skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those districts are very likely to have housing markets that include precious few "shitty apartments" and zoning that makes it impossible to build more of them. That's a fundamental fact of modern America.
> You won't get people to agree to make their life worse for the sake of the environment,

This. The sooner we understand this, the sooner it will be possible to have useful propositions.

> no matter how much activists keep trying to push that.

A huge part of the problem are the (usually) most vocal among the activists, who spit utter idiocies like: "It's too late: run!"

No! If it is too late, there's no point in running. If global warming is irreversible, there's no point in freaking up the whole word economy. Propose something that works and we will discuss the benefit-cost ratio. Going around howling nonsense only creates noise and lessen the credibility of the great people who are trying, with their heart, to solve the biggest problem humanity has ever had to deal with.
Regarding backdoors. I've experienced a MITM attack performed by Huawei 5G CPE. In domestic environment. Other people report that too: https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/218425/router-t...

Can you commie-explain that?
Tell HN: Razorpay a YC company is supporting fraudulent merchants
Razorpay is an Indian payment gateway.
Few weeks back I had purchased two pairs of bookshelf speakers from website. The merchant kept delaying the order and declined to refund the money.

I contacted Razorpay support and raised a dispute.

Today I got the following email from them

Hi XXX,

Thank you for your understanding.

We understand the inconvenience casued.

We request you to kindly get in touch with cyber crime division, as we mentioned in the previous emails that we can't initiate refund from our end because the merchant doesn't have sufficient balance in his account to initiate refund for your transactions.

Thank you for your understanding.

Regards,
Team Razorpay
That's not unexpected after a while, as the telco switches prioritisation and bandwidth from 4G cells to 5G cells, as happened with 3G to 4G. But it's too early for it to be happening at a noticeable level and might mean your provider has underinvested in capacity.

Just a guess though.
The reality is that not all people should be able to vote, and not all people should be able to speak publicly.

Of course the challenge is in deciding who is worthy of each.

The new problem because of the internet is that critical masses of people who arguably should not be able to speak publicly are now able to. Worse, they can do it anonymously.

Threats, slander, and harassment are often illegal and always undesirable. Platform providers enable these things. So ultimately if people want freedom to speak publicly, then they must be personally identifiable (so they can be held accountable for illegal forms of speech)… or the platform providers must attempt to police the content. It has to be one or the other.
Cool. In the future, movie studios will be more and more like video-game makers. Movies will be made from virtual assets and played on a variety of media, including VR and AR. I'm looking forward to seeing great virtual actors playing great characters in realistic immersive worlds!
I mean, speak for yourself :D I guess I could take the same medicine.
It's a bit annoying that this card doesn't come with an in-situ programmer to update the NOR FLASH. Other than this, I'm pretty excited about it. I can't wait for it to be cheaply be available from Aliexpress or other.

Is it compatible with generic v4l drivers?
If all the FAA cared about was minimizing the chance of accidents, then surely they would have fast-tracked the certification and rollout of better radar altimeters that can operate in the spectrum allotted to them?

This seems like a case of the FAA's "never change a running system" running into a world that is changing. A world that expects radio equipment to be better behaved than the stuff we built in the 80s.
Yes, very definitely. The new 4 GHz 5G transmitters are now adjacent to the existing downlink band and are causing interference to those users as well. Your dad might have to get an LNB with specific filtering or a separate filter and that might not work if the transmitter is close enough. Hobby dish owners have no protection here. They can't exclude 5G transmitters from their vicinity like a commercial dish operator.

Relevant discussion:

* https://www.intelsat.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/intelsat...
Sites that break with ad blockers are built to show ads. They only incidentally show any content, in order to lure users to see the ads. Users with ad blockers have negative value for such sites.

Sites that are built to show content but depend on ads to sustain the operation usually show a plea to support the site in a different way (by a donation or something) if they notice that ads are blocked. I find this more honest.
I don't know. Maybe I'm in a bubble, but it seems to me that knowing the basics of AWS (or some cloud provider) has become part of the standard developer's toolkit. With AWS specifically, there's so much documentation out there about getting started that I think you can have something up in a day or two on something like ECS or lambda (using something like the Serverless framework). And then when you need the more complex functionality, you are already in the AWS ecosystem.

If you are a startup trying to get a product to market, AWS is typically going to be a very small cost unless you are doing something very compute intensive (in which case something like Heroku, which the author recommends, certainly won't be cheaper anyway). The high bills only come later, if ever, after you've decided to create 20 databases and 50 apps for your 70 person startup.
> Nuclear power is the best solution we have for a sustainable and prosperous society.

Nuclear or hydro or solar+wind. These are all good solutions.

Nuclear is far more expensive, but it can provide 100% of needs by itself.

Solar+wind is far cheaper, but the variability means that we can only get about 70-80% of the grid that way (no storage needed), with the remaining 20-30% made up by cheap storage or gas.
While at my doctor's office yesterday, I noticed a sign stating all new patients are required to give a credit card number and have it kept on file. I have done this for years because it was convenient for me, but I don't think it should be required.
Are you suggesting that "very" is actually a half-step between the next word?

Happy. Very Happy. Ecstatic.
So, raise the price by $20 and include a "free" charger with every order.
I actually totally disagree. With the various development frameworks/CLIs, AWS has the ecosystem benefits that can make hosting on it a breeze, and leave more time to focus on delivering value to the customer.
This is very bad advice.
Show HN: Voyager – Code-first diagrams for microservices
Voyager is a small tool we built for quickly pulling together diagrams of your microservices (and dbs, MQs, etc), and how the data between them all relates.

Voyager started life as feature we were working on for Vyne (https://vyne.co), but we got feedback that some people would like to play with it directly. So, we've extracted it into a standalone tool, and we're releasing the first version today.

Voyager creates diagrams from Taxi (https://taxilang.org) code. We're working support for other schema specs (OpenAPI, Protobuf, SQL DDL), as well as an on-prem version that lets you publish directly from your code.

We'll also be open sourcing the code shortly too, there's just a little unpicking to do.

Here's our announcement blog post:
https://blog.vyne.co/introducing-voyager/

Please have a play, and let us know your thoughts!
USB-C to Lightning.

What would you do with a cable that's Lightning on both ends? Connect 2 iPhones? :D
The demos run fine using an iPad webview
Well, you can navigate the web with older low end computers if you're running the full suite of blockers (NoScript & UBlock on Firefox seems to work pretty well), but that means many sites don't work unless you selectively allow certain scripts to work by fiddling with NoScript permissions and selective blocking some elements with Ublock. HTML + CSS sites are no problem, however.
Because humans are apes. Would you trust a bunch of monkeys to tamper with one of the most complex and critical systems in existence? No. Humans are not smart enough and too corrupt to be tampering with such complex and critical systems. The elites can spray as many aerosols into their homes as they like, they can inject whatever substance they want into their bodies and plug their brains into whatever infernal machine they want but don't subject me to these experiments.
otoh, greenhouse gas emissions will eventually drop anyways, from running out of fuel. Even our best somewhat realistic plans of stopping emissions aren't that much better than what we should be doing in preparation of impeding scarcity anyways... Mitigation is no substitute for prevention, we'll need both anyways (unless we fast-track ourselves into oblivion using the nuclear arsenal cheat code)
The no-name capture cards are all based on the same few fixed-function MacroSilicon chips like the one used here, so the HAD quip about issues with them that you'd avoid with this doesn't really make sense.
You're still an employee, the only difference is whether you're "employed" by yourself or your.. actual employer.
How do the micro kernel folks get around this? Are they paying the syscall toll between kernel components?
It's just a web app, isn't it?
Cool indeed, but not an alternative. I'd be surprised if they're not doing that already. The actual battlefield transformation came from being able to stream video. You're saying "back to the old times" and calling it an alternative.
Regarding the first point. If I understand correctly you say that there is an inevitable performance hit when not running in kernel mode. But is that really so?
Well cheer up, as your favorite is getting much better treatment than V on HN. As if "there can only be one", just mentioning or posting links on the language can trigger detractors and competitors going into a psycho scramble of trolling, downvoting, flagging, or slander.
Adding a degree to uniqueness would describe the delta between it and its nearest relative. Hence, "very unique" would mean something closer to exceptional or "off-the-charts" and is a perfectly reasonable construction. I get the impression the anti-very crowd haven't actually thought too deeply on the matter
The latter, so, yeah, this is a non-issue.
It's common. Indeed so very common one might call it not just banal but characteristic of the hoi polloi, that is, uncouth.

(:
Depends on the job. There’s a growing trend of people getting remote jobs then just hanging out in Slack/Zoom (camera off, never talking) collecting a check til they get fired.

In some cases they’ll outsource some work overseas.
Firefox on Mac. I have this problem as well, even with "autoupdate" set to true. Also, if I am browsing in the middle of an auto update, it refuses to open new tabs.

And each update logs me out of my password manager

Worse, now this is happening to Thunderbird. Wasn't an issue until about a month ago. Now I need to re-install Thunderbird every few weeks because they've pushed an update.

When from my point of view, as a user, I haven't seen a new feature which I truly wanted in over 5 years, maybe more like 10.
Stupid question, but how come this has not been embargoed?

Seems like a pretty major vulnerability that affects tons of devices.
You're making two completely different versions of your web product: one with a rich, modern experience using JavaScript and the other using vanilla get/post.

I've built several SaaS products and I can't imagine building a complicated product that supports both a JS and no JS version with a small, startup team.
Young me (win95-2k era) had this feeling after researching into older software principles. I think that it is not [only] the effect of personal aging, but also piling up of a junk on top of an initial simple idea in any area. We just tend to notice that with years because everything straightforward-back-then becomes complicated, and straightforward-today flies under the radar.

But for browsers there is an obvious need for apps that are not “vb in an empty vba-enabled document”. This ugly heap is only stable because an enormous effort and skill goes into making it so.
In fact, for longer than USB-C.
> Plain text is already weaponized

Good point, the headline should read "cheaply" weaponized.

When powerful entities can weaponize information via the media, that's just Working As Designed.
Where do you buy them from to ensure their authenticity?
It's probably been a lot, lot longer than that. This is an evolution of "think again!" articles from long ago.

I wouldn't be surprised if in some cave somewhere there's a message on the wall like "Think Oogie is best stone tool maker? Think again!"
I have noticed that those who complain about apple the loudest haven't ever owned or even used anything made by apple.
A project like this is vital for software preservation. The closest thing to it besides what the author listed in the article is Apple's Rosetta, but add that to the list of similar but not quite exact comparisons noted by the author and frankly do any of us really believe Apple will keep Rosetta around forever? We saw how that went last time.

We really need open source, community-maintained versions of things like Rosetta so that old apps written for different architectures or even different operating systems can continue to run on modern operating systems. I applaud the author. We need more people like that interested in this stuff.
It's called $^M, and you have to explicitly fill it with garbage.
They both run in Chrome on my Android phone.
If you don't like the service you can theoretically opt out....

https://employees.theworknumber.com/employee-data-freeze/
Oh yeah good point, I didn't realise it was not available for iOS as I don't use that. But I'm sure iOS has other good clients as people say, especially because this site is very US-developer centric which is an iOS stronghold in terms of marketshare :)
There's a lot more words than "very" which are popular verbal ticks in the modern world. "Really" is another one. But instead of worrying about one that a rando on the internet made a site about; record yourself speaking and watch yourself back consciously. Learn to be an editor for yourself.

For most people, there's more important ways they could improve their written and spoken communication than worrying about extraneous words.
Ok so then the issue becomes: has Apple properly informed buyers they will receive a device without a charger, and they need to purchased one in the same basket if they want to have both at the same time delivered?

If not then the fine is justified. Otherwise I'm on Apple's side on this one.

And when all devices will have USBc cables and chargers I will be on the side of not bundling a charger with the product at all. It will just create waste.
Safety isn't binary.

The only way to achieve total aircraft safety is to have no aircraft. If the FAA literally cared about nothing other than safety they would have everything grounded, so clearly they do to some extent care about other things.

Plausibly, a well-designed government would be explicit about the tradeoffs between safety and convenience and cost and so forth. In practice, that might be politically catastrophic. What usually happens, I think, is something like this: the official line is "keep risk down to a negligible level", where "negligible" is usually not quantified, and cost/inconvenience is largely ignored until everyone agrees that the risk has been made negligible, but below that threshold everyone's free to minimize cost/inconvenience.

(This might actually end up being a pretty good strategy. Let's measure cost and convenience in dollars, because trading those off against one another isn't so problematic; then maybe a reasonable approximation to what we care about is that 1. each death is like burning $X where X is probably some number of millions, and 2. having any major accident in a given year is like burning $Y where Y is many billions, because if there's a major accident then the hit to public confidence means (a) big loss to the airline industry, (b) more people driving instead of flying, which means more deaths because flying is much safer, and wasting a lot of their time, and probably also more environmental damage. In that case, maybe the effect of #2 is actually not so very different from "big penalty if the risk goes above a negligible level". But it seems like we'd get better decisions overall by being more explicit about what we care about and how much.)
So you weigh the importance of Verizon Wireless’s ability to compete with TMobile for midband 5G equally with risk to human life?

Give me a break.
How would you respond if someone said they were going buy a motorcycle?

You could say nothing. The person should figure it out themselves, I'll mind my own business.

The implication in the comment is that you understand there's some risk as well as reward to riding around on a motorcycle. Is it really right to just do nothing? What if everyone took that view? What if you rode a motorcycle for a short time and came to the realization that it was all risk and no reward. Shouldn't you say something?
Harassment happening over the telephone of course could mean two things.

What do you mean by harassment happening over the telephone? It could mean that someone calls someone else to harass them. Of course the victim could just block the harassers number in this case, but maybe the telephone company is justified in cutting off the harasser anyway.

But to stick with the KiwiFarms analogy: What if people talk to each other on the phone, ridicule others, share embarrassing information about others, and then some of them go on (allegedly) to harass the targets?
I strongly agree with this comment.

“Even if we assume the crazy sounding laptop repair shop story were 100% true, we had partisan political operatives shopping a story to journalists about the supposedly scandalous revelations cribbed from the contents of someone's stolen email communications and electronic data in the midst of a presidential election campaign homestretch. The fact that some of the information has since been authenticated by the nYT or WaPO as belonging to Hunter Biden doesn't change anything. The Clinton emails that were dumped by Wikileaks in 2016 were also authentic. Didn't make them any less stolen or render their release combined with the gross misrepresentation of their contents to feed unsupported narratives less problematic, nor did their authenticity make it any less a part of a Russian influence operation.”
Interestingly, there's a few LoRa messenger projects out there. They wouldn't provide high data rates, just messenger capabilities, but it would be long range and practically untraceable.
C’mon guys, this week it was my turn to post the AWS bad article
I got my wife pregnant. She stopped and I stopped in support. 9 months is a long time to change a habit.
> 1. People think a non-renewable resource is somehow a permanent solution

They usually think solar and wind isn't good enough due to variability. Most haven't looked into it, and are adopting a plausible-sounding line they've heard someone else say. Probably someone who aligns with them politically, given how politically charged and partisan the topic is.
My take is that they were not seeing the point to do so for the most easy one (like a mill, a press...) and from the other hand for clearly useful and advanced device like a vehicle/train it's the lack of amount of available combustible and iron. Even a train, it's possible that nobody were seeing clearly "why" it could be useful, do you really need to go so far with that amount of people? There were so much less people in the past, same for merchandise quantity probably.

But the response in the article about the knowledge of the "vacuum possibility" is also very interesting, it is not mentioning this but it's crazy to think that we only know that the space emptiness is possible since Einstein theory 100 years ago (and not full of ether).

Or that with the first locomotive people feared to die because of the speed.
Small companies and startups can get pretty far with 1 dedicated server and good backups...
I know this dude who can say anything you can think of using only two words.
Almost any stationary machine that can run on steampower can be run on water power instead. Or by horses trotting in a circle, or humans walking in a treadwheel [1].

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treadwheel_crane
Well, if you look at i.e. Meta, which specifically optimised for getting people to 'click' more, it is clear that they did so by building a product with disastrous impacts on mental health.

So there is at least one example where it isn't a good thing.
By FAA accounting, no change is less risky than any change.

And given their track record of success and reality, I partially understand. The only way to avoid unknown unknowns is to maximally simplify a system, and that starts with not introducing components uncharacterized by decades of real world use.

Obvious parallel in tech: database systems.
> - Terraform to create the API gateway, database, lambdas, queues, Route 53 records: 1 week

- Terraform to create the IAM policies: 4 weeks

Perhaps it's because I am very familiar with the aforementioned tool and cloud but 5 weeks for writing those resources gives me the impresion of:

1. Lack of experience on AWS.

2. Lack of experience with Terraform.

3. Both.

I don't want to sound arrogant by any means but a Terraform project for something like that, documented, with its CI and applying changes via CD, would take me 4 days being generous.
> Implementations which are written in another language and use an interpreter also have a very large difference in performance between code written in the language used for the implementation, and the language being implemented.

There's no need to write things like this in the current decade. LuaJIT has been able to provide comparable performance to the implementation language, in important cases, since 2.0.

It achieves this with a very different philosophy to what's being proposed here, one which in fact requires considerable assembler for each instruction set.

It's certainly not the only way to get the job done, other comments have pointed to the various ways Scheme has tackled this problem.

What isn't the case is that implementing a runtime for an interpreted language in a 'systems language' requires that code written in the interpreted language be slower than comparable code in the systems language, let alone that a "very large difference in performance" is inherent to the approach.
Sorry but, did you even read the article?

The crisis is societal argues the author, it's not really about the drugs. The drugs might be effective (and a lot of evidence suggests they're not really all that effective) but in our society even if they were. They would probably be behind paywalls and only accessible to rich people.

I've recently immigrated to Australia, trying to seek mental health help here has been a huge struggle and it's funny because you'd think for people with mental health problems to find a solution should be really easy. Imagine you have an accident and one of your legs stops working and the only way to get to the doctor is by walking; that's how it feels. To my australian native friends the situation has not been much easier, recently a friend was in the hospital on a suicide attempt and not only they were discharged fairly quickly but the only support they got was with a completely apathetic doctor.

Mental health is a big business and there is no interest in solving it, because as it says in the article, the biggest crisis in psychiatry is that there is no crisis in psychiatry.