skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do not need this condescending lecture about the merits of programmable logic over CPUs and emulation. The difference is not technical or even technological; the actual difference is social. Anything that it is not period-accurate is going to erode the historical value of the artifact, until the point when everything inside is a bunch of fpga's on sockets.
You’re still trusting that

Mullvad never changes

Mullvad never is compelled to change by coercion

The data center Mullvad uses - a separate company - never compromises them out of curiosity, preference, coercion

That governments skip the private sector coercion entirely and just add their own devices and logging in the middle, which came out of the Snowden leaks as normal 10 years ago.

All VPNs have this limitation. They’re just internet resellers that amusingly try to differentiate an audience based on privacy.
Just moved from fly.io (due to severe continuous networking issues in their JNB data center lasting for 48 hours) to DigitalOcean and on the second day my services (via DO Apps Platform) are offline thanks to this incident :face-palm:
For personal banking, I agree, there's not a lot to recommend them. I use a credit union.

For businesses, they might have the most attractive product and so you go with them. For example, they have an entire practice finance department that lends on favorable terms without SBA fees. However, they require using their checking account as a term of the loan. You could just fund the account and leave it, or use it.

The worst thing that has happened to me with them was they once allowed someone to cash a fake check using my account number. They put the money back but closed the account and I had to change over all my stuff to a new account number. I was a little disturbed that they didn't check the name on the account to the account number before approving the check.

But all of the other horror stories seem to happen on the consumer side.
That's not true: you make the SID sound weird and exotic when it's really not (although it is incredibly cool).

Seen from the perspective of microcomputers, which mostly either used simple square waves, or FM synthesis to generate sounds, the SID is unusual. But seen from the perspective of sound synthesis the SID is an analogue subtractive synthesizer[0] which, at the time of its design, were commonplace. As I say, that was pretty unique amongst microcomputers, and is why the SID was and is revered by fans of the 8-bit era: it has a really fantastic, crunchy analogue sound, that other computers of the era just don't and, indeed, can't reproduce.

I'd go as far as to say that Commodore missed a massive opportunity with the Amiga in terms of use for music: if it had the PCM based Paula chip, plus a SID chip (or even two - a man can dream), it would have been absolutely incredible.

In recent years analogue synthesizers have experienced something of a resurgence although, in truth, they never completely went away. As such ICs with analogue circuitry are actually relatively commonplace. Now that doesn't mean you can just remanufacture the SID chip really easily, but it is absolutely possible to build ICs with analogue circuitry today: as a trivial example, analogue to digital converters are commonplace.

[0] I think strictly speaking it's also a paraphonic synth, since all the voices share a single filter, but I can't remember off the top of my head whether they also all share a single amp (again, a hallmark of a paraphonic, rather than a true polyphonic, synthesizer).
But how would you define realistic for a fantasy world?

You can't expect people to believe as they would in our world, given that their world is different. If invaders with dragons took over England in our Middle Ages and crushed the church, peoples religion would realistically also evolve very differently from what it actually did.
Deflation: Why falling prices in China raise concerns
I can warmly recommend the new Iliad translation by Caroline Alexander as audiobook. Suberb! I understand the new translation by Emily Wilson (whose Odyssey was excellent) should be good as well.

The new translations really bring these old poems to life, and listening to them is at least for me the best way to consume them.
if you mean things like "write me Python code to read a file and count all occurrences of a word" then all cool. Good luck with something like "write me some Java code for Android to send a message to an app user"
App stores
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Graviton server and serverless functions have shown such a better performance to cost ratio, it's unsurprising Amazon is doubling down on those.

The real question is, why are other cloud providers not working on similar chips?
The two are not mutually exclusive. It's not like corporations are paying the Wikimedia Foundation to deprive others of your contributions. And you are also benefiting from the fruit of corporate donations.
Working historical artifact are way more valuable then non-working. I am surprised so many people do not understand that.
You never write cjk names with firstname first, always surname first. Japanese usually complain, the others just shake their heads silently about the silly westerners.

When the original author writes his/her name american style he/she moved to america, but then he/she changed his firstname also.
In this case some citations may started out wrong, as journalists have no idea how to write foreign names, scientists and experts usually do.

the commenter knows how write foreign names, even if some author succumbed to western stupidity.
What are you doing about western governments pursuing journalists who reported war crimes in iraq?

This moral superiority about expecting people from other places to do what we don’t would be hilarious if it was completely outrageous

We’re expecting normal people to stand up against armed regimes while around the world our governments commit the worst human crimes while we’re zapping on netflix I have absolutely no words, I’m terrified
Matches my experience, for the first step I was given a lengthy questionare and told it would be about 12 pages of answers. Nope'd out immediately.

It's a shame because the product and my Hiring Manager seemed great, I'm curious what candidates make it through.
I think I share exactly the same experience and the very same thing helped greatly for me. I was just not diagnosed any postpartum depression but rather good old GAD.

After the birth of a son life changed 180 - no free time, no personal time etc etc. All you can expect. Less sleep, a lot of unknowns and anxieties. Again - expected. Less time with wife. Feelings of down, depression. Some anger problems. But it all looks like everyday life and everybody experiences stuff like that.

Then my father died. So I became "the man of the family".

Then corona hit. Then unknowns at work.

Then one day I was playing with my son and he hit his back and I felt so sick. However x-rays just nothing and he was just fine the next day. Life continues.

And one day I was just chilling and having some alone time and it all hit me like a train. Suddenly I thought I am gonna die. Somehow my heart will fail (my father had heart problems) and basically I could not function as a person. I just wanted that somebody would take me to the hospital or something and just care for me so if my hearts starts failing medics would be near. I couldn't work. One of the worst weeks or so of my life.

Of course my heart was just fine.

All these things were accumulating for some time already. The very same Lexapro helped me a lot. No side effects whatsoever. After a few months I felt like I was actually young again. Things started to improve both at home and at work. Anxiety is 99% gone. I am just so glad I got help. Actually I was forced to as I couldn't function.
> Which is not how masks are supposed to work (we were told to mask to protect others)

A well fitting N95 / FFP2, or better, respirator mask protects the wearer to a large extent, even if others don't mask. The "protect the others" message was in 2020, when mostly only surgical masks were available.
The world is not as black and white as you paint it, taken from an outside perspective the US has also done many things that we would likely go to war for if it was anyone else, including chasing journalists across borders, forcing down diplomatic aircraft and spying on allied governments (Merkel in particular).

Regardless; your enemies are not my enemies. Even then: Sanctioning occupied territories only serves to push the occupied territory further into the occupiers hands.
I mean, I'm super against supporting hostile government countries, but a lot of stuff is made in the US. It's hard to avoid money going there.
Neither would I, but this is not what the title says.
But those 3000 bodies don't have exactly the same genomes obviously. In fact half of them won't even share one of the chromosomes.

It'll be hard to recombine this into a clear picture as you won't know which sequences are common and which are individual.
It is about Fab that is not in native Anglosphere. Some bias is expected on Anglosphere site even if the news is not about something ground-breaking.
Hostile to Western interests. Sanctions are nothing but legitimatized bullying of the strong over the weak. Thanks, but not. Multi-polarity is coming.
Very little traffic for AWS China regions
It's not my native language either.

Sorry if you felt made fun of.
Communication between the builders and maintainers, including "costly signals" (commercial consequences for poor work, poor reputation, losing contracts etc). There are a lot of builders out there.
On paper Canonical is a company I'd rather enjoy working for. I love the product (despite its flaws) and have a lot of relevant experience.

I wouldn't even object to the long interview process as such.

Written materials? Sure! I'd love to see the bar raised on developers' writing skills! Why not.

But man, that High School question? The implicit agism and the shere fuck-you irrelevance of my circumstances 35 years ago just stops me in my tracks every time.

Are you hiring me or 16-year-old me? Well then.

Last time this came up here, Shuttleworth popped up to tell us it was just what they needed so there you go. No need to apply. :shrug:
I would have liked it if the audit had also provided a number of logins to be used on that server to act like typical users. Just so it was operating as a normal server would.

This could have led onto auditing a live server.

Auditing an in use customer facing server would definitely require a good amount of controls to ensure the auditors didn’t log any possible customer data.
> Even if your server is not vastly more powerful, your 1 second of proof-of-work means a single server can pass your challenge 3600 times an hour.

A decentralized CAPTCHA that reduces an attacker to one request per second is a lot better than nothing! Why are you dismissing this as useless?

At the end of the day, all CAPTCHAs can be circumvented by paying humans to solve them. So all CAPTCHAs have a price, and in this case it’s the price of the power used by the CPU as well as renting the CPU (or the depreciation on a CPU you own).
TLDR: it was bought, and the new owners inserted telemetry that potentially reported all the extension's user's viewing history back to them.

What the “speculated worst” is from that depends on your paranoia about such information gathering. Most likely the information was to be fed into various marketing databases.

Obviously the same information could be used for even more nefarious purposes, particularly for users in countries with very monitor-y governments and people whose governments otherwise want human-rights abusing controls over them (women in a number of US states for instance – in fact even if their local legislature is not acting on tjhat sort of information, unpleasant groups active within the state might be).
You're right, it only appears to be relevant to those that are truly auto-didactic... ;-)
> I'm curious what candidates make it through.

compliant ones I would expect, which seems to be the aim of the process.
I still get "Health check: unavailable" errors and need to continously redeploy.
Thanks for the reference, I didn't know he had a more thorough book on this. I remember reading "Life Ascending" and being amazed at the descriptions of the hydrothermal vents.
It's interesting that it is the widely believed theory in China, or at least it was often stated to me as fact when I lived there.

Seems to stem from the discovery of the Peking Man:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peking_Man
It has not happened immediately. Also, AFAIK they were not in USA but somewhere in Europe.
Big thanks for help then!
I switched to Mullvad after teh last article i read here on HN about how they didn't log and couldn't offer logs to the authorities. I don't have the link but I was impressed and these audits are further proof that that decision was correct.
Vxlan: BGP EVPN with FRR
"One million Dollars, we could make a difference with one million dollars"

"This Hour is so valuable. This Hour is so Hour by Hour. Hour by Hour. I value each Hour. I invest in each Hour."

"I will keep going. I will keep growing. I will keep learning."

GPT3 had a mental breakdown and is coming out on the other side.
I think that's an incomplete statement, especially when you consider the information presented in the video I linked above...
Just want to point out that this user is the creator of the wonderful tool MapComplete (https://mapcomplete.osm.be) which helps you adding more information to the data available in the OSM database. If you have some free time and have local knowledge of your area, I really suggest giving this tool a try, you can choose between multiple themes (which will show different quests) and add info that you know the most.
Xtree Fans
> Yet the only way to give yourself a chance to win is to take part. If you sit at home and feel resentful, you definitely won’t build a billion dollar company, or win the lottery for that matter.

I didn't say this as an excuse to not try, quite the opposite. If you are aware of the fact that not every failure is your fault, you can try (and fail) with less pressure.

> The other issue is, the people who actually DO succeed work extremely hard to do so.

Some of them, yes, others no. You can work hard your whole life and still never have success by your own metrics. I think one has to be careful to not drink the workaholic kool-aid a tad bit too much. A lot of the good stuff can come from low pressure activities like toying around, trying things out etc. If people are to work focused they will never horse around and never harvest the creative fruit of doing so.

I would be careful to compare success (which for most seems to equate economic success) with sports. Although sports are not as simple as one might think, they are nowhere near the complexity of a market based economy within a modern information based society.

Again, these are not excuses. It just seems sad to me, that many people (especially in the US) have the whole "just work hard enough and it will pay off" mentality engrained so hard in their mind, they will inevitably hit a burn out. And even if they manage to "win" and get the economic success they longed for so much, they will not become happy all of the sudden when it is there.

Don't get me wrong, economic stability is certainly necessary to lead a happy life, but there are many other factors that have nothing to do with the money and all to do with how you want to spend your time.
I worked at Unity prior to the Weta acquisition.

If the button says "contact us" or they ask for a waitlist, they haven't actually built or prepared much for release and are gauging for interest before likely starting to take engineering etc action on it.

Caveat: things may have changed a bit after my time.
It wouldn’t make that much of a difference, I think, since they could just do the same with the real servers but only for the period of the audit. There has to be some faith that the subject isn’t actively deceptive and malicious, or the audit has to be random and at any time.
How are things after? The few PCP or psychiatrist friends told me that these meds have a huge addiction potential. Could you be without it again?
I can absolutely see certain groups refusing to believe their distant ancestors were from Africa and grasping at any alternative explanation.
There’s no AI without the cloud, says AWS CEO Adam Selipsky
I am a beginner in this space but I have some interest in trying to find solutions to the pain of package usage.

* A new programming language and ecosystem could try to solve package management from day 0. ScrapScript is an example of this. I've heard good things about Go and Rust.

* You can make package management fun by thinking of it as a data flow factory and like Factorio (which I've not played but I do get the feeling of that game) As it stands it's just lots of tedious boring busy work.

* If only dependency usage was as enjoyable and straightforward as shopping and arranging bought things in a room.

* I am investigating the modelling of packages as bundles of types foremost and state machines that can be traversed by the package manager to determine state interactions and compatibility automatically.

* Changes to packages break everything. You could diff ASTs to see what's different.

* I don't enjoy breaking changes. I have some old projects where I never pinned versions that cannot be built because I don't know what versions they work against.
Whataboutism is an old Soviet propaganda technique, but AFAIK they didn't come up with the term (they must have had an internal name for it of course, but somehow I doubt they called it whataboutism)
Things you forgot (or never knew) because of React
If anything it's just a preview of what's to come, El Niño always existed it's just that now, the problem is that the current baseline make it even worse than in the past

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/20...
I love http://brouter.de/brouter-web/ though it is website without a reasonable offline install on phone.
Which data center company do they use?
Isn’t trading with certain states like sanctioning of how they treat their population? Withholding trade seems fair. We don’t want to deal with you because you start murderous wars for example seems fair. As for “multi polarity”.. seems so far like the catchphrase of shitty governments and unhappy people here that dream of some radical change.. It’s a false word somehow
I once replaced a faulty SMD fuse on a laptop motherboard; I used tweezers and a microscope. Could I have done such a repair with a pick and place theoretically?
> A distro that is made to be resilient and simple, that has wizards for everything, sensible defaults and sturdy guardrails, to the point Linux pros would turn up their nose, is certainly technically possible

There are already distros like that - pretty much most immutable distros are aiming to be that way. Eg, SteamOS, or Fedora's Silverblue.
In a way it's a very basic question, but I really had to search a while...
And several others: https://github.com/dodie/testing-in-bash
If you're an individual digital creator in, say, South Africa, why would you worry about paying taxes in Norway for $500 that came from customers there?

I mean, big, established companies are a big target. But it doesn't seem that the Norway Revenue Service would spend time finding who's Joe from South Africa who sold a $50 ebook to 10 Norwegians...
Not sure, but I'd guess they're using Vitesse (ie. Planetscale) which is honestly really fast and durable.
any competent opinions on protonvpn vs mullvad vpn?
Where's the second democratic pole? If the only alternative to living in an US aligned country is moving to an authoritarian hellhole - then... no thanks...
I had been using bitrise as an automated build and deploy system. A problem I was finding was that on a friday when everyone else was hitting their servers things ground to a halt.
This solution uses github actions running on a local machine and fastlane to help.
Tangential, but does someone knows which data Apple map uses, and at which frequency it’s updated? It’s plainly outdated by some months for some streets of my city, but unable to report it directly via the app, so wondering if fixing OSM would have the same effect (I’ve not yet checked if the errors are also on OSM)
> In my experience a lot of people who started as developers 20+ years ago move on to system administration, and retitled themselves SRE/Devops over recent years.

Usually they don't retitle themselves, companies do.

It seems the whole IT industry just collectively decided to rename the sysadmin role as devops when using cloud and containers technologies regardless if they actually use DEVOPS methodology or not.

That is my history as an engineer at least.
Reminds me of this Japanese incident: https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/safety-and-sec...
Fear of AI just killed a useful tool
Launched a Project Twice with Two Horrible Names but Still Made Money
If you tallied it all up in an excel sheet you would probably be shocked about the abuse going on “here and there”
Out of the tar pit suggests we should all go back to one big SQL server and probably resort to something approximating SSR web apps again. You know... 2-3 big powerful servers like we used to have. How fast is a stack like this today compared to 20 years ago?

This is mostly what we have done. We want to make money. There are barely 10 of us. We don't have time for make believe work that doesn't bring in extra revenue. We used to play in traffic with conversations like "micro services" and "one repo per service" but our investor killed that mode of business and gave us one more chance to do it right.

I recall the original reason for moving away from one big database being something approximating "it won't scale". How well are those various k8s contraptions scaling relative to the "legacy" verticals they purport to replace? How many of us would go back in an instant if given the opportunity?

I think the biggest fear for most on HN is going through ego death over this. The fact that even your "hard" problem is trivially solved with boring tools that were invented before you were born.
Stripe actually does collect VAT and helps you file and remit. Check out their docs page for doing this with Payment Links, which is what Easyful uses:

https://stripe.com/docs/tax/paymentlinks
I read your intro to PLAN. It's much easier to understand than anything I've read on this sort of topic before. I can at least come out of it understanding what the aims are and what it might provide.

It's interesting. Not something I think will affect my day to day life, but in a thought-experiment, LISP-y sort of way I can see why a certain kind of coder might find such a system intriguing. I imagine such a coder is probably into language design, lambda calculus, functional purity and formal verification rather than being on the 'just get things done' end of the spectrum.

I also don't think I can see such a design ever doing anything very quickly, as every operation is necessarily committed to disk. I guess that's where Jets come in...

It's amusing to contrast this with the general mood in programming where we strive to make programs ephemeral so that we don't care what's in memory, things die often and we just re-start them when we feel like it, allowing them to rebuild their internal state.
Tax them harder.

Everyone I know is going without due to rising costs in everything, but some how banks are making record profits.

Tax the life out of them.