skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tesla Custom Light Show (XLights)
Julia Evans has some good zines as a starting point and does a great job of distilling complexity and making topics like this approachable to newcomers. [1]

I'd also recommend "Network Basics for Hackers" by OccupytheWeb [2]

[1] https://wizardzines.com/

[2] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0BS3GZ1R9
Streaming TV Sector Doesn't Realize Exclusives Will Drive Users Back to Piracy
Why would $100 be difficult? Router hardware is basically ancient arm cpus with five gigabit ethernet ports and wifi.
The EU isn't democratic in that basically every official function is only through multiple indirections dependent on the voters. So the will of the people and the sovereignty of the voters is diluted through a multitude of political backroom deals that are anything but democratic. Just look at how von der Leyen came to her job.

Back in the day, when there was still a communist bloc, this kind of system, a "soviet republic" consisting of a hierarchy of workers councils was the usual example for how you can have elections but not have democracy. Because the hierarchy of councils will dilute any kind of will and sovereignty of the people into the will of the political upper class.
If I scroll the DMARC Results on mobile Firefox, the right column doesn't scroll, while the rest of the table does. The results where all green, as expected :)
I still have one or two of Buffalo routers with DD-WRT lying around. I think I installed it manually though. They were good value for the money.
What difference would that make?

https://bioplasticsnews.com/2020/07/22/cans-sustainable-plas....
The marketing teams behind bottled water successfully brainwashed people. Most people don’t even realize it
Google's TPUs could end up costing it a billion-plus, in this patent challenge
Serverless V2 is also shit. The minimal one equivalent ACU to a regular instance has lots of latency spikes and much slower than a t3 instance.

We also tried serverless Redis. We have a tiny machine at %10 CPU utilization, but sustained queries. It costs 20x more. We were very afraid of the result we just ran it for an hour to get an idea.

Serverless, pay per use sounds only good if you have very few or unusual traffic.

We just run a monolithic but stateless Spring Boot Application and a dedicated RDS instance with reader in stand by. Only serverless dependency is SQS because it works nice enough. This simple infra has allowed us to iterate and pivot our startup very fast as needed. We still need more customers though.
I predict the next big scandal of this kind will involve AI of some form (not least because you can sell any code more complicated than a spreadsheet as AI these days). The post office scandal shows that you can horribly mess up "trust the computers" even before AI or "smart" systems were a thing.
I have a 16 year old usb printer from them that I bought for 120 euro or so at the time. Still works great. Good value. I buy some toner for it every five years or so and that's about it. It doesn't get used a lot.

Basically, don't buy an inkjet printer (of any type) unless you really need one for photos or graphics work. And then only buy one if that's a regular thing. Otherwise, outsource to professional print shops in your area. It will be better and cheaper.

For normal office stuff, a laser printer is just easier. The toner lasts for ages, doesn't dry out. And if, like me, you rarely need a printer, it's nice when it still works after just sitting there for half a year of not being used at all.
Piketty hasn't been "falsified" but he has been challenged in various ways:

1. https://www.brookings.edu/articles/deciphering-the-fall-and-... (Piketty underestimates the extent to which inequality is due to real estate)

2. https://davidsplinter.com/AutenSplinter-Tax_Data_and_Inequal... (uses different -- more accurate -- methods to estimate inequality in the US since 1960 and finds that Piketty and co. overestimate the growth of inequality)
They are end of lifing v1, which could go to zero. V2 can't.

Are there any truly serverless SQL databases out there?
This is unfortunate news given that I have a plastic water filter on my house.
I was always a fan of HP and 3com for networking over Cisco. It was easy to keep gear assigned to specific tasks. This is our core switch. This is the core router. Pricing kept this amenable to management. Juniper was never "in the budget" as a viable alternative. I'm currently at a Cisco shop that purchased their first Juniper switch 12 months ago for Equinix cross-connects to the cloud. Should be interesting to see how this plays out.
I'll call it. This is vaporware. This is similar to Fast and Bolt.

2 reasons:

- It will be better as a phone. People will not use it and the initial hype will die quickly.

- It is seemingly useful but useless in practice because many things are impossible to do. The demo is already so fake.

With the two above reasons, the momentum and funding will dry up quickly.

Check back in a year.
> In cases where a small vulnerability is successfully turned into a larger vulnerability, everyone wins, right?

Nope! The two vulnerabilities are usually one and the same. The person is just trying to find a clever way to access additional data to make their payout larger.

From the customer perspective, getting the initial vulnerability fixed ASAP is the best outcome.

When they start delaying things to explore creative ways to make their payout larger, everything goes unfixed longer.
I see environmental impact of electronics frequently mentioned but, gotta be honest, I'm not sure I really buy that there is a major environmental impact there. Even if someone is getting a brand new phone every year, that's how much plastic and silicon? In a year?

Compare that to the daily disposable plastics just for food. Or the amount of plastics for shipping and storing goods.
> Give me neovim as an option and I would be even happier.

That's fine, the issue here isn't someone's personal happiness, but good design (my 2nd sentence already covers this apparent contradiction)

> there's nothing wrong with a modal editor with key chords as the primary interface.

There is this whole list of UI design principles that tells you what's wrong

> It's not something you can "open and just use with 0 experience" but neither is your car or any other useful complex tool.

Yeah, that's not the issue, >0 experience doesn't require bad interface. Like, a car doesn't require pressing 6 buttons with no feedback to turn left, instead you have a wheel with immediate feedback (still requires experience to get the feel for the connect at different speeds)

> The fact that Vim & Emacs design hasn't really changed in decades yet they still have a very vast userbase should indicate something.

It doesn't indicate what you imply it does. But to answer in kind: the fact that both have multiple (in total) close to complete rewrites of the whole interface (full set of key bindings, commands, tabs, plugin languages, etc.) should indicate something, and not something positive about those interfaces
The article isn't suggesting that the plastic is from the bottles. So what difference would glass make?
> * For example, if I wanted to do a simple find-and-replace on my 2021 M1, I'd have to use something like grep (a tool originally written by Ken Thompson in 1973—a half century before my laptop was built) and look up flags and syntax I inevitably constantly forget. We should have been past this at least 15 years ago.*

What does the oldness (and long usefulness) of grep have to do with the problem you described, which is the very hard problem of translating natural human speech into machine commands?
I don't feel like it really needs to compete on price though. As long as it's not totally unreasonable, I (and I assume other OpenWRT enthusiasts) would gladly pay a premium for a device that includes truly first class OpenWRT support.
Yes, but I do a lot more vetting before I invite someone to my physical home, so situations like these are vanishingly rare. As opposed to a digital home which is free to any nefarious person around the home.

(I do host stuff at home, but I don't think it is good to understate the risks)
You’re looking at it from the databases point of view (makes sense, you consult on them) but there’s a lot going on in the developer world. For instance, MongoDB exists and is popular because it doesn’t center the database but rather the developer. And in particular the needs of the developer line burning down a backlog without the database slowing that down.

Other databases focus on and optimize around a certain set of problems which yes, not as many people have as they think, but they aren’t just reserved for Google either.

And then there’s the world of analytics and data science etc where a host of databases that are not SQL become useful tools.

I do agree though that SQL should be a first consideration. But having worked up and down the stack from dev to dev-ops over the last 15 years I’ve gone from skeptic to enthusiastic in the choices.

Horses for courses.
Per sending domain name, it appears.
OpenTofu is Going GA
Serverless is a paradigm where you pay for capacity, not for a specific number of instances. It's extending "cattle, not pets" beyond VMs to databases.

In theory it provides better incentives for both parties:

Customers don't have to pick instance size, etc. to try and accomodate their workload. They can buy throughput, etc. in fractions of an actual instance. They can look at their quota usage to determine whether to "scale up" or "scale down".

Service providers are incentivized to optimize their software. If you sell instances + a service on top, there's a perverse incentive not to make your code too fast or people will buy fewer instances. In serverless, providers are incentivized to reduce their costs and optimize the entire stack.

Scale to zero isn't necessarily a property of serverless - a service provider can agree to keep your data on ice for free, but that's a business decision.
> I think a lot of computer scientists assume that their model of the world (binary logic) is the most abstracted version possible, and you can drill down other information carrying systems to that level, and then use that knowledge to build reliable systems.

It doesn't matter what Turing-complete model you have; they are all equivalent, even if exponentially slower than another. And no, binary logic is not the most abstracted version possible. Clearly lambda calculus is....ok, just kidding. You can build a universal computer out of just two stacks, out of subtract-and-jump-if-zero, and a lot of other things. (https://gwern.net/turing-complete)

I don't think computer scientists really think that binary logic is the only computation paradigm that makes sense, it just happens to be one that we can make extremely fast and extremely reliable realizations of using electronic circuits. It's been phenomenally successful.
The difference being we decided that being gay shouldn't be a crime and never should have been.

Defrauding public institutions is quite a different kettle of fish. There will be people convicted who really did have their hands in the till.
Because everything other than the ancient arm CPUs and ethernet ports requires expertise and capital.
> At Juniper, “AI” stands for “All In.”

This is where I vomited.
He would save himself so much money by going to ICE car, a reliable brand which requires minimal maintenance will save him so much money and he will be able to actually drive to somewhere with the trailer.

60 miles... with a brand new 40k car. Wauw
To be fair to Google, they also flag and filter emails from themselves with some regularity.
Network hobbyist here: an excellent home project is to setup your own PBX. Complete with VLAN's, and backups running on your favorite HV. Most importantly, use hard phones with SCCP.

It's a challenge of itself, and will force you to demonstrate your understanding
Honest question, why not just use dynamodb? If I'm already mostly server less and AWS, dynamodb seems like a natural choice for a persistent store in a world where cost and zero-scaling is important.
what if a new ai model retains any info fed into it, such that I ask it about a book that I post excerpts into, and it remembers that for future conversations with me, and others. I'm not talking about using vector search, I mean literally it's folded back into the next 'version' of a self-evolving llm. You can't make an intelligence that functions in the real world without it knowing something about the copyrighted works out there. That's like trying to create a human brain without knowing any copywritten material, and have them fit in society.
From the other thread:

> "Previous studies found the major chemical composition to be PET, which is expected since the bottle is made of PET," Yan told us. "Therefore, for a long time, we had the impression that the majority of plastic particles inside bottled water would be Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) particles of a few hundred nanometers in size."
> "That was incorrect," Yan said.

> Ironically enough, the most commonly detected plastic was polyamide, a material commonly used in water filtration systems and "the most popular membrane material used in reverse osmosis … a common water purification method shared by all three brands [of water tested]," the team wrote in the paper.

Too different from the title. And the other comments seem to have been written without reading the text.
> Can you believe the woman responsible nearly became a bishop?

Well, yes? Have you seen the kinds of people elevated to the House of Lords lately? These institutions are now profoundly corrupt.
Reverse engineering the end-of-level photos in Sackboy: A Big Adventure
The FTC will absolutely not knock on your door if you expose users's SSN to the internet.
I guess a good opportunity for someone to build a good alternative. Although it's hard to get it right because if you scale to 0 people will complain about latency and if you don't it's not really serverless.
It would be nice to have a "View page source" for LLMs, except it shows the prompt(s). Consumers may someday have the right to access that.
My fish shell shows a desktop notification if some other window has the focus and the command ran longer than 10 seconds.

Fish config: https://github.com/qznc/dot/blob/master/config/fish/config.f...

Notification script: https://github.com/qznc/dot/blob/master/bin/notify_long_runn...

I stole it from some zsh solution originally.
You have a golden opportunity.
> But Fujitsu still keep getting government contracts

This isn’t terribly surprising: government contracting is a hard business to qualify for and relatively few companies have done so. They all have failures along with successes so any attempt to ban one of them will be opposed by the people who’ve found some semblance of a working team as well as any politicians they’re close to, and it’s hard to argue that most of the replacements would be substantially more likely to deliver working systems.

The underlying problem here is that this work should be run by civil servants who are familiar with the domain and have the proper incentives. This is politically anathema to the Tory/New Labor types (or Republicans here in the US) who are committed to the fiction that there are enormous cost savings to be had from outsourcing government functions and they aren’t going lead a serious procurement reform effort because the first answer would be “most things are less efficient when contracted out” and the second would be “you need to pay market rates for technical talent even to contract effectively and empower those experts”.
All this is true, but there is a bit of nuance. Long range isn't always desirable for wireless communication. Certainly if you are talking about low population areas then it's king. But when you start talking about heavily populated areas the long range becomes a detriment for the network stability. You can end up with cell towers servicing too many people (streaming youtube) which can ultimately overload a node but also cause a lot of signal disruption.

As population density goes up, the higher frequency bandwidths become much more desirable. This is part of the reason why the WiFi standard has been pushing up into 5ghz and 60ghz frequencies. Because you don't want your wifi signal to be yelled over to the neighbor.
Because you need SQL. Dynamo can be quite powerful for querying if you use all of its features but it won't be as flexible as just using SQL
I have a similar story about mine, but it’s nearing seven years old and just keeps doing what it does.

It doesn’t even have WiFi or AirPrint, but brother has an app that can print to it when you’re on the same network with an iPhone, which is surprisingly convenient.

HL-2170W and iPrint&Scan
It's probably good for a lot of things, but clearly has drawbacks everyone intuitively agrees on (no one would want medical doctors to democratically seek advice from their patients, at least not on complex decisions like which medication to take)

The "10% less democracy" concept (https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=28088) is interesting here, and frames the question as "when and how much" as opposed to "democracy or no-democracy"
I'm not sure that nature and logic are related in the way you imply.

A different question: Is not the atomic indivisible of computing no more that a simple switch? A binary? Is there an equivalent for this in the human mind/brain? I suspect not but would like to hear from someone who knows more.
If I had to guess, permissive licensing, better platform support, and the perception of LLVM being easier to target than GCC.
Why families will look different by 2100
> s less willing to pretend there are easy solutions with no downsides the government is ignoring than other parts of the media this is seen as them being in the government's pocket

I really cannot parse all the double negatives in this. Is this an allegation relating to the BBC's ties with the ruling party? https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/jan/24/panel-approvin...
Gallium: The liquid metal that could transform soft electronics
Yeah the strings situation isn't so good right now. stringref is really good imo but different factions in the wasm group are opposed.

The best way to represent strings right now is (array (mut i8)) for UTF-8 or WTF-8 data. In Guile Hoot we are using stringref because it's convenient for the compiler to be able to emit (string.const "foo") and such, but we then perform a post-pass to remove all stringref instructions and replace them with instructions that operate on i8 arrays so the resulting binaries are usable. This approach has the advantage that string contents are visible to wasm so internal string manipulation is fast, but the downside is that strings have to be copied when going across the host/wasm boundary.

An alternative approach would be to fully rely on the host to provide strings utilizing extern refs. This avoids the copying at the boundary problem of the first approach, but it has the disadvantage that all string operations need to call the host, so internal string manipulation is slow.
>We will probably won't find a culprit

It's capitalism. That's the answer you're looking for
It’s not about lobbying. And it’s far past managing sovereign nations to compromise. Modern EU is a beast of its own and its own interests. Which so far is power grab from member states. And trying to push through infamous laws. Such as chat surveillance.

The core fact is that EU governance is far removed from the people. It’s too huge and too diverse. But it’s perfect ground for deep state (deep union?) to find ways to work around democratic instruments.
A great reference. Many thanks.
AWS has a decent implementation transactional distributed block storage that they leverage for a few technically decent offerings. Aurora being one of them.
I still consider "serverless" to mean something that does in fact scale to zero. You also don't necessarily need to SSH in and upgrade stuff with a managed service either but RDS isn't exactly serverless even though you don't really need to service the database server yourself.
> plus the border is about to reopen again in 4 days

Except the PM said we need "more actions on the border" which pretty much means continuing keeping it closed.

Same from other leaks in the government according to Iltalehti.

https://yle.fi/a/74-20068749
https://www.iltalehti.fi/politiikka/a/12941635-5b60-4383-968...
Yay! I like this! Also, I feel validated... this has been installed 6,142 times :-)
I got into synthetic bio for a little while and ended up reading this intro textbook: https://www.amazon.ca/Introduction-Systems-Biology-Principle...

If you've taken "Systems Engineering" or "Control Systems" type classes where you learn about oscillators and other high-level control systems work across a variety of engineering disciplines, this is a great into to how these systems are "implemented" and work inside of cells. It's not "IF" and "WHILE" loops, but more like "How are logical circuits such as e.coli path finding algorithms implemented in RNA"
Opinion:
We’re treating kids like adults too early in their lives. Of course breaking laws isn’t ok but who here hasn’t done something crazy?
Neighborhoods aren’t being neighbors any longer and people simply want to have law enforcement be the negotiator for everything.
Reminder that AWS Aurora claims to have broken the CAP theorem. The literature doesn’t clarify whether they are consistent or available, and when you ask AWS directly, they tell you the CAP theorem isn’t relevant due to the way Aurora is built.

They claim 99.99% availability or whatever the figure is, that it’s self healing, allows up to 2 replicas to be down for write availability and 3 replicas to be down for read availability. They promise “millisecond consistency”, whatever that even means.

Some of the blogs mention that they use distributed state to extract slivers of consistency across the nodes, which is just scary stuff to hear.

I’m seeing more and more usage of Aurora due to the magical component it offers, but I can’t wrap my head around what it’s actually supposed to be, and what the failure model is, like I can with RDS PG and MySQL.
Does anyone know of any studies that look at rates of cigarette smoking, or activation of indoor smoking bans with respect to the data on mental illness? Most of the west banned indoor smoking around 2006-2008, roughly around when smartphone usage started to explode. AFAIK you can still smoke indoors in China--do they show the same trends? What about Nevada? Did any jurisdictions ban indoor smoking a few years before or after the rest of the west and show a graph shifted on the x axis?

This isn't a joke post--cigarette smoking promotes social bonding and nicotine is a mood stabilizer. It's irresponsible to not consider the effects of smoking bans on mental health.

Of course there are many health and aesthetic downsides to cigarette smoking but we should look at the data.
Show HN: OpenTofu Is Now Stable
Entire industries exist to bypass the bean counters. Arguably much of SaaS just is that.

But you can make a comfortable living as a small VAR by just buying product and charging more to companies for it in the way their bean counters like to see it.

$1000 item with $8 VAT line item? Unacceptable.

$2000 same item with no VAT? Perfectly cromulent.
"YugabyteDB Anywhere" is open core though right? Half the value & complexity is in the orchestration stack. It's definitely a step forward, but such licensing is likely still too restrictive to ever supplant Postgres itself (it terms of breadth of adoption).
I've never used it and it's still in beta, but I think Cloudflare D1 would qualify:
https://developers.cloudflare.com/d1/