skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The real business case for the cloud is it replaces capex with opex.

Which is great if you have limited capital (bootstrapping, new startup, etc), or are the CEO of a large company that wants to show better cash flow to earn a larger bonus.

In reality, the idea that the cloud somehow means you can outsource your infrastructure team rarely works out in practice.

At best you’ll get much more expensive developers having to spend time on infrastructure which might look like a couple of fewer salaries to pay, but you’re likely now paying for it through dev time anyways.
If you had prepaid, you may have been into a nasty surprise (see my post below).
Original research article: The association between daily step count and all-cause and cardiovascular mortality: a meta-analysis - https://academic.oup.com/eurjpc/advance-article/doi/10.1093/...

Possibly the most telling graph is Figure 3 (not link-able): a continuous curve degrading the "all-cause mortality" risk, steeper-before-flatter-after the (very roughly) 7000 steps, but with continuous gain (up to the scale end of 20000).
The last comment on that page has another gem: https://youtu.be/BQ4c54rCJ_k
For guitars saying things, Steve Vai has plenty of them, also laughing, crying, meowing...
> How will they develop “street smarts” about being on social media without a social media account?

"Don't trust strangers; they only want to humiliate, rape, or kill you" works well enough. Same as reality, the problem with social media is the people.

The "street smarts" kids have picked up from social media access is nothing to celebrate. /r/runaway is a very sordid place encouraging kids to hook up with total strangers. Rate of teen suicide has only increased since the invention of social media. Kids are exchanging scamming tactics and teaching each other how to maintain eating disorders covertly and fake illnesses convincingly enough to fool doctors.

Give them a book and a Python interpreter. Plenty of us got started that way, and some of us still have to work that way-- in SCIFs or other air-gapped environments with no internet access.

> How do I let them have the same positive experiences I had playing games without having the deeply negative ones too (I lost that breastplate that took weeks of grinding to get because the Bloodwood forest swallowed my corpse).

What does this have to do with the internet?

Everyone has lost local saves due to bugs, power outage or corrupted media. "Save early and save often" was a lesson taught by a creepy middle-aged guy named Larry Laffer, using entirely-offline software bearing his name.
FreeBSD as well!
Impressive work! You give me hope that we'll be able to continue scaling computing in domains which require it.

Also makes me wonder if Google's DWave could be more similar to this method rather than true quantum computing.
Reasonable professionals can disagree – strongly – without being part of a conspiracy.
Indeed, I use block cursor in visual and normal mode, I beam in insert mode and underscore in replace mode.
2s-10s is remarkably accurate for predicting recessions. For returns over 10 years or so CAPE is quite good, stocks/(stocks+bonds+cash) is very good.

But you cannot make statistical claims about such numbers, the calculations are done over the entire very small population (if you want to abuse the maths a bit and call a time series a population), not over a sample.
Would you mind giving an example of something that is easy in cloud but hard on prem (all I can think of is scaling up (down?) which seems kinda obviously hard)
Do you mind sharing this? Sounds like it would solve the exact problem on my ultra-wide monitor.
> Some software is only available as SaaS anymore

This reminds me of the idea of "Service as a Software Substitute" (SaaSS): https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-s...

> What does it mean to say that a given computing activity is your own? It means that no one else is inherently involved in it. To clarify the meaning of “inherently involved,” we present a thought experiment. Suppose that any software tasks you might need for the job are implemented in free software and you have copies, and you have whatever data you might need, as well as computers of whatever speed, functionality and capacity might be required. Could you do this particular computing activity entirely within those computers, not communicating with anyone else's computers?

> If you could, then the activity is entirely your own. For your freedom's sake, you deserve to control it. If you do it by running free software, you do control it. However, doing it via someone else's service would give that someone else control over your computing activity. We call that scenario SaaSS, and we say it is unjust.

It sounds a bit preachy like some of the FSF/GNU stuff sometimes does, but at the same time I can't shake the feeling that they're somewhat right and that those arguments have also fallen on deaf ears most of the time.

For my own personal stuff, I just self-host everything I need in containers and mostly use free software, so I can (and have) easily move hosting providers or host things myself in my homelab, have full backups and so on. But at the same time, it definitely takes a bit of work to figure everything out and not everyone wants that, especially in environments where you can point a finger and go "the vendor is having some issues, we're off the hook".

Plus, I don't think there are many alternatives to certain software out there, like MongoDB (maybe JSON in RDBMS if you really need to, but the API would be different then), or S3 (MinIO has a license that's too strong for some, Zenko feels abandoned, Garage is the same as MinIO, maybe SeaweedFS but that doesn't have full/mostly full API compatibility from looking into it).

Honestly, it sometimes unironically feels like building boring software that relies on MariaDB/PostgreSQL and maybe Redis/RabbitMQ is the right answer. Not quite sure about blob storage, though.
That's also part of the issue of YouTube premium, we talk a lot about the pricing but the fact that you can't search videos makes the platform less valuable as a media platform.

Google is designing YouTube as a ad distribution platform, not as a media platform and it shows
Doesn't really matter when using AWS, Azure and GCP is not an option. They only have to compete and compare with other "EU native" solutions, not the US cloud giants.
Massive amounts of cement would probably have been used to create the dam and in the 1960s, nothing was even close to carbon neutral. Heck, we were still burning leaded fuels in cars at that time.
With IAM you can restrict all dynamodb endpoint access to a VPCE/private link. But the insecurity of the public facing endpoints is vastly overstated even without using VPCE.

The rest is a bunch of FUD - I spent years going through these points with some of the worlds best security teams to secure some of the most systemically important workloads. These arguments are fairly tired.

I’ll tackle another one - speculative attacks. First, you certainly can get bare metal exclusive access to hosts. But instances move around the broader infrastructure of an AZ, even if you’re using something like placement groups which only assure a local affinity. The chance a bad actor can colocate in the same physical device as your workload and successfully attack through side channels is vanishingly low in larger regions. To target anyone specific you would need to do such an enormous fishing expedition that it’s impractical. Further cloud providers aren’t insensate to such attacks and accounts that are doing that sort of topological mapping are easily detected. A better solution is to simply cycle your instances periodically to migrate your workloads around. For very sensitive workloads where the extraordinary unlikelihood isn’t sufficient, just get a bare metal instance.

I don’t dissuade anyone from running data centers. But I’ve yet to find anyone running back.
Spitznagel runs a fund that specializes on so-called "tail-risk events", i.e. he profits from extremely unlikely economic scenarios such as hyperinflation or violent economic crashes. He profits more the more assets he has under management, because he charges his clients a performance fee of probably around 20% of profits. So part of his job is to constantly find new investors by telling them that the worst economic crisis is just around the corner. And how he he just happens ot have the right solution.
In ML people don't read the literature, establish precedent or even formulate sound hypothesis'. Why this got posted here, I'll never know... Oh wait I know, next week someone will publish a paper claiming success with this using ChatGPT. A year later it'll be found to be bogus, but that won't stop the cash from flowing in.
Copyright law is incompatible with preservation of cultural artefacts.
If you go with permament contract from the start, the corporate still gets 3 months of trial period where they can just fire you at will.
I had exactly the same experience with Render. I was researching where it would be cheaper and easier to setup my infrastructure. So, I deployed bunch of services to Render, and boom, "Unauthorized" and "This service has been suspended by its owner". Sent an email to support, got first reply after 4 days, and then silence for a month, until I angrily asked them what's up. No need to say that I will probably never go with Render.
Meta: This is also a testament to how learning is often incidental. Like I read the comments on this thread and go to another thread for far manager and bam screenshots link on the top right corner.

https://www.farmanager.com/screenshots.php?l=en

I don't usually look for screenshots as the first thing to look for when I go to a website at least not consciously so I appreciate your comment.
Never gets old, always thought I was with captain Kirk on the enterprise. 3D tubes was awesome too, especially playing with the speed settings. As a kid I thought they were going to pop off the screen. Made great PBJ breaks while taking a break from monster bash or duke nukem.
Supply chain attacks are a thing. Given that we are in an active war with Russia and a trade war with China (which is reasonably expectable to turn into an active war as well), it makes sense to drop everything out of your supply chain where the people with commit and release access are in the reach of these nations' secret services.

Hardly anyone walls off their on-prem/on-cloud CI services, the amount of damage that a dedicated and actually skilled actor can do before being stopped is immense - we're lucky that most of the malware in the NPM ecosystem has been credential stealers (which were then used to mine cryptocoins) and cryptocoin miners, so relatively harmless in comparison to what an attacker might do in a war.

Don't forget how Russia killed off a bunch of windmill remote management systems as they executed a hack on a sat-internet provider early in the Ukraine war. No one is safe from being collateral damage.
Dolphin emu custom Android drivers
Also, a lot of people here work for startups or have their own startups.

The cloud makes a lot of sense for startups for a variety of reasons. Low capex, easier to get started, you’re willing to pay a premium to not have to deal with certain issues, at least in the beginning, and your costs are likely not very high anyways because your usage is relatively low.
Ideally, you would never need to adjust motion by a random number of characters; you would use semantic motion by text object, making hjkl a rare corrective move. In practice, we are only humans, so...
Meh, I have some old screwdrivers that still work too. I just don't get hardware fetish. Just boot it up, run code, shut it down, and go enjoy summer and/or winter.
Maybe the professor didn't like the "sabotage competition" part. I know I didn't.

I do believe luck/chance is the most important ingredient.
I don't agree.

My really-learned language is C#

The biggest money I've made technology on is C, which I don't really know, just basics.

I've wrote some js, ts, c++, lua, used some postgres+mssql+mongo, yada yada and stuff

but when writing CV I'm not saying that I know those, just that I have experience with those. It is probably bad strategy cuz people inflate their skills, but who knows.

There's giant difference between person who "can use tech" and person who "understands to the point that he/she feels particular tech".

"Feeling" technology takes years because you need to understand its ecosystem, why some approaches to some problems are more common within this tech, historical context, internals, etc, etc.

I feel C#, but I only can use C.
I'll edit "I know" to "I guess". Sorry, I just woke up and saw this thread while making coffee.
Full list of the plaintiffs, so that they can be appropriately awarded next time one is shopping for music.

UMG Recordings, Inc. - Capitol Records, LLC - Concord Bicycle Assets, LLC - CMGI Recorded Music Assets, LLC - Sony Music Entertainment - Arista Music
That's hilarious and absolutely true. I think he omitted a few shadier things too.
The poor in America are richer than the poor in just about any other country. The US poverty line is around the top 15% of world incomes, and that's pre tax transfers. Post tax transfers puts them much higher.
I read this a couple years ago. To me it sounds like one of those things convenient enough that you want it to be true, but perhaps it is.

> It turns that in 1965, a Japanese company called Yamasa Clock created a personal-fitness pedometer called the Manpo-kei, which means “10,000 steps meter.” The Japanese character for 10,000 looks almost like a person walking or running, which is likely how the gadget-maker landed on the name—and the number. It’s also an easy goal to remember, especially when accompanied by a sketch of a person who’s literally walking.

https://www.popsci.com/story/health/10000-steps-evidence-stu...
To the folk who dismiss this as “just another hedge fund manager who stand to win if everyone fails”

Why do you think this event or any other kind of big economic downturn is unlikely to happen?
> Why would I turn away someone brilliant at that because they happen to know Java but not Android development? That's the easy bit to solve.

The reason you would is because while I don’t know Android. I do have years of experience designing systems for field service workers where they go out on the field with mobile devices in places where they may or may not have connectivity. But they still need their applications to work and they work in a “semi connected state” [1] and be able to sync and handle conflicts.

Then you need to know whether the feature you’re going to spend man hours on will break App Store rules. Someone needs to know how long the process usually takes, etc. knowing how to write a complex mobile app is not “easy”.

[1] My four experiences with dealing with mobile implementations

1. Windows CE ruggedized devices back when trucks had satellite dishes on them to get a signal and some customers didn’t want the extra expense of early cellular data plans. These were trucks that delivered propane and other field service work to rural areas or they were in basements

2. Railroad car repairmen in a rail yard

3. Doctors in hospitals that often didn’t have great reception. I wrote the backend syncing protocol for the iOS and Android apps. But I knew the design constraints.

4. Home nurses for special needs kids and often the signal wasn’t strong at home or at the school when nurses would go to the school with the students. This was built on top of a third party forms engine. But you could customize it anyway you wanted using web technologies and it had an API where you could save local data and sync it.
Have you looked at toolbox? it might already be doing what you want — it's a thin wrapper around podman that integrates containers with the rest of the system — you don't really even feel that you're running a container.

https://github.com/containers/toolbox
This. A dozen time this.

I am lost in trying to start off a sensible / official / approved AWS setup but I can use some years old bash and salt s riots to setup my raspberry pis sitting there in front of me.

It's not just me (maybe mostly me) but there is a new layer of complexity - I can learn and understand the FOSS but trying to learn AWS means piercing the layers of marketing that are creeping in - one of the huge advantages of a FOSS readme is it comes from the head of the person who designed the system i want to use. not a product manager who probably misses the technical point anyway

So yeah. I am wary.
>Most companies including the ones that created these cross platform frameworks, build thier core apps using native stack for a reason.

yes, because they are a company and have 2 separate teams maintaining each stack.

TBH I mostly blame Apple for my reluctance. Given the barrier of entry, I'd rather just work with a cross platform tool, launch android, and then figure out any potential IOS issues when I decide I need an IOS port and the need to pay for a license (and find/buy the Apple hardware).
I wonder why screensavers are not used by default for mobile devices? There are so many used phones on ebay that have burn in. I thought LCDs were not susceptible to burn in?
I use vast.ai to train 110M models - so much smaller but it is good value for money and I am sure you can scale it up. I just use a single RTX3090.

You might also consider Lambda Labs. Or GCP.
I'd rather you apologised for not having a visible scrollbar instead.
I mean, I am with you mostly, but I also feel sometimes these "public support requests" help me be a tad more cautious when considering the companies mentioned. There's a few similar mentions of the exact same thing happening to other users in this thread, so I've definitely taken away a mental note to be weary when considering Render. Doesn't mean I won't use it because of a single bad comment, but it just helps addding one layer of extra diligence before switching.
Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501
Wait, you actually believe that Incognito Mode gives you privacy? Have you looked into that with facts and data?
Not at all, copied verbatim from my userContent.css file, full path $FIREFOXPROFILE/chrome/userContent.css:

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font-size: 12px;
line-height: 1.75em;
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Hmm, maybe. Actually not sure where I got this from, I could very well be wrong.

Either way I'm no expert.
China is only solving its own problems, including the high leverage, high debt, and unequal wealth distribution that everyone has mentioned. These have nothing to do with Western countries. If there is any relationship, it is not on a political level, it is merely business. China only wants its common people to live better lives, that's all.
> For the record, I'm not a huge fan of the crypto wallet thing at all but I just don't use it.

Why not, if it solves payments between Signal users (believe the Signal-MobileCoin integration, disregarding Moxie's involvement in both for a second, is a direct response to the now-defunct Libra/Deim)? Personally, I see MobileCoin / wallets as a genuine path to monetization for the Signal Foundation. Though, it remains to be seen if it is any successful.
Scaling is definitely one, but another big category is just depending on other cloud services, whether it's message queues, managed databases, object storage, ML training pipelines, software-defined networking, whatever.

In any of those cases, we either have a choice to implement and support some onprem alternative, require the customer to provide the necessary service locally (which is not particularly effective for all sorts of reasons), or simply disable features onprem.

In the cloud, we get significant benefits from using managed services. Onprem, we not only lose those benefits, we have to pay an additional cost in terms of making our code support both environments and building out the deployment and support of the services in question.

It's really exactly the same issues that make cloud attractive to businesses in the first place.
Base rates.
People always say this about the Beatles but it’s fucking ridiculous. I’m a musician and have spent a lot of my life around musicians including very very famous ones and including ones who are very famous now but were not when I met them.

I’ve also met hundreds of musicians who practice and try for years and are basically the same at the end as when they start.

The difference between being OK and quite good indeed can be bridged with practice.

The difference between being a quite good and polished songwriter and being Paul McCartney involves being fucking born Paul McCartney.

Also “they sucked at the beginning bf their career?” What in the the fuck are you talking about? They had a hit with Love Me Do when their ages ranged from 20-23 years old. That’s not fast enough for you?

Paul Simon had his first hit single as a teenager. Robert Plant was 19 when he recorded Zeppelin I.

No amount of practice alone is going to to get you to that level of talent.

Anyone implying otherwise 1) is trying to sell you books and 2) has spent zero actual time as a musician and around musicians and songwriters.
Show HN: Broken Bear, the AI teddy bear that loves your broken self
I made a GPT-based AI Chatbot based on Carl Roger's philosophy of radical self-acceptance. Broken Bear is designed to be a kind, comforting, and quietly encouraging friend.
> I thought LCDs were not susceptible to burn in?

LCDs aren't, but a lot of phones use OLED displays which are.
Aren't these two things directly related in a lot of cases? Or is the only reason they often aren't because "AI" is completely unregulated in the US?
It's not just services like databases or other APIs applications hook into, it's the applications themselves, like accounting software or Microsoft Exchange and Office 365, etc...
It seems the Internet Archive itself may be in need of archiving... in a far more distributed manner.
Posting this as a follow up of sorts to the thread a few days ago about Air France 447 [0]

Just read this chilling paragraph re: flight 8501. It’s the same “dual input” problem as noted for flight 447..!

“Because the captain was also pushing the stick forward and because Airbus has a dual-input system, the two stick inputs cancelled each other out, which led to the plane remaining in a stall condition until the end of the black box recording”

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37089363
> seems the other ARM option is the ThinkPad X13s

Seems there is a bunch of Windows laptops from Dell, Lenovo and Samsung besides the X13

https://www.qualcomm.com/products/mobile/snapdragon/pcs-and-...
Coincidentally his name is German for "pointy nail" so I am not surprised he likes to pop bubbles. /s
... After it had been running for a decade or two and caused significant harm to all life, sure.

This is one of those issues where being visible distorts the perceived damage. Tourism would probably also have adapted to seeing the large lake.

Seems a little silly to focus on preserving the appearance of a hole in the ground over, idk, most life on earth.
The solution to this is of course to simply outlaw the use of communication systems that cannot be monitored by law enforcement. India has it, the EU is working on it, and I'm sure the US will do something like that as well.
Take one hit on format - your change is also only a format change.