skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I really hope the Amazon car purchases explicitly prohibit upsells and other nonsense. Just bring me the car, give me the keys, and stay long enough to make sure that the car works. No BS upsells.

I tried going to four separate Hyundai dealers in my area about a year ago as my lease was ending. Every Elantra was marked up at least $5K and the dealers tacked on some other interior protection plan and other crap. I visited one of the dealers again recently and they are still doing the markups. Sorry, but I am not going to pay $33K for a car that should be $23K. It’s really sad I can not buy a car at MSRP…
I’m certainly not proposing that access to your SIM card should allow authorities to sync your messages! They should be stored encrypted on-device, and only exportable if you have login access to that device.

If authorities do acquire login access to the device, they can scroll through your chats and make screenshots, with or without an export feature. It’s true that exports make it slightly more convenient for them, but if you’re a serious target they’ll do it the hard way.

If Signal wants to provide some opt-in to disable exports, which can’t be retroactively reversed for old chats (otherwise it’s pointless), I have no problem with that. But if you’re worried about authorities with login access to your device, you shouldn’t be storing logs at all.
Lift it where?
This might end up being the lynchpin - the software sounds like a textbook cartel.
I wonder if Apple will let you disable iMessage and use just RCS instead?
Apple wouldn't need to be blatantly targeted if they hadn't been engaging in significant anti consumer practices for years.
Google's RCS encryption scheme isn't really proprietary, it's the Signal e2ee scheme. Granted, it's bolted into RCS and not part of the standard, but it's not 100% closed either. It's like a standard added to another standard in a nonstandard way.
A little tongue in cheek. But only a little. In the reality most of us share, real estate is extremely powerful. Many tech people don't understand this.
That's a great article. However with AI, I suspect the tech is being sexualized in a sterile, mechanical, A/B tested way that results in bots saying very horny things with a monotone, dead-eyed delivery (metaphorically).
Noam Chomsky argues the United States is a leading terrorist state. Does that mean TikTok is going to take down anything related to US foreign policy?

Are regular people not allowed to read or share content created by anyone the US government doesn’t like? Are people not allowed to form their own opinions?

What a joke. The “free” democratic west where communication is limited by a handful of large corporate interests and a murderous government that pressures them to censor content they don’t like.

TikTok may be owned by a Chinese company but there is no doubt in my mind they are being pressured by US authorities to control what is disseminated on their platform. I don’t think congress just forgot about wanting to ban TikTok, I think it’s likely they were able to rein in control of the platform.

What Osama Bin Laden did in 2001 isn’t justifiable but neither is decades of US interventionist foreign policy that has left millions of innocent people dead or living in poverty and continues to the present day.
https://proton.me/mail Has improved a lot if you can tolerate third party hosted (but still privacy centric solutions).
In the realm of code, where bits and bytes play,
MTREES stand tall, in a modular array.
Efficiency the anthem, no room for delay,
Robust systems rising, the code's forte.

Rooted in logic, like branches so clear,
MTREES in code, whispers you hear.
Each module a leaf, functions appear,
Efficiency's dance, a rhythm to cheer.

Lines of code, like vines they entwine,
MTREES' embrace, a system so fine.
Efficiency blooms, in every design,
Robust and resilient, a paradigm.

So let's rap with MTREES, in the coding domain,
Modular, efficient, a robust refrain.
In the language of bits, where ideas sustain,
MTREES in the code, a digital terrain.
> I also never seen an eng org where substantial part of it didn’t do useless projects that never amount to anything

Name one of business (tech or non tech) where this is ok/accepted and competitive in capitalism.

How long will we keep making these inflated salaries while being known for being wasteful, globally speaking?
Comedians aren't known for their happiness, though, quite the opposite.
You can do this (if you want to be evil!)

struct fstr {
constexpr fstr(const char* s) {
for (length = 0; s[length] ; length++) data[length] = s[length];
}

char data[256] = {0};
size_t length = 0;

};

template <fstr sz>
struct log {
log() {
std::cout << std::string_view{ sz.data, sz.length } << std::endl;
}
};

int main() {
log<fstr(std::source_location::current().file_name())> _;
}
No, some of us know it's a completely fake argument, know that people just want it for fun, even support legalization, and still hate the liars.

The amount of half-braindead pot smokers earnestly talking about their medical need to get stoned is so irritating. Legalization happened despite them, not because of them.
>iMessage was free once you had a smartphone plan.

Unless you went over your data limit.
Yes, that’s the press release for the judgment I linked. The press release doesn’t address the volume licensing question, which the judgment itself however makes clear in the paragraphs I referenced.

The Deloitte slides agree: “Licenses that were originally sold in a bundle cannot be sold separately.”
If you really need a lower tier, you can switch currencies to JPY, there's a monthly option for 500JPY which is about 2.67GBP.
Hrm. I have worked for a global corporation that you have almost certainly heard of. Though it's not super sexy.

The parent you're replying to resonates with me. A lot of politics about how you spend and how you commit, it's almost as bad as the commitment terms for bare-metal providers (3,6,12,24month commits). Except the base-load is more expensive.

It depends a lot on your load, but for my workloads (which, is fragile dumb but very vertical compute with a wide geographic dispersion), the cost is so high that a few dozen thousand has been missed numerous times, despite having in-house "fin-ops" folks casting their gaze upon our spend.
Wish employers would be honest. It’s obvious they’re planning to do layoffs.
Is that really a genuine question?

2GW of batteries attached to solar installations, spread over multiple sites, is quite common in 2023. What do you mean by "what kind"? Its just the normal kind.
> APEC CEO Summit representatives told KRON4 that Musk had a schedule change that prevented him from coming.

> “We’re thankful for his offer to join the session remotely, however it was agreed among all speakers that participation would be in person. We look forward to Elon joining us at a future APEC CEO Summit.”
Tech Debt Is a Champagne Problem
Here's a version that NOVA did on the invention or discovery of math:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWb8gfoDDhs

After watching it, I fall on the side of invention.
What does that do under the hood though? What does it mean to execute puts from a GPU?
Not for SRE and DBRE lol. 4-6 months easy.

I made the correct career choice. Downturn? What downturn?
With respect, recommend reading history, especially the history of "real" property and property law. Look up the definition of "chattel."
I don't think that is true from reading the complaint - there wasnt any mandatory requirement, but guidelines on how to use the algorithm.
invoke-webrequest
I didn't know what product this was. I didn't read the article. I don't know your username.

But somehow, in my heart of hearts, I knew it was the financial planning sandbox that I create a free account on everytime it is posted here.

I'm still not at a point in life to NEED it just yet. But yknow what ? Give me 5 years, a mortgage, a couple of kids to juggle and I'll likely come groveling to this tool as my savior.

It is rare for a tool i dont use to stay with me for as long as this one has. Good job. I strongly recommend it as a 'non-user'...hehe.
In China, you can even buy helicopters and jets on Alibaba
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What you just said is 100% legal, and occurs in every market.
What makes it collusion is if they come to agreements about pricing information.
Can you name any such obstructions to the last 4 attempted reactors in the US, the only new builds in the last 20 years?

Obstructionism is not a problem with nuclear in the US, basic construction competency and diagnostic competency most certainly is though.
> Yeah, that's part of it. The other part is that you can move stuff that is working, and working well, into on-prem (or colo) if it is designed well and portable. If everything is running in containers

Anyone who says that hasn’t done it at scale.

“Infrastructure has weight”. Dependencies always creep in and any large scale migration involves regression testing, security, dealing with the PMO, compliance, dealing with outside vendors who may have white listed certain IP addresses, training, vendor negotiations, data migrations etc.

And then even though you use MySQL for instance, someone somewhere decided to do a “load data into S3” AWS MySQL extension and now they are going to have to write an ETL job. Someone else decided to store and serve static web assets to S3.
The biggest source of power is hydro, and there are still some large unexploited rivers left.

The best reason to build nuclear is you can keep neglecting the interconnects between north and south.
Wikipedia is... nuanced. Keep in mind that the entity doing the fundraising is the Wikimedia Foundation. They pay the hosting costs, but return nothing to the actual Wikipedians (editors, admins.) Instead, what's left is used to pay the salaries for hundreds of administrative employees, fund third-party charities, and so on. You can love Wikipedia but have misgivings about the Foundation.
I looked further and you were pretty spot on! It ran a loss of 138 million in 2013 alone according to their SEC disclosures for that year.
I worked for a large telco, where we hosted all our servers. Each server ran multiple services bare-metal - no virtualization, and it was easy to rollout new services, without installing new servers. I missed the level of control over network elements and servers, the flexibility, and ability to debug by taking network traces anywhere in the network in my next job using AWS.
Can anyone explain or shed more light on how the "remote hands" part the support would work in bare metal server scenario? Would they run commands you give (or) will they follow your runbook (or) something else (or) all of the above?
I'm a longtime Delawarean and in my past life as a journalist I wrote about why the state is such a corporate haven.

The short answer is that companies incorporate in Delaware to mitigate risk.

The slightly longer answer is that the Delaware courts that deal with corporate legal matters are much more predictable than comparable states. There is voluminous settled case law, and so when you incorporate in Delaware, it is a safe option, a known quantity, relative to other states.

That's why VCs and other investors want the company to be incorporated in Delaware. It's not just because everybody else is doing it; it's to mitigate legal risk.

When we look at consumer products, we sometimes consider the total cost of ownership. Maybe a pair of sneakers is not the cheapest, but it lasts longer than a budget pair, so it has a lower cost of ownership over the lifetime of the product. Delaware might not be the cheapest state to incorporate in, but it has the legal equivalent of a low cost of ownership over the life of the business.
These real world stories are always fun to hear because they trigger such defensiveness from for those who are invested in "cloud computing". This so-called cloud computing seems to have a strong need for a cheering section (hype) and a jeering section (sniping anyone who questions its value). Bring on the jeers.
Ah, that makes sense. I would bet Amazon was aware that the manufacturer would ask for it back if that’s the case. Presumably also the manufacturer footed the bill.
And I guess it's not worth hauling one of their landing boats off into the middle of nowhere, and then haul it back.

Thanks. That makes sense.
Fortunately for nuclear, liability is tightly capped by the Price Anderson Act and the DOE will do basically any loan to get new nuclear off the ground.
There's maintenance cost to everything that runs a userland.

What we're missing is tracking what time is spent managing hardware and firmware, (or even network config, if we're being generous) and how much time is being spent on OS config.

From personal experience (as a sysadmin before it was entirely unsexy as a term) the overwhelming majority of my ops work was done in userland on the machine, maybe something like 96-97% of my tasks were nothing to do with hardware at all.

Since I got rebranded as SRE, the tools and the pay sure did get a lot better in the time, but the job is largely similar and ultimately running in VMs does make deployment faster, but once deployed I find the maintenance burden to be the same (or perhaps a little more) as things seem to become deprecated or require changes from our cloud vendor a bit more often.
You absolutely need IAM immediately, if you have any services talking to any other services.

You _should_ use IaC immediately as well, because the longer you delay, the more it's going to hurt when you finally do need it.
I recall many complaints about it when Apple started doing it. Google is just making sure they inflict as much bad PR on themselves as possible by dragging the change out as slowly as they, can which makes it seem like there's a double standard.

There isn't though. Safari is one of the most complained about pieces of software on here. Actually I wouldn't be surprised if it was the most complained about.
hey HN - been working on this on and off as a side project to deal with Discord overwhelm. the prompt engineering is finally in a good place for a readable summary, took a while though.

right now i just run it as a single daily batch job. this is scalable as a free service to many users. but am wondering if i should offer customizable discord summaries for paying users. also would love ideas on what else i can do with this service. I'd love to also add twitter and reddit news sources, but both of them are much more hostile to third party devs.
If you are waiting on a “DevOps department”, it isn’t a DevOps…it’s operations
Random stuff happening for no reason with no pattern or constraint runs afloul of the principle of sufficient reason. The PSR is a basic assumption of intelligibility. Events happening with no cause can't be made sense of. Everything that happens is brute in the worst way possible. By the standards of reason, it is maximally unintelligible. We must rationally give higher credence to any other explanation, i.e. an order and law-based universe.

One might say the universe has no obligation to be intelligible to us, and perhaps that true. But we have an obligation to intelligible beliefs. In being able to ask the question of why the world is law-based, we're rationally constrained in the answer we can accept. You can see it as an application of the anthropic principle, but I think it's more basic than that. If there is sense to be made of anything (in a logical sense that is prior to the universe), then the universe must also make sense.
You don't have to do this, here's an alternative approach:

template<std::size_t N>
struct fstr: public std::array<char, N + 1> {
using std::array<char, N + 1>::array;

constexpr fstr(const char* str) noexcept : std::array<char, N + 1>() {
for (size_t i = 0; i < N; i++) (*this)[i] = str[i];
}

};

template<std::size_t N>
fstr(const char (&)[N]) noexcept -> fstr<N - 1>;

template <fstr sz>
struct log {
log() {
std::cout << std::string_view{ sz.data(), sz.size() } << std::endl;
}
};

int main() {
log<"Hello, world!"> _;
}
Engineers doing the same work on iMessage and Meta Messenger, i.e., their direct competitors, make less than 660k/annually in salary and benefits.

This means that the pay packages are likely not based on comparable market wages, which is an actual legal requirement for highly compensated employees for U.S. charities.
Bibbity Bobbity Boo
No symptoms of depression for you!
It's strong enough to measurably increase your metabolic rest rate and consequent calorie consumption even without obsessive foot tapping.

Also, the foot tapping behavior can be related to caffeine consumption even if you also do it when not taking caffeine. Some people (like me) metabolize caffeine a lot slower than average, so its effects last a lot longer (twice longer or so, I think). Also, caffeine notably causes sleep disruption. And caffeine withdrawal can also cause irritability.

Caffeine can also increase anxiety or anxiety-related behaviors, and even if anxiety or these behaviors are not exclusively experienced while taking caffeine, it can still increase the likelihood and magnitude of its effects. These behaviors can also persist in the absence of substance intake for a variety of (psychological) reasons.
> If a bunch of firms use the same software to set prices but do so independently and without any attempt to coordinate with each other… that’s a pretty decent defense?

The software enabled coordination without rental management companies/owners needing to put in effort to do so. In the end all they cared about was maxamizing profits which in itself isn't illegal no matter how unethical it might be. The key here is proving that they knew what was going on. I'm sure they did all things considered. It's been going on for years.
Should they not learn from their mistakes? Nazis forever?
We're in the business of making money. Our product makes the money. Not our skills and abilities to manage hardware and IT infrastructure.

They have a decent business case, but I don't feel like they executed well to meet the real objective. They don't want to be in AWS since they're an uptime monitor and they want to alert on downtime on AWS. But they have a single rack of servers in a single location. A cold standby in AWS doesn't mean a ton unless they're testing their failovers there... which comes at quite the cost.

I've worked on-prem before. Now I work somewhere that's 100% AWS and cloud native. You'd have to pay me quite a bit more to go back to on-prem. You'd have to pay me quite a bit more to go somewhere not using one of the 3 major clouds with all their vendor specific technologies.

The speed is invaluable to a business. It's better to have elevated spend while trying to find good product market fit. I didn't understand this until I worked somewhere with a product the market wanted. > 50% growth for half a decade wouldn't have been possible on-prem. > 25% growth for a full decade wouldn't have been possible on-prem.

I've been with my current company from $80MM ARR to $550MM ARR. We've never breached more than 1.5% of income on total cloud spend. We've been told that's the lowest they've seen by everyone from AWS TAMs to VC/PE people. It's because we're cloud native, we've always been cloud native, and we're always going to be cloud native.

You've gotta get over "vendor lock-in". With our agility it's not really a thing. We could move to another cloud or on-prem if we really wanted. Wouldn't be a huge problem moving things service by service over... though we've had a few more recent changes that would be troublesome, we'd be able to work around them because we're architected well.
Very interesting. I've heard of the russian project, but not this.
You can disable iMessage already and just use SMS/MMS... So should be possible.
I can guarantee an SA working for AWS makes more than $150k. A returning L4 intern makes that much (former AWS Professional Services employee)

And no one cares about AWS certifications. They are proof of nothing and disregarded by anyone with a modicum of a clue.

I’m speaking as someone who once had nine active certifications and I believe I still have six active ones. I only got them as a guided learning path. I knew going in they were meaningless.
I feel like focusing on the kernel side misses CPU level issues.

Is there any known upper bound on, say, how long a memory access instruction takes on x86?
Apologies in advance as I may be saying contrary to the sentiments here against Wikipedia fund raising. I also get the same emails and the banners. I diligently donate what I can. I don’t know where my funds will go. But what I do know is that I use that website practically twenty times a day and get something of value.
This can be done in ONE line in Mathematica:

Manipulate[
Graphics[{Rotate[Rectangle[{-size/2, -size/2}, {size/2, size/2}],
rotation, {0, 0}]}, PlotRange -> {{-1, 1}, {-1, 1}}], {size, 0.1,
2, 0.1}, {rotation, 0, 2 Pi, Pi/12}]
The alternative ("we will tell you what is good for you") led to Canadian cities looking like a time machine to the 90s.

As a voter and not a member of the elite, I prefer having trains built and new cities expanded for our growing population, rather than incantations being offered to irrational secular gods ("the markets") and the constant shrinkage of beds in our healthcare system.
I think part of the case is a slam dunk. RealPage offers multiple services.

One where RealPage gives you a recommended price and you are free to choose whatever price you want. They might ask you something along the lines of "why didnt you use our price?", but nothing is binding. This is like kelly blue book or a price consultant for apartments.

The other is the AutoPilot feature, where RealPage "takes the wheel" and set/publishes the listing price for you based on their model. The property owner is out of the loop, and RealPage is a single entity setting all of the prices for the subscribers.

I think the first case is pretty clearly legal, and the second has some valid concerns.

The point of both services is to help landlords maximize profit, but that isnt illegal by itself.
Cost, by far, as well as low chance of build success.

Here's a timely podcast on the matter from a very very favorable audience:

http://link.chtbl.com/wGGIOQ5_

For a more realistic view of the problems, I'd recommend this podcast:

https://xenetwork.org/ets/episodes/episode-209-end-of-the-nu...

Safety, waste, public opposition don't really rate as the reasons that we are not seeing more nuclear. It's just super hard to build and tends to make utilities go bankrupt. So if you're a utility CEO putting in an order for a nuclear reactor is basically suicide.
Actually this model is designed by PFU with Japanese DIY keyboard otakus.
You're misunderstanding the factors driving this initiative.
This isn't an attempt to address the problem of trust. Software can be found to have vulnerabilities even if they are highly trustworthy, and almost all vulnerabilities in commercially used software are accidental. The organizations asking for SBOMs (this is currently receiving a lot of attention due to changes the US government has made to require them for their internal use) have other mechanisms to establish trust with their software vendors.

The straw that broke the camel's back on this issue was CVE-2021-44228 -- which was a vulnerability in open source software. If you missed that debacle -- the problem wasn't that people distrust Apache or software that use Log4j. The problem was that people didn't know where all it was installed.

This was because it isn't currently a standard for software developers to provide a list of all of their dependencies, regardless of whether they're open source or not. This isn't because they are untrustworthy. It just simply isn't standard practice. SBOMs are an attempt to standardize such a list.

A blockchain isn't necessary here -- nobody is trying to lie about what version of Log4j they're depending on in a piece of software they're selling.
6% if you allow it to be delivered on prime day.