skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
yeah, extremely conservative people don't see their talking points as being hateful, and instead see them as factual.

(source: many, many former extreme conservative acquaintances and friends, also a lot of time in my youth spent in the armed services listening to the most vocally angry people.)

they feel their opinions are being unfairly targeted because "snowflakes and princesses" (implying weak-minded people) view those talking points as hate speech, and hate speech is not covered by the first amendment of the US constitution.

they view the "hate speech" label as a loophole around free speech guarantees, and they feel it is wielded solely by liberals, and solely to silence their perfectly valid conservative views.

so, instead of understanding that reality might differ from their collective view of reality, two things which they view as being exactly equal, they instead attack what they view as the problem: unfair censorship. this ruling seems very likely to be based on this perspective, and if so, is intended to make the first amendment unenforceable in situations where moderation does not outright favor conservative viewpoints.

conservatives of this extremity can't compete for mindshare based on their viewpoint, so they compete by changing the rules.

this ruling goes against both the letter of the first amendment and the spirit of the first amendment.
If Apple owned TSMC, wouldn't that make Taiwan more secure, since the US would have more of an interest?
The use of a colloquialism was intentional
If your spikes go 5x over your base load, EC2 is still cheaper. Even if your load spikes are 10-20x over your base load, EC2 can still be cheaper. Past that, lambda is your better bet. If you are comparing to Hetzner or OVHCloud, you those numbers are 25x (definitely cheaper) and 50-100x (possibly cheaper).
They don't need to use mortgage financing, they can borrow the money through other methods. One consequence of Fed Reserve rate setting in combination with a regulated mortgage market is that private equity firms can borrow at lower rates than individual borrowers. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that this dynamic has been a major contributor to housing prices rising so quickly.
My experience with CarPlay has been rock solid in four different cars from four different manufacturers. I was able to connect in about a minute in every case (the longest time for connection was the first rental car with CarPlay where I didn’t realize it was there until I plugged my phone into the USB jack to charge—this was in 2018 and it was wired CarPlay).

In contrast, the BlueTooth in the car that I own typically takes about half a block to a block’s driving before it actually connects to my phone, occasionally refuses to connect or will pair but not send audio. There’s some weird interaction between Overcast and the car’s Bluetooth that means that if I’m listening to a podcast when I turn off the car, I need to restart Overcast before it will send audio to any output (including the car when I get back in).

I don’t understand the “you must sign your soul for in blood” claim, unless you’re an open source absolutist (or maybe Android Auto is really bad, I don’t know), but your claims don’t match my experience.
Hm, they do indeed use 2's-complement... sort of. In case of a negative posit, they don't apply 2's-complement to the mantissa or anything like that, but rather to the entire posit without regard to the meaning of the bits. That's... kind of surprising, huh! Although it's not the first number format to do that. But it is a sort of 2's-complement, yes...
Would be interesting to see if this opens up 3nm for AMD. Would love to see that in an AMD laptop
> I believe the only reason Apple has the first batch of N3 capacity in first place is because they outbid the competition

There are many more possible reasons why Apple had dibs, including being able to guarantee specific volumes, or committing to pay large non-cancelable amounts as a deposit, and could be as pedestrian as TSMC preferring to deal with a single large order rather than 2 or 3 less large ones as they work out the kinks in a bleeding edge process.
According to the FT, this is going to cost £65 billion. For any Americans reading, at current exchange rates that works out at $65 billion dollars.

Gallows humour.
(Joke) A lot of those ads are very corny.
I'm not (yet) talking about the law; a prerequisite to law (among other things) is rational deliberation among the members of society. The "we" is every party interested in constructing social norms.
> Only if your customers are willing to pay that much.

Yeah, I think they probably are.

> While Apple chips are highly sought after in the West, that's still a minor part of the worldwide market altogether

It is, but it's also the part of the worldwide market that actually makes high profits.
I use KeepassXC (I started using KeepassX after a controversy around LastPass) and I'm very much a fan.

There is a Firefox add-on that works quite well and for other applications copy-paste with automatic clipboard clearing is good enough. It can't be scripted like Pass can be, but for regular use it's fine.
To me, the historical reconstruction aspect of this is at least as interesting as the attack. One of my more obscure hobbies is studying the history of ancient texts, and it is fascinating to watch the process of losing primary historical sources play out in front of my eyes:

> However, in 1995, Usenet poster Jay Ashworth, citing personal communications with Ken Thompson, provided strong evidence of the existence of a real-world experiment of this attack. Unfortunately, the full Usenet message is missing on the web. There are only quoted snippets of this Usenet post circulated around various blogs, reducing its authenticity.

> In 2021, I’ve rediscovered the full Usenet message after a search effort in multiple Usenet archives. My success was partial - it was still a repost by someone else, and I was unable to find the original message. However, this repost contains the full Usenet message, including complete headers and message body, with the poster name and its Message-ID, establishing the authenticity of the post beyond reasonable doubts.
It always feels like the other person started it and did worse. From my perspective your comment was just as flamey as the others.

On HN, we want curious conversation. Denunciatory arguments on inflammatory topics are the easiest thing for internet forums to degenerate into, and when they do, curious conversation is quickly destroyed. That's why we have to expend a lot of energy trying to moderate this tendency.

The moderation point doesn't change based on how factually correct your comments here. People bring facts into these flamewars all the time—carefully selected to bolster their side, of course. The other side has its arsenal of facts as well.

From a moderation point of view, it doesn't much matter if the flaming arrows people shoot at each other happen to be made out of fact-wood or some other material. What we want is for users to use HN as intended, and that is something else entirely.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
To me that's akin to saying you don't need to understand the history of physics because hey:

F = ma

Is all you need. I mean sure? But then we have a different concept of what "understanding" something means.

The idea that you can ignore history and have some sort objective summary of it is, to me, verging on cargo cult science — the opposite of what scientific (and philosophical) education should be.
Ruby default "values" may indeed be expressions, but the typical use is to provide a value which does not depend on state each time it is provided (and a value which does not share memory with previous or future generations of said value). That quacks like "immutable", or "static".

Yes, you can stuff anything, even a reference, into the right hand side of a default parameter definition. But in 17 years of using Ruby, I've never done this, never needed to, and never seen anyone else do it. Granted I don't read source of libraries or Rails (except occasionally), so maybe _somewhere_ someone does this. I've read a few Ruby books over the years and never seen this illustrated as a thing to do, even in the Ruby Cookbook book.

(added) To be fair, one thing I have seen which is confusing to people new to programming and applies in Ruby, is if you define a constant EMPTY = [] elsewhere, and you use EMPTY as your default value for a parameter, you will get the same behavior as Python had with just []. That's because EMPTY is a constant reference to an array, but the array is mutable. This would be true for any language which is not immutable. Change the reference? No, that's immutable. Change the contents of the thing it references? Yes.

However, [] would appear to any sane person as an immediate new allocation of an empty array, not an unnamed reference to one spot in memory which gets an empty array allocated for it the first time it is encountered.

In fact, to be very literal, in the Python example the default value is only [] (empty array) once - the first time. In my visit_city() example, after the first run it is now ["some city"]. But if you read that code, and even if you are interactively debugging, the code itself of course does not change. The code still tells you, "Hey, here's a default empty array []". So this utterly fails the principle of least surprise. We expect when we read code that something which appears to be a literal value (or an expression not based on a variable) will evaluate to exactly what it appears to be.

At this point we'll just have to disagree on whether the Python behavior is "sometimes surprising" or "supremely stupid". I would simply put it this way: the use cases for Ruby's (and Swift's and Javascript's and probably any other langauge which offers default function params) fits the more common need, and that Python's opposite behavior is a footgun in a land where people very rarely intentionally want to shoot at feet.

Your final Ruby example is obvious in what it will do, and not shocking at all. And you had to go out of your way to allow that behavior. Nobody does this. No beginner would see this, in a guide or a book. No beginner would accidentally decide to do this.

But beginner and experienced developers alike would come to Python and do def foo(arg=[]):.
Projection can be a noun in English, and often is.

Related definition from Google:
"A thing that extends outward from something else:
'the particle board covered all the sharp projections'"

Synonyms: protuberance, protrusion, sticking-out bit, overhang, prominence, spur, outcrop, outgrowth, jut, bulge, jag...

And obviously, projection can be a noun in its probably most common usage as in "an estimate or forecast of a future situation or trend based on study of present ones". In the phrase, "this is the projection of where the hurricane will go", "the projection" is a noun. The verb in this phrase is "is", a linking verb.

"Wall Street bankers crafted a projection of the market." The verb here is "crafted". What did they craft: a projection. A noun.

"I watch the projection on the screen." - The verb here is watch. What am I watching: the projection. A noun.
Future Webex (Cisco) acquisition, said it here first!
If there is a chance you will want to move in the next 10 years, then the numbers are even worse! Not only are you paying more every month with higher rates, but the amortization schedule is not in your favor. For your hypothetical $1M house and a 6->7% rate change you build about 20% less equity each year also.
Square launches Tap to Pay on iPhone for US sellers
Right -- that's the one implementation detail in the OP that was interesting. It sounds like they ultimately used MinIO to replace S3. I've seen people use Ceph, but it's apparently a nightmare to operate a Ceph cluster. If you're on k8s I think the "cloud native" way might be Rook, haven't looked into that. Anyway, running an object store is painful.

Their notes here are a bit vague:

> When the migration reached mid-June, we had 300 servers running very smoothly with a total 200 million cached pages. We used Apache Cassandra nodes on each of the servers that were compatible with AWS S3.

> We broke the online migration into four steps, each a week or two apart. After testing whether Prerender pages could be cached in both S3 and minio, we slowly diverted traffic away from AWS S3 and towards minio. When the writes to S3 had been stopped completely, Prerender saved $200 a day on S3 API costs and signaled we were ready to start deleting data already cached in our Cassandra cluster.

> However, the big reveal came at the end of this phase around June 24th. In the last four weeks, we moved most of the cache workload from AWS S3 to our own Cassandra cluster. The daily cost of AWS was reduced to $1.1K per day, projecting to 35K per month, and the new servers’ monthly recurring cost was estimated to be around 14K.

It says (briefly, in passing) that they used Cassandra to implement the S3 API for their nodes, but maybe just to replicate the S3 API that they were previously using? That's an interesting choice I'd not heard of before. Perhaps all of their individual files are quite small?

Then they moved to MinIO, which would be the S3 equivalent that you are looking for.
You cannot do a cash out refinance if you don't already have a mortgage on the property. You can do a home equity loan or line of credit but those come at higher interest rates than a refinance.

But yes the real winners are almost always those who have ample resources.
286 with VGA? I guess no problem because I've seen a 8086 machine with VGA.

Around 1994, I've seen and played a game on a 8086 machine with a VGA card and full-screen perfectly smooth scrolling. I don't remember the name but it was a 2D-from-above toy-car racing game where each level/race had a different theme.
All cultures, of any kind, have failed. That is the nature of time. Culture is constantly dying and being reformed. So an argument that "All cultures that allowed X have failed" is a really tepid argument. The vast majority of cultures that normalized eating have failed, simply because the vast majority of cultures have failed, period.

What differentiates Amsterdam's red light district from OnlyFans' red light district's, or Las Vegas's, cultures from any others? The real answer, of course, is that excluding all the examples of something you can think of makes for an easy way of framing your statements as an absolute truth, but that's certainly more than a little underhanded.
Remove half the jobs and drop the month from the start - end date range
also discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33000243
S.F. sued over homeless camp sweeps: city charged with criminalizing unsheltered
Epictetus calls it "the open door". Glad things are going better for you.
You might enjoy the SRE path, or other closely-associated roles. Being naturally apt at debugging / optimising systems is a huge asset for us, and you might find a lot of satisfaction that way.
In California property tax is also fixed based off purchase price (thanks Prop 13, love it or hate it) so one could pay ~1% on 1M at 7% vs 1.5M at 3% and then simply refinance the 7% later.

This assumes you'd anticipate rate cuts in the near-ish future. This property tax arbitration could easily go wrong.
Is your cloud ops department free? I have personally seen that amazing sysadmins are a lot cheaper than passable cloud ops people.
Trusting trust is so old that this probably has been discussed before, but isn't it possible to "break it" by either disassembly or just looking at the elf with a hex editor? I know you can theoretically hack the disassembler too if you'd like, but after some point it becomes onerous.
Does anybody have a recent example of Russia destroying their own assets to the detriment of their strategic position?
What's funny is that Latinos are turning away from the pope and toward protestant evangelism due to Catholicism being precieved as being too liberal.

Also, because white identification from Latinos is skyrocketing.
Am I supposed to feel sorry for Vlasic here? The upshot is that I get cheaper pickles.
Hello Taro: Building the (Tap)Root of the World's Financial Network with Bitcoin
Today we're excited to announce the alpha release of the Taro daemon, enabling developers to mint, send, and receive assets on the bitcoin blockchain. In April, we first announced Taro, a Taproot-powered protocol for issuing assets that can be transferred over bitcoin and in the future, the Lightning Network for instant, high volume, low fee transactions.
Because the chargebacks aren't the actual problem, but merely an excuse. Anyone who offers services of any kind to sex workers, especially internet based ones, gets attacked by very specific religious based groups who have taken it upon themselves to get porn off the internet. These groups have taken visa to court multiple times, and were the reason that pornhub was forced to remove basically 90% of it's inventory last year.
Lithium, ironically, is one of the few resources that the UK has plenty of.

https://inis.iaea.org/search/searchsinglerecord.aspx?records... (1987)

https://cornishstuff.com/2021/02/02/high-grade-of-lithium-fo... (2021)

Other things, like nickel, would be more problematic.
I had an interviewer say something very similar to that to me once during a live pair coding session. I got to a point where I asked him a question about how javascript worked and he said "Hmm, I don't know. Let's see!" We spent the rest of the interview trying to figure out if javascript did indeed work that way. I didn't get the job.
The assumptions underpinning that legislation are from about 2016. A Tory government apparently can't achieve much in six years but the Internet changed considerably. The technical mechanisms described (DNS blocking to force UK users to use UK approved sites) are no longer achievable, which means the budgetary impact goes up very considerably, for this programme which would be unpopular.

Now, if a government thinks a few decrepit Tory voters picking a new PM counts as a fresh mandate for radical economic strategies, maybe they also think a $10B pa budget line item for "Block Facebook?" is a good idea. So maybe they'll do this anyway. But it won't work.
I've always heard 2.5x-3x your gross annual salary. Which makes sense, but us also would price people out of the big markets.
Perhaps I'm missing it in the OP -- I don't see any mention of what they actually moved to. CoLo? VPS? On-prem?

This seems like a key detail when telling people about your migration off AWS.
Its even worse when you consider how many innocent developers get their accounts banned on their stores while these obviously fake apps skate on by without consequences.
I don't think it's some super novel insight by him. The news has existed for many centuries and at least to some extent, it has created misunderstandings as long as it has existed.
Like MicroPython [0]? I use that for a few hobby projects.

It works fairly well for all the little things, like the weather station I built with it. Being able to drop to REPL and rewrite functions on the fly is a little magic, too.

[0] https://micropython.org/
yes, but the “employee rights” will be between the driver and the driver’s own corporation - how does that help the driver if there isn’t enough money coming from the contracting company (eg Uber) to pay for those benefits?
For Ukraine, it's better to confiscate NS as a compensation for the war, so it better to keep it off and intact, until it will be Ukrainian.
The battery is big enough. Power consumption is what needs to be addressed.
So... a whole new set of "reusable" components that must be vetted & audited? Why should these be trusted? Why should these be adopted and integrated into a team's ecosystem instead of their own work? I have a hard time seeing the true utility of this collection.
Because the "kids these days" took over :)
It is only a matter of time before some group starts developing and then expanding a jumbler of incorrect grammars, useless punctuations and poorly substituted adverbs before posting … as a plug-in/service.

Origination still remains the better datapoint class to analyze.
Please tell this to all those people who want gcc to vaporize and have all of us use clang. Competition is good.
https://archive.ph/n06fH
I saw stuff about synaptic gain.
That's definitely not true for “all of those managed services” — you can't replicate CloudFront on EC2, for example, and it'd be extremely unlikely that you could build your own S3 replacement on top of EC2 storage without spending considerably more on operations than you save. On-premise storage is cheaper but you're still going to struggle to see a cost savings unless you either don't care about reliability or availability and/or buy your data by the petabyte.

For the other services, it's still going to depend heavily on your usage, staff time, and operational efficiencies. For example, if you replace SQS with RabbitMQ you need to manage multiple EC2 servers for reliability but those servers might be significantly underutilized based on your traffic levels. Whether or not you save money depends on how much you pay your operators and how many messages you use: if you use less than the free tier's million messages per month, there's no way to beat it. Each million requests costs $0.40 or less, so if you pay your ops person $50k annually (haha) you'd need to be somewhat over 120 million messages per month to pay for them to spend a single hour on O&M even before factoring in your EC2 usage.
"The original has no value for the learner (other than a historical curiosity) because the revised versions are simply better expressions of the same thing."

I mean, how would we decide that? Do modern learners understand Newtonian physics better than Newton did? By what metric?
NFT Trading Volumes Collapse 97% from 2022 Peak
The folks behind Penpot also make a kanban management tool, kind of like Trello, called Taiga: http://taiga.io/ It's also OSS (Django/Angular), self-hostable, and very pleasant to use.

I'm rooting for both of these, and now that they have some funding I hope they'll dedicate effort on polishing the rough edges (and do something about the gratuitous amount of white space that permeates all of their web presence, and maybe reconsider their color palette to be less muted and more saturated, heavier, and decisive). They seem to be actively working on Figma imports, auto layouts, multi-user edits and more at this moment so they're on the right track.

For both of them, even if the VCs pull the rug from underneath to race for an exit, it being OSS is good insurance. A fork would mean that we don't have to spend time learning yet another tool. The good will fostered by it being OSS is what encourages some of us to look into their offerings, and in this way what we see is something that seems like a sustainable model for OSS projects.
I will wait for 2-3rd generation before buying it. I bought kindle early at $400 before it became a brick and I can just use my tablet/phone anyways. Remarkable has failed me twice. I am on fence with e Ink tablets. Perhaps it’s not for me.
Cloudflare's core asset is the trust. Sure, it's possible to capitalize on that, but then the game is over. I think everyone is aware of that.
> Don’t be surprised when dozens of African and Asian countries choose China over Western interests if push comes to shove.

And don't be surprised if they don't. Even if China has a lot of frenemies on its border in Asia, every country in Asia has some fear over China, and this often pushes them to improve their relationship with the USA (e.g. Vietnam). Even Russia and North Korea have some antagonism with China. None of their relationships are particularly strong.

> This is a geopolitical trope about 20 years out of date.

I don't think. China hasn't done much to court soft power in the last 20 years beyond a some loans for infrastructure made by Chinese companies. They still are inwardly focused.