skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is that if your business is dependent on the cloud, that's not actually your choice: The providers can, and will, change the prices whenever they want. As the crunch comes and even the FAANGs start layoffs, watch how fast buying an in-house VMware stack seems like an absolute bargain, including paying staff to build and maintain it.
Ask HN: What are some of the best books or MOOCs on your favorite subject?
Meanwhile, AWS and partners can’t find enough engineers.

500 decision-makers isn’t tens of thousands of companies moving to the cloud. Worst poll ever.
The quality of regulation seems extremely negligent - e.g. https://theintercept.com/2021/11/03/coronavirus-research-eco...
Do you have any experience with networking though?
Right, but if you want that MacBook you call up Apple and they will ship you those computers tomorrow, hassle-free, and you can hand those laptops to any of your employees without someone harassing you for how you're doing licensing. For large companies the issue isn't even the cost but the annoyance. Like, the employees who use those IDA licenses are paid pretty well…annoyances you put in the path of them getting IDA that waste their time are pretty expensive too.
Also related: μ-law[1] and A-law[2] companding in telecoms.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9C-law_algorithm

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9C-law_algorithm
Medibank hackers threaten to release stolen health data in ransom demand
How does it compare to Zero to Production in Rust?

https://www.zero2prod.com/
Images have much less of this problem. They are not the raw result of cognition. So changing images doesn't change someone's voice.
Instead images are always interprative. The camera doesn't capture what the eye sees. Often it takes a lot more interpretation than what a camera does to make a JPEG to end up with something like what the eye saw. In that process you can also change an image into something your eye would enjoy seeing.

Alternatively you can lie and say 'this is what I saw' about something that is not even close. Once images are used to promote falsehoods, your worry becomes true. But much editing, either for accuracy or for beauty, has no such harmful effects.
Teaching is not an advanced skill, so I have to reject the premise of your question.
As I said, I think the government should outsource the entire business. Just give parents education vouchers, and let them choose the education they want for their kids. I think every parent should be able to hire a private teacher, not only the wealthy ones.

Where I am, the good private schools charge about 30% less tuition than the public school district spends per student. This means that providing good schooling is very much possible at what government spends. Food stamps do not have to be spent on government-produced food in government stores. Section 8 vouchers do not have to be spent on government-owned housing. Why not just do the same with education?
Settings > General > Keyboards, near the bottom there is a toggle for Predictive.
In France bank accounts are a basic right and the Banque de France will open one for you if all other banks refuse.
The Congress has been doing this the last two years (labelled RC3). It led to a very different experience (as random interactions just were gone (they tried to avoid this by a JRPG-style web interface)), and there was a notable drop in quality in the lectures. I don't think going virtual works for this kind of event.
Lovely article.
For interactive reading about sound and music,
I also recommend Ableton's "learning synth" site.
It leverages web audio capabilities and provides exciting learning resources
about how to create synth music.
https://learningsynths.ableton.com/
If most people followed that advice, they would stay home in their parent's basement and rot away there until they died.
Most people aren't even exposed to a single good idea/opportunity in their lives.

I'm 33, I've been coding since I was 14. It only happened once in my life that someone offered me to co-found a company but they had no funding, no connections and the idea sucked. I didn't join and the project failed.
If I get any semi-decent opportunity at all, I take it because otherwise I will have to wait 10 years for the next mediocre opportunity to come up.

Trying to find opportunities is also not viable. At one point, I reached out to some VCs and attended some events which I knew they would also attend; it almost got to the point of stalking them... Still couldn't even raise $20K from them... All I got was a free cappuccino with one of them. Waste of time.

The only opportunities I ever got and which worked out with moderate success were the ones where everyone was telling me that it was a waste of time... They would have been a waste of time if I was a lucky spoiled brat maybe; but in my world, if the opportunity is even moderately good, someone else with a few million $ in funding is already doing it and Google will send every single user to their platform and won't send a single user to my platform.
On your development environment mostly.

Smalltalk, Lisp, Scheme, Erlang, Haskell, OCaml, Java, .NET, C++ (via VS, Live++, Unreal) allow for this kind of interactivity, where Smalltalk and Lisp variants win in tooling.

Some Lisp variants, Erlang, Java (via JMX beans / JVMTI) also allow to connect to a running application in production and change its behaviour, although on Java's case it is only a subset of possible changes.
List of Cheap FPGA Development Boards
The thing is, there is an awful lot of YAGNI going on.

Engineering a web app in a way that autoscaling is effective is a lot of work. It is very well possible that renting a beefy dedicated server will do just fine and cost a magnitude or two less in renting and engineering both...

Also, people tend to say I lost my mind when I say complex and expensive high availability solutions are often not worth it: it's cheaper to be down. Because you will be down, no matter what you do, there are a multitude of services you will rely on -- and some downtime is completely expected and accepted in this industry. So adding a few minutes every few years when you need to manually fall over to a slave database versus using a complex HA database solution? A cost-benefit analysis is in order.

If you do need the cloud, yay but so many people no longer even consider whether they do.
IMO I think that headline is less acccurate, because 'reduce growth' means 'grow, but less'.
Hrmm, sorry about that. Please try again now. I added some more checking code.
https://swurl.com/?q=google+translate

If it still isn't working, could you let me know the exact URL you are looking at? And browser you are using?
I tried that, but half the time it would bring up the quick settings page.
I was thinking HN is afraid of tools that cheapen it's own work. Whilst artists are afraid of tools that cheapen their work.
Docker October 2022 Pricing Change FAQ
I would prefer using TIM and abandon W3, but seems like the only big source compatible with TIM (as I understand it from the article) is Wikipedia.
Only in FOSS databases, Oracle, SQL Server, DB 2, Informix have all the tooling as any common programming language.
It's basically the same Safari, no?
This is likely to cause a lot of political fallout following the recent high profile Optus breach. In this case the group responsible claim that the data includes medical diagnoses.
I'm not going to debate if ports/pkg is solid or not, either way it sure is nice to have a solid system at the base. On Linux, where the base is intermingled with everything else, it's a lot easier to upgrade packages and break the whole system, because there's no distinction between packages and the base system.
What’s the current best tool to reverse engineer C++ exe’s? I want to reverse engineer an old game!
I've always used MessagEase (both on Android and iPhone). It is a keyboard layout that was originally designed for the Palm Pilot, and it is optimised for typing with one finger. I don't use any sort of autocompletion, yet I'm usually the fastest typist in the room. More info: http://www.exideas.com/ME/index.php
I wrote half my master thesis on an android phone, and this includes peobably 20 times the master thesis in notes. The absolute best ways to write ended up being (in that order):

1. A keyboard

2. A good dual-swype keyboard app (it was keymonk at the time)

3. Actual typing without any autocorrect for anything where the dictionary failed, which in a master thesis can be a lot

The physical keyboard is still the best, but it is hard to use it in the rain on a bus stop.
Link is broken for me for some reason so here's an archive link for anybody with similar problems:

https://archive.ph/XAEG7
You can take a call in a restaurant, yet almost no one does.
While I do think CCC made the wrong call here, probably ending Congress for good, let's just assume that the kind of people who attend Congress may not be the most healthy of the bunch to begin with.
Even I am young and lean childfree. My reasoning is that non-existence is better than existence. More and more I see the world, more and more I agree with Buddhism's first noble truth that there is suffering in life. There are some moments of joy, but is all of it worth it afterall? It's just a tough question. I don't want to bring any more suffering to this world. There is already so much suffering and I can't do anything about it. So many innocents throughout history have suffered so much. Millions of innocents died in holocaust or nuclear bombs or famines in the last 100 years ago alone. Recently teenagers are getting killed mercilessly in Iran. Life can be so unfair sometimes that it feels like a bad gamble to produce more of it. A child can give great joy to their parents for sure, but they can also cause great suffering. Like there is hardly anything more hurtful in life than the bereavement of your own child. People forget that something that can give you great joy can also give you great pain. And for me, it's not just about me and the happiness I derive from parenting my kid, but also the child who will one day grow into an adult and have to deal with this cruel world and the sheer pain of conscious existence itself. For these reasons I am leaning childfree for now.
The first thing to note is that while HDL coding may look like programming, it is not (mostly). HDLs are for describing hardware, and it takes some time for this to sink in. There are two sides to the coin: understanding digital design in the abstract, and understanding HDL design patterns to define the desired logic circuits.

If you don't have any digital design experience, an oft-recommended course is nand2tetris.

I should say though, that that is the bottom-up approach. It is possible these days to string together a bunch of IPs and not write any HDL, depending on what you want to do. But you will probably be stuck if anything at all goes awry, so I don't recommend the top-down approach.
This is great! If you're interested in search engine UX, I'd be interested in incorporating some of these ideas into https://mwmbl.org - would love to get your input - join us on Matrix https://matrix.to/#/#mwmbl:matrix.org
Holographic Pokemon cards made with CSS
I think it’s overall better. I particularly like how autocorrections are presented above the keyboard instead of as boxes above the words (although sometimes you get boxes).

I do have some problems though. My phone thinks st (short for station or saint, I guess) is something I need to type more than “at” and will often leave me with tons of st in my sentences.
I would imagine it's because the transcript contains strictly more information than the video?
Wooo, love it visarga. That is good input and suggestions.

I don't usually use Arxiv. Do you have some example queries where you would like to see a Arxiv column?

Also same with HN? That is a bit of a harder one. I guess I could trigger a HN column if there are tech news type results returned from Google.
Which European country is best for a tech startup in your opinion?
Not on my phone. What phone does this work on? iOS? I'm talking about Android.
A one-dimensional cellular automaton using binary addition as its only rule produces the Fibonacci series from the 0 and 1 identities, which is sort of fascinating.
Seems like this is an iOS thing? I'm talking about Android.
Yes, without exceptions is more involved, but way easier than any C alternative doing couple-of-functions mstching for alloc/dealloc.
I played with a friend's Pixel a few weeks ago and I was surprised by how much better the typing experience was. Especially so if you have set up multiple languages. Support for non-mainstream languages is a joke on iPhone. Even the Google keyboard for iOS is shit, but I can't blame that one on Apple.

I can't justify changing my phone now, but I'm highly considering my next phone to be an Android.
I don't necessarily disagree. I've always felt that there was a lot to be said for not becoming dependent on the latest and greatest features of any specific cloud. If you're pushing the limits of some service you probably want to own it.

But my real gripe is that this survey is being presented as doom and gloom when you could equally summarize the results as "about 60% of IT leaders directed to stay the course or beef up cloud spending"
5k word deep dive on Notion by Sequoia Capital
It even has a different explanation text how to use keyboard (2nd paragraph), depending on whether you open a site from a desktop or mobile! Impressive!
One of the criticisms I have heard of C-- is that it doesn't distinguish between integer and floating-point data in the type system. There are some architectures where that wouldn't be a problem, but most modern CPUs have completely separate integer and floating-point data paths, with a performance penalty for shuffling data between them. Generating good code on these systems from C-- source requires more effort than it should.
I'm working on a non-profit search engine (https://ask.moe) where the plan is to donate 100% of our profits to other non-profit organizations and charities (that are much better equipped to put the money to good use, and have a proven track record).

I believe it will be possible to make the first donation next month as we will finally reach the AdSense threshold of 600 DKK, and since October has been really good month then we will likely be able to donate 3000 DKK.
> we've had a support ticket open w/ Azure for 9 days now asking "where did this $1k go?". Our Blob Storage "Cool" tier costs upticked, and I'm 99% sure the bill there is just wrong.

Check your partial / interrupted multi-part uploads. If its like amazon the uncommitted blobs won't show up in storage graphs but you'll be getting charged for them just sitting there.
Seems like a very interesting project, but I could not find the source or github link anywhere.
Absolutely! Typing on the iPhone is slowly becoming a frustration, especially if you are using many languages. It was so frustrating sometimes, that I must turn off autocorrection and prediction. In the initial release of iOS13, the keyboard can even freeze for an extended period of time. The updates seemed to correct the freeze, but the prediction and autocorrection is still subpar and irritating. In the last releases, the cursor scrolling, once a hallmark of iOS got worse. On the mobile website of FB, you can't move the selection properly anymore, although it works properly on Apple's own apps, so it might be a problem FB created. The most frustrating aspect about iOS keyboard is that user can not even edit the custom dictionary, they can only reset the prediction. On the top of that, typing on the iPad is getting worse, too. I wonder what the engineers at Apple are doing all the time? :(
I can't help but think HVAC is the perfect industry for the limited AI we have right now... it just need to hit a sweet spot of relative humidity and temperature, with constraints given by the assets you have and its' performance envelope given input from mixture of indoor/outdoor air..

but right now HVAC industry is treating relative humidity like some ultimate luxury tier item..
I’m not sure I’d want to use Rumble, the platform tagging itself as “anti cancel culture” and full of racist content.

Just use cloud flare streaming, it doesn’t get easier and prices are not prohibitive.
Many countries have postal banking. And the US used to have that. There are a number of US government agencies that could handle that.
More and more companies (newer ones of course, those unburned by legacy) use public clouds as "managed Kubernetes and maybe a few other things like a database, load balancer, object storage". That way there is close to no lock-in, so the biggest challenge in switching clouds would be how to migrate the data and do the failover with minimal downtime.
Not just you :) It's even worse if you use more than one language.

I regularly use both Romanian and English, sometimes in the same sentence and definitely in the same chat app to different recipients.

On old versions of iOS the checker eventually caved in and accepted my language mix no matter what language I had set the keyboard to.

These days it's really insane. Yesterday it managed to capitalize 3 words in the middle of an all Romanian sentence with the keyboard set to RO. No idea why, neither RO nor EN capitalize anything in the middle of a sentence and I don't have a German keyboard acivated.

The suggestions seem mostly useless as well. Even when it gets the language right.
It also manages to make interactive animations faster than reading news at this point.
> haven't had any time for myself until the kids are down at 7.30

I have three kids (3, 6, 9) and we don't get to sit down without kids until around 22:00 on average. Sometimes it's quiet at 20:00 (the youngest two asleep), sometimes at 00:30.

We have no life outside of work and kids. It should eventually get better though, as soon as the youngest two start being able to sleep themselves.
So inconsiderate. If someone needs to take important call - let them. Phone calls are possible in restaurants, yet you almost never see anyone.
I find it very funny that almost the whole powerpoint is in comic sans.
He sold majority share to an investment group. So every button will now become an in-app purchase. Function decompilations will cost in-app currencies.

And today they’re offering the pro-pack. 10,000 decomp units for $1,200 bucks. Of course now they can devalue the value of a unit at will.
> where the money is going

AWS in particular is handsomely engineered so you can't answer this sort of question, as well as making people spend more without need.

- Per resource cost is turned off by default. Turning it on costs money. How much? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

- Services like S3 will bill you per API call. How do you know who is calling your APIs? Using Cloud trail, which is turned off by default. Turning it on for this sort of analysis might cost a lot $$$ for a reasonably used bucket.

- CloudWatch will bill you per custom metric and adds up quickly. Why do I have so many custom metrics? Good luck finding out.

- Many costs are tied with stuff that's really hard to control e.g. egress traffic.

- Using many accounts is by far the best way to segregate unrelated projects. But then, you will end up paying for many criminally underutilized NAT GWs, VPN connections, Load Balancers, etc...

- Many services are ha, multi az only. That makes AWS unnecessarily expensive for dev environments / non critical services.

The list goes on. I know a fair number of consulting companies making the money of their lives reducing AWS bills.
Still chipping away at the Free Software bike computer: https://jazda.org

Given that it contains hardware, I don't expect to make any profit ;)
Disclaimer: I work at Mux (late edit, still learning HN etiquette)
Yeah that's why I said it's only part of it. I'd really recommend that YouTube channel, there's so many little things you can do to make traffic safer for everyone.
I don’t recall any period where I could successfully type a whole sentence on an iPhone. Even this one.
I think it's more than that. The more cars are going the less pleasant it becomes for everyone, also cars themselves. But a large amount of people does what everyone else does and just rationalises/justifies it somehow when challenged.

I see the same with children. When I was young nobody wanted to be dropped off by their parents, everyone wanted to bike. I see it with my kids somewhat (they are still a bit young to bike to school alone here) and some colleagues kids (who are older) and it is an argument to bike to school. Interestingly this seems to be very school dependent some schools have almost all kids biking while others have none. It is almost like a phase transition.
Hayes Command Set (At Commands)
> Having to own the latest iPhone just to test on, because the company won't provide it but expects iOS compatibility?

The previous company I was in did mostly require bringing in a personal smartphone to function. As I didn't own one, that caused all kinds of amusing (to me) commotion. Eventually some workarounds were set up.

But that should be non-negotiable. If company needs me to have $FOO to work, company must pay and give me said $FOO.
'Success is having good ideas to say no to'
What's the alternative for people who value their time? (Honest question, I'm not from the US.)
> The problem is that if your business is dependent on the cloud, that's not actually your choice: The providers can, and will, change the prices whenever they want

People often say this, but it's just not true. First, any company with significant spend has custom deals with custom pricing in exchange for a commit. Second, even if you don't have that, there's often reserved/"savings plans"/whatever where you commit in exchange for a lower price.

Third, the only time any of the big 3 cloud providers has increased pricing (it usually only goes down) is when GCP increased bandwidth and storage costs a few months ago. AWS, which is what the majority of the market uses, has only decreased prices, hundreds of times.

Regarding VMware, you know you have to pay for licenses and support in an ongoing manner and they are known to jack up prices, right? Furthermore, VMware's software is a dumpster fire that gets you around 5% of what you get from a serious public cloud. Maybe 30%-50% if you go in with NSX and vSAN and the vSuite where you lock in yourself to terrible software with the wrong abstractions, lack of APIs, at enormous inflexible costs. How is that any better?
There is a strawman argument in the talk, about the limitation (or now, default) to 80 characters wide consoles which is presented as a "proof" that we're still living in the past.

80 characters (plus or minus 10) has a justification outside the history of teletypes and VT100s: that's the optimum for readability.

Otherwise, there are good ideas, in the talk, but this particular one rubbed me in the wrong way.
Found the investment banker
> Is it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCx6Nj_Hr1g ?

Yes.

> I've seen quite many live programming languages.

I have no idea what that means.
NASA AI shows slashing sulfur in shipping fuel cut air pollution at sea
Launched a website to help people find virtual volunteering opportunities, and keep updating it with new content, categories and soon a guide.

https://goodworksonline.org
No, it was an animation, like an early Flash animation. No voiceover (that would have been too advanced).

Thank you for looking though :)