skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There’s a reason why industry likes to pursue business in places like Alabama with awful infrastructure and education.

Expenses for things like conversion of documentation to pictures instead of text (the workers are functionally illiterate) are one time, but you can pay someone $13/hr instead of $25/hr in a less regressive place.
you want Debian. dist-upgrade never broke on me in 25 years of usage
Tldr: a slice of pizza in NYC matches subway fares.

Related: I heard, from people who are not me, that in any area, the hourly rate of sex-worker escorts matches that of lawyers.
Azure Functions is as easy to use as writing an "Hello World" console application. I have a few services running like clockwork for a few years now, very happy with this service overall. The one thing that complicates matters is Microsoft's eagerness to deprecate libraries, frameworks and best practices every now and then.
Bringing Modern Authentication APIs (FIDO2 WebAuthn, Passkeys) to Linux Desktop
Science hub Mutual Aid community
Here in Denmark, people are divided on the subject of beverage temperature, some prefer it ice-cold, others don't.

I'm firmly in the "don't care" group, unless I'm very thirsty, then I prefer less-cold (10-20 degrees) because it's more comfortable for me to chug than ice-cold.

I'm very much in the "don't care" group, I'll drink cola gone flat that's been sitting in my car in a hot summer day..
How? And why wouldn't a job look good? A job shows a person is capable of being responsible, independent, and deferred gratification.
You don't hear about the positive outcomes of support cases, but you'll hear a lot about those that don't work out the way they're supposed to, and you'll also hear a lot about those where someone feels wronged even though they've misbehaved.

The complainer can also misrepresent the case, while Stripe cannot disclose how they see it. Making any assumptions about service quality on that base is not wise.
It’s call instinctive in fact, because, as he explain himself he’s not aiming in the traditional sense. Practicing this style is harder than using an Olympic bow with a visor, but you gain a lot of flexibility in 3D shooting, tricks shoot and other techniques where the distance is not known.
As my teachers explains to me, your whole body is used instead of your eyes.
They're far from useless, awesome-whatever is usually great for getting an overview of what kind of tools exist out there and what some popular choices are.

If you're already aware of all that, sure, they don't add much information. Concise comparison is pretty difficult...except in cases like this.
If this were a bad movie, it would end with the knife falling and then zoom out to show the FEMA trucks only minutes away.

Whoopsie!
As others have said, they've obviously tracked the general tech improvement in CPUs, RAM, and storage. And in this way they've always danced back and forth with the engineering/product tradeoffs for the portable format versus a desktop system of the same period. I've always been using notebooks or ultraportables in the 12"-14" screen size class. I started with a chunky Dell Inspiron before moving to Thinkpads like the T20 and X22 and a Sony VAIO in the very late 1990s. I stuck with many generations of Thinkpads. My most recent work machine is a Thinkpad T495 from right before COVID.

Qualitatively, they've given me a similar experience due to the form factor and always running some form of Linux. I preferred the 12" models when flying several times in a week but 14" when spending weeks in one place. I think this will remain true, much like smartphones have found certain form factors and just keep iterating on numerical specs while fitting the same hands and eyes.

IO and expansion went from serial, parallel, and PCMCIA slots to PC Card and USB, to mixtures of USB speeds and now primarily USB-C. Other oddball IO like firewire and e-SATA came and went.

Communications went from external to integrated modems, external to integrated ethernet, and external to integrated WiFi. Now, wired ethernet is starting to disappear or at least shift back to some kind of dongle.

Removable storage went from floppy to CD-ROM to DVD and went away entirely. Other oddball devices came and went. Now mostly it is just networked storage services or potentially massive USB thumb drives.

External display connections went from analog VGA to DVI, DisplayPort, and HDMI.

Internal LCD backlights went from fluorescent to LED.

Internal LCD aspect ratios went from 4:3 to 16:10 to 16:9, and now seem to be moving back to 16:10.

Internal LCD resolutions went from terribly low (800x600 etc. at 14") to acceptable (1920x1080 at 14") to ridiculous (4K at 14").

Batteries went from NiMH to Lithium ion and from removable to built-in and not really user-serviceable. Some machines gained long battery run times, but often the advances seem to have been invested in reducing sizes instead. Better idle efficiency allows a machine to be on and connected for "a whole day" (by someone's definition) but actually running them at full load still depletes the battery in a small number of hours (or less).
That's all well-and-good, but it doesn't save you from mob justice. Cloudflare almost had their business collapse until they took proactive action against one of their clients. Google sees the writing on the wall, and they know they can posture themselves as "preserving election integrity" or whatever and get away with it. It's nothing new, and it's certainly wrong, but it's also part of our individual freedom as enterprising Americans. This is what happens when you don't regulate the tech sector, is everyone happy now?

Even if it was 100% autonomous opinion-enforcement (which is unlikely, but I'll entertain it), it's 100% Google's right to enforce that. You're on their platform, you don't get to make the rules. If your neighbor gives you a spare shed on their lot, they're not inviting you to decorate it in political regalia and extremist logos. If you become enough of a nuisance, they're probably just going to ask for their shed back and tell you to be more respectful next time.
I'm not sure what the disconnect here is, I'm pretty sure the answer is uncomplicated. You hire support people and train and pay them well. I get that this isn't some sort of sexy tech solution but like, that's what we want as customers. I don't really care about any of this crap, nobody cares. We want two things from you, we want to charge people's credit cards, and if something goes wrong we want to be able to TALK TO SOMEONE to get it sorted.

This is not hard. The thing we want is the confidence that if something goes wrong we'll be able to talk to someone who can help sort it out.

The uncertainty is the problem. You are not doing a good job of making me feel like you understand that.
> Maybe filling big pools with water just so you can swim around will be seen as disgusting waste.

I have seen that being discussed recently, but I wonder: is it really a significant waste?

How much water does it consume, compared to say having a garden, or a green lawn?

Most pools have filtration systems and rarely require to be fully emptied then refilled.

It seems a class-based attack on people who can own pools, and therefore a dogwhistle, because the same attack could be made on taking a shower every day.
The absolute vast majority of companies can run from the cheapest Digital Ocean droplet for an indefinitely long time. No cloud necessary.
This pattern is so pervasive with all the payment processors:

* Your funds are suddenly frozen. No easy recourse (if any)

* The percentage they withhold is suddenly higher. Tough luck

* Your business is deemed high risk and they cut ties. Their reasoning is a black box

Why is there never advance warning? It's the lack of courtesy that gets to me.
I have MS symptoms. Was eventually diagnosed with Sjogrens.

Autoimmune protocol diet was a big help to stop flares.
LDN helps a ton to get nerve pain under control.

Blood thinners brought back my cognitive function as I was having tons of mini strokes .

Vit d,b12,e, fish oil. Magnisium have all improved quality of life
sarcasm :)
How to temporarily remove an unwanted path name from %path% variable on Windows
Zzz... Cool shiny new military toy has lots of cool shiny new features.

And I'd bet an extremely $hiny new price tag...a detail which the article completely ignores.

But what % of those cool shiny new military toys which have been hyped since Eisenhower's farewell address have actually lived up to their billing? IANADA (...Defense Analyst), but I'm thinking ~0.1%
Did I miss something? Was that the case here?

I personally worked like 20-30 hrs a week and went to school as well lol
Thank you for your kind words!

May I ask you what do you mean by saying "all steps under 3"? Are you referring to https://docs.opendatadiscovery.org/use_cases/dq_visibility?

As for the

> How is the lineage generated or manually maintained

All lineage in the platform is generated and not manually handled by user in the UI. We are leveraging ODD Specification (https://github.com/opendatadiscovery/opendatadiscovery-speci...) and all ODD Collectors (agents that scrape metadata from your data sources) send payload to the ODD Platform in this specification's format. ODD Specification introduces something called ODDRN — OpenDataDiscovery Resource Names. These are basically strings, identifiers of specific data entities. All ODD Collectors generates same identifiers for same entities, allowing us automatically build a lineage graph in ODD Platform.

Not letting a user to manually change lineage in the UI is kinda our solution to one of the lineage problems. This way users can be sure that the lineage is correct, up to date and no one messed with it at least in the UI.

Of course if there's an described API endpoint, there's a way to change the lineage by sending a request on your own (e.g. via curl or custom script), but I wouldn't call it manual. This approach allows companies and users to write their own integrations, making the system open.
He should try pentest, he has a natural talent for going with the flow.
I doubt that 1.01%[1] of the balance frozen by stripe plays a major factor in their calculus. If the situation has gotten to the point where stripe is freezing a customer's account for 120 days, they've probably already written them off as a customer. After all, who in their right mind would still stick with stripe after that? The biggest cost would be lost future revenues from the customer.

Some napkin math:

Assuming that a customer gets paid monthly by stripe, that would mean the amount frozen by stripe would be 1/12 of a customer's ARR. Applying the federal funds rate to that over 120 days works out to a cost 0.0843% of customer's ARR. Meanwhile, stripe charges 2.9% in fees. Not all of that goes to stripe, some goes to banks in the form of interchange. If we assume stripe gets 0.5% after interchange, that would mean the losses from losing the customer for one year alone would be 0.5%, an order of magnitude higher than whatever interest they'd be forced to pay.

[1] current federal funds rate is 3.08%. if it's applied over 120 days, it works out to around 1.01%
Golly.

> compound interest and exponentials well.

They are not magic. Wealth cannot increase exponentially unless it increases exponentially.

Exponential growth never continues.

People draw lines on graphs and say: "compound interest and exponential growth" without making the connection to reality.

You cannot eat interest payments nor lines on graphs.
If Maslow’s hierarchy of needs had one more layer at its very base, it would be power. That is, the ability to project their will into the world. People who are made to feel powerless (like the Russian population) will align themselves with a source of power (Putin) to satisfy their need for power, even if by proxy. The need for power is so fundamentally important to humans that any source of this is valued above most moral conflicts that the source may cause. This is how a large population of “good” people can commit atrocities, as in WWII Germany, for example.
A six minute walk sample for one week doesn't feel like a good study to me.
Year 1 will be about survival, fiefdoms and immediate resources.

Years 5 will be managing latent fallout and wars over territory and natural resources.

Year 20 we will focus on the rebuild, children will only know this as 'life'

Years 50-100 we repeat and maybe this time finish ourselves off.

We are a war species, and we're not unique in that regard. Any organism sufficiently advanced enough will reach this from the moment they're able to assign value to a resource.
But why not pay them? Perhaps you cannot pay market wages without a being a competitive capitalist enterprise, but surely there is a point where access to subsidized labor allows you to break even, paying them, say $3 or $5 an hour.

And perhaps you cannot pay them in cash, but why not invest the money for the duration of their incarceration, or pay a stipend to some dependent on the outside, like a wife/child? A $10k/year rate of savings is above what many people achieve outside, and a massive boost to get one's life in order once they get out.
Beanstalk has a lot of surprising costs like loadbalancing.

I was trying something on a simple Django project that nobody else accessed except me for like 3 times. AWS charged me $30 that month. Nobody knows what load they were balancing since I barely used the app.

I shut down everything.
Maybe :)
This post might nerd snipe you and destroy your life. Stop reading here. Keyboards are a rabbit hole but I spent at least a week of my life searching and trying out existing optimized layouts. Then I got fed up and tried to optimize my own keyboard layouts on my own corpora. All this snowballed once I realized how massive the ergonomic and RSI problems with QWERTY are.
All of this is nice and sounds rather obvious to many over here. I think the HN's hivemind has already chewed through most of the arguments they are making.

What I want to see is what they are going to replace the cloud with, how the numbers compare, and what tradeoffs they have had to make. Preferably a year after they make their transitions. An honest comparison that makes it possible for other companies in a similar situation to clear their doubts (in some cases “clearing doubts” would mean “we're staying in the cloud”; I'd like this kind of honest).

Thus I'm staying tuned, with a grain of doubt. After all, it's possible that the transition off cloud will take time and may even fizz out without achieving much. Oh, and I'm wondering what's the cost of moving the data itself off cloud is going to be.
Heh, maybe a regulation saying you couldn’t hold money hostage like this if the business is SOC 2 compliant
I'm not from the US and had to look up what "protected class" meant. It seems to be a well-intentioned yet somewhat arbitrary list. It appears to be regularly amended. Perhaps allergies will be on the list one day too?
Static on a daily rolling average. You’ll be hemorrhaging money if you think moving to the cloud will save you money because you have a daily trough.

The only places I’ve seen it work are:

- massive seasonal demand with negligible usage during off-season (think TurboTax if it weren’t part of Intuit)

- brand new product development where you don’t even know what you need yet or you are going through exponential growth that you can’t get ahead of. (This stage should only last like 6 months though)
Oh I remember this. I used a service like this 20 years ago when I started programming and didn't know how to host dynamic content (only static HTML). Back then they were free, called form2mail or similar, and worked exactly the same way.

Throws me back. I'm sure people these days will need it too, with all those static sites out there.
That’s as much of a “math problem” as winning the lottery is a “math problem”
"In especially uncertain times, such as when an emperor died, or when volcanoes erupted or severe earthquakes or famine struck, priests sacrificed captured warriors or specially raised, perfectly formed children to the gods."

related to the article above

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/aug/04/why-incas-pe...
Hey again. c:

Note that the Aztecs likely exaggerated their sacrifice counts[0]:

>Some post-conquest sources report that at the re-consecration of Great Pyramid of Tenochtitlan in 1487, the Aztecs sacrificed about 80,400 prisoners over the course of four days. This number is considered by Ross Hassig, author of Aztec Warfare, to be an exaggeration. Hassig states "between 10,000 and 80,400 persons" were sacrificed in the ceremony.[15] The higher estimate would average 15 sacrifices per minute during the four-day consecration. Four tables were arranged at the top so that the victims could be jettisoned down the sides of the temple.[22] Additionally, some historians argue that these numbers were inaccurate as most written account of Aztec sacrifices were made by Spanish sources to justify Spain's conquest.[23] Nonetheless, according to Codex Telleriano-Remensis, old Aztecs who talked with the missionaries told about a much lower figure for the reconsecration of the temple, approximately 4,000 victims in total.

Also, it seems like we'd wanna count the 40,000 to 240,000 Aztecs slaughtered by the Spaniards[1].

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_sacrifice_in_Aztec_cultu...

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_Tenochtitlan
A student of mine did a rather good thesis on de-clouding. In the
process she discovered the term "cloud repatriation" a fair bit of
literature on the movement to bring control of data and hardware back
'on-prem'.

She also noted that when you search on these terms the main engines
(all run by cloud service providers) return poor results not congruent
with the scale of the phenomenon. They are dominated by the opposite
message obviously heavily SEO'd up to the top, plus shill pieces
pushing cloud services but presented as "critical". Dig deep if you
want to find the real scale of the "anti-cloud" issues.

Her main conclusion was very interesting though. That the big issue is
not finance, reliability or control - but de-skilling.

As companies move their operations out to the cloud it's not the
disappearance of hardware from the premises but the loss of
skill-sets. Later they don't even know who to hire or how to write
the JD to bring people back in.

A good example was the broadcast industry. Entire branches of that
industry doing post-production, colour, transcoding, and whatnot moved
it all out to AWS. After price hikes, they wanted to go back to
running their own services. But they can't. Because nobody knows about
how to set-up and run that any longer - especially specialist things
like buffers and transcoders. I mean, try finding a sys-admin who can
just do simple tasks like set up and properly configure a mail server
these days.
I have heard the term "ambivert" coined for that mix.
I don't agree with you that it isn't important. Gaming is a major use case.
Ask HN: How to get motivation as a dev for completing personal projects?
Hi HN, I am a software developer. I tend to loose intrest in personal projects once I know how to achieve what I want. Due to this I am not able to complete many personal projects that were created as a hobby in my free time. Do other people have faced this issue?
The same way insurance companies and casinos collude against those who lose them money, so do payment industry companies. You might beat the case but you won't beat the ride.
I don't think it's as niche as people want to believe. The monetization models of cloud compute is clearly having compute act as a loss leader. The real revenue is picked up on the borderline egregious egress charges which are, coincidentally I'm sure, the hardest thing to estimate. Every other provider needs to follow this same monetization because then their choices are the top line being an eye-popping figure or making no money.
I am not convinced by the super aggressive timeline but I am also rooting for them. It would be a massive step forward to a fully renewable energy future. Right now it sounds like a battery breakthrough article but maybe I am just overly cynical.
Manny and Olga's is so bad as to not qualify as food. I've heard that We The Pizza is where they get it on the Hill, now. Andy's is great.
> simply put their workloads in the cloud and be done with it

I've worked all sorts of cloud environments for about ten years now, and with metal servers before that, and I'm not all that convinced that the cloud is saving all that much in terms of engineering effort. Or if it does, I haven't experienced it.

Sure, no one gets woken up at 4AM because your server's disks are failing, but instead you get woken up at 4AM because all your cloud native infrastructure is doing $funky_stuff. And yeah, no need to install and maintain servers any more, but now you need to write a whole bunch of code to interface with all the cloud stuff and maintain that. Lots of open positions for k8s engineers "dev-ops" engineers to make all of that work.

I run my stuff on Linode VPS's, which is "the cloud" as in "renting servers", but it's not "the cloud" as in all the "cloud native" stuff we have now. My experience is that sometimes the cloud makes things easy, and it makes things harder. On balance, it seems we just swapped one set of problems for another set of problems, and we haven't really gained all that much in the end.

I don't think Hey is running a "niche edge case"; it seems fairly standard stuff to me. That Tweet comes off as quite dismissive.
You mean they are trying to break the underlying cryptographic hash algorithms?
>I'm familiar with the research in this area, and that's not something you can say confidently

I’m referring to legally, sorry I should have specified.
reader view in firefox makes the modal dialog go away
If you pay attention to builds and commentary on them after completion a lot of people begrudgingly dislike the Dactyl Manuform layout because it is uncomfortable for them and awful to type on. That said I never tried one myself. Just be careful and don't assume it's automatically going to be good for you! I think the layout is parametric but who knows exactly how to adjust the parameters?
These niche use-cases exist, but they are niche, and most companies, who think their use-case is that niche so it doesn't fit the cloud, are probably wrong.

Talk about broad, sweeping statements. Care to substantiate?
I use an ergodox, and while kinesis comes so highly recommended, there is always something about their design aesthetic that rubs me the wrong way, like the uncanny valley between utility and nintendo powerglove.
While I don’t know the whole story, this letter makes me feel this guy is in the right:

> In other words, in 2011, federal and state agencies lowered the maximum safe fluoridation levels by half, and lowered the “recommended” levels by a third, but declined to require any mandatory minimum level of fluoridation.

> This misunderstanding was not due to anything 1 said or did. T consistently reported the accurate fluoridation levels to the State in monthly reports and to Richmond Water System Customers in annual reports.

2011 was around the time of the local scandal I witnessed. There was pressure to lower flouridation levels, and many people freaked out - quoting Dr Strangelove - rather than listening to science.

The local scandal I witnessed was eventually resolved when the State dental association got involved.

It would be nice if the Vermont dental association weighed in.
An interview challenge turns out to be the actual job, just without compensation? I guess the media and software industries are not so different after all :)
I've lived in Alaska (Kenai Peninsula) about 18 months now. Haven't hit a moose yet (knocks on wood). Have had to brake a little hard a couple times in my F-150, though.

There are "scoreboards" along some stretches of the highway showing the number of moose killed so far in a year.

I see a few people driving Priuses. I don't think they'll last very long.