skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For service type workloads (e.g API service with 99.99% uptime SLA) we keep comparing on-demand vs. spot.

In reality, you would like to compare Reserved Instances as you can get 60% discount.

So in us-east-1:

- spot costs: 35-43% of on-demand

- RI 1 year standard: 60% of on-demand

- RI 3 year convertible: 46% of on-demand

So if you have some base load that you can commit to running for 3 years, the price gets often at spot range while not having to worry about losing capacity.

In-reality sometimes combining reserved for some base capacity 60% + 40% spot for spiky seems to be the winning combination for many companies.
How The New York Times Thinks About Your Privacy
Yes, we come across some people with privacy browser extensions that remove the referrer and indeed this is causing playback issues for them.

It's still a fairly effective protection for casual copying or link sharing, but of course it's easy to circumvent. Even DRM gets broken all the time, so it seems like a bit of a futile effort to try to prevent it completely.
Yes the Ethernet port is on USB so you’re sharing (the already small) bandwidth between that and all the peripherals.

This may have changed with the pi4 though.
You're not going to find a decent one sub $500. Used devices can be had for less, but most of the older ones I've seen use terrible Java-based clients that are a major pain to get running on modern browsers. For multi-device KVMs you usually have to figure in the prices for the individual interface module dongles that plug into each computer, too.

StarTech makes a USB-to-KVM that looked promising to me, but it's still >$400: https://www.startech.com/Server-Management/KVM-Switches/Port...
Ah yes, the rich first worlder wants to be able to use their 5k USD camera to take pictures of the sky.

What do they care if poor people in rural Africa can develop their farm with better and faster access to the internet, or if children in central Amazons will be able to get reliable internet at school.

The level of egocentrism is unbelievable.
How the Bits of Quantum Gravity Can Buzz
I sometimes think the West overestimates how convenient or cohabitable nature is, because they were born into a tamed version of it.

For most of human history, nature has been trying to kill us (if that's too anthropomorphic, we can go with the longer-form "The processes of nature are ambivalent to the survival of our species and individuals in that species, and there is no guarantee that the natural world is one habitable by humanity. Our species' history is shot through with plagues, floods, famines, and predation, and much of our technology was created to minimize that.")
Maybe they'll just build a wall. A beautiful wall. The best wall.
yeah, i mean, if the app is just gonna quit anyway, it is much nicer for it to quit in a way that communicates that something is actually wrong (instead of silently disappearing) and that the app knows something is terribly wrong...
WiMAX existed and died
If what gets assigned to you seems so easy and quick to do, what exactly is holding you back from doing extra in your extra time? I'm sure that if you look around you'll find a dozen ways to add value to your company. E.g. the review process takes too long? Why is that? How can you optimize the bottleneck if any? Maybe write a new tool or propose a new process.

Maybe I'm naive but I would think that quitting a fine job in this economy just because you are asked too little off it...well it just seems plain wrong on every level I can think of.

Then again if you are so unhappy then there is really one constitutional obligation (I guess you're in US) and you have to try to honor it. Move away and try to be happy elsewhere.
Yeah. That's the problem. Celestial navigation can only be performed during twilight, as you need to be able to see both the horizon and celestial objects.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twilight#Nautical_dawn_and_dus...
I mean, are there any practical consequences other than the inability to make the same thing twice?
I saw this theory floating around. Haven't done much research but it sounds "plausible". Could Siberia warming be due to the ocean around it heating? The magnetic poles have been moving increasingly faster towards Siberia in the last few years. These poles move because of underground streams of the molten core deep below. Could these new flows potentially heat the earth's surface and the ocean above?
Enjoy the job while it lasts. Keep learning. Do good work, document it. Network, network, network. Ask for more work. Help others.

That can be harder than you think at first but remember that nothing stays the same forever. Change is inevitable.

In the end, this is why some people leave and start or join startups. Maybe a new opportunity will present itself because of the people you met and worked with while at your FAANG and they will invite you to join them (or vice versa).
Hey, I loved the article! One comment is the animated header backgrounds are pretty jarring for people with sensitivity to motion when trying to read. Would there be a way that you could add a button to pause the animations? I think it would make the meat of the article much more accessible.
If you can plug stuff into it, just use the KVM from a laptop and sit by it.
The New York Times Acquire Serial [audio]
> a waste of my time on earth

Uhh.... what? As you say you're only on the computer 1 day a week. So go do something else. Go fishing, spend time with your family/friends, take up a hobby. Life isn't just work. Sheesh.

If you want to "do good work and get paid preportionally" then start your own company. Tech jobs aren't a meritocracy.
Forget Reform. We Need a Revolution
Ask HN: Are you using notion (or something similar) for newsletter?
I am considering Notion to showcase newsletter content. It is much easy to store, create and share content.

* Have you used Notion or something similar?

* What are pros and cons of using it?

Here is the showcase of my first newsletter. Thoughts? https://www.notion.so/wisecharlie/WISE-CHARLIE-Newsletter-1-f9ea3d5265634bc081ede29bd179e5d4
But the options aren’t “manual” and “ai”. There is a third option of using classical static analysis and compiler techniques that have been around for decades to do transpilation and large scale refactors.

There are entire companies already build around this.
It's cringey as hell, but from a "making my career" perspective, it's clearly valuable to many in charge of hiring.
Well... If temperatures continue rising, there will be a strong push towards abandoning that infrastructure.
I guess I should have been specific and said hardware. Obviously Apple uses open source software. In fact I saw a claim on here that they are one of the worlds largest upstream OSS contributors.
The game of evolution isn't to pass on your genes one generation, its to have your genes persist indefinitely. If his son chooses not to have kids then it counts as an evolutionary "failure" of the parent. It's why we choose attractive partners who will help us have evolutionarily fit children.
Had InstaCart this week charged my card in error. I told them, then they spent the whole week heckling me about card information, etc, claiming they couldn't find the charge, getting auto replies etc. Yesterday I just called my bank and filed a dispute. Problem solved. Instacart Cancelled.
Alas, it's true - people are not perfectly rational reasoning machines, because we aren't superintelligent with the ability to weigh every fact we've ever encountered at once. We rely on heuristics to get by.

But the imperviousness of obviously wrong beliefs in the face of what you consider rational evidence should not be taken as license to give up! Consider - if people tend to want to stick to their wrongness in the face of contradictory evidence, the wrongness still had to come from somewhere. All beliefs are caused by something, even if the cause would not meet a scientifically rigorous definition of "evidence". There's always logic in it, even if the logic isn't immediately apparent. For example, "Hard-code the beliefs of the people around you when young" and "Reject evidence that upends a large proportion of your worldview" are both highly logical heuristics that, incidentally, probably aren't nearly as likely to get you stuck in dysfunctional local attractors when attacking problems like "hungry tigers" as opposed to "gigascale global realpolitik".

All I'm saying is - don't be too cynical. At the end of the day, the truth still matters, and all we can do is keep plugging away at it. The wall is thick but not impenetrable, and we have come a long way already.
Why is "Hire Slow, Fire Fast" considered good advice? You can't fire faster than you hire, obviously, and firing has a tremendous cost on team morale.
> Typing IP addresses + gateways + DNS servers.

What line of work are you in? A cross between hardware and software?

If one is in pure software it seems extremely error-prone to be typing in numbers all the time manually.
It would also open up new attack vectors.
Such concerns should probably be balanced against the potential the launch capacity of Starlink represents.

I'm looking forward to someone launching a satellite telescope network with the collection radius of an Earth orbit.
>This is a game-changer! Thanks for all your work on this.

Thanks for reading!

>Do you have any plans to allow controlling more than 1 computer remotely? I'd love to implement this in my homelab.

Right now, I can't think of a way to do this. The Pi only has one USB OTG port, so I don't know of a way to share that among multiple machines.

A friend suggested an interesting solution of chaining TinyPilot together with a "dumb" multi-machine KVM that supports switching via hotkey. So it would go:

TinyPilot -> legacy KVM -> server1, server 2, ...

You could still use a web interface and hop between servers using keyboard shortcuts that the legacy KVM understands.
"Well you asked me to paint an authentic Guernica so of course I had to bomb Guernica"
> Intel, AMD, and many other companies use FPGAs to emulate their chips before manufacturing them.

Really? I'm assuming if this is true it can only be for tiny parts of the design, or they have some gigantic wafer-scale FPGA that they're not telling anyone about :-) Anyway I thought they mainly used software emulation to verify their designs.
Hollywood is terrified of Netflix. It's much more exciting than Microsoft.
Really they all seem to have had roughly common roots and then engaged in speciation over time by culture. "Witch" essentially meaning poisioner or "bad pharmacology/herbalism" ans posioned and cursed as essentially synonymous. Given that dose and application make the poison this ends up being a very dangerous look for any herbalist even before any cynical power grabs because they would always look guilty of carrying poison even if the foxglove was to steady the heartbeat instead of stopping it.

The split from Philosopher to Natural Philosopher which later split to Scientest and Philosophy of Science essentially are a more "modern" version of the same process.
I have to say I am still super confused how Gen Z could recognize the Scorpions more than Millennials.
I don't see how the headline is misleading.
"One-third of U.S. Museums May Not Survive the Year"
vs your version: 1/3 of museums are at "significant risk of closing permanently" within 12 months.
We're discussing long-term planning for a sustainable future. This involves scaling back our most environmentally-damaging activities: big houses, big families, international travel, eating anything resource-intensive (notably meat, but it won't just be meat). It also involves a lot less economic growth. And without growth, you can't have a default assumption of a leadership role with sufficient experience. Sure, maybe you'll be a little more respected, but chances are you aren't managing a team, because junior employees won't outnumber senior employees.

> Yet urbanites have fewer children later in life than people in rural areas where land is cheap.

People move to cities (in part) to pursue career or social advancement, for which education (often through the mid-twenties) is often a prerequisite. If you want kids more than you want to make partner at a law firm ... you don't move to the city.
Starlink will provide an immediate benefit to humanity, the astronomy performed otherwise, won't. Looking for exoplanets isn't a practical concern for humanity any time soon.
I can't see that cardboard lasting more than a month of regular use. Arcade buttons are hit hard, and the substrate needs to be able to withstand those forces.

Given that you can source basic hand tools (which can do almost everything power tools can do) for a low price, this particular cost saving measure doesn't have a great ROI.
I think the rationale for locking down WLAN/WWAN is adding random cards break promises around radio certifications. NVMe drives shouldn't so idk but the motivations are weaker.
That seems even worse!

Jargon (sometimes) isn't just obfuscation; it carries important shades of meaning that would be tedious to spell out every time. 'Homicide' and 'murder', for example, are sometimes used interchangeably, but are not actually legally interchangeable. You would not want your involuntary manslaughter plea upgraded to murder, a more serious--and therefore more severely punished offense.

You could, of course, try to train "unskilled labor" to detect things like that. By the time you are done, the labor won't be unskilled and you will have reinvented the paralegal.
... which has always been true.

Several observatories were built near cities. As light pollution from terrestrial sources have increased, they've found their expensive optical telescopes become toys, and have moved their scientific collection utility over to radio.
This is an interesting concept, but I think the researcher put too much personal bias in their choice of songs. For example, there are some very conspicuous omissions from the list: no Nirvana, no Foo Fighters, no Linkin Park, no Jay Z, no No Doubt. These are some of the most iconic musicians from the 90s.

I still see young kids walking around with the same Nirvana t-shirt with the yellow smiley face that I wore in middle school. So I imagine Smells Like Teens Spirit is recognized by teenagers today. I've heard a lot of people say that's the song that started the 90s.

Also, it would be interesting to normalize this by noting whether or not the song appeared on Glee. I'm fairly certain that's the reason for the Losing My Religion being so recognizable, I wonder how it compares to a song like It's the End of the World.
For fast and cheap you can't overlook Romania, in the cities I've been in, the speed has been exceptional and reliable (which is more than I can say for most British internet, excluding the FTTH our current flat has).

E.g. https://www.digiromania.ro/servicii/internet/internet-fix/fi...
This looks great. To be useful in the datacenter environments I work in such a device would need VGA capture, though. Most servers don't have HDMI ports in my experience.

Anybody know of a good, cheap V4L2 USB-based VGA capture dongle?
Are you on a product team? What level of experience do you have?

I joined a unicorn recently and have felt similar feelings, however I am on an infrastructure team and there is tons of work to do so it's relatively easy to not stay blocked (if we are blocked it's usually our fault). That said, we end up blocking a lot of teams (lack of resources, lack of tooling, things just take a long time). I find the architecture pretty standard so it's easy to navigate around though

> only a few very small changes get done

I can echo that. I've tried to make bigger/more changes but the team can't keep up with them and they introduce too much risk. A lot of my day-to-day winds up being balancing risk, change, and upside. The work is a lot more deliberate which is good for big changes and bad for small ones

> I normally work about one day trickle out my changes during the the week

To be clear, I would not recommend doing this. I strongly prefer to work hard and then find a place where people work as hard as you. Complacency is the worst (for me)

> it's possible the rest of the team is doing that too, but I have no way of knowing

It's a bit unsettling that the team doesn't talk about things like this

> when I look back at the progress made since I joined and estimate the cost to the company (salary, servers, etc) it's frankly disgusting

How much value have you added though? At my company we have multiple simple fixes that save multiple millions of dollars annually. It's pretty easy to justify cost at scale. Maybe you need to examine the value you're providing further?

> I find it unsatisfying and like a waste of my time on earth

This says "it's time to move on" to me. I would go to a smaller company personally or move to a different function (e.g. infrastructure). I sympathize with your comments about dev speed - that's a huge one for me. It sucks to be bottlenecked by development process rather than bottlenecked by something more in your control
“In 2014, there were 1,469 oil and gas firms listed on stock exchanges around the world, with a combined market capitalization of US$4.65 trillion”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fossil_fuel
Exposures are generally taken frequently enough that any that would be problematic for data can simply be dropped. The satellites aren't permanently positioned in the sky. Geostationary satellites permanently lose any data behind them (although I haven't heard of a geostationary satellite being positioned precisely problematically).
I'm not nearly smart enough on that stuff. I fear I will need to get deeply into it in order to setup tooling that will run on the new Macs for embedded development.
Same here, maybe 10 USD cheaper depending on the month.

I looked out because my house is one of the last three that they have fiber going to (aerial). I don't know why they stopped rolling out the fiber halfway down the street, but they did. Luckily for me I was able to get away from terrible Comcast gigabit.
That's hardly the point. Many virtualization systems do indeed use QEMU for device emulation, but they don't use it to emulate the entire CPU functionality itself. A key point about virtualization is that most code run native while privileged instructions are trapped and handled by the hypervisor, allowing multiple guest OSes to coexist. This gives guest OSes the illusion that it's in sole control of the hardware.
I also use Bitwarden_rs so I don’t have to host a MSSQL database, but it’s worth noting that the Bitwarden_rs server hasn’t been audited. It uses the same upstream clients (including web), but that doesn’t fully cover the implementation.
Seems about right. They're kind of elusive, since they probably have some connection to the Lenovo line in the PRC but are operating very unofficially. Links to offerings show up on Thinkpad forums and the Thinkpad sub-reddit, perhaps also on the Face Book.
So, Philly's police are going to ride escort for the rioters?
Yeah, I'm really impressed with that project and love Max's work! There's a bit of a barrier to entry though, as it requires you to compile the OS yourself. My goal with TinyPilot was to create something that's easier for newcomers to install and simpler for me to reason about.
Yeah, very strange for a bank to buy a technology stack company. Why? It strategically doesn't make any sense, unless the bank wanted Clojure/Datomic to prioritize their features and requirements.

What would it mean for adoption?
NG-PON2 improves on that by a huge margin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NG-PON2
All valid, different root chords for different songs.
From my understanding it doesn't rely on the internet or Garmin servers. I believe it was called Iridium satellite network. It needs to work anywhere on the planet. It is a separate subscription based service.
I can't imagine it would; Starlink satellites are also moving. Quite fast. So don't do your celestial navigation by the moving thing and you'll be fine.
I think you're underestimating the international potential of Netflix. The only place where they are facing any competition is the US.

Even there the content produced by their competitors is getting bought by Netflix later down the line for international distribution.
If you don't need to share passwords: KeePassXC.

If you do need to have shared passwords (dev/stage/prod servers and services) why not Bitwarden for Business?
https://bitwarden.com/#organizations
You can absolutely still buy the $35k Model 3. It's not listed on their site, but you can order it over the phone.
Yes, but the point is that we should do that first before polluting the night sky.

There are also reasons for humans and animals to not want new, moving stars for reasons other than pure utility. At the very least, these shiny beacons are an insulting advertisement for Musk.

Next, people will be defending a Pepsi ad on the moon or something. https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/04/pepsi-ad...
That was the point of my failed joke.

In other words, people thinking they can just join(",") keeps them from reaching for an actual serializer (JSON, XML, etc), and if they realized they already have to bring in a CSV library anyways, they might consider using another format. Comedy gold, huh? Though I'm only half-joking, I've done it before and we've all consumed "CSV" from people who had the some presumption. :)
Twitter reports record user growth, explores subscriptions
It's not unpaid in Europe.

But regardless, that's a question of fairness and/or government's social policy. Not something that should be reflected in your wage (which is the exchange for productive work for your employer) or otherwise a responsibility of your employer.
Cost of launch is not really main reason why we don’t see more space based astronomy.

1. Space is a hostile place, and developing telescope that works there is much harder.
2. There are very real limits on size and weight of what can be put there right now, and rocket equation is ruthless.
3. Any type of maintenance or upgrades are basically impossible, compared to earth based.
4. Adaptive optics were such a huge breakthrough, that basically negated need for most of space based telescopes.
The answer is sadly a yes there is. Current AMD processors contain Platform Security Processor based on ARM Cortex-A5.
Semshi: Semantic Highlighting for Python in Neovim
How we migrated application servers from Unicorn to Puma
Data point from Ukraine (Kyiv):

Unlimited data mobile 4G costs 100UAH per month (~9 EUR / ~$11 USD). Fast enough that a 300GB backup/recovery is no problem.

Home internet I don't actually pay for (I live in a rental), but the current plan costs the owner 200 UAH per month (~6 EUR / ~$7 USD), "gigabit port", unlimited data (realistic speed is up to 250 up/down).

Pretty sure there is some kind of "combo deal" for both, and I think the home internet price includes TV.

At these low prices, I'm not really interested in shopping around or checking the details of what I'm actually paying for - it's all incredibly cheap and fast enough.
Yea, I used to keep my passwords and backup codes in two separate KeePass vaults. Now I use Bitwarden for passwords but still use KeePass for my backup codes.

I use the notes for each entry in Bitwarden to indicate what kind of 2FA I have enabled and whether I have a backup code already stored in the other vault.
> From their start in 2013, Nubank has grown to 600 Clojure developers, running 2.5 million lines of Clojure code in 500 microservices on over 2000 Datomic servers.

Yikes that sounds like hell. Let's stop bragging about costs as a succeess store? Headcount? LoC? microservices? These are all to be minimized.
Training GPT-3 costs only a few million dollars. Scaling up is still pretty cheap. I wouldn't be surprised if we see a quadrillion parameter model in 5 years, given the potential value.

Google has actually already trained a trillion parameter model IIUC [1], though that was a Mixture of Experts so was way cheaper to train.

[1] https://twitter.com/lepikhin/status/1278174444528132098