skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most bottles labeled rubbing alcohol sold here are a mix of ethanol and isopropynol(i think mostly to discourage drinking it). Isopropynol vapours can cause respiratory irritation.

https://www.msdsonline.com/2015/02/20/isopropyl-alcohol-safe...
build manifests generated by Lua scripts look so elegant and clean.
You don't even need to buy a new EPYC or Xeon Scalable system. A 20 core Xeon v3/v4 system with 128gb of ram can be had off lease for $1000. Psychz.net provides 1u colocation with 1/Gbs link (10/Gbs burst) for $80/mo.

Equivalent EC2 is $300-600/month with no better reliability. Plus you have to deal with noisy neighbors and bandwidth overages. Build your baseline usage in colo and burst into AWS unless you like buying Bezos more houses.
Is RCpc still multi-copy atomic? (Which AFAIK is a guaranteed behavior of the Aarch64 memory model)
Well, you'd also need to fix Python (, Go, Ruby, JS, ...) packaging and delivery too...
This sounds similar to Azure Blueprints[1]:

"Just as a blueprint allows an engineer or an architect to sketch a project's design parameters, Azure Blueprints enables cloud architects and central information technology groups to define a repeatable set of Azure resources that implements and adheres to an organization's standards, patterns, and requirements. Azure Blueprints makes it possible for development teams to rapidly build and stand up new environments with trust they're building within organizational compliance with a set of built-in components, such as networking, to speed up development and delivery."

[1]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/governance/blueprints...
Those engineers job security might be the only reason that "the equipment has never really been outdated"
Thanks for the info, I knew even my statement might have been a stretch.

I'm not even sure Disney can be fully credited with popularizing it, I think it was becoming important in videogames with packed GBuffers almost concurrently.
AWS doesn't manage itself. You still need someone to control your AWS instances.
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> literally the difference between a desktop and a laptop computer

I just ordered a desktop and was a bit surprised and also relieved to find that it comes with wifi built in.

The idea of a wired network sounds great to me, but the reality is my house isn't set up for one.
Ok, I understand how just looking at the cost of a box of Mac mini in the Apple store doesn't represent the TCO...

...however is the AWS price including a lot of value the Mac mini colo price doesn't? I believe the AWS price is dramatically higher unless you can batch the 20% duty cycle into full days (AWS is following Apple's EULA and only billing in 24 consecutive hour chunks).

I'm not a "I can build in the garage cheaper", I'm a "we use to build servers that way, run them ourselves (and steal meeting rooms form ourselves and put extra cooling in), and then I went off to do other things for 20 years and now I work at a huge company where we build our own cloud stuff...but if I were at a less huge company how would this stuff actually work out?" kind of person (i.e. I know the _theory_ of renting other people's servers, but the finer points of actually evaluating it are not currently in my grasp).
This is my favorite news so far. Hard to imagine beating this one, in terms of actual impact for me.

Very tired of this: `Duration: 58.62 ms Billed Duration: 100 ms`

Very happy about this: `Duration: 48.74 ms Billed Duration: 49 ms`
Their legal team might still be preparing for this one given Oracle's reputation.
Why would you want a long term support contract for Linux? How is that comparable? Do you contact Microsoft for support often? And if so, how many of those things could you resolve yourself on Linux in 10 minutes via StackOverflow?
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Joystock, Better Than Bensound?
I've just found Joystock, and after years of using Bensound for my music, it's pretty than good to finally have a free alternative.
A 1% gain each day enables business value
Nice to see more competition in the container registry space, I guess companies will be comparing the free/paid tiers from different providers a lot now.

Looking at this announcement seems like their pricing on data pulled rather than number of image pulls.

And, I guess unsurprisingly, if you're running in AWS you get unlimited pulls from this public registry, so it'll be better if you're already an AWS house.

I wonder how they'll deal with typo-squatting risks...
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> A high is usually followed by a low

I've had both Ritalin and modafinil. They're different.
Are you implying that they are trying to make money?
I started [0], but I got sidetracked. If anyone else has used this let me know as well.

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.10756
>Which, is why I mostly use windows.

Oh, Windows can have dependency hell. And even worse is when you have a WinSXS blowout and you're trying to figure out why that subdirectory is using up 80GB of space for an unknown reason.
There will be more surprise in bills, imagine if your Lambda is making a call to an API and this API suddenly slow down for any reason
That's fair. Perhaps I should have said "from a trajectory that could plausibly lead it to orbit."
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I wondered whether this comparison (like many others like it) would /finally/ bake cluster operational costs into the calculus. Not this time, it looks like.

To raise a more constructive point. Looking at [1] (an earlier post in the series), it looks like their workload is WordPress + VBulletin forums, and "pets" not "cattle" -- I wonder how much more they'd be able to get from separating their stateful and stateless layers more cleanly, and using some of the more powerful (and cheaper) AWS primitives for serving traffic that involves the latter. Why do they need such beefy instances for essentially serving content?

The truth is, it's because the platforms they're using (vBulletin + WP) exist, they're very powerful and they get the job done. This leads me to believe that the operational UX for running these kinds of common applications (which compose most of the internet) on AWS without highly technical supervision is not great.

[1] https://www.servethehome.com/falling-sky-part-3-evaluating-a...
It's an expensive toy. Professional developers might buy it as a project, but this gadget is completely impractical for doing paid professional work. If you are broke and want to learn programming, you'd be much better off with that Raspberry Pi keyboard and an external display. If you are a professional developer, you are better off with a proper laptop or desktop.
Open-source crypto is no better than closed-source crypto (2018)
It fascinates me, that volume and automation can make this profitable. Very nice article and I would love to see a cost breakdown of a PCB manufacturer. There is still labour involved in manual handling and even communication with customers.
The title should be prefixed with "Ask HN: "

You will get a lot of opinions here, but be careful, there is no way to validate anyone's credentials or background. Even then there will be wildly different opinions in the scientific community. You might take a look at nih.gov (Use google to search it) e.g. "site:nih.gov covid-19 antibodies" etc.. to get an idea of some of the studies in play right now. It may be a long time before people can truly answer that question. There are also many variables per-person that come into play. i.e. a persons physiological condition, environment, lifestyle, etc... Medical experts usually default to the lowest common denominator, so the answer you would likely get is to take the vaccine regardless.
Normal rate ( Not Contract Price ) for LPDDR4 / LPDDR4X and LPDDR5 is roughly double the cost of DRAM per GB. Depending on Channels and package, the one used in M1 is likely even more expensive as they fit 4 channel per chip. DIMM and Board Space adds very little to the Total BOM.
tldw; neon has rolling release of packages and kubuntu uses lts packages.
AWS Trainium: High performance machine learning training custom chip
Sounds like something you might say at the beginning of your life and shake your head at later in life.
One of the reasons I have stuck with MacOS is that with Time Machine, I don't have to do any install/config when I get a new machine. Just point it at my backup drive and I'm good to go after a restore. It's not a 100% solution for everyone (e.g. multi machine usage) but it's very good at the common 90% use case.
It's not necessarily the same in outcome. Undercutting competitors can be a temporary thing. As soon as the competitors are eliminated you jack the prices up. Doing it to be nice to customers can potentially last even after competitors go belly up. Then again, Google's motto used to be "do no evil" (basically be nice to customers). That obviously went the way of the dodo bird.
> Very light on specifics.

Yeah, especially the "over Linux" part.

> This is the most perplexing decision in the article. Why would OP do this? I have FreeBSD running on an old laptop, along side an Ubuntu laptop. There's more software ported for Ubuntu than FreeBSD and I don't want to rebuild everything for BSD, I have too much work to do. Nobody targets BSD but BSD devs.

For instance, I use Arch+KDE for years in the same laptop and I never had problems with updates thanks to the Arch's rolling release approach. That's why, for example I don't get why FreeBSD over Linux in that particular regard.
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Right, this seems to be a replacement for Terraform, with the caveat that it only works for AWS.

That may be OK if you exclusively run workloads on AWS. If they can get people to switch to it, that would seem to increase the friction of switching to some other provider (i.e. a business win for Amazon).

If you're invested in Terraform already, and have dealt with the headaches of managing that .tfstate file properly, this likely isn't worth looking at... yet. If you're a newbie and haven't really practiced Continuous Delivery before, this is a welcome addition to a gap in Amazon-provided tooling.

But for those of us who've been around the block with AWS... Yeah, we'll keep using Terraform and check back in a couple of years.
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The whole point of using the AWS ecosystem is generally to use as many of the managed services as possible so as to minimize the latter. If you're using it to be multi-cloud portable, then yes, your point stands -- but then it brings into question whether you're exploiting its capabilities to their full potential.
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You say FOMO as if it's a trivial thing, and not a deeply influential aspect of the human psyche.
US only :( It's hard to find remote (and non-remote) software development jobs in Europe where you have an impact. Good luck with your initiative!
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I see so often developers state something along the lines of, "We need to go with AWS!" (sometimes substituting AWS with GCP or Azure) and the reason they always give is "scalability". 99% of the time, what they're building not only doesn't need to scale to that degree but they somehow seem to think that it's always inherently cheaper.

Meanwhile, when I build something for a client my first go-to is something like DigitalOcean or Amazon LightSail. I know, LightSail is still AWS. But it's not going to automatically increase the bill by 300% because someone accidentally toggled something in AWS's byzantine admin console.

When ("if" is more often the case) that client starts to see the kinds of traffic that necessitates a full-scale AWS build out then I'll advise them of their options. By that point, they're actually generating real revenue and, as importantly, they didn't pay me to prematurely optimize a product that wasn't yet generating any revenue, which helped them succeed.
Its a social task they already failed with the segwit fiasco. PoS would probably be worse
Why is David Shaw even part of that conversation? Between graduation, research, and joining Morgan Stanley, he couldn't have taught classes for more than a few years.
Yeah, the Linux kernel memory model is different from the C/C++11 one.
Yes, I think scheduling plays a large role in things too. But, the main thing I'm getting at is how to find creative ways to integrate leisure time into your working day. Taking a nap in the sun at lunch time not only gives me extra leisure time, it also makes the afternoon work more enjoyable. This is a huge win for me, so I do it often, yet I've rarely ever had a colleague who did the same.

I do have to remind myself that I speak from a place of privilege with extremely in demand skills being a software engineer. But I feel a lot of people in a number of different lines of work fail to take advantage of the freedom they have.
Nowadays, windows comes with bloat that is first-party (all the xbox stuff, etc).
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AWS just needs to shave off a few engineers, and at least it has shaved off the need for hardware competency.
> I wouldn't call it a niche use case at all, it's exactly how the software for all major Linux and BSD operating systems are packaged and built.

even though I'm typing this on a linux desktop, this is a niche use case. In Windows, macOS, iOS and Android, so 99.9% of all user-facing computing, all the libraries except the OS API are duplicated for each app.
Openbsd is consistent and minimal. Works out of the box with sane defaults but slow Wifi and IO, no bluetooth nor docker.

FreeBSD is more complicated, less consistent but also faster and integrate novelties such as zfs, wayland, BT ...

I personally prefer openbsd to FreeBSD, but still use Debian Linux for my laptops and servers.
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TIL: AWS is only expensive if your time has no value.
Article neglected to add the cost of labour for setup (edit: aside of racking), maintenance (security updates on infrastructure, etc), and disaster response.
It also missed the cost of downtime based on projected MTTR for a failure. The word "fail" only appears once in the page, and not in regards to recovery, only preventative replacement.

It's absolutely true that colo is cheaper than AWS for projects that can absorb the labour and failure related costs, but that usually is only true for hobby or very small business services.
The argument of "you have to put a non-trivial amount of time into setting any OS up, so you might as well use X" is so disingenuous. It's easy to forget the day to day conveniences when you are using windows or osx every day for a few years. If you could accurately sum up the time spent fiddling with your nix desktop OS over the lifetime of the install, the "area under the curve" so to speak, windows and osx are going to absolutely blow any nix distro out of the water. It is parasitic and insidious how many things don't "just work". You will invariably end up wasting much of your life getting software, printers, scanners, webcams, monitors, or whatever to work the way you want with your nix distro. And even when it does "work" it's not going to be as good as a real desktop OS. I ran freeBSD on my Toshiba Satellite 1905-s301 for 4 years before getting a MBP and I have zero temptation to go back.
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Well sure I guess you can live in WSL and use Powershell (not sure how the two are related?), but what about the rest of the shit. How do you put up with random reboots from updates, demands from Edge to update, all the privacy-invading telemetry, and random shit like Candy Crush installed from the Windows Store?
its an inherently hackable platform
that it the most used argument these days...but it's bs. if i use bare metal, the purchase is equivalent of 2-3 months of cloud pricing and the rest 9-10 months can be spent on admin/tech...the catch is that if you start scaling this up(ie. you get 10 powerful servers), bare metal becomes cheaper by thousands of percent yoy. the compounded savings are through the roof. cloud just has better PR, that's all.

cloud is great for development, tinkering and figuring out the scale. after that, bare metal is king. and with docker, ansible/salt, nomad... there is zero need for over-engineered and over-complicated and over-paid cloud crap that sales people force down your throat day after day.
Depreciation means you won't pay out only the difference, in most cases.
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> the Precursor logo is a 2.4GHz antenna
The mineral based sunscreen is a big step in fixing this. Look for those that are environmentally friendly.
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Any hints on finding seismic data from elsewhere in the world? There was a small event in South America yesterday I'd love to hit with data sciency stuff.
I haven’t heard that lambdas are “underpowered” before, but I’m interested to learn more. Could you elaborate just a bit on why they are underpowered?
It's pretty embarrassing for HN that this would be reflexively downvoted. It's 100% accurate.
> The only reason I was even looking for bugs here is that I could have really used the extra money, since it's difficult nowadays to make a living as a Mac developer in the face of ever increasing (and futile) macOS lockdown. Sadly, it's not very difficult to find bugs, though it's extremely difficult to get paid a bounty for them.

Prepackage the scripts, weaponize and sell them on White House Market

You incur no liability, only the people that penetrate incur some liability and only the people that use the pilfered information incur some different liability

Just drop the lone hacker idea, the black hat world functions like a corporation that dilutes and shifts liability until it is no longer recognizable and also worthless to bother with, while everyone perfects their niche and gets paid for that. The white hat world continues undervaluing and resisting market forces.
hi Chris, maybe slightly off-topic but is there a chance to see gravitons and/or ML chips on Lambda? :)
I'm not dismissing it, and your quote is not something that I ever said -- who are you quoting?