skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why are people so obsessed by AWS? It is one of the most expensive hosting solutions that tries hard to lock you into their ecosystem.

I somewhat understand why enterprises want to use it, but why are small startups using it so much and then complaining about the cost?

Nowadays when we have high speed internet, and a lot of things are containerized, it is so simple to change hosting partners. Just pick one that doesn't cost an arm and a leg and move to a different one if it didn't fit very well.

I have used linux containers for 10 years now and changed hosting a few times, each time reducing costs even more. Yes, it is a bit of manual labour, but if you have someone with sysadmin/devops skills, it is easily doable.
SRAS vs. SARS
> (SRAS)
In section 2.2 of the paper they describe the process they use: applying a series of heuristic rules to the text. (Also the dataset is 750Gb... )
And you can stack them.
Kaggle first place winner cheated, $10k prize declared irrecoverable
Older Toshibas have pins near the RAM that can be shorted to clear the passwords. There's a big list here: https://biosbypass.com/how-to-clear-toshiba-bios-password/
I've worked on a couple. (https://ara.grittertracker.co.uk and https://manchester.grittertracker.co.uk for example).

These use an off the shelf telematics system from webfleet or masternaut (it's gps for location, vehicle data connection for odometer and speed etc and 3g card for data signal) that send data back to the telematics database.

There's the a public API to call to get most recent position or all route. We used the public API to grab positions and display on a map.
SRAS instead of SARS, Maybe?
That's not a C++-ABI but a C++-as-compiled-by-gcc-ABI. C++ itself does not define an ABI and different compilers (sometimes even from the same vendors) will use different incompatible ABIs.
Sure, I bought one off ebay for 0.10€ :D
I completely agree. Most startup's can do with cheaper or even bare-metal hosting for years before having to use highly-scalable solutions like AWS.
Would you marry a non-christian?
That's an excellent question. I personally want something simpler - 4-8 CCTV cameras on a drive that gets automatically backed up to a remote server of my choosing. I suppose the only thing stopping me from doing it in Linux is getting CCTV output to the drive.
I reduce my RDS bill by 66% by keeping it on EC2 and using Percona Server.
English has like 17 tenses, many languages only have 3 without any loss in expressivity. When learning English you need to learn each word twice (once to write, once to speak) - that's not the case with many phonetic languages.

English isn't inherently better as a world's language than anything else, it's just there, so it benefits from the network effect (it's more beneficial to learn language that has the most users, so it gets even more users).
GameXCoin releases new gaming platform VS.GAMES for game lovers and developers
> Published material is not infinite

Sci-Hub proves otherwise.

> nor is an author's time.

True.
Same in Italy
> Yes, Greek lenders were so forced but not German and French lenders.

Somehow you misread what I said. "Greek lenders" means those who lent money to the Greek state. Those were European private banks, including French and German. Those banks were forced to bear the loss of half of Greece's sovereign debt in Greece's famous 2011 debt hair cut.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-europe-banks/europes-bank...

> Enough with this tale of how German and French banks are victims for repeatedly giving loans and looking the other way at the bad accounting!

It's too late to act that ignorant, sykick. The truth is out for almost a decade, and you simply cannot turn a blind eye to the facts. Go browse Wikipedia's article on the subject to get an idea of how Greek governments created their whole mess and how Europe's economy and the EU were forced to bear the brunt of the economic and financial and political problem Greece's ruling regime created for their country.
Spy with Openvpn
hi guys
I wanna know that is it possible to spy with openvpn in the arch linux ??
I got a openvpn file from my pal and it was related to a project , but I don't have trust to it .
based on your opinion Do think is it possible ?
I mean is that buy a dns server and monitoring the site traffic .
I apologize because of my terrible English.
What makes you think it isn't taken seriously?
Interestingly I too worked on MDM systems about ten years ago, when I was at IBM Research. Ironically, one of my first ideas for applying machine learning was in de-duplication of data in an MDM server. However the technology was a bit too primitive back in 2010 and the project was a hard sell so it was abandoned.
Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) advice for the public
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TL;DR but why not "open laptop, disconnect BIOS battery for 10 sec, reassemble, done"
If you want to play with an equivalent (barebones, spot instance) K3s Azure setup I use, the template is available here:

https://github.com/rcarmo/azure-k3s-cluster

This is NOT For production use (that’s what the managed AKS service is for), but I like to tinker with the internals, so I keep an instance running permanently with a few toy services.
While I'm not sure there actually are a lot of high school prerequisites for higher maths, I think the experience of attempts 1-3 reflect pretty much what might be the key to studying maths successfully.

So in my first year of studying maths, I had 8 hours of maths lectures (and 4 hours of a minor which was of negligible effort). The exercises that came with the maths lectures made this a full-time program (and I estimate that while I didn't usually study all weekend, I typically only had 1-2 weekends per year in which I didn't look at anything at all). So one thing that can easily go wrong is underestimating that for every minute spent reading / listening to a class, one would want to spend 4 minutes working the problems.

The other comment I would have is that, yes, university level mathematics is (at least it was for me) incredibly hard. The reward is also astonishing: All these hard exercises I struggled with one year, are easy to do on a napkin during breakfast in the next year.
Seems plausible. Do you have a source?
there was several reasons for our case. There might be more for other startups. Here are some:

- our clients (airlines) would very much prefer we use AWS over the smaller, lesser known offering.

- AWS offer free promotional credits for startups.

- AWS when utilized right (requires work) is not much more expensive than traditional hosting.

- Etc...
Thanks - I've learnt something today.
> Who decides what is "greater good" though?

The people you voted and elected for that exact role of course. That's what being a democratic republic is all about.
It's more complicated than that. Sometimes, the decision is not just in the engineers' hands. eg - our clients (airlines) would very much prefer we use AWS over the smaller, lesser known offering.
>Sounds a lot like communism, where everything is free and you don't need to worry

I think you are unaware of how stupid that sounds, maybe go and read what communism is/was or stop commenting when you have no idea and you learn things from Star Trek.

FYI people were/are working in communism and things are not free (so 100% comment you had there)
Yeah I’m always astounded by this. It’s literally never brought up, but it’s everywhere in the industry.
I gotta say, if you're a systems programmer then this should be on your required reading list. Probably along with some other papers by Ulrich, like “What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory” and “Futexes Are Tricky” [1].

[1]: https://akkadia.org/drepper/
Because the cloud providers advertise to tech startups. They are told that the scalability of the cloud is needed, because YOUR startup can become an overnight success and can’t handle the traffic.

This combined with how unsexy most of the VPS or dedicated hosting providers look makes the cloud providers a seemingly good choice for startups.
Japan’s family businesses bring in new blood
It means "monkey to monkey" in spanish, so... good luck, I guess.
Wow, how did I miss that. Sorry everyone
The most recent submit was over a year ago. This one had the most commentary:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12040707
Every X86, X86-64 CPU starts in 16bit mode. Because backwards compatibility is king!
> - webpack and babel: ES6 and 7 are not here yet, but ES5 is so bad we will setup an entire ecosystem dedicated to make believe they are. Also pretend import works like in other languages.

They just peeked over at their low level programming neighbours and realized what they did to avoid programming assembly and program C instead was a smart idea.
And there are others that are much lower. It's also worth remembering that given many cases are asymptomatic, or are so mild that people may not see a doctor, the number of cases does not accurately reflect the number of infected people. So these mortality rates should not be read as an indicator of your chance of dying if you are infected with the virus.

One reason that many people don't seem to be "taking this seriously" is because the narrative of people who keep fearmongering about COVID-19 just doesn't make sense.

There are still direct flights from China to many countries, and they're not empty.

Screening is mostly based on taking people's temperature with handheld devices that have twice registered my temperature as 32C (no, I wasn't rushed to a hospital). Where more reliable screening has been implemented, there have been many documented failures.

Many quarantine protocols are voluntary / honour-based. People from cruise ships where they were exposed to others who were infected have dispersed worldwide with varying levels of monitoring (in some cases none).

If this thing was half as deadly and easily-spread as continues to be claimed on the Internet, 200 new cases in Italy wouldn't be international news at this point.
I totally agree. The financial and societal aspects are as much important as the technological development in kick-starting industrial revolution. As an engineer, I've come to believe the main reason industrial revolution happened when it did was not the sudden advancement of science, but the emergence of stable and inclusive economy based on commerce and private property and the inclusive political system that did not allow incumbent to stifle innovation through force.
There’s noise as well as signal for sure but I maintain that marriage is absolutely a useful fitness filter. At the very least, at least one other person has agreed to enter into a long term relationship with them. It will filter out unsocialized basement dwellers, for example.

Sure, there are drunken Vegas marriages to strangers which fall apart 24 hours later, but I think those are the exception.
I use it when needing vast geographical spread - e.g. nodes that are closest to exchanges or some such.

Because so many others use it, if you care about latency to the counter-party server it's often a nice way to ensure low latency (by using the same availability zone).
> CA rents are far in excess of any reasonable economic equilibrium, per 'amortized cost of providing the rental property, including land acquisition, construction, maintenance, etc.'

Really? Show the numbers. I was under the impression that the Bay Area had a very high land ownership premium, that is, that land acquisition costs are very high compared to rents.

Plus, real prices are usually out of line with economic equilibria in dynamic markets, the equilibrium is the price that a market would achieve if it was in a steady state with no changes for an infinite period. A sustained market distortion raises the equilibrium, it doesn't maintain prices above the equilibrium. Prices above (or below) equilibrium are so are do to frictional forces which cause prices to adjust toward equilibrium at a limited rate. So, I'm not sure why you are harping on equilibrium, it seems to be the wrong issue for what you seem to be concerned about.

> Given in particular that in CA (the bay area and SF too) land is in surplus[0].

Even if that was true, regulatory permitted access largely effects rent through land acquisition costs, not independently of it, so it would explain why both land acquisition costs and rents were higher than they would otherwise be, but not why rents are higher than they would be expected to be given costs to landlords including land acquisition costs.
IP Cam with FTP capabilities, home NAS server (data storage for cam footage), with cloud backup. And of course, IP cam live streams to my phone. My approach is no different than cam + dvr + subscription. Instead I am solving it with cloud storage backup via my in-house nas.
But people need simple tools by witch to do that.

So while not everyone needs to care about abstractions and their properties. We really need the people who put together frameworks and libraries to.
I don't think a version of history where the USSR attacks Nazi Germany unprovoked is one that makes the USSR look "evil".
I very recently started using a phone which is too large to be used with one hand. Not because I wanted to, but because my old phone was aging, I needed a new one and nowadays there aren't any recent and decent phones anymore which are small enough to allow one-handed usage.

And so far it's been mostly annoying. Sure, the larger display is great, but the lost ability to operate the phone with single handed is a real bummer.

I wonder why the smartphone manufacturers don't at least offer a single device small enough to allow one-hand usage. There just has to be a market for that, given how many people complain about large phones.
MIDI is such an interesting standard. Anyone who has anything to do with music equipment can attest that it is literally everywhere. Every (decent) synth nowadays has at least a midi input. You can sync practically everything with MIDIs clock function (which was VERY painful to do beforehand, especially if you tried to sync multiple synths). Its interesting to see if MIDI 2.0 can follow up with that. Certainly, MIDI is here to stay and i cant wait to see what cool things people are going to create with it!
We still don't know where the source is, and who the 0th patient is.
Politicizing how?
If my tax payer money helped fund the research, I better get access to it. Similarly, if my tuition money helped fund it, then I better get access to it as well. Or even, if my actual time helped fund the research (e.g. I am a student involved in the research) then I better get access to it, too.

Sounds fair?

The vast majority of academic research is funded at least in part by tax payers either directly (grants, public universities or universities receiving public funds, etc) or indirectly (subsidies).

Even if research was "made possible by a grant from (private entity)", if it happened in a university, it most likely used university funds (from using rent-free space and equipment researchers can use, to staff and administration researchers rely on, etc)
> Sounds a lot like communism, where everything is free and you don't need to worry about working.

Communism implies an economy. When it comes to data, there is nothing to economize. It's abundant, there's more than enough for everyone.

The only reason the internet isn't a post-scarcity society is we still have laws like copyright holding us back.

> Oops, now nobody is working and there is no stuff!

Pretty weird seeing this argument on Hacker News of all places. Lots of developers work for no financial reward, myself included. Scratching one's own itch is a hacker tradition and it disproves the notion that nobody would create anything if it wasn't for copyright.
Yep, I have dabbled in self hosting and have a systems running at home for decades. Unfortunately self-hosters also have to be their own blue team, doing own vulnerability management, patching testing and it's relentless.
I changed my view a bit and basically turn it off when I'm not away. (I work at home, but if you don't you could always schedule it to turn on/off every day) When I do go for longer holidays, I accept that the service can be hacked and someone could get access to the feed (although I think it's not very likely). There's just not much risk in it for me. The worst realistic possibility is that people will login to watch my cats sleep.
Wikipedia has working links
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci-Hub
You get what you pay for. You can pay a lot of money and have almost no worries (and lots of free time), or pay a little money and have lots of worries (and no free time).

And since the OP was talking about Kubernetes, and you're talking about "lock-in", another reason I love AWS is it is not a lock-in device. I can use any service of AWS's by itself, without being forced to use anything else or do something in a proprietary way. All the interfaces are a command-line or REST API with JSON data formats. They are all designed to operate by themselves, so you can provide replacement components at any time, hosted anywhere.

On the other hand, you can't just use one part of K8s, because you have to at least set up and manage an entire cluster first. And there's dozens of services K8s simply does not have, and other hosting providers don't have.
Yes, and this is sad.

I have seen this as the outcome of a bubble which keeps repeating that "having to maintain is bad", "servers are bad" or "this is old".
I have no experience with outsourcing development work, at least not much, but a lot with outsourcing logistics. And one thing I realized was, that providers are a lot like children. They try to push every limit to find out with what they can get away with. And once precendence is established, it is ny impossible to reign them back in. I remeber one provider, operating under a cost-plus model, that invoiced us the catering. Plus margin and overhead. Yet, another one conducted a full inventory count without any additional costs because he didn't like hs own inventory quality.

I can be a difficult customer work with, especially in the beginning, but I firmly belive that letting service providers run by themselves in the beginning, after having clrealy communictaed expectations and guidelines. And to step in really hard the first moment something goes wrong. Worked out pretty well in the long run as expectations became crytal clear early on. And any deviations have been addressed when they happened, so norisk of misunderstandings.

that being said, it's a people business. And just because one approach worked in one case doesn't mean its gona work in a different situation.
I would pay for a browser that allowed me to

- build puppeteer/selenium like automation scripts without writing code

- use a lot of extensions built in: like search on every search engine rather than choose 1 default.

- help me be more productive—black/white listing. Gives me reports of my web usage habits. Classifies my web history automatically.
>solar storms from space
As opposed to?
A bit worrying that now.sh took the link down without even adding a notice on the page
The flu only has a 0.1-0.05% mortality rate. The early symptoms of of it are flu-like but the severe respiratory symptoms that set in and make it difficult to breath are not like your typical flu, to my knowledge.
It's a salient example of functional programming pretending to demonstrate an elegant expression of pure mathematics in code, while actually being nothing of the sort.
Chinese tech firm shares plunge 7% in HK after coder destroys server data
Yeah, very off topic, terribly sorry.
My brain won't let me write 0's without strikethrough anymore.
How about the fact that it wasn't priced into the markets until today. This information has been around for weeks.
I think the "source code" of TeX would be either the WEB files or the formatted output (ie "TeX: The Program") rather than the TeX output from WEB.
That's not been my experience, actually. The first CI service I used was hosted entirely in Europe, and we needed to ssh in to debug something, the keystroke latency was maddening. We eventually unsubscribed and just bought a big EC2 instance in us-east with Jenkins running on it. It cost approximately 100x more, but our productivity was high and frustration low. Well worth.

I personally think it will breed huge organizational problems if things like CI are slow. "I'll get a cup of coffee while this runs" and then you come back and forget what you were going to release. Soon it becomes "let's get another change into this build before we release" and then it's "well, it's been six months since we've released anything, what do we do." You have to start fast and stay fast if you want to keep developers productive. So saving a couple bucks on computers that are half a world away can end up being a huge expense if you're not careful.

As other comments mention, you also have to be careful about transfer costs. In the CI case, getting your source code into the CI server is cheap, but getting the containers out is going to cost you, especially if you don't make an effort to optimize them. For batch data processing jobs, the same applies; getting the result out is cheap, but getting the data in is going to be a lot of transfer. (If you were using Small Data, you could just run the job on your laptop, after all.)

The speed of computers half a world away is not great either. I remember updating some Samsung drivers once, which were served out of a Korean AWS region instead of CloudFront... and the downloads were glacially slow. Their website is the same way. I couldn't believe how a multinational corporation could push bits at me so slowly. When you're reading their documentation all day, or tweaking drivers, you notice it, and you start to think "next time I'm going to buy Intel". (Compare Samsung's SSD website with McMaster-Carr's website. What site do you hope to interact with again in the future?)

Anyway, you get a bill for compute resources, and you don't get a bill for unhappy employees context-switching all day, so I see why people want to craft clever schemes to save pennies on their compute costs. But be careful. Not every cost is charged directly to your credit card.
Are they consistent with China's unprecedented response?
Any must do courses in the field of Digital Marketing for newbies?
I recently graduated and want to take digital marketing as my profession. Any must-do courses that will help me in my career? Please advise!
The .web file is not supposed to be read directly. You're supposed to read the "woven" version: https://texdoc.net/texmf-dist/doc/generic/knuth/tex/tex.pdf
This is not a good representative benchmark for Swift. It uses lots of reference counted objects within tight loops, which is a worst-case for Swift. It's also not idiomatic Swift - classes are used in many places where they should not be.

Also, it's a benchmark which needs special hardware to be run, so it's not easy to try to reproduce or improve on this result.
Having direct exposure to low and high context cultures, I consider that approach to shallow at best. At worst, it reinforces stereotypes.
There are almost no travel restrictions in place
Probably worth checking out Zoneminder: http://www.zoneminder.com/
The jsxLoader.js script was
created to provide a fast method
for including React with JSX on
web pages and web apps with no
build process

React does not have a standalone script that does that?

I was under the impression that these scripts do exactly that:

https://reactjs.org/docs/cdn-links.html

What am I missing?
I assume you're being facetious, but regardless of early failings and a lack of transparency, it's hard to imagine any other country imposing a quarantine on a city the size of Wuhan in the manner they have, or building hospitals at the rate they have.
The timing must be perfect for startups that create new kinds of MIDI input devices that can support the new expressiveness controls that MIDI 2.0 supports. Roli probably a head start with their seaboard "keyboard" made in neopren. The Osmose keyboard from Expressive E, also look promising. Osmose looks like a traditional keyboard, but detects vibration on the keys.