skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you have CI, that's still over-engineered for a pre-mvp product.

Just kidding... partially
I share the same experience and opinion. I cannot imagine what a significant argument would be to use AWS instead of GCP that outweighs the benefits and the seemingly integrated services. GCP has so far covered 99% of my use cases, and I can testify that I have a lot of advanced cases linked to data management, information security, networking and more. I am open and do not judge AWS, and perhaps its also a matter of what you are used to. However my style and approach to problems is more in alignment with GCP. I am for example of the opinion that the cloud provider should take care of everything linked to infrastructure, maintenance and as well scaling. And all of that should be as simple as possible. There is no need to overcomplicate. In this way I can focus on what makes my product unique, rather than spending my time on over-engineering repetitive features with zero value added.
I still seem to be able to reduce my robocalls when they've increased in frequency by picking up and immediately muting my end. I think it tricks some dialer systems into thinking the line is dead or a fax/modem, because after I do this once during a spat of robocalls, they seem to stop for a time
100%. My experience has been the same. The docs have their shortcomings and I ended up reading through so many Github issues and random blog posts trying to resolve the issues.

From a documentation perspective, AWS is still the best.
Not true. True green technologies are already profit drivers. EVs, solar, wind, heat pumps... are becoming so cheap and efficient that not switching for industrial use (and often personal) costs more.
It's a paper. Plenty of papers come with their own website. The purpose of a paper is to make its findings publicly accessible, so putting in the extra work for a website to accompany it is understandable.
I'm a real human. Seriously, the support is handled by the system admins which makes resolution almost instantaneous.
Falcon Heavy flies regularly with 27 engines.
What do you think the lymphatic system does.

What's funny is that I think you're right but in the wrong direction. All of these individual systems are made up differences because they are inter-dependent.
if 30% of chemistry and physics papers can't be replicated, and something more like 70% of sociology and phycology papers can't be replicated, do you think that clinic trials might have a less than 100% trustworthy due to the possible monetary gains from the company conducting them?

opioids went through clinical trials, no?
Partisan brainrot.
I'm not so sure. I've seen some rat studies on longevity and fitness with pretty surprising results. Obese, idle rats were the shortest lived (not surprising). But surprisingly, fit, active rats actually had shorter life spans than anorexic, lazy rats. Who knows if it generalizes to humans, but results like this always make me skeptical that first principles thinking will hold up in complex biological systems.
Veritasium [1] did a video of exactly this and explains why it exists [at 2m35s]:

> An ordinary jar of peanut butter costs less than $5. And on the label you can see the ingredients and the amounts of different nutrients like protein, fats, sugar, and sodium. Those values have been measured by the manufacturer using different machines and analytical techniques. But how do you know those results are accurate? Well, this is where the government's standard jar of peanut butter comes in. It is mixed up so carefully and thoroughly that each jar contains exactly the same substance.

> "We take great pains at homogenizing these things. Make sure it's consistent."

> Then scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, NIST, take years to painstakingly identify the quantities of all the different compounds in the peanut butter with specified uncertainties. This peanut butter is then known as a standard reference material or SRM. They sell these perfectly characterized SRM samples of peanut butter to researchers and manufacturers so they can calibrate their equipment. Essentially, the buyer knows that their equipment is working properly if, when they run the standard peanut butter, they get the values NIST supplies on the certificate.

> "We've spent a lot of time to make sure that we're confident and, you know, we can spend years studying the amount of fat in here and trying to figure out exactly what those numbers are."

> So what you're paying for is not really the peanut butter, it's the knowledge of exactly what is in the peanut butter.

> "And so this is what really drives the cost of a standard reference material is our ability to assert the truth. We produce what I call truth in a bottle."

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esQyYGezS7c
I'm looking at the torrents but I don't know what I need to just have the complete arcade collection and the software to run it.

Right now I'm downloading the ROMs torrent, which does add up to 74 GB. But what else do I need for arcade emulation only? Thanks for any insight!
The risk of the service turning out to be run by Florida Man is too high.
This seems to be the source code for it: https://github.com/TryItOnline/tiosetup

> https://tryitonline.net is a web site that started out as a place for hosting solutions to code golf puzzles presented on http://codegolf.stackexchange.com/. It can be used by anyone for free to quickly try out and share code snippets, with or without code golf in mind alike, in a big number of practical and recreational programming languages.
I had a similar chuckle/double-take; admittedly it's been a few years since I looked at XCode, but it didn't strike me as much more than a Notepad wrapper around a toolchain.
CVE scoring is about as worthless as whether a vulnerability has a website.
It was posted here as well, for example.

Its not a good idea to go off of what one person has seen to make a judgement on what "exists" on the internet.

Its the same issue people have had with reposts on Reddit. Even after 10+ reposts on Reddit, somebody will not have seen it. People arent terminally online, generally.
Figure's humanoid robot walks for the camera
Developing is the key word in that sentence. As pitiful as Toyota's hydrogen sales numbers are, at least they have something on the market. BMW is behind even that.

If they ever manage to produce and sell them, it'll cost you a whole bunch to operate. Hydrogen for refuelling is somewhere around 13-18$/kg, which at a 6kg tank you're looking at 78-108$ to refuel. An electric car by comparison (which also costs less to buy) will set you back ~40$ for 100kWh AND you get to charge at home rather than go out of your way(if you're in California). If you're anywhere else in the world (which is an unfair comparison since you couldn't refuel you hydrogen car in the first place, but that's a different matter) that price can get down to something like 3$ in other places in the world.
Oh. Because I’m and idiot it seems! I have been looking at the wrong quarter. Thanks for telling me.
> likely based on political favoritism.

I'll be that person and ask "do you have evidence of this"?
Roundabouts often lead to cars being forced to stop. The stop is however generally much shorter, occasionally not needed, and when cars leaves at the first turn then the other cars from other directions can simultaneously use the roundabout at the same time. Many roundabouts here where I live also have extra roads for some direct right turns where such traffic flow is common, which mean that those cars don't even need to enter the roundabout and just need to be observant of cars existing towards the same direction.
Cost is probably not a downside when you consider the cost of accidents.
Yes, we know that plus addressing isn't always supported. That's why we have subdomain addressing which is really its successor.
> remove themselves from the internet

I didn't realize Reddit was the internet. I'm convinced you're trolling at this point.
I second GP. My point of comparison isn't just Emacs, but also Visual Studio 2015 and 2017, as used for C++. The editor in VS feels snappy, in this general and hard to pinpoint way that lets you easily tell apart a native app from an Electron one. Conversely, despite being reasonably performant (for modern standards), it still feels a little heavy.

I don't know what it is exactly, but I know I'm very sensitive to it. That's the main reason I rarely use VS Code, despite being more feature-packed than VC++ (or, along a few dimensions, even my Emacs) - extra features are nice, but not worth the ongoing discomfort I'd feel with every single key press.

My current hypothesis is that VS Code (and JetBrains IDEs too, so it's not strictly an Electron thing) tends to do too much stuff asynchronously at the same time, making execution times of most actions highly variable and potentially unreliable. The variability usually isn't huge in absolute terms - it's just big enough to be annoying.
Sure, it could be that, or it could be a simple look at laws, policies, executive actions, and LITERAL ACTIONS TAKEN RELATED TO EMAIL-ADJACENT INFO SECURITY that have played out in the state and me making a sane decision.

once again, I wonder, am I just better informed, or is the ignorance a guise to push an agenda while trying to portray me as "political" because, I assure you, I am not. Or I'd bet your assumptions about me are probably all quite wrong.

Edit: for the record, I didn't flag the OPs reply to me, and I don't think it should be hidden.
"The White House is taking executive action as the European Union and other governments are working to block the riskiest uses of artificial intelligence. Officials in Europe are expected to reach a deal by the end of the year on the E.U. AI Act, a wide-ranging package that aims to protect consumers from potentially dangerous applications of AI. Lawmakers in the U.S. Congress are still in the early stages of developing bipartisan legislation to respond to the technology."

Rushing and maybe competing.
Using roundabouts of roundabouts it's actually possible to build a 3 dimensional roundabout where traffic along the x, y and z axis can safely meet on the surface of a sphere.
Seriously. It’s an incredible tool and deserves way more praise.
I put each task on a line in a file called `to-do.txt` which perpetually lives on my desktop. When I complete a task, I mark `X` on the beginning of the line. Whenever the length of the file starts to feel unwieldy, I delete the oldest completed tasks.
As long as that center circle is high enough. I had a woman in a Toyota (Camry?) fly over one at about 45+mph and slam into me as I looped around it. Totaled her car, broke parts off my Explorer (repairable). Her son then tried to attack me with my bumper.

She kept insisting I turned in front of her (technically true, I was in a roundabout). She was arrested for drunk driving, and, later on, fined for all the flowers she damaged in the circle and the median she also ran over on her way into the intersection.
Rocky Mountain West
> Every 5 seconds a spammer sends something to a bunch of random letters @ your domain

In my experience, this is an exaggeration of the truth. I've been using catch-all addresses for something like 15 years. And yes, there are times when I'll get dozens of spam over the course of a day sent to random letters. But that's a pretty rare occurrence.

I default to allowing any <string>@<mydomain.tld>, and then uses aliases to block offenders. My <string> is often a domain name where I'm using the email address, which means I know who either willingly spams me, sells my email address, or otherwise allows my email address to be leaked. At any rate, I'll throw addresses used for spam onto a disabled account as an alias, resulting in bounces.

The biggest advantage here over aliases is that I've used hundreds of aliases, but didn't have to manually track and add each and every one to my email address. Since most of the time, my email is not used for spam, I only have to manually add the bad ones.
Roger Faulkner's 1991 paper is good read. The /proc he describes looks alien if you come from a Linux only background.

https://www.usenix.org/sites/default/files/usenix_winter91_f...
Not going to happen; they kill consumer- not enterprise products. I searched https://killedbygoogle.com/ for "Google Cloud" and the only dead enterprise products that stood out were Google Cloud Messaging and Google Cloud Prediction API. But they replaced those with Firebase Cloud Messaging and the AI Platform Prediction API.
> That could be a deal breaker or, at least, a cause for concern for some people. It would be for me.

Why is that? Are you saying it's something to do with the US state of Florida itself, or something more general about the lack of company info on the website?

Edit: saw your edit, got it!
I thought I had seen a mention of a fix on the ileakage website and then it dissapeared. I almost thought I imagined the whole thing, but actually they have been making changes to the website only in the past hour.

> "To mitigate our work, Apple has just released iOS 17.1, iPadOS 17.1, and macOS Sonoma 14.1. Update your devices now!"

Which they have now reverted.

https://github.com/ileakage-authors/ileakage-authors.github....
They uncancelled the Bolt and honestly they are bluffing with CarPlay as well; it will be back. They won't be able to sustain the blowback.

Their business strategy is braindead and they are going nowhere fast on their lame software: they seem to believe that the EV credit is money for them and not for their customers. They can build an ev <$30k but they only want to sell $45k EVs. I believe they will take a big hit over the next 2 years learning their lesson the hard way, but they still know how to build and integrate EVs with more economies of scale (more shared parts with economy ICE models, etc.) than their competitors.
It wouldn't be an overage, if you market it as a pay-per-GB e-mail provider with no limits (but the first 1 GB is free) that would be cool.

As for managing spammers, just require some sort of ID verification? Or set the price point high enough that spammers wouldn't be interested?

$1.50/month for personal or $16/month for business is insanely cheap, I pay a lot more than that to Google. If you're too inexpensive, spammers will be attracted to your pricing.

Real businesses would have no problem paying upwards of $100/month, to be honest.
> We also definitely did it in the early days of my non-profit

We are in Phase One testing of our NPO flagship.

It has been designed as a native Swift iOS-only app (but the backend will feed anything).

It also has a few design "tricks" that probably won't scale to millions, but has been tested with tens of thousands (of fake users). They make it lightning fast, and it will be a sad day, if I have to sideline them, in the future.

We sign up users manually, one at a time. I'm developing a dashboard, to lubricate that process, but it will still be manual.

Fortunately (for us, but many for-profits would hate it), I think it will be a long time, before we get to the point where matters of scale become an issue. We Serve a small, demanding, demographic.

Also, we don't collect PID. Extreme privacy and security are a big part of our model. I deliberately avoid a lot of the dependencies that could introduce issues.
Cool service!

One minor bit: the font sizing on some of the headlines on the front page are almost the size of my laptop screen. I know it's a design choice, but it's actually really jarring as I'm going through - it takes me a second to piece together what each section is actually trying to showcase.

Not saying make it much smaller, but maybe a slight adjustment would be helpful.
GitHub also uses web components.
Why does a website about a security vulnerability in a JavaScript engine sabotage the security mitigation of disabling JavaScript, by requiring it for collapsible sections? As if they couldn't just use <details>.
The problem with these assumptions is that you are asking for yet-to-be-invented solutions to mining, transportation and processing problems. As a friend of mind is fond of saying, at some point we have to recognize that we took a problem from boiling a pot of water to trying to boil the ocean.

None of these proposals qualify as solutions, because they are never aligned with reality. Or, another way to put it: Reality is always far more complex than recognized by these experiments.
You're never going to "solve" traffic problems when people are driving cars, but when you look at the data, crashes that lead to injuries and, importantly, fatalities, go down with roundabouts.

and two or three lane roundabouts with complex exit decisions you need to make on a split second - it's actually very confusing to navigate.

I think you're confusing what today might be called a "rotary" (?) with a modern roundabout. Whatever you call it, I don't think anyone builds what you're describing anymore.
Totally wrong, don't take advice on life from professors unless you want to be one
Tesla battery packs are structural, it's easier just to lift the car on a truck and dive away than it is to cut it out.

A catalytic converter can be cut off with a battery powered cutter in under 30 seconds easily.
Don't know enough about Vertex AI, SageMaker is great though. But on BigQuery v Redshift: Having used both over many years, BigQuery is the clear winner. It's a much better, much more modern product.

BigQuery is also a central part of GCP, with almost all services having integrations to it (PubSub, CloudSQL, Bigtable, etc). It also seems to get a lot of resources and is continuously improved. That is not the case for Redshift, which is not as important to AWS.
The pinnacle of bookmarklets was Firebug Lite.
Roundabouts are great (and common where I live), but a downside is they can be difficult for pedestrians to cross. You need crossings that are set back from the exits, but this also makes it a longer path for the pedestrian.
I’d assume being targeted with spam is not considered „blatant overage”
I use a kinda hacky bit of JS to do a number of actions based on the current URL. I create bookmarks like this, and set a keyword (this one is 'gt', for Google Translate):

javascript:location="https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=&sl=auto&tl=en&u="+location

On any page, I can type ctrl-L (select address bar), gs, enter, and I get the page translated to English.

A couple more:

Wayback machine: javascript:location="https://archive.md/submit/?url="+location
12 foot ladder: javascript:location="https://12ft.io/proxy?q="+location
Too many dev commenters will hand-wave away complaints about graphics work on Linux. Bitmap and vector graphics are terrible, and I have tried the options. RAW photo editing is mediocre. Font rendering and color management has always been behind.

When I switched to a Mac, it wasn't that MacOS got vastly better. It was that Windows has been getting dramatically worse.

I that being said, Resolve and Blender on Linux can nicely serve subsets of the creative community. We just need more.
Fantastic updates. The multiple LSP was the main missing feature but now this makes Helix ready for all use cases imo. It is super fast and performance unlike the disastrous performance of vs code.
I was thinking the same thing. Been using catch-all for about 7 years with zero issues about that.
couldn't you say the same thing about anything you build on top of? what if AWS raises its prices?

If your building something people want to use and willing to pay for you would raise prices.

could it crash and burn sure. but you can't remove all risk as a startup.
neon and supabase are both the up and comers in the postgres world i think. the real incumbents are the AWS RDSes of the world and their azure and gcp equivalents.
That makes a lot of sense. I was going off the assumption the technical way would be impractical and an never ending arms race. We'll see, I guess.
It's a baffling suggestion anyway no matter which direction you look at it from, there's nowhere on the west coast of the US that would be friendlier regulatory environment SpaceX than Texas. They would still have to deal with the exact same federal government, except to launch west they'd also have to deal with California and that would be jumping out of the frying pan straight into the fire. So what exactly would you hope to solve by launching west? Launching west to solve SpaceX's problems at Boca Chica cannot be a serious suggestion, honestly just baffling.
There's also the risk when more drivers start driving uninsured that the company will have to pay out even if the company the driver is at fault. Drivers are more likely to do that when the choice is between insurance and rent or as insurance goes up in general.
Honestly I could see airships as being better to deliver components to wind farms under construction on land. It can often be quite a logistical hassle to move the massively over-length items like blades or tower sections over the road.
It's perfectly fine :-) I've also used a lot of languages either professionally or not (ranging from assembly/bytecode to much higher level, c#, java, c++, bits of rust etc etc), but I can perfectly see why you wouldn't find it appealing.

In my case the main appeal is not the scalability/concurrency story (although it's great), nor the hot-swapping (I've done it with Ruby, C# and a couple more) or pluggability, it's more the increased number of scenarios where I can keep this single language (from scripting to "regular code" to embedded to, recently, machine learning).

But if you do not feel compelled, well there is no reason to force!

Compare to Ruby specifically, I find that the concurrency story is quite different (I have used concurrent-ruby, JRuby etc, and find the built-in tools in Elixir quite amazing, including Task.async_stream).
Colored pencils might help? Plus a practice of manually copying last days open To Do’s to start fresh. I’ve done that for a while and if you finish most but not all of your daily tasks it can help get you into a groove. Getting things done made me proud, with a booklet of activities to look back on. Can’t mix notes in the same book though.
I think the recent wave of vitriol is mostly associated with his decision to destroy Twitter in the process of attempting to make it a safe space for racists. That and his seeming to align himself with our strategic adversaries on the world stage.

The latter is possibly dismissable as "Well, that's just your opinion, man..." but he gives muscle to his opinion by making business decisions with strategic policy implications (e.g. turn off Ukraine starlink service at strategig moments..)

The twitter vandalism is very clearly "his works".
Who was it sent to?
Just to stay with the analogy: For something to "pay dividends", you need to have some starting capital first. =)

It's much slower to gather the capital when you're starting with zero and you spend weeks just fighting the tools. It's a lot more effective to gather some capital with easier tools (IDE + press F5 to run) and then move in to the low level stuff.
> cannot imagine what a significant argument would be to use AWS instead of GCP that outweighs the benefits and the seemingly integrated services.

Confidence that it will continue to exist in the next 3-10 years?
> it looks like the mainstream narratives now are more about fixing the system and/or working within it, rather than burning the system down or using violence to intimidate the people in the system to appease protestors.

for now, but like the examples you mentioned, things can pop off at any moment, esp with an election year ramping up + global conflicts
> vim over ssh is just awkward

What's wrong with vim over ssh/mosh? I was taught emacs by a grad student back in college and the ability to be fully productive on any server where I can install emacs has been a huge benefit to my career. I can't imagine vim is much different in that scenario.
Considering their earnings today being down in cloud I think I would rightfully worry about their long term commitment.
I really appreciate that. What device/browser are you using?