skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Cloud Native, as in opposition to “lift’n’shift”, is often touted as The Real Way to take advantage of the cloud, but that’s again just more cloud marketing nonsense. It generally centers around the erroneous belief that serverless functions, and associated on-demand tooling, is going to make things cheaper.

It's not nonsense. Whether or not it is cheaper would depend.

We have gone wide with deploying all our products as SSR web apps directly on top of Azure Functions.

Our infrastructure consists of: Azure Functions, Azure SQL Server. That's it. The serverless/consumption/hyperscale tiers of each. There is no infra to manage at all. We don't even touch TLS certificates or networking anymore. There are no shared secrets req'd since functions can use managed identity auth against sql server.

Everyone on our team is able to work with these tools. Most things "just work" and are entirely managed now. For us, this is the cost savings of the cloud. The psychological cost savings are potentially more important to us than the monetary ones. Being able to focus on the customer and markets vs needy technology stacks is what gives us our competitive edge. Over the last 30 days, I have spent zero minutes worrying about database instances, VMs, operating systems, networking, firewalls, passwords, certificates, et. al. No one on our team has to think about this stuff anymore. It really feels like all of that was just a big prison and we are finally free from it.

How does focusing down an in-house technology stack add value to your product? This takes a lot of those innovation tokens and I wonder if they might be better spent.
Ask HN: How the sysadmin can catch some penetrator?
What log files or what systemd log binaries can have the history of attacks such as trying to exploit some service or proof of some happened penetration via known or unknown bug? What intelligence/logging/anomaly-detecting software the serious guys use for the sake of equipping some online computer with a honeypot-class analisys tool?

I want to have safe online activity for some always-on always-online multi-purpose machine with static IP, no router and a lot of ports opened, having some GNU/Linux OS and not always free and open-source running software.
I do this in youtube comments whenever I see a chain of "I invested in ____ and made 1700% in 4 months!". I'll reply with "my friend tried that and lost $8000, nobody will return her messages".

I'm surprised code+mentos is used as product placement. it seems like it's damn close to being a bomb (if you were clever enough to screw the lid on before triggering the reaction) and thus a liability.
It’s because the acts in a vacuum aren’t illegal. It’s about leveraging power derived from market dominance.

(Although in this case the legality hasn’t been adjudicated because a settlement was reached).

If you create a platform and app market with strict rules, that’s not illegal.
The logic here is that you’re new in the market and if the terms aren’t commensurate with market conditions, you will never grow. If you do grow, then the market has decided that the gains outweigh the limitations you imposed.

There comes a point where you have gained enough dominance where your actions can be scrutinized. But in general as long as you don’t actively tighten the reigns, you’re in the clear.
So if you had strict rules when you started and despite those strict rules you grew and since then you haven’t made the rules stricter, then you’re in the clear because you haven’t abused your market dominance.

The flip side of this coin is that if you created a platform and app market that didn’t have strict rules and was very open, but once you’ve gained market dominance you put up hurdles or you impose stricter rules, then there could be a problem because now it can be explained as you abusing your market dominance after everyone got in.

Personally I don’t think the so called “scare screens” fall under dominance abuse because they serve a legitimate purpose. If anything I think they’re not enough.

Nokia’s Threat Intelligence Report in 2021[0] reported that Android makes up more than half of all the infected systems in the recent 2023 report this had dipped to 49%[1]. But as they’ve done in prior reports, this year they again highlight that most Android malware is a trojanized version of legitimate apps distributed via alternative means:

> Android based devices are not inherently insecure. However, most smartphone malware is distributed as trojanized applications and since Android users can load application from just about anywhere, it’s much easier to trick them into installing applications that are infected with malware. Android users can protect themselves by only installing applications from secure app stores like Google Play and installing a mobile anti-virus product on their device.

In any case, whether something is legal or illegal in this case depends on whether it was or wasn’t done while having market dominance.

0: https://pages.nokia.com/T006US-Threat-Intelligence-Report-20...

1: https://www.nokia.com/networks/security-portfolio/threat-int...
> No one is using the iGPU for anything. It's completely ignored because it's usually completely useless compared to your main discrete GPU.

Modern iGPUs are actually quite powerful is my understanding. I think the reason no one does this is that the software model isn’t actually there/standardized/able to work cross vendor since the iGPU and the discrete card are going to be different vendors typically. There’s also little motivation to do this because not everyone has an iGPU which dilutes the economy of scale of using it.

It would be a neat idea to try to run lighter weight things on the iGPU to free up rendering time on the dGPU and make frame rates more consistent, but the incentives aren’t there.
it's a little bit hair splitty, but I see what you might be trying to get at.

What I tried to convey is that PHP is not enjoying the development heyday it once had, and the numbers of people choosing PHP for a new project today (even among people who learned development with PHP) is decreasing. It's not popular.

let's try to leave it as: "I believe PHP to be in decline for new projects as a share of total new projects divided by the total number of developers who are starting new projects".
The issue they have is that the number of wills they have to keep is large and increasing, and will increase forever or at least until they change the rule that they must be kept in some form forever.

On a related topic, and perhaps more importantly/scary, the Land Registry has already gone digital so that deeds to properties are only kept in digital form...
I'm sure it is illegal as part of the new regulation. The color is legally reserved for a particular car mode. Likewise, you can't have bright red lights that turn on-and-off when you're not braking because that light behavior is legal but reserved for the braking mode.)

(It's true that this will be more difficult to enforce than prohibitions against using darker blue, since a regular passenger car using them is clearly a violation, whereas pulling someone over for the light blue will presumably require the officer to have probable cause that the car is not self-driving.)
Are you trying to be 'technically correct' here? :)
I'm definitely perplexed but not in a good way. It's fast but... I asked it what it was and first it told me it was Google Lens. Then it told me some random stuff about android. I asked "But what are you though?" and got this:

"A black hole is a region in space with extremely strong gravity, so powerful that not even light can escape it. They form from the remnants of large stars that die in supernova explosions. Key features of a black hole include the event horizon, which is the boundary in spacetime where nothing can escape, and the singularity, a point at the center of a black hole where spacetime curvature becomes infinite. Most black holes are 10 to 24 times as massive as the Sun. Although they cannot be directly observed, scientists can study black holes by detecting their effects on nearby matter."
Why spoof it when the actual MOS for our Eddie up there is 37F "Psychological Operations Specialist"
The right to bear arms in the USA is often most appreciated by citizens of foreign lands where life is lived on the precipice between democracy and tyranny. Gun deaths and mass shootings are horrible but the solution is not to abolish the 2nd amendment.
Should have bought `SausageFinge.rs` while you were at it.
> allows humans to not die after a significant amount of down time

Death appears inevitable, but there's little difference between a century and a millennium as far as physics is concerned. I don't think it's far-fetched to assume we'll crack this one eventually.

> and making a brand new life anytime you want to go somewhere else

This has been the norm for travellers for most of human history. The modern two-day circumnavigation / perceptually-instant transatlantic broadband is nice, but not necessary. The solar system is a light-day in diameter (order of magnitude), so a round-trip by radio is faster than letters used to be.
> anything Google does to make it more cohesive will be seen as anti-competitive..

Sure, anything Google does to make it more cohesive...

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/07/googles-iron-grip-on...

https://www.theverge.com/2011/05/12/google-android-skyhook-l...
The original article "AI and Mass Spying"[0], and source of this recap was heavily discussed[1] (400 points, 14 days ago, 328 comments) at the time.

[0]: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/12/the-internet-...

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38530880
Outside of the US, blue is often used for police and emergency services due to biology reasons (visibility for those with poor eyesight)

I think a "special colour" for autonomous cars is a good idea, but I wonder what the colour will be in e.g. Europe
If I paid someone to replace my light switches for me I don't think that would be pretending I don't understand how to do it, I'm just recognizing that it's a LOT of work and I have better things I'd rather do with my time, so I'm buying someone else's time with money. And I really get that now, as a few weeks ago I spent like 4 hours just replacing a half dozen lightswitches, while a professional probably would've had it done in under an hour.
Can you give this a proper title?
Intel 155H Meteor Lake vs. AMD Ryzen 7 7840U on Linux in 300 CPU Benchmarks
Destroying the original copy would be destroying information. A picture of an artifact is not the same as the artifact itself.
Thank you for the explanation and reference.
ScyllaDB internals discussion on The GeekNarrator podcast
And there isn't a lot of politics in Florida...just leaning in the opposite direction?
You mean Lujan?
Paper doesn't require specialized hardware or software to read. Sure, the discs are cheap and durable. But will the authorities keep a store of BD-readers? Maintain legacy computers compatible with those readers? Software to read archived files from those discs, with no online dependencies (e.g., license activation)?

This is something people are already thinking about, and it's a hard problem. https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/02/13/386000092...
I see now, thank you very much
Finance is pretty meta itself, which is probably a contributing factor to NYC having such a diversified economy. Like an automotive company might still want a business-focused office in NYC, but a non-automotive company doesn't have much reason to open an office in the auto manufacturing capital.
Except, you're assuming extreme competence here, when, if govt and hospital IT systems are to be any indicator, it's the exact opposite position.
Was that your FIDE Elo or are you just guessing? It sounds like you just need to practice. You're going to need to provide much more evidence if you think the two biggest chess platforms in existence are impossible and cheating you.

Yes there are some bots, yes some people cheat, but what you're implying is just plainly false.
But that’s not the claim. A “company” doesn’t speak, individuals do. Just because the individuals do as a result of compensation, doesn’t mean they lose their right to free expression.

You’re focusing on the “group” aspect of this, but that’s irrelevant to the argument. A PR spokesperson has individual rights, even if they choose to use that voice to advance a company’s goals.
I mean, when the red traffic light and red tail lights both mean stop, it makes sense. When the amber traffic light and amber turn signal both mean caution, it makes sense.

When blue means "emergency vehicle" and green means "go" when driving, co-opting a similar color to serve a different purpose goes against the intuition that all US drivers have ingrained in them over years of driving.
Stumble on a well, pump it dry, keep on stumblin'
Haven't we been in that era since the Patriot Act and Five Eyes?
Because Lufthansa left a few hours late they arrived during a super busy arrival window. AFAIK ATC had nearly 30 planes already in the queue for landing with spacing for visual. To get Lufthansa in any sooner they'd need to send updated instructions to a lot of planes to make a gap.

If Lufthansa had arrived two hours earlier or later it wouldn't have been an issue. Indeed they were able to depart OAK around two hours later and land at SFO via IFR with no problems.

SFO handles a lot of traffic for having just two active runways - one of the reasons they constantly operate in parallel. Much like other super busy constrained airports (eg JFK) they have very little room to accommodate special requests.

Ideally Lufthansa would have let ATC know of this need while still a long way out so they could build a bubble in the sequence ahead of time but I don't know if procedures even allow for that.
>I have to wonder if the author is making stuff up as part of some broader agenda or is just trolling, because if this is just a troll, well played.

That's what was alleged in comment to another article from this medium blog:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38627266
That's not the most mind blowing thing.

Reddit director of policy is a hire from NATO. She was in charge of middle east/russian containment as part of NATO then moved to reddit for "social media warfare". Check out the current reddit director bios.

Here this person is talking about Russian/Syrian deal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbgpwDVS1aA

Here are Syrian rebels (ISIS) requesting US support to fight Russians:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEcyMdS9pl4

Here is reddit director, then NATO strategist, Op-ed in NYTimes requesting to arm Syrian Rebels (ISIS) with anti-aircraft to "fight Russia" : https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2016/02/22/is-there-ac...

If you think Russia invaded Ukraine in vacuum and US is being benevolent, you win the geopolitical darwin award.
My kid, after watching some YouTube videos on prehistoric man, told me that the theory of the Missing Link was wrong.

I was like, “Wait, what? When did that happen?” Apparently it was disproven for decades and I never knew. I felt like the old people who held onto their old beliefs that I felt such disdain for. He also went on to tell me that the brontosaurus didn’t exist either and I had enough.
Government could ruin civilization with unexpected moisture.

That’s a strange sounding verbiage.
I’m pretty sure CPUs destroy GPUs at sequential programming and most programs are written in a sequential style. Not sure where the 90/10 claim comes from but there’s plenty of cloud servers with no GPU installed whatsoever and 0 servers without a CPU.
Until grandma gets a call from a nice gentleman at “Google tech support” who walks her through the process.
> It will be grandma getting fleeced.

Not just grandma. We need to move away from the idea that just a handful of digital illiterate seniors will get screwed.

Android has been the main target for malware for a while now.

Nokia’s Threat Intelligence Report in 2021[0] reported that Android makes up more than half of all the infected systems, in the recent 2023 report this had dipped to 49%[1]. But as they’ve done in prior reports, this year they again highlight that most Android malware is a trojanized version of legitimate apps distributed via alternative means:

> Android based devices are not inherently insecure. However, most smartphone malware is distributed as trojanized applications and since Android users can load application from just about anywhere, it’s much easier to trick them into installing applications that are infected with malware. Android users can protect themselves by only installing applications from secure app stores like Google Play and installing a mobile anti-virus product on their device.

0: https://pages.nokia.com/T006US-Threat-Intelligence-Report-20...

1: https://www.nokia.com/networks/security-portfolio/threat-int...
Speculating here, but carbon dating is potentially one useful vector for protecting against forgery/manipulation. Conversely, once something is digitized, you cannot incontrovertibly authenticate the origin time of the relevant bit flips and you also introduce the (now seemingly just on the horizon) possibility of AI-optimized digital forgeries that are indistinguishable from originals. That's off the top of my head, but the OP may have further insight.
But this doesn't solve the problem in any way.

Most shareholders didn't know PFAs were harmful, yet you're proposing they bear the punishment. Meanwhile, the people who did know that PFAs were harmful, walk away with years of salary with raises due to their increased performance due to killing people, and potentially even the profits from sale of stock before their murders were discovered.

The entire problem here is that people, not corporations, make decisions, and people, not corporations, need to be held responsible for their own decisions. When people decide to hide information like this for their own benefit, those people need to be held responsible.
I liked the idea that you can Tweet from SMS without even having the Internets. Now this feature is not supported and I have no need to use it.
>Outside of the US, blue is often used for police and emergency services due to biology reasons (visibility for those with poor eyesight)

Flashing blue is used for police and emergency vehicles in the US as well and is illegal to use for other purposes in all the states I've bothered to know the local laws of (city/state snow plows being the one exception I believe).

This light is very much not blue, it's turquoise which they say in the article. I have no idea why they say blue in the title because people definitely don't think "turquoise" when they hear "blue".
When flying and being responsible for an aircraft full of people - estimates take a very different meaning.
Same thing on a modern flagship smartphone.
> You need a decent understanding of something in order to delegate it. ... if you have a choice or delegating two things, choose the one you know best,

I don't think that is true, even in general. In general, experts can figure out the details and get it done entirely without your help. My corporate taxes for instance. Or my furnace upgrade. Or my companies new data infrastructure ...

In the specific case of software development, this can often hold true because you are not delegating something to an expert, since it is new to everyone.
Right now a lot of the data collection is done in the hopes that it becomes useful, AI makes it possible to draw conclusions on ALL the data they're collecting on everyone at all times.
Blue is also used for police in the US for flashing lights, usually in combination with red. But Mercedes use is for running lights near headlights and tail lights, so I guess that's different enough?
Was the sudden jump associated with some browser rollout changing its minimum accepted TLS settings?
I know it's a trite comment at this point, but that used to be my commute on the train.
That's fair. I will say that the cost of entry has gone hugely down, relatively, over the years, though.
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A game is more than just rendering, and modern games will absolutely get bottlenecked on lower-end CPUs well before you reach say 144 fps. GamersNexus has done a bunch of videos on the topic.
PythonSpeed is one of my favorite websites. However, this article leaves me with more questions than answers. (I do appreciate the benchmarking code.) For example, at one point, the author mentions that hyper-threading can be disabled in BIOS. Should I disable it? Based on the author's own description, it sounds like hyper-threading is pretty useful.
Doing it once is OK, doing it multiple times is rude and thus only works with captive audience. She can do it with banker, because bankers' job is to serve customers; she can also do it while shopping because again, its their jobs and they won't kick her out of store for appearing stupid. She might or might not be able to do it with her kids, depending on how they were educated.

But asking neighbors to set up hose for watering too many times will likely make them start rejecting the requests (or they'll mysteriously disappear if she approaches them with the hose). Refusing to do boring chores during group activities will likely cause her to stop being invited to those activities, and so on.
> We could prohibit mass spying.

Could we though? It seems the usual suspects will do it anyway. Perhaps we should make spy tools fun and easy for everybody?
Knowing that an other vehicle is under computer instead of human control can be useful to (human) drivers.
In high performance scenarios, the GPU is running full blast while the CPU is running at full blast just feeding data and pre-process work to the GPU.

The GPU is the steam engine hurtling forward, the CPU is just the person shoveling coal into the furnace.

Using the integrated GPU heats up the main die where the CPU is because they live together on the same chip. The die heats up, CPU thermal throttles, CPU stops efficiently feeding data to the GPU at max speed, GPU slows down from under utilization.

In high performance scenarios, the integrated GPU is often a waste of thermal budget.
> The only reason people would ever use another store is if they were forced to

...or if the default store had terms you'd rather do without...
Maybe I'm misunderstanding the use of "category" or "thing" here, but it would be difficult for me to make useful business software for my clients if I didn't have one table for "sales orders" and another for "purchase orders".
Where I am (New Zealand), turning on the emergency lights while driving for 2 or 3 ‘blinks’ is understood to mean ‘thank you’.
C.S. Lewis didn't shun the existence of rings in the article - or act like he wasn't part of one - but describe the distinctions between healthy and unhealthy rings. He ended the article by writing about the upsides of being part of a healthy ring.

In my take on the article, he wasn't advocating some sort of pious refrain, but rather the sort of work it takes to build meaningful connections with other people, instead of shallow connections based on a status game or optimizing for a maximally thick network.

Of course, I'd imagine most social lives contain a bit of both, but a life which only has the latter is definitely a sad one. Not to even speak of a social life based on maximizing the latter.
For an example of lack of respect for existing patterns, see the HAWK signal.
For the reasons already articulated in the article we're discussing; It's a waste of people's time to reiterate them.

I would add though that one of the top stories yesterday was about how the British Library website has been down for 10 days due to a ransomware attack. Digital information retrieval is only as reliable as your backup strategy.
Then it's literally ATCs responsibility to inform the incoming aircraft of that. That's why there's a diversion airport.
>Paper doesn't require specialized hardware or software to read.

But it does. To preserve the paper, you need a warehouse with HVAC, power, and constant maintenance. You could bury them in the dirt for 1000 years, but then you lose accessibility.