skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the headline is a misrepresentation. Even in the article they quickly switch to a completely different topic, increasing protectionist subsidies. Those are the actual issue. The article mixes two different things and generates a headline leaning on the much less important one from this unfortunate mix as far as I can tell.

The other part of the article is what's making headlines here: The protectionist subsidies that the US plans to set up and increase. That is the key.

Example: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-05/eu-warns-... - but also subsidies for various industries, e.g. chip makers, or batteries: https://www.ft.com/content/59a8d135-3477-4d0a-8d12-20c7ef94b...

The Ukraine and energy part does not create any significant amount of headlines here, if any. It's been mentioned but as an aside and without much emotion or blame, usually always followed by the comment section siding with UK and America for actually helping Ukraine.

Gas prices are part of the industry issues but I have yet to see a single article, except the one linked here, that would blame the US for those price increases. Also, our recent headlines have all been "German economy doing much better than expected", "gas reserves full", "LNG tankers line up in front of Europe", replacing a lot of previous more alarmist headlines.

I am unaware of any significant opinions against US profits from this war, it's taken as incidental. Russia started the war and Russia is acting FAR outside of an acceptable range with their extreme brutality. None of that is the US's fault - and arming Ukraine is mostly seen as good and justified, with no regard to any profits US might make accept from some few comments, usually heavily downvoted in the majority of our German mass media websites.

My perspective comes from following at the very least Die zeit and Der Spiegel, and occasionally Die Welt and FAZ, all of this year, at least noticing most headlines if they are Ukraine related. I think that's most of the big German sites, only "Bild" missing as a major player.
This is the best answer to everyone that says companies are just following consumer spending.

Companies are not victims of consumers they are actively lobbying against environmental regulations.
Read the "Well Architected" paper. Go multi-region.
My understanding is that Catholic theologians generally don't hold old Teilhard in high esteem either, to put it nicely. Not that Dawkins is some grand intellect himself, especially when he weighs in on theological and philosophical matters. Painful, painful high school caliber ignorance.
Ask HN: What is the coolest thing you have seen done with a bash script?
Love to hear some examples to get some inspiration.
> I think you are vastly overestimating the willingness and capability of volunteers and underestimating the effort needed to coordinate such an effort.

> And having any kind of manual intervention required will almost certainly reduce the reliability of the testing.

Perhaps I am underestimating the necessary effort, but the willingness and capability problem can in my opinion be solved by sufficiently streamlining and documenting the processes of running the test procedure.

If the testing procedure cannot be successfully run by a "somewhat experienced Linux nerd", this should be considered a usability bug of the testing procedure (and thus be fixed).
Neo Geo MVS Scans
That looks like a cool book!

I wish you well.

The consumer demographic may be a bit on the sparse side, so don't buy your yacht, just yet...
I am sorry to say but at this point Azure is so f’ed up I think it should only be considered after AWS and GCP.

The documentation is terrible and the Azure portal is so slow and laggy I can’t even believe it. Not to mention how unreliable their stack is.
Ask HN: Covid Data for China
Two sources today listed completely different numbers for China’s COVID infection numbers for yesterday. Any suggestions?

I don’t care if source is in Chinese as long as there’s way to get it in English; for example, using Google Translate.
Trump wanted an actual pipeline which would have made the natural gas far cheaper for Europe and warned that Russia couldn't be trusted. He also told NATO countries to hit their 2% GDP defense spending goals so that they could defend against Russia. Everybody laughed and said Russia had changed and could be trusted completely
Thank goodness we have the best and brightest at one of the most prestigious universities in human history working on such pressing issues. /s
Ran into a similar issue last year in the East US region. We contracted support and they gave a similar response. From my understanding talking to people who use AWS and GCP this isn't uncommon across cloud platforms.

While we could've just swapped a deployment parameter to deploy to another region, we opted to just use a different SKU of VMs for a short period and switch back to the VMs when they were available again.

We haven't seen issues since.
Every wonder why Steam has so few Mac OSX users? Might it have something to do with how few major games are available at all on Mac OSX?

It doesn’t exactly take brilliant insight to see that this is a bit of a chicken-and-egg problem, and so them taking this justification to avoid porting (and I think you’re probably correct that this is their reasoning) creates quite a self-fulfilling prophecy.
It is absolutely acceptable to call people out, for supporting crimes. Absolutely.

There is precedence to charge a person, criminally, with a breach of trust, for working two jobs at the same time. Not back to back, at the same time.

And people are advocating that in these threads. Making ridiculous excuses. Trying to reason it as ok.

I hope anyone doing this is charged, convicted, hopefully making them unemployable.

Anyone knowingly helping a co-worker to commit such crimes, covering for them, lying on their behalf, hopefully would be charged as an accessory.

If anything is unacceptable in this thread, it is attitudes such as yours.
Not saying that it should be done, let me state it before.
But the obvious solution to the current crisis would be actually to stop arming Ukraine...
It might just cause a larger more serious crisis later though

Also european living in Europe
And nothing of value was lost...

Seriously, why has Reddit turned into such a feature factory? Are they just flailing around looking for something to do? How about improve performance.
> it wasn't a warehouse amazon job that was automated away, but a white collar desk

This has generally proven true. The hardest jobs to automate require hand eye coordination and the ability to grasp and pick up arbitrarily shaped and positioned objects. Rote data manipulation, organizing, or scheduling tasks are most easily automated (or pushed to the end user) using modern tech.

The classic example is that uber automated taxi dispatching, not driving.
The busy beaver problem show how many states a program can have given a certain number of Turing instructions. We don’t actually know the value of that number past five I think, but it already shows us brute force is out of the question.

Could we solve it without brute force? Well, there are plenty of math problems we can’t prove; we can write a program that only halts if counter example is found, and we would be unable to prove if the program halts. We can also write program that will halt if it can prove ZF set theory is false, but we already know it’s impossible to prove that (it only possible to prove it is false). So symbolically deciding if a program halts is also impossible in the general case.
Good morning!

> If you are scared of complex numbers for some reason (e.g., if your programming language makes it difficult to work with them) then you may prefer the DHT.

It’s not about that. The DHT cuts memory bandwidth in half. With FFT it’s a complex number, so it’s doubled.

FFT on a real signal can be cut in half too, but it requires doing weird shuffling of the values. (See submission’s blog post on the topic.) It’s unnecessary complexity unless you really need a full FFT for some very specific reason (like the case you mention). Most of the time, people just want to do some DSP like a low pass filter or resizing.
RI are a billing concept (discounted rates for long term commitment).

Dedicated capacity exists, but it’s different (compute reservation groups or dedicated hosts).

You can combine CRG/DH with RI for the desired effect, although IMO it’s a bit confusing.

(Azure employee)
There is nothing “cloud agnostic” about using Terraform. Anyone who says this has no experience actually trying to implement it.

Terraform has different providers for each cloud provider and the code is not transferable any more than saying if you use Python to script your infrastructure it will be transferable.
Stable Diffusion update removes ability to copy artist styles or make NSFW works
Financial advisor without professional insurance? Why would anyone do that? Shouldn't they be the people who know how to use financial products and services to protect themselves?
The reason why all your comments are getting flagged is because you're engaging in mockery instead of trying to advance the conversation and talk about specifics.
It's a joke, echoing the myth that "just let me fix it" works.

That's the authoritarian's pledge... "Need a Stong Man to fix it all for you, I'll do it." -What I personally gathered from watching authoritarians.

It's an abusive situation at Twitter. Pray Evil Elon face is kept hidden from the people whom he now bosses, and Good Fun Guy Elon remains on.
The most important "goalpost" is: Every major cross-platform AAA game gets released simultaneously on Windows, Xbox and PlayStation. When macOS gets added to the list in a consistant manner, people will consider it a "major" gaming platform.

Having access to a lot of mobile games doesn't matter for hardcore gamers.
GP pointed out to a bug fix commit as proof that the kernel would benefit from having tests, so it's not that much of a straw man.
Factorio does really weird things with memory (the deterministic simulation effectively reads all memory every tic) that makes it not perform like many applications are expected to.
I will take a look, sorry!
Absolutely terrible reporting.

> "The Inflation Reduction Act is very worrying," said Dutch Trade Minister Liesje Schreinemacher. "The potential impact on the European economy is very big."

Which parts specifically?

> As they attempt to reduce their reliance on Russian energy, EU countries are turning to gas from the U.S. instead — but the price Europeans pay is almost four times as high as the same fuel costs in America.

Ok...? The US supplies less than 25% of the EU's energy, it's not America's fault that the EU made shitty energy policy decisions. This sentence makes it sound like America's fault.

> Then there’s the likely surge in orders for American-made military kit as European armies run short after sending weapons to Ukraine.

A 'surge'? EU countries have been far short of their commitment to spend 2% of GDP on their military for decades. So now they're complaining about needing to replace whatever aging junk they offloaded to Ukraine instead of freeloading off of Article 5.
Even in this dual-homed setup, there is still the potential for the cameras to infect, or otherwise compromise the recording server

I agree that this is a potential risk.

But if the cameras themselves can't route to the internet in this scenario then how are they infecting the recording server?
Is the suggestion that they come shipped from the factory with code to compromise common recording servers? It seems like that would be very significant and something that we'd be able to see in action.

My biggest concern with CCTV networks that I manage is some sort of backdoor access to the cameras themselves. So the dual-homed server design is exactly what I'd choose in order to control things.
“Being multicloud from the outset” is a very silly idea for most use cases.

The way to get more from most cloud is by becoming a partner, not just a customer. And the way to do that is increase dependency and usage.
Should a bank be able to shorten your password without your approval?
Hopefully it's not just gauche nowdays to recommend it here, and that I've not been led astray, but I think ANSI Common Lisp and On Lisp are a great introduction sequence and I recommend them both to anyone who wants a methodical but gentle introduction. Among many highlights, the first one has a chapter on raytracing that I found truly impressive in its brevity and significance.
Says someone who has never done a large migration of any type…
It means it doesn’t work when your screen looks like crap. ;)
Your price point and the clouds margin is tied to not sitting on lots of unused instances. you want there to be adequate capacity not excessive capacity
Just waiting for Stripe to send in that Edwin guy for the 900th time instead of fixing their support
Actually nothing fancy, for sure no GPUs. Just Standard_E4s_v4.
And looking at the story [1], I see even less novelty. Seems like for each person who stars it, it generates a single madlibs-style sentence in the form of:

"In a [geographical feature] along the [path], a [profession] observed [number of existing stars] new stars in the sky and decided to follow the [adjective] path. They set out on a [adjective] morning."

[1] https://lizadaly.github.io/there-are-stars/
Thanks I didn't know this.
It's a billing mechanism. You pay less if you guarantee use. Sadly, they don't guarantee availability of things to use :)
I am not writing code to make it easier for the computer to do its job. I am writing code so that the computer can make my job easier. Wasting time telling a computer how to show me autocomplete suggestions is better spent on creating APIs that are easier to use and require less of it. Or creating smarter autocomplete algorithms.
Cuba was not allowed to station Nuclear weapons right?
My Biggest Regret Building a Net Zero Home
Why? Can’t you have a dormant or lightly used gumroad account integrated into your site/app. It’s not trivial, but could be worth it. Most frameworks have these services already integrated.
It's like saying the solution to climate change is to turn on the air conditioning. Why even say something so stupid.
One problem is there used to be more games. With windows you can buy 10 year old releases and they (usually) still work. With Mac, there is very little chance a 10 year old executable would run.
Related, the Moonstone bank story is interesting

https://protos.com/the-curious-case-of-ftx-and-farmington-st...
I think that instead of meaningless, it gives stability and control which one can lack elsewhere. Trust and local control, with those more things, but based on an explicit decision, not a less-secure default to start with. But to each his own, based on priorities, of course.

Tons of tools fail to compile? My experience about lacking features feels different from what you describe. There are over 10k precompiled packages available, meeting my needs nicely. For example, I use rustc and cargo on obsd without trouble, just a simple install, though I think rustup is absent. I wonder if the rust project is still planning to integrate rustup into cargo sometime though, and how that is going.
Already thought of! The group stage section will collapse.
> Dropshippers and other online entrepreneurs may want to conduct business outside non-EU countries

That doesn't seem to make sense. Do they mean "in non-EU countries", or "outside EU countries"? Has my reading comprehension failed me?
This happens on multiple machines (on my macbook and my windows PC). It's not buggy drivers of faulty hardware.
You were only looking at the ~$570k assigned to specific candidates at the top. Look further down on the page: there's a $28000k donation to the Democratic "Protect our Future PAC", a $15000k donation to the Republican "American Dream Federal Action", ...
Hmmmm... I wonder whether they will find any conclusive evidence that the platform which promises to help landlords extract every penny possible from their properties, using data from surrounding properties, that was being used by practically every major apartment complex, was possibly being used to raise rents... and whether this highly complex product with their proprietary algorithm could've had a feedback loop on it's own raised prices. Such a difficult case to figure out... /s
It will!
Sony’s back with another root kit?!

Seriously though, that is a cool paper. Helps reinforce how much we need more adversarial testing, even for mundane things.
Last I was on there several months back availability was so in the gutter to the point that downtime was basically expected every other day. Maybe they can hire some ex Twitter SREs.
>If the West European allies are not that important then the US should plow ahead, but the consequence will be those countries will look elsewhere for partners.

This comment brought to you by the year 2008. Europe did look elsewhere for partners, and cozied up with Russia.

I can’t wait to see how Europeans shoot themselves in the foot this time.
I merely clarified what the downvoted comment's author meant so that those who reflexively started to argue with it would see they are actually in agreement on substance if they gave it any thought. Talk about generous interpretation and anal reflexiveness.

> a phone that bulges and physically explodes is as dangerous as not being to reliably summon emergency services.

If you are putting forth that a phone exploding when you make a 911 call is an issue of the same magnitude as a phone occasionally not ringing when you make a 911 call, I don't see what else we can discuss...
> Why not run 1-2 releases behind and test/qualify a later release?

This may work for most people, but not all. It's easier to get things fixed while developers still work on something, than weeks/months later. Also if you have not most-popular hardware/software configuration, testing done by others isn't necessarily sufficient for you.
That's not the one I was thinking of, it looks very new, but it looks awesome!
I equate the two as popular HN religions, not as substitutes for each other. TDD is on its way out as a religion. Strong typing in dynamic languages is gaining popularity.
Can you email me (smca@stripe.com) with more detail? I'll look into this.

We don’t typically comment in detail on individual cases, but we do think it’s important for onlookers to know that we take every single case like this seriously. It looks like what happened here was an edge case involving SEPA payments that resulted in a dispute rate that’s far in excess of what’s generally permitted by financial partners. When we do this, our interventions are partly to protect financial partners/Stripe, partly to protect end customers, and in part to protect the businesses themselves. (For example, Visa will fine businesses that maintain high dispute rates.) This case is actually a bit more complicated still, since you said that you’re using Connect. In these cases, we also take seriously the importance of defending the platform (i.e. you) against users who are trying to defraud you.

More broadly, we work hard to balance the rules of the financial ecosystem, ease of use, protection against fraudulent businesses, consumer protection, and continuity for businesses. We support millions of businesses across dozens of countries and payment methods, and we discover new scenarios every day. We plan to blog about our work here in more detail before too long (including some of our key metrics). If any HNers have suggestions as to what we should include, feel free to reply here. We’ll try to share anything helpful that’s not too sensitive.
To put this into context, we are talking about a small local gym, with 33 active memberships.

This is exactly my thinking process tho. The other account blocked was just starting, had like 8 payments and one dispute and got blocked.

I'm really afraid for our other accounts now, seems like is just a matter of time until they get blocked.
It still is extremely competitive, merely for the fact that it's $500.

You cannot, today, get any good GPU for less than that price. An RTX3060 is $439 (if you can find one), the Intel Arc A770 is $350 if I remember correctly. A midrange gaming PC these days will easily cost you over a thousand dollars, more if you're still looking to get the scalped out cards.

Of course, it's awfully restricted, and dear fucking god I wish I could at least write custom software for it. A PS5 + Moonlight for streaming games that are on the PC still would be amazing.
You're also volunteering to live in Ukraine for the next decade of reconstruction?
Not always. In order to attract business amid all of the other sales, plenty of companies do offer genuine black friday discounts. Particularly when you’re not selling a physical product (think gym memberships or spa days, for example) these sorts of things don’t decline in value each day.
I will try! The data source only has this information for certain games, and I'm not sure if there's any pattern why.
Big Tech: Can small companies break the tech giants' power?
> Unlike GCP and Azure, all AWS regions are (were) partitioned by design. This "blast radius" is (was) fantastic for resilience, security, and data sovereignty. It is (was) incredibly easy to be compliant in AWS, not to mention the ruggedness benefits.

Could you elaborate on this a little? We use AWS, but are evaluating OCI for certain (very specific) cases, and I'll love to know what questions to ask for comparison purposes.
I looked for a quantitative comparison. If the numbers in [1] are accurate Apple App store gaming revenue was around $11B in 2021. Meanwhile Microsoft was around $15B [2]. That's way closer than I thought, big enough that they could reasonably be concerned about avoiding any appearance of strength that could trigger anti-trust action. Interesting.

1. https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/10/03/apple-earned-more...
(15.9*0.69=11B)

2. https://www.microsoft.com/investor/reports/ar21/index.html
(Gaming: 15,370)
There is no such thing as unlimited when it comes to resources and/or scalability in the hosting market. You might want to find a local colocation provider, buy a few network switches and servers as a secondary production and backup environment for your startup. Deploying your own infrastructure gives you full control over your startup. Yes it will raise your overhead and yes it’s not cheap but for a sustainable operation it’s a requirement in my opinion. I currently use Azure but I also have my own deployment with my own IP addresses and ASN which I keep spare capacity and keep some important servers on there incase something happens with Azure. Definitely helps me sleep better at night.