skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
it's too bad a once great company like rackspace had such a sad, dramatic fall from grace.

i was a customer of webmail.us, which was bought by rackspace in 2007 or so. i waited for things to go downhill, but the integration was seamless, and continued to hum along, with only a couple of issues, for several more years.

before rackspace began their nose dive, i made the jump to fastmail.
Not true. There are studies from Sweden where we've got "snus". It's been quite clear for a long time now that that the problem is inhaling smoke from a fire. Which makes a lot of sense when you think about it for a second. Which is why legalizing pot smoking is idiotic, while vaping, cookies, or whatever is a different beast.
Go read the article!

That is trivial to remove via proxying, which author mentioned them doing.

Really, anything you add to the page can be just removed that way. Only thing you can try is to somehow differentiate attacker traffic from normal users but with ubiquity of VPN providers good luck
It's possible - but politicians don't stick their neck out very far for past donations, it's the prospect of future donations which is important.

If you've just got wiped out financially? Unless they can expect donations from your allies, or from your peers in industry who are eager to see you released, they can just stop returning your calls.
Google Dev Library
How do you deal with persistant data? What DB service etc?
I used Rackspace back in 2001-2002. Made the switch after hosting my JSP web app on servlets.net and experiencing an extended outage with no support. The difference in support was nothing short of miraculous.

I’m inclined to think Apollo failed to understand the investments necessary to make such a business work, and figured they could squeeze costs out of the business without losing value. Funny how these finance types always seem to find themselves suffering from “Black Swan” events every few years.
Gosh, what a tangential poke - gold bad because cyanide, argument invalid because said gold. Fine, exclude gold from the argument and just use cash / e-transfer.
Spotify.

This is a highly controversial choice. Most artists and a lot of people (including many of its own users) are critical of the company.

However the music explorer in me can't help but feel gratified, every day.
Orthopedic surgeon Dr. Chris Raynor recently released a video explaining how doctors use fentanyl in hospital environments and why it's so dangerous in other contexts. It's worth watching to understand the basic pharmacology involved.

https://youtu.be/VguWPDPg3sU
So you're mad at AMD because an emulator doesn't work?
Sorry, but I think it's you who are out of touch here.

Requiring 15-20 years of experience?

Just... no.

Software engineers are so well paid that many of them retire from the job market permanently after 15-20 years. You might as well ask people to be 65 years old until they can occupy the position.

20 years is 25% of a lifespan, and 33% of an adult lifespan.

Why isn't 10 years good enough? Unless it's an executive position for people who are at the end of their careers. You can become a Brigadier General in 20 years in the military, which would be broadly equivalent to a SVP.
I probably know some of the guys who helped you out and there's a couple great ones still there. The legal team came up with the phrase "reasonable endeavor" (they didn't like best effort), and they wrote a disclaimer form they'd have customers fill out that what they were about to was beyond official support. As long as you signed that, support was usually pretty happy to "give it the old college try" as one told me. And I'll let you in on another little secret - a lot of those sysadmins were learning along with you. One of my very early projects was building out a precision time protocol service for a customer who asked for it - which ended up being a good learning experience for me.
If you were to ask me when I was a teenager, I'd probably agree with that description. But at least in my case, I just had god-awful awareness of my own emotions. So I thought I was like spock and that they didn't exist, while in reality I was happy and mad and frustrated and envious and all sorts of things most days. For some reason it didn't really click for me that what I felt was feelings.
For roughly 6'000 years before the 1800s, people didn't travel faster than ~80 km/h, but now we routinely[0] do so.

(yes, there is tribalism here too —Sneetches will be Sneetches— but the tribalism is at least along slightly more subtle lines than melanin content)

[0] on occasion a very few of us manage 40'000 km/h. Past Performance Is Not Indicative Of Future Results
Binance just announced it halts withdrawals of stablecoins:
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/13/crypto-exchange-binance-temp...
The difference is, that JS, CSD and HTML are evolving. They now offer way more than they used to. We can do so much with HTML 5 and CSS 3 already. The argument is to not use React or similar, when a simpler way using standard conform means is available.

It is hard to take a comment serious which compares not using React to not being able to do anything productively. It looks like a very junior React-only dev comment.
I think you're spot on, it is easier to prove (or prosecutors have more experience prosecuting) financial crimes. To give them credit-- they at least tried to get Holmes for defrauding patients too, but she was acquitted of those charges [0]. Her partner, Sunny Balwani, was convicted on all counts, including defrauding patients [1].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Holmes#U.S._v._Holme....

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunny_Balwani#United_States_v....
If you're interested in sharing more: What determines if you choose render or fly for a given project?

What makes fly not as easy as render?

(I am contemplating moving off heroku, and these seem to be the major contenders for analogous ease of operations).
People are too quick to attribute personality traits they're speculating on, when there are simpler explanations. When tens or hundreds of millions of dollars are at play, when a family of career and academic attorneys are involved, it seems simpler to see rational reasons for his behaviors.
The mutagen in TMNT is chemical in nature, is it not?
Tools at the Shopify level solve customer problems for companies and then layer-on solutions to the merchants’ own problems (inventory, marketing, fulfillment etc)

Tools at the CommerceTools level address “large company” problems first and foremost, some of which are real and others imaginary, often to the detriment of the customer experience.

This isn’t a criticism of anyone’s technology but more of an observation of how things are very different when the customer is a billion dollar enterprise.
I'm no lawyer, but to be fair it seems the SEC charges document[1] does allege that Sam Bankman-Fried defrauded FTX's customers too.

1 - https://www.sec.gov/litigation/complaints/2022/comp-pr2022-2...
IIRC two-factor authentication broke down for some hours.
I understand that this comment comes from personal experience, and I appreciate the value of that viewpoint and experience. As a liver transplant recipient and a liver disease researcher, I have to add that the severe disease that puts people on the edge of transplant (or life altering implant, in this case) is not easily generalizable.

There was no saving my liver, which failed because of Hepatitis C due to tainted blood product. I lived day to day before transplant worried that I might bleed out, one of the horrible ways liver disease can kill you or knock you down. At the same time, I read liver support groups where people discussed many different "liver health" techniques, some sensible and some not. Some gave benefit to the sick, some gave hope to the hopeless, and some provided dangerous diversions to people whose only real hope was to get evaluated for transplant and accepted on a waiting list.

After dealing with the trauma of severe disease and the sick life-and-death game of organ allocation, one of the hardest mental changes I had to make post-transplant was realizing that those days were done. I might face other health challenges, but they would be different ones. The story here is different: people being plunged back into darkness not because their devices failed, but because of tech startup level problems. It's pretty cruel, almost dystopic.
Yes? Not sure what you are asking ...
None of the big fish are getting money back. No one is going get money back. It's gone.

At the same time, I have trouble finding sympathy for anyone involved. SBF is a sociopath, thief and liar.

Those big-name investors should have known better and I'm sure in many cases they did. They probably should start lawyering up too, because they've got investors of their own who have been harmed either through malfeasance of actionable incompetence.

And the 'small time' investors -- mom-and-pop, widows and orphans investing the life savings on the platform -- all crypto is a scam, a Ponzi scheme, at the very best it's a casino or playing the numbers. Always has been. Always will be. All they had to do was open their eyes or maintain critical thinking in the face of promoters trying to bamboozle them.

And yet dumb money says I'm wrong. BTC up 4% on the day....
You don't do server side code in JS and then you don't have a need for Node.js. Easy.
Your comment is grey but I actually thought -- even if inflammatory -- it articulates something real.

I have noticed this kind of thing. I've done therapy on and off (sometimes reactively, like after my Dad died; sometimes a little more pro-actively, like when I had a brutal case of writer's block during my dissertation prospectus). Never anything I would rate as very serious or urgent. I would say the therapy was not un-useful, in the sense that I didn't mind taking time out of my day to talk to someone. But I also basically felt like the eventual remediation mostly just stemmed from the acute phase passing or steps I took outside therapy. The thing that got me over my writer's block was mostly writing. The thing that helped me deal with my Dad dying was mostly more time passing and my life moving on.

Meanwhile, I have noticed that a lot of people in my life with higher distress loads, and particularly people like the author of this piece who report suffering from fairly serious mental illness, invest a lot of resources into self-help. I think that's a good instinct, to say "I have a problem and this is a tool that will help fix it", analogous to seeking medical care for a physical ailment. But my experience is that the vast majority of those people seem to make little apparent progress via self-help, and instead typically continue to report being extremely distressed (though, punctuated with confessionals about how much better things are). For most people levels of distress in life seem to me to be primarily associated with lifelong, or early socialized dispositions; or with major material facts of life (i.e. single/married, broke/affluent, healthy/sick, undergoing a major life change/being severely stuck/doing fine) rather than the particular steps they take to manage or mitigate it. That doesn't mean therapy doesn't work, because maybe the counterfactual is they would have gotten much worse absent therapy.

A few friends from when I was a teenager, people who really struggled with severely gnarly upbringings, abuse, broken homes, early life drug dependency, etc. even went into becoming therapists or social workers. And the strange thing is, it externally seems to me like they're about as troubled as they were 20+ years ago, modulo having a little more money.

I guess I would distinguish a lot of these cases from people who are acutely suicidal, people who are actively seeking drug rehabilitation, etc. There seems to be at least some evidence for intervention in those cases. But I am talking about the kind of cases I think you're talking about.

So to your broader point, despite again the fact that it's expressed a bit stridently, I think there's something there: the evangelism about self-help's benefits often seems to outstrip self-help's apparent benefits. There's probably some element where part of therapy is basically tricking your brain, so the apparent sentiment of someone who is clearly having a hard time beaming about how much better they're doing might be part of the plan anyway. But externally it can feel jarring to hear "I'm really turning a corner!!!" from someone who's been struggling for years and continues to struggle.
Conclusion seems to be that being poor sucks and poor people just so happen to have less street trees.
Render. But, they just jacked up prices - which makes it less appealing to me.

If I had to start over, I'd just do AWS App Runner. AWS is complex, but it's reliable - you won't have to pay huge minimums or subscriptions to host a side project. And, it will (hopefully) be dependable as a host long-term.
In my experience, the story with companies like this, with images like this, is that's it's almost always lying marketing/incorrect customer belief long, long, long before it's widely recognized. It's not a question of them degrading; it's a question of enough people realizing it, or them screwing up enough to get wider coverage. I was not happy with Rackspace's service something like 9-10 years ago, and the story I see here today is not "Rackspace bad," but "Enough people finally realize Rackspace bad." I've had similar experiences with the usual suspects: ProtonMail, Namecheap, Gandi, a few more I can't remember right now. Whatever the popular perception of quality they enjoy, you can be assured their actual quality is far, far less.
You don't even have to do this.

If HashSet.insert ever returns false, the character was already in the set, and the window is not unique, so you can early exit and move on.
If you get through the window without insert returning false, it is unique.
You don't need to do anything else (like check the length of the hash set at the end)
> It's sort of curious that this SEC action is to protect the venture capital investors like Sequoia who invested in FTX shares directly.

This action is to protect investors. No need to make it into a conspiracy.
The phrase "leading cause of death" has circular reference there. Each article is pointing to the other. I wanted to see where they got that figure. At the bottom of the current article it says "in a provisional tally seven months ago, [The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] calculated the overall number of drug overdoses at 107,622. Two-thirds were due to fentanyl."

So fentanyl is the drug most people overdose on, or is it killing more people than heart diseases, traffic accidents, etc do?
I know at my workplace, the vim&emacs-users are the reason for the codesinks here. They have no relevant penalty for growing everything in singles files, but they have some benefit as they can navigate code better with a poor setup. And at some point, reasons like "not destroying the git-history" and such are added to the list. And laziness might be another reason on that list.
It's possible that we will hear from individual investors at trial or sentencing. Even though the Theranos trial was about defrauding investors, there was still testimony from an actual customer. ("The first patient to take the stand in trial of former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes said that the company’s blood test inaccurately showed she was suffering a miscarriage when in fact she had a healthy pregnancy.")
No, this case is not about crypto at all. It’s about FTX shares and that’s unequivocally the SEC’s jurisdiction.
Basically, what I'd like is an open source version of otter.ai. It's doable but I think the key is making something with a nice design :)
Germany can has and will very well be building hydrogen and compressed air storage.
If he wasn't the type to go on tour and shout, then he wouldn't have attracted enough investors in the first place to be rich. It takes a specific personality to market things so others will buy, and that personality doesn't like to shut up and so won't.

Some things sell themselves, but most great ideas sit around unknown by people who need them just because they don't know about it. I'd love to buy a better mousetrap to take care of my mouse problem, but if one exists I don't know about it. If you shout that your mouse trap is better I'll probably try it.
Digital Ocean's managed Kubernetes offering has been great for me.

There's lots of potential complexity to K8s, but if you're not managing the cluster and you have simple workloads the ratio of "stuff you have to learn" to "benefits you get" is pretty high. You can deploy anything that runs in a container, so it's really good for experimenting and not being tied down to one language or platform.

I can add a new service by copying and pasting a yaml file or two and it's up and running within a half hour or so.
Note that this isn't a criminalisation of use but against vending to persons born after the cut-off date.

The War on Some Drugs is widely recognised to be a war-against-some-drug-using-demographics, and has generally omitted or treated far more leniently drugs-of-choice of the rich and powerful (tobacco, alcohol, powdwered cocaine, highly asymmetric prosecution of marijuana, and wink/nod treatments of opiates use by dominant classes) whilst cracking down hard, so to speak, on drugs of the poor and minorities: crack cocaine, meth, black use of heroin (see especially the case of Billy Holiday), and the like. Even grey-market sales of cigarettes have proved lethal if your skin is the wrong colour within the US. Lee Atwater's infamous comments identify this as a deliberate race-based political strategy:

<https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/exclusive-lee-atwa...>
a16z and Sequoia deserve their losses.

They both went all-in on this crypto bullshit in their latest funds and convinced otherwise healthy companies to pivot into it also. Their returns for these latest funds will be decimated and I couldn't be happier.
I would expect that the bankruptcy proceedings and any future civil lawsuits are the main avenues for individuals to seek individual redress.

If I were an individual, I wouldn’t really care about how the criminal charges were structured, since it’s not like I would get any individual benefit out of his jail time, one way or the other.
Hetzner 5€ vps with nginx as reverse proxy
Of course they are not efficient for that use case. That use case is not the same as the use case of getting to orbit. When the delta-V involved is similar to the exhaust velocity of the rocket the overall efficiency goes way up.

If you could vary the exhaust velocity of a rocket continuously, so it was equal to the total delta-V so far, the efficiency of converting jet kinetic energy to vehicle energy would be 100%, as the jet would be left stationary in the reference frame of the launcher. (This ignores gravitational potential energy and also that the mass ratio would diverge to infinity at zero velocity, but never mind that.) In practice, using a lower Isp first stage and a higher Isp upper stage partially implements this, and the overall efficiency isn't too bad.
>diminish all these voices that keep repeating everywhere that 'the man' is on it with him, that the media defend him etc.

Nah. Now they switched to "doing this fast to protect the big names/rich people".

You never win.
Fly.io now
All drugs should be legalized. That is the only solution.

You should be able to buy cocaine, heroin, fentanyl at the local grocery store. No question asked. Maybe even subsidize it for poor people who can't afford market prices.

The local pharmacy should provide training on how to inject/consume them safely and give for free the associated consumables.
https://archive.ph/qe5PI
I deploy to AWS with a serverless architecture and infa-as-code written in the same language as my app using CDK.

Serverless is great for side-projects because the scale based pricing effectively makes things free unless they really take off. And if it ever does go to decent scale, there's a good chance you don't need to re-architect or even tune anything to scale up with traffic. If you wanted to prioritize 100% predictable fixed costs over everything else, then maybe a VPS would be a better option.
They were known to be friends while they both worked at MIT, and both were economics professors in the same sub-field, which makes it very unlikely that they didn't speak to each other.

I just learned that people have been theorizing on the internet that Caroline Ellison is Gary Gensler's daughter, which is completely nuts and totally false.
fly.io these days
If it can be a static site, then I build the site using GitHub Actions, and then use GitHub Page to serve. I absolutely love GitHub Actions and the speed of which it can build my site, and the syntax of the config is bliss.

I don't really like any of the static site generator's out there, so I just build an ejs site and parse it using a project I built called statictron [1]. I'm using it for a site [2] I'm building at the moment, and it's a pretty smooth and cleap deployment. I did end up pushing the files to bunny.net (a EU based CDN), as its surprisingly much faster than GitHub pages. But I'm just being picky, as Pages is practically more than fast enough.

For anything that requires server side hosting, render.com is great, or digitalocean if I want something I can control more. I don't really want to buy into the whole ecosystem of things like Heroku, GCP, AWS as I like to make sure I can leave when/if they do bad things.

I'm also increasingly moving stuff back to dedicated hosting. I do try and automate as much of the deployment stuff as possible, and use docker to wrap the services.

It's actually amazing how much cheaper a dedicated server is, vs cloud companies, once you're using more than a few services. I'd normally say one of the benefits is your DevOps teams should be cheaper, but in the end I've found the teams that would be managing the dedicated servers, end up being just as big to support the cloud infrastructure platforms.

[1]. https://github.com/markwylde/statictron

[2]. https://github.com/markwylde/webcodeup
> were still running Exchange 2013 until the end

I don't remember well but MS killed some things in the later versions on which some hosted management solutions relied.
It's worth reading the history here. Usually "your group" would steal from you and tell you it was some outside group. You go burn down and lynch a bunch of people who had nothing to do with it.

Often times this included moneylenders.. who were usually a religious minority. It usually involved their kids too.
That number is 2. Ellison's dad was known to be friendly with Gensler when they were on the faculty in MIT's economics department together.
codeforces.com or one of those is slightly more likely to be fun for programmers.

projecteuler.net is great, but it _very_ quickly becomes deep math.
‘He bent down and softly whispered into her ears

“Repost this or your mother will die in her sleep” ‘
Price discovery?
> I see in your "about" section that there is a "please feel free to email me" sentence - if it's okay, I'd maybe like to contact you for further conversation.

always open to this!

it makes me feel validated that others identify with similar feelings, and the ties to the net community. I honestly just threw the comment out there as the first time really putting those thoughts and this theory i've been kicking around into words, half convinced I really was just, idk, a uniquely angry internet person
Sure - if you don't need rich UI interactivity, you can get by with a lot less. Plenty of sites don't and should.

What I like about Node, though, is frameworks like Next.js that are the best of both worlds. You can do traditional server-side rendering using React components, so you can easily add as much/as little client-side JS as you need.

With Next you use the same package manager for the front end and back end. And you get code sharing and access to that huge ecosystem of libraries.

But needs and skillsets change the equation, definitely.
Amongst other things he also composed the theme for Barcelona Olympics, 1992.