skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately for everyone involved, the waiter is complicit in the fraud and no longer deserves a tip.
Hi HN,

I’m cofounder of https://www.vantage.sh/ - I previously worked at both AWS and DigitalOcean.

Cloud costs are top of mind for a lot of companies these days. If you want to save money on RDS, Elasticache, Redshift, and OpenSearch you can buy Reserved Instances. The problem is knowing how much to buy and not over committing yourself since these RIs can’t be sold (unlike EC2)

It’s always been hard to manually choose the right amount of reservations, particularly because the visualization of this data is really poor. We automate this whole process for EC2 already (both buying and selling) but now have an approval based flow for doing this for the other AWS services with accompanying graphs showing coverage for each individual category. There’s no added fee to use these recommendations and they're provided as part of the Vantage subscription.

Feel free to contact me at ben@vantage.sh if I can be helpful. You can get started by signing up here: https://console.vantage.sh/signup - would love to hear your thoughts.
It can be nice. It takes mental effort to manage an open system and make sure you don't run anything malicious - a limited, sandboxed environment you can always rely on to work is much easier by comparison.

I do miss the PS3 linux option though. It would be great to have console hardware that boots in two modes - a console mode for playing games, and an open x86 mode for doing general compute. This is especially relevant now that current console are effectively PCs with custom software rather than having specialty instruction sets. AMD even already sells broken PS5 chips as barebones systems! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9h08cMFwqRc
Did you read the article? It seems like it wasn't just silence edited out.

"At approximately 1:14 (a minute, 14 seconds into the audio, which can be heard here), the tone of the recording change to where to me, it sounds like someone is holding a digital recorder up to a speaker, so it's a microphone-to-speaker transfer of that information. That's a pretty big deal because it raises the first red flag about there possibly being some editing," he said.

The next part that raises questions is two minutes, six seconds in, through two minutes, nine seconds in, he said.

"I can hear noise in the room, along with the increase in the noise floor. I can hear a file door being closed, I can hear some papers being shuffled. so I'm further convinced that, beginning at 1:14 continuing through 2:06 to 2:15, it's a digital recorder being held up to a speaker."

"But yet, at 6:17, there's a huge edit because the conversation is cut off. It's interrupted. And the tone changes again," he said. "The noise floor, when you're authenticating a recording from a forensic perspective, is a very important part of the process. All of a sudden, we go back to the same quality and extremely low noise floor that we had at the beginning of the recording."
No, that's dumb. That's not the purpose of borders.
Your comment reminds me of the infamous dropbox comment "I can just build an FTP server in a weekend" (paraphrasing).

Hint: Software is just one piece of a business even a SAAS business. A billion dollar business requires many other things to work.
I didn't even know Amazon Pharmacy existed... Anybody switch from ExpressScripts to this?
my experience (30+ years of living in small Calvinist communities

Disappointing to see your unusually extensive first-hand experience downvoted to the bottom of this sub-thread.
Just take a single melatonine pill. They're usually safe.
Only 50%? It should be 0%. Who on earth bothers to do this.

In my experience, smart devices are without exception worse than dumb ones. I have a Nest (came with the house, too lazy to change the mounting and put in something else) and once I had to spend an hour manually clearing all the random recurring temperature changes it had "cleverly" accumulated over months of use and people changing the temp. I had to work quite hard to make this silly device behave in a predictable, controllable, useful way.

And that is what is awful about electronics these days. Smart by default, but "smart" is actually dumber than dumb. Just let us have dumb please.
Eaton, if you are planning to write more interesting posts like this, please consider adding RSS/Atom (or making it more obvious if it is already there).
I like BubbleOS. :)
> the problems with this are feature creep, and compliance with federal requirements

You’re forgetting the demographic who buys pickups not wanting to have a smaller truck compared to their peers. It’s a portion of their ego.
It certainly is for me :)
Any update should be deliberate. Windows will now just update it self without asking over night. I often wake up, and see that my PC laptop has rebooted into Linux since that’s at the top in the bootloader.
NYSE glitch sows confusion, prompts investigation
I can’t put my finger on why but I’ve found Pages on MacOS good for maintaining a resume that fits precisely in two pages.
If you're on Windows, I've seen a few spectrogram skins for Rainmeter that uses whatever audio is being played on the device. For example, there is AudioAnalyzer[0]. Personally, I've been using a skin that shows a simple waveform of the current system audio, but also integrates with Spotify to change the color to match the primary album color. Unfortunately, I don't have the name or link on hand.

0: https://forum.rainmeter.net/viewtopic.php?t=31091
That’s really not what the job is at this point. At least where I’ve been, there’s an understanding of the strengths of what compute systems and software can offer for accelerating the work that’s done and opening new avenues for experimentation and methods development - it’s very much a collaboration, not a one-sided tasking.

That said, you don’t get to just go off and faff around with code - you do have users and they do know more about you about the problem space you’re working in, so you do have to spend some time to learn to understand what you’re building and the context you’re operating in, which is different from most other tech jobs. The failure case for most software/computer folks coming into bio is not recognizing the difference between biology and physics before building systems.
To use this for telehealth, a US-based healthcare provider would need to sign a BAA (Business Associates Agreement) with Cal. Realistically, the security features you mentioned would only be relevant in determining the punitive outcome of a HIPAA violation.
It's possible to enjoy something like a game console while also being aware of their role in the elimination of general-purpose computing. These kind of platforms are where they farm us for technologies like hypervisors, signed-everything, e-fuses, always-online, etc. Consent is easily manufactured when enough people believe that media """needs to be protected""" to exist at all. I still love my 360 though :)
However, drink 'spiking' for the same purpose is a thing, and people have been jailed for it.
I agree with your take. Most likely they’ll be forced to divest from the Ads Exchange business which won’t affect them materially.

It would open up some possibilities for actors in that space to shift the balance of (pricing) power a bit, but I’m unsure the impact will be huge. All the big new advertising platforms tend to own their whole stack like you mentioned (Amazon, Apple) and for good reasons.
Yeah, but WRT this horrendously egregious policy, I didn't (and won't) address facilities other than NYC jails, as that's most relevant to me.

This article isn't about front line police, yet you keep bringing them up. Why is that?

In fact, I didn't mention the police at all (although, as others have noted, corrections officers generally are sworn LEOs), so I don't know why you have such a hard on for cops[0].

No, not all cops are sadistic, power-drunk scumbags. But one is too many. cf. Daniel Pantaleo[1], Derek Chauvin[2] or Joseph Franco[3]. There are hundreds more that we know about. Which leaves many, many more we don't know about.

Why don't you invite some of these folks over for dinner so you can tell them how much you love and respect them? Well not Chauvin, as he's in prison, but you better hurry because Mr. Franco will be soon too.

[0]When I was a kid, it was clear that the police were just the biggest and best armed gang -- with qualified immunity -- in NYC. And since I saw and experienced that dynamic a bunch of times over the years, the police themselves proved that to be true. Over and over again. There have been a few positive changes over the last decade or so, but not nearly enough. Certainly not enough to change my view of the police.

[1] https://abcnews.go.com/US/nypd-officer-put-eric-garner-letha...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Chauvin

[3] https://abc7ny.com/joseph-franco-nypd-detective-convictions-...

Edit: Used "jail" when "prison" was the appropriate term. Fixed.
Yes. Imagine you have a 2-bit integer. `11 + 1` in binary is `100`. The last `1` does not fit so only the remaining `00` gets included. The same applies for any N-bit integer.
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Thanks for the tool. Curious why you only allow hours form 9am-5pm of subsets of that only, what if someone wants to book evening hours? I was ready to start sharing my new cal.com link but this was a showstopper.
How does Nostr work? (source:https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr#how-does-nostr-work)

* There are two components: clients and relays. Each user runs a client. Anyone can run a relay.

* Every user is identified by a public key. Every post is signed. Every client validates these signatures.

* Clients fetch data from relays of their choice and publish data to other relays of their choice. A relay doesn't talk to another relay, only directly to users.

* For example, to "follow" someone a user just instructs their client to query the relays it knows for posts from that public key.

* On startup, a client queries data from all relays it knows for all users it follows (for example, all updates from the last day), then displays that data to the user chronologically.

* A "post" can contain any kind of structured data, but the most used ones are going to find their way into the standard so all clients and relays can handle them seamlessly.
I used to have my resume in latex (coming from academia, it seemed natural). Nowadays, I wouldn't bother, unless you enjoy playing with latex of course. But it's not going to give you any significant advantage (most companies get your resume from linkedin anyway), and unless you're very proficient with latex, it's going to take more time creating it.
Might be wrong, but I had heard it was possible to enter a pre planed flight path. Plane did a turn back over land before heading out to sea.
I bought a packet of it once. Really wanted to like it, but found it disgusting. The only way I can describe it is that it left a taste in my mouth like the smell of stale ashtrays suggests they would taste like.

I'm quite prepared to believe that either the stuff I bought was crap, or my preparation of it was flawed. Because surely a whole continent can't be wrong?
I thought I remember there being adapters which allowed you to use regular 2.5inch hard drives on the xbox 360. Maybe my mind is just tricking me again though.
There's a lot of "it depends" in that, but I will say this. I'm a heavy user of Eclipse, and by and large I like it just fine, and it has run mostly OK on every computer I've used it on since about 2001 (or whenever it launched). But the one big annoyance I've always had with it was the startup time. And maybe a side order of "uses RAM aggressively enough that I don't usually want to run more than maybe two instances."

Now I don't know if it's purely down to hardware, or if JVM improvements are also a big factor, but the last new computer I bought (a System76 laptop, that I got maybe not quite two years ago now) is powerful enough that Eclipse launches in a couple of seconds, and I can routinely have 7 or 8 instances running with no problem. The machine in question has all nvme and/or ssd drives, and has 64GB of RAM. yeah, I splurged a little bit when I bought it. And in hindsight, I couldn't be happier. You can never be too young, too good looking, or have too much RAM.
I think this is probably one of the revenue models for things like Amazon Sidewalk.

For the appliance companies, it might be cheaper to offer the installer $25 to make sure the appliance is connected to the internet before they leave. They wouldn't get to 100%, but they would certainly get a lot more.
If feasible I'd suggest hosting at home. Much more versatile and getting a similar amount of horsepower in the cloud is going to be pricy
I wonder why the books are all non-fiction. I could imagine it would be entertaining to chat with large works of fiction.
Interesting - from this data it does appear that US is on the lower end of the spectrum. I will say that this dataset is very hard to parse - a lot of information and very little is apples to apples in a simple ranked chart. Also some countries (Denmark for instance) have fluctuated wildly in a span of ~10 years, which suggests that what is treated as a crime might be a driving variable here. I would be really curious to see a more detailed analysis of this data that segments the population by offender class (if you lump in non-violent and violent offenders I would imagine that you are making more of a commentary of the relative enforcement of these respective crimes).
I don’t think those two are remotely related to each other. You could drain the wealth of the top 1000 people to zero and still not support a social safety net in perpetuity.

To put some numbers behind it, the 735 billionaires in the world are worth $4.7 trillion total. Spread evenly across only 300 million people that’s only $15.6k each. Then that money is all gone.
There are other frontends that are much more Twitter like pleroma, soapbox. Soapbox seems to be adding features more than others but the dev is persona non grata in many fediverse/mastodon circles.

Using plain pleroma right now, I want to try standing up misskey maybe on a weekend.
So you lock them in with all the other bad influences?

American prisons are in no way a "clean break with bad influences". The entire system is basically set up how it'd be if you asked someone to make sure recidivism was high as possible. Long harsh sentences for non-violent crime, low contact with the outside, no real job training, roadblocks for jobs for ex-cons on the outside, stuck with a ton of debt in court fees on release plus a parole system designed to put people back in jail.

To reduce crime you need to either support a community or create opportunity. Instead we starve communities to fund putting people in jail and block them from opportunities once they make it outside.
May the logo have been included so that the security sector could not be distributed under copyright law?
So you think the rules don't apply to you, because somehow you're special. That's bold, indeed.
Yes the math is incorrect which jsnell pointed out below.
But this is still net income (i.e. all costs, including salaries, have already been subtracted), so google really is getting ~$360k per employee. I was off by 10x, you were off by 6x. Google is getting a pretty good value per head, but not as extraordinary as I thought.
> I would rather have nothing.

Then I think you know exactly why others buy consoles lol. Even the most hardcore PC gamers would prefer a console over nothing
Hopefully, more appliances are Matter based in the future and this won't be necessary.
I know, I just thought they would have acquired it. My statements were somewhat separate.
You might want to learn about Helios Airways Flight 522 crash
That is a lot of words to bend around my arguments. Apart from effectively stating that your curation can be completely arbitrary, you are offering no arguments in the way of explaining WHAT specific criteria did you apply here? Not wanting to embarass a billionaire? You have completely ignored my arguments, what bloody sensationalism are you talking about, the man said openly he approved of 12k people kicked out and then prongued 'Dear Sundar' to push out another 28k. Why not just be honest about it and stop repeating this line about "how HN works". My account may be new, but I've been reading here for many, many years. I've never seen a topic literally disappear within 60mins - at least be honest about not wanting to embarass a 'high roller'. Put this discussion back to the front page.
Is there any known-working ways to install Linux or NetBSD on it?

I did some Google-ing, but only got Asahi Linux as a first M* ported beast, without any details if it can be installed on a bricked Mac.
No.

It’s better to have loved and to have lost than to never have loved at all.

I would much rather have been hired at AWS in mid 2020 (which I was), make over six figures more over the next two years than I would have anywhere locally (I work remotely) and gotten laid off (I haven’t) than not be hired at all.
For those wondering: the local threat here is a malicious extension can modify the function of navigator.credentials.

While not malicious, this has been shown to be possible by 1Password. See https://www.future.1password.com/passkeys/ and I have confirmed it is possible to modify this function.

JavaScript can be monkey patched, in some ways this is great for polyfills. For other cases this can be a threat.

If browsers had an explicit mechanism to register extension provided Authenticators and locked down a way to modify the original navigator credentials interface, then we may be able to protect the "first" bytes that come back from the authenticator to the application.
Maybe many of us are pleased that ordinary customers are (even unwittingly) falling in line with our own values on security or usability and our own distaste for tech hype. (No, putting something on "the cloud", making an app for it, or making it "smart" doesn't automatically improve a product.)
Gotta love they decided to quote errr, Martin Luther King, for their layoffs notice.

Go big or go home eh?
As an adult, I don't want to have to manage a thing that I would normally use for leisure. Thankfully, we're starting to see devices released that point in that direction -- the Steam Deck is an open device (users can install an M2 SSD if they're willing to open the device, or they can use a standard SD card if they're not), has a full desktop environment available, yet can be entirely used in the device's "game mode" that abstracts and hides the bulk of the device's complexity.
Funnily enough, asking Common Sense Investing "why are ETF's bad" yields an honest answer. Not that gpt could lie but I found that book unable to find faults at all! This is a very fun site.
This website, Iris.to, is one of several clients that all run on the open protocol Nostr.

Nostr is like SMTP: it's just a protocol that you are free to build software for.
Ah good point, you’re right. This is probably legally fine.
Yes, do not sign the receipt if it includes hidden charges and hit them with a chargeback if they refuse.
What inverter was that?
a three-letter domain is quite the move
I love how hackable they made the Steam Deck, you can easily find replacement parts as well. I even remember someone got an external graphics card working on one by using the NVME slot and an adapter to connect it. Of course, that kinda defeats the whole purpose of the Steam Deck lol
> gave us tips

the irony!
Yeah, my Hulu account dates back to an early Beta key from a friend then working at GE Appliances, and I've maintained an active subscription on my Hulu account through more years than my Netflix account, so there's an interesting sense of nostalgia/loss in assuming the Hulu brand will be dead soon and even if it manages to remain a zombie brand for a while (if for no other reason than the "After Dark" problem), the Disney era of Hulu which started just a few months back when Comcast sold their last shares of Hulu to Disney is already a different Hulu from the Hulu that once thought it could be a multi-provider aggregator platform to truly rival the cable companies. (Not that Disney killed that vision, Comcast did their part to kill that vision when they bought majority ownership from GE along with NBC Universal.)
Surprised this isn’t a YC startup to be honest, what with all the open source companies in recent batches.

Give me Bosch, Speedqueen, etc appliance quality with right to repair and I will pay. I want dumb yet sturdy equipment that will last.
> I can't even get Guix installed on bare metal on my Mac

macOS is not a supported platform on Guix, right? Is there new/ongoing work to support that?
A reddit thread made the front page with a similar example of surprise "Economic Recovery Fee" added onto the restaurant bill:

https://old.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/10gowkx/...

If a government watchdog like FTC doesn't stop this or a new explicit law that only allows "total final price" clearly displayed before purchase, it means every type of business will want to play the "Ticketmaster-convenience-fees" game by creatively coming up with new fees.

If businesses are trying to get more money, they should do it by transparently raising prices instead of tricking people into paying hidden fees.
The "brain in a vat" concept only really makes sense if you are willing to draw a distinction between the conscious part and other parts of the body, i.e. if you are willing to admit that some parts of the world are mechanistic (the external world, the function of our eyes, sense of smell, etc) and some parts (including the brain) are not. If you are willing to admit that, then the brain-in-a-vat scenario says that you can emulate all these mechanical parts and feed the brain fake information, and the brain can't tell the difference. An envatted brain can be isolated from the body because it only knows the information at its own boundaries, i.e. at the boundary of the mechanistic and the non-mechanistic.

If the point of your post is to say that the boundary is larger than that of the brain itself, but extends to the nervous system, gut bacteria, etc. then I think one could counter that all those things are relatively easily replaced by simulations and therefore don't need to be part of the brain in the vat to make the thought experiment work. A person can lose arms and legs and intestines and still be perfectly conscious.

If you say that the brain itself could be replaced by a simulation and not lose any qualities, then the brain-in-a-vat thought experiment doesn't really mean anything for you because there would be nothing special about a brain anyway, and the scenario is vacuous.
GE will send you a bypass insert if you ask for one. I think they are intended for people who have a whole-home filter. Once you have that, you can peel off the RFID tag and stick it in the filter compartment and go back to buying non-RFID filters.

On my fridge it lights up the "not-filtering" light, but that's okay by me. I replace the filter every 3 months.
Also could add a further category for founders who are on their 2nd or 3rd rodeo. For a lot of folks once is enough and they're back to regular employment, for others it's a life-long lifestyle.
Telling the truth while pissing people off less
Learning from Crucial Conversations
I was curious about getting a premium username (@christina) but $29 a month (I misread and thought it was $29 a year, thank God my credit card company declined the transaction) is too much.

Love the idea, but $360 for a premium username. Nah. Not doing that. Not for something like this.
> I don't know how this got flagged

The flag is correct. HN is not your personal space for grievances.
I don't see why you couldn't come up with a mermaid-esque syntax for all of that.
More like he asphyxiated everyone on the plane, including the rich heiress with her priceless jewelry and millions in cash, flew over a known location where he had previously towed a get-away boat, stole all of the other valuables on the plane, and skydived into the perfect crime.