skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you don’t need secret manager features like region replication and rotation you can use system manager parameters and the secret type. It’s effectively free. We use secret manager but weren’t aware of the price difference.
How can you directly compare $75 / amp to AWS? This very much depends on the kind if load you have.

Also, AWS's egress likely costs much more than the datacenter's; again, possible savings very much depend on the kind of load you have.
I'm not sure what the rationale is for maintaining the text mode FP IDE. It seems kinda quaint in 2022 to maintain a recreation of the old Turbo Pascal editor, but I'm so glad that it's there.

I think you just answered your own question. It's there because it's functional and works on most if not all of the supported developer desktops. Of course, it won't win any beauty contest but I suspect most of those using it probably won't either.
The comment you're replying to makes the point that if you already had a charger, you could use the old charger and the old cable. There is no requirement to use the new cable that it came with.
If you agree that people probably already had one from a few years ago, then they already had everything they needed to charge the phone. The 'new cable' did not stop anything from working that previously worked.
Time to remove Turkey from NATO
Maybe for someone who is always used to A/C or central heating.

For someone who has experience with such weather and has adapted to it, it's not a big deal.

I wouldn't presume to tell other people how they should feel, but giving them a head's up that it may be miserable if they're not ready for it is wise.
Australian Government pushes for digital identity system after Optus hack
I’m not even sure if I have access to that email. My username is the same on Reddit as it is here. DM me there.

I come from a .Net background , so feel free to reach out.
We had conversations about going to the moon and we got there in 10 years.

Talk about producing less disposable crap, driving less, flying less, and cutting military budgets, everyone gets “exercise their 2A rights” in the US.
Back in my day, when kids heard older people talking, they listened because they knew they were hearing from someone with more experience than themselves. Kids these days lost their ways and think that knowledge and judgement are achieved in youth and then gradually fade away.

Just kidding, back in my day kids assumed the same thing.

Also, this exact conversation has been happening since the web was created. Linked article is evidence of that.
The problem is that if you already have a dictatorship, or something approaching it, "disinformation" means, in the eyes of the law as it is applied, information counter to the ruling party's interest.

I agree that disinformation, real disinformation, is being used as a tool to spread authoritarianism and we need better means to combat it. This law, I am afraid, is double speak. It purports to oppose disinformation but in fact strengthens it, and this is by design.
>> It should be an option you can pick whenever you buy the phone.

>> we won't get the choice. Because it costs more to Apple and other corporations.

> Nineteen bucks

I have a feeling that GP meant that the option of charger vs not should be free (otherwise it would not "cost more" to the seller).

Assuming I understood correctly, in that case the consequence would be that many would just pick the "with charger" option just because it's a freebie.
Rust is absolutely not a panacea. Other kinds of vulns can absolutely exist. But vulns caused by memory-safety errors are so incredibly common in Linux and other critical software that it should be embarrassing. If we could get to a world where all of our kernel-level vulns were logical errors rather than UAFs I would weep with joy.

I'm not saying that using memory-safe languages (or a different kernel design that at least isolates bugs like this) fixes security forever. I'm saying that it would dramatically increase the cost of developing an exploit for the world's most important piece of software.

I'll even soften my request. Let's forget about memory safety. Let's just talk about regression tests. How the fuck is it possible for a vuln to regress in the kernel because nobody added a test when it was first fixed? This is a disaster. Everybody has just somehow decided that the current state of things is tolerable and I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.
Someone might have a good analysis of the problem but being incapable of coming up with an appropriate solution to it. These are definitely two different skillsets.

Imo a lot of what Kaczynski says is actually very well thought out and there are multiple other philosophers and thinkers that have come to similar conclusions or have pointed similar problems with society.

If you had read that statement without reading who it was that said it, what would you have thought about it?
That was quick and entirely unsurprising. But its a mistake for liz truss to throw him under the bus as she's equally culpable. If she had at least shown loyalty and consistency, she might have stood a chance as the markets will have known what's what.

And by the way, some of the law changes in this mini budget are actually quite good. But they've just been overwhelmed by noise.
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Thank you for the poem. That was beautiful.
Highly recommend finding the interview where Eric Schmidt talks about how products with product/market fit and products without follow predictable growth curves that are highly alike in each case. My understanding is that any product that is on the not product/market fit curve after 2-3 years gets shut down.
The paper letter from the 19 hundreds is also still working perfectly, just a little bit dusty and yellowed.
I see this standard linked here a lot. Did anyone read it though? It only helps with identifying whether a string is a secret, not at all the service or environment where the secret applies.
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The British industrial revolution was built from iron, not steel. Mass production of steel didn't appear until the 1880s, with the Bessemer converter. This was half a century after the deployment of successful railroads.

Iron and steel was known to the Roman empire. The steel wasn't very good, even by the standards of antiquity, but it was good enough for short swords and some tools. They got as far as the "bloom" process, but no further. Despite this, there was a modest iron and steel industry.

A Bessemer converter is a simple thing. It's a big iron vessel lined with brick attached to a furnace and blower. Roman ironworkers could have built one. It's the metallurgy that's hard. Bessemer built the thing, but steel quality was random at first. Robert Mushet, a metallurgist, after about 10,000 experiments, figured out how to get consistent quality from the process. The basic idea, from Wikipedia, is to apply enough heat and air to burn off almost all the carbon in iron ore, leaving pure iron. Then add 'spiegel glanz' or spiegel eisen, a "double carbonate of iron and manganese found in the Rhenish mountains" which was iron, 86…25; manganese, 8…50; and carbon, 5…25. Controlled amounts of manganese and carbon are thus put back into the molten iron, and steel comes out.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32611002
Always remember, HN itself runs on a single dedicated server from a fairly small provider (m5hosting.com). IIUC, they have a backup server. But still, if it's good enough for HN, it's good enough for lots of us.
But if you look at popular advice on blind, cscareerquestions, or from various youtube influencers they'll absolutely tell you to leave immediately.
Share your concerns. You're an intern, so unless the process is entirely automated with zero chance of failure, your supervisor is a goddamn maniac for leaving you to handle it. You're not trained, you're not paid enough to accept responsibility, and it's an idiot thing to do and a shitty thing to put on you.

Polish your resume no matter what, because you're working for people who should rightfully make their living biting the heads off chickens out back of a circus tent for a nickel admission fee, not managing anything that matters.
The right picture offers a minor visual cue where you can see the post-it note mildly resisting peeling at the top edge.

If we look at the left picture, that cue is there, with an illusion of resistance on the left edge.
This is your annual reminder than vim and eMacs are fully featured and extensible IDEs that support code completion, folding, and navigation by default.

Or, no, you don’t need to use a graphical IDE to develop code, as TFA states.

Thank you for coming to my Ted talk.

EDIT: Don't believe me that VIM is an IDE? Read the threads for elucidation. :)
The comment seems overly dismissive. I believe parent raises a valid point.If we accept that we are consumers and capitalism theoretically expects that one is an informed consumer, it is primarily up to us to determine future shape of the landscape. Naturally, what follows seems to be:

-we are not informed consumers
-informed consumers are a minority
-uninformed consumers are a boon to capitalism

To you specific point, is it ivory tower to know what you want and make decisions that benefit you specifically and not partake in Zeitgeist just because everyone else is?
What advantage do you see companies getting from using AWS's proprietary products over standard open source equivalents?8
Ah that's fair then, that would be an issue. Though it surprises me a touch: my iphone 11 came with an A->lightning cable (I just checked).

Maybe it's that more recently Apple switched the bundled cables from A to C, but didn't provide a charger brick, so people who still only had USB-A chargers were SOL? That would make a lot of sense as well, and I would understand the anger.
Hello db. Let me try to help :)

You haven't provided a lot of info, but based on what you say, it seems that:

1) you are an intern, not a full-time employee (FTE)

2) Your boss seems to be the one supposedly in charge of the Epicor update, but it also seems that he felt you could be put in charge while he's away. Wait, though: in charge in case the automation he put in place doesn't work.

3) You feel the task it daunting, and you are panicking.

4) It seems you are mostly worrying about the case where the automated update process fails, and people would revert to you to ask for help.

If the above is correct, I'd suggest the following:

1) Use a written form of communication to tell your boss what makes you anxious. Written would help you in case of any legal issue, any wrongful termination, or simply in case your boss will try to blame you for any issue as a result of a failed update.

e.g. "Dear boss, I hope you will have a wonderful holiday next week. I am concerned about the Epicor update scheduled for Monday, Oct 17th, as I have no useful information to be able to support the company in case the update doesn't go as you planned. I just wanted to make sure that you were ok with this, and don't expect me to be able to intervene in case of issues. Of course, I will do my best if something happens, and I would appreciate if you could let me know what's expected of me during the update, or even in preparation for the update (e.g. would you need me to study anything during the weekend?) Thanks."

2) Do not assume that your goal now is to prep for the update, spend the weekend studying Epicor or whatever else. You might still want to do it, but again, it is not required. It seems your boss didn't tell you anything like that.

3) You might want to review your "contract", even if you are an intern and not a FTE. What did you sign when you started working with this company? Try to see if there's anything weird in the liabilities you incur for any wrongdoing. Probably nothing, though. Relax.

4) You're an intern, you're probably young, and this is a great learning opportunity for you. Your anxiety is a consequence of your inability to communicate with your boss properly, even if he might have made a mistake of leaving you alone in all of this. Analyze how the conversation went, and see if you could have done better.

5) Finally, do not listen to the others suggesting that you should polish your resume and run for the hill. It's too rushed. You gave us sparse information, and there's very little to suggest that this would be the best course of action.

Try, instead, to make the best of this situation. And don't panic. Panic is often anxiety, self-inflicted anxiety. You probably didn't do anything wrong; you might have a boss that is not fully aware of what's going on inside your brain, and that happens.

Good luck! Hope that this was helpful in some way.
I'm copying a 4GB root filesystem (on ext4!) per connection, so that's a couple of seconds, more like 10s on my laptop. The boot time for the kernel is about 2s to userspace initialisation. Then the userspace is running node.js to bring OpenVSCode up (2-3s?), starting a couple of other processes, and then the front-end is polling only every 1s.

It's all on 1 server, just a Go https proxy launching firecracker on demand, no k8s.

If I were optimising, I'd first make sure the root filesystem copy ops happed on a CoW filesystem, then change the readiness polling for a "long" poll that's under the server's control. And next buy a faster server :) But I'm using a relatively heavyweight userspace app, so I'm curious if you can see there might be other gains to be had.

Our application is using VS Code as an environment for programming exercises. So even 30s would have been fine when people are using it after that for 1-2 hours.

If I could get it down to 2s I'd certainly enjoy testing it more!
I don’t disagree… but like, when the news media (I can quote many politicians and executives when speaking about mandates) says it was necessary for the sake of stopping the spread, why couldn’t Pfizer have sent out a notification saying, “hey, it reduces the effects, stopping transmission is hoped for but not tested, thanks!” It seems very much like they didn’t care that misinformation about how awesome their product is was being spread but I don’t know for certain.

It’s especially ugly when so many media stories have “brought to you by Pfizer” on them. I’m not into conspiracy theories but I increasingly get the paranoia. I have no doubt that I would have been prosecuted in Turkey, or possibly even Australia, a year ago.
> 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.

Part of the problem might be that Java's existing interfaces for collections don't have that split. `List`, `Set`, and `Map` already declare mutators, and they're used pervasively.

On the other hand, the Java folks clearly recognize that mutability is the wrong default for modern programming languages, so why double down on the mistakes of the past? They might argue that it makes more sense to follow established patterns than it does to create new ones, because it creates less friction for Java developers.
I use noscript for this, plus I am running into sites that presents a screen stating "Cloudflare is checking". That Cloudflare check requires Javascript enabled. So I just move on, that to me means that site cannot even count me as a 'view'. Makes things a bit easier for me too :)
> dongle-hell

How so? You are precisely able to pick the charger with the port you want according to the cables you have (or want to buy), instead of having a charger with a port you don't choose (+ the cable matching the port you then don't want to have on the brick side).
Antibiotic torpedoes the protective slime that makes resistant bacteria tougher
well i like soup but don't know that i want to be swimming in it XD

thanks for your advice, i think i have been trying to prove myself by spinning my wheels instead of taking a step back and evaluating the situations that get presented before me.

appreciate it again, hope you enjoy your weekend
Is there reason to believe it wasnt? The oss-security mail message would seem consistent with the fixes having been prepared under embargo.
Data leak exposes Mexico military corruption, incl. collusion with drug cartels
Since you're an architect, I have a question. Considering the housing shortage everywhere and the land scarcity, wouldn't it be more logical to build higher apartments? My neighbourhood doesn't allow any apartment building taller than 5 floors for example. Why not grant 30 floors? I live in an earthquake zone sure. But there are residences that high allowed in the area, but for middle-class apartments maximum height is limited with 5 floors. I don't get this. Let's build higher, denser apartments and solve the housing shortage. Am I too optimistic?
It looks more like a "VPLAK" issue not "Razorpay" issue.

Just a simple Google search shows that they have bad reviews. Fill the consumer court complaint against VPLAK and hope for the best.
There certainly can be overlap in these roles. You can have a coach who at times provides mentorship and a mentor who at times provides coaching. It can be pretty fluid. To draw a hard line between them, you can think of a mentor as someone older/more experienced who can show you the way. A coach on the other hand is someone you engage in a creative partnership with, and they are there to help you discover the answers that are within you.
the writeup has two parts, the first half is python3 hello world, from reading the source all the way to byte code interpretation, and the second half is how the console output is transformed into pixels, by the low level part of python and then the windows UI, all the way to the renderering of glyphs with anti aliasing in a GUI text console.

I feel hinting at it not being about Linux bears the risk of diverting potential readers from an outstanding text.

The only deep difference to Linux imnsho would be the different graphics architecture, with it's flavours X11 and Wayland, and I'd dare to claim that 90% of the article are not platform dependent.
Honesty and transparency can be incredibly powerful. At a good workplace they will be valued. If your workplace is not a good one, better to find that out as soon as possible.

Talk to your boss if he is still around, or talk to your boss' boss if not.

Try to be open about your emotions. "I am feeling nervous about the Epicor upgrade". Paradoxically, you should confidently express what your anxieties are. Explain as much as you can about why: "I think I need more information to understand if this is something I can do, and what to do if something goes wrong".

If you are in a junior role and you're feeling like this, it's almost certainly not your fault. Your only responsibility is to speak up about how you're feeling. Realising this can be liberating.
Probably not the kind of comment that’s usually left on HN but whatever, please tell Matthias (and if he could tell his team) that they went CRAZY with this dataset. As a data nerd I d*mn near started BARKING. Can’t stress enough how HARD they went, I hope their bills are ALWAYS paid, I hope they catch EVERY green light they need to, I hope their pasta dishes are NEVER watery. You get the drift by now. Matthias and gang if you’re reading this thanks for all your hard work. BEYONCÉS of data FORREAL.
Lufthansa abandons AirTag ban
That was 30 years ago (I know, time flies!), not 20.
Panics with "Could not determine terminal width" on Windows 10 using cmd.exe
I'm not going to write this by hand. So what's the advantage over schema'd XML?
Code That Encrypts Itself (encrypted equivalent of a Quine)
> It isn't good enough due to variability. We don't have efficient energy storage so that means you have to build massive overcapacity, like 5x as much.

That's a problem already solved: Storage. Germany alone has 3.4 GWh of home-battery storage installed as of today. And it's constantly increasing. Averaged over a year, renewable energy sources operate at about 30% of their capacity. So even in a worst-case scenario with no storage whatsoever you would need to build 3x "overcapacity".

> We should have some renewables but we can't base the entire energy supply on them.

We surely can and will! Mark my words.
The whole point of dpdk is that it bypasses the kernel to obtain speed. It almost certainly requires a lot of privileges, but the kernel itself isn't the source of the hit.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1580889341265469440.html
I've been in this kind of situation a fair amount.

Like everyone else says, breathe, and make sure there's visibility up your management chain. Make it clear you haven't been given the tools, and have full transparency when you talk to support. If I am reading this right, everyone - including the vendor - is going to try and nail you. Don't give them an in with dishonesty. You've done nothing wrong, and although it's heresy among techbros, not knowing some random computer thing isn't a moral failing.

Unfortunately I also agree with the point about the resume. This won't be the first time your org does this kind of thing. In fact, it might be the standard way they do everything. I've seen that movie before, too. You get lucky, you can even get lucky many times, and luck combined with ability can take you places. But eventually luck runs out, and the situation goes down that toxic orgs always want it go down: with you in the toilet. Then they can go back to fingering each other or whatever it is orgs like this do when they run out of competent staff.

Right now, I sort of have a gig like this, but it's a bit more informal, everyone having entered this with eyes open. I told them up front I have zero idea what I'm doing (front end dev), but they seemed alright with that, and I'm picking it up, albeit slowly (NgRx, that is). For my part, I wanted to learn this stuff anyway; functional programming has always been a giant blank spot in my know-how. It's not like my boss dropped down from heaven and said "Add these features to this strange codebase you've never seen before without talking to the developer" then disappeared.
>This issue has been historically researched with respect to artillery development, which seems to have been mostly bronze up until the 18th century, when reliable iron/steel artillery was introduced.

But then couldn't they have simply made steam engines out of bronze? It might be more expensive, but it's certainly enough to demonstrate the concept.
The Party in Aars… oh the memories…
No time zones ever. If I see a date and its X, I know that I only need to add y to get my timezone to know when this happened. but if anybody puts a timezone there, now I can't do it mentally.
Monday might suck, but literally everyone in the company will blame your boss, not you. Who in the world goes on vacation the day a major upgrade is happening and leaves the intern in charge? I mean, no offense, but interns know nothing by design, they're there to learn how to be employees, that's the whole point. So you won't get fired if things go badly, but he might.
The question I have is how did mega projects in ancient times (such as the Pyramids) get enough people to work on them, and still have enough food to feed them? Or were the people on those projects (and other city-building projects at that time) only less than 5 percent of the total population?

Also, is that 95% that are spending the majority of their time on food production? Or is that including people that spend a lot of time on fall harvest and spring planting, but don't do much else during off seasons?
Yeah, I've encountered this quite few times, especially as a consultant; "We won't turn away ANYONE!!!"

Edit: Ok, now I'm laughing the idea of having a reserved parking spot for trucks hauling giant windmill blades.
John E. Mack
> It's interesting to me how much people are trained to reflex against this possibility.

Yeah, massively ambitious whiz-bang technology has never had unintended consequences. /s
Had no one noticed the racism in this person's comment?