skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We don't seem to need to emit much more greenhouse gases, the amount present in the atmosphere is going to keep Earth heated for a long enough time.

But if we wanted more, think about all the methane that thawing Siberian and Canadian permafrost will release.
I cannot possibly understand what you think you're saying here.

There are three ways to charge an iPhone, two wireless and one port, all of them run off USB, A or C, take your pick. The only wrinkle is that there are USB-C ports out there which don't speak the standard, something which Apple can't control.

Where's the dongle? Where's the hell?
Not right now. The thought is to abstract away the cloud provider from the end user so that he/she doesn't need to worry about the complexities and best practices of that specific cloud and just focus on feature development. However, we may add that in future based on the demand.
Yeah tampering with the atmosphere is literally insane.
FAA is dual mandate though which is really a significant barrier to effectiveness in either sector.
Does having articipated in the green card diversity lottery make it significantly more likely that I will be rejected if I apply for a B1 or B2 visa?
You are right, click&collect probably makes more sense. I still have to get used to the modern ways :)
Sure Shingay cum Wendy is a strong competitor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shingay_cum_Wendy
I don't like that you were downvoted for curiosity.

Yes, there is a performance hit but how large it is depends a lot on what you're doing.

"Switching" is one of the most costly operations and in Kernel mode you do not need to do it unless interacting with something in user space.. which you would only do because something in Userspace requested it somehow.

For other things, such as virtual memory, Microsoft found that the protections needed for virtual memory could be anywhere between 10 and 20%; but since there's no concept of virtual memory in kernel space: it's hard to say concretely that your program would be "20% faster". It would be too much of a different program.
Then we stop increasing albedo for a bit. Basically PWM-ing the Earth's solar flux. As long as the decay time of the albedo modification is known, it's quite unlikely that we could induce a snowball earth.
AWS is many things.

Their CloudFront service is pretty awesome.

You just put it between your server and your users and BOOM all your static content gets delivered lightning fast via Amazons world wide CDN.

And it costs like $10 per month millions of requests.
Civilization is the meta-entity that emerged from us when we started writing and educating each other. It perpetuates itself, adapts to changing circumstances, and grows in complexity.

Economic systems and religions come and go, but civilization is here for good.
What I'm trying to do is to:
1. Prove/Disprove Collatz Conjecture via a intuitive approach that can be translated to a rigorous approach later. I may post some other posts later in the blog.
2. Improving brute-force speed for collatz sequences.

Therefore, I think this approach may have a potential solution if we assumed it is a ground for further research (a starting point you may say).
Modern people overestimate how long we have been able to engineer things precisely.

I used to use a lot of vintage German cameras.
Really right up through the 1950s the tolerances were wide enough that no two cameras were exactly alike. The parts were all replaceable, and there were often adjustments & shims inside to keep things in spec. For example, one camera might have part A that's a little long so it's matching part B would be a little short to compensate. They'd sort it out at the factory where they have the parts bins and could keep trying different part Bs to match the part A installed until they had a close enough match, then shim it.

This was even more so in the 1920s-1940s cameras.

The cameras actually had stickers in the film compartment warning you to send it in for professional service for any repairs. Note the implication that the camera needed frequent enough service that they'd actually bother putting a sticker in it!

So for some we look back on the era as things being user-serviceable and parts replaceable, but it was that way for reasons of manufacturing ability.
The article they link to has a nice graph showing that acceleration:

https://thegreentank.gr/en/2022/09/27/admie-august2022-en/
Someone should tell him that NOT firing the heads of the environmental agencies [1] of his country could make way more impact than iPhones having USB C

https://news.mongabay.com/2019/06/brazil-guts-environmental-...
The pretentiousness is suffocating sometimes, especially from those who don't actually build things but pontificate like they do.
> no one ever got fired for picking AWS

It’s also nowhere near as bad as Concur/Oracle/IBM. Though that’s a fairly low bar.
I did not say that. I like Amos nowadays. However, it wasn't a serious choice for any of us working on demos or tools back then, even usage of Amiga C was uncommon.

Same goes for Basic on C64. It is not that I dislike Basic. It simply the fact, that you get different results using assembler on C64.
I'm pretty sure this isn't legal in most provinces.
HN needs a "I want support and am not happy with what I receive, please be my personal army and bully the company into doing what I want" spinoff.
> I hate the fact that there are way too many code samples floating around on the internet that have you explicitly put your access key and secret key in the initialization code for the AWS SDK.

See, I thought that was a big strength of a lot of the AWS documentation over Google Cloud.

An AWS example for, say, S3 would show you where to insert the secrets, and it would work.

The Google Cloud Storage examples, though? It didn't seem to have occurred to them that someone reading "how to create bucket example" might not have their credentials set up.

And when the example didn't work - well, it was like the auth documentation was written by a completely different team, and they'd never considered a developer might simply want to access their own account. Instead the documentation was a mess of complicated-ass use cases like your users granting your application access to their google account; sign-in-with-google for your mobile app; and so on.

Google's documentation is better than it once was - but I've always wondered how much of the dominance of AWS arose from the fact their example code actually worked.
I use AWS all the time and for startups I 100% agree with this. Sure, I could get a cool stack up and running in AWS much faster than this article, but the infrastructure by its self delivers ZERO value even if it’s shiny and fun to work on. We must remember this.

Start on Heroku, maybe with your own RDS. This removes so many decisions and ongoing overhead and lets you focus on building the thing that actually delivers value.
Yeah, that's hard to argue with assuming the fine does not include Apple devices that already use USB-C.
This is kind of the problem with using irrevocable 3DSecure/UPI payment. If you had a plain debit/credit card you could call your bank and have them mark it as fraud. Asking Razorpay about it is pretty strange as just the payments provider
LuaJIT is written in another language, C with assembler intrinsics, and uses an interpreter.

These are the two requirements of the sentence I quoted.

There's no need for the Zero Feet proposal to say something untrue to justify their approach. I'm not imputing malice because I see none, but moderating that sentence or just removing it would strengthen their case.
Interesting. The fix I was taught is to simply make and hold the loop in the other hand, and then go around it the normal way. Basically just switch hands for the loop part. This seems to give the same result.
I think it's a mix of phishing and market manipulation. Here's an example of drained funds without hacking. Another example of web3 speed-running lessons learned in traditional financial markets.

https://twitter.com/joshua_j_lim/status/1579987648546246658
Or cause dissolution of remaining colonials empires like Russia.
The point of GP is to differentiate porting from compiling, whether you call that compiled or transpiled is immaterial, the goal is to differentiate between a codebase which is idiomatic, understandable, and maintainable, and one which is a compiler artefact.

A port would imply and independent maintenance.

Here you wouldn't maintain that codebase, instead you'd fix the upstream or the compiler, and recompile.
AWS is very good and cheap once you know how to use it and what parts. The alternatives most likely run on top of AWS anyhow. I use terranix https://terranix.org/ instead of straight terraform. I can compile, package, deploy everything just with nix.
That’s a bit of a stretch.

A merchant without money doesn’t necessarily mean they’re fraudulent.

And even if they are, this definitely doesn’t mean Razorpay supports fraudulent merchants.

There’s fraud everywhere, especially in finance, with rules and policies to combat that. But they’re never 100% foolproof.
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Practically, the planet is very big and injecting reflective material into the stratosphere would be a ridiculously expensive proposition, with little or no immediate economic reward for those carrying it out.

Now, when Pinatubo blew in the early 1990s, it produced about a decade-long cooling effect relative to what otherwise would have happened, but that effect faded. So, you'd have to have a plan to inject a Pinatubo-scale amount of material into the atmosphere at least once a decade, and underneath that, the fossil CO2 and CH4 emissions would steadily be increasing in the atmosphere, so if the project was ever paused, you'd have a rapid heating period which would probably be worse in immediate effect than if you'd just allow the warming to progress more steadily.

Those are the practical reasons I think it's a nonsensical proposal, along the lines of parking a sunshade in space (getting that much material out to Lagrange 1 would be so costly as to be unimaginable). It's far cheaper just to replace, say, 1-3% of fossil fuel production per year with equivalent wind/solar/storage.
> Such is how matters are done in normal, civilized, industrialized countries.

Yes I understand, Europe is perfect.
> I have never heard of mushrooms as sexy

This may not be a very convincing counterpoint, but: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phallaceae
I installed 4.1 and only my firewall VM is disposable. Wouldn't that mean my net VM could still have an exploit that leaves something in the home directory? (Would be nice if it was easier to trash and rebuild it).
Doomsday fear tactics doesn't move the needle. It's bad messaging and no one will ever fill fulfilled by following it. Change the message you might get more action.
Early steam engines were developed well before the locomotive steam engine, which is generally what we associate with the term "steam engine". I don't think you can overstate the importance of the technological development in the 19th century on these developments.

The US presented a new need that I don't think really existed before: crossing vast distances over land, eventually all the way from the Atlantic coast to the Pacific coast. IIRC the population of the US was 2 million in 1800 and 50 million in 1900.

Others have mentioned precision engineering. This was an important factor and had its origin in manufacturing cannon bores.

But a bigger factor (IMHO) was steel. Steel existed before the mid-19th century but it was incredibly expensive (more expensive than gold) and relatively low volume. This all changed with the Bessemer process that allowed the mass production of inexpensive steel. It made Andrew Carnegie in particular incredibly wealthy in the process.

Trains existed before cheap steel but builds of railroads and trains absolutely exploded in the wake of cheap steel. This also led to the shift from wooden sailing ships to (ultimately) steel-hulled boats with engines.

So prior to trains, what were the potential use cases for a steam engine? Automobiles seem unlikely (given weight and size and the ubiquity and utility of horses). Ships? Maybe. But sailing is effective and fires tend to be bad news for ships.

So that really leaves factories, mills, etc. Mills in particular often used hydro power (ie a river turning a wheel). You could build them in locations with such features. Labor was also relatively cheap (and largely free in some cases ie slaves).

Ultimately I don't think it's one thing and it's hard to separate these factors cleanly. It becomes a chicken and egg problem. Advancement can often fuel each other.

It does seem like long distance transportation ultimately led to at least popularizing and mass producing steam engines.
It's very very bad advice.
Not if he pocketed ALL the money himself.

Hopefully he had the foresight to kick some down to the guys upstairs.
Tell HN: I'm nervous and don't know where else to go
hello void,

i am an IT Support Intern at a manufacturing company. My company makes precision parts for a variety of customers. my company uses a program called Epicor, and on Monday we are scheduled to update to the newest version. The problem here is that my boss has left this in my very... "capable"... hands and is jetting off for the week.

I have not been prepped, I have not even recieved a login for Epicor, and I am panicking.

Does anybody in the void have any experience running through a large feature update such as this for a company with around 150 workstations with this software loaded onto it?

I assume my boss has left the process to be automated, but I am concerned that I will be completely unable to troubleshoot in the event of a catastrophe. maybe i am overthinking. maybe i am anxious for no reason. i guess i just need someone to tell me to calm down haha.

thanks everyone. have a good weekend!

-db
There’s an argument that heavier than air flight was mainly due to Curtis who was able to help the Wrights get an engine with a much better power:weight ratio.

The Wrights made many contributions, notably a very efficient propeller, I believe. But some of their biggest claims, like wing-warping, succumbed to others ideas like Curtis’ ailerons.
Because when dealing with mutability, you usually want to specify which of two parties can mutate: none (immutable collection), only the producer (read-only interface), only the consumer (transfer of ownership), or both (mutable collection). E.g. a read-only interface does not tell a receiver whether or not it is safe to store in a field. So to do it "properly" either you multiply the number of interfaces by four, or complicate the type system to track ownership. Either way, the price for that feature is high, and it's not yet clear at this point whether the benefits are worth it.

Not every solution to every problem is worth it. Sometimes it's best to do nothing and spend the time on more worthwhile things, and perhaps a cheaper solution would present itself in the future.
Or this! It's not just paperwork, but also mental capacity. Having a place for responsible disclosure yields enough "fake" disclosures that you become desensitized to it. Boy who cried wolf style.

It's possible "security isn't a concern" because they are dismissing the report, not the security.
You should give the full quote

> If you want solutions to the disorder of our time, you will gain little from reading Nietzsche. Yet there is much to be learned about the sources of the West’s decline from the struggles of this unbelieving Christian, who found in ancient Greece a tragic vision that he spent his life struggling vainly to escape.

If we read it at face value I'd agree with the author, he doesn't provide very many (useful) solutions. What he does do however is describe the problems in clear and cutting language.

But I'd also agree that the author has a little bit of hostility. From my experience anyone who's religious or progressive takes this same stance towards him, probably because he makes a joke out of their life's mission
Let's see, one party focus on safety (minimizing the chance of accidents) and the other focises on revenue. I know which of the parties has more legs to stand upon. And don't pull out the MAX disaster, that is the proverbial exception that proofs the rule.
These shock jock articles are boring.

Step 1: Write an incendiary title
Step 2: Make definitive statements meant to be applied broadly but actually targeted at a specific situation that the author is experiencing, or comes from the author's own problems with something.
Step 3: Make sure to cast doubt and insecurity, making somebody else feel like they made the wrong choice, even when everything is working perfectly
Step 4: Street cred improved!
I'll give you that, things look bad right now, but unless it's a near societal collapse then you still need to go out and put food on the table.

Again, there is an actual shooting war going on in Europe, which OP alluded to in their submission. I have worked with people from Ukraine in previous tech jobs. I expect some or all those people are currently doing something very different.

Here in the UK and over a single weekend my company went from holding active discussions with a few prospective clients to almost every proposal being suspended for review because of the infamous "mini-budget" a few weeks ago. If we'd been a little further along and maybe setting up new hires for any of the other projects then those jobs would instantly have disappeared too. There must be many other companies here that have been dealing with the same uncertainty and its chilling effects.

Of course people still need to go out and earn a living unless there really are more urgent things they need to do. My point is that there are plenty of reasons other than OP's qualifications or resume why the job market where they are might be much tougher than one where you can expect a 10-20% response rate just from spamming out CVs.
The problem with even lambda or ECS though is that it’s all much more complex than a simple rsync to your desired server.
Tcl was definitely powerful, and didn't fall short of Python on that front.

It's on most of the other fronts that it did.
An API on localhost may not be useful, but an API running on a single VPS or dedicated server could take you very far.
I really agree with you, what's weird though is how many mega-corps are going away from Custom Hardware in Custom Built DC towards Cloud.

There's also something to be said for buying a VPS or a Colo machine, making sure it's backed up and dealing with the 9's that you get from that machine on it's own. I am routinely surprised by how far a single node machine will get you.
If countries and companies are not going to have anti disinformation protocols, they might as well outright implement dictatorship.

Deterrence is a good thing.
This could be a profitable service to Equifax to sell, help companies root out the "overemployed" that have proliferated since WFH became mainstream.
Presumably switching to a different cable would generate a one-off 'landfill event' as people throw out their old cables and buy new ones?

Not saying Apple shouldn't make the move switch (and it's seemed likely for a while that it'll happen next year)
> Used a tiny instance for nat gateway cos aws nat gateway costs $32+ingress

AWS NAT gateway is certainly pricey. And doesn't even support NAT traversal which means P2P/STUN stuff is out (this is in contrast to GCP which does support it).

C'mon AWS you can do better!
Unless I misunderstand the altimeters did not live up to the required specifications when they were produced, but as the nearby spectrum was not in use nobody really cared about this.
Different strokes for different folks. (Or at least, use cases.)

We’ve found at work that if you already have the talent, the hyper scale cloud platforms are amongst the most expensive ways to manage infrastructure if you go all in.

For example $0.40/secret/mo is _expensive_ compared to the cost of an HA vault (not necessarily Hashicorp) setup. If you have 1,000 secrets but you only need to access any given secret once a day, that’s a lot of expense against just setting up your own. And then you can take it with you.

Beyond that, we’ve had a LOT more reliable performance from our current VPS provider than we ever got from EC2.

That’s not to say AWS is exactly without competition. We use S3 extensively because nothing compares for our usage.
Woah! I stand corrected, thanks.

It seems you’re knowledgeable on this, do you know if MERGE useful beyond expressivity?
There's always problems. Most of the time they are ignored. Very rarely they get solved proactively. Usually they cause one conflict after another until somebody solves it (and creates a new problems in the process).

New communication technologies make this feedback loop much quicker which means the usual systems created to ignore these problems can't keep up - and all the hidden problems surface at once and cause "interesting times".

Of course not all communication technologies have this power - carrier pigeons are 1-to-1 communication and don't scale. And high-frequency trading is communication only in the most dry technical sense.

But once in a while there's a development which disrupts the system.

And there are revolutions that happen without technological breakthroughs. It's not a "X if and only if Y", it's "vastly more X if Y".

> If what you're saying were true, then Occupy Wall Street would have overthrown the government

Why? I'm not saying every revolution needs to be successful. Not every reformation era war was won by the reformers. Totalitarian regimes have about 50% success rate short term and close to 0% long term.
Keep the adhesive at the top, peel from the side. The adhesive then directly counters any potential side-curl.
To statically analyze whether you receive an empty collection or not, you need dependent types, a thing which Java does not have, and will not have in foreseeable future.

To tell mutable and immutable collections apart, you just need two separate interfaces, a feature available in Java for decades, and an approach widely and routinely used everywhere in the language.
Everyone going to the World Cup must have this app
> They don't run promotions of that sort, or promotions, in fact

FWIW, every year Apple does run back-to-school promotions where they'll give you airpods or something like that with a new mac.
C to iPhone. Problem is, at least in my house (family of 4 with multiple iDevices each), they stopped including the brick before most people had C bricks. I have over 10 usb-a bricks just lying around and just 1 c brick from an old Android phone (which got lost by the teenager). The USB A bricks are ewaste now. I don’t agree with these law suits but it was very stupid timing on Apple’s part.
Row row row your boat gently down the stream...

The closer attention you pay, the more this place seems like a simulation, of some kind.
Believe it or not this is on my reading list, though a handful of entries down.
Potentially compromised software by Protelion/Infotecs
Sure. But then again you need a framework to approximate reality. ISO isn’t perfect by any means. But it’s a start.

What do you use?
...and why?

I am serious. If there is a better way, I'd use it.

Remember that I don't do online/server-based stuff. Most of my projects are for full compilation/linking, and rendering into host-executable, binary apps. There's a bunch of stuff in my development process that never needs to see a server.
My rough math tells me they made $19,162,000 per hour in profit during 2021.
Surprised no one has mentioned this: https://www.betterup.com/for-individuals

I haven't used it, myself, but I think they're the leading startup in the space.