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Ask HN: Any cheaper but good alternatives to DigitalOcean?
I am working on a project but I have limited resources since I don't have a job currently. I am looking if there are any good alternatives to DigitalOcean with support for additional disks/volumes, that do not cost too much. I have tried several providers including UpCloud, Hetzner Cloud, Vultr and Linode. UpCloud seems to have the best performance but all of these apart from Hetzner charge $40/month for a cloud server with 4 cores and 8 GB of ram. Hetzner gives me twice as much memory at half of the price, but performance isn't great from my testing/benchmarking, especially concerning the storage. I would use UpCloud if pricing was more affordable. I will probably need 7 servers for my setup initially with 4 cores and at least 8 GB of ram and decent storage performance. Am I asking too much or are there more options for me? Thanks in advance.
Mathematics is surprisingly useful. You've used your credit card online -- where'd that encryption algorithm come from? "Useless" math. You've booked a flight online -- where'd that schedule come from? Uh, math again: all that optimization, those traveling salesman problems.

Right now I'm doing all sorts of work studying risk in financial networks, studying public health, all using math that was considered "pure" just 20 years ago. Actually, at the moment I'm looking up papers on the tropical geometry of deep learning.

Certainly I realize society has decided math is not the most valuable thing, which is why I'll be seeking to do "machine learning" instead in the next year or so, rather than education & research (useless for anything in the real world!). I'm sure I'll add more to humanity when I'm optimizing for ad clicks :)
>Implying megacorp forcing their values on people is undesirable
My brother works in a cinema so he can look up how long the ads and trailers before the film are for me, meaning I tend to turn up at the scheduled start time, buy some popcorn, and then walk in just as the trailers are wrapping up. It’s an excellent experience.
Do these really matter if you're running a compute farm? If you're already locked down couldn't you use that as a way to mitigate risks?
You should use large instance that don't share the same CPU socket, on AWS for example it would be c5.9xlarge and above.
MemSQL can run both types of workloads. That is one the main things we're trying to demonstrate by running one of the most popular operational database benchmarks (TPC-C) as well as the two most popular analytics benchmarks (TPC-DS, TPC-H). Our strength is somewhere in the middle[1]

[1] https://www.memsql.com/blog/the-need-for-operational-analyti...
The passport is to prove US citizenship. Otherwise you cannot reasonably distinguish between permanent residents and citizens. Both can have a driver's license. Visa holders can have a driver's license too but it mentions the expiration date of your visa.
Any chance we’ll get to read a postmortem on this incident?
It will lead to unintended consequences, for certain. Disaster is a loaded term in this case, which contains no actionable or otherwise useful information. No doubt private concerns will happily continue to use or not use facial recognition of images captured within the city limits. The genie is out of the bottle.
It's a different poster, he's agreeing with you by calculating that those 5 minutes are quite lucrative.
Since there is relatively little AMD running, you would expect relatively little investment in attacking it.
People applaud the lack of commercials because of the advertising industry’s self-inflicted wound of making obnoxious ads.

Ads didn’t have to try so hard to be WAY LOUDER THAN THE SHOW. They didn’t have to be trying to sell obviously-terrible things (“Get StupidDrugName! <happy music> Side effects may include: death”). They didn’t have to subject you to 12 identical copies of the same commercial in one broadcast. They didn’t have to greedily demand an increasing share, to the point of significantly reducing the length of a show. And that’s just TV...web ads have lots of avoidable crap too.

They got greedy, they made ads suck, now people have no use for them.
Thankfully, streaming solved this particular issue-- You no longer need a local music store in your community to ensure that you're not stuck listening to censored junk.
Energiewende is no ponies and magical unicorns, it is a quite well thought out system to about zero CO2 ouput in 2050 (except some industries like steel production where fossils will be needed for some time to come until better chemical processes are found). 2050 is not the number that "Fridays for future" want to hear, but still ambitious enough to really make a difference. A lot of new infrastructure has to be built (and is currently built) and paid for (that is why I gladly pay my 28,9 cents/KwH). It is a giant project, but mostly it is using technology we know and can use today. We just have to scale it.
You can compile a static binary or distribute a private copy of libraries, but it doesn't get you integrated into the system. For example, your app will not be upgraded using a package manager.

And main reason for this is because package managers were not designed for third-party software. They were designed only to install software from a distribution and maybe from your private repositories.

That makes proprietary software "not welcome" in Linux distributions.
>hardline views on security

The only hardline view on security you'll encounter in the wild is "security is practical in our computational environments"[1]. Only half-joking here.

My reading of Theo's quote is merely "the combination of x86/IA32/AMD64 and virtualization gives little to no factual security benefits, and plenty of pitfals".

I don't see Theo as being a hardliner about security, just meticulous about good engineering practices - as per OpenBSD's usual standards - and facing the problems & risks as they are.

[1] examples: "Rust/Java gives you security", "shortlisting the only allowed actions by end-user application gives you security", "hardcore firewalls give you security", "virtualization gives you security", "advanced architectures like Burroughs' give you security".
This is a common pattern for new bug classes. Nobody thought to look at this, and when they did, the rabbit hole went deep. We likely haven’t seen the bottom.

AMD are not better. They’re probably worse. They’ll be looked at when the Intel tree stops bearing fruit. But finding an Intel bug is higher impact, so that’s what researchers want to look at.
Yes, perhaps, but they could have used third party merchants instead of having everything on stock themselves. It's all about the portal, not about the actual merchants.
> only sometimes incidentally

Why?
Why is the percolation threshold lower than 25% for a square lattice?
Unfortunately it's a mailbox cluster at the entrance of a rural subdivision. The sizes are fixed and I believed they're property of USPS. An oversized package locker would be a great idea but it's not something I could do as a private citizen.
Same with London.
I have to say, parks and the environment are, ah, pretty impacted by climate... Why do you think that discussion of climate is "bolted on" to parks/environment unnecessarily?
That's a really interesting way of looking at things. How do you reconcile that with the notion of Darwinian evolution? Is it not true that individual organisms are born with small mutations which make them more or less suitable for an environment, and that over long time periods, the ones who are more suitable for an environment will flourish in that environment? Are you suggesting the individual could reverse a detrimental inherited mutation in his own lifetime (as opposed to the lifetime of his distant descendants), if properly nurtured?
Well, it seems he is now subject to re-programming at the hands of the military-industrial-pharmaceutical complex:

https://www.transcend.org/tms/2019/05/assange-and-beyond-pra...

.. sorry to say, my prediction came true.

“[Julian Assange] is presently under close observation in prison hospital because he has suffered ‘severe transient psychotic episodes.’ My source(s) indicate these episodes occurred after two sessions of coercive interrogation at the hands of UK and US officials. The source(s) stated the HUMINT interrogators used psychotropic drugs in the course of the sessions.”
At hyper scale? Yes please!
Interesting stuff in userspace? I thought drivers worked in kernel for performance reasons (part of why wireguard performs well). Any where I can learn more about what is in userspace and why?

I'm also curious, how does performance compare to the binary blob?
> But there's nothing inherently preventing the poorer kid from doing just as good, if not better, a job.

Maybe, maybe not. I say this as a poor person who often out competes people with much more privileged backgrounds. There are plenty of "stereotypical poor people" that will never be as good as those who grew up with healthy diets, education, parental supervision... Yes, I've done well but I was always in the top 1% of achievement, even when poor. People like me are already succeeding today and don't need any special "uplifting". Those that do will most likely never be at the level of their peers. If they could, they would already be there.
I've had the same experience but their last mile deliveries at least have a chance to make it. USPS will _never_ deliver to my door.
it's an easy trap to fall into, not enough people talk about it
Don't take me the wrong way here but it sounds like you're trying to get blood out of a stone. I have no doubt that you can find cheaper hosting, but you're probably better off just getting some outside money for the project (customers, investors, etc)... worrying about a couple hundred dollars difference shouldn't be the primary concern if your venture has legs.
Do they not replace it out of warranty or simply don't pay for it out of warranty? There is a huge difference between those two options. If it is the former, I would imagine it is just a matter of time before a lawsuit. If it is the latter, then isn't this functionally the same as a particular model of car having a bad transmission or similarly critical ICE component that regularly fails much earlier than expected?
The Disney brand is about family entertainment and mostly PG content. Hulu is for more adult content.

Hulu also has day after broadcast content with NBC,ABC, and FOX. Those are much more valuable than library content.
So one starts with 1 point. Someone clicks downvote, it goes to 0 and the comment disappears, right? That's too fast IMHO.

Perhaps a better system would be to upvote only? Then constructive comments would raise to the top and who really cares what's long way down?
Our kid has watched Thomas, Arthur, The new Fred Rogers Company shows, etc.

Tom & Jerry and Roadrunner would squarely go into the "super-smart and creative shows". All of Chuck Jones' work really is supremely well made and exists for its own merit (as opposed to an educational one).

I lump in Spongebob because they at least picked a unique topic, had unique characters, and had some very unique jokes and comedic structures. At least in the beginning.
If you're truly interested in the economics of the waste industry, the book Junkyard Planet by Adam Minter was a good introduction:
https://www.amazon.com/Junkyard-Planet-Travels-Billion-Dolla...
That would make sense, my understanding is that with a 100% pegged CPU hyperthreading won't be super beneficial as they aren't real cores, just smarter scheduling. You can't really schedule 100% load better, however for applications that are latency specific it would make more sense, as you don't have the CPU pegged, you just want a faster response.
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Whoops. Misread. Thanks for pointing that out. :)
> 40 hours per week is a reasonable amount to request

It feels reasonable only because we are used to it and it's a standard. I think we should start redefining what full-time means.
Without points 1, 2 or 3, all you're testing is whether or not giving financially strapped people no-strings-attached money makes them happier and less stressed. Of course it does, at least in the short term (longer-term studies have demonstrated that money does not, in fact, buy happiness).

That doesn't mean that any of this is good public policy, that it would be better than current policies, or that it would improve long-term outcomes.

Notably, your Finland link indicated that there was no change to employment rates, which is unfortunate, and I think undermines a lot of the arguments I've heard from proponents of UBI- that people who are less stressed financially will be able to make better use of their time training into new industries, start small businesses, etc.
Most household purchasing decisions are made by women:
https://hbr.org/2009/09/the-female-economy

"The economy" rewards those who produce goods/services that others find valuable. It's pretty bizarre to claim that the economy itself is somehow sexist, particularly when women make many of the purchasing decisions that drive demand.
As someone who's spent a lot of time working with TPC-DS [1] and talking to people about it [2], I see a couple areas that could be improved in this benchmark:

1. Total run time is not an appropriate way to summarize the performance across queries, because some queries take 100x longer than others. The appropriate way to summarize this kind of data is to use the geomean [3].

2. The official TPC-DS queries make heavy use of grouping sets, which are a rarely-used SQL feature. I think TPC-DS is better if you rewrite the queries to eliminate grouping sets.

3. You used the exact same queries to "warm up" the data warehouse, and to test the performance. Some data warehouses (notably Redshift) aggressively cache intermediate compilation results, so they are much faster the second time they see a query or even a fragment of a query. To model a real user submitting queries interactively, you should use warmup queries that are similar to but not the same as the ones you use to measure performance.

4. You can solve the "vendor benchmarking their own product" problem by submitting a PR to our repo [4], which currently tests Redshift, Snowflake, BigQuery, Azure SQL DW, and Presto. We'd be happy to review it and endorse the timing if it meets our standards for fairness!

[1] https://fivetran.com/blog/warehouse-benchmark

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpaN-PqSczM

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometric_mean

[4] https://github.com/fivetran/benchmark
“So in conclusion, no conclusion.”
Well that goes back to the original point though. Which is, that no education jobs will theoretically dwindle. If we have machines capable of handling all, repeat all no education manual labor jobs; things like picking fruit, delivering boxes, etc. Where will those people go?

They will be forced to acquire more education or skill oriented trades.

The concern is if humanity will be able to adapt to something it has never seen. Where creativity and thinking oriented jobs become more and more required.
If you watch lots of Youtube with the iPad/iPhone apps, there wouldn't be any adblocker for that.
Some people might want that, but I and many people I know don't. If you don't consume hours and hours and hours of media, then a la carte is much cheaper.
Hold up. Are we saying the average kid is watching over an hour of commercials per day. If that stat is true (which would be around 4 hours of tv per day give or take) the solution is not Netflix but pumping the brakes on tv. That’s an insane amount of tv
A typical show on a commercial channel here will have three ad breaks in a one hour slot, of about five minutes each, and then there’ll be a longer ad break between programs. It drives me mad now I’m used to video on demand, but not nearly as much as US TV would.
Also some of Norway's most reasonable real estate prices, with detached homes starting at less than $100,000.
Arguably defending the right to refuse to testify.
They called me while I was in a meeting and said I could drive 15 minutes out to them. They don't deliver to houses here.
My Afternoon with ‘Curvy Wife Guy’
Oh I see. Man, Arthur was soooo cheesy! I cringed whenever I saw it. Don't know the others unfortunately haha.
By buying and owing the rights to it in what is essentially perpetuity. Look at actions of the company as a whole, not at one action in isolation.

I don't think it's a coincidence that this purchase comes at the same time when the first works released in 1923 are finally entering public domain [1]

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/04/copyw...
Coincidentally, AT&T just strung fiber up on my street in late March, about a week or two after Sonic announced they'd be rolling their own.

For the past 3 weeks I've been happily using un-capped symmetrical gigabit fiber provided by AT&T, and re-sold by Sonic.

Once Sonic rolls theirs later this year, I'll immediately switch to them and save another $40/mo. As if I needed more incentive to make sure no more dollars flow into AT&T and other incumbent utility providers.
Then you end up like the tech company where only one guy does deployments, because he's the only guy management trusts, because he's the only guy who's ever done a deployment.
Cheaper than the ones you mentioned? There are a few. Ramnode comes to mind. Their billing system breaks sometimes, but the VM performance is "ok" for what you pay.

Here is one of the many aggregation lists: [1] The cheap ones are really the bottom of the barrel though. Don't expect uptime or performance. I would also suggest using a dedicated CC or a virtual credit card (only a few banks do this) as the security of some of those sites is less than stellar.

[1] - https://vpscomp.com/servers
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I found two and emailed the author. It's my sad little hobby. He replied promptly and they all should be fixed now. In fact, he found a third that I missed.

Keep in mind, this article was posted at 3am pacific, 6am eastern. Assuming the author is in North America, he was probably under a deadline and rather tired.

I have found similar typos from prominent writers. Sometimes they email me back, which I appreciate.

I found one in an article by Cory Doctorow on boingboing. I checked on builtwith.com, and they use WordPress/Jetpack. Jetpack has a feature that will warn you if you try and publish something with spelling mistakes, it is just not enabled by default.

I let Mr Doctorow know all this, in a very polite manner, and he responded with "many thanks". I'm not big on celebrity worship, but it still made my day.
Someone has to pay for these services. Either we pay for them or advertisers do.
Sounds like the company didn't pay Dave, so why should Dave do work for the company?
This is a straw man argument. It's easy to find examples of algorithms that are biased -- let's just look at facial recognition. Sure, there are situations like what you describe, but are you going to argue then that dark-skinned women really must be men, or more manly, or something, just because Amazon's facial recognition algorithm has trouble with dark-skinned women?

The parent is not making a "scientific" claim. They are making a workflow/process claim. It is not the case that all things are "science" or "pseudoscience". There are many other topics humans can discuss.
My favorite comment:

> Zuckerberg’s power seems quintessentially American to me and reveals the fundamental contradiction at the heart of our economic model: compete until you succeed, but if you succeed too much you’re being anti-competitive. Free-market fundamentalists should be rejoicing at the success of Facebook, Amazon and Google. They represent the holy grail at the end of the Darwinian quest. Isn’t this perfection? What could go wrong? There’s no better time to wake up and realize we’re in bed with the Devil. — Mark Holmes, Twain Harte, Calif.

This is what happens when deregulation is taken to the extreme. Facebook is a company that breaks laws, flagrantly violates our privacy, buys or clones all its competition, and offers mere tokens of recompense when people use it to influence elections or coordinate genocide — but also experiences virtually no repercussions for its actions, because it's making investors money.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_heavy_water_sabota...
how much more would you expect? 10 people is pushing the two-pizza limit.
Interesting. I like the simplicity. What do you see as the main use case?
Marc Stevens quotes $500K, which is very much still a threat (even an order of magnitude more would be). Plenty of organizations would be willing to spend that much pocket change on a single attack.

The game-changer is it's chosen-prefix. A vendor can produce a pair of entirely different binaries with the same hash, but most importantly, they look and behave sane except for the last few blocks of the file. This is easily hidden, especially if the binary is encrypted.

It's not a stretch of the imagination to see how, for example, an IP camera vendor could do exactly this. Yes, it requires a nefarious/complicit vendor, or an insider who can pull this off undetected (not everyone has a fully automated build/release pipeline).

So it changes the threat model. SHAtter was waived by many because the threat model didn't convincingly apply to them. Example: git. That analysis needs to be repeated.

(All this assuming the attack described in the paper is correct and practical in real world implementation)
Is Online Copyright Enforcement Scalable?
gus_massa - in response to your points prior, please see the new figure at the bottom of the experiment.com page.

Please also see, for an overview of my (bootstrapped) company, now raising: https://angel.co/company/biophysical-therapeutics

For more technical please see:
https://patentscope.wipo.int/search/docs2/pct/WO2019012149/p...
I didn't say it would be impossible in some abstract sense. Goodness knows even a single execution unit of a modern GPU is more powerful than my first IBM computer, if you just hook it to the right things. I asked how many days you'd be willing for your computer to boot, by which I mean something like your current workstation.

Huge, huge swathes of your normal boot process would be trying to run on a single GPU execution unit, since there would be no parallellization available, and your GPU is terrible at out-of-order dispatch (i.e., basically can't do it last I knew), so all the optimization we've spent the last 50 years putting into our CPUs won't be firing. You'd basically be trying to run your computer on something that would be in the range of 100MHz down to for all I know single-digit MHz-equivalent of your current Intel or AMD CPU (after all the penalties around not using any prediction, not having the proper caches, thrashing like hell in your GPU's memory caches, and all the other effects... I'm not even sure I'm willing to promise you'll never hit code with KHz-equivalent performance; you might just get that NES performance(!)).

Your modern GPU-based computer trying to boot Windows or Linux is gonna craaaaaaawwwwwwllllll. Can it do? With the right work, yeah, probably, but you're not going to enjoy it, or be willing to use it. CPUs are terrible GPUs, but GPUs are terrible CPUs.

How well a computer could run if it was optimized for the GPU is an open question, but I guarantee you that if in some bizarre parallel universe everything was running on GPU-like hardware, but in 2010 suddenly people figured out CPUs and next year the Core Duos were available, people would be flipping out over how awesomely they perform and would be rushing to rewrite huge swathes of code in these new-fangled "in-order execution units".
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> found that kids 2-5 spend an average of 32 hours per week in front of a television set. Children 6-11 spend 28 hours in front of a television set

What?! Is this for real? Nowhere near these numbers in my house....