skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
whoooooosh is the sound of a joke flying overhead.

> Smart people notice when someone omits words like "very", because they struggle with the same issue.

Snobs notice. You are confusing snobbery with intelligence.

there is nothing wrong with very, some people obviously are very passionate about it's use. However to imply its as detrimental to conveyed intellect as a malapropism is frankly bollocks[1]. Keep using very, it'll make you happy.

[1]imply it makes you sound stupid, like you've got a word wrong, for my ESL friends
I really like Vercel's approach of mixing cloud providers behind the scenes. They deliver features (like edge functions) using one cloud, basic hosting using another one, etc. It's all invisible to you as the customer and painlessly abstracted.
But those apes already did tamper. For centuries. Even the worst hobby surgeon should better be allowed to finish the job than leaving the wound open if there isn't someone better qualified at hand.
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I love this. Taking something we all take for granted and putting it under the microscope is so fascinating.

If the author (or translator) is reading this: one thing you should consider is changing the use of "AST tree". That expands to "abstract syntax tree tree" which is like saying "PIN number" or "ATM machine".
On the cheap, like a local, and without a lot of luggage
No, the Edge PDF viewer has a much larger feature set than the Chrome viewer (although, I think sometimes for reasons I can't place PDFs opened with Edge do end up using the Chrome viewer instead of the Edge native viewer).
I like the term "featurism", I'm going to try to remember it.

You're going to love the qualified version:

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=creeping%20f...
Thank you for taking the time to link this. I appreciate it, this is indeed very helpful.
What we know about the Russian spies in The Netherlands
My reflex is to consider edge cases.
For example, what happens if this is launched, works, and then a Krakatoa 2.0 goes off. What's the game plan in that scenario?
Sincere question, these systems are well beyond me.
Note that the Tanenbaum-Torvalds debate was in 1992, over thirty years ago. The security of computer systems might have improved since then, but the fallout of security issues has massively increased. Managing your bank accounts wirelessly on the Internet from anywhere in the world with a thin, battery-powered device that fits inside your pocket was a pipe dream (and no one could've possibly imagined that an Internet-ready smart toaster could compromise it and steal your money on your accounts).
This article is written in kind of a controversial way but it seems like the throughline of the argument is something like "use heroku until you have 100k users".

This seems very reasonable to me. I thought it was going to be a pitch for on prem, which is also fine for certain scales.

I think generally the scaling steps from startup to megacorp go:

Heroku/Dokku > Public Cloud >Dedicated servers in someone else's DC > Custom Hardware in custom built data centers.

Each makes sense at each scale. I find it to be more of a right tool for the job consideration than one being better than the other.

With modern cloud tooling your infra can also look more or less logically the same once you grow past the heroku level.
So what, the suggestion is to go with Heroku instead?

I think fargate + docker is super easy to setup, run and maintain. Maybe Heroku makes it a little bit easier, but that's about it. Once you leave the Heroku ecosystem you'll have lost all the time you saved.

I'm not convinced.
Gross, this article mentioned terraform. Never use terraform, it is a silly thing.
So they will shoot in their own foot.

There's already an Apple extra margin here over the US retail price.

A USD 1000 Dell notebook here is about BRL ~9000 with all taxes. A USD 1000 Apple MacBook is BRL ~20000.

So there's something they charge extra above the well known govt taxes.

That's why no one will say sorry to Apple.
Bizarre. It's like starting a parking lot business by trying to accommodate every vehicle you see driving by your site over 6 months. You could have Winnebagos, tractor trailers and more bizarre vehicles, none of which you should consider as viable customers.
The sleeper must awaken: inside the mind of Dune
Yes, exactly!

Redox-OS is based on this approach and is honestly extremely clean and easy to understand (when compared to MINIX which also adopts the same approach).

Wikipedia has a much better explanation than I can give right now: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microkernel#Performance
> I assume you haven’t tried VR with one participant on a saturated coffee shop WiFi 2k miles away.

Coffee shop, no 140ms ping time away, yes. But you are confusing latency with half duplex. VCs cut the sound to all other streams when someone is talking[1]. which causes huge stuttering.

[1] mostly
The private sector job market shifted to low skill, low pay service jobs. The government mostly outsources those roles.

Unions strengthened civil service and reduced patronage. Do you want your kids taught by uneducated hacks?
Double points for “no floating point”

I wish all 3D engines threw out floats.
This is not a "bad" thing, but it's not what the Average Joe wants, it's more what the Average Joe is incited to do. More clicking (on ads directly, or on "engaging content" that shows more ads) is what the business owners want from an Average Joe.

But "people do it == people directly desire it" is a manifestly wrong metric. When something is in short supply in a store, people will line up to secure the chance to buy it. But Apple would be insane to think that people lining up to buy a newest Macbook on the day or release want lining up, and that more lining up is what they'd enjoy. People tolerate lining up to get what they desire. Equally, people tolerate more clicking in order to get what they desire, and what they'd likely prefer to obtain with one click.
Where I work we've recently upgraded many PostgreSQL servers from 9.x/10.x/11.x to 14.x.

A very cool PostgreSQL feature is that, if you install a second instance on the same server, it will by default use a different path and port to run the second instance.

root@example:~# pg_lsclusters
Ver Cluster Port Status Owner Data directory Log file
11 main 5432 online postgres /var/lib/postgresql/11/main /var/log/postgresql/postgresql-11-main.log
14 main 5433 online postgres /var/lib/postgresql/14/main /var/log/postgresql/postgresql-14-main.log

Now you can dump and import databases on the second instance and test your applications with the new version. If it all works as expected, use pg_upgrade[1] to migrate everything to the new instance and switch the ports after the migration.

I have only done this migration process on Debian systems but in my experience it worked fantastic!

[1] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/pgupgrade.html
I think there is a bit more to it. Jai is still in beta and not publicly released yet, though lots of its good ideas have already been borrowed or influenced other languages. Still, Jonathan Blow is quite popular, and that might hook a lot of attention when an official release is done.

Even if it seems like Zig is getting a lot of attention at the moment, it's not 1.0 either, and not to reach that point for years. Other languages like Odin, Vlang, and others that are flying under the radar might surprise us and may yet get more shine.
But how many of the earlier societies had thousands of years of experience to look back to? Wouldn't you say in a society where we're capable of talking to anyone anywhere in the world at any moment we'd be able to at least try and solve these problems?

We've solved so many problems that afflicted humanity for thousands of years in the past 200 years. So why not this one? I guess because, as the article says, to solve this problem we actually need to change society as a whole.
Yeah building nuclear plants should be priority one. There is no replacement for the quality(variability) and quantity of power produced by them. It's obviously political, there's no money in building nuke plants for the current ruling class, only in "renewables".
> Security isn't everything, there's also accessibility to think about.

TLS is not just about security. It also protects the authenticity of your content, ensures privacy and even accessibility for your visitors. Without it, any node between your visitor and your server could inject content and JavaScript to do all sorts of nefarious tracking and profiling.

These days there's really no excuse for using plain HTTP on public facing sites. Please rethink your decision.
You have to concede that that's most of the industry right? The state of implementing IaC is new and foreign for the majority of teams.
I guess Apple just needs to put a sticker saying this is replacement phone or no charger on the front of the packaging coz this is clearly the case of an idiotic local regulator not of customers being idiots
The 2022 Hardware Acceleration Report in Robotics captures the state-of-the art of hardware acceleration in robotics and presents robotic architects with a resource to consider while designing their robot brains.
> Ah yes, the magic web-browser that doesn't do any kind of networking at all.

They clearly didn't claim that. Your webbrowser being slow nowadays is not because it needs to do some networking.
This is kernel space, not userspace.

Rusts memory safety is not a 100% protection here.
There are fuel injection patents from the 1870's
> Well their companies bought defective equipment

No they didn't. The equipment worked just fine until people started broadcasting on a nearby frequency.

Like if I put a jammer outside your living room window and your WiFi stopped working, would that be because you bought 'defective equipment'? After all, your router doesn't have the latest 'anti-jamming' error correcting codes built in.
Using the Free Pascal IDE for a Week
Five weeks sounds about right based on my experience coming up to speed with Terraform. It's flexible enough to solve everybody's problems so it solves nobody's problems. Not until you inundate yourself enough with it to build the intermediary layer between what it does and what you want to do.
> American companies can criticize the government, because it doesn’t matter

If criticism really doesn’t matter, why does the Chinese government show so little tolerance for it? Are they thin-skinned?

And, how do you know there are no backdoors in Chinese telco equipment? Even if none have been publicised, that doesn’t mean none exist.
Smart people simply don't waste their time with such trite considerations such as this. Smart / Successful people achieve success on an international stage, and rub shoulders with a large amount of non-native English speaking people who are absolutely brilliant, but might not have the vocabulary of a native speaker. As such they try to limit to speech to be as simple and clear as possible.
They are claiming a loss in performance is ok.

I am claiming that people keep making this claim and it no longer holds true because software is already losing too much performance for the value we get back.

That's my whole thesis.
USB c isn't some universal charging standard. It's just a cable. Different chargers and protocols won't charge certain devices. USB power delivery helps with that but still isn't foolproof.

My car charger with USB pd can charge my Pixel phone for example but not my partner's Samsung. My bike light uses USB c but not power delivery and nothing except its own charger can seem to charge it. My headlight uses USB c and can be charged by everything I've tried.

It all depends on the implementation. USB c is a horrible anti standard in that regard... The cable fit doesn't tell you whether it's compatible at all.
Doing it this way the writer suggests will jam my scanner feed.

I have to use them the "wrong" way so sheets will feed through.
> 640 light years away Hmmm, how are we going to do this?

By using the sun as a giant lens:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4d0EGIt1SPc
But do you disable JavaScript?
It's nice to see people trying to solve this problem, but I think that this approach has been tried before.

A minor nitpick: In the graph, the arrow from 13 to 40 is very confusing. I though it was an arrow from 13 to 52.
China will. They're an importer of energy and they're suffering from air pollution. They show no ideological opposition to reducing CO2.

Russia won't, but they're a smaller country and the impact isn't as big.

Also, legislation isn't a thing on a world level. You have treaties and agreements. And if that doesn't work, you impose a carbon tarriff. There won't be a need for war.
Never heard it in England as a foreign student in a British university.
This has become much more clear in the last couple years. Demand shot way up and is far outstripping supply. Then you get into the issue of how so many patients aren't a good match for the first therapist they try, so they have to jump through all the hoops and fill out all the forms to try another one, which also may not be a good match (all while potentially on the edge of some kind of breakdown)... I went through at least five before I found one I felt was effective for me, and my experience is not uncommon.

Personally, I think we need to lower the barrier of entry for people to become therapists, and streamline the whole patient intake process. It's not like the quality is all that great with existing barriers, there are PhDs out there actively harming patients-- one kept trying to push Jesus on me when part of what I was dealing with was childhood religious trauma and the difficulties of restructuring my world view as a nonbeliever, an absolute breach of ethics.

We need to make it easier for people to try out multiple therapists until they find one that's a good match for them, and part of that is increasing the supply of therapists. Unfortunately I'm not sure a chatbot is ever going to quite do it except for in the simplest & most clear cut cases, the mental tangles we can get into really require general intelligence to grapple with.
What's your favorite open-source Kubernetes tool?
Our team listed 5 for people who aren't advanced users of Kubernetes.

Do you have any recommendations we missed?
to be fair it is an open website with no registration required to see its contents, shouldn't be hard to show how that is supposedly not true through archives especially considering the sheer scale of what is being alleged and in a span of ~10 odd years of operation. And yet since looking closer at kiwifarms during the start of the cloudflare campaign I'm still trying to find some that isn't a random twitter user going full on trust me, and I asked.

The website is put at a complicated position of having to prove a negative, and even if they do show evidence of "hey we banned this person" one could very much just say it was because they were in the spotlight. While on the other hand the accusations are just vague ones that are taken as gospel, and even outright admitted lies that journalists publish knowingly[0].

There are for sure moral questions surrounding it and its not a nice place that makes sense to not want to be involved in because of it not being a nice place. But using the nebulous accusations to make that decision instead of what is known already is not fair in my view.

This whole happenning seems to be intrinsically linked to streamer/twitter drama so it becomes a tangled mess, but a streamer seems to have done a good writeup on it with most of everything sourced[1]. Jesse singal also did a two part podcast on it doing a pretty interesting deep dive on it as well[2].

[0]:Some of many relating to the keffals case: Journalists claiming it was kiwifarms that hacked the uber when it was done by doxbin(not gonna link her doxbin, just search for the name on google and you'll find it), several doxes that were claimed to be done by kiwifarms also fall in this doxbin did it but kiwifarms is the one that gets written up for it. This wouldn't bother me much since the website does dox people and its not against the rules so what difference does it make, but when its journalists in the mainstream media clearly making them a scapegoat for something that is not uncommon nor will be fixed if the website goes down its just dishonest. And then there's places like cbc claiming that the christchurch shooting was livestreamed there[3] and the perpetrator was an user which is just blatantly false and I can't give the benefit of the doubt given how everyone knows it was facebook, let alone a journalist. Blaming the website for people showing up and taking pictures close to the streamers house then posting it on 4chan(!) and somehow its kiwifarms doing, the list goes on.

[0.1]: https://archive.ph/6JvRJ (claims that journalists knew about doxbin, while blaming kiwifarms)

[1]: https://destinygg.substack.com/p/keffals-a-case-study-on-int... (Just read chapters 2-3-4, the rest is dumb internet spats)

[2]: https://www.blockedandreported.org/p/episode-131-who-is-stal...

[3]: https://archive.ph/JF35i
Code density is one factor in a tremendously complex system. The entire design philosophy of RISC architectures for the last 35+ years is predicated on the notion that it's not the most important one, and shouldn't be focused on in isolation.
Was this article assembled by an AI from a bulleted list of story details? The structure is erratic and some paragraphs are repeated entirely.
We always complain about bloat and slowness, then we build faster machines and networks and bigger storage, and software and content promptly expand to fill it all up and make it feel sluggish again.

For a chuckle try running old software on a modern computer (fire up dos box and run WordPerfect or something) and be amazed at the speed of the thing. that is why we built a faster computer :)
I mean i could store all the nuclear waste to power America for 10000 years in a football field 1500 ft deep, with 300-400 of that just being fill. Ideally stored in a salt mine of some sort. It's not "renewable" the can is so far kicked a better power source will definitely arise by then.
> It costs how much?!

The author's not wrong. Cost comes with lack of accountability in my experience. In turn, my devsecops dept (~20 people) has kept costs down by holding monthly AWS accountability meetings. "Who owns this and why does it exist?" is the leading question.

> The all-you-can-eat buffet problem

Valid point. But I've gotten far in my career by specializing in AWS. It's not going anywhere soon. It's the one cloud provider I would say you should go all-in on. Azure maybe next. GCP? Come on. Conversely, I just got an email from Heroku saying they're retiring one of my free-tier databases that I still use.

> Culture of simplicity eats strategy of complexity for breakfast

Orgs, please retire this saying. I hear this everywhere. It's lost a lot of meaning. Just spell out what your org does better than the rest of the pack.
It isn’t really standing then. ;)
Same, I do it routinely and maybe the first time I ever did it, it took me a week but after that it was fast. But I may be being generous.

The only thing that could make that tough is if you put the Lambdas in a VPC. That can get tricky because you have to plan out subnets and whatnot but still not a week.

The AWS documentation is also extremely good with regards to what properties are on each resource. I can't speak for Terraform since I usually use CloudFormation / SAM directly. Maybe it's a Terraform problem?
This is how it works. This is exactly how it works.

Behold: https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MHJA3AM/A/20w-usb-c-power...

Nineteen bucks, won't catch fire, gives a real 20W.

Now, it might be the case that you feel the price should be zero bucks with purchase of an iPhone.

Apple disagrees. They don't run promotions of that sort, or promotions, in fact. The price is the price, it's core to the brand.

Same with a case, same with headphones. Need a USB-A cable for charging instead of -C? You can buy that as well.

I'd make a snarky comment about expecting everyone else to pay for your free charger when we don't need one, but profit doesn't actually work that way.

Other entities sell iPhones, in fact, I believe that Apple only sells a minority of phones directly. Those merchants are welcome to toss in a charger, if that's the kind of thing the customer likes.
What's that got to do with old parts failing?
I dunno, try Cirencester - "siren-sester". Always slides off the tongue for me and sounds like something magical, perhaps like Circe (sur-see) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circe
This is discussed in the following section:

> Add, put, and UnsupportedOperationException
I wouldn’t blame the economy. I would honestly try skilling up. If you can do c++ you can do other development work.

Try improving your portfolio and practice interview problems (I know they suck but it is a big part of interviewing in most places).
If LuaJIT is the example, is Lua being interpreted? I know that there is a bytecode interpreter hand-coded in assembly, but isn't the JIT used for hot code?

Edit: perhaps this is about missing the word "primarily", that performance in such an implementation is bound by interpretation speed.
You forget that this basically was anarchism at the time:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational_egoism
Yes, and the result of this tampering doesn't inspire much confidence. I doubt humans understand what's actually going on. How can they come up with a solution when they don't even fully understand the problem? The problem of climate change is insanely complex with billions of variables.

Also, how can they possibly understand all the side effects of spraying aerosols into the atmosphere of a massive, highly complex planet which supports an incalculable number of living organisms? They didn't know that burning fossil fuels would lead to climate change when they started doing it, who is to say that spraying massive amounts of aerosols into the atmosphere will not lead to something else which they did not anticipate?

This proposed solution is akin flawed scientific practices of earlier times such as blood-letting or whacking people over the head with a stick to chase out daemons. At every point in history, people with fancy academic certificates have always been certain that they knew what they were doing and they've been proven wrong over and over.
Not to pick on you but that attitude infuriates me and belittles teachers.

You seem to imply that “anyone” can be an effective teacher. That’s simply not true. Plus many children react much better to people outside the house. I was definitely that way. And my wife has many amazing qualities but she would make a horrendous teacher.
I work for AWS and I get paid decent money to work with companies and help them become “cloud native”. My specialty is “application modernization” and I avoid “lift and shift” projects like the plague. Even though I realize that doing lift and shifts first is the right answer sometimes. I think I can confidently state that I know AWS pretty well.

That being said, in my personal life if someone ever came to me and said that they were starting a project from scratch or even if I were starting a hobby project from scratch where I saw Lambda + DynamoDB wasn’t the right answer, I would just use Lightsail and simple monolithic application using whatever frameworks are appropriate that I already knew.

AWS Lightsail is a simple fixed priced VPS. I’m not advocating using Lightsail over another VPS provider. It would just be my preference because I know how to transition to full fledged AWS later.
Correct, they don't waste their time. It is baked in.