skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Definitely some good points here. Using a single primary database seems easier for a lot of more straightforward use cases, and read replicas are probably sufficient for read-heavy workloads that can tolerate some loss of consistency.

I think either the Cloudflare Workers team or the Fly folks have talked about how they envision edge apps as sharding data by region or by tenant, then sticking each shard in the optimal location. That sounds potentially useful for some cases, but then there's the complexity of sharding to deal with.
> Basically you rarely want to deploy your whole app to edge; have a central or multi-region thing under the hood, and let the edge handle some very specific functionality.

Exactly. Example: We wanted / needed to deploy on the edge. Use case: A very very small part of a live streaming service, basically cache preloading functionality, as well as authentication / session management / DRM. All the rest would be handled by some upstream service.
LaTeX is a de-facto standard in academia and journals. Makes it very hard to just skip and go to Typst or any of the other recent takes on math typesetting.
Sure, but most people probably go out and buy them, case in point the still astronomically-high demand for Raspberry Pis. They’re cool but their pragmatic use is limited.
I'd love to see these orgs put AP in their CMS. they could do things like @politics@bbc.uk, @sports, @finance, @entertainment, @breakingnews, etc, all on their own namespace they control.
I think we're on the same page, I just meant 'die' in a slightly more literal sense than you probably took it.

And yes, it is incredibly sad. Somewhere in the last century we went completely off the rails to the point where we are now endangering our world and have no tools to do anything about it. It's like watching a slow motion train wreck, unfortunately both you and I are on the train and we can't get off.
I don’t think I’m being pedantic. In practical, the parent comment’s description is not that of MITM attack, but how a proxy works. Proxy is everywhere, useful, and voluntary.

I just don’t understand how a voluntary use of proxy can be called MITM attack.

I’m not saying I like the fact that CF is part of so much of the Internet, or that CF isn’t on some level a security risk. But that has nothing to do with being an MITM attack.
> fairly petty civil actions

Just because this would be a civil matter in your jurisdiction does not mean it is a civil matter under Dutch law where this lawsuit is from.
It is a form of price discrimination, but it's actually more straightforward than that. These "nicer hotels" are primarily business hotels, rather than hotels targeted at personal travelers. Business hotels, at least in the US, take their guidance from the US Government in the form of the GSA. The US Federal government is one of the largest employers in the US, and most businesses limit their per diem rates for expenses to match GSA rates because these rates typically infer a tax advantage to the business. These rates are published annually by locality: https://www.gsa.gov/travel/plan-book/per-diem-rates

This of course isn't always true, but it does provide a strong price anchor. Importantly, the GSA historically separated per-diem for the hotel stay, food and beverage expenses, and "add-on amenities", which included things like WiFi. This is a major factor for why hotels historically charged for WiFi at higher priced places targeted at businesses (e.g. may have an attached conference center or meeting spaces) vs hotels targeted at personal travelers.
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If you think people haven’t or can’t be cured by astrology, psychics, shamanism, etc, I think you fundamentally misunderstand psychotherapy. The modern, clinical practice is just a controlled refinement of a process that has worked for thousands of years in thousands of ways. At an abstract level, it doesn’t matter what the method is, be it psychotherapy, astrology, psilocybin, etc. The benefit is in processing your thoughts to make sense of, and peace with, the world and the traumas it has inflicted on you.
I'd rather have more talk about maintainer mental health than less.
Looks interesting and I could see this being adopted in limited situations. Most Latex users only use a tiny subset of its capabilities. Most non-math journals also easily accept non Latex manuscripts. The math part seems similar to Latex (without backslashes) which is important since most folks have built muscle memory there (not just for documents but also for typing math in other situations like Markdown docs and Mathjax or KaTeX websites)

The only issue is the ecosystem for specialized fields with their own typesetting requirements.

But I’m all for anything that is easier to debug than Latex.

That said I feel it will never truly compete with LaTeX in terms of adoption. LaTex is like SQL — it’s long in the tooth and has some minor design issues but represents something very fundamental that defies reinvention.
This is healthy skepticism and the acknowledgement that there are lots of free tools out there. You need to be much better than what's freely available. You need to persuade buyers to buy when they don't want to. I don't think any of that is new.
The webpage example does a good job of setting the stage for passwords. You definitely do not want to compare passwords that way unless you are trying to create a textbook timing vulnerability.
Totally not written by an AI
I paid off ~65K in student debt in one year (first year as a developer)... it's totally doable, especially in the USA.
Yellow up 103% currently.....
They should offer NAT64/DNS64 gateway. It would work like other gateways and give IPv4 access to IPv6 hosts. Would probably be expensive like the NAT Gateway.
People’s perceptions of college costs have been skewed by 1) tuition sticker prices, which really don’t reflect what most students pay and, 2) the media reporting on student debt and inflated college costs.

I think #2 is made worse because it tends to be young journalists writing those stories from places like Brooklyn after having graduated from a journalism masters program at NYU or Columbia. Yeah, they’re going to have lots of student debt, high living costs, and low-ish income, and their reporting is going to reflect that.
You should try the latest VPC creation wizard. It collects all the required information and then creates what you need.

The biggest complaint I have with it is that it doesn’t write ID values to well known SSM parameters within the region.
Hey man, take that up with the post I read 5 years ago on HN and didn’t link to.

More seriously, if I find the time I’ll try to link to it.

I’m sure there’s a better way to paint things now but I think we often don’t for appliances.
This sounds interesting. Got any more details about it?
Not only are you not an American, you have no idea how our government works apparently. States can pay out financial benefits to citizens in the form of checks to residents, for example see Alaska. During my life time there have been multiple instances of the federal government refunding taxes collected for one reason or another.
> If the update was truly pixel based there should be no

Why? Nobody said that the cell is "reset". The cell is modified. The resulting state depends on the former state. This causes ghosting.

To achieve what you are suggesting, the procedure would be e.g. to first set the pixel black, then white (reset to a base state), then the greyscale value of the intended content. This would slow down rendering dramatically, and make regions flicker.

And, note, this may be something that some "EPD waveforms" do - but there are tradeoffs... E.g. Fast? Ok, lose the greyscales. Detailed? Ok, get lots of flashing at update. Mid-way? Ok get some degree of ghosting.
>reorientation is an expensive process

That’s true, but a failsafe automatic reorientation mode after two weeks with no communication from Earth might be a useful feature
I can't even begin to imagine how you would go about building an automated star tracker in the 60s.
"Yet sometimes things are black and white."

Have you had this fact checked by a cognitive therapist? They are, apparently, the arbiters of reality.
The union was planning a strike but canceled and gave some leeway on late pension payments due to Yellow's financial hardships.

I often hear that it's good for companies to fail if they can't meet a minimum threshold of compensation. If that's the case the unions should have gone on strike.
Do you see any failing network requests in devtools, other than the doubleclick one?
> A lot of people cheat, but you also need to keep in mind most disabilities are not binary, but have degrees.

Exactly. And not all disabilities are visible either.

I was just replying to someone saying that there is animosity towards disabled people ("people question why they needed a chair. They had people call them wheels in public..."). I haven't heard or seen it verbalized explicitly, with that one exception of airports, where people publicly mumble and mention it. I don't like to see it and I don't support that but that's what people do.
"Dividend et Impera" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volker_Pispers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chK2KHGx_yo
More companies should have IPv6 as standard offering and offer IPv4 as extra.

But it also requires tools to make sure they properly prefer IPv6 over IPv4, otherwise you're paying extra because your customers run bad software.

For example WireGuard on iOS. To this day it prefers an A record over AAAA when resolving a domain. That costs money. And breaks on 464xlat.
It's the other way 'round: You should use FreeBSD unless and until you have a use case that requires Linux. (For production; for yourself do what you like.)
> I am in position where I would be able to pay that amount down (averaged over 10y) with the same QoL; however I do not have a degree.

Bully for you! You are an outlier. Your employer may also be an outlier. That's wonderful for you, but it is irresponsible to recommend to any young person that they bet their futures on being able to 1) find 2) when they are hiring 3) and click with the hiring manager an outlier firm like yours.

> it's proof that you don't need a degree.

To do the job, no. To get the job, frequently yes. Obviously a lot of us were shipping production code in high school. Doesn't matter to most employers. For better or worse, having a degree is a required/recommended credential at a lot of jobs. Recruiters will often use it as a filter if they get a ton of resumes. Worse -- not having a degree is also a prohibition to some promotions at some employers so there are potentially follow-on effects of not getting the diploma.

Having been in the industry a while, I can say that the last 10 years or so are aberrant in that recruiters have been less selective than at other times. One definitely didn't want to be in tech in 2001 with no degree and a mortgage.

And speaking of 2001, one of the other benefits of having a degree is you're not as locked into a given career. When the dot.com bust hit tech, I saw folks use the flexibility afforded by their degrees to go into other fields: teaching, law school, etc.
I'm a sucker for old computer pr0n sites.
Uh, might be really bad timing on that integration there, as indeed PayPal has been a major missing option for Stripe for a very long time.

But that actually changed extremely recently. PayPal is now fully supported with Stripe, even payment settlement happens in Stripe, Connect is supported etc.

https://stripe.com/docs/payments/paypal

Its availability is limited - based on the merchant's Stripe account. It's not available in the US yet, but I can't imagine it'll be far behind. For EEA + UK + Swiss Stripe accounts, you can accept PayPal for US customers

It seems that it was launched very quietly, not crystal clear why. Maybe PayPal are trying to avoid cannibalisation of their own payment processing services
We should obviously be building nuclear plants as fast as possible while recognizing that they present outsize risks.

I want more nuclear plants, but not if they are run by the same myopic system that gave us Deepwater Horizon.
Those aren't the owners. And since the bonuses are in stock, those aren't going to be worth anything.

> I'm not going to waste time doing the research

Yeah that's pretty clear.
The company entered into questionable acquisitions though largely to try to become more competitive in the LTL market with their non-unionized competitors. Now they executed the mergers poorly and failed to integrate for too long, but even some of those integration challenges were due to union considerations. So yes management was incompetent but I think being unionized did play a large role in their demise as well.
Seems to be some misunderstanding:

1. Contact antitrust authorities: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36880224

2. Use a template: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36881511

3. Provide Google's address to the authorities: 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043.
They may not be students. I was quite disturbed when attending my niece's college graduation last month to hear her say she had $30k in loans and my sister had taken out $180k. My sister is 41 and hasn't worked in 15 years. Her husband is a decently well-paid glazier, but they're probably going to be in debt for the rest of their lives.
Yep. The reason a lot of people do it is not to de-escalate. Quite the opposite. It's to give the appearance of de-escalation to outsiders while at the same time escalating the argument by using a fallacy to attempt to irritate the other person.
I'm going to second the affordable college option. I had a lot of help in the beginning so I didn't do this, but still wish I had done it. Community college to knock out the general education requirements and experience a wide variety of different subject areas. My local community college, back when I was going to college in the mid-2000s, was easily half the cost of the larger universities nearby. I have no idea how little, or much, this has changed, but I can't imagine it's more cost effective to goto a university.

We need to stop making it seem like the "college experience" is worth gobs of student loan debt.
> Higher prices will hit Yellow customers, Jindel said.

> “The reason they were using Yellow was because they were cheap,” he said. “They’re finding out that price was below the cost of supporting a good operation.”

What happened that made them decide to shut the company down instead of raising their prices?
That depends on what your definition of "a small number" is and what you plan on doing with them. You can only buy them in powers of 2 with a minimum block of 256 and there are many brokers happy to facilitate a sale. You can also get them assigned (in a limited and often delayed fashion these days) but only if your intent is to actually use them as a new entity (or if your intent is to try to game the system for money then that's its own path with its own pitfalls). Once you have them you'll also need to pay regular registration dues while you hold them. If you plan on using them you'll need a BGP ASN and a peering relationship or a provider/carrier willing to advertise it under their ASN and then pipe it to you. AWS supports this and calls it "BYOIP". Advertisements to the internet are made in chunks the same sizes as you can buy.

The above is slightly simplified but it should give you the gist.
3.50/m for an ip? You can get a lowend vps for that amount.

Pretty exorbitant pricing especially when coming for free, but that's really par for the course for aws. I guess most users really don't need all that many, so maybe it's just a way to force some users have been going wild to setup a proper vpc.
Emacs is daunting, I've used it since grad school in the 80's, and I'm still familiar with only a couple of hundred packages/extensions available out of thousands that are available. Likewise, I use maybe a couple of hundred commands and key bindings (out of thousands available--Emacs interactive help with finding the commands makes this possible).

I can imagine how hard it must be to learn the basics buried within a mountain of functionality. The way I learned to use Emacs originally was by learning to use a stripped down Emacs-like editor that ran on my home PC running MS-DOS. This editor used the same basic key bindings and supported the fundamental operations one uses to edit files: navigation, directory browsing, reading and saving files and so forth, all with the same keys that full blown Emacs uses.

Instead of installing Emacs, try installing micro-Emacs (its actual name is mg). This should run on Linux, MacOS, or Windows. On the Mac, you can install mg using homebrew. This is a perfectly good editor, and it uses the keys and commands that make up most of the ones I use every day. It just has fewer features, no Org mode, no image browsing, no support for git, no Email clients, no GPG support, no Voice output, no games, etc. It's just a solid text editor that will run in text mode.

Within a few days of using mg, you will be able to navigate around a document, open and save files, browse directories, and know how to get basic help within the editor. Then try Emacs and only add extensions as you need or want them.
... Huh. Was this from a range of manufacturers? That seems like an astonishingly high failure rate. Anything funny about your electricity supply?

EDIT: Ah, misunderstood.

> all from this supposedly better age

is in reference to _old_ fridges; I'd read it as being a complaint about _new_ fridges. All these failures were old fridges.
Researchers were already working under the assumption such a thing can actually exist.
Funny how this is being framed by the article writer in terms in unionization. Are they suggesting that the workers should just give up their pensions and wages so that a clearly broken and mismanaged company should just lurch onwards?
Why is it when a company succeeds everyone praises the management and heaps huge bonuses on the C suite but when they fail they try and blame the workers.
I think I addressed this in the comment. To clear, I'm not a fan of Apple's policy on this and think they should allow other engines. Having said that, I think for 99% of users, the underling web rendering engine is an implementation detail they aren't concerned with.
The cold reactor fuses nuclei by virtue of energy input, the other tries to extract energy from a fusion reaction larger than its input. On a complexity level you're looking at 1:10000 difference or worse.
It's amazing what working stuff people will throw out simply because it's out of fashion, or failed in some easily repairable way. You can outfit an entire house with furniture, appliances, and electronics from the dumpster outside of a vain/impatient person's apartment.
Learning a trade and then management is a very slow gold rush
Isn't that the definition of something being lost, i.e., not knowing where it is?
How did you find my post? Are you a moderator? The post was visible to me but it didn't show up on the news feed.

Ask HN is what I intended. I wanted to gauge the level of interest before jumping to the full reveal. I'm still not ready to release the latest version of my proxy server (which is quite a major update), partly because I wasn't able to get the feedback that I was looking for. The feedback is important because I've been working on this project for over two years and I still have no idea what sort of response I should expect (I have never seriously tried to promote it).

Also, my "general" page IS the project because there is more than one moving part.

P.S. How long do I have to wait when HN starts telling me to slow down? I've posted 5 times which doesn't seem excessive.
Thank you for this, I might consider it for my next paper - it seems great at a first glance.

Do you use it on a daily basis? Any problems I should be aware of? I see quite a few open issues - do they actually matter?
I don’t think a general purpose scripting language is simpler than this variables feature. As you rightly point out, sh already exists for more complex use-cases, and really complicated stuff can be handled by a helper program.

For me, the big value-add is the filter functions - for example, proper JSON escaping or URL encoding is hard to do with pure sh, usually needing some external tool; now that it’s built into curl, it will simplify scripts and reduce the list of dependencies.
True, but would you want to bet your personal future on that always being the case? It's not exactly unprecedented for laws to be selectively enforced or some change in leadership leading to previously unenforced laws being taken far more seriously.
Is Jasper a counterexample? Good UX, domain-specific, but still a standalone ChatGPT wrapper forced to do layoffs because they have no moat.
I use Paddle for that. They handle sales tax/VAT and offer all kinds of payment options.
I already completed forgotten about EMDrive.
That is exactly my guess. I have been in the lab, and I know how easy it is to see something because you desperately want to see it...
Given that 15-20 years ago almost all laptops were x86/Windows, "decline" is pretty much the only direction the platform could go in.

I don't expect either x86 or Windows to go away any time soon – in general I think x86 has been somewhat unfairly maligned, and for most applications (including laptops) it works pretty well and is even the best available choice. I would prefer to say "diversification" or "the existence of actual competition" rather than "decline", as that doesn't imply it's going away.
Why is this type of scepticism always one sided?

Shouldn't you also question the other guys claims?
export PIP_REQUIRE_VIRTUALENV=1

has been quite helpful in the past as pip then refuses to just install things directly.
These children live in the prison. They also require extra staff who are paid more and their very own buildings.
Learn to code, this is the way and only way to escape poverty it seems
Even with my rose-tinted glasses on about the future of AI, it's not clear who will be the "winner" here, or even if any business making them will be a winner.

If open source models are good enough (within the category of image generators it looks like many Stable Diffusion clone models are), what's the business case for Stability AI or Midjourney Inc.?

Same for OpenAI and LLMs — even though for now they have the hardware edge and a useful RLHF training set from all the ChatGPT users giving thumbs up/down responses, that's not necessarily enough to make an investor happy.
Electric trains and trams in Europe already have regen braking. And no need for batteries!
NAT needs a public IP address. SRV needs a public IP address. In any case, web browsers doesn’t suppport SRV. HTTP can serve multiple hosts from one IP address.

Company requires at least 2 IP, one for outgoing and one incoming.
Bear in mind that the incident was only a little more than a decade after this photo was taken: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunch_atop_a_Skyscraper

"Workplace safety" is a comparatively modern invention.
This works in a vacuum, but in many industries you get undercharging and living off investments, be it Uber or a gajillion startups, many of them mentioned here on HN.
Hello Vore!
Yes, of course. I wrote this for a few non technical friends - a simple example they can relate to (like we skim docs) seemed like the best way to start off without scaring them off the article :P