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If you don’t want to be an AWS customer at all, why don’t you send a written termination notice under the AWS Customer Agreement (https://aws.amazon.com/agreement/)?

Section 7.2(a) says, “You may terminate this Agreement for any reason by providing us notice and closing your account for all Services for which we provide an account closing mechanism.”

Since your requests for an account closing mechanism have been refused, it would seem to me that a notice alone would be enough, if it’s sent by one of the methods allowed by section 13.10(b), includes a termination date (required by section 7.1), and identifies the account to which it applies.

If you haven’t already, before you send a notice, I’d suggest taking the offer from AWS Support to suspend the services, so that when the notice is received and processed, it will be clear that the account is no longer in use. Mention this in your notice, along with the support ticket numbers, to show that you’ve tried in good faith to close the account.

I don’t know if terminating the agreement in this way would affect Amazon’s willingness to do business with you in the future.
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Hit the gym. The best software engineers I know can bench 60 kilos. Work on your abs and hit the protein shakes. Bill Gates used to do this and look where he is now.
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How does this work, as far as I understand FIRE targets typically have you making less than you did doing wage work. Typically enough to live moderately comfortable and support any family you might have. Hobbies can get expensive.
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To be fair, I think the emergent "collective mind" is likely far stupider more instinctual than the minds of the individuals. (hence why considering incentive structures is important)

That aside, I agree that yes, organizations should be held to a higher standard than they have been.
A million yes to all this!
That's a pretty simple matter.

https://hackernews.com does not have "ycombinator.com" in it.

There is zero upside for Ycombinator to let Hacker News off the connected leash or muddy the waters around HN. There is no great reason to waste the money to buy the domain, short of (ab)using the position it holds in the tech community to attach paid services to it and attempt to turn HN into a newly commercial start-up on its own (which would disastrously compete with what YC already does and would harm their reputation in the process).

You got to this premise by not putting yourself in the shoes of YCombinator and what their purpose is for HN. Owning HackerNews.com does nothing of consequence for them based on the purpose that news.ycombinator.com fulfills for YC. One part marketing, one part community bonding agent, one part public service.

It would probably cost the equivalent of ten plus years of hosting/server expenses to buy HackerNews.com, given how inexpensively HN operates. Purely a waste of money. They don't need the bit of traffic going to HN.com, and they don't need the branding confusion (as though Hacker News is independent from YC, which it's not).
So happy to hear this.

I have just tested the demo, and am happy to see that it can display the Bin Laden (Banana Boat) song, aka "Nowhere to run - nowhere to hide"[1]. It is a culturally important artifact - whose size is 432KB (compare with how much bandwith does a Youtube video of it at Full HD would take).

I could also play the Xiao Xiao stick fight series[2].

Sadly, I still couldn't play a game I've put many hours in back in the day - Gem Tower Defense[3].

However, I could open and play it with KMPlayer[4]. Looks I will be able to continue wasting my time in Flash games going forward!

[1]https://911digitalarchive.org/items/show/2767

[2]https://dagobah.net/flash/xiao_xiao_5.swf

[3]https://dagobah.net/flash/download/gemtd.swf

[4]http://en.kmplayer.com/
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To be clear, I do think you have a valid point about e.g. unused assets and loading big libs to do trivial things, but IMHO, that's really a commentary on software development at large, rather than anything specific to Uber.

And there are cases, even in the Uber app, where thought has been put into optimizing both for upfront download size and internal complexity (the legal pages, for example)

Something that is worth considering is that a lot of what was said about the app being complicated is that it is also _dynamically_ complicated. For example, in the driver app, a feature was added to ensure drivers are wearing face coverings. The backend for that does AI-based fraud detection to prevent shenanigans like photos of photos. The picture upload flow is just one small part of a much more complex project that had to be rushed out because the covid pandemic happened. There are a bunch of similarly large impact things that touch several of the Uber apps simultaneously, often in non trivial ways and with tight timelines (e.g. features for compliance with specific legal requirements)

The reason I think Linux seems like a bad comparison is that if Linux contributors don't want to support some random driver for 3 years, that might be annoying but is generally just the way it is. Uber can't really afford to not do some of the complicated things it does in a timely manner.
How do you even get a binder full of credit cards? Isn't the point of credit checks that you can't get a "binder full" to circumvent the credit risk you pose?
Not an Android dev, just going off of how the FB comments there and elsewhere have responded to that article.
That's the retconned origin story. From the start they were talking about replacing Marriott; that was their pitch to investors.
>So earnest. Their inability to police fraudulent/scam listings. It comes from a place of earnest conviction. Their blatant attempts to circumvent and disregard local laws about illegal hotel listings. It comes from a place of earnest conviction.

I don't think that's really fair. AirBnB as originally conceived is something that would make the world better for a lot of people. Something you can be proud of building. What it's turned into is far more of a mixed bag, of course, but that doesn't change the earnestness of how it began.
This is a billing question, not a technical question, and looked at through that lens it's easy to put a hard limit on a monthly bill: just don't ever issue bills greater than that amount.

If I say I only want to pay a maximum of $1000 a month, and I hit that limit but it takes a bit for the provider to shut everything down so really $1100 of resources were consumed, then the provider eats the $100 overrun and I get a bill for $1000.

With an actual hard limit you create a financial incentive for the provider to minimize this overrun. Yes it might be difficult to fix but I assure you, if hard limits existed, the technical issues would be solved soon enough because now there's a reason to invest in a solution.
Personally, I think AirBnB is earnestly happy to cash in on the situation where the apartment next to mine that I'm paying $1600 a month for is rented out to people who are there to loudly party until 6AM on a Wednesday night-Thursday morning while I have to get up and go to work and try to have some semblance of an intellect available. Fortunately I've since purchased a modest house in a quiet neighborhood but gorram!
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> Science is a bad example because the process of science can be quantified. We can argue about it but basically can quantify what is or isn’t a valid scientific experiment.

The demarcation problem is essentially scientists disagreeing that we can sharply divide science from non-science.

The replication crisis is evidence that not all "science" is actually science.

> If one side argues in bad faith, they can just keep making shit up or doing things to undermine the discourse itself, like talk over someone else or bully them.

Silencing one side of a debate is also undermining the discourse.

> What we are seeing now is a shifting both of cultural norms and the infrastructure of our media environment which means that “free speech” no longer has some of the constraints and restrictions which enabled it to perform the truth-seeking function we desire it to.

Actually what we are seeing now is the democratization of free speech so that an oligarchic elite is no longer the only group who is able to make their voice heard. In this light it is unsurprising that the oligarchic elite wants restrictions on speech.
I wrote a game with a friend early on for the App Store. I second the notion of validation. It's great you have a friend who can design graphics for the game, but prototype and test the basic mechanics before you get too wrapped up in the appearance. Using simple placeholders will speed up your iteration as you refine the mechanics. I spent a lot of time writing a vector graphics layer (this was in the days of iOS 2), and while it was very cool, it took a lot of time that could probably have been better spent trying experiments with the basic gameplay. The game was not a big success.
In such cases, it's best to assume it's a special zero dimensional point goat, which only chews grass.
That answers my question. I had no idea RedHat freely distributed the source to non-subscribers. Of course, they are under no obligation to distribute that to the public.
That's a false equivalence. This type of data doesn't represent a security threat.
In theory, that would be the same guy who eats more than 1200 kcal above their base metabolic rate.

A Whopper combo from Burger King comes in at a little over 1500 kcal.

So it's certainly possible, but I have a hunch those who run 6+ miles a day generally self-select themselves out of the population that overeats calorie dense food.

Regardless, like most colloquialisms, it isn’t meant to be taken so literally. It’s speaking to the general truth that it’s easier to limit calories in than increase calories out
It depends how it's said. I would hesitate to correct the person who actually said it about whether they said it in a snarky way unless I was actually there.
> Most apps don't need scaling anyway and if you do, just put that app on bare metal fitting your requirements.

Most important !
I worked in remote sensing 2012-2014 and we had an agriculture customer base in California.

The problem I saw with nut trees, is during the drought nuts became far more profitable, largely because they are not drought resistant. So, a lot of farms were replacing the more traditional, regional, drought-resistant plants (hay, alfalfa, soy?) with nut trees that would take 5-8 years to mature and use way more water.
Running Amazon Linux 2 as a virtual machine on premises
People are really good at rationalizing things that make them rich. A founder’s earnest feelings about their business’s externalities should never be taken at face value.
An Oculus account which is in no way tied to your facebook account unless you choose to do so
Adobe's tech eroded the public's trust in photos, now they're trying to fix it
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Their competition tried to support Flash, and managed to deliver only a buggy, slow implementation with security issue, and only some time after iPhone's launch.

One can believe Apple deserves to be disassembled and still understand that Flash was bad technology, with only Adobe to blame.
Thats a great application
> Storage is a passive resource, when you exceed your budget it can be automatically....deleted? That's almost always the wrong action.

A better option would be to automatically reduce the budget by the amount it would cost to keep the storage forever. If doing that would reduce the budget to zero, do not allow increasing the amount of storage. That is: assume the storage will not be deleted, and budget according to that.
I cannot comment on the soundness of the decision, but what was the deal with the community here? I can for example see that Debian is community driven with all the advantages and drawbacks that come with this, but was CentOS ever more than a relabeling of RHEL RPMs in the hopes that people would pay for RHEL eventually? I just don't see why anyone can demand anything (not even promises) from RH here.
Interesting. Craigslist uses an anonymous email routing mechanism, in order to allow people to contact the ad poster. And vice versa.

Does Craigslist actively monitor the messages being passed through?

Edit: Why did I get downvoted? It was a legitimate question. It may have deviated from the article subject, but that’s how conversations flow, and how you learn of new things.
Most people only need therapy for a few months. Very few need long-term therapy.
The highly price sensitive customer will force you to compete only on price. That's just forcing yourself into a commodity market. It's bad business. I would never try to cater to that market. Very dangerous. Competition will drive margins down to near zero.
When I was a small child my parents took me to a petting zoo inside an amusement park. While an employee watched, the goat I had just fed started eating the shirt I was wearing. I was terrified. My parents, not wanting to hurt the goat looked to the employee for help. The employee said, "Yeah, they'll do that" and turned around, not concerned for me or for the goat. My parents eventually extricated my shirt and all was well. I have no idea why I was never afraid of goats (especially since I was afraid of trees for a period of about six months).
The older I get, the more people I know, the less I divide people into winners and losers.
There's a lot about this in Michael Lewis' "The Fifth Risk". The most maddening part is that the company lobbying to weaken the National Weather Service can't replicate much of what the government is doing here and sells a lot of repackaged NWS data. I suppose it doesn't matter to them if dismantling the service leads to less weather data being available overall, as long as their piece of the market gets bigger.
RedHat is the major contributor to Linux ecosystem, so they are not using the free software for free. They pay back, as intended. For bad example, look at Apple or Amazon.
I doubt that much. There's dilution and they have offices, employees, accountants, etc etc. But certainly they are a very successful fund.
...in a vacuum.
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Not going to happen.

Better to get the Valve Index.
What's wrong with GCD?
>I'm curious if there are lists of other problems that are similarly easy to understand in a few seconds

I too would love such a list. Can anyone point me if one does exist?
> I’d be interested to see how “normal” the kind of fall back options these founders had.

My history in SF weirdly intertwines with AirBnB. I first met them in 2007, at an "unofficial startup school afterparty" (this was before they were funded by YC). The party consisted of Brian and (IIRC) Joe, and a couple of bottles of booze and some soda in their apartment (the one they rented out to the first guests). Let me just say that they weren't living in luxury: there were mattresses on the floor. The only notable piece of furniture in the place was a table, and a bookshelf filled with white, blank-covered book galleys that Brian had gotten for free from some print-industry connection.

I then worked at Justin.tv when these guys were getting advice from Michael and eating lunch with us on a regular basis. I bought them drinks because they were broke. The unsold Obama-O's boxes were sitting around the office.

I'm as cynical as the next guy about the relative well-off-ness of a lot of startup founders these days, and I don't have any personal insight into their finances at that time. That said, as much as anyone in SF in 2008 had no fallback plan, the AirBnB founders seem to fit the bill.
Sure but it's also terribly expensive. Are you trying to give up 5-10% of your CPU time to observability?
> Like your XBox

But you absolutely should NOT need an account to use your Xbox.
> In the case of Airbnb, what was the social norm?

Paying your taxes. AirBnB has managed to avoid VAT by pushing that responsibility onto hosts. UK is looking to changing this arrangement.
There is a big difference between burning through your money knowing that your dad can eventually save you vs ending up complete broke and needing years to recover if you fail. My observation that a lot of startup founders who burn through credit cards and eat ramen noodles still have the knowledge that their well off family has the ability to save them. They work hard and sacrifice a lot but they aren’t risking their livelihood for years to come and won’t go homeless.
We should make fingerprinting illegal.

Fingerprinting is an exploit, an attack on the person and machine. It is tracking using mechanisms that were not meant for tracking.

It is without consent and it is without user control (you can clear cookies, you can't clear the fingerprint you've let on thousands of website you browse every week).

Cookies, Local Storage (and IP) should be the only legally authorised means of tracking
Yuck, just watched "2012" yesterday
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Right, Debian Testing is not supported as an "operating system" in any way. It's just a place for Debian developers to test their changes.

I see this misunderstanding all over the net — people think that Debian Testing is more supported than Debian Unstable, when the reverse is true. The Debian project has serious problems with public communications and expectation management.
If you don't have anybody who can monitor your test, and you're not monitoring your test, why are you doing a test?

As for having a non-employee pull the plug, set up an IAM user with permission to access the test instance
Two months ago youtuber Anton Petrov made a great video about this: https://youtu.be/hESunUuFrzk
I hate to say it but that means your design also failed to consider the foot traffic to and from the kitchen which also affects the dining experience :-) designing stuff can be hard...
In their simple example of a website hit-counter, can someone explain how you would aggregate batches of 50 requests to amortize compute costs? I thought the whole point of the DB is to store information between disparate requests?
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I loved my Quest, even purchased prescription lens inserts for a better experience and after the Facebook account change I stopped using it entirely. Pretty sad to have it collect dust but this change was bad enough that I’d rather just give it up altogether.
I have been using airsend for a few months now, so far one of the best communication apps, me and my team we love the calls feature.
"Good faith" can mean anything at all. And you should be thankful Section 230 exists. If everyone and his dog could sue a company for libelous content posted by a user, you know what would happen? More moderation, real name requirements, and "censorship".
Soundcloud actually has a feature where users can comment on specific points in a recording
I think the title might me slightly misleading, but I completely agree. I appreciate the distinction between "product engineer" and "software engineer".

Personally I prefer a lot more the role of product engineer, all the way from talking with customers to debugging PostgreSQL sequence that went astray. Looking a jobs around me and how specialized and (in my view) limited in scope...

I'd choose working on a startup any day, with a loose job description, figuring stuff out and delivering to customers than the traditional "assembly line programmer" that I see around me.
If electricity isn't your worry, might I suggest installing your lightbulbs in a complete virtual environment?
I think the most troubling thing I've seen throughout this entire pandemic is just how many people think they should be allowed to dictate what others do. It's a proposition completely at odds with freedom.
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I have written several command-line weather programs for different services -- many of which I had to abandon. For example, I wrote a popular one for Weather Underground that I had to retire because WU stopped allowing free access to their API.

My latest effort is one that just deals with NWS/NOAA directly, and reading this article has me wondering if part of their bandwidth trouble is a product of the way their API works.

The API is a huge set of linked JSON documents. So it very often happens that a request for data is actually half-a-dozen requests through embedded URLs (all of which are made by the client one after the other). It's all very logical in some ways, but at the same time a bit byzantine. I often wonder which entity is served by the way it's set up. From my perspective, it's easily the hardest API to work with. Weather Underground was wonderful, and so was Dark Sky (which I played with for awhile).

I've had people over the years ask if one or another of my tools could be used for large scale or very rapid weather data collection, but all of the services I have worked with throttle connections exactly as NOAA is proposing. I suppose I'm at least relieved to hear that they're not restricting access by independent developers!
> Most apps don't need scaling anyway

This is exactly right. I host stuff in buckets/cloudfront and uses a bit of lambda/route53. I end up paying $4 a month.

now that will be very different if 10 million people suddenly decide to visit my site, but if that happens money probably won't be a problem after all.
Busybox or Toybox should cover that :D
IMO, it's hard to put a price on strong isolation and consistency. Being able to write an app that that uses atomic transactions, that are isolated from concurrently running transactions, and that see the correct data is something that translates to reduced programmer time and effort, and improves user experience. Many programmers discount those important features when they start out, but they'd be better served including them in the price comparisons of different products that are out there.
Other folks point out major differences between the two. The most important one, though, is that DNT required the server to comply.

Disabling or lying with JS method calls doesn't.

And there is an arms race, and it will not end. That is the nature of adversarial intelligence-gathering.
> It also describes the expected relationship between every US president and the Russians - diplomacy doesn't happen by telepathy.

this specifically was way before anyone held any power and it also covered many connections that were covered up and lied about to the investigators.
Unless you're already known in your industry investors aren't exactly lining up to write checks.

For my current passion project, a video game , I plan on dumping between 10 to 20k in before trying to pitch it to publishers. When that likely fails I'm going to self publish , I really really enjoy programing with Unity so I'm not too worried about making my money back.

I can't imagine anyone who's not well connected can walk into an industry conference and walk out with a seed round