skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Any stories of being screwed by AWS in the similar manner?

That is, excluding the stories about the same account being used to sell thing on Amazon.coma and run a AWS setup. We know those are risky.
I’m prescribed them and have been taking some form of anphetamine for over 10 years.

If it matters, I remember discovering this because I ended up taking a lot more because I wasn’t feeling them. Only afterwards did I notice they weren’t namebrand.
Not yet, but it happened at my friend's house whose dad was an aerospace engineer.
Wouldn't this take thousands or millions of years? Doesn't seem like there's much incentive for a project like that.
> Why isn't everyone on bare metal?

Is this how we're referring to running on servers we have contractual control over these days? Part of managing risk is being sure your infrastructure will stay there, and if you don't have a contract, your risk is significantly higher.
With technology which is an order of magnitude more concerned with reliability and easier to use than any competition out there, that's how.
I really like the whitespace. Very Donald Knuth.
Because what if there are Venusians there already and we cannot afford to wage an interplanetary war.
Idea validation for you – the front end developer / designer
Well, I looked for a week-ish, and was fap-all out of ideas where it was. I was at the point where I was looking in ridiculous locations (freezer, garage, washing machine, garden, tool shed).

This took about 20 minutes to hack together, and I found the phone in 10 minutes of looking in the 'right' spot. My phone had fallen behind the bedside stand and found a way to balance itself between the bed and the baseboards. The bed post is ~phone width, so even looking, you just couldnt see it.

That being said, I work in the geospatial sciences doing geospatial data processing, so 20 minutes for me may not be 20 minutes for some one else.
Pretty much the standard "the cloud is just someone else's computer" issue: if you don't have the ability to reproduce your work somewhere else and your provider decides to go away, you're going to have a Bad Time(TM).

Also, for as cool as Digital Ocean is, their primary focus is on low-use, shared cloud resources. From my experience, they over subscribe CPU resources so "noisy neighbors" was a problem sometimes. They do not provide or work with people as if they have production services, and they don't seem to like people who really want to use their system. I would never use them for production unless the work was ephemeral.
This is what it is for me:

Objective-C -> Nim (can compile to ObjC, calls methods directly without overhead)
Python -> Nim (Nim is a super fast python that prevents typos)
Ruby -> Nim (Nim is better in every-way)
JavaScript -> Nim (compiles to plain JS (if you need talk to legacy JS libs like most people) or WASM (if you just want speed))
C/C++ -> Nim (Can compile to C++, calls methods directly without overhead)

Basically...
I didn't know the "real" nexuiz still survived! It was cool to me because I didn't get to enjoy the unreal tournament days and had some interesting maps.
Not in the case of string theory.
I made a new default Mac application in Xcode just now and ran it. It settled in at 17.1 MB, according to Activity Monitor's Memory tab. It's not "a note taking app". It's every app. Welcome to 2019.
JPL's Design for a Clockwork Rover to Explore Venus (2017)
My account was banned two years ago just for accessing it from abroad. This is real, don't use DO.

They finally gave me temporary access even though they didn't believe who I was. This was the icing on the cake, they gave me access to a cluster, they could've given it to anyone.

It's cheap but seriously not worth it. They also have many more outages than other larger providers.
You don't have to actually have redundant providers and monthly-tested DR runs, etc. But you do need a plan. No matter how small.

If you are just a side project running locally, than plan me be as simple as "If my laptop falls in a river, get a new one and clone the repo again." As you start having production systems, it may still be "clone the repo again", but this time to actual servers.

As you start having customers rely on you, your plan should get more robust. Maybe you don't have a hot DR site set up where you can just flip a switch. But you should know who your backup host would be, and have an account ready with them. You should what steps would be needed to go from repo -> new provider.

None of this needs to be set up and tested ahead of time if you are just getting started. But if you have paying customers, you have to have thought about it. DR starts tiny and scales up, just like everything else.
They definitely don't want to piss off google. So that part is understandable.
DigitalOcean have no serverless product and just spent a bunch of engineering resources on a new customer-managed Kubernetes setup.

The amount of people who are unsatisfied with DO's VM product and would be satisfied with a k8s product is tiny. The amount of people who would like somewhere to run functions and not care at all about infrastructure is growing rapidly.

If they're not skating to where the puck is moving they won't be around much longer.
Which is not a good thing IMO. The Xbox One controller has been much more comfortable for longer sessions for me.
Not quite as easy as your Jedi Hand Wave-y assertion makes it out to be. Letting the Authorities acclimate children to this sort of environment is dangerous for society.
Does that really help? If your DNS provider screws it up, you're in deep trouble regardless of whether they were the same guys hosting your VMs or not.
stackdriver works nicely for all resources in the Google Ecosystem - isn't it what Google would want?
> So despite the fact that you can get the same or more resources at other providers who advertise their shared CPU resources for less than half that charged by DO I’m still buying a shared resource?

The account that got locked down triggered automatic checks that used payment history as a "these people are okay" check. They didn't have a payment history, they were running solely on credits, so got flagged. IOW, they hadn't paid for anything yet.

> With AWS I can spin up as many “boxes” as I want on a moment’s notice

You can, but they can also shut you down for "abuse".
https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/aws-a...
So I had two thoughts while reading it:

Is it possible that in the 3 billion years that it had liquid water, Venus evolved advanced life that managed to trigger runaway greenhouse warming?

Secondly, is Venus’s atmosphere a worst case scenario for global warming here or is there something that would prevent it happening?
I've had a DO mistake take down my site before, and when it was brought back up it had been reverted to several months prior. DO support was at a loss as to why this would have happened. I tried to restore from DO's backup service, but their backups had apparently stopped running several months prior as well. This was a major issue and could have easily been the death of my company, all because of a DO glitch.

But it wasn't, because every night I run a PG backup and copy it to AWS S3. I just had to download the backup from the other cloud vendor and restore it on my DO server.

Did DO fuck up? Yes. Did it cost me downtime? Yes. Was I mad? Yes, and I still am. But I still do business with DO because it costs ~half the price of a comparable EC2 instance, and writing a 10 line bash script to move my database backups to another cloud vendor isn't that hard. Storing that backup on S3 costs pennies per month.

I don't see "I've never run a business before" as a valid excuse, nor do I see "the cloud vendor is better equipped to handle backups" as a valid excuse. When it comes down to it, you are solely responsible to your customers. They're not going to care whose fault it was, because it was your fault.

Don't trust any of your vendors.
Sure (and note that Modula is itself a Pascal descendant, from none other than the creator of Pascal), and although it seems true to say that Nim's significant whitespace was inspired by Python, I don't think there's much else that will be familiar to Python users. Other than "indentation-based syntax", the featured bullet points on the homepage don't describe Python features, and having used Nim lightly (a while ago, mind) my impression of it was very unlike Python. However, it's possible that I'm among a minority of people who think that significant whitespace is very nearly the least important feature of Python.
The creators of C/Unix are the creators of Go.
As a user of just slightly less than a year now - thank you! Ever since I gave up Evernote, I had been on the hunt for a clean note taking replacement and Inkdrop has been that for me. The new v4 looks great and works great!
I thought that the point of the article was that he was reflecting on wealth, and answering his children in such a way that they did not walk around like privileged gits, while still being truthful.

Comfortable is also my answer that I've prepared for the same question.

I'm considerably less wealthy than OP, I suspect, but, supposing things continue roughly as they have been, my child will never really know hunger or want.

We are _comfortable_. Which, in my understanding of my religion, gives us an obligation to help the less comfortable and to never take our assets for granted.

The distinction between rich and wealth that you point out is, I think, astute - it's something like the difference between poverty and being broke. For some of us, it's a state of being, for others, it is temporary.
Craig Wright is commonly known as "Faketoshi" in the community due to how much he claims he is Satoshi.
The observable universe is a growing sphere around earth or where ever you happen to observe it. So to answer the question "what's outside" we just need to wait for the light to reach us.

Obviously "outside the observable universe" must be outside of that sphere? Just because stars we see now are not still at that position doesn't make the question meaningless. The answer could be that outside the sphere, right now, there are most likely more stars, planets and gas.
Digital Ocean's statement on the events:

https://blog.digitalocean.com/an-update-on-last-weeks-custom...

Lots of support related issues here.

As someone who worked in support for a long time it isn't surprising to see this play out and the whole "Support and Security Operations leadership will create new workflows to allow abuse-related events to leverage the 24/7 structure of Support." while probably a good action to take, is one of those things that you see in support time and again and so rarely do you see an appropriate response as much as a patch for "this one thing won't happen again".

Nobody cares to staff, fund, and support the support teams until something goes wrong, and then it is usually "new workflows" for support.
Researchers Develop Permanent Magnetic Cooling System for Quantum Computers
Somewhat off-topic: Have the government sorted out universal legal protections (data storage, DNA storage limits, data and DNA destruction) for citizens DNA? Many moons ago, I had to fight the military on this topic, but I don't believe I should have had to.
Do any of the naysayers here work in a public capacity- teacher, law enforcement, military/intelligence, etc? Have you ever been solely responsible for the security and well-being of more than, say a half-dozen total strangers? It's a hard problem, a continual tweaking of what we would see as engineering trade-offs, usually performed by people with minimal training, support, or reward who are stuck with the responsibility by default.

Supposedly we're here because we want to apply technology to hard problems- well, here's one of the hardest, and here's how it's been applied so far. Let's have a more reasonable discussion than a bunch of thin-veiled whining about how it will affect our torrents.
That's when you go to your registrar (you do have that separated off too, right?) and change your nameservers
I doubt iOS is going to get access to Stadia. One of the primary perks for going with Android is that you’ll be have access to mobile gaming through Stadia that you can’t get with an Apple device.
Regulators give phone companies new tools to fight robocalls
(assoc-in foo ["bar" "alice" "bob"] 12)

Of course, in clojure you mostly use :keywords instead "strings" as keys which has a ton of benefits.

There's also specter if want something more powerful at the cost of an additional lib.

https://github.com/nathanmarz/specter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rh5J4vacG98
Your history is inconsistent. Turing's homosexuality became public knowledge shortly before his death, which was also before anyone started writing the history of computing.

I don't think he's primarily remembered for his work on cryptanalysis. I think he's primarily remembered for the Turing test, followed by the Turing machine model, followed by his work on morphogenesis. That's just my opinion as a working mathematician.
Source? I've not heard that take and would be curious to read more about it.
In the original article this is referencing DO shut down/locked his account.

By having an alternate provider you spread your risk. And in this scenario you could update your DNS from the locked DO account to AWS/Linode/GCP whatevr
"The scalable, interchangeable nature of headless CMS inspires innovation by integrating with new technology seamlessly."
> Chasing 130lbs is somehow more satisfying than 58.9 or 59Kg.

I mean, chasing 60kg is more satisfying than 132.2lbs. There's nothing intrinsically important about 130lbs except that it's a round number in base 10. In metric you just pick a different round number to chase.
I think that an underestimated benefit of game streaming is anti-cheat. It would benefit a lot games like Fortnite and Pubg.
Wikipedia on Fogbank:

in the words of former Oak Ridge general manager Dennis Ruddy, "The material is classified. Its composition is classified. Its use in the weapon is classified, and the process itself is classified."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOGBANK
Found another reference that estimates 3600 at 210 lbs, so maybe somewhere in the middle:

>According to the Cleveland Clinic Center for Consumer Health, a runner who weighs 130 lb. will burn 2,224 calories during a marathon, a 165 lb. runner will burn 2,822 calories and a 210 lb. runner will burn 3,593 calories.

https://www.livestrong.com/article/302836-how-many-calories-...

Regardless, my main takeaway is that I’m going to burn more calories with this than I was without it.
This is a wider point for anyone looking to take advantage of machine learning, but reproducibility is also a problem which needs to be catered for.
Is it not the saddest thing that our outcomes are so poor that deliberately starving ourselves of data is the safest course of action?

Sure, people will die of cancer we could have caught, but at least we wouldn't kill a yet-larger group of false positives through mistreatment??

A system with this-perverse of an outcome is broken.
Also I just remembered Strongspace (which was one of their products back then), very compelling and well designed online storage (e.g. for backup) back then. In a way this could have grown into Dropbox or Box when you think of it.

The Joyent email + calendar + notes web app was also quite impressive at the time. So many memories.
It helps to think of time as change. Time started when the first thing changed. So to say there was no beginning helps by not having to answer what the first change was ot why it did. It's still hard to imagine no first change without an infinite regress. Maybe if you think of it reletivistically as in there wasn't a singular beginning but a beginning area where depending on where you are it could be a beginning but not the beginning.
Hi, Thank you about your feedback.

My though were more data like those produced by electric cars, Google maps users, smart wearable, IOT... Anonymized data, which are useful to make the world progress.

Privacy is our core value and one of our selling point. We will never sacrifice it for some quick buck by selling or mining private data.
In Kim Stanley Robinson's 2312, Venus is terraformed by inserting a large sunshade in the L1 Lagrange point of the Venus-Sun system. This makes Venus significantly cooler and atmospheric CO2 freezes. The frozen CO2 is then easily removed.
they would have just gone to Earth
So I have been putting together a way for people to more easily make their own blogging platform. It would kind of mimic a blog or social media platform, but since everything is committed to a repository using the JAMstack it could easily be converted to a full website or in your case you could simply delete the repository or any number of your posts because they are just files in your repository. Any feedback would be wonderful. https://your-media.netlify.com/post/make-your-own-media/ Everything is owned by the end user. This is only providing a recipe for people to use. I will also mention that https://www.stackbit.com/ is doing basically the same thing but more from a “Make life easier for Website designers” perspective.
This is true. CFCs were a HUGE improvement over past refrigerants. And during their discovery, nobody knew what they would do to the ozone layer.
Anthony Aguirre at UCSC does research in this area:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/0712.0571.pdf

http://scipp.ucsc.edu/~aguirre/Research.html
And the betting on when this product will be shut down by Google has already begun...right now 3 years is the choice with the most money behind it. Some fools are guessing Google may give this as much as 5 years.

Given Google's abysmal history of supporting its software and hardware products, see e.g., the Nest fiasco from a few weeks ago, only a fool or someone with cash to waste would invest in a Google hardware device before it's proven popular by the market.
Can someone explain the tech here? Obviously the brains of this is a Google data center beaming the game through a Chromecast to your TV (or in-app on your Pixel/ whatever). Is there any tech in the controller? What "costs" $129 if there's a subscription model attached to this?

If the controller is indeed "dumb" (just sending inputs), why wouldn't there be compatibility with Xbox or PS4 controllers?

If the history of non-main consoles has taught us anything (Nvidia Shield, Ouya, etc), you have to have games and a controller. Seems Google has games covered, but why try and reinvent the wheel with a new controller?
>If the school "knew" about it and dismissed the alerts as a false positive...

Knowing what you know about liability, ask yourself, what are the real chances of the school knowing something and dismissing it as a false positive?

I think if you search your heart you'd probably come to the conclusion that the fact that the school will follow up on every little thing is exactly the problem. Not everyone means "I'd kill for that test answer sheet" when they write "I'd kill for that test answer sheet".
You are probably right, but wouldn't any technology which actually has a chance of working, also have the property that a small seeding might have the chance of "taking hold" and working wether we remember to continue on it or not?

To be clear, I mean if someone drops a bunch of microbes, only once, and not all of them die but slowly start to mix and live in the atmosphere, wouldn't they over millennia, very slowly but also very unstoppably, eat until everything they want to eat is eaten?
30 feet = 10 meters at this level of accuracy. 9 if you want to be a pedant. Significant figures matter.
Perhaps if Australia pulled it off successfully without too much economic damage, this could be true. But from what I've heard, the states that adopted green policies suffered power shortages and soaring energy prices. Hopefully in the future this will change.
Thank you, and I hope it didn't feel like I was picking on you personally. This kind of thing is a co-creation.
If it's cheap, why not try it?
It's worth noting the median income in around $60k per household, not individual. That's split between single income households and dual income households. A large (and growing) portion of households are dual income and $60k is roughly equivalent to two people in minimum wage, or slightly above wage, jobs. Being single in the Bay Area and making $100k as a software developer and jokingly "feeling poor" is not the same as being middle class. It's not even in the same realm of possibilities for most middle class people.

I know that most people don't think about the people who make their coffee, butcher their meat, bring gasoline to their gas stations, package their products, stock shelves, and deliver their Amazon packages… but these are people. This is the "silent majority" of America. These aren't all young people doing temp jobs for the summer. These are people in their 30's and 40's living paycheck to paycheck working their ass off to support their kids.
Generic drugs - manufactured with lax quality checks - are poisoning us would be a more apt title. I work in the pharma industry (biologicals) and I agree that there is a lot of "funny business" going on at multiple levels in the pharma industry all over the world.

Painting western companies as victims and to simply blame it on overseas companies would be a gross oversimplification. Whenever you order material from any supplier or vendor it is YOUR responsibility to conduct a vendor audit, its YOUR responsibility to perform incoming materials testing, etc, etc. You don't just simply take what a supplier gives you and inject it into a live human. As you go towards filing an IND, you have to do tox studies, stability studies, pre-clinical, clinical studies, and on and on.

I know of several cases where big name US pharma companies banned their employees from conducting certain tests because if the results came out less than flattering they might have to show those to the FDA, and they might end up having to delay or cancel the product.
Overall pollution is a real hard problem. Computer top that, local pollution is more like a temporal inconvenience, it will pass (except for its share in overall pollution)
Our it could have earlier identified you as 'at-risk', and led to more positive interventions in your education. You fell through the cracks, that's hardly an optimal outcome.
I recently tried to sign up for a DO account to deploy a proof of concept app for my startup, and my account was immediately locked within minutes of opening it. I hadn't even spun up an instance yet. That combined with this means I'll be sticking with AWS for now, I suppose.
Agreed with the Zoroastrianism bit, that did occur prior.

I was trying to be simple and concise so I did not mention other strands of monotheism that influenced Judaismm and the Middle East such as the Egyptians / Amun (the Hidden One) or the Persian Zoroastrianism (which pioneered the concept of Angels as winged divine beings that Judaism and Christianity incorporated.) Yadda, yadda, yadda religion and history is complicated but also interesting.
Life in temperatures that melts lead? Oh... or do you mean in the atmosphere?
I would still put Go into the "better C" language group because of its elegance and simplicity, even if it can't be used for all scenarios C can be used for (because of the GC).

To me at least, Rust looks like an obvious attempt to fix C++'s problems for large scale software development, but at the cost of being a big and complex language, similar in scope to C++. "Modern C" is a much simpler and elegant language, even though there's some decades old cruft, overall it remained a lot cleaner than C++ because there hasn't been so much stuff added in the first place which would be a burden now.
If so that means the creator of the first true cryptocurrency is currently frozen in liquid nitrogen awaiting potential revival in the future, which is even more evidence that we are in fact living in a cyberpunk novel. All we need now is a Rastafarian operated space station at one of the Lagrange points.
I'd much rather persuade you to use HN as intended.