skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mastering Micro-Copy with ChatGPT
Honestly, if you are a small fish to AWS... what is an SLA?

They can trot out a low level person to stall you with questions, or an AI question generator that maximizes the amount of time you waste on your end, and call that "SLA met".

And even if they DON'T meet the SLA on occasion, you built your stack on AWS. You are laying in the bed you made.

SO, what, AWS throws some free credits (that their 30-40% margin easily absorbs)?

The only big stick in these types of things is having dual-cloud capability, where you can move your service quickly from one cloud to the other. Stateless API servers? Maybe. Database servers? ouch. Cassandra could reliably span two clouds, man would AWS kill you on their ludicrously overpriced network costs.

Has anyone does Postgres replication across providers as a useful production system? Doubt it.
> IPv6 for local networks, makes no sense is completely unnecessary, and is a hill I will die on. IPv4 is here to stay.

my mobile phone in the UK on one of the big 4 carriers only has IPv6 addresses

and only has IPv6 connectivity

(using 464XLAT)
> Whatever you do with them [computers] is automatically seen as practice of an ancient and unchanging tradition.

During a nuclear war reconstruction scenario, computing wouldn't be seen as ancient or unchanging. We'd be in a transitory period where we try and recreate computing infrastructure with what we have and the power sources we have access to. But we wouldn't develop an ancient tradition or anything.
> They're not a random 3rd uninvolved party "walking down the street"; they're directly involved in delivering the goods.

That statement is false. DNS resolvers have nothing to do with piracy whatsoever nor are delivering any "goods". This is why the analogy of lashing out at 3rd parties is appropriate.

> They're also not being "retaliated" against; they're simply asked to stop assisting in providing the service to the (allegedly) illegal site.

Right now, it must be proven in court that the site is "illegal" and infringement occurred by specific persons. Not just make a claim to initiate world wide DNS censorship, where a company foolishly thinks such will help increase their profits (as various studies show it doesn't help). This attempt at bullying DNS providers can lead to general censorship by powerful companies and then government entities, once they can get the legal precedent set.

If people are fuzzy about what's going on, The Hill also did a good story about this.
https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/594718-german-court-c...

The attempt at stealth pushing censorship over the web, is to have sites blocked that might contain infringing content without proving that is so in court, first. They want to be able to bully DNS resolvers based on mere allegations without due process to censor whatever sites they tell them to. These companies don't want to have to prove specific cases of infringement in court, rather they are seeking to gain the general power to censor whoever and whatever they want by gaining the legal means to do it.
"far-right"

isn't it weird how there's no "right" that's not also "far", "radical", or some other pejorative?

How do you play the victim card without some unequal treatment to point to? For example, terms like "racist" and "misogynist" being thrown in order to avoid debate, regardless of their actual application or relevance to a situation?
The cost of the IPv4 transition equipment ramps down over time. You may never be able to turn it off completely.
Lunni looks really interesting! Looks like a Coolify competitor, I'll definitely check it out. Do you have a Discord to join? Coolify has one and I found it great to discuss the project and talk directly to the creator.

I used to use Dokku but I personally liked the GUI from Coolify so I've been using that. Nice to see that you have a GUI as well, makes configuring apps a lot easier.
Folks talk about the lack of support for things like replication studies and the publication of negative results in the life sciences, as contributing to the widely proclaimed replication crisis.

Establishing a solid negative result that rules out hypotheses is worthwhile if unglamorous.

Citing an upper bound on the half-life is all that can be credibly reported. It's how you put an error bar on something that's non-negative but consistent with zero.
China would provide us with a few if we did that. Actually I believe the nukes are coming soon but thankfully will be limited to Europe and the UK.
They actually announced one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNhV-Gnjdy8
> I frankly have better things to do

This is what I'm trying to say: Sometimes you don't have better things to do, because you need the knowledge that is in the video. If you're doing something important and somebody comes up to offer to show you a much better way of doing the task, does this have to be the response? "I have better things to do".

Some YouTube videos are worth the time to watch, and I would argue that for recipes you'll spend your time better starting with videos vs search engines. Unless it's something you already know how to make and just need a reminder of the measurements of the recipe.

Talking about cooking, you have the BBQ channels on YouTube, with people showing you how to best cut and prepare different cuts of meat. If you don't personally know somebody to show you these techniques you'd be lost with only text content and no video.

I think it's easier for people to rage at an annoying YouTube video when trying to find information, than to rage at worthless SEO spam. But the solution is the same: close the tab and go back. It doesn't take many seconds to notice if a YouTube presenter is an idiot.
It's like asking "would you believe in homeopathy if doctors all told you that it was correct?"

To which the answer is "Doctors believe things for reasons. You can't just flip a switch and change what doctors think without changing the entire world so that homeopathy is actually true, and that would be such a weird world that science in it would be unrecognizeable."

(And since I'm not ChatGPT, I can answer your entire question: "Such a story would have an incoherent world. I could imagine someone writing a story that takes place in an incoherent world, but you wouldn't be able to get useful insights from it.")
What would be idiotic is to do that secretly. The whole point of nukes is that the enemy (and its public opinion) knows you have them and intend to use them if necessary.
Ah yeah, and it looks like this is what they're using: https://github.com/microsoft/D3D9On12
And it looks like DirectX 11 to DirectX 12 translation exists as well: https://github.com/microsoft/D3D11On12
India has a rich history than far pre-dates 'hindus' from Indus Valley Civilization to this day. On top of it Nalanda as Buddhist institution of learning is being highlighted here.

If you are going to define what is historical truth or propaganda based on who resides in the PMO of India, then you should just stay away from this subject.
Not sure why it matters.

Sharing desks and saving money will encourage companies to continue WFH.

People not driving to work has so many pluses.
The background-banner at the top of the Home Screen shows banners from the currently highlighted app - if you remove the AppleTV+ app from the top-row of your home-screen then you don’t see any promotions of any kind.
AI might make this advice outdated, if AI is able to handle a decent chunk of common coding tasks then the people who understand business impact and where to focus efforts will be the most valuable engineers, not the leetcode grinders. Google's huge issue with launching stuff nobody wants and then shutting it down is a prime example of what happens when you keep rewarding algorithm/CS specialists over engineers who dedicated time to other things
> random middlewares

The whole concept of "middleware" in Ruby server applications was a huge mistake. Your average Ruby developer has no idea how any of that shit works, and it's an unnecessary abstraction over taking request data and passing it through a function, something that should be simple for even a junior developer to figure out. Somehow it was decided that having a standard for the shape of data wasn't good enough; there had to be a demi-standard for modifying request data before it reaches the primary application code.

If you have to tell a middleware what order it's supposed to run in with relation to other known middlewares, chances are the middleware system itself is a poor design.
And if you don't want your cities to die from traffic congestion you need to make it all walkable with good public transportation.

I can get much further through the middle game by focusing from the start on not building all kinds of roads. I used to run a big highway down the middle of my city thinking that was the right way to do it, but you're vastly better off not doing that, because if you build that road, they'll overuse it.

The sims will walk a pretty unreasonably long way as well, I've built ped overpasses that were packed, while having nice and quiet roads.

CityPlannerPlays is a good youtuber to learn how to build cities that aren't terrible, and aren't overly cheesing the game mechanics:

https://www.youtube.com/@CityPlannerPlays
The limits of every simulation game come into play where they start to "cartoon" how the world actually works, which has always been the case with city builders in the Simcity mold. The approaches to traffic, crime, pollution etc all act in a way to give an impression of the real world while not really going deep into the subject and making the solutions be a bit lock-and-key, fitting our existing norms rather than presenting an emergent problem: a lot of times it comes down to building "expensive structure X" to solve your city's issues. The original Simcity is ultimately broken, speedrunner style, by reaching into the guts of the sim to realize that every zone just needs a token road or rail by it, not a connection, and therefore can be approached with a nonsensical pattern of disconnected structures.

I think Skylines did a good job of modelling complex traffic, but when I came back to it a month or two ago, I was disappointed by how much it felt like I was steered towards creating a "city of the past" and not engaging with any new technological or economic developments. Like, you can build an Amsterdam-like bike city in Skylines, with the appropriate DLC, but it's not modelled in a fine-grained way and just feels like you have magicked away commuter traffic by dumping bike lanes everywhere.

In the end, if I want to plan a city of the future, I should probably go back to drawing on graph paper like when I was 8 years old.
Macro makes it harder to raise funding too though - VC no longer as attractive given the risks and higher interest rates available
I agree. It's already $60 minimum for two people to eat out in the US. What's it going to be in order for everyone to have "fair" wages? $50 a plate for hamburgers?
The trouble with Unix (1981)
Ask HN: Which AI image tool would help me to make diagrams of software concepts?
There's so much noise about AI now it's hard to find a tool that actually does what I need. I do a search on Google and hundreds and hundreds of tools are found.

I tried using MidJourney which strangely has an interface in Discord, but it didn't seem to work anyway.

I want to be able to make diagrams/illustrations that for example show a computer and have labels with arrows pointing to the CPU and GPU.

It is more for a presentation than a technical diagram.

Is there such a tool well suited to doing that sort of thing?
Well, the biggest reason is that Taiwan already has domestic nuclear refinement capabilities and likely could make a nuke themselves in a couples months if they needed to.

They don't need to do that quite yet though, as despite the media panic, an invasion of Taiwan is years, is not decades away from being attempted.

China is a real threat, but it's more over the long term, than any immediate concerns.
The only reason PRC would invade Taiwan is if Washington started installing ICBM silos there. In which case they would just knock out that infrastructure with long-range strikes.
Yeah, let's create Wednesday chatbot from the Addams family.
Sure? There are lots of resonable terms. And I don't want to denegrate Nalanda nor its historical import. But Bologna invented the concept and coined the term to specifically describe a new kind of institution with certain critical and (for the time) novel characteristics which carry on in modern universities. I think describing Nalanda as a university is like saying the Blue Mosque is a cathedral. It's an impressive and important religious building in of itself: but it's not a cathedral.
Love his ImportExcel module!
Here's a YouTube playlist of 6 case studies with companies of various sizes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkziMQD7pqQ&list=PLHVhS4Tj1Y...

There are also two written case studies on the JSON Schema blog: https://json-schema.org/blog/
> There are billions of people worldwide who have religious prohibitions from pork.

That's hardly the point. The majority of Starbucks locations are in countries with tiny or non-existent Jewish/Muslim populations: U.S., China, Japan, Canada, etc. [1] In the United States, for example, only 3.5% of Americans are Jewish or Muslim. [2] Wanna bet that figure is far smaller in China?

What's more, this isn't a situation in which there are no alternatives. A person who doesn't want to handle pork has plenty of other employment options.

> "No Muslims or Jews in restaurants"

Seriously? I suggest that people who don't want to handle pork shouldn't apply for jobs where they'll handle pork, and you paraphrase me as "Ban Jews and Muslims from restaurants"???

Let me put it this way: do you think someone who doesn't want to handle pork should be accommodated at a pork processing plant?

[1] https://www.mappr.co/worlds-best-starbucks/

[2] https://www.usreligioncensus.org/node/1641
Basically "We've got so many empty desks you'll have to share them until we have more people filling desks...".

The quote here was interesting though: Pichai said in a companywide meeting last week, according to audio obtained by CNBC. “There are people, by the way, who routinely complain that they come in and there are big swaths of empty desks and it feels like it’s a ghost town — it’s just not a nice experience.”

Personally I don't go into the office to measure up "the feel of the crowd", or to get a social experience. I do it to get work done, and only when I have to. We can coordinate social experiences outside of the office if need be. It'd be interesting to see an experiment where workmates only get physically together to do social events like team sports or the like, but work mainly remote relative to each other. I bet this would be just as cohesive to teams.
Amen, It is really creating a system where only wealth and nepotism are acclaimed. In many ways too character assassination and spreading false information have become exponentially worse and more weaponized. I worry about the future of where all this is going. :/
So while costs are added on to the customer, it would result in a price raise resulting in lessening their competitive advantage. While they may not eat costs, it may cause them to loose out on potential customers, so they would still feel the VAT, just not directly then, correct?
I took the Docker comment as a sort of dig at Rails teams throwing tech at problems in an inappropriate way with the goal of overcoming poor decision making. Not sure how fair that is since the use of Docker et al is often an exercise in cargo cult tech.
Life By You seems to be that, which was also announced.

Another one is called Paralives: https://www.polygon.com/23433566/sims-5-project-rene-paraliv...
"read stuff written for other job titles" - happy now?
Taiwan will reveal them at the very last moment when war is imminent.

If war is still preventable showing the nukes will just escalate things.
> that ipV6 is likely going to increase drastically the amount of ransomware and other malware on the public internet simply because that NAT layer is gone

malware has connected outwards to c&c servers for more than 20 years
Have a virtual memory pagefile on it?
On the flip side I'm so regularly impressed by what random HNers know about networking (particularly due to containers) I sometimes wonder if there is a point in me being a network guy!

I think a large part of the general attitude is IPv6 is a topic everyone is exposed to but few have really been expected to know so there is a lot of strong feelings about how it's crazy compared to the thing they've already spent 20 years getting familiar with. I think if everyone was exposed to NAT in the same fashion there would be a 10x stronger reaction against NAT than IPv6 but at this point everyone is used to NAT and IPv4 and forgets how weird/annoying they really are too.
There's no ipv4 nat for IPv6?
I would rather Google and Facebook and the other mega-hire companies would build up outside the bay area, rather than continuing to pack more people in.
That worked out fantastic in 1962.
I have devices on public v6 at home. When I hear people complain about these things I honestly ask them. What the hell are you running on your machine that you dont want anyone accessing? Bind it locally then or use an fwall.

I am astounded by the lackadaisical stance of network admins in the pro-v4 camp.
Yeah I should probably actually write the post, haha. Commenting between sets at the gym just isn’t the same. I’ll let you know if/when I do. This comment of yours already helped me formulate a bit of it, I think, so thanks for that.

“Just stricter” is much more accurate than “doesn’t follow”, for sure.

“No semver implementation follows the major version zero sentence in the semver spec, and Cargo does what they all do” is maybe an even closer approximation. We’ll see how good I can do with more than 60 seconds rest between typing :)
A naval blockade with sea mines and submarines. Taiwan imports 70% of its food and 100% of its fossil fuels.

Taiwan has major political factions that already favor closer ties with China. Put under stress, Taiwan may be more inclined to reunify than most western spectators would like to assume.
Systems firing missiles are also vulnerable to missiles. That's not a sarcastic response, with maybe the exception of very short-range stuff - Javelin, Konkurs, etc. Those would be vulnerable to thermal smoke counter-measures too.
Like most things, it's more complex than that, and as a result it can be either faster or slower than 'median(RTT to each DC in quorum)'.

It's a delicate balance based on the locations that rows are being read and written. In the case where a row being repeatedly written from only one location and not being read from different location, the writes can be significantly faster than would be naively expected.
I've been in roomfuls of people who believed in the ignorance of experts, and they were not scientists.
How do you reach all 2^128 ips when you only have 2^32 destinations?

IPv6 makes sense everywhere.
Taiwan govt ruled China and lost to the Communists in the civil war. Both countries see Taiwan as part of a greater China
It is quite easy to understand why they are the problem. Of course, they are part of the problem, but this is the comment section of a forum and not an official statement from a public figure.

The reason for the absurd rise in housing prices is that not enough housing is being built to meet demand, and the main reason is that homeowners (obviously not all, bear with me if I generalize) and their cartels oppose any new development. It is a problem with a very simple solution, made complicated by people who make money by throwing smoke. A good place to start is to look at how other countries or regions have solved the problem. It is somewhat parallel to homelessness; there is no will on the part of politicians and institutions to solve a problem that is easily solved (from a system perspective).

The housing stock is fixed because certain interests (i.e., homeowners and real estate investors) want their capital to increase in value and/or their neighborhoods to remain sculpted over time. The calculations in the comment are, outside the specific case, largely irrelevant: dilapidated houses infested with rats and mold in desirable locations have increased in value 10-fold over 20-30 years because the housing stock has not increased over time.
The Taiwanese concept of "unification" is not what you're thinking of.

The Taiwanese faction supporting unification (usually the KMT) does not envision a world where Taiwan is/becomes a province of the PRC, they envision a world where the ROC governs all current PRC provinces, that is where they are in the seat of power in Beijing. I.e. this is something going in the opposite direction.

The opposing faction rejects these ambitions and wants Taiwan to go its own way.

EDIT: Since it's not necessarily military intervention.
I am curious what the dominant opinion is in China regarding what the population of Taiwan wants.

That the majority of Taiwanese want to become Chinese?

That it doesn’t matter what the Taiwan population wants because China has the right to claim it?
Ah yes "the government will fix it" okay .

Maybe practice what you preach and deploy v6. I have. Infact I run v6 only.
I used to think like that, then I realised that my life is not actually being made worse because of it. The TV doesn’t know who I am, personally (I’m not signed-in to any accounts) and it’s all just mass aggregate data that will probably end-up being ignored by network-execs so why worry?
The server in this case was the PC version of ARK which nom nom noms all the CPU/RAM.
In virtually the whole of Canada and the United States, dense, walkable neighborhoods are illegal. Even if you get rid of one type of zoning, other types remain. For example, one of the Texas cities has no zoning laws, but it does have mandatory parking minimums, mandatory street setbacks, etc. Basically the city must be car oriented and low density, even if you can add commercial stuff in residential zones.

Japan is the one place in the world that freely allows density, and Tokyo has not seen rising prices. Note that though Japan's population is shrinking, Tokyo's is rising. Unlike North America, new housing production has kept up with population growth.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/what-housing-crisis-in-japan-ho...
To quote Dr. Strangelove: “Of course, the whole point of a Doomsday Machine is lost, if you keep it a secret!”

What do you think would be the point of Taiwan having secret nukes? What would they do with them?

Or for that matter non-secret nukes?
The CCP abandoned their promises of a democratic system and controlled the legislature, then more recently cracked down on speech, protest, and anything different from mainland practice.

HK had had no democracy under the British, but declassified documents have since shown that that was at the demand of the Chinese government who threatened to invade if HK was allowed to vote.
what do you mean by topology? the only information leaked would be the number of computers making requests.