skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a big difference between learning the nuances of engineering as you go and re-adjusting your viewpoint vs bandwagoning on a new tool because it's cool even though you can't tie any of it's advantages back to your problem statement.

That isn't making a choice and adjusting based on the data, that is just shoddy engineering.

It should have been obvious to anyone at a cursory glance that not only did serverless not offer anything to this application it would be actively detrimental. Simple napkin math of data rate of a 1080p video stream should have made that immediately clear.

Just because you can use something to get a task done doesn't make it a good choice. I can still write pretty decent Perl. It gets the job done and for some protocols that haven't changed in a long time like LDAP the existing CPAN libraries are still some of the best. But that isn't the right choice is it?

I don't think it's defensible to argue that we should build thing sub-standardly just to give people more choice. That is like arguing that real engineers should have more freedom in choice in how they design bridges. No one would agree with that.

We get away with it because our bridges are much cheaper to replace and noone dies if they break or have to be rewritten because they rotted too much to run anymore.

Right now as it stands arguments for serverless aren't technical in nature. They are a best an appeal to "the traditional way is slow" or some notion of "infinite scalability", the first of which isn't true at all and the latter doesn't matter for anyone that is arguing in favor of serverless.

Also even if it was "faster" (I don't agree but lets postulate) that probably wouldn't make it a good decision either unless it was proportionally faster vs it's costs (not just dollar costs, architecture, complexity of managed objects, etc). Which I highly doubt would be the case.

As you can see from a technical POV it's just very very hard to rationalise a position for serverless > Boring Tech. For me it would take too much mental gymnastics.

I was perhaps a little strong but my points are solid.

If it was good it would have proven advantages by now. K8s adoption curve vs serverless adoption curve tells the real story of quality IMO, especially given how much bigger of a move it was to k8s from what preceeded it.
There’s also Valley of the Boom
oh fantastic, do you mean subtext jonathan edwards? i had no idea he was doing hardware

i thought the google shuttle program connected your design to the outside world through some kind of digital bullshit
I didn’t mention anything about leadership. What I’m interested in are raising standards of living and the markets that opens up. People who need to buy their first washing machine, etc.
Because you've failed to make a distinction between gender and gender roles. The former is inherent (if not always matching sex), the latter is socially constructed.
Thanks for sharing the links!! Appreciate it.
True. This might just be a sloppy jalopy of an article. Insurer drops the ball. Get Amazon’s attention via a reporter and suddenly someone at Amazon is calling their counterpart at the insurer asking WTF?
The person that you're responding to is essentially expressing this exact same sentiment to the person above them?

I'm glad you asked. The answer is that no they are not. They are saying 'it might do this'. The person I responded to is saying 'I don't personally want that'. These are two separate things.

If you said 'tell me about this truck' and someone said 'this truck is good for towing boats' and you said 'I don't have a boat', they would say 'you asked and I explained it'. Why are you acting like a news article is trying to sell you personally on something?
I basically do this too but also do it in markdown and use Obsidian to link to others, etc.

Still hit the cli though and grep/ripgrep all the time, it’s just so fast.
Khanacademy.org has free online courses on AP Calculus and AP Statistics, plus other (high school) math courses.

MIT Open Course Ware has a big bunch of free online math courses. ocw.mit.edu
I don't have a citation on hand (though I love GamersNexus, their focus on video makes it hard to find citations for such things), iirc TDP is actually not comparable between processor generations, let alone manufacturers. Intel and AMD calculate it differently, and AMD's calculation includes the thermal solution attached to the chip, so hypothetically they can make it almost whatever number they want.
You said: "Before that, you in practice had been limited to synchronous permanent-magnet DC motors."

Series-wound DC motors don't have permanent magnets at all -- rather, they have two sets of windings (connected in series) that push against each other, so there would be no concerns about rare earths.

I don't know what a "synchronous" DC motor is, unless you meant to say "synchronous AC and permanent magnet DC."
It doesn’t reduce road congestion but it does reduce transit congestion. The Second Avenue Subway, for example, decreased loads on the parallel congested Lexington Avenue line by 11%: https://www.6sqft.com/in-just-a-month-second-avenue-subway-e.... It’s displaced 88,000 trips a day, and yet it’s not anywhere near full; a highway expansion would struggle with that amount.

Traffic speeds generally have a floor of how long the equivalent public transport journey is. (If the public transport journey is faster, people will use that instead.) The issue now is that American land use is so out of whack it’s hard to deploy transit widely enough to make that true for the majority of trips.
I’m having a hard time parsing your complaint.

> This is not how to learn anything.

You don’t learn anything by reading books? So if you have an interest in astronomy you don’t learn by reading books on astronomy? How do you learn, then? Must one go study to become an astronomer as the first step? Won’t you have to read a book on it at some point?

> It's way more meaningful to understand and pursue your own actual interests

What does this mean in practice, and how does it invalidate reading? Can’t you understand and pursue an interest in philosophy by reading philosophy books?

> than to humble brag by ticking the "correct" readings.

Who’s talking about humble bragging? Wether you brag or not it’s up to you, I don’t see anything on the website encouraging you to do so.

> Not to mention that talking about the best anything is basically meaningless, except for very tightly constrained achievements

The website is very upfront about how it works:

> We ask experts to recommend the five best books in their subject and explain their selection in an interview.

Seems like a good way to begin exploring. If you’re interested in a subject the website points you to someone they consider to be knowledgeable of the field, that person has recommendations to get your started, and they explain why they picked each one.

Maybe I missed something about the reason you oppose the website, but on the face of it I don’t see what’s so wrong as to justify such vehement disapproval.
I've always viewed these lists as a "starter pack for beginners" - allowing people to dip their toes into fields that they are curious about (or should be dagnabbit!) and giving them an idea of how rich the field is, whilst they should also be encouraging people to dig deeper if they have found something that has really piqued their interests.
> outdoors on a sunny day

Outdoors on a sunny day is no time to read HackerNews! Get offline and enjoy your day.

Fear not downvoters, I speak as a fellow addict.
Seeing as how a lot of players are going in on serverless (vercel, netlify, deno, cloudflare) the cynic in me wonders if this is a calculated move on part of Amazon to bring people back to using ec2 .. etc
> is something that might be defensible.

I would like to propose that it never is, and only seems so sometimes because our society is insane.
I always appreciate it when other data scientists talk about making their data tell a story that upper management already decided they wanted confirmed for them. Makes me feel less alone. Thank you
I lived the first 25 years of my life without going to a planetarium. I even experienced VR before having been to one.

My first visit was a mind-blowing experience that felt akin to an acid trip. It wasn't just the night sky being projected but also a documentary that leveraged the projection medium. If you haven't been to one, I'd certainly recommend it.
I love taskwarrior so much some years back I got a pr in for the user defined fields. It’s a great project!
Which is why we tend to put more and more regulations on individuals/companies that destroy things that belong to others, because they want to shirk their obligations.
I'm not disagreeing that less waste is good, but really, we're talking about an area about 500 meters on a side and 10 meters deep -- for the entire world. Car tires take up roughly 30 times as much space.
"I think that we need to understand that capitalists hate capitalism. They don’t want to be in an environment in which they have to compete."

I think he means they hate the free market. Many people think capitalism and the free market depend on each other but free markets existed for a long time before capitalism. It's the free market that forces capitalists to compete.
As a generalization I have to disagree, at least in America for high-school subjects. I looked at both the math and biology texts from recent years. The math texts were written by people who didn't understand math, and the biology text was so focussed on the No Child Left Behind Act requirements that it was rubbish. (Also look for Richard Feynmann's experience reviewing textbooks). Undoubtedly there are good textbooks out there, but they are just as much in need of review and recommendation as non-textbooks.
Going viral might not be the top priority to invet a lot of resources into but maybe having an action plan for things you can do if signs are pointing to it might not be a bad idea. Something like enable caching can be a quick task to survive a traffic spike without going all the way to worrying about invalidation.
Covid patients we thought needed to be intubated, didn’t. The science had to change and eventually we stopped killing Covid patients by putting them on vents.

https://www.statnews.com/2020/04/08/doctors-say-ventilators-...
The above was a joking reference to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asterix
I assume the device isn't just phoning home, but is expecting some sort of response, and likely isn't static.
Amazon is actually better thought of as a collection of independent startups with their own software architectures, roadmaps and P&Ls. There’s commonly used infrastructure but very little is really mandated at the company level.
Your response seems to completely miss the point of the thread you're replying to. The discussion in question was, effectively

>>> You can write your own code to gather statistics

>> You should respect your user's desires and not gather statistics

> The users aren't the only ones with desires

Sure, whether or not you "can" do it is black and white (and a game of whack-a-mole many times), but whether or not you "should" do it is very much a gray area.
Not nearly as cool, but rigol’s 1xx4 series had similar bypassable firmware restrictions. For a broke college student being able to get a 100mhz 4-channel scope (the class equipment was only 2 channel) for a few hundred bucks really simplified a lot of labs. I suspect the firmware protections were purposefully weak knowing it would gain cred with budding EEs.
> you can do those things in Lisp too

Well if you can that would be a huge step. Gotta check again it seems.
Use majorly for programming and also to learn something by simplifying or digging deeper using questions.

Chatgpt as a debugging partner has been a adam and eve sort of match to me. It's a saviour!
and neither is scheme
Show HN: Lakestream v0.0.3
v0.0.3 includes:
- refactor all I/O parts to async
- enable passing of callback methods
- add HTTP request style GET
- initial integration test setup
- add useful helpers, e.g. Minio S3
- test/ update to work in-browser with wasm32
microservices? to sling video files over the internet? tell me you're over-engineering without telling me you're over-engineering
Yeah I have read such also, and indeed also for me it is not ideal to wear for long time, but it is still definitely significantly better than having to be listening to a laptop fan or similar. Listening to music with it I feel is better than just using it for noise cancelling, but I cannot be certain it makes a difference. Otherwise, if I do not have such mechanical noises around, I disable noise cancelling.
Protocl Kills
I wouldn't read too much into this considering they have enough money to even commission themselves a one-off, fully-custom design if they wanted to.
Already been done and already been banned. Journals don't like it any more than any other publication.
Semi-related: Several pharmacies sent brochures or similar material to my mom who doesn't see well anymore. All had extremely bad contrast and small writing using a narrow font with very thin stroke width. My mom couldn't read any of it. Do they not know their own target audience? Who is the main demographic of pharmacies!? WTF

On the computer she can use high contrast mode and zoom in. Not possible on printed medium.
You're overloading the word "they" here. In this sentence,

> The description of the incident was their driver destroyed her parked car.

"their" refers to Amazon. In the second sentence,

> They determined it was totaled and sat on it for TWO months.

"They" refers to Amazon's insurance company.

I'm not normally one to defend Amazon's business practices, but in this case, I don't see how they did wrong by this woman. If I, acting as a private citizen, did the same thing and totaled someone else's parked car, would it be my fault if my insurance company dicked around for 2 months before paying them? No, it would not. Nor would I be liable for any amount over and above my insurance deductible, because that's the point of having insurance.
What's different between this and SearXNG? What design goals are different?
Reviewing some of the books on computer science, there's an English writing book recommended for "Computer Science for Data Scientists", "Thinking Fast and Thinking Slow" for Artificial Intelligence, for Naval History (20th Century) it's two WWI books, one inter war period, one WWII and then one on the British Submarines since then... not a good overall history, and for Ancient Rome "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" which has important significance for understanding the evolution of the study of Roman history, but is not a good source anymore.

In short, this seems to be taking some famous books related to a field without actually selection the five "best" ones.
Some how it seems fitting that this article itself had lame edit wars, and there were even lame edit wars about the section mentioning that this article had lame edit wars.
> Why do you assume it would be anything more than what's in the name - basic?

Because people claim it’s the only solution to AI taking the skilled jobs. Tax the owners of the AIs and distribute this to the people who no longer have jobs because of the automation.

TFA specifically implied this or why else would they have gone on a rant about how the government doesn’t do enough to provide for the people?
Ah yes, Google can disable my Linux desktop passkey client when they terminate my Google account. I forgot that they had the ability to do this.

If only this passkey thing was a Fido standard that could be used with the product you linked us!
this is so false i have a hard time believing you actually think this. that said, i strongly encourage you to put your money where your mouth is and invest accordingly!
UN warns of threat of 'severe nuclear accident' after Putin orders evacuation
Marketing benchmarks used values that led to blown up 3Ds. Mobo fixes might lead to performance regressions (i.e. no longer the best CPU for a given game).
Bit of survivorship bias there! No-one is going to hire you to port off of serverless, if they're happy with it.

Ergo you only see cases where it isn't working well.
> Loud isn't the goal, the tone is.

I wish this was actually the case in practice. There s definitely something special and musical about some ice engines, a true sensual experience.

But then in practice, people who actually value that (as in, pay money), their cars just ends up being loud and obnoxious.

So where are they, all these quiet, beautifully aurally tuned cars (emphasis on quiet)? Not everybody is driving thos3 lexusses just judging from the racket.
If you want to experience almost every negative emotion, look into hurricane insurance practices, procedures, and results in Florida.
Early COVID-19 research found that most patients with optimum levels of vitamin D did not require ICU or breathing assistance and survived the infection.
This link doesn't relate to the research but is relevant. https://scitechdaily.com/study-finds-vitamin-d3-important-fo...
> Spaghetti code is more of a term for monolithic mess where you have a hard time following all the code logic (cyclomatic complexity) and dependencies.

The only thing worse than a monolithic mess, is the same thing but distributed
It depends whether you're trying to follow the "inverted pyramid" writing style [1], which aims to strictly put the most important things first.

Some would say, when describing Tim Berners-Lee, the fact he invented the web is more important than the year of his birth, his middle name, his knighthood or his nationality.

Wikipedia does get his invention of the web into the first sentence of the article [2], which is good - but not before "Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee, OM, KBE, FRS, FREng, FRSA, DFBCS, RDI (born 8 June 1955), also known as TimBL, is an English computer scientist"

Of course, it's might not be practical for Wikipedia to follow the inverted pyramid style, as it might invite edit wars about what counts as most important.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_pyramid_(journalism)
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee
> or have a way to specify port in DNS records for example

https://www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us/articles/360060591153-Man...
under "Client email auto-discovery"

Though support for these are...
How much effort is it to even keep the accounts separate? They've never seemed to have much trouble linking my accounts together, even when (say) one was only used on a personal computer at home, and another on a work computer at the office.
For sci-fi, they recommend the Arthur Clark award books. The first 2022 title I clicked is summarized like this on Amazon:

“Part sci-fi, fantasy, and Afro-futurism but not squarely one or the other, A River Called Time…”

What is “Afro-futurism”?
Yeah that is fair. There is probably serverless chugging away fine in lots of places.

Doesn't make it better than alternatives but still a valid point.
So I guess one should activate the phone at some Wifi cafe first before unlocking bootloader and flashing a new OS otherwise Google could make a direct link to ownership during the lifetime of the device.
Worries grow about Ukraine nuclear plant amid evacuations
Yes, you are right, and I should have qualified that because I'm aware it's optimized, but it's effectively a grey pattern at best: a UI that is sub-optimal in terms of presentation of information, but optimized for click-through.

I'm sure one could make a case for 'if they buy it it was good' but I suggest people are easily manipulated, especially when confronted with a massive machine with $Billions to figure how to.

But even with both of those things said - I think it is still actually crappy because 1) the click through may be optimized and yet some information could be available to make it better that may not affect click through and 2) the 'long term funnel' may be affected by maligned customers; I avoid Amazon, I suggest others might as well though it may not be that many.
I've had longer delays in the UK. My car was damaged by another driver. I sent my dash cam recording to my insurer and then both insurers dithered for months until I threatened to get the government ombudsman involved.
I had a coworker, originally from India, who had not heard of the 1918 flu pandemic. (This came up back when COVID was first ramping up.) Apparently it's not taught about in India, even though it killed many millions.
Is it also blocked when you don't even enable cookies? You loose some accuracy, but clients can't prevent ending up in your logs and they have to share some info with the server.
This is a weird article. They moved from Lambdas attached together with Step Functions to have their video monitoring service as its own program. Since some other service is serving video, handling billing, and all the other things Prime Video has to do,, there is no way that could be considered a monolith.

They've gone from serverless to a microservice.

(Which is interesting, but probably doesn't get the clicks.)
The US Government has gone too far (EARN IT Act 2023)
It's been around this price for around 5 years at least, or more. Since the FLIR one came out really.
It's called canola oil in the US. I understand it needs to be highly processed since it naturally contains glucosinolates and erucic acid which are both toxic. In general it really isn't that good for you. Olive oil/avocado oil are better options if you have the budget.

Disclaimer: I am not a professional when it comes to food science, so defer to your own research.
I've been permanently banned from "the" libertarian subreddit specifically for suggesting that libertarian socialism is a thing that exists. It's almost as if their cries about things not being "real libertarianism" is and always has been good ol' gaslighting and projection.
Such information is no longer available due to the demise of tech journalism.
I've moved to two line prompts everywhere as well, the second line being basically just " > "

I've also added inter prompt spacing.. first that was just an extra \n before the prompt, but I decided I wanted space between the prompt and the start of program output, as well as between the end of output and the next prompt.

I can't remember where I stole the idea from to give credit, and it feels a little wrong but works really well:

For bash, in PROMPT_COMMAND, set a debug trap that writes a newline, and then removes itself "trap - DEBUG".

If it's not obvious the debug trap fires right after you hit return, but before the command actually runs ( also making it a nice place to update xterm/tmux titles ). So that gets you your post prompt newline, but then because the traps removed it doesn't keep firing for every command in you for loop or whatever.
But PROMPT_COMMAND adds the trap again for the next time.

I also have some weird logic in prompt_command that only adds the preprompt newline if the cursor isn't in column 0, because I found otherwise I was getting unnecessary extra spacing.

So yes, if I hit enter on a plain prompt I get two blank lines before the next one.. so?

But it makes differentiating output so much easier. Combine with colour prompts with timestamps ( and in history too ) and I get at least rough timing on how long tasks take, which is often useful.

It's actually on monochrome terminals (for whatever dumb reason that might be happening) that it helps the most, to the point where now when I see a non customised terminal my reaction is "urhg.. what's all this mess, take it away" <shooing wave of hands>

That and pspg for database/csv viewing make my daily life measurably better.