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I dabble extensively in being dirt cheap with my monthly cloud spend on personal projects, and after much experimentation, I have settled on the following:

1. elastic beanstalk, no docker: EB comes with really nice defaults so that you can quickly whip up a flask app, upload it and it just works. It provisions a small ec2 instance by default which iirc costs 10ish a month at best. Importantly, any operation you do with EB will by definition be ready for continuous deployment since you don't get an option to ssh into the machine to deploy. It's extensible enough to add whatever extra stuff you need as well. Only thing it can't do is simple caching ( if you scale to more than one instance that is), but that can be solved by having a separate eb deployment for a worker that can take care of all these aux stuff (elasticache is expensive I think). In a pinch, it also scales well (though the default cheap deployment does not have a load balancer).

2. Just suck it up and go with RDS postgres. Again, I see too many things going wrong with spinning up your own db in an ec2 instance especially if that instance goes down. Im too lazy to write backup scripts and keep track of them! The cheapest RDS postgres costs 13 a month or so, but I just suck it up to power whatever side projects I do. Postgres means I'm working with something I know, and I get full text search and pubsub for free. And whatever I write is not locked code in anyform, and can be scaled up if needed as well. More importantly I'm only spending my time in technologies that are relevant for me in my day job so that's a win.

3. Github Actions to deploy to eb. just a few lines of yaml and you instantly get continuous deployment directly from your repo for free! Really can't beat that.

I have meant to try out heroku since it could be cheaper from what I have read. But I couldn't figure out what their S3 alternative is or how different they are from the canonical cloud offerings.

I'm sure it can be so much more cheaper, but I'm not good at advanced networking or sysadmin, and I'm too lazy / bored / disorganised to write deploy scripts or sshing into remote machines. I'm also always afraid of if/how long I need to re-provision a vps/ec2 if it goes down. Not that they do, but they can, and that scares me.
I only just got my invitation to Roam the other week and there is no free tier option.
I have a hard time understanding what metastream is... I saw a demo of being able to play a YT video and chat at the same time, invite ppl, etc... Does it support sharing any video stream playing on a browser? (say, netflix). How does it work?

EDIT: bizarrely, I found this article on The Verge more descriptive of what metastream does than the website, WIKI and source code :-) [1].

1: https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/25/21191604/watch-movies-fri...
America’s First Direct Mail Campaign
Say cheese: new Wallace and Gromit tale stars robot pigeons and you
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> the problem is, so much is based on circular assumptions of theories

What specific circular assumptions are you suggesting?
This article is essentially claiming that for WebRTC to use TCP you have to be using TURN. While I am willing to believe I am wrong here (our product feels a bit crippled over TCP to the point where I just recommend you not use it, so if it isn't working I might not even notice), I am nearly certain this is not true.
I don't have a comparison but Hetzner is pretty much unbeatable in price if you can live with having your servers in Europe. If not, OVH, DigitalOcean, Linote or Vultr are good alternatives with datacenters around the globe and prices below that of AWS.
Or DigitalOcean, which also offers many of the big-cloud perks like managed db, object storage, load balancers and kubernetes.
USB dual boot for Raspberry Pi 4 - https://www.spket.com/blog/raspberry-pi-4-usb-dual-boot/

I can't post the link coz the account is too new
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"In 1835, the American Anti-Slavery Society (AAS) took their campaign to a new level with what could be called the first use of a direct mail campaign."

Direct mail being in its infancy, they did not think to use a targeted list to a sympathetic audience, and were generally considered to have been early spammers.

"The administration’s hostility toward the AAS campaign (including federal postal officials’ refusal to chastise southern postmasters for their not delivering legal mail) and a series of state laws created to criminalize sending such “inflammatory” and “seditious” materials into southern states brought an end to the Society’s mail campaign."
There's only so much you can learn about this without signing up and actually getting your hands dirty unfortunately.
Even Hetzner as the cheapest VPS and dedicated server provider offers an API to completely manage servers.
"Then they would certainly beat Japan by themself - it is just an island."

Why not? It took the USSR only 11 days to defeat the Kwantung Army (0.7 million soldiers) in the Manchurian Strategic Offensive Operation. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_invasion_of_Manchuria
Payoneer is still offered as available payout method on Airbnb https://airbnbase.com/payoneer-issue/
So, a non-portable YubiKey?
Swift’s slowness is kind of unfortunate, although I hear that there is work being gone to remove a lot of the lifetime cruft that was going in behind the scenes to make it slow. And unfortunately I think the primary motivation for Swift’s performance is driven by its primary application, which is UI development, so “good enough” performance usually works…
No mention of how the UK's inner city housing is generally not suited for people to be working out of?

If this change happens it will take many years and will need the government to support it in Internet infrastructure and working from home regulations.

At the moment complaints and concerns are under the radar as we all know its temporary. Millions of people do not live in an abode where they could work from home from for the foreseeable future.

We have a housing crisis and small homes, plus shockingly unreliable Internet across many parts of the country including all over large cities.

I'm all for not propping up retail and turning it into accommodation, reducing how many homes landlords can own, getting rid of the buy to airbnb culture that's come in, advancing work from home technologies, reduction of commute and much more. This is not a simple fix though. Business has seen it works for some of them when they denied it would or wouldn't even consider it; and are now wanking over the the thought of not paying for office space and utilities* with very little concern for employee wellbeing.

The reality is you have living conditions for millions not suited to more than one person using it as an office and often not even one person. Young people especially coming into their first jobs will be vastly at risk of having to work and sleep in the same room.

*so many stories out there of companies expecting employees to pay for utilities being used in business operations due to lack of commuting costs (long before this too).
Mass Corona Ejection is the one theory that I find sticks in my mind most, when the question "what could possibly have reset things so drastically that none of the survivors would remember ancient civilisation?" is asked.

Its like the Degauss'ing of our planet. I can imagine even we wouldn't survive such an event unscathed.
It's the same on Windows. Automated UI testing almost always uses the accessibility APIs, both to find controls and to interact with them.
Thanks for the suggestion, I'll take a look at it.
Machines provisioned by API were not mainstream in 2006, the "cheap" way to host was shared hosting, and dedicated / cpanel boxes were more common than VMs. Actually, pretty sure "vservers" were a big thing at the time and kind of fit where cheap VMs do now.

AWS was a very different product and not really comparable to other things available at the time.
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> where I learnt how to scale an application to serve ads to millions of users a day

Please lets stop this 'race'.
Has anyone thought about building something like Twitter blacklists for Reddit so a group of mutually trusting subreddits can share their list of who they ban (for reasons not unique to their own rules) to a list then all ban that person/account proactively?
A bit off topic, but I bet someone here knows. When running an EC2 instance and not using all of the cores on the socket (for example, using a c5.large instance instead of a c5.12x large, which gives you all the cores on the socket), you presumably are sharing your L3 cache with your neighbors on the same socket, because that's how the processor is designed.

Is there a way that the hypervisor allocates a dedicated portion of the shared L3 cache to just your instance, or is it a free for all for all of the L3 cache space against potentially noisy neighbors?
I still am in awe regularly at how damn sluggish the site is. Even with an ad blocker it is at least an order of magnitude slower than every other website I've seen.
The new iOS will have that feature though, IIRC.
"between 1939 and 1941 Russia and Germany had an accord and were allies"

That's false. Russia and Germany had a non-aggression pact.
Also you should read about the Munich Agreement[0], that preceded the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact and clearly shown that no one was willing to fight Germany and protect Czechoslovakia besides the USSR.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich_Agreement
Is it possible that the effects of dark energy are in reality a previous universe (like an outer sphere) that is pulling our universe matter?
Heh. I tend to pretty rapidly lose interest in subjects when they go from "huh, that's kinda neat" to young-adult fantasy storytime. It's a mental self-defense against the kinds of ideas that sneak up on clever people and trick them into believing dumb things.
It has already stopped being free.

If there really were alternatives to Roam then why would we even be talking about Roam? Why aren't we talking about Notepad? Nobody talks about Notepad because it's not interesting. It's not interesting because there's nothing special about it.

There's loads of projects on Github we could propose as alternatives to Roam. If they are really alternatives, then (again) why are we talking about Roam? Why is Roam in the title?

Why aren't you talking about Foam, which is the subject of this HN entry? Why does the title name Roam and "A Roam Research alternative."

Let's all repeat together.

Room: The editor has a name. The editor's name is Foam.

A bicycle isn't an alternative to a car. A bicycle might be another viable option for transportation, but it's not a car alternative. If you believe a bicycle is an alternative to a car then you're simply not using (or have no feed) of the benefits a car can provide over a bicycle.

There is no alternative to Roam (unless you're trying to sell something, apparently.) Once people stop talking about Roam, then there will be an alternative, because it's no longer interesting.

So, have you tried Notepad?
No. Our parent made a valid argument.

The differences between your stance and our parents stance emerge from different world views not from different information levels or a difference in academic rigor. (Or faith!)

> There isn't really any doubt now that people can use platforms to radicalize others to extreme and often dangerous viewpoints.

What you actually said here ("people can use platforms to radicalize") is true but also trivial. They can use platforms for all kind of things.

More broadly:

It's neither proven that the possibility of radicalization is a problem related to new technologies nor that censorship is a tool effective in mitigating it. Last but not least there's the philosophical question: it's not even clear that this problem we're perceiving is something that should be mitigated on a technical level.

That is very much an ongoing research project and will continue to be for a long time as long as communities continue to adapt to new communication technologies.
It is this Republican administration. They were left a playbook for this scenario. They threw it out, and then lied about it.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/05/12/fact-check-obama-left...
Doesn’t Sublime Text have an option somewhere to use a GPU buffer or something once your resolution passes some reasonable limit (I think 2560)? What does that do?
I'm assuming that you might not be aware of AWS pricing.

It's actually incredibly complicated and often very difficult (if not impossible) to predict. We have a dedicated part of our organisation which exists solely to figure out costs ahead of time for project.

I'm not sure if it's intentionally obfuscated, I would suspect not, because "pay for what you use" can be broken down into many areas.
Yes. A friend rents a ski apartment, a few minutes walk away from the train station. He sends guests a short video clip of how to find both the unit and the keys.
You're totally omitting deduction and abduction. Those will require at least symbolic logic on graph.
Something weird is that from 21:50 the 24 of June, the weather captors in the area reported a temperature of 60°C.

https://www.meteociel.fr/observations-meteo/temperatures.php...
I did a lot with RPi's back in the 2-3 era... My SDCards were constantly getting nuked by slightly noisy power sources when running timelapse photography over the course of days. My workaround was to use the SDCard for boot only, but running everything else off a USB drive. The sdcard then only ran for a couple minutes at startup, in read-only mode, and never had a chance to screw up a write.

This worked great, and allowed me to successfully run a four-month timelapse, where I didn't have access to the device. (You can see it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyh0QJT0rAQ )
What if dark matter is really just regular matter that is not visible through our instruments?

Like large swaths of ice or dust in the voids, similar to our kuiper belt that is difficult to analyze.
A remarkable film, The Silence of the Quandts, which won the Hans Joachim Friedrichs prize for television journalism, deals with the unscrupulous rise of one of Germany's richest and most influential families. The Quandts own 46.6 percent of the auto manufacturer BMW, have an estimated fortune of €20 billion and are implicated in the crimes of Hitler's Nazi regime. Today, against the background of a financial and economic crisis that evokes the events of the 1930s, the film is of particular relevance.

The Quandts owe their wealth directly to their support of the Nazi regime and the bloody exploitation in the concentration camps—something the family is unwillingly to discuss. No family member has ever been indicted for the crimes that occurred in their company-owned concentration camps, nor has the family paid any compensation to the victims who survived.
Regular, predictable monthly income is just a better model for businesses than irregular large one off purchases.

Customers generally don't mind so long as they can cancel easily if they find they don't need or want the product.

Plus, you can't really buy a "web app" with a one off purchase and much more software is developed as web apps nowadays.
Ha you're obviously right. Did you deduce that on your own? I think I immediately excluded that from the set of possibilities because well... why wouldn't they just write asshole?
It's the same on desktop Safari... The video playing experience is just awful.
It won’t happen, but if it does: i’ll make sure to organise a great concert of all the smallest violins in the world.
I like it lot! A note on comparing what's tweeted, vs what this app shows; Loss of formatting of the tweets- line-breaks etc.
Sleep apnea is a problem for two reasons: low oxygen saturation is Very Bad, and frequent arousals are Bad.

Sounds like you've managed to address the first issue, but without a sleep study it's impossible to say for sure whether you've addressed the second problem.

Most apneas typically occur during REM sleep, when muscle tone is at its lowest and airways are more likely to collapse. If you frequently wake up during REM (even if it's a micro-arousal), your sleep architecture is broken.

It boggles the mind that sleep apnea severity is diagnosed on number of events (AHI) without considering when those events occur. Maybe you have an AHI of 3, but if they all happen during 2 hours of REM, you basically wake up 24 times during REM, which sounds a lot worse than 3 events per hour.

Sauce: have sleep apnea, hate the machine, but have learned to live with it.
I envisage it would primarily be used by people who live or work in a place that people have problems finding.

This is normally a big deal for businesses who deal with a lot of deliveries. An especial problem for places that have specific entrances and possibly need forewarning that they're arriving

Yeah this is a new idea, I've seen people upload directions on youtube though
Your point about managing the image resources associated with the markdown is an important one. Rather than one folder per note, the existing approach is compatible with a {file-slug}.resources/ naming scheme. Sounds like a good opportunity for another plugin.
This is a really good point. Today most (if not all) social media platforms seem to be relying on a central or centralised moderation system. Meaning that the limits of the Overton window are defined by a small set of people rather than the community itself. Here, I purposefully state 'the community' rather than 'representatives of the community' as these are two very different things. Reddit for example is moderated by 'members of the community'.

If we're to take reddit as an example moderation happens by individuals rather than all members of the community. And as such it is open to abuse whether it happens or not.

I thought about this for a long time and decided to write up what I would consider to be an acceptable framework for any given social media platform which would:

1. Help define the Overton window in a more organic fashion

2. Allow the platform to function within different jurisdictions.

3. Remove the overhead of central administration and opinion checking.

If it helps, I wrote it up here: https://gist.github.com/TheMightyLlama/bb77a05d3dde4da251142...
the report doesn't mention Prof. Wolfgang Neubauer's team from vienna who developed the technology: https://archpro.lbg.ac.at/press-releases/stonehenge_durringt...
Opera houses are designed to sound right when they’re packed with people. Singing to an empty opera house will sound wrong to the people listening to a stream or recording, and to the singers which might throw them off.

You could pack the room with some other material, but plants work!
Let me ask you: If the earth had some major event tomorrow and basically everything quit working, do you think we'd forget about things such as the internet, phones, indoor plumbing, vehicles, or electricity?

No, probably not. We'd rebuild, though some areas of the world would rebuild better or more equally than others. I don't know why folks think the past was any different. This is the main reason I highly doubt the past was some weirdly advanced paradise. I mean, why the heck would we need to invent, say, the chimney if the past was so advanced? Sure, folks in the past were smarter than we give credit for and sure, we've eshewed some things in the past - but the major things have stuck around.
Semper Ficus: Who’s Keeping Abandoned Office Plants Alive?
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now that i have read both of your arguments, i still do not understand what is right.

are loans used for food?

how does one pay back a loan with a high interest rate?

maybe some concrete examples of how those loans work would help.

i have seen reports on the positive effects of microloans, so i am inclined to believe that they work, but i still do not understand how.
An Indian slum with 1M residents contained Covid-19
Yeah great suggestion. My aim is to automate this using a simple computer vision algo that detects the lateral movement of objects in a frame and slows down those specific parts

Until that point I'll have to persuade people to slow down the recording on those parts. Still, I think the sample video is understandable at least
I had trouble for years with both sleep apnoea and bruxing in my sleep.

I tried all sorts, from mouthguards to oximeter alarms, and nothing really helped, if anything, they generally worsened my sleep - I'm a light sleeper at the best of times.

A visit to the doctor revealed that I was pre-diabetic, and he advised that I shed some weight - I was 250lbs, and I brought myself down to 180lbs over about six months.

The sleep apnoea and bruxism both went away with the weight, and a decade on, haven't returned. I suspect that the additional weight was making my airway collapse in the night, and that would then result in me bruxing as I quietly asphyxiated in my sleep, before I'd wake up gasping in a puddle of sweat.

I had thought for the longest time that the root cause was stress, and that it was therefore untreatable without major lifestyle changes which weren't tenable at the time - but the stress went on for years after I lost the weight, without bruxing or apnoea. I suppose, at root, the stress was the cause, as I sure as hell comfort ate my way out of my misery and into size 40 jeans.

I do, once in a blue moon, still do the choke and grind routine, but it's usually only if I've gone to bed really quite drunk.

Obviously this isn't a one-size-fits-all solution, as sleep apnoea and bruxism can be brought about by any number of causes, but this was a solution for me, and might be for others who are in the same situation I was in.
Yep, now that DO has managed DB instances it’s become my go to provider for most setups.

Droplets (VPS) have generally worked out cheaper than EC2 (with more resources) for me.

The bit that initially sold me on it a while ago was no more worrying about CPU credits, ie consistently maxing the CPU out at 100% then getting throttled, on the small instances (T2).

Also the web interface isn’t a mishmash of 1000 services with different UX for each section.

If DO isn’t cheap enough for people there’s also Vultr which works out even cheaper ($2.50 a month for 1cpu/512mb) if you want something similar (not baremetal).
In the past, many DNS servers were configured so you can execute an "ls" to list the subdomains

Nowadays most have disabled that option.
Household Uses for Lemons
There’s an old saying, “When life gives you lemons, use them to do just about anything around the house.” Ok, maybe that’s not exactly how it goes, but perhaps it should. Consider this — lemons, packed with vitamins,
24A2 sort of looks like 24^2, which is what I originally wanted to call it, and only uses alphanumeric characters. The combination of numbers and letters also reminded me of P5 and pico-8, which were both inspirations
You're correct, I'm using mp4s instead of actual GIFs. Much more compressed.

I think most people understand GIF to mean a short, possibly sped up video
> the compiler really has no idea how to do rounding correctly at that point.

Flags, pragmas, function attributes, there are so many ways this could be communicated to the compiler. If this behavior is not a bug, then having a way to change it should be a feature.
"because that was the biggest, we therefore we can't make them bigger" doesn't follow.