skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is fatal. I have a small pilot project on Google Cloud. Considering putting up a much larger system. Not now.

The costs of Google may be comparable or lower than other services, but they don't seem to get that risk is a cost. Risk can be your biggest cost. And they've amplified that risk unnecessarily and shifted it to the customer. Fatal, as I said.
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Anyone seen one really be useful?
They bought the network to retard it's growth at best.

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Thank you for your supportive words! Not sure if I'd need any support in terms of audio (my set up is extremely basic: two microphones in a cheap recording deck), but I'll be sure to reach you if I have any questions in the future! ;)
I'm not the person you were responding to, but I'd be curious to hear more. Could you please explicitely say whatever it was that you were implying?
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No, it's an unknown known. :-)
Academic here:

Totally agreed with every point. These are great tips even for someone within academia interested in collaborating with someone else. It is a combination of shared interest, impedance-matching, and mutual respect.
Do you have any evidence that it is?
Why am I in charge of managing this in the age of AI? That's my complaint.
I lost Gmail account (locked due phone verification)[lost on holiday sim card] all my photo from vacation important email is gone (done backup day before) and that was like 3 years ego still waiting for explanation from Google 20 email send no response
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Yes, its true the docstrings are terse. And its true that Clojure follows a pattern of garbage in, garbage out. And if the rest of Clojure was designed like Java or Python, it would be a huge problem.

But its not. And if you take the time, like 30 days, to learn Clojure to intermediate proficiency levels, these issues disapear.

Its hard for me to convince you of this, because its definitly asking for a leap of faith. But think of it like starting Kick Boxing. At first, your knuckles hurt, your chin hurts, but spend 30 days at it, and you just adapt and those pain points disapear. All of a sudden, you feel great, stronger, faster, more agile. That was my experience with Clojure. And ya, just like Kick Boxing, once in a while, your knuckle might hurt again, or your chin, but unlike in the beginning, its very rare, and goes away really quickly.

EDIT: To add more concrete weight to my argument. Here's some of the things I believe contributes to making those issues disapear. The consistency and simplicity of the syntax. Most docstrings call the same things with the same names, and have a similar writing style. The REPL driven development means you can quickly explore and self learn how a function behaves. The immutable data structures avoid a lot of mistakes and simplify a lot of logic. The higher level loops and branching do a similar thing. The easy composability of data transforms become second nature. The functional first style makes writing tests easy. You always end up with little code, so there's just less that can go wrong. And I think most importantly, the Clojure source is easy to read and very accessible, so its often a better documentation then any docstring could be.
As far as I know, it would have zero effect on any of that ... unless you need to simulate quantum physics or chemistry, factor large integers, calculate discrete logarithms, or possibly solve some large optimization problems while doing your messaging, news, and social media. :-)
Welcome to the Oppression Olympics, where there are always exactly two points of view.

Back here in the land of analog spectra, there are people who are concerned that an addictive product wildly successful with teenagers is generally problematic, regardless of what it is displacing. Astroturfing with crocodile tears exacerbates these concerns.

It is possible to acknowledge a problem, and, at the same time, criticize suboptimal solutions as kicking the can down the road, while maintaining the general goal of solving the problem.

Stop foisting binary propositions upon your interlocutors.
If it can go 60mph, it needs a motor. Usually something like that is called a motorcycle.
Among many other reasons referenced by others, the users who would be willing to fork over a subscription fee to access twitter are exactly the demographic that twitter needs in order to keep its advertising attractive to marketers. A successful subscription option for a service like twitter would greatly diminish the value of their advertising inventory.
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There is too many shitcoins. Which means too much speculation. One day it will all hit a brick wall. coingecko.com has a good list with a little amount of shitcoins. But when the shit storm starts and people move their money to cryptocurrencies they will probably go to VDA which I'm guessing institutional investors use which is on cryptonaire.com

When it happens, it will be good and bad for the market. Real value in good places but a bad time in history. Due diligence everyone, due diligence.
I just used Google Image search and in frustration switched to DDG because I have no idea how to get direct links to the images that Google presents. I don't think it was always this hard? Or maybe I've grown dumber.

EDIT: Evidently you can right-click and view image. I thought that wouldn't get me to the original image since the image as presented in search is smaller in resolution than what Google says the image really is. Either way, in DDG the image actually links to the damn image and not to the site where the image supposedly maybe appears on.
passion—strong and barely controllable emotion.
"a man of impetuous passion"

Sounds like a self-centeres, obsessive and unhealthy activity. Time for some self-control? There’s no magic, passions don’t materialise.

Get a grip.
The problem is gas stations are not exactly high profit businesses, so I doubt they’ll want to pay to install them.

Unless BP wants to eat the cost the way Tesla did it might take a long time to get a good network of chargers available.
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I can't speak to the specific incident. We've been running almost 400 servers (instances and k8s cluster nodes) for over a year on GCP and we've been quite happy with the performance and reliability, as well as the support response when we have needed it. I did want to address this comment...

> What if the card holder is on leave and is unreachable for three days? We would have lost everything — years of work — millions of dollars in lost revenue.

You should never be in this position. If this were to happen to us we would be able to create a new project with a different payment instrument, and provision it from the ground up with terraform, puppet and helm scripts. The only thing we would have to fix up manually are some DNS records and we could probably have everything back up in a few hours. Eventually when we have moved all of our services to k8s I would expect to be able to do this even on a different cloud provider if that were necessary.
So, that's about 1 year of revenue at 5K cars per week or roughly equivalent to their revenue last year. Or half of that if they manage to double that to 10K per week, as they seem to have promised. That doesn't sound like an impossible situation to me. Unless I'm missing something, a default on these debts is unlikely and given the numbers, access to more capital should be feasible. I agree that these are high risk investments though. High risk and high reward go hand in hand of course.

Elon Musk may owe a little money indeed but he's also a shareholder in SpaceX. I'm not up to speed on how much he owns of that exactly but I believe it is a fairly large chunk of that company. And given the amount of rockets going up lately, his shares are probably worth quite a bit at this point. Magnitudes more than the 600M you mention, I imagine. So, I don't think a personal bankruptcy is that likely for him any time soon.

Tesla 'lost' money investing in production capacity, R&D, opening up a huge battery production facility, etc. That's not wasted money unless demand for utilizing these to full capacity disappears. As it is, the opposite seems to be the case. Tesla is talking about opening additional Giga factories even. That will cost more money of course but I think they can make a case for that being a good investment given demand in their products.

That's perhaps why it's stock valuation is so high: shareholders are expecting these investments to translate into revenue and growth. People that shorted Tesla seem to be getting a bit nervous about maybe ending up on the wrong end of that bet, which could end up being an expensive mistake for some.

Boring and Solar City are interesting wild cards. I think owning Solar City is not necessarily a bad thing for Tesla. Solar panels are in demand and Tesla seems to consider charging infrastructure as part of their strategy. Also up-selling batteries that they produce to people that install solar panels seems like a smart move. Unless there's something wrong with their product, I see no reason for that to fail. They do seem to have acquired a bit of a cost overhead problem, which they have been fixing through layoffs. But other than that, this could very well turn out to be a pretty good bargain.

Boring seems like a weird project at first glance. But it wouldn't be the first side project that Elon Musk is involved in that turned into a real business.
But, please, go squeeze some other star
I confess I get annoyed when people make arguments about the interpretation of quantum mechanics using complicated thought experiments involving lasers and mirrors. Why not just talk about it in the modern way, in terms of qubits and states? :-)

For some of my recent thoughts about interpretation of QM, see this blog post, and especially the discussion in the comments section: https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=3628
We seem to hear a lot of bad google customer support stories. I guess it really shouldn't be surprising. Amazon grew as a company that put customers first. Google is kind of known for not doing that. They shut down services all the time. They don't really put an emphasis on customer support.
London police are also addicted to cctv. A crime without footage isnt investigated. Today they only investigate motivations and wintess reliability. If the physical act cannot be confirmed with footage, it didn't happen. So we need either more cameras to catch everything, or far fewer to get cops to start investigate crime again.
A forum would definitely be core functionality. I've also been curious about the merits of anonymous publishing?
What gray area are you in?
Conversely, if your API isn't public, tightly coupling your stack together may be worth the tradeoff of brittleness vs. development speed.
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I’ve used AWS support many times and it’s actually really awesome. You can ask them basically anything and they have experts on everything. Really impressive. Yes you pay every month for it but it’s really good.
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The tools being complex are what allow the products of those tools to be simple.
That's pretty bad of Google. I just looked in detail at a company using Google Cloud exclusively for their infra and the application is somewhat similar to what these guys are doing. I'll pass the article on to them. Thanks for posting this.
Most people will go to industry after graduation, though.

When I hire I prefer to Herve someone with some practical knowledge rather than the capacity to build a compiler.

So having the "let's build something" experience is useful in the real world afterwards.
I had AliCloud experience similar to OP but they gave me 24 hour deadline.

"We have temporarily closed your Alibaba Cloud account due to suspicious activity.	Please provide the following information within [24 hours] by email to compliance_support@aliyun.com in order to reopen your account:
...
If you fail to provide this information your account will be permanently closed, and we may take other appropriate and lawful measurers.	Best regards,	Alibaba Cloud Customer Service Center
"

I provided the documents in ~30 hours because that's when I saw the email. There was no further communication from Alibaba. I assumed everything is ok, but in 2 weeks my account was terminated.
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> We would have lost everything — years of work

Okay that sounds like a greater systemic problem.

You should be have been able to deploy your git repository on another system pretty quickly, as well as have your own backups of your database.

The most time consuming thing should be setting up the environment variables.

Let me see, what else would be tricky: if you are using google analytics that data might be gone, but your other metrics package should have had many snapshots of that data too
That's a great point. These cloud hosting companies don't make this a natural evolution though, because there's no human to talk to, you start tiny and increase your usage over time. But every company depending on something and paying serious money should have a specific agreement. I wonder if this could still happen though, even if you have a separate contract.
I wrote a similar comment, thats what the best practices are for
I'm a person without disabilities, rather slender fingers and quite some savvy w/ computers and I have difficult time not tapping stuff by mistake, not sloppily fat-thumbing stuff when I didn't even mean tapping anything or accurately tapping smallish things from among many others. I'd rather not deal with trying to not hover random stuff on top of that.
Good software engineers reduce until everything unnecessary is gone. Same idea, nice to hear people talking about it.
You can bring it up as an issue on github. They can probably move it down to the bottom.

The change log has A LOT of value if you are trying to figure out what version you should upgrade to.
If you are stuck on an older version, then you need to understand what value you gain by potentially introducing new bugs into your product.

They also credit everybody who has worked on the project, which is super important.
I wonder what support option[0] they had from GCP.

https://cloud.google.com/support/?options=premium-support#op...
Thank you for the time you took to research this question and for sharing your findings and thoughts on this! Yours is the most helpful reply I've received.

If I interpret things correctly, the Google Search Console Beta suggests that the situation is worse than I imagined. I have taken a screen shot that you can view here:

https://antipolygraph.org/graphics/google-search-console-ap-...

As you'll note, over the past 16 months, Google reports 147,000 impressions for the search word "polygraph," with an average position of 8.4, but only 381 total clicks. And the number of impressions and clicks flatlined somewhere around March. What do you make of this?
Restarting the service from scratch is one thing, but what about all your data? Some of these services have 100's T's of data hanging of them and if Google would delete that because of some perceived violation of their terms then that is not something you can recover from in a couple of hours, if at all.

This is one of the reasons I always implore people to have a backup of their data with another provider or at least under a different account. That protects against all kinds of accidents but also against malice.
I have been able to look under the bonnet of this car, this has nothing to do at all with how you imagine a car - pure high tech. And during the race, the complications caused due to the massive Battery force the people around the Race Track for emergency purposes to look like in a weird fetish movie: Rubber Boots, Rubber GLoves, Face masks, huge mats made out of rubber to stand on during rescue... And then seeing this car on the track... mental. I have seen many a great race on the Nordschleife, but that... Holy shit you get a spinal injury just trying to follow that thing flying past.
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Do you know if gcp firewall has limits on the number of rules and what those limits are ?
"simple things should be easy, hard things should be possible."

I rarely (if ever) need to make matches world readable from the context of text editing. When I do, there's nothing stopping me from using ^z, but until that day comes, a plug-in is going to be fewer keystrokes, faster, and better integrated with what I was already doing.
you really can't compare switching between generic vps providers from switching between the big cloud providers that provide lots of more useful services.
> Nicely, resiliently built, good solid stuff.

Erm ... no, evidently not?
Folks from OPN and HBSD appear to have rudimentary grasp of C while making grandiose security claims. This is probably my favorite feature comparison of all time https://hardenedbsd.org/content/easy-feature-comparison. It appears to be largely cult of personality ensnaring users that don't really know any better

Could you explain whats bad about that comparison? Or point to an example of their "rudimentary grasp of C" ?
Huh? You can provision new servers, but you can't just easily move over all the data, can you?
I think you’re onto something. Google’s “fake news” algorithm change probably didn’t want to be seen as politically or viewpoint driven, so an easier approach was to just de-prioritise large “authoritative” websites even for deep searches where more relevant results exist.

Actually, that’s almost exactly how Google described the algorithm update...
What you find boring, other people find interesting, and thus not a waste of time. I’m curious about why you bothered to post a rant about how these discussions are “preventing you from living”, followed by a public announcement of how you’re “gonna close this laptop and go do something”. It comes across as bizarre and a bit narcissistic.
I think the dissemination part is a collective action problem. Simply put, society has not set up opportunities to induce/encourage researchers outside the academic scaffolding to share their work. Given that, it comes down to a question of who cares most about the dissemination. If neither the person who would be writing, nor the putative audience cares about it enough, who would want to put effort into the dissemination process?

Creating such a two-sided market for research output is a hard problem, roughly analogous to what Uber has done for ride-sharing. The current academic/think-tank setup is an intricate triangle consisting of the grant process to match donors with researchers seeking funds, the publication process to match research output to downstream demands, and publication metrics (citation count, reputation, impact factor, etc.) to match downstream demands with funding agencies.
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Hi Scott,

Can you recommend a nice technical intro on what this is all about? (Level: I'm an EE, fine with undergrad quantum mechanics but never understood field theory at all.)

Thanks!
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This story gives evidence to something I have seen from Google, and why I refuse to pay them cash for a service ever again, much less critical ones - Google customer service is bad by design. I have never seen a company so arrogant and opaque/untransparent as them
> Note that this is distinct from "auto-deref" (or deref coercion), another Rust feature that will automatically dereference pointers as necessary in certain cases, like calling a method on a struct (so there is no arrow operator "->" in Rust like in C++).

Is this actually distinct? The docs for the reference type explicitly says that &T implements Deref for T, so it seems like it's the exact same thing to me.

See https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/primitive.reference.html
>What I found was a mess of PHP and poor quality plugins. The init scripts were written in PHP, and the plugins modified the init scripts. So plugins could, and did, break the init process, preventing the firewall rules from loading.

Really, really, not my experience and I've been using it for 7~ years.

>I don't think people are using pfSense in production environments

I was running 1% of all internet traffic through dual pair of pfSense firewalls running on some HP 2U servers during Christmas 2011.. (interface was slow as shit with that load though to be honest).

I wouldn't discount it's power. Mostly when you buy something like a Juniper SRX it's similar underneath. It's not like there are common ASICs for firewalls.
Yeah Clojure's error messages pushed me to Common Lisp (although I am still quite a neophyte in both).

I haven't tried it, but maybe Sayid[0] would be of help to Clojurians?

[0]: http://bpiel.github.io/sayid/
"London [...] still notorious for violent street crime"

Which I find fairly strange all things considered - the crime index (https://www.numbeo.com/crime/rankings.jsp - admittedly this might not be the most accurate source) shows quite a gap between other similar cities like New York - a fairly common comparison. As a resident of a few years now, I definitely wouldn't say I felt London to have that kind of feel, if anything violent crime has the effect of being shocking because it is so uncommon.

I find it quite disheartening to see London's relatively soft-touch approach lose out over "automated" policing, there's quite a bit of grumbling lately over the reduction in actual people on the streets, mainly over police cuts.
Sure, you can see it here on the high school mathematics book table of contents.

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I see it as a concerning second phase to citizens united. Give corporations virtually unlimited influence and watch as they also find ways of capping everyone else's influence. Google sticks you into your (their) filter bubble and Facebook performs the social equivalent to gerrymandering on their platform. WCGW?
Please remember Google Cloud is a multi-tenant public cloud and in order run a multi-tenant environment providers have to monitor usage, users, billing, and take precautionary measures at times when usage or account activity is sensed to be irregular. Some of this management is done automatically by systems preserving QoS and monitoring for fraud or abuse.

This seems like a billing issue. If they had offline billing and monthly invoicing (enterprise agreement) I do not believe this issue would have happened.

If you are running an enterprise business and do not have enterprise support and an enterprise relationship with the provider, you may be doing something wrong on your end. It sounds like the author of this post does not have an account team and hasn't take the appropriate steps to establish an enterprise relationship with their provider. They are running a consumer account which is fine in many many cases, but may not be fine for a company that requires absolutely no service interruptions.

IMO, the time this issue was resolved by the automated process (20 mins) is not too bad for consumer cloud services. Most likely this issue could have been avoided if the customer had an enterprise relationship (offline billing/invoicing, support, TAM, account flagging, etc, etc) with Google Cloud.