skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just curious, can you share general details on the types of services that need really big everything?

For most every workload I can think of, as their load increases it's always one resource in particular that's the limiting factor. (RAM/CPU/Storage/etc). So it makes sense to me that AWS instances focus on optimizing one particular resource type.

Would be interesting to hear about types of workloads that break this pattern. (Or maybe it's a few different types of workloads/services that need to be tightly integrated on one machine?)
I don't want to live in this world any more.
Who would you suggest should own the property instead of landlords? Should all housing be state owned instead?

Without bail outs we have the potential to see many more properties bought by the largest companies, who are often far harsher on tenants then small mom-and-pop owners.
Here's some context: both you, me and a majority of HN readers have decent lives and cushy tech jobs (I'm a student and have the luxury of coding all day).

Think of everyone else: those relatively regular/average people in America, the average Joe. They have bills to pay for, but living paycheck to paycheck, they can't pay any of it. So now they're seeing whats the best way to get income. Unemployment check? Website is down. Where to get food? Food banks are barely sustaining.

Yes, there's definitely a reduction of stress in some areas, but I believe that thinking of everyone, I mean everyone not just in tech, makes you realize that as a whole, a lot of people are stressed out of their minds when this can end.
Look, we've changed position and agree with you.

The point I thought was 'grey' was whether automated likes harass people (Liking to build a following is now part of the standard Instagram marketing playbook).

That is not worth debating though - we agree that TOS are violated. We were wrong and you are correct.
There's one obvious possibility... there's some evidence that flu triggers heart attacks in people already at risk for one, Covid-19 also seems to do the same, lockdowns have cut short the flu season but are less effective against Covid-19, and I've seen suggestions elsewhere that doctors are refusing to even consider doing this kind of procedure on people who test positive for Covid-19. It's possible the heart attack patients are right there in the hospitals dying untreated.
Which is why an app that supports all of the gadgets regardless of make/model could be useful.
I used to work in an environment not dissimilar from what's described above. The uni has some hardware details here: https://in.nau.edu/hpc/details/. Many of my answers would be similar, although the presence of physics, astronomy, and a few other areas motivates GPUs these days apparently. I was doing genomics workloads in the 900-1200gb RAM range with 30+ cores.

There's a pretty interesting NSF-wide project for managing clusters in a more commoditized way as part of https://www.xsede.org. You might describe it as a "private heterogeneous almost-cloud" in its goals? That might be saying a bit much.

Density, latency, storage throughput, etc. were in favor of DIY (plus the pricey professionals to run it) rather than cloud offerings. When I was there (2016) I did some basic math for being able to use a cloud provider for some of our lighter workloads when the local cluster was loaded down. Astronomical without a contract, which is quite the thing to set up, etc.

Worth noting that while they do alright, NAU (first link) is hardly a top-tier university with bleeding edge technical requirements.
Since comments are enumerating other Berkeley cafe choices, I recall Brewed Awakening was a common choice among CS/engineering folks on the north side of campus. Much more your basic coffee house meets study hall.
UberEats losing market share to DoorDash is indicative of UberEats leadership failure. DoorDash engineering is bad, DoorDash policies are bad, DoorDash feeds their PR machine often.

Additionally, UE software is bloated and user-hostile compared to DD and GH.
Strokes and heart attacks don’t fall into they category.
Seems you’re trying to bring your on-premise structure and concepts to the cloud, that won’t work. EC2 instances are cattle, not pets.

I believe I saw a slide that average lifespan of an EC2 instance at Netflix is 14 minutes.

I’m not necessarily saying cloud will work for your setup, but you can’t compare like that.
We can have travellers from anywhere, they will just need to accept two weeks quarantine. It's not perfect but it's better than no travel at all.
Some mind-boggling quotes from the article:

"Investigation reveals ... the code produces critically different results, even for identical starting seeds and parameters."

"In issue 116 a UK “red team” at Edinburgh University reports that they tried to use a mode that stores data tables in a more efficient format for faster loading, and discovered – to their surprise – that the resulting predictions varied by around 80,000 deaths after 80 days"

"In issue #30, someone reports that the model produces different outputs depending on what kind of computer it’s run on (regardless of the number of CPUs). Again, the explanation is that although this new problem “will just add to the issues” … “This isn’t a problem running the model in full as it is stochastic anyway”."

"Much of the code consists of formulas for which no purpose is given. John Carmack (a legendary video-game programmer) surmised that some of the code might have been automatically translated from FORTRAN some years ago."

"Despite being aware of the severe problems in their code that they “haven’t had time” to fix, the Imperial team continue to add new features; for instance, the model attempts to simulate the impact of digital contact tracing apps."
A decade of success against steep odds later, I ran into the high school teacher who I idolized and who helped me actually achieve something. Most teachers tolerated me or insulated the rest of the classroom from me. But he put in the effort to get me engaged with something that got me to sit down and try. I was excited to show him what his work had helped me accomplish. He had two things to share with me:

1. He doesnt remember me.

2. That he felt I was smarter than him, hearing what I was working on.

It hit really hard. And when I recovered it made me realise that all relationships are ephemeral if you aren't there to foster and cherish them. There's also a lesson in there I'm trying to parse. About how I always saw him as this brilliant teacher. But he's just a guy.
Pretty sure any impact from that would be a very long-term thing. A lifetime without particulates might have an effect; a month seems pretty far-fetched.
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Oversight, n.

...
c) an inadvertent omission or error

Sounds about right.
I'm glad I don't like in the EU. I don't allow cookies to function in my personal browser and I don't use them on any of the websites that I make or maintain. But when someone goes to a website they're not forced to use cookies and they don't have to go to the website. A law like GDPR brings in the government's use of force to situations where there is no force, fraud, or anyone being hurt. It's massively worse than the problem it solves.
While there are obvious flaws with the analogy (like any analogy), I think the comparison with eyesight (or touch, etc.) is about making people think of the mind as more of a sensory organ. One that gives you input that may or may not be useful to you, rather than as something that defines you.

I don't really see that as a dissociative practice, but more as the prerequisite for being able to start on the long term journey of challenging and changing your thought patterns.
Indeed "python-decouple" looks like it serves similar niche.
(I didn't know of the package. Thanks for letting me know.) I think I'd like to target a smaller niche though, someone writing a small applications, with a little more flexibility in things like YAML support and dynamic loading. Unless "decouple" eventually supports similar features, I want to keep experimenting.
> You. Are. Allowed. To. Use. Cookies. Under. GDPR.

Until a government bureaucrat decides that your usage is not necessary and they threaten you with a fine.

You are not the one enforcing these laws. What you think is a reasonable interpretation of these "relatively simple guidelines" is no guarantee that a government commission is going to reach the same conclusion. Do you really find that so hard to understand?
That's a devastating story.
If you're a developer looking to understand TLS/mTLS I recently wrote about this and had several people tell me it was very helpful.

The first part is a primer on asymmetric encryption. If you aren't comfortable with symmteric/asymmetric encryption read this one first: https://medium.com/@FreedomBen/what-is-asymmetric-encryption...

Then read the main post: https://medium.com/@FreedomBen/what-is-mtls-and-how-does-it-...
Could relaxing still home and cooking your own meals reduce activity-causing heart attacks? It’s a trope in the North-East that middle aged men die shoveling snow.
Glad. Couldn't have happened to a nicer company.
Germans learn about the history of the Third Reich in detail and I always asked myself: how could this happen? Smart, hard-working, intelligent, compassionate, literate people start to plan industrial murder of millions of people on the basis of what exactly?

Now, here's the thing. Progress is not that shiny guiding light. It is an extreme force, especially a force to control things, especially nature. The Third Reich planned mass murder, as it were a railroad track or lunar landing - the form was exactly the same and they did not understood: that this similarity in form revealed and forever merged the idea of progress to the most inhumane behavior and destruction.

If that does not make sense, I encourage you to just read a bit about the concentration camps or the Third Reich in general. Good timing, too - we have 75th anniversary of V-E Day coming up.
Competition is good for customers. I don't care who had the feature first.
Well, it's good to see they're slowly modernizing this, but in the end it's still a pretty bizarre practice even if you don't do it in that particularly disgusting way.

Not an American, and always wondered how it somehow became the standard in America....
There isn’t a official HN guideline that clearly delineates between the two scenarios and says why one is allowed and the other isn’t.

My point is that it’s entirely subjective, but everyone flagging the Kobe story in January was yelling about how it broke site policy when it’s clearly just a preference thing.
Here is a tip - If you don't own a microwave, you should not use any delivery app.
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But, of the normal ER visits, one would expect to have the same scalar number of emergency (stroke, heart attack) visits to STILL be happening, and we would expect those people to still be going to the ER. These are not "no insurance" people, they're people having an emergency situation.

If we don't see them in the ER, it makes sense that they're staying home on purpose, or not handling symptoms until it's too late (?).
They can store the picked stuff in reefers for delivery later, up to a point. And some orders have nothing cold.
But yes, it's a dance. I'd receive my stuff at 2am for a 20% discount.
People are staying home and dying. This is one of the major trade offs no government official is talking about regarding re-opening the economy.
It's not the same distance though. The way to convert "lower is better" to "higher is better" is to invert the results, e.g. convert seconds per render to renders per second. You take 1/X where the original number was X. Or do renders per day if you don't want results as small fractions, which just means multiplying the inverted results by a constant, e.g. the number of seconds per day.

For both the Anandtech and Computerbase Blender results, the 2700X takes ~60% longer in reality, which is ~66% more renders per second (which is the same percentage more per day), but the difference in the length of the bars on pc-kombo.com is <10% for Computerbase and ~1% for Anandtech. Something has gone wrong there.
Not necessarily. You don't (well, most people) want to know what a product is, you want to know what it can do for you.

In other words, the value it offers you. How it enables you to achieve what you want to achieve. That's what matters, the technical functionality does not.

I don't care that Nike uses vulcanized rubber and cotton, I care that my friends will think they look cool, and thus make me look cool.

So they focus on communicating that value proposition rather than an info dump about the product.

Sourcehut says "lots of open source mini services that work without JavaScript". Cool, why do I care? Is there a cost saving? Would my devs prefer this? Can it do something other paid services can't? Why should I use it?

This is sales, not engineering.
I was under the impression that reinforcement learning already tackled the "picking" problem sufficiently well.
That’s how you get old, when your time is more valuable than a massive shift in technology.
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I don’t know if I read this somewhere or was told it: “you can do whatever you want, as long as you accept the consequences and can pay the price.”

I find the hardest part discovering what to do, but even that has a price and consequences ;D
To echo your point:

In New South Wales, Australia the medical sector had 1000 ICU bed capacity in January. When covid hit, it was rapidly expanded and currently over 2000 ICU beds are available.

At the same time all elective surgeries got banned (e.g. hip replacements etc) because some of those would end up in ICU.

At the peak of the outbreak NSW used 100 of those 2000 beds. Currently only about two dozen ICU beds are occupied. About 1% of capacity.
This pandemic will surely produce a lot of material for economists and social scientists who study the law of unintended consequences.
No, it doesn't mean "stop sheltering in place," unless cases of COVID-19 have peaked. In order to tell whether they've peaked, you need testing in place, as well. Even if they have peaked, it could mean "relax some of the restrictions, but not fully end SIP, while monitoring cases." Opening things back up prematurely, without sufficient testing, is just going to get people killed.
The 'New Normal' will potentially help deliver Satoshi's vision
So, just because I'm more familiar with DigiCert, and it's more clear with specific names.

Let's say you had a certificate for CN=example.org, issued by DigiCert ECC Secure Server CA, the certificate of which is itself is issued by DigiCert Global Root CA

Most clients have that CA in their chain, so you can send the example.org cert, and the DigiCert ECC Secure Server CA cert, and have very good compatibility. DigiCert Global Root CA was created November 2006, and maybe your client has a CA bundle from before then, or anyway doesn't have that CA. Not to worry, DigiCert has a cross signed copy of DigiCert GLobal Root CA, issued by Baltimore CyberTrust Root. Baltimore CyberTrust Root was created in May 2000, and most people like them.

So, to support that small fraction of users which have Baltimore CyberTrust Root and not Digicert Global Root CA, you can send

CN=example.org, the normal DigiCert ECC Secure Server CA, and the cross signed Digicert Global Root CA, issued by Baltimore CyberTrust Root.

Now, DigiCert happens to own the CA key for Baltimore CyberTrust Root, so they also can issue certs from a new intermediate they generated signed by it, but they were using their cross-signed Root as an option for compatibility with legacy clients before they purchased the CA. Sending the three certs should also work for well behaved clients that have the DigiCert Global Root CA, but not Baltimore CyberTrust Root; although not all clients will properly validate when they trust a CA in the chain, but not the last CA in the chain.

I'm not affiliated with DigiCert, I was worked for a customer, and was in charge of selecting the CA while we supported a lot of ancient phones, each with their own mess of CA bundles, very few of which were documented. :(

DigiCert helpfully links their cross signed certs here https://www.digicert.com/digicert-root-certificates.htm#cros...
The idea of the cloud is to only pay for what you use. Your on-premise server is idle 99% of the time so why are you paying for a full server?

If that's not true, it turns out it's quite expensive to run things in the cloud. If your workload is crunching numbers 24/7 at 100% cpu, it's better to buy the cpu than to rent it.
Maybe then make it legal for them to find a job?
- Time spent working on myself (exercise, personal development) seems to improve my business

- Adding value for others is the best way I've found to achieve greater success

- (and this is very recent) consider price as a measure of value, like a liter is a measure of volume
But there are literally 100's (or more) of banks around the world that use AWS for compute. They meet all the security requirements you could want (27001, SOC2, and many others) around how they secure and limit access to servers by staff and have a variety of WORM audit tools and a very comprehensive IAM to help you satisfy these requirements are being met.
How many of them are conservative and how many of them come from cultures with long traditions of free speech?
As a parent who got HSV1 from my grandfather kissing me, I do everything I can to keep away from my kids and wife when I have one. Anything less would be unconscionable.
- I don't need to eat every day
Possibly in the short term - in the long term the quarantine is likely going to increase heart disease due to people having more sedentary life styles... It's quite likely this is just a result of the math of going to a hospital shifting - a lot of folks decide not to go to the hospital with minor chest pain due to other obligations[1] and the addition of the outbreak likely adds to the reasons not to go to the hospital.

1. Don't do this, go to the hospital if you feel something different in your chest.
"Most" or at least "many." I marvel at the sanctimony around here when it comes to SPAM, particularly because I am 100% certain that if a person works for a company with at least one salesperson then unsolicited outreach is a tactic that is helping pay their salary.
Suicide helpline calls are up about 50% from early reports.
How is that related to the lockdown? Hospitals are open. People are staying home because they're scared of getting sick, that's not something that can be fixed by public policy.
Why do you think that the effect is only long term exposure?
I don't know, it is one of those abstract phrases that don't really add any value, same as "use the right tool for the job" or "you ain't gonna need it". No shit, the problem is that in most cases I don't know what would be a premature optimisation and what would be the right tool for job and what I would need. I have to explore it, usually by making some mistakes along the way using the wrong tools or optimisations and missing others. Sometimes I can learn from the past, sometimes the specific case is different from the past case. It is just the way of life, no valuable insight here.
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From the crash log, it looks like the server response it's getting back is missing a field that the SDK wants. Facebook should be able to fix this on their end?

Edit: from the issue it looks like they've done something, but people are still reporting crashes…
>The HEROS study team will rapidly enroll 6,000 people from 2,000 U.S. families already participating in NIH-funded pediatric research studies in 11 cities.

This is certainly something that should be done, but given that infection rates outside of a small number of hotspots in the NE are all a very small percentage of the population and falling, I wonder how much they'll be able to deduce from even a fairly large sample size.

>The study team will prospectively follow these children and their families for six months to determine who gets infected with SARS-CoV-2, whether the virus is transmitted to other family members, and which family members with the virus develop COVID-19.

Late July/Early August is probably when schools are going to need to make a go/no-go decision with regards to school openings. This study will likely not have usable data before then, sadly.
How high are your power costs?
> 1. If you buy a ticket to a live theatre show you don't expect to see a movie.

A live theater show doesn't seem comparable, since in the cam model's case they're being viewed through a screen regardless. Your sibling comment that compares it to finding out a live broadcast turns out to be a movie is more apt.
Yes and no. I'm personally not so much worried about the keys, but whatever detection they are doing to send what they "think" might be a token/key/etc. And just because a key is public, doesn't mean that it is going to be automatically sent to a third-party.

If you accidentally upload a key, but then immediately notice and force push, you're already too late since GitHub took the initiative to share that. I get that the user would be at fault here ultimately, but that doesn't mean that GitHub should be working against the user in sharing that.

What if it isn't an AWS token, but instead an encryption key or SSH key that you have blocked off to the public so you're not too worried about it but you're a warehouse worker protesting COVID-19 treatment. Now Jeff Bezos will be looking for dirt on you like you're Michael Sanchez.

If they made the detection information public then it would at least provide some transparency to see what they determine to be AWS-specific.
My life experiences don't match your mental model, sadly. Maybe it has to do with where and how one grows up? For example, I know with certainty that my parents, teachers, and first bosses were enemies.

A lot of people on HN seem to have grown up in safe, nurturing, loving environments. But, remember that most of the world's people didn't. I don't mean to call you out - just saying that I would love to have had your experiences.
Is forcing people to contribute on github ethical? Aside from only looking at one social coding platform vs [gitlab/azure/sourcehut/self-hosted], it takes the viewpoint that one writes and publishes code on github -on top of- their day job. Since not all companies put their private code on github.

What if I have a family? What if I have -any- other hobbies than just programming all day? What if I have other obligations or just want to -relax- after work?

I wouldn't pay for a service like this (I would write a simple script, can't be that hard), but I don't find it unethical either. You want to be lazy and just look at some numbers? Here are your numbers. I'd be willing to bet that it never comes up again once hired. Actually, I just wouldn't apply to a company that places that much weight on github contribution history. But if I had zero industry experience and was just trying to get any job, the situation might be different.
I'd love to see this for spaceships.
This title is overstating the issue. End of the day, this is a tiny bit of interpersonal conflict/difficulties.

Personally I'm always sensitive to systemic, toxic behaviour in programming communities and I'll jump on it if I can. But this ain't it. This is plain self-aggrandisement.
How does this have anything to do with hackers?
guess we're back to "move fast and break things"