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I think most people forget that the American oil industry is one of the largest in the world, i.e. it employs a ton of middle and upper class labor. For that reason, it makes this a political issue. For instance, just one aspect of oil that is huge in the US is Shale production, which is not profitable at the current WTI price per barrel. What does that mean? Well, hundreds of thousands of people, or more likely millions, would permanently lose their jobs in the US, which is why this is politically untenable.

I think it would be incredible for the US do push towards renewables and cut oil consumption, but sometimes you have to accept the world as it is, and not how you want it to be.
If you pay your employees and you pay taxes then saving your company is already a worthwhile investment for the taxpayer. Governments are typically not very good at owning companies.
That Georgia Aquarium cam is awesome. I now need an AR layer that identifies whatever is swimming past.
what we need are pool tables.
And guess what the first thing to get cut is during a recession - advertising. Not to mention if VC funding dries up not only does it affect advertising budgets, it’s mostly startups that are crazy enough to go with GCP. Most major enterprises who are going to start a major migration would go to AWS or Azure.
I'd be completely fine with a switch to ARM, as long as it was handled in the same way that the switch to x86 was done - with a period of fat binaries targeting both architectures, and then a gradual phase-out of the older architecture (x86).

I'm pretty sure Apple have the ability to put 32-core ARM systems into the MacBook, and push the power/processing ratio into the stratosphere. The only reason I'm not using ARM right now, personally, is because such a thing doesn't really exist .. but I look at my old Touchbook up on the shelf and wonder what could have been...
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On the subject of PyPy, I'd never used it until a month or so ago but I've been working on reinforcement learning models for a final year computer engineering project and slow training times were a serious problem until I found I could get a 10x speed boost without changing a line of code simply by switching from the default Python interpreter to PyPy. (Average training time dropped instantly from three minutes per episode to twenty seconds.) I'm seriously impressed by the work the PyPy guys have done.
Shouldn't the first models to use ARM be desktop? Allow the early adopters to kick the tires. So that devs can make sure their wares work on ARM before the mass market models switch?
This. I work at Amazon and this is more common than you'd expect. "Customer obsession" and all that.
I think Minerva has a big online component: https://www.minerva.kgi.edu/

Fully accredited by the KGI so also has some legitimacy.
Not really. Everyone thinks it’s can’t happen to them. Certainly me too, and I’ve been using aws since it first launched in some capacity or the other.
Managing non-python software and its dependencies, for one thing. I’ve used it to package Qt apps, shell scripts, even JavaScript packages that were intertwined with non-js components (though that was painful).
For reasons I touch on in our blog post[1], porting to Python 3 would still be a huge amount of work (not quite as large as the port to Go, but still very large and without other benefits we get from Go).

[1]: http://engineering.khanacademy.org/posts/goliath.htm
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Agreed. It bothers me that Jupyter ecosystem trends toward it. pip + virtualenv + pyenv + poetry (not pipenv)

However, one of the main benefits I remember is that it is not just Python env/package mgmt. Data scientists can pull R packages too.
They can't do this unless they are okay with never selling machines again to anyone who needs to write code. There's no feasible way for all programming tools to be distributed through MAS. IPython isn't going to suddenly go through the marathon of crap you need to get into the store.

If absolutely nothing else, native developers: you can't have more than one version of a MAS app installed. Nearly every iOS developer I know has at least two versions of Xcode at any given time.
I'm starting to wonder if using the mask all day can promote a reinfection and would have any effect increasing your own viral load.
if you haven’t noticed, the world is moving away from server side rendering - even Microsoft is pushing toward client side rendering.
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6889204
And yet, the simplest circuit breaker, total spend, is well hidden if it exists at all, judging from all the horror stories.
Eventually you become Ford and build a River Rouge Plant where you do all of your own metallurgy and parts manufacturing. Completely vertical.
> It is incredibly frustrating to need to go to the urgent care for strep throat or something and then not have any idea how much it will cost afterwards

Isn't that stuff all defined though? I just looked at my insurance, and it clearly states Urgent Care visit is $65 and a Strep Lab test is $28 (both out of pocket, after insurance costs).

Granted, getting costs on something more complicated is more difficult, but there's still the defined deductible and out of pocket maximums that can be useful.
>I would rather my whole system shut down and be unusable while I investigate vs. auto-scale and charge me a bill I can't cover.

Sure, but most large companies (the kind which AWS gets a lot more revenue from and cares about a lot more) want the exact opposite. Most large companies have the extra cash to spend in the case that a runwaway auto-scale was in error, but on the other hand, completely shutting down operations whenever a traffic spike happens could resort in millions of lost revenue.

>However, searching around it seems like I can only get alerts when a $$$ threshold is passed, but AWS won't take any action to stop computing or anything. Please prove me wrong.

The general advice is to use the various kinds of usage alerts (billing alerts, forecasts, etc) to trigger Lambda functions that shut down your instances as you desire. It takes a little configuration on your part, but again, AWS intentionally errs on the side of not automatically turning off your instances unless you specifically tell it to.
> Half of our expected revenue growth

I am guessing that restaurants would be pretty happy if that's all they were facing.
"if we do nothing to mitigate the pandemic and 1 out of 200 people die,"

Where does that figure come from?

Edit: also, I think 1 in 200 is very, very roughly 5-10 times all other infectious diseases in a normal year. So maybe that would provide perspective.
I have some "friends" who will only vote trump, because the dems are talking about increasing restrictions around guns. Some people just have one issue they care about above all else, even if that is harming them
If you hire people, you could ask or collect other kinds of feedback how your hire has performed (from someone else than themselves directly of course).
Ok, but I'm also amazed, because I found TBP to be vastly overrated...

To each his/her/their own.
And this is doubly sad considering how both parties are/end up in significant agreement about the US' huge military presence abroad, tax cuts for the wealthy, deregulated campaign finance etc. Which are subjects where most US citizens hold the opposite view to the bi-partisan near-consensus.
The poster clearly admitted what happened. Mistakenly running up a large bill doesn't clear your responsibility to pay that bill and knowingly filing disputes or changing companies is fraud. You can definitely go to court but without clear evidence you will likely lose and then owe even more.

Since you're revising your comments, there's no point to further discussion but please don't recommend running away from debts. That's not going to end well.
Just finished reading this and found it incredible how one book could reveal so much of myself to myself.
Not clear that Apple “bungled” the laptops as their sales have been declining roughly in proportion to the sagging of the overall PC market. In other words the flimsy keyboards may have increased their service costs and pissed of a small part of a key constituency but basically may not have itself risen above the noise floor.

For every person who complains about the laptops there’s someone like me who is happy with the direction (doesn’t make either of us wrong). I’m a software developer and miss the portability of my 12” MacBook. I enable telemetry so they know I almost never plug anything into my machine. An iPad just doesn’t cut it.

If this ARM speculation is even substantive it will likely mean a light super-portable machine for me and continued investment in the 16” MBP for you.
Wouldn't that make for a fun documentary in 30 years time. "2020, the year when the CIA released a virus to ruin the Chinese economy and accidentally killed a third of Manhattan."
Thats great and all but I think people are using the pandemic as a marketing tool—“Look at how good we are to our employees”.
You get a system that you can run anything on.
That's a great question. Although he has made some really bad investments, his overall record is astonishing if his main objective is maximum return. Some of us have other objectives besides profit, such as investing in renewable energy companies that care about mitigating climate change. I suspect that Buffett doesn't think about that sort of thing too much.
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That's how I felt it, although it was 15 years ago. I started the study of CS at postgraduate because I was 50 and felt I had to catch up with the young colleagues. After two years and being only at mid course (and having already spent several thousands pounds), I drop out of it. After all I had already a good job and I could learn much more interesting stuff at work.
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Why is it a confounder? If people have less traffic accidents due to staying at home, that makes the virus a little less destructive in terms of lives (just remember to account for the economic cost).
Just like lots of individuals aren’t able to have 6-12 months of cash on hand, many small businesses aren’t able. For a lot of restaurants, that might mean savings hundreds of thousands of dollars when a month’s profit might be $2000, so saving all your profits for a decade just to have an emergency fund. (Small restaurants aren’t a good way to make money generally)
It looks like it's also available on YouTube (if you don't want to register on Coursera):

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVext98k2eviHGwrB6tNN...
Ok, 2 web servers, 2 db servers back in 2013, one of the most visited sites out there.

https://nickcraver.com/blog/2013/11/22/what-it-takes-to-run-...
Oil jobs are not the only things these people can do. There is an argument to be made that renewables, like solar, actually would increase employment - especially of middle class labor.
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That's a bit of trivialization into a tautology.

Systems continue to exist, but most of them also change in various aspects - some superficial, some fundamental. Republican Rome was quite different from what Imperial Rome ended up being; the US of the 1800s is very different from the US of today.
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conda makes cudatoolkit available. That can save a lot of time not having to figure out how to install CUDA and cudnn
It's hovering and oscillating around zero. Id say it's a 50/50 thing.
HN discussions generally assume people did more than just look at the pictures..
I owned a surface and I own an iPad Pro now. They aren’t even comparable in usability, Apple is great at refining features and making them work even if Microsoft is better at getting them out earlier. It’s like comparing the iPhone to WinCE.
I disagree, the pre-corona energy usage was desirable since it was a result of healthy economic activiy. What is not desirable is how most of it was fossil fuel. To replace fossil, you need renewables to be cheaper or to compete with oil, this means oil should be used more but produces less so it costs more than renewables(which was the pre-corona trend).

My opinion is, the focus should be on switching consumption to renewables one large milestone at a time. For example, diesel would be produced less and used more enough for a renewable alternative engine and fuel supply chain for cruise ships to make economic sense, then within a few years all cruise ships will be on renewable. Fossil fuel is not the enemy, fossio fuel dependency is.

You can make similar economic arguments for more public electric transport for example (what people pay in tax is miniscule to what they pay for gas every year).
It's not on the NASA site but the book is also readily available online in the original Russian, for those who are into that sort of thing.
Oddly enough, problem solvers can also have a "pet" focus. One manager in my former department would interrupt every technical discussion to tell us that we were solving the wrong problem, and to point us towards the "real" problem. It can be completely subjective.
Why is there no way to set a limit on billing on AWS?
Especially for cases like this, where killing testing instances does not have a dramatic negative effect...
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>why not switch it to one that you control completely?

So you don't have to kill all of the software currently running on your customers' machines.
Code is a means, not an ends. Furthermore a sexy cool "solution" is no solution at all if it doesn't solve The Right Problem. Too many obsess over solving a problem, or a client want.

Unfortunately, that's not the same as solving for the actual biz need. This is a key reason why IT has a reputation for failed projects. What's delivered - even tho it was what the client wanted - turns out to not meet the (never defined) need. Wants are not the same as needs; sometimes the difference is significant.

Editorial: I had a semi heated exchange with a proj manager a couple weeks ago. He said, "The client like this (i.e., example from another site). This is what you need to build." I asked why the client liked it; what was the underlying biz need that the proposed solution satisfied? I never got an answer.
Sorry, I wasn’t clear. On shootout they have multiple implementation of each benchmark in the same language. The fastest implementations are always fast languages, but there are lots of implementations in fast languages that are bested by better implementations in slow languages[1]. The point I was trying to make is that picking a fast language isn’t enough to write truly fast programs.

1. https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
Or the (currently discontinued) MacBook. The evidence (and logic) suggests that Apple is on a path to reconverge their tablet and at least a portion of their laptop line. Which would be interesting to me if the merged device didn't have too many compromises given that I typically travel with an iPad and some sort of laptop (whether MacBook Pro or Chromebook).
Since 2015, no issues. You can choose not to believe me.
If you are looking for a full course this one isn't bad: Embedded Systems Shape the World[0] it does hew pretty close to platform specifics (Windows/Keil/TI Launchpad) which can be good for specifics and not good for holistic understanding.

I have had a lot of fun following Ben Eater's[1] projects, which aren't always embedded-specific (sometimes they're TTL, sometimes Arduino) but are excellent for understanding concepts deeply.

I tend to learn best with a specific project that can grow or morph as my interest or experience dictates. You might find something to build with an Arduino, using the toolchain/IDE/libraries, get it working and then start stripping out libraries for your own implementations, or getting a toolchain of your own to cross-compile and flash.

[0]: http://www.edx.org/course/embedded-systems-shape-the-world-m...

[1]: https://eater.net/
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The regulation was passed with a huge majority [1], including all the Danish MEPs.

No-one died, but there's an account here [2] of mouth lesions caused by excessive cinnamon bun consumption.

The Veternary and Food Administration works closely with the European Union. [3]

[1] https://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=PV&refer...

[2] https://doi.org/10.14219/jada.archive.2000.0311

[3] https://www.foedevarestyrelsen.dk/english/Aboutus/Internatio...
I suspect battery storage will over time start to undercut shale production after prices rise again. So I'm thinking maybe shale is dead anyway. Good thing, since it is so dirty. Open to opposing points of view, though.. I don't know that much about this so would be glad to be educated.

Also just want to borrow your phrasing to say I think it would be incredible for all those shale oil folks to keep pulling in those paychecks, but sometimes you have to accept the world as it is, and not how you want it to be.
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Exactly this. Installing bhigh performance BLAS/LAPACK etc packages is very easy in conda.
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Known as Madeleine de Proust in french.
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As a society, we want your enterprise to exist and be owned by you, an individual, not a lending company. We need a different system that can fund you and keep you funded as long as it’s a good business, which means even through events like this one. I’m not sure exactly what that looks like, but it’s not our current system.
It is perfectly fine to have a one-to-one mapping between schema and database, thereby treating them as interchangeable. So far as I know, by convention the schema will be the “database name” and the database name would just be “public”.
I hope this doesn't mean war. I have a feeling Russia will take out capacity by force if it becomes an existential threat.
The only reason I could come to care about architecture, as a consumer, is if it provides a freakishly long battery life.
I assume MSC is this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_switching_centre_server.

What is PSI? Edit: thanks!
I use Python for science data analysis. Anaconda has nearly all of what I need, batteries included. Even though I am able to do so, I don’t care to bother with managing my own virtualenvs and ensuring all the right stuff builds and installs on all the various machines I use.
I wonder if we could see more mixed architecture like T2. What would it look like if you had x86 and ARM on board?
no, economists and policymakers agree with your usage of monopoly power. monopolies aren't simply a function of number of market participants. semantic digressions like these are non-sequiturs and should be ignored.
That' not what OP said. "oil consumption" not "energy consumption". But yes pretty much anyone with half a brain and no vested interested in fossil fuels agrees that fossil fuels need to be ran down ASAP and replaced with renewables. I'd imagine with optimized solar and next generation nuclear we could get a lot closer to "unrestricted" energy.
Depends on your field. If you're studying mathematics or computer science, learning happens mostly through deep work in isolation and there's enough material out there (books, papers, etc.) to support more than a lifetime of problem-solving.

Events and conversations might offer superficial exposure to new ideas or areas of interest but actual understanding requires extended, focused thought that nobody else can do for you.
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It's not about installing pypy.

It's making sure each package has transitive dependencies that behaves well on pypy.

This is a huge effort.
Ok. But then we are back at the beginning:

"In a perfect free market the oil producers make zero profits"

where this statement does not make sense, unless you apply weird economic definitions.
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If a 50% drop in expected revenue _growth_ causes you to default on your debt you are either a startup that had trouble raising money, in which case now you know that you do not have a viable business plan, or you are running a completely unsustainable business that only existed because of easy access to cheap debt the past couple of years.
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I'm curious what Parallels going to do. Running Windows and Linux applications with almost native integration into OSX ecosystem worth a lot, especially with all benefits of hardware virtualization. In theory PC could be virtualized on ARM, however software virtualization only.
Going to watch the process. In general, Windows and Linux support ARM as well, not sure if hardware virtualization for ARM exist though
You can absolutely set this up in AWS and GCP.
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Which is odd given that Trump himself has talked about increasing restrictions for guns. Because Democrats and Republicans tend to support gun control.

Unfortunately decades of NRA and Republican propaganda have taught gun owners that no Democrat or liberal owns a gun or supports the Second Amendment.
Apple won’t do it. There are so many architectural issues with it and you don’t get the power savings of ARM.

People asked the same question during both previous transitions.
Thats makes no sense. Is Faiuci financially vested in these test companies or something.
When you have a database engineer refactoring large tables, that's when this shines.

Use CREATE TABLE AS SELECT to have cheap copying from one schema to another.
There is no concept of limited liability in Australia?
I know this blog very well and fefe is definitely enought of a geek to do something like this...

This is howevwr not a good example you know that right?

I don't think that it is a question of expertise, more like choosing the right tool for the right problem.
They could make an x86 daughterboard for the Mac Pro. Plenty of space for that and it’s been done decades ago. Or a third party could.

I wonder whether they’ve got any special killer apps in mind for the desktop and MacBook ARM machines. They could theoretically customize them greatly since they’re designing the architecture. Also wonder whether they view keeping the unix developer pipeline.
It's not hidden, it's well documented. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitori...
But you're praising Google for cancelling a bunch of jokes that have absolutely nothing to do with medical advice. Stop conflating the two so utterly.
This has happened to me several times, albeit at a much smaller scale. I fire up a few GPU instances for training neural networks and when I got to shut the instances down I forget that you always need to refresh the instance page before telling AWS to stop my instances. I still go through all the confirmations saying I do, indeed, want to stop all instances. However, these few times I forgot to refresh to make sure they actually were shutting down and simply went to bed. Not an $80k mistake, but certainly a couple hundred dollars, which hurts as a grad student.

Now I have learned, _always_ refresh the page and instance list prior to shutting anything down and _always_ confirm the shutdown was successful.
Given the lack of preparation it wouldn't be accidental.