on "just manipulate the DOM" as a solution? WASM conceives of the web browser as the "OS", or at least as hardware, and JavaScript as a means to manipulate that "hardware" (ask the browser to do things). Most operating systems expose APIs that let you do accessible things (read the screen, automate UI actions, etc.). Then frameworks like QT, for example, hook into those APIs from their own code to provide generic accessibility regardless of OS.[2]

So, maybe one half of the solution here is that to try to develop a neutral API WASM can use to emit accessibility information which can then be read by JavaScript running in the browser, and transformed into objects in the DOM? Then you could write an interface to that from your framework (something like QT would be a better starting point than wxWidgets, though, admittedly) and you'd get what you need.

Not that any of that is easy. But it would be fun, and naively, seems not too much harder than "rewrite app X in WASM to use the DOM" for much broader impact.

Maybe this discussion already happened and there are very good reasons not to do this - but I couldn't find anything about it in previous arguments.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17349170
[2] https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/accessible.html
It's funny that you mention IFTTT because one of the inspirations for its creation was the book Thoughtless Acts?, which is full of photos like the ones in this post: https://ifttt.com/explore/ifttt-the-beginning

They used to give a copy to new employees, but it seems to be out of print now.
No. Build an open source aws and you’ll be better off. It’s easy. Particularly since entire generations dont know that an “object” is a file and that a “lambda” function is just code executed inside a container. As long as you dont charge for … “cold starts” you’ll win at least one client. Thanks ignorance you’ll make a killing! Remember to charge extra for “permissions” (aka iams) to do anything. Easy. Bootcamp programmers will think this is the best thing since sliced bread.
South Carolina Court Administration sued over scraping ban of public records
That's even worse than I thought. So SuperSpeed USB 10Gbps is known not only was "USB 3.1", but also "USB 3.2"? And SuperSpeed USB 5Gbps and 20Gbps are also both known as "USB 3.2"? So when someone says "USB 3.2" what are they referring to?!
I should have been more specific - I meant for sports betting.

That being said - there are many casino games which would work fine and leave decisions - roulette could be -1% EV with a single zero which was smaller than the other numbers. Several craps bets are close to 1% and minor adjustments could be made to payoffs.

Blackjack would be practically impossible to make work.
No, they are not manufactured. The last manufacturer (Sony) ceased in 2011 or so. Some entrepreneur bought a ton of stock and is still selling it, there was an article around about this which I read recently but I can’t find it at the moment. A lot of customers who buy floppies are buying them for various government equipment, or shops with CNC machines programmed by floppy, etc. If you imagine that a CNC machine is designed to last decades and costs tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars, then buying floppy disks makes a lot of sense. If your government ministry requires floppy submissions because nobody bothered to update the rules then it makes less sense.
Excellent, thanks for that detailed explanation!
And those that do take card often offer a discount for check or cash.

Especially individual servicers. Big companies will take card all day long, but joe the plumber would rather have cash.
Turn off Twilio's auto-renewal / auto-refill functionality as a first step.
This is awesome haven’t seen one of these videos for a while - think the last one I saw was him building the hut. Awesome reminder of how much iron is just around on the ground.
Really got a kick out of the rotating bellows that’s super cool.

If anyone is out at Zion NP and hiking angels landing there’s a large chuck of iron ore on one of the last switchbacks leading to scouts lookout - just love seeing that every time I’m up there. Great reminder of where the red color in the rock comes from
I'm looking for opportunities to implement GitOps at $dayjob, but there are some challenges:

- Even developers don't know how to use Git properly. When it's just "code" with no actions associated with it, a mistake can be undone without side effects. With GitOps, a mistake can break infrastructure automatically. In a sense this is no worse than CI/CD, but I've found that many teams are allergic to even that level of automation, let alone CI/ plus automatic infrastructure changes.

- You're going to say something about repo security and policies to prevent uncontrolled merges into 'main', or something like that, right? Okay, now you've reinvented cloud IAM/RBAC and policies, but with none of the tooling around the cloud infrastructure roles and policies that the native platform has. Good luck establishing a new security policy that doesn't hamper productivity by getting in everyone's way, but also enforces reviews and tests!

- Most developers know nothing about infrastructure, and don't want to. With IaS their code has "infrastructure effects" that they can't avoid. It takes an immense amount of training to get people skilled up enough to understand the consequences of their actions. I've had an uphill battle explaining to developers that they need to regularly update their container base images for security!

- SecOps would have a fit, because with GitOps there are virtually no guardrails. Either you allow anyone with commit access to deploy load balancers with public ingress, or you're not really doing GitOps. Either SecOps needs to be involved[1] in Git merges ("DevSecOps"), or they're forced to put roadblocks in place that break the elegance and efficiency of the whole thing.

I like GitOps in principle, but at larger enterprises with random developers and minimal cross-team cooperation it seems like wishful thinking...

[1] For reference, I'm yet to meet anyone in a SecOps role that has ever installed Git, used Git, or knows what a commit even is.
I've made a few languages in my time, both programming languages and markup languages. One of the most valuable kinds of contributions is spotting design mistakes, suggesting good changes, and being a discussion partner about design-related stuff. I'd bet that in this case, the change to the parser code would be trivial; the hard part is getting the design right.
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I was a big fountain pen user in the 1990s, but largely got away from it due to changing conditions.

Paper: Back then, I could walk into Staples or the campus bookstore and buy inexpensive paper pads that worked well with fountain pen ink. Then, the major American companies like Tops, National, and Ampad moved their production to Mexico and quality went over a cliff. These days, I special order a variety of Japanese stationery. Some people like Clairefontaine paper from France, but not me.

Ink: It used to be considered a basic office supply item and bottles of ink cost around $5. Then companies realized they could sell it as a luxury item, so they changed the labels and upped the price.

Gel pens: Today we have remarkable quality and variety in ball pens. In the 1990s, ballpoint and gel pens were stiff and tended to glob. The better modern gel pens (from Japan) feel nearly as nice as a fountain pen and glob very little. Color choice has also expanded. There used to be just black, blue, red, green, and sometimes purple. Now you can find a gel pen in practically any hue you can imagine. So, while the FP writing experience is still the nicest, it's not the vast improvement it used to be.

A couple other things to note about fountain pen culture...About antique/vintage pens, people outside the hobby make a big deal about using one, but it's actually the more practical option for a high quality pen. Back when fountain pens were everyday tools for the masses, quality control was much higher. Today, most new expensive pens are bought as jewelry and don't see much use, so manufacturers don't waste money on precision fabrication. For a pen in the $100+ range, you will generally get better quality for your money by buying vintage.

The other thing is about etiquette...Never ever ask to borrow someone's fountain pen. Not only are the tips easily damaged by the inexperienced, but FPs are considered a very personal item.
Don’t worry! You would replace that with a new white knuckle anxiety that misconfiguring your infra deployment would exhaust your four figure cost limit, causing AWS to helpfully shutdown ALL of your infra to avoid any accidental overspend.
An appreciation for hypotheticals?
You started this entire thread by lauding XR and comparing them to powerful movements of the past, implying that showy and click-baity protests are the same thing as African Americans marching against specific laws that harmed them. You have offered no evidence that what they do specifically is actually effective at anything, and are hiding behind a forced and contrived comparison to the civil rights movement in the US. You have not offered anything beyond things like:

> the reason that protests like these are effective is because there are consequences; they are designed to be impossible to ignore.

> Well, it's being discussed, no? That is generally the point of these types of things.

And so on. How this works in reality is: if XR threatens to glue their faces to the pavement to block traffic if governments don’t shut down their economies, you end up with some people with their face glued to the pavement and nothing else.

> I'm trying to understand why you see these people as "insane, spoiled, self-absorbed children" instead of people simply engaging in protests using methods with precedent.

You are not trying to understand anything. You have a romantic view of XR and liken then to civil rights protests because it excuses the absurdity of what they do. I’ve pointed out the unseriousness of this organization and I don’t feel it necessary to elaborate further on why comparisons to the civil rights movement are inappropriate. It’s not me who is arguing dishonestly.
Why shouldn't it? There is a good argument that it's a matter of pick your poison. The current situation may well be the least bad. I'm not a libertarian but many of their arguments are very reasonable.
I had heard of both but hadn’t realized how directly they were connected.
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You can use https://replicate.ai for heroku like experience. It's very expensive though but they charge compute per second based on requests.

Otherwise, I recommend using runpod, lambda, etc for an order of magnitude of savings.

Crowd source services like vast.ai aren't reliable and barely less expensive than dedicated low cost providers.
Here you go: -
According to their FAQ, the delete account button removes all of your data from their services.
Just let me a pin a single package to a version number, for the love of God.
No need to be pessimistic. This actually happens, as documented in the Prism leak.
This is not new. In fact, this sort of thing has been happening for decades.

The difference is that instead of an 'app' it was "dating" by phone (POTS[0]). Women were paid to interact with men, but no actual dating occurred.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plain_old_telephone_service
If they get paid. I’d work on it even in europe if it did.
I'm resubmitting my last story using a different source. It linked to the original press release and was false-flagged by people claiming it had no substance. This story is based on a 700 page Statement on Discovery that contains numerous emails between Big Tech and government employees. You can't get more substantive than that.
Fighting with DOS Ethernet is way harder than using a floppy and a USB floppy drive.