skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the fact they got into battles over what labels are appropriate and the possible different "definitions" shows they had no idea how to deal with this situation.
> The Ugandan

Surely you mean Rwanda?
Their web console UIs vary widely by service. IMO, the UX for most of their simpler services, specifically SQS, S3, Lambda, DynamoDB, are really easy to use and work nicely. If you want to start with a Docker image, send it to AWS, and have it get spun up and attached to a DNS, well that's a huge complex mess to get set up.
yes. there's a problem with the QC35 I want to fix. It will beep everytime it loses or gains a BT connection. when I'm watching a movie and my phone is in the other room, the headphones constantly connect and disconnect from the phone, making an incessant beeping.
https://youtu.be/B4mM4wP5cMw

Offensive jokes are very highly context sensitive.

People can be offended very, some may argue too, easily.

Other people are very difficult to offend.

Hard to know.

Humanizing the field of play can do a whole lot of good. Can get people talking in real terms and being OK on those terms.

An overly fenced field of play can see building of tension despite the very best intent.

There can be solidarity in all that. Just being people, same as any people is often solid grounding.

Atrocities are harder in such a scenario. Everyone is more human, do unto others makes more sense when the others are similar, humans, wanting, needing similar things, running in similar ways.

"Those other people" can often be the start of something really ugly, depending on just what gets attached to "other."

We are as offended as we think we are. I am not marginalizing it at all! Being uber offended sucks.

But, we do have options. We do manage our response to others. We do have control over how we see others, can relate to them, see it from their view.

Humor is one of the more powerful ways to do that. It can bridge gaps, open doors, humanize others, make the very ugly, foul, something that does not own us.

We have to be careful with "openly" and "offensive."

The subset of expression sure to not offend is quite small.

The scope of possible good, or at the least not nefarious intent is just as large.
> Well, assuming the brain is somewhat similar to a computer, then there would exist a separation between "brain hardware" and "brain software".

And both the assumption and conclusions are bizarre.

There is no such distinction in the brain and the distinction in, physical man-made, hardware is also not so clear.
I'm Co-Founder of http://vantage.sh/ and we allow you to connect your AWS account(s) and we'll monitor cloud spend on your behalf.

We send out regular cost report emails to try and help folks avoid situations like this and have some future plans around anomaly detection to try and help out in advance of things like this happening.

I strongly encourage folks to sign up and let us monitor things on your behalf. We have a free tier that likely covers a lot of personal users here.
If it can be done DIY, it can be done first party.
Exactly, same goes for when you donate with the 1-1 matching. Your X amount is 2x now, and 10% of 2x is stil 1.5x more of just X.
Typically Terraform takes longer to get something working than mindlessly clicking through the console. In my experience those mindless clickthrough things end up sticking around for years even when they weren't intended to.
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This seems to be a pilot suicide. This has happened before https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanwings_Flight_9525
We watented a fast, SEO optimized, multi language page, where blog posts can be written in markdown.

You can copy and paste our setup in Jekyll and Gitlab pages.

IMHO existing SSG need educated users to produce sophisticated homepages not another SSG. Still jekyll feels rather complicated to use, I described my set-up issues in the post:

https://www.helm-nagel.com/how-to-score-a-perfect-100-percen...
My interpretation of that latter line was that you can end the names list, gently rebuke the creators who were most likely oblivious (and collecting names from all cultures), but without taking the discussion into "genocide is a potential extrapolation". And not that this person favours name-calling at the office.
This is off topic, but I found a recent comment from you just so I could thank you for recommending Free Radical a little while ago. I never even played the game, but the book is excellent on its own.
I had (have?) an Azure account through my university account and while I agree that Azure services such as Container Service are (in my not so humble opinion) ridiculously overpriced but the fact it I never entered payment details to use my USD 100 of free credit on Azure. I effectively have spending cap of zero dollars.
Is Night Shift helping you sleep better?
I had a class last semester where we were required to use AWS. Our professor tried his best to teach everyone how to be responsible with their tool use and how to predict their costs (As well as how to set up a free education account and get AWS credits). I was amazed when final presentations rolled around my group had a total cost of 4.30 dollars after 5 months of uptime and use, while other groups had costs ranging from 30 to 150 dollars! I use AWS for my job so I guess I just never really went through those growing pains, but no system should be that easy to rack up costs unknowingly.
I am pretty senior and can thus sometimes afford to do a new thing and try doing it the right way, at the same time. Not even always. Many people just take one learning curve at a time...
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30% smaller than what?
Good! we'll need her in a few years once these kids' anxiety drives them out of the wokeforce
Ah, so it's just like Marxism, except without any of the discussion of Capitalism? And its an ideology about identity, which you feel sets it clearly apart from other ideologies?
AWS employs a whole lot of brilliant people, and they're an insanely profitable business unit.

I'm sure those people, given the appropriate motivation and opportunity, could provide a solution (or several) that avoids foot-gun data loss at every turn.
There's all sort of solutions they could go with.

As an idea, perhaps some kind of functionality within the billing side of things:

They could, perhaps, decide to just apply a basic cap functionality - when you reach that cap, it stops/disables all chargeable resources above the free-tier and gives you 72 hours to go raise the cap or they'll delete everything except things in their AWS Backup.

AWS can eat the storage cost for the stopped things without a noticable impact on revenue.

Perhaps a more advanced workflow-type setup:

When monthly spend reaches $x across all regions:
- stop all running instances that are not below the free-tier limit
- apply deny policies for per-request charged services
- send an email alert to the billing, tech and admin contacts.

When monthly spend reaches $y across all regions:
- Delete all chargable resources not tagged with 'Foo: bar'
- send an email alert to the billing, tech and admin contacts.

One of the other things that would be great, is to be able to apply limits to AWS Accounts.
For instance, the AWS Account that we give to developers to experiment on, it would be great to forbid them from starting baremetal instances, or GPU instances, etc.

Some of it can be controlled through deny rules, but not enough.

Billing alerts are also currently nowhere near responsive enough - it can be hours or days before you get told that some resource is running up your bill.

A comprehensive dashboard of 'here is every chargeable resource running in this account, in all regions, right now' wouldn't go astray, either.
I always have a project goal in mind and keep a backlog of personal project ideas and work on whatever I feel like leveling up on. Having a shippable goal helps because it gives some purpose to the occasional tedium slog which are unfortunately unavoidable. One important thing is that I aim for small scope MVPs that can be launched fairly quickly on the app store or web and if something gets traction or I feel compelled to do so I can keep working on it. Or not if I don't and take what I learned and start the next one. It's a fun hobby, feels like building those little model ships in bottles.
The origin of “tweet” at Twitter (2013)
This is where I'd say that every single paid service needs to have a way to contact a human being, and any cancellations expressed to that person by an authenticated user must be respected. If services are allowed to construct Gordian knots of byzantine interacting services, then there must be a way to cut through that mess.
And conversely, you don’t get to assume that others understand you when you use language in ways that aren’t colloquial.

Shared definitions is the bedrock of human communication, and absent that, we’re no better than chimps just grunting past each other.
That's why I said "many".
I've come up with a weird theory that curved space changes which directions are available for particles to choose from. Down has more choices while up has fewer.

The result of any ordinary force acting between 2 particles will change their directions.

Because down has more options, and all observers must agree on the outcome, the result of this change in direction tends to be biased in the direction with more choices.
Singer was quoted as saying “I strongly disagree we live in a white supremacist culture,”. Your quote implied that Singer was making comments about white supremacy, and Singer's reply to Casey Newton primarily focused on white supremacy in America.

I wasn't at the meeting, and it sounds like it was extremely charged. I don't think I can make nuanced comments about what was said there. But it seems clear that Singer made comments minimizing white supremacy in America, even his emailed reply does.
Disclosure: I'm the Co-Founder of Vantage.

This is exactly what we do with Vantage: http://vantage.sh/

We give point-in-time run-rates of all active resources based off of the region and resource/service configuration.

In addition we try to simplify people's understanding of where their costs are coming from. If anyone needs help with this, they can personally reach out to me at ben@vantage.sh
...It actually seems like the article buries the lede a bit, because the while study did find that using Night Shift on their phones had no effect on their sleep, it also found that, overall, there was nearly no detectable effect of using your phone before bed on sleep length.

They did find a small effect when they controlled for the previous day's sleep, but only in people who had slept well—if you're already exhausted, it doesn't matter whether you use a phone or not before bed.

Their conclusion, overall, appears to be that it's the psychological arousal/engagement of the activities you do on your phone that makes it harder to get to sleep, rather than the blue (or any) light.
They appear to be normally priced and readily available.
He’s out of the crosshairs, and there is someone else running the show - they may end up reporting to him, but similar to Bill Gates and ballmer; spotlight isn’t on him anymore and he’s not making the day to day calls anymore.
I think that someone wanting to commit suicide is going to do a pretty good job at succeeding if they are serious. I dont know that there is a good explanation for doing it other than they want to for reasons. If they are committed to the idea, the thought of killing others probably isnt a far leap.
debugged a terraform script on my personal aws, I got a bill of ~100$ for the past 2 months. It seems i had eks still running without nodes!!

Why would a service allow to have eks without nodes?
Will call support to get a refund!
I know AWS well. In fact I work at AWS in ProServe. But, I have run up a “bill” on my internal personal accounts before.

If I were ever going to do a personal project that wasn’t appropriate for serverless, I would just use LightSail.

https://aws.amazon.com/lightsail/
> Same reason python is "easy for beginners.". So much propaganda insists it that folks believe it must be so.

Python's grammar really does seem to be significantly easier that just about everything else.

Someone on HN mentioned an article in which there were a bunch of graphs of the grammars of various languages, and Python was just obviously smaller and cleaner than everybody else.

Hopefully someone with a better memory than I will relink it.
Like the Australien Government, they blame the consumers of electricity(EVs are bad because they charge from our dirty 19th century generation tech we've ensured most people have to use, like it or not), not the market and ridiculous policies keeping the dirty energy generators at the forefront of the energy market.

Same applies to indoor cannabis growing power consumption.

So utterly and hopelessly dishonest
Buffalo wings are something completely different though? Those are the thigh/drumstick of the chicken (which is commonly served with a spicy sauce), whereas chicken fingers/tenders are the tenderloin.
It is only available to US citizens.
If it a personal site I run for kicks and expect to cost less than $100/year, but is suddenly running into thousands? Yes please, delete it all. It's the only way I could sleep at night.
What does it mean to be passionate about the product?
If Paul Graham doesn't rename this site "Hackex News" tomorrow, the woke brigade must cancel it immediately!
None of your numbers line up. You’re using US track numbers, but essentially zero US track is electrified. The little bit that is electrified is often underground and all of it is high voltage and won’t work with solar like that.

Next to said tracks though are millions of acres of land that wouldn’t have all the maintenance issues and would actually work?

It’s a similar issue with solar roadways - it’s a really impractical place to put solar; not even close to worth it maintenance wise or efficiency - and you pretty much always have better options literally 10 ft away.
> Processing parentheses is still parsing.

Processing parentheses is straightforward. Parsing a DOT is a nightmare.

Anybody who says Lisp doesn't have syntax has never parsed CONS-pairs properly.
Matt Yglesias has a good theory on this.

"My suspicion is that this is a weird tic of campus politics that has followed graduates into the professional arena where they unconsciously started deploying it in less appropriate contexts. If you’re in a dorm at a fancy college and you can convince an administrator that something is racist, the administrator will probably put a stop to it. At the same time, “this is bad for poor people” just isn’t going to get you far as a campus argument. After all, these schools more or less openly auction off a number of admissions slots to wealthy donors (while, of course, practicing affirmative action to keep things diverse) so they can hardly take a hard line on class politics."
I have 2x wifi access points; one for the adults and one for the kids. The kids' one is on a mains power timer.

As for content, that's tough and I don't have an easy answer.
> And conversely, you don’t get to assume that others understand you when you use language in ways that aren’t colloquial.

Yep! It was a failure of all parties involved that the two competing definitions of racism weren't laid out on the table, when people started getting huffy.

> Shared definitions is the bedrock of human communication, and absent that, we’re no better than chimps just grunting past each other.

(laughs) Lay it on thick, why don't you?
Can you please expand on what you learned? I'm sure those of us in their twenties would love to hear more.
When these planes are fly-by-wire how is it possible to guarantee that the actual human pilot was the person moving the flight controls?
Using all encompassing terms like "academia" is the problem.

I've been in academia for more than a decade. We're a regional school with lots of foreign students as well as commuter students. The professors that I've interacted with regularly (and are in a dept that deals with that stuff) have never been anything but professional and they understand the importance of rigor. I've yet to see them make emotional caustic and overreaching claims because they can. I suspect most of academia is like this, you just don't hear about it, cause it's boring. If you desire it, you too can work at bad wages for 2 decades before hoping for tenure at a place you barely get to choose.

Many of these terms that cause so many issues are those that are working jargon within a domain and make sense within the context of that domain with lots of awareness of the terminology, but when they are extracted out of that context and used by people (for a variety of reasons) for political and cultural battles, it becomes an issue.

So academia is perhaps responsible, but all of academia is not.
Does Ukranian Airlines have a bad reputation besides the incident in Tehran? I rode it once, and besides it being a particularly rowdy flight, I found it to be a very strict and safe airline.
If you think that's over, think again. It is not enough to forget; we need to obliviate 45.
I just applied! Thanks for posting this. I'm a Crypto enthusiast and very excited about what you guys are doing.
Thank you, that’s very kind of you both. To be clear, this is the work of a team, and many others have contributed a lot more than I have to it.
Perhaps not irrational, but incorrect. I’d like to see whatever evidence means silence is a form of endorsement.

It’s hard to know, but I have one data point in my own self in that I really don’t talk much about anything and certainly don’t endorse white supremacy and I actively live my life fighting inequity. Someone saying that I endorse something because I don’t speak about it is incorrect as I know myself better than others do.

Following this logic leads to absurdity. Should people spend their days speaking for or against everything? What about people’s right to privacy?

I mean there’s so many example of how silence=support is illogical, I’m not sure how people can hold this opinion. This assumes that there’s a single set of priorities and white supremacy is near the top for everyone.

It’s also fairly odd in that it assumes that the whole world is in America so that even people in remote countries must make statements against white supremacy lest they endorse it. That’s just silly.

On any topic, only a few thousand or perhaps millions express a position. Does that mean everyone else is against or for? Does silence always equal endorsement? Does it mean opposition?

You haven’t stopped this conversation to call out how you recognize murder is evil and are against it. Does that mean you endorse murder? Isn’t murder important enough to speak out against? I certainly think murder is terrible and am shocked that someone would endorse murder through their silence.

Etc etc etc, there’s a million of these. Not everything has to be a conflict and not everyone owes me an answer. Sometimes I just don’t know and don’t get to know. I should only assume when necessary and using some evidence to support my assumption
I’m sympathetic to the argument that toxic discussions about issues that neither the work nor the company exist to solve are a distraction.

But what I really see here is the way power can blind. This situation was 100% avoidable but the dudes didn’t think the incoming fire was at their level.

Fried and DHH have been making “fuck you money” monthly, for well over a decade. And I happen to know what Ryan Singer’s salary was many years ago - even if he never did anything smart with it, and he is very smart, he has an impenetrable financial moat.

The money, combined with a measure of fame and influence, compounded by the fact that they have full control of Basecamp and by some intrinsic hubris is the reason this blew up in their face.

It’s a shit show but this will basically blow over. The customers mostly don’t care.
If the same flight path and termination was found after being intentionally deleted and but still in the system files of his home computer—-why is there any discussion of all of the other possible theories?
There are now benchmark comparisons with stock CPython in a PERF file in the repo.
> Even if 99.9% is lost, that still leaves behind far more than we have about the Romans.

Indeed, and due to complex historical factors, we have much more Roman writing than we have writing from other civilizations. It's important to remember that there are entire swathes of history and entire regions from where we have no actual history, only circumstantial writing by other peoples such as trading partners.
I feel like they must have just seen it was a library from Square and assumed it sent data to Square. I doubt that 40% of the apps were written with no SDK or library.
When anyone tries to prescribe language, it's time to look for the exit. For anyone who has not read the book Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)[1], or seen the movie, I strongly recommend reading or watching. George Orwell understood the power of language when he wrote about Newspeak[2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspeak
Because "dystopia" doesn't necessarily mean the exact worst of all possible worlds.

Yes, it would be better than "never getting to have sex at all", but it would still be a pretty unfortunate situation to be in for a lot of people.
Benchmarks are now in a PERF file in the repo.
That sounds like Amazon taking one of their problems and pushing it onto the users. If the root limitation is that Amazon's billing process is so poor that it can't interact with their other processes, then that should be Amazon's problem to fix. Until and unless Amazon fixes their own problem, Amazon should be eating the cost resulting from Amazon allocating server usage beyond a user-specified maximum billing.
no only words they imagine are non-inclusive. And since they don't know anything - all they have are imaginations
Is that more naivety though? Writing, thinking that they have the answer (or some of them) and then hitting something new that was yet to be seen in their working lives?

If I have sympathy for them, I think it would be because I could see myself making the exact same mistakes: writing confidently as my business road a wave of great timing, thinking that emboldened and involved employees were great for company culture, and then deciding that maybe it was a risky distraction.
A scrappy startup in <any country> could see an unexpected $5k bill as business-ending.

It's so absurdly easy to run up massive bills, and there's few controls, and practically useless alerting - so you can't rely on that.

Someone spun up a 3 node m5.xlarge RDS Cluster with SQL Server Standard? I hope you notice quickly, 'cause that's going to be >$5k/month.

They don't show a minimum monthly cost for any of these things, either.

No, you're assumed to be okay with unlimited charges, and are left to your own devices to figure it out.
With all due respect, I think the issue here is that your company should not need to exist. Amazon should provide this feature as part of the UX.
Which quote?
AI doesn't have to be that good (2015)
Arguments from silence are, by definition, illogical fallacies. There could be any number of reasons why someone might choose to remain silent. It's possible they are endorsing it, but you don't really know without additional statements or context.

https://www.logicallyfallacious.com/logicalfallacies/Argumen...
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