skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Like any and all anti-fraud measures, clarity is the enemy. In any system, as soon as the rules are published, scammers will do everything they can to commit malfeasance while technically not breaking any rules. You say the system can't work if people don't know what the rules are, but in fact, any system where all of the rules are known exactly is doomed to fail because bad actors exploit the rules.

It would be easy to demonstrate how publishing a rule that says "23 gift cards within 36 hours triggers our systems" would obviously and necessarily lead to scammers redeeming 22 gift cards every 36 hours, right? So in fact, there's some kind trigger, and it might change based on time of day, it might change per origin country, it might change based on account age, who knows? Anti-scam and anti-spam measures succeed primarily by being flexible and vague. In this case, and in many cases, humans who looked at the full pattern of behavior (a full pattern we have only the OP's description of part of) also decided that this was likely fraudulent. That human factor is always going to be important, because some people just do unpredictably weird things sometimes.

This is not about Apple and gift cards, this is ANY system that doesn't plan to turn into a scam-filled wasteland.

A system can't work if everybody knows exactly how to avoid triggering automatic fraud detection.
> the dedicated server camp,

> spend way more time with Lambda/Cloud formation/ECS

As you said, it's not your expertise. No one said AWS could be used well by non-experts. The point isn't the learning curve, but the terminal velocity once you get there.
Is mating two fuselage sections made in Mexico and slapping on engines made in Malaysia manufacturing? Not in my book. That’s assembly, not manufacturing, regardless of how lucrative it may be.
Consider the Lenovo Nano: https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/c/desktops/thinkcentre/m-nano-s...

I have a couple of the ThinkCentre Nano computers. They are tiny, a fat fit for a pocket, but easily transported if you wanted to. AMD Ryzen processor and plenty of ram with SSD.

Still need power though... and I am not crazy about the power connector though (seems too proprietary) but it seems very sturdy at least.
There are always people who spend tip dollar on latest GPU to play rayteacing doom in 8K 120 HZ. Or run stable diffusion

Quantity varies though.
If anyone can do it, it's Apple.

Remember when there was no way that Apple would ever be able to move away from Moto?

Remember when there was no way that Apple would ever be able to move away from IBM/Power?

Remember when there was no way that Apple would ever be able to move away from Intel?
I use keepassxc on windows and linux and it is awesome.
They need to post collateral because they have leverage. And they need to have leverage because secure products like bonds don't earn a big enough return to meet pensions obligations. Yields were below 5% for the past I don't know how many years.
someone should compare results with just doing a keyword search on deviantart
Sure. But this actually happened. I've been twice bitten by using images that claimed to be CC and then an apparent copyright owner appeared and said otherwise. I've never had that happen with open source software.

I think copyright trolling is more prevalent with images, and I think it's generally easier to determine the canonical origin of software. But yes, it's absolutely a risk and a reason why many companies have a legal review process before any new libraries can be used.
> What I don't understand is why anyone would spend, precious and expensive engineering resources on coding to a proprietary API owned by one of the largest companies on the planet to whom you are nothing.

Who cares if it's proprietary? You're either locked in to a proprietary stack or you have to go out of your way to cobble together a FOSS stack on bare metal, in which case you're essentially locked into that.

> Ok so you save money on the monthly bill but what happens when Amazon decides they want to enter your market?

If AWS helps me get to market faster and cheaper than the alternatives, I don't particularly care what the rest of Amazon does.

> What happens if they decide your service is too controversial and they kick you off?

Normal businesses don't have to worry about this. I've honestly never heard of anyone getting kicked off of AWS unless they were doing something extremely sketchy.

> If you were deploying your own services to EC2 instead of using AWS's own services you could at least setup shop elsewhere with just a bit of work.

True, if this is truly all you're doing, you can probably find better options elsewhere at this point. But pretty soon, you're going to be interesting in managed solutions for other things that are important but not core to your business's value proposition, things like managed databases and logs and auditing and object storage and containers and data lakes.

If you don't want to use the cloud services that actually make the cloud convenient to use, then yeah, I don't know why you'd use the cloud.

But you could also run, say, Kubernetes on EKS and Fargate and still have a relatively easy time porting your software elsewhere in the future. And the other cloud providers have their own versions of things like S3 and Lambda and RDS. It's never easy to port production software to another provider, but it's not like it's impossible. And it's also an extremely unlikely scenario. I'd love to see some statistics on how many companies actually move off of their cloud providers; it's got to be one of the stickiest businesses out there.

> To me it is antithetical to building a sustainable product. People just hoping their startup gets bought and then it is someone else's problem.

At this point, just about every Fortune 500 company is using AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud in some capacity. For most companies, building out your own infrastructure is not part of your value proposition. So why not just pay somebody else to do the undifferentiated heavy lifting of figuring out how to run code in a generic way?
> One of the uncomfortable conversations that many people don't want to have is that sex work is heavily used by society and yet neglected constantly, thereby making it dangerous for both sex workers and the users, even making it more dangerous at times.

I have heard this familiar argument made for the legalization of narcotics.
You’re not following their logic through:

“Moral degeneracy” is a problem (in their view) because of the associated harms — which we’ve learned over time and encoded into our traditions. That things they call “moral degeneracy” fundamentally are harmful to a healthy society and to the people involved.

That is, they think sex work is harmful to the people who participate and those nearby (eg, children of sex workers).

Morality isn’t merely arbitrary and capricious rules, but an evolved code of conduct which tries to avoid things that are harmful. (Or at least, were — eg, prohibitions on pork.)
> Yeah, people will produce, but like 1/10th what they could if they can't make a living off it or aren't trust funders.

Not a big loss. There's enough art in the world. And things that are not made for money tend to be better quality.
The furniture example is great. If I wanted to build an Ikea table from scratch, I could not do it for less than the $20 they charge, given the cost of materials available to me, and the fact that I can’t buy a cup of paint for $2.
And a large portion of voters want an increase in taxes. You cant make this up.
> At some point somewhere something has to be taken by faith. Ones own mind being a coherent arbiter of logical reasoning is one that most modern people take.

Which, if you're building your philosophy in view of modern biological and neurological knowledge, is not a particularly defensible position.
I understand why you think that, and it's true enough for most classical vaccines. But, the mRNA vaccines are different in at least five ways from the actual virus:

1. The spike protein it creates is structurally slightly different; they edited its structure to stop it collapsing in the absence of the rest of the virus.

2. The mRNA that codes for the spike is 'optimized' in ways nature either can't or won't do. In theory the optimized versions and viral versions are equivalent except for potency.

3. The mRNA is obfuscated to hide it from the immune system, which would otherwise immediately destroy it as being too dangerous to allow. This involves pseudouridine substitutions. It's a part of what makes the tech experimental.

4. The mRNA is protected by "lipid nanoparticles". This tech is totally different to what the virus does, and has caused unexpected toxicity problems in the past. In fact it's why mRNA based drugs never launched and why the COVID vaccines were the first outing for the tech despite it being under development for many years. They thought the toxicity wouldn't matter because the nanoparticles only become problematic on repeat dosings which, as everyone knows, vaccines don't require (doh).

5. The vaccine enters the body via a very different pathway, one which is far more likely to result in accidental injection straight into the bloodstream. For normal viral replication it often gets stuck in the nose, mouth, throat or lungs and can't reach e.g. the heart or the reproductive organs.
I really doubt that would be allowed to go through due to the conflicting interests it would create regarding chips produced for all other competitors (AMD, Google, Qualcomm etc). It would be seen as similar to the NVIDIA buyout of ARM.
While you're not wrong about docs, the new package documentation for every package in the ecosystem is pretty fantastic! https://www.ocaml.org/packages
Cloud agnostic has its place if you have enterprise contract with cloud provider.

If you have 100s of projects cloud agnostic infra is good. If for example Amazon buys your competitor and now you get "new contract coming up".

That said I agree "most projects fare much better without" - a lot of people don't understand they are not in position where they would benefit from that.
One super-simple improvement would be to include a link to your documentation in the primary navigation of your website. I can't even find it!
If I could speak directly to the op I would recommend flipping back to a "rightside up" model and doing dumb, mirror, 1:1 backups to rsync.net and then configuring a day/week/month schedule of ZFS snapshots on that end.

Those ZFS snapshots are immutable / read-only so they not only serve as retention, they protect against Mallory (and ransomware and malware, etc.)
I don't know, this is mostly instinctual, but my guess is that this is subconsciously associated with the kind of cultural image of an anime enthusiast or furry as socially inept, meagre or generally nerdish.
Google-fu is prompt engineering.

Where we used to say “rome fall why”, you’d now write “why did the roman empire fall”. Because the AI likes that phrasing and produces better results.

Soon you’ll write a 300 word description of what exactly you’re looking for, like you would when asking a trusted expert, and Google will figure something out. The days of keyword searching are long gone.
Maybe that's people which absolutely want to see other people face that should take office jobs ?

Lots of open source software have been developed in the last 40 years with what we call now "fully remote team" without any need for webcams. Why it's suddenly becomes mandatory for some people that develop software ?
EC2 is vastly more cost efficient than using all of those managed services unless you only have tiny on-demand usage scenarios.
Meanwhile, there are places in the world where CBD oil can be found in a supermarket, among other supplements.
> is just a front for "explain this to me", especially when considering the body language.

? Why? There's nothing that indicates this, the history behind these images shows the clear opposite. This to me sounds more like your (unconscious?) biases are showing more than it actually being a thing. Trust me, it's not really how this meme works. If you actually look at most images in that repo the girls are either reading the book, explaining the book, or clearly pushing it (often aggressively) towards the viewer to make them read it.

EDIT: Are you familiar with Serial Experiments Lain? I think that was one of the first ones to pop up with these.
There are no perfect solutions. In the arms race to protect against abuse, I'll take the solution that's more accessible, particularly to people that are discriminated against by CAPTCHAs, such as deafblind people.
> Unions become completely unnecessary in this system.

I don't think that's true. Unions exist to negotiate working conditions with management. Management doesn't disappear in the system that you're describing.

Some of the incentives for poor working conditions disappear, but not all of them. There are non-profits that have unionized due to worker abuses. Ironically, I've worked in VC-backed startups most of my career, and I've experienced much less abuse than friends who work at non-profits
Thank you. I really appreciate that. I look forward to improving it and fixing the areas some HNs have pointed out. Also, I am happy people are taking the time to look at it.
I'm pretty sure there were way more children back then who had practical skills, now everyone is pushed into "college prep" and discouraged from having practical skills, as they are associated with the lower class workers.

The people who keep us all alive are viewed as less worthy... that's our problem in a nutshell.
Here is one thing you can do with crypto that you cannot do with a credit card: use your money how you would like. There is no payment processor to decide that you are not allowed to send or receive money.
In court, Apple could also present the full pattern of behavior of this user, which presumably includes much more than the OP's description of these events, and it's possible that a jury, hearing everything Apple can prove from their records, would side with Apple.
Honestly I think this weird binary comparison of a country's need for a military to an individual's need for sex (and/or other intimacy) has run its course... this isn't really making sense to me anymore, and it's off course from the original context.

To try to bring things back from this extreme tangent; my point was that on an individual level, trauma from sex work is no worse than trauma people face on the front lines, yet one is acceptable and one's not. That's a somewhat arbitrary construct.

As individuals both sex (and/or some adjacent intimacy) and safety are very low on the hierarchy of needs.
> I still want backups. But instead of "backing up files in the cloud", I back them up locally, by redownloading them to a local archival drive. This is upside-down of most people's backup strategy, but it really is quite nice once you get it set up.

Is it? I thought that was what everyone did.
They only have to be "good enough" with some wins, Apple was able to survive the mediocre Intel performance and likely could survive some mediocre iPhone chip performance.

But they won't do it unless they need to, or they think they can get a major win, and even then likely though a subsidiary.
Been using fake photo for some time.

Because I am too ugly.
For now, I think the gas escaping is preventing water from rushing in.
As the OP points out, the real AWS costs are in transit - not the server costs. Their app generates a TON of traffic.
EVs are heavier than ICE cars; have a much faster acceleration; and they are silent, which is great, sure, but this also means you don't hear them coming.

How many MORE people than the current 50k/year (!) -- and I have no idea about how many are left crippled, and/or unable to provide for themselves and their families -- are going to die in the US alone due to "accidents" with cars?
But will they keep taking that fab capacity over many years and fund the R&D of the next process nodes by buying up guaranteed capacity ahead of time? Apple has been a good partner to TSMC and it would not be wise to replace them for short term gain.
Surely they mean to get training data for the robot;)
Solid point. I never thought about Equal Temperament as an example of Worse is Better, but yeah.

And after going through heroic efforts to get the ratios of notes exact, you're probably going to want to add a little vibrato or chorus effect to give it more warmth and character. So it's self-defeating in a way.

Nonetheless, the exploration of alternate tunings can be fascinating.
The Go compiler used to be written in C, but transitioned to being written in Go around version 1.4 (IIRC). I believe that the Go compiler toolchain is rooted on that version (i.e., you can eventually compile the current Go compiler if you start with the compiler binary produced using Go 1.4). I don't remember the reference describing the situation in detail.
Maybe, but it's something that I've observed while teaching, and learning, anything that requires another human's time and effort.

People don't want to bother someone else when their problem seems "elementary" or too low on the "beginner level".

I've observed the same when tutoring others in math, programming, or physics. Even though we have an existing relationship where I will help them work through school work people tend to be very anxious about asking for that help.

I've seen it with new coworkers who spend waaaay too much time trying to figure something out by themselves when they could have just walked over and just asked for the answer.

"I didn't want to bother you" is a refrain I've heard a lot from others in a large number of situations, teaching Go is one where it's more directly analogous to learning a language through speaking, because it requires another human's time, and the resources are extremely easy to access.
> The solution is once again, governmental regulation and agreement on certain standards, for example requiring a standard USB-C connection for all phones sold in a given market, etc.

In order for the solution to "once again" be government regulation, there has to be a past example of a coordination problem that was solved optimally by government regulation. Do you have such an example?

All of the examples I can think of involving political intervention are ones that culminated in a suboptimal status quo being artificially locked in place due to incremental innovation on the margin being suppressed and/or the regulatory system being co-opted by its intended targets to create intentional barriers to entry.

Conversely, we have plenty of examples of ecosystems converging to compatible standards organically, as we see in most of the world of computing technology, e.g. with PC hardware standards, internet protocols, etc.
Doom 3's design suffered due to its programming innovations. Since the game developers wanted to show off the real time lighting, they opted for a horror like design that showed off the tech. It kinda drove it away from the thing that made the original Doom games fun - fast paced fps action
Just a point of pedantry, "child sex abuse material" (CSAM) is a new, more descriptive and accurate term.
Are you including the wages of the extra people to support building and managing such services?
You know what is also good for crime? Dollars! Everyone takes then. Even worse they are harder to trace. Do you see anyone wanting to ban the dollar or claim that it's good for crime?
Removing taboos around drug use has at best mixed results in, eg, Seattle and Portland.

Perhaps there’s a reason that past societies invented the taboos to begin with.
There are docks that let you use your phone as the computing device. Depending on how much power you need, that would probably be good enough for most tasks.

Ex. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1404180696/nudock-a-doc...
Main reason is because I've not used the TS-100 personally so I cannot say for sure, afair the TS-100 heated up a tad faster in certain situations.

Anyway, USB-C is a big deal for me so I'd take the Pinecil if prices were the same.
> I just wonder how these people have no sense of embarrassment.

A lot of these people tend to be quite isolated from society in general, so they end up losing their sense of embarrassment entirely. Doing things that other people find weird or that make other people uncomfortable ends up becoming a sort of hobby for them (and often becomes their personality entirely) since they effectively have nothing to lose over it.
For some time now it seems moral / christian crusaders are invading HN. All those accounts have very low karma (sometimes even negative) and insist on "values" and "morals".

I wonder if it's the result of a concerted effort or the inevitable consequence of HN becoming mainstream.

It's probably the latter, but it's pretty annoying.
To be fair to the paper, the author merely calls for "less" attention paid to historical philosophy, not none.

You didn't miss much by not continuing. The paper's... rough.
Conversely, it sucks to know that software you wrote is responsible for having killed even one person - to say nothing of doing so at scale.

Were I in that field as an engineer, I'd be all in favor of being very conservative - and it has nothing to do with liability.
Turnstile is Cloudflare’s latest attempt to rid the web of CAPTCHAs
You are absolutely right. It should be up there.

It’s currently all the way down on the footer: https://subsection.io/guide

It’s still being worked on as Subsection is only about a week old and still deploying features as we speak.
That doesn't make sense at all. Why attack allies and risk invoking defense treaties? Especially considering that there is no gas flowing through those pipelines. NS2 was never certified and therefore never in use. NS1 was essentially shut down illegally by Russia. So the USA did get what it wanted long before. By blowing up those pipelines, they would lose all trust from the EU and wouldn't have any leverage left.

Russia was pretending to have "technical problems" with those pipelines, and now it conveniently blows up? They are obligated by contract to supply us with gas until 2030. Breaking the contract may lead to financial penalties. Wouldn't it be convenient if those pipelines were to suddenly break for unknown reasons, so you don't have that problem?

You know what would release them from their obligations in the contract? An "act of god", that would make the pipelines unusable.

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/russias-gazprom-decl...
> only previously viable solution was ReCAPTCHA

Erm, hello, hCAPTCHA[1] ?!?

Can't remember when they started, but I certainly jumped ship to hCAPTCHA what is now many years ago now.

Privacy protection is stated there on their homepage as their key differentiator with ReCAPTCHA.

[1] https://www.hcaptcha.com/
You can configure vscode to fail on typing problems and it will show errors in your editor
It is kind of annoying how often when using winget there might be two options the winget version which is the app and a msstore version that is from an unknown publisher just using the same name for the app.
Having your own data center is almost never cheaper nowadays unless you have very specific hardware needs. And it is far, far, far slower to build your own data center than to just start using a cloud provider.
TSMC needs Apple, but Apple needs TSMC.

Sounds like they're playing a game of chicken.
https://youtu.be/bWbytHBp0zI

Google search is severely broken.