skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is what you started off saying:

> But there are probably thousands of things that cost only peanuts and aren't a priority. If you fix them all they add up to not peanuts and then you don't have any money left

I don't know if you're just trying to argue a technicality that you didn't "suggest" it, and merely condemned it. Or why you're moving the goalposts to "reduce their budget". But either way you're not addressing the core of what I actually said. Since it seems to have eluded you, I'll restate:

1. not spending 0.02% more to finish a job is foolish

2. multiplying a tiny percentage by the scale of the whole budget to imply some unreasonable burden is disingenuous

3. the real waste occurs at the scale of entire agencies (eg eliminate the DEA and save $2.1 billion and some of our freedom)

4. arguing about such deep cuts ends up inherently partisan.
How do you mean sub-Turing languages don’t allow recursion? Aren’t context-free languages, for example, literally recursive?
Without good technology you cannot achieve any of the things you mentioned better than Amazon without spending so much money (on humans, etc.) that you lose anyway. Amazon's technology gives them higher margins and thus they can use that money on things like lower prices, better service, etc. Their other technologies allow them to do recommendations and other automatically curated approaches without spending money on humans to maintain everything.

edit: Seriously, retailers have something like 0.5-1.0% profit margin, it's abysmal, they don't have the leeway to compete with on anything that costs them more.
https://cache.saurik.com/lawsuit/complaint.pdf
No different from ski resorts trading snowfall futures
> the global economy is not a zero sum game

If there is any painful lesson of the last 4 years, it's that the economy might not be zero sum, but the accounting sure feels like it is.
> DynamoDB is my only database and the costs are in the hundreds per month

Is your use case very DB intense?

Seems quite high just to support a couple thousand users.
In the time between when Amazon became a clear threat and now, students have started university and gone on to IPOed billion dollar companies.

At this point being bad at technology is just incompetence/laziness/refusal to invest.
I get symmetric gigabit in HK and it’s really handy for quick access to my NAS from anywhere.
> it's really hard to find a good setting which doesn't allow to much "over" cost and at the same time doesn't hinder the intended auto-scaling use-case

> I created a new GCP project ANC-AI Dev, set up $7 Cloud Billing budget, kept Firebase Project on the Free (Spark) plan.

There's a lot of middle ground between $7 and $72k. Your quote explains it perfectly though. They flat out can't because the accounting and reporting is badly designed and incapable of providing (near) real-time data.

IMHO the easiest solution to this is government regulation. If you set a budget for a pay-what-you-use online service there should be legislation forbidding companies from charging you more than that.

I also find it (sort of) hilarious they can magically lock the whole thing down once payment fails, but not before the CC is (presumably) maxed out. Lol. Talk about a good deal for Google.
Often, downvotes are about the way an opinion is presented, not the opinion itself. Saying that capitalism is the real shoplifting is vague and unproductive, and it doesn't contain a counterproposal, so as a statement it's hard to engage with.

If the GP had come up with a proposal for how to fix this, which would probably have meant elaborating on how to completely abolish all private property in the context of the modern US, I think the post would not have been so heavily downvoted.
kind of a side note but, why don't professional engineers and podcasters in general use better mics when recording podcasts?
You can hear they're just using the mic from the laptop, sometimes it sounds like they're talking from their bathroom. Not only does it sound bad, If you're listening this in a room that already ads acoustic this is twice the reverb, which is pretty bad.
Handedness predicts Conservative-Republican preference
If you're saying I'm criticizing studies, I've done nothing of the kind. I've attempted to contextualize and summarize the evidence.

Also, I'm not anonymous; my name is on the comment.
That was probably about five years too late for the open-sourcing strategy to be successful. By 2010 Flash was already widely reviled on the desktop and doomed to be shut out of the mobile browsing experience. But if there had been at least a fledgling open-source Flash ecosystem for a year or two before the iPhone was released, things could have played out very differently.
By contrast I hear stories of AWS doing this quite often for one-off mistakes (crediting thousands of dollars). It doesn't make much sense to me not to consider well-intentioned requests for this sort of thing.

Especially if you consider the dollar value of all those approvals and the business you might lose to some other platform and/or hesitance people will have to use those platforms for such things in the future.
I have yet to meet someone that uses bing, but maybe that’s just because I’m in the Silicon Valley bubble

You might be surprised what Joe Average uses. I run into people who not only still use MapQuest, but use it as a verb.
>A common beginner mistake I see on finance forums is when people calculate some notional hourly wage for their time, usually from their salary divided by working hours in a year, and then use that to justify any time saving purchase they want to make.

I see people talking about "what's your time worth" on hobby forums all the f-ing time. At this point I just assume they're justifying laziness because that's what it is far more often than not.

Interestingly enough, you pretty much never see people who are self employed and could be booking billable hours instead of doing other things invoking the "value of my time" argument for doing or not doing things.
This is a great point, but I think in 2020 the stakes are a lot higher for offering "better curated selection of products", "better discoverability", and "better service". The first two, for any retailer, really mean either being very very niche, to the point where inventory variety has been reduced to tractability, or it means being data-driven and predictive. And that probably means being tech-savvy.
We're living a global, natural experiment of promising interventions you haven't heard of.
I would pay actual money for a Twitter-like site that only provided factual updates on topics I care about.

I believe everyone has the right to express their opinion, but I'm just not emotionally equipped to handle being blasted daily by the firehose of all the opinions in the world.

But I like to get updates.
A lot of people in this thread don't understand how Brave works -- despite commenting on multiple submissions regarding Brave. It's peculiar because the HN crowd prides itself on being technical and correct.
Here's the details from a popular online encyclopaedia website which I would expect to be factual and relatively neutral on important public subjects like this :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mueller_report

Note the second paragraph:

"... the report states that Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election was illegal and occurred "in sweeping and systematic fashion" but was welcomed by the Trump campaign as it expected to benefit from such efforts. It also identifies links between Trump campaign officials and individuals with ties to the Russian government, about which several persons connected to the campaign made false statements and obstructed investigations."
It's not extreme at all, the US Federal Government has already started doing it.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Choke_Point
Is this the reason that countries closer to equator are suffering less than those away from it?
Not only was it not illegal as the other commenters have mentioned, I believe Jay specifically went to the exemption discussions for it with Cydia as then example of why it should be legal. And this isn't what's being argued here regardless.
My anti-socialist Aunt and Uncle live on social security a pension from his municipal job and complain about their medicare copays when they cost more than $4. They also purposely don't recycle because of "O'Bummer." I tried to explain to them that recycling existed before Obama but it fell on deaf ears. My aunt literally dumped a giant bag of empty bottles into the garbage can and gave a little gleeful laugh saying, "Haha, OBAMA!" as the cans clattered down.

Meanwhile they have grandkids so I don't really understand why they wouldn't support environmental policies. They're basically brainwashed by Fox News and Rush Limbaugh's talk radio show.
Since you seem to follow these things, do you know the difference between "introduced" and "passed" ?
The Pattern Seekers – inside the mind of the most inventive humans
If Microsoft made the same decisions as Apple did with the XP release (including always running apps in a sandbox), then yes, you wouldn't have to worry about malware at all on Windows. Instead, we have a billion dollar antivirus industry.
The single best-selling smartphone brand in the world is an Android phone that comes with a non-Google app store preinstalled, I think it's a bit of a stretch to say that they're holding the market hostage. Certainly the Galaxy Store/Amazon Appstore/F-Droid/etc aren't anywhere near as ubiquitous as the Play Store, but they're still there and not particularly difficult to access.
Who's pretending they are "driven by security"?

Clearly Apple wants to make money. The only argument being made is that some customers choose the walled garden because they want a telephone, not a part-time job keeping the weeds at bay. As you say, that's (a component of) what they are selling, and they do it because it sells (long-term, in their estimation).
Nothing will stop someone from rolling their own primitive tracking and hoping to fly under the radar of governments.

However, major advertisers and tracking companies are established companies with significant presence in the US and EU. They need servers everywhere to ensure low latency. I don't see how they could work around it if half of their business model is made illegal by Western governments. They'd have to return to doing tracking by ip and cookies (and maybe localstorage, whatever the law exempts) only. I don't see why that shouldn't be enough.

I agree in principle that fixing the browsers to remove fingerprinting vectors is the correct approach, and making tracking illegal is not. I just think making it illegal would work, at least mostly, because companies that are good at tracking would have to comply.
I identified as a European, that has been taken away from me.
Are they? That would be an interesting spatial data plot to see.
Passing a bill you know is dead on arrival is pointless. It's virtue signaling, which is what the house did.

Suddenly, after the election, Pelosi is fine passing the same amount she opposed before the election as only half what was necessary.

This isn't some right-wing talking point -- Bernie Sanders has sad as much. This was a political game.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/fact-check-did-berni...
And that's a pretty good description of Canadian retail. Most Canadian retailers just charge what US mail-order retailers do, plus typical shipping and duties.

There are a lot of soft targets in Canadian retail. The Hudson's Bay Company is one of them.
Spiegel's Law: Every program attempts to expand until it can support Stories. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.
How does that make it a bubble? Evidently, you're here, as well as countless others arguing against it. The appearance of arguments you disagree with isn't evidence of a bubble but of a healthy discussion. A bubble would be if every single comment or near to it were espousing the same viewpoint.
That's great. I'm happy for you.

Housing there is surprisingly expensive if you want to own, another concern for me. I really like SLC though.
The assumption that immigrants cannot assimilate into another culture, will not contribute or be productive workers and will likely be welfare cases or criminals is obviously not true in the general case, and is only a thinly veiled and obvious proxy argument against Muslim and Indian immigration into Europe, itself a proxy argument about maintaining white racial and ethnic homogeneity.

Unless it can be proven that the majority of immigrants to Korea or other Asian countries are as destructive as described, and demonstrate the same for European immigrants to other European countries, or even for Asians immigrating to Europe or the US, framing the argument in general terms is clearly specious.
You make a statement without explanation and then when people dismiss it you ask for an explanation. Its very odd behavior. At best I would say it is asymmetric way of thinking.
The spread of true and false news online: Lies spread faster than the truth
Your Professional Decline Is Coming (Much) Sooner Than You Think
He talks about having swift compiler engineers in team. Was swift not opensource back then, so they could optimize the compiler for size instead of reordering optimization passes using simulated annealing?
I weirdly found the micellar water under lock and key a few weeks ago at CVS. They lock the deodorant and tide detergent because those are highly shoplifted items. Didn't know makeup remover is now also included in that subset!
A basket of options is worth more than an option on a basket; that's not just accountancy. Shareholders would rather the business and the building were in separate pockets so that if one loses money they can walk away from it and keep everything from the other.
I think most of us would. And in fact vitamin D supplementation is associated with all sorts of health benefits having nothing to do with Covid. Take your vitamin D!

That said: the kind of aggregate mortality effect the (comparatively sparse) data on that site points to is absolutely miniscule compared to much more straightforward mitigations like wearing a mask and avoiding restaurants. And these are things that HN is wildly divided on. "Rational people" might wonder why that is.
Oh. Wait a minute. I thought that HackerNews was a racket for pro-vaxxers. Why is this posted here?
My guess is that the billing logic is separate from the application logic. There's probably a delay between the two and mostly one-way communication.
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If the GOP had been able to even get their own caucus to agree on a bill, they would have brought it to a vote. But they couldn’t.

Putting even the milquetoast HEALS act up for a vote would have put some of their members in a conflicted spot trying to both appear to care about the crisis while still appeasing hard-liner donors/supporters.

If the Senate had brought the HEROES Act as passed by the House to the floor, it might well have passed. But McConnell & friends didn’t want to see a relief bill passed, so they were satisfied to leave it off the agenda altogether.
You mean, users are so desperate to be able to install the software they want on their own devices that they are willing to use cyberweapons-grade exploits to bypass technical restrictions that Apple has increasingly been baking into their own silicon to prevent?
HN had a strange obsession with masks around March, so this is not necessarily grounds for dismissal.
If it were the general consensus, this posting (i.e. the summary page) would look different; we'd have much higher powered studies and a clearer view of what was going on.
FaaS is what they call Serverless I guess, anyway, that seems a step backward to me, like going from FastCGI back to CGI, and somehow they market it as "progress".

At least, they could be using OpenFaaS or something, or even free software like firebase such as kuzzle.io or Mozilla Kinto.
I agree, but it's definitely still common enough even among Clojure shops. I think it's an insight wide plague but despite so many of us hating it, it persists.
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Let me take you back to the 1970s. Like Gates, some 20 years later, Lucas decided to diversify his product line. And he got to work on making vacuum cleaners. Unfortunately, it was the only product he ever sold that didn't suck.
I didn’t think I’d burn out in Silicon Valley
That is the specific scenario. They've lobbied for the NWS to not run any public facing services, but still collect all of the data, run the models, and put the GRIB files up, but then stop there so that Accuweather can monetize it.
FDA Advisory Panel Gives Green Light to Pfizer Vaccine
> There's a generation being raised right now whose exposure to computing has been limited to what Apple and Google have deemed worthy for them to consume.

The sad part is that all the fancy consumer hardware and software of today – or really the entire tech industry – would not exist had it not been for the last generation of hackers and tinkerers. How can we expect any real future innovation when it is controlled by corporate number crunching rather than two passionate people in a garage?
> Something like AMP?

This is literally AMP [1]. The feature was launched as AMP Stories, which has now been rebranded to Web Stories. They are throwing everything at the wall to increase the use of AMP.

[1] https://amp.dev/about/stories/
Remember to test with

sudo -n

You don't want to give away that you are using sudo to anyone that does not first read the script.
I actually wrote a blog post on this when I was purchasing shoes:

https://gaiser.io/amazon-is-winning-as-everyone-else-isnt-tr...

I need wide shoes. I could not find a place to buy wide running shoes besides Amazon at the usual places. My typical shoe buying places did not have a way to search for wides online.

I admit that I didn't really check all that exhaustively, but past experience has taught me that other retailers besides Amazon are not worth the clicks.
>Let me hear your side.

In the absence of any support from the Federal government. many states and localities have re-opened in the face of growing numbers of cases, hospitalizations and deaths (more than 3,000 people in the US died yesterday from COVID).

Note that states and local governments are forbidden from running deficits, which is why many have reopened and stayed open even though cases/hospitalization/deaths have skyrocketed.

If they want to continue to pay police, fire fighters, EMTs and keep public hospitals open, they need revenue.

Implementing another stimulus as we did last spring, with support for state and local governments would allow us to stabilize the economy while limiting the risk to the populace.

The outside review board for the Pfizer vaccine approved it today. The FDA will likely give emergency approval for it in the next few days.

However, it will take at least six months to vaccinate enough people to limit the carnage.

With a stimulus from the Federal government, we can save lives while we vaccinate as many as will take it.

Not GP, but that's my side.

Edit: Fixed incorrect reference to the Pfizer "virus". That should (and now does) have read Pfizer "vaccine."

I'd love to hear from others who disagree with my take. I think it would be a good discussion. I hope someone who does disagree goes that route rather than other, less expressive ones.
After CentOS, the next one to bite the dust will be Fedora
Are we wildly divided on these things? I've not seen it.

I think wearing a mask is a relatively small benefit but small bends in exponential functions can have massive differences in aggregate outcomes.
Combinatorial Theory Journal Launches with Innovative Open Access Funding Model
> Or why you're moving the goalposts to "reduce their budget".

Nobody mentioned this but you! It's entirely something you brought up and you're the only person with any opinion on it! I haven't expressed a single opinion on reducing their budget or what their budget should be! I haven't moved the goalposts to it because I didn't say anything about it!

> arguing about deep cuts ends up inherently partisan

You're the only one arguing about deep cuts, or any cuts at all! I haven't given any opinions on any cuts! I've said absolutely nothing about it! There's no competing opinions on this with which to argue!

You're not arguing with me you're arguing with someone completely imagined in your head! If you think I've got some opinion try to see where I actually said that before replying again.
Just out of curiosity, wouldn’t Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) be able to detect these? I assume we have those pointed at the Moon for lunar surveying...

https://earthdata.nasa.gov/learn/backgrounders/what-is-sar
>Ads disguised as content.

Sure feels like the final evolution of ads will be indistinguishable from content.
Game consoles are not general computing devices, PCs/Macs are. I believe phones have become so as well, but that I think thats where the debate lies.
This is a very interesting problem. One thing I'd be interested in researching is the ratio between the 3 arcs in the scenario (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Goat_problem_2D.svg), I'm sure this is a mathematical rabbit hole that would be exhausting to dive into.
Per the linked source, 41 studies including 2 randomized trials show that a vitamin D deficiency increases the severity of COVID-19 infections. Other sources (example: https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m3872/rr-5) also corroborate the scale of studies indicating a relationship between Vitamin D deficiency and COVID-19 health outcomes.

Some notable findings: one randomized study of 50 people hospitalized for COVID-19 found that of everyone given a high dose of Vitamin D, only one ended up in the ICU (https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/coronavirus/e...). And 80% of those hospitalized for COVID-19 have Vitamin D deficiency (https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20200518/more-vitamin-d-lowe...). Seroconversion is also higher for those with Vitamin D deficiency (https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.10.05.20206706v...), meaning that you are also more likely to have caught COVID-19 at some point (in a way that you developed detectable antibodies) with VDD than without.

Interestingly, overall Vitamin D deficiency in the US population is at around 42% (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21310306/), with some minorities having significantly higher prevalence. This might partially explain why the US has worse outcomes for COVID-19 than some other nations, and it may also explain the distribution of which demographic groups are more at risk for COVID-19.

Lastly, the link between VDD and COVID-19 health outcomes also raises a different philosophical question: if those who face adverse health impacts from COVID-19 are at increased risk due to their own poor diet or lifestyle (as indicated by Vitamin D deficiency), should all of society have to shoulder the burden of mask mandates, lockdowns, and other impacts? Or should individuals be allowed to make decisions as to what activities they undertake and what risks they are OK with based on their own assessment of risks and benefits?
Experts: Evidence to support search warrant on Rebekah Jones' home flimsy
Reasonable is whatever you want it to be. Shareholders want the share price to go up, and they can make life difficult for the board and the management team. It's awful, but as a shareholder, once that real estate has been sold, the share price went up, and you've liquidated your position, do you really care what happens next?
I feel gifted that my business was booming this warm season and I did not suffer quite the downturn so many retail businesses suffered. I almost feel guilty I should be helping out those who suffered.
Yeah, maybe I'm too cynical, but I suspect that there's always some lobbyists willing to make it worth any politician's time to do what's not in the voters' interest.