skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There's short books that feel interminable and long books that fly by.

Yeah: It was a delight to read. The Brothers Karamazov was a pain.
> I think what we have isn't a free market but a duopoly of mastercard/visa each with control over their respective domain. You can't upgrade the security, privacy, or efficiency of the network because the big players benefit from the insecurity, surveilance, and inefficiency.

What does that have to do with the article? Neither MasterCard nor Visa is involved with Zelle, are they? The article says it's controlled by a group of banks. Presumably they've set up a new system, so they could make it as secure as they'd like.
I doubt Congress' intent was to make it illegal to read some plain text sent to your computer either, however that is now the case in regards to YouTube.
I can't believe anyone thinks a daily reportorial meeting by everyone to everyone is a good idea.

(Please don't bother telling me that's not what scrum and agile is supposed to be. I know, I got the training. Maybe you can instead suggest a way a daily standup doesn't devolve into that pretty quickly no matter what anyone says at first.)

One thing I've noticed is that so many people attempting to run software development projects are literally blind to information flow. They simply cannot conceive of the constraints of how information needs to flow... who would need to know what and when and where that information could come from. Any rational way of organizing this just moves straight to ball-of-mud, where everyone needs to know everything from everyone else. Any single gap impacts almost everything. I wonder why the velocity metric is so low!
> 3. No.

Why? No hope for real RT? (Or otherwise more generally due to the GC?)
> I take this one a step farther and don't even have a debit card, just an atm/cash card

I did this too, unfortunately I went through multiple banks as they rolled out debit cards for all accounts and stopped offering ATM cards, until now I unfortunately have a debit card. It seems this isn't really an option anymore.
Finland Put Traffic Crashes on Ice
i dont, i just accept my fate and offer my full submission to our future ai overlords.

seriously i cant even grok the math behind those things, those are way beyond me.

but to be fair, hn posts and comments are great so far in coming up with possible use cases for these things.
I assume this is sarcasm and the article doesn’t actually say that? Looks like a lot of people are confused by this comment (understandable because the original article is Ukrainian).
That's an extremely loose bound. 60 years would have the same error bars.

https://www.imd.org/research-knowledge/articles/why-you-will...
not...really? oddly. the world isn't divided into two teams, things have a little more nuance.
> Yes, you are telling me the point I was making. Product-izing your microservices is a justification for microservices.

This was not about Amazon selling its micro services. This was only about AWS Retail developers internally.

> Every indication is that the code base was horrible" leads to loss of momentum and inability to innovate, so it's not surprising their growth stagnated for, what I believe, are primarily technical reasons

This was in the early days. They moved away from the Ruby monolith years ago.

> We have different definitions for failure. You said google wasn't able to develop products. Google is clearly able to develop new products/services, maybe not monetarily successful ones

For a for profit company, the only definition of success is does it make a profit.

Edit: I change my mind slightly. We are talking across each other. From a technical standpoint and being able to get products to market, Google is great. From a business development standpoint/program management standpoint, Google sucks. Google’s saving grace is that it has one great revenue stream.

Maybe if Twitter had better product development capabilities - not computer development, business development, they may have found something that sticks.

I also just don’t think Twitter is as compelling of a product for most people as a Facebook and an Instagram
So it's possible, it just takes work, which Matrix is doing right now. Is Signal also working on this?
Agreed. My background is in math... and I find math wikipedia to be appealingly low quality. Both for reference and for a general audience.
There are ways around this, including cutting them a license, or ignoring it.
N26 I see (as my phone died and needed to setup a new one) uses facial recognition to determine identity, you take a selfie video when signing up.

IMO this approach would be a good way to confirm identity over a sms.
And somehow the extra 8 feet of dirt magically protects you from radon?
It looks impressive in terms of features, but it feels like it was done solely by developers and there was no thought put into looks.

The typography looks awful, spacing looks all over the place - elements are difficult to read. I can't see much consistency as if it was developed by disjointed teams.

Not something I would use unless there are good looking templates available.
Does anyone know if the "gcloud storage" vs "gsutil" chart in the article uses "gsutil -m" (parallel mode of the tool)?
What do you mean you won’t be woken up in the middle of the night? Someone is going to need to wake up in the middle of the night.
After 23 years, Weather Channel’s iconic computerized channel is shutting
The vast majority of researchers don't need anywhere close to the amount of resources that CERN needs. The fact that CERN doesn't use EC2 and lambdas shouldn't be taken as a lesson by anyone who's not operating at their scale.

This feels like a similar argument to the one made by people who use Kubernetes to ensure their web app with 100 visitors a day is web scale.
Like it. But what is the license?
i do smash my devices. thoroughly with garden tools. this includes hard drives, phones, so on. then throw it at the trash bin.
Personally, I find it particularly infuriating that more and more companies are demanding to use phone-based 2FA even when I already have 2FA authentication set up. This applies to Google, too, which has forced me to add a phone number and get a SMS 2FA code for accounts that already had non-SMS 2FA configured.

The whole reason I use an authenticator app is so that my accounts aren't dependent on having the same phone number forever!
I feel largely the same about video games and TV (less so movies because it’s rare to even reach the 3 hour mark).

I love games I can finish and fully digest in a session or two, and I’d prefer a TV show end on a high with more still in the barrel, than fizzle out into drawn-out mediocrity.

Part of it is limited free time around work and general life stuff, but the volume and accessibility of media these days is definitely a factor. I’d be far more inclined to play a 150 hour RPG if I didn’t have dozens of other games I’d like to play.
The likelihood principle actually supports the Bayesian perspective on these issues of experiment design, and is regarded as foundational by many frequentists.
Just have a crawl space instead of a house directly on a slab.
This would be sound advice, were it not for the fact that you could be going along minding your own business and someone else decides to make you a prop in their opinion theater.
It's remarkable. Between the myriad international and domestic crowdsourcing events (eg, Bayrakter TB2s [0][1], a Tank [2], lots of Drones [3], First Aid kits [4], etc), the postage stamp [5] and the Foreign Minister doing international late night talk shows[6], they've set the bar for Global PR tactics of an invaded country.

[0]https://zrzutka.pl/bayraktar
[1]https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/lithuania-transfer-crow...
[2]https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/czech-citizens-raise-13...
[3]https://u24.gov.ua/dronation
[4]https://twitter.com/ItsBorys/status/1578207951365480448
[5]https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/12/ukraine-reveal...
[6]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjUHY2XgIxE
I think it's more that's it's super-easy to add some factoid whether or not it really adds to the article in question. See what happens whenever a "notable" section gets started in some article in a community of any size.
50k per month (600k per year) is an extraordinarily high salary even in the US. I assume the parent poster meant 50k per month for the team of 5, so each dev is getting 10k per month/120k per year.
The article estimated:

Running a modern AMD-based server that has 48 cores, at least 192 GB of RAM, and no included disk space costs:

~$2670.36/mo for a c5a.24xlarge AWS on-demand instance
~$1014.7/mo for a c5a.24xlarge AWS reserved instance on a three-year term, paid upfront
~$558.65/mo on OVH Cloud[1]
~$512.92/mo on Hetzner[2]
~$200/mo on your own infrastructure as a large institution[3]

Footnote [3] explains this cost estimate as:

"Assumes an AMD EPYC 7552 run at 100% load in Boston with high electricity prices of $0.23/kWh, for $33.24/mo in raw power. Hardware is amortized over five years, for an average monthly price of $67.08/mo. We assume that your large institution already has 24/7 security and public internet bandwidth, but multiply base hardware and power costs by 2x to account for other hardware, cooling, physical space, and a half-a-$120k-sysadmin amortized across 100 servers."
Yeah, I am in the habit of tipping bartenders but never got in the habit of tipping baristas. I can't say I have a rational reason for that, it's just I've followed what I see other people do.
The poster missed out on quite a barn burner of a middle and finish in A Memory Called Empire, and the sequel A Desolation Called Peace, which also won the Hugo Award.
I just buy new $90 mint prepaid sims for cash. They work for three months. I have never talked to a CSR.
It sure seems like the only issues are those on mobile
I am on Chrome and the styling looks messed up or there was no UI designer in the team.
MacOSX 10.4 Mail working right now!

ssh needs the RSA key-exchange enabled

forget the web-browsers, just enjoy the personal applications.. almost as good as Macs previous to that IMO
> yes, very much including Linux

That makes perfect sense for that period, the Linux desktop experience was, well, not atrocious, but definitely left things to be desired.
Yup, google translate only talks about Ukraine's position on the Russian-occupied Kuril Islands.
It's always good to tech people to check the history and comments. However, when you cite a Wikipedia article, you're supposed to cite a particular revision. That's what the "Cite" link does.
How about WindRiver Linux? https://www.windriver.com/products/linux
I'm not a user of transmission-cli in general, but transmission-create (part of transmission-cli) is indispensable for me.
For the not-geographically or politically savvy, does this accomplish anything substantive for Ukraine? Did/do they cede any dubious or de-facto-dead but legally standing claims over any Ukraine controlled territory?

This just confuses me.
Too late for me I'm afraid...I built my first effects pedal before I owned a guitar! I have not built that many since tbf, but that doesn't stop me planning to.

I found my fuzz face recently that I spent forever characterising AC128 germanium transistors to get that magic combination...it still sounds completely mental!
While you are right, that is easily circumvented by someone propping the chute door open.
just jump in. sure there's new tools but common sense and technical problem solving are same as they ever were. build a resume site with NextJS, that'll get you up to speed

u will learn more by getting a job/freelance project than by studying
Ages ago I had original QNX Demo Disk. I was impressed that they could fit so much on a floppy.
I have heard this. But if that’s the case, and you liked the projects / developers, couldn’t a highly restricted licence be granted to the project?

A $1, non-profit, licence that can be modified or removed at anytime. It could even have an NDA attached so it can’t be publicly discussed.

Maybe they wouldn’t accept that. But it seems like there should be a way to officially allow a project like this to exist without enabling other groups that are not guided by motivations the licence aligns with.
If it weren't for Hacker News, I wouldn't have a chance to keep up with the new progress.
Wikipedia page appears to summarize topic more clearly and independently:

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore_v._Harper
Wow, feel good to see good news from GCP
Duplicate of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33103303
Germany doesn't claim Königsberg, now known as Kaliningrad, or any of the territories it ceded to France, Russia, Poland, and I believe Lithuania after World War II.

Japan still claims the Northern Territories.
And you can install it with just the web interface as qbittorrent-nox.
I don't know how cold Europe will get this winter, but I suspect it won't be "reverse territorial losses by the Axis powers" cold. I think in this case you should probably just enjoy (or choose not to enjoy!) Ukraine's joke.
I dont think you can jump over that hurdle without actual software intelligence.

If driver gets flashed by light, or something unexpected they rely on their past experiences, projection of near future to extrapolate how to drive despite lack of visual information.

If you close your eyes you'd be able to drive for few seconds etc. If you seen a car disappear behind a building, you still know that it will come to the intersection and you will act like you can 'see' it.

In my opinion the biggest problem is mimicking human driving. We are based on incomplete information with non-precise actions, and we balance it out by being highly adaptive. We extrapolate information from environment and based on past experience we predict future outcomes - seamlessly (though not always correctly). Everything computers are bad at doing currently.
> I'm always curious what is it about old people that make some behave in this way?

It should also be noted that you don't notice the nice old people who leave you alone because they're not in your face complaining. (A type of availability bias?)
Nobody, the above is just sarcasm and not in the original text.
A big terrorist attack wasn't particularly unthinkable. The WTC had been attacked before. We had the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995 that killed 168 people. There were the 1998 Embassy bombings in Africa and Clinton's 1998 bombing of the Al-Shifa plant in Sudan because of Al Qaida ties (and lots of comparisons to "Wag the Dog" due to the Lewinsky scandal, it was all over the news).

The fact that the WTC just wasn't there any more and someone had ran a plane into the Pentagon was the actual definition of shocking (as opposed to the Millennial definition of shocking which gets used for everything down to stubbing your toe on the coffee table). It wasn't all that surprising that we'd been attacked though and it was pretty obvious who did it, in real time. It was also obvious that we'd dive into bloodthirsty wars in the Middle East, and plenty of us protested the 2003 Iraq War on the streets, to no effect. The country wasn't really all that "unified". A bunch of people in the middle who didn't pay any attention to events did suddenly have one rammed into their face and they all jumped in the same direction and mindlessly rallied behind the flag in a way that led to disastrous wars in the Middle East. That isn't something to look back on with fond remembrance. We were predictably fucking idiots and ignored the people who bothered to point out the hazards of our actions. Stop being nostalgic about that.
This protocol was deployed for years before anyone even thought to check whether group messaging was secure (we just found out now that it isn't). Is Signal working on secure group messaging? Well, they won the Levchin Prize at RWC for the work they're doing on it.
This is probably a complete fabrication. Running code a compile time, even automatically has been extensively studied in CS. Just search for partial evaluation or supercompilation.
Tax liens are a thing.
That bit of web archaeology was very helpful, much appreciated!
Tell HN: AWS finally separating Amazon.com and AWS passwords
I got this email from AWS:

> Greetings from Amazon Web Services,

> In the past, you have used the same email address and password to sign in to Amazon.com and AWS. In response to customer feedback, AWS is updating your account to make your access to Amazon.com and AWS independent. You can continue using this email address and your current password to sign in to Amazon.com. However, the next time that you sign in to AWS, you will be prompted to create a new password and will have the option to register a new multi-factor authentication (MFA) device.

I was definitely surprised when I first signed up to AWS (having an Amazon.com account for a long time beforehand) that it used the same credentials. I'm glad they are finally separating them, and frankly surprised it took this long!
FBI tracked document printouts before arrest of ex-NSA man
The rewards of crypto's built-in bug bounty programs are just incredible
It's so damn hard to look at someone's resume, see an MBA on there, and have me consider them for hiring. How can I even tell if they went to a school like yours versus something like what OP mentioned? I kind of just see that on a resume instead of a bunch of actual experience managing tech teams and immediately mark it for less consideration.

I can definitely see where the kind of education you got would be an asset, it's just like how can I tell when the whole field is so incredibly polluted with people I want nothing to do with?

I have one friend who I've learned a ton about business from who got his MBA and it kind of sounded like he didn't receive the kind of bad ideas you get from the infamous reputation of MBAs. He runs his own businesses and does incredibly well for himself, though, and isn't trying to manage some highly technical team with that degree (Seems like the wrong thing entirely for that position), which is funny because I don't remember him technically even passing high school back in the day.
One person in your apartment complex is filthy and has bugs, everyone in your building has bugs. I don't have that problem in my house.

Also a house blowing up due to cooking meth - down the street, which is not connected to your house - is a much better situation.

Dirt bikes and teenagers partying the woods is definitely the better option too, imo.

"We live in a society" - true but one of these things is clearly better than the other. It's just not very convincing to think people want to be stuffed into apartments.
There’s another team in the opposite timezone that handles on-call, for the majority of Google SRE teams.

Additionally as noted elsewhere, on-call time is directly compensated.

With a 5 minute response time service: you are credited 2/3rds of the hours that you are on-call outside of local business hours. These can be used as additional paid time off, or paid out in cash.

With a 30 minute response time service the hours are credited as above, at 1/3rd time.
I'd say that crypto personally held in a hardware wallet is less secure against the sort of frauds described in the article, where the victim personally authorizes a transaction, because there's nobody you can even ask for a refund.

But hardware-secured crypto is much more secure against unauthorized access (e.g. a SIM swap without the user's involvement). After getting familiar with crypto, it boggles my mind that we handle so many payments by giving full credentials to the payee and just trusting them not to abuse it or be careless with it. Public keys have been around since the 1970s. Why don't we give retailers a digital signature authorizing a specific transaction? Why are we still using insecure 2FA and user-supplied passwords for bank website access?

Ideally, we'd put secure elements and social recovery wallets in all our phones, and use them for everything. It's what we need for crypto, but we could use the same tech as access control for banking systems.
It looks nice, but that's it. Usability is pretty bad. e.g. keyboard use completely breaks it on Firefox (didn't test other browsers).
I initially misunderstood the article's explanation of the gsutil shim: namely, I thought it was "turned on" by default, but that is not the case. One either needs to apply the shim, or to start using `gcloud storage` instead of `gsutil`.
Yep. Happens in the credit card world all the time. Porn is a good example of a business that has a lot of trouble functioning due to fraudulent chargebacks.
Your point was the 2 tweets mentioned are not enough to ban him; when viewed from a particular vantage point you are correct.

I'd like to address the other issues too but I feel it would be pointless. Maybe later if I'm feeling frisky. I'm guessing that you're a Trump supporter, so that leads me to this:

How likely is it to dissuade a person that their religious beliefs are wrong and they should be abandoned? Answer: not at all.

I'm not religious in that sense or politically -- my identity is not associated with any party, candidate, or group. The closest I've come to political worship is having a Feel The Bern shirt as a campaign gift but I don't worship Bernie. I respect him as being consistent and sincere in his beliefs because he's been consistent in his words and actions.

My take is that 99.9% of Bernie supports are like me in that regard. Meanwhile Trump is being literally declared as a gift from God. Both sides are not the same.
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The "good reason" is that it's an extension of how banks have always treated fraudulent debits until you show knowledge of the Reg E dispute process, so it makes it outside of first-level customer support.

And it won't be the end of free electronic transfers, it'll just mean acknowledging that those transfers aren't any more final than writing a check.
"Every time I fire a linguist, the performance of my speech recognizer goes up"
My recruiter is quick to remind me that this is a SRE-SWE role.

Yes, my impression from the SRE book is that Google has put a lot of thought into the role. It's good to hear that reality lives up to the expectation.

Thanks for the reply.
Isn’t that Zapier in a nutshell?
> There is no current desktop RTOS at all afaik.

Plan 9 has deadline scheduling out-of-the-box for real-time. It runs on x86-64, 386, Arm v7 and AArch64 (And more): http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/real_time/ (mostly obsolete but describes the motivation and implementation)

See proc(3) man page for deadline scheduling (towards the bottom real-time i described): http://man.9front.org/3/proc (I always recommend the actively maintained 9front fork)

The best part is you don't need special patches or libraries. You simply configure the process/group by writing messages to the procs ctl file using the command line, a script, or from within your program.
I imagine that is what ggg-parent meant by: "it does involve down- and uploading and/or copypasting zips/datafiles."
I side with elif here.

> Normally people provide relevant links

It is relevant. It's pointing out that lots of articles back then were not well referenced. It doesn't have to be his article. I know this quite well as I added a lot of stuff to Wikipedia in those days, and never provided a reference. No one challenged me.

Likely the page he got his information from didn't provide any reference for that number.
You are exactly correct, except:

1) it was RUP, not waterfall (RUP is basically many waterfalls in parallel)

2) they were dead fucking serious.
It wasn't just that: it was much worse at handling multi-tasking and keeping the UI responsive, than either of those. But so was Windows, to be fair.

I'm pretty sure it's not much better now but hardware's powerful enough to make that less-painful.
Ironically I had I no clue what I was looking at on mobile
That's exactly what your parent is saying.
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